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Big Spenders for a Low-Turnout Election, p. 6 Is Raleigh’s Affordable Housing Tax Enough? p. 8 Relax, Raleigh. Durham Has Retail Worries, Too, p. 20 Let’s Get Metaphysical with Cirque de Vol, p. 25

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH VOL. 33, NO. 25 6 U.S. Representative Patrick McHenry spent $99.65 for every primary vote he received on June 7.

8 Raleigh’s affordable-housing tax is a good start, but it’s only a start.

10 North Carolina has the country’s second-highest number of H-2A guest workers.

16 “I worry that the same forces making Durham less affordable in terms of housing are making it unaffordable for retail.”

18 One of the area’s best songwriters, Brett Harris, was off the road for a few days. We listened to records with him.

20 Steel String Brewery proves you can make delicious beer with pickle brine.

22 On The Impossible Kid, Aesop Rock takes an honest rap turn through adulthood and kitten ownership.

24 No one wants to go through Puberty 2.

25 The risk of a short-play festival like Open Doors is that drama becomes sketch comedy.

27 “What’s the difference between elbow and vagina?”

41 A thank-you note for Bernie Sanders.

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Last week’s story on the Orlando massacre prompted the predictable array of pro-gun and antiMuslim comments. For example, Jm La: “Your quote—‘State law permits you to carry weapons in bars’—is technically true, since there are no ‘bars’ in North Carolina. However, there are restaurants that serve alcohol, which is the definition the state recognizes, so if one has a concealed handgun (not weapon) permit … then one can legally carry a concealed handgun on the property Curt Fields, of a restaurant that serves alcohol, which is commonly referred to as the Pizza Hut Law.” (This ll, Emma is the first time we’ve ever heard the phrase “Pizza Hut Law.”) arren “Maybe it’s time for you boys to take some NRA classes and also blame the real cause of this onald, Neil ers, David attack—radical Islamic terrorists,” adds eagle275.

HiMay writes: “This article is awfully one-sided. I guess I expect a more dispassionate and c Tullis, echowska holistic perspective on the issue. Articles like these polarize our state and country. The more kias you dig in, the more your opposition does.”

The opposition is, in fact, digging in—as evidenced by Monday’s vote in the U.S. Senate against universal background checks and preventing suspected terrorists from buying guns. om dyweek.com But Isabel Geffner of Moms Demand Action NC says we shouldn’t lose hope. er Williams, “In light of the horrific massacre in Orlando,” she writes, “it’s understandable for people to assume that nothing can or will change regarding guns in our country. But members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America have been working tirelessly to turn the tide of gun violence—and com we’re winning. Along with heartbreak, this week brings reasons to hope. When Representative Pittman sponsored a bill to allow anyone to carry loaded concealed handguns in public—no permit, ex Rogers training, or questions asked—Moms were there, fifty strong, on mere hours’ notice. … That bill now sits in the House Rules Committee, where Moms will continue to watch it.” So will we.

Finally, a correction: our Best of the Triangle item on the long-awaited Bowerbirds record incorrectly referred to Phil Moore’s side project as “Tushka.” The actual name is Tuskha. In addi, David Lee, tion, the Bowerbirds record was promised in 2014, not 2013, which puts it two and not three years McNair, behind schedule. And, vocalist Beth Tacular says, the band never tried to hide the fact that its Kickstarter proceeds would fund two records—Tuskha first, then Bowerbirds.

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triangulator +DEMOCRACY ISN’T CHEAP After three federal judges decided in February that North Carolina had impermissibly racially gerrymandered its congressional districts, state lawmakers had to quickly redraw the maps and push the state’s congressional primary from March 15 to June 7. Right now, ten of the state’s thirteen congressional districts are held by Republicans; minus a wave on par with 2006 or 2010, the new maps— still gerrymandered, though not as obviously racially gerrymandered—will likely produce the same results.

Which means that your next member of Congress might have been selected by just a handful of voters two weeks ago. The June 7 primary saw turnout of just 8 percent— down significantly from the March presidential primary, which had more than four times as many voters.

And because of the three-month delay, the General Assembly also eliminated runoff elections, meaning whoever won a plurality won. (Before, a candidate had to get 40 percent of the primary vote to avoid a runoff.)

In the Thirteenth Congressional District in the Triad, gun-shop owner Ted Budd won the seventeen-person (!) Republican contest with just 20 percent—fewer actual voters than you could fit in Red Hat Amphitheater.

He’s a heavy favorite in November.

Even though very few people decided the winners and losers, the candidates still dropped a lot of coin on these contests. We wanted to see who got the most bang for their buck. To the right, you’ll find the ten primary victors who spent the most money (as of the end of May) per vote.

Democracy, it turns out, isn’t cheap. ●

PATRICK MCHENRY (Republican, incumbent, District 10)

Spent: $1,471,792 Votes: 14,770 Cost per vote: $99.65

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According to a recent report from UNC’s Carolina Population Center, the state’s biggest cities are rapidly getting even bigger—and Wake County is freaking exploding—while some smaller rural towns hemorrhage people. In the not-so-distant future, that could significantly alter the character of this state. Here are the cities that gained and lost the most between 2010 and 2015.

(Republican, incumbent, District 8)

Spent: $1,450,536 Votes: 16,305 Cost per vote: $88.96

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GEORGE HOLDING (Republican, incumbent, District 2)

Spent: $1,571, 509 Votes: 16,999 Cost per vote: $82.97

FIVE LARGEST POPULATION INCREASES +91,327, 12.4 percent 1. Charlotte +47.065, 11.6 percent 2. Raleigh +29,218, 12.8 percent 3. Durham

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ROBERT PITTENGER

+24,409, 18 percent 4. Cary +16,465, 6.1 percent 5. Greensboro

(Republican, incumbent, District 9)

Spent: $749,859 Votes: 9,268 Cost per vote: $80.91

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ALMA ADAMS (Democrat, incumbent, District 12)

Spent: $436,632 Votes: 12,356 Cost per vote: $35.54

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FIVE LARGEST POPULATION LOSSES 1. Jacksonville

-2,788, -4 percent

2. Rocky Mount

-1,913, -3.3 percent

3. Elizabeth City

-647, -3.5 percent

4. Laurinburg

-455, -2.9 percent

5. Roanoke Rapids

-409, -2.6 percent

(Republican, incumbent, District 5)

Spent: $551,111 Votes: 17,083 Cost per vote: $32.26

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WALTER JONES (Republican, incumbent, District 3)

Spent: $480,273 Votes: 15,722 Cost per vote: $30.55

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MARK WALKER (Republican, incumbent, District 6)

Spent: $335,816 Votes: 16,787 Cost per vote: $20

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TED BUDD (Republican, District 13) Spent: $57,501 Votes: 6,308 Cost per vote: $9.12 $ SUE GOOGE (Republican, District 4) Spent: $43,870 Votes: 10,841 Cost per vote: $4.05 $ 6 | 6.22.16 | INDYweek.com

+URBAN DEVELOPMENT

+MOBILITY CHALLENGES

As U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx was landing at RDU on Monday afternoon, he could see the congestion from the sky.

“It was an insane amount of traffic,” Foxx told a crowd of around two hundred people gathered in a conference room at the Raleigh Convention Center for a forum hosted by WakeUp Wake County that evening. “We’re finding this all over America, where our infrastructure is not adequate for the growth we’re going to have, but you here in Raleigh and Wake County have a very particular set of challenges.”

Foxx, like U.S. Representative David Price, who spoke before him, emphasized that Wake’s $2.3 billion transit plan, which will be on the November ballot, will be crucial to managing growth in the region.

Wake’s population grew by 43.5 percent from 2000 to 2012, and the county expects

to have a population of two million by 2054.

“The secret is out about this area,” said Foxx, the former mayor of Charlotte. “You have four seasons; you’ve got lush trees. I’ve heard there’s some pretty good college basketball around here. There’s not a lot not to like about this area, and that’s not going away.”

Foxx praised the motto WakeUp Wake County has adopted to spread the word about the transit plan: “moving us all forward.” The “all” part is especially important, Foxx said.

“As you begin to build options for this region, listen to each other, and, if you’re doing it well, it’s going to [lead to] some difficult conversations as you try to negotiate your way through solving the mobility challenges,” Foxx said. “But don’t run away from it because, as you’re building a new transit system, you’re also building a community.” ●

TL;DR: +STARVE THE BEAST

Since the Reagan revolution, the organizing principle of Republican governance has boiled down to “lower taxes, better economy.” After Republicans took control of North Carolina in 2010, they hewed closely to this philosophy, flattening and (especially for those at the top) reducing the state’s income tax rate.

Now, with Governor McCrory locked in a pitched reelection battle and the GOP’s supermajority in the state House in question (thanks, Donald Trump!), Republicans are seeking to enshrine supply-side ideology into the state’s constitution once and for all.

Last week, the Senate proposed a constitutional amendment that would cap the state’s income tax rate at 5.5 percent. If it clears the legislature—putting the amendment on the November ballot requires a three-fifths majority in both the House and Senate—and if voters approve it in November, the state will have to look for other revenue sources or cut public services whenever it needs money.

Which, eventually, it will. When that happens, critics say, the poor and working class will pay the price.

That’s because the most obvious new revenue stream would be a sales tax increase or expansion, which hits lower-income families the hardest, as they spend a larger portion of their incomes on items and services than do

THE INDY’S QUALITY-OF-LIFE METER wealthier people. Thus, a greater percentage of their incomes will go to sales taxes than rich people’s will. This is already happening: a 2015 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report found that the state’s bottom 60 percent of earners pay nearly twice as much of their incomes in taxes as the state’s top 1 percent. The amendment would only exacerbate that divide.

The bottom 60 percent pay nearly twice as much of their incomes in taxes as the top 1 percent.

Not surprisingly, this plan has seen fierce opposition from Democrats, including Treasurer Janet Cowell. In a letter to the Senate Finance Committee, Cowell said the cap could negatively impact the state’s AAA bond rating and lesson “the reliability of the state’s revenue stream.” (N.C. Policy Watch reported that the committee denied Cowell the chance to speak before it passed the bill.)

The idea isn’t new. In 1992, Colorado voters passed an amendment known as the

Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, that required voter approval on all future tax increases. But after the post-9/11 recession, public services were so squeezed that, in 2005, Colorado voters suspended TABOR. (It went back into effect in 2010.)

Senator Jay Chaudhuri, D-Raleigh, who used to be Cowell’s general counsel, calls the Senate’s plan “TABOR-lite.”

“First, you never want to restrict our ability to raise revenue,” Chaudhuri says. “And secondly, a tax cap is a very short-term solution in trying to understand how we avoid volatility with state budget deficits.”

For an example of how this can go south, look no further than Louisiana. After former governor Bobby Jindal lowered taxes, declining oil prices led to a $3 billion budget shortfall, threatening to bankrupt the whole state.

Kansas went down a similar road, slashing taxes on the wealthy and waiting on the trickle-down gods to deliver a roaring economy. Instead, earlier this year, the state faced a $228 million deficit.

North Carolina’s Senate will vote on the amendment June 25 l triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Paul Blest, Aden Hizkias, and Jane Porter.

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Richard Burr and Thom Tillis vote against universal background checks and restrictions on gun sales to suspected terrorists eight days after the Orlando massacre. Because if we give up our right to sell terrorists guns, the terrorists win?

We just blew our own minds.

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Burr is mentioned as a possible running mate for Donald Trump. Relatedly, Paul Ryan is able to move his bowels for the first time in months.

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North Carolina delegates to the Republican National Convention will be fined $10,000 if they try to nominate someone other than Trump. We got five on it.

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After WRAL’s Laura Leslie posts on Facebook about the Orlando shooting, the N.C. GOP recommends that its candidates avoid the station. WRAL just got 100 percent more watchable.

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A federal appeals court considers whether North Carolina’s voting restrictions are unconstitutional. We’re expecting an unprecedented two-word opinion: “Yes, duh.”

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Raleigh’s city council declines to give its police and firefighters the raises they want. Instead, the council adds eleven new months to the year to boost profits from sexy beefcake calendars. They’ll be on sale in Schmeptober.

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Wake County rejects a proposal to increase school funds by an additional $5 million.

What the hell is Raleigh spending our money on, trolley pubs?

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Durham’s city council approves the use of Faith IDs, which undocumented immigrants can use to show residency. They’ll still need a birth certificate to use the bathroom in McCrory’s North Carolina, though.

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WILL RALEIGH’S AFFORDABLE HOUSING TAX BE ENOUGH TO OVERCOME MARKET PRESSURES? BY JANE PORTER If city manager Ruffin Hall’s budget is any indication, Raleigh is finally getting serious about affordable housing—and just in time for the countywide transit referendum that will be on the ballot in November. The city’s plan envisions new affordable housing developments located within a half mile of existing or proposed rail or bus rapid transit stations. Indeed, for the policy to work, it will

have to be plotted in tandem with the Wake County transit plan; if you can rely on public transportation and don’t need a car, life in the city becomes more affordable.

Under the “penny for housing” proposal pushed by council members Mary-Ann Baldwin and Corey Branch, the city will collect an additional $5.7 million in property taxes each year specifically for affordable housing. Prop-

erty owners currently pay a tax rate 42 cents for every $100 of assessed value, or $842 a year for a home appraised at $200,000. With a one-cent property tax rate increase, those homeowners will pay an extra $20 a year. The proposal means that a dedicated, permanent funding source will be available, something Raleigh has never had before.

“The ‘penny for housing’ tax is a progressive tax that helps people in low-income communities to access affordable housing that they’re being priced out of,” Erika Moss, a field organizer for PowerUp NC, which advocates for housing equity, said at a city budget meeting two weeks ago.

Larry Jarvis, director of the city’s Housing and Neighborhoods Department, says that, of the $5.7 million, $5 million will be used to support the creation or preservation of affordable rental units in areas near employment hubs, near existing and proposed transit lines, and in areas in and around downtown.

The city’s goal is to prevent further concentrations of minority and low-income people and subsidized housing; thus, new subsidized developments won’t be allowed in census tracts with high percentages of minorities or low-income residents—with a few exceptions, like developments near transit lines.

The remaining $700,000 will go toward the city’s homeowner rehabilitation program, particularly in southeast Raleigh, Jarvis says. Low-income homeowners who want to make repairs to their homes can apply for a zero-interest loan they will pay back on their own timetable.

Hall’s budget, which the city council adopted Monday afternoon, estimates the city will be able to build an additional 125 rental units each year, which would bring the city’s total annual output to 325. Right now, the city builds two hundred units each year using federal funds.

Affordable housing advocates say the proposal is a good start—and far better

than doing nothing. But in a city where nearly thirty-two thousand renters and nearly thirteen thousand homeowners pay more than 30 percent of the annual median income for housing—the benchmark for whether housing is affordable—and about half of them pay more than 50 percent of the AMI for housing, the city still has work to do.

Samuel Gunther, the director of policy and advocacy at the North Carolina Housing Coalition, says a Raleigh resident would have to work the equivalent of two-and-ahalf minimum wage jobs, full-time, to afford an average two-bedroom apartment.

“We are so far away from meeting the need,” says Kevin Campbell, director of Habitat for Humanity of Wake County. “It’s a great

portion of the increasing tax revenue associated with new development is collected for affordable housing.

But Hall opted to raise the property tax after council members pushed for it.

“What I like about the ‘penny for housing’ concept is that, as the overall tax base grows, that penny amount grows, so it’s a way to keep pace with the need,” says Campbell.

