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to table access and a stronger sense of community Chef Amanda and her husband recently moved to Durham. Educated at The Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan, Cushman is the author of her own cookbook, “Simple, Real Food.” Amanda’s healthy recipes have appeared in publications such as Food and Wine, Cooking Light, Fine Cooking and Vegetarian Times. In Los Angeles her highly successful private classes included celebrities such as Neil Patrick Harris, Molly Sims and Randy Newman. Wanting a slower pace with more focus on local, farm to table access and a stronger sense of community Chef Amanda and her husband recently moved to Durham. Wanting a slower pace with more focus on local, farm to table access and a stronger sense of community Chef Amanda and her husband recently moved to Durham. In addition to a number of regularly scheduled cooking classes each month at venues such as Southern Season, Durham Wines and Spirits, Duke Diet and Fitness Center and UNC Wellness, Amanda offers private cooking classes in your home throughout the Triangle as well as corporate team building events. ●

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7 North Carolina doesn’t want registered sex offender Lester Packingham on Facebook. The U.S. Supreme Court says it doesn’t have a choice. 8 The Durham County Sheriff’s Office says it doesn’t participate in ICE’s Secure Communities program. Tell that to Jairo Garcia del Cid, who’s about to be deported. 10 Once a rarity in the Triangle, food trucks now number more than one hundred. 12 In Chapel Hill, mobile food units must be at least fifteen feet from the nearest tree trunk.

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The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus. “I got started as a bread baker,” explains Pfann, “...and though I enjoy pastry work, making bread is what I love most.” Night Kitchen sells Sourdough, 9-Grain, and French bread everyday, and features daily specials. The bakery supplies bread to several local restaurants, including Farina, J Betski’s, and Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar. “I designed the kitchen so we could do wholesale and have room to grow. We’ve just started working with the Produce Box, so folks statewide can try our breads.” The final piece of the pie is the cafe at Night Kitchen. Exchange and fine teas from Tin Roof Teas, it’s a great space to meet a friend or have a small gathering at one of the larger farm tables. A selection of sandwiches, daily soup and quiche specials round out the menu.

The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus. “I got started as a bread baker,” explains Pfann, “...and though I enjoy pastry work, making bread is what I love most.” Night Kitchen sells Sourdough, 9-Grain, and French bread everyday, and features daily specials. The bakery supplies bread to several local restaurants, including Farina, J Betski’s, and Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar. .These days, there’s a lot more buzz about Night Kitchen. European classics such as croissant, scones, and french macarons have received high marks; as well as more American items such as brownies or the bread pudding, a muffin-shaped treat with caramelized sugar on top. ●

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triangulator THE NEW WORLD ORDER On Friday, news broke that Amazon—the web giant/ entertainment company that bought The Washington Post in 2013—will acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. Amazon benefits by being able to use its data analysis and automation tech to lure more customers to the grocer, while also turning the 460 Whole Foods stores in the U.S., U.K., and Canada into distribution hubs and pickup centers for online orders. But maybe the bigger story here isn’t the acquisition, but rather what it portends about the coming economy: Tech companies are flush. Many traditional retailers are struggling. So what’s stopping the tech giants from simply buying them—and whatever else they want? As Paul Cuatrecasas, CEO of the British investment bank Aquaa Partners, told The Los Angeles Times, Amazon’s move into the world of high-end groceries “helps justify the belief that the larger tech giants will start buying up established companies, like banks and automotive manufacturers. The impact could be immense and generational.” The tech behemoths— Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet (the company that owns Google)—have more than $500 billion in cash on hand, a bull stock market, and low interest rates. So, as the L.A. Times speculates, Alphabet could match Amazon by purchasing Kroger or FedEx. Apple could buy HBO or Tesla. And so on— the possibilities are nearly infinite.

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After weeks of negotiations, Republicans in the General Assembly announced the details of their $23 billion budget agreement Monday, outlining plans to increase teacher pay and slash taxes by a projected $530 million. An oft-cited provision in the GOP budget would raise teacher pay by an average of 3.3 percent and give other state employees a flat $1,000 bonus. The budget would also make a series of tax cuts effective in 2019: lowering the corporate income tax rate from 3 to 2.5 percent, reducing the personal income tax rate from 5.499 to 5.25 percent, and decreasing the franchise tax on small businesses. Critics argue that the state is sacrificing much-needed investments—not just in schools but also in infrastructure and economic development—at the altar of tax relief for the wealthy. Republicans see recent budget surpluses as evidence that their philosophy is working, so there’s no need to change course. While lawmakers are more than happy to talk about tax breaks and teacher salaries, one subject has gotten less attention: abortion. More specifically, two abortion-related budget decisions: funding for abortion providers and crisis pregnancy centers. Early budget drafts included provisions that would prohibit state funding for “any provider that performs abortions,” including hospitals. Others sought to funnel additional money to CPCs.

The prohibition on abortion providers ultimately got the ax, but budget writers did see fit to award $2.6 million over the next two fiscal years to Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, a nonprofit network for CPCs in the state. As Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship’s website makes clear, the organization is in the business of dissuading women from getting abortions. CPCF’s services have been supported by taxpayers since 2013, says Tara Romano, the executive director of NARAL ProChoice North Carolina, when the budget allocated $250,000 for the nonprofit over two years. In 2015, that amount jumped to $300,000 a year. But that’s significantly less than the $1.3 million allocated in this year’s budget—along with another $1.3 million the following year—an amount Romano was shocked to see. “That big jump was really a surprise,” she says. “With CPCs, there just doesn’t seem to be much oversight with how it’s spent. And for them to increase it so much, this is really concerning to us. It’s disturbing that they are giving out so much money without having any real oversight.” A call to CPCF was not returned by press time Tuesday. The legislature is expected to approve the budget later this week.

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The annual fiscal wrangle between Wake County’s governing bodies ground to a halt Monday as the Board of Commissioners

approved a $1.26 billion budget on a 5–2 vote, bumping up the schools’ allocation by $5 million over the county manager’s recommendation to provide $430.9 million in local funding. Commissioner Matt Calabria, who moved to include the extra $5 million, acknowledged that Wake County schools will still lag beyond many other counties in the state even with the increase. Use of a recent $1.5 million rise in sales tax revenues and transfers from debt service and capital funds meant that the property tax increase needed to fund the budget could remain at 1.45 cents per $100 in assessed value. That was the rate recommended by county manager Jim Hartmann in his budget proposal. While receiving less than the school board’s request for a $45 million increase, Wake schools will get $21 million in new funding. “We certainly have a long way to go,” Calabria said. “We have done a great deal, but we have a lot of catching up to do.” Commissioners Greg Ford and Jessica Holmes voted against the budget as insufficient to meet the growing school system’s needs. Ford referred to Calabria’s funding mechanisms as “sleight of hand.” “I cannot support this budget because it doesn’t go far enough to support education,” Holmes said. triangulator@indyweek.com

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axes come at you from every corner, and this time of year governments at all levels are preparing to stick it to you—that is, to charge you the freight for living in a free society. As legislators in Raleigh and Washington exhibit tax-cutting fever, city and county officials have hiked tax bills, in both cases for what many would describe as good causes. For the Wake County Board of Commissioners, allocations fed by tax increases will go to the schools, law enforcement, and other priorities. For Raleigh, increased revenue has gone or will go to parks, transportation, affordable housing, and pay raises for municipal employees. On the state side, the General Assembly’s GOP leadership on Monday announced a budget that will continue to cut personal and business income taxes over the next two years. But the reality is tax cuts at 8 | 6.21.17 | INDYweek.com

one level of government often translate to increases downhill. And the legislature doesn’t yet know what’s in store for North Carolina once the U.S. Congress takes its whack at federal income tax rates and cuts potentially hundreds of billions to pay for a revised health care plan. As part of the health care plan that’s being written in secret by U.S. senators, steep cuts appear likely for Medicaid, a program that helps individuals with low incomes and disabilities access health care. Wake budget planners, including those at the school system, know part of what’s ahead for the fiscal year, which starts July 1, because the Board of Commissioners adopted a $1.26 billion budget Monday evening. County commissioners complained volubly about a shortfall in state funding for education as they cut more than half of the school board’s request for $45 million in new funds to $21 million.

“We are handicapped in this state,” said commissioner Erv Portman. “There is no question that public education is underfunded in this state.” School board member Jim Martin called the appropriation disappointing. “The big picture is that it’s a status quo budget,” Martin told the INDY. “It just meets growth and inflation. It’s a subsistence budget.” When the Great Recession hit in 2008, state contributions to North Carolina public schools fell and have taken many years to recover. It wasn’t until the 2015– 16 school year that the state share provided to Wake schools exceeded $5,321 on a per-pupil basis, the level it had contributed in 2008–09. Wake County Public Schools budgets for 2016–17 and 2017–18 show that state mandates or actions are requiring expenditures of $12 million in the current budget year and $16 million in the year to come. That

includes a $6.8 million increase for charter school students, part of $32 million for this population Wake is obligated to pay under state law. “We’re not a taxing authority,” says school board spokeswoman Lisa Luten. “When there’s something that’s not covered by the state, we put it in our budget and ask for it from the county commissioners.” As Republican lawmakers have steadily lowered state income and corporate tax rates, Wake leaders have generally agreed to pump up their own contributions to local government and schools. With Monday’s budget, the county will have imposed four straight years of property taxes: 4.40 cents per $100 in property valuation in 2014–15, 3.65 cents in 2015–16, 1.35 cents in 2016– 17, and the proposed 1.45 cents in the new fiscal year. (You can’t add those up to get a cumulative increase because of the reappraisal of property that took place in 2016,

after which rates had to be lowered to keep revenues neutral.) On the city of Raleigh’s side, taxes have gone up, too, partly through public referenda. The city property tax rose for the last three years, including an increase that voters approved. Another tax referendum, of 1.3 cents, is slated for a vote in October. The Republicans have also replaced the state’s graduated income tax, which once had a top rate of 7.75 percent, with a flat tax. From one point of view, the flat tax means treating everyone the same. From another, it amounts to giving small or nonexistent cuts to low-wage earners and hefty cuts to those at the top. House Speaker Tim Moore says the cuts have been a good idea. “In 2008, under Democrat control of our state, a married taxpayer who filed jointly with their spouse and earned $50,000 a year in North Carolina paid $1,968 in total state income taxes,” Moore wrote in a May essay in Forbes. “In 2017, under Republican control of North Carolina, the same taxpayer pays just $1,587 in state income taxes. An average North Carolina taxpayer—a teacher, perhaps—saved $381 on their income taxes this year compared to last decade." After nine years of cuts, the couple Moore describes is taking home an extra $7.33 a week. That means they could alternate weeks ordering a Chick-fil-A grilled nuggets combo, with drink and side, at $7.24 (with state and Wake sales tax included). The new budget cuts the flat personal income tax rate to 5.25 percent in 2019. To make state tax cuts possible, legislators have whittled deep into local budgets. The changes can be low-profile but expensive, such as shifting the cost for outpatient care for county jail inmates to the county, at a cost to Wake in the next fiscal year of $2.3 million. n Some state budget changes will loom large er in years to come. State contributions to t private school vouchers will increase from $44.8 million this year to $54.8 in 2019, according to budget documents released Monday. And budget planners call for the d state contribution to the vouchers—which l critics say drains money and motivated families from public schools—to triple to $134.8 million within a decade. s The proposed income tax cuts come in a fiscal environment in which state revenues – are spilling over. GOP leaders plan to add w $363.9 million to the state’s rainy day fund, while Democrats will continue to make the - case that the rainy day is here. tgoldsmith@indyweek ,

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EATING in TRAFFIC

n 2010, I wrote the INDY’s first DISH feature on food trucks. A lot has changed since then, and a few of my favorite trucks don’t exist anymore. I can still taste the burst of fennel seed in Thao Beck’s meatloaf sandwich from Mom’s Delicious Dishes. My one long summer as a nanny was fueled by the cold hemp and lucuma milk at Carrboro Raw, a juice truck inspired by owner Nice Pulido’s Brazilian upbringing. And the most amazing chorizo

quesadilla in Durham came from the folks at Tacorriendo Lopez. These flavors will forever be tucked into the archives of my food nostalgia. And that’s the nature of the mobile food business. It’s as fluid as it is growing. Back in 2010, Brian Bottger of Only Burger organized the first Bull City Street Food Vendor Rodeo. Now, trucks are corralled all over the Triangle. Durham County alone is home to more

than 136 mobile food units, just trailing Mecklenburg County for the most in the state. This DISH issue features our ten favorite trucks today and a full review of the newest truck, Brinehaus, by our restaurant critic, Emma Laperruque. We also introduce (or reintroduce if you’re no stranger) some of the folks fueling our food truck scene, and what it means to keep at it—even after nearly a decade. —Victoria Bouloubasis

OUR TEN FAVORITES Plus, the top new kid on the block AMERICAN MELTDOWN

www.americanmeltdown.org A classic grilled cheese sandwich, Kraft singles and all, has the Proustian capacity to evoke memories of childhood. But sometimes adulthood needs its own grilled cheeses—and that’s where American Meltdown excels. The menu combines fancy cheeses (like chevre, Gouda, Havarti, or Manchego) with surprising fruits, herbs, meat, and sauces and grill it all between slices of locally baked bread from Guglhupf. The truck’s true secret lies not on the sandwich menu but on the list of sides: the fried Brussels sprouts absolutely steal the show. —Iza Wojciechowska

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argue that its no-fuss approach is anything but that. The mandu are a treat— loose dumplings wrapped around your choice of meat (pork is a must-try). —Victoria Bouloubasis

BORICUA SOUL

www.boricuasoulnc.com The family behind Boricua Soul is unabashedly pushing for nuance in its selfproclaimed Puerto Rican-inspired soul food. Which is why this soul has heart. The chefs have a flair for combining historic ingredients of their African and Carribean roots with nouveau Southern-Latino methods of cooking. To start, try a few of their creative empanadas, like the BBQ stuffed with a slowroasted Eastern Carolina-style pork or the Green Beans and Queso with collards, queso fresco, black-eyed peas, and black beans. Your brain may not know what to do with this mismatch, but your palate will be delighted. —Victoria Bouloubasis

CHIRBA CHIRBA DUMPLINGS

www.chirbachirba.com The school bus-yellow truck with the chubby cartoon dumpling is parked most weekends at Fullsteam Brewery. If you haven't yet been, you’ve probably heard about it. Chirba Chirba has won best food truck in our annual “Best of the Triangle” awards—four years in a row. The name translates as “Eat! Eat!” in Mandarin, but in a way a grandma would say, a firm, but loving, mandate. Their dumplings are similarly cozy. Grass-fed beef with red curry. Garlicky collards with tofu. Pork with cabbage and chives. Pick one or all, then pair with their signature dipping sauces. You have your choice of four, from traditional black vinegar to sweet and sour pineapple curry. —Emma Laperruque

MAMA’S HOT CHICKEN

www.twitter.com/mamashotchicken I did not want to like this truck. There is no mama to be seen, and the chicken is not, in fact, real hot chicken, the kind birthed in Nashville. But when you're a chicken tender fiend, it's incredibly difficult not to try one. And so I did. The plump tenders come in a thin paper box patterned in red stripes. They lie upon a pile of fries, with containers of crunchy cole slaw, honey mustard, and ketchup to the side. The trio of giant tenders is hot, as in temperature, and mild, as in spice level. If you like real hot chicken, go for the spiciest level. The appeal to this chicken is how juicy it is, fried on the spot to satisfy that tender hankering. —Victoria Bouloubasis

