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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH VOL. 33, NO. 24 8 The NRA spent $4.4 million to make sure Thom Tillis won in 2014. He hasn’t let them down. 10 If North Carolina Democrats can’t flip four state House seats, Governor Roy Cooper will be irrelevant. 12 Forty-nine dead. Fifty-three wounded. An entire city gutpunched. 14 In North Carolina, buying an assault rifle is easier than buying a handgun. 16 Maybe it’s just HB 2, but we see gender and politics all over ADF’s eighty-third season. 21 On its eighth record, Milagro Saints get mad. 22 Toying with her cell phone between songs, she told us she still had the last picture she ever took of her penis. 23 Trust the Bus presenter Culture Mill’s drive to bring international independent artists to Saxapahaw pays off with a game-changing grant. 25 Chuck’s boozy milkshakes make for a great grown-up treat. 30 One pup goes on a quest for the Triangle’s best ice cream.
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In last week’s Best of the Triangle issue, our writers declared the fiasco surrounding the legislature’s decision to use SolarBees to clean up the polluted Jordan Lake—which provides drinking water to three hundred thousand people in Wake and Chatham counties—the Best Boondoggle. Medora Corporation, which manufacturers SolarBees, took issue with that assessment. “Actually, Jordan Lake is in great shape,” writes Medora president Joel Bleth. “Over 90 percent of the lake meets DEQ standards 100 percent of the time, and the other 10 percent is above DEQ standards over 80 percent of the time. The state spent less than $2 million renting SolarBees, and most of that money was spent by Medora in valuable water-quality testing of Jordan Lake. Medora’s data, collected far more often than DEQ’s, shows the machines have made a difference. They could make more of a difference if Jordan Lake’s water quality goes down in the future and/ or other accessories are put onto the machine. For the proposed $2 billion in watershed protection, the state could rent the SolarBees for two thousand years, but experience in other watersheds indicates the $2 billion would not affect Jordan Lake’s water quality one iota. The legislature has done the right thing.” Commenter acetylcarnitine pans food critic Angela Perez’s pan of Makus Empanadas. “The way this article is written clearly indicates that Ms. Perez was more interested in showing off her intelligence than providing a thoughtful critique of the restaurant. When reading just the portions of the article about the food, the result is a mixed-to-positive experience. … However, the rest of the superfluous details set a snarky, derogatory tone that belies the most pertinent content.” And finally, our blog on Governor McCrory’s halfhearted endorsement of Donald Trump lit up the Facebook comments: “I mean, are we supposed to be surprised?” asks Christin Byrd. “Hapless Patty lived on his knees so long at Duke Energy and for the Republican Party that he has totally forgotten how to stand up on his own two feet,” adds Mike Hanes. “Maybe someday McCrory will put the people of North Carolina and the nation ahead of blind party unity,” writes Chris Howell. “With a little luck, both McCrory’s and Trump’s political careers will come to an end in November.” Want to see your name in bold? Email us at backtalk@indyweek.com, comment on our Facebook page or INDYweek.com, or hit us up on Twitter: @indyweek.
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In light of Sunday’s bloodshed in Orlando—and the fact that our country’s lax gun laws enable this sort of thing to happen—we decided to take a closer look at which North Carolina politicians the National Rifle Association, a group that has worked very hard to ensure that sportsmen and sociopaths alike have ready access to military-grade weapons, has spent millions of dollars to elect. As recently as five years ago, it turns out, the NRA would occasionally steer money to Democrats, including blue dogs like Heath Shuler, Mike McIntyre, and Larry Kissell. It even cut Attorney General Roy Cooper, now the Democratic nominee for governor, a $2,000 check back in 2008. But as the country has grown more partisan, and as inaction on gun control has reached once-inconceivable WTF levels, the NRA’s money is increasingly allocated along strict party lines. A recent study by the nonprofit media organization The Trace found that the NRA has spent “virtually nothing” on behalf of Democrats in the last three federal election cycles. But it has spent jaw-dropping amounts backing Republicans in tight races. And when those Republicans win, they owe the NRA big time. Count Thom Tillis among them. The NRA dropped $4.4 million on his 2014 race against Kay Hagan. In fact, the NRA spent more on that Senate campaign than any entity other than the Republican and Democratic parties. No U.S. senator received more money from the NRA in that cycle. Tillis won by just fifty thousand votes. And on the day after the San Bernardino massacre last December, Tillis joined every other Republican senator to oppose legislation that would block people on terrorist watch lists—people who aren’t allowed to board airplanes—from purchasing guns. Tillis also voted against a bill to expand background checks on guns purchased online and at gun shows. Richard Burr, North Carolina’s senior senator, voted the same way on both measures. Indeed, he’s been a reliable Senate vote for the NRA for over a decade now. In 2004, the NRA spent $540,000 to get him elected. It chipped in another $100,000 to secure his reelection in 2010. And so far this election cycle—Burr will face Democrat Deborah Ross in what is expected to be a tight contest this fall—the NRA has already spent $120,000. Not quite Tillis money, but it’s only June. Burr has given much in return. Beyond those 2015 votes, Burr has supported legislation to exempt the gun lobby from campaign-finance laws (2002);
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opposed a United Nations tax on firearms (2003); supported prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers (2005); opposed banning high-capacity magazines (2013); and opposed banning “straw purchases”—i.e., people buying firearms on behalf of those legally barred from owning them (2013). In exchange for Thom and Richard’s obedience, the organization has formally awarded both with its top grade: A+. The NRA also spreads money around in the North Carolina General Assembly, albeit to a lesser degree. Here are some of its most popular recipients, according to campaign finance records:
SINCE 2012:
Senate President Phil Berger: $6,000 Agricultural Commissioner Steve Troxler: $3,500 in-kind Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest: $3,500 in-kind, plus a $250 check Senator Bill Cook: $3,400 in-kind Representative Jonathan Jordan: $3,300 in-kind Speaker Tim Moore: $2,500 Senator Tom McInnis: $2,000 in-kind Senator Stan Bingham: $2,000 in-kind Senator Wesley Meredith: $1,900 in-kind Representative Michele Presnell: $1,500 in-kind Senator Buck Newton: $1,500 Representative Mike Hager: $1,000 And Tillis got $3,000 back when he was Speaker of the House.
+THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
Since Sunday, several North Carolina politicians have offered condolences and sympathies to the families of the forty-nine people murdered at a gay bar in Orlando. We’ve excerpted some of those statements below—and contrasted them with those politicians’ records on gay rights and gun control. Thoughts and prayers are great, but votes actually matter. Senator Richard Burr: My thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this morning’s horrific attack in Orlando and their loved ones. In 2009, Burr voted against the Matthew Shepard Act, a measure that expanded the federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Last year, Burr opposed a bill that would prevent those on terror watch lists from buying guns. Senator Thom Tillis: My heart goes out to everyone affected by the horrific act of terror in Orlando. Susan and I are praying for the victims and their family members. While Speaker of the North Carolina House, Tillis put Amendment 1 on the ballot. Last year, Tillis opposed a bill that would prevent those on terror watch lists from buying guns. U.S. Representative Renee Ellmers: Keeping victims of #Orlando shooting, medical responders & law enforcement officials in my thoughts & prayers. Earlier this year, Ellmers voted against an amendment that would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating against gay employees. She also received a 90 percent rating from Gun Owners of America, which Ron Paul once called “the only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington.” U.S. Representative Mark Walker: Our thoughts and prayers are with friends and families of those massacred in this horrific attack in Orlando. Walker called Bruce Springsteen a “bully” for canceling his show in Greensboro earlier this year in protest of HB 2. Walker, like Ellmers, has a 90 percent rating from Gun Owners of America. U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx: Praying for the injured, the families of those killed in this horrific attack and the people of Orlando. On June 10, Foxx, who has consistently opposed gay rights, told the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference that America needs a “moral and spiritual foundation in order to survive and thrive,” and that Christians must more forcefully insert themselves in the political process. “If people of faith are not involved in political life, then you’re leaving it to the Philistines. And I’m not willing to leave it to the Philistines.” In 2009, Foxx voted against including attacks on gay people in hate-crimes legislation. In 2013, she voted against the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act. She’s also a staunch supporter of gun rights.
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+CELEBRATION AMID SORROW
Matt Cozzi, the thirty-four-year-old general manager of Legends Nightclub Complex, is the public face of the mostly original group that runs the venerable LGBTQ bar in Raleigh. On Friday night, Legends (330 West Hargett Street) celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with, of course, a party. But there will be a somber moment of silence for the victims of this weekend’s mass shooting. But just a moment, and then it’s back to an all-night party—which is exactly how it should be. The INDY spoke with Cozzi, who has worked at Legends for more than a decade, on Monday afternoon, the day after a Sunday night vigil in Legend’s parking lot drew more than three hundred mourners. INDY: It’s sad that this celebration has to coincide with tragedy. Cozzi: It’s a horrible, horrible tragedy. And, of course, our deepest thoughts, prayers, and support go out to our brothers and sisters and friends and family, and, of course, the entire community, which is nationwide—worldwide—that is feeling this. I never thought in my life I would ever see something like that. How did it feel seeing three hundred-plus people come out in support of the LGBTQ community at last night’s vigil? You know, it’s always kind of a double edge on that. It’s good to see the community pull together like that. It’s unfortunate to see that it happened under horrible circumstances.
PERIPHERAL VISIONS | V.C. ROGERS
Has there ever been a night at Legend’s where you felt threatened? No. I never have. We, of course, are a private club, which helps to ensure that we are inviting folks into our area who are respectful of what we are, who we are. And while, absolutely, Legends is an LGBTQ bar, I’m accepting of anybody who wants to come in and be respectful and have a spot where they feel safe to come in and be who they want to be. I think that’s known, and it’s respected in the community. How would you assess the club’s importance to the LGBTQ community? There are a lot of memories made in that building. Personal friends of mine who are married met there. We also provide resources. We do a lot of fundraisers. We just had our annual Red Party, where a portion of proceeds go to The Alliance of AIDS Services Carolina, which provides HIV testing and prevention education and treatment. Would you say that Legends has served as a bridge builder? Absolutely. That’s an important part that we discussed collectively. As much as we, as a community, want to be included in everything, we have to understand that we have to allow the same thing. And it’s not nearly as hard for us to be accepting of people who want to be part of us and our community respectfully as it is, unfortunately, for others to be the same. So we give a lot more than we get. Identifying your sexuality is nothing more than identifying your sexuality. You are a human being. That’s what matters. l triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Samantha Bechtold, Paul Blest, Danny Hooley, David Hudnall, and Jane Porter.
6,012 People who have died from gun violence in 2016. More than twelve thousand have been injured. (Number accurate as of 5:30 p.m. Monday.)
188 School shootings since 2013.
54 Senators, including Thom Tillis and Richard Burr, who voted no on U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s 2015 proposal to prevent people on the terror watch list from buying guns.
44 Senators, including Burr and Kay Hagan, who voted to filibuster a bill to expand background checks in 2013.
18 Number of mass shootings in the United States—defined as incidents in which three or more people died—since the Senate declined to expand background checks in 2013.
76 Days in 2016 that have had at least one mass shooting.
89 Number of guns owned per one hundred people in the United States, the most in the world. Second place is Yemen, which has roughly fifty-five guns per one hundred people.
1 Number of mass shootings, as classified by the Gun Violence Archive, in North Carolina in 2016. (One person was killed and three were wounded in a shooting in Charlotte on Sunday, the same day as the Orlando massacre.)
$1,200,563 Amount the NRA has already spent on the 2016 elections.
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WITH DONALD TRUMP LEADING THE GOP, N.C. DEMS SEE AN OPENING. BUT CAN THEY PRESS THEIR ADVANTAGE? BY PAUL BLEST The last few years haven’t been kind to North Carolina Democrats. From losing the governor’s mansion in 2012 to hemorrhaging seats in the legislature in 2010 and 2012, the party has been impotent to stop a Republican assault on the state’s safety net, education system, and local governments. This year, however, with an unstable slab of orange-hued leather atop the Republican ticket, Democrats see a chance to begin their resurgence. At the state party’s convention and annual fundraising dinner in Raleigh on Saturday, party leaders talked hopefully about uniting supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, tying McCrory and the Republicans to Donald Trump, and breaking the Republican’s supermajority in the state House of Representatives. Inside the McKimmon Center, the effect of the Sanders movement was palpable. Ray McKinnon, a Sanders delegate to the Democratic National Convention, told the INDY that Sanders supporters will be an asset in November—if party leaders listen to them. “They’re not afraid of calling, they’re not afraid of walking,” he says. “It’s just inviting them to come.” Kimberly Reynolds, the executive director of the state party, sounds confident that Sanders supporters will come into the fold.
“We’re seeing that Governor McCrory and Donald Trump are a lot alike.” “As Senator Sanders comes away from the primary and sends a strong message that he’s united,” she says, “they’ll see that it’s true that we’re stronger together, and it’s too dangerous to let Donald Trump become president of the United States.” This is crucial for the state party’s future. As Reynolds points out, the primary focus this year is the top of the ticket: “We’re going to be ground zero for putting a president in the White House this year.” That makes sense. North Carolina supported Barack Obama in 2008 but Mitt Romney in 2012, and polls show a close race between Clinton and Trump. More important, how the presidential race plays out with have a profound impact on the contests for governor, U.S. Senate, and several Coun10 | 6.15.16 | INDYweek.com
cil of State seats. If Clinton does well, the party will do well, especially if Trump and North Carolina Republicans are perceived as being one and the same. As became apparent Saturday, that’s the heart of the party’s strategy: don’t breathe your opponents’ names without tying them to Trump. Gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper made reference to a “Trump-McCrory administration,” while Linda Coleman said that Trump, McCrory, and her opponent, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, will “continue to promote an ideological agenda that doesn’t reflect our values.” “We’re seeing that Governor McCrory and Donald Trump are a lot alike,” Cooper said, to boos from the crowd. “They both use this divisive rhetoric as a political tool to try to divide us.” For all of the talk about the presidential race, however, some of the most important contests will be down the ballot. Even if Cooper is elected governor, he’ll be rendered powerless if the Democrats can’t break the Republicans’ supermajority. To do that, they’ll need to net at least four seats in the House, which they think doable, or five in the Senate, which is less realistic. Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at UNC, says that if Clinton invests in the state and Cooper continues to keep his race close, North Carolina Democrats have a chance to emerge victorious in November. “If the national Democratic campaign makes a major push— advertising, spending money, getting precinct organizing going—a minor wave could augment what the state Democrats are doing,” he says. “It’s always a challenging to face an incumbent, but given HB 2 and McCrory’s trouble with the Republicans in the General
Assembly, Cooper clearly has a more determined party.” “Our focus is going to continue to be to flip the ballot, and start from the bottom and go to the top,” says Wake County Democratic Party chairman Brian Fitzsimmons. “It’s about reminding people that there is a whole slate of races other than just the ones at the top of the ticket, and these races are definitely incredibly important.” With House Bill 2, Fitzsimmons thinks the Democrats have an issue that will drive turnout. “We have the issues on our side,” Fitzsimmons says. “There’s no arguing that North Carolina, as a whole, does not like HB 2. It does not like the governor. It does not like the Republicans in the General Assembly. It’s just a matter of what we do with that.” ● pblest@indyweek.com
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In the Shadow of a Gunman IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE IT HAPPENS HERE BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN
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he worst mass killing in modern American history happened a mile from where I used to live. By now you know the basics: on Saturday night, a mentally unstable waste of human flesh named Omar Mateen, supposedly outraged by the site of two men kissing in Miami, armed himself with an assault rifle and handgun and drove the hour and a half from Fort Pierce to Orlando, where, after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State, he proceeded to shoot up an LGBTQ club called Pulse. Forty-nine dead. Fifty-three wounded. An entire city utterly and completely gut-punched. My city, even six hundred miles away. My people, even though I don’t know any of the dead. I spent my formative years in Orlando, first as a student and then as a reporter. I met my wife there. I met my best friends there, including some who are pillars of the now-devastated gay community. From 2012–2013, I owned a house a few blocks
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east of where Pulse sits in south Orlando. I went to Pulse on several occasions, with gay and straight friends alike. I drank at bars now littered with bullet holes. I danced on floors now covered in blood. I used the bathrooms where terrified victims tried to hide. Which is all to say: this one hit home, viscerally, tangibly, in a way that mass shootings in Aurora and San Bernardino and even Sandy Hook didn’t. Mateen, who had a Florida firearms license, bought his weapons legally, from a gun store in Fort Pierce. He acquired a 9mm semiautomatic handgun, a .223-calibre AR-type rifle, and a high-capacity magazine, no questions asked, even though he’d been on the FBI’s radar, having falsely claimed ties to the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013 and made . His ex-wife says he used steroids and beat her. A coworker at the large private secu-
ons ban an six in ten to recent Q Righteo altogether America i Violence A National R lion in the rity company G4S—Mateen was a security guard at a localeven the s courthouse—told USA Today that he frequently went on rac- This co ist and homophobic tirades. In other words, he’s exactly thenot even b kind of person who should not be able to Rambo up with ease.other publ But that’s exactly what he did. eventually As the horror set in, politicians from around the country Which offered their “thoughts and prayers” to Orlando—meaning-mentary s less utterances obscuring their unwillingness to embrace orsoften law even contemplate real solutions, things like an assault-weap-there to th “That’s David Pri un tol giv
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ons ban and tighter background checks that are supported by six in ten and nine in ten Americans, respectively, according to recent Quinnipiac polling. Righteous anger at the senseless killings that have become altogether commonplace—there were 133 mass shootings in America in the first 164 days of 2016, according to the Gun Violence Archive—is no match, it seems, for the power of the National Rifle Association, which spent more than $30 million in the 2014 election cycle alone and has effectively vetoed even the smallest infringements on unfettered gun rights. This control is so absolute that, right now, federal funds cannot even be used to study gun violence the way we study every other public health issue, because studying gun violence might eventually lead to new gun regulations, and we can’t have that. Which presents a troubling question: Twenty dead elementary school kids (and six teachers) in Sandy Hook didn’t soften lawmakers’ fealty to the gun lobby. What reason is there to think fifty dead revelers at a gay bar will? “That’s the right question to ask,” U.S. Representative David Price, who for the last year has been leading an as-yet unsuccessful charge to restore gun violence research, told me Monday. “I know the answer most people are giving is no.”
