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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH 6 A Senate Republican running for attorney general wants to give the attorney general unilateral power to cut off funding to local governments for roads and schools.
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8 North Carolina has 122 crisis pregnancy centers but just fourteen abortion providers. 9 In Raleigh, a townhouse a developer touts as “middle tier” will set you back $300,000. 12 “We’re putting all this money into a pet project for an elite group of people.” 16 Liver is cool. Butchers are rock stars. Nose-to-tail might be the new farm-to-fork. 18 No brandy? No milk? Foundation can still make you brandy milk punch. 19 “It’s like saying, ‘Ludwig just came out with this great drum kit, but I’m not going to use it. I’m going to keep using these buckets and cans.’” 21 Listen to Modern Baseball and The Hotelier, and you’ll hear emo growing up. 22 From Woodstock to Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral, legendary N.C. photojournalist Burk Uzzle was there. 23 Shakespeare’s shaky script is a bigger challenge than noisy traffic in Bare Theatre’s public tour of Two Gentlemen of Verona. 24 The promising meeting of Spielberg and Roald Dahl in The BFG is disappointingly light on storytelling magic. 37 A dead strip of Capital Boulevard, waiting to be reborn.
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Responding to our cover story on the massacre in Orlando and our call for more robust gun control, Ray Ubinger of the Libertarian Party of Durham writes: “Governments murdered 262 million people last century. That equals 146 Orlando nightclub massacres every single day of the 1900s. So yeah, let’s have them decide who can and can’t buy a gun. Concentrated political power in the most dangerous thing in the world. Several times deadlier than even war.” Ronald C. Tanciar, meanwhile, disapproves of our coverage of LGBTQ issues: “First, why do you even waste the ink in your paper to write about transgender people? Who cares! Their [sic] just crying foul because they think they are now classified as a minority and that their [sic] being persecuted. Please! Anything to promote their agenda. It’s bad enough that Hollywood is doing it. “When God gives a society up, they plunge into sexual sin, and then they sink deeper into homosexual sin, so while homosexuality is a forgivable sin, and categorically, no worse than others, when it happens on a societal level, it is evidence that when a society affirms it, when it becomes normal in a society, that is evidence that God has turned that society over. If you look at America, you could look back to the sexual revolution of the sixties, which has now become a homosexual revolution of the nineties, in which the homosexuals have redefined themselves as a minority, like a racial group of people demanding rights. “We all have rights. Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That goes for all legal Americans. If the sexually perverted individual wishes to continue to holler foul, then leave the USA. The American people are tired of bleeding hearts hollering minority.” A recent Pew poll found that only 37 percent of Americans oppose same-sex marriage, so maybe the American people aren’t quite as sick of “bleeding hearts hollering minority” as Ronald imagines. Want to see your name in bold? Email us at backtalk@indyweek.com, comment on our Facebook page or INDYweek.com, or hit us up on Twitter: @indyweek.
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triangulator +BLAME GAMES Governor Pat McCrory was in a feisty mood as he faced off against Attorney General Roy Cooper in the first gubernatorial debate last Friday. But feisty doesn’t quite cover it: the governor was also by turns whiny and defensive. As Cooper noted, he blamed everyone but himself for the gaping wound that is House Bill 2. And then he blamed his Democratic predecessors for the current exodus of fed-up public school teachers. If you missed the hour-long debate, you can find it at wral.com. In the meantime, we’ve collected a handful of its most notable exchanges. GERALD OWENS, WRAL: Governor McCrory, how will House Bill 2 shape your party’s image, not only in North Carolina, but around the country, in the years ahead? MCCRORY: I believe that the private sector should not be told by the mayor of Charlotte, or by the city of Charlotte, or by the state of North Carolina, or by the federal government, what their bathroom and restroom and shower policies should be. … I do think, however—and this is where I disagree with
the attorney general— that, in our schools, and in our restaurants, and in our universities, that if a boy, who is a boy,, but thinks he’s a girl, should not go into the girls’ shower. COOPER: If you notice his response, he’s blamed the left wing; he’s blamed Charlotte, the Charlotte schools, the media, President Obama,, even all of the musicians and performers. I think the governor needs to take a long look in the mirror here. LORETTA BONITI, TIME WARNER CABLE NEWS: Should consideration be given to restricting [gun] sales to people who are on terror watch lists? Should there be changes to North Carolina’s current background check? COOPER: I have proposed, for North Carolina, that those that are on the terror watch list not be allowed to purchase
+REALITY CHECK On Sunday, the Raleigh-based Sigmon Law Firm filed an amicus brief—i.e., testimony from people who aren’t a party in a lawsuit—in the ACLU’s case against North Carolina over House Bill 2. The brief—whose signatories include twentyseven school administrators from across the country and the entire school district for Reno, Nevada—recounts administrators’ experiences with transgender students and makes the case that North Carolina lawmakers’ concerns aren’t rooted in reality. The whole thing is worth a read, as it puts the lie to much of the fearmongering that has defined the HB 2 debate. But in case scrolling through a thirty-nine-page legal filing isn’t your idea of a good time, here are five excerpts that caught our eye. 1. “It’s not a big deal when you look at it from a standpoint of, we’re dealing with real people, we’re dealing with children. Even at the high school level we’re dealing with people who 6 | 6.29.16 | INDYweek.com
guns. And Governor McCrory, he’s ridiculed that proposal. proposal It’s important to make sure that we take steps here in this state to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, potential terrorists, and the mentally ill. We need to do a better job with background checks. MCCRORY: Now, one of the biggest problems we had when I was mayor [of Charlotte] was that the crime lab run by Attorney General Cooper and his predecessor, former governor [Mike] Easley, was a disaster. … As a former member of the Homeland Security team, after 9/11, we knew there would be homegrown terrorists. … I support Senator Burr’s most recent effort to allow law enforcement to look at emails, especially people that are
have had a hard enough time as it is, and they’re just looking for reasonable support from the school in a very challenging social context, or during a very difficult process, as it is for many of them.” —Thomas Aberli, principal of J.M. Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky
coming from nations where we have known terrorist activity. … We’re bringing in refugees from across the border, from Syria … At this point, the moderator called time. If McCrory wanted to actually say anything about guns, he missed his shot. OWENS: Attorney General Cooper, let’s just say you had a son or daughter who just graduated from college, and they told you they wanted to be a teacher. Would you tell them to teach in North Carolina or encourage them to go to one of the forty-plus other states where they could make more money? COOPER: I’d tell them to teach right here in North Carolina, because, hold on, I’m coming. MCCRORY: The first thing we did was raise entry-level pay by five thousand dollars. Since then, we’ve given the largest teacher pay raises in the United States of America. I realize you don’t see it on WRAL or read it in The Charlotte Observer. See? It’s the liberal media’s fault. Of course.
issues with our policy there. I also supervise the general complaint process. Nothing has come through either of those two processes on this issue.” — Dylan Pauly, general counsel for the Madison (Wisconsin) Metropolitan School District
2. “Our experience has been that the fears of the adults rarely play out. The students are very affirming and respectful of their classmates. Most of the reaction that I’ve ever encountered has been in response to people’s fears, not the students’ experiences. The students’ experiences have been overwhelmingly positive. I have yet to be called into a situation to respond to an actual incident; I’ve only had to respond to fears, and the fears are unfounded.” —Judy Chiasson, Los Angeles Unified School District
4. “[When transgender students] have reported worrying about whether they can use the restroom that matches their gender identity, they have said they just don’t go to the bathroom at school. That can’t possibly help them learn. … We want them to know where they can use the restroom, so they can feel more like anyone else in their school and not like an outsider. … When transgender students don’t use the restroom, they’re missing an opportunity to socialize with their peers. —Diana Bruce, director of health and wellness for D.C. Public Schools
3. “There have been no transgender students who are sexual predators, or who are ‘switching gender’ to peek at others. None of those irrational fears have been realized at all. I supervise our Title IX investigator, and there have been no
5. “While [we] agree with [the ACLU] that HB 2 is contrary to the law, on a more fundamental level it is simply bad public policy, and particularly so in the educational context. All students inhabit a world—both inside and outside
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+TRUMPIAN UTOPIAS On the off chance you needed any reminder how terrible the General Assembly can be, here you go: while everyone was focused on budget negotiations, a simple jury-duty bill was gutted, replaced with a xenophobic anti-immigrant provisions, and passed in the Senate on Monday. The Senate voted 32–17 to approve the legislation, which creates a draconian penalty for so-called sanctuary cities. How draconian? If municipalities allow immigrants to access nonprofit ID cards or restrict their local police forces from working with federal immigration officials, they’ll lose state funding for school and road construction. Translation: the General Assembly would rather tank education and leave its roads to ruin than have cities welcome undocu-
mented immigrants, many of whom are economic refugees who’ve never committed a violent crime. Wait, it gets worse. The bill doesn’t just threaten education and transportation if North Carolina municipalities don’t turn themselves into Trumpian utopias; it would also give unprecedented authority to the attorney general, which is convenient, considering the Republican attorney general nominee, Representative Buck Newton, is one of the bill’s primary sponsors. The attorney general—by himself—would decide when to cut off that funding, a move that suggests that Republicans are worried the Governor’s Mansion might not be safe. Moreover, the state ACLU says that the law would allow “anonymous tipsters” to claim that their local government isn’t sufficiently antagonizing undocumented immigrants, thus potentially triggering an attorney general investigation. Senator Mike Woodard, D-Durham, says it’s no coincidence that Newton is the public face of the bill. “It’s what we like to call a ‘run on’ bill,” he says. [Newton] gets to run on it.” Considering what the bill represents, however—a full-throated endorsement of antiimmigrant sentiment—the damage will last
well past the election. “I hate to draw conclusions to bigger things, but it was the same type of fear and xenophobia that caused Great Britain to leave the European Union,” says Representative Duane Hall, D-Raleigh. “It seems like they never step back and look at the big picture. Can you ever think of a moment in history where [the group] hating immigrants was on the right side of history?” triangulator@indyweek.com
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The U.S. Supreme Court says it will review the state’s gerrymandering case in its next session. Hashtag black votes matter.
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The N.C. House passes a body-cam bill that lets cops determine what footage the public sees. Next up: a bill that would allow cops to make cool GIFs out of comical arrests.
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Thom Tillis says, if necessary, he’d arrest House Democrats engaging in a sit-in to protest Congress’s inaction on guns. He adds that, if that proved problematic, exercising his Second Amendment rights was not off the table.
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U.S. Representative Mark Walker calls the sit-in—led by civil rights icon John Lewis—a “disgrace to Woolworth’s.” Also, Walker continues, Neil Armstrong is a disgrace to the moon.
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The legislature’s budget compromise raises teacher pay by almost 5 percent. Coincidentally, this is an election year.
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper and Senate candidate Deborah Ross skip Hillary Clinton’s rally in Raleigh. Jeez, was Game of Thrones on or something? Set your DVR and get to work, guys.
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Thirty-nine inmates are baptized at the Durham County jail, which merits a page 1 story in the N&O. How about we take care of the prisoners’ bodies and minds before worrying about their eternal souls?