Advocates say securing affordable housing in conjunction with developing the Wake transit plan will be crucial.

“Raleigh is the biggest piece in the transit plan, and committing funding to affordable housing is critical to making the plan a success,” says Gunther.

He compares Raleigh to Austin, which, as

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“What I like about the concept is that, as the overall tax base grows, that penny amount grows, so it’s a way to keep pace with the need.” step, it’s a huge step, in many ways it’s a game changer. But we are still far off from meeting the need. And the need is growing so substantially, and the market forces are so strong.”

The “penny for housing” model was introduced in Durham in 2012 and in Chapel Hill in 2014. The city’s budget will actually lower the property tax rate slightly, but, factoring in countywide property reappraisals, most people will pay more.

In the past, Raleigh has issued affordable housing bonds on an unpredictable schedule: four bonds since 1990, including the last one in 2011, worth $16 million. Projects built using bond money include Taft Development Group’s Wakefield Commons, CASA’s Sunnybrook Village, and DHIC’s Booker Park North.

Raleigh could have chosen to do what Charlotte does—the city issues affordable housing bonds worth $15 million every two years—or to create a tax increment financing district across downtown, in which a

it grew, saw an influx of low-wage jobs into its downtown. Those workers couldn’t afford to live in downtown Austin, which led to terrible traffic conditions.

“Now, it is a nightmare to get around Austin, and the affordable housing crisis is crazy,” Gunther says. “Raleigh hasn’t blown up like Austin yet, but we’re preparing for it.”

Still, Raleigh is going to have to look at other revenue options for affordable housing down the line, Campbell says. Demand for housing is far outweighing supply, which drives up prices.

“The other side of it is peoples’ income and wages come into play, and wage growth hasn’t kept up with the cost of housing,” he says.

“But there is a good affordable housing community here in Wake that we are proud to be part of. The development capacity is here, so it’s really about funding in whatever ways we can. A penny for housing is a start.” l jporter@indyweek.com

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hen José Alberto Aguilera-Hernandez first arrived at the Jackson Farming Company in Autryville in 2011, the work was hard but good, better-paying and more consistent than he could find as a taxi driver in southeast Mexico.

“You have to make a lot to make a little bit [in Mexico],” he says through a translator. “At least [in the United States], you can make more money for your family.”

The early-summer trips were arduous. In June, he would take a thirteen-hour bus ride from Veracruz to Monterrey to obtain his H-2A guest worker visa. From there, another bus ride to North Carolina took three days and three nights in intense heat and humidity.

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Jackson farm, which sponsored his visa, every summer for four years. Once he reached Autryville, he drove tractors for a few months; then, in the fall, when the sweet potato harvest came, he joined a hundred others in the fields. For six long months a year, he did his job, sent money home to his wife and two children in Mexico, and had few complaints—although he says he noticed the amount he was paid didn’t always match the number of hours he worked.

Then, he says, things went sideways.

According to a lawsuit he and six other workers filed in federal court last December, in late summer AguileraHernandez “accidentally damaged a gasoline pump” that was used to fuel the farm’s vehicles. In court documents,

Aguilera-Hernandez alleges that Rodney Jackson—the vice president of the farm and son of its owner, state Senator Brent Jackson (see sidebar, page 14)—pulled him out of work for three days and told him he would to pay $1,000 to cover the cost of the pump.

But for the next two months, he says, he didn’t hear any more about it.

Then, at about 10 a.m. on October 27—the same day Senator Jackson held a political fundraiser at the farm that netted $52,400, according to campaign finance documents—Rodney Jackson pulled Aguilera-Hernandez out of work again and demanded he pay for the pump in weekly wage deductions, which amounted to about $480 a week for the last five or six

weeks of the season, Aguilera-Hernandez says.

Aguilera-Hernandez refused; he gave the same response when Jackson offered to lower the deduction to $200 per week. Aguilera-Hernandez was working as many as sixty hours but only earning about $600 a week. As the lawsuit notes, that deduction would have reduced his wages to below the minimum wage.

According to the lawsuit, Rodney Jackson “then became really angry,” fired Aguilera-Hernandez on the spot, then threatened to fire his brother, who also worked on the farm, and told Aguilera-Hernandez he had thirty minutes to leave the premises before he called the cops.

Aguilera-Hernandez says his supervisors watched suspiciously as he waited on the side of the road for the owner of a nearby store to pick him up. Rodney Jackson did not give him his “return travel payment,” which is required by federal rules, and said he couldn’t produce Aguilera-Hernandez’s final paycheck until the weekend, four days later, the lawsuit says. That meant Aguilera-Hernandez had to foot the bill for the more than $500 it cost to get back to Mexico, according to court records. He was left with two choices: try to scrape together some money to leave, or stay in the States and try to find other work as an undocumented immigrant.

“I felt like I didn’t know what to do or where to go,” he says.

“I’m not from here, so I had no idea where I was going to go.”

At his friend’s store, he tried to sort out his options. He made a call to Justin Flores, the vice president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in nearby Dudley, who came to pick him up. His brother loaned him money for a plane ticket back to Mexico, and, in return, Aguilera-Hernandez let him keep his last paycheck.

In court documents, the Jacksons deny Aguilera-Hernandez’s version of events. Their lawyer, Paul Derrick, says there was “more to his termination than meets the eye,” but he wouldn’t say what that was.

Aguilera-Hernandez wasn’t the only migrant worker disgruntled with the way things worked on the Jackson farm. On December 16, Aguilera-Hernandez and six fellow farmworkers—on behalf of themselves and at least fifty other workers— sued the Jacksons for unpaid wages. They say they weren’t fully reimbursed for expenses, were clocked out while traveling between fields, and were paid below the federal government’s adverse effect wage rate, which is the lowest amount an H-2A worker can legally be paid. The workers’ lawyer, Bob Willis, says that each worker probably lost between $50 to $100 a week due to the farm’s alleged wrongdoing.

Then, according to an amended complaint the farmworkers filed in April, the farm exacted its revenge. The workers say the Jacksons intentionally omitted them from the list that would have brought them back to the farm this year—retribution for filing the lawsuit, they charge. If true, that amounts to a violation of federal regulations.

The lawsuit is an unusual step taken by workers in a program that has been rife with controversy, including frequent complaints of wage theft and retaliation, housing issues, and safety violations. In essence, the guest worker system is designed to give employers total control over workers who rely on them for the visa they need to legally come to the United States.

“Migrant workers have a whole host of issues—unsafe working conditions, wage theft, discrimination, sexual abuse, housing conditions.”

“The main problem is that if the grower doesn’t request you, you don’t have access to the U.S., and if you’re fired you often only have a few days to get out of the country,” Flores says. “One, a grower can threaten you with deportation, and two, there’s a not-so-subtle threat of, ‘if you complain, you’re going to be stuck in Mexico like these guys are.’ A lot of guys think that if they don’t finish the work with a grower, they’ll lose the opportunity to ever get a visa again.”

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he H-2 is a temporary visa that allows businesses to bring laborers from other countries for seasonal work.

The program is divided into agricultural (H-2A) and nonagricultural work (H-2B). These workers are requested by the farms themselves, usually either via a recruiter in Mexico or in the United States, a cooperative like the North Carolina Growers Association, or directly by the farmer.

Since the H-2 program’s start in 1986, North Carolina has had one of the highest concentrations of H-2A workers in the country. According to U.S. Department of Labor data, the state had 17,696 H-2A workers in 2015, second only to Florida.

Part of the reason lies with a former state employee named Stan Eury, a “rural manpower representative” at the state’s Economic Security Commission who was fired in 1989 for growing marijuana, according to records obtained by BuzzFeed last year. A month after being sacked, Eury founded the North Carolina Growers Association, a trade group for farmers. Eury and the NCGA quickly built an empire recruiting H-2A workers from Mexico.

By the mid-nineties, BuzzFeed reported, the NCGA was submitting more than 80 percent of the state’s H-2A requests.

Today, the NCGA remains the top employer of H-2A workers in the country, with some 9,500 employees at its 740 member farms, says executive director Jay Hill.

According to the N.C. Farmworker Institute, these H-2A workers are among the 150,000 workers and their dependents who migrate to North Carolina every season, a number that has doubled in the last twenty years. Ninety percent of North Carolina’s farmworkers are undocumented, according to a 2011 Oxfam America/FLOC report.

Deborah Weissman, a UNC law professor specializing in immigration and human rights, says that a lack of legal access compounds the troubles migrant workers face. “[Migrant workers] have a whole host of issues—unsafe working conditions, wage theft, discrimination, sexual abuse, housing conditions,” Weissman says. “But none of those are going to get remedied if people don’t think they can readily access a lawyer.”

There are several factors behind farmworkers’ hesitance to pursue legal action. One is that many migrant workers don’t know their rights. Another is that, by design, the H-2A program makes the workers guests of their employers; if they get fired, they have to go home, and their families suffer financially.

“For farmworkers, there are a lot of cons to reporting violations at all, regardless of whether their complaints turn into lawsuits,” says Sean Driscoll, director of public relations for Legal Aid of North Carolina, which has previously sued the Jacksons on farmworkers’ behalf. “They face retaliation from employers, blacklisting, or getting sent back home without earning the money they need to support their families.”

“W

orking at the Jackson farm, we experienced a lot of problems from the beginning,” Valentin Alvarado-Hernandez, another plaintiff in the lawsuit, wrote in a letter read at a protest at Senator Jackson’s legislative office in May. “We began to notice that the grower and supervisor would steal our wages by punching us out for anything they could—changing fields, waiting for equipment to come, or our water breaks. … Little by little, this added up, and over the season, he stole thousands of dollars from our wages.”

“They’d always have us clocked out when we were going from one field to another,” says Esdras Mendiola-Bordes, who also joined the lawsuit. “And they would make us wait about thirty minutes or an hour, and then we’d work for another fifteen minutes, and they’d clock us out again when we’d leave.

And we’d ask [our supervisor] why he was clocking us out, since this was all work, and he’d say, ‘I’m just following orders.’”

(In court documents, the Jacksons deny this allegation.)

The workers also claim that they were paid less than the federal adverse effect wage rate—the minimum H-2A workers can earn, currently $10.72 an hour—on jobs that involved a “piece rate.” For example, workers could be paid $1 per box of strawberries. But if they didn’t pick ten boxes in an hour (something the workers say is nearly impossible), they wouldn’t earn what the federal government mandates. The law compels the employer to make up the difference. The lawsuit claims the Jacksons didn’t do so.

Derrick, the Jacksons’ attorney, denies those allegations.

“Based on the records I’ve seen, these folks were paid correctly,” he says. He declined to share those records with the INDY. The farmworkers interviewed by the INDY also say that Rodney Jackson and supervisors at the farm would often harass or overwork them.

“There was a time where we worked really, really long rows, and it took us two or three hours to finish a row, and [Rodney Jackson] wanted to pay us two dollars, or a dollar each per row,” Mendiola-Bordes remembers. “And so we told him we would do this work, but we wanted to be paid by the hour, not the row, and he got really mad and yelled something INDYweek.com | 6.22.16 | 11

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in English and slammed the door.” (Rodney Jackson did not respond to repeated requests for comment.)

According to multiple complaints and lawsuits lodged against the Jackson farm in the last two decades, this sort of treatment wasn’t uncommon.

In July 1998, an employee named J. Carmen Fuentes suffered a heatstroke while working in the farm’s tomato fields, according to court records. He told his supervisors he felt dizzy, but he never received medical attention. He slipped into unconsciousness before he was finally taken to the hospital, where he fell into a permanent vegetative state. The North Carolina Industrial Commission ordered the Jacksons to pay for Fuentes’s around-the-clock care.

In 2002, a worker named Julio Cesar Guerrero alleged that the Jackson farm “kept the workers’ drinking water on a moving truck in the fields, forcing them to run after it with their mouths under the spigot,” according to a 2004 article in The Nation. Guerrero was fired after filing a complaint with the N.C. Department of Labor; he filed a lawsuit, which was settled out of court in 2004.

That year, the FLOC reached a collective bargaining agreement with the NCGA, of which the Jackson Farming Company was a part, after the FLOC’s five-year boycott of the Mount Olive Pickle Company following a migrant worker’s death. The agreement included hiring by seniority, wage increases, a grievance procedure, and the official end of an NCGA blacklist of workers who complained.

In 2014, workers at the Jackson farm allegedly discovered that they were being clocked out while moving between fields and being paid less than the adverse effect wage rate, then $9.87 an hour. In protest, thirty-two workers filed a grievance against the Jacksons with the NCGA; in September 2014, they reached a confidential settlement.

At the end of 2014, the Jackson Farming Company left the NCGA, meaning that it would no longer have to deal with FLOC or the collective bargaining agreement. Flores says that at least five of the leaders of the grievance were not asked back the next season.

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r. Thomas Arcury, director of the Center for Worker Health at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, has been researching migrant-worker conditions since 1995.

In 2010, Arcury and a Wake Forest team investigated housing at 183 labor camps in eastern North Carolina. At every camp, they found at least four violations, including but not limited to roach and rat infestations, dysfunctional plumbing, and polluted drinking water.

A year later, another Wake Forest study Arcury was involved in found that fewer than half of the workers surveyed had access to soap for handwashing, only a third received pesticide safety training, and just 15 percent had access to safety equipment.

Across the state, Arcury says, housing arrangements range from “a house trailer with five or six guys living in it to a barracks-style with a big room that could be housing for fifteen

“One, a grower can threaten you with deportation, and two, there’s a not-sosubtle threat of, ‘if you complain, you’re going to be stuck in Mexico like I these guys are.’”

tional Safety and Health Administration regulations have exemptions for agriculture.

Arcury also notes that, under the Migrant Housing Act, housing inspections are only required before the housing opens and when a complaint is made.

“But then,” he says, “the question becomes, will a worker will actually file a complaint?” (According to the NCDOL’s 2015 annual report, the state conducted 1,714 preoccupancy occupancy inspections and 114 compliance inspections; officials issued 174 violations that fined farmers $153,526.)

The biggest impediment to addressing these issues, Arcury says, is getting people to care about those who “suffer so we can have cheap food” enough to push for changes.

“After doing this for twenty years,” he says, “it’s somewhat disheartening that things really haven’t gotten that much better—if they’ve gotten better at all.”

to twenty workers.” But the Jackson farm’s housing—set up like a summer camp for adults, with some rooms that easily fit a dozen people into bunk beds—is nicer than at most North Carolina labor camps, Flores says.

An N.C. Department of Labor representative told the INDY that the department had awarded the farm the designation of a “gold star grower” twice, in 2007 and 2012, as part of a program that “recognizes growers who provide farmworker housing that meets and exceeds all of the requirements of the Migrant Housing Act of N.C.,” according to the department’s website.

Still, it’s not just housing problems that worry advocates.

Driscoll, of Legal Aid, says wage theft is common, too.

U.S. Department of Labor statistics show that, in 2015, the Wage and Hour Division concluded 270 investigations of H-2A worker complaints and awarded more than $2.1 million to more than 2,700 workers. Twenty of those investigations were in North Carolina, where 270 workers won more than $200,000 in back wages. In addition, $94,000 was assessed in civil penalties against North Carolina growers for wage violations.

The NCGA’s Hill dismisses most of these complaints as misunderstandings. “We encourage the worker to talk to the grower,” he says. “The vast majority of types of complaints we get are not so much violations, but the lack of work.”