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PHO NOMENAL DUMPLINGS

www.phonomenaldumplings.com As the name indicates, Pho Nomenal Dumplings likes to have fun with their food. You say sloppy joe, they think Korean bulgogi. And hey, why not throw some Cheerwine into the marinade? Slap it on a buttery Hawaiian bun, add some kimchi and spicy mayo. This playful innovation appears all over the menu, like the Taiwanese spaghetti and corn dog banh mi. Then there are the classics, like the namesake beef pho and pork dumplings. After owners Sunny Lin and Sophia Woo won season six of the Food Network’s The Great American Food Truck Race, they put the $50,000 prize toward their first restaurant, MOFU Shoppe, which is slated to open early this summer. The truck will only be at special events the rest of the year, picking up full service in 2018. —Emma Laperruque

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you want at their location on West Main Street in Durham. But there’s something about that truck—well, technically, trailer. Mike Hacker and Becky Cascio serve what they term “Durham-style” pizza by the slice or whole pie. This means hand-tossed, thin crust, and seasonal ingredients, with combinations that never take themselves too seriously. Find them outside Ponysaurus, say, and they get real punny, like the “spinasaurus” (spinach, feta, garlic) or “marghedactyl” (pesto, tomatoes, goat cheese). Add in chicken wings, garlic knots, and Caesar salad for good measure. Plus, at the Saturday Durham farmers market they sling amazing biscuits from the pizza oven. —Emma Laperruque

SOOMSOOM PITA POCKETS

www.soomsoompitapockets.com I am nothing if not a sucker for various breakfast sandwiches, so the promise of a shakshuka pita pocket, stuffed with cooked eggs, tomatoes, and tahini, lured me to Soomsoom one morning after the Durham farmers

market. But a rotating cast of pitas filled with Middle Eastern and Mediterranean ingredients like lamb, grilled eggplant, tzatziki, and hummus has made Soomsoom one of my favorites on the food truck scene. After living in places where shawarma in pita is a street food staple (Turkey, then New York City), I appreciated finding the same thing in a new iteration when I moved here. Soomsoom takes pride in keeping its flavors authentic and uses local, fresh ingredients. An added bonus: its pita bread is made by Chapel Hill’s beloved Mediterranean Deli. —Iza Wojciechowska

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Where and when food trucks can set up shop is determined by city and county governments in North Carolina, creating a system of differing ordinances. And, sometimes, confusing logistics for customers. In Raleigh, food truck hours stretch from six a.m. to three a.m. on nonresidential property that has a primary use, so unimproved grass and dirt lots are off limits. Vendors on private property must be at least one hundred feet from the door of any restaurant or outdoor dining area, at least fifty feet from mobile food carts (think hot dog carts), fifteen or more feet from fire hydrants, and five or more feet from accessibility features like driveways, sidewalks, and wheelchair ramps. In 2016, Raleigh launched a pilot program to bring food trucks to downtown blocks where workers were plentiful but restaurant options were limited. Vendors can reserve spots on streets like South State Street via the Raleigh Street Food Finder app. But pilot program spaces are only permitted between ten a.m. and three p.m. and during First Friday events. In Cary, trucks must be at least one hundred feet from any restaurant door or other food truck-permitted area, and at least one hundred and fifty feet from the property boundary of any dwelling. No more than three food trucks can be on a permitted location simultaneously. Public property locations are impermissible, except through official Town of Cary events; common-owned residential areas are only allowed as part of a neighborhood-sponsored activity. Hours begin at six a.m. but end at

greasy) made right by equally simple salsas. Standing outside a gas station offers interesting conversations, too. Not only did my tacos console me on election night last year, but so did the Vietnam veteran who promised we could fight this together. —Victoria Bouloubasis

THAI BOX ZING

www.thaiboxzing.com Flavors from Thailand and Laos merge on the menu at Thai Box Zing food truck, a twoyear-old Raleigh business run by husband-

midnight, and a vendor must be removed from the permitted location when operational hours end. Cary prohibits vendors from providing amplified music, outdoor seating, tables, standup counters, or benches. Crossing into Durham makes things easier. Durham has no hour restrictions on food truck operations, and the city’s distance regulations are relatively relaxed. Durham vendors must keep their trucks at least fifty feet from restaurant entrances or outdoor dining tables when the restaurant is open, no less than twenty feet from the entrances and exits of banks and ATMs, ten feet from driveways, fire and police stations, fire hydrants, other mobile food vendors, and allowing four feet of sidewalk space. Durham food truck operators cannot provide seating or tables, but they are allowed one sandwich board sign within thirty feet of the vehicle. Chapel Hill allows food truck sales on appropriately zoned, privately owned nonresidential property, with a buffer of at least one hundred feet from restaurant entrances, at all hours. Vehicles must be at least fifteen feet from fire hydrants, driveways, and, curiously, tree trunks. Meanwhile, from six a.m. to 2:30 a.m., food trucks can operate on private lots in a handful of Carrboro’s nonresidential zoning districts for business and manufacturing, plus the nonconforming residential lot around Johnny’s Gone Fishing. Carrboro has no restaurant distance requirements, meaning Wendy’s doesn’t keep trucks out of the Steel String Brewery parking lot or the space next to Cliff’s Meat Market. All “mobile prepared food vendor” signage in Carrboro must be permanently attached to the vehicle, so no sandwich boards.

and-wife team Andy and Sophia Luangkhot. You’ve never had Thai food like this before. The dishes highlight fresh herbs, pungent sauces, deeply flavorful spices, and an elevated understanding of how to marry the two countries’ vast cuisines. Drawing from a life of making and perfecting food (Andy helped his mom as a kid with her pop-up dinners), the Luangkhots have carved out a spot as one of the best Southeast Asian food vendors in the whole Triangle. Try their unforgettable red curry for yourself; soon you’ll be preaching, too. —Sayaka Matsuoka

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ELEVATED COMFORT FOOD Brinehaus Meat and Provisions is the new truck to follow BY EMMA LAPERRUQUE It is a Friday night at Lonerider Brewery, and the sky is still blue. A band sings Ed Sheeran and Nancy Sinatra for packed picnic tables. I found a seat at one, toward the back, with a cold IPA. I am two bites into my fried trout sandwich when an eleven-month-old child takes one of my tater tots. It fills his palm, as if an adult were holding a whole potato. He starts to eat and his dad starts to apologize—but I can’t stop from laughing, hard, until the buckles on my overalls ring like jingle bells. The child takes this as his cue to take another, and another, and another. We all want to be this baby. In many ways, he is everything you need to know about Brinehaus Meat and Provisions, the new food truck from Steve and Sam Goff. The dishes are so good, you want everyone around you to try them. And once they do, they can’t get enough. Brinehaus has officially been in the works for a year and a half. But really, it’s been more like eight. That is when Steve and Sam met in the culinary program at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, where they started their respective careers, and their relationship. “We just never separated,” Sam says. “We’ve worked together ever since.” They moved to the Triangle in 2015, when Steve took the opportunity to become head butcher at Standard Foods, the restaurant meets grocery meet butcher shop in the Person Street Plaza in Raleigh. The plan, from the start, Steve says, was to help Standard Foods open, then build something of his own. “I can't think of a position in a restaurant that I haven't worked,” he says, “or a kind of restaurant that I haven't worked in.” Before Standard Foods, he served as executive chef at King James Public House in Asheville, the culmination of a decade of work in kitchens all around a city that showcases one of the most vibrant food scenes in the state. While Sam hails from there originally, Steve ended up in North Carolina after “a long time as a street kid,” hopping trains

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across the country. Now he’s on the move again, never staying in one place too long. Only, the train has become a truck, and almost everything else has changed. He has a close family and a clear destination—the dream of a restaurant that he and his wife will call their own. For many couples, work-life balance hinges on separation. The office from the home. One partner’s profession from the

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other’s. But, for the Goffs, life is all about collaboration. They—and their truck— depend on partnership, like fuel, with him as executive chef and her as manager. “This is not a job for Steve,” Sam says. “This is his passion. And I am passionate about him. I want to see him grow and evolve and create and thrive. And I want to be part of it.” I can’t help but wonder if this is part of why the food is so good. “Love” as an ingredient sounds cheesy—but, also like cheese, tastes amazing. Caring about what you’re cooking, how you’re cooking, who you’re cooking with, and who you’re cooking for matters. And Steve and Sam care a lot. Ask them about sustainability and they’ll tell you about natural gas (their generator runs on it instead of gasoline) and solar panels (installed on the truck to supplement electricity) and food waste (no way). “We use everything,” Sam says. “If we’re using a carrot, we use the whole carrot. If we’re using an animal, we use the whole animal. That’s huge for us.”

So is community service. In Asheville, they contributed to an organization called Downtown Welcome Table, which collaborates with chefs to cook for the city’s homeless. Now that they have Brinehaus, they hope to similarly support the surrounding community—the whole community. Locate Brinehaus anywhere on social media and you’ll find Steve and Sam waiting with Carolina red hot dogs, smothered in local beef chili, chopped onions, and a crunchy, tangy, vegetables-of-the-day slaw. Two per order. Because who ever eats one hot dog? Try a fried fish sandwich with a Nashville twang. Steve dunks the fish—he just snagged some speckled sea trout from Locals Seafood—in a spicy, green peanut oil from Oliver Farm in Georgia, then layers that on a squishy bun with lettuce, tomato, and pickles. And chicken wings, smoked until they taste the way you feel after a night around a campfire, fried until crispy, and tossed in a Buffalo-style sweet potato sauce. The recipe was actually an accident, after a spill left Steve with not enough Buffalo and a surplus of Alabama white, the tangy horseradish sauce. The combination, he says, reminded him of his early kitchen days, when his favorite staff meal was buffalo wings with ranch for dipping. “I've worked in fine dining restaurants and I decided, I want to feed everybody. I don't want to just feed rich people,” Steve says. “I'd rather put a lot of thought into utilizing every single thing we have, making more approachable food.” In other words, he and Sam are putting their formal training and years of experience toward comfort food out of a truck. And it is that contrast between craft sourcing and cozy service, between obsessed-over recipes and old-school dishes, that makes Brinehaus so exciting. “We don't want to make it taste like Jean Pierre made it,” Steve says. “We want to make it taste like Grandma made that shit. Wonderbread. Duke’s. Those things that touch people's souls." food@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 6.21.17 | 13

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FEELS ON WHEELS How not to have an actual meltdown as a food truck owner BY PAUL INSERRA

It all started with our food truck back in 2008. We are proud to have been one of the first food trucks on the streets in North Carolina and appreciate the tremendous support we have received from Durham foodies and beyond. The Only Burger food truck is the poster child for the exploding Durham mobile food scene and continues to roam the streets. You can find our food truck around the Triangle at various office parks for lunch, food truck rodeos, festivals and more. We are available for weddings, private parties such as birthdays, graduations, and neighborhood pool parties. Just email us at catering@onlyburger.com for inquiries. Only Burger opened its first brick and mortar in November of 2010, and in the fall of 2014, a second location at the American Tobacco Campus next to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

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Six months into operating a new food truck, I put out a job advertisement: "HELP WANTED - We need the following: the tactical adaptability of a Navy SEAL, the flexibility of a master yogi in regards to scheduling and heat tolerance, an addiction to adrenaline and semi-organized chaos, the ability to work investment banker hours without the investment banker pay. Helpful but not required: a sense of humor that is a cross between Tina Fey and Andrew Dice Clay. You should probably like pirates. Required: A desire to succeed in the culinary industry." My truck, American Meltdown, serves gourmet melts and grilled cheese, or you could say fussy grilled cheese and nostalgic grilled cheese. During our fiveand-a-half-year existence, I’ve learned that it takes a special person to drive around a loaded 15,000pound vehicle and work in its confines—and like it. For one, food truck chefs work in a space akin to a good-sized walk-in closet— with poor ventilation, so it gets hot. Fans of Bikram yoga will love the feel of a food truck from June through mid-September. To be considered “chef-y” by the food intelligentsia but still approachable to the mainstream, your menu should change fairly often, with solid core items. These days, food trucks resemble a pirate ship and a crew: a captain drives while a shipmate organizes events and the crew. Our schedule was nebulous for the first three months. Henry, the first employee I hired, would ask at the end of each day, “Are we working tomorrow?” Oftentimes, a gig would not come through until the day before. At our first food truck rodeo, Henry and

I had prepped the entire menu three days prior at the Cookery. This was his first job in the culinary field, and my first managerial role and entrepreneurial project. Too bad I forgot to tell him which ingredients went on which sandwiches. The orders were piling in. Henry was on sandwich, I was on the griddle, and my wife, Alycia, was handling the window, using a bistro apron as a cash drawer because we did not have a register setup yet. Henry kept asking, “What goes on the 'Hangover’? And the ‘Fordham’?” After thirty minutes of me verbalizing every ingredient, we found a rhythm, but the flow was soon broken by the griddle shutting down. (It turned out we had a faulty propane regulator.) Ernest Harris, who owns the Chick-N-Que food truck, was among the first to ask how we did. I answered honestly—that we ran out of food three times. “You what!?” he responded, laughing. “You are a grilled cheese truck and you sold out of bread and cheese? That should not happen.” I was embarrassed and have never forgotten Ernest’s words. We have only run out of food one other time since then, during a twelvehour service. It’s been a roller coaster ride. Some days, I’m convinced the adventure is just beginning, on others I think it’s all over. In retrospect, my help-wanted ad was right, but I neglected one important detail. The business owners in the Triangle food truck and restaurant community have been as instrumental to our success as the people waiting in line for a grilled cheese. With its shared wisdom, repairs, and client referrals, the business community has taught me that teamwork is the most vital factor. food@indyweek.com

Fans of Bikram yoga will love the feel of a food truck from June through mid-September.