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hile most politicians were content with anodyne “thoughts and prayers” statements, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was not. He laid the blame for the Orlando massacre at the feet of an entire religion, one whose practitioners, in his view, need to be barred from entering the country. (Mateen was an American citizen of Afghan descent born in New York, so Trump’s Muslim-immigration ban wouldn’t apply.) The killer had a religious veneer to his hatred, though it’s not clear how devout he actually was. Mateen’s ex-wife told the media he showed no signs of religious extremism during their marriage, but after his divorce he traveled twice to Saudi Arabia on religious pilgrimages. He also claimed inspiration from three competing Islamist groups, which is sort of like simultaneously claiming affiliation with the Bloods and Crips—in other words, a sign of a delusional loner desperate for notoriety, rather than a religious fanatic with a coherent ideology. In fact, ideology may not have been Mateen’s primary motivator at all. On Monday night, the Los Angeles Times reported that Mateen was a Pulse regular who used gay hookup apps. In addition, his ex-wife and a former police academy classmate told media outlets that Mateen was gay. If Mateen was attracted to men, it’s possible
that his hatred of gays was driven by his own self-loathing. But we’ll never know that for sure. In any event, it’s doubtful he coordinated his attack with the Islamic State; instead, he appears to have responded to propaganda ISIS sent out a few weeks ago encouraging “lonewolf” attacks during the month of Ramadan. More than that, religion fanaticism may have offered Mateen a pretext to act on his ingrained homophobia. As oppressive as Islamist groups and some Muslim countries are toward LGBTQ populations, fundamentalist Muslims don’t have a monopoly on violent homophobia. In fact, according to an analysis of 2011 hate-crime data conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, LGBTQ people are far more likely to be attacked by white supremacists than Muslims. And according to a 2015 Pew study, U.S. Muslims are more accepting of homosexuality than evangelical Christians, Mormons, or Jehovah’s Witnesses. So strip away religion. The problem is hatred. Combine hatred with easy access to militarygrade weapons, and you get what happened in Orlando. It’s only a matter of time before something like it happens in North Carolina.
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he day after the Pulse massacre, state Representative Larry Pittman, a Carrabus Republican, posted the following on Facebook: “If this doesn't demonstrate the need for American citizens to be armed, I don’t know what does. I don’t know for sure, but I assume the place where this happened was a ‘gun-free zone,’ where law-abiding people were not allowed to be armed. I’m sure it was against the law for the idiot who shot over a hundred people to have his guns in there, too. That law did not prevent him from doing it, and did not save one life. “That's the point we need to get through the thick skulls of a lot of anti-gun activists,” he continued. “CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS DO NOT OBEY GUN LAWS!!! THAT’S WHY OUR CITIZENS NEED TO BE ARMED!!! If just a few of the citizens in that place had been armed, they could have stopped this guy long before the police got there and before he killed or wounded over a hundred people.” Pittman’s theory, it seems, is that it’s preferable to have several dozen people—people, by definition, drinking at a bar— armed to the gills. Whatever could go wrong? State law permits you to carry weapons in bars, though bars have the option of forbidding weapons, and many do. State law also permits you to arm yourself at playgrounds and carry a concealed weapon on college campuses, provided the gun is stored in a closed compartment in a locked car. You don’t need a permit to purchase rifles—including the AR-15 and similar assault weapons (see sidebar)—though you do need a permit to purchase and carry your handgun with you. Last year, however, lawmakers made that permit easier to get. You still have to pass a background check, complete a training course, and be cleared by the local sheriff’s office, but the sheriff has a narrower scope with which to evaluate permit applications. If Pittman gets his way, that’ll soon change. On June 9, he and four other Republicans proposed a change to the state constitution, called the Gun Rights Amendment, that would enable “any person who is a citizen of the United States and is at least 21 years old [to] carry a concealed weapon in this State unless provided otherwise by
the law.” (The amendment still prohibits guns at the legislature or the Executive Mansion.) If the amendment clears the legislature, it will go before voters in November. No license, no permit, no safety courses. But a lot more guns. Already North Carolina ranks twenty-first in the nation in gun deaths, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. And we know that more guns—and more unfettered access to guns—means even more gun deaths. The states where there are fewer guns have, on average, fewer gun deaths. In North Carolina, about 30 percent of households own guns, and our state sees about twelve gun deaths for every one hundred thousand people, according to data compiled by Mother Jones in 2013. Contrast that to New York, where about 10 percent of population owns guns, and there are about five deaths per one hundred thousand people. A 2013 study in the American Journal of Public Health found that, for every 1 percent increase in a state’s gun ownership rate, there’s a nearly 1 percent increase in its firearm homicide rate. A 2011 piece in The Atlantic found that states with assault weapons bans and trigger-lock and gun-storage requirements tend to have fewer gun deaths—not just homicides, but also suicides and accidental deaths—than other states. The data is clear. The only question is what we’ll do about it.
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n 1994, Congress passed a federal ban on assault weapons. The rate of mass shootings plummeted. Ten years later, the law expired, and Congress declined to renew it. Mass shootings spiked. Correlation does not equal causation, of course, but in Orlando, San Bernardino, Sandy Hook, Aurora, and at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, the killing machine of choice was the AR-15 or a similar semiautomatic assault rifle. (You can learn how to convert them to full automatics with a quick search on YouTube.) As The New York Times reported earlier this week, most guns used in recent mass shootings were purchased legally. In 2013, shortly after the Sandy Hook massacre, forty-five senators, including Richard Burr and Kay Hagan, voted to
filibuster a bipartisan amendment that would have required background checks for all commercial gun sales (though not sales between “friends and neighbors”), not just sales from federally licensed dealers, as the law currently stipulates. As a result, right now you can buy a gun off the Internet or at a gun show without undergoing any screening whatsoever. In December, the day after the San Bernardino massacre— like Orlando, also inspired by ISIS and executed with assault rifles—Senate Republicans, including Burr and Thom Tillis, rejected a bill that would prohibit people on a terrorism watch list from purchasing guns. As President Obama told a PBS town hall just two weeks ago: “I just came from a meeting today, in the Situation Room, in which I got people who we know have been on [ISIS] websites, living here in the United States, U.S. citizens, and we’re allowed to put them on the no-fly list when it comes to airlines, but, because of the National Rifle Association, I cannot prohibit those people from buying a gun. This is somebody who is a known [ISIS] sympathizer, and if he wants to walk into a gun store or a gun show right now, and buy as many weapons and ammo as he can, nothing’s prohibiting him from doing that, even though the FBI knows who he is.” It’s true that, as gun rights advocates often point out, even the most perfectly crafted gun control mechanisms will sometimes fail. Mateen was taken off a terrorism watch list in 2014. Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook killer, got his gun from his mother, so better background checks wouldn’t have stopped him. But that doesn’t mean we should shrug off massacre after massacre as the cost of doing business—which is exactly what we always seem to do. On Monday evening, following a congressional moment of silence for the fallen, U.S. Representative James Clyburn asked his colleagues to reconsider stalled gun control bills. House Speaker Paul Ryan abruptly cut him off and declared him out of order. “I’m not very hopeful,” Price told me earlier that day. “But I intend to keep pushing.” l jbillman@indyweek.com
HOW TO BUY AN ASSAULT RIFLE IN NORTH CAROLINA In North Carolina, purchasing a high-powered AR-15-style assault rifle—the kind used to mow down forty-nine people in Orlando early Sunday morning—can be done quickly and easily, and with very little government hassle. If you prefer to buy from fellow gun enthusiasts, head to ARMSLIST.com, which is like Craigslist for the gun fancier. Right now, there’s a twenty-four-inch HBAR AR-15 going for $875. According to North Carolina law, sellers and buyers don’t have to bother with background checks for the private sale of a “long gun,” meaning a gun designed to be braced against the shoulder, a definition that includes assault rifles. Buying a rifle that can spit out forty-five rounds per minute from a gun store is only slightly more difficult. So long as you’re an American citizen or permanent resident with acceptable identification, you can walk into your gun shop of choice, point to one or more
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AR-15s, say, “I want that one,” and whip out your credit card. If you have already have a state handgun permit or concealed-carry permit, that’s all there is to it. If you don’t have a state permit, however, don’t fret: you’ll have your death machine soon enough, provided you clear a federal background check, which covers criminal history, drug abuse, mental health, and domestic violence. If no red flags pop up—note: being on a terrorism watch list is not grounds for rejection—you’ll probably be greenlighted the same day. Fun fact: this process is easier than buying a handgun in North Carolina. Buying a handgun requires a permit, which means the local sheriff’s office has to sign off. There’s no such requirement for an assault rifle. —Danny Hooley
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Power On Pointe
MAYBE IT’S JUST HB 2, BUT WE SEE GENDER AND POLITICS WRIT LARGE IN THE EIGHTY-THIRD AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL
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n one scenario, two women crouch like runners at the starting line, but the cable to which they’re tethered ensures any progress made by one will come at the other’s expense. In another, a young girl in white turns her father, mother, and fiancé away before serenely embracing her culture’s insane superstition—and her own blood sacrifice. In a third, the raised arms of two men form arcs suggesting an infinity symbol: an emblem of their eternal love. These are scenes from Company Wang Ramirez’s Borderland, RIOULT Dance NY’s Women on the Edge, and Lar Lubovitch Dance Company’s Concerto Six Twenty-Two, three works at this year’s American Dance Festival. Taken together, they indicate that gender and politics are on a number of international choreographers’ minds, as they are on ours in North Carolina. Over the next six weeks, these dance artists’ deliberations will be as subtle as Rosie Herrera’s Carne Viva (Open Wound), which examines power’s roots in our conceptions of faith and romance, and as overt as Mark Dendy’s Donald Rumsfeld impersonation in the 5 By 5 showcase. Other works this season further flesh out a broad spectrum of viewpoints. For sixteen years, Sara Juli’s solo shows have helped us look—and laugh—at big things we don’t really discuss. Right now, she knows we need to have a political discussion about bathrooms, but it’s not the one you’re thinking of. After having two children, Juli experienced postpartum depression and urinary incontinence. Guess which one had more impact on her basic mobility in the world—and which 16 | 6.15.16 | INDYweek.com
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one was easier to talk about. “In Europe, the government pays for pelvic floor rehabilitation after childbirth,” Juli observes. “Here, it took me four years to discover it even existed and that I needed it.” In Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis (June 22–24, Motorco Music Hall), song, dance and stand-up comedy help demystify a condition that needlessly isolates millions of women. Choreographer Pascal Rioult is aware of voices he can’t hear. They’re the cries of women from Greek mythology: the scapegoated Helen of Troy, Iphigenia, and Cassandra, who represent “the silencing of lessons not learned,” in Rioult’s view. As Helen’s memories resurrect a battalion of soldiers on a beach in Rioult’s Women on the Edge (July 18–20, Reynolds Industries Theater), his compelling redemption fantasy retains
a bitter bite, after Iphigenia embraces the executioner’s knife and the pyre. Rosie Herrera came to a disturbing conclusion while researching Carne Viva, which is part of 5 By 5 (June 28–30, Reynolds Industries Theater). “When you revere something, you’re being oppressed,” she says. “You’re both dominant and dependent.” The piece investigates the influence of religious iconography, including that of Herrera’s own Catholic background, on our ideas of romance and love. “To fully invest in one spiritual practice, one person, one anything is a negotiation of power—a negotiation of surrender to something bigger than you,” Herrera says. “But we have an equally strong desire to be in control. Both are moving inside us at every moment, and I’m fascinated by that.” These are important messages that resonate far beyond dance circles, and ADF is making an evident push to get them out into the wider world. After free spring showings by LMnO3 and Eiko Otake at the ADF Studios and in public spaces around the Triangle, look for shows in unconventional venues including Motorco, Duke Gardens, and 21c Museum Hotel in the Out-of-the-Box series. And the festival goes even further afield in what it's calling its "first New York season," with a week of ADF performances at the Joyce Theater right after the close of the Durham season. l Twitter: @ByronWoods
HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO Friday, July 8–Saturday, July 9, $10–$62 Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham www.americandancefestival.org
Unsafety Dance
CONSUMMATE POSTMODERN CHOREOGRAPHER WILLIAM FORSYTHE GETS AN OVERDUE ADF SPOTLIGHT BY BYRON WOODS
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t’s appropriate that Ayman Aaron Harper is speaking to me from the future about the groundbreaking work of William Forsythe. Fourteen time zones away in Sydney, Australia, the former Ballett Frankfurt member discusses reconstructing the consummate postmodern choreographer’s One Flat Thing, reproduced with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as part of an evening of Forsythe’s work at ADF. The dance world has been catching up with the futuristic choreographer for decades now. In the 1980s, while classical ballet remained preoccupied with its own history and traditions, Forsythe helped catapult it into the twentieth century as an early explorer of poststructuralism. After he embraced Foucault and Derrida, Forsythe’s dance deconstructions interrupted the genre’s conventional aesthetics, techniques, and gender roles. They also upended a subordinating power dynamic in which choreographers often regarded dancers as little more than human playback units. “Bill understood very early on that dancers wanted more autonomy,” Harper says. “At a certain point, he realized that the [performers] in front of him also had ideas—so let’s have a dialogue!” By 2001, The New York Times had dubbed Forsythe “the choreographer ... most important to the present and future of ballet.” As innovators in modern and contemporary dance pored over his rigorous re-evaluation of organizing principles and techniques, he became one of the most influential creators across all of dance. But even among knowledgeable Triangle dance-goers, Forsythe remains little known. Regional promoters have never presented his companies. Although ADF has taught his techniques in its Six Week School, it has only gingerly embraced his work onstage, with a brief excerpt of Slingerland in 2009 and a staging of Quintett in 2012, the year the festival awarded Forsythe its highest honor, the Scripps Award for lifetime achievement.