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Durham County approves a new budget that includes increased mental health funding for jail inmates. Hey, that was easy (see above). Can we have a pony?
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of school—that includes transgender people. Pretending that this is not so for the sake of entirely unfounded concerns is harmful to transgender students, to their fellow students, and to the community at large.” —From the brief’s conclusion
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A CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER WANTS TO MOVE NEXT DOOR TO A RALEIGH ABORTION PROVIDER—AND THERE’S NOT MUCH NEIGHBORS CAN DO TO STOP IT BY PAUL BLEST
It’s an overcast Saturday morning, and, like many Saturday mornings over the past five years, Jim Tsantles is spending it trying to badger women into not terminating their pregnancies. “You don’t have to make a plan that ends a child’s life,” Tsantles, a deacon at Sovereign Redeemer Baptist Church in Youngsville, says through a headset microphone, while casually shifting his feet behind, on top of, and then over the makeshift chalk line that demarcates the beginning of A Woman’s Preferred Health Clinic in west Raleigh, the line he is not allowed to pass without incurring trespassing charges. He’s leading about a dozen gathered anti-abortion-rights activists. “You can make a plan that includes mercy and grace and love. We’ll help you.” It’s a familiar sight at women’s health clinics around the country, and the debate in Raleigh is about to come to a head: twenty steps away from where Tsantles is standing is a house owned by A Hand of Hope, a pro-life group seeking approval from the Raleigh City Council to rezone it into a “crisis pregnancy center,” a facility that attempts to dissuade women from getting abortions. In A Hand of Hope’s telling, this is akin to a Burger King moving catty-corner to a McDonald’s: both the women’s clinic and the crisis pregnancy center aim to serve the same demographic. A Hand of Hope’s critics don’t buy that analogy. “This group has been intentionally misleading,” west Raleigh resident Sharon Mixon said at the June 21 city council hearing. To Mixon, the crisis pregnancy center, which will be called Your Choice Pregnancy Center, is more like a Whole Foods competitor that doesn’t serve food. Anti-abortion protesters gathered Saturday morning outside of A Woman’s Preferred Health Clinic in west Raleigh. PHOTO BY LUKAS HODGE
news Because of an administrative error, the council delayed voting on the rezoning until July 5. But even if the rest of AWPHC’s neighbors felt the same way as Mixon—and it’s not clear they do—there’s not much they can do to stop the new crisis pregnancy center. As AWPHC spokeswoman Calla Hales acknowledges, the council’s hands are tied: rejecting the rezoning request just because you don’t like the ideology of the people who are going to set up shop raises a host of First Amendment issues. “I know they own the property, and I can’t keep them from owning the property,” Hales says. “The best-case scenario is going to be adding a lot of restrictions to prevent future issues. Part of me is OK with that, but part of me is upset at how irresponsible it is that someone allowed this to happen.” The bigger problem, Hales says, is that Your Choice will be “incredibly deceptive.” “We already have patients that think they’re driving to us and drive to them,” she says. By design, Your Choice’s current location is less than a quarter mile away from AWPHC; this sort of “co-location,” in fact, is a well-known tactic of abortion opponents. Tonya Baker Nelson, A Hand of Hope’s executive director, insists that her group isn’t misleading anyone. “We don’t start off our relationship [with a client] deceptively by any stretch of the imagination,” she says. “We don’t make up statistics, we don’t make up facts, we don’t make up consequences.” There’s ample evidence that this is not the case at many CPCs around the country. A 2006 U.S. House Committee on Government Reform report found a trend of “false and misleading information” about abortion and women’s health at CPCs, and in 2011, NARAL Pro-Choice N.C. conducted a study that found that CPCs often tell women that abortion can cause sterility or even breast cancer, and that condoms aren’t effective. A 2015 NARAL N.C. study found that staff members at multiple CPCs identified a woman’s IUD as a baby during an ultrasound. CPCs dwarf the number of abortion providers in North Carolina; in 2011, NARAL N.C.
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reported, there were 122 CPCs around the state; AWPHC, meanwhile, is one of just fourteen abortion providers. Nationally, CPCs now outnumber abortion clinics “by an estimated three to one,” according to the 2015 report. The CPCs have garnered the help of the North Carolina taxpayer, through a program called the Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship. In 2013, the legislature made national headlines when it redirected federal money that was supposed to go toward poor and uninsured women to CPCs. In this year’s budget, the House and the Senate both want to allocate $300,000 to the program. (The political nature of this conflict is underscored by the fact that A Hand of Hope’s medical director is Greg Brannon, a Cary obstetrician who has run two failed campaigns for Senate and one for Congress on explicitly anti-abortion platforms.) A Hand for Hope’s detractors have worried that the group will use its new facility as a staging ground for more and louder protests. But Baker Nelson promises that won’t happen—the CPC, she says, has nothing to do with the protests. “I have a very busy life, so I don’t have time to live other people’s lives for them,” she says. “Even if you’re giving me your mama’s worldfamous apple pie, I don’t want anyone yelling at me through a megaphone.” Regardless, Hales counters, the controversy over the new CPC has drawn more protesters in recent weeks. She fears that an increasingly volatile situation outside the clinic could mean trouble for the neighborhood and those who work at and rely on AWPHC. “Violence has already escalated because of the Planned Parenthood video scandal and the shooting at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado,” Hales says. “It’s already escalating. I’ve personally had issues with my safety in the past few years. I don’t want my staff or neighbors to have to deal with that. l” pblest@indyweek.com
“I don’t want anyone yelling at me through a megaphone.”
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CRITICS WORRY THAT A FORMER CITY MANAGER’S DEVELOPMENT COULD LEAD TO THE EROSION OF RALEIGH’S HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS BY JANE PORTER
The one-story English cottages in Cameron Park and bungalows in Mordecai and the impressive Victorians in South Park and the Queen Annes in Oakwood have a few things in common: they’re old, for one, and portions of the areas that feature them are protected by what are known as NCODs. For seventeen Raleigh neighborhoods, NCODs—neighborhood conservation overlay districts—have been in place for years, even decades, to preserve their appearances and protect their historic characters. NCODs designate lot size, setbacks, and building heights to make new development compatible with a neighborhood’s existing character. Implementing an NCOD is often painstaking. Neighbors must identify the area they want covered by the NCOD and make sure it meets city guidelines for preservation. A majority of property owners must then successfully petition the city council. The process can take years, but the promise of long-term protections makes getting an NCOD worth the effort and expense. But now developers are requesting a change to the city’s newly implemented unified development ordinance that would alter the guidelines laid out in an NCOD that protects one of these old neighborhoods, New Bern-Edenton. If the revision passes and the developer is allowed to build townhomes to be sold to individual owners—an ownership model not currently allowed under the NCOD—that could open the floodgates for other developers, some activists say. On the other hand, the developer says he’s addressing a crucial missing link in Raleigh’s market: the need for housing for the city’s middle-income workforce. “For me, the bigger story here is the missing middle tier of housing in our cities,” says Stuart Cullinan, president of Five Horizons Development. “There is no small-unit ownership anymore, just the big houses and the sub-
sidized for-sale homes or lower-end rentals. You don’t have the option anywhere to provide for that middle tier of housing that middleincome owners can afford.” Five Horizons, in partnership with former city manager Russell Allen, wants to construct two buildings, each with five sixteenhundred-square-foot units, estimated to be worth just over $300,000 apiece. But New Bern-Edenton’s NCOD, which dates from the nineties, mandates that new buildings must be built ten feet apart from one
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another, and that townhomes aren’t allowed unless they’re condominiums or apartments (i.e., the homeowner owns the actual unit but the lot underneath it is jointly shared). If the city council approves the change, Five Horizons could build townhomes for ownership rather than for lease, an easier model for the developer to finance and more affordable for the buyer. “Staff’s analysis reveals that the proposal is not consistent with the built character of the area,” a city planner wrote in a recent report that recommended approval of the change. “The townhouse form does not exist in the NCOD today. However, the current NCOD regulations do not altogether prohibit the townhouse building form.” “The only thing this text change intends to do is offer a new ownership model,” Isabel Mattox, Cullinan’s attorney, said at a city planning commission meeting last month. “We’re trying to present the opportunity to do a townhouse-ownership model, which we think leads
to more ownership in the neighborhood, which we think is a positive thing.” The planning commission approved the change 9–1, but neighbors aren’t convinced it will be in their best interest. “When the NCOD passed we were excited because everybody came together to protect and help stabilize the neighborhood and give us protection for the future,” says Octavia Rainey, a longtime neighborhooods advocate. “We had no idea this would come up. We trusted that the city has our best interest.” Even Raleigh residents who don’t have a personal stake in New BernEdenton are worried about the precedent the change could set. “Why should any neighborhood bother to get an NCOD if the planning commission can just override it?” asks Stef Mendell, who lives in Ridgeway, an older neighborhood that is considering applying for an NCOD. “Too many people in Raleigh’s government are listening to developers and not reflecting what residents of neighborhoods want.” But Cullinan, a longtime resident of New Bern-Edenton, says excluding the townhomeownership model because “people fear a domino effect” will be detrimental to the neighborhood and the city’s middle-class buyers. “It worries me that people will throw out a good idea because they’re terrified of what happens five degrees removed,” he says. “People ask me if the city lets this happen, isn’t it poking a hole in a dam? But this is about homeownership. It may be the easier story to tell that it’s a developer trying to change the rules to line their pockets, but not everyone is the big bad wolf.” Cullinan says his company will move forward with the townhomes no matter the sales model. And he says he’ll continue to push for townhouse-ownership models elsewhere in the city because he thinks it’s a “noble cause.” The proposed text change will go before the council on July 5. l jporter@indyweek.com
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nne Wells would seem to be the target demographic for the proposed Durham to Orange Light Rail Transit project. Thirty years old, she moved to the Triangle from Chicago last year to work as an audiovisual archivist at the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Library. She picked Durham over Chapel Hill or Carrboro because it was more affordable, more of a city. Every weekday, she drives thirty minutes from the house she rents in Northgate Park to the UNC campus. “I would love to take light rail to work,” she says. After a decade in Chicago, she’s accustomed to getting around via public transportation. And much about her daily commute— traffic on 15-501, gas expenses, the $40-a-month cut the university takes out of her paycheck for parking—is a bummer. To get to work under the envisioned D-O LRT plan, however, Wells would have to take a thirty-minute ride on the Roxboro Street bus to the Dillard Street station. She’d then wait for the light-rail train to arrive, take it approximately forty minutes to Chapel Hill, then walk five minutes to the Wilson Library. Her commute time would nearly triple, from a half hour behind the wheel to an hour and fifteen minutes on public transportation—assuming her arrivals at the bus stop and the train station are well timed. And so she says she’s unlikely to wake up at 5 a.m. just so she can take the train to work. Neither would most people. The trip into Chapel Hill will be considerably breezier, though, for a future resident of One City Center, the giant hole in the ground in the center of downtown Durham, soon to 12 | 6.29.16 | INDYweek.com
be a twenty-seven-story mixed-use condo building. For that privileged urban denizen, it’s just a two-block walk to Durham Station. Likewise, Duke students will have their pick of three on-campus stops to get them to and from a Bulls game or a show at Cat’s Cradle. The Ninth Street stop on the D-O LRT is exploding with nearby apartment options—if you can spend $1,500 a month for a one-bedroom. And for homeowners down by the proposed Woodmont Station near Downing Creek, where the median household income is $76,000, a carfree trip to DPAC is just steps away. The light-rail line briefly dips its toes into lower-income east Durham, terminating at Alston and Pettigrew, but as William Ingram, president of Durham Tech, argued in public comments last year, the light-rail plan “fails to adequately serve the nearly twenty thousand individuals who enroll in at least one class at Durham Tech annually, nor our over eight hundred full-time and part-time employees.” UNC and Duke, whose students are less likely to rely on public transportation, have no such complaints. Virtually every elected official in Durham and Orange County is in favor of the seventeen-mile, $1.6 billion (at least) line. So, too, it seems, are most ordinary citizens, especially those under the age of forty. There is near-universal gut-level enthusiasm for the concept of light rail in the Triangle. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t legitimate questions about the wisdom of the current plan: Does it serve the people who need it? Will emerging technologies render it obsolete by the time it is completed, ten years from whenever the funding finally comes through? Would an enhanced busing system—
something like bus rapid transit—be a more effective, flexible, and cheaper option? And how will local governments come up with the cash to pay for construction overages and shortfalls caused by potentially low ridership? There’s also a very real chance that Republicans in the state legislature might succeed in spiking the rail altogether. On the one hand, this would be more of the same: shortsighted conservatives stalling progress in the very cities that are responsible for North Carolina’s economic vibrancy. But there’s another possibility here, sort of a stoppedclock-is-right-twice-a-day scenario: What if, this time, those Republicans who oppose light rail for all the wrong reasons— allergy to government spending, resentment of progressive city folk—happen to be right?