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RISKY BUSINESS

In an untested market, Durham's first food trucks found brick-and-mortar success BY ERYK PRUITT "Observe due measure, for right timing in all things is the most important factor." —Hesiod, 700 B.C.E. If you run a business, you know this mantra. No successful entrepreneur could claim ignorance of such a quote and, neither, by extension, could Brian Bottger. In 2008, when he partnered with Tom Ferguson to put the Only Burger truck on the road, Durham offered a different culinary landscape than it does today. “The iPhone 3 Days,” Bottger calls them. On his fingers, he counts off the other factors in play. “The recession, Facebook just got started, Twitter had recently launched. The only food trucks in the Triangle were late-night taco trucks who always stayed in the same location.” Bottger lived in Southern California and witnessed the rapid success of the Kogi BBQ taco truck. He recognized that Durham, which Bon Appétit had named “America's Foodiest Small Town,” was the perfect place to start Only Burger. Becky Hacker of Pie Pushers was right behind him. In 2011, she and her husband, Mike Hacker, were daydreaming beyond their jobs at Durham's Watt's Grocery. “We'd walk around Durham and look at all the empty spaces and think, ‘Oh, that would be fun,’” Hacker says. “But we knew deep down it would not be realistic.” Conventional wisdom dictates the mobile food unit can't last forever. Internet advisers declare all food truckers must have a plan to move to a physical location. Neither Bottger nor the Hackers, who enjoyed success in the initial few years, ever had such a plan. “The plan was always more trucks,” Bottger says. “Year one was spent convincing people to eat off a truck and getting the word out. Year two we started Durham's food truck rodeos. By the third year, we wanted another truck, but the kitchen we shared with Durham Catering got crowded.” Bottger's proposal that Only Burger get a kitchen of its own led to the addition of a take-out window, then a small bar where folks could enjoy a beer while they waited. Before long, they'd opened their first brick-

Only Burger found added success in two brick-and-mortar locations, including one in downtown Durham. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER and-mortar location, on Shannon Road. The second location is at the American Tobacco Campus downtown. Hacker figured Pie Pushers would remain a food truck enterprise, at least in the early stages. “Our plan originally was to have fun and try not to fail,” Hacker says. But as they began to look at spaces around town a bit more seriously, Kym Register, who owns the Pinhook, offered them the space one floor above their bar. The restaurant opened in September. Only Burger and Pie Pushers made their move indoors just as the food truck landscape in the Triangle changed precipitously. “Food trucks are ubiquitous,” says Bott-

ger. “Nowadays, there's no street fair, event, or corporate function that doesn't have a food truck.” “When we started, there were not a lot of different cuisines on the road,” Hacker says. “But now, there's Indian food, Thai, there's like three different arepa trucks.” She adds, “There are over one hundred trucks in the Triangle now. It's that much harder just to let people know who you are and why you are different.” While both Only Burger and Pie Pushers hit the streets at just the right time, then moved inside just as fortuitously, one has to wonder what the future holds for the trucks that made their good names. Bottger sees

the Only Burger truck as part of his brand's DNA. His downtown location is marked by a miniature Only Burger truck above the front door. The truck still rolls out every day, although Bottger splits his time between the restaurants and limits his tours on the truck to once per week and during big rodeos. Pie Pushers also keeps its truck on the road, although Hacker says they've cut back from ten truck services per week to five or six. “Not being on the truck frees me up to do other things,” she says, as she takes another order inside her Main Street restaurant. “Like deliver these pizzas.” food@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 6.21.17 | 15

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The Holloways start a food truck dynasty on Rigsbee Avenue BY SAM BERMAS-DAWES Frank Holloway’s night almost ended before it began. The acrid smell of burning fuel was thick in the Friday evening air, as a loud choking sound spit out of the generator beneath his food truck. Inside the red cabin of Urban Entrees, Frank has buns stacked for hot dogs and hamburgers, and chili and cheese ready for chili fries. But without a working generator, he thinks he’s going to have to call it an early night at his frequent weekend post on Rigsbee Avenue. At times like this, Frank remembers the advice his mother gave him when he decided to join the family business: working in food trucks is never easy. But just as he’s about to leave, one of Frank’s regular customers, an employee at Surf Club, walks by. He points up the street to Surf Club and invites Frank to use the bar’s back patio— and electrical outlets. “Come on back and serve, man!” “You got a plug back there?” Frank asks. “Yeah, let me just put in a word!” And like that, Frank is back in business. “I love this strip,” Frank says. “People like him know my work ethic and and who I am." The Holloways bring a new definition to ‘family business.’ Franks’s mom, Carolyn Holloway, known as “Tootie,” started a food truck in 2008. Now, Tootie, her husband, Herb, and their sons Antoine, Frank, and Sherrod have a food truck fleet that includes three trucks, with a fourth on the way. Herb, who builds and maintains food trucks for the family as well as other businesses in the area, including Soomsoom Pita Pockets, is working on building the new truck. Antoine helps his mother in the Tootie’s truck, while Sherrod operates his own funnel cake truck with his wife, Deona. So it is more than likely that Durhamites who frequent the food truck scene, especially late-night, have eaten food linked to the Holloway family. When Tootie started in 2008, she says only a handful of food trucks operated in the area. “They weren’t even thought about,” she says. Currently, Tootie owns a brick-and-mortar space (named, of course, Tootie’s) on Angier Avenue. The storefront will become a restau16 | 6.21.17 | INDYweek.com

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Carolyn "Tootie" Holloway with one of her sons, Antoine rant soon, but so far only holds the family’s cooking supplies, further proof that this is a family focused on food trucks. Rapid growth in the food truck industry shows that this focus is paying dividends. The Emergent Research group and software company Intuit forecasted national revenues of $2.7 billion for food truck businesses in 2017. That’s a four-fold increase from $650 million in 2012 revenue, the same study found. A boom in local food truck business is far from the only change Tootie has witnessed. She was born in Durham in the 1950s and can name an endless stream of businesses and buildings across the city that no longer exist, mapping out a landscape few would recognize. “I could talk to you for three days about Durham,” Tootie says. But while her hometown has changed, and perhaps more so than ever in the years since she has entered the mobile-food business, Tootie says the running of her family business has remained the same. Tootie pushes her sons hard and stresses consistency, no matter who is in the kitchen. It’s a problem other food trucks deal with all the time, Antoine says. Too many hands in a recipe, so the same recipes cooked on separate occasions might taste drastically different. Before Frank could run his own food truck, he worked seven years in his mother’s business to make sure his service was consis-

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tent with the Tootie’s legacy. And that, Tootie emphasizes, is an integral pillar of her family’s success: a focus on consistency and tradition in a city in the midst of so much change. “A lot of my wisdom comes from the history of Durham,” she says. “We had small hot dog shops, and people took pride in their food.” “The food wasn’t processed,” Antoine adds. Tootie nods in agreement. “I remember all the old restaurants where you could get a full-course meal,” she adds. “Everything was made from scratch.” Like the food joints from Tootie’s youth, Urban Entrees and Tootie’s embrace a wideranging menu instead of specialty items. Their menus feature a classic spread of Americana, from hot dogs, hamburgers, and Philly cheesesteak sandwiches to cheese fries and BLTs. The food is an effort to keep traditions alive, a nod to past family recipes and the history of Durham. It harkens to a time when a hot meal filled you up without thinning out your pockets. Take their juicy burgers, which two people hankering for a bite after two a.m. could easily split. Unwilling to reveal family recipes, Herb claims that the ubiquitous tendollar burger, found at newer sit-down restaurants, is not nearly as good as the burger his family sells out of its food trucks. The biggest perk: it’s half the price. food@indyweek.com

Mattie Beason can't help but to tinker. For the glitzy restaurant scene, downtown Durham was uncharted territory in the early 2000s when Beason marched in to plant a flag with Pop's and Rue Cler. He pioneered late-night upscale dining when he brought his rotating menu of small bites to Six Plates off Erwin Road. Most recently, his Black Twig Cider House offers an extensive list of ciders, including Tzotz, which pours from a barrel down a long chute before the eyes (and gullets) of thirsty patrons. So it comes as no surprise that he'd tweak the food truck experience by offering the Triangle's very first food truck court. County Fare, to be built at 1920 Chapel Hill Road, will host one hundred and fifty guests inside a large steel barn, and an additional two hundred people outside. With that comes a rotating selection of three to seven food trucks in the circular drive. “We'll offer amenities not usually available to customers at food trucks,” says Beason. “There will be bathrooms, a full bar, and indoor seating.” The concept fills many holes for Triangle diners. For one, it provides a space where either a family of four or a group of nearly thirty people can meet comfortably, while still accommodating a wide palate of tastes. It also allows someone with a hankering for Korean street tacos or grilled cheese sliders to pair those plates with a glass of fine wine from the bar. “I'm always looking for a way to improve the dining experience,” Beason says. “I like to bring something new to the table.” Keep meddling, Mattie!

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SLAM DUNK IN CREEDMOOR A former Harlem Globetrotter scores at a slower pace by settling in North Carolina and opening a Louisiana food truck BY SAYAKA MATSUOKA ballplayer wears his Jordans on wheels. Inspired by his childhood in Louisiana, Greenup and his wife, LesLee, started the Creedmoor-based food truck five years ago to bring more authentic Cajun cooking to the Triangle. “There aren’t a lot of Cajun options in the area,” says Greenup. The offerings consist of The Big Easy, a Cajun restaurant with locations in Raleigh and Cary, and LaPlace, a modern Cajun “cookery” in Hillsborough— slim Cajun options for a region that prides itself on having a diverse and robust food scene. Greenup grew up in Baton Rouge, where gumbo and étouffées regularly simmered on his grandmother’s Athlete-turned-chef Anthony Greenup PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN stove. He, too, learned to cook from his grandmother, mother, and sister, and those same stands tall, his head barely clearing the classic dishes now appear on the food seven-foot-high ceiling, as he takes the last truck’s menu. orders from the window. On the shelf sit Back at the office park, customers samthree different bottles of hot sauce, framed ple them both. The boudin balls, a mix of by a series of photos plastered against the pork sausage and rice rolled up, battered, window showing Greenup during his time and fried to a crisp, are a real hit. Each as a Harlem Globetrotter. mound is about the size of a falafel. You can During the nine years that he played basget three for three bucks with a side of what ketball for the world-renowned exhibition Greenup calls his “Who dat” sauce. team, he traveled the globe, nicknamed “You know, like the New Orleans Saints,” “Airport.” He joined the team after playsays Greenup with a smile, referencing the ing at Raleigh’s Shaw University for two team’s chant. years. There, he led the nation by shootA remoulade with a kick, the “Who dat” ing 71 percent from the field. He racked up sauce is almost unnecessary for the wellenough stats to become the only player in seasoned boudin balls, but it's a welcome the division to finish among the top thiraddition to any of the other sides—try the ty in scoring, rebounding, blocked shots, fried okra or the chicken wings. and shooting percentage. (Named the CenThe crawfish étouffée comes in a Styrotral College Athletic Association Defenfoam bowl covered in tin foil, which visusive Player of the Year for the 2003–04 ally downplays the depth of flavors trapped season, he did a brief stint for the Charunderneath. Rice covered in a gravy-like lotte Hornets before he signed on with the sauce with minuscule bits of green pepper Globetrotters.) and onion peeking through, the dish is both More than a decade later, the retired By the time one o’clock rolls around on a Wednesday afternoon in Cary, Anthony Greenup is close to locking up his food truck, Baton Rouge Cuisine. The white, minimally decorated truck sits in the parking lot of a group of office buildings much like those found in RTP. Inside, Greenup

savory and spicy, with occasional lumps of crawfish that add an extra layer of texture to the meal. For those whose palates can withstand spicier options, Greenup offers a chicken and sausage jambalaya that leaves some customers wiping their brows after just a few bites. Like many Cajun and Creole dishes, many entrees start with a roux base, infusing them with the home-cooked, comforting feeling of hours of work that result in robust flavor. Greenup says that cooking came to him almost as naturally as sports did growing up. To him, the business fulfills his lifelong passion for food after years of constantly traveling from one place to another as an athlete. “I don’t miss being on a roll ten months

out of the year,” he says. These days, the father of two says he enjoys spending time with his family, teaching his son basketball, and hosting the occasional crawfish boil at home. And while many friends and customers have asked whether they will eventually open their own restaurant, Greenup admits that he appreciates the flexibility that comes with owning a food truck rather than a brick-and-mortar business. “I used to be a different person on the court,” says Greenup. “I was intense. But in the truck, I’m a laid-back person.” For now, slow-cooked food leads to a slower pace that the former basketball star has, at last, achieved. food@indyweek.com

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King’s Sandwich Shop reinvents 1950s Durham fare in a shiny new Airstream trailer BY IZA WOJCIECHOWSKA The sun was hot, but the tater tots were hotter as patrons gathered earlier this summer in a vacant parking lot on Geer Street decked out with picnic tables, a giant Jenga game, classic tunes, and a 1950s Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight. The star of the show, though, was a sleek, refurbished silver Airstream trailer doling out the classic Durham fare that drew people to the lot in the first place. This was the launch of King’s Mobile, an extension of King’s Sandwich Shop, a tiny takeout spot that occupies the corner of Geer and Foster streets, next to Manbites Dog Theater and across from Cocoa Cinnamon. It has been serving the same burgers, hot dogs, chili, and tots from the same red-and-white stand for the last seventyfive years. King’s owner TJ McDermott and his King’s Mobile partner, Hud Giles, were working the Airstream at the launch, taking orders, handing out food, trying to navigate the ins and outs of their new business and beaming at how it had all turned out after more than a year of work. Their vision for King’s Mobile is less food truck and more food trip. In addition to having a mobile kitchen almost as big as the one in the original shop, King’s Mobile brings music, lawn games, karaoke, and a dose of old-school road-trip nostalgia with it wherever it goes. “We think the Airstream is pretty fantastic and has exactly what we’re going for, which is that Americana, 1950s, solid, hardworking atmosphere, good food, and having a good time, too,” McDermott says. While the new truck continues to serve much of King’s classic fare, including the cheeseburger, red hot dog, black bean burger, and Cackalacky King, the duo is eager to introduce some new options, including more vegetarian and gluten-free fare. New menu items already feature a goat cheese and arugula sandwich, an all-beef “Yankee dog” with mustard and sauerkraut, chickpea salad, and celery seed potato salad. The larger-than-usual food truck kitchen allows King’s Mobile to offer about fifteen items at a time and get orders out fairly quickly. 18 | 6.21.17 | INDYweek.com

care to track down some of the cooks who worked there in the 1960s to teach him the chili recipe and other secrets. Though he’d been approached many times by people wanting to partner on a food truck venture, the idea was never serious until the Airstream entered the picture. Giles and McDermott are longtime college friends. Several years ago, Giles worked at an events agency that outfitted old Airstreams to tour them to art and music festivals around the country for Toyota’s youth brand; after the project was over, the Airstreams went into storage. Giles asked for one in lieu of a bonus several years ago, and it sat idle in Los Angeles until he and McDermott developed A retrofitted Airstream trailer brings King's classic fare on the road. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY AUSTIN ACKER their big idea. Giles drove the trailer of friends. Part of what inspired him to reIn addition to its potential as a staple on across the country, and with the help of open King’s and retain its old-school menu, the food truck circuit at bars and rodeos friends at the Young Roofing Company in he says, was an experience he had visiting around the Triangle, King’s Mobile also posiDurham, he and McDermott stripped the his hometown of Valparaiso, Indiana, and tions itself as an event-catering company. interior and rebuilt it with an industriallooking for an A&W root beer stand he’d Its owners emphasize its flexibility; they've grade kitchen, quiet generators, and lightgo to as a kid. It had been torn down and already experimented with an upscale menu weight aluminum fixtures. turned into a parking lot. at weddings, brought retro flair to classic “We knew we had aesthetics working “It’s so rare for these places to stick car conventions, and catered Duke events. on our side,” Giles says of the trailer, “but I around, and I wanted to keep a piece of They’re eager to expand their culinary palknew that the King’s brand was really the that for Durham,” he says. “We have a real ate even as they remain a mainstay of tradibackbone of it. People will tell you, ‘My responsibility here to Durham because tional Southern fare. uncle brought me here’ and ‘My grandKing’s is a historic institution.” “My wife always says, ‘Honey, I knew you father brought me here,’ and those stoThe restaurant opened in 1942 as a would own a restaurant, but I didn’t know it ries take a long time to create. King’s has shack across the street from its current would be a hamburger stand,’” McDermott earned that.” location. After it got wiped out by a car, says. “So I have to grow a little bit, too, to As opposed to the “transactional nature” the owners built the current shop. McDershow that we can do more.” of many food trucks, Giles says he hopes mott says people still come by with their McDermott bought King’s eight years that, with its different perspective, King’s grandparents who remember eating there ago, after it had been closed for a few years, Mobile can become something more. and appreciate the opportunity to share the building vacant and the roof caving in. A “Our unique proposition is to give them a the same meal across generations. When former construction manager, McDermott reason to stay,” he says. McDermott reopened it in 2010, he took renovated the shop himself with the help food@indyweek.com

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LITTLE ENGINES THAT COULD

Pittsboro is smaller than Triangle cities, yet its handful of trucks thrive without rodeo crowds BY CORBIE HILL During the week, Richardson's truck exclusively works by-appointment gigs at corporate events or schools. Its only two weekly, recurring locations are in small towns—Saturday evenings in Saxapahaw and Sundays in Pittsboro. Richardson has learned the differences between running a food truck in a small town and in a city. In the little places, consistency is important—in quality, yes, but also in reliably parking in the same place. Familiarity breeds curiosity, particularly in a town of this size, and people who drive by often enough are likely to stop eventually. Unlike at a food truck rodeo, they know they don't have to dedicate thirty-five to forty minutes to standing in line just to find out if they like the food.