But advocates say these problems shouldn’t be brushed aside. While Arcury acknowledges that workers in the H-2A program have more rights and receive better treatment than undocumented workers, he says there are insufficient labor and health regulations covering farms. He calls the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s worker protection standards “totally inadequate.” In addition, he adds, most U.S. Occupa-

n December, at the end of the season, FLOC organizers visited the camp to recruit additional plaintiffs for Aguilera-Hernandez’s lawsuit. “We were nervous at first,” Alvarado-Hernandez says, “but we decided we had to do something, because we were always just letting things happen without saying anything.”

Six farmworkers, including Mendiola-Bordes and Alvarado-Hernandez, signed on.

After the lawsuit was filed, the Jackson Farming Company’s food safety coordinator, Heather Register, “repeatedly and directly telephoned almost all if not all of the named plaintiffs other than” Aguilera-Hernandez, according to allegations made in court records, threatening to blacklist them if they went ahead with their case.

When it came time to bring the workers back, the workers allege, she made good on her threat. (In court records, the Jacksons deny this allegation. Register did not respond to interview requests.) To date, only one of the seven plaintiffs has been able to find new work in the United States. Each month they’re not working, the workers are losing thousands of dollars.

That’s why they want to come back, despite all that’s happened: they don’t have better options. Aguilera-Hernandez says that if he can’t return to the United States (he’s currently in Mexico), he’ll have to go back to working as a taxi driver, making the equivalent of $150 per week. Alvarado-Hernandez says his alternative is working in Veracruz’s cilantro fields making around 500 pesos—just $27—per week.

On May 26, the FLOC hand-delivered petitions to Senator Jackson’s legislative office asking him to reinstate the workers and pay them the back wages; Jackson wasn’t there. At a press conference beforehand, Raul Jimenez, a former farmworker, read Alvarado-Hernandez’s letter out loud.

“I would like to say to Senator Jackson,” the letter said, “why are we not being given work this year? We only ask for what is ours, and what the law says: that we should get paid, and that the supervisors stop abusing people. We don’t deserve to lose our jobs because we didn’t stay quiet.” pblest@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 6.22.16 | 13

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osé Aguilera-Hernandez, Esdras MendiolaBordes, and Valentin Alvarado-Hernandez told the INDY that they didn’t interact much with Senator Brent Jackson. Though he was the Jackson farm’s owner, he wasn’t involved in its day-to-day operations. But his work in the General Assembly hasn’t made life any easier for the farmworkers he employs.

Elected in the 2010 tea party wave, Jackson (who declined to comment) rose quickly through the ranks. He currently serves as cochairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. In that role, he’s presided over cuts to legal aid in North Carolina—especially targeting Legal Aid of North Carolina, the only one of the state’s three legal-aid providers that has a unit dedicated to helping farmworkers.

Farmworker organizing efforts have also drawn the ire of the General Assembly.

In 2013, the legislature passed the sweeping Regulatory Reform Act, called House Bill 74, which stripped farmworkers of the ability to collectively bargain and barred corporations from putting pressure on the farms they get their products from to ensure fair labor standards. If HB 74 had passed a decade earlier, says Justin Flores of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, the FLOC wouldn’t have been able to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the NCGA. “What this General Assembly did, including Senator Jackson,” says N.C. AFL-CIO secretarytreasurer MaryBe McMillan, “was make farmworkers even more vulnerable by limiting their ability to come together and create these

supply-chain agreements so they could get corporations to put power on growers to make sure farmworkers are paid decent wages and treated fairly.”

According to state legislative records, Jackson had his hands all over HB 74, serving on the Senate committees that considered it, taking a leadership role in hashing out the differences between the House and Senate versions, and eventually voting for the final package. After it was signed, Senate leader Phil Berger said in a press release that Jackson, along with senators Harry Brown and Andrew Brock, “deserve a lot of credit for crafting legislation that continues to eliminate the needless, duplicative, and confusing regulations that hamstring our jobcreators and our economy.” —Paul Blest

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T

he last month for Durham’s burgeoning retail scene suddenly suggested a worrisome trend.

In May, Nice Price Books went out of business on Broad Street. And then, in mid-June, the excellent downtown wine shop Cave Taureau, situated on the ring of the Five Points intersection for the last four years, slashed prices and announced its own imminent departure, citing an impending rent increase and slumping sales. Were there too many stores for too few customers?

Alongside Duke’s east campus, Nice Price was at the end of a sixteen-year run, its owner ready to retire. But Cave Taureau was just getting started, with shelves full of a wide variety of wines and bitters and beers, thoughtfully stocked by owner Noel Sherr. When Cave Taureau opened in November 2012, Sherr and his wife, Marie, and their two business partners knew they were taking a substantial risk. But Cave Taureau quickly attracted new business as a relatively early adopter of downtown Durham’s retail possibilities.

“Downtown Durham was starting to get the energy. We wanted to be part of the revival,” Sherr says, noting that Cave Taureau carried many of the foodfriendly wines featured in nearby restaurants that could be hard to find in other shops. “We felt like what we were doing belonged here.”

But as downtown’s parking crunch escalated, sales declined. Then Cave Taureau’s building was sold, which means a sharp increase in rent when the current lease ends in 2017. The new owner will need to charge market rate for the storefront space, and the downtown Durham landscape has changed radically in four years.

Sherr made the decision to exit now rather than risk more losses. He’s “not happy losing money,” he says, philosophically, “but I’m zero percent regretful.”

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Bull or Bust DESPITE DOWNTOWN DURHAM’S THRIVING RETAIL SCENE, THE RECENT CLOSURE OF CAVE TAUREAU HIGHLIGHTS UNDERLYING ANXIETIES

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mission statement of sorts: that independent merchants—passionate and knowledgeable about their goods—wanted to be part of a rejuvenated city center’s magnetism.

The acclaimed Durham restaurant boom has largely fueled the downtown renaissance. Five years ago, downtown was mostly empty after dark. Now, it bustles almost every night, but that’s not quite enough, the

core’s new retailers agree.

“We need to give people something to do during the day,” says Jennings Brody, who owns Chet Miller, the handsome, superbly selected gifts and furnishings emporium on Parrish Street. A decade ago, she opened the food retailer Parker & Otis a half mile away, and she will soon launch Tiny, a children’s store, in the space beside Chet Miller. “When

you come to a city, you can’t eat the whole time.”

Brody’s retail gamble with Chet Miller is part of a new wave of commerce meant to follow those restaurants.

“Retail is inevitable,” says Gabriel Eng-Goetz, who owns Runaway, a new fashion and lifestyle boutique beneath the 21C Museum Hotel on Main Street.

“People don’t really come downtown to shop.” But they will, he hopes. “It’s definitely a risk,” he says, “but it’s a calculated one.”

Part of that calculation is feel. Downtown retailers frequently use words like “energy” and “vibe,” suggesting a spirit they want to tap into and feed, even if it means waiting for an increase in sustainable residential and tourist density, the latter already higher thanks to the arrival of 21C and the Durham Hotel.

“This block has really good juju,” says Brody, standing on Parrish Street.

F

rom the front door of Chet Miller, Brody looks directly at the elephant in the room— or, in local parlance, the bull lumbering into the china shop: One City Center, today a hole in the ground, but someday a twenty-seven-story high-rise.

With the concurrent renovation of the Jack Tar Hotel across Parrish Street, it constitutes a present disruption and future change of a size, scope, and potential impact that Durham has rarely if ever seen.

These building projects have escalated downtown’s bothersome but temporary lane closures (from a water main replacement) into an unremitting chaos of construction, pedestrian peril, closed streets, choked traffic, and—the retailer’s worst nightmare—insufficient parking.

In an otherwise high-spirited moment, parking, that most spiritless of forces, is causing constant commercial trouble. Accessibility problems played a significant role in Cave Taureau’s demise.

“Wine’s heavy,” Sherr says simply. Over

time, his customers had a harder time finding parking near the shop; many of them gave up even trying. The mere perception of tough parking, even if not entirely true, kept people away. The business he expected from the nearby American Tobacco Campus rarely arrived. He discovered that, at day’s end, workers would get in their cars and return to the Durham Freeway rather than try to get closer to his shop.

One City Center and the Jack Tar won’t be finished soon, and construction has yet to begin on a new parking deck on the north side of the downtown loop. Things will surely get worse before they get better, though, in September, the city will begin installing parking meters downtown, which officials believe will help ease the parking crunch.

Nevertheless, “this isn’t just about parking,” says city council member Steve Schewel, “and it’s important that it not be.”

Still, how will fresh shoots of downtown retail avoid Cave Taureau’s fate? Some have better anchorage; Runaway and Carolina Soul Records are small retail imprints of much larger wholesale and online concerns. Others rent from sympathetic, financially flexible owners who are willing to offer favorable lease terms. Still others own their buildings, like Dolly’s Vintage, which moved downtown five years ago and became something of a pioneer. Ditto Vert & Vogue and the homey new downtown grocery Bulldega, a family business. Profits go back into the building, not to a landlord.

Jennifer Donner, who owns Dolly’s, says she wouldn’t have moved downtown from Brightleaf Square had she and her husband not owned the building at 213 West Main.

But business, she says, is strong and evolving.

She’s made subtle changes to the inventory in response to Durham’s current consumer demographics, with more new merchandise and less vintage wares in the front of the store.

Likewise, Land Arnold, the owner of Letters Bookshop, has adopted a similar adaptability since opening nearly three years ago.

He’s added more new books to his used stock, and a prominent table offers recent hardcovers, which he hadn’t planned to sell at all, at a standing 20 percent off.

Brody and Donner go for regular walks around downtown, taking stock of the sea change and brainstorming ways to withstand it. Donner is unclear on answers, but she is certain that such small businesses need the city’s help.

They’ve gotten some, but need more.

Downtown Durham Inc.’s Walk Your City signage campaign is a start and needs expansion “to install signage that lets visitors know that businesses are open during construction,” according to an official from the Office of Public Affairs. Schewel adds, “There’s an obligation on the part of the developers to make people aware of how to get to these stores.”

Until that obligation is better met, the city is struggling to keep retailers updated on street closures and other impediments.

Brody recently found the sidewalk outside

[small business] is shrinking. Our retailers are at the mercy of real and powerful market forces. I worry that the same forces making Durham less affordable in terms of housing are making it unaffordable for retail.”

And as downtown Durham continues to grow, its informal but strong consortium of local businesses will soon face the encroachment of chains. Rents in the designated retail spaces in the new developments will be 50 percent to 100 percent higher than the current downtown rate, some shopkeepers have learned. Only empires with deep pockets can afford that overhead.

“When you come to a city, you can’t eat the whole time.”

Chet Miller blocked by Jack Tar construction crews without warning. She wrote an email to the city council, which helped find a partial solution.

“We keep hearing that we have to hold on for a happier tomorrow,” Arnold says, citing the completion of One City Center. “But it has to happen today.”

Schewel advocates for the improvement of “supportive infrastructure”—such as bike and bus accessibility, and sidewalk improvement—for which the city has earmarked funds.

Still, downtown’s boom is happening so fast—and nearly all at once, it seems—that virtually no municipal government could hope to manage all of its vectors.

Retail is mostly left to its own Darwinian course. “Since downtown is hot now,” Schewel says, “the city’s need to incentivize

A few chains might not be so bad. If, say, an Urban Outfitters arrived, “it would pull the mall audience downtown,” Runaway’s EngGoetz says. Dolly’s is planning a collaboration with Anthropologie. As more people move downtown, they’ll need the conveniences that, by nature, chains can provide.

“I get it,” Brody says. “It needs to happen.”

But there’s no juju in a CVS.

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ave Taureau was one move in a very long game, one with much older beginnings. Encouragingly, it’s still being played by one of its originators, at least for now.

Ward Furniture stands at 407 East Chapel Hill Street. The owner, Emmett Ward Jr., started working there fifty years ago for his father, who founded it in 1948 next door, now the home of Merge Records. A picture

of Emmett’s father hangs over the counter, above an old Zenith logo.

The business has seen both the midcentury downtown boom and its post-Vietnam bust. The building has no air conditioning, and it doesn’t appear to have been renovated since central air conditioning was popularized. Only the furniture looks new, although its design is resolutely dated.

At eight o’clock on a Thursday morning, Emmett is already open for business, doing paperwork. His lone assistant, Donald Powell, dozes on a sofa; soon, the business of loading and delivering will rouse him into action. Ward has a loyal network of longtime customers, both inside the city center and out. Quietly, it’s one of downtown’s most successful retail operations.

But Emmett knows it can’t last much longer. His rental terms are so favorable they’re practically the result of neglect. He isn’t even sure who owns the building; it’s in the hands of a bank trust, he says, and he writes his monthly rent check to a management company. The rate increases a little every year.

This arrangement will eventually come to an end, and his prime downtown location is almost sure to transform into something shiny to match the surrounding zeitgeist: Merge, Dashi, Alley Twenty Six. But he’s sanguine about the coming change. He’s seventy-one, and his children have chosen careers outside the furniture business.

“When the lights go out,” he says, “the party’s over.”

He’s sanguine about the future of downtown retail, too, if a tad skeptical. Retail is a hard business, he admits. You have to show up every day, for all hours. You must sell good products. You must know those products, too. And you have to build relationships with your customers.

No, some of the retail newcomers won’t last, but they seem to share a certain necessary spirit. These are people, not just businesses, and they care about what they do.

To wit, Brody stands outside Chet Miller. Fumes from painting her new children’s store space have set off the smoke alarm.

Why deal with this tower of obstacle, hassle, and debt?

She looks out over the One City Center construction site, then back at her store: “Because this is what I love.” l Twitter: @sobsey INDYweek.com | 6.22.16 | 17

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It’s a sleepy night at Brett Harris’s home in suburban Durham.

The indie-pop songwriter has hardly been here in months. He’s been busy traveling, either touring in support of his excellent March album Up in the Air or performing with other projects, including an acclaimed re-creation of Big Star’s Third. Somehow, he’s squeezed in an Italian vacation and a Myrtle Beach weekend with his wife, Rebecca. He’s wiped.

Still, Harris leads the way to the lowest floor, where guitars line the wall behind a couch. Next to it are a simple turntable and a few shelves of records. Growing up, Harris didn’t have a ton of music, so the thirty-threeyear-old admits he’s been making up for lost time.

“I always looked forward to when my brother would come home from college,” Harris says. He was eleven, and his brother was seven years older. He devoured whatever mid-nineties CDs or cassettes made their way into his hands. In the decades since, he’s been working backward through musical eras, finding what he missed in the variegated history of American pop.

We sat down to listen with Harris, asking him to choose most of the playlist. He excitedly obliged.

Brett Harris, at home (briefly) in Durham PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

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“ELEANOR RIGBY” THE BEATLES, REVOLVER (1966)

Harris’s songs are often peppy and catchy, but there’s undeniable emotional substance to his work, too. So we listened to a particularly weighty tune by the masters.

INDY: You’re smiling.

BRETT HARRIS: It’s a strange thing to smile at, this song.

How did you come to the Beatles?

My mom, like most people from that generation, totally was into it. My dad claims he knows two songs, and that’s “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and the national anthem. He completely could care less about music. My mom, when we would ride around in the car, we’d listen to oldies stations. When we’d ride around with my dad, we’d listen to football games and baseball games.

Was it 1994 when The Beatles Anthology came out? That was the big television event. My dad traveled around for jobs, and my brother was off at college. It was just me and my mom, and we watched that whole TV event. It hit me at the right age.

“JIMMY MACK” MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS, MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS LIVE! (1967)

The guitar on this song speaks to Harris, though it’s as much about the player’s phrasing as it is his ability to shred within the exacting Motown song structure. This LP still sports its $2.99 price sticker.