After German city leaders reduced Ballett Frankfurt’s funding, Forsythe left the company, founding his own group in 2005. I caught Ballett Frankfurt’s American farewell tour at Kennedy Center in 2004. The evening included One Flat Thing, reproduced and another work to be performed at ADF, the quartet N.N.N.N. I can attest that this program will be a revelation, or even a shock to the system, for regional audiences whose ballet baselines are set by Balanchine and his successors. The irony is not lost on Ballett Frankfurt founding member Elizabeth Corbett, who teaches at ADF. “Forsythe loves Balanchine,” she says. “He quoted him in his work. Balanchine explored and, sometimes, borrowed from social dances in his choreography. Forsythe’s been doing that since the 1970s.” But Forsythe has taken those influences into a very different universe of modern architecture, mathematics, physics, and science. He calls his choreographic components algorithms and modalities. He offers free digital applications in which users can reformulate his work, including one devoted to One Flat Thing, reproduced (www.synchronousobjects.osu.edu). As dancers progress through a tight grid of twenty metal office tables at top speed, real physical risk figures into the piece. “You have to be incredibly alert and present to operate at that speed in real time,” Harper says. That’s partly because One Flat Thing, reproduced is being changed on the fly. The improvisational techniques Forsythe developed to increase his dancers' agency were designed to be used during their performances. “That promotes expert-level listening skills and reaction times,” says Harper. “The group has to assess, reassess, and then navigate through the situation.” It’s something to keep in mind as arms and legs scissor through an unforgiving labyrinth at ADF, as Forsythe’s creation continues speeding into the future. l Twitter: @ByronWoods
William Forsythe's One Flat Thing, reproduced
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INDY PICKS: SEE THE ADF SHOWS DANCE ARTISTS WANT TO SEE We asked dance artists from DIDA, Culture Mill, Carolina Ballet, and more which ADF shows they’re keenest on. Their picks, which unsurprisingly trend adventurous, provide an informed route through the bounty of shows on offer this summer. —Brian Howe KATE WEARE COMPANY (June 21–23, Reynolds Industries Theater) “Her work evocatively deals with interpersonal relationships. Her choreography is daring and refreshing while also nuanced and intuitive. She checks all the boxes for me: exceptional dancers performing compelling work that always leaves me wanting more.” —Anna Barker, creator of Feature Presentation, www.facebook. com/reallivepeopledurham
"Weare dives deep into questions of how to live and have relationships. This investigation can be murky, but Weare and her dancers are very clear with their roles, feelings, and intentions. I like seeing that kind of depth and directness onstage."—Nicola Bullock, creator of Undone, www.nicolabullock.com STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY (June 24–25, DPAC) “His work is complex, intriguing, beautifully constructed— check. His dancers are magnificent—check. They are doing Trisha Brown’s Glacial Decoy and Merce Cunningham’s RainForest— check. I cannot wait.” —Killian Manning, No Forwarding Address
BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY (July 1–2, DPAC) “I first saw Bill T. Jones in 1988 at ADF. His combination of formalist aesthetics and personal passions fuels work that unabashedly engages issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, illness, and death. Jones maps a rich territory of struggle, restoring to modern dance some of its revolutionary propensities while articulating our shared humanity with grace, energy, and heartbreak." —Killian Manning JOHN JASPERSE PROJECTS (July 5–7, Reynolds Industries Theater) “I appreciate Jasperse for his no-fear approach to experimentation and the way he asks the audience to redefine how we think about dance itself." —Stacy Wolfson, creator of Never, Enough, Better, Nothing INDYweek.com | 6.15.16 | 17
FOOTPRINTS/VANESSA VOSKUIL Thursday, July 28–Saturday, July 30, free Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham www.americandancefestival.org
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KOMA (July 12–14, 21c Museum Hotel) “After witnessing the mastery of Eiko, one half of Eiko & Koma, earlier in this ADF season, I’m eager to experience The Ghost Festival installation by Koma Otake. The fusion of past, present, and entities beyond time— motifs in the show—have hounded me all my life. I’m sure Koma’s passage through these worlds will be captivating, as his approach to movement is simple and beautiful—dance about what matters and what is human.” —Ginger Wagg, creator of AndAlwaysWhy, www. gingerwagg.com
opportunity to confront that difference.” —Tommy Noonan, Culture Mill, www.culturemill.org
COMPANY WANG RAMIREZ (July 22–23, DPAC) “Company Wang Ramirez generously unites arts and athleticism while fiercely showcasing visual and audible entertainment. Their concepts, knowledge of multidisciplinary movement, and dissection of language is always innovative. You don’t even realize you are learning because the performance is so mesmerizing. Their invention with hip-hop and contemporary influences is the most dynamic, surprising, and inspiring movement of the season.” —Ronald West, Black TRAJAL HARRELL Irish Contemporary Hip Hop (July 19–21, Sheafer Lab Company, www.iamblackirish. Theater) “Trajal’s work has become a ubiquitous reference com in contemporary dance in both FOOTPRINTS Europe and the U.S. in recent (July 25–27, Reynolds years. It is a departure from Industries Theater) “I’ve the modern dance canon, which ADF audiences are used come to look forward to Footprints every year because to in general, so it is a great it introduces non-New-Yorkbased artists that have rich, 18 | 6.15.16 | INDYweek.com
poignant work. It amazes me that these choreographers create these dances in six weeks on complete strangers, and they are often some of my favorite works of the season! This year I am excited to see the work LeeSaar creates on the ADF students. I was first introduced to this Israeli company at ADF in 2013 when they performed Grass and Jackals, and that piece left a lasting impression on me.” —Renay Aumiller, creator of Blood Moon, www. renayaumillerdances.com PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY (July 29–30, DPAC) “Paul Taylor is the only living great artist of modern dance of his generation left to us. He is in his eighties and it is amazing that he is still creating new work.” —Robert Weiss, Carolina Ballet, www. carolinaballet.com
ver FaceTime from her home in Minneapolis, choreographer Vanessa Voskuil talks in layers and loops about the piece she’s creating for this summer’s American Dance Festival. She moves her phone in a spiraling motion that tracks with her speech, landing on thematic words that gather momentum in their likeness: authenticity and sincerity, fluid and freeform. The conversation resembles a choreographic investigation, which is apt, given Voskuil’s approach to her new work for the Footprints program, where choreographers set work on ADF students. In this case, however, “set on” isn’t quite the right term. When Voskuil holds auditions, she’s looking for performers who are demonstrably called to the work. “I approach it as if they are choosing their path, rather than ‘I want you because you have these certain types of qualities,’” Voskuil says. She proposes a way of working in which everyone becomes “their own maestro within the work.” The ensemble members will learn one another’s personal and movement backgrounds while figuring out how to function together as a community; they will also compose a manifesto. Festival audiences from 2013 might remember Gates, Voskuil’s prior Footprints commission. She incorporated elements of that piece into The Student (2014), which brought together one hundred seventy Minnesotan actors, dancers, vocalists, and community members. Voskuil still circles around ideas explored in The Student and throughout her fifteen-yearlong repertoire—listening, awareness, self-knowledge, and wisdom—but sees this new work as emerging from a “more relaxed” place. She’s seeking a creative
practice that can sustain, rather than deplete, artists' resources, which modern dance training doesn’t always encourage. “A lot of my work in the past has been about degradation, or the splitting of the self,” Voskuil says. “The Student … was all about walking backward. This one, I think, is all about walking forward and seeing.” In addition to Footprints, Voskuil’s work is also filed under ADF’s Out-of-the-Box series, in which artists make use of performance spaces outside of the traditional proscenium, not unlike what we’ve seen in recent years from independent organizations like DIDA and Culture Mill. Voskuil chose Duke Gardens, following several other festival faculty and featured artists who’ve staged work amid the magnolia trees. Voskuil is fiercely intentional about site. While preparing The Student for a theater with several exits, she integrated them into the performance. But working outdoors presents a challenge. As Voskuil says, “you’re competing with the world.” But on the flipside, it invites a “total collaboration”—with the birds, the wind, and passersby. The performances, which are free, will incorporate specific areas of the gardens where, Voskuil says, audiences will “gather and then travel,” literally and figuratively processing the work together. This notion is central as Voskuil continues to develop the still-untitled piece. “One image that keeps coming back to me again and again is this conjuring of people into one area of one little nook and cranny of this world,” Voskuil says. “I love the image of … people coming from all over the place. I keep thinking that will be a final image inside of this work: walking forward.” l Twitter: @michaeladwy
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The Thrill Remains RUTHIE FOSTER IS ON A MISSION TO REVITALIZE THE BLUES BY GRANT BRITT
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Ruthie Foster PHOTO COURTESY OF BLIND AMBITION MANAGEMENT When Ruthie Foster steps onto the stage, strap yourself in. Her shows are roller coasters that take you from the valleys of Son House to the peaks of Bob Marley, with dips and dives, twists and turns through the influences of Johnny Cash and Sister Rosetta Tharpe along the way. Ann Peebles, Lucinda Williams, and Patty Griffin flash by, too, their sounds embossed in gorgeous gospel soul. From the lead car, Foster belts out her own churchy blues and rocking gospel, her raucous slide guitar rippling alongside the singing. Foster grew up in rural Gause, Texas, singing and playing piano in churches about ninety miles from her current home in Austin.
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She dabbled in blues before joining the Navy, playing pop tunes in the U.S. Navy Band. Her 1997 debut, Full Circle, foregrounded a mix of folk, country, blues, gospel, and rock. But her righteous soul a decade later on The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster got her on the main line, snapping heads around with her interpretation of Son House’s “People Grinnin’ in Your Face” and her gorgeous transformation of a Maya Angelou poem. Foster will soon play the Blue Note Grill’s new “Women in Blues” series, but I caught up with her in Austin, where she was finishing her new album. “It’s Black Sabbath meets Son House,” she says. Like I said, strap yourself in.
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INDY: When I see you perform, the music seems to bubble out of you somehow, as if you just can't wait to get onstage and let it go. Has it always been like that for you? RUTHIE FOSTER: No, but only because I grew up a pretty shy kid. Being in front of people to do speeches and sing was a little easier for me, but I grew up around so many great singers. My cousins were singers. My mother sang. My grandmother had a beautiful voice. On my mother’s side, there were ministers all through my family. And gospel singers—my grandmother’s brothers, all five of them, were beautiful singers. They traveled and sang, too. It was intimidating. Learning how to be comfortable in my own skin, to be comfortable with hearing my own voice, that was something I had to grow into.
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You’ve said that Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin are part of your musical roots. What about Sister Rosetta Tharpe? She had a huge influence on me wanting to sing gospel and blues and anything else the guitar could bring to music. I did a tribute to Sister Rosetta in New York about three weeks ago. Me and a bunch of great friends and musicians—Luther Dickinson, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Valerie June, Dom Flemons—all did Sister Rosetta songs all night long, just sang Sister Rosetta in our own way. There were some women there from Como, Mississippi, who just did a gospel set. I called them “The Amen Corner.” Your five-year-old daughter is named for Maya Angelou. What did Angelou mean to you? I grew up wanting to connect through my words, and Maya Angelou’s poetry and her books were my opening to wanting to be a songwriter, a poet. Even her own experiences in life—growing up in a small town, being raised predominantly by her grandmother—I connected to that. I had a chance to go and see her speak. I respect what she’s done with her life, the legacy she’s left. I recorded one of her poems, “Phenomenal Woman,” one of those songs that everybody wants to hear. You’re soon embarking on a seven-day, six-night trip to Cuba, playing Havana's Fabrica de Arte, a new cultural complex housed in an old cooking oil factory. What do you have planned?
I’m keeping it real low-key. I’m bringing my drummer, Samantha Banks. I thought it would be a great time for both of us to learn more about the culture and the music. Hopefully, we can get together with a few Cuban musicians and do something in front of folks. What would you like for your legacy to be when your career ends? I’d like to be remembered as a singer, songwriter, and musician who took the elements of where music comes from and put it in the forefront, who brought those important aspects of what music’s talking about and made it relevant again. That’s why I do these shows—I love songs that never grow old. That’s how you know they’re good songs. What would you say to people who say that blues is an outdated form and no longer relevant? I would tell them to turn off the radio and pick up a Led Zeppelin record and go back to their influences. Turn off the radio and get your own opinion when it comes to music. Blues is very prevalent. You hear it every day if you really listen. But blues doesn’t have to be stuck in the woke-up-this-morning mode, right? There’s so much you can do with it with a little imagination. I’m getting ready to do a concert with Harry Belafonte. One of the things he’s requesting is that we’re all on stage with him to bring up these songs and to bring up the fact that these songs are still very relevant to how we live. He, of all people, knows about what was relevant and that we’re still talking about the same things and that needs to be brought up. Richie Havens said when he does his song “Freedom,” it’s sad we’re still having to preach about the same thing. But that means we have to keep singing these songs. Pete Seeger and Odetta said the same thing. This is my way. The music I do is my way of keeping on singing the same songs. I may do ’em a little bit different musically, but it’s the same song, the same message. We’re all here to witness each other’s lives. That message is important, that each one of us is important. We’re important to each other. l music@indyweek.com
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MILAGRO SAINTS
Thursday, June 16, Weaver Street, Carrboro Friday, June 17, The Kraken, Chapel Hill Saturday, June 18, Big Boss, Raleigh www.milagrosaints.com
Saints & Crosses
DIVERGENT REFLECTIONS OF AMERICANA’S WILDS
JENKS MILLER & ROSE CROSS NC
BLUES FROM WHAT (Three Lobed Recordings)
During the last decade, you could have heard half a dozen records featuring the Chapel Hill multi-instrumentalist Jenks Miller and never realized they shared a band name, let alone a key musician. In the solo guise of Horseback, Miller’s material has been deliberately mercurial, shifting shapes between wafting waves of instrumental drone and mangled composites of black metal and doom. Under his own name, he’s moved freely among extended finger-style improvisations, noisy clamor, and ambient murmur. Even Mount Moriah, the brazen alt-country band he co-leads alongside steely singer Heather McEntire, slides between soul and roots rock, soft ballads and hard anthems. Tracking clear lines within this body of work can seem a fool’s errand, a search for signals that never even existed. But Blues from WHAT at last represents an intersection of the unseen, the point where all those lines begin to converge at once. The first proper album from the new Jenks Miller & Rose Cross NC, an evolving recording-andperformance collaboration between Miller and
his wife, Elysse Thebner Miller, Blues from WHAT splits four tracks across two distinct sides. Collectively, they find Miller attempting to piece together the stylistic puzzle of his past, or at least recognizing that all his sounds emerge from the same source. The ascendant hum of opener “Reaching Never Reaching” recalls his gorgeous, amorphous soundscapes with Nicholas Szczepanik a half-decade ago, while the circular drums and loping organ of the title track conjure the trance of Horseback’s foreboding Half Blood. The infinitely unfurling guitar of “Scrying in Water” could have been lifted from the cutting room floor of 2008’s Approaching the Invisible Mountain, and the piece’s twin senses of momentum and progression betray the recent victories of Mount Moriah. Hissed vocals and sculpted noise, corrosive leads and serpentine riffs, exquisite tones and sonic flotsam— it’s as if, for the first time, Miller has realized he can only go so far on one stylistic strand. Here, for one of the most compelling and engrossing sets of his career, he allows those elements to lift one another. Late in “Scrying in Water,” the guitar and incidental percussion slink toward silence. Suddenly, the riff returns, its acidic squeal eliciting Day-Glo flashbacks. Drums dance around the lead before it all fades into a slow, still drone. It is a beautiful, lucid moment, the latest summit of an arduous, often unpredictable exploration. —Grayson Haver Currin
MILAGRO SAINTS
STRANGER TIMES
(Moon Caravan Records) Anger is an energy, sang John Lydon, and some righteous fury seems to have jolted Milagro Saints on the Raleigh band’s eighth LP, Stranger Times. The record barrels open with “Shadow Man,” which inveighs against rapacious fracking companies on personal
terms and heaps ire on those who live to exploit the earth. For a band that often occupies a musical space somewhere between jam-band comfort and folk-rock taste, the song deploys a welcome sense of urgency. A similarly righteous anger—married to a Bo Diddley beat and riveting slide work—animates a fiery cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee,” written about a 1948 plane crash that killed mostly Mexican migrant workers. With all this talk of walls, the take is all the more powerful. Milagro Saints formed in 1995, the same year Americana became an established radio format, and moved to North Carolina in time to catch the region’s alt-country boomlet. As the genre has expanded, the band has steadily mined its growing permutations. Early works skewed toward the reverent, while more recent fare added baroque Band-style instrumentation and even straightforward pop. Stranger Times builds on this mastery of diverse styles accrued over years, the palette trending toward the grittier end of Americana. It’s not all gloom. The burnished vocals of romantic shuffle “Heart Painted Red” sounds uncannily like the once-lost legend Rodriguez and his clean Cali pop, lifted by a lilt borrowed from vintage Van Morrison. The blues stomp “Rail Rider” roars with passion, although it sounds as if the lyrics were added only to suit the mood. “Another Country,” or what the band terms “cosmic Americana,” keys on lovely glints of steel and phased mandolin. With a suitably tipsy groove, the New Orleans tribute “Ruby Moon” ends the LP with an excessive build—righteous energy spent, hair suitably let down, lolling in the fecund source of American musical tradition. —David Klein
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MANIFEST PUSSY
Friday, June 17, Local 506 Sunday, June 19, The Pinhook, Durham www.shakina.nyc
Giving Sunday
THE SUDDEN, TRAGIC POIGNANCY OF SHAKINA NAYFACK’S TRAVELING TRANS SONG CYCLE, MANIFEST PUSSY BY TINA HAVER CURRIN
On Sunday, I didn’t want to do a single thing. For weeks, I’d had the date blocked off on my calendar with the proclamation: “Day Off.” On Monday, as I pulled images for a rock group’s statement regarding HB 2, I told myself, “Sunday’s not so far away.” Two days later, while spending my third wedding anniversary and ninth consecutive Wednesday with my husband, Grayson, leading an orchestra of air horns outside of the governor’s house, I thought, “Sunday, we’ll have the whole day to ourselves.” On Thursday, before I gave a talk at a gathering of designers about creativity in social justice, I fantasized, “Maybe I’ll go for a swim on Sunday.” And on Saturday, after spending the morning with a nonprofit and the rest of the day at a fundraiser for Southerners on New Ground, I decided, “Tomorrow, I’m not going to do anything. I’m just going to sit around and eat ice cream.” Then Sunday arrived. Before my eyes had adjusted to daylight, Grayson asked if I had “heard about Orlando,” as though what had happened was so awful I might have intuited it in my sleep. Though I was barely awake, I knew what “hearing about Orlando” meant. I scrolled through social media and again found the cyclic pattern society has adopted for mass tragedy: a bevy of thoughts and prayers, tears and bickering, ISIS and Sandy Hook, slick new profile pictures. Just hours earlier, I watched musicians donate their time, talent, and energy to repeal HB 2 at the #NotThisBenefit. Organized by metal trio MAKE, the show offered a zippy eight sets in seven hours, including delightful appearances from the quirky pop group Organos and the oh-so-fun, oh-so-loud In the Year of the Pig. When Kym Register, the owner of The Pinhook and the drummer in righteously loud quartet Bad Friends, reminded us to consider the implications of gender-specific bathrooms at an anti-HB 2 show, it served as a stark reminder of the work left to be done. Band 22 | 6.15.16 | INDYweek.com