Tacos Michoacan finds steady business in Pittsboro. It's the middle of a sweltering afternoon, and Tacos Michoacan is parked in its usual spot just north of Pittsboro's humble downtown. Aromatic Roasters, the coffee truck with which Tacos Michoacan shares this unassuming lot, is closed for the day, and the communications company at the same address is as outwardly quiet as ever. Yet that's not what cashier Renato Romero sees. He sees the cars on Hillsboro Street (the in-town name for Highway 15-501) and he knows that some of them contain hungry people. Between the truck and the road, flags boldly advertise Mexican food. “It's the best place,” Romero says. “It's real close to town, going in and out.” With a population of about 4,000, per the U.S. Census 2016 population estimates, Pittsboro has one-hundredth the population of Raleigh, while Durham is seventytwo times larger than this Chatham County town. Those cities support thriving food truck scenes and jam-packed rodeos, yet food trucks don't require a metropolitan population to stay in business. Even with a small customer base, trucks like Tacos

“A lot of folks who live in a small town, they live in a small town for a reason,” Richardson says. “They don't want to fight the crowds, you know?” Yet food truck rodeos bring a built-in crowd. Rather than leaning on that or on an idiosyncratic product, Maple View Mobile Unit must establish and maintain relationships with repeat customers. As a food truck with Spanish-English bilingual staff, Tacos Michoacan has a faithful clientele, too. For the local Spanish-speaking population, this kind of truck is special. “It's like a cushion for them, a little place they can go back home to,” Romero says. “The food is the same, the language. It almost feels like they're back home.” food@indyweek.com

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Michoacan, Aromatic Roasters, and the Maple View Ice Cream Mobile Unit are thriving here. “It doesn't matter the town,” Romero says. “I believe anywhere, no matter how small or big the town is, there's always going to be support for food trucks.” As if on cue, a white pickup truck swings into the parking lot. Romero excuses himself, slipping into Spanish to take the customer's order. He stays busy here, and time passes quickly during Tacos Michoacan's lunch and dinner rushes. Jerry Richardson, who parks Maple View Farm's unit across the traffic circle from the historic courthouse on Sunday afternoons, tells a similar story. “We're not just sitting down there twiddling our thumbs and hoping it's another nice Sunday afternoon,” he says. “We have regular clients on a fairly regular basis that drive up from Apex and Cary and Durham. They don't want to fight the battle of the long line at the (Maple View) farm to get ice cream, so they'll get it from the mobile unit.” INDYweek.com | 6.21.17 | 19

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CINDY WILSON

Wednesday, June 28, 8 p.m., $20–$35 The Pinhook, Durham www.thepinhook.com

“In the early days of The B-52’s, I was punked out a little bit— screaming, yelping, making all these crazy sounds.”

Cosmic Things

CINDY WILSON BUILDS ON THE SPIRIT OF THE B-52'S WITH HER SPARKLING NEW SOLO WORK BY MAURA JOHNSTON Cindy Wilson PHOTO BY MISS GUY

indy Wilson is resplendent in a jeweled caftan, cat’s-eye sunglasses, and a skyscraping platinum bouffant onstage at Boston’s Symphony Hall, belting B-52’s classics like “Roam” and “Love Shack” while the crowd dances along. She and her bandmates—the acid-tongued Fred Schneider and the ebullient Kate Pierson—are accompanied not only by the musicians who have backed them on their current fortieth-anniversary run but by the July 20 | 6.21.17 | INDYweek.com

4th-celebrating masters of American music The Boston Pops. It’s a sign that the music of The Bs, the party-rock outfit whose blend of space-age kitsch and post-punk muscle vaulted the band to the forefront of the Alternative Nation during the late eighties, has become part of the American pop firmament. But Wilson isn’t resting on her laurels. Over the past year, she’s released two EPs, Sunrise in September and February’s Supernatural, and they show a singer

who’s still pushing herself as a vocalist and an artist. While they come from the same place that the B-52’s did all those years ago—expansive yet catchy songs that upend the idea of “pop” in thrilling ways— they’re showing off different aspects of her artistry. They’re dreamy and tinged with just enough distortion to be dubbed “psychedelic,” allowing her voice to shapeshift into clouds of mist and plumes of smoke—very different shapes from her forceful work with The B-52’s.

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W “I’ve surrendered a lot,” Wilson saysw over the phone, hours before she takeso the stage with the Pops. “I’m working withj some really, really, really smart people, andw I just listened to what they had to say. We were experimenting with styles, and I’d“ just go with the flow—it was like a school.r I learned how to sing in a different way,f which was really thrilling. It’s really just so perfect, the way it came together.” p Wilson’s new collaborators come fromm Athens, Georgia, the musical mecca thats spawned The Bs all those years ago, along with indie stalwarts like R.E.M., theh found-sound spelunkers Olivia Tremorc Control, and the enigmatic troubadourE Vic Chesnutt. s A one-off Athens gig with local musi-i cians Ryan Monahan (who’s played withr the Athens-based bands Easter Island and PacificUV) and Lemuel Hayes kicked offa Wilson’s solo career. “We were all in Geor-a gia,” she says, “and I founded them to bes really excellent musicians and crackerjackm about learning so quickly. They just knoww every detail of a song.” a Eventually Wilson and her new musical partners landed at the studio of Suny

Lyons, an Athens-based producer. “It became apparent—really apparent, very quickly—that Suny had to be part of the project,” Wilson recalls. “Another really bright, smart guy that was really crucial to what would later become our sound.” The sound of these two EPs—which Wilson will chase with a full-length later this year—is from a slightly spacier place than Wilson’s other band, which is no stranger to the interplanetary realm. The opening track of Supernatural, “Frenzy,”has a gentle pulse, with Wilson existing on a plane above the distorted guitars; “Time”is a smeared fever dream where Wilson hovers like a spectre. On Sunrise, Wilson and her collaborators cover the Danish disco pranksters Junior Senior, fellow Athenians Oh-OK, and British electro-experimentalists Broadcast, turning the raw materials of those disparate acts’ material into ways for Wilson to test her voice’s boundaries. With the latticework Broadcast cover “Corporeal,” she takes a super-minimalist approach, but on the Junior Senior song, “Take My Time,” Wilson lets just enough of her B-52’s persona shine through in order to add a little muscle to her bandmates’ groove. Wilson’s version of OhOK’s “Brother,” meanwhile, sprung from a 2014 benefit at the storied Georgia Theatre in Athens, where local bands past and present paid tribute to one another. “[That cover] was just unexpected,” Wilson says. “It just turned out so well that we said, ‘We’ll have to record it.’ That’s the one that we put the crazy horns on—it’s a juxtaposition to the soft little-girl vocal, which is demented yet really fun. I love it.” Even on tracks like the distortion-heavy “Brother,” Wilson’s more reserved vocals represent a marked shift from her more familiar persona. “In the early days of The B-52’s, I was punked out a little bit—screaming, yelping, making all these crazy sounds, and also singing harmonies,” she says. But she notes that working with Monahan and Lyons, as well as the other musicians who have assisted her on this year’s EPs, represents a return to the days when she and her brother, the late B-52’s founding member Ricky Wilson, would collaborate one on one. “Ricky and I used to sit in his bedroom at our parents’ house and sing folk songs, and he would write and tell me things to sing,”she recalls. “[Working with her new music partners] feels like I was working with my brother—it meant a lot to me to be able to go back and do this kind of thing.” music@indyweek.com

Made from Scratch

FORTY YEARS AFTER HER FIRST LP, CARLENE CARTER LOOKS BACK ON A LONG CAREER AND THE TIES THAT BIND

JOHN MELLENCAMP, EMMYLOU HARRIS, AND CARLENE CARTER Wednesday, June 28, 7 p.m., $49–$120 Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary www.boothamphitheatre.org

BY DAVID KLEIN

CARLENE CARTER: I always wanted to be an artist that—my music was my music. And I didn’t particularly fit. That’s been a blessing and a curse in some ways, because it’s held me back from being a rock artist or held me back from being a country artist because I fell into that straddling-thefence mode. But I’ve hung in there long enough that I’ve kind of achieved that now. I just make the kind of music that I feel like making on any particular day.

By the time Carlene Carter went to record her rock- and new-waveinformed debut LP in 1978, the then-twenty-two-year-old was twice-divorced and saddled with an intimidating musical legacy: her mother, June Carter, and her stepfather, Johnny Cash. Her genrespanning approach on her self-titled record was an unorthodox move, but not surprising from someone who had always done things her own way. In subsequent decades, Carter was a frequent presence on the country charts and earned a Grammy nomination. But by the early aughts, her career was derailed by personal struggles and tragedy, leading to a lengthy hiatus from recording that lasted until 2008. In recent years she has toured frequently with John Mellencamp, and she contributed vocals and songs to his recent Sad Clowns and Hillbillies. They’re currently on tour together along with Emmylou Harris. From the road, Carter caught us up on her long career and “the Carter scratch.” INDY: Your first LP came out nearly forty years ago. What kind of career were you imagining at that point?

Was it inevitable that you’d end up fully embracing your family musical tradition? Whenever I haven’t known what to do musically, or felt like I was finding myself at a dead end creatively, I would always go back to the music of the Carter family because it’s the most authentic music I’ve ever known. It’s so basic and so timeless. And that would always bring me back around to writing about what I know or what I’ve written in my life. That’s the kind of stuff that feeds my soul.

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You’re on tour now with John Mellencamp and Emmylou Harris, and you’re all participating together at certain points. It’s my first time, after all of these

MUSIC BRIEF RGB Burgeoning Self-released HHHH Pranesh Kamalakanthan has long had a touch for gorgeous sounds. As onehalf of the Raleigh synth-pop duo Faux Fleurs, the young producer first hit with an airy, luxurious production style, immeasurably rich in balmy texture and inventive small touches. The excellent LP Higher Delight, from 2015, felt like the sonic equivalent of lying on the ocean floor and gazing up at the surf. It signaled Kamalakanthan as a promising talent to watch in the Triangle

electronic music scene. Burgeoning, his first solo full-length release as RGB, is a strong follow-up and a return on that promise. Burgeoning is an album that evokes a world. Every track builds a miniature environment in your headphones, and you can lose yourself in the details. Live saxophone, water washes, sitar, distant bells, and the occasional French lullaby are but a few of the elements Kamalakanthan deploys. On “Peak,” vocalist Laura Vetil weaves a hypnotic dream-pop vocal through gentle percussion, harp samples, and hazy Balearic pads. Elsewhere, “Indecisive” incorporates ominous bass and a

memorable spoken-word sample of Herbie Hancock explaining how Miles Davis taught him to turn “poison into medicine.” Hip-hop seems to influence a fair bit of Kamalakanthan’s music, and the LP has a few out-and-out hiphop moments. On “Pockets,” rapper Charleston High spits a few bars about self-reliance, with a refrain of “Trying to wake up in the morning with a pocket full of freedom.” From the opening bits of crowd chatter to the closing liquid reverberations, Burgeoning channels optimism, but also a bit of uncertainty and mystery that rewards repeat listens and introspection. —David Ford Smith INDYweek.com | 6.21.17 | 21

years of my history with Emmylou, that we’ve actually been on a tour together. We’re just enjoying that so much. The other night, Emmy and I both were both passing up our dressing room bags, walking down the hallway pulling our own bags. People think we have all these assistants and people who do stuff for us, but there’s me and Emmy going down the hallway, and she says, “Look at us, Carlene, a couple of old gals and we’re still out here doing it!” And your collaboration with John Mellencamp had been gestating awhile. I’ve worked with him before in the studio and I’ve been on tour with him for a couple a years, so we know each other quite well and kind of know where we’re gonna go. But he pushed me a little bit to try some different things, vocally. At one point he had me screamin’ and hollerin’ on “All Night Talk Radio.” We ended up not keeping that screaming stuff, but I was like, I don’t want to hurt my voice, and he’s just like, “Hey, just come on, scream it!” There were some funny moments like that. I’m always having a good time in the studio. If I’m not, it usually means it’s not gonna be very good. Would you call this a creative rebirth? I look at every project like a rebirth. It’s new and shiny and exciting, and you’re always bringing more days of your life of experience to something, and more experience of working with someone or working on your own. I’ve certainly become a better musician in the last several years because I challenged myself to go back to the basics of playing acoustically alone, and I had to

become a better musician to do that. I had to be able to play my grandmother’s style of guitar. And it was something I always knew how to do but never really practiced. I’ve always had great bands, so if somebody else in the room can actually play better than you, why would you not have him play it?

What kind of musical styles have you had bone to up on? The Carter scratch is a style that my grandma invented to make it sound like there’s two guitars playing instead of one. You can adapt it to any kind of music—it actually works well with reggae. You’re playing a rhythm with your point finger and your middle finger and picking out the melody with your thumb while keeping that rhythm going. Some people find it very hard. My grandma played it with a thumb pick and fingerpicks, and I can do that, but most of the time live I play flat-pick style just because it sounds better.

Do you ever break out anything from the new wave era? Oh yeah, sure. Nick Lowe is still one of my dearest, dearest friends, always will love him. He taught me a lot about the craft of writing songs and practicing my craft. I’m always interested in hearing Nick’s new record. I listen to a wide variety of what got me where I’m at. The funny thing about working with John is, for a certain segment of my life there was a soundtrack to my life that Mellencamp was part of, and never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would work with him. It’s a funny old world how that works. dklein@indyweek.com

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LOAMLANDS LEAPS TO VINYL

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Three years after releasing the 2013 EP Some Kind of Light, Loamlands at last issued Sweet High Rise, its debut full-length record last fall. Led by Pinhook owner Kym Register, the band delivered a strong ten-song collection of warm, encouraging folk-rock tunes; they reckon that, though life can be rough, you can get through it and find the good stuff—you’ve just “got to keep on walkin’,” as Register sings on opener “Another Reason.” This week, the record is finally getting a vinyl version through Register’s longtime pal Chaz Martenstein, who runs Durham’s Bull City Records. Martenstein has dubbed his imprint Hillsborough Rd. Records, after the street his shop currently sits on, and though he’s helped friends put out music in years past, this is the first full-length LP he’s issued on vinyl. The copies of Sweet High Rise hit shelves on Friday, June 23. You can pick up a copy at Loamlands’ Duke Gardens show on Wednesday, or swing by Bull City Records—which INDY readers voted the best record store in the Triangle this year—and snag one from Martenstein himself. —Allison Hussey Loamlands performs Wednesday, June 28, at Sarah P. Duke Gardens in Durham. Tickets are $5–$10, and children twelve and under are admitted for free.