I used to be able to kill a lot of time while I was touring. I would go into record shops and buy records for a dollar or two.

You can still do that, but it’s been crazy to watch how the vinyl market has changed the past five years. I got this one in East Nashville years ago on tour.

In the best records and the best songs and the best arrangements, everything has its proper place. That’s something I try to take to heart and try to take to studios. I don’t know who was on the road with [The Vandellas] because it wasn’t as documented as now. It’s a busy track. It’s a busy shuffle. And it’s a live take, so it’s a little more rushed. There’s something about this sense of everything having the right place in the arrangement and having everything have its time.

“(SITTIN’ ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY” OTIS REDDING, THE DOCK OF THE BAY (1968) A classic, this song needs no introduction.

The overdubs are so funny on this.

INDY: As a child hearing this song, I knew this was a kind of loneliness I didn’t understand yet.

It’s entirely in major chords. It’s really bizarre. We don’t know what Otis would have been like after this got released. He was such a powerful singer. Even songs like “Try a Little Tender-

ness,” they’re ballads and all, but they’re powerful ballads. In this, there’s this melancholy. There’s this restraint. It really hints at something special. You take where Otis was going with his last recording, and you take where Sam Cooke was going with his last recording, and it’s like they were both pushing, stretching in opposite directions.

“FROM A SILVER PHIAL” GENE CLARK, NO OTHER (1974)

After its release, this solo record by Byrds founder Gene Clark floundered. It was overproduced, excessive, and strange. Harris had a digital version for a long time and finally found the actual LP. He sees sonic and intellectual depth in the cryptic lyrics, dense production, and sweeping choruses of what has become a cult classic.

This track is one of my favorites of Gene Clark’s. It’s an overlooked record, although recently there was an all-star performance where they did this record in its entirety. This was a track I found out about because Aquarium Drunkard used to do these compilation things, and I used to grab that when I was looking for music. That track was in there. I used to work in a stockroom, and it was great because I could have flexible hours to tour. I could listen to music back there and get lost in my own world. This was one of those songs I listened to four or five times on repeat after I heard it. There was so much information to unpack.

“BIG, LONG LINE” WILD FUR, SINGLES EP (2014)

Wild Fur is the musical partnership of local songwriters Nick Jaeger and Wylie Hunter. Despite the pop-rock label he often gets, Harris rejects the idea that music should be fenced off by genre. He celebrates the stylistic cross-pollination of Wild Fur, old friends who open for him this week.

I remember being blown away when I first heard this. I had known Nick for a few years. Nick plays on my record and had played on my records before. I loved Max Indian and the Tomahawks, and this totally came from somewhere new. This still had all the great playing and songwriting but was this brand new thing. It sounds big, too. At the same time, it’s not distant. Sometimes, if I hear synthesizers, except for a very small grouping of records, I expect it to be a little bit cold. It’s part of the game, right? But this is very warm and immediate.

“WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH?” R.E.M., MONSTER (1994)

We skipped the eighties completely and went right to the nineties, to records that hit Harris as a kid. Nowadays, he even knows these guys.

I can say a lot of great things about this band, and I’ve been fortunate enough to meet every member and have good friendships with a lot of them. What never really gets talked about enough is Mike Mills’s ability to harmonize with Michael Stipe. For years, I thought it was an overdub of Michael Stipe

with himself. Mills has this perfect ability to blend, and he’s a phenomenal singer. It’s almost like they’re a family band; they have that Beach Boys or Bee Gees magic of sibling harmony.

“O MY SOUL” BIG STAR, RADIO CITY (1974)

Harris performs alongside Chris Stamey and a big cast in a loving homage to Big Star’s Third. At these shows, Harris has sometimes found himself harmonizing with Michael Stipe, too. For a Big Star song, he chose a technically grueling piece of music, the opening cut to the band’s sophomore record, Radio City.

We performed this song. Never again—it’s like calculus, it’s crazy. I don’t know that they get any better than [drummer] Jody Stephens.

INDY: This is incredibly complicated.

It’s lyrical drumming. He’s feeding so much off what Alex [Chilton] is putting in. It’s an incredibly interesting guitar part, too, and it hasn’t even gotten to the last movement.

You can see why they were so loved by critics. When you get swamped by that much music across your desk and this is the first thing you put on, this is going to stick.

Was getting this together to play maddening?

It was insane, kind of terrifying. Chris [Stamey] and Alex used to play together at CBGB, so it was this surreal night. We had just played Central Park the night before. This was 2013.

We didn’t have Jody. He had to fly back home, so Dale Baker— who is a phenomenal drummer in his own right—had charted out Jody’s drum parts and was sight-reading all of Jody’s fills.

He nailed it.

“I MUST BE IN A GOOD PLACE NOW” BOBBY CHARLES, BOBBY CHARLES (1972)

Charles was an incredibly influential rock songwriter, with legends like Bill Haley and Fats Domino recording his songs (including “See You Later, Alligator”), but he released very little music under his own name. This track is a perfect specimen of sleepy summer simplicity.

Bobby Charles is actually in The Last Waltz. I don’t think he made it into the film version, but he’s on the record. This song and this record I found through a guy who works for a music house in New York. He passed on signing me, but we still keep in touch. He’s a huge record nut. He has tens of thousands of LPs. In his mind, this is nearly a perfect song in terms of a sense of home. He told me about this, and he said if somebody would write a version of this in this present day, it would be on every ad. It’s a perfect song. With a couple of lyrics, it paints a perfect picture. There is nothing wasted.

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specimens as the family’s long-faced dog (not a pickle) looks on. For Isley, it, like the beer, is an invocation of childhood.

“Pickling Day,” he exclaims. “The one day of the year when my friend Charles’s dad used to put on a mesh tank top, go into the hot basement, and make a giant vat of cucumber pickles.”

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New Belgium may have a new mountain home in Asheville, but the Colorado-based brewery is going to have a big week in the Triangle. The roving circus of Tour de Fat rolls into Durham Saturday, June 25 (see page 29), preceded by a great free rock show at The Pinhook Thursday night (see page 31). Just as the concert starts, another New Belgium soiree will be ending at Tasty Beverage Company in Raleigh, where a special draft selection will help the brewery celebrate a quarter-century of its malty wonder, Fat Tire. There will be, Tasty says, cupcakes and high fives. Speaking of Asheville, beer, and Tasty, Burial—one of the state’s rising suds stars—will shuffle a few hours east Friday night for a tap takeover, too.

Stouts and aged saisons, goses and porters: Burial will supply a fantastic lineup of rarities for the party, which taps at 5:30 p.m. www.newbelgium.com & www.tastybeverageco.com

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I worried at first that the beer I was about to try would taste like a gulp of pickle juice, swallowed straight from the jar. But I was proven pleasantly wrong.

A dill-flavored, gose-style beer first created in collaboration between Carrboro’s Steel String Brewery and Saxapahaw’s Haw River Farmhouse Ales, Picklemania was instead a light-bodied, moderately carbonated wonder. At less than 4 percent ABV, the gose delivered layers of tart lemon and subtle dill over a bright, fresh salty body—not a mouthful of pickle juice at all.

“It’s more of a beer-nerd kind of beer,” says Steel String’s head brewer, Will Isley. “We get a lot of comments about how people don’t think they could drink a whole pint of it, but for those people who are willing to challenge their palates, they typically love it.”

I am, turns out, one of those people.

The pairing makes conceptual sense, as both pickles and beer are products of fermentation. The recent rise in popularity of small-batch pickling has launched a slew of similarly briny libations: picklebacks, pickletinis, and other ferment-inspired drinks. Picklemania is a logical, certainly bold next step.

“We had done plenty of goses before and thought it would be fun to take it to the furthest extreme: basically a pickle brine,” says Isley.

Steel String first brewed Picklemania in tandem with Haw River for its own 2013 grand opening, but Steel String now produces the bulk of it, releasing it every few months from its Carrboro taproom. It pours a cloudy yellow hue under a thin white head; fresh herbal aromas of dill, citrus, allspice, peppercorns, and coriander waft from the glass, sure signs of the rich brine inside.

“People have a very love-hate relationship with dill,” says Isley. “I think it has a nice hint of dill without that overriding dill flavor.”

On the beer’s suitably green label, a bespectacled, bearded adult pickle tends a vat of baby

exquisite fusion hub of An, the subject is sake. Sara E. Guterbock, an actual sake sommelier, guides guests through a sixcourse dinner that culminates in An’s rhubarb financier, which we profiled last

month. The sakes boast names such as “Dragon God” and “Drunken Whale,” the courses ingredients as diverse as hamachi and beef tenderloin. www.ancuisines.com

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AESOP ROCK

Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro Wednesday, June 29, 9 p.m., $20 www.catscradle.com

A Fabled Age

ON THE IMPOSSIBLE KID, AESOP ROCK DOESN’T FIGHT THE YEARS, EVEN WHEN THEY’RE UNFASHIONABLE

BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN

Aesop Rock does not pretend to be young. Rather, he seems to revel in getting old.

On The Impossible Kid, the seventh and arguably best album of his twodecade career, the rapper with the long-weaponized voice and enviably expansive vocabulary confronts his advancing age at almost every turn. He wastes little time broaching the topic, too, turning the chorus of the second song, “Rings,” into a mantra for his own inevitable obsolescence.

“All heart, though we would’ve made cowardly kings,” he chants, alone amid a synthesizer-and-drum din. “They will chop you down just to count your rings.” It’s an unflinching examination of what it feels like to give up part of your passion for the sake of practicality, with worry for the future locked in an eternal struggle with any lingering idealism and valor. For a rhymer “I don't know—maybe get a kitten?” Aesop Rock PHOTO BY BEN COLEN who has built a reputation on sounding tough inside mazes of inscrutable The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, with And in the most grown move possible, lines and dense metaphors, the admission the host proudly announcing that the rapAesop Rock finds the therapy he’s always is disarmingly candid, an open expression of per would be “performing on network televineeded in the form of a fluffy, crusty-eyed kitadult anxieties. sion for the very first time tonight.” Rolling ten named Kirby: “Back at the haunt, found “Age gives you a lot of perspective, and I Stone published a long, sympathetic intergod in the hamper/Briefs on her head, playhope I can apply that to what I write,” he says view about adulthood and shifts in hip-hop ing Walking With a Panther/Good around of the evident shift on his first record in four culture, while The Source parsed his lyrics misery and golden-era samplers,” he rhymes, years. “It also has helped me narrow down and asked him how the present makes him his ironclad voice suddenly cloaked in feline what I find important within what I do, what reflect on his past. softness. Void of bravado, this revelation is as parts keep me coming back, and how I can Despite a string of glowing reviews, there’s surprising as it is charming, as if the person really zero in on the parts I find attractive.” been a pernicious thread throughout much behind the microphone is finally comfortSuch struggles line most of The Imposof The Impossible Kid’s coverage—that is, a able stepping into focus himself. sible Kid. During “Lotta Years,” he expresses sense of astonishment that a forty-year-old “It just came out that way. My stuff has astonishment and unease with the modern musician with two decades of work behind been so drenched in metaphor in the past world around him through hyperrealist, kidshim is evolving, getting better, remainthat there is a lot of room to be a little more these-days tales—the man with the lipstick ing restless. “Aesop Rock has yet to run out straightforward without losing much of traces tattoo, the woman with the prosthetic of words,” Pitchfork’s review closed. “After myself,” he says. “It’s still a windy path, but I dreadlocks—and confessions of his own ananearly twenty years in the rap game, he is guess I was able to peel back some layers in a log youth. For the brilliant “Blood Sandwich,” still finding new means of self-expression.” way that connects with some people.” he webs together nostalgic recollections of Thrasher, likewise, noted, “It’s nice to see Indeed, The Impossible Kid’s reception since-spoiled childhood innocence, such as one’s passion uncorrupted by their profeshas been hearteningly warm, from a perfect the time his mother banned the family from sion. In short, he truly cares about this rap score in Magnet and high marks in Pitcha Ministry concert, into a long-distance love shit.” fork to strong first-week sales and a spot on letter to his brothers.

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So why is it surprising that artists with strong pasts and consistently compelling perspectives could get better and grow, that they could refine their methods and messages for a particular phase of their lives? Of course Aesop Rock addresses aging on The Impossible Kid, released just weeks ahead of his fortieth birthday; that’s his place in life, at least right now. Where else should his focus be?

The constant content cycle, though, is built to favor what’s new, untested, unheard—fresh grist for the clickto-refresh mill, which never stops. It’s easier to find something unexpected in a voice or vantage you’ve never heard.

And in a media market where shares generate currency, it’s more valuable to breathlessly break news of the unknown than to analyze the context of a known quantity.

The Impossible Kid doesn’t make many concessions to the sounds of now; there’s very little evidence that Aesop Rock cares about the rise of trap or EDM, or at least the thought of incorporating them into his own style. Instead, The Impossible Kid digs deeper into his dissonant, warped brand of boom bap. Mystical samples and horror-show keyboards propel “Water Tower.” The words of the drum-less “Get Out of the Car” bounce between coruscant guitar and chiming piano, suggesting darting postrock laced with complicated verses.

You could see that as stubborn defiance, the old man fighting against tides of change.

But on The Impossible Kid, such moves mostly come across as a musician aware of what he likes and working to update it for his current circumstances—a forty-year-old, longrapping, new cat owner, equally mesmerized and perplexed by the world’s possibilities and problems. Aesop Rock seems to understand it’s impossible to become a kid again, even if youth is more fashionable than legacy. l gcurrin@indyweek.com

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MITSKI

The Pinhook, Durham Sunday, June 26, 9 p.m., $12–$14 www.thepinhook.com

Growing Gains THE BRAVE FEELINGS OF MITSKI’S PUBERTY 2

BY MAURA JOHNSTON

PHOTO BY EBRU YILDIZ

You’ve probably lived through it, so you certainly know: Puberty is terrible. Bodies shift. Awkwardness abounds. Adulthood beckons. The prospect of surviving it again, of course, is terrifying.

But the twenty-five-year-old singer-songwriter Mitski Miyawaki, who releases records under her first name, tackles the prospect directly and bravely on her fourth album, Puberty 2. It’s an unflinching look at the perils of growing up—for the rest of your life.

Since the release of 2012’s piano-heavy Lush, Mitski has emerged as one of indie rock’s most celebrated new auteurs. Back then, she was studying composition in New York, so those early works sport rich orchestrations and list toward folk. On 2014’s Bury Me At Makeout Creek, though, she shifted more toward what’s nominally indie rock.

That stylistic progression is important, because Puberty 2 combines the beautiful and the downright odd in a way that indicates she’s tweaking the mix in real time. Puberty 2, for instance, opens with a jittery beat that suggests a broken stream; the song, a poprock gem warped by a giant funhouse mirror and called “Happy,” spools out of it.

But what’s most alluring about Mitski are her lyrics, wrung through with emotion but still oddly opaque. She wraps rich metaphors in her velvety alto. “I Bet On Losing Dogs” portrays sex as something doomed and uncomfortable. She compares the way a lover gazes at her during coitus to the pitying looks she gives dogs who will lose during a 24 | 6.22.16 | INDYweek.com

race. “Your Best American Girl” captures the struggles that come when romance crosses lines of class and background. “Your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me,” she sings. “But I do, I think I do.”

Though Mitski was born in Japan, she moved around the world for much of her life until eventually settling in New York. When Mitski issued “Girl” as the first single from Puberty 2, a few publications tried to connect its maelstrom of guitar to an implicit critique of indie rock’s overwhelming whiteness. She soon set the record straight.