and audience members alike offered to shimmy the male and female markers from the wall with screwdrivers. The entire evening was cathartic and heavy, joyful and angry, wild and weird. It gave me hope that with enough energy, capital, and ire, we could stem the tide of regressive politics that’s recently swept North Carolina. And then we all heard about Orlando. I swapped swimming for donating blood. I traded ice cream for a pack of raisins in the mobile unit’s small canteen. The process—painfully slow due to the unexpected influx of donations—took most of the day. I sat across from a man in a mint-green shirt. His crimson blood poured into the collection bag aggressively, like a physical representation of empathy and enthusiasm. He recorded the entire event on his cell phone. Shakina Nayfack I saw him again a few hours later PHOTO COURTESY OF in the parking lot of Legends, where JT PUBLIC RELATIONS a candlelight vigil organized by the LGBT Center of Raleigh gave three speakers—including members of storytelling, spoken word, and rock ’n’ roll. the Muslim and LGBTQ communities—the It walks the audience through the personal opportunity to speak of strength, love, and history preceding her transition and the time inclusion. Afterward, people milled about the she spent in Thailand receiving and recoverparking lot, some hugging, some kicking at ing from the procedure. the gravel, not sure where to go next. The show started and ended with an enerLess than a mile away at The Pour House, getic sing-along called “B.N.P.”—an acronym a piece of musical theater called Manifest for “brand new pussy.” For the first time ever, I Pussy was about to begin. Writer and perchuckled at a joke about gender confirmation former Shakina Nayfack explained that she surgery. After a trying day, the sound of my decided to take the show, which started in own laughter caught me off-guard, but NayNew York, on tour throughout North Carofack was disarming and engaging. The small, lina in response to HB 2. vocal audience was soon clapping along. Nayfack crowdfunded her gender confirOn stage, Nayfack beamed in bright red mation surgery in 2014, and then created two pants and a black tank top, and she was not shy performances, One Woman Show and Postabout genital gesticulation. Toying with her Op, about her experience. Combined, those cell phone between songs, she told us she still solo shows represent the expansive Manifest had the last picture she ever took of her penis. Pussy, an hour-and-a-half performance of
Did we want to see it? There it was, a little red glob of flesh. Nayfack curled her bottom lip out, as if to say, “you poor thing.” The rest of the evening continued with the same stunning level of openness and honesty, and I found myself laughing and smiling regularly for the first time since I woke up, since I “heard about Orlando.” I can’t imagine a life in which I not only embrace but also actively promote a past that doesn’t fully represent me for the enlightenment of others. It’s brave, bold, and vital work. I have no deep ties to the LGBTQ community, other than believing in the dignity and rights of other human beings. The first time I met a trans man, I was terrified that I might accidentally use the wrong pronoun. But tolerance and acceptance come through exposure to—and honest conversations with—people who look, think, and act differently from us. That’s the power of a performance like Manifest Pussy, which gives the audience permission to explore natural if taboo questions, the kind Nayfack posed: How did you know you were trans? What happens to a penis when it becomes a vagina? What’s it like to lose your virginity for a second time, but with the anatomy that matches your heart and your mind? After the show, I grabbed the pint of ice cream I had promised myself all week. Though it was nearly midnight, I wasn’t alone. Inside, a pair of women sporting rainbow-colored duct tape on their chests, relics from the vigil, cruised the candy aisle. I was joking about eating my feelings when I caught the eye of the man in the mint-green shirt who had donated blood. It was a sudden reminder of a simple truth: At the end of the day, we’ve all got a little more in common than we think. We’ve just got to be present to see it. l Twitter: @tinacurrin
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TRUST THE BUS: THE FARM
Friday, June 17–Saturday, June 18, 8 p.m., $5–$15 suggested donation Saxapahaw General Store, Saxapahaw www.culturemill.org
Round and Round
TWO LIKE-MINDED ARTS GROUPS FROM DIFFERENT CONTINENTS PROVE GLOBAL COLLABORATION PLAYS IN SAXAPAHAW BY BRIAN HOWE
For an organization that officially launched fifteen months ago, Culture Mill is a well-established force in the Triangle's artistic life, whether presenting dance shows at the Carrack in Durham or Trust the Bus in its Saxapahaw stomping grounds. The nonprofit especially stands out for bringing in international independent artists we’d otherwise see in academic settings or not at all—the ones who are working in their regions the way ours are here, crafting experiences with local terroirs on cobbled-together budgets. Artists from different parts of the world face different economic challenges. Culture Mill, which has hosted performers from Germany and France, has adroitly worked global levers at the local level. Collaborating with foreign artists taps into public funding, more plentiful in many other countries than in ours, and harnesses it to our region’s private funding culture. “We start by finding a way to do it however we can, crowdfunding, calling in favors, and applying for little bits of money,” explains Tommy Noonan. “That’s not sustainable, but it demonstrates what is possible on an independent level in order to get more comprehensive institutional support.” It's working: Culture Mill recently received a two-year grant that will sustainably expand its reach beyond personal connections. Noonan, who is from Durham, directs Culture Mill with Murielle Elizéon, who is from France. Before moving to Saxapahaw, they lived in Berlin, where they first collaborated with The Farm (Elizéon is a member). This weekend, the Australian dance company performs in the Trust the Bus series, in which you travel by bus to an unknown destination for a genre-smashing performance. The Farm is a loose collective, based in Gold Coast, Queensland, with members around the world. One afternoon, its directors gather at Carrboro’s Looking Glass Café with Noonan and Elizéon. Gavin Webber and Grayson Millwood have been working together for more than a decade, but their group officially became The Farm more recently, when it started receiving funding from the Gold Coast city council. Webber and Millwood are accomplished modern dancers from relatively conventional theater-bound backgrounds. But as The Farm, they've increasingly ventured into the interactive, site-specific realm—perfect for Trust the Bus, which is always temporary, organic, and unique. “The nature of the series is not that you just plunk a work down at some cool place,” Noonan explains. “The experience is completed by the audience. The Farm has a body of material and ideas, but we’re going to interface with that, and the
scene. It’s important to us to stay connected to people in different places and use those influences.” The Farm's Trust the Bus experience draws material PHOTO COURTESY OF from an in-process show that was sparked by a story in CULTURE MILL which postmodern author Paul Auster discovers that someone has been cut out of an old family photo. “There’s something very clear in the show that has to do with what's real about memory,” Webber says, "and how we rewrite our histories." “It’s the idea of cutting people out of history,” Millwood adds. They’re prone to finishing each other’s thoughts, and sometimes, one will mistake the other’s story for something that happened to him. “If you keep on hearing a story, somehow it becomes reality,” Millwood says. “Auster chases his father’s ghost and history, which is part of [this piece]—what does it mean when two stories come into conflict?” Noonan and Elizéon will also perform in the piece. The two groups developed similar ideas about artistdriven cultures despite their different circumstances. In Australia, more copious public funding also comes with more intervention from administrators. “We don’t have a philanthropy system as strong as you do, and people tend to be more reliant on government funding,” Webber says. “A lot of money goes to company infrastructure and non-artistic personnel, and then they have to apply for grants to make work.” thing created will be a new thing.” In the U.S., where government funding is scanty, a lively The second season’s May debut featured Durham’s Little crowdfunding economy has risen into the gulf. The Farm Green Pig Theatrical Concern, which recently began trying to will receive per diems, lodging, and production support eliminate the show-by-show scrounge by funding its season from Culture Mill, but no salary, and Australian government through Patreon, where users become sustainers for artists. funding covered its travel costs. But such hustle is becoming After a raucous ride during which a man yelled homiletic less imperative for Culture Mill, thanks to a grant from the non sequiturs in a bad Russian accent, the bus stopped, Kenan Charitable Trust. It will allow Noonan and Elizéon to and Noonan climbed in through the window, dressed as a become paid staffers, hire new positions, and establish a solid dissipated yachtsman. A series of starkly lit tableaux waited budget for existing and new programs. in a dark field. A miner dug a pit. A musician sang a murder “The grant will allow us to develop the three intertwined ballad. The ubiquitous Liam O’Neill played an accordion in a parts of our program: artist residencies, education, and bathtub. Tormented, Elizéon danced on a low, candlelit stage. performances,” Elizéon says. Culture Mill is planning a new Trust the Bus’s magic derives from its mysteriousness, so series, “Articulating Value,” which will convene local artists little can be said about The Farm's plans. Suffice it to say that to discuss their own economic, social, and political value. It’s this is a company that once built an office on a Gold Coast part of a fruitful broader effort to experiment with ways to shoreline and stayed there “selling real estate” for two days, sustain artists and weave them into a broader community. climbing onto the table when the tide rose. Another recent “Working with wonderful people like The Farm has show had people popping out of the sand to startle spectators demonstrated that our model is meaningful to this who were preoccupied by a distant figure in the shallows. community,” Elizéon says. “The Kenan Trust is saying, grow “We’re doing a lot at the beach because everywhere is what you’ve been doing, make it sustainable for yourselves, the beach,” Millwood says, laughing. “Gold Coast has a very and keep going.” l bhowe@indyweek. strong surfing culture; it doesn’t have a big contemporary arts Culture Mill and The Farm
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ICE CREAM CAN CHANGE A TOWN, YOU KNOW?
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very time I see the pair of electric green palm trees glowing in the night off Highway 55, just past the midpoint between my childhood home in Harnett County and my grown-up home in Wake County, I worry that I have finally lost my mind. They sit at the dip of a long, slow slope, suggesting an oasis just past the county line. “Have I been on the road too long?” I have asked myself more than once while leaving the city for the country. “Is that a mirage? Am I at last hallucinating over sweets?” But the inevitable sights of turn signals and break lights or cars sneaking out of a driveway and onto the busy road break the spell, reminding me that what was a desolate strip in my day has now become one of Harnett County’s chief tourist lures, on par with Raven Rock State Park and, well, little else. From early spring until the autumn begins to slide into sweater weather, cars pile in the wide gravel parking lot for the same feature attraction—nearly 140 flavors of ice cream, crammed inside a dozen freezers in a building barely fit for a single family. Scott Wilson started Sunni Sky’s fourteen years ago in an abandoned barbecue shack on a then-lonesome stretch of blacktop that runs from the fringes of Fuquay-Varina through the heart of Angier—together, the two towns that form the bulk of my childhood memories. He began the business before his two children—Sunni and, yes, Skylar—were teenagers;
their childhood portrait has been on one wall since the start, a silent marker of just how long business has been booming. Both kids, Wilson proudly tells me, now work with their dad. Wilson had other stints in the restaurant industry, including in the ice cream business, before deciding to set out on his own. He even came close to closing a real estate deal for his vision near a shopping center in Durham, but at the last minute, he went looking for another locale, something that felt more like home. He found it, too. On the second Thursday in June, relatively cool in spite of the late date, dusty coupes wedged between pickup trucks parked at odd angles and little stone benches dotting the weed-laced grass. Children shimmied into white chairs on the porch alongside their parents, and teenagers
BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN
in cutoff shorts and tank tops shared ribald jokes and ice cream cones between the front door and the highway, one every bit as active as the other. Inside, a militia of ten teenaged employees, all in uniform, managed the madness of a crowd so dense it suggested a mosh pit. “What would you like to sample?” they’d ask one customer at a time, racing between coolers to grab a thimble-sized serving of cake batter or Nutella, dark almond or whiskey. The floor behind the counter was so slick with melted milk and water from serving spoons that I watched one worker take two quick steps and purposefully slide six feet to secure the next sample. He did it with an effortlessness that suggested it was his move, his trademark for the summer. It certainly caught my eye. During the last decade, Wilson has stumbled into perfect, cheap publicity campaigns. His “Cold Sweat” ice cream, made from a fiery mix of three peppers, earned him
national media attention, especially when those who dared eat it had to sign a legal waiver. Its successor, the extract-laced “Exit Wound,” earned another round of attention. And the boundless variety of Wilson’s constantly updated flavors seems to renew interest every season. When I finally shuffled my way to the counter and asked for my sample, I indeed requested the “Cold Sweat.” I signed my waiver, ate the stuff, and asked for “Exit Wound.” I signed another waiver, swallowed back the heat, chased it with a spoon of vanilla, and, at last, placed my actual order—a double scoop of caramel praline and crumb cake, please. I went back outside, took a seat on a bench, and marveled less at the sticky sweets and more at the delighted crowd, all smiles and stuffed faces. It was a quintessential snapshot of summer in a place that, as a kid, I knew well but could have never imagined in this way—as an oasis, as a tourist attraction, as a de facto community center for folks looking to spend a night outside, all because of one man’s ice cream dream. With this season’s DISH, we consider four other area frozen treats and what they offer or say about our region. From cool Southern desserts turned into ice pops and the sweet shops that offer extravagant dishes for dogs to an empire of Mexican paletas and an outlet of booze-laced milkshakes, each delivers a very different kind of decadence. ● gcurrin@indyweek.com
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CHUCK’S
237 S. Wilmington St., Raleigh www.ac-restaurants.com/chucks
BOOZE to the YARD
BY ALLISON HUSSEY
Ready to party: a peanut butter milkshake, left, and a chocolate cake shake
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y milkshake appears, and it is beautiful. A thin layer of frost coats the outside of the thick, cold glass. A generous chunk of chocolate cake sits atop the shake’s brown surface, stuck in the middle like some wayward jungle explorer suspended in quicksand. A circular swoop of chocolate sauce drapes across it all. I hesitate for a second, reaching for a spoon but eyeing a straw. The spoon quickly makes me feel foolish, as I slurp awkwardly from it. I ditch it and grab the straw, a sometimes-questionable milkshake method. If they’re too dense to sip, you get a furrowed brow and a headache. If they’re too soupy, it’s done in a flash. But this is a bourbon-and-cake shake at Chuck’s, Ashley Christensen’s fashionable burger outpost in downtown Raleigh. It’s so smooth I manage it easily without flatware. The spoon only proves useful when I reach the bottom, since I need something more substantial for scooping up leftover bits of crumbly cake. Slightly buzzed and completely sated in the late afternoon, I oblige, digging in until I’m done. It seems hard to screw up something as simple as a milkshake—it’s just milk and ice cream, right?—but Chuck’s elevates the options with
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THE SIMPLE SECRETS BEHIND THE ADULTS-ONLY MILKSHAKES AT CHUCK’S
the tantalizing addition of alcohol. Most milkshakes include a splash of milk to make the blend creamier, but the liquor serves the same purpose here; otherwise, a manager tells me, you’d end up with an alcohol-infused dairy soup. The ice cream is so cold when it hits the kitchen’s Hamilton Beach blender that it needs some extra juice to boost it to a temperature that allows for the correct smoothness. That texture, as I learned firsthand, makes it easier to enjoy with a straw than a spoon. And these spiked shakes are boozy wonders that make you glad to be a grown-up. Chuck’s uses Howling Cow ice cream, the famed product of N.C. State’s Department of Food Science, for the foundation. The year-round, non-alcoholic additions include updates on the basics—dark chocolate cake, salty peanut butter and roasted banana, and Madagascar malted vanilla, each topped with some whimsical delight, like the cake. Specials shift every few weeks, from a current offering that incorporates cold brew coffee from Christensen’s nearby Joule, to fresh fruit throughout the spring and summer. Sometimes the specials are cereal-based (Captain Crunch or peanut butter cocoa puff ) or even pastry-inspired, such
as Chuck’s more recent carrot cake shake. Still, even as the specials come and go, the manager assures me, the standard options outsell them all. I follow that lead, and the classic chocolate calls me—and so does the bourbon. The staff at Chuck’s has recommended alcohol pairings for all the shakes, including Old Grand-Dad bourbon, Sailor Jerry’s spiced rum, Cruzan dark rum, Bailey’s Irish Cream, or Kahlúa. Still, if you find yourself craving a Madagascar malted with tequila, they’ll indulge you. I’m not feeling quite that adventurous, but I love bourbon and chocolate in equal measure, so my decision is easy and obvious. (Kahlúa and frozen cold brew coffee was a tempting mix, too, but how many shakes and shots does someone need before four p.m.?) You can opt for a one-ounce pour of booze or a double, which proves to be the correct choice. There’s enough bourbon in the shake to taste but not so much that it smothers the sweetness of the Howling Cow. The bigger dram adds a tiny little sting behind the sweet, and, on an empty stomach, even provides a little buzz. (Oops.) Any less, though, and it might be difficult to tell much of a difference from a non-alcoholic shake. Especially considering the slim list of ingredients, Chuck’s decadent shakes aren’t exactly cheap. The alcohol-free version will set you back only five dollars, but a shake with one ounce of liquor is nine dollars, while two ounces punch it all the way up to twelve. But the tall portion is generous and rich enough to share, a strategy that, as I finish my chocolate-and-bourbon dream, actually starts to make sense. If I’d only had half this one, that Kahlúa-and-coffee confection might still be an option, too. l ahussey@indyweek.com
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Bring water to a simmer in a small saucepan. Add the tea bags, sugar, and ginger, and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Let the tea steep for ten minutes. Remove the ginger and tea bags. Refrigerate the sweet tea until completely chilled. Put two peach slices in each ice
2 cups water 2 black tea bags 1/4 cup sugar 1-inch piece ginger, peeled and smashed 16 peach slices, fresh or frozen
The original? Colder than ice, sweeter than sorghum, in a mason jar on a porch, or in a big plastic cup at a fast food drive-thru. The ice pop? Gingerspiked, sugar-laden, pitch-black tea, with suspended peach slices that resemble moths in amber.
The ice pop was invented, accidentally, by an eleven-year-old boy named Frank Epperson. The year was 1905, the place San Francisco: On a freezing cold night, Epperson stirred himself a glass of water and soda powder. He went outside, and forgot all about it. Kids, right? The next morning, Epperson woke up to something even better than soda: a frozen treat, on a stick. He called it the “Epsicle,” a
A Summer Stickup BY EMMA LAPERRUQUE
TURNING FOUR FAVORITE SOUTHERN SWEETS INTO ICE POP INDULGENCES GINGER-PEACH SWEET TEA ICE POPS
Warm the milk in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring so the bottom doesn’t brown or burn. Meanwhile, whisk together the egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch, salt, and malted milk powder in a small bowl. Once the milk is warm, add a splash to the egg yolk mixture. Stir. Add another splash. Stir. Repeat this tempering process until all the milk is incorporated. Pour back into the saucepan and continue to cook, stirring constantly, until the liquid thickens into pudding—about nine minutes. Push through a fine-mesh sieve into container, removing any lumps, and press plastic film against the pudding to prevent a skin from forming. Refrigerate until completely chilled. When the pudding is cold, thickly slice the bananas. Add a spoonful of pudding to an ice pop mold, then a couple of banana slices. Repeat until nearly full. Freeze for about five hours, adding the wooden sticks after about twenty minutes. To unmold, dip in warm water for a few seconds, then pull upward. Roll in vanilla wafer crumbs. Encourage double-dipping. Yield: 9 ice pops
2 1/3 cups whole milk 2 large egg yolks 1/2 cup sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon malted milk powder 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 bananas 2 2/3 cups crushed vanilla wafers
The original? Vanilla pudding, layered with banana slices and vanilla wafers, then topped with whipped cream or toasted meringue. The ice pop? Malted milk pudding, studded with banana slices and somersaulted through vanilla wafer crumbs.
portmanteau of icicle and his surname, and started selling the treats around his neighborhood. This was the birth of the Popsicle brand. But if you’ve outgrown current Popsicle “flavors” like “Hello Kitty,” “Disney Frozen,” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and don’t want to be covered in Red No. 40 (or Blue No. 1, or high fructose corn syrup, or locust bean gum) by the pool, follow Frank’s lead and take ice pop-making into your own hands. These recipes are Southern-inspired and utterly foolproof—for breezy beach days, cookout afternoons, firefly-illuminated nights. If you don’t have a set of ice pop molds, plastic cups work, too. The molds I used here hold three ounces. Happy freezing!
BANANA PUDDING ICE POPS
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GING ATLANTIC BEACH PIE ICE POPS Stir all ingredients except crumbs in a bowl. Divide the mixture between the ice pop molds. Freeze for about five hours, adding the wooden sticks after about twenty minutes. To unmold, dip in warm water for a few seconds, then pull upward. Roll in cracker crumbs. Encourage double-dipping. Yield: 8 ice pops
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk 1 cup heavy cream Pinch salt Juice of 8 lemons Zest of 2 lemons 2 1/3 cups crushed saltine crackers
The original? A cold, citrus curd pie with a saltine cracker crust and whipped cream or toasted meringue crown. The ice pop? A creamy, lemon one-piece with a saltine cover-up.
and ginger, and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Let the tea steep for ten minutes. Remove the ginger and tea bags. Refrigerate the sweet tea until completely chilled. Put two peach slices in each ice pop mold and top with sweet tea. Freeze for about five hours, adding the wooden sticks after about twenty minutes. To unmold, dip in warm water for a few seconds, then pull upward. If you want to dip the ice pops in a glass of bourbon, no one will stop you. Yield: 8 ice pops
STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE ICE POPS
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Using either a hand mixer or a whisk (balloon whisks work best), whip the cream until a stiff peak forms. Pour the sweetened condensed milk into a bowl. Fold in the whipped cream—gently, so as not to deflate the mixture. Stir in the strawberries. Divide the mixture between the ice pop molds. Freeze for about five hours, adding the wooden sticks after about twenty minutes. To unmold, dip in warm water for a few seconds, then pull upward. Roll in shortbread crumbs. Encourage double-dipping. Yield: 10 ice pops
1 cup heavy cream 1/2 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (about 2/3 cup) 2 3/4 cups sliced strawberries 3 cups crushed shortbread cookies
The original? A sugary, flaky biscuit, split in half and stuffed with young-summer strawberries and soft cream. The ice pop? Two-ingredient, no-churn ice cream, bejeweled with red berry slices and covered in shortbread crumbs.
hours, adding the wooden sticks after about twenty minutes. To unmold, dip in warm water for a few seconds, then pull upward. Roll in vanilla wafer crumbs. Encourage double-dipping. Yield: 9 ice pops
An Adventure in Ice
Oscar Martinez serves ice cream at La Monarca Michoacana
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TRACING THE ORIGINS OF ONE WRITER’S FAVORITE NEW LOCAL ICE POPS—AND THE FAMILY THAT’S SPREADING THEM THROUGH THE TRIANGLE BY ANGELA PEREZ
While standing in the checkout line at the Latino grocery store El Toro in Garner, a riot of colors from a nearby ice cream case caught my eye. I slipped out of line and slid open the lid—partially out of curiosity, partially to cool off from the sticky, sunny Saturday afternoon. Soon, though, I was transfixed, as these were not your average ice pops. There were 28 | 6.15.16 | INDYweek.com
rectangles of soft orange cream specked with fat purple currants, whole Oreo cookies drenched in cream, and celadon-hued marvels loaded with pistachios. “Locopops has really upped their game,” I thought, picking up a blue paleta, a Mexican popsicle, flecked with chocolate slivers. But as I turned over the square-edged, cellophanewrapped paleta, I remembered that the Dur-
LA MONARCA MICHOACANA 2000 Avondale Drive, Durham (919) 423-5876
Left: the colorful variety Right: Jean Cardenas enjoys a watermelon treat PHOTOS BY ALEX BOERNER
ham company’s pops have round tops. Could they be the same? Intrigued, I purchased a vanilla coconut blend and marveled at how much raw coconut came frozen inside the silky mix. These definitely weren’t the typical mass-produced, artificially flavored sort, and I had to have more. All week, the mystery of these wondrous ice pops lingered, and I needed to know who made them, who put such care into them. I returned to El Toro a few days later, now buying paletas filled with hunks of fresh kiwi, entire halves of strawberry, and cubes of mango. Still, none of the employees could tell me who’d made them. Undaunted and still swooning, I returned a week later and tracked down Rudy Garcia, the manager. “These paletas are made in Durham,” he assured me. Locopops come from Durham, too, I thought. Were these Locopops after all? Garcia pointed to a dog-eared piece of paper taped to the case. In Spanish, it named more than a dozen flavors and, there at the bottom, solved the riddle: “La Monarca Michoacana, 2000 Avondale Drive, Durham, NC.” My eyes widened. I raced to the car, Googled the shop, and learned that La Monarca was an actual storefront, not some anonymous manufacturing warehouse—and it was open on Sunday. Before I could finish my ice pop, I was headed to Durham. As I pulled into the parking lot off Avondale Drive, I remembered that this shopping center, Durham Plaza, had once sported the likes of Kmart and Winn-Dixie.
For years, some of the spots sat vacant. But with the opening of Compare Foods in 2006, several small Latino-owned businesses began to flourish. And on this hot, humid Sunday, no place in Durham Plaza seemed busier than La Monarca. A long line of families stretched out the door and far down the sidewalk. I’d made an appointment with Diana Morales, the eighteen-year-old daughter of one of the owners, so I pressed inside. Against the cotton candy-colored walls, dazzling collages of tropical fruit, shakes, ice cream sundaes, smoothies, and ice pops hung like beacons to temptation. It was nearly as warm inside the shop as outside, but families still crowded around small tables, speaking Spanish and laughing and sharing ice pops and cups of … ice cream, too? I glanced at the menu posted high on the rear wall, scanned the list of forty flavors, and confirmed that, indeed, they all existed as ice cream. I found Morales as she was ringing up a customer. Unperturbed by the growing lines, Morales led me into a cramped kitchen, where we leaned against a deep freezer. A mammoth fan kept us cool. “Is it always this busy?” I asked. “In the summer on the weekends, oh yes,” she said. “Always.“ Morales has worked at La Monarca since it opened six years ago. Her mother, Azucena Morales, and aunt, Carmen Morales, practically raised her in the busy paletería, and she’s become something of an ice cream expert. La
Monarca Michoacana, Morales explained, is a chain paletería, based in Michoacán, Mexico, where she was born. Known for its consistency and fresh ingredients, La Monarca is wildly popular throughout Mexico. Every store makes its ice cream in-house according to set recipes, using fruit and ingredients sourced from local vendors. Throughout Mexico, Morales told me, the state of Michoacán is considered the nation’s epicenter of ice cream. Paleterías frequently use the term “Michoacán” to imply quality, but these independently owned shops should not be confused with La Monarca. “Sometimes, the quality of some of those other places doesn’t live up to the Michoacán tradition,” says Morales. Morales’ uncle learned the craft while working in one of the La Monarca stores. Several other family members worked for the chain and eventually opened new franchises in Virginia. They convinced Morales’ mother and aunt that, given the Triangle’s growing Latino population, a Durham franchise would succeed. And it has: The majority of La Monarca’s customers are Mexican immigrants who are familiar with the brand name and seeking a taste of home. La Monarca sells more than a thousand paletas each week, both milk-based and water-based. The flavors range from the simple to the surprising. Do you remember eating cans of mixed fruit cocktail as a child and praying you found a magical maraschino cherry?
La Monarca serves up a creamy pink paleta loaded with the sugary red berry. There’s a pine nut ice pop, as well as rice pudding and mamey sapote, a native Mexican fruit that tastes of sweet potato and pumpkin. And if you feel like you aren’t getting enough fruit, try the hielo, a water-based serving of fresh fruit. The icy treats boast whole hunks of red prickly pear, grape and currant, or guanábana, a tropical fruit that tastes of pineapple and velvety coconut. As Morales and I stood in front of the fan to keep cool, I asked her what it was like to grow up in such a busy shop, if she felt she had missed out on any of her childhood. “Not at all,” she said without hesitation. “And, now, even as young as I am, I know how to run a business.” In fact, she’ll soon begin attending Wake Technical Community College to study international business. “That works out perfectly for me,” she added cryptically. I waited, and she finally confessed that her family will open a second store in Raleigh’s Tarrymore Square at the end of June. This plot twist in the ice pop mystery— and the family’s local success—thrilled me so much that I actually hugged Morales. She laughed, and I said goodbye. I left the still-busy shop with a smile on my face, intensely satisfied to have sleuthed my way to my new favorite popsicles. Case of the unknown paletería closed. l Twitter: @DoYouMuuMuu INDYweek.com | 6.15.16 | 29
BY TINA HAVER CURRIN
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he first time I ordered dog ice cream, it was awkward, largely because I didn’t have a dog with me. I was on my way home from work, and I had planned to return with Alice, my mutt who looks like an oversized Boston Terrier with a bulldog’s underbite. But then the sky opened up, a massive summer-in-NorthCarolina storm briefly spitting out buckets of rain. I ducked into the downtown Raleigh scoop shop Treat to get a doggie sundae to-go, trusting that Alice would be happy with the surprise. Treat offers a one-dollar “doggie cup,” a small serving of vanilla ice cream in a paper bowl or, if you don’t have far to travel, a cone. But I opted for the much fancier—and, at five dollars, much more expensive—Bow Wowzer Sundae, a three-scoop dessert of Maple View Farms vanilla topped with bacon bits (from one of those plastic containers with the red caps) and a Pawlee’s biscuit, a North Carolina-made, grain-free version of a MilkBone. Treat’s sole employee didn’t seem interested in talking to the dogless person who only wanted dog ice cream to-go, but she did offer up the assurance that it was a popular menu item. I’ve been a vegetarian long enough to know that red-topper bacon bits usually consist of textured soy protein, not pork, so I resolved to give the thing a try myself. When I got home, though, my cat, Bastian, attacked the sundae himself, diving headfirst into the bowl as I rummaged around for a spoon. He surfaced only when I poked him, his stubby brown nose covered in cream and a few bits of bacon. Funny, I thought, to sprinkle artificially flavored “bacon” dyed with Red No. 40 on a sundae of locally sourced, high-quality ingredients, even served in a compostable cup. But how should I know what dogs like? Alice looked on patiently as I managed one bite. The sundae had melted a little during the walk home, so a very aggressive baconbit crunch interrupted the vanilla creaminess. It felt like sipping on a smoothie mixed with sand that tasted like overcompensating meat. Overwhelmed, I spat it out. I didn’t 30 | 6.15.16 | INDYweek.com
technically inhale, so my vegetarian card remained intact. At last, it was Alice’s turn. She did not seem deterred by any textural issues. The Bow Wowzer lasted longer than expected, clocking in at a whopping two minutes of slurping. Alice ate the biscuit last, then somehow got the bowl stuck on her head. I pulled it from her nose. Our second ice cream excursion was much less exciting, but still quite sweet. Alice and I ventured to Bruster’s, a walk-up ice cream shop with locations in North Raleigh and Apex, to order a “pup cup.” It is nothing more than a scoop of vanilla in a disposable container, topped by a little biscuit. Though it’s all I ordered, the young woman at Bruster’s insisted I take the “pup cup” at no charge. Alice devoured it in approximately thirty seconds. A half-minute of free, unbridled joy is still a pretty good deal. After these consecutive confections, I wondered how much ice cream dogs can—or rather, should—eat. With her furiously wagging tail and saucer-sized, sugar-high eyes, Alice told me that she’d be OK if this experiment lasted forever. I reached out to a veterinarian at Wake Forest Animal Hospital for a second opinion. “Whenever you treat your pet, it’s always good to use the everything-in-moderation rule,” the very astute Jenny Bennett told me. “Many dogs are lactose intolerant and will get diarrhea with too much dairy. Otherwise, plain vanilla ice cream is fine.”
Bennett added that if you’re not sure as to your dog’s specific degree of lactose intolerance—a lesson many must learn the hard way—you should go with a dog-specific ice cream. They often contain less sugar than the human variety, and they are often dairy-free. On that tip, Alice and I traveled to specialty pet retailer Phydeaux, where an entire chalkboard above the cash register details the store’s dog-specific ice creams. I selected a box of SweetSpots, which come in two flavors: peanut butter honey and sweet potato molasses. Sweet potato felt too artisanal for a dog that rushes to eat bits of lemon rind that fall off the counter while I’m cooking, so I went with the peanut butter flavor. SweetSpots come in little paper containers with a peel-off lid, just like Italian ice. Four servings in one box cost seven dollars. The product inside looks like Italian ice, too, but instead of cheery reds or bright yellows, the treat is an unappealing brown cube covered in thin rime. These SweetSpots, it appeared, might have been sitting around for a spell. Before I gave the Spot to Alice, I put my tongue directly on the cube and gave it a lick, finding little flavor in the process. Resting my tongue on the ice did reveal a sort of watery peanut butter whiff. Made with allnatural ingredients, fortified with whey protein, and enriched with live yogurt cultures, SweetSpots seem like they’re made for the type of parent who bakes a dessert chock full of zucchini and calls it a brownie.
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Alice liked it, but not as much as she likes ice cream—smart dog. For Alice’s last freebie, I contemplated Locopops’ Pup Pop, a rawhide stick surrounded by peanut butter, banana, and yogurt. It sounded a little too much like the SweetSpot, though, so instead we ventured to Sunni Sky’s, an always-slammed shop off the highway in Angier. Though there are 130 homemade flavors for humans, there’s only one for dogs. The Sunni Sky’s “doggie mix” is vanilla-flavored milkshake base served in a Styrofoam cup that’s about as big as your palm. It costs a dollar. When I called to inquire about the mix, a staff member warned me that dogs “do actually get brain freezes” from the treat. It’s “best if you pace them,” the shop said. Alice doesn’t believe much in pacing, but she did take it slow enough to finish the treat in just under a minute. She then sat obediently, looking cute and making eye contact so as to lick the drips off the shirts and legs of any child who wandered up to pet her. Her brain, it seemed, worked just fine. l Twitter: @tinacurrin
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American AL’S BURGER SHACK 516 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill • 919-904-7659 • Monday-Saturday 11 am-10 pm Sunday 12 pm7pm • www.alsburgershack.com • Al’s provides
local and fresh food and drink. They feature all-natural pasture-raised beef, cheese from local dairies, produce from local farmers, and North Carolina craft beers. With a menu ranging from burgers to hot dogs to milkshakes, Al’s also offers daily creative specials such as “The Lee Ann” or “The Melly Mel”.
CAMERON BAR AND GRILL 2018 Clark Ave • Raleigh • 919-755-2231 Mon-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri and Sat 11am-Midnight, Sun 10am-10pm • www.cameronbarandgrill.com • CBG meets each guest with a warm smile, flavorful aromas of classic American favorites, and a nod to Raleigh’s “good old days”. You could say we’re stuck in the past, but that’s hardly true. We keep things up to date with fresh ingredients and timeless décor, without sacrificing modern sensibility.
EDWARDS MILL BAR & GRILL 3201-153 Edwards Mill Rd • Raleigh 919-783-5447 Mon 11am-11:30pm, Tue-Fri 11am-12:30am, Sun 12pm-11:30pm • www.edwardsmillbarandgrill.com • Located in Olde Raleigh Village, serving up killer wings, burgers, and American classics since 1999. Our sports bar has tons of TVs and MLB Xtra Inning, NHL Center Ice, and NFL Sun Ticket.
HOPE VALLEY BREWING COMPANY 4810 Hope Valley Rd., Durham • 919-294-4955 • Kitchen open Sunday-Thursday 11 am -1 0 pm, Friday-Saturday 11 am - 11 pm • www.hopevalleybrewingcompany.com • HVBC is a
neighborhood restaurant and bar that caters to families and professionals by day and those with a flair for fun late into the evening. Menu comprised of fresh fish, burgers, chicken, comfort and vegetarian items. Strong brew/cocktail selection with our own beer starting late 2016.
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MILLTOWN 307 E. Main St., Carrboro • 919-968-2460 • www. dininganddrinking.com • Gastropub located in down-
town Carrboro featuring 18 specialty drafts from around the world, 150 more in the bottle, menu items inspired by & made with beer, daily food specials, a large outdoor patio, dinner 7 days, lunch during the week & brunch Saturday and Sunday. FREE Parking is available directly across the street in the 500 space parking deck next to the Hampton Inn or at any of the additional city lots.
NOFO AT THE PIG 2014 Fairview Road, Raleigh • 919-821-1240 • Café: Monday-Friday 11 am-3 pm, Tuesday-Thursday 5-9 pm. Friday-Saturday 5-10 pm, Brunch Saturday-Sunday 10 am-3 pm • www.nofo.com • Quirky combined Southern cafe, gourmet food market & gift shop set in a former Piggly Wiggly building in the Five Points neighborhood of Raleigh, NC.
ONLY BURGER 3710 Shannon Road, #118, Durham • 919-937-9377 • 359 Blackwell Street, #125, Durham • 919-2372431 • Shannon Rd: Monday- Saturday 11 am-9 pm; Sunday 11 am-8 pm • Blackwell St: MondaySaturday 11 am-9 pm. Closed on Sunday. Winter hours for Blackwell may vary • www.onlyburger. com • OnlyBurger is quite simply the only burger you’ll ever want! Featuring Certified Piedmontese antibiotic, hormone and steroid free beef ground daily by our local butcher, OnlyBurgers are fresh made to order and served on the perfect bun. Fries are cut fresh daily. Veggie and turkey burgers are also available.
Asian MURA AT NORTH HILLS 4121 Main at North Hills St., Raleigh • 919-781-7887 • Monday-Thursday 11 am-10 pm, Friday 11 am-11 pm, Saturday 12 noon-11 pm, Sunday 12 noon-9 pm • www.muranorthhills.com • Specializing in flavorful
Japanese cuisine and one-of-a-kind sushi rolls, Mura has been one of North Hill’s most popular restaurants since opening in 2005. Our menu features steaks, sushi and Japanese fare. The drink menu offers everything from Japanese beers and local craft brews to Asian-inspired cocktails and sake.
Bakery GUGLHUPF BAKERY & PATISSERIE 2706 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd., Durham • 919-4012600 • Tuesday-Friday 7:30 am-6 pm, Saturday 7:30 am-5 pm, Sunday 8:30 am-2 pm, closed Monday • www.guglhupf.com • Traditional European bak-
ing merges with a more contemporary style at this award-winning bakery that produces daily artisan breads, classic tortes, individual desserts and pastries. Also offers a selection of high-quality foods and condiments from fellow NC producers ranging from pepper jelly to free-range eggs. The bakery adjoins Guglhupf Café & Restaurant featuring local and seasonal fare with a southern German twist.
BBQ THE BLUE NOTE GRILL 709 Washington St., Durham • 919-401-1979 • Open Tuesday-Friday 11 am, Saturday-Sunday 12 pm • www.thebluenotegrill.com • Serving ribs, BBQ, burgers and more with full bar and live music nightly.
CITY BBQ 208 W. Highway 54., Durham • 919-237-9609 • 1305 Kildaire Farm Rd., Cary • 919-439-5191 • www. citybbqcom • City Barbeque is an award-winning
barbeque joint built on a foundation of “low and slow” smoked meats, a wide variety of side dishes, delectable desserts, and a healthy dose of backyard hospitality. Dine-in, carry out and catering offered seven days a week. Locations in Cary, Garner and Durham.
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2706 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd., Durham • 919-4012600 • Closed Monday. Breakfast & lunch: TuesdayFriday 8 am-4:30 pm, Brunch: Saturday 8 am-3 pm, Sunday 9 am-3 pm. Dinner: Tuesday-Friday 5:309:30 pm, Saturday 5:30-10 pm • www.guglhupf.com • Upscale, modern comfort food in a casual setting.
7456 Creedmoor Road, Raleigh • 919-900-7685 • 5311 S. Miami Blvd., Durham • 919-941-6380 • www.serena-rtp.com/rtp • “How Sicilians do Italian”
Atmosphere is eclectic in this vibrant, architecturally striking European restaurant. Seasonal menus feature southern German-inspired dishes and small plates using fresh, local ingredients. Notable beer and wine list. Fresh artisan breads from Guglhupf’s adjoining bakery and delectable house-made desserts. Beautiful patio for outdoor dining.
IRREGARDLESS CAFÉ 901 W Morgan Street, Raleigh • 919-833-8898 ext 0 • Lunch: Tuesday-Friday 11 am-2:30 pm; Dinner: TuesdaySaturday 5-9:30 pm and later. Brunch Saturday-Sunday 10 am-2:30 pm • www.irregardless.com • Traditional
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THE ROOT CELLAR CAFÉ & CATERING 750Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill • 919-967-3663 • Open daily 7:30 am-8 pm • www.rootcellarchapelhill.com • The Root Cellar
Café & Catering serves scratch-made breakfast, lunch and dinner options made with seasonal veggies & inhouse roasted meats in a cozy, community-focused space. We offer weekly prepared take home Family Dinners and Paleo Dinner for those on the go.
Chocolatier VIDERI CHOCOLATE FACTORY 327 W. Davie St., Suite 100, Raleigh • 919-7555053 • Tuesday-Thursday 11 am-7 pm, FridaySaturday 11 am-9 pm, Closed Sunday-Monday • www.viderichocolatefactory.com • The story of
Videri’s bean-to-bar chocolate begins on a handful of lush cacao plantations located throughout Central and South America. Purchasing select beans across these regions based on pricing and availability, and commitment to achieving fair-trade and organic status whenever possible, has resulted in some of the finest chocolate you’ll ever taste. Come visit Sam, Starr and Chris today.
Eclectic/New American ACME FOOD & BEVERAGE CO 110 E Main Street, Carrboro • 919-929-ACME • Dinner: Daily • www.acmecarrboro.com • Chosen
Damn Good Southern Food served every night of the week in the heart of Carrboro. Full bar. Patio Dining. Sunday Brunch. Eat like you mean it.
THE NORTHSIDE DISTRICT 403 W. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill • 919-391-7044 • www.thenorthsidedistrict.com • The Northside District name Is a nod to the historical area of Chapel Hill. This neighborhood bar and restaurant serves food drawn from the ideas of Chef Michael Krock who bases his casual international dishes on the places where he used to eat and hang out in his native Brooklyn. Dinner and cocktails served from 5 pm and late night food is served every night until 2 am. Karaoke Mondays and Trivia Tuesdays.
Japanese AKAI HANA RESTAURANT 206 W. Main St., Carrboro • 919-942-6848 • Lunch: Monday-Saturday 11:30 am-2 pm, Dinner: Monday-Thursday 5-9:30pm, Friday & Saturday 5-10:30 pm, Sunday 5-9 pm • www.akaihana.com • Akai Hana is Carrboro’s favorite sushi bar since 1997.
Serving traditional Japanese cuisine and the Triangle’s freshest and most creative sushi has made us a perennial Indy Best of contender and Chapel Hill News Rose Award winner. And we’re a friendly service-oriented neighborhood restaurant tucked away in trendy Carrboro.
BASAN BULL CITY SUSHI 359-220 Blackwell St., Durham • 919-797-9728 • Monday-Thursday 11 am-2 pm & 4-10 pm, Friday 11 am-2 pm & 4-11 pm, Saturday 12-11 pm, Sunday 4-9 pm • www.basanrestaurant.com • Basan’s mod-
ern Japanese cuisine, intriguing appetizers, entrees, unique sushi rolls, an extensive selection of sake and more, highlights the best of Japanese cuisine in upscale yet comfortable ambiance. Whether you’re stopping in before a show at DPAC, just craving sushi, or are planning a private event, we look forward to serving you soon!
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Japanese cuisine and one-of-a-kind sushi rolls, Mura has been one of North Hill’s most popular restaurants since opening in 2005. Our menu features steaks, sushi and Japanese fare. The drink menu offers everything from Japanese beers and local craft brews to Asian-inspired cocktails and sake.
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Mediterranean MEDITERRA GRILL / BABA GHANNOUJ 2608 Erwin Road, Durham • 919-383-0066 • 108 Grand Hill Place, Holly Springs • 919-762-7885 • www.mediterranc.com • Baba Ghannouj 2468 Walnut Street • 919-233-0907• www.babaghannouj1.com • Monday-Saturday 11 am-10 pm • Open daily 11 am-10 pm • Fresh, healthy
Greek and Lebanese food. Beef, Chicken, Lamb and Vegetarian dishes. Kabobs, wraps, pita sandwiches. Delicious salads and sides. Sweet desserts. Cozy atmosphere. Great for families. Now available in 3 convenient locations in the Triangle — Durham, Holly Springs and Cary. If you are what you eat, Be The Kabob!
SASSOOL 9650 Strickland Road, Raleigh • 919-847-2700 • 1347 Kildaire Road, Cary • 919-300-5586 • Monday-Saturday 11 am-10 pm • www.sassool.com • Sassool is a family-owned restaurant serving authentic Lebanese and Mediterranean cuisine in a fast-casual setting. In addition to fresh, healthy Mediterranean fare, Sassool offers an interesting selection of specialty groceries and baked goods.
Enjoy Your Favorite Japanese Restaurant 7 Days A Week
AKAI HANA
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CARRBURRITOS 711 W. Rosemary St., Carrboro • 919-933-8226 • Monday-Saturday 11 am-10 pm • www.carrburritos. com • Super-fresh Mexican food made to order in a
lively, casual setting. Choose from eight distinctive fillings including house-made chorizo, vegetarian options (check out Tofu Tuesdays!) and chicken and fish right off the grill. Enjoy the famous salsas and margaritas. Dine inside or on the garden patio.
FIESTA GRILL 307 Hwy 54 West • Chapel Hill (At the intersection of White Cross Road just 5 miles west of Carrboro) • 919.928.9002 • Open 6 days a week Tue - Sat 11am to 9pm • Sun 11am - 8pm • Closed Mondays • Offering a large menu of authentic Mexican dishes including Chicken Mole, homemade pork tamales, Chile Verde and Mojarra Frita (fried whole fish). Try chicken or shrimp with our delicious Salsa Poblana and so much more! (Many dishes not found in similar eateries.)
Pizza BRIXX WOOD FIRED PIZZA 501 Meadowmont Village Circle, Meadowmont Village, Chapel Hill • 919-929-1942 / 8511-101 Briercreek Pkwy, Raleigh • 919-246-0640 / Cameron Village, 402 Oberlin Road, Raleigh • 919723-9370 / 1111 Parkside Main, Cary • 919-6744388 • Monday-Saturday 11 am-1 am; Sunday 11 am-11 pm • www.brixxpizza.com • Brixx Wood Fired
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Pizza is a fun, friendly, neighborhood restaurant that serves the best brick oven pizza, pasta and salads. The pizza is handcrafted and served hot from the woodburning oven while you enjoy one of 24 great beers on tap or 14 wines by the glass. Brixx is known for great outdoor dining and serving late night (until 1 a.m.)!
LILLY’S PIZZA 810 Peabody St., Durham • 919-797-2554 / 1813 Glenwood Ave., Raleigh • 919-833-0226 • SundayThursday 11 am-10 pm, Friday & Saturday 11 am-11 pm • www.lillyspizza.com • Voted the Triangle’s Best
Pizza in the INDY’s 1997-2016 readers’ polls. Featuring a locally sourced and organic menu. Vegetarian friendly. Large beer and wine selection. Takeout and delivery. Located next to Morgan Imports at Peabody Place in Historic Durham and historic Five Points in Raleigh.
Retail GOOD RUB Morrisville • www.good-rub.com • Deliciousness is one requirement of well-seasoned food; quality ingredients is the other. Our products deliver both. We proudly use only high-quality, all-natural and organic herbs and spices in our seasonings and dry rubs. ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS WILLIAMS
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06.15–06.22 MONDAY, JUNE 20– TUESDAY, JUNE 21
SAVION GLOVER & JACK DEJOHNETTE
FRIDAY, JUNE 17
KOOLEY HIGH & PROFESSOR TOON
As the only rapper to represent Durham during last month’s Moogfest, Professor Toon used the home-stage advantage to reawaken his faithful. Back in January, after all, he sweated out his entire soul on the same Motorco stage in an effort to get the city super lit about his debut album, Take Notes. His new mantra—“Take Extra Notes, Defeat Obstacles,” or “TENDO”—acknowledges some of that journey’s setbacks, as well as the continuing struggle. He shares the stage here with a Triangle rap act that can relate, Kooley High, a five-man unit following the departure of Rapsody. Outside the rhyme books that remaining Kooley High emcees Tab-One and Charlie Smarts have filled for their own solo works and in preparation for the group’s forthcoming 9th Wonder-executive produced album, the Raleigh crew has taken its share of detailed notes on perseverance. It’s why they’re still sharing stages with rising rap talent like Toon, Defacto Thezpian, and Brassious Monk. Tonight, there’ll be more pens and notes passed than torches. —Eric Tullis THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 9 p.m., $8–$10, www.thepinhook.com
Professor Toon
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Twenty years ago at the Tony Awards, a performance from Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk electrified an audience of tux-wearing attendees that still wasn’t accustomed to hearing heavy club beats on Broadway. Tap dancing was something you’d see in period shows like Jelly’s Last Jam, but it was demonstrably low on America’s radar and it sure wasn’t hip. The choreographer and star of the 1996 hit, Savion Glover, changed all that, helping to reintroduce America to a modernized vision of tap that reframed its sepia-toned image in the context of American history and jazz while injecting it with the verve of hip-hop. Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated drummer, pianist, composer, and scholar, is a living repository of jazz’s past, present, and future—a natural, even sublime choice of collaborator. Accompanied by a skilled trio and frequent dance partner Marshall Davis Jr., Glover should have a plenitude of percussive riffs to play on, courtesy of Duke Performances and ADF. —David Klein PAGE AUDITORIUM, DURHAM 8 p.m., $35–$55, www.dukeperformances.duke.edu
MONDAY, JUNE 20
MIXTAPE MONDAYS
Durham’s Carolina Soul has been growing for about a decade, but it’s really boomed since opening its brick-and-mortar storefront on Main Street in December. The institution’s success stems from a deep love for the masters and underdogs alike of soul, funk, jazz, and reggae, and the store has used it to fuel packed dance parties at The Pinhook and Motorco, proving how hungry Durham is for such curated cuts. Now, Carolina Soulaffiliated DJs have teamed up with Beyù Caffè in its fancy new digs, just a few blocks from the record store, to present Mixtape Mondays, a weekly low-key session more focused on chilling out than partying hard. This week, Carolina Soul’s Jack Bonney hits the decks. Beyù runs martini specials on Mondays, too, making this a choice option for post-work relaxation. —Allison Hussey
FRIDAY, JUNE 17
MARVEL VS. DC COMICS BURLESQUE SHOW
The summer box-office battle between Marvel and DC spills out—really spills out—into Southland Ballroom in this comicsthemed burlesque show, where performers portray your favorite superheroes from both companies in saucy stripteases and variety entertainments. Returning for its second year, the show is produced by the local burlesque mainstays of Boom OR Bust, who have previously performed with The Beast at the Pinhook and mounted a grindhouse-cinema-themed show at the Casbah. Though burlesque is an almost demure form of salaciousness by today’s standards, this one’s probably not for the kids, unless you want your tyke to discover an intense new fascination with Catwoman. —Brian Howe SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, RALEIGH 9 p.m., $10–$12, www.southlandballroom.com 36 | 6.15.16 | INDYweek.com
Marvel vs. DC Burlesque
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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK
SATURDAY, JUNE 18
MARY LATTIMORE
A little more than four minutes into “Jimmy V,” the plucked phrases of Mary Lattimore’s forty-seven string harp begin to suggest the movement of electrons. High notes fly into one another, ricocheting in wild directions, while their lower counterparts hover in the background, their relatively low energy offering an omnipresent buzz. In that moment, it’s hard not to replay some of the more energetic scenes of Jimmy Valvano’s tenure, from his years gesticulating at the Wolfpack PHOTO BY SARAH COOPER baseline to his elated lap around the Albuquerque court after Lorenzo Charles’s title-capturing dunk. Lattimore, a North Carolina-born, Philadelphia-based harpist, wrote the ode after watching Survive and Advance, the ESPN documentary about Valvano and team’s unexpected run. Much of Lattimore’s music represents her intimate reflections on memory and its complexity. The bright pop of her strings suggests a delight in nostalgia, while the spectral whirr of electronics on the surface elicits a feeling of permanent wistfulness. Lattimore has collaborated with the likes of Steve Gunn, Yo La Tengo, Thurston Moore, and Kurt Vile; but her new album, At the Dam, establishes her as a supreme solo conjurer, capable of connecting you to your past by musically mapping her own. —Grayson Haver Currin
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Each summer, The ArtsCenter’s 10 by 10 in the Triangle festival stages ten-minute plays from around the globe. At Sonorous Road, this new festival of short plays by regional wordsmiths gives the home team a chance, including Allan Maule, Rebecca Bossen, Ian Finley, and Brook North. Inspirations for a ten-pack of comedies and dramas include Camus’s Caligula, a junior varsity Jesus, misogyny, and Guantanamo detainees. Directors including Tony Lea, Jon Todd, and Andy Hayworth lead a cast in which new names mix with reliable ones like Seth Blum, Page Purgar, Diana Cameron McQueen, and Chris Milner. —Byron Woods
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WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?
AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL AT VARIOUS VENUES (P. 16), RUTHIE FOSTER AT BLUE NOTE GRILL (P. 19), LABYRINTH AT THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSUEM OF ART (P. 46), MANIFEST PUSSY AT LOCAL 506 & THE PINHOOK (P. 22), MILAGRO SAINTS AT BIG BOSS (P. 21), NOIR AT THE BAR AT 106 MAIN (P. 47), RAGTIME AT ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (P. 45), REMAKE AT THE MAKERY AT MERCURY STUDIO (P. 44), TRUST THE BUS: THE FARM AT CULTURE MILL (P. 23)
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FR 7/15 THE STRUTS W/ DOROTHY ($15) SU 7/24 DIGABLE PLANETS W/ CAMP LO ($22/$25) TU 7/26 SWANS W/ OKKYUNG LEE ($20/$24) SU 7/31 THE FALL OF TROY W/ '68, ILLUSTRATIONS ($17/$20) WE 8/3 BORIS (PERFRORMING PINK) W/ EARTH, SHITSTORM ($18/$20) FR 8/12 THE JULIE RUIN **($23/$22) SA 8/13 RAINER MARIA ($15/$17) TH 8/25 LOCAL H (AS GOOD AS DEAD TOUR) FR 8/26-SA 8/27 BE LOUD! SOPHIE '17 (LINE UP ANNOUNCEMENT JUNE 16)
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7/26: FEAR OF MEN W/PURO INSTINCT ($10/$12) 7/30: GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! W/ THE BRONZED CHORUS, ZEPHYRANTHES 8/6: OH PEP! ($10/$12) 8/12:ELIZABETH COOKW/ DEREK HOKE ($15/$17) 8/25: THE VEGABONDS W/ BOY NAMED BANJO 8/27: MILEMARKER W/ PUFF PIECES, COMMITTEE(S) ($12) 10/15: GRIFFIN HOUSE ($18) 10/19: MC CHRIS ($14/$16)
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7/1: PINEGROVE W/ SPORTS, HALF WAIF, SINIA VESSEL ($10/$12)
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7/2 THE HOTELIER W/TOLD SLANT, BELLOWS ($12/$14) 7/5: JESSY LANZA W/ DJ TAYE
8/6: ELVIS DEPRESSEDLY/ TEEN SUICIDE/NICOLE DOLLANGANGER ($12/$14)
TH 9/22 BUILT TO SPILL W/ HOP ALONG, ALEX G ($20/$25) MO 10/3 NADA SURF ($17/$20) WE 10/12 DIARRHEA PLANET** ($12/$15; ON SALE 6/17)
7/6: KITTEN W/ CLEAN SPILL ($14/$16)
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6/26 GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV & THE GHOST ORCHESTRA W/ JAY CLIFFORD
WE 10/19 BEATS ANTIQUE W/ TOO MANY ZOO'S, THRIFTWORKS ($26/$29)
7/9: CARDIGAN RECORDS 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW W/ PROFESSOR TOON, GREAVER,YOUTH LEAGUE, BEAR GIRL, LAWW X BIGG, HUNDREDFTFACES ($10/$12)
SU 10/30 NF ($18/$21; ON SALE 6/17)
7/11 DAVID BAZAN W/ LAURA GIBSON ($15)
6/15 DYLAN LEBLANC W/ LIZZY ROSS ($12)
FR 11/5 ANIMAL
7/16: HEGE V AND MICHAEL KELSH ($10)
NC MUSEUM OF ART (RAL)
7/19: THE GOTOBEDS AND ARBOR LABOR UNION
8/20: GILLIAN WELCH
7/22:: JON LINDSAY W/ MATT PHILLIPS (BAND) & YOUNG MISTER
10/24: THE HEAD AND THE HEART
7/25: MARISSA NADLER W/ WREKMEISTER HARMONIES, MUSCLE & MARROW ($13/$15)
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TU 11/22 PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT ($25)
TU 9/13 BLIND GUARDIAN W/ GRAVEDIGGER ($29 - $60 FOR VIP)
2/1/17 THE DEVIL MAKES THREE ($22/$25; ON SALE JUNE 26)
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music WED, JUN 15 Oh Wonder FEISTY “Drive,” the breakout DUO single from soft-lit London synth duo Oh Wonder, is a delectable piece of coffee shop R&B, suggesting a lovesick lilt stretched over Jamie xx’s most antisocial electronics. Thanks to a large SoundCloud presence and MTV placements, this show has been sold out for a while, so Craigslist wisely. LANY opens. —DS [CAT’S CRADLE, $15–$17/9:30 P.M.]