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his is like a stroll down memory lane,” says Durham County Commissioner Ellen Reckhow, recalling the three-decade history of passenger-rail efforts in the Triangle. Reckhow was elected in 1988 and has served on several transportation-related boards, including the Triangle Tran-
“We’re putting all this money into a pet project for an elite group of people.” sit Authority (now GoTriangle) and the National Association of Counties Transportation Steering Committee. In the late eighties, the discussion was about diesel-powered commuter rail—using existing tracks of the North Carolina Railroad to connect workers in the Triangle. It was the transportation version of the principle behind Research Triangle Park: harness the potential of these close but disconnected cities. In 1991, local officials created the Triangle Transit Authority to address this issue. In 1995, the TTA settled on a commuter-rail plan that would run on existing tracks between
central Raleigh and west Durham. “It was the most costeffective way to go because we wouldn’t have to build much infrastructure,” Reckhow says. “The trains would have run every twenty minutes at their peak, then every half hour or forty-five minutes on off-hours.” But the railroad didn’t want to share its tracks, and the conversation broke down. In the late nineties, the TTA began looking into building a track parallel to the NCRR for a commuter rail that wouldn’t interfere with Amtrak and freight trains. It would have hit twelve stops between Durham and Raleigh. But after years of planning, that, too hit a wall. GoTriangle spokesman Brad Schulz tells the INDY that the cost of concrete and steel rose after Hurricane Katrina, “pushing the project beyond the [Federal Transit Authority’s] minimum acceptable threshold for being cost-effective.” The ridership projections were also too low for the feds’ liking. Federal funding was vital to the project, and the TTA pulled the plug in 2006. The light-rail plan that’s currently on the table began to materialize three years later. “That’s when we started to hear about trying to bring it back,” recalls Chapel Hill Town Council member (and GoTriangle board member) Ed Harrison. Discussions and planning between Wake, Orange, and Durham counties ensued, and in 2011 the transit authority completed an “alternatives analysis”—basically a big study about what transportation system would best serve the Triangle. “And what shook out of that was light rail,” Harrison says. The plan called for Wake, Orange, and Durham to cover a quarter of the project’s cost, the state another quarter, and the
federal government half—the same way construction of light rail in Charlotte, which opened in 2007, was financed. Durham County passed a half-cent sales tax for this purpose in 2011, and Orange County followed suit in 2012. But the then-Republican-heavy Wake County Board of Commissioners refused to take action. Durham and Orange pressed forward, collaborating on what is now the D-O LRT. Both counties continue to collect taxes for the project. Three-quarters of the funding remains very much up in the air, however. Governor Pat McCrory, who pushed light rail as mayor of Charlotte, is generally supportive, but his fellow Republicans in the state legislature seem to revel in finding ways not to loosen the purse strings. Last year, they slipped into the budget a last-second provision that capped spending on light rail projects at $500,000—a preposterously minuscule fraction of the $400 million needed for the light-rail line.
That cap may be lifted in the session currently underway, but in some ways that’s beside the point, because a different cap already exists in state law. It says multicounty transportation services—like light rail—can’t receive more than 10 percent of their total cost from the state. That means the state can only spend $160 million on D-O LRT. Where the other $240 million will come from is unclear. Reckhow says a public-private partnership with employers near certain stops could bring in some cash. Debt financing is also an option. Senator Mike Woodard, who represents part of Durham, suggests that the cap “could be lifted by a future General Assembly,” but that seems unlikely to happen anytime soon. Schulz reiterates that D-O LRT scored well enough on the state’s nonpartisan strategic transportation investments process for the N.C. Department of Transportation to commit $138 million to the project in 2013. Beyond that, he offered no insight as to where the money might come from. “It is common at this phase of a project to be identifying the funding sources for the project,” Schulz says. And that is to say nothing of the $800 million that the federal government has yet to commit—a gift unlikely to arrive before the state has its financial ducks in a row.
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he folks hollering most loudly against light rail are a problematic bunch. Most are baby boomers who live in pretty nice homes near the proposed Woodmont Station, in Downing Creek. They got involved because they didn’t want the station to block their access to the highway. They’re textbook NIMBYs (“Not in My Backyard”), the scourge of urban planners. “You know, NIMBY is usually used as a negative epithet,” says Dick Ford, a Downing Creek resident and a prominent Durham Republican. “But, in fact, things happening in people’s neighborhoods is what often motivates them to get engaged in the political process.” Ford didn’t like the fact that well-connected members of the adjacent Chapel Hill community of Meadowmont, where a station was originally planned, were able to “push the railroad to our side of the highway” in subsequent plans. “I have a friend in east Durham who told me, ‘Now you have a better idea of what it feels like to be marginalized,’” Ford says. “I started looking at it differently after that.” Nowadays, Ford articulates his gripes about D-O LRT in the context of social justice. “It takes people from one prosperous node—UNC, in Chapel Hill—to another, Duke, to
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would take, which is thirty-nine minutes”) to its costs (“They’re saying ninety-four million per mile, but the recent Charlotte lightrail extension ended up being one hundred twenty-six million per mile, which means local taxpayers would be on the hook for as much as a billion in all”). He closely monitors transit news and seems particularly satisfied with recent developments in Charlotte. Depending on whom you talk to, Charlotte’s rail line is either a symbol of promise or a cautionary tale. A 2010 story in The New York Times described the line as “an unexpected and nearly unprecedented success,” citing ridership numbers nearly double the original projections. Lately, however, the news isn’t so hot. Though the city is extending the line, ridership has declined—4.3 percent in the last year—even as the city’s population has grown. And according to The Charlotte Observer, “the accelerating gentrification of center city neighborhoods [is] pushing [Charlotte Area Transit System’s] core ridership—low-income blue collar workers—further out toward the suburbs.” (Schulz says that Charlotte, like D-O LRT, is a long-term investment, and “the longterm trends are more important than shortterm fluctuations in ridership.”) Questions about ridership as it relates to D-O LRT were articulated by David Hardman, a Chapel Hill resident who wrote the following in an op-ed in The News & Observer last year: “The ridership projections for the Durham-Orange LRT stretch credulity, with estimated daily boardings of 23,000. This is in contrast to the Charlotte LRT system, with daily boardings of 16,000—which has been static since inception in 2007, while the population has increased 17 percent … . These ridership projections are further inflated with the working assumption that 40 percent of households in the Durham-Chapel Hill corridor will not own automobiles in 2040, which flies in the face of current ownership levels and assumes a tectonic shift in public behavior.” Hardman is touching on another popular argument among opponents of light rail: that technology is advancing so quickly that a light-rail system will be as useful as a phone booth by the time it’s up and running. A Charlotte Observer story from earlier this month noted that Uber is likely contributing to declining ridership in Charlotte. Judith Mellyn, a Downing Creek attorney who grew
up using public transportation in New York and voted for the half-cent tax back in 2011, says her son, who lives in Charlotte, used to take light rail to events in the city. Now he uses Uber. “And I think that will obviously evolve into things like driverless vehicles, driverless buses—a way of getting around in the future that won’t be tied to these fixed stations,” Mellyn says. Bonnie Hauser, who lost her race for the Orange County Board of Commissioners last year, says she opposes D-O LRT for similar reasons. “It’s a question of obsolescence and changing demand patterns,” Hauser says. “There’s a dynamic going on of people moving toward personalized transportation systems, and that’s only going to continue as the technology advances. “Look at Wake,” Hauser continues. “They looked at this [D-O LRT] and said, ‘No thanks.’”