“I used those tropes to accentuate the point that I could use their methods and act like I was of their world,” she wrote on Facebook, “but I would never ever fit.”

This public reclamation of her own narrative is essential for songwriting that often finds Mitski exploring the truth, like music itself, in real time. In the week before Puberty 2’s release, for instance, she peppered her online notes to and from fans with an apology for some of its other metaphors, specifically the association of addiction with vacation.

“I wrote it when I was seventeen and in a bad place… I apologize truly for the offense,” she said.

The gracious act encapsulates what Mitski now does best and why listeners have taken so fervently not just to her music but to her—she’s growing up in public and doing so in a way that doesn’t so much defy fear as it does stare it in the face, daring it to react. l Twitter: @maura

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OPEN DOORS: A FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS

THE FRINGE DWELLERS

Through June 26 Sonorous Road Theatre, Raleigh www.sonorousroad.com

Through June 25 Murphey School Auditorium, Raleigh www.burningcoal.org

Theatrical Alchemy

DRAMA BECOMES COMEDY IN OPEN DOORS AND AERIAL DANCE TURNS METAPHYSICAL IN THE FRINGE DWELLERS

BY BYRON WOODS

Diana Cameron McQueen and Zak Casca in Imperfect Strangers, part of Open Doors PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL CORY PHOTOGRAPHY

For better and worse, we’ve learned what to expect from showcases of brief one-act plays like Open Doors: A Festival of New Works, Sonorous Road Productions’ locally sourced variant of 10 by 10 in the Triangle, which returns for its annual stand at The ArtsCenter next month. Ten-minute plays can be dramatic haiku—theatrically complete excursions into other people’s worlds. But they can also seem like sketch comedy or scenes snipped from longer works.

We watched 10 by 10 grapple with script curation for years, so it’s not entirely surprising to find Open Doors wrestling with the same issue in an uneven first outing.

Comic sketches of varying quality make up six of the evening’s ten works, with a slightly higher level of achievement concentrated among the four more serious works.

The clear standout is the honest, heartfelt 11:50. In Ian Finley’s quietly compelling

character drama, we watch two gay couples' relationships change on the same New York rooftop during two New Year’s Eves, ten years apart. Under Tanner Lagasca’s direction, actors Dustin Alexander Walker and Grayson Giugno touch us with their youthful naiveté, while Thomas Porter and Ted Willis plumb complicated emotional verities as an older, more experienced couple facing a different transition.

Several years ago, choreographer Sarah Skaggs staged Prelude to Salome at the American Dance Festival. Her solo comes to mind during Drusilla is Dead, the oddest offering among the serious plays, with its lucid depiction of disaster foretold. Katy Koop’s play is based on Camus’s Caligula.

If it’s hard to imagine such a work being set in a children’s nursery, the reasoning soon becomes clear. As the Roman emperor’s sadistic sister, Drusilla (Victoria Mitchell),

provokes the young Caligula (Alex Hubbell) to picture the scariest scenario he can imagine, something dark unfolds within them both, and the future of Rome trembles.

There are also moments to savor in Gus Allen’s To Have and Not Hold, an icy examination of a loveless wedding among the powerful, and in John Paul Middlesworth’s unsettling religious drama, The Acolyte.

On the comical side, Allan Maule’s Imperfect Strangers, directed by Andy Hayworth, is an awkward duet in which Diana Cameron McQueen’s avenging feminist and Zak Casca’s sexist businessman show their fangs—just before their commuter train stalls out, leaving them trapped together.

And though it took a moment to get off the ground under Lorelei Lemon’s direction, Interrogation, Brook North’s military and political satire, amused us, applying the screwball logic of Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s On First?” routine to the endless search for enemies, domestic and foreign, at a Guantanamo-like detention camp.

We also enjoyed Liam Yates’s standout performance as an erstwhile deity on the make in North’s A Gift From God, as well as stage veterans Page Purgar, Rebecca Bossen, and Chris Milner in a dilemma at a cosmic complaint desk in Bossen’s Disaster Division.

Score the night this way: one home run and eight works recommendable in whole or in part. Not bad for Open Doors’ first time at bat. l l l

The mystical is no longer the exclusive province of the shaman, the yogi, and the seer—not with quantum physicists detailing their latest mind-boggling experiments in peer-reviewed journals (and in subsequent, inevitable TED Talks).

But that's really not news. In the 1960s, as the mythos goes, an entire generation set off in search of enlightenment through everything from surfing to psilocybin.

Nearly half a century later, a Buddhist friend

reminds me that almost any activity can be done mindfully. So I’m willing to go along with the intriguing premise director Sara Phoenix explores in Cirque de Vol’s The Fringe Dwellers in Burning Coal Theatre Company's second-stage series.

Why not add trapeze work, adagio and aerial dance, and contact improv to the long list of methods humans have used to reach out toward the cosmos? Can’t these serve as compelling metaphors for our place in the universe as well? This imaginative production answers yes.

In the parabolas of Toni Craige’s aerial flights of fancy—and in her earthbound, blindfolded, close-contact duet with Adam Dipert—we do indeed see humans on the fringe, pushing at the edges of the possible and the self. In her pensive trapeze work, Carlie Huberman probes the borders of balance, both figuratively and literally, with partner Jeff Kochuk.

Animals show up as spiritual templates in engaging aerial movements “The Kiss of Grace” and “The Cat Lady,” as well as in Anna Renee Ohe’s “Sealskin/Soulskin,” a modern dance sequence based on an Inuit legend.

Host Brian Cooper’s new-age musings grow ponderous in places, as during Paige LaWall's mesmerizing hoop work during “New Depths.” Still, the show pokes fun at them during Cooper’s comic “Corporate Shaman/ Self Love Vows,” a marriage ceremony for one.

Ryan Matthews’s trombone work tastefully augments Brian Shaw and Tim Lemuel’s soundscape and trippy projected visuals. But the real metaphysics found in The Fringe Dwellers lie in the bodies of the performers as they simultaneously manifest risk, grace, change, and Newtonian physics.

Their airborne and land-based achievements provide the clearest signal about the possibilities awaiting us just outside our conventional physical, intellectual, and spiritual comfort zones. l Twitter: @ByronWoods INDYweek.com | 6.22.16 | 25

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TENSE VAGINA: AN ACTUAL DIAGNOSIS

Wednesday, June 22–Friday, June 24, 7 & 9 p.m., $20 Motorco Music Hall, Durham www.americandancefestival.org

The Vagina Monologue

SARA JULI AIRS OUT CHILDBIRTH’S AFTERMATH IN THE LATEST CHAPTER OF HER DANCE-THEATER TELL-ALL

BY BRIAN HOWE

You don’t say?

I make weird dances and share really personal stuff, and it took me four years to say something to my OB-GYN because I was embarrassed. You kind of know that other women struggle with it, but I certainly wasn’t saying to other young moms, “Are you peeing in your pants? Because I am!” So I’m hopeful that the piece raises awareness that pelvic floor rehab exists.

You have to maintain it with a freakish amount of Kegels, but it’s a game changer.

Sara Juli has been raising TMI to an art form for sixteen years. How to Forgive Yourself in Bed exorcised what the New York-based dance artist calls “a very promiscuous college experience.” Burden was about marrying outside of her Jewish faith, and The Money Conversation, Juli's major breakout, exhumed the anxieties of merging finances. She withdrew her savings and gave cash to audience members, who had to decide whether or not to give it back.

“I get as personal as I can, and no secrets are kept,” Juli says, a week before bringing her latest solo to Motorco for the American Dance Festival. Continuing her serial confession, Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis puts Juli’s signature—a combination of dance, songs, monologues, audience interaction, and comedy—on early-motherhood issues that affect many women, especially urinary incontinence. Not only does talking about experiences that are considered shameful help Juli process them, it shatters a silence so that others can process them, too.

INDY: You took a break from dance to have children.

Is Tense Vagina a way of folding that lost time back into your creative story?

SARA JULI: Absolutely. It was a four-year blip that I didn’t perform. It was challenging for me, but I was building this piece. There’s a scene with a breast pump that speaks to me, and I share what I hear it saying. That’s from hours and hours of sitting with that damn machine. It’s terrible; you feel like a literal cow. When the time came to go into the studio, I had enough material for a two-hour piece. I thought, OK, I can’t talk about my vagina for two hours. [Laughs] But I can for one.

Tell us about some of the issues the piece deals with.

I gave birth naturally, pushed really hard, and lost the proper functioning of my bladder—which we don’t really talk about, even though it’s incredibly common, when you think about a large child coming out of a small hole. [Laughs] Sorry!

For four years after the birth of my first child, I was peeing in my pants every time I sneezed. I finally said something to my OB-GYN and she sent me to pelvic floor rehab. It’s like a physical therapist for your vagina. In France, it’s built into your birthing package for a year. But in this country, our culture tells you to turn all your attention to this newborn baby. I’d gone through two births, and I’d never heard of this.

I did three months of pelvic floor rehab, and it changed my life. It fixed everything. I was like, “Why don’t women know about this? Why can’t everyone have this amazing post-

Anatomy lesson: Sara Juli in Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis PHOTO BY ARTHUR FINK childbirth vagina instead of this pathetic, dead thing?” After my first exam, my physical therapist said, “You have a tense vagina,” and when she diagnosed me, I said, “Thank you, I will be naming my next dance that.”

The piece has four sections, and in each, I share another part of the therapy, which gets weirder and more awkward as it goes on, balanced by the experiences of motherhood that are less talked about—the loneliness, isolation, and depression as well as the beauty and humor and fabulousness.

Do you think it took you so long to find out because there’s so much mystification about women’s reproduction, and even basic anatomy, in this country?

Totally. Look at all the media that surrounds childbirth. Apart from losing weight and getting your body back—which of course you never do because it’s been through such a huge experience—where is there any information about healing and strengthening your vagina? It’s designed to be private and shameful, and forces you to go out and buy an oversized diaper, which is expensive, embarrassing, and wasteful. I really had to seek this out, and I’m a pretty open person.

Is dance a good medium for raising awareness about issues like this?

Oh yeah. I believe very strongly in the power of dance to tell stories, and I’ve added text to my dance. What’s wonderful about the performing arts is that you’re able to cross over, to transport people to think about deeper issues, to peel back a layer of our world. Women come up to me after every show, and my God, the stories. First of all, they want to tell me about their vaginas, which is a reminder that I’m doing what I set out to do: set up a safe enough space where a stranger is telling me about their vagina. I have a funny bit where I say, “Let me remind you I’m not a medical professional and I cannot advise you on this topic.” But I can validate what’s happening and say, “Seek help in the way that I did.”

Has every story written about this piece been headlined The Vagina Monologue?

Nobody has referenced it! I have had some pushback from some presenters, saying, “Look, the piece sounds interesting but I’m just not going to be able to promote something called Tense Vagina.” It’s a reminder of things our country is still struggling with. I try to say, “Look, I’m not calling it Tense Pussy.” Vagina is an anatomical word. It could be called Tense Elbow—what’s the difference between elbow and vagina? There should be no shame in the word. But there is! All the more reason why I try to use it in a sentence at least once a day.

I’m afraid some of our politicians in North Carolina actually don’t know the difference between an elbow and a vagina.

That’s for sure. The energy of what you’re dealing with down there, the ripple effect of HB 2, is pretty intense. Hopefully that will add a layer to the festival and make it all the more impactful. It's all the more reason why the arts need to step up and be a voice. l bhowe@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 6.22.16 | 27

06.22–06.29

B.J. Barham and Phil Cook

PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE

SUNDAY, JUNE 26

THE HOUSE THAT MUSIC BUILT

One concert in the small, historic sanctuary of the Hayti Heritage Center sports a very big goal: to raise the $80,000 necessary to buy and renovate a Durham home and make someone a new homeowner. To do that, Habitat for Humanity has enlisted some major area talent for an all-star bill. Two of Durham’s most cherished performers, the jazz singer Nnenna Freelon and the polyglot multi-instrumentalist Phil Cook, will collaborate for a set, while Cook will lead his own band through the template of gospel, rock, soul, bluegrass, and blues it offered so well on last year’s Southland Mission.

American Aquarium bandleader B.J. Barham will sit down for a solo set, likely previewing the bulk of his splendid, Cookassisted solo debut, Rockingham, due later this year. And Alex Sauser-Monnig, whose voice possesses the best vulnerability and resiliency of American folk traditions, leads the ragtag NC Volunteers. There will be a silent auction and a reception, stories and poems, all in the service of paying the same price tag. —Grayson Haver Currin HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER, DURHAM 5 p.m., $50, www.durhamhabitat.org PHOTO COURTESY OF FIRE RECORDS

THURSDAY, JUNE 23

PERE UBU

For forty years, David Thomas—the ranting and raving, articulate and exploratory leader of Ohio’s Pere Ubu—has been in the business of making ecstatic oddities. Pere Ubu’s albums have slammed between torpid rock and agile post-punk, between pale funk and scorched noise, between creepy ballads and quizzical pop. The band’s music, almost without fail, has remained interesting and urgent, a constant call to reconsider the reach of rock ’n’ roll. Though Pere Ubu is a very active band, having released the very good Carnival of Souls in 2014, Thomas is allowing a rare look back with the release of two massive archival box sets last year and this year. For this Coed Jail Tour, the band will pull from its fertile 1975–1982 period, the same span captured with those sets. This includes classics The Modern Dance and the delirious New Picnic Time. Bonus: Obnox, one of the most thrilling rock bands you’ll see on a small stage, opens. —Grayson Haver Currin CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO 9 p.m., $20–$25, www.catscradle.com 28 | 6.22.16 | INDYweek.com

THURSDAY, JUNE 23

NASHER CREATES: CARRIE ALTER AND JIMMY FOUNTAIN

Quality art workshops can be dauntingly expensive and formal, but the Nasher Creates series knocks down both hurdles. It features free, casual, drop-in workshops with experienced artists—and socially lubricates the whole affair with a cash bar. This installment brings Carrie Alter, an arts instructor at the N.C. School of Science and Math, who will work with visitors of any skill level on novel drawing techniques. And New York photographer Jimmy Fountain will bring his 4x5 camera to demonstrate the methods of large-format photography à la Ansel Adams and Burk Uzzle, a legendary North Carolinian who is currently the subject of Nasher exhibit Southern Landscapes. —Brian Howe NASHER MUSEUM OF ART, DURHAM 5:30–8 p.m., free, www.nasher.duke.edu

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO? AESOP ROCK AT CAT’S CRADLE (P. 22) THE FRINGE DWELLERS AT MURPHEY SCHOOL AUDITORIUM (P. 25), THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER AT THE ARTSCENTER (P. 39), THE GLASS MENAGERIE AT RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE (WWW.INDYWEEK.COM), ANDRÉ LEON GRAY AT 21C MUSEUM HOTEL (P. 36), BRETT HARRIS AT KINGS (P. 18), TIM HEIDECKER AT CAT’S CRADLE (P. 38), SARA JULI AT MOTORCO MUSIC HALL (P. 27), KOOL KEITH AT LOCAL 506 (P. 33), MITSKI AT THE PINHOOK (P. 24), NAILS AT KINGS (P. 31)

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featuring Poetry (P) Art (A) Music (M) SATURDAY, JUNE 25

THE CARRACK’S FIFTH BIRTHDAY + MOVING PARTY

As we reported earlier this month, pacesetting Durham gallery The Carrack is about to leave its 111 West Parrish Street loft for more accessible digs at 947 East Main, quite possibly re-centering the downtown art scene on Golden Belt. Bid a fond farewell to the old Carrack and help christen the new one in this pivotal birthday party, which begins at 5 p.m. with a closing reception for the final community show at the original space. Then, at 6:30 p.m., Carrack director Laura Ritchie will lead a promenade less than a mile to the new gallery, where a party awaits with DJs, food trucks, live music, and an HB 2-related interactive performance by artist Stacey L. Kirby.

There is much to celebrate. As The Carrack begins an exciting new chapter, so does its former home, though it might only last for the rest of the year: Durham Artists Movement is currently raising money to take over the lease. —Brian Howe THE CARRACK MODERN ART, DURHAM 5 p.m., free, www.thecarrack.org

Carrack director Laura Ritchie in front of the new gallery PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

Art Openings 6pm Poetry/Theatre/Discussions: 7pm Music 9pm, unless noted.

Fri 1st: Van Dorn (A) Paul Aaron and friends (P) Passionate Poets (P) Back to the Garden (M) Thu 7th: Mary Rocap 8pm (M) Fri 8th: Frank Doonan (P) Jasme Kelly (M) Sat 9th: Bill Dechand (M) Sun 10th: Chrystal Hardt (P) City Folk (M) Thu 14th: NCPS Night: Storming the Bastille! David Radovich, Joanna Catherine Scott, Joan Barasovska, Bill Griffin, Grace Ocasio, John Makuk (P) Jewel Song (M) Alice Osborn (P, M) Fri 15th: Poetry Slam

SUNDAY, JUNE 26

EXPANDING GENDER: YOUTH OUT FRONT

Many people first realize during childhood that they’re living outside of the gender binary, a fact explored in this screening of short documentary films about trans and gender-expansive youth. In Tomgirl, a supremely confident seven-year-old boy’s world contains both dresses and ice hockey.

A young Hawaiian girl’s parents and school recognize she is māhū, one who embodies male and female spirits, in A Place in the Middle. The opposite is true in Monica’s Story, in which a girl’s parents and church reject her so that she has to build a “chosen family.” In Passing, three transgender black men assess their experiences after years of being presumed cisgender males. Donations go to Safe Schools NC’s scholarship fund, and the screenings are followed by a discussion about HB 2. —Byron Woods MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 6 p.m., free ($5–$10 suggested donation), www.motorcomusic.com

SATURDAY, JUNE 25

TOUR DE FAT & KIRBY DERBY

In the annals of annual area events, few are as devoted to pure fun as Raleigh’s weird and wonderful Kirby Derby and Durham’s beer-and-bikes convocation, Tour de Fat. This year, they fall on the same day, but, with a little schedule coordination, you can sample both. The traveling circus of New Belgium, the big brewery with the best values, Tour de Fat begins with a short, loud, costumed bike ride through Durham around eleven a.m.

Then there’s a silly fashion show, a game-show-based bike giveaway, live music, and plenty of brews and general revelry. It ends by five p.m., leaving you just enough time to hustle to Raleigh and gaze with wonder at Kirby Derby’s fairy tale-themed parade, full of outrageous puppets, odd outfits, and warped storylines. The main event arrives at six p.m., when bold riders in homemade soapbox cars navigate unforgiving asphalt and the unpredictable Dead Man’s Curve in a race for glory. It’s been a brutal year in North Carolina—more than ever, yes, we’d like to party with our neighbors. —Grayson Haver Currin DIAMOND VIEW PARK, DURHAM/KIRBY STREET, RALEIGH 10 a.m.–5 p.m., free, www.newbelgium.com/4 p.m., free, www.kdd.gamil.com

Sat 16th: Chrystal Hardt (A) Poetry Round Robin N4HC (Not for Human Consumption) Jazz/Funk (M) Sun 17th: Rio Taylor (A) Doug Stuber & Friends (P) Little Raven (M) Fri 22nd: Earth Poems: A Song of Life Eve Olive & friends (P) Musical Delights from the Emerson Waldorf School Family; Death Valley Beach Bums (New Age, Transitional Rap) (M) Sat 23rd: Keith Eskew (M)

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TH 6/23 PERE UBU 'COED JAIL!'` TOUR... SONGS FROM 1975-'82

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COMING SOON: YOUNG BULL, YARN, JULLIETTE LEWIS, HAL KETCHUM, NRBQ, LIZ VICE, WINDHAND, CODY CANADA & THE DEPARTED, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, er s -P op Ma tt er s"KING, elBIRDS, BAND OF SKULLS, SISTER SPARROW THEav DIRTY tic &tr tis ar e at su mm "C on DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER, THE RECORD COMPANY, ADRIAN LEGG, REBIRTH BRASS BAND, MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND, KARLA BONOFF, TALIB KWELI, SUN JUL17 LOUDON WAINWRIGHT Doors: 7pm III 8

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music WED, JUN 22

THE CAVE: Post Pink, Flasher, Truthers, The Moms; 8 p.m., $6. • LINCOLN THEATRE: The Unity Experience; 8 p.m., $15. • LOCAL 506: Unaka Prong, Sages, Durty Dub; 9 p.m., $7. • THE PINHOOK: Triangle Chance for All Benefit: Lightning Born, Voidward, Skemäta; 7 p.m., $10. • POUR HOUSE: Carl Verheyen Band, Bruteus; 9 p.m., $12–$15. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: D&D Sluggers, Descendants of Erdrick; 7 p.m., $8–$10.

• THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Joshuah Campbell; 8:30 p.m., $5.

THU, JUN 23 Renshaw Davies SWEET John Renshaw and SINGING Emily Davies combine for subtle harmonies, like Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings with a hipster flair. Ahead of a debut full-length record, the pair combines Shovels & Rope and Fleetwood Mac covers with acoustic versions of its own songs.

Chapel Hill’s Hudson and Haw opens alongside dust rockers Texoma. —KM [LOCAL 506, $8/9 P.M.]

Brantley Gilbert TOUGH Brantley Gilbert is COUNTRY the musical equivalent of brass knuckles, eschewing subtlety in favor of maximum impact. Like a modern-day Hank Jr., Gilbert’s string of aggressive country singles established his brand of dirt-road machismo. The brash hometown pride of “Country Must Be Country Wide,” amped-up religious fervor in “One Hell of an Amen,” and unapologetic appreciation of the female form on “Bottoms Up” all reflect his persona. Justin Moore and Colt Ford open. —KM [COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK, $30–$194/7 P.M.]

Local Band Local Beer: First Persons KEEPING “Clocklike” is one TIME way to describe the

06.22–06.29 locked-in guitar sculptures of Raleigh’s First Persons, who suggest a twang-happy version of Pinback. The songs are starry-eyed, with amniotic vocals and placid guitars that swaddle the listener. Sugary melodicism smokescreens otherwise moody lyrics that tackle depression and events like Sandy Hook. First Persons share the bill with rootsy pop-rock outfit Seabreeze Diner and the jazzy, slow-burning blues of Rinaldi Flying Circus. —DS [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9:30 P.M.]

Natural Causes, Patois Counselors CRAFT A warm-up gig for PUNK Saturday’s New Belgium-sponsored bikes-brewsand-bands brouhaha, Tour de Fat, this double bill might be better.

Both Natural Causes and Patois Counselors offer caustic, synth-addled punk. The former divines sharp melodies amid synth-punk tantrums; the latter’s post-punk idiosyncrasies stem from an anxious energy. —PW [THE PINHOOK, FREE/9 P.M.]

Wild Fur, Schooner REVERB These buddy bands ROCK ought to make for a fun bill, as both deal in reverbheavy rock. Wild Fur occasionally enters rootsy territory, while Schooner excels with big, swooping hooks. —AH [THE STATION, $7/8:30 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY CAT’S CRADLE: Pere Ubu; 9 p.m., $20–$25. See page 28. • DEEP SOUTH: Alfred Banks, Dappa, Precyce Politix; 9:30 p.m., $8. • KINGS: Cory Call, Handsome Foxes, Almost People; 7:30 p.m., $10. • THE MAYWOOD: Horseskull, Hollow Leg, Irata, Alpha Cop; 8:30 p.m., $8. • RALEIGH CITY PLAZA: BIG Something, Castle Wild, Pinto; 5 p.m., free.

FRI, JUN 24 Ash Breeze Band GODLY Fayetteville’s Ash GRASS Breeze Band is a young outfit of siblings who deliver bright, clean traditional

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bluegrass that recalls the early days of Nickel Creek, only with heavy Christian messages woven into the identity. The group joins students Cary’s Bluegrass Camps for Youth. —AH [PAGE-WALKER ARTS & HISTORY CENTER, FREE/6 P.M.]

Black Mountain ROCK An extended break MAJESTY did Black Mountain a lot of good. After a quick series of three albums of epic-sized psychedelic rock, the Vancouver band seemed to disappear, or at least disperse its members to several side projects, including Stephen McBean’s Pink Mountaintops. But the new IV is one of the year’s most engrossing efforts, volleying between hard-charging anthems loaded with barbed riffs and tight harmonies and space-high drifters made from astral keyboards and intoned vocals.

McBean and Amber Webber have never sounded so exquisite together, as they share the vocal workload between light and dark, good and evil. It is a righteous ten-track trip and a welcome renaissance for one of this century’s great rock ’n’ roll powerhouses. With Majeure.

—GC [CAT’S CRADLE, $15–$17/8 P.M.]

Jay Farrar O.G. ALT- The line between COUNTRY alt-country pioneer Jay Farrar and his longtime band Son Volt probably doesn’t get much more difficult to draw than at a gig like this, where the “Jay Farrar Trio” is set to play the songs of Son Volt’s landmark 1995 debut. But whether he wants to call it Son Volt, Sonny Bono, or Sunny Side Up, one fact remains: Farrar is delivering the songs that helped to put an entire movement on the map. —JA [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, $20–$25/8 P.M.]

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You Will Never Be One of Us, the new album from California’s Nails, is uncharacteristically long; it clocks in at just less than twenty-two minutes. The band’s debut, 2010’s Unsilent Death, lasted less than fourteen, while 2013’s Abandon All Life persevered for seventeen.

The former guitarist for stalwart hardcore band Terror, Nails leader Todd Jones borrows ferocity from extreme metal titans such as Napalm Death, Discharge, and Slayer, but this is faster and heavier. He writes, after all, with a very specific audience in mind—himself, at the age of fifteen. “I would have responded well to the music, the urgency of it,” he recently said.

The length of You Will Never Be One of Us is deceiving. Most songs here last about a minute, grinding through a sharp series of riffs and getting out of the way as soon as they’ve made an impact.

It’s the eight-minute closer, “They Come Crawling Back,” that shapes the bulk of the album’s runtime and proves Nails’ violent versatility. Like other grind groups that sometimes go doom (see Agoraphobic Nosebleed or Pig Destroyer), Nails doesn’t fall into dragging tempos. Instead, the band stretches its abrasive tones across wider vistas, borrowing liberally from hardcore to craft a suite that suggests a particularly relentless breakdown. It’s a grueling and captivating end to an album that otherwise thrives in blown-out blitzkriegs.

Producer (and Converge guitarist) Kurt Ballou gives the record his trademark mix of grimy distortion and stinging clarity. And Nails supply many of its most memorable riffs and refrains yet here, with songs such as “Life Is a Death Sentence” and “Violence Is Forever” begging for screamalongs. Indeed, just like Jones wants, it’s easy to imagine these songs being some young headbanger’s teenage awakening. With Full of Hell, Gods Hate, and Eternal Sleep. —Bryan C. Reed KINGS, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m., $15, www.kingsbarcade.com

Bynum’s old general store will seem like more of a time warp than usual thanks to the Gospel Jubilators’ harmonies and handclaps. For more than forty years, the Durham quintet has carried on the tradition of “jubilee singing,” an a cappella form with roots that stretch to the late

nineteenth century. —SG [BYNUM GENERAL STORE, FREE/7 P.M.]

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SiBANNÄC FITS OF “Cops in the North/ FURY cops in the South/ cop gonna take his gun and put it in your mouth,” rasps charismatic vocalist Graham Collins over a nimble ska groove on the opening track of Controversial NonCommercial, the fifth LP by Chapel Hill punk trio SiBANNÄC. The two-and-a-half-minute “You Can’t Go Out at Night” zips through five distinct parts, ending with shouts of “Hands up/Don’t shoot.” As a song about hating cops, it’s already quintessential SiBANNÄC. But it also demonstrates SiBANNÄC’s uncommon songwriting, arranging, and instrumental skills. The band easily handles transitions between punk and ska. With Car

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Silversun Pickups ROTTEN Silversun Pickups APPLES long coveted the scale and the drama of Smashing Pumpkins’ glory days, but they often fell way short. This year’s Better Nature isn’t exactly the Pumpkins’ Adore, but the Los Angeles quartet does dial back the Big Muff-through-Marshall volume worship for an emphasis on texture and nuance. Still, it’s slick modern alt-rock that largely comes off like a less imaginative version of its dominant influences.

And yes, Brian Aubert sounds like Billy Corgan. Bear Hands open.

—PW [THE RITZ, $22/8 P.M.]

Walpyrgus HEADWith its fusion of BANGERS power-metal histrionics and horror themes, Raleigh trad-metal purists Walpyrgus headline a bill of likeminded North Carolina acts.

They all foreground the power and melody of classic metal. Final Sign and Salvacion tilt gently toward thrash, while American Empire gives the template a prog undercurrent. —BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $8/8:30 P.M.]

Who’s Bad: Legends Are Forever DOUBLE For the third BAD weekend in a row, the Triangle will get a Michael Jackson-and-Prince tribute. This one—starring the North Carolina-based King of Pop tribute band, Who’s Bad—is perhaps the most elaborate. Since Who’s Bad’s inception, MJ impersonator Taalib York has been the focus of his band’s worldwide shows. Now, in this first wave of shows combining the two icons’ discographies, he’ll have the equally dynamic force of Prince for competition. The Soul Psychedelique opens. —ET [LINCOLN THEATRE, $18–$30/8:30 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY ARCANA: Carolina Soul Dance Party; 9 p.m., $5. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ:

BRITISH British singer-songSONGS writer Eddie Bayes comes from the less-is-more school. His low-key, John Martyn-influenced moan and subtle acoustic fingerpicking patterns say plenty without ear-splitting volume. Call it folk if you must, but be sure to prick up your ears. Matthew Greenslade opens. —JA [THE STATION, $5/7:30 P.M.]

Big Thief FRIDAY, JUNE 24

KOOL KEITH I once watched Kool Keith eat an orange. I say that because, after seeing him storm through a set of sexually charged and supremely strange songs at the downtown Manhattan supper club Joe’s Pub, the unintentionally intimate backstage moment stuck out more than anything else. It was clearly human behavior from an artist whose work rarely seems to identify with his species.

What Keith Thornton, or Kool Keith, brings to the music world is indeed alien, like Sun Ra, Gary Wilson, or GWAR. Some genres are kinder than others when it comes to true weirdness, but rap music rejects a lot that seems to come from too far afield.

Thornton’s penchant for pseudonymous projects heavy with backstory aligns him more with Parliament-Funkadelic’s cosmic absurdity than the earthbound concerns of hip-hop. Dr. Octagon made for his most beloved character, while his murderous Dr. Dooom persona was enamored with the grotesque. Released under the Kool Keith guise, Sex Style doles out perversion in such a magniloquent way that it blurs the line between comedy and pornography, a formula he’d go on to repeat.

Fortunately for Thornton, who continues to drop album after album of intense and unusual hip-hop three decades into his unlikely career, he essentially grandfathered himself into rap’s canon thanks to his tenure in the seminal Ultramagnetic MCs. While his name may not come up as often in conversations about New York’s greatest rappers as, say, KRS-One, Thornton’s place in the tradition remains intact thanks to his uncompromising artistry and unique otherworldliness. He’s an alien, remember, in a terrestrial realm. With KAZE. —Gary Suarez LOCAL 506, CHAPEL HILL 9 p.m., $20, www.local506.com

Akua Allrich; 8 & 10 p.m., $12.50. • THE CARY THEATER: Craver, Hicks, Watson and Newberry; 8 p.m., $10–$25. • THE CAVE: Pace House, The Stars Explode, Go Go Hero; 9 p.m. • DEEP SOUTH: Old South Redemption; 8:30 p.m., $5 or two cans of food. • KINGS: Brett Harris, Wild Fur; 9 p.m., $10–$12. See page 18. • THE KRAKEN: Last Tuesday; 8 p.m.

• LOCAL 506: Kool Keith, KAZE; 9 p.m., $20. See box, this page. • POUR HOUSE: Wavy Train, Threesound; 9 p.m., $5–$7. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Gregg Gelb Quartet; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SLIM’S: Bad Scene Blake’s Fault, Fatesealer; 9 p.m., $5.

• SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Better Off Dead, Kate Rhudy; 9:30 p.m., $10.

BREAK & It’s a bit much to say ENTER Big Thief’s Masterpiece lives up to its title, but then again, few rock bands this year have put out anything as good as the band’s May debut.

The big opening riff of the title track lands like a wave on the shoreline, starting a song that’s comforting and warm. But later, on “Real Love,” the same instrument grinds and pierces against staggering lyrics about abuse. Mountain Man’s Molly Sarle opens an evening that will surely steal your heart. —AH [THE PINHOOK, $10/9 P.M.]

Caramel City: Underground System AFRO With the exception FORCE of the high-spirited Afro-Brazilian percussion crew Caique Vidal & Batuque, Art of Cool hasn’t involved many global grooves in its programming. This month’s Caramel City with Afrobeat dectet Underground System fills that void. But is the Pour House’s stage large enough to handle the infectious, African-influenced dance moves of Underground System flutist and lead vocalist Domenica Fossati?

Expect a Zumba course set to a scaled-down version of Femi Kuti’s Positive Force. With The Queen’s Guard and Khrysis. —ET [POUR HOUSE, $8–$10/9 P.M.]

Daylights Wasting POP Plenty of qualifiers— VARIETY power, chamber,

indie—could precede the pop of Daylights Wasting. Featuring members of Dillon Fence, The Popes, Lost in the Trees, and Birds & Arrows, the winsome Triangle collective moves between bright and melancholy. Tonight, the group issues its consistently catchy self-titled EP. Local comedian Adam Cohen cracks jokes, and John Ensslin screens his short The Perfect Wife. —SG [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $7–$10/8 P.M.]

Echo Courts HOOKY The kiss of death for JANGLE many jangling guitar acts can be a vocalist afraid to come out from behind his haircut.

It leads to dull songwriting and presentation. Luckily, Greensboro’s Echo Courts spruce it up with fierce, hooky vocals, a shot in the arm that gives them an edge over many peers. With a bit of national touring under its belt, it will be intriguing to see what sonic avenues the group explores next.

With Totally Slow and Harpooner.

—DS [KINGS, $8–$10/8 P.M.]

Django Haskins FREE Yes, the singerDJANGO songwriter is named after jazz legend Django Reinhardt, but with The Old Ceremony, his oeuvre skews toward the orchestral and articulate. Even unmoored from the lavish accouterments of his band (or Au Pair, his collaboration with The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris), Haskins’s sharp songs still come alive. —PW [SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL, FREE/6 P.M.]

Kurtzweil, The Fem Doms ALT-EGOS Reminiscent of I Was Totally Destroying It, Kurtzweil pairs soaring hooks with Katie Cooper’s spirited lead vocal and smart harmonies for a moody mix of alt-rock and pop-punk. New York’s The Fem Doms drop howling vocals into a lightly psychedelic swirl, suggesting a less grandiose take on Muse.

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allure of Kaitlin Bailey’s voice. Buffcoat and the Lacquer joins. —SG [DEEP SOUTH, $6/8:30 P.M.]

Minorcan DOWN On Dead Man, AsheUNDER ville trio Minorcan explores no-frills rock perfect for driving around with the windows down, stereo cranked. Knurr and Spell, featuring numerous veterans of the Triangle music scene, deliver ramshackle alt rock of a Chapel Hill-in-the-nineties vintage. Together, the two acts should work well in Chapel Hill’s best underground pit of all things rock ’n’ roll. Also, Light. —CB [THE CAVE, $5/10 P.M.]

Torch Runner CHAOS What Torch Runner CONTROL lacks in output they more than make up for with live tenacity. Though the band’s most recent LP, the excellent Endless Nothing, is nearing its second anniversary, the band’s constant touring yields an explosive set.

Tonight, the Greensboro grindlords join Virginia sludge crew Unsacred and Durham hardcore outfit Dogs Eyes. —BCR [THE STATION, $7/11 P.M.]

VOLUME 18: Cliff Lothar LO-FI For the uninitiated, HOUSE seeking out “Dro Friday” is a fine introduction for the prismatic sounds of Cliff Lothar’s kitchen-sink techno. On the surface, you hear a ton of warped disco flavor and squelchy

drums, but it comes couched in late-night atmospherics. These influences interlock in surprising ways, and his tunes are rarely predictable. $tinkworx and Stefan Blomeier provide backup alongside DJ’s Sponge Bath and NST_BTS. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $10/10 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY ARCANA: Seance: The Fortuneteller’s Masque; 8 p.m., $5. • THE CAVE: Valley Maker, Jphono1; 7 p.m., $5. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: Ben Gallaher; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: N.C. Symphony Summerfest: The Music of David Bowie; 7:30 p.m., $38–$40. See Jun 24 listing. • THE KRAKEN: Herded Cats; 8 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Dr. Bacon, Eno Mountain Boys, JP & Leon Band; 9 p.m., $10. • THE MAYWOOD: Against Their Will, Kiss the Curse, Enemy in Disguise, Aeonic; 8:30 p.m., $10. • MOTORCO: Dirty White Girls, The Beauty Operators; 9 p.m., $8. • THE RITZ: Pandora’s Box; 9 p.m., $10. • RUBY DELUXE: No One Mind, Luxe Posh; 9 p.m.

• SHARP NINE GALLERY: Lovell Bradford Quartet; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SLIM’S: Pathogenesis, Human Infection; 8:30 p.m., $5. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: The Peace Street Band; 8:30 p.m., $10.

SUN, JUN 26 Continental ROOTS Rick Barton, leader ROCKERS of Boston band Continental, was a founding member of the Dropkick Murphys. Don’t expect Celtic punk. There’s a rugged edge to

Continental’s sound, to be sure, but the roots with which it’s mixed are more of the American variety.

Motorbilly opens. —JA [POUR HOUSE, $5–$8/9 P.M.]

Gregory Alan Isakov BIG IDEAS On his first five albums, Gregory Alan Isakov crafted pleasant folk songs with simple melodies, which contrasted his weighty writing. On his new record, Gregory Alan Isakov with The Colorado Symphony, some of those songs get more color from swelling strings and pealing brass.

It’s a strange alchemy, but Isakov’s campfire closeness pairs surprisingly well with the larger ensemble. Tonight, he joins The Ghost Orchestra, which features members of The Colorado Symphony. Jay Clifford opens.

—PW [CAROLINA THEATRE, $27–$66/8 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER: Alex Sauser-Monnig & the N.C. Volunteers, Nnenna Freelon, Phil Cook & The Guitarheels; 5 p.m., $50. See page 28. • KINGS: Nails, Full of Hell, Gods Hate, Eternal Sleep; 7:30 p.m., $15. See box, page 31. • LOCAL 506: 3@3: Shame, Nacynze, Jas Natasha; 3 p.m., free. • THE PINHOOK: Mitski, Jay Som, Japanese Breakfast; 9 p.m., $12–$14. See page 24.

MON, JUN 27 NEPTUNES PARLOUR: The Atomic Rhythm All Stars; 8 p.m., $3–$5.

• POUR HOUSE: Foxtrot & The Get Down; 9 p.m., $5.

TUE, JUN 28 East Cameron Folkcore LIKE THE The thing about BOSS Springsteen, of course, is his unflagging common appeal, his ability to relate and inspire the hard-luck American.

Like The Boss, Austin octet East Cameron Folkcore—“folk” for the rustic instrumentation and traditional song forms, “core” for the intense hardcore abandon— may be beaten down by hard realities, but the force of the band’s music refuses to break.

Kingdom of Fear, a four-part concept record, unleashes ire against the modern socioeconomic machine. —PW [POUR HOUSE, $5/9 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY THE RALEIGH TIMES BAR: Beer & Banjos: Second Husband; 7:30 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra; 8 p.m., $10–$20.

WED, JUN 29 Mariah Johnson SOLO As Woven In, the SAFARI Philadelphia singer Mariah Johnson conjures the dark depths of the blues with electrified songs that sport the verve of surf rock. It’s agile but agitated, the thin chords of her guitar countering the thick brood of her vibrato-heavy voice. On

stage, Johnson often leads a drum-supported duo, but she goes solo here, a setting that’s sure to spotlight the intensity of her words and the insistence of her singing. —GC [THE SHED, $3/8 P.M.]

Mount Moriah HOT This year’s How to GARDEN Dance, by Mount Moriah, is a testament to steadfast refinement. Heather McEntire’s metaphors, both profoundly cosmic and sweetly grounded, have never been more poignant. Shifting between a country curl and a soul roar, her voice has never been more effective. And to her side, Jenks Miller cuts splendid riffs across the Americana amalgam, his leads pulling you to the center of every song. Smoldering, these songs suit an early-summer sunset outside. —GC [DUKE GARDENS, $5–$10/7 P.M.]

Partials WORTH Partials identify as IT “indie afrobeat,” meaning Ezra Koenig gets a bank deposit every time the band turns on an amp. Jokes aside, the Athens collective makes surprisingly great sunny-day funk fusion. The band’s small but excellent collection of recorded music suggests the cosmopolitan sample-pop of The Go! Team with the tempos slowed. Those who live for summertime jams should take a trip through Partials’ eclectic tunes. —DS [POUR HOUSE, $5/9 P.M.]

Richie Ramone LAST ONE Richie Ramone, or STANDS Richard Reinhardt, played drums for punk-rock pioneers The Ramones for a few years, then went quiet for a quarter-century. He resurfaced a few years ago with a solo album that revisits the handful of songs he wrote for The Ramones and offers some new material that veers toward metal. —PW [MOTORCO, $12–$15/8 P.M.]

Twenty One Pilots SHARING One recent respite IS CARING from pop radio’s relentless dance-pop bent came from Ohio duo Twenty One Pilots, whose defiantly petulant “Stressed Out” rode Sublime’s blunted bounce and the put-upon manliness of rap-metal to second place on the Hot 100 last year.

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SPECIAL A Retrospective EVENT Exhibition of Photo Essays: Donn Young. Jun 24-Jul 24. Reception: Fri, Jun 24, 6-9 p.m. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery.net.

Latin Flare: Art by Monica Linares and live music. Fri, Jun 24, 6-9 p.m. Waverly Artists Group Studio & Gallery, Cary. www.waverlyartistsgroup.com.

SPECIAL Narrative EVENT Landscapes: Eric Smith. Jun 22-Jul 23. Reception: Fri, Jun 24, 6-9 p.m. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery. hillsboroughartscouncil.org.

ReFraming Food: Storying Work and Play: Photo exhibit, artist discussion and short performances. Fri, Jun 24, 6-9 p.m. The Vault at The Palace International, Durham.

SPECIAL Summertime Good EVENT Times: Watercolors

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by Frank Penta. Jun 24-Jul 26.

Reception: Fri, Jun 24, 6-9 p.m. Cary Gallery of Artists. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

SPECIAL Tangible, Tactile EVENT Fibers: Marie Smith.

Jun 24-Aug 1. Reception: Fri, Jun 24, 6-9 p.m. The Qi Garden, Hillsborough. www.theqi-garden.com.

SPECIAL Watercolor Society EVENT of NC: Jun 24-Jul 26.

Reception: Fri, Jun 24, 6-9 p.m. Cary Visual Art, Cary. www.caryvisualart.org.

ONGOING 20 Years of Horse & Buggy Press and Friends: In this must-read retrospective, the past twenty years are an open book. That’s how long Dave Wofford has been letterpress printing paper pleasures at Horse & Buggy Press. Wofford collaborates with writers and artists to produce beautiful, minutely tailored books in small

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06.22–06.29 runs, their content ranging from abstract photojournalism to translations of Rilke. You can read them all in this exhibit, which also includes dozens of framed artworks. Thru Aug 7. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. www. camraleigh.org. —Brian Howe LAST A Compilation: CHANCE Raymond Melvin.

Thru Jun 28. Naomi Studio and Gallery, Durham. www.

NaomiStudioandGallery.com.

Abstraction: FRANK Artist Invitational: Group show. Thru Jul 3. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Along These Lines: Constance Pappalardo. Thru Oct 16. Durham Convention Center, Durham. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.

Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist: In Altered Land, Stamer and Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. scenes. Stamer paints a barn with black-and-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Thru Sep 11.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe LAST The Apollo Series: CHANCE NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captures data on Earth that is archived online for anyone to use. Alina Taalman, who recently earned an MFA in experimental and documentary arts at Duke, took them up on it.

The Apollo Series consists of visualizations of energy collected by the satellite’s sensors—much of it invisible until Taalman prints it—above Cape Canaveral, Florida, a site chosen for its well trodden pathway to terra incognita. The result is astral projection in shimmering, mysterious abstractions. Thru Jun 26.

Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www.chapelhillpreservation. com. —Brian Howe Art from Raleigh Sister Cities: Fifty-one works by seventeen artists in Raleigh’s sister cities in

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France, Germany, England, and Kenya. Thru Jul 31. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

ARTQUILTSvoices: PAQASouth. Thru Jul 2. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www.friendsofpagewalker.org.

Breathing Space: Joann Couch.

Thru Jun 30. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock.

Thru Sep 25. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

—Brian Howe LAST Celebrate Summer: CHANCE Paintings and jewelry by Anna Ball Hodge and Stephanie Gardner. Thru Jun 26. Roundabout Art Collective. roundaboutartcollective.com.

LAST Martha Clippinger: CHANCE Thru Jun 25.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Collectors’ Open House: Thru Jun 30. Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh. leehansleygallery.com.

Corruption of the Innocents: Controversies about Children’s Popular Literature: Thru Aug 15.

UNC Campus: Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu/wilson.

Kathy Dawalt and Michiel Van der Sommen: New oils and bronzes. Thru Jul 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Alan Dehmer and Jessica Dupuis: Jessica Dupuis uses recycled materials and clay slip to make abstract wall-mounted pieces that resemble undersea vegetation. Alan Dehmer’s gum bichromate prints imbue scenes with a nineteenth-century patina and a side of wabisabi ephemerality. Thru Jul 3.

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com. —Brian Howe

ANDRÉ LEON GRAY: “IN FEAR OF THE WISDOM THAT WILL BE, MOST YOUNG KINGS GET THEIR HEAD CUT OFF” PHOTO COURTESY OF 21C MUSEUM HOTEL FRIDAY, JUNE 24

ANDRÉ LEON GRAY: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET André Leon Gray has been a key figure in Raleigh’s art scene since before there was much of one.

The self-trained artist’s mixed-media assemblages, which have been exhibited at the Nasher and at fine institutions farther afield, are devastating critiques of structural racism, whitewashed history, and pop-culture myths. “In fear of the wisdom that will be, most young kings get their head cut off” shows a young man in a cap that reads “Negus,” an Ethiopian royal title, in an acrylic portrait on black canvas. The wooden crutches that frame it are draped with crime scene tape found near N.C. Central University, setting up a stark, formally charged interplay between empowerment and endangerment.

The piece, from 2015, is included in Gray’s current show at 21c Museum Hotel, A Nation Under Our Feet. Learn about the cosmology behind his eloquent code at this artist talk on Friday. —Brian Howe 21C MUSEUM HOTEL, DURHAM 6 p.m., free, www.21cmuseumhotels.com/durham

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Divergent: Paintings by Darius Quarles and idiopathic art

by Kim Howard. Thru Jul 10.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

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Durham and the Rise of the Baseball Card: An exploration of Durham’s role in popularizing the baseball card. Thru Sep 5.

Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

LAST Expansion: Vicki CHANCE Rees. Thru Jun 25.

Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www.tippingpaintgallery.com.

LAST FRESH: Juried CHANCE exhibition of new works by North Carolina artists.

Thru Jun 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Geometric Universe: Sculpture, neon, glass, mixed media, and paintings by Pleiades member artists. Thru Jul 10.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

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SPECIAL Imagine and Island: EVENT Michael Ligett. Thru Jun 30. Reception: Fri, June 24, 6-8 p.m. Bond Park Community Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

Inside Out: Sculpture for all Environments: Representative and abstract sculpture.

Thru Jul 31. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www. cedarcreekgallery.com.

LAST Mary Kircher: Thru CHANCE Jun 25. Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh. www.skyhouseraleigh.com.

Local Color: Multimedia works by twelve local female artists.

Thursdays. Thru Jul 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www. localcoloraleigh.com.

Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Luminous: Watercolors by Lyudmila Tomova. Thru Jun 30.

The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

Made Especially for You by Willie Kay: Dresses by the Raleigh designer. Thru Sep 5.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Mandala Manifesto: Thru Jun 30. Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh. www. visualartexchange.org.

The Menagerie: Paintings by Lisa Bartell. Thru Jun 30. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

Thru Aug 6. Vegan Flava Cafe, Durham. veganflavacafe.com.

Nature in Colored Pencil: The Colored Pencil Society of America. Thru Jul 31. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

Nature: The Beauty of the Beast: Kathryn Green Patel.

Thru Jul 24. Herbert C Young Community Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Mottainai! Waste not, Want not: Large scale installations by Katherine Soucie. Thru Jul 9.

The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www.scrapexchange.org.

North Carolina’s Favorite Son: Billy Graham and His Remarkable Journey of Faith: Thru Jul 10. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Muhammad Ali’s Most Memorable Images: Photographic portraits of the late boxer by Sonia Katchian.

OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings

are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello Our House: Durham Arts Council faculty and students.

Thru Jul 10. Durham Arts Council. www.durhamarts.org.

Picturing Sound: Gemynii, Frank Myers, and James Cartwright.

Thru Jul 10. Arcana, Durham. www.arcanadurham.com.

Rare Earth: Photographs by Marjorie Pierson. Thru Jul 10.

Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

LAST Remnants of Great CHANCE Spirit: Paintings by Lyudmila Tomova. Thru Jun 22.

Village Art Circle, Cary. www. villageartcircle.com.

LAST Seeing Myself: CHANCE Works by Durham high school students in collaboration with local artist mentors. Thru Jun 24. Golden Belt, Durham. www. goldenbeltarts.com.

Separation: Megan Bostic, Samantha Pell, and Jan-Ru Wan. Thru Jul 24. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

LAST Site-Specific CHANCE Installation: Antoine Williams. Thru Jun 25.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

LAST Sounds of Carolina: CHANCE Paintings by Ruth Ananda. Thru Jun 26.

Liquidambar Gallery & Gifts, Pittsboro. www. liquidambarstudio.com.

Transplanting Traditions and More...: The Karen Youth Art Group. Thru Jul 3. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com.

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Vitamin O: Photos paired with interview selections. Thru Jun 30. Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau, Chapel Hill.

LAST Walls and Windows: CHANCE Ashylnn Browning.

Thru Jun 29. Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. flandersartgallery.com.

LAST Dan Woodruff: Thru CHANCE Jun 25. HQ Raleigh.

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Bloodlines: Stephen Petronio Dance Company. $16–$46. Fri, Jun 24 & Sat, Jun 25. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com.

Duets: Two-person improv teams. $10. Fri, Jun 24, 7 p.m.

DSI Comedy Theater, Chapel Hill. dsicomedytheater.com.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25

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Adult Swim alum Tim Heidecker, probably best known as half of comedy team Tim & Eric, has spent the better part of the past decade running rampant with bizarre, outrageous comedy full of surrealist absurdity. His latest effort is In Glendale, an LP that sounds as slick as any midlevel indie-pop band. Heidecker sings in celebration of the painfully banal parts of life: picking up your dog’s shit, working from home when you’re too hung over to show your face at the office, and the suburbs. The songs do get a little dark on occasion, though—don’t think Heidecker’s gone full-on dad-rock.

He’s joined by old-school weirdo comic Neil Hamburger and Jenn Snyder for this seated show. —Allison Hussey CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO 8 p.m., $25, www.catscradle.com

Eunyce Raye’s Sunday Funday Drag Showcase: $5. Sun, Jun 26, 11:30 p.m. Ruby Deluxe, Raleigh. www.facebook.com/ RubyDeluxeRaleigh.

Star Wars vs Star Trek: The Bellydance Showdown: $10–$12. Thu, Jun 23, 8 p.m.

Legends, Raleigh. www.legendsclub.com.

Miss Belleza: Beauty pageant.

Sun, Jun 26, 4 p.m. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis: Sara Juli. $10–$20.

Jun 22-24. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic. com. See story, p. 27.

Miss North Carolina Pageant: Jun 22-25. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

North Carolina’s Funniest Championships: Comedy. $20.

Wed, Jun 29, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Scott Novotny, Jamie Utley: Stand-up comedy. Sat, Jun 25, 8 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary.

Rob Schneider: Stand-up comedy. $28–$36. Fri, Jun 24 & Sat, Jun 25. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Mark Viola, Ben Jones: Stand-up comedy. $5. Thu, Jun 23, 7:30 p.m. Raleighwood Cinema Grill, Raleigh. www. raleighwoodmovies.com.

Rich Voss: Stand-up comedy. $20–$28. Thu, Jun 23, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

ONGOING LAST  ½ Cloud 9: CHANCE This rewarding farce of colonialism and gender begins in 1880 at a British outpost in Africa, where the

manager for the Crown clings to the trappings of civilization (Western, naturally). But he’s beset from all sides, not in the least by playwright Caryl Churchill, who specifies that his African servant must be played by a white actor, his wife by a man, and so on. The mix-andmatch underlines the genetic caprices that place a spectrum of personalities and genders in myriad human forms. In Act Two, the talented actors swap roles a century later, in a sensitive, only sometimes comic study of a group of friends and lovers in 1980s London. $12–$17.

Thru Jun 25. Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www.cgtheatre. com. —Byron Woods LAST Emilie: La Marquise CHANCE du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight: Play. $10. Thru Jun 26. Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh. www.burningcoal.org.

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LAST Ragtime: Musical.

CHANCE $23–$29. Thru Jun 26. St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Raleigh. sfaraleigh.org.

Two Gentlemen of Verona: Play.

Thru Jun 30. Various locations. www.baretheatre.org.

Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made— Three old friends finish the shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark they began in 1982. Unrated.  Weiner—The newsploitation industry turned sexting congressman Anthony Weiner into a punch line, but as this doc shows, the joke’s on us. Rated R.

Epic: Sat, Jun 25, 8:30 p.m.

Durham Central Park, Durham. www.durhamcentralpark.org.

Expanding Gender: Youth Out Front: Documentaries on trans and gender-expansive youth.

Sun, Jun 26, 6 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www. motorcomusic.com. See p. 29.

A L S O P L AY I N G SATURDAY, JUNE 25

THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER: REIMAGINED

Scorpion: Vice City Shakedown: $7. Sat, Jun 25, 6:30 p.m. Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. www. varsityonfranklin.com.

You don’t watch a Peter Greenaway film so much as you swim in it, basking in worlds that seem to consist solely of candlelight wickedly caressing crushed velvet and swag drapes in bloody crimson hues.

Within these plush fishbowls, the most elegant people do the most outrageous things. Adultery, torture, scatology, cannibalism, it’s all on the table—quite literally in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, the British arch-formalist’s 1989 film about … oh, forget the plot. Tim Carless has. At The ArtsCenter, he’ll perform a live score for an hour-long edit of the film (with Greenaways’s blessing), having given similar treatments to Buster Keaton and Frank Capra in the past. Greenaway is always hard to pin down; the best Wikipedia can do for The Cook is “a romantic black comedy crime drama.” Suffice it to say it’s about the line between things one should and should not eat, luridly blurred—and about ogling lavish costumes by Jean Paul Gaultier. Carless, a guitarist and pianist, will be joined by bassist Casey Toll and percussionist Daniel Hall; arrive at 7 p.m. for a wine tasting with De Maison Selections before the 8:15 performance. —Brian Howe

Sister Act: Fri, Jun 24, 6 p.m.

Raleigh City Plaza, Raleigh.

THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO 8:15 p.m., $16–$18, www.artscenterlive.org

Mad Max: Fury Road: With fire performances by Cirque de Vol and live music by The Hell No. $10–$15. Sat, Jun 25, 8 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

Mrs. Doubtfire: Thu, Jun 23, 7:30 p.m. Northgate Mall, Durham. northgatemall.com.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Thu, Jun 23, 8:30 p.m.

 ½ Captain America: Civil War—As in Batman v Superman, superheroes turn on each other, but the action is served with a Marvel smirk instead of a D.C. frown. Rated PG-13.

The Neon Demon—Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn enters the cutthroat world of L.A. models. Rated R.

Chocolate and The Raid: Redemption: Tue, Jun 28, 7 p.m. The Station, Carrboro. stationcarrboro.com.

How to Train Your Dragon 2: Thru Jun 23, 9:30 a.m.

Northgate Mall, Durham. www. northgatemall.com.

Voices of North Carolina: Language, DIalect and Identity in the Tarheel State: Thu, Jun 23, 6:30 p.m. UNC Campus: Murphey Hall, Chapel Hill.

Independence Day: Resurgence—Roland Emmerich blew up the White House in 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. How will he top that? Rated PG-13.

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The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  ½ Alice Through the Looking Glass—The story’s thin but the visuals shine; see it in 3-D or not at all. Rated PG.  Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice—D.C. Comics’ most iconic heroes clash in an

 The Conjuring 2—This supernatural thriller checks off fifty years’ worth of horror movie tropes. Rated R.  The Jungle Book— Disney’s animated classic gets a well done, CGI-heavy update. Rated PG.

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READINGS & SIGNINGS Cara Black: Novel Murder on the Quai. Fri, Jun 24, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. — Sat, Jun 25, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

Duke Young Writers’ Camp Readings: Stories, poems, and essays. Tue, Jun 28, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

Timber Hawkeye: Faithfully Religionless. Wed, Jun 29, 7 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

JJ Johnson: Believarexic: A Novel. Sun, Jun 26, 4 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

 The Lobster—Yorgos Lanthimos skewers society’s fear of single people in this surrealist dark comedy. Rated R.  Love & Friendship—Whit Stillman misplaces his wit in this achingly boring Jane Austen adaptation. Rated PG.  Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising—A sorority and a suburban couple square off with mindless gross-out gags.

Rated R.  ½ Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping—Well, here’s a feature-length Lonely Island sketch. Rated R. Jason Morgan Ward: Hanging Bridge. Wed, Jun 29, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

LITERARY R E L AT E D Epifanio Morales, Jr.: “Problems in Paradise,” discussing the challenges facing Puerto Rico and its people. Fri, Jun 24, 10 am. Seymour Senior Center, Chapel Hill. www.co.orange. nc.us/aging/SeymourCenter. asp.

Relive the Magic of Harry Potter: Fri, Jun 24, 7 p.m.

Barnes & Noble, Durham. www. barnesandnoble.com.

Word Sparks: Five writers read from their works alongside artists who have created works based on their writings. Sun, Jun 26, 4 p.m. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www.joyfuljewel.com.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25

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BLF Press, a black feminist press based in Clayton, North Carolina, recently published Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction, an anthology that shows facets of the African-American lesbian experience beyond “overly wrought sex scenes, lesbian melodrama, or ‘urban fiction’.” The anthology, edited by S. Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle, includes experienced writers like Sheree L. Greer and Claudia Moss as well as emerging voices, and covers a formal range from romance and comedy to speculative fiction.

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The first time I ever felt anything about the American political system was November 7, 2000. I was ten, and it was utter pessimism. I was mad that George W. Bush had won the election and how he had won. To make matters worse, our kitten had climbed into our basement ceiling. Three hours and several bustILLUSTRATION BY ed tiles later, we found him. Regaining confidence in CHRIS WILLIAMS the system, though, proved more difficult.

As a political organizer in college, I worked for a party I didn’t really believe in. In fact, I was as cynical as ever about American politics. My mother grew up watching her mother struggle. I grew up watching my mother struggle. Facing more than $50,000 in student loans and the financial plight of becoming a journalist, I foresaw the same plight for myself.

After Ferguson, I stopped describing myself as a Democrat.

When it became clear that Hillary Clinton, who supported toughon-crime policies and the war in Iraq, would walk to the Democratic nomination, I stopped describing myself as a “liberal.” The part of me that saw politics as a way to improve people’s lives was gone.

Then, last May, Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy.

My heart was with him, but I reckoned an anti-war, pro-labor, pro-social justice candidate could never capture the American imagination. Soon after that, my mother—a lifelong reliable Democrat—asked me who I was voting for. I didn’t know if I was going to vote in the primary at all.

“Who are you going to vote for?” I said, knowing the answer.

“I think I’m going to vote for Bernie,” she responded.

“Really?” I was taken aback.

“Yeah,” she replied. “He has really good ideas, and people are hurting. It’s getting old.”

That was the day I started supporting Bernie.

This campaign has been a rollercoaster ride. I fumed while covering Clinton’s victory party in South Carolina, but I repeatedly refreshed my browser as the Michigan results arrived. I lashed out at Clinton-backing friends for expecting him and his supporters— me, my mom—to just give up.

I don’t pretend to know what will happen when Sanders ends his campaign. Maybe his boosters will push the Democrats left. Maybe they’ll help a third-party candidate become viable.

But last Thursday, I called my mom. “I’m sad that Bernie lost,” she said. I asked her what she thought of a woman finally becoming a major party’s nominee.

“Hillary is making history,” she said. “When I was a little girl, I would never dream of a woman ever becoming president.”

The gravity of a woman becoming a major party nominee isn’t lost on me. I’m glad another barrier has been broken; considering only two women of color have ever been elected to the Senate, we obviously have more work to do. But I’m also glad that accepting the current state of affairs doesn’t seem so permanent anymore. I have Bernie Sanders to thank for that. —Paul Blest pblest@indyweek.com

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