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To the Victor Goes the South

A NASHER EXHIBIT STIRS UP KENTUCKY’S CONFLICTS AND POSSIBILITIES AS PROFOUNDLY AS IT DID NORTH CAROLINA’S BY MINDA HONEY Editor’s note: The INDY called Southern Accent “life-changing” when it opened at the Nasher Museum of Art last fall, so we wanted to know how it played elsewhere in the South—namely, Louisville, Kentucky, where it opened at the Speed Art Museum in April. As I wrapped up a phone interview for an article, the subject wanted to know where I lived. In response to my answer, she asked me, “Kentucky—what’s that like?” I laughed. What was that like? It was a question I’d been asked many times in the eight years since I’d left Louisville and moved out west. I usually responded with what I’d heard tourists say: “It’s really, really green.” That was simpler than getting into how Kentucky did and didn’t live up to barefoot, backward stereotypes. As I prepared to move back home last summer, more than one friend expressed concerns about what life would be like for me as a black woman in the Bluegrass State. Kentucky, which is celebrating its 225th birthday this month, is what you might call a Schrödinger’s state—it both is and isn’t. It sits below the Mason-Dixon line, but many would argue that it belongs to the Midwest. It was the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, the Confederacy’s sole president. During the Civil War, it was a Union border state with a Confederate shadow government, earning it the center star on the Rebel flag. Winston Churchill said that history is written by the victors, but throughout the South there is still controversy over the removal of Confederate monuments that tell the losing side’s story. The University of Louisville and the city’s mayor came together last winter to remove a monument honoring the Confederate dead—a monument identical to one on the Raleigh state capitol’s grounds. As an undergraduate at the university, I must have passed by that monument hundreds of times, living

Hank Willis Thomas's video "Black Righteous Space (Southern Edition)" is one of several works in Southern Accent incorporating the Confederate flag. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK, NEW YORK/© HANK WILLIS THOMAS

and learning under the gaze of spirits who fought vehemently for my oppression. I am certain removing the statue was the right choice. I want new monuments that tell the true story of the South and represent all the people who now make their lives here. Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art tells that story. It’s a joint effort by Trevor Schoonmaker, the Nasher Museum of Art’s chief curator, and Miranda Lash, the Speed Art Museum’s contemporary curator. At the Speed’s pre-opening party, supplied with Southern music and strong mint juleps, I befriended the poet Ada Limón, whose “Field Bling” I’d referenced in my preview of the exhibit. I felt like it spoke to the mysticism that washes through the South. Her poem about lightning bugs made me feel the same way hearing Allen Toussaint’s luminous “Southern Nights” on the exhibit’s playlist did—a sense of nostalgia for what was good without ever losing awareness of what was

not, like a half-awake, half-dream state. I buzzed through the exhibit tipsy on that feeling, and bourbon. I admired Diego Camposeco’s “Quince,” a photograph of a young Mexican-American woman in a blue dress with a voluminous skirt, standing in front of an orange Home Depot roll-down door and surrounded by cardboard boxes. For me, the photo felt like a callback of Tupac Shakur’s book of poetry, The Rose That Grew from Concrete. It speaks to the vibrancy young people of color create in life, even in the most oppressive circumstances. I also relished the opportunity to see several of Gordon Parks’s famed photos in person. “Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama” shows the backs of five little black girls and a little black boy, their fingers clinging to a wire fence as they stare at the segregated park and amusement rides on the other side. I thought about all the metaphorical fences I’d clung to in my life, witnessing the excesses of whiteness.

The next time I visited the exhibit, I brought someone I’d worked under for several years. An amateur historian, he was in town to give a lecture. We went in the late afternoon, when there were only a few other people there. He, a white man in his fifties, and I, a black woman in her thirties, stood side by side in the dark, watching the video “8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a moving Picture by Kara E. Walker.” On the screen, as a black silhouette of a slave owner raped a slave, it occurred to me that it’d been a relatively short span of time that a friendship like ours has even been possible. As we wandered the museum, the art directed the conversation, creating a bubble in which it felt comfortable to broach topics of race. In front of “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around,” Hank Willis Thomas’s series of protest images on mirrored glass, my companion told me about his upbringing in Texas and his grandparents’ less-than-liberal mind-set toward race. Near a Radcliffe Bailey painting, he asked me for my thoughts about another amateur historian’s argument that Southern slaves who fled north during the Civil War were “refugees.” Looking at Rachel Boillot’s photos of decommissioned smalltown post offices, he wondered, “Why can’t the coal miners find new work?” “It’s the only story they have of themselves,” I answered. Coal miners, like many people in the South, needed to see their history told in a new way so that they might be able to write themselves into the future, separated from the only identity they’d ever known. The fall of Confederate monuments, the rise of exhibits like Southern Accent, and the persistence of artists like Sonya Clark—who, in October, will help Louisville weave a new story from its past by unraveling a Confederate flag at the Speed, just as she did at the Nasher—give us all vital new ways to see ourselves. arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 6.21.17 | 23

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THE GREEKS

HHHH ½ Through Sunday, June 25 CAM Raleigh, Raleigh www.burningcoal.org

Greeks Bearing Gifts

A BURNING COAL PRODUCTION STREAMLINES SOPHOCLES’S THEBAN TRILOGY INTO THREE NIMBLE, STRIKINGLY MODERN ONE-ACTS AT CAM RALEIGH BY BYRON WOODS

Freyja Sindemark, Sean Wellington, Mark Filiaci, and Ellie Barone in The Greeks PHOTO BY MINA VON FEILITZSCH Throughout Burning Coal Theatre Company’s The Greeks, Ian Finley and Alex Tobey’s nimble and strikingly contemporary adaptation of Sophocles’s Theban trilogy, the playwrights remind us that the gods are capricious in bestowing favors. That was certainly true last Friday night, as the storms that caused me to miss the first five minutes perfectly underscored the remainder of the performance. When the foolish, fateful pronouncements of Oedipus, Polynices, and Creon in Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone were answered more than once by real thunderbolts (plus an eerie chorus of emergency broadcast tones from phones in the audience), little doubt remained that the gods were near and clearly not amused. It took considerable discipline to reduce these pillars of world drama to three streamlined one-acts. Finley’s script and Tobey’s economical staging for Oedipus Tyrannus essentialize the trappings of 24 | 6.21.17 | INDYweek.com

power in one instantly recognizable modern icon: a press-conference podium festooned with microphones. Oedipus (a crisp Sean Wellington), Thebes’s chief executive, mans it confidently at first, but as developments undermine his position, he clings to it more and more like a life preserver—or an anchor—in heavy seas. Modern politics and technology deftly infiltrate these tales. As the sardonic seer, Tiresias, George Jack sneers that Oedipus has brought him to the palace as a meaningless photo opportunity: “a blind man, here for the optics.” After Oedipus falls, his calculating functionary, Creon (Mark Filiaci), claims that his “great relationship with the press” could have buried his scandal in a week “if we gave them a better story to run with.” And it’s ironic, maybe even prophetic, when Trump’s favorite socialmedia platform helps seal the fate of the tyrant in Antigone, as Ellie Barone, playing the besieged, determined title character,

debates mediated activism with him. As the Chorus, the forthright Jess Jones and Jonathan Able give it to us straight as they guide us from CAM Raleigh’s expansive main floor to its catacomb-like lower galleries for the final act. As with earlier translations, their task isn’t just expositional but also instructive. “There are some words you ought to know,” they say, before defining the ominous Greek terms of true disaster. A tragedy, they remind us, is not a story where bad things happen, but one “where what must happen, happens.” Their tutelage is timely. As the Chorus reinforces the tragic themes, particularly in the relentless momentum of the final act, the reason why they must do so is clear. Exile, hubris, and autocracy are still on the march, 2,500 years after Sophocles first wrote three plays to solve them. It seems the lessons of classical tragedy will repeat indefinitely until they have been learned. bwoods@indyweek.com

THEATER BRIEF FOOL FOR LOVE | HHH ½ Through Sunday, June 25 Research Triangle High School Theatre, Durham

For some, Father’s Day is more of a reckoning than a celebration, a time for arguing with old ghosts instead of relaxing over burgers and beers. All of which makes Fool for Love, Sam Shepard’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize finalist, the perfect play for the holiday—or not, depending. A dear, disreputable, and definitely dead old dad (a grizzled Joe Christian) watches from the corner of a dingy Mojave Desert motel room, swigging from a crumpled brown bag as he keeps a weather eye on the reunion taking place there. A scrawny, self-styled rodeo stuntman named Eddie (Ryan Ladue) says he’s stalked the object of his attentions, May (Diana Cameron McQueen), some 2,000 miles to find her here—the latest round in fifteen unhappy years of cyclic commitment and abandonment. As Eddie restakes his claim on May’s life while nursing a long-held grudge and a bottle of cheap tequila, the Old Man provides color commentary on the resulting battle, along with clues about Eddie and May's relationship and his own ties to them both. Under Andy Hayworth’s direction, the collection of character studies and conflicts in this inaugural McQueen & Company production play out as per the stage direction “relentlessly without a break.” As Eddie, Ladue has broadened his range, growing increasingly believable as the crippling vulnerabilities beneath a whip-lean bully’s thin skin emerge. McQueen explored the fatigue of a lengthy emotional battle and the double bind that simultaneously repels and attracts May to Eddie. Occasionally, all three actors shortchanged moments that could have generated more of a dramatic charge, but Joshua Mardrice Henderson was strong as Martin, the hapless local swain who gets caught up in this three-way, long-term emotional tug of war. He’s the odd man out in a intriguing cryptogram of relationships. Recommended. —Byron Woods

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THE SOUTHERN ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM NOTICED A LACK OF ASIANAMERICAN VOICES IN ITS ARCHIVE. “SOUTHERN MIX” IS THE FIX. BY SAYAKA MATSUOKA

Anna-Rhesa Versola's family photos PHOTO BY KATY CLUNE

rowing up Japanese in the American South, I was often the only Asian kid in my classes. My eyes were perceived as being too small. My skin was too tan and my food was icky. Characters on TV hardly ever looked like me and no one pronounced my name correctly. This experience is common among many Asian Americans, especially in the South, where our number has historically been lower than on the West Coast or in the Northeast. The problem of underrepresentation is a long-term one, seen not only in Hollywood (Ghost in the Shell, anyone?) but also in academic circles. Even organizations known for focusing on documenting diversity can sometimes fall short. The Southern Oral History Program, a branch of UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South, has been collecting in-depth oral histories from the South for more than forty years. The center’s archive contains more than 6,000 interviews, including ones with notable figures like Bill Gates and Newt Gin-

grich. But only forty-seven of them featured people of Asian descent. Rachel Seidman, SOHP's associate director, hopes a new project called Southern Mix (www.southernmixvoices.com) will fix that. Seidman says the lack of Asian stories was disappointing but bound to change because of the influx of Asian Americans in the South in the past decade, when, according to census data, that population grew faster than any other ethnic group in the U.S., increasing by 46 percent from 2000 to 2010. In that time, North Carolina became the state with the third-fastest-growing Asian population, with an 85 percent increase. Anna-Rhesa Versola, who knows the challenges of my own upbringing firsthand, says that representation is still catching up with this growth. “You don’t hear our stories,” says Versola. “I want to use [Southern Mix] as a way to give voice to the quiet minority—well, in this case, the quiet majority.” Versola, who was born in the Philippines

and raised in the Triangle, grew up feeling like an outsider. Her family moved to the U.S. when she was three years old, shortly before Ferdinand Marcos, then the president of the Philippines, declared martial law, resulting in unrest and violence in the ensuing years. “It was too dangerous to go back,” Versola says. “We had to commit to being as American as possible to help assimilate better.” A graduate of Duke and UNC, Versola founded Southern Mix, which launched in April. A collaboration at UNC between SOHP, the Carolina Asia Center, and UNC’s Alumni Committee for Racial and Ethnic Diversity (of which Versola is a member), the project is collecting oral histories from Asian and Asian-American residents of the Triangle and the larger region, documenting stories about immigration, assimilation, and the blending or preservation of cultures. While UNC has the largest Asian studies program in the Southeast, Morgan Pitelka, the director of the Carolina Asia Center,

notes that the study of Asians and Asian Americans has always been separate. Southern Mix, which includes stories from both groups, will bring the two together. “People need to know that there are differences between Asians and Asian Americans,” says Versola. The Southern Mix website currently highlights the forty-seven interviews with Asian Americans that were already in SOHP’s archive in addition to two new ones, streamable and supplemented with photos, including one with Versola. In it, she discusses the prevalent dichotomy of race when she was growing up and the feelings of never belonging to either side and being forced to pick one. “For a majority of the time, all I saw was black or white,” Versola says in the interview. “Every day I was reminded that I looked different than everybody else.” This summer, the coordinators of the project want to recruit UNC undergraduates as interns and train them as interviewers. Those interested can learn more on Southern Mix’s website, where you can volunteer to interview others or be interviewed yourself. Pitelka envisions Southern Mix becoming a holistic, sustainable entity. His focus is on using help from university departments to offer grants to faculty to create new courses or change existing ones to incorporate Asian-American stories—and to assign students to interview people or otherwise engage with the project. For the organizers, Southern Mix isn’t just about collecting stories to be filed away, filling a gap in an archive. It’s an avenue toward creating wider public awareness about the Asian community and its numerous identities. The group hopes that the momentum of engaging students and faculty will foster public interest and lead to conferences and events on campus. Pitelka looks forward to the possibility of someday creating an Asian-American major or minor for the school. “The study of Asian Americans in the South is not a big topic, so we will be on the cutting edge of this,” Seidman says. “That’s why oral histories are so key. You can share full life stories, not just slivers.” And for many Asian Americans, like Versola and myself, it’s about finally being heard. arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 6.21.17 | 25

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK The Veldt FILE

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STEAMPUNK MIDATLANTIC

At any comics or sci-fi convention, you’re bound to see at least a few steampunk costumes and wares, but what if they were the main draw rather than one flavor of fandom among many? That’s the question posed and answered by Steampunk MidAtlantic, a new convention where the usual vendors, cosplay, and celebrity guests come with a gears-and-gadgets gloss. If you’re innocent of this alt-history subgenre, imagine if technological development had stalled out during the heyday of steam-powered machines in a Victorian England rife with anachronistic wonders—a whole world of styles and stories along the lines of books by Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. In addition to steampunk-world celebrity guests, there’s also the Up All Night Film Festival with works by locals like Evan Kidd, music from bands like the Blibbering Humdingers, and, most intriguing, a “live-action mystery play” called Murder at the Comic Con. Sounds like one steamy weekend. —Brian Howe DAYS INN (1520 BLUE RIDGE ROAD), RALEIGH Various times, $10–$15, www.steampunkmidatlantic.com 26 | 6.21.17 | INDYweek.com

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SATURDAY, JUNE 24

Y’ALL AT DIX PARK: THE VELDT

Rather than its regular Oak City 7 series in Raleigh City Plaza, Deep South Entertainment is moving its summer music programming out of the middle of downtown and into Dorthea Dix Park, dubbed Y’all at Dix Park. The first installment features The Veldt as its headliner; the shoegaze progenitors who have enjoyed a revived career over the past few years are reissuing their 2016 EP, The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation through Schoolkids Records’ new label arm in August. ZenSoFly steps up with a hip-hop set, while Wayleaves offer moderate poprock. The series also features one “next generation” set by an artist who’s nineteen or younger. This week, that slot goes to Enenra, a rock quartet from Chapel Hill. The family-friendly shindig also features food trucks and games for kids. —Allison Hussey DORTHEA DIX PARK, RALEIGH | 4 p.m., free, www.yallatdixpark.com

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21–SUNDAY, JULY 2

STRUCK

The human mind is good at finding patterns—even in situations where patterns don’t actually exist. Vera is an East Village actor whose career is going nowhere fast, but after she gets struck by a bicyclist, she starts to ponder other, more metaphorical cycles, crossroads, and collisions that have cropped up in her life lately. As she tries to glean insight from random data, she enlists the help of a skeptical husband, a sassy neighbor, and the kid who hit her on his bike. Who just happens to work at Ancestry. com, which just might mean something. At Theatre Raleigh, Gina Rattan directs the regional premiere of this 2016 seriocomedy. —Byron Woods KENNEDY THEATRE, RALEIGH | Various times, $28–$30, www.theatreraleigh.com

MUSIC

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

BAT FANGS

Both Betsy Wright and Laura King—the two women who make up the relatively new rock duo Bat Fangs—boast long, powerful résumés. Wright most recently played bass for the ripping Ex Hex, while drummer King propelled Carrboro’s raucous garage trio Flesh Wounds. “Wolf Bite,” the duo’s first single, is a driving number that threads together seventies riffs, nineties grit, and an irresistible howl-along chorus. In the opening slot, Fitness Womxn slings formidable, gleefully irreverent post-punk. They deliver stringent barbs like, “To be completely honest, I don’t know what’s worse: your own personal shortcomings, or your own personal brand” on “Living Hell.” They’re likely to leave your ears stinging and ringing. Drag Sounds sits in the middle of the bill. —Allison Hussey THE PINHOOK, DURHAM | 9 p.m., $8, www.thepinhook.com

PETof the WEEK CECE is a beautiful Calico,

You, too, can pose with a Tardis at Steampunk MidAtlantic. PHOTO COURTESY OF STEAMPUNK MIDATLANTIC

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

AUDIO UNDER THE STARS AT CDS (P. 36), CARLENE CARTER AT KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE (P. 21), LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM & CHRISTINE MCVIE AT RED HAT AMPHITHEATER (P. 29), FOOL FOR LOVE AT RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL (P. 24), THE GREEKS AT BURNING COAL (P. 24), LOAMLANDS AT DUKE GARDENS (P. 22), RETROARTHOUSE FILM SERIES AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE (P. 36), MARCELA SLADE AT THE CARRACK (P. 34), WAY DOWN IN THE HOLE AT ARCANA (P. 35), CINDY WILSON AT THE PINHOOK (P. 20)

who lives life to the fullest! She really enjoys playing with toys – as many as she can - and is very curious. She is also sweet and loving, and enjoys rubs and will curl up on your lap. Cece, and all cats, kittens, guinea pigs and rabbits are part of the APS Pick Your Price promotion for the month of June – you choose the price of your adoption fee.

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WED, JUN 21 ARCANA: Midsummer’s Night Music Solstice Event; 8 p.m., free. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Herded Cats; 8 p.m. • CAROLINA THEATRE: Dave Mason; 8 p.m., $34.50. • CAT’S CRADLE: Lizzo, Brooke Candy; 8 p.m., $18–$20. • THE CAVE: The By Gods, Sad Baxter, Milk and Honey; 9 p.m., $5. • DUKE GARDENS: Music in the Gardens: Robbie Fulks; 7 p.m. • HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 8:30 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Mebanesville; 6:30-9:30 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Bella’s Bartok; 9 p.m., $7. • MOTORCO: Songs: Molina – A Memorial Electric Co.; Birds of Avalon; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Valley Maker, Those Lavender Whales, SE Ward; 10 p.m., $8. • THE PINHOOK: What Cheer? Brigade, Barb; 9 p.m., $10. • POUR HOUSE: Cory Henry and the Funk Apostles; 9 p.m., $20–$50. • RUBY DELUXE: Goth Night with DJ Bela Lugosi’s Dad; 10 p.m. • SLIM’S: Antichrist, Vorator, Gorbash; 9 p.m., $8. • THE STATION: Prom, The Diamond Center, Dragon Drop; 8 p.m., $7.

THU, JUN 22 Chon MATH Sounding something ROCK like Up on the Sun-era Meat Puppets on Adderall, this largely instrumental San Diego three-piece renders its carefully organized, prog-adjacent tunes with an appropriate combination of music school precision and Mothers of Invention madness. Check out the skittering “Waterslide” or the genially crazed “Sleepy Tea.” Tera Melos, Covet, and Little Tybee open. —TB [CAT’S CRADLE, $17–$21/7 P.M.]

Joey Watson Benefit HAVE A For Carrburritos’ Joey HEART Watson, an April hospital trip resulted in an unexpected diagnosis of strep infection in his blood, emergency heart surgery, and a follow-up pacemaker procedure. His friends rally tonight for a benefit where

requested donations of $10 go to Watson’s expectedly steep medical bills. The six-act bill features Bitter Resolve’s hard rock riffage, M is We’s lo-fi post-punk, and Ruscha’s potent metal instrumentals. Beau Bennett, Server, and Scriblin’ round out the lineup. —SG [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, DONATIONS/8 P.M.]

Lake Street Dive SQUEAKY With last year’s Side CLEAN Pony, Boston’s Lake Street Dive delivered its first LP via the renowned Nonesuch Records after years of climbing up the club-circuit ladder. The band flecks its blue-eyed soul with a bit of funk and blues, for songs that are shiny, if a bit sterile. With Lawrence and Ellis Dyson and the Shambles. —AH [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, $25–$30/8 P.M.]

Local Band Local Beer: Travers Brothership SIBLING Led by twins Eric and SOUNDS Kyle Travers, Asheville’s appropriately named Travers Brothership is a familiar festival act, with originals indebted to bluesy classic rock and tinged with a bit of soul alternating with covers of The Allman Brothers Band and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The tender, slightly twangy jangles of opener Nick and the Babes recall Band of Horses lifting its veil of reverb for a more direct approach, while The Dapper Conspiracy prefers ramshackle bar band rowdiness. —SG [POUR HOUSE, $3–$5/9:30 P.M.]

Mallz BACK TO Following up on his 2005 2015 release, Hustler of Culture, Mallz’s new Subject to Change fosters his reputation as a lyrical craftsman in the circle of Raleigh hip-hop artists that embrace the maxims of old-school rap. With production from some of North Carolina’s

best boom-bap producers, K-Hill, D.R.U.G.S. Beats, and Illpo, Subject to Change throws listeners back to 2005. With Konvo the Mutant, Jooselord Magnus, and Vinnie Dangerous. —CM [DEEP SOUTH, $5/9 P.M.]

Nathan Oliver POP, Head in the Sand, PLEASE released in early June by Potluck, marks the end of a six-year silence from Chapel Hill’s Nathan White, who lends his name to Nathan Oliver, now operating in a trio format. Like Chapel Hill’s Le Weekend (with whom White shares a drummer, Robert Biggers), Nathan Oliver’s alieniloquent songs run a gamut of alt-rock styles (see: the R.E.M. jangle of “Little Belle”; the jittery Malkmusisms of “Clean Sheets”), masking immediate hooks in manifold mutating indie pop backdrops. With Hectorina and North Elementary. —PW [THE STATION, $6/8 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY 2ND WIND: 2 fer; 7:30-9 p.m. • THE CAVE: Blotter, Thirsty Curses, Nevernauts; 9 p.m., $5. • IRREGARDLESS: The New Standard; 6-9 p.m. • MOTORCO: The Band of Heathens, Lemon Sparks; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Muuy Biien, Material Girls; 10 p.m., $8–$10. • THE PINHOOK: Bat Fangs, Drag Sounds, Fitness Womxn; 9 p.m., $8. See page 27. • RUBY DELUXE: *Not Cool with DJ SPCLGST and friends; 10 p.m.

FRI, JUN 23 Bask METAL- Asheville’s Bask isn’t CANA the first band to link Southern rock’s drawling groove with metal’s thunder, but they do it better than most. On this year’s Ramble Beyond, the band’s twang und drang is especially refined, finding a sludgy intensity that doesn’t trample over its high lonesome roots. —PW [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

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BUCKINGHAM & MCVIE Depending on one’s perspective, the neck-deep lore around Fleetwood Mac’s interpersonal and professional dynamics is either fodder for endless rock gossip fantasias or the most tedious long-running soap opera this side of Crosby, Stills & Nash. The story goes like this: forty-two years ago, the American pop duo Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined the Mac, transforming the group from a veteran, periodically inspired British blues band into a commercial juggernaut of flabbergasting proportions. Beginning with 1975’s selftitled album and continuing through the cultural touchstone of 1977’s Rumours, and the merely massive hits of 1979’s Tusk and 1982’s Mirage, this iteration of the group imposed its will on commercial radio in a manner that has never truly abated. Spend any amount of time on your FM dial today and you are nearly guaranteed to hear “Don’t Stop,” “Go Your Own Way,” “Landslide,” or some other combination of the group’s reservoir of hits. During this period, the group’s members famously broke up and paired off in all manner of incestuous, norm-breaking ways. Buckingham and Nicks were a couple when they joined the band, only to split up and write spiteful songs about each other as Nicks took comfort in the arms of founding drummer Mick Fleetwood. Keyboardist Christine McVie and her husband, bassist John McVie, separated

and variously engaged in affairs with bandrelated personnel. And so forth. Whether this strikes you as compelling drama worthy of the sky-high emotional stakes of their best material or the absolute ninthring-of-hell nadir of seventies coke-fueled, key-party permissiveness is ultimately incidental to the group’s indelible cultural footprint. Over the years, various Fleetwood Mac members have collaborated outside of the band in creative endeavors as well, the most recent instance being the first joint release between Buckingham and Christine McVie. Given Buckingham’s stature as the group’s de facto arranger and producer and McVie’s role as its best pure tunesmith, the pairing is intriguing, but ultimately yields mixed results. By and large, McVie’s songs that fare the best, with tracks like the sinewy and knowing “In My World” and the torchy piano ballad “Game of Pretend” benefiting from Buckingham’s idiosyncratic touches. Elsewhere, the insinuating bounce of “Red Sun” laments yet another romance gone sideways, raising the question as to whether these victims of love will ever get it right. But then again, would we want them to?—Elizabeth Bracy RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m., $35–$265, www.redhatamphitheater.com

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TOP 40 Mix a little Drake, BLEND The Weeknd, and The Chainsmokers, and you’ve got Blackbear, an amalgam of contemporary hip-hop and pop trends designed for people who like hip-hop music but are afraid of black people. Expect overproduced backing tracks with basic upbeat pop melodies fueled by frolicking lead synths. Elhae and 24hrs. open. —CM [THE RITZ, $25/8 P.M.]

MELLOW- As terrific as The Old ED OUT 97’s early Bloodshot efforts were at fusing unhinged punk energy with power pop hooks and twangy tales of heartache, the pioneering alt-country outfit couldn’t have stayed young and snotty forever. A quarter century in, Rhett Miller and company have largely sanded off the rough edges for Graveyard Whistling, a polished and mature batch of Americana songs for those who have grown up alongside the band. Vandoliers carry on the sardonic cow-punk spirit. —SG [LINCOLN THEATRE, $20/8:30 P.M.]

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FUNNY This bombastic, FUZZ vaguely tongue-incheek Atlanta-based hard rock ensemble recalls the similarly wry Queens of the Stone Age alongside a portion of the Cult’s bedazzled gloom. Tracks like the brooding, funny “I Came Back... For My Hubcap” demonstrate the group’s capacity for rendering compelling nuance amid its bleak landscapes. Styrofoam Turtles open. —TB [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

Jooselord Magnus TELEUltra Psychic Mega PATHIC Monolith brings another edition of its Telepathy series with Jooselord Magnus in the headlining slot. Joose’s gravelly voice and rough delivery are reminiscent of late-eighties rap from East New York, and the beats he raps over mix boom-bap with contemporary in a way that’ll have you moshing along to his catchy choruses. With IRONXTALS, Newman, and Simon Smthng. —CM [KINGS, $5/8:30 P.M.]

The Madd American Corporate System Ska Show SKANK You’ll need to lace up ON your skanking shoes and dust off that old oversize bowling shirt for this Friday night ska throwdown. Featuring Durham’s The North Americans, Wilmington’s The Madd Hatters, and Greensboro’s Corporate Fandango, as well as d.j. sets from Cary’s Sound System Seven (featuring members of Archbishops of Blount Street), this evening of ska is sure to be a great way to skank away the 2017 blues. No boneheads allowed, but Doc Martens are encouraged. —CB [THE STATION, $8/7:30 P.M.] 30 | 6.21.17 | INDYweek.com

Saving Space Showcase: Truthers TRUTH 2 The Saving Space POWER Showcase is but one of the many ways local musicians are spreading awareness of these social justice issues. The twice-monthly event, which benefits Triangle-based nonprofits, gathers three North Carolina bands whose members identify as female, nonbinary, nonwhite, and/or queer. This week’s iteration features grimy, noisy rock from Truthers, Fitness Womxn, and Kate’s Bush, with proceeds benefiting NARAL Pro-Choice N.C. (Disclosure: Sarah Schmader, a senior account executive in the INDY’s advertising department, organizes the Saving Space series.) —ZC [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/9 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY ARCANA: One Track Mind; 10 p.m., free. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Jo Gore; 7 & 9 p.m., $12. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. • THE BULLPEN: Pat “Mother Blues” Cohen; 8:30-10:30 p.m., free. • BYNUM FRONT PORCH: Bynum Front Porch Pickers; 7-9 p.m., $10 donation. • THE CARY THEATER: David LaMotte and Bill West; 8 p.m., $20. • CAT’S CRADLE: A Tribute to Gregg Allman; 8:30 p.m., $7–$10. • DEEP SOUTH: Cuzco, Totally Slow, Raid the Quarry; 8:30 p.m., $7. • DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: Orquesta GarDel; 6-8 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Foscoe Philharmonic; 6:30 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Voidward, Morbids, The Kneads; 9 p.m., $8. • THE MAYWOOD: Killing the Catalyst, Black Plague, Annabel Lee; 9:30 p.m., $8. • THE PINHOOK: Dreaming of the 90s Dance Party; 10 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Feed Your Roots Benefit; 8 p.m., $5 donation. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ DNLTMS; 10 p.m. •

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Gregg Gelb, Stephen Anderson Quartet; 8 p.m., $15–$20.

SAT, JUN 24 Chastity Belt SLACK Seattle lo-fi slackers SHIMMER Chastity Belt burst onto blog headlines a few years back with a goofy social media presence, one that used Sears-style band portraits and campy VHS-grain footage to promote appropriately cheeky surf rock anthems like “Pussy Money Beer.” On this year’s I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone, the band hasn’t abandoned its dry postfeminist humor, nor its propensity for wistful rainy day guitar pop. With Darren Hanlon and Moon Racer. —DS [THE PINHOOK, $12/9 P.M.]

Liz Cooper and the Stampede PSYCH An ingratiatingly FOLK hazy presence buttressed by Cooper’s forceful drawl of a singing voice, this Nashville trio offers a slow-burning take on psych-folk. Its glacial pacing, reverbed-out guitars and careful harmonies bring to mind the druggy pleasures of Paisley Underground stalwarts like Rain Parade and Mazzy Star. The Dead Bedrooms open. —TB [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

Sheryl Crow MAKES U Now a quarter HAPPYYY century into a sterling career as a strong songwriter and reliable hitmaker, Sheryl Crow has a catalog impressively stacked with memorable singles and modern standards like “If It Makes You Happy” and “Leaving Las Vegas.” As is the case with the similarly durable Tom Petty, Crow’s best-known songs can feel as familiar as living room furniture, but on closer examination her work has always been better and weirder than market forces require. Aaron Lee Tasjan opens. —EB [N.C. MUSEUM OF ART, $45–$65/8 P.M.]

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N.C. Symphony: A Night of Beethoven POLITIC- There’s a strange AL MUSIC belief out there that, somehow, classical music is apolitical, a free-floating set of musical abstractions meant merely to tickle our ear canals. Beethoven would have disagreed. Written between 1809 and 1810, his incidental music to Goethe’s play Egmont is about heroic resistance to autocratic oppression that may or may not be an allegory about Napoleon. The overture, performed here alongside the eighth symphony and fifth piano concerto, tracks a path from darkness to light. —DR [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $27–$31/7:30 P.M.]

Rock the Beat DJ Festival KEEP Durham’s The Art of SPINNING Cool and Charlotte’s The Sol Kitchen team up for the first-ever Rock the Beat DJ Festival. A bevy of d.j.s, featuring Charlotte’s DJ Fannie Mae and Durham’s own DJ Forge, as well as DJ Remy, AHUF, and Jeremy Avalon, will be spinning everything from hip-hop to funk, rock to trap, soul classics to house, and more to keep you dancing all night. —CB [MOTORCO, $25–$30/8 P.M.]

Vacant Company FLANNEL Vacant Company’s SHREDS grungy jams suggest the Raleigh quartet has tapped into a hidden source of undiscov-

ered Nirvana tracks and added stoned, psychedelic guitar solos that dispel the verse-chorus-verse familiarity. The band celebrates the release of its debut LP, Blok, with opener Wailin Storms, Durham’s menacing doom punks. Brutal Junior joins. —SG [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

Zach Deputy TROP POP Sample the lineup of the sixth incarnation of Pittsboro’s BIG What? Festival in Raleigh with the island vibes of Savannah’s Zach Deputy, whose playful, eclectic ditties bound between and fuse together soul, blues, reggae, and hip-hop. Maryland’s LITZ stretches out in the opening slot, favoring Southern-fried, futuristic space funk. —SG [POUR HOUSE, $10–$12/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY BERKELEY CAFÉ: Clap Monkey, Jason Merritt; 7 p.m., free. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Yolanda Rabun; 7 & 9 p.m., $18.50. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: June Birthday Party with Josh Preslar Band; 8 p.m., $8. • THE BULLPEN: Thomas Rhyant Sam Cooke Soul Revue; 8:30 p.m., free. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): 90s Night with Joe Hero; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • DEEP SOUTH: Mind the Gap, Yankee Moonshine, Motor Kulture Society; 8:30 p.m., $10. • IRREGARDLESS: Gary Brunotte Duo with Beverly Botsford; 6 p.m. The Second Line Stompers; 9 p.m. • KINGS: Town Mountain, Brothers Egg; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • LOCAL 506: Brooklyn: Chapel Hill; 10 p.m., $10–$13. See box, page 32. • NIGHTLIGHT:

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Benefit for J20 Arrestees HEAVY & More than two HUGE hundred people were arrested during demonstrations against Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, with dozens of protesters from North Carolina reportedly being charged with felonies. Funds from this show will be channeled to their defense fund. Louisiana metal quintet Thou mires its bleak, despairing reflections in sludge as thick as a bayou swamp. Durham’s Bad Friends bring earth-rattling grooves and throat-shredding howls, while Slime adds more threatening cries. —SG [THE PINHOOK, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

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EMO NIGHT BROOKLYN: CHAPEL HILL Most people associate d.j. nights with self-important cliquishness and ephemeral decadence, set to a throbbing EDM soundtrack: club-kid stereotypes so notorious, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein poked fun at them with a damning sketch on Portlandia. But for all the kids who whiled away the nights alone in their bedroom crying to My Chemical Romance, there’s Emo Night Brooklyn, a recurring celebration of the confessional, speaker-blowing poppunk that dominated youth culture in the mid-aughts. The attendees might be out of middle school—most are between twenty and thirty-five—but here, they’re suddenly back in their bedrooms, jumping and shouting along to the greats: Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, Say Anything, and the like. If all of this seems more of a emotional karaoke session alongside several hundred of your best friends than a dance party, that’s because it was conceived as such. The event’s cofounders—lifelong friends Ethan Maccoby and Alex Badanes—spent their early years moshing and drinking with friends to emo in bedrooms and basements in their native London; taken aback by the initial turnout, they convinced a local bar to host the first Emo Night shortly after their move to Brooklyn in 2015. Within a year, the party was selling out regularly, with lines snaking around the block, even after its relocation to the eight-hundred-capacity Brooklyn Bowl. Never underestimate the wallflowers. Appropriately for a burgeoning regional phenomenon, Maccoby and 32 | 6.21.17 | INDYweek.com

Badanes have managed to take Emo Night Brooklyn on the road, tapping scene notables to perform or spin playlists along the way. Most younger listeners are wont to regard figures like New Found Glory’s Jordan Pundik and Yellowcard’s Ryan Key as relative unknowns, but to this crowd they’re luminaries, old idols descending the steps of the punk-rock pantheon to commune with mere mortals. During one Emo Night last January, Early November and Hellogoodbye frontman Ace Enders picked up his acoustic for a two-song set of hits. Later, he planted a kiss on his wife as the speakers flooded the room with “Here (In Your Arms),” Hellogoodbye’s greatest hit and the evening’s designated slow song. The crowd erupted in cheers. As the fires of 2000s nostalgia continue to burn, millions of aging millenials will continue to pine for the days of swooping haircuts, thick eyeliner, and dramatic kiss-off songs (not to mention the fact that, in these uncertain political times, every night may as well be Emo Night). But the evening’s true appeal stems from a force far more powerful than any Proustian magic: larger-than-life, musically enabled empathy. The Warped Tour days may have come and gone for most of us, but the fond memories of community and commiseration remain ever-present at Emo Night, uniting the crowd under the bleeding-heart big top. Who knew sad music could bring so much joy? —Zoe Camp LOCAL 506, CHAPEL HILL 10 p.m., $10–$13, www.local506.com

CLASSIC Two of the seventies’ ROCK highest-profile purveyors of soft rock, both Chicago and The Doobie Brothers began life as musically ambitious soul and fusion acts only to turn into unlikely commercial powerhouses, following the recruitment of Midas-touch songwriters Peter Cetera and Michael McDonald respectively. Expect these reconstituted variations of each act to touch on both their virtuosic beginnings before servicing fans with a brace of timeless hits ranging from “China Grove” to “Hard to Say I’m Sorry.” —TB [COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PAVILION AT WALNUT CREEK, $18–$171/7:15 P.M.]

Rissi Palmer NORTH & Despite her Northern SOUTH roots, Rissi Palmer calls her music Southern soul. The Pennsylvania native made headlines in 2007 when her album Country Girl made her the first African–American to chart a country song since 1987. Her latest album, 2015’s The Back Porch Sessions, is country-flavored soul packed with images from her parents’ rural Georgia upbringing. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, FREE/5 P.M.]

Worse SO MUCH Recorded by Ben WORSE Greenberg ofThe Men, Worse’s Rubber Burner bears more than a passing resemblance to The Men’s earliest Sacred Bones records played at half-speed. Songs are punctuated by the same broken scrapes of feedback and are possessed of the same obstreperous spirit, but Worse strips the shoegazey guitar textures and krautrock motorik for thick bursts of noise and angst. Its wildly careening and sonically imposing post-hardcore is challenging, but it’s also rewarding. With Davidians and Vittna. —PW [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/4:30 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY ARCANA: Mark Simonsen; 7 p.m., free. • THE CAVE: Jaguardini, Tescon Pol, Bitter Inc, Tide Eyes; 9 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3. • HAYES BARTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Stephen Aber in Recital; 3-4 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS:

John William Carlson; 6-9 p.m. • KINGS: Good Looks Rap Showcase; 7:30 p.m., $10–$12. • MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM: Shreya Ghoshal; 7 p.m. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Zack Mexico, Black Lodge, Secret Guest; 7 p.m., $8. • POUR HOUSE: Ghost of Saturday Nite, Riverside Odds, Kiff, 49/Short; 8 p.m., $6–$8. • WEST END WINE BAR-DURHAM: Eric Meyer, Noah Sager & Friends; 4-6 p.m., free.

MON, JUN 26 Skourge WHIP, Certain bands just LASH sound like their name. See: The Clash, Megadeth, Devo, Rancid. Thrashy Houston hardcore outfit Skourge embodies the inherent natures of its name. Abrasive guitars whip and lash, searing and tearing at flesh; oppressive blastbeats serve as a savage martinet, imposing rigid, militaristic order. This ain’t happy stuff (look to “Spiritual Despair” and “Dragged to Death” for hints), but hardcore’s about violent catharsis, ain’t it? With Kept In Line, Time Walk, Elegy, Invoke, Magnitude. —PW [NIGHTLIGHT, $10/8:30 P.M.] ALSO ON MONDAY THE CAVE: Brutal Junior, Server, Prom; 9 p.m., $5. • EMPRESS ROOM: Gary Brunotte plays and sings from The Great American Songbook; 8-10 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5.

TUE, JUN 27 Jaguardini CHIP Richmond’s CROONER Jaguardini isn’t going to win any originality awards. That said, his music makes a fine prism for the last two decades of American synth-pop. The chic snark of early 2000s NYC electroclash is dialed down into a mid-tempo darkwave march. His two most obvious reference points are unhinged chiptune pop group Crystal Castles and, somehow, Pink Floyd? It’s a weird, possibly anachronistic mix, but occasionally compelling. With Tescon Pol. Bitter Inc, Tide Eyes. —DS [THE PINHOOK, $7/8 P.M.]

Spiral Stairs PASSAT The George—or DREAM maybe even the Ringo—to Stephen Malkmus’s John and Paul, Spiral Stairs (né Scott Kannberg) still hasn’t quite found the place in indie rock’s firmament that his Pavement partner has. Doris and the Daggers, released in March and featuring contributions from members of The National and Broken Social Scene, is filled with ringing riffs and winding guitar chords; its pleasant, unhurried songs feel like suburban, middle-aged updates of Kannberg’s Pavement tunes—less Passat and more Tiguan these days. Mac McCaughan opens. —PW [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/8:30 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY IMURJ: The Will McBride Group; 8 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Marilyn Wienand; 6:30 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: Goose, Twisted River Junction; 9 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: NCJRO; 8 p.m., $10–$20.

WED, JUN 28 You’re Jovian DREAM A gifted outfit that POP has knitted its sundry influences into an original and stately sound, Virginia Beach’s You’re Jovian combines efficient, ingratiating songcraft with an impressive flair for dynamics, recalling by turns the minor-key majesty of Fables-era R.E.M. and the crackling, stoned jangle of Sonic Youth circa Rather Ripped. Elsewhere, tunes like the wistful “Season of You” and the slow-building soundscape “Whalehead” suggest a more then passing affinity for the Cure’s rainy day mood storms. —TB [KINGS, $5/10 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY BLUE NOTE GRILL: Blue Wednesday; 8 p.m. • DUKE GARDENS: Music in the Gardens: Loamlands; 7 p.m. See page 22. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: John Mellencamp, Emmylou Harris, Carlene Carter; 7 p.m., $45. See page 21. • THE PINHOOK: Cindy Wilson, Pylon Reenactment, Society; 8 p.m., $20–$35. See page 20. • POUR HOUSE: Marbin, The Get Right Band; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • RUBY DELUXE: Mystery Dance Moms Theatre 3000; 8 p.m. • SLIM’S: Old Codger, Crack House, Witchtit; 9 p.m., $5.

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6.21– 6.28 photography and painting in American Landscapes in 4/3 Time, referring both to his camera and to a jazzy time signature he perceives in nature’s improvisations. Iris Gottlieb shows work related to her new book, Natural Attraction, which explores the relationships between animals and people through quirky watercolors and text. It’s supplemented by Personal Work, in which Iris probes “having mental illnesses, my queerness, and ways to visually explore intimate and vulnerable experiences.” Thru Jul 1. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com. —Brian Howe

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Jim Adams: Forged jewelry. Sat, Jun 24. Melissa Designer Jewelry, Hillsborough. Announcing Spring: Paintings by Jean Giannotto Scholz. Jun 26-27. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygallery ofartists.org. Barely Civilized: Folk art by Cher Shaffer. Jun 23-Aug 24. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www. historichillsborough.org. Colorful Birds of the World: Sat, Jun 24, 6-9 p.m. The Mayton Inn, Cary. Visual Conversations: A Two Woman Art Show: Oil paintings by Aimee Cuthrell and Angela Tommaso Hellman. Jun 21-Jul 27. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org. SPECIAL Witchy Women Art EVENT Dolls: Dolls by Chris Kanoy. Jun 24-30. Reception: Sunday, June 25, 5-7 p.m. Thomas Stevens Gallery, Hillsborough.

Beyond the Front Porch 2017: Exhibition by twelve senior undergraduates. Thru Nov 12. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org. Careful to Carefree: Watercolors by Carol Liz Fynn. Thru Jun 29. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www.eruuf.org. Cedar Creek Gallery National Teapot Show X: Thru Sep 5. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www. cedarcreekgallery.com.

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Disproduction: Collaboration by Kimberly English and Carley Zarzeka. Thru June 22. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu. Egg in Nest: Students of Jenny Eggleston. Thru Jul 21. Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex. www.thehalle.org. Eye Scapes: Photography by Eric Raddatz. Thru Jul 9. Through This Lens, Durham. www. throughthislens.com. Featured Artists: Mixed media from Catherine Gregory and Marguerite Jay Gignoux;

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Finished with Flame: Stoneware by Julie Jones, Matt Hallyburton, and Curry Wilkinson. Thru Jul 15. Claymakers, Durham. www. claymakers.com. Fluid: Paintings by MyLoan Dinh. Thru Oct 15. Durham Convention Center. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.

Forecasts and Other Disturbances: Mixed media screenprints and cut paper by Julie Anne Greenberg. Thru Jul 7. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. From Here to Eternity: Quilted tapestries by Ann Harwell. Thru Jul 25. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. Julie Anne Greenberg: Paintings. Thru Jul 7. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org. Group Show: Twenty-five artists and craftspersons. Thru Aug 25. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. www. horseandbuggypress.com.

Back Home: In Ron Liberti’s new exhibit of prints, paintings, and mixed-media pieces, home is where the art is—or, more specifically, the home-shaped hole we all must figure out how to fill as the things that felt so permanent in our youth reveal themselves as irrecoverably transient. In the past three years, Liberti, known for charismatically fronting veteran Chapel Hill pop-punk band Pipe as well as for his iconic poster art for nightclub concerts, reckoned with the passing of both his parents and the sale of his childhood home in Toms River, New Jersey. The resultant body of work tries to close the gap between where home was and where it is in Liberti’s bold, striking style. Thru Jun 30. SPECTRE Arts, Durham. www. spectrearts.org. —Brian Howe LAST Little Boxes: Metal CHANCE sculpture by Robert Harper. Thru Jun 27. Cary Gallery of Artists. www. carygalleryofartists.org.

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The Music Makers: Visual art by Pleiades members. Thru Jul 9. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com. New Paintings and Assemblages, Celebrating 50 Years of Art Making: Paintings by Gerry Lynch. Thru Jul 1. Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh. www. leehansleygallery.com. LAST Other Nature: CHANCE Paintings, video, collage, and mixed media by John Bowman, Olivia Ciummo, Renee Delosh, Ippis Halme, Jessica Langley, Lovid, Esther Ruiz, and Christina Van Der Merwe. Thru Jun 24. Lump, Raleigh. www.teamlump.org. Our House: Student and instructor exhibition. Thru Jul 7. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. LAST Place of CHANCE Sense:The Creative Mentorship Program of the Durham Art

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Guild teams high school students with visual artists to present the results of twenty-week collaborations between five students and mentor artists. The results demonstrate a diversity of artistic visions, from a mixed-media work that examines the notion of home to a combination of photography and painting that explores female empowerment and cultural heritage. Elsewhere, one young artist and his mentor incorporated the nontraditional elements of role-play and narrative while another team looked at the concept of courage through adversity by means of iconography from graphic novels. Thru Jun 24. Golden Belt, Durham. www. goldenbeltarts.com. —David Klein LAST Dawn Surratt: CHANCE Photography. Thru Jun 26. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com. Pleasant Places: Digital paintings by Quayola. Thru Aug 13. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

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MARCELA SLADE: QUEEN OF HEAVEN At the seam between fine art and fashion you’ll find Marcela Slade, a Carrboro resident whose art background includes earning a degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design and owning galleries in Spain and Ecuador. This one-day pop-up show at the Carrack puts Slade’s series of acrylic paintings, Queen of Heaven— which twists clowns, kings, queens, and kids with poignant Expressionist distortions—in dialogue with the upcycled couture and tweaked readymades she creates for her sladesign line, which will be available for purchase after they come off the catwalk. With a live painting demonstration by the artist, it should all make for a social and stylish Sunday afternoon at the Carrack. —Brian Howe THE CARRACK MODERN ART, DURHAM 1–5 p.m., free, www.thecarrack.org

LAST Site-Specific CHANCE Installation: Fiber art by Gabrielle Duggan. Thru Jun 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. Small to Large: Delight in the Practice of Painting: Paintings by Margie Stewart. Thru Oct 23. Durham Arts Council. www.durhamarts.org. LAST Southern Light: CHANCE Paintings by Durham artist Chad Smith. Thru Jun 24. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www. enogallery.net. Teens, Inspired: Juried exhibition by N.C. high school students. Thru Sep 10. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. Under Pressure: Prints and performance art. Thru Aug 27. Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh. www.visualartexchange.org. West Virginia Spring: Landscape paintings by Lynn Boggess. Thru Jul 15. Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www. tyndallgalleries.com. LAST ...with white, black CHANCE and brown: Drawings by Shib Basu. Thru Jun 27. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists. org. You + Me: Photographs from various artists. Thru Sep 4. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

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WAY DOWN IN THE HOLE You might not want to follow some of them too closely down a dark alleyway. But when three bands and assorted misfits from Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern—led by storefront preacher Jaybird O’Berski, an electrified Dana Marks, and suave host Madeleine Pabis—offered themselves up for ritualized rhythm and blues possession, they put on a hell of a show last summer while tearing through the

Tom Waits song-and-script-book. This weekend, the usual suspects return for the first of three monthly dates in a tour of regional drinking establishments, honoring the man Elton John once called “the Jackson Pollock of song.” —Byron Woods ARCANA, DURHAM 8 p.m., $10 suggested www.littlegreenpig.com

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OPENING Brand New Sidewalk: Choreography by Beth Gill. $27. Wed, Jun 28 & Thu, Jun 29, 8 p.m. Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham. www.americandancefestival.org Cherdonna: By all accounts, Cherdonna Shinatra (Jody Kuehner’s dance/drag persona) is one hot mess in a solo show that uses outlandish costumes and movement, birthday cake and/or peanut butter, and banana sandwiches and partial nudity to confront contemporary and vintage tropes about the feminine and ask, “What is present day queer/drag feminism?” $22. June 24-27. Living Arts Collective, Durham. www. americandancefestival.org. —Byron Woods Goodnights Comedy Academy Graduation Showcase: Mary Lewis, Greg Puertolas, Kim Montague, Janna Moize, J.W. Wilder, and Keshav Srinivasan. $12. Wed, Jun 28, 7 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com. Interleaving: Brion Gysin’s surrealist “cut-up” techniques inspired a generation of visual artists, musicians, and writers, including William S. Burroughs. In 1987, Bill Young cut up four dances he created and staged their sections in random order to create Interleaving. The American Dance Festival stages this revival on the piece’s anniversary. $27. Fri,

Jun 23 & Sat, Jun 24. Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham. www. americandancefestival.org. —Byron Woods The Lectern: Claire Porter & Sara Juli. $27. Thru Jun 21, 8 p.m. Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham. www.americandancefestival.org Lighten Up Comedy Show: Brian Burns, Josh Rosenstein, Virginia Wallace, Deb Teitelbaum, and Freddy Valoy. $5. Sat, Jun 24, 8 p.m. Imurj, Raleigh. imurj.com. Faizon Love: Comedy. Fri, Jun 23-Sun, Jun 25. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com. Sean Patton: Comedy. $15. Wed, Jun 28, 9:15 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com. Struck: Play. Wed, Jun 21-Sun, Jul 2. Kennedy Theater, Raleigh. www.dukeenergycenterraleigh. com. See p. 27.

ONGOING Anything Goes Late Show: Saturdays, 10:30 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com LAST ½ Avenue Q: CHANCE After a production in 2012, we wondered if 2003’s Tony-winning Sesame Street knockoff was becoming a period piece. Our culture seemed to have made so much progress on the issues facing the human and puppet cast

that the musical’s relevance was an open question. But after the country’s recent lurch to the right, that optimistic assessment seems silly. The song “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” lands differently since we’ve learned that many people are still an awful lot more. At Raleigh Little Theatre, director Jesse Gephart completes the argument modern pertinence in a brisk, ruefully witty production. In the show’s second week, individual performances were a mixed bag, but the audience roared for Lydia D. Kinton’s torch-song showstopper, “Special.” And current times make us wonder exactly how many cultural woes are truly, in the last song’s words, just “For Now.” $15-$28. Thru Jun 25. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org. —Byron Woods The Curious Savage: Play. $13$15. Thru Jun 26. Forest Moon Theater, Wake Forest. Early Show: Comedy Overload: $5. Thu, Jun 22, 7:45 p.m. Deep South the Bar, Raleigh. www. DeepSouthTheBar.com. LAST ½ Fool for CHANCE Love: Reviewed on p. 24. $10–$20. Thru June 24. Research Triangle High School Theatre, Durham. www. mcqueenandcompany.com LAST ½ Full CHANCE Gallop: Lynda Clark’s stunning solo turn as fashion editor Diana Vreeland is half concert, half acting master class. There’s more than a note

of Judy Garland’s brassy confidence in the animated musicality of Clark’s voice, and Full Gallop is the right title for both this TheatreFEST production and its subject’s vivid life. Vreeland imperiously holds court in her Park Avenue apartment in 1971, but as “the Oscar Wilde of fashion” namedrops European designers and artists, details of a devastating career reversal unfold. Vogue, where she was editor-in-chief in the tumultuous sixties, fired her, sending shockwaves through the fashion industry. Clark conveys the jackknife turns of a quicksilver mind with precision and panache; a lexicon of facial expressions immediately communicate exasperating news received remotely from a comically long-suffering French assistant (an offstage JoAnne Dickinson). When an actor handles a role with this much style, her subject would have to approve. $12-$20. Sat, Jun 24, 2 p.m. NCSU Campus: KennedyMcIlwee Studio Theatre, Raleigh. www.go.ncsu.edu/tfest17. — Byron Woods LAST ½ The CHANCE Greeks: Reviewed on p. 24. $10. Thru Jun 25. www.burningcoal.org. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org. The Harry Show: Ages 18+. Improv host leads latenight revelers in potentially risque games. $10. Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m. ComedyWorx Theatre, Raleigh. comedyworx.com.

LAST Hay Fever: Farce CHANCE directed by John C. McIlwee. $12-$20. Thru June 25. NCSU Campus: Titmus Theatre, Raleigh. www.go.ncsu. edu/tfest17. Hush Hush: Improv comedy based on secrets. Presented by Mettlesome. Thursdays thru Jun 29, 8 p.m. Beer Study, Durham. It Shoulda Been You: Musical comedy. Thru Jul 1. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www. theatreinthepark.com. Martin Luther King, An Interpretation: Ira Knight’s play featuring John Ivey. $10. Sat, Jun 24, 8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.arts centerlive.org. Miss North Carolina Pageant: Wed, Jun 21-Sat, Jun 24. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www.dukeenergy centerraleigh.com. North Carolina’s Funniest Person Contest: Wed, Jun 21 & Thu, Jun 22, 7 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com. LAST Porgy and Bess: If CHANCE ever a masterpiece needed to be tampered with, this was it. It’s too long and logistically problematic to be staged very often, not to mention controversial for its operatic aspirations and dodgy racial stereotypes. A theatrical dream team including director Diane Paulus, playwright Suzan Lori-Parks, and composer Diedre Murray decided in the early 2000s that a fundamental

revision was needed. The result drew mixed reviews and a public letter of condemnation from Stephen Sondheim. But it also introduced millions of new theatergoers to an American classic made more relevant to contemporary culture. Deb Royals directs this Justice Theater Project production starring Danielle J. Long and Phillip Bernard Smith. $20-$27. Thru Jun 25. Umstead Park United Church of Christ, Raleigh. www.upucc.org. —Byron Woods LAST The Stonewater CHANCE Rapture: When you’re the p.k. (preacher’s kid) at the most rock-ribbed fundamentalist Baptist church in Stonewater, Texas—hey, good luck working on them night moves. Whitney, eighteen years old, is starting to break free from the religious repression of his conservative town. His longtime friend Carlyle is in the same boat; bewildered by her emerging sexuality and saddled by the demands of her mother’s even more imposing faith. Separate crises force them into a deeper, more dangerous alliance as they try to find breathing space between force-fed religious dogma and a far more complicated world. Jaybird O’Berski directs Lexie Braverman and Matthew Hager in this inaugural production from Aggregate Theatre. $10$15. Fri, Jun 23, 8 p.m. Imurj, Raleigh. www.aggregate theatre.com. —Byron Woods |

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RETROARTHOUSE FILM SERIES The mouthful of a title is appropriate to contain the truly overwhelming number of classic films in this weekendlong festival—call it the cream of the Criterion Collection. All thirteen are worth your time, so the only way to pick is to figure out which ones you haven’t seen yet, or at least haven’t seen on the big screen. Will it be the tragicomic silent slapstick of Charlie Chaplin in City Lights? The Technicolor adventure of the 1940 version of The Thief of Baghdad, which provided the basis for Disney’s Aladdin? Or will you go darker, with the silently observing angels of Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire, the underside of immortality in Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos, the decay of civilization in the sixties version of Lord of the Flies, or the wartime tragedy of Peter Weir’s Gallipoli? Will you go straight-up surreal with David Lynch’s Eraserhead, question what’s real with Kurosawa’s Rashomon, or contemplate life over a game of chess with Death in Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, washed down with a more pleasant conversation in My Dinner with Andre? Perhaps you’ll just choose the old-school farce of La Cage aux Folles or the nontraditional working-class romance of My Beautiful Laundrette, or ponder why Charlton Heston was cast as a Mexican in Touch of Evil. No matter what you pick, you’ll feed your eyes and your head. —Zack Smith

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SPECIAL SHOWINGS Bobbi Jene: Thu, Jun 22, 7 p.m. Full Frame Theater, Durham. The Lego Batman Movie: $5. Fri, Jun 23, 8:30 p.m. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. www.boothamphitheatre.com. Sully: Summer film series. Fri, Jun 23, 9 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

OPENING Beatriz at Dinner—In this class-conscious comedy starring Salma Hayek, a massage therapist gets stranded at her wealthy clients’ dinner party. Rated R. Transformers: The Last Knight—Enormous robots based on eighties toys clomp around doing something or other in the umpteenth installment of this endless franchise. Rated PG-13.

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 Alien: Covenant— This is easily the best Alien since the first two, and the is the darkest sci-fi vision yet of our evolving cultural anxieties about machines and artificial intelligence. Rated R.

½ The Fate of the Furious—The latest Fast & Furious film is outlandish and refreshingly self-aware, giddily embracing both elements of the label “dumb fun.” Rated PG-13.

 Baywatch—Only some sort of vile satanic pact could account for Zac Efron’s inexplicable success as an actor. Rated R.

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

 Beauty and the Beast— This live-action remake is an effective piece of fan service but certainly won’t replace the animated classic. Rated PG. ½ The Book of Henry— This tearjerker answers some questions: What’s the kid from Room up to now? What does Colin Trevorrow do between Jurassic Park sequels? Is this sort of work why Bobby Moynihan left Saturday Night Live? Did Gregg Hurwitz really write this? Rated PG-13.  Cars 3—Pixar’s latest is a smooth ride because it mainly runs on cruise control and Rocky references. Rated G.

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It Comes at Night—This family apocalypse survival saga is precise and measured but could use a dash of M. Night. Rated R. ½ Kong: Skull Island— Set before 2014’s Godzilla, this reboot makes Kong’s origin feel like Apocalypse Now meets Starship Troopers. Rated PG-13.  Megan Leavey—The film lavishes love on the bond of a Marine and her bombsniffing dog but undersells everything else. Rated PG-13. ½ The Mummy—Tom Cruise’s increasing creepiness is the biggest impediment to

a serviceable creature feature and reboot of the Brendan Fraser franchise. Rated PG-13.  Paris Can Wait— Eleanor Coppola’s beautiful imagery is better than her first non-documentary feature’s thin story of One Percenters in mild crisis. Rated PG. ½ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales—An improvment over its dire predecessor, this sequel still features Jack Sparrow literally jumping a shark. Rated PG-13.  Wakefield—Director Robin Swicord struggles to sustain momentum in a story that’s almost entirely about a guy in a room, after a lawyer (Bryan Cranston) ghosts on his whole life. Rated R. ½ Wonder Woman— The long-overdue Wonder Woman film is an origin story that doesn’t shrink from the beauty or brawn of a hero in whom the parallels of ancient mythology and modern superhero fiction become literal. Gal Gadot strikes the right balance as an idealist who relishes the battle but not the war. Rated PG-13.

The sad part of learning to read as a child is that you no longer have any justification for asking someone to read you a story. Audio Under the Stars is a godsend for literate adults who secretly long to close our eyes and let someone else’s experiences and words wash over us. Each summer, a team of experienced radio producers associated with the Center for Documentary Studies collects tales around a theme from local residents, clads them with sound cues and bumper music, and then plays them en plein air for anyone who chooses to come and sprawl out on a blanket in the CDS courtyard to listen. This month’s theme is Skin and Bones: Life, Death, and Everything in Between, which should provide a broad canvas for weighty personal stories. Forget, if only for a little while, that you ever learned to read, and all the additional responsibilities that followed. —Brian Howe CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES, DURHAM 8 p.m., free, www.cdsporch.org

READINGS & SIGNINGS Steve Cushman and L.C. Fiore: Hopscotch; The Last Great American Magic. Sun, Jun 25, 5 p.m. www.lettersbookshop. com. Letters Bookshop, Durham. Randy Johnson: Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway; Best Day Hikes BRP. Wed, Jun 21, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. Christina Kelly: Good Karma. Thu, Jun 22, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com. Margaret Maron: Take Out. Tue, Jun 27, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. Ron Morris: No Bull: The Real Story of the Rebirth of a Team and a City. Sat, Jun 24, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com. North Carolina Poetry Society: Kelly Lenox, Maureen Sherbondy, and Terri Kirby Erickson. Sun, Jun 25, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Ann Kidd Taylor: The Shark Club with Sue Monk Kidd. Wed, Jun 28, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. Daniel Wallace: Extraordinary Adventures: A Novel. Sat, Jun 24, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www. mcintyresbooks.com. — Mon, Jun 26, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. Jane Williams: Mysterious Moments: Thoughts that Transform Grief. Wed, Jun 28, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

LITERARY R E L AT E D The Story Collider Stories Podcast: Scientists and nonscientists share stories about how science affects their lives. Mon, Jun 26, 7 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic.com. Your Story: Informal writers’ group facilitated by Gaines Steer. Fourth Saturdays, 10 a.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

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DOCKET NO.: 2017-DR-23-1514 NOTICE OF ADOPTION PROCEEDINGS TO THE DEFENDANT: JOHN DOE, BIRTH FATHER YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN THE FOLLOWING NOTICE: 1. That an adoption proceeding was filed in the Family Court of Greenville County on April 6, 2017 and in this Complaint you are alleged to be the father of a Caucasian, female child born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 29, 2017. 2. That the Plaintiffs in the above captioned Notice are not named for the purpose of confidentiality; however, the Court knows the true identity of the Plaintiffs and in responding to this notice, you are required to use the caption and the number 2017-DR-23-1514. 3. That if Notice to Contest, Intervene or otherwise Respond is filed by you with the Court within thirty (30) days of the receipt of this Notice of Adoption Proceedings, you will be given an opportunity to appear and be heard on the merits of the adoption. To file notice to Contest, Intervene or otherwise Respond in this action, you must notify the above named Court at Greenville County Courthouse, Clerk of Court at 301 University Ridge, Greenville, South Carolina, 29601 in writing of your intention to Contest, Intervene or otherwise Respond. The above named Court must be informed of your current address and any changes of your address during the adoption proceedings. 4. That your failure to respond within thirty (30) days of receipt of this Notice of Adoption Proceedings constitutes your consent to the adoption and forfeiture of all of your rights and obligations to the above identified child. It is further alleged that your consent to this adoption is not required under S.C. Code Ann. Section 63-9-310 and that your parental rights should be terminated pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Section 63-7-2570 (7). This notice is given pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Section 63-9-730 (E). Raymond W. Godwin, Esq. (SC Bar #2162) PO Box 354 Greenville, SC 29602 PH (864) 241-2883 FAX: (864) 255-4342 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFFS Date: May 24, 2017

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