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et’s look at Wake. Come November, voters in the county will decide whether to charge themselves a half-cent sales tax and increased vehicle registration fees to help pay for a $2.3 billion transportation plan. It includes a proposed commuter-rail line that would connect Garner, Raleigh, Cary, Morrisville, RTP, and Durham. But there’s no light rail. Mostly, it’s a dramatic increase in bus service, estimated to quadruple current service levels, including twenty miles of bus rapid transit lines crisscrossing the county. (Bus rapid transit is akin to light rail in that it runs in dedicated lanes and can bypass traffic signals.) Several pro-light-rail politicians contacted by the INDY attribute Wake’s absence from the light-rail plan to the Republicancontrolled commission back in 2012. They largely fail to mention that Wake hired an outside consultant in 2014 to assess the county’s needs, or that the now-Democraticcontrolled commission supported that consultant’s BRT-centric recommendation. “Hundreds of meetings were held over the last eighteen months throughout the county, seeking input from citizens,” says Tim Gardiner, Wake County’s transportation planner. “We assembled an advisory committee made up of seventy-eight people from all the municipalities in Wake County—council members, commissioners, university
“It’s a big, growing, sprawling county. And with buses and BRT we can get service out to these places that need it. We would be giving up service goals in exchange for a toy we can feel good about.” leaders, transit planners, business leaders. We had a partnership between GoTriangle, Raleigh, Cary, RTP, RDU, N.C. State, and [the N.C. Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization], which distributes federal money. And none of the groups who looked into this came back and said light rail was the right investment for Wake County.” Gardiner continues: “We went into the process from a vulnerable position. If the community would have come back and said, ‘We want light rail,’ that would have been fine with us. But they didn’t. They looked at the facts and said, ‘We can’t get the mileage and geography and service we need out of our public transportation system if we spend our money on a light-rail line. There’s no flexibility. It’s a big, growing, sprawling county. And with buses and BRT we can get service out to these places that need it. We would be giving up service goals in exchange for a toy we can feel good about.’” Schulz counters that, though light rail costs more to build, BRT costs more to operate. He adds, “In a corridor with as high a level of travel-intensity as the DurhamChapel Hill corridor, a BRT system cannot deliver the same quality of service and value that LRT can, nor the quantity of service that is needed.” Gardiner argues that those on the suburban fringes of light rail—where lowerincome people increasingly reside—would have gotten short shrift with light rail. “Those communities are willing to support a plan that serves the greater good of the county,” he says, “but they don’t want to
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he impression that the desire for light rail is, in some ways, more emotional than rational is hard to shake. People like Reckhow, Harrison, Senator Floyd McKissick Jr., Durham Mayor Bill Bell, and others have been reaching for light rail for decades now. Is it possible they’re too committed to see that so much time has passed that it no longer makes sense? The first time you see Cabanes’s site, you—a good progressive who loves public works projects and wants to support light rail—write him off as a NIMBY crank. But then, perhaps, you start to realize that he might have a point, and you flinch. For a fraction of the cost, Durham and Orange could devise a flexible bus rapid transit system that serves the transit-needy public and adjusts to technological advances like driverless vehicles. It would not look as cool. But it would be actual public transportation, as opposed to a development tool, or a way to get well-educated people from university to university, or a symbol of Durham and Orange’s progressivism. “If you want people to leave their cars at home, public transportation has to be more convenient than driving,” Hauser says. “And it needs to primarily serve the needs of people who don’t have the option of driving. And this light-rail plan does neither of those things.” l dhudnall@indyweek.com
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I take a gulp of Dragon’s Milk to wash down the taste of the pork tongue. It’s a Saturday night at Durham’s Dashi, and in the corner booth of the restaurant’s izakaya, or Japanese gastropub, I am surrounded by little plates—of pork tongue, beef heart, beef tendons, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken skin, and shrimp heads. The intimate, industrial space is tucked upstairs from the street-level ramen shop, like a playful tree house. Likewise, the izakaya’s menu dares you to play, to hopscotch past your comfort zone. That’s why I’m here: to have a cocktail and order everything that makes me squirm. I sip liberally from the Dragon’s Milk—a drink of gin, cucumber, and unfiltered sake—between bites. Most of Dashi’s offal and off-cut selections are yakimono, or grilled dishes. The meat is salted and charred, sometimes served with a bit of wasabi. It is unabashedly naked. Either accept the ingredient for everything it is— and is not—or return to the land of Wonderbra chicken breasts. I tentatively bite some pork tongue off the blackened skewer, chewing long enough to contemplate the irony of tasting tongue. The beef heart, like its chicken counterpart, is deep, dark, and meaty. Because the heart is a muscle, its flavor is less mineral and more approachable. I take another bite, then another. The chicken livers, common but rarely served alone, evoke a pate that is done trying to impress people. There are no bells or whistles, just rosy centers with a buttery texture and iron-rich taste. As I push aside the beef tendons—deep-fried, curry-dusted, greasy—and devour the shrimp heads, I realize that the most notable part of the meal was not any one bite, but the server’s relaxed, assured reply: “Chicken hearts, livers, and skin, right?” he said. “Those are the best parts.” I can’t help but wonder: Since when? ● ● ●
The second half of the twentieth century was awful to offal. Between the decline of the family farm and the rise of the industrialized meat market, we effectively scared organs and off-cuts from our butcher shops and supermarkets, our restaurants and homes. Deriving from Middle Dutch terms for
“off” and “to fall,” offal originally meant “to fall off” the carcass. These were the organs, also known as “variety meats,” that spilled out during slaughter. The term has grown to include not just innards, such as heart and kidneys, but also extremities, such as ears and feet. The word off-cut, separately, refers to cheaper, less mainstream muscle cuts, such as cheeks or jowls. Whatever you call it, the theme here is our idea of off-putting. For the last several decades, euphemisms have dominated American meat commerce, effectively serving to shield carnivores from the corporeality of the animals they eat. Pork chops are good, pig cheeks bad. The clearer the connection to the animal, the lower the appeal. If the Silent Generation cooked tongue for baby boomers, the baby boomers bemoaned tongue to budding millennials. But millennials are now Instagramming the #tacosdelengua they #love at the local Mexican food truck. More and more people—both across the country and in the Triangle—want to know the story behind their steak. Did the cow live nearby? Was it raised on antibiotics? Freerange? Grass-fed? Happy? The answers elucidate various issues, from food quality to animal rights to environmental sustainability. The early twenty-first century oozes an offal renaissance, like marrow from a shank bone. Liver is cool. Butchers are rock stars. Nose-to-tail might be the new farm-to-fork. “People are rediscovering odd bits,” writes Jennifer McLagan in Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal. “In the last decade, food has become an increasingly politicized issue, with many voices raging against the industrial food system.” Steven Goff, the former head butcher at Standard Foods, has seen the demand for nose-to-tail sprout, bud, and blossom since he entered the industry. “I’ve watched it grow immensely over the last ten years. I remember when sweetbreads were three bucks a pound. People would give you hearts and livers for free,” he says. “Sweetbreads have gotten to be twelve dollars a pound.” Goff is gearing up to open his own food truck, Brine Haus Meat + Provisions, by the end of August. The venture will focus on whole animal butchery, with an emphasis on Southern cuisine and European charcuterie.
Goff foresees dishes like a liver mush falafel sandwich and smoked hog head boudin. He isn’t the only one in the area embracing odd bits, either. As offal has become less taboo and more trendy, local restaurants are experimenting with proteins that may not be accessible in supermarkets or familiar to diners. Sustainability-driven operations like Firsthand Foods are connecting North Carolina’s pasture-based livestock producers with these restaurants. At Rose’s Meat Market & Sweet Shop, coowner and head butcher Justin Meddis says hesitation on the part of the home cook to try these discarded bits yields opportunity for the chef. By preparing unfamiliar ingredients, restaurants serve as the foot-in-thedoor spaces for nose-to-tail eating. “If there was a plate of chicken heart skewers [at Rose’s], that would not sell,” he says. “But if you can just try it, that’s a little bit different. It’s less of a commitment.”
Indeed, a lot of people seem willing to “just try it”—whatever it may be. Not too far from Dashi, Mateo features variety meats in its tapas selection, from chicken liver pate and fried pork skin to sweetbreads with veal bacon and blood sausage. Gourmet Kingdom in Chapel Hill offers smoked pork tongue, spicy pig ear, hot pot beef tendon, stir-fried pig kidneys, and even stir-fried pig intestine. Then there are the crispy pigs’ ears with mostarda at Pizzeria Toro, the crispy pig head at Stanbury, the Vietnamese pork cheek sandwich at The Pig, the grilled pork neck and herb salad at Bida Manda. It should come as little surprise that a state that worships whole-hog barbecue would raise eaters who are willing to take a stab at pig offal—not to mention chefs who know what to do with it. After all, that pork tongue wasn’t half-bad, even if it didn’t taste like chicken. ● Twitter: @EmmaLaperruque
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In the frequently asked questions compendium for The Great American Bar Crawl, which comes to downtown Raleigh Saturday, July 2, concerned citizens ask if the Independence Day-linked event is political. “Hell no,” the organization responds. “The only party we subscribe to is ... partying.” Hey, at least in this politically charged moment, you know where they stand. For $30, participants get a branded cup (which the group sometimes calls a “chalace”) and access to drink specials at bars that brim with people sporting red, white, and blue paraphernalia. Wasting your money is one of the most time-tested ways to celebrate your freedom, right? If you’re looking for a more low-key and thrifty way to indulge this holiday weekend, Crude Bitters will host a seasonally appropriate class on frozen cocktails Saturday for five dollars. “We’ll start with the godfather of frozen drinks, the piña colada,” Crude promises, “and move on from
there!” And if you’re looking to learn even more about booze, Mystery’s regular series, Beer Church, convenes Sunday at the Hillsborough taproom with Allagash’s crisp “Little Brett.” Buy a bit of the perfect summer beer, and the glass is yours to keep. They don’t even try to call it a chalice, either. www.greatamericanbarcrawl.com www.crudebitters.com www.mysterybrewing.com
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Zack Thomas knew he would need to get inventive. When building the spring menu for Foundation, the brick-lined cave cut into a shotgun space beneath Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street, he dreamed of brandy milk punch, that sweet and smooth New Orleans classic where the milk masks the strong bite of the Cognac. But by design, Foundation only serves domestically sourced spirits; and by way of healthcode simplicity, the bar doesn’t keep dairy products on hand. Thomas, then, wanted to serve a mix of brandy and milk in a bar that carried neither. “There’s a grape brandy from California,” he says of the quest, “but it unfortunately didn’t fit what we were looking for.” So he went on a Cognac-sampling tour through town and found that he favored the flavor profile of Pierre Ferrand’s radiant Ambre. He memorized the taste, returned to Foundation, and Brandy milk punch, with a different foundation began trying to mimic what he’d liked by soaking raisins (and, in early trials, extraneous spices) in rum. For a day, sugar to give it the confection boost of his he’d occasionally shake the setup. New Orleans inspiration. Then, voila: “It finally matched up to what Step to the bar at Foundation, order the I was getting off the Cognac.” Glenn Roberts Punch, and you’ll soon realBut what about the milk? At Foundation, ize the cocktail’s heaviest lifting happened he’d made various nondairy substitutes, but days earlier. A bartender drops two square rice milk confounded him. He’d been using the ice cubes into a thick-rimmed tumbler, pours cheap, bleached stuff and found the result to be two ounces of the raisin-infused rum, and an underwhelming gruel. And then he rememtops it with a generous pour of cold rice milk. bered the legend of Carolina Gold Rice. There’s a squeeze of smoked oak tincture, Before becoming Foundation’s general a touch of aromatics, and a whole dried bay manager, Thomas worked at Joule, a nearby leaf plucked from a cubby behind the bar. coffee shop. While there, he first encounThe Glenn Roberts seems to glow, its pale tered Carolina Gold Rice, a sacred Southern orange hue much more suggestive of a spring staple famously brought back into circulaafternoon than its thick New Orleans antecedtion by the heirloom food pioneer and Anson ent. And while it conjures the spiced sweetness Mills owner Glenn Roberts. It’s nonaromatic, of the brandy milk original, it’s approachably nutty, and rich with starch—perfect, Thomlight, the sort of drink you could contentedly as reckoned, for making milk. He dumped sip on Foundation’s sidewalk for hours. four cups of the rice into eight cups of water, Consider it the graceful end to Thomas’s blended the grains into a coarse grind, let weeks of tedious trials. l the concoction sit, and added a cup of brown gcurrin@indyweek.com
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SCOTT AVETT TALKS ABOUT RICK RUBIN’S REMIXES, NOT BECOMING A FARMER, AND WHY THE AVETT BROTHERS HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING ABOUT HB 2 BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN
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On a Thursday afternoon, Scott Avett and I are talking about professional wrestling and stock car racing. A day later, I tell him, I’m going to visit his hometown of Concord, North Carolina, to watch my first-ever wrestling match in the Cabarrus Arena, a glorified high school gymnasium that holds 3,000 fans. Avett assures me that this is the right way to do it, to shirk the bright lights and extreme glitz of the major productions in favor of the small, stranger spaces. When he and his brother and bandmate, Seth, were kids, they’d see races at the humble Concord Speedway, not NASCAR’s nearby monstrous hub. It’s more personal that way, Avett assures me, more endearing. Suddenly, I realize we’re talking about music, too. “Seeing all this stuff in a pretty small venue can be pretty dang awesome. There’s a pure intent to it,” he says. “It reminds me of music: You have to work your way up, and if you can get the sponsor, you can get to the big leagues.” During the last half-decade, this is precisely what’s happened for the Concordbased band. After relentless touring and a string of albums built on the harmonies of bluegrass and the gusto of punk rock, the Avetts nabbed a spot on the roster of mythic impresario Rick Rubin, a move that propelled them to headlining slots in arenas and the top rows of festival posters. The Avett Brothers are only a dozen years removed from playing the state’s smallest dives. But they are, in truth, a world away. True Sadness, the group’s fourth record with Rubin, is its riskiest set to date, sometimes foolishly so. The usual heartrending ballads are here, as are the affable Americana shuffles that have become its recent stock-in-trade. But then there are songs—remixed and recalibrated by Rubin with synths and drum machines and samples—that seem engineered expressly to climb the charts. To wit, opener “Ain’t ndation No Man” just earned the band its first No. 1 single slot, though it feels a little like a casual summer lark, a song destined to be be forgotten as soon as the season fades. ost of his For the first time, it sounds like The Avett Brothers are trying to move to the bigger leagues, not do it of their own accord. Scott spoke about that idea, as well as the political turmoil of the state he has long called home.
order the soon realhappened wo squareINDY: What does everyone ask first about True Sadness? bler, poursSCOTT AVETT: Everybody asks what’s different about the rum, andrecording process. It is very different; I can’t really deny it. rice milk.While we were making it, I kept going, “It’s just another Avett tincture,Brothers record. It’s no big deal.” I’m convinced now that it’s dried baynot another Avett Brothers record. It really is the most comhe bar. plex and involved record we’ve ever made. It doesn’t matter w, its palewhat this record does; it’s not just another Avett Brothers of a springrecord. s antecedsweetnessWhen you first began working on True Sadness, you had roachablyintended to record it together, as one group in a room. Why ontentedlythe drastic change? We were so excited about our band, how it’s grown, and the urs. Thomas’sfamily vibe. We were excited about taking that into a room. We kept talking about “Go to Sleep” from Emotionalism, a yweek.comsong where we just crammed a room full of our friends and
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recorded it. We were thinking we needed to go big on that energy and make an album’s worth of that energy. We’d already recorded everything in Asheville as a demo. But then when we went to Malibu, Rick Rubin said, “Why don’t we meet at my house tonight, and let’s talk about a game plan for the next two weeks while we make this record?” That’s when he said, “What if we assemble songs instead of forming them? What if we use more electronic tools? More computers? More beats? And see what happens?” His point was that we can do what we wanted to. We could make a hard turn, an all-electronic album. I felt like we should be open to it. We agreed that we should explore both. We’d make two versions of every song. The first order of business was going to be that Seth, Bob, and I would record all the songs. Right off the bat, that was going way, way back. Why not have as much material as possible to see what works? We recorded with the three of us, and then as we made that old-school recording
with the seven-piece band, we were assembling remixes in a studio adjacent to the main house. Often when there’s a proposal so dramatic, like a remix album for a mostly acoustic band, there’s protest. Was there with True Sadness? There was some concern, I’m assuming, from some folks in the band. But everybody held their tongue and said, “Let’s trust the process.” There was never any breakdown or conflict. When Seth and Bob and I were on board, we just asked the rest of the guys to trust us. There was some worry and concern but, ultimately, not enough to speak up. When did you decide it worked? As soon as there was a batch of these tunes remixed, I went in and heard some of them. I knew there was something there. There was a world here. At one point, we were talking about INDYweek.com | 6.29.16 | 19
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doing them all electronic and releasing them and, six months later, releasing the band versions. What would that mean? What would that say? How would that live in the world? As we kept going, the most sincere thing was to allow those different perspectives to serve the songs and release the best version, instead of doing something radical just for temptation. The sound that first defined The Avett Brothers—bluegrass and rock ’n’ roll with harmonies and energy—has spread since you began. It’s not so novel anymore. Is True Sadness an attempt to stay ahead of that trend? Not really. I feel like we’re already on the backside of our career. We just are what we are. We might become bored with certain sounds and doing certain things. But when it comes to songwriting, we’re still exactly what we are in many ways, as much as has changed and as much as we would like to explore. Our exploring and changing has luckily always been at a healthy pace and has never been a reflection of us making marketing moves. This record is toned way down compared to a whole record of remixes, but to not use the computer in 2015, when we were recording and assembling this, almost seems insincere. It’s nostalgic and not acknowledging the tools that are there. It’s like saying, “Ludwig just came out with this great drum kit, but I’m not going to use it. I’m going to keep using these buckets and cans, because that’s what I’m used to.” You’re a representative for a tradition you built. There may be a part of me that eventually says, “I love old-time music, and I would love to be a traditionalist.” But you can be a traditionalist within your own life, where you hang on to whatever. Maybe you hang on to the time you first fell in love or the time you graduated, and you live life based on the ideas you form then. That can happen to artists. What I want to see is a healthy, sincere change, not based on career advancement.
else, creating. This is just one of the places we all come together and create. We’re always going to do that. At what point have you done enough, where you simply decide to go home and work on the farm? As much as I admire farming—and if I can spend money toward farming and good use of my land, that’s something I’m interested in— that would be a hobby. I’m an artist. It sounds late, but in the last year or two, I have finally accepted that there is no run, unless you call a life a run. As long as I’m living, I can’t not make things. You’ve tried to stop, then? I’ve tried several times to stop. It’s like exercising for me. If I don’t do it after a while, I don’t operate real well. I’m not good to my family. Why is that? It must be because I’m an artist. I also kept some of these daydreams alive and thought, “Well, if I ever get put out enough, I’ll just quit it all and won’t have to face this muse, and I will become a farmer.” But I was speaking with a guy I work with on our farm about a year ago, and we were trying to make a game plan—what we needed to do, what it cost, what would be the farm plan and the template, what we were trying to farm. Every bit of money that made it possible had been through music and art. I realized farming was someone else’s dream, and I didn’t need to get involved. Just because I have a body that is able doesn’t mean I am eventually going to go do that. I have to be realistic about what I’m capable of. I also had a guy who’s a really great promoter in the D.C. area say to me a couple of weeks ago: “You mean so much to those people out there. God gifted you the talents to do this, and the only way you can repay him is to use those talents. That’s your gift back.” If that’s true, all I can do is be responsible for that. In a lot of ways, I feel obligated to do this.
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What do you mean when you say you’re on the backside of your career? How do you take away a career that’s eight albums in? If it ended today, it already existed. If it ends today, I’m completely content. Anything that happens at this point is icing on the cake. That being said, there is no end. If I wasn’t doing this, I’d be doing something
The Avett Brothers are the biggest band in North Carolina, and North Carolina is under scrutiny for, among other bad ideas, HB 2. What do you hear about us on the road? On the bus, we talk about it. There’s always current events going on, and especially when it’s close to home, it hits harder. I’m always trying to put myself in check and step back and say, “What really is my business? What
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am I qualified to speak on?” Some of the guys in the group have read HB 2 fully. But I don’t have enough information to trust the birth of these things that are written into the bill. Where do they come from? Why? I don’t know. There are a lot of elements to this, and when it comes to the political part of it, I don’t feel qualified to speak in detail. Will the band take a public stand, especially when you play the state? We have made conscious decisions about not making a statement, but we do think that what we do—and we see it work—is an inclusive scene. We think our presence is needed more than ever because what we do is all-inclusive. Every night when we play, someone is seeing us for the first time. And sometimes, they’re coming for reasons that are very sad, like deaths or illnesses, or very inspiring. If we took that away, it would hurt. We’d be taking away something that, unlike politics, is all-inclusive. When you buy a ticket, you don’t have to say who you’re voting for. For people on the ground, real people, we need to be present and allinclusive. That, to me, is very important. If I made statements politically, I’d be toying around with becoming a politician. I don’t have what that takes. You played Pat McCrory’s inauguration in 2013 and caught flak for it. Knowing the decisions he has made, do you regret it? That was no statement on our part at all. If a Democrat is the governor coming up and we get invited to play the inauguration, we’re there. God knows what they’ll do once they’re in. It’s all or none for us. This is farfetched, but if we had been invited to Obama’s inauguration, we’d have been there. If Clinton is president, we would do it. We just try to be all-inclusive. If I were you, I’d ask a counter. So The Avett Brothers do have limits? You won’t play for Trump? [Laughs.] I would say give me a little bit. I don’t even know what to say about that. The whole thing is so wild. I try to keep everything so on the ground and do good things. I fall short so much, but I try to do what my grandpa would do—be as loving as possible to all and any, at any time. I just don’t know if politics will ever be able to do that. l gcurrin@indyweek.com
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HOW MODERN BASEBALL AND THE HOTELIER GAVE EMO HOPE BY PATRICK WALL
Likewise, Modern Baseball seems to find Emo—that “male-dominated, composiambition life-affirming. On Holy Ghost finale tionally complicated, often pained offshoot “Just Another Face,” Brendan Lukens actively of American punk rock,” according to NPR— chooses life. Lukens told The New York Times has roared back into critical and commercial that, upon returning from a large tour with his power. The once-grassroots scene is now a heroes Say Anything, he climbed to the roof of full-fledged trend, boasting its own Twitter the house that Modern Baseball’s members hashtag: #emorevival. had shared for years. He considered jumpBut emo’s new wave is no revival; these ing. Instead, he got help for alcohol addiction, bands and ideas certainly existed in the decade-plus gap since emo’s major mall-core moment. Emo has often been a pejorative term, shorthand for navel-gazing kids—most of them young, straight, white, suburban males—using autobiography to discuss the mundane and the significant. Two of the moment’s leading lights, Modern Baseball and The Hotelier, are bucking that perception by having bigger concerns than themselves, so this is less an emo revival than a necessary reappraisal. Both Modern Baseball’s Holy Ghost and The Hotelier’s Goodness push past emo’s standard themes— fresh emotional wounds, imagined revenge, and selfloathing—to confront more grown-up worries. The Hotelier’s 2014 LP, Home, Like Noplace Is There, dealt Out in the open: The Hotelier PHOTO COURTESY OF TINY ENGINES with death; Goodness takes depression, and bipolar disorder. “I can feel the excruciating stock of the damage and examneed to change me from the inside,” he sings ines the complicated calculus of moving on. before the song’s surging chorus. It steps into high thinking, too. The record, Lukens’s shout-alongs, he has said, are critic Jillian Mapes has noted, flirts with about “picking yourself up, and it being OK transcendentalism, the nineteenth-centufor others to pick you up.” Throughout Holy ry philosophical movement that recognized Ghost, there’s a thread of mid-twenties dudes the inherent goodness of humanity and the figuring out who they want to be and how natural world. It’s also sonically ambitious, they can do good. “The glare from our stuabandoning traditional song structures for cosmic guitar interplay that means to shine pid, spineless words just whining, every fucklife-affirming light into a void. ing day,” co-frontman Jake Ewald spews on
“Note to Self.” “What do I really want to say?” That line speaks to the emo revival’s growing social conscience. Both The Hotelier and Modern Baseball have stopped performing tunes that include language that demeans women. Modern Baseball advocates the destigmatization of mental illness in every interview, and the band even offers a hotline for fans who feel harassed during a show.
Neither Modern Baseball nor The Hotelier legitimized—or re-legitimized, as the case may be—emo by themselves, but their growing appeal to listeners outside of emo’s immediate grasp affirms the genre’s crossover potential. These bands feel fresh and vital, even within a genre that crested two decades ago and resisted sonic evolution, largely because of their willingness to champion positive change. l Twitter: @weekendsofsound INDYweek.com | 6.29.16 | 21
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ONE PHOTOGRAPHER REFLECTS ON ANOTHER, THE LEGENDARY BURK UZZLE
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LEFT Burk Uzzle: "Martin Luther King Funeral, Atlanta, 1968" RIGHT Burk Uzzle: "Woodstock (Skinny Dippers Returning to Shore)" PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND THE ACKLAND ART MUSEUM
Great photojournalism can transcend the publication for which it was created. It becomes art and, perhaps more important, a part of the very fabric of time. Moments in history combine in our consciousness with the photographs meant to convey their significance. Can you envision the civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama, without the photographs of innocent bodies blasted with fire hoses and set upon by police dogs? Can the war in Vietnam ever be separated from the image of a child on fire running down the road, or the famous “Saigon execution” photo? This is not to say that images of these events are more important than the events themselves. They are not. But without the best photojournalism, we would be less able to feel these important moments that have shaped our world. Such are the stakes when assessing the work of Burk Uzzle. Born in 1938, the famed North Carolina photographer started at the News & Observer before moving on to Life and other national publications, capturing seminal images of Woodstock and the civil rights movement. Much of what you will see in the Ackland Art Museum’s new Uzzle exhibit, All About America, will trace an eye-worn path into your historical memory bank: A woman grieves over
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the casket of Martin Luther King Jr. A loving hand rests on the chest of Robert Kennedy, “Just Before His Own Death” at the hands of an assassin. In a perfect composition, nude bathers wade out of a lake at Woodstock. This is photojournalism at its emotional best. The exhibit starts here, in the shadowed depths of history as the last four generations experienced it. As you keep walking, you pass into postwar American oddity: A small car, divided in half lengthwise but filled by the body of a full-size man, one foot hanging from the gash that used to be the passenger side. Then there's a field of black-and-white spotted cows that looks natural—but no, it is also a construction of industry. In some ways, this is a terrain covered by many other photographers. But these moments still have a poignancy, especially when you get to the beautifully composed frame of the Danbury, Connecticut, county fair. As with the Woodstock bathers, Uzzle waited for gesture and personality to make the mundane whole—to take the everyday and make it a capital-P Photograph. As the show transitions into more recent decades, one detects the shift that frequently occurs in photographers of a certain age or temperament: An effort to step back and represent a scene as the physical sum of its emotional parts.
Perhaps they are tired of using the “sharp elbows,” as Uzzle puts it, required to overcome the obstacles that block the path of good photojournalism. Perhaps it’s just a need for calm after a lifetime covering turmoil. Or maybe it's simply the result of a graying of the eyes—a wiser, more distant vision. Uzzle says that his best work arises from the American landscape. Hundreds of thousands of such landscapes exist on the Internet, and making one that stands out is as hard as doing so with high-stress news photography—but it is a more secluded endeavor, more private in practice and execution. Uzzle’s work in this area is strong, if not original. We’ve seen the battered playing fields of industrial America before, but they are still beautiful in their nuance and presence. Late in his career, Uzzle has found a more stationary point for his photographic wanderings—his studio in Wilson, North Carolina—where he is working on a series of portraits of black women bringing up generations of children singlehandedly. Uzzle’s aim is to create highly composed portraits of these heroes of our time that can offer the same statements on society that his years of responsive news photography did. But time will tell, and we will have to wait, hope, and see. l Twitter: @jeremymlange
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EVALUATING A FREE PUBLIC SHAKESPEARE EXPERIMENT ON THE EVE OF ITS CLOSING SHOW BY BYRON WOODS
Setting a production outdoors is an act of mutter to himself, “Yeah, but how do I theatrical bravery that places both actors keep him likeable? And is it actually still a and audiences at the tender mercies of comedy?” It’s unclear that the fledgling Bard wildlife, weather, and aviation. Bare Theever figured out workable answers to those atre raised those already elevated stakes by questions. And if the playwright didn’t, it’s placing its current Shakespearean tour in more understandable that Buker doesn’t. conspicuously public urban spaces across Shakespeare rescues matters only through the region over the last month. a 180-degree plot twist deep in the fifth act. Outside the North Carolina Museum of With no justification in the script, the novice History, one opening weekend performance playwright then basically leaves the actors of Two Gentlemen of Verona was interrupted and director to sell it on their own. Despite by a horse-drawn wedding party in creaman imaginative contemporary frame, with and-turquoise tuxes, a footrace of men in red actors rapping Shakespeare’s songs and dresses protesting HB 2, and a silent, surProteus checking texts on his iPhone, that real procession of tourists on Segway scootdidn’t happen in this production. ers. The following week saw an even fiercer Powell’s Proteus remains a cipher urban-Shakespeare mash-up in a downtown whose motivations and changing ethics Raleigh “parklet” where performers conseem a matter of sheer caprice. His instant tended with noisy pedestrian and vehicle redemption in the eyes of Valentine, traffic on Hargett Street. Sylvia, and Julia in the final act is wholly In these cases, the wonder was that the unsupported. production worked at all. But it did work, Nor does the production believably despite the necessity for actors to watch out explicate Julia’s truly masochistic for passersby while surfing a city soundscape complicity in her own humiliation. After of dogs, sirens, car horns, and diesel engines. she awkwardly disguises herself as a B-boy For that alone, the cast deserved a medal and apprentices herself to Proteus, he tasks of valor, even though some characters and Julia with offering Sylvia the ring she’d scenes remained underdeveloped. given him earlier. Though it all takes place When we looked in on the production on stage, I'm still unable to tell you why. last weekend in Chapel Hill, the ensemble After Proteus’s brief and unconvincing Suspendered animation: Sara Leone and Matt Fields in Two Gentlemen of Verona had fleshed out some of the show's thinner penance in the final act, my skin crawled PHOTO BY RON YORGASON bits. But director G. Todd Buker still when Valentine joined Proteus’s hands with hadn't solved the major problem in one of Julia’s and called for an immediate double Shakespeare's earliest—and least distinguished—comedies. good—or worthy of redemption, at least? wedding. “Not so fast,” I thought, about a script and a show Indeed, this production gives us a clear idea of why Two As a result, Two Gentlemen ends up reading, for all the that strip their gears when baseness, treachery, and near-rape Gentlemen of Verona is so rarely produced. world, like a sixteenth-century Adam Sandler film. If you give way to universal amity and virtue—in ninety seconds, Yes, there’s engaging wordplay among lovers Valentine (a think I exaggerate, judge for yourself: Central character more or less. crisp Greta Zandstra, whose cross-gender casting explains the Proteus (a game Sean Powell) is a rich kid and a consummate Even as these misgivings rose during the first four acts, quotation marks around “Gentlemen” on the show’s poster) and heel. After meeting and falling for Valentine’s girlfriend, I still found reasons to believe. Varlamov sparkled as she Sylvia, daughter of the Duke of Milan (a sharp and charming Proteus places his lifelong best friend in danger by alerting verbally jousted with an unsuitable suitor, Thurio (a suave, Vera Varlamov). Verbal jousting and jesting come from saucy the Duke (a fumbling Wayne Burtoft) to their elopement comic Bobby Simcox). But it was the unsolved—and possibly servants Lucetta (Courtney Christison); Panthino (a kinetic plans. In his boorish, bootless pursuit of Sylvia, Proteus isn’t unsolvable—theatrical riddle in the script’s fifth act, and not Pimpila Violette); Speed (Dustin Britt, in sassy-gay-friend merely faithless to his supposed love, Julia (the winsome some encroaching urban reality, that ultimately shattered mode); and the lugubrious Launce (a hammy Sara Leone). newcomer Rebecca Jones). He offers the ring Julia gave him suspension of disbelief beyond repair. With a concept as But Shakespeare clearly fumbles in this script as he to Sylvia instead. When she spurns Proteus’s advances, he promising as free Shakespeare for the public, I sincerely wish pursues a decidedly noncomic proposition: How much bad ultimately tries to take Sylvia’s affections by force. it had been otherwise. can a young man do and still be considered even remotely As the gears grind, you can all but hear a young Shakespeare Twitter: @ByronWoods INDYweek.com | 6.29.16 | 23
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SPIELBERG DOES DAHL––BUT WHERE ARE THE STAKES? BY GLENN MCDONALD
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Heavy lidded: Nine-year-old Sophie befriends a giant in The BFG. Turns out the “F” in The BFG doesn’t stand for what I thought it stood for, and it’s not the latest Judd Apatow comedy. It’s actually a family film from Steven Spielberg, based on the story by famed children’s author Roald Dahl. You can imagine my surprise. In fact, The BFG stands for The Big Friendly Giant, and it’s a middling entry in the Spielberg canon. The film trades heavily in Spielbergian themes of childhood wonder and absentee parents, but it lacks the pure storytelling elegance of the director’s best pictures. The title character, voiced by British theater veteran Mark Rylance, is a giant all right—five stories tall, with enormous elephant ears and a satchel the size of a boxcar. But in a land of ferocious giants, he’s a relative runt—and a pacifist weirdo to boot. He doesn’t eat humans, which comes as a great relief to nine-year-old Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), when the BFG plucks her out of an orphanage window. The BFG—he never gets another name—protects Sophie from the other predatory giants and takes her along on his adventures, which involve capturing dreams and keeping them safe. Like all of Dahl’s stories, the movie has an agreeable kid’s-eye view and a surreal logic. The title character, as interpreted by Spielberg, Rylance, and Disney’s digital artisans, is a wonderful cinematic creation. 24 | 6.29.16 | INDYweek.com
Using state-of-the-art technology, the movie combines live-action filmmaking with impossibly detailed animation. That’s the movie’s prime selling point: It is a genuinely beautiful thing to behold. Rylance also does an interesting thing with the BFG’s dialogue of spitzwiggled and slogroggled malapropisms. Rather than demonstrate his verbal dexterity with spitfire readings, he slows ... everything ... down. It’s a bold choice that affects the pacing. Spielberg goes with the molasses flow for the first half of the film, which unfolds in a languid dreamland. But then everything accelerates in the second half, which shifts to 1980s London and incorporates helicopters, British special forces, and a Ronald Reagan joke. It’s a conspicuously jarring shift in pacing and tone, and not for the better. But the real trouble with The BFG, for grown-ups, anyway, is that there’s no subtext, no tension, no layers. Nothing is at stake. That might not be so bad for a kids movie, except that the screenplay was written by the late Melissa Mathison, who last collaborated with Spielberg on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. That movie has so much at stake that it still makes me cry every time. I guess I was hoping for something similar. No such luck. l Twitter: @glennmcdonald1
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06.29–07.06 WEDNESDAY, JULY 6
MODEST MOUSE & BRAND NEW
Last October, during the inaugural (only?) American Roots festival at Raleigh’s Walnut Creek, Modest Mouse strode on stage at the appointed time, plowed through a joyless hourlong set that dutifully incorporated the hits, and returned immediately to the offstage shadows. At the end, Isaac Brock might have managed a thank-you, but as pleasantries and indulgences go, that was it. The set was an obligation, a job for a payday, devoid of the ardor and energy that long made Modest Mouse work. But last year’s Strangers to Ourselves, the band’s first album in eight years, was better and bolder than anyone may have expected, with strange acoustic fantasies and chiseled electric anthems coexisting in one wonderful (if sometimes vexing) space. Expect more of that enthusiasm from this headlining date, when Modest Mouse gets to play by its own rules and set lengths. The band splits the bill with Brand New, an act whose onceprecious strain of hyperbolic, prog-shaped emo has only grown more efficient and immediate. Its recent “I Am a Nightmare” is one of the year’s best rock songs, all tight and tense and sure to delight the residential quiet of Cary. —Grayson Haver Currin KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, CARY 6:30 p.m., $40–$50, www.boothamphitheatre.com
Modest Mouse PHOTO BY BEN MOON
FRIDAY, JULY 1
THIRSTY: A QUEER DANCE PARTY
Two weeks ago, Durham’s Jess Dilday, known professionally as DJ PlayPlay, was at a queer dance party in Montreal called Cousins. The dance floor was strong, she says, until it went silent in a moment of remembrance for the victims of the massacre in Orlando. And then, the party went wild. “In light of Pulse, the thing is to party harder, to keep it going,” says Dilday. “It’s more important than ever.” At Thirsty, a new queer-and-trans-centric series, Dilday and DJ Bitchcraft will focus not on Top 40 but tunes by and of the community itself. “The goal is for queer and trans people, especially of color, to have a place to party without having to worry as much about being unsafe,” says Dilday. Right now, that mission is especially urgent. Thirsty precedes a drag show and dance party dubbed “Loud and Proud” on Saturday night. —Grayson Haver Currin THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 10 p.m., $5, www.thepinhook.com
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FRIDAY, JULY 1
MOVIES IN THE PARK: “MAKING ART IN THE UNIVERSE”
Durham Cinematheque is in its eighth season of stitching together “real film under real stars” in Durham Central Park. Curator Tom Whiteside marshals stray bits of art and archival films into idiosyncratic, dreamlike essays on ideas and historical currents. This Friday’s program, “Making Art in the Universe,” blends documentaries about artists Edward Kienholz, Jackson Pollock, and Georgia O’Keeffe with various science films, including Powers of Ten by Ray and Charles Eames. The program bridges the visions of artists and astronomers against the backdrop of the night sky, like a long-tailed synapse firing. Bring a blanket and a picnic basket. —Brian Howe THE LEAF, DURHAM CENTRAL PARK 9 p.m., free (donations accepted), DurhamCinematheque@gmail.com
WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK STARTING FRIDAY, JULY 1
MARTINE GUTIERREZ: WE & THEM & ME
“Reality, like gender, is ambiguous because it exists fluidly,” writes the rising young artist Martine Gutierrez, a timely message sent to North Carolina by way of Brooklyn. WE & THEM & ME combines three series of Gutierrez’s work— photography, video, and installation, each with a lushly oversize sensibility—into a study of the compound self in which the artist is her own subject and motive. Gutierrez often works through the proxies of female mannequins, arraying them among backdrops and props in strikingly composed installations and photographs that turn the gauzy film of glamour sideways to reveal its razor edge. Watch her videos at www.martine.tv, and then go experience the work at CAM Raleigh through August 21. —Brian Howe CAM RALEIGH, RALEIGH 11 a.m.–6:30 p.m. Wed.–Fri./noon–5 p.m. Sat. and Sun., $5, www.camraleigh.org
FRIDAY, JULY 1 & SATURDAY, JULY 2
BILL T. JONES/ ARNIE ZANE COMPANY
Martine Gutierrez: “Line Up 6” (archival inkjet print, 2014) PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND RYAN LEE, NEW YORK
TUESDAY, JULY 5
NOTHING
You may find yourself swooning and swaying to “Everyone Is Happy,” a late-album stunner on Tired of Tomorrow, the new LP from Philadelphia shoegaze romantics Nothing. Acoustic guitars sweep by in light, flangeheavy waves. Electric guitars break through the mix, refracted by reverb like bright light by a prism. And a piano softly echoes the melody between murmured verses. But as with everything Nothing touches, the layers beneath the alluring pillow-top textures are rock hard, conveying the kind of unflinching nihilism that the band’s name suggests. “Kneeling and praying are the same,” sings Nicky Palermo, the song so gentle it suggests The Go-Betweens in repose. “You’re just begging, and that’s a sin.” Nothing borrow liberally from their forebears sonically, but there’s an unflinching candor to their work that feels new, raw, and, in this frightening sociopolitical moment, entirely appropriate. —Grayson Haver Currin MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 7:30 p.m., $14–$16, www.motorcomusic.com
If the future truly is “the undiscovered country,” we all will be its immigrants. That seems to be the premise of choreographer Bill T. Jones’s multi-year project Analogy: A Trilogy, whose second section premieres this week at the American Dance Festival. Analogy/Lance: Pretty aka the Escape Artist is based on Jones’s 2014 interviews with his nephew, Lance T. Briggs, a recovering addict and paraplegic who came of age while plunging into the demimonde of New York’s club culture and sex trade at the dawn of the 1990s. Look for Jones’s trademark fusion of text, storytelling, and movement to a live soundscape by composer Nick Hallett and baritone Matthew Gamble. —Byron Woods DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DURHAM 8 p.m. Fri./7 p.m. Sat., $10–$58, www.americandancefestival.org
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BLUE NOTE GRILL: Chuck Cotton’s House of Dues; 8 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE: Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, DJ Zone; 9 p.m., $20. • DUKE GARDENS: Mount Moriah; 7 p.m., $5–$10, 12 and under free. • IRREGARDLESS: Nixon, Blevins & Gage; 6:30 p.m. • MOTORCO: Richie Ramone, Poison Anthem, Richard Bacchus & the Luckiest Girls; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • THE PINHOOK: Dark Water Rising, Super Yamba Band, Africa Unplugged; 8 p.m., $10. • POUR HOUSE: Partials; 9 p.m., $5. • RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: Twenty One Pilots; 6:30 p.m., $35–$45. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Mariah Johnson; 8 p.m., $3. • WAVERLY PLACE: Jim Quick & Coastline; 6 p.m., free.
THU, JUN 30 Balsam Range ‘GRASS Anyone who has GIANTS been paying attention since the IBMA’s World of Bluegrass moved to Raleigh should be plenty familiar with Balsam Range. Already accomplished as individual musicians, the members of this Western North Carolina quintet have amassed a collection of major IBMA trophies that includes best entertainer, album, song, and vocal group during the last three years. As Balsam Range wraps up a decade as a group, those awards point to a band at the top of contemporary bluegrass, thanks to sharp picking, stirring harmonies, and songs with a strong sense of place. The Long Leaf Pine Nuts open. —SG [AMERICAN TOBACCO CAMPUS, FREE/6 P.M.]
Big Fat Gap BIG BLUE Raleigh’s Pickin’ in the Plaza series powers on with one of the Triangle’s best bluegrass ensembles. In 2014, Chapel Hill’s Big Fat Gap delivered the crystal-clear Shackled and Chained, a solid collection of contemporary bluegrass cuts. The Lang Sisters and Eric Scholz open. —AH [RALEIGH CITY PLAZA, FREE/5:45 P.M.]
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MONDAY, JULY 4
FOLK EX- Before he moved to PLOSION the Triangle to teach in Durham’s public school system, John Davis gained a modicum of alt-rock acclaim with The Folk Implosion, the groove-music lark he founded with Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow. His solo output pales in frequency to Barlow’s, but Davis’s current works splice classic countrypolitan production with sweeping arrangements. His backing band, The Cicadas, features many of the record’s collaborators, Mountain Goat Peter Hughes, and several Triangle music standouts. With Evil English. —PW [PINHOOK, $7/8 P.M.]
Twice a year, a combination of the calendar and cosmic forces motivates Chapel Hill’s long-running Evil Wiener to reconvene— once at Christmas, and now on the Fourth of July. “Someone has to encourage Evil Wiener,” says Billy Sugarfix, who’s led the rollicking ensemble since the early nineties. “It doesn’t do anything on its own.” Indeed, Independence Day festivities have been a motivating factor for Evil Wiener for the past several years. Monday marks the return of the band’s traditional Evil Wiener Roast, a spree of hot dogs, rock music, and jokes. “It will probably be the best thing anyone has ever seen,” Sugarfix promises. Because the band’s been around so long, it doesn’t really practice, though Sugarfix says it needs to. For Sugarfix, Evil Wiener has always been an outlet for blowing off steam and having fun within a music scene that he says can feel too serious. The band is equal parts music and jokes, with antics that have ranged, over the years, from pants-dropping to vomiting. “We’ll do whatever it takes to entertain people,” he says. “It, at this point, would be impossible for us to look stupid in front of people.” In addition to Evil Wiener’s anything-goes shenanigans, expect high energy from fellow longtime locals and openers Psycho Acoustics Research and Development, To tally: hot dogs, cheap beer, rowdy rock (and it doesn’t take much imagination to figure South of the Border-style pyrotechnics might factor in). This might not be the most family-friendly Fourth of July party, but you can count on it being one of the most fun. —Allison Hussey
Local Band Local Beer: Grohg, Miracles, Wailin Storms HEAVY & Tonight’s three acts DYNAMIC share an approach to and appreciation for dynamics. Raleigh’s Grohg merges black metal fury with doom deliberation, forging an unlikely complement to Durham band Wailin Storms’ brew of proto-metal riffs and darkened roots rock. In the middle, Raleigh’s Miracles frame dramatic pop with tense synths. —BCR [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9:30 P.M.]
Retirement Party FUNERAL Most Triangle MARCH residents have shared a bittersweet goodbye with a friend moving out west for a job or love interest. The upside about this farewell for several Nightlight regulars is the farewell party, with several rising talents set to offer cacophonous serenades. The hypnotic dance reveries of Chula match with the brash, uncompromising blares of Housefire for just the right cathartic mix. Atlanta’s SoBrite and Sponge Bath provide similar release. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $5/10 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Tha Materials; 7 p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL:
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THE KRAKEN, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., free, www.thekrakenbar.com The Nashvillifiers; 7 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE: Modern Baseball, Joyce Manor, Thin Lips; 7:30 p.m., $19–$23. See page 21. • THE CAVE: Community Center, Honey Magpie, Joe Romeo and the Juliets; 9 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: MechaBull, Trailer Park Orchestra, Black Wall; 8 p.m., $5. • IRREGARDLESS: Cityfolk; 6 p.m. • NORTH STREET BEER STATION: Anna Eason; 7 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Spclgst & Friends; 10 p.m. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Jazz is Phish, Thunderstruck, Mostley Crue; 9:30 p.m., $15.
FRI, JUL 1 Blood Red River OLD-TIME Durham’s Blood Red ROCK River has proven itself a reliable source of retro rock, suited perhaps for scoring a Tarantino flick; that blend of surf, garage, country, and punk is a sturdy roots revision indebted to the likes of Flat Duo Jets and The
Cramps. Charleston’s Vagabond Union counters with grungy Americana. —BCR [THE STATION, $5/8:30 P.M.]
Albert Castiglia BLAZING When Miami native BLUES Albert Castiglia was Junior Wells’s lead guitarist in his Hoodoo Man’s Band, Wells schooled him in showmanship. Castiglia was a natural guitar sponge, anyway, having soaked up the styles of Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Hound Dog Taylor, Jimi Hendrix, and what he jokingly refers to as the four Kings: “Freddie, B.B., Albert, and Burger.” Castiglia mashes ’em up into his own red-hot recipe of boisterous blues. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $10/9 P.M.]
Crave ROCK RE- In its heyday, UNION Raleigh’s Crave opened for larger, likeminded acts
on the Southeast’s pop-rock circuit, including The Connells and Hootie and the Blowfish. Crave summoned a more forceful sound than its jangly peers. Tonight, the quartet gathers for the first time in more than half a decade. Penny Draft opens. —SG [KINGS, $10/8:30 P.M.]
Desitronic Bollywood Dance Party: DJ Lemon LEMON In preparation for AID this Bollywood bash with the Desitronic don of DJ Lemon, you may notice the dress code: “No hats, baggy and torn jeans/sneakers.” Because who wants to party with people who dress like that? God forbid that someone’s hat or denim threads interfere with your bhangra moves. Is this the kind of implicit prejudice that happens when a dance genre, now beefed up with festival-friendly techno sheen, gets too cosmopolitan? With DJ
RU. —ET [LINCOLN THEATRE, $20–$25/9 P.M.]
Look Homeward HOME Like fellow local FOLKS folksters Mipso, Durham’s Look Homeward deals primarily in even-keeled, easygoing tunes. The band beefs up the percussion and warm trombone on songs such as “Sister Death” and “Steamboat,” offering a refreshing break on formulaic modern folk. The Midatlantic opens. —AH [MOTORCO, $10–$12/9 P.M.]
Milagro Saints MILD On Milagro Saints’ PROTEST recent Stranger Times, the veteran Raleigh outfit adds a heftier dose of Dylan to bluesy and mystical folk-rock. The band makes impassioned charges against corporate overreach without sacrificing its gentle, INDYweek.com | 6.29.16 | 29
Girls Rock NC Presents: Chapel Hill Littles Rock Camp Showcase! Tracy Lamont and Konvo the Mutant
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hooky nature. Twangy singersongwriter Tennessee Jed joins. —SG [POUR HOUSE, FREE/8 P.M.]
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10 BY 10 IN THE TRIANGLE: FESTIVAL OF NEW SHORT PLAYS
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NEXTThe New Jersey GEN INDIE band Pinegrove feels immediately familiar, a descendent of several indie lineages. There’s the earnest musing on relationships and how they form and dissolve that emerges from the haze of emo, but there’s also the squirming roots rock backing that draws comparisons to Wilco and Built to Spill. Pinegrove’s LP debut, Cardinal, is a clear product of its influences, but in its fusion of several generations, it feels fresh and urgent, too. With Sports, Half Waif, and Sinai Vessel. —BCR [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/7:30 P.M.] 8’ 1”
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NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. • CIRCA 1888: Atomic Rhythm All-Stars; 8:30 p.m. • DEEP SOUTH: Katie Basden; 7:30 p.m., $5. • HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER: Najee, Bobby Hniton and the Martin Luther King Jr. All Children’s Choir of NC, North Carolina Jazz Ensemble; 7:30 p.m., $35–$45. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Saline Fiddlers Philharmonic; 7 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Elmer Gibson; 6:30 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Big Celtic Fun; 7 p.m. • THE KRAKEN: Butter, Hot Rooster; 8 p.m. • MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Juliana Finch, The Double Clicks; 7 p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Thirsty: A Queer Dance Party; 10 p.m., $5. See page 26. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Poinsettia; 7 p.m., free. • SLIM’S: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 9 p.m.
SAT, JUL 2 Castle Wild POPOn Castle Wild’s ROCK lush Dream Killers EP, the sensitive songs of Chris Hendricks get new life from the ambitious arrangements of bandmate and producer Andre DiMuzio. Backed by a full group, though, their live sets become middle-of-the-road adult alternative fare—perfectly fine, but unfortunately less compelling. Curtis Stith and XOXOK open. —SG [DEEP SOUTH, $6/8:30 P.M.]
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Stu Hamm Rock Experience LOW-END The bassist Stu THEORY Hamm has played with shredders ranging from six-string icons Joe Satriani and Steve Vai to rock overlords Michael Schenker and Dio. For decades, though, he’s been developing a solo style that puts the electric bass on common ground with the guitar—that is, as an instrument that can handle the spotlight just fine. A next step in the Pastorius progression, Hamm’s intense tapping techniques and simultaneous runs across the low and high strings create one-player symphonies. On record, it can sound overindulgent, but live, at least for a time, Hamm is an
absolute stunner, the true master of his four wound strings. With Stammerings. —GC [POUR HOUSE, $15–$20/9 P.M.]
DJ Hunicutt, DJ Richards JAMS ON Maybe you’ve had a JAMS bad day. Maybe you don’t want to leave the house because eating gelato and watching Orange Is the New Black in your underwear sounds perfect. Let us remind you that you’re missing out on the wild spirit of the night, including a DJ set with Chapel Hill’s Darren Hunicutt and San Francisco’s Stanley Richards, both playing classic jams. —DS [THE STATION, FREE/10 P.M.]
PULSE: Electronic Dance Party EDM This solemn edition BENEFIT of Lincoln’s affordable PULSE series is a fundraiser for victims and family members of the recent massacre in Orlando. Attendees should still come expecting to move their necks and muscles to the latest in EDM and bass music, and bring a few extra bucks to donate for the cause. —DS [LINCOLN THEATRE, $10–$15/9 P.M.]
SOON A.D. AFTER After releasing the NAMES monumental Vol. 1 in March, the Chapel Hill band SOON added the A.D. appellation when other Soons emerged to claim rights to the name. It’s a fitting problem for a band for which any nomenclature has always felt insufficient. Often pegged a doom band for its burly low end and deliberate pacing, that categorization misses the graceful melodies that take the foreground, as well as the crisp guitars that evoke shoegaze, black metal, and post-rock. By any name, SOON A.D. defies the easy label. With No Eyes and Dead Girls. —BCR [KINGS, $6/10 P.M.]
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In April, the thirty-seventh Festival for the Eno suffered a major blow to its lineup before the roster could even be announced. Ani DiFranco, the activist and singer who new Eno organizers had tapped to headline the esteemed Triangle tradition, scrapped the date in response to North Carolina’s infamously discriminatory HB 2. The move left the Eno, a fundraiser for the river and its watershed, without its top name, or the primary talent lure of its all-important annual benefit. But looking out across the crew that will actually play the Festival for the Eno this holiday weekend, there’s a reassuring homestead defiance to the lineup, which samples from some of the best strains and scenes in North Carolina. There’s hardline blues from the likes of John Dee Holeman, folk and bluegrass permutations from longtime collaborators Jon Shain and FJ Ventre, and Americana grit and glory from the Grand Shell Game. Thanks to Peter Holsapple and clear stylistic descendants The Old Ceremony and Jon Lindsay, the state’s strong pop pedigree gets a nod. Shirlette Ammons, one of the region’s boldest musicians, offers her rhymes. Sets from the griot-led Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba and the transcontinental dance party Dishoom also show the locally welcome influence of outside cultures. Tar Heel expatriates or imports seem to have those headlining spots under control, too. Drawn by the allure and mystique of the South, Michael Taylor moved from California to North Carolina, where his introspective work as Hiss Golden Messenger took root in a fertile local scene. Nikki Hill left the state to make her name, but her impassioned mix of soul, blues, gospel, and rock reflects both her time in North Carolina church choirs and the state’s own variegated musical legacy. You’ll hear much of the same in the new electric trio of Greg Humphreys, the sweet-singing Hobex and Dillon Fence frontman who has never escaped his musical ties to North Carolina, despite making his home in New York. Without DiFranco’s help, North Carolinians fight for their own backyard at this year’s Festival for the Eno. —Grayson Haver Currin
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bandleader. On stage, the trumpeter leads his ensemble through his curving melodies, unfurls some smart variations, and then steps aside, yielding the stage to those around him. The chemistry is a constantly shifting formula, bound up in chance and circumstance. Perhaps the approach comes from Strong’s long tenure as a jazz professor or as a scene organizer, both within the area’s club circuit or through the festival he cofounded, Art of Cool. Either way, his shows are warm, communal delights, and his booking represents a welcome change of pace for the outdoor programming in Saxapahaw. —GC [SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL, FREE/6 P.M.]
BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Michael Ode; 8 & 10 p.m., $7. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Hickory Switch; 8 p.m., $8. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): The Hotelier, Told Slant, Bellows; 8 p.m., $12–$14. See page 21. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: The Radials; 7 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Charlie Elliot; 11 a.m. John Bass and Greg Brink; 6 p.m. The Boulevard Ensemble; 9 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Amy Kucharik; 7 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Tracy Lamont and Konvo the Mutant, The Materialz, (J)Rowdy and the NightShift, Real Thought; 9 p.m., $7–$10. • MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Rob Nance and the Lost Souls; 8:30 p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Loud and Proud: A Drag Show and QTPOC Fundraiser/Dance Party; 10 p.m., $10. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Nikol; 7 p.m., free. • TRIANGLE YOGA: Samadhi; 7 p.m., $10. • WEST POINT ON THE ENO: Festival for the Eno; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., $11–$35. See box, this page.
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SUN, JUL 3 Barenaked Ladies MANY Barenaked Ladies WEEKS have headlined the “Last Summer on Earth” tour in 2012, 2013, and 2015. The cheeky repetition is nothing new for the group, which has developed a cult following for goofball performances and between-song banter. Though the band parades through dozens of amphitheaters each
WEST POINT ON THE ENO, DURHAM 10 A.M., $11–$35, WWW.ENORIVER.ORG year, BNL always surprises with improv and confetti cannons stuffed with oddