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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH VOL. 34, NO. 21

6 Just because Donald Trump is a scientific illiterate doesn’t make climate change any less real. 8 More than eighteen thousand deer were killed by North Carolina hunters using dogs in the 2016–17 season. 10 In its early years, choreographers at the American Dance Festival preferred staging performances in novel spaces—a cafeteria or a pond— rather than in a theater. 19 Dismissed as sellouts by critics in its native Iceland, Kaleo came to America. BOT Guys, we need to talk about the definition of the word “neighborhood.” Also “crank.” 24 Everybody wants to act and direct, but what local theater needs is producers. 25 Before “ghosting” entered the lexicon, we had the Irish Goodbye and the French Exit.

DEPARTMENTS 5 Backtalk 6 Triangulator 8 News 16 Food 19 Music Center Best of the Triangle 24 Arts & Culture 26 What to Do This Week

The Chinese Lantern Festival at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary; the amphitheater won Best Outdoor Music Venue in this year’s Best of the Triangle readers poll. PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

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backtalk All Men Are Suspect

Jim Senter of Rougemont argues that last week’s cover story [“I’m Not a Predator”], about the alleged harassment of a gay father at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, missed the point. “Ken Fine’s story about the harassment of Henry Amador-Batten and his son, Ben, on a McKeown United Airlines flight into RDU is troubling,” he writes. “There’s one problem with it, hy Bracy, en Lucas, though, other than what happened at the airichaela port. The beautiful photos of Henry and Ben nah you published clearly show that Henry has , V. no scarlet G branded on his forehead. There d Smith, is no way the flight attendant who called the l police could have known that Henry is gay. “The victim here just happens to be gay. He could have just as easily been straight. All men are ms suspect in our relations with children. All men are assumed to be predators, not just gay men. Making this story an issue of gay rights is an example of wart sloppy, sloppy reporting.” avid Lee, Commenter Pauley98 cNair, concurs: “After reading the s, article a couple of times, I still do not understand how the gentleman being gay has anything to do with what the flight crew did. Nowhere in ua Rowsey the article did it state that the flight crew did GER what they did because he is gay.” Patricia Oliviero writes, “As a mother of a gay son, the only thing that I could think of is how I would have reacted to my son and 200 grandson being detained in this way. What kind of training are United staff getting? Please pursue this. This kind of behavior is unacceptable! I will speak to my husband about trading in our United credit card. I do ek.com not want to be associated with an organizaeek.com tion that is this prejudiced.” 1972 “A simple look at the flight manifest would have rendered the question of parenthood e moot,” writes commenter NCSilverBear. “A simple question from the flight attendant— ‘Is this your son? He’s very well behaved, etc.’—might have opened the conversation and allayed any concerns. But, instead, the flight crew assumed the worst and acted inappropriately and with prejudice. The air-

line should be sued.” On Facebook, Patrick Murphy writes, “I think I know what happened here. A few months ago, I saw a fluff story about how flight attendants were being co-opted to look out for human trafficking. I remember thinking at the time, This is going to end badly. With all the stress that flight attendants already deal with, now they are also responsible for stopping human trafficking. What I don’t understand is why didn’t the law enforcement on the ground treat this with more discretion. There is plenty of opportunity to discreetly observe father and child in the airport.” Last Thursday, the day President Trump announced that he was pulling the United States from the Paris climate agreement, we reported that Senator Thom Tillis had been among twentytwo Republican senators who had signed a letter the week before encouraging him to do just that, after Tillis had banked more than a quarter-million bucks from oil and gas companies. On Facebook, readers reacted angrily. Here’s a quick sampling. Jay Davis: “He is willing to sell our future well-being for a lousy quarter of a million bucks. You’re pretty cheap, Thom.” Janet Jackson-Ledermann: “Too bad he’s not up for reelection until 2020. Remember and vote blue.” Michael Wright, who is not one for subtlety (and loves him some exclamation points): “Thom Tillis another Fascist Koch owned Criminal Tea Party Republican whom only supports the Satanical New World Order Globalist Billionaires and their Criminal Cartel of Corporations for millions in bribes!!!! Definitely a True Enemy of the American People!!!!”

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ast week, President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, saying he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” (Never mind that the mayor of Pittsburgh quickly rebuked him, and the United States now joins the ranks of Syria and Nicaragua as the only countries not taking part in the accords.) As part of its agreement, America had agreed in 2015 to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 26–28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 and commit up to $3 billion to developing countries to help them transition to sustainable resources. All of that, however, was voluntary—the Paris accord had no mechanism by which to compel countries to live up to their commitments. And because of the way the agreement was structured, Trump can’t actually bail until the day after the 2020 election, ensuring that climate change will be a front-and-center issue in his reelection. The good news is that Trump’s insolence won’t stop the business community or the rest of the world from acknowledging reality. It will just mean that the U.S. will fall further behind in global leadership. The bad news is that we are the world’s second-largest producer of carbon, so if our scientifically illiterate president and his alt-right henchmen deny climate change’s existence, that will make it all the harder to mitigate climate change’s effects. There are three parts to this story we want to illustrate here: One, that global warming is a real thing. Two, that it will damage North Carolina’s coast. And three, that renewable energy poses a big opportunity for this state, if only we don’t screw it up.

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+FOLL

IT’S GE GETTING HOT IN HERE GLOBAL LAND-USE TEMPERATURE INDEX According to NASA, sixteen of the seventeen warmest years in the 136 years on record have occurred since 2001, with the exception of 1998. The year 2016 is the warmest ever recorded. 1

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“In summary,” a 2016 analysis says, “total output (gross revenue) in North Carolina associated with clean energy development, after accounting for secondary effects, is estimated at $12,020.9 million over the 9-year period from 2007 to 2015.” The data here shows investment in renewable energy in 2013 dollars.

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Sources: NASA (top); N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, SeaLevel Rise Assessment Report 2015 (middle); N.C. Sustainable Energy Association, Economic Impact Analysis of Clean Energy Development in North Carolina—2016 Update (bottom).

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+FOLLOW THE MONEY

State Bureau of Investigation detectives are going back ten years, examining thousands of documents, in their probe of potential financial crimes in the Wake County Register of Deeds office, SBI officials and the county district attorney told the INDY Monday. This timeframe dramatically widens the scope of the investigation, which came to light when District Attorney Lorrin Freeman and county manager Jim Hartmann held a press conference March 31 to announce an SBI probe into financial irregularities in the Register of Deeds office. “We’re trying to follow the trail back to see if we can find when this started, and we are at a ten-year scope,” Freeman says. At the same March press conference, Freeman and Hartmann announced that Register of Deeds Laura Riddick, in office since 1996, had resigned her post because of poor health. At the time, Freeman cautioned against reading too much into the timing of Riddick’s departure. Hartmann said then that the financial irregularities had taken place during a period of a year or perhaps longer, citing January and February as the “material time.” These new disclosures came after a former employee of the Register of Deeds office spoke Monday at a Wake County Board of Commissioners meeting, stating that he had reported potential malfeasance in the department and been forced to resign. Darryl Black, a former deputy director of the office, said he told his supervisors about discrepancies in transactions there eighteen months before the apparent

missing funds came to light. Freeman says Black has had several interviews with the SBI. The Register of Deeds office handles about $14 million annually in fees and other payments. Apparently, money that was unaccounted for came from cash transactions at the office. Riddick and other employees of the office have been cooperating with the investigation, officials say. “We continue to say, as I did from the beginning, that Ms. Riddick is certainly one of a number of people that was involved in the chain, and as a result has not been excluded,” Freeman says. Among other points, Black suggested that commissioners bring in an independent auditor to examine records at the Register of Deeds office. Freeman says Wake County has already called one in. Neither Black nor investigators explained how the theft of money from a public office could continue for such a long period. “It’s not unusual for us in these cases to look at a five- or ten-year scope,” Freeman says. “We look at when there was first a loss. In terms of a projected timeline, I am hopeful by the end of this summer to move forward with wrapping up the investigation.” Neither official estimated in March the amount of money that could have been taken. They simply called it a “substantial amount.”

+MAPPED INJUSTICE

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal district court’s ruling that

twenty-eight state legislative districts are racially gerrymandered, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be getting a special election this year. The court’s three-page order zeroed in on the district court’s decision last year to call for new maps and special elections, explaining that it decided to vacate the order because the district court “addressed the balance of equities in only the most cursory fashion.” While the district acknowledged that “special elections have costs,” it reasoned that those costs “pale in comparison” to the injustice of citizens being “represented by legislators elected pursuant to a racial gerrymander.” The Supreme Court didn’t find that persuasive: “We cannot have confidence that the court adequately grappled with the interests on both sides of the remedial question before us.” Long story short: the districts are indeed racially gerrymandered and unconstitutional, but the district court is going to have to take another crack at what to do about it. It’s possible that the lower court could again order a special election for later this year, but it will have to convince John Roberts and company that it did its homework this time. Otherwise, it seems that the legislature will have to draw new districts ahead of the 2018 General Assembly elections. triangulator@indyweek.com

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A BILL TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE OF HUNTING DEER WITH HOUNDS STALLS IN THE LEGISLATURE, BUT THE FIGHT CONTINUES BY THOMAS GOLDSMITH

ontroversy over the generationsold practice of hunting deer with dogs will roil on in North Carolina, even though a bill designed to regulate it has been stalled in a House committee since April. More than eighteen thousand deer were taken across the state in the 2016–17 season by hunters using hounds. That’s less than 10 percent of the two hundred thousand killed statewide, according to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, but the practice has an intense following, particularly in eastern North Carolina. As more land is developed and hunters use more sophisticated, GPS-aided techniques, years of tension have brought clashes among hunters, landowners, and animal rights advocates. That’s why Republican representatives Chris Malone of Wake County and Jay Adams of Catawba introduced House Bill 648, to create a framework for resolving some of the disputes. The bill’s title shows the tightrope sponsors were attempting to walk: “An act to provide for responsible hunting of deer with dogs in manner that protects the rights of private landowners.” “The most important thing is to look at the process and have some respect in law for the people that don’t want anyone on their property,” says Malone, a former Wake County Board of Education member who lives in Wake Forest. “You have concerns about the people that absolutely don’t want anyone on their property. That’s what sets people on fire.” HB 648 would give the Wildlife Resource Commission the authority to regulate the hunting of deer with dogs. In addition, it would require hunters to prevent their dogs from entering private property where they do not have documented permission to hunt and to put a “visible and legible tag” on dogs that hunt deer. The bill was opposed by groups such as the N.C. Sporting Dog Association, which said on its website: “HB#648 is a terrible 8 | 6.7.17 | INDYweek.com

bill. If passed, it would RUIN deer dog hunting in North Carolina.” Indeed, supporters of hunting deer with hounds like to point out that President George Washington enjoyed the practice, although Washington’s prey tended to be fox rather than deer. In the modern era, hunters set out in pickups instead of on horseback, fanning out after setting loose packs, including any of a variety of hounds—Walker, redbone, and bluetick among them. “It’s as old as deer hunting,” says Wilmington hunter and hunting writer Mike Marsh. “It was a standard way of hunting in the coastal plain because the cover is so

dense and the areas are so large. In some places, it’s the only way you can hunt a deer and have a reasonable chance of success.” Hunts usually start early in the morning and continue all day, although some sportsmen stop for the dogs’ sake if the weather gets too hot. Listening for the dogs’ cry— and nowadays tracking them electronically—the hunters try to determine the deer’s direction and get out in front of them, within shooting range. The chase can go on for miles, with hunters in vehicles following the dogs, which are chasing the deer. The problem is the dogs can’t read “Posted” signs and can easily stray onto land where the commotion of the hunt is unwel-

doesn’t have access to the land where the dogs are,” Marsh says. “The property owner doesn’t want the hunt coming through there.” Marsh declares himself firmly neutral on efforts to regulate the sport. “I’ve been a party to some of these conflicts on my own property,” he says. “But I try to be tolerant.” Among those in opposition to the practice is Erica Geppi, state director of the Humane Society of the United States and a member of the umbrella organization the N.C. Animal Federation. Animal rights advocates are concerned about the welfare of both the dogs and the deer in hound hunting. “We think hunting needs more oversight and parameters,” Geppi says. “We consider hunting with dogs a nonsporting practice, on the deer’s behalf.” Trainers keep dogs lean to aid with their pursuit of deer, Kea says. “When the dogs are running, they keep the dogs really slim or trim, they are almost on the verge of being starved,” he says. “Some animal rights people don’t like the way the dogs are treated. You can get a whole lot of people stirred up about that kind of thing.” Adds Geppi: “They tend to keep [dogs] chained outside 24–7. They want to keep that wild instinct alive.” Thus hunting deer with hounds raises myriad issues at a time when regulation itself is being challenged at all levels of government. The concept of regulating this practice is so contentious that a spokesman for the Wildlife Resources Commission responded to the INDY’s questions only with a resolution its leaders passed in 2011. After a long series of items beginning with “Whereas,” it says: “Therefore it is resolved that the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, in official session on Jan. 13, 2011, reaffirms its unwavering support for the use of dogs in hunting in North Carolina in all circumstances where such hunting is consistent with the sound conservation of our state’s treasured wildlife resources and not contrary to the protection of the private property rights of its citizens.” In other words, if all these competing interests are good with hound hunting, the commissioners are, too. As recent developments have shown, the resolution failed to resolve the controversy. Malone says the parties—perhaps the hunters specifically— would do well to adopt the framework of the bill, or some version of it. “If not,” he says, “we’re going to be forced to do something that’s much more stringent.” tgoldsmith@indyweek.com

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ADF: An Oral History

How a Groundbreaking But Cloistered Academic Festival in Vermont Became a Popular Modern Dance Lightning Rod for Durham and the World

BY MICHAELA DWYER This summer, the American Dance Festival celebrates four decades of bringing global modern dance to Durham and Duke University. But ADF’s fortieth anniversary tells only half of its story; the festival has existed in some form since the early 1930s, when modern dance started to flourish in concert dance settings and academic institutions. To resituate ADF’s wide modern impact in its cloistered, campus-bound, little-remembered origins, we compiled an oral history of the festival, from its birth in Vermont to the development of the ADF brand to its pivotal move to Durham and beyond. Key figures who remain involved with the festival walk us from past to present, where we see afresh how the festival retains its academic origins while taking dance—and discussion about the art form—into unlikely spaces and widespread interest.

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Dramatis Personae:

Jodee Nimerichter (ADF Executive Director) Charles Reinhart (ADF Director Emeritus) Gerri Houlihan (Former dean of ADF School) Joseph Fedrowitz (Director of ADF School Tours, volunteer since early 1980s) Tony Johnson (Local choreographer and ADF’s Samuel H. Scripps Studios staff) Jody Cassell (Local choreographer and faculty at Scripps Studios) Tom Bonfield (Durham City Manager)

ADF BEFORE DURHAM

The origins of the American Dance Festival lie in the Bennington School of Dance, which began at Bennington College in Vermont in July 1934. The school’s emphasis on modern dance—a developing form that rejected the stylistic and narrative confines of classical ballet—was unprecedented. Its directors, Martha Hill and Mary Josephine Shelly, centered the curriculum on contact with professional choreographers; students trained with modern-dance pioneers like Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey. In 1948, after the Bennington School of Dance’s discontinuation, Hill adapted the program into the Connecticut College School of Dance in New London. It became officially known as the American Dance Festival in 1969. Combining modern-dance training and professional performances, it remained in Connecticut until it moved to Duke University in 1978. Jodee Nimerichter (ADF Executive Director): I’ve always been fascinated by how this indigenous American art form, modern dance, has had such an impact on the field and how the major choreographers [in the 1930s] needed a sort of refuge outside of New York City to create work. They needed bodies as instruments, so they started teaching classes at Bennington. Charles Reinhart (ADF Director Emeritus): The whole history of the festival was pretty academic, coming from and being run by colleges. Modern dancers were not like ballet dancers, who start studying at six or seven years old. A great deal of modern dancers, at that time, were coming out of classes they took in college. Paul Taylor discovered [modern dance] at Syracuse. Right from the get-go, they had composition and improvisation, which developed creativity. Gerri Houlihan (Former dean of ADF school): My roommate at Juilliard was

dancing with José Limón. She went to ADF in Connecticut with José, and I went to visit her one summer. At that time I was a ballet dancer, or so I thought. [At Connecticut College], I thought, “This is interesting, these are all peculiar modern people …” CR: In the sixties, great young choreographers were bursting out of closets all over the place. Within the next fifty to sixty years, across all art forms, it was one of the greatest artistic explosions of all time. In the first few years [after Reinhart became ADF’s director in 1968], it was hard to get someone to perform in a theater. Douglas Dunn had dancers in parachutes dropping from planes. Laura Dean did a piece in a pond. Meredith Monk did one on the great lawn. Yvonne Rainer performed in a gym. It was just all over, all over. Jody Cassell (Scripps Studios faculty): I was there [with former ADF dean Martha Myers’s company] in 1974. It was just total immersion in dance. I didn’t know there could be that much dance all over the place.

ADF IN DURHAM

In 1974, Connecticut College leadership changed, and the festival determined that a move was in order. After reviewing more than fifty inquiries from potential host institutions, Reinhart and the board chose three semifinalists: the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Duke University. CR: When [Connecticut College president] Charles Shain left in 1974, I said, Make sure to get somebody sympathetic towards ADF. The new president said they were going to have to charge us more money and take away space. I said, I think we’re going to have to look for a new home. [Duke president] Terry Sanford had it all lined up: corporate support, state support, city support, Duke support. When we were down there, they had a party with over four hundred people, and I thought, If they all buy a subscription, we’ll be fine. So we moved [to Durham]. JN: It’s interesting that, while I think there’s so much incredible, rich history in those early years, the festival grew with all that Durham offered and what Duke provided, in terms of multiple theaters and the campus landscape. Charles has said this to me before: ADF hit the big time when it moved to Durham.

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Tommy Noonan's John is one of our top picks for the 2017 ADF season. PHOTO BY TIM WALTER CR: We were welcomed by the community outside of modern dance and the university. I think that was because they felt they wanted something—they had no idea what it was, but they came to love it, and they came back. It would’ve been so easy to say, What the hell is this? and never return. I think being in the summer helped, too. If we came in basketball season, forget about it. Joseph Fedrowitz (Director of ADF School Tours): People forget how important ADF was for Durham and Duke at the time. It was the only game in town. People would plan their summer around it. Shows were on Monday and Tuesday and then Thursday, Friday, and Saturday—two different programs during the week. People would go to every single performance. Tony Johnson (Local choreographer): ADF brought a new form of energy to the community, and they looked forward to it. I think the city has always been hungry for some sort of really authentic creativity. JF: Wellspring, now Whole Foods, would print the ADF schedule on their shopping bags. The festival gave life to restaurants and other places. You could sit in a restaurant on Ninth Street—and I don’t want to be ageist or sexist here—but you’d hear two little old blue-haired ladies discuss the merits of [Japanese performance duo] Eiko and Koma. That’s a pretty amazing thing to have happen in a place like Durham. CR: In the beginning of ADF’s time in Durham, no place was open after nine p.m. We said to our audiences, “We need you to hold a party after the performance so we can feed the dancers.” We had drinks for everyone else but a special room where dancers would eat. GH: When I first came here [as ADF faculty in 1981], I remember there was 12 | 6.7.17 | INDYweek.com

nowhere to go after a performance. We used to go to a place on Main Street; all the waitresses had beehive hairdos and said “y’all.” I had never imagined just wanting to come visit. I mean, I thought Durham was this little out-of-the-way oasis for a summer, and then it felt its way back into being some odd little Southern city after that. CR: We used to have a senator—Jesse Helms. I can’t remember what artist performed, but what they did was controversial. Helms wrote Dr. Baker [of Lenox Baker Children’s Hospital], who showed me the letter. Helms said something like, “And I helped [ADF], bah!” So, yeah, we had some negative reactions. But it’s such a mixed crazy state, and continues to be.

THE ADF SCHOOL ETHOS

The ADF Six Week School brings dancers from around the world to train in Durham for the summer. Students take classes in an array of techniques, including modern, ballet, hip-hop, and improvisation, as well as composition. Students dance for upward of six hours a day, in addition to taking supplementary classes like yoga and Pilates, making new work, and seeing ADF performances. This intensive approach harks back to ADF’s time at Bennington and is typical of other nationally known dance intensives, such as the Bates Dance Festival. GH: The whole idea of dance as an intellectual community pursuit, I found very interesting. I feel like I grew up as a teacher at ADF. When you’re not teaching, you can go take a look at, you know, What is this release technique stuff; how does [Merce] Cunningham start class? What are the real elements in Gaga [technique]? So, as a teacher, I feel like I can stay more current in the field.

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Madonna in Pearl Lang’s class in Baldwin Auditorium in 1978. PHOTO BY JAY ANDERSON JN: Duke has been really incredible in allowing us to use multiple spaces and creating dance studios that are not dance studios, using gymnasiums, cafeterias, all kinds of spaces. GH: [In the late 1980s] we were in Brodie Gym [on Duke’s East Campus]. For a while, a lot of modern teachers were doing ballet barre. [In Brodie] there’s a running track around the top [of the basketball court]. Doug Varone’s classes there were always packed, and there would be a group of about twenty people downstairs holding onto chairs, and then you’d have another twenty people up around the track holding onto the railings, doing the barre there. JF: I could watch teachers teach class forever. I think it’s quite an experience for people [who take ADF tours] to be able to do that. I think it’s important for people to realize how hard dancers work. GH: Day-to-day, semester-to-semester kind of teaching is very different than at ADF. You can see how much people glean from six weeks of intensive training where you wake up in the morning and start class, and then you go to a performance that night, and then you go get ice cream at The Parlour and talk about what you saw. JN: Convocation is the one time that almost everybody comes together as part of the festival. It’s a big pep rally. This year it’s open to the public. It’s the moment when we see everybody, as eager as can be, people who think they’re going to be the next Paul Taylor or the most amazing teacher.

BRINGING THE WORLD TO DURHAM

During the eighties through the mid-nineties, former ADF codirectors Charles and Stephanie Reinhart spearheaded initiatives to introduce American audiences to international choreographers. Dance artists from

around the world started visiting Durham for the summer, whether as part of ADF’s season or in its International Choreographers Residency program. The festival also began the International Linkages program, which sent ADF faculty abroad to exchange dance knowledge with other artists. JN: When money was plentiful we’d have anywhere from twenty to thirty international choreographers at ADF. They would come and live together at the townhouses off Swift [Avenue]. You’d have people from all these different continents, living, eating, and breathing dance and living in a community where doors were open, artists were cooking each other’s specialty foods from home, sharing and exchanging ideas. CR: We had an awareness that we needed to reach overseas. The whole message with modern dance is, Do not do as we do. Learn what we do and then bring your own culture, your own traditions, your own creativity and go on your own road. GH: When you’ve had contact with ADF, you go to other places and someone will say, I know you from somewhere … ADF? It’s like you’re instant family, instantly connected. Through ADF, I’ve done fifteen or sixteen international residencies [in China, South Korea, Mongolia]. And then those people come here. It’s such a pivotal place.

ADF TODAY

When Jodee Nimerichter became ADF’s executive director in 2012, following her tenure as codirector and Reinhart’s retirement, she had already been living in Durham fulltime—the first time the festival’s director made the city a permanent home. Also in 2012, ADF opened Samuel H. Scripps Studios on Broad Street, its first permanent facility in Durham. Since then, the festival has built business partnerships, expanded into alternative performance spaces both

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1. Controversial, political dance

theater from the Middle East figures into four ADF shows this year. Hillel Kogan’s We Love Arabs (The Cary Theater, June 13–14) is a satirical slam on ethnic stereotyping and didactic social commentary in which an Israeli and an Arab dancer try to bridge their cultural divides. Yossi Berg and Oded Graf’s Come Jump with Me (The Nasher Museum of Art, July 10–12) details two travelers’ search for a holy land, which brings them to the edge of an abyss. Roy Assaf’s The Hill chronicles one of the fiercest battles of 1967’s Six-Day War, the same night that Ate9 Dance Company’s Exhibit B explores cultural conflict in idiosyncratic assemblies set to the frenetic horns and glitching beats of a hip-hop/Iranian music mash-up (Reynolds Theater, July 18–19).

2. After an October premiere from

Durham Independent Dance Artists, Culture Mill cofounder Tommy Noonan’s John (Sheafer Lab Theater, June 18–19) now marks his ADF debut. The INDY’s Michaela Dwyer called the solo “an hour-long experiment in pinning a body to words and vice versa.” The piece was inspired by The Illustrated Biography of John Travolta, Richard Linklater’s film Boyhood, and a 2016 Trump political rally.

humble (Motorco) and grand (DPAC), and started offering discounted tickets aimed at younger, broaders audiences. JN: There is the success of how great Durham is becoming. The success can also be the obstacle. It’s difficult to say to people coming from out of town that it’s more expensive for all these people—students, faculty—to come together, find a place to live, pay for food and transportation. At same time, I feel like there are more possibilities for partnerships and more venues willing to work together. CR: With [early ADF corporate sponsor] Liggett & Myers leaving downtown [circa 1980], it was a minus for us in terms of corporate support. But all that real estate was empty. So what to do? Nobody was living downtown. It was a wonderful opportunity for artists to get inexpensive space in the city. That’s what happens globally. It presents opportunities for a whole group of people, who then get pushed out eventually. I think Durham is on that cycle now. JN: Somebody suggested I get involved 14 | 6.7.17 | INDYweek.com

One generation after Still/Here, Bill T. Jones’s seminal dance documentary on the AIDS crisis, a riveting update, Sean Dorsey’s The Missing Generation (Reynolds Theater, July 5–6), lets us hear the voices of twenty-five survivors from the first years of the plague whom Dorsey interviewed in six American cities. We’ve seen Crystal Pite’s psychologically striking fusions of contemporary dance and ballet in recent tours by groups including Nederlands Dans Theater. In Betroffenheit (DPAC, July 14–15), Pite’s own Kidd Pivot dance company pairs with stage director Jonathon Young’s Electric Company Theatre in a disturbing, evening-length work exploring post-traumatic stress after a community disaster.

5. We’ve come to expect unexpected

twists from Bill T. Jones. As immigrants worldwide face new hurdles in locating sanctuary, Jones concludes his threeyear Analogy project with Analogy/ Ambros: The Emigrant (DPAC, July 27–29), a work that reportedly places the narrator from German novelist W.G. Sebald’s 1992 work, The Emigrants, in an aristocratic Downton Abbey milieu. The work debuts here as part of a threenight production of the entire trilogy.

with the Rotary Club of Durham. That’s how the entire ADF permanent facilities project evolved. I think [Scripps Studios] has made a significant change in perception—that we have an edifice with the ADF name on it. People don’t wonder where we’ve gone the rest of the year. And we can invite all kinds of people into the studio to take classes and watch informal work. GH: When I’m [in Scripps] during the week and it’s empty, it kills me. Back in New York, that level of access to studio space is rare. I think it’s starting to gain momentum after five years. I’m hoping that this is the beginning of more energy surrounding the studios. I’d love to see young people and children in there, adults taking classes, residencies by companies, all the time. I would love to see it become a real hub for dance. JN: I don’t know if anybody had an idea of how amazingly successful DPAC was going to be. Duke and the city were very involved in making this a reality, making sure that it would become a new home

for ADF in the summer [of 2009]. There had been companies that simply couldn’t come to ADF for many years—Alvin Ailey, for example—because Page Auditorium’s stage was very small. The struggle has been conveying to people who go see Broadway shows that modern dance is attracting a different audience. If we have a thousand people in the space for a modern dance performance, that is a success. JF: One thing that DPAC has done is get us out of Duke, into the community. There are lots of people in Durham who have hardly ever been on Duke’s campus and are intimidated to go there. That was always a little bit of barrier, I think. JN: ADF has always [presented shows] in ponds, swimming pools, on lawns. But now we try to do that on a more regular basis, taking the chance to copresent shows in alternative spaces. It’s exciting that so much is happening [in Durham] now; people are invested in the arts and want to make these partnerships happen. And there is a whole new group of people who are being exposed to ADF for the first time who might be a little intimidated or think modern dance is not for them, but we provide a context to go see a piece in a more social or more recognizable space. Tom Bonfield (Durham City Manager): Events and festivals like ADF, which is not just a local event, but nationally known, bring a lot of people to Durham from different parts of country, and sometimes the world. It gives Durham great exposure. In terms of economic impact, ADF is right up there with events like Full Frame, Moogfest, and Art of Cool. JN: Forty is a significant number. It’s important to recognize that ADF is not the new kid on the block. This year seemed like a really good year to celebrate dance as a whole in North Carolina in the openingnight performance, from small, independent artists to big, major ballet companies. I love being able to have multiple disciplines on the opening-night program. TJ: ADF dancers bring the community together in a different way. The problem I struggle with is making it accessible for everyone. Chuck [Davis] did a lot of that in summer performances, and as ADF’s director of outreach. The African American Dance Ensemble would be out rehearsing on the East Campus quad, and people would look forward to hearing the drums out there on the lawn. GH: I’m amazed that I still meet people and mention something about ADF, and they don’t know anything about it. It’s crazy. How can you live here and not know about ADF? arts@indyweek.com

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reach at Quarter Horse. Mise co-owns Quarter Horse with Jon Williams and Murphy Turner. Turner is a carpenter and the primary creator of the venue’s fixtures, including the bar and d.j. station. Williams, a software developer, programs everything from pay-by-phone options to interactive lighting. Mise is an entrepreneur and occasional d.j. whose collection of games provided the venture’s spark. The idea flickered to life in May 2015. “I had already decided that Brandon’s next

business venture, unless it sounded just stupid—and even if it sounded a little bit stupid—I had decided the next thing he does, I want in,” Williams recalls. “I asked him what he was up to and he started talking about what he wanted to do. I was basically waiting for him to be quiet so I could say, I want a piece of that. I figured it would be something that, maybe two years later, we would start pushing that boulder.” Wrong. By November 2015, Mise found a space to lease. At the time, Mise and Turner had been

managing a small underground arcade called Free Play, just for a group of friends. Over a year and a half, their covert arcade steadily grew and, after purchasing more and more games, the two began openly talking about starting a business. “We saw how fun it was. Then, when the Merge situation popped up, it seemed like something I couldn’t pass up.” The “Merge situation” was the basement space in the Chapel Hill Street building that houses Merge Records. At first it seemed perfect but proved untenable, with sound traveling through the building at uncomfortably loud levels. Soundproofing was prohibitively expensive, so the project languished until the trio discovered 1,350 square feet of space available at the bottom of the Kress Building. “It’s like the whole thing was a blessing in disguise,” Mise says. “We can fit four times as many people and have three times the size of a bar. It’s just a grander space with an option to expand.” For now, the bar menu is a fluid concept, with game-themed specialty cocktails in the works. (Rumor has it that a Hadouken may appear, made potent by Fireball whiskey.) Quarter Horse is starting with about fifteen pinball games, plus another twenty or so arcade games. There will also be a Steam room, but leave your towels at home; it’s not a sauna. Instead, a small room will house a screen and computer where patrons can visit the Steam gaming site, a popular online home for gamers. Arcade games include Pole Position, Spy Hunter, and Dragon’s Lair. Pinball machines range from Jungle Lord to the Addams Family: “the first game I wanted to buy,” Mise says. He only began collecting games about three years ago. “Space Shuttle is a family heirloom. I’d come home from college and play it in the basement and then it broke and it just sat there,” says Mise, now forty-one. His parents tried to sell it but eventually told him to take it. Then he bought Addams Family, and from there things went exponential: “Within

about six months I suddenly had like thirty games,” he says. Such a hobby isn’t cheap, but Mise had an epiphany while watching the John’s Arcade YouTube channel. The YouTuber bought a game that didn’t work for fifty dollars and set out to get it operational in an hour. “And he did. I was like, Oh my god, I could do the same thing, and so I started picking up games for between two and four hundred bucks. All of a sudden, my print shop was just wall-to-wall games.” (Mise owns the letterpress-printing greeting card company, Blue Barnhouse.) “I kind of have an obsessive personality,” he says. “It’s just such a great feeling to find these games and make them work.” Williams, who turned forty-one in early May, gets to flex his artistic and programming muscles at Quarter Horse. You can hear the excitement in his voice as he talks about his plans for a box of LEDs that just arrived. “They’re more expensive, but you can do a lot more with them,” he says. “There’s going to be a little bit of it everywhere.” “Under-lighting, not in-your-face lighting,” adds Mise. The d.j. booth equipment will be attached to the LED network, which will be synced to move in time with the music. “There’s also a chandelier concept that uses mason jars… We’ll be able to make these patterns that sort of sweep around,” he says. All kinds of ideas are being tossed about, like a midnight madness event that essentially turns the arcade into a slot machine, with lights swirling and extra credits and prizes on offer at random games. “It sounds crazy, but Jon can actually pull all of this stuff off. He’s got the mind to do it,” Mise says. You may have seen proof of that on the side of a downtown Raleigh building a few years ago or at CAM during the 2013 SparkCon, when Williams and graphic designer Tim McCracken developed a project where viewers could tap a button on their phones to “fill” a projected screen with bubbles that produced silhouettes of famous faces, such as John Lennon or Biggie Smalls. While each owner of Quarter Horse brings a specific expertise, they also want yours. “The games are democratic, the music is democratic, we want people to choose what’s happening there,” Mise says. Quarter Horse, Williams says, “is for Durham. We’ll create this magnet and see who gravitates to it, what particles are drawn to it.” Quarter Horse Bar & Arcade is set to open in early June in the Kress Building, Mangum and Main streets, Durham. Visit www.quarterhorsearcade.com for updates. food@indyweek.com

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f all the clichéd controversies that have sandbagged rock ’n’ roll since the beginning, probably the most persistent, after the sex and drugs, is the old idea that rock music is lowbrow. National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. once called The Beatles “so unbelievably horribly, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.” Buckley didn’t think The Beatles were bad musicians—he simply thought rock ’n’ roll was uncultured garbage. As it happens, Icelandic band Kaleo has been on the receiving end of highbrow criticism before, though not coming from an Ivy League conservative like Bill Buckley. The group’s homeland is known for its share of famous, far-out musicians like Sigur Rós and Björk. What international audiences don’t often get to glimpse, however, is the large

“The home-turf criticism of Kaleo clearly hasn’t stuck very well.” number of insular Icelandic music critics and relatively unknown musicians slagging off the country’s more famous exports. The band’s first U.S. album, last year’s A/B, combines rock, blues, folk, and pop. Kaleo’s songwriting is straightforward, with singer Jökull Júlíusson equally comfortable in high and low registers, his range covering soulful and celestial sounds alike. The instrumental hooks of lead guitarist Rubin Pollock are alternately larger-than life, as on radio-friendly tracks like “No Good,” or spooky-sweet, with the bluesy “I Can’t Go on Without You.” The term “easy

listening” probably sounds like an insult, but in Kaleo’s case it isn’t so bad: sometimes things are easy to listen to because they’re done well. So it’s surprising that Kaleo got such a chilly reception at home. In the spring of 2014, back before Kaleo’s hit ballad “All the Pretty Girls” got the attention of Atlantic Records, I interned for an English-language magazine in Iceland called The Reykjavik Grapevine. At the time, Kaleo had multiple chart-topping songs on Icelandic radio, a raucous debut record with fantastic production quality (now out of print), and ambitions clearly larger than the local market. But I had to fight tooth and nail to get my editor to agree to even a brief album review. The charge all around the office was the same: Kaleo was derivative, phony, boring. It was a band of sellouts who just hadn’t sold out yet. A colleague of mine at the

magazine, referring to Kaleo’s sincere if predictable love affair with Robert Johnson and Delta blues, once called them “authenticity fetishists,” which was funny because that colleague was a Scotsman living in Iceland and wouldn’t himself have known the difference between the Mississippi Delta and the Nile Delta. One of the paper’s publishers disparagingly referred to Kaleo as a cover band, willfully disregarding the fact that the only cover songs on their debut album were a guitar-solo intro of the Icelandic national anthem and a remake of a beloved sixties folk ballad, “Vor í Vaglaskógi.” Funnily enough, the precursor to Kaleo— the current lineup minus Pollock, who would join a few years later—actually did start as a cover band. For four years, it slogged through classic rock songs, some great, some overrated. They were like counterfeit painters in a museum, learning the talents of the masters while trying to copy them. Only these guys were just trying to earn some money in Reykjavik bars. I once asked Júlíusson and drummer David Antonsson about this time and the artistic frustrations that led them to start writing and recording their own music. “In the summer of 2012, we decided we wanted to focus on our own stuff,” Júlíusson said. “We had a lot of good songs we could work on.” “And fuck the money,” Antonsson broke in. The home-turf criticism of Kaleo clearly hasn’t stuck very well. The band’s record deal with Atlantic and its 2015 relocation to Austin, Texas, came about not just because the band wrote a slick pop ballad that made label executives see green but also because of the serious talent keeping the enterprise afloat. Júlíusson’s voice is, in many ways, the band’s strongest feature. Back in Iceland, when Kaleo used to play small clubs packed to the brim, Júlíusson sang like he meant it, and that hasn’t gone away as the group has moved up into larger venues and outdoor music festivals around the world. His lyrics won’t ever win him a Nobel Prize, but they still convey an honest heart. And now the band is about to play its own music—which evokes influences without wanting or needing to mimic them—at North Carolina’s flagship art museum. It might not make Kaleo high art, but then again, it really doesn’t need to. music@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 6.7.17 | 19

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INDY › When the Reverend William Barber II led a protest down Nash Street in Wilson in 2008, the nighttime scene of disciplined marchers eerily echoed the civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s. It was one of Barber’s many forays into activism on behalf of the poor and marginalized, but last week the Goldsboro-based pastor clearly recalled the case of James Johnson, accused of murder even though he turned in the real killer. “What was strange about that case, he did what they tell them to do, what you were supposed to do,” Barber told me. In the near-decade since that march, Barber has served as the leading edge for North Carolina’s progressive movement, heading the state NAACP, fighting for fair treatment of minorities in schools, spearheading the Moral Monday marches against the GOP-led

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come on. Frank Stasio, a crank? For real? Are you high right now? Have you ever listened to the man? Stasio, the host of WUNC’s The State of Things since 2006, is many things—foremost, a keen, mild-mannered interviewer on a broad array of subjects, political and cultural and in between—but however you define “crank” (Merriam-Webster: “a bad-tempered person”), he ain’t it. [JCB]

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›› BEST LOCAL TV

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FINALISTS: Elizabeth Gardner, Don Schwenneker, Chris Hohmann

INDY › Greg Fishel has been a meteorological fixture at WRAL-TV since 1981, and in that time, he’s become a rightly cherished local figure, leading us through rain, snow, sleet, hail, hurricanes, and sunshine. He’s affable, warm, and unafraid to let his geek flag fly. And Fishel hasn’t seemed to let the acclaim get to his head—one winter, when he incorrectly predicted snow, he donned a tropical shirt, shorts, and a lei, and took a seat in WRAL’s chilly fountain. In recent years, Fishel has become a vocal proponent of recognizing the impacts humans have on global climates. Fishel has a tough job that’s made even tougher by armchair weather-guessers, but it’s clearly one he loves. [AH] BEST OF 2017 | INDYweek.com | 6.7.17 | 7

›› BEST LOCAL POLITICIAN IN NEED OF A REALITY CHECK PHIL BERGER

FINALISTS: Pat McCrory, Richard Burr, Thom Tillis which was sort of “repealed” earlier this INDY › Phil Berger is a deserving choice year, wasn’t McCrory’s idea—few things for this particular (dis)honor. But rather were—but he embraced it anyway, imaginthan recount the terribleness of the Sening that kicking transgender peoate leader, I’d like to reflect on ple in an election year would make the comeuppance visited upon for good politics. last year’s winner, former govNow McCrory’s playing golf, not ernor Pat McCrory, who saw getting a job in the Trump adminhis political career snuffed out istration, working as a business in a painful squeaker of a loss consultant, and not getting partto Roy Cooper. To make mattime university positions because, ters worse for ol’ Pat, it wasn’t Phil Berger, as he told The News & Observer in some Democratic wave that “winner” March, academic leaders “have did him in; fellow Republishown reluctance because of student procans Donald Trump, Richard Burr, and tests. That’s not the way our American sysDan Forest won North Carolina easily, and tem should operate—having people purged the GOP maintained its dominance of the due to political thought.” General Assembly. No, this loss was about Break out those tiny violins, everyone! McCrory, or more specifically, his sup[JCB] port of HB 2. The so-called bathroom bill,

›› BEST REASON

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY ncleg.net 16 West Jones Street, Raleigh FINALISTS: HB 2, vacation, traffic

INDY › Look, we get it. From HB 2 to gerrymandering to a deep disdain for poor people, the General Assembly can be, well, a shit show. We get why all that may make you want to hightail it out of the Tar Heel State, but hear us out. If the NCGA is your top reason to leave our beloved Triangle, don’t leave: get involved. You’re clearly an intelligent, compassionate person, and what’s more, you’re already a pro at this whole democracy thing—you voted on this very item! So take that anger and put it to use. Don’t know where to start? Check out groups like Indivisible, Emily’s List, and Swing Left, which are all working to lift up new candidates for office, unseat played-out incumbents, and flip districts. Sure, our legislators largely suck. So let’s get ourselves some new ones. [SW]

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FINALISTS: Renee Chou,

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BEST PLACE TO TAKE VISITORS FROM OUT OF TOWN DUKE GARDENS FINALISTS: N.C. Museum of Art,

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›› BEST POLITICIAN IN WAKE COUNTY ROY COOPER

governor.nc.gov FINALISTS: Josh Stein, David Price, Nancy McFarlane

INDY › These are all fine—if obvious—

choices for best politician. But I’d like to discuss someone who might not be on your radar. On December 5, Jessica Holmes shocked the local political world when she abruptly announced her resignation from the Wake County Board of Commissioners at the end of a meeting. She’d just won an affordable housing vote and narrowly lost a bid to become the board’s vice chairwoman. Neither before nor during her announcement did Holmes give any indication as to what was eating at her, only saying that she “would be leaving the board in excellent hands.” By one p.m. the next day, however,

she’d changed her mind. “The immense response from the community has encouraged me to reconsider this decision,” she said. This is good for Wake County. Not only is Holmes the board’s only woman of color, she’s also currently its only woman. And when she was elected in 2014, she was then the youngest person to ever serve on the county commission. An attorney for the N.C. Association of Educators, she’s young, smart, engaging, progressive, affable—in other words, she checks all the right boxes. And if she wants it, she might well be a politician to keep your eye on over the next decade. [JCB]

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n. 1. a. A population center that is larger than a village and smaller than a city. b. A territorial and political unit governed by a town meeting, especially in New England. 2. An area that is more densely populated or developed than the surrounding area: going into town to shop. [BH]

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Oakwood and fashionable Five Points (although, OMG the prices!). And Boylan Heights, at one point downscale, has come up and up and up. But the interesting favorite here is Brentwood. Ah, 27604, where homes can still be bought for considerably less than $200,000, while various sources put the Raleigh-wide equivalent at more than $250,000. And it’s an eightto-ten-minute trek to, say, the Capitol Building, depending on how close to Capital Boulevard you are. On Brentwood Road, the main drag, it feels like Ridgewood in the day, with lots of smallish brick houses, as well as split-levels and the increasingly trendy split-foyers (OK, just on my street). And Raleigh has a plan to upgrade the park and community center. In the big picture, neighborhoods like Brentwood, affordable and diverse, will continue to gain favor as everything near downtown and ITB gets harder to find and pricier. [TG]

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›› BEST USE OF PUBLIC MONEY PUBLIC EDUCATION

FINALISTS: Greenways, bicycle infrastructure, Dorothea Dix Park

INDY › This reporter loves green-

ways—and has even walked on some. Bikes are great; I think we have some in the basement. And everyone is looking forward to the opening of Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Park. If only the Dalai Lama could do his gig there. But the best use of public money? Let’s vote along with the crowd here— it’s absolutely public education. For one thing, of these worthy uses, only public education rates a mention in the state Constitution. “The people have a right to the privilege of education, and it is the duty of the State to guard and maintain that right,” it says, right there in Article 1, Section 15. And courtesy of Daniels Middle School graduate and Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning, we have the Leandro

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decision, which found that all North Carolina children have the right to an “opportunity to receive a sound basic education.” For generations of Tar Heels, public schools have performed as the great equalizer, a firm launching place for careers in show business (Andy Griffith, James Taylor, Amy Sedaris, Ben Folds); literature (Anne Tyler, Reynolds Price, David Sedaris, Armistead Maupin); sports (Michael Jordan, Pete Maravich, Shavlik Randolph, John Wall); fashion, (Alexander Julian, André Leon Talley, Justin LeBlanc); and government (Terry Sanford, Jesse Helms, etc.) North Carolina needs public schools, wants public schools, and should pay for them. Further affiant sayeth not. [TG]

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fairly be called a Monuts regular—there at least once most every weekend, sometimes more— and I’m also a fan of the bagels, particularly the salted one. Actually, not really the bagels as stand-alones, though they’re fine, but the magnificent concoctions Monuts creates for bagel sandwiches: the menu changes seasonally, but right now there’s the Green Eggs on Toast, an open-faced bagel with two eggs (go sunny-side up), avocado, pickled jalapeno, cilantro, lime vinaigrette, red onion, and a sprinkling of queso fresco. Last fall, there was an heirloom tomato bagel sandwich with eggs and chevre cream cheese. Delish. The only problem with Monuts is that the damn place isn’t big enough, especially on weekend mornings when the countertop bar is inevita-

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INDY › If you believe in barbe-

cue accompanied by valet parking, online reservations, and fancy sides, you can dine out along those lines in Raleigh. It'll be good, pricy, and probably worth it, given the way values are measured in Foodie World. But if you want to kick it old-school, try this: head down South Saunders Street, under the Beltline—you can do it—and drive south. Take 70 at the 70-401 split, then hang a right on Highway 50 to Benson. (Been down for Mule Day? No? Never mind.) It's an interesting ride, but the payoff is at 12143 N.C. Highway 50 in Willow Spring. That’s the home of Stephenson's Barbecue, the real thing, where iced tea comes to the table in a pitcher, along with a bowl of additional ice for when yours melts. A $6 small pig plate supplies barbecue that’s “smoky-flavored, well-textured, easily chewable, but not mushy,” says Raleigh aficionado Marshall Wyatt. Everything from the plank door in the men’s room to the traditional Brunswick stew and barbecued chicken to the quick, friendly service says North Carolina barbecue, the North Carolina way. Get there before the world discovers Stephenson’s, a process that’s apparently underway. “Oh and the price is almost free compared to NYC pricing lol,” an online hipster says. [TG]

BEST BREAD IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES WEAVER STREET MARKET

101 East Weaver Street, Carrboro weaverstreetmarket.coop FINALISTS: Great Harvest Bread Company, Chicken Bridge Bakery, Bread & Butter

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4248 Northwest Cary Parkway, Cary lafarmbakery.com FINALISTS: Boulted Bread, Neomonde, Yellow Dog Bread Company

RISE BISCUITS DONUTS

401 Foster Street, Durham risebiscuitsdonuts.com FINALISTS: Scratch, Monuts, Elmo’s Diner

INDY › Rise’s biscuits consistently hit the mark with

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crucial elements of a good biscuit: they’re big but not excessive, not too greasy, not too salty, fluffy on the inside, hold up for sandwiches, and just the right level of crispy on the outside. The local chain also offers highly creative biscuit sandwich options, like a Cubaninspired number that’s equally appropriate for breakfast or lunch. A few blocks away, though, Scratch offers a satisfying but much more compact biscuit that also earns high marks for an excellent balance of texture and flavor. Over on Ninth Street, Monuts’ biscuits are big, square numbers that make for a filling breakfast with little more than a slice of white cheddar. Elmo’s Diner also managed to slide into this category, and though those biscuits are fine, they don’t hold a candle to the other finalists. [AH]

776 Ninth Street, Durham elmosdiner.com FINALISTS: Monuts, Scratch, True Flavors

200 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro elmosdinercarrboro.com FINALISTS: Acme, Ye Olde Waffle Shop, LaPlace Louisiana Cookery

219 Hood Street, Durham, ponysaurusbrewing.com FINALISTS: Fullsteam Brewery, Bull City Burger and Brewery, Durty Bull Brewing Company

437 Dimmocks Mill Road, #41, Hillsborough mysterybrewing.com FINALISTS: Steel Spring Brewery, Carolina Brewery, Top of the Hill Brewery

827 West Morgan Street, Raleigh trophybrewing.com FINALISTS: Bond Brothers Beer Company, Big Boss Brewing Company, Lynnwood Grill & Brewing Concern

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BEST BURGER IN DURHAM COUNTY BULL CITY BURGER 107 East Parrish Street, #105, Durham bullcityburgerandbrewery.com FINALISTS: Only Burger, Dain’s Place, Town Hall Burger and Beer

BEST BURRITO IN DURHAM COUNTY COSMIC CANTINA 1920 Perry Street, Durham cosmiccantina.com FINALISTS: Nana’s Tacos, Chubby’s Tacos, Gonza Tacos y Tequila

BEST BURGER IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES AL’S BURGER SHACK

BEST BURRITO IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES CARRBURRITOS

BEST BURGER IN WAKE COUNTY BAD DADDY’S BURGER BAR

BEST BURRITO IN WAKE COUNTY CHUBBY’S TACOS

516 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill alsburgershack.com FINALISTS: The Wooden Nickel, Buns, Linda’s Bar and Grill

111 Seaboard Avenue, Raleigh baddaddysburgerbar.com FINALISTS: Chucks, MoJoe’s Burger Joint, Raleigh Times

711 West Rosemary Street, Carrboro carrburritos.com FINALISTS: Cosmic Cantina, Fiesta Grill, Monterrey

2444 Wycliff Road, Raleigh FINALISTS: Gringo A Go Go, Flying Burrito, Baja Burrito

›› BEST BREAKFAST IN WAKE COUNTY

BIG ED’S CITY MARKET

220 Wolfe Street, Raleigh bigedscitymarket.com FINALISTS: The Flying Biscuit Café, Brigs, Angie’s Restaurant

INDY › In 2019, state transportation folks tell us, the snazzy new “square loop” interchange at Peace Street will arc over the spot that for nearly seventy years was home to Finch’s, the best dang place to eat breakfast in Raleigh. This sorry turn of events will occur because the 1948 Capital Boulevard bridge over Peace had a sufficiency rating of 44.9 out of 100, according to the state Department of Transportation. As if they’ve never made a mistake. (Raise your fork if you have to take the 440 South Loop.) I’m here to tell y’all I would have

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kept on taking the risk to keep eating at Finch’s, where the eggs, hotcakes, sausage, hot sauce, mismatched coffee mugs, and a ragsto-riches crew created a morning atmosphere like no other. And where else can we get those little containers of jelly made out of unverifiable fruit substances for our white toast? On the happy-ending side, owner Peggy Jin says a new Finch’s location in Durham—3211 Old Chapel Hill Road—will open in July, with many of the same favorites and new offerings like chicken pot pie. [TG]

y staff and I are humbled to receive this recognition. I am pleased to have served the community for more than 25 years as a general dentist. Our success is due to the efforts of individuals who have worked in my ofﬁce over the years, to the outstanding specialists who have participated in and elevated the quality of care we provide our patients, to the excellent education I received at the UNC School of Dentistry, and to those dentists who have inspired me to practice every day as if it was my ﬁrst day out of school. Thank you. We are grateful to live in a community with so many excellent and caring practitioners.

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BEST CARIBBEAN OR CUBAN OLD HAVANA SANDWICH SHOP

310 East Main Street, Durham oldhavanaeats.com FINALISTS: Luna Empanadas, Cuban Revolution, Carmen’s Cuban Café and Lounge

BEST CHEF IN DURHAM COUNTY MATT KELLY

FINALISTS: Scott Howell, Andrea Reusing, Amy Tornquist

BEST CHEF IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES ANDREA REUSING FINALISTS: Aaron Vandermark, Bill Smith, Matt Fo

BEST CHEF IN WAKE COUNTY ASHLEY CHRISTENSEN

FINALISTS: Scott Crawford, Michael Rasmussen, Cheetie Kumar

›› BEST DONUT RISE BISCUITS DONUTS

401 Foster Street Durham risebiscuitsdonuts.com FINALISTS: Monuts, Duck Donuts, Krispy Kreme

INDY › Five years after open-

ing its first store near Southpoint Mall, Rise Biscuits and Donuts has grown from a super-busy standalone to a well-regarded local chain (though there’s one location in Texas and three more on the way in Florida, Georgia, and Virginia). Rise has a three-pronged approach to its donuts that allows it to fit old favorites and new experiments into its menu: you can get a classic rainbow-sprinkled treat, but why not spring for a crème brulee donut, or perhaps the one topped with salted caramel icing and nuggets of Cap’n Crunch cereal? But, most important, Rise is more than just flashy flavors: all of its donuts are soft and chewy, never weighed down by too much grease or yeast. [AH]

BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT IN DURHAM COUNTY HAPPY CHINA

2505 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham happychinasushi.com FINALISTS: Juju, Shanghai Chinese Restaurant, Neo China

BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES GOURMET KINGDOM 301 East Main Street, Carrboro thegourmetkingdom.com FINALISTS: Lime & Basil, Jade Palace, Red Lotus

BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT IN WAKE COUNTY BIDA MANDA

222 South Blount Street, Raleigh bidamanda.com FINALISTS: David’s Dumpling and Noodle Bar, Five Star, Peace China

BEST CHOCOLATE IN DURHAM COUNTY COCOA CINNAMON

420 West Geer Street, Durham cocoacinnamon.com FINALISTS: Rose’s Meat Market and Sweet Shop, Miel Bon Bons

BEST CHOCOLATE IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES MATTHEW’S CHOCOLATES

107 North Churton Street, Hillsborough facebook.com/matthewschocolates FINALISTS: Chapel Hill Toffee, Miel Bon Bons, Carolina Confectionery Company

BEST CHOCOLATE IN WAKE COUNTY VIDERI CHOCOLATE FACTORY

327 West Davie Street, Raleigh viderichocolatefactory.com FINALISTS: Escazu, Kilwin, Chocolate Smile

BEST COFFEE SHOP IN DURHAM COUNTY COCOA CINNAMON

420 West Geer Street, Durham cocoacinnamon.com FINALISTS: Joe Van Gogh, Bean Traders, The Durham Hotel

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›› BEST DRAFT BEER SELECTION IN WAKE COUNTY RALEIGH BEER GARDEN

614 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh theraleighbeergarden.com FINALISTS: Flying Saucer, State of Beer, House of Hops

INDY › There are, as of this writing, 333 beers on draft at Raleigh Beer Garden between the downstairs (N.C. brews) and upstairs (beers from all over) bars, making this choice something of a no-brainer, yet one that also can lead to selection overkill—analysis paralysis, if you will. Like, how do you choose between … everything? Clearly you can’t have it all. Hell, there are thirty-five varieties of North Carolina-made IPAs, everything from Wicked Weed’s Lieutenant Dank to Durty Bull Rice IPA to Appalachian Mountain Long Leaf IPA and back again. How is one to possibly decide? [JCB]

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BEST COFFEE IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES CAFFE DRIADE

1215 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill caffedriade.com FINALISTS: Open Eye Cafe, Joe Van Gogh, Cup A Joe

BEST COFFEE SHOP IN WAKE COUNTY CUP A JOE 3100 Hillsborough Street Raleigh FINALISTS: Jubala, Sola Coffee, BREW Coffee Bar

BEST CUPCAKE IN DURHAM COUNTY SMALLCAKES 4711 Hope Valley Road, Durham smallcakesnc.com FINALISTS: Mad Hatter Bakeshop and Cafe, The Cupcake Bar

BEST CUPCAKE IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES SUGARLAND

A big Thank You to alL our great customers and friends! We couldn’t do it without you! 42 rotating taps of craft beErs! Live music on the patio alL sumMer!

140 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill sugarlandchapelhill.com FINALISTS: Smallcakes, Phoenix Bakery

BEST CUPCAKE IN WAKE COUNTY LUCETTEGRACE

235 South Salisbury Street, Raleigh lucettegrace.com FINALISTS: Gigi’s Cupcakes, Sugarland, The Cupcake Shop

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BEST DELI IN DURHAM COUNTY LUCKY’S DELICATESSEN

105 West Chapel Hill Street, Durham luckysdelinc.com FINALISTS: Parker and Otis, Foster’s Market, Rose’s Meat Market and Sweet Shop

BEST DELI IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES MEDITERRANEAN DELI

410 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill mediterraneandeli.com FINALISTS: Neal’s Deli, Merritt’s Store and Grill, Nantucket Grill

BEST DELI IN WAKE COUNTY NEOMONDE

3817 Beryl Road, Raleigh neomonde.com FINALISTS: Village Deli, New York Bagel and Deli, Manhattan Cafe

BEST DESSERTS IN DURHAM COUNTY THE PARLOUR 117 Market Street, Durham theparlour.co FINALISTS: Guglhupf, Rose’s Meat Market and Sweet Shop, Mad Hatter Bakeshop and Cafe

BEST DESSERTS IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES MAPLE VIEW FARM

6900 Rocky Ridge Road, Hillsborough mapleviewfarm.com FINALISTS: Lantern, Weaver Street Market, Sugarland

BEST DESSERTS IN WAKE COUNTY LUCETTEGRACE 235 South Salisbury Street, Raleigh lucettegrace.com FINALISTS: Hayes Barton Café, La Farm Bakery, Bittersweet

BEST DISTILLERY IN THE TRIANGLE DURHAM DISTILLERY

711 Washington Street, Durham durhamdistillery.com FINALISTS: TOPO Distillery, Brothers Vilgalys Spirits Company, Raleigh Rum Company

BEST DRAFT BEER SELECTION IN DURHAM COUNTY SAM’S QUIK SHOP

1605 Erwin Road, Durham samsquikshop.com FINALISTS: Tyler’s Taproom, Ponysaurus Brewing Company, Growler Grlz

BEST DRAFT BEER SELECTION IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES BEER STUDY

106 North Graham Street, Chapel Hill beerstudy.com FINALISTS: Tyler’s Taproom, Mystery Brewing Company, Milltown

›› BEST FRIES

IN DURHAM COUNTY

BULL CITY BURGER AND BREWERY

107 East Parrish Street, Durham bullcityburgerandbrewery.com FINALISTS: The Federal, Geer Street Garden, Only Burger

INDY › They rain down from the sky

in golden-brown cascades of twicefried crispness, slender as Brancusi columns, and they land with an insouciant bounce, sending up an effervescent spray of moist green garlic that then settles and sticks on the plate, waiting to be fingertip-plucked at the end—if you ever get there, because sometimes they come in piles so high the bottom is mostly theoretical, like the inside of a black hole. They’re the Federal’s garlic fries, and, with no shots at Bull City Burger, they’re the best in Durham. I refuse to hear anything different. [BH]

BEST FOOD TRUCK CHIRBA CHIRBA DUMPLING chirbachirba.com FINALISTS: Pie Pushers, American Meltdown, Pho Nomenal Dumplings

BEST FRENCH RESTAURANT VIN ROUGE

2010 Hillsborough Road, Durham vinrougerestaurant.com FINALISTS: Rue Cler, Coquette Brasserie, Saint Jacques French Cuisine

BEST FRIES IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES AL’S BURGER SHACK

516 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill alsburgershack.com FINALISTS: Milltown, Linda’s Bar and Grill, The Spotted Dog

BEST FRIES IN WAKE COUNTY CHUCK’S BURGER BAR

237 South Wilmington Street, Raleigh ac-restaurants.com/chucks FINALISTS: The Raleigh Times, Carolina Ale House, Capital Club 16

BEST FROZEN TREATS THE PARLOUR

117 Market Street, Durham theparlour.co FINALISTS: Maple View Farms, Locopops, Howling Cow NCSU

BEST GLUTEN-FREE RESTAURANT VIMALA’S CURRYBLOSSOM CAFÉ 431 West Franklin Street, #415, Chapel Hill curryblossom.com FINALISTS: The Fiction Kitchen, Primal Food and Spirits, Chef’s Palette

BEST GREEK RESTAURANT MEDITERRANEAN DEL

410 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill mediterraneandeli.com FINALISTS: Neomonde, Tavern Agora, Kipos Greek Taverna

BEST HOT DOG KING’S SANDWICH SHOP

701 Foster Street, Durham kingssandwichshop.com FINALISTS: Snoopy’s, The Roast Grill, Table 18

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431 West Franklin Street, #415, Chapel Hill curryblossom.com FINALISTS: Sitar Indian Cuisine, Garland, Azitra

BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT IN DURHAM COUNTY GOCCIOLINA

3314 Guess Road, Durham gocciolina.com FINALISTS: Mothers & Sons, Pulcinella’s Italian Restaurant, The Boot

BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES 411 WEST

411 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill 411west.com FINALISTS: Pizzeria Mercato, Panciuto, Vinny’s

BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT IN WAKE COUNTY BELLA MONICA

3121 Edwards Mill Road bellamonica.com FINALISTS: Gravy, Caffé Luna, Daniel’s Restaurant & Catering

BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT IN DURHAM COUNTY DASHI

415 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham dashiramen.com FINALISTS: M Sushi, Shiki Sushi, Yamazushi

BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES AKAI HANA

206 West Main Street, Carrboro akaihana.com FINALISTS: Oishii, Spicy 9, Moon Asian Bistro

BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT IN WAKE COUNTY WARAJI

5910 Duraleigh Road, Raleigh warajijapaneserestaurant.com FINALISTS: Mura at North Hills, Kanki, Tasu

BEST KID-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT IN DURHAM COUNTY ELMO’S DINER 776 Ninth Street, Durham elmosdiner.com 22 | 6.7.17 | INDYweek.com | BEST OF 2017

BEST GUACAMOLE

GONZA TACOS Y TEQUILA

7713 Lead Mine Road, #39, Raleigh gonzatacosytequila.com FINALISTS: Dos Perros, Carrburritos, Guasaca

INDY › For the second year in a row,

Gonza’s guac has taken the top spot, followed by Dos Perros, Carrburritos, and Guasaca—again. Not to throw any shade at these worthy contenders, but here in the Triangle, we are blessed with an abundance of avocado options. I’m partial to the version at Tonali (3642 Shannon Road), which is simple and balanced just the way guacamole should be. Tonali’s guacamole doesn’t rely on heavy-handed lime or cilantro to get its message across. Instead, the spread at this Hope Valley restaurant is sumptuous and studded with sweet, tangy pickled red onions. Scoop it up with freshly fried ribbons of corn tortilla and chase it with a sip from a delightfully tropical guanabana margarita. [SW]

FINALISTS: Bull City Burger and

Brewery, Pizzeria Pompieri, Ponysaurus Brewing Company

BEST KID-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT IN WAKE COUNTY FLYING BISCUIT CAFÉ 2016 Clark Avenue, Raleigh flyingbiscuit.com FINALISTS: The Cowfish, Carolina Ale House, Metro Diner

BEST LATE-NIGHT MEAL IN DURHAM COUNTY PARTS & LABOR

723 Rigsbee Avenue, Durham motorcomusic.com/eats/ FINALISTS: Cosmic Cantina, Heavenly Buffaloes, Bar Virgile

BEST LATE-NIGHT MEAL IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES WOODEN NICKEL PUB 105 North Churton Street, Hillsborough thewnp.com FINALISTS: Time Out, Cosmic Cantina, Linda’s Bar and Grill

BEST LATE-NIGHT MEAL IN WAKE COUNTY COOK OUT

3930 Western Boulevard, Raleigh cookout.com FINALISTS: The Players’ Retreat, MoJoe’s Burger Joint, Armadillo Grill

BEST LATIN-AMERICAN RESTAURANT IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES CARRBURRITOS 711 West Rosemary Street, Carrboro carrburritos.com FINALISTS: Fiesta Grill, Lucha Tigre, Bandido’s

BEST LATIN AMERICAN RESTAURANT IN WAKE COUNTY MAMI NORA’S 2401 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh maminoras.com FINALISTS: Gonza Tacos y Tequila, Centro, Alpaca Peruvian Charcoal Chicken

BEST LOCALLY MADE LIQUOR CONNIPTION NAVY STRENGTH FROM DURHAM DISTILLERY 711 Washington Street, Durham durhamdistillery.com FINALISTS: Krupnikas by Brothers Vilgalys, Vodka from TOPO Distillery, White Rum from Raleigh Rum Company

BEST LOCALLY MADE WINE STARRLIGHT MEAD

480 Hillsboro Street, #1000, Pittsboro starrlightmead.com FINALISTS: Honeygirl Mead, Fair Game Beverage Co., Benjamin Vineyards

BEST MEDITERRANEAN MEDITERRANEAN DELI

410 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill mediterraneandeli.com FINALISTS: Neomonde, Sitti, Sassool

BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT IN DURHAM COUNTY NANATACO

2512 University Drive, Durham nanataco.com FINALISTS: Dos Perros, Gonza Tacos y Tequila, El Rodeo

BEST IRISH PUB

BULL MCCABE’S

427 West Main Street, Durham bullmccabesirishpub.com FINALISTS: Hibernian, James Joyce Irish Pub, Doherty’s

INDY › Woody Irish pubs are a vital

subspecies of watering hole, with their own charms, standards, and idiosyncrasies. Even in daytime, they have a hint of pleasant shadow. They encourage conversation. They take their taps seriously. Bull McCabe’s, with its focal wooden bar, chalkboard-and-mirror decor, and shelves stocked with real books amid cozy side booths, fulfills the role well. The menu ranges from the expected hearty pub fare to, well, BBQ jackfruit and mango salad. The joint serves as a nexus for the sportsminded, especially the area’s fervent soccer demimonde and those who team up on the (extremely competitive) trivia night. [DK]

BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES CARRBURRITOS

711 West Rosemary Street, Carrboro carrburritos.com FINALISTS: Fiesta Grill, Monterrey, Guanajuato

BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT IN WAKE COUNTY GONZA TACOS Y TEQUILA

7713 Lead Mine Road, #39, Raleigh gonzatacosytequila.com FINALISTS: Centro, El Rodeo, Gringo A Go Go

BEST MIDDLE EASTERN RESTAURANT MEDITERRANEAN DELI 410 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill mediterraneandeli.com FINALISTS: Neomonde, Sitti, Sassool

BEST NEW RESTAURANT IN DURHAM COUNTY MOTHER & SONS

107 West Chapel Hill Street, Durham mothersandsonsnc.com FINALISTS: Viceroy, Bar Brunello, City Barbeque

BEST NEW RESTAURANT IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES PIZZERIA MERCATO

408 West Weaver Street, Carrboro pizzeriamercatonc.com FINALISTS: Mystery Brewing Public House, Tandem, Oakleaf

BEST OUTDOOR DINING IN DURHAM COUNTY GUGLHUPF

2706 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham guglhupf.com FINALISTS: Parts & Labor, Geer Street Garden, The Durham Hotel

BEST OUTDOOR DINING IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES SAXAPAHAW GENERAL STORE 1735 Saxapahaw-Bethlehem Church Road, Saxapahaw saxgenstore.com FINALISTS: Weaver Street Market, Crook’s Corner, Vimala’s Curryblossom Café

BEST OUTDOOR DINING IN WAKE COUNTY WHISKEY KITCHEN

201 West Martin Street, Raleigh whiskey.kitchen FINALISTS: Taverna Agora, The Station, Raleigh Beer Garden

BEST PIE IN DURHAM COUNTY EAST DURHAM PIE COMPANY 406 South Driver Street, Durham eastdurhampie.com FINALISTS: Scratch Bakery, Mad Hatter Bakeshop and Cafe, Bean Traders

BEST PIE IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES MAMA DIP’S

408 West Rosemary Street Chapel Hill mamadips.com FINALISTS: LaPlace Louisiana Cookery, Weaver Street Market, The Root Cellar Cafe & Catering

BEST PIE IN WAKE COUNTY HAYES BARTON CAFÉ

2000 Fairview Road, Raleigh facebook.com/hayesbartoncafe FINALISTS: Bittersweet, Slice Pie Company, The Remedy Diner

BEST PIZZA IN DURHAM COUNTY PIZZERIA TORO 105 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham pizzeriatoro.com FINALISTS: Lilly’s Pizza, Pie Pushers, Randy’s Pizza

BEST PIZZA IN WAKE COUNTY LILLY’S PIZZA

1813 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh lillyspizza.com FINALISTS: Trophy Brewing & Pizza, Mellow Mushroom, Moonlight Pizza

BEST KIDFRIENDLY RESTAURANT IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES ELMO’S DINER

200 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro elmosdiner.com FINALISTS: Weaver Street Market, Vimala’s Curryblossom Café, The Spotted Dog

INDY › You’ve seen them: a mom

and dad enjoying dinner out, feeding an adorable, cooperative moppet who, between gratefully accepted, expertly cut bites of broccoli, obligingly stares off into space while the parents enjoy a quiet glass of wine. What you don’t see is the other set of parents, who have given up on dining out en famille in these kinds of places. A childfriendly restaurant isn’t just one that offers kids crayons and menus to draw on. It’s an attitude conveyed by the pleasant whiff of fries and shakes in the air. So, no, Elmo’s is not for those seeking a quiet glass of wine, but it’s place where a kid can be a kid, where a kid who only likes about five foods will find at least a few of them on the menu, a place where you can mess around with the cutlery and not attract any side-eye. And the menu has good grub for grown-ups too. [DK]

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BEST RESTAURANT IN THE TRIANGLE MATEO BAR DE TAPAS 109 West Chapel Hill Street, Durham mateotapas.com FINALISTS: Bida Manda, Lantern, Dashi

BEST SALAD IN DURHAM COUNTY HAPPY + HALE 703 Ninth Street, Durham happyandhale.com FINALISTS: Toast, Saladelia Cafe, Lilly’s Pizza

BEST SALAD IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES MEDITERRANEAN DELI

410 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill mediterraneandeli.com FINALISTS: Weaver Street Market, Venable Rotisserie Bistro, The Spotted Dog

›› BEST LATIN-AMERICAN RESTAURANT IN DURHAM COUNTY LUNA ROTISSERIE AND EMPANADAS 112 West Main Street, Durham lunarotisserie.com FINALISTS: Dos Perros, Gonza Tacos y Tequila, Blue Corn Café

INDY › By no fault of your own, dear

reader, the Latin American category for best restaurant is perhaps the broadest stroke with which we could paint our food scene. For starters, there are thirtythree countries in Latin America and at least fifteen more sovereign or other territories. But here in the Triangle, we get a mere sampling of this vast region. Which is OK, albeit melancholy for our stomachs. What is not OK, though, is the narrow region that the majority of Durham voters considered worth exploring. Y’all do know a food scene exists beyond downtown, right? And you don’t even have to pay for parking! Many of these restaurants on the periphery are immi-

grant-owned, too, though our appetence for the authentic shouldn’t be our driving factor. Good food should. And I’d say voters got two out of four right on that front. (For the record: Luna and Gonza.) Here’s my short “Latin American” list for Durham County, a reminder of underthe-radar restaurants that are immigrant-owned and incredibly satisfying. They deserve your attention and business—and, hopefully, next year’s votes. •El Chapin (4600 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, #38): This strip mall gem offers beautiful homemade Guatemalan stews and the Ordoñez family’s version of tamales. •Azteca Grill (1929 Chapel Hill Road):

In the rapidly changing Lakewood district, we can’t afford to lose this taste of Michoacan. Some of the best handmade tortillas in town, freshly fried carnitas, and weekend pozole. •Tonali (3642 Shannon Road): Chef Andres Macias cut his teeth at the critically acclaimed and now defunct Four Square. He now adds a touch of fine dining to Mexican heirloom recipes with locally sourced ingredients. •La Cacerola Cafe and Restaurant (2016 Guess Road): This tiny Honduran restaurant offers a simple, filling brunch and a beautiful, nut-based, dairy-free horchata. They deliver, too! [VB]

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›› BEST LOCALLY MADE CRAFT BEER FULLSTEAM BREWERY

726 Rigsbee Avenue, Durham fullsteam.ag FINALISTS: Ponysaurus Brewing Company, Trophy Brewing, Bond Brothers Beer Company, Mystery Brewing Company

INDY › Let’s get a little more specific—

not just which local brewery is making the best beer, but which local beer is the best local beer being made. This, of course, is a matter of personal taste, and one on which I am far too flighty to render judgment. So I reached out to a few locals in the beer and bar business (plus a couple of beer nerds) to ask their opinion. Here’s what they said: • Zack Medford, co-owner, Isaac Hunter’s Hospitality: Lonerider Blood Orange Hoppy Ki Yay IPA (a special release), and Lonerider Sweet Josie brown ale (a go-to). • Ziggy Sprinkle, manager, Tasty Bev-

erage Company: Bond Brothers Long Stride double IPA. • Niall Hanley, owner, Hibernian Hospitality Group: Crank Arm Rickshaw Rye. • A sales manager for an N.C. brewer who asked to remain anonymous: Crank Arm Unicycle Featuring Galaxy. • Julia Henderson, a beer geek friend of mine: a tie between Steel String Brewery’s Zupfen gose and Haw River’s Rusted Plow Farmhouse Saison. • Dathan Kazsuk, who helps runs the Triangle Around Town blog: Trophy Brewing’s Cloud Surfer IPA, any IPA by Bond Brothers. [JCB]

BEST SALAD IN WAKE COUNTY THE FICTION KITCHEN

428 South Dawson Street, Raleigh thefictionkitchen.com FINALISTS: Happy + Hale, Manhattan Cafe, Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar

BEST SANDWICH IN DURHAM COUNTY TOAST

345 West Main Street, Durham toast-fivepoints.com FINALISTS: Parker and Otis, Lucky’s Delicatessen, Old Havana Sandwich Shop

BEST SANDWICH IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES MERRITT’S STORE AND GRILL 1009 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill merrittsstoreandgrill.com FINALISTS: Neal’s Deli, Sandwhich, Bona Fide Sandwich Co.

BEST SANDWICH IN WAKE COUNTY VILLAGE DELI

500 Daniels Street, Raleigh villagedeli.net FINALISTS: State of Beer, Linus & Pepper’s, Manhattan Cafe

BEST SEAFOOD RESTAURANT SALTBOX SEAFOOD RESTAURANT

608 North Mangum Street, Durham saltboxseafoodjoint.com FINALISTS: 42nd St. Oyster Bar, Squid’s, Blu Seafood and Bar

BEST SOUTHERN FOOD DAME’S CHICKEN & WAFFLES 317 West Main Street, Durham dameschickenwaffles.com FINALISTS: Poole’s Diner, Crook’s Corner, Mama Dip’s

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BEST SPORTS BAR IN DURHAM COUNTY TOBACCO ROAD SPORTS CAFE

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BEST SPORTS BAR IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES TOP OF THE HILL BREWERY

100 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill thetopofthehill.com FINALISTS: Linda’s Bar and Grill, Carolina Ale House, Hickory Tavern

BEST SPORTS BAR IN WAKE COUNTY THE PLAYERS’ RETREAT

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105 Oberlin Road, Raleigh playersretreat.net FINALISTS: Carolina Ale House, Lynnwood Grill & Brewing Concern, Tobacco Road Sports Cafe

BEST STEAK IN DURHAM COUNTY NANASTEAK 345 Blackwell Street, Durham nanasteak.com FINALISTS: Vin Rouge, Metro 8 Steakhouse, Rue Cler

BEST STEAK IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES BIN 54

1201-M Raleigh Road, Chapel Hill bin54chapelhill.com FINALISTS: Fearrington House, Acme, The Farm House Restaurant

BEST STEAK IN WAKE COUNTY ANGUS BARN

9401 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh angusbarn.com FINALISTS: Sullivan’s Steakhouse, Stanbury, Vinnie’s Steak House and Tavern

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BEST SUNDAY BRUNCH IN DURHAM COUNTY GUGLHUPF

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›› BEST PIZZA IN

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408 West Weaver Street, Carrboro pizzeriamercatonc.com FINALISTS: Italian Pizzeria (IP3), Amante Gourmet Pizza, Radius Pizzeria & Pub

INDY › After three years as reign-

ing champ, Italian Pizzeria III has slipped to No. 2. The shop that won is very good, but the upset is still a meaningful marker of change in the Triangle. Italian Pizzeria III, known to locals as IP3, has been on Franklin Street for thirty-five years, slinging fast, classic Neapolitan and Sicilian pies for ten to twelve bucks, or for a couple of bucks by the slice. It’s family-owned, with gingham plastic trimmings and fountain drinks and condiment caddies; it’s also a communal hub for televised sports events. Pizzeria Mercato, known to locals as Pizzeria Mercato, has been in Carrboro since the beginning of 2016. Opened by the chef scion of Magnolia Grill’s founders, it serves upscale Neapolitan confections in grown-hipster ambiance, all glass water bottles and foraged herbs. A twelve-inch Margherita starts at $13, while the lamb sausage with pecorino and dandelion greens goes for $17. As cuisine, its unseating of IP3 is a no-brainer that also feels, in a small, heart-tugging way, like the end of some kind of era. [BH]

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INDY › As an FYI, in our annual din-

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BEST SUNDAY BRUNCH IN WAKE COUNTY BRIGS

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BEST SUSHI IN DURHAM COUNTY M SUSHI 311 Holland Street, Durham msushidurham.com FINALISTS: Shiki Sushi, Basan Bull City Sushi, Sushi Love

No shade intended for this year’s winner. Indeed, Emma’s pretty high on Whiskey Kitchen, too. And really, how could you not love a joint that stocks more than two hundred varieties of delicious brown booze? [JCB]

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206 West Main Street, Carrboro akaihana.com FINALISTS: Oishii, Spicy 9, Kurama

BEST SUSHI IN WAKE COUNTY WARAJI 5910 Duraleigh Road, Raleigh warajijapaneserestaurant.com FINALISTS: Sushi Blues, Sushi Thai, Mura at North Hills

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›› BEST TAPAS

MATEO BAR DE TAPAS 109 West Chapel Hill Street, Durham mateotapas.com FINALISTS: Humble Pie, Juju, Taberna Tapas

INDY › It should come as no surprise

that Mateo, which frequently and deservedly ranks among the Triangle’s top restaurants, has claimed this title for the third straight year. The patatas bravas alone, not to mention the rapturous pan con tomate, are enough to see to that. But if you’re in for dinner, and should it happen to find a place on the ever-changing chalkboard menu, I would encourage you—especially if you, like me, happen to be a vegetarian who still gets the occasional hankering for a bloody steak—to order the mushrooms a la plancha, a mushroom swimming in some sort of delectable brown butter sauce that shouldn’t be but is somehow a straight-up amazing substitute for flesh. [JCB]

BEST VEGAN-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES VIMALA’S CURRYBLOSSOM CAFÉ

431 West Franklin Street, #415, Chapel Hill curryblossom.com FINALISTS: The Spotted Dog, Sage Cafe, Living Kitchen

BEST VEGGIE BURGER IN DURHAM COUNTY BULL CITY BURGER AND BREWERY

107 East Parrish Street, Durham bullcityburgerandbrewery.com FINALISTS: Only Burger, The Federal, Zinburger

BEST VEGGIE BURGER IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES BUNS 107 North Columbia Street, Chapel Hill bunsofchapelhill.com FINALISTS: Al’s Burger Shack, The Spotted Dog, Linda’s Bar and Grill

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BEST VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT BIDA MANDA

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BEST VEGAN-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT IN DURHAM COUNTY THE REFECTORY CAFÉ

BEST WINE LIST IN DURHAM COUNTY VIN ROUGE

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2501 University Drive, #10, Durham thaicafenc.com FINALISTS: Bida Manda, Twisted Noodles, Thai Spoon

456 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill talullas.com FINALIST: Bosphorous

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222 South Blount Street, Raleigh bidamanda.com FINALISTS: Angus Barn, Lantern, Dashi

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›› BEST ART GALLERY

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2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh ncartmuseum.org FINALISTS: Nasher Museum of Art, The Carrack, CAM Raleigh collections of art, have state or instiINDY › Gulp. NCMA and the Nasher tutional funding, are educational and both justly placed for Best Museum, historical in nature, and sell things but neither is even remotely an art only in their gift shops. Galleries usugallery. This has happened before, ally don’t collect; instead, they sell with the unfortunate effect of squeezwork by artists they represent or by ing out actual galleries, like the Cartemporary guest artists. They tend to rack, FRANK, and Pleiades. Readers, be contemporary and either commerof course, can vote for whatever they cially or community driven. choose in any category (see Best TL;DR: Museums are big and have Neighborhood in Orange County), but “museum” in the name; galleries are this is our fault for not spelling out the small and go by pithy, mysterious epidistinction. thets, things like “Bark” or “Coil” or So, a quick word on museums ver“Cube.” Next year we’ll include guidesus galleries (though there are plenlines on these categories to make sure ty of exceptions and hybrids, CAM local galleries get their rightful shine. Raleigh among them). [BH] Museums usually own permanent

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BEST BARISTA IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES RYANN GIORGI, OPEN EYE

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BEST BARTENDER IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES FIONA MATTHEWS, BOWBARR

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BEST BARTENDER IN WAKE COUNTY MARSHALL DAVIS, GALLO PELÓN

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BEST GAY OR LESBIAN BAR THE PINHOOK

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INDY › Last summer, having worked at the INDY for just a few weeks, I’d only been to Morning Times once during my time back home in Raleigh. So imagine my surprise when, nearly a month after my first visit, I walked through the door and barista Tim Roy asked, “Scone and a latte?” “Uh. Yeah. Exactly.” Here is a man who has hundreds of customers and dozens of regulars. And yet he remembered my order after a single visit a month prior. But there’s more to Tim than an incredible memory. He’s always smiling and clearly loves what he does. He’s quick with an anecdote or joke, and when a new concoction is available, like the pumpkin syrup that was crafted in-house for a pumpkin spice latte ahead of the cold

117 West Main Street, Durham thepinhook.com FINALISTS: Legends Nightclub, The Bar Durham, The Green Monkey

BEST GOLF COURSE HOPE VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB

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›› BEST MUSEUM

MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE

433 West Murray Avenue, Durham lifeandscience.org FINALISTS: N.C. Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Nasher Museum of Art

INDY › If you have kids of vary-

ing ages, you know that one of life’s most difficult dances is finding activities that satisfy an array of tastes. And if we’re being honest, we parents do a fist pump when a place satisfies ours—or when a kids’ movie comes out that we actually enjoy. In that respect, Durham’s Museum of Life and Science is a godsend. It’s got something for everyone. The butterfly house allows you to walk

BEST LIVE THEATER COMPANY RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE

301 Pogue Street, Raleigh raleighlittletheatre.org FINALISTS: Paperhand Puppet Intervention, Playmakers Repertory Company, Manbites Dog Theater

BEST LIVE THEATER VENUE DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

123 Vivian Street, Durham dpacnc.com FINALISTS: The Carolina Theatre, Raleigh Little Theatre, Manbites Dog Theater

BEST NEIGHBORHOOD BAR IN DURHAM COUNTY MOTORCO

723 Rigsbee Avenue, Durham motorcomusic.com FINALISTS: Ponysaurus Brewing Company, Fullsteam Brewery, Dain’s Place

BEST NEIGHBORHOOD BAR IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES THE WOODEN NICKEL PUB

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through a rainforest-like environment while winged beauties flutter just above your head. The train ride is long enough to provide both shelter from the sun and a refreshing breeze when you need a break. The dinosaur trail is lovely and ends with a not-overly-messy fossil dig. There are live animals, including black bears and lemurs. (Lemurs!) And that’s just scraping the surface. [KF]

BEST NEIGHBORHOOD BAR IN WAKE COUNTY PERSON STREET BAR

805 North Person Street, Raleigh person-street.com FINALISTS: Trophy Brewing Company, The Raleigh Times, Isaac Hunter’s Tavern

BEST OPEN MIC NIGHT THE PINHOOK

117 West Main Street, Durham thepinhook.com FINALISTS: Local 506, Deep South the Bar, Bottle 501

BEST OUTDOOR MUSIC VENUE KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE

8003 Regency Parkway, Cary boothamphitheatre.com FINALISTS: N.C. Museum of Art, Red Hat Amphitheatre, American Tobacco Campus

BEST PLACE FOR INDOOR FUN MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE 433 West Murray Avenue, Durham lifeandscience.org FINALISTS: Boxcar Bar + Arcade, The Baxter Arcade, Bull City Escape

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›› BEST PLACE TO GET SPECIALTY

COCKTAILS IN WAKE COUNTY

FOUNDATION

213 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh foundationnc.com FINALISTS: Fox Liquor Bar, C. Grace, Bittersweet

INDY › The battle for cocktail

supremacy in downtown Raleigh— putting aside the excellent C. Grace, on Glenwood Avenue—is predominantly waged in a four-block radius, from Fayetteville to Blount, Martin to Hargett. This encompasses not just Foundation, Fox, and Bittersweet but also The Green Light at The Architect Bar & Social House,

BEST PLACE TO GET SPECIALTY COCKTAILS IN DURHAM COUNTY ALLEY TWENTY SIX 320 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham alleytwentysix.com FINALISTS: Bar Virgile, The Durham Hotel, 21c Museum Hotel

BEST PLACE TO GET SPECIALTY COCKTAILS IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES THE CRUNKLETON

320 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill thecrunkleton.com FINALISTS: Lantern, LaPlace Louisiana Cookery, B-Side Lounge

which you, dear readers, sadly overlooked. If you have an Uber at the ready, nothing to do tomorrow, and don’t bat an eye at a $15 cocktail, well, you can make quite a night of it. If you’re asking me which is the best, that’s sort of like asking a sober person to name his favorite child. (By that I mean I can do it, but I usually don’t say it out loud.) [JCB]

BEST PLACE TO HEAR BLUES THE BLUE NOTE GRILL

709 Washington Street, Durham thebluenotegrill.com FINALISTS: Beyu Caffe, PineCone, Local 506

BEST PLACE TO HEAR HIP-HOP OR SOUL CAT’S CRADLE

300 East Main Street, Carrboro catscradle.com FINALISTS: Motorco Music Hall, The Pinhook, The Pour House

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›› BEST PLACE TO HEAR BLUEGRASS HAW RIVER BALLROOM

1711 Saxapahaw-Bethlehem Church Road, Saxapahaw hawriverballroom.com FINALISTS: Wide Open Bluegrass, the Blue Note Grill, PineCone

INDY › Though it’s hardly a blue-

grass-exclusive venue, the Haw River Ballroom’s excellent acoustics and sylvan setting make it a fine place to hear quick picking and high, lonesome ballads alike from local and nationally acclaimed artists. Two of the runners-up, however, aren’t exactly places. Wide Open Bluegrass is an annual festival tied to the International Bluegrass Music Association’s fall conference in Raleigh, and though it is indeed an excellent place to hear a whole bunch of bluegrass,

BEST PLACE TO HEAR JAZZ BEYU CAFFE

341 West Main Street, Durham beyucaffe.com FINALISTS: C. Grace, Koka Booth Amphitheatre, The Shed

BEST PLACE TO HEAR ROCK ’N’ ROLL CAT’S CRADLE

300 East Main Street, Carrboro catscradle.com FINALISTS: Lincoln Theatre, Motorco Music Hall, The Pinhook

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it’s more of a bluegrass Brigadoon than a year-round standby. Similarly, PineCone is an institution but not an actual place—it is, in fact, responsible for assembling much of the lineup of Wide Open Bluegrass every year. But on top of that, it presents bluegrass and other varied strains of roots music at several different venues all over the Triangle, including Bond Park’s Sertoma Amphitheatre, the North Carolina Museum of History, and Fletcher Opera Theater. [AH]

BEST PLACE TO HEAR INTERNATIONAL OR WORLD MUSIC DUKE PERFORMANCES 114 South Buchanan Boulevard, Durham dukeperformances.duke.edu FINALISTS: DPAC, The ArtsCenter, Koka Booth Amphitheatre

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decades past, when it was the setting for Bull Durham scenes. The biggest improvement is a worthy one: a bar well stocked with craft brews and a television usually tuned to so-badthey’re-good horror movies. Sometimes you go there and you don’t want to play pool at all. [JCB]

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437 Dimmocks Mill Road, #41, Hillsborough mysterybrewing.com FINALISTS: Linda’s Bar and Grill, YesterYears Brewery & Taproom, The Northside District

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13220 Strickland Road, #166, Raleigh leesvilledentalcare.com FINALISTS: Riccobene Associates Family Dentistry, Village Dental, Triangle Family Dentistry

INDY › I’d been living in Raleigh less

than two months when I bit into an apple one morning and a piece of my veneer popped off. With no dentist in the area, a series of interviews lined up, and an awkward, gimpy excuse for a tooth, I naturally began to panic. Then a friend recommended Riccobene. The minute I got on the phone with their receptionist, I felt better. She was gracious, kind, and willing to accommodate me on short notice. When it came time to finally replace my longlost tooth, they did an exceptional job at a reasonable price. It’s hard to fairly assess the area’s “best” dentist—most of us haven’t sampled a wide enough variety of practitioners to make those judgments with any credibility—but Riccobene won my loyalty. [EH]

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›› BEST PLACE TO HIKE

ENO RIVER STATE PARK

FINALISTS: William B. Umstead State Park, Duke Forest, American Tobacco Trail

INDY › The Triangle has no shortage of excel-

lent hiking trails, including at the Umstead and Eno state parks. And most of them share similar characteristics—the oak and pine canopy that fills in by spring, for instance, and the creeks that allow your four-legged friends to cool their fur or grab a drink in the summer heat. Most also have inclines and declines; that is the nature of the area’s topography, after all. But if you’re in the mood for something different, head out to Hillsborough and the Occoneechee Mountain State Park (625 Virginia Cates Road). No, it’s not really a mountain; and no, the hike itself isn’t altogether that challenging. But it is the steepest elevation around, and once you get to the top, the payoff is a hell of a view. [JCB]

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404 Hunt Street, #135, Durham the360approach.com/trainers/chan-little FINALISTS: Jake Giamoni, CORE Fitness Studio; DJ Coe, Burn Boot Camp North Durham; JoJo Polk, CORE Fitness Studio

BEST PILATES STUDIO IN DURHAM COUNTY INSIDEOUT BODY THERAPIES

5720 Fayetteville Road, #101, Durham insideoutbodytherapies.com FINALISTS: RIDE Cycle Studio, Bull City Pilates and Massage, reCharge Pilates and Barre

BEST PILATES STUDIO IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES CARRBORO YOGA COMPANY

200 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro carolinayogacompany.com FINALISTS: Spira Pilates Studio, Studio East 54, Carolina Core Pilates

BEST PILATES STUDIO IN WAKE COUNTY PULSE PILATES

7440 Six Forks Road, Raleigh pulsepilates.net FINALISTS: Carolina Barre and Core, Evolve Movement, Blue Sky Pilates of Cary

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AMERICAN TOBACCO TRAIL

FINALISTS: Al Buehler Trail, Lake Johnson, Duke East Campus

INDY › You could drop a bunch of coin

on classes at some gym, but here’s a cheaper alternative to keeping in shape: lace up your running shoes and run along the Capitol Area Greenway, a beautiful, massive, free trail system spanning more than one hundred miles throughout Wake County. (Some personal favorites: the Neuse River and Crabtree Creek trails; Wake’s greenway system also includes a 6.5-mile section of the 23-mile American Tobacco Trail and the Walnut Creek trail, which

intersects with Lake Johnson and the Neuse River trail. Yeah, it’s that big.) Along the way, you can expect to see bikers, runners, power walkers, leafy trees, swollen creeks, enthusiastic dogs, and even the occasional snake (beware). The trails are a nice, accessible escape from city life, and rarely crowded—they’re especially tranquil most mornings. If you don’t feel like breaking the bank for a workout class, you don’t have to. Just hit the trail. [EH]

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105 Newsom Street, Durham plannedparenthood.org FINALISTS: Durham Women’s Clinic, Durham OB/GYN, Harris & Smith OB/GYN

930 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, #202, Chapel Hill ncbirthcenter.org FINALISTS: Planned Parenthood, Chapel Hill OBGYN, Chapel Hill Women’s Medicine (now Mosaic Comprehensive Care)

BEST WOMEN’S HEALTH PRACTICE IN WAKE COUNTY PLANNED PARENTHOOD

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plannedparenthood.org 100 South Boylan Avenue, Raleigh FINALISTS: Atrium ObGyn, Mid-Carolina Obstetrics & Gynecology, Wilkerson OBGYN, Associates in Women’s Healthcare

209 East Carver Street, Durham durhamwomensclinic.com FINALISTS: Melinda Everett, Chapel Hill OBGYN; Elizabeth Motyka, Phelicia Flanagan

119 West Main Street, #300, Durham globalbreath.org FINALISTS: Durham Yoga Company, Blue Point Yoga Center, Hot Asana

BEST YOGA STUDIO IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES CARRBORO YOGA COMPANY

200 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro carolinayogacompany.com FINALISTS: Franklin Street Yoga Center, Loving Kindness Yoga, Blue Point Yoga Center

BEST YOGA STUDIO IN WAKE COUNTY BLUE LOTUS

401 North West Street, #105, Raleigh bluelotusnc.com FINALISTS: 110 Yoga, Bliss Body Yoga, Open Door Yoga

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›› BEST ATTORNEY

BILL YOUNG/JAMES LITTLE

FINALISTS: Beth Tillman, Katie Kelsch Dowell, Kendall Page

INDY › I can’t personally attest to his legal skills—

seeing as how he focuses on criminal defense, I hope I never have to—but I feel fairly confident saying that Durham’s T. Greg Doucette, whether or not he’s the best attorney in the area, is most likely the best (only?) local attorney with a cool podcast on politics and the endemic failures of the criminal justice system. (It’s called #FSCK ’Em All, and you should go download it on iTunes or wherever.) You may remember Doucette—a libertarian-leaning conservative with an affinity for the Black Lives Matter movement and, at the time, a Republican, T. Greg Doucette though he’s since dropped the GOP—from his quixPHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER otic bid to unseat state Senator Mike Woodard last year. (We endorsed Doucette and caught no end of grief for it.) On the podcast, which launched May 1, you can hear Doucette drop wisdom on everything from how screwed up probation can be to questions about the Fourth Amendment and Jeff Sessions’s renewed interest in the drug war. [JCB]

BEST ACCOUNTANT BALENTINE & BORG, PLLC

3622 Lyckan Parkway, #2001, Durham bandbcpa.net FINALISTS: Chris Arena CPA, Gina DeVine CPA, Joel Levy CPA LLC

BEST ARCHITECT IN DURHAM COUNTY BUILDSENSE

502 Rigsbee Avenue, Durham buildsense.com FINALISTS: Ellen Cassilly, Linton Architects, Center Studio

BEST ARCHITECT IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES SOPHIE PIESSE

302 West Weaver Street, Suite F, Carrboro sophiepiesse.com FINALISTS: Philip Szostak, Fitch Creations Inc., 2SL Design Build Collaborative

BEST ARCHITECT IN WAKE COUNTY THE RALEIGH ARCHITECTURE COMPANY 502 South West Street, Raleigh raleigh-architecture.com FINALISTS: in situ, Louis Cherry, Clark Nexsen

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BEST AUTO REPAIR IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES AUTO LOGIC

200 West Main Street, Chapel Hill autologiconline.com FINALISTS: Chapel Hill Tire, Sturdivant’s Tire Pros & Auto, Performance Automotive

BEST AUTO REPAIR IN WAKE COUNTY A&J AUTOMOTIVE

5001 Departure Drive, Raleigh ajautorepair.com FINALISTS: Atlantic Avenue Tire & Service, Cary Car Care, Duty Tire & Service Center

BEST BED-AND-BREAKFAST FEARRINGTON

2000 Fearrington Village, Pittsboro fearrington.com FINALISTS: King’s Daughters Inn, Arrowhead Inn, The Mayton Inn, Small B&B Cafe

BEST BIKE SHOP IN DURHAM COUNTY BULLSEYE BICYCLE

102 Morris Street, Durham bullseyebicycle.com FINALISTS: Durham Cycles, Bicycle Chain, Durham Bike Co-op

BEST BIKE SHOP IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES BACK ALLEY BIKES

BEST CONTRACTOR IN DURHAM COUNTY CQC HOME

BEST BIKE SHOP IN WAKE COUNTY OAK CITY CYCLING

BEST CONTRACTOR IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES GREY STAR WOODWORKS & DESIGN

100 Boyd Street, Carrboro backalleybikes.net FINALISTS: Performance Bicycle, The Clean Machine, The Bicycle Chain

212 East Franklin Street, Raleigh oakcitycycling.com FINALISTS: Bicycle Chain, Cycle Logic, Performance Bikes

BEST BUTCHER SHOP ROSE’S MEAT MARKET & SWEET SHOP 121 North Gregson Street, Durham rosesmeatandsweets.com FINALISTS: Cliff’s Meat Market, The Butcher’s Market, King’s Red and White Market

BEST CHILDREN’S CLOTHING SHOP THE RED HEN 201 South Estes Drive, Chapel Hill theredhen.com FINALISTS: Once Upon a Time, Tiny, Glee Kids

BEST CONSIGNMENT SHOP IN DURHAM COUNTY DURHAM RESCUE MISSION 3900 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham durhamrescuemission.org FINALISTS: Fifi’s, Pennies for Change, The Stock Exchange

BEST CONSIGNMENT SHOP IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES PTA THRIFT SHOP

125 West Main Street, Carrboro ptathriftshop.org FINALISTS: Rumors, My Secret Closet

BEST CONSIGNMENT SHOP IN WAKE COUNTY CAUSE FOR PAWS

1634 South Saunders Street, Raleigh cfp-nc.org FINALISTS: Father and Son Antiques, Revolver, Dorcas Thrift Shop

3321 Guess Road, Durham cqchome.com FINALISTS: BuildSense, Gail Crabtree, Actual Size Builders

greystarwoodworks.blogspot.com FINALISTS: Hollow Rock Construction, Actual Size Builders, CQC Home

BEST CONTRACTOR IN WAKE COUNTY GREY STAR WOODWORKS

greystarwoodworks.blogspot.com FINALISTS: KJ Construction, CQC Home

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IN DURHAM COUNTY

MASSEY BROTHERS AUTOMOTIVE & TOWING

2108 East N.C. Highway 54, Durham masseybrothers.com FINALISTS: Wasp Automotive, Chapel Hill Tire, Ingold Tire & Auto Service Center

INDY › I’ve never been to the oth-

ers on this list except for Chapel Hill Tire (and never had a problem there), so I can’t fairly compare. But I’ll say this: whenever someone in my Facebook circles asks for tire-and-auto recommendations for Durham, a chorus of Ingolds sprouts in my feed. Personally, I go there for their fair prices and friendly, nonpredatory service. I’ve never been made to feel like a crap man there for knowing zilch about cars, and, more important, I’ve heard from lots of women friends that they feel safe and sound at Ingold, too. If you’re looking for a neighborhood shop with professional service, go for the Ingold. (Sorry.) [BH]

›› BEST BOOKSTORE FLYLEAF BOOKS

752 Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, Chapel Hill flyleafbooks.com FINALISTS: Quail Ridge Books, The Regulator Bookshop, Letters Bookshop

INDY › As we celebrate the best book-

stores in the Triangle, let’s pour one out to the ones we lost this year. In April, Edward McKay Used Books in Raleigh abruptly and without explanation shut down after nearly two decades in business. A few months before that, in January, we learned that the Chapel Hill landmark The Bookshop—the one with the cats—would be closing at the end of July, with its

BEST DANCE STUDIO ACADEMY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

844 Perry Road, Apex apanc.com FINALISTS: Barriskill Dance Theatre School, Ninth Street Dance, Empower Dance Studio

BEST EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING FACILITY IN DURHAM COUNTY CHILDREN’S CAMPUS AT SOUTHPOINT 7317 Fayetteville Road, Durham childrenscampus.com/locations/ southpoint/ FINALISTS: Montessori Community School, Our PlayHouse Preschool and Kindergarten

BEST EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING FACILITY IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES CHILDREN’S CAMPUS OF CHAPEL HILL

110 Kingston Drive, Chapel Hill childrenscampus.com/locations/ chapel-hill/ FINALISTS: Childcare Matters, The Little School Hillsborough, Our PlayHouse Preschool and Kindergarten

building on the market. Those two closures come on the heels of Nice Price Books, which shut down last year in Durham. (Its space now belongs to— ugh—a Papa John’s.) So here’s to the bookstores that are still persevering and the invaluable service they provide despite the changing marketplace. (Being in print media, this new business climate is something with which we’re all too familiar.) [JCB]

BEST EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING FACILITY IN WAKE COUNTY FOLLOW THE CHILD MONTESSORI SCHOOL 3601 Harden Road, Raleigh followthechild.org FINALISTS: Arts Together, Christ Church Preschool, Preschool for the Arts (APA)

BEST ELECTRICIAN BONNEVILLE ELECTRIC

210 Maple Avenue, Carrboro bonneville-electric.com FINALISTS: One Call Electric NC, Brown Brothers Plumbing & Heating, Miller & Miller Electric

BEST ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY STORE THE SCRAP EXCHANGE

2050 Chapel Hill Road, Durham scrapexchange.org FINALISTS: Twig, TROSA Thrift Store, Durham Co-op Market

BEST EROTIC GIFTS CHERRY PIE

6311 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh cherrypieonline.com FINALISTS: Adam & Eve, Frisky Business, Maxxx Adult Emporium

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MASSEY REAL ESTATE ›› BEST CD/RECORD STORE BULL CITY RECORDS

2600 Hillsborough Road, Durham bullcityrecords.com FINALISTS: Schoolkids Records, Nice Price Books and Records, Carolina Soul

INDY › One distinction to be made

Serving the Entire Triangle Area since 2001

among the Triangle’s record stores is the ratio of used product to new product, and that line seems to be crucial in defining record buyers. Would you prefer a freshly minted, shrink-wrapencased 180-gram reissue of Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma for twentyeight bucks, or an original copy with

slight ringwear and some visual blemishes but plays great for twenty-two? Either way, record-buying these days is often more than a casual outlay, which is why a place like Carolina Soul is manna to fervent bin combers: the stock is vast, it changes often, and you can walk out with a couple of gems without breaking the bank. [DK]

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BEST ETHNIC MARKET LI MING’S GLOBAL MARKET

3400 Westgate Drive, Durham lm-globalmart.com FINALISTS: Neomonde, H Mart, Grand Asia

BEST FABRIC STORE MULBERRY SILKS

200 North Greensboro Street, #B6, Carrboro mulberrysilks.net FINALISTS: Cary Quilting Company, JoAnn, Mill Outlet Village

BEST FAIR TRADE STORE TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES

1800 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill tenthousandvillages.com/chapelhill FINALISTS: One World Market, Weaver Street Market, Durham Co-op Market

BEST FINANCIAL ADVISER IN DURHAM COUNTY NANCY WILLIAMS

2312 Nelson Highway, Chapel Hill FINALISTS: Molly Stanifer, Marie Baker, Chuck Clifton

BEST FINANCIAL ADVISER IN ORANGE / CHATHAM COUNTIES WOODWARD FINANCIAL ADVISORS

1504 East Franklin Street, #105, Chapel Hill woodwardadvisors.com FINALISTS: Nan Vanderpuy, Kim Ray, Kevin Mishoe (Wells Fargo Advisors)

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BEST FINANCIAL ADVISER IN WAKE COUNTY JASON GAREY

4020 Westchase Boulevard, #275, Raleigh jasongarey.nm.com FINALISTS: Nate Brown (SB Financial Group), Alan Morgan, Daniel Corley (AXA Advisors)

BEST FLORIST PINE STATE FLOWERS

2001 Chapel Hill Road, Durham pinestateflowers.com FINALISTS: Ninth Street Flowers, Fallon’s Flowers, Victoria Park Florist

BEST FURNITURE STORE TROSA THRIFT STORE

3500 North Roxboro Street, Durham trosathriftstore.org FINALISTS: Father and Son Antiques, Nadeau, Area Modern

BEST GARDEN STORE LOGAN’S

707 Semart Drive, Raleigh logantrd.com FINALISTS: Stone Bros & Byrd, Southern States, Fifth Season Gardening

BEST GIFT SHOP IN DURHAM COUNTY MORGAN IMPORTS

113 South Gregson Street, Durham morganimports.com FINALISTS: Parker and Otis, Vaguely Reminiscent, Chet Miller

BEST GIFT SHOP IN WAKE COUNTY CEDAR CREEK GALLERY

BEST HOUSE CLEANERS IN DURHAM COUNTY CARPE DIEM CLEANING

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greystarwoodworks.blogspot.com FINALISTS: Alejandro Vanegas, Dunrite Home Maintenance, Rik Meijer

902 Pearl Street, Durham carpediemcleaning.com FINALISTS: Enovana Green Cleaning, Two Maids & a Mop, Tangerine Clean

BEST HARDWARE STORE FITCH LUMBER

309 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro fitchlumber.com FINALISTS: Seaboard ACE Hardware, Public Hardware, Town and Country Hardware

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BEST HOUSE PAINTER HANSELL PAINTING

315 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham thedurham.com FINALISTS: The Umstead Hotel and Spa, 21c Museum Hotel, Carolina Inn

606 United Drive, Durham hansellpainting.com FINALISTS: Zarazua Painting, Anderson Painting, Gonzalez Painters and Contractors

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›› BEST COMIC BOOK STORE CHAPEL HILL COMICS

6120 Farrington Road, Chapel Hill chapelhillcomics.com FINALISTS: Ultimate Comics Inc., Atomic Empire, Capitol Comics of Raleigh

INDY › Chapel Hill Comics’ win is

bittersweet. The shop that, in various forms, had fed funny books to UNC’s campus since the late seventies closed for good at the end of March. Andrew Neal owned it from 2003–14, when he sold it to Ryan Kulikowski, who told the INDY about his financial struggles on a transforming Franklin Street (“Up, Up and Away,” February 8, 2017). I’ll be honest: I go to Ultimate Comics, which is hard to beat for selection, service, and the energy of its convention schedule. But I would still stop by Chapel Hill Comics now and then—it had a different vibe, more indie, less superhero, with weird

music playing from WXYC. Fonder still are my memories of going there as a kid a quarter century ago, when it was still called Second Foundation, tucked in that cool sunken nook between the Rosemary Street parking garages. It was always the highlight of summer days spent roaming Franklin with my brother while my mom worked as a teller at First Citizens Bank, among landmarks now long since replaced by Pita Pits or whatever (RIP Barrel of Fun arcade and The Record Exchange) and landmarks, like Sutton’s Drug Store and The Shrunken Head, which have somehow managed to last. [BH] BEST OF 2017 | INDYweek.com | 6.7.17 | 55

BEST HVAC COMPANY COMFORT MONSTER HEATING & AIR 5025 Departure Drive, #101, Raleigh arsraleighdurham.com FINALISTS: Boer Brothers, CWJ Heating & Air Conditioning Inc., Comfort Engineers

BEST INSURANCE AGENT PAM HERNDON (STATE FARM)

104 South Estes Drive, #105, Chapel Hill pamherndon.net FINALISTS: Carmen Ritz (State Farm), Matt Gorman (NC Farm Bureau), High & Rubish

BEST JEWELRY STORE IN DURHAM COUNTY JEWELSMITH

2200-A West Main Street, Durham jewelsmith.com FINALISTS: Hamilton Hill Jewelry, Light Years, Atelier

BEST JEWELRY STORE IN ORANGE/ CHATHAM COUNTIES WOMANCRAFT GIFTS

360 East Main Street, Carrboro womancraftgifts.com FINALISTS: Grimball Jewelers, William Travis Jewelry, Wentworth & Sloan

BEST JEWELRY STORE IN WAKE COUNTY BAILEY’S FINE JEWELRY

415 Daniels Street, Raleigh baileybox.com FINALISTS: Diamonds Direct, Quercus Studio, Johnson’s Jewelers

BEST LANDSCAPE COMPANY TROSA LAWN CARE

1100 Neville Street, Durham trosalawncare.com FINALISTS: Bountiful Backyards, O’Mara Landscaping & Lawn Care, JT’s Landscaping & Lawncare

BEST MEN’S BOUTIQUE RUNAWAY

BEST NEW BUSINESS IN DURHAM COUNTY BULLDEGA URBAN MARKET

212 West Main Street, #102, Durham runawayclothes.com FINALISTS: Vert & Vogue, Lumina Clothing, Devolve

104 City Hall Plaza, #100, Durham facebook.com/bulldega/ FINALISTS: Liberation Threads, U-Dirty Dog Self Wash Spa, Beer Study

BEST MOVING COMPANY TROSA MOVING

BEST NEW BUSINESS IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTY CROSSFIT HOMEWARD

700 Mallard Avenue, Durham trosamoving.com FINALISTS: Two Men and a Truck, Chapel Hill Moving Company, Truckin’ Movers Corporation

BEST MUSIC LESSONS NOTASIUM

201 South Estes Drive, Chapel Hill crossfithomeward.com FINALISTS: Monarch Brow & Facial Studio, K’s Closet, Shampoo

3750 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham notasium.com FINALISTS: Django Haskins, High Strung Violins & Guitars, Leah Gibson (cello)

BEST NEW BUSINESS IN WAKE COUNTY LITTLE DETAILS

2626 Timber Drive, Garner littledetails.storenvy.com FINALISTS: Wylde Flowers, Retro Modern Furnishings, Vidrio

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›› BEST GIFT SHOP

IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES

CAMERON’S

370 East Main Street, #130, Carrboro camerons-gallery.com FINALISTS: Southern Season, WomanCraft Gifts, This & That Gallery

INDY › Hats off to these fine establishments and

all of their respective quirkiness. But we want to take a moment to highlight perhaps the quirkiest local gift shop of them all—excluded from this category by a mere half-mile: Quirks in downtown Mebane (118 West Clay Street, Suite A), just a few blocks from the Orange County border in Alamance. Somewhere between a giant junk drawer and a treasure trove, the tagline says it all: “Clothing, Antiques, Art, and Weird Stuff You Want.” Come here for spinal cord earrings, a crazy cat lady Christmas ornament, or a giant praying mantis head. You’ll also find a collection of reasonably priced vintage comics, records, toys, and clothes. [SW]

BEST NONPROFIT IN DURHAM COUNTY TROSA

FINALISTS: Animal Protection Society of Durham, Urban Ministries of Durham, Habitat for Humanity

BEST NONPROFIT IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES PLANNED PARENTHOOD

1765 Dobbins Drive, Chapel Hill plannedparenthood.org FINALISTS: Orange County Rape Crisis Center, Goathouse Refuge, PORCH

BEST OUTDOOR OUTFITTER REI

4291 The Circle at North Hills Street, Raleigh rei.com FINALISTS: Great Outdoor Provision Co., Townsend Bertram & Company, Apex Outfitters and Board Co.

BEST PET BOARDING IN DURHAM COUNTY CAMP BOW WOW

BEST PET GROOMER IN DURHAM COUNTY BETH’S BARKS N BUBBLES

BEST PET BOARDING IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES GREEN BEAGLE LODGE

BEST PET GROOMER IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES HAIR OF THE DOG GROOMING STUDIO

2612 South Miami Boulevard, Durham campbowwow.com/durham FINALISTS: Suite Paws Pet Resort & Spa, Willow Oak Veterinary Hospital, Kate’s Critter Care

4711 Hope Valley Road, #6B, Durham bethsbarksnbubbles.com FINALISTS: U-Dirty Dog Self-Wash Spa, Petropolitan, Pampered Pooch

6805 Millhouse Road, Chapel Hill greenbeaglelodge.com FINALISTS: Camp Bow Wow, Chapel Hill Pet Resort, Doggie Spa and Day Care

BEST PET BOARDING IN WAKE COUNTY DOGTOPIA OF RALEIGH

11312 U.S. Highway 15-501 North, #305, Chapel Hill hairofthedognc.com FINALISTS: Chapel Hill Pet Resort, Love Overboard, Suite Paws Pet Resort & Spa

4708 Hargrove Road, Raleigh dogtopia.com/north-raleigh/ FINALISTS: Suite Paws Pet Resort & Spa, Pup’s Day Out, Dog Holiday Resort

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›› BEST KITCHEN STORE KITCHENWORKS

201 South Estes Drive, Chapel Hill kitchenworksinc.com FINALISTS: Southern Season, Sur la Table, Whisk

INDY › University Mall has almost

have an equally pleasant experience. You don’t need to know what you’re looking for—although if you have something in mind, you might need some help finding it. Spatulas, microplanes, glassware, cookware, and more are practically stacked to the ceiling. There is simply no room left for pretension. [SW]

BEST PET GROOMER IN WAKE COUNTY DOGTOPIA OF RALEIGH

FINALISTS: Other End of the Leash,

entirely changed out in the past ten years. Hell, it’s not even called University Mall anymore (it’s University Place, go figure). But from the days of Walden Books to the arrival of Silverspot, Kitchenworks has remained. And there’s a reason for that. You can come in a novice or an expert and

4708 Hargrove Road, Raleigh dogtopia.com/north-raleigh FINALISTS: Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming, Pup’s Day Out, Dog Holiday Resort, Suite Paws Pet Resort & Spa

BEST PET-SITTING SERVICE IN DURHAM COUNTY KATE’S CRITTER CARE

katescrittercare.com FINALISTS: Laughing Dog Pet Sitters, A Whole Lotta Love Dog Walking and Pet Services, Arvadia Mason—Private Pet Sitter

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katescrittercare.com FINALISTS: Laughing Dog Pet Sitters, A Whole Lotta Love Dog Walking and Pet Services, Arvadia Mason—Private Pet Sitter

BEST PET-SITTING SERVICE IN WAKE COUNTY RALEIGH PET SITTERS

raleighpets.com FINALISTS: Furbaby Pet Sitters, Best in Show Pet Sitting, Dog Holiday Resort

BEST PET SPECIALTY STORE PHYDEAUX

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BEST PLACE TO ADOPT A PET ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM

2117 East Club Boulevard, #101, Durham apsofdurham.org FINALIST: Second Chance Pet Adoptions

BEST PLACE TO BUY LOCALLY MADE ART IN DURHAM COUNTY DURHAM CRAFT MARKET

501 Foster Street, Durham durhamcraftmarket.com FINALISTS: The Makery, The Patchwork Market, Golden Belt

BEST PLACE TO BUY LOCALLY MADE ART IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES HILLSBOROUGH GALLERY OF ARTS 121 North Churton Street, Hillsborough hillsboroughgallery.com FINALISTS: WomanCraft Gifts, FRANK Gallery, N.C. Crafts Gallery

BEST PLACE TO BUY LOCALLY MADE ART IN WAKE COUNTY CEDAR CREEK GALLERY

1150 Fleming Road, Creedmoor cedarcreekgallery.com FINALISTS: Artspace, Deco, The Green Monkey

BEST PLACE TO BUY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS HIGH STRUNG VIOLINS & GUITARS

BEST RETAIL BEER SELECTION IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES BEER STUDY

BEST PLUMBER CARRBORO PLUMBING

BEST RETAIL BEER SELECTION IN WAKE COUNTY TASTY BEVERAGE COMPANY

1805 West Markham Avenue, Durham highstrungdurham.com FINALISTS: Music Loft, Harry’s Guitar Shop, Guitar Center

FINALISTS: Sparrow & Sons Plumbing, ACME Plumbing Co., Brown Brothers

BEST REALTOR IN DURHAM COUNTY CHLOË SEYMORE, RED COLLECTIVE

1901 Chapel Hill Road, Durham red-collective.com/chloe FINALISTS: Justin Burleson (Fonville Morisey Realty), Ellen Bell (Urban Durham Realty), Adam Dickinson (501 Realty)

BEST REALTOR IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES JUSTIN BURLESON (FONVILLE MORISEY REALTY) 8100 Creedmoor Road, Raleigh fmrealty.com/real-estate-agents/ justin-burleson FINALISTS: Chloë Seymore (Red Collective), Emily Massey (Massey Real Estate), Terri Turner (Weaver Street Realty)

BEST REALTOR IN WAKE COUNTY CHRISTINA VALKANOFF REALTY GROUP cvrealtygroup.com 100 Lynn Road, Raleigh FINALISTS: Justin Burleson, Ben Rifkin, Don Johnson Realty

BEST RETAIL BEER SELECTION IN DURHAM COUNTY SAM’S QUIK SHOP

1605 Erwin Road, Durham facebook.com/SamsQuikShop919 FINALISTS: The Glass Jug, Beer Study, Beer Durham

106 North Graham Street, Chapel Hill beerstudy.com FINALISTS: Weaver Street Market, Carrboro Beverage Co., 580 Craft Beer

327 West Davie Street #106, Raleigh tastybeverageco.com FINALISTS: Bottle Revolution, Peace Street Market, State of Beer

BEST RETAIL BEER SELECTION THAT IS NOT A BOTTLE SHOP TOTAL WINE & MORE

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6105 Capital Boulevard, Raleigh totalwine.com FINALISTS: Peace Street Market, Weaver Street Market, Durham Co-op Market, Bulldega Urban Market

BEST RETIREMENT COMMUNITY CAROL WOODS

carolwoods.org 750 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill FINALISTS: Croasdaile Village, The Forest at Duke, Carolina Meadows

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BEST ROOFING COMPANY BAKER ROOFING COMPANY

517 Mercury Street, Raleigh bakerroofing.com/raleigh-roofing-company FINALISTS: Walker Brown Roofing, Aluminum Company of N.C., Alpine Roofing

BEST RUNNING STORE BULL CITY RUNNING CO.

202 N.C. Highway 54, #109, Durham bullcityrunning.com FINALISTS: Runologie, Fleet Feet, 9th Street Active Feet

BEST STORE TO BUY EYEGLASSES UPCHURCH OPTICAL CENTER 5108 Roxboro Road, Durham upchurchoptical.com FINALISTS: MyEyeDr.,Specs Eye Care, The Spectacle

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›› BEST LOCAL BRAND BURT’S BEES

210 West Pettigrew Street, Durham burtsbees.com FINALISTS: Runaway Clothing, Merge Records, Ponysaurus Brewing Company

INDY › Burt Shavitz is, of course, best known as the face of Burt’s Bees. He was a beekeeper in Maine who, along with cofounder and former romantic partner Roxanne Quimby, built a multimillion-dollar business purchased by Clorox for $900 million a decade ago. Shavitz left the company (on apparently less-than-amicable terms) long before that—in the early nineties, around the time Quimby moved the company to North Carolina. In 1999, the year Burt’s Bees moved to Durham, Quimby bought out Shavitz’s stake for $130,000. Shavitz lived until his death in 2015 in a backwoods home in Maine with three golden retrievers and no electricity or running water. This story was memorialized in the 2013 documentary Burt’s Buzz. Before all of that, he was an eccentric from Long Island, a photographer who shot for Time and Life magazines. Before that, in October 1963,

according to his FBI file (yep, he had one), which was obtained in 2015 by the website Muckrock, Ingram Burt Shavitz went to Warsaw, Poland, where he was detained by Polish authorities and his film was apparently confiscated. This trip to Eastern Europe caught the FBI’s eye because of Shavitz’s previous associations. The file includes a 1955 memorandum sent to the FBI director noting Shavitz’s membership in the Great Neck Peace Forum, which the FBI regarded as a “communist front group, active in the Long Island, NJ area.” But that same memo noted that “Mr. Shavitz who is employed as a lifeguard and recreational instructor at the Great Neck Estates pool … is regarded by his neighbors and associates as a loyal American and has an excellent reputation. He appears to be a normal young man of good habits.” [JCB]

BEST SUMMER CAMP IN DURHAM COUNTY DURHAM ACADEMY SUMMER PROGRAMS

3130 Pickett Road, Durham da.org FINALISTS: Schoolhouse of Wonder, Museum of Life and Science, Girls Rock N.C., Triton Stables

BEST SUMMER CAMP IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES CHAPEL HILL QUEST MARTIAL ARTS 6118-J Farrington Road, Chapel Hill chquestcenter.com FINALISTS: Morehead Planetarium, The ArtsCenter, 1870 Farm

BEST SUMMER CAMP IN WAKE COUNTY MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM

marbleskidsmuseum.org/summercamps FINALISTS: Raleigh Little Theatre, PineCone Bluegrass Camps, Triangle Rowing Club

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has it in for Planned Parenthood, its bête noire for decades now. The stated reason is that some Planned Parenthood clinics provide abortion services, but the animus goes deeper than that. Abortion constitutes only about 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services; the bulk, about 80 percent, are related to preventing unwanted pregnancies. In 103 of the 491 U.S. counties with Planned Parenthood centers, the Planned Parenthood center is the only family planning center available, according to the Guttmacher Institute. In other words, Planned Parenthood offers women who would not otherwise have it, control over their reproductive health, and for that conservatives have turned Planned Parenthood into some kind of boogeyman.

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416 West South Street, Raleigh authentictattoocompany.com FINALISTS: Dogstar Tattoo Company, Blue Flame Tattoo, Glenn’s Tattoo Service

BEST TOY STORE ALI CAT

200 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro facebook.com/AliCatToys/ FINALISTS: Learning Express, The Children’s Store, Playhouse Toy Store, Science Safari

BEST VINTAGE/ANTIQUE STORE FATHER AND SON ANTIQUES 107 West Hargett Street, Raleigh facebook.com/ Father-and-Son-133275510048293 FINALISTS: Dolly’s Vintage, TROSA Thrift Store, Raleigh Vintage

In April, President Trump signed a law allowing states to withhold federal funds from Planned Parenthood, even though federal law has long forbidden taxpayer dollars from subsidizing abortions. This will hinder Planned Parenthood’s ability to provide preventative health care, birth control, pregnancy tests, and other services that women need. Planned Parenthood serves some 2.5 million women a year; of them, nearly two thirds rely on public programs like Medicaid to access health care. States can now forbid Medicaid dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, which means many of these women won’t be able to access these services. And that means Planned Parenthood needs your support now more than ever. [JCB]

BEST VETERINARY PRACTICE IN DURHAM COUNTY SOUTHPOINT ANIMAL HOSPITAL

5601 Fayetteville Road, Durham southpointpets.com FINALISTS: Willow Oak Veterinary Hospital, Broadway Veterinary Hospital, Colony Park Animal Hospital

BEST VETERINARY PRACTICE IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES HILLSBOROUGH VETERINARY CLINIC 301 Meadowlands Drive, Hillsborough hillsboroughvetclinic.com FINALISTS: Carrboro Plaza Veterinary Clinic, The Animal Hospital of Carrboro, Cole Park Veterinary Hospital

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2050 Chapel Hill Road, Durham scrapexchange.org FINALISTS: Habitat for Humanity, TROSA Thrift Store, Tilthy Rich Compost

INDY › Among the many weird won-

ders to be found inside The Scrap Exchange—random buttons, sunglasses in varying states of brokenness, glass beakers, paints, papers, decades-old electronics, etc.—is a healthy assortment of books and other publications, both new and old, including a collection of National Geographic magazines, some dating back a hundred years or

so. I’ve never bought any; I probably should, given that I’ve wasted hours on end reading eighty-year-old articles on a bygone world and looking on with fascination at the dated ads while my wife shops for God knows what. It’s a vivid window into a past that was every bit as complex and nuanced as our present, and an hour of browsing alone is worth the trip to Lakewood. [JCB]

10009 Six Forks Road, Raleigh bayleafvetraleigh.com FINALISTS: Hayes Barton Animal Hospital, Care First Animal Hospital, Quail Corners Animal Hospital, CityVet

BEST WINE SHOP IN DURHAM COUNTY WINE AUTHORITIES

2501 University Drive, Durham wineauthorities.com FINALISTS: Bottle 501, Hope Valley Wine & Beverage, Durham Co-op Market

BEST WINE SHOP IN ORANGE/CHATHAM COUNTIES SOUTHERN SEASON

201 South Estes Drive, Chapel Hill southernseason.com FINALISTS: Glasshalfull, Hillsborough Wine Company, Chapel Hill Wine Company

BEST WINE SHOP IN WAKE COUNTY WINE AUTHORITIES

211 East Franklin Street, Raleigh wineauthorities.com FINALISTS: Raleigh Wine Shop, Seaboard Wine, Ridgewood Wine & Beer

BEST WOMEN’S BOUTIQUE IN DURHAM COUNTY LIBERATION THREADS

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ight Kitchen Bakehouse & Cafe opened in November of 2014 rather quietly. “We didn’t have much time or extra cash to have a big to-do,” says owner Helen Pfann, “My Dad brought some wine for a soft opening party, and then we were off.” These days, there’s a lot more buzz about Night Kitchen. European classics such as croissant, scones, and french macarons have received high marks; as well as more American items such as brownies or the bread pudding, a muffin-shaped treat with caramelized sugar on top. The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus. “I got started as a bread baker,” explains Pfann, “...and though I enjoy pastry work, making bread is what I love most.” Night Kitchen sells Sourdough, 9-Grain, and French bread everyday, and features daily specials. The bakery supplies bread to several local restaurants, including Farina, J Betski’s, and Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar. “I designed the kitchen so we could do wholesale and have room to grow. We’ve just started working with the Produce Box, so folks statewide can try our breads.” The final piece of the pie is the cafe at Night Kitchen. Exchange and fine teas from Tin Roof Teas, it’s a great space to meet a friend or have a small gathering at one of the larger farm tables. A selection of sandwiches, daily soup and quiche specials round out the menu. The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus. “I got started as a bread baker,” explains Pfann, “...and though I enjoy pastry work, making bread is what I love most.” Night Kitchen sells Sourdough, 9-Grain, and French bread everyday, and features daily specials. The bakery supplies bread to several local restaurants, including Farina, J Betski’s, and Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar. .These days, there’s a lot more buzz about Night Kitchen. European classics such as croissant, scones, and french macarons have received high marks; as well as more American items such as brownies or the bread pudding, a muffin-shaped treat with caramelized sugar on top. ●

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JOAN SHELLEY, JAKE XERXES FUSSELL Wednesday, June 14, 8 p.m., $13–$15 Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro www.catscradle.com

STEVE GUNN, LEE RANALDO, MEG BAIRD Wednesday, June 14, 8 p.m., $18–$20 The ArtsCenter, Carrboro www.artscenterlive.org

Guitar Gamble

HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE TWO LIKE-MINDED SHOWS IN THE SAME BUILDING ON THE SAME NIGHT? BY ALLISON HUSSEY In a fairly compact but flourishing cultural scene like the one that exists in the Triangle, your options for something to do on any given night can leave you reeling. Would you rather take in a one-night-only experimental film night in Durham, or do you check out the world premiere of a new work by an international artist at Carolina Performing Arts? These situations are inevitable, and the fear

Joan Shelley PHOTO BY EBRU YILDIZ of missing out on something incredible can make them excruciating. This week, few choices are as painful as having to choose between Joan Shelley and Steve Gunn, who both perform in Carrboro on Wednesday night. Both acts and the other artists joining them—Durham folksinger Jake Xerxes Fussell for Shelley, former Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo and multiinstrumental maven Meg Baird for Gunn— all operate under an extremely big tent of free folk, freak folk, indie folk, and so on. And though their styles may seem disparate, all of these artists share far-reaching influences and musical sensibilities. You could rearrange the lineups into any other combination, and it would still add up to a killer bill.

Sometimes, geographic considerations can make these choices easier: If you live in Raleigh and are torn between a show at Kings or Chapel Hill’s Local 506, the eightyminute round-trip drive time could be a make-or-break factor for your decision. So it feels like a magnificent cosmic joke that these two shows aren’t even on opposite ends of the Triangle, or even on different sides of town. They’re happening in the same strip mall, with just a few feet of concrete, metal, wiring, and drywall separating them. Shelley and Fussell, who perform at Cat’s Cradle Back Room, have issued two of the finest folk-inclined records of the year. Shelley’s self-titled March LP is stunning, striking a comfortable instrumental balance between her more full-band 2014 record, Electric Ursa, and 2015’s crystalline acoustic album, Over and Even. Her voice is clear, strong, and reassuring, and her songs stick close to your heart. Fussell’s What in the Natural World, released in January, is a delightful collection of his own reinterpretations of long-lost songs by the likes of Katie Lee, Duke Ellington, and Jimmy Driftwood. He treats his source material with reverence, and you can hear it in every note. Gunn, meanwhile, has gradually shifted from experimentally inclined guitar records into albums that have a more direct focus. On last year’s Eyes on the Lines, his debut LP on the renowned Matador Records, Gunn was on steady footing as a bona fide singersongwriter as well as a cracking guitarist. In his post-Sonic Youth years, Lee Ranaldo has busied himself with issuing fistfuls of far-

out electric guitar ruminations. And though Ranaldo and Gunn have been at the forefront of full-band ensembles in the past few years, they appear solo in Carrboroas coheadliners. Meg Baird’s talents have led to her wailing on drums for the mighty psych-rock outfit Heron Oblivion in addition to singing in the band. When she steps to the front of the stage, though, Baird’s delicate fingerpicking winds behind every wispy word she offers, to mesmerizing ends. This trio takes a more serpentine route in its folk-inspired executions than Fussell and Shelley do, arriving via blue highways rather than interstates. They’ll all hold court together at The ArtsCenter.

In a perfect world, these gigs could be combined into a full, long day of gorgeous music— maybe somewhere outside and grassy, where you could doze off on a quilt if you felt so blissfully moved by any one of the five different strains of vocalizations and guitar sounds. But the world is not perfect; it seems there are more days than not where it feels like it’s all crumbling to pieces. The tough choices won’t ever go away. In the meantime, though, could someone at least cut a portal between the Back Room and the ArtsCenter to make this one night a little easier? ahussey@indyweek.com

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Y’all at Dix Park

Last July, the newly christened Dix Park staged a one-day music festival on three sites within its three-hundred-plus-acre space, but that was clearly just a warm-up for bigger things. This summer, in partnership with Deep South Entertainment, the Raleigh park will present a monthly, three-part free music series that organizers hope will continue throughout many more summers. Kicking off with a show featuring The Veldt, Wayleaves, ZenSoFly, and Enenra on June 24, the inaugural Y’all At Dix Park series, sponsored by Stella Artois, will consist of three daylong concerts featuring four bands each. The other concerts, on July 22 and August 26, feature Hammer No More the Fingers and Birds of Avalon in the other two headlining spots, respectively. The planners have made a laudable effort to include both established frontrunners as well as to provide a platform for young talent. To that end, each concert will feature a band of local nineteen-andunders in an opening slot. Concerts will run from four until ten p.m. at Harvey Hill. Along with tunes all day, the fest will offer a slew of outdoorsy activities, all the better to keep from getting weighed down by the promised bevy of beer and food-truck options. —David Klein

WKNC Makes a Mixtape

The Triangle is home to a ton of local acts, and if you’re new to the scene, it can be overwhelming to figure out where to start digging into it. But some folks at N.C. State’s student-run radio station, WKNC 88.1 FM, have assembled a collection of songs that makes for an excellent entry point into local music. Seamlessly shifting between some of WKNC’s favorite hip-hop, electronic, and indie rock acts, First Semester is a diverse but cohesive mixtape of twenty-three North Carolina artists that serves as a primer on area performers as well as a fundraiser for the radio station. Available via Bandcamp on a pay-what-you-want basis, the mixtape is the work of N.C. State grad student Carl Wilkins, who partnered with recent Wolfpack graduate Jeremy Cothren in curating the compilation. As Cruise One and DJ Sundae respectively, the duo cohosted a Saturday night hip-hop block on WKNC for the past year while assembling the collection, which includes previously released material from heavyhitters like Boulevards and Kooley High. Wilkins cites sl0wgl0w as one of the collection’s best-kept secrets, comparing the Raleigh electronic duo to fellow mixtape act Sylvan Esso. Dubbing the mixtape First Semester is a nod to Wilkins’s hope to turn this project into a series of annual releases, a run that will continue after he leaves N.C. State next year. “I’m hoping I’ve established a nice tradition that will continue to raise awareness for the North Carolina music scene while also serving as a fundraiser for the station,” he says. The possibility of a mixtape release party later this summer suggests he may not be done yet. —Spencer Griffith 22 | 6.7.17 | INDYweek.com

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MCQUEEN & COMPANY: FOOL FOR LOVE June 8–25, 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat./3 p.m. Sun., $10–$20 Research Triangle High School Theatre, Durham www.mcqueenandcompany.com

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IN A THEATER SCENE AWASH IN ACTORS AND DIRECTORS, MCQUEEN & COMPANY WANTS TO FILL IN THE BACK END BY BYRON WOODS Many theater companies in our region arrange themselves along similar lines. Sometimes a lone auteur, like Ellen Hemphill of Archipelago Theatre or Wendy Ward of Ward Theatre Company, pursues an individual vision. Sometimes a group, like Black Ops or Justice Theater Project, addresses a social and aesthetic agenda. But most have one thing in common: an artistic director who embodies the organizing principle. Though rising local actor Diana Cameron McQueen wanted to start a new company, she’s less interested in directing than most.

“When people are getting out of rehearsal exhausted, something's wrong.” When McQueen & Company stages its inaugural production, Sam Shepard’s Obie-winning Fool for Love, McQueen will indeed be onstage, exploring her character’s magnetic, dysfunctional relationship with an itinerant rodeo rider in a Mojave Desert motel room that seems lifted from the world of David Lynch. But the show bears the marks of her desire to change the region’s theatrical landscape less as an actor or director than as a producer, a role many local theatrical productions lack. As a result, two innovations are already apparent. One is promotional photography whose glossy design suggests a full-page magazine spread about an edgy new cable series. The other is offering viewers the choice of a live performance in Research Triangle Park or a live stream on their smart TVs, laptops, or tablets (June 17). Andy Hayworth, Fool for Love’s director, has long noted the dearth of producers on

“the inmates running the asylum.” McQueen has tasted this side of theater herself—more than she’s wanted to. “When people are getting out of rehearsal, exhausted and fighting with one another, something’s wrong,” she says. Her background in corporate communication, promotion, and marketing suggested missing elements in theater company structures that could make them “more efficient, affordable, and joyful.” McQueen’s experience also suggested that, despite advances in recent years, local theater remains too insular and that this is still preventing it from exploring new partnerships, technologies, and economic models—and from finding, understanding, and cultivating the new audiMcQueen & Company's Fool for Love PHOTO BY NIETO PHOTOGRAPHY ences it needs in order to thrive. A small, nimble company, McQueen thought, could demonstrate the regional scene. He’s worked as an actor, how things could be done more professiona stage manager, and director for a series of ally, regardless of size and resources. local independent theaters since 2003. He “So I’ve put my money where my mouth says that being a producer requires a set of is,” she says. “We need to change the way arts managerial and organizational skills sepaare viewed as a whole.” With a handpicked rate from those needed on the creative side cast and company, organized and timetabled of theatrical production. according to a producer’s design, Fool for “Raising money, planning, recruiting, and Love stands to show that McQueen’s enveorganizing a production is tough work, but lope-pushing ideas mean business. a theater company can’t run itself,” he says. bwoods@indyweek.com Putting on a show without a producer is like

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WAKEFIELD HHH Opening Friday, June 9

Every Man for Himself

IN WAKEFIELD, BRYAN CRANSTON IS A LAWYER WHO GHOSTS ON HIS ENTIRE LIFE BY GLENN MCDONALD In the realm of pop sociology, the term “ghosting” has developed several connotations. As an update of expressions like French Exit or Irish Goodbye, it means slipping out of a party without saying your farewells. It has an even newer application in the dating world, where it means breaking up by abruptly dropping communication. In the indie drama Wakefield, starring Bryan Cranston, Manhattan lawyer Howard Wakefield ghosts on his entire life, impulsively abandoning his family after a hard day at the office. Rather than taking the traditional route, emptying the bank account and driving to the Florida Keys, Howard sneaks into the storage space above the garage and perches behind a dusty window, where he can observe the family’s tony suburban compound. Based on a short story by E.L. Doctorow, the film is set in contemporary times but has a conspicuously old-school East Coast

Jennifer Garner in Wakefield PHOTO BY GILLES MINGASSON

literary vibe that will be familiar to readers of Updike or Cheever. Howard’s midlife crisis is standard-issue. He fears that suburban domestication has emasculated him, and he longs to get back the potency of the Great American Male. The grim irony, of course, is that Howard tries to seize the day by hiding in a pathetic voyeur’s nest on the perimeter of his own safety zone. He’s intermittently aware of this

irony, but he’s tangled in so many layers of resentment and insecurity that he can’t be honest with himself. Just because his nervous breakdown is a cliché doesn’t make it hurt any less. In fact, it makes it so much worse. Howard really is in pain, and Cranston delivers a fine performance, peeling back the layers of Howard’s tortured psyche as his impulsive episode stretches on for months. Hidden behind rags and a hobo beard, Howard wanders his own town, picking through neighbors’ trash for food. Meanwhile, through flashbacks, we learn why his marriage is dying. Director Robin Swicord struggles to sus-

tain momentum in a story that’s almost entirely about a guy in a room. I haven’t read Doctorow’s story, but I suspect the saga of Howard Wakefield works much better on the page than on the screen. This is a tough story to adapt, since so much of the interesting character excavation happens inside Howard’s head. And the ambiguous ending doesn’t land at all. The best part is the implicit daydreaming question, What would it be like to ghost on your life? It’s fun to think about, but there’s really only one way to find out—and Wakefield suggests it’s no fun at all. arts@indyweek.com

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Thursday, June 8, 2 & 7 p.m., $3–$5 The Cary Theater, Cary As the final work of renowned Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, who died last October, Afterimage has a deathly tone that’s doubly apt. It chronicles the slow, gray erasure of Polish avant-garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, played by Boguslaw Linda. We follow the onearmed, one-legged painter as he hobbles around, bearing his silent rejection of new government stipulations that art must bear witness to positive socialist development in Poland after World War II. Wajda captures a troubled artist who, even at the end of his life, is unwilling to sacrifice his ethic—that artists must be true to themselves and create—for work. The Polish government hands him ultimatums; he responds by walking out of the room. Gradually, he’s fired, expelled

from the artists’ association, and reduced to a social leper. Strzeminski is followed by a pack of students who feed off his brief bouts of wisdom, as if his life experience were providing theirs, yet his stoicism stings his teenage daughter. Whether he is infinitely patient or utterly defeated isn’t clear. But desipte the trials of social reform and poverty, he paints on until he’s completely stripped of the means to do so. Wajda makes no proud claims. He only asks questions: What is art? What are its limitations? How should it contribute to culture, and what is the role of the artist’s autonomy? It’s bold to put philosophical words in the mouth of a famed artist and to create a film that lacks the pretenses of fiction. It’s surprising that Wajda’s final film hasn’t been more widely seen. But, as Strzeminski says, “They praise the ones who suck up. They’re silent about the real artists.” —Luke Hicks INDYweek.com | 6.7.17 | 25

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SARAH DESSEN VS. JOHN GRISHAM

John Grisham, a one-man (many-interned) legal-thriller industry, and Sarah Dessen, a Chapel Hill-based YA author, have little in common besides their Quail Ridge Books signings this week. But, oddly enough, they don’t always sound that different. So let’s test your knowledge: Grisham or Dessen? 1. “Life is full of screw-ups. You’re supposed to fail sometimes. It’s a required part of the human existence.” 2. “If you’re gonna be stupid, you gotta be tough.” 3. “Don’t compromise yourself—you’re all you have.” 4. “There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.” 5. “Love yourself, for the sake of your better future.” 6. “Love can make up for a lot.” 7. “Because the truth sometimes hurts,” I said. “Yeah,” he said. “So do lies, though.” 8. “It’s amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one.” [Answers: 1. D, 2. G, 3. G, 4. D, 5. G, 6. D, 7. D, 8. G] —David Klein QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS, RALEIGH Dessen: 2 p.m. Sat./Grisham: 1 p.m. Tues., signing line with book purchase, www.quailridgebooks.com

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MOVIES IN THE PARK: “PICTURES AND IMAGES”

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TEGAN AND SARA

Since 1995, twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin have dipped their toes in nearly every genre, from folk and rock to pop, releasing eight studio albums over the past twenty-two years. Last year’s Love You to Death is their poppiest yet, drawing inspiration from eighties stars like Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, plus their modern-day successors like Taylor Swift, Lorde, and Charli XCX. The two openly identify as gay and are devoted advocates of LGBTQ rights, vocalizing support for Against Me!’s trans frontwoman Laura Jane Grace and opposition to California’s Proposition 8, which would have determined marriage to be between a man and a woman. More recently, they’ve refused to boycott North Carolina in response to HB 2, and, in December of 2016, they founded the Tegan and Sara Foundation to fight for “economic justice, health, and representation for LGBTQ girls and women” in the wake of the presidential election. Their voices are as powerful in song as they are when demanding change. —Annalise Domenighini NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH | 8 p.m., $25–$39, www.ncartmuseum.org 26 | 6.7.17 | INDYweek.com

As founder, projectionist, archivist, and driving force behind Durham Cinematheque, Tom Whiteside has established a happy legacy of screening films that defy the norms of the medium and the mainstream in places that follow suit. The 2017 season began with a celluloid look back at the Sputnik era through period footage, home movies, newsreels, and such. The second program takes a similarly serious/curious approach to its subject of pictures and images. That means you’ll learn about the positivenegative process that underlies the making of images on film; traipse through the predigital era of photography, when the casual picture taker had to know what an f-stop was; and ponder the importance of pioneering motion photographers Muybridge and Marey in a “geeky” 1948 documentary. Bugs Bunny will make a cameo, too. It’s a free, outdoors, idiosyncratic alternative to the summer blockbuster blues. —David Klein DURHAM CENTRAL PARK, DURHAM 9 p.m., free, www.durhamcentralpark.org

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Autocracy, hubris, and immigrants denied sanctuary: these modern-day dilemmas remind us that the classics have never been out of style since Greek civilization grappled with them in the fifth century BCE. In adapting Sophocles’s three Theban plays—Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—for Burning Coal Theatre Company, playwright Ian Finley and director Alex Tobey discovered odd resonances with the present. Students performing Antigone last summer were convinced it was about Hillary Clinton versus Bernie Sanders; in an age of arbitrary travel bans, Colonus now shows us that home and hospitality are the greatest gifts we can receive or give. “Nietzsche said we invent the Greeks that we need,” Finley observes about texts that disclose how far our civilization hasn’t come in 2,000 years. —Byron Woods CAM RALEIGH, RALEIGH | 7 p.m. Thurs.–Sat./2 p.m. Sun., $10, www.burningcoal.org

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SATURDAY, JUNE 10

REESE MCHENRY

Reese McHenry’s voice conveys pain, struggle, triumph, and other emotions that can’t be faked. McHenry made her mark in the aughts fronting the raw garage rock outfit Dirty Little Heaters with a brash, rafter-rattling howl that has earned comparisons to Janis Joplin and Ann Wilson of Heart. After a long hiatus due to health struggles, McHenry released a fine record as The Second Wife in 2015, a cheerfully self-deprecating moniker that echoes the no-nonsense sensibility of her music. Its nine songs were a cathartic response to the strokes, heart troubles, and surgeries that bedeviled her for more than a decade. Dirty Little Heaters began as a duo of McHenry on guitar and vocals and drummer Melissa Thomas before expanding to a power trio. Now the Chapel Hill-based singer-songwriter performs as a duo with drummer Stephen Gardner. In any configuration, her take-no-prisoners yowl will be front and center. Chip Robinson of the Backsliders opens. —David Klein SLIM’S, RALEIGH | 9 p.m., $5, www.slimsraleigh.com

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WED, JUN 7 CAT’S CRADLE: Broods, Michi; 8 p.m., $20–$22. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Griffin House, Vanessa Peters; 8 p.m., $20–$23. • THE CAVE: Bishops, Poor Pie, Joe Romeo and the Juliets; 9 p.m., $5. • DUKE GARDENS: Music in the Gardens: Flock of Dimes; 7 p.m. • HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 8:30 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: The Longleaf Pine Nuts; 6:30-9:30 p.m. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Paul Simon; 8 p.m., $50–$150. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: The Music of Prince; 7:30 p.m., $43.77– $65.12. • POUR HOUSE: Major and the Monbacks, Ancient Cities; 8 p.m. • SLIM’S: Blessed, Lemon Sparks, Poinsetta; 9 p.m., $5.

THU, JUN 8 Blessed KNOT This Vancouver QUITE four-piece may have a name that sounds spiritual, but its knotty songs belong to a world conceived by humans. As math problems go, these songs are fairly high-level equations: ornately wrought, seething and relenting and delighting in sudden shifts in momentum. Somehow, it manages to breathe. Come Clean and 3 Kisses open. —DK [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

Gracie Curran & the High Falutin’ Band HIGH & Gracie Curran brings HOT it big, bold, and sassy, hosing down the audience with deep, sanctified soul that rattles the windows and gets the floorboards humming along. Backed by her High Falutin’ Band, the Boston native applies her church vocal training to fire up raw blues and old school R&B. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $8/7:30 P.M.]

Jamestown Revival DYNAMIC In four years, this Los DUO Angeles-via-Texas

alt-indie duo of Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance has experienced a very contemporary success model, leapfrogging from being a winning road band to success on iTunes and a spot on Conan. On the recent The Education of a Wandering Man, they take stock of it all. With Colter Wall. —DK [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, $18–$20/8 P.M.]

at its core, The Return of Lyricism promises a curated experience filled with thought-provoking lyrical content, with topics including domestic violence, racism, and more. The North Carolina-centric lineup features Xavier, Hard Faqx, Real Thought, Haz B, Gnarly Nick, Floyd, and R.E.P. —KJ [DEEP SOUTH, $5/10 P.M.]

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LOCAVOR This edition of Local ACIOUS Band Local Beer stretches the definition of local: Gullible Boys make the nearly four-hour drive from Asheville with lo-fi garage pop (which compares not unfavorably to Bee Thousand-era Guided By Voices) in tow. Fitness Womxn and Cosmic Punk live closer. The former plays primitive and punchy post-punk; the latter is built around the rich voice and clever songs of Elayna Madden, who plays solo tonight. With Space Holder. —PW [POUR HOUSE, $5/9 P.M.]

Map the Sky ROCK The liner notes for OUT Map the Sky’s Infinite Hiatus mention that the album was recorded in “Psychedelic Confections Studio.” This will make complete sense when you consider the Durham band’s manic pop-rock slush, a purée of flanged-to-fuck vocals, funk bombast, and occasional Zach De La Rocha-style rap fireballs. It’s party-ready material and pretty damn fun. Beach Casino, North11, and Vanguard Party open. —DS [THE PINHOOK, $8/8 P.M.]

The Return of Lyricism: Music with a Message WORDS With a goal to FIRST remind hip-hop heads what hip-hop is capable of

GREAT It’s not surprising WHITE that Kentucky’s White Reaper refers to itself on its third record as The World’s Best American Band; rock ’n’ roll is built on hubris, after all. But is White Reaper the world’s best American band? Well, the raucous quartet’s power pop delivers a cheeky, glammy good time, if the seams of its influences are clearly showing. So, maybe not, but The World’s Pretty Goodest American Band doesn’t really have much of a ring to it. Asheville’s The Tills open. —PW [CAT’S CRADLE, $10/8:30 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY 2ND WIND: 2 fer; 7:30-9 p.m. • HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER: BUMP: The Triangle’s 1st Annual Benefit Concert and Silent Auction; 5:30-8 p.m., $40. • IRREGARDLESS: Frankie Alexander Trio; 6-9 p.m. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Christiana Benton, Small Voice; 7 p.m.

FRI, JUN 9 Marco Benevento POLY Marco Benevento MATH has a voracious creativity. Treading in the experimental jazz genre, he’s also juggled multiple side projects, issued records of original music and audacious covers, started his own record label, collaborated with a slew of respected figures in the worlds of jazz and pop, and played in tribute projects honoring the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin. His latest, Woodstock

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KATE RHUDY After dropping out of Appalachian State University and moving back to the Triangle last year, Raleigh native Kate Rhudy has fully focused on her music, picking up the pace of both her songwriting and performing. Her fulltime return from Boone has been a boon for the local roots scene: having attended fiddler’s conventions since her earliest elementary school days, Rhudy now primarily channels her prodigal talent through frank, plaintive lyrics that she delivers with a gorgeous voice. Saturday night marks the release of her longawaited full-length debut, Rock n’ Roll Ain’t For Me, which is already an early contender to land among this year’s best local releases. The album’s opening track and lead single, “I Don’t Think You’re an Angel (Anymore),” serves as an ideal introduction to Rhudy’s style, matching sober, bittersweet reflections on relationship disillusionment to her emotive, melancholic vocals. Laced with beautiful harmonies from Mipso’s Libby Rodenbough and Mandolin Orange’s Andrew Marlin, the chorus features a memorable, sighing melody. “Angel” sets a lofty standard early on, but Rhudy lives up to that high-water mark throughout Rock n’ Roll’s nine other tracks. Though she’s ascribed the genre of “sad river folk” to her music, the album proves that, while still often

wistful, Rhudy can deftly offer jaunty fare too. Flipping the forlorn emotions of the relationship fallout in the opener, “I Don’t Like You or Your Band” is a toe-tapping kiss-off tune in which Rhudy dismisses any lingering doubt of regret with a brazen, almost giddy refrain of “Your cigarettes, your leather shoes/You, your friends, and your middle-class white boy blues/You’ve become something I can’t stand.” Ouch. Throughout the record, Rhudy ornaments her simple strums with light strings and a bit of percussion and keys from Marlin—who produced the album—and former member of the everybodyfields Josh Oliver. The addition of backing vocals by Emily Frantz, who makes up the other half of Mandolin Orange, and Rodenbough add up to a supergroup of the area’s progressive folk stars. Though their contributions elevate Rhudy’s songs with pleasant accents, the focus remains squarely—and rightly—on Rhudy’s frank words and fantastic voice. For her album-release show, Rhudy will be assisted by former American Aquarium guitarist Ryan Johnson and Look Homeward bassist Alex Bingham, while promising a few surprise guests as well. Ellis Dyson and Rodenbough open with solo sets. —Spencer Griffith KINGS, RALEIGH $5–$10, 8:30 p.m., www.kingsraleigh.com

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troupe, which is given to wearing academic gowns and diving into psychedelia. When your brass group is fifteen guys who mostly come from rock backgrounds, that’ll happen. Abetted by a layered percussion section, the music hits on a gut level and actively conspires to let your backbone slip. Gardner, aka Dash Lewis, opens. —DK [THE STATION, $8–$10/8 P.M.]

Carolina Waves Launch MAKE A In an effort to further SPLASH the popularity of North Carolina-based hip-hop and R&B artists, K97.5 FM radio personality Mir.I.Am is spearheading the launch of Carolina Waves, an entity that allows musicians to reach a larger audience and network with music industry professionals. But it’s more than just a concert series: the new enterprise also includes a podcast, a forthcoming mixtape, and a radio show. The first installment of the concert series features P.A.T. Junior, Shame, and others. —CM [IMURJ, $10–$12, 7:30 P.M.]

Epitome Band HEART Four female vocalists OF IT fronting a hot band with a soul, R&B, and gospel repertoire, this Triangle-based concern largely concentrates on performing covers and has developed a sterling reputation for lively, creative interpretations of artists ranging from Jill Scott to En Vogue to Chaka Khan. —EB [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $15/7 & 9 P.M.]

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bros Journalism. The band exhales anthemic jangle pop that, despite good intentions, lacks any meaningful or distinctive characteristics. Singer Kegan Zema has talked about his love of former Hipster Runoff blogger Carles in interviews, so it’s puzzling that he chose to make the exact sort of generic gentrified indie pop that Carles would rip on. With The All Things and Land Is. —DS [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

N.C. Symphony: Classics Under the Stars STARRY Pops concerts are NIGHT such ripe targets for ridicule from folks who want to see more diverse orchestral programming. They tend to pack all the overplayed classical music “hits”—excerpts from Swan Lake and Aaron Copland’s Hoedown, for example—into single events. For outdoor events like this, the picnic and the family event is, apparently, the main draw, with the symphony and its highly trained musicians relegated to background music. —DR [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $30–$31/7:30 P.M.]

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Saving Space Showcase: (J) Rowdy and the Nightshift ROWDY With an aggressive RAPS lyrical flow and a four-piece jazz band behind him, rapper (J) Rowdy celebrates the release of his new The Return of Black Wall Street. The record nods both to Durham’s historic black community and Blackspace, an Afrofuturist hub for youth of color. Danny Blaze and self-labeled tribal trap artist Mballa opens. There’s also a special d.j. set from Kooley High’s Sinopsis. (Disclosure: Josh Rowsey, aka (J) Rowdy, is an INDY Week advertising account executive.) —KJ [THE PINHOOK, $7/9 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Terry Wiley Band; 9 p.m., $8. Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. • BYNUM FRONT PORCH: Gabe Pelli & Will Ridenour; 7-9 p.m., $10. • CARRBORO TOWN COMMONS: Freight Train Blues; 6:30 p.m., free. • THE CARY THEATER: Chuck Brodsky and Wyatt Easterling; 8 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Jonathan Byrd;

8 p.m., $18–$20. • DEEP SOUTH: Eric Scholz, The Dobonzo Brothers, Brice Randall Bickford; 9 p.m., $5. • IRREGARDLESS: Doug Largent Trio; 9:30-10 p.m. • THE MAYWOOD: Eight Bit Disaster, Dr. Copter; 9:30 p.m., $8. • NASH STREET TAVERN: Mystery Hillbillies; 8-11 p.m. • NIGHTLIGHT: 919 Gemini Jam; 8:30 p.m., $7. • POUR HOUSE: Jason Adamo Band, Keaton Simons, Waking April; 9 p.m., $10. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ DNLTMS; 10 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Ariel Pocock CD Release Party; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SLIM’S: Animal Flag, Heavensend, Earthers; 9 p.m., $5.

SAT, JUN 10 Future of What Podcast Taping BIZ BUZZ This savvy podcast hosted by Portia Sabin of Kill Rock Stars explores the shape-shifting music biz and taps those who know that world intimately to make sense of it. The three editions being recorded today showcase a piquant assemblage of Triangle pros who make it, write about it, market it,

book it, publicize it, or purvey it. That means folks like the Pinhook’s Kym Register, Chaz Martenstein of Bull City Records, reps from RedEye and Merge, and a couple of INDY Week folks, among many. —DK [MOTORCO, FREE WITH RSVP/1 P.M., 3 P.M., & 5 P.M.]

Mystic Braves PSYCH This genially weird ROCK L.A.-based five-piece plays an engagingly druggy brand of sun-drenched psych rock imbued with the grittier side of Los Angeles, eschewing peace/love vibes for something more along the lines of the low-level menace of Buffalo Springfield or the aggressive mind expansion of The Doors. The Creation Factory opens. —EB [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10/9 P.M.]

N.C. Symphony: A Space Spectacular FINAL Holst’s The Planets. FRONTIER Star Wars. Star Trek. That Richard Strauss piece from the beginning of 2001: A Space

Odyssey. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. E.T. Superman. Only the Holst is an actual vision of space. The rest of the pieces on this program are only space-ish because they’re from movies that have to do with the great beyond. But at least the Star Wars Imperial March won’t sit right next to the piece it shameless rips off, Holst’s “Mars.”—DR [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $27–$31/7:30 P.M.]

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Over the last ten or fifteen years, we’ve seen several examples of older R&B artists emerging from either obscurity or inactivity to enjoy an unexpected renaissance. It’s happened for the likes of Bettye LaVette, Solomon Burke, and Charles Bradley, to name a few. But the story of Robert Finley is somewhat different, and ultimately even more inspirational. The Louisiana-born singer and guitarist has been playing professionally since the early seventies, when he led a band in the United States Army. He continued playing after returning to civilian life, but much like the majority of musicians (even great ones), he couldn’t make a living at it. Finley ended up supporting himself through carpentry instead, while still playing when he could. Fast-forward to 2015: Finley was performing on the streets and, due to becoming legally blind, was no longer able to make money as a carpenter. The do-gooder Music Maker Relief Foundation encountered Finley at this crucial point and stepped in to facilitate a major change in his life. The Hillsborough-based nonprofit helped him to get his musical career back on track, and soon he was performing regularly for more people than ever before. One thing led to another, and, last year, the sixty-three-year-old Finley finally released

COSMIC Searching for the SENDOFF right way to say goodbye to Gregg Allman? Since The Allman Brothers Band was all about creating magic in the moment onstage, a tribute concert might be just the right sort of sendoff. Idlewild South captures all the elements of the Allmans’ sound, from the double-drummer polyrhythms to the twin-guitar leads, and they like to jam it all out in classic Allman style. It should provide the perfect conduit for giving Gregg back to the universe with grace. —JA [LINCOLN THEATRE, $10–$13/9 P.M.]

his debut album, Age Don’t Mean a Thing, on Big Legal Mess Records, the Fat Possum offshoot responsible for records by older bluesmen like Leo Welch, Asie Payton, and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes.” Soon the world at large—or at least that portion of the world predisposed to old-school soul sounds—found out exactly what it had been missing for all those decades when Finley was laboring under the radar. His album was not only one of the strongest of the year, it was one of the most revelatory R&B releases to emerge in a good while. Who could have guessed a talent like his was hiding in plain sight for so long? Much of Finley’s previous work had been in a bluesier vein, but the decision to go in more of a sixties-style Southern soul direction for Age Don’t Mean a Thing turned out to be a sage one. Finley’s a firstclass soul man, with a rich, expressive voice, and the organic, unfussy production provides the perfect complement. There aren’t too many artists around today who can approach this kind of feel with as much grit and gravitas as Finley, so embrace the opportunity to experience his sound firsthand. —Jim Allen SARAH P. DUKE GARDENS, DURHAM 7 p.m., $5–$10, 12 and under free www.dukeperformances.duke.edu

GREET The Raleigh DEATH Deathfest might not have the critical cachet of the Maryland Deathfest—hey, it’s only two years old—but its lineup is nonetheless packed with an impressive roster of local and regional heavies. This year’s murderers’ row: Battlemaster (sword-and-sorcery-themed death thrash); Eldritch Horror (Lovecraft-themed death metal); Paagtheaan (blackened death metal); Datura (pan-metal that hits on doom, death, black, and thrash); Suppressive Fire (thrash à la Eastern Europe); Deathcrown (old-school death metal); Noctomb (blackened sludge metal); Outliar (high-energy thrash); Gates of Endor (thrashy death metal); BloodForce (power/ death metal). —PW [THE MAYWOOD, $10–$12/4:30 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: N’KOGNiiTO; 7 & 9 p.m., $10. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Hickory Switch; 8 p.m., $10. • THE CAVE: Ghost Wolves; 9 p.m., $5. • CITY TAP: Dmitri Resnik& Bootleg Beat; 8-11 p.m. • IMURJ: New World Order; 8-11 p.m., $7. • IRREGARDLESS: Court Stewart Duo; 6 p.m. Peter Lamb Quintet; 9 p.m. •

KINGS: Kate Rhudy, Ellis Dyson, Libby Rodenbough; 8:30 p.m., $5–$10. See box, page 29 • LOCAL 506: Version City Tour; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • NASH STREET TAVERN: Squandered Bongos; 8-11 p.m. • NIGHTLIGHT: BENT; 10 p.m., $7–$8. • POUR HOUSE: Psylo Joe, The Freeway Revival, The Wright Avenue; 9 p.m., $5–$7. • RAMBLE RILL FARM: The Old Ceremony; 4 p.m., $20. • THE RITZ: Drake Night ft. DJ Fannie Mae; 10 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: Sarah Shook and the Disarmers; 9:30 p.m. • SACRED GROUNDS COFFEE HOUSE: Dackel; 7:30 p.m. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): The Antique Hearts, Paper Dolls, Gabe Zil Unplugged; 7-10 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Juan Alamo, Marimjazzia; 8 p.m., $10–$20. • SLIM’S: Reese McHenry, Chip Robinson; 9 p.m., $5. See page 27. • THE STATION: Throwback Dance Party with DJKB; 10 p.m. Jazz Saturdays; 2 p.m., free.

SUN, JUN 11 Peter Brötzmann & Heather Leigh BUZZ & It’s astounding how SKREE much fire Peter Brötzmann still manages to breathe at age seventy-six. His lungs may not be as capacious as they once were, and his jowls have only expanded, but he is still one of the premiere improvisers on the planet. He’s found a good foil in pedal steel player Heather Leigh, whose tone is about as far away as you can get from a sweet country twang. Together, they craft immaculate sonic architecture. With D Town Brass. —DR [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $15–$20/9 P.M.]

Andy Frasco and the U.N. WEAK This unsparingly jolly JOKES conglomerate of Los Angeles-based roots rockers specializes in blues and R&B-adjacent novelty songs, which they render with considerable chops and commitment. If there was actually anything particularly funny about “joke” tunes like “Blame It on the Pussy,” the band might be really on to something. Dead 27s open. —TB [POUR HOUSE, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

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James Vincent McMorrow is touring hot on the heels of his honest new album, True Care. With ilght guitars, twinkling piano, and breathy vocals, the gentle indie rocker uses the ebb and flow of electronic sounds to pull at the heartstrings. —KH [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, $20–$22/8 P.M.]

Soso Summer 2017 AFTER Twenty-five years THE JUMP after Kriss Kross, the backward-dressing duo he descovered, went worldwide, Jermaine Dupri has remained a player through his work behind the scenes developing other young hip-hop acts. Along with Da Brat and Bow Wow, he’ll host this showcase featuring winners from Lifetime TV’s The Rap Game, including Miss Mulatto and Mani. —DK [MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM, $24–$123/7 P.M.]

Zigtebra SYNTH A Chicago synth-pop POP duo vested with the deeply romantic preoccupations of youth, Zigtebra tends toward glacial melodies punctuated by the breathy vocals of lead singer Emily Rose and buttressed by the unobtrusive harmonies of her bandmate, Joe Zeph. They haven’t found their songwriting footing yet, but tracks like the clever, catchy “Want You” suggest they may eventually emerge as a force. Blueberry and Flouresence open. —EB [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $5–$7/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY BLUE NOTE GRILL: Out’n The Cold; 5-7 p.m., free. • DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3. • FLETCHER PARK: Milagro Saints; 6 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: Daniel DeLorenzo; 6 p.m. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: Raleigh Ringers Spring Concert; 3 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: Disco Deluxe with Luxe Posh; 10 p.m. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Perspective, A Lovely Hand to Hold, Youth League; 7 p.m.

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Girlpool PUNX UP Though the term “folk punk” has recently been associated with brash anarchist acts, it can also refer to a funny, quietly subversive indie act like L.A.’s Girlpool. The two-piece recently brought on drummer Miles Wintner to beef up its spare sound, which involves a lot of high-wire harmonies and jagged guitar-bass interplay. They certainly know the value of minimalism. Girlpool’s new Powerplant runs only twenty-nine minutes, but it still packs in more jokes and poetic turns of phrase than albums twice that length. With Snail Mail. —DS [THE PINHOOK, $15/8 P.M.]

Davidians MANY Davidians’ inventive THREADS and arty post-punk splices together variegated strands of punk’s long history—the thrust of SST’s early-eighties output; the nervy tics of British post-punks Wire and Public Image Ltd.; the bracing atmospheres of noise rock titans The Jesus Lizard and The Birthday Party—without being beholden to any particular one of them. Propulsive riffs and turbulent rhythmic pulses clash with hoarse, harsh vocals, making for attractively dissonant accents. Mind Dweller and ZZ Corpse open. —PW [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $5/10 P.M.]

Dirty Heads GOOD Following in the VIBES multi-genre footsteps of Sublime, this Huntington Beach, California, crew wafts a party-friendly mix of rock, raps, and reggae and a touch of punk that’s tailor-made for a party—one where 311 might have shown up and been greeted warmly. With SOJA, The Green, and RDGLDGRN —DK [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $24–$128/6 P.M.]

Jarabe de Palo SPANISH From its formation in ROYALS the early nineties in Barcelona, this Latin rock group led by Pau Donés earned immediate acclaim, which eventually spread far beyond Spain, earning Latin Grammy nominations. Though its name is offbeat (“wood syrup,” a punishment for kids who act up), the appeal of the band’s hook-laden fusion of Latin, reggae, Caribbean, and classic rock influences is universal. In concert, Donés expertly weaves rhythmically driven songs with the introspective piano balladry that featured on the recent 50 Palos. —DK [MOTORCO, $30–$40/8 P.M.]

The Muslims ROCK For the eighth REBELS installment of its Why Wait series of in-store shows, Bull City Records welcomes The Muslims, a young Durham trio that offers fierce songs that marry hardcore and hip-hop. Jumba, another Durhamite, opens with warped, hazy hip-hop that’s thick and engrossing. The show is all-ages and promises raucous, rebellioninspiring fun for all. —AH [BULL CITY RECORDS, DONATIONS/7 P.M.]

Melissa Swingle Duo SWING & Melissa Swingle has SIMMER a deep and inviting voice, with her Americana-style guitar picking, she’ll have you mesmerized. She revs up the crowd with her high-energy rock tracks before cooling down with sweet ballads, sung in her signature raspy style. Johnny Down and David Childers open. —KH [LOCAL 506, $8–$10/8:30 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY THE ARTSCENTER: Steve Gunn, Lee Ranaldo, Meg Baird; 8 p.m., $18– $20. See page 21. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Joan Shelley, Jake Xerxes Fussell; 8 p.m., $13–$15. See page 21. • THE CAVE: Dan Montgomery, Peter Holsapple; 9 p.m., $5. • DUKE GARDENS: Music in the Gardens: Robert Finley; 7 p.m. See box, page 31. • HUMBLE PIE: Sidecar Social Club; 8:30 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: The Piedmont Pea Pickers; 6:30 p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Great Good Fine OK; 9 p.m., $12–$14. • POUR HOUSE: Sun-Dried Vibes; 9 p.m., $7–$10. • RUBY DELUXE: Riot Rock: All Riot Grrl Era Music with DJ DNLTMS; 10 p.m.

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Julie Anne Greenberg: Paintings. Thru Jul 7. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. SPECIAL Group Show: EVENT Twenty-five artists and craftspeople. Reception: Thu, Jun 8, 5–8 p.m. Thru Aug 25. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. www. horseandbuggypress.com. LAST An Intangible CHANCE Analysis: Paintings by Joel Hopler. Thru Jun 9. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. www.art. unc.edu.

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Now in its fifth year, the Creative Mentorship Program of the Durham Art Guild teams high school students with the accomplished visual artists among its ranks. This year’s presentation, Place of Sense, is the result of twenty-week collaborations between five students and mentor artists to complete projects of the students’ design. The results demonstrate a diversity of artistic visions, from a mixed-media work that examines the notion of home to a combination of photography and painting that explores female empowerment and cultural heritage. Elsewhere, one young artist and his mentor incorporated the nontraditional elements of role-play and narrative while another team looked at the concept of courage through adversity by means of iconography from graphic novels. Uniting these efforts is an attempt by the young artists to reflect on their place in our tumultuous times. After this opening reception the exhibit runs for most of June. —David Klein GOLDEN BELT’S ROOM 100, DURHAM 6–9 p.m., free, www.durhamartguild.org

Jul 1. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com. American Landscapes in 4/3 Time + Natural Attraction & Personal Work: The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. This pair of exhibits by a father and daughter is concerned with ensuring that future generations have enough natural world left to recognize the meaning of the cliché. Dan Gottlieb, who helmed the Museum Park renovation at NCMA, combines photography and

painting in American Landscapes in 4/3 Time, referring both to his camera and to a jazzy time signature he perceives in nature’s improvisations. And the Oakland-based illustrator Iris Gottlieb shows work related to her new book, Natural Attraction, which explores the relationships between animals and people through quirky watercolors and text. It’s supplemented by Personal Work, in which Iris probes “having mental illnesses, my queerness, and ways to

visually explore intimate and vulnerable experiences.” Thru Jul 1. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com. —Brian Howe Beyond the Front Porch 2017: Exhibition of work by twelve senior undergraduates. Thru Nov 12. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org. Careful to Carefree: Watercolors by Carol Liz Fynn. Thru Jun 29. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham.

Eye Scapes: Photography by Eric Raddatz. Thru Jul 9. Through This Lens, Durham. www. throughthislens.com. SPECIAL Featured Artists: EVENT Mixed media from Catherine Gregory and Marguerite Jay Gignoux; ceramics from Linda Prager. Reception: Fri, Jun 9, 6 p.m. Thru Jul 8. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. Fluid: At a glance, some of MyLoan Dinh’s paintings might look like simple summer-home confections of sand and sea. But look again. At the end of the Vietnam War, Dinh’s family fled its native Saigon and wound up at “Tent City” in California, one of the U.S.’s largest Vietnamese refugee camps. From there they migrated to North Carolina. After a time at UNC-Chapel Hill, Dinh studied at an art school in Australia and then spent a decade working in theatrical design before returning to painting. This life of comings and goings, personal and geopolitical, furnishes images of legs running into and out of seas with underlying emotion and gravity. Thru Oct 15. Durham Convention Center, Durham. www. durhamconventioncenter.com. —Brian Howe Forecasts and Other Disturbances: Mixed media screenprints and cut paper by Julie Anne Greenberg. Thru Jul 7. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. From Here to Eternity: Quilted tapestries by Ann Harwell. Thru Jul 25. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www.

Just Flowers: Paintings by Sam Ezell. Thru Jun 15. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www.historichillsborough.org. Little Boxes: Metal sculpture by Robert Harper. Thru Jun 27. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www. carygalleryofartists.org. Livin’ Is Easy: Interpretations of summer. Thru July 1. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com. Looking South: Photography by Eudora Welty. Thru Sep 4. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. Love Valley: Contemporary and archival moving images, photographs, texts, and objects curated by Michaela O’Brien. Thu, Jun 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www. litmusgallery.com. A Moment in Time: Paintings by Angela Nesbit and Sharon Bass. Thru Jun 17. ArtSource Fine Art Gallery, Raleigh. www.artsourceraleigh.com. More than One Story | Mas de una historia: Photography. Thru Feb 1. UNC Campus: Davis Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc. edu/davis. The Music Makers: Visual art by various Pleiades members. Thru Jul 9. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com. New Paintings and Assemblages, Celebrating 50 Years of Art Making: Paintings INDYweek.com | 6.7.17 | 33

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students and Durham Art Guild artists. Reception: Fri, Jun 9, 6-8 p.m. Thru Jun 24. Golden Belt, Durham. www. goldenbeltarts.com. Pleasant Places: Digital paintings by Quayola. Thru Aug 13. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. Site-Specific Installation: Fiber art by Gabrielle Duggan. Thru Jun 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. Small to Large: Delight in the Practice of Painting: Paintings by Margie Stewart. Thru Oct 23. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. Southern Light: Paintings by Durham artist Chad Smith. Thru Jun 24. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery. net.

surrounding area restaurants. Participating restaurants offer special three-course menu options and fixed pricing. No reservations, tickets or passes required. $15-$35. Thru Jun 11, noon-10:30 p.m. The Triangle, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill. Vegetarian Farm-to-Table Beer Dinner: Chef Patrick Cowden presents a five-course vegetarian dinner featuring produce from farms and gardens in Raleigh paired with

Dawn Surratt: Photography. Thru Jun 26. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com. Under Pressure: Prints and performance art. Thru Aug 27. Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh. www.visualartexchange.org. LAST What You Make of CHANCE It: Shrines by Charron Andrews. Thru Jun 10. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www.scrapexchange.org. ...with white, black and brown: Drawings by Shib Basu. Thru Jun 27. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists.org. You + Me: Photographs from various artists. Thru Sep 4. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

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THE KING AND I This 1951 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical has long been Exhibit A in the case against several unsavory practices in midcentury popular entertainment, including orientalism, yellowface, and that whole colonialist, cultural imperialism thing. So any present-day revival is going to be dicey at best. But director Bartlett Sher successfully steered protagonist Anna Leonowens’s steamship—and a 2016 revival that won four Tony Awards—through turbulent cultural waters by focusing more on historical accuracy than Broadway spectacle. In Sher’s attempts to find “something truthful about the inner life of the people,” The New York Times noted, “every member of these crowds is an individual ... no one is merely a dancer, an extra or an archetype.” Catch the touring version at DPAC this week. —Byron Woods DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DURHAM Various times, starting at $35, www.dpacnc.com

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7-Stories: Best of Season 2: $5. Fri, Jun 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www. kingsraleigh.com.

Anything Goes Late Show: Saturdays, 10:30 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www.goodnightscomedy.com

Vivica C. Coxx: When Mama’s Away: $10. Sat, Jun 10, 10 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham. www.thepinhook.com.

Avenue Q: The timing is perfect— with perhaps just a smidge of schadenfreude. Just as the latest horde of college graduates hits the streets in pursuit of dream careers, even higher education, or simply any viable gig to keep voracious student loans at bay, Raleigh Little Theatre revives the cheery (and only slightly nihilistic) Tony Award-winning musical about the quandaries of becoming an adult. The seven puppet characters and three humans in this addled Sesame Street update uncover contemporary truths in songs like “The Internet Is for Porn” and “Everybody’s Just a Little Bit Racist” as twentysomethings trying to reconcile lifelong dreams with starker socioeconomic realities. Jesse Gephart directs. $15-$28. Thru Jun 18. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org. —Byron Woods

Full Gallop: One-woman play directed by John C. McIlwee. $12-$20. Sun, Jun 11 & Sat, Jun 24, 2 p.m. NCSU Campus: Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre, Raleigh. Hillel Kogan: Dance, humor. $27. Tue, Jun 13-Sat, Jun 17. The Cary Theater, Cary. www.americandancefestival.org North Carolina’s Funniest Person Contest: Tue, Jun 13 & Wed, Jun 14, 7 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www.goodnightscomedy.com. Donnell Rawlings: Stand-up comedy. Fri, Jun 9 & Sat, Jun 10, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www.goodnightscomedy.com. Renaissance: Durham Arts and Culture: Presented by Empower Dance Studio. Performances by Triangle City Music, Blackspace, Shaleigh Danceworks, Durham Dance Collective, Hillside High School Dance Company. $18-$26. Sun, Jun 11, 4:15 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre.org. Rich Vos: Stand-up comedy. Thu, Jun 8, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www.goodnightscomedy.com.

Eyes Up Here Comedy Showcase: Comedy from N.C. women. $5. First Wednesdays, 8-10:30 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www.kingsraleigh.com. Finding Patience: The Story of Holly Springs: Play. $19. Thru Jun 17. Holly Springs Cultural Center, Holly Springs. www.hollyspringsnc.us. LAST  Ghost the Musical: CHANCE NRACT offers performing arts classes, but its current production

is more of a cautionary lesson about staging a musical. Bruce Joel Rubin wrote the screenplay for the 1990 blockbuster film starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, so his soapy script is faithful to its tale of love beyond the grave. But workmanlike lyrics belabor generic big-city sentiments and characters’ emotions; only occasionally do the words fully match the action. Lauren Bamford’s incandescent voice and acting in the central role of Molly anchors the production, but other cast members struggled to keep up on Saturday night. Awkward moments studded director Chasta Hamilton’s staging. Her choreography seemed pedestrian and cramped on Jen Leiner’s too-small stage, and, more than once, actors paused mid-scene, waiting for the prerecorded soundtrack to catch up. One strong lead aside, an uneven score, cast, and staging made this Ghost an oddly dispiriting experience. $12-$20. Thru Jun 11. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. www. nract.org.—Byron Woods LAST Happy Hour: Monica Bill CHANCE Barnes and Anna Bass. Dance performance and karaoke party. $22. Thru Jun 9. PSI Theatre, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. The Harry Show: Ages 18+. Improv host leads audience in potentially risque improv games. $10. Fri & Sat, 10 p.m. ComedyWorx Theatre, Raleigh. comedyworx.com. Hush Hush: Improv comedy based

on secrets. Presented by Mettlesome. Thursdays, 8-9 p.m. Thru Jun 29. Beer Study Durham, Durham. Improv Percolator: Improv. $12. Fri, Jun 9, 8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org. No Poetry Comedy Deluxe: Open mic comedy. Thu, Jun 8, 8:30 p.m. Ruby Deluxe, Raleigh. www.facebook.com/ RubyDeluxeRaleigh. SPECIAL Smokey Joe’s Cafe: OUT EVENT night: Special tickets to support the LGBT Center of Raleigh. $40. Thu, Jun 8. Kennedy Theater, Raleigh. www.dukeenergycenterraleigh. com/venue/kennedy-theatre. Tea with Edie & Fitz: On a summer’s day in 1925, Edith Wharton invited F. Scott Fitzgerald to her estate for tea. According to eyewitnesses, the meeting was an absolute disaster, and the two never spoke or met again. At best, they would have made an improbable pair; at sixty-three, Wharton was the severe, meticulous, old-money moralist of The Age of Innocence, while Fitzgerald was a brash, undisciplined twenty-nine-year-old wunderkind intent on documenting the decadence of the Jazz Age. But Chicago playwright Adam Pasen finds the deeper similarities in the lives and loves of two literary lions in this biographical play, which opens N.C. State’s TheatreFest 2017. Mia Self directs. $6-$20. Thru Jun 18. NCSU Campus: Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre, Raleigh. —Byron Woods

SPECIAL SHOWINGS La La Land: $5. Thu, Jun 8, 8:30 p.m. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. www. boothamphitheatre.com. Samsara: Full Frame Movie on the Lawn. Thu, Jun 8, 8:30 p.m. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

OPENING It Comes at Night—A family’s desperate withdrawal from supernatural horrors outside is threatened when another family shows up at their door seeking shelter. Rated R. The Mummy—A nearly twenty-year-old schlock action franchise returns with Tom Cruise instead of Brendan Fraser. Rated PG-13. My Cousin Rachel—Daphne du Maurier’s 1951 novel, an English mystery-romance classic, makes a second trip to the big screen with the formidable Rachel Weisz. Rated PG-13.  Wakefield—Reviewed on p. 25. Rated R.

ALS O PLAYIN G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  Alien: Covenant— This is easily the best Alien since the first two, and the is the darkest sci-fi vision yet of our evolving cultural anxieties about machines and artificial intelligence. Rated R.  Baywatch—Only some sort of vile satanic pact could account for Zac Efron’s inexplicable success as an actor. Rated R.  Beauty and the Beast— This live-action remake is an effective piece of fan service but certainly won’t replace the animated classic. Rated PG. ½ The Fate of the Furious—Any notion of logic in the Fast & Furious film series has long gone the way of the Edsel. But this installment is outlandish and refreshingly self-aware, giddily embracing both elements of the label “dumb fun.” Rated PG-13. INDYweek.com | 6.7.17 | 35

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Read our review of Wonder Woman at indyweek.com. ½ Gifted—Marc Webb’s story of a child math prodigy caught in a custody battle isn’t a particularly original film, but it’s heartfelt and accomplished—a very good story, very well told. Rated PG-13.

a British caper film. Critics are slamming the movie as ridiculous, but the key is to embrace Ritchie’s goofball riffing and try to ignore the more egregious flourishes, like Jude Law’s designer jackets. Rated PG-13.

 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2—A muddier story and zestier jokes balance out to a perfectly worthy sequel to Marvel’s spacefaring success story, now with an Oedipal twist, as Peter Quill discovers his father is a living planet called Ego. Rated PG-13.

½ Kong: Skull Island— Set before 2014’s Godzilla, Legendary Entertainment’s reboot makes Kong’s origin story feel like Apocalypse Now meets Starship Troopers. Rated PG-13.

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½ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales—An improvment over its dire predecessor, this sequel still features Jack Sparrow literally jumping a shark, and ultimately swashbuckles under its own weight. Rated PG-13. ½ Wonder Woman— The long-overdue Wonder Woman film is an origin story that doesn’t shrink from the beauty or brawn of a hero in whom the parallels of ancient mythology and modern superhero fiction become literal. Gal Gadot strikes the right balance as an idealist who relishes the battle but not the war. Rated PG-13.

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SDF ARTISTS CONVENING: SPRING SHOWCASE Incubated by the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Duke’s MFA in experimental and documentary arts, and a wealth of local talent and subjects, Durham is a hotbed of filmmaking, which the Southern Documentary Fund plays a big role in fiscally and professionally supporting. For the fourth year, the developing tradition of its annual Artists Convening brings together scores of filmmakers from around the country for three days of panels and workshops. While the main track is geared toward industry professionals, there’s also programming aimed at a general audience. This year it includes a master class with Emmy-nominated filmmaker Carlos Sandoval (Saturday, June 10, $10) and this showcase of works-in-progress by local documentarians receiving SDF support. Always in Season explores the aftereffects of the lynching of African Americans; Farmsteaders examines the plight of family farms; When I Breathe, I Hope covers Bakari Sellers’s effort to crack the race barrier in South Carolina’s state government; and The Last Partera delves into midwifery in Costa Rica (disclosure: the film is directed by INDY food editor Victoria Bouloubasis). See them before they hit festivals, and shape them with your feedback in a post-screening Q and A. —Brian Howe

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TRACE RAMSEY: ALL I WANT TO DO IS LIVE Just as memoirs were all the rage in the previous few decades, creative nonfiction has become the hot literary genre of the moment. As nonfiction, it denotes stories drawn from factual occurrences. The creative part manifests in the liberties taken by practitioners of the form in telling of their true-life tales. In All I Want to Do Is Live: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction, Durham’s Trace Ramsey, who was best known as the creator of the zine Quitter before receiving the 2017 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize, conveys his life experience with unsparing intimacy in vignettes that take on various forms, including essays, poetry, and comics. The collection, published by Pioneers Press through a crowdfunding campaign, moves in nonlinear fashion to sketch out an inner landscape whose dark places have struck a chord with early readers. Ramsey recollects often-unsettling events from his childhood as well as adult concerns such as parenting and the strains of family life. —David Klein THE REGULATOR BOOKSHOP, DURHAM 7 p.m., free, www.regulator.com

READINGS & SIGNINGS Boozy Poetry Night: Local poets read their work. Second Mondays, 8:30 p.m. The Stag’s Head, Raleigh. Sarah Dessen: Once and For All. Sat, Jun 10, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. Gail Godwin: Grief Cottage. Thu, Jun 8, 6 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. John Grisham: Camino Island. Tue, Jun 13, 1 p.m. Quail

Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. E.C. “Redge” Hanes: Justice By Another Name. Wed, Jun 14, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. Jennifer Ritterhouse: Discovering the South: One Man’s Travels through a Changing America in the 1930’s. Thu, Jun 8, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com. William Sommers: Foreign Vistas: Stories from a Life in Foreign Service. Sun,

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LITERARY R E L AT E D Rhythm of Race: Performances by Dasan Ahanu, The Beast, DJ Damu, Shana Tucker & G. Yamazawa. Held in conjunction with the featured exhibition RACE: Are We So Different?. Sat, Jun 10. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

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