Dex Romweber & Crash LaResh TALKIN’ No matter who’s DEX playing behind him—older sister Sara Romweber, Flat Duo Jets skinsman Chris “Crow” Smith or, in this case, Crash LaResh—Dex Romweber delivers primal, pure rock. He continually gives new life to all manners of early American pop music. With Richmond’s Seawhores. —PW [THE CAVE, $7/9 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): The So So Glos, Big Ups, Honduras; 8 p.m., $10–$12. • DUKE GARDENS: Skylar Gudasz; 7 p.m., $5–$10, 12 and under free. • IRREGARDLESS: Mebanesville; 6:30 p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Dylan LeBlanc, Jphono1; 8 p.m., $12. • POUR HOUSE: Sophistafunk; 9 p.m., $5–$8. • RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: Of Monsters and Men, Susto; 8 p.m., $25–$45. • SLIM’S: Rosies, Caitlin Ann Webster; 9 p.m., $3. • WAVERLY PLACE: The Embers; 6 p.m., free.
THU, JUN 16 Chiefs LOUD & From Phoenix, PROUD Chiefs are a very good stoner rock band, with no frills attached to its clarion riffs or quaking rhythms. Last year’s Tomorrow’s Over is an eleven-song colossus, full of anthems that put them in league with fellow Kyuss and Sleep descendants. The
06.15–06.22 powerful quartet shares this bill with two fitting locals—Lightning Born, a local supergroup still in its earliest shows, and Bedowyn, a band that grapples with psych rock, moody atmospherics, and a bit of thrash from a doom metal base. —GC [SLIM’S, $6–$8/8 P.M.]
Robbie Fulks PURE PRO Even when he was turning out gut-busting satirical lyrics atop Bakersfield-indebted riffs, Chicagoan Robbie Fulks seemed like the thinking person’s alt-country singer-songwriter. During the last several years, the lanky troubadour has elected to strike at funny bones less and less, aiming instead for the heart and the head. That’s certainly true of his latest outing, Upland Stories, which frames songs inspired by writers like James Dickey in acoustic arrangements. Bernie missed a good bet by not adopting “America Is a Hard Religion” as his campaign song. Brian McGee opens. —JA [MOTORCO, $14–$16/8 P.M.]
N.C. Symphony Summerfest: Beethoven Festival BEEIf a classical concert THOVEN! happens without a piece by the Beethoven, does it make a sound? This festival dodges that question by only offering works by the German giant: the fifth and seventh symphonies and the first and third piano concerti, all performed by a pair of up-and-coming pianists. —DR [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $30–$35,/7:30 P.M.]
Rebelution E-Z BONG If Rebelution again HITS tops Billboard’s reggae charts with Falling Into Place, as it did with 2014’s Count Me In, and knocks off Ziggy Marley, the genre is in trouble. The California outfit recycles roots for heavily Americanized island pop, serving up retreads like “Inhale Exhale,” a trite tribute to legalization that’s been puffed dozens of times before. The
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undercard is filled with likeminded acts, including the mega-mellow Stick Figure and the smooth, R&B-tinged Through the Roots. With The Green & J Boog. —SG [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $18–$27.50/5:50 P.M.]
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Jon Stickley Trio, The Midatlantic FIERY Sure, the Jon Stickley FLATPICK Trio plays progressive acoustic music, but simplifying it as such does a disservice to the genre-bending Asheville three-piece. By combining Stickley’s rapid-fire flatpicking with the inventive violin work of Lyndsay Pruett and hip-hop-influenced beats of former Atmosphere drummer Patrick Armitage, the stylistic shapeshifters bound from traditional bluegrass to math rock while flirting with jazz, ska, and more. Wilmington’s The Midatlantic adds charming and catchy folk-rock, though the quintet’s instrumental work suggests it’s sometimes capable of bold choices, too. Eric Scholz opens. —SG [RALEIGH CITY PLAZA, FREE/5 P.M.]
Billy Strings NEW Billy Strings, a STRINGS twenty-three-yearold bluegrass guitar phenom, headlines this edition of American Tobacco’s Back Porch Music on the Lawn. He puts a young face to the pick-and-grin genre, but don’t let his age fool you. His “Slow Train” is a non-stop romp delivered with old-school flair. Asheville’s Town Mountain opens. —KM [AMERICAN TOBACCO CAMPUS, FREE/6 P.M.]
Wailin Storms HEAVY & Wailin Storms DYNAMIC struck an interesting fusion on last year’s One Foot in the Flesh Grave. Merging Murder City Devils’ biting post-punk with Danzig’s dramatic blues-rock, the record offered a compelling case for the Durham band. Georgia post-punk trio Gláss and young Chapel Hill outfit indie rockers Enenra share Wailin Storms’
TUESDAY, JUNE 21
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WEEZER & PANIC! AT THE DISCO The cycle that accompanies every modern Weezer album has become almost rote— excitement followed by cocked eyebrows followed by disappointment followed by, three months later, the occasional “Hey, that was better than people gave it credit for.” This progression has less to do with the music’s quality than how the current press cycle simply functions. Think about the media you’ve seen regarding blockbuster films, flashy debut novels, prestige TV shows’ season-two debuts; notice how it dissipates almost immediately upon the product’s arrival. When an artifact is theoretical, the sky’s the limit. Press-release gushing is infinite. In the case of Weezer, that gestural excitement inevitably extends to chatter about the band’s debut and its follow-up, Pinkerton, an alt-rock operetta that went from used-CD-bin staple to cult classic. It’s ironic, then, that Weezer still receives so much knee-jerk reaction; if the hot-take economy had been around twenty years ago, would Pinkerton enjoy the status it has today, or would the life have been sucked out of it by the time its second single hit MTV? Either way, this year’s Weezer (the one with the white cover) sports several solid tracks. The sun-drenched “(Girl We Got A) Good Thing” only lets its paranoia about settling down peek through the edges, while the justvirtuosic-enough solo on “Endless Bummer” adds an exclamation point to lovelorn angst. Weezer is on tour with Panic! at the Disco, a Las Vegas outfit whose Brendon Urie is one of pop’s best technical singers. Should Adam Lambert want out of his arrangement with Queen, Urie, able to handle phlegm-loosening screams as ably as the heights of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” would be an able replacement. Despite the brattiness of its big hit, “Victorious,” this year’s Death of a Bachelor is high on 2016’s surprisingly enjoyable pop records list, right alongside Weezer (with the white cover). —Maura Johnston COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK, RALEIGH 7 p.m., $25–$75, www.livenation.com
knack for bristling energy. —BCR [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/9:30 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY ARCANA: Purdy Holsom; 8 p.m., free. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Baron Tymas; 7 p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Ruthie Foster; 8 p.m., $25. See page 19. • THE CAVE: The Numerators; 9 p.m.,
$5. • DEEP SOUTH: Inner Prolific; 10 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: The Charlie Elliot Trio; 6:30 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Bethlehem Steel, Stringer; 9 p.m., $8. • PARK WEST VILLAGE: Restless Raleigh; 6 p.m., free. • THE PINHOOK: Must Be the Holy Ghost, Youma, Real Dad; 9 p.m., $7. • POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: Pie Face Girls,
Vacant Company, Car Crash Star; 9:30 p.m., free. • THE STATION: Matt Phillips & The Philharmonic; 7:30 p.m., $5. • WEAVER STREETCARRBORO: Milagro Saints; 6 p.m. See page 21.
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PERFECT Combining the sonic POP WAY meticulousness of Scritti Politti, the jittery guitars of seventies funk, the casual sexiness of Kick-era INXS, modern angst, and a few well-placed sax licks, The 1975 has provided a much-needed jolt to the pop-rock world in four years. On the new I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It, the band stretches its ambitions by balancing taut kiss-offs about celebrity culture with furtive shoegaze. It doesn’t always work, but the arena-sized bravado of frontman Matty Healy is admirable. —MJ [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $29.50–$45/8 P.M.]
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ART & Beauty World BEAUTY returns to the N.C. Museum of Art’s weekly (and early!) Art in the Evening series for a sweet summer installment. The band’s Joypop Turbo EP, due via PotLuck within the coming months, finds the band exploring wonderful new textures. Consider this a solid slide into the weekend. —AH [N.C. MUSEUM OF ART, FREE/5:30 P.M.]
Drone Strike: Flag Day Show FREAKS & The preview video FLAGS for Drone Strike is set in a bleak, post-industrial alleyway, surrounded by brick warehouses. An ominous buzz thrums, interrupted occasionally by bursts of incomprehensible Speak & Spell chatter. People appear with fragmentary signs that gradually spell out the name of the concert, only to shuffle off. Digital bells chime as the drone thickens. This mysterious evening comes from saxophonist and composer Nate Masters, who promises you will leave the evening melted in all kinds of different ways. He encourages (demands?) bringing a flag. With Andrew Kasab and Alpha Cop. —DR [THE SHED, $5/8 P.M.]
Chris Knight LOW Unlike his string of GLOSS country radio co-writes (most notably, Montgomery Gentry’s “She Couldn’t Change Me,” or the Montgomery Gentry song that doesn’t suck), Chris Knight’s new Little Victories is unpolished and raw. The title track rambles on like a rant, claiming small wins like Little Debbies and Mountain Dew. —KM [LINCOLN THEATRE, $17.50/8 P.M.]
Los Rabanes LATIN A rarity in the Latin RETURNS rock scene, Panamanian fusion band Los Rabanes continues to produce new albums rather than rely on nostalgia for tours. The group’s mix of ska punk and folk on Kamikaze earned the band a Latin Grammy in 2007. Winston-Salem rock en español cover band Los Acoustic Guys kick this off. —AB [MOTORCO, $20–$25/8 P.M.]
Minor Stars PSYCHED Chapel Hill ON TIME psych-rock trio Minor Stars has been rather quiet in the years since releasing 2010’s The Death of the Sun in the Silver Sea. The band’s second record is finished and awaiting mastering; with the heavy, hooky pysch-rock it plays now en vogue, the timing seems right. Richmond’s Shadow Age plays its post-punk pretty British. —PW [THE STATION, $6/7:30 P.M.]
Sarah Shook and the Disarmers HELL Sarah Shook YEAH delivered one of the best outlaw-inspired albums in years with her 2015 LP, Sidelong. Across those dozen songs, Shook hits all the top notches of an excellent country record—songs about hard drinking and heartbreak, powered by driving rhythms and topped by plenty of twang. Blue Cactus, the new duo of Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez, opens. —AH [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/9 P.M.]
ALSO ON FRIDAY ARCANA: Aether Lounge: A Steampunk/NeoVintage Dance Party; 9 p.m., $5. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: La Fiesta Latin Jazz Band; 8 & 10 p.m., $7. • BYNUM GENERAL STORE: The Paper Crowns; 7 p.m., free. • THE CAVE: Drum N Bass Dance Party; 9 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: Aslan Freeman; 10 p.m., free. • HAW RIVER BALLROOM: Waltz Night Midsummer Ball; 7 p.m., $12–$16. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Lobo Marino; 7 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Mebanesville; 7 p.m. • KINGS: Wings Over Kings, Lemon Sparks; 10:30 p.m., $7. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: N.C. Symphony Summerfest: Beethoven Festival; 7:30 p.m., $30–$35. See June 16 listing. • THE KRAKEN: Milagro Saints, Hardworker, Lauren Calve; 8 p.m. See page 21. • LOCAL 506: Manifest Pussy; 7 p.m., $10. See page 22. • THE MAYWOOD: Motorbilly, The Phantom Playboys, Go Benji Go; 9:30 p.m. • MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Classic Album HootNite 2: The Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense; 8 p.m., free. • THE PINHOOK: Kooley High, Professor Toon, Defacto Thezpian, Brassious Monk; 9 p.m., $8–$10. See page 36. • POUR HOUSE: The Fritz, Shwizz; 9 p.m., $7–$10. • BOND PARK: SERTOMA AMPHITHEATRE: Triangle Brass Band; 7 p.m., free. • SLIM’S: Pheasants, Julie Odell; 9 p.m., $5.
SAT, JUN 18 Drew Gibson REFLECT- Americana purveyor IVE GEMS Drew Gibson writes intensely personal songs, but he makes sure to keep them open-ended enough to be relatable. And while there are plenty of rustic roots to be found in his sound, he’s not afraid of pushing the idiomatic envelope a tad. —JA [SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS, FREE/7 P.M.]
Leeway’s Homegrown Music Network’s 21st Anniversary More than two decades ago ago, Lee Crumpton founded the Home
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Grown Music Network for the same reason anyone starts a label, club, zine, or distribution network: He couldn’t readily find the music he loved in stores or on the airwaves. Nowadays, Home Grown still stumps for independent bands that lean toward jam rock or open-ended funk. To that end, it packs both of the Cradle’s stages with loose, limber vibes: Greensboro’s The Mantras, Wilmington’s Groove Fetish, and Winston-Salem’s Fat Cheek Kat play the main room. Winston’s Big Daddy Love, Raleigh’s Urban Soil, and Asheville’s The Get Right Band are in the back. —PW [CAT’S CRADLE, $17–$20/8 P.M.]
Greg Humphreys Electric Trio NATIVE’S Having mined jangle RETURN pop with Dillon Fence and soul fusion with Hobex, longtime area musician Greg Humphreys left the Triangle for Brooklyn and a new perspective. Playing solo acoustic shows galvanized his songwriting and brought him into a new local musical fold; when he met bass player Matt Brandau, a UNC jazz school grad, and drummer Keith Robinson, he was a bandleader again. Lucky Guy, the first release with his Electric Trio, reflects the optimism of a man who’s made the right moves. With Lemon Sparks and Jphono1. —DK [POUR HOUSE, $10–$12/9 P.M.]
Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons, Bloodkin PANIC Backed by The PALS Jackmormons, the hearty voice of veteran singersongwriter Jerry Joseph lends credence to heartland tales. Despite three decades spent influencing the likes of Widespread Panic and Drive-By Truckers, the dark, literate Southern rock of the Athens institution Bloodkin, which splits the bill, has never received the recognition it deserves. —SG [LINCOLN THEATRE, $15/9 P.M.]
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REST IN If you’ve lived here POP long enough, you may remember when Durham party promoters Jeff and King threw their super-scandalous Prince vs. Michael Jackson dance parties. That was before both icons died. Now, with Prince’s recent passing, you should expect similarly themed parties to be rampant. This weekend, rapper Mad Skillz brings his DJ skills for this tribute battle of dance-floor hits, remixes, and covers by the King and High Priestess of Pop. —ET [MOTORCO, $10/9 P.M.]
NO GO, My wish for you is BRO that this life doesn’t require you to attend a Rascal Flatts concert at Walnut Creek. Between the tailgate traffic and treacle, no amount of beers will soften the pain. And while throwback guilty pleasures “Prayin’ for Daylight” and “Fast Cars and Freedom” showcase the band’s best assets of harmony and primo song choices, “Bob that Head” is country music’s post-millennial nadir. With Kelsea Ballerini and Chris Lane. —KM [COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK, $31–$61/7:30 P.M.]
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SWEET A year ago, SORROW Carrboro’s Josh Moore issued his first full-length album under his own name. Parted Ways stemmed from several years of hard work for Moore, both in the studio and on himself. As such, it’s a beautiful record that explores heartbreak and redemption. Moore’s gentle voice drifts above mellow layers of guitars, keys, and horns for a near-perfect set. —AH [SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL, FREE/6 P.M.]
Raleigh Deathfest Though certainly not as loaded with legends as the recent Maryland Deathfest, this homegrown counterpart offers a solid slab of brutal stuff. With revived veterans Gross Reality and Eldritch Horror topping the bill, the nine-band Raleigh Deathfest pays tribute to the old guard with the former’s vicious thrash and the latter’s surging death metal. Relative newcomers, meanwhile, offer fresh mutations. Necrocosm’s melodic death metal recalls icons like At the Gates but stands on the strength of its own riffs. Abhorrent Deformity delivers pummeling fury. Datura fuses several subgenres into a brutal, unpredictable monster. Also, Outliar, Colossal Abyss, Hell Is Here, and Origin of Disease. —BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $10/4:30 P.M.]
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PUNK TO John Doe might ROOTS have made his name as one of the sharpest singers and songwriters to emerge from the early-eighties punk scene by co-fronting the sainted X. But he has spent a hell of a lot more time as a straight-up roots rocker. His latest album, the dust-blown The Westerner, is one of his earthiest yet. Old fans needn’t fear; even the punk hero’s Americana has an undeniable edge. Jesse Dayton opens. —JA [CAT’S CRADLE, $17–$20/8 P.M.]
Greaver EMO The Faun proved that ASCENT Durham’s Greaver could hang with the emo revival. The ambitious concept album fuses post-rock dynamics with jagged prog-metal riffs and screamo. It’s the sort of stuff that made headliners of Touché Amoré and Pianos Become the Teeth. They’ve earned the spot at the top of this bill, which also features likeminded acts Youth League, Iselia, and Exwhy. —BCR [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]
Jim Lauderdale CLASSIC North Carolina MAN native Jim Lauderdale might not be a country megastar, but he remains one of the genre’s most significant forces. He’s spent his career writing fantastic tunes, both for himself and for the likes of Elvis Costello, George Strait, The Dixie Chicks, and Vince Gill. His efforts have netted him several Grammy nominations. Lauderdale’s got a sharp personality, too, and he’s a prime raconteur. Raleigh’s Jeanne Jolly opens with soulful Americana. —AH [MOTORCO, $15–$18/8 P.M.]
Hans Chew WILD Hans Chew is a NIGHTS great Americana oddball, able to roll cosmic country, swaggering rock, and boogie-loving blues into one wild polyglot. The inveterate sideman is best known for lending his piano swagger to the likes of Steve Gunn
and Jack Rose, but his own songs offer strange permutations of the country’s musical heritage, warped with love. Snake, meanwhile, unwinds unpredictably, bending country-rock to psychedelic ends. From Massachusetts, Hollow Deck bejewels minimal folk with aberrant elements like drum machines and unexpected filigrees of noise. Also, the return of Ben Clack’s Arbor Myst musings, this time as Arbor Myst Blues Band. —GC [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/8:30 P.M.]
Trevor Sensor opens. —GC [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $12/8:30 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK: Weezer, Panic! at the Disco, Andrew McMahon and the Wilderness; 7 p.m., $25–$150. See box, page 39. • LOCAL 506: Sk, The Novelist, Anderson Burrus, Thiago; 9 p.m., $7. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Shepherds, Jenny Besetzt, Happy Abandon; 9:45 p.m., $7. • POUR HOUSE: The Primate Fiasco, Boss Nacho; 9 p.m., $5. • THE RALEIGH TIMES BAR: Beer & Banjos: Kate Rhudy; 7:30 p.m.
ALSO ON SUNDAY HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Thomas Strayhorn; 1 p.m. Diane Cluck; 3 p.m. • LOCAL 506: 3@3: Matthew Paul Butler, Evel Arc, Ryan Baxter; 3 p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Manifest Pussy; 8 p.m., $10. See page 22. • SLIM’S: Rocknroll Partyfest; 5 p.m., $15–$25. See box, this page. • STEEL STRING BREWERY: Brandon Adams; 4 p.m.
MON, JUN 20 Jason Eady NEOThe world may not TRAD be in the market for a new Dwight Yoakam (the old one is still working out just fine, thanks). Still, Eady is one of the most powerful neo-trad country singers out there. He may not have as high a profile as kindred spirits like Jamey Johnson or Sturgill Simpson, but don’t put it past the Mississippi-born singer-songwriter to bridge that gap sooner than later. —JA [POUR HOUSE, $10/8:30 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Mixtape Monday: DJ Jack Bonney; 6 p.m. See page 36. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: The Atomic Rhythm All Stars; 8 p.m., $3–$5.
TUE, JUN 21 Azizi Gibson SHOUT- Is this the year of OUTS naming your single after a significantly more famous hip-hop figurehead? Much like Famous Dex’s recent “Kanye,” Azizi Gibson’s “DJ Khaled” has a tenuous thematic connection with
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The inaugural Rocknroll Partyfest arose from low-key ambitions: “I just wanted to get all my buddies together and do something rad,” organizer Brian Cruse said. Like last year’s twenty-bands-in-two-days bacchanal, the second Partyfest crams two evenings of diverse rock into the narrow confines of Slim’s. And with a bill that freely lifts from the debut—Drag Sounds, Natural Causes, Flesh Wounds, Shitty Boots, SOON A.D., Pie Face Girls, and The Royal Nites all return—Cruse didn’t aim to fix what wasn’t broken. Even the new arrivals perfectly match the weekend’s hedonistic spirit. Nashville’s Hans Condor marries The Stooges’ raw power to The Clash’s resounding pub-rock riffs. It’s an ideal counterpoint to Pipe’s burly punk. Boone’s Konvoi offers bitter post-punk, while Raleigh’s Crete gives its driving punk a dark undercurrent. New York quartet Jacques Le Coque’s makes ragged garage pop, and Asheville’s The Tills stick to the blues riffs-and-distortion fundamentals. Raleigh’s No Eyes go deep into psych, while Greensboro’s GSO keeps it polished. And that’s just a sample; the festival’s embrace is immediately apparent and broadly inclusive. That eagerness to dodge borders—between garage and punk, between psych and surf—made the first Rocknroll Partyfest a blast. With short sets volleyed between two stages (one inside, the other on the back patio) and a bill that covers so much ground, the format is ripe for the friendly sort of party Cruse envisioned. With this year’s slate of almost two dozen acts, the sequel may surpass the original. —Bryan C. Reed
ANIMAL When you think of INSTINCT music meant to accompany goats grazing or chickens clucking in the yard, you likely think of banjos and guitars, unplugged instruments for back-porch revelry. You probably think less of the volatile doom-and-psych volleys of Durham’s Voidward, who churn through a half-dozen heavy subgenres in every song, or the glistening riffs of Triangle supergroup Lightning Born, featuring members of Corrosion of Conformity and Demon Eye. And the claustrophobic hardcore of Raleigh’s Skemäta, who beat and scrape their way through hardcore outbursts, are likely even lower on the list. But they’ll all share this benefit for Triangle Chance for All, an area microsanctuary for rescued farm animals. Horns up, then! —GC [THE PINHOOK, $10/7 P.M.]
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The Jayhawks ALTMinneapolis gets ROYALTY due credit for its “sound,” thanks to Prince, but far less as a breeding ground for alt-country. Yet the amalgam of
country, folk, and rock that The Jayhawks cooked up in the early nineties served as a guidepost for others who would later define the genre. Having broken up and sporadically reunited before, they’re now touring in support of a strong new LP. Yes, they still harmonize like heaven. With Folk Uke (say it out loud). —DK [CAT’S CRADLE, $22–$25/8 P.M.]
The Staves ROYAL The Staves are the VOCALS Staveley-Taylors, three English sisters whose
intertwining harmonies and embrace of hushed melodrama situate them firmly in the soft folk milieu. But their work in the past with producers like Glyn and Ethan Johns, and on last year’s exquisite If I Was with Justin Vernon, speak to their willingness to ruffle their own sound, to lend their tripartite singing to something other than gentle acoustics and traipsing rhythms. “Outlaw,” the lead cut from a new EP, nods toward Steve Reich and Robert Wyatt, Sylvan Esso and The xx—somehow preternaturally cool and comfortable, all at once.
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ONGOING 20 Years of Horse & Buggy Press and Friends: In this must-read retrospective, the past twenty years are an open book. That’s how long Dave Wofford has been letterpress printing paper pleasures at Horse & Buggy Press. Wofford collaborates with writers and artists to produce beautiful, minutely tailored books in small runs, their content ranging from abstract photojournalism to translations of Rilke. You can read them all in this exhibit, which also includes dozens of
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06.15–06.22 framed artworks. Thru Aug 7. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh. org. —Brian Howe A Compilation: Raymond Melvin. Thru Jun 28. Naomi Studio and Gallery, Durham. NaomiStudioandGallery.com. After Apartheid: Collages by Kenneth Robert Nkosi. Thru Jun 19. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery.net. Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist: In Altered Land, Stamer and Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. scenes. Stamer paints a barn with black-and-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Thru Sep 11. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe LAST American CHANCE Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isle of Shoals: In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Childe Hassam spent decades painting Appledore Island, a resort in the Gulf of Maine. His style is beautiful and refined, like a slightly more fastidious Monet, but the subject is repetitious, and oddly, NCMA has chosen to pipe in distracting seagull sounds, like a smalltown natural history museum. It’s hard to forget these are essentially a well-heeled person’s pretty vacation paintings. Thru Jun 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe The Apollo Series: NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captures data on Earth that is archived online for anyone to use. Alina Taalman, who recently earned an MFA in experimental and documentary arts at Duke, took them up on it. The Apollo Series consists of visualizations of energy collected by the satellite’s sensors—much of it invisible until Taalman prints it—above Cape Canaveral, Florida, a site chosen for its well trodden pathway to terra incognita. The result is astral
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African artists who intimately navigate the facts, official narratives, and myths of two nations that see each other in different ways. $5. Thru Jun 19. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh. org. —Brian Howe Expansion: Vicki Rees. Thru Jun 25. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com. FRESH: Juried exhibition of new works by North Carolina artists. Thru Jun 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. Geometric Universe: Sculpture, neon, glass, mixed media, and paintings by Pleiades member artists. Thru Jul 10. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www. PleiadesArtDurham.com. Half a World Away: Oil paintings by Alicia Armstrong. Thru Jun 19. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. enogallery.net. Inside Out: Sculpture for all Environments: Representative and abstract sculpture. Thru Jul 31. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www. cedarcreekgallery.com. Mary Kircher: Thru Jun 25. Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com. Local Color: Multimedia works by twelve local female artists. Thru Jul 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. localcoloraleigh.com. Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org. LAST Marks of Genius: CHANCE 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This outstanding exhibit is a chance to see the hands of big names (Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Klimt, Mondrian, de Kooning, Magritte, Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Ruscha, just to name a few). The exhibit ranges from fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts and expressive Baroque portraits to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Thru Jun 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe
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I have an interactive textile experience every day: I get dressed. But there’s a lot more to it on Third Friday at The Makery, the shop for local artisans and artists in the Geer Street coworking hub Mercury Studio. In ReMAKE, “an interactive art and textile experience,” makers like Rivtak, Emergolde, and Capo Vintage will alter and style your garment on the spot. Meanwhile, presumably wearing a change of clothes, you can peruse a one-night exhibit of work from The Centerfold Tarot Series. Kelly Knapp collages recycled materials and vintage magazine print into major arcana, as seen recently in the show Tarot Dreamscapes at Arcana in Durham. —Brian Howe THE MAKERY AT MERCURY STUDIO, DURHAM 6–9 p.m., free, www.mercurystudiodurham.com
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The Menagerie: Paintings by Lisa Bartell. Thru Jun 30. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org. Muhammad Ali’s Most Memorable Images: Photographic portraits of the late boxer by Sonia Katchian. Thru Aug 6. Vegan Flava Cafe, Durham. veganflavacafe.com. The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello Our House: Durham Arts
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Council faculty and students. Thru Jul 10. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org. LAST Passages: Paul CHANCE Hrusovsky. Thru Jun 18. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com. Picturing Sound: Gemynii, Frank Myers, and James Cartwright. Thru Jul 10. Arcana, Durham. www.arcanadurham.com. SPECIAL Rare Earth: EVENT Photographs by Marjorie Pierson. Thru Jul 10. Artist Talk: Thu, Jun 17, 6:30 p.m. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. LAST Reflections and CHANCE Flow: Glass by Jean Cheely, paintings by Jan Kinlaw, and photography by Barry Udis. Thru Jun 21. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www. carygalleryofartists.org.
It’s the moment I always have to brace myself for in Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning musical. At the dawn of an American century in which black lives are only beginning to matter, Coalhouse Walker’s beloved, Sarah, has been mistakenly beaten to death by Secret Service guards. We’re gathered at her grave. As a church woman intones a hymn, prophetic activist Emma Goldman insists, in grim counterpoint, “It will happen again/ and again and again/ and again.” The Justice Theater Project revives this adaptation of the E.L. Doctorow novel in which three interconnected families of different classes, races, and ethnicities navigate the social turbulence of the early twentieth century. —Byron Woods ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, RALEIGH Various times, $23–$29, www.thejusticetheatreproject.org
LAST Remnants of Great CHANCE Spirit: Paintings by Lyudmila Tomova. Thru Jun 22. Village Art Circle, Cary. www. villageartcircle.com. SPECIAL Seeing Myself: EVENT Works by Durham high school students in collaboration with local artist mentors. Thru Jun 24. Reception: Fri, Jun 17, 6-9 p.m. Golden Belt, Durham.
www.goldenbeltarts.com. Separation: Megan Bostic, Samantha Pell, and Jan-Ru Wan. Thru Jul 24. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org. LAST Silkscreen Prints from CHANCE the McMann Fine Art Collection: Thru Jun 18. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery. www.hillsboroughartscouncil.org. Site-Specific Installation:
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Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis: Dance by Sara Juli. $10–$20. Jun 22-24. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www. motorcomusic.com. Trust the Bus: Multidisciplinary, site-specific performances. Fri, Jun 17 & Sat, Jun 18, 8:15 p.m. Saxapahaw General Store. www. saxgenstore.com. See p. 23.
ONGOING LAST All My Sons: Play. CHANCE $28–$30. Thru Jun 19. Kennedy Theater, Raleigh.
dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. Cloud 9: Play. $12–$17. Thru Jun 25. Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www.cgtheatre.com. Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight: Play. $10. Thru Jun 26. Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh. www.burningcoal.org. The Glass Menagerie: Play. $13–$22. Thru Jun 26. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org. Ragtime: Musical. $23–$29. Thru Jun 26. St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Raleigh. www. sfaraleigh.org. See p. 45. LAST Shakespeare in CHANCE Hollywood: Play presented by Forest Moon Theater. $13–$18. Thru Jun 19. Renaissance Centre, Wake Forest. Two Gentlemen of Verona: Play. Thru Jun 30. Various locations. www.baretheatre.org.
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LABYRINTH, CIRQUE DE VOL & BOWIE TRIBUTE BAND Judging from many Internet threads, I was far from the only person who always thought the line was “Slap that baby, make him pee,” not “make him free.” Usually that would be an outrageous mishearing, but it’s not even the most absurd thing in “Magic Dance,” a song from the 1986 Jim Henson movie musical Labyrinth, where Jennifer Connelly has to rescue her baby brother from a fantasy maze full of puppets singing new wave music. David Bowie, the villainous Goblin King—dressed in a feathered wig, a pirate shirt, and very tight jodhpurs—cavorts around kicking goblins and funkily serenading “the babe … with the power of voodoo.” In its summer film series, NCMA frontloads a 9 p.m. screening of the delectable oddball classic (scripted by Monty Python’s Terry Jones!) with a Cirque de Vol aerial show and a band covering Bowie songs from the film. With food trucks idling and cosplay encouraged, it should be a fun place to celebrate an era when Bowie was at his savviest and silliest. —Brian Howe NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m., $10–$15, www.ncartmuseum.org
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John Bassett: Making It In America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home. Tue, Jun 21, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.
Central Intelligence—The Rock and Kevin Hart star get wrapped up in a comedic crime caper. Rated PG-13. Finding Dory—The Finding Nemo fish go on a grand new adventure in this Dorycentered sequel. Rated PG.
A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com. ½ Alice Through the Looking Glass—The story’s thin but the visuals shine; see it in 3-D or not at all. Rated PG. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice—D.C. Comics’ most iconic heroes clash in an overstuffed slog littered with great moments. Rated PG-13. ½ Captain America: Civil War—As in Batman v Superman, superheroes turn on each other, but the action is served with a Marvel smirk instead of a D.C. frown. Rated PG-13. The Conjuring 2—This supernatural thriller checks off fifty years’ worth of horror movie tropes. Rated R. The Jungle Book— Disney’s animated classic gets a well done, CGI-heavy update. Rated PG. The Lobster—Yorgos Lanthimos skewers society’s fear of single people in this surrealist dark comedy. Rated R. Love & Friendship—Whit Stillman misplaces his wit in this achingly boring Jane Austen adaptation. Rated PG. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising—A sorority and a suburban couple square off with mindless gross-out gags. Rated R. ½ Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping—Well, here’s a feature-length Lonely Island sketch. Rated R.
Leigh Himes: Novel The One That Got Away. Thu, Jun 16, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com. Stephen Jurovics: Hospitable Planet: Faith, Action, and Climate Change. Thu, Jun 16, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com. Rebecca Makkai and Matthew Neill Null: Discussing their short story collections. Tue, Jun 21, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.
LITERARY R E L AT E D Audio Under the Stars: Destination Unknown: Audio storytelling about trips, travels ,and unexpected journeys. Fri, Jun 17, 8 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org. The Monti: Storytelling. $10. Tue, Jun 21, 7:30 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www. motorcomusic.com. The Mountains and Waterways of Durham’s Sister Cities: Sat, Jun 18, 3 p.m. Durham Main Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org.
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A Murder Mystery Event: Celebrating murder mystery novels. Sat, Jun 18, 3 p.m. South Regional Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org. Science Cafe: Ant Behavior: Tales to Astonish: Thu, Jun 16, 7 p.m. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.
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Noir at the Bar is a less and less clandestine syndicate of felonious fiction writers engaged in criminal activity all over the country, infiltrating cities like Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. Eryk Pruitt, author of the Southern crime novels Dirtbags and Hashtag, is suspected of smuggling the hard-boiled hullaballoo into Durham, and he’s among the readers at the latest caper in the dark downtown lounge 106 Main. Seven other authors, a mix of local repeat offenders and escapees from out of state, collude in airing out tales of dirty deeds in disreputable dives, including P.I.-novel purveyor J.D. Rhoades, Piedmont Laureate mystery writer Katy Munger, and Haw author Sean Jackson, who post-apocalypsed the Triangle and got away scot-free. —Brian Howe 106 MAIN, DURHAM 7 p.m., free, www.erykpruitt.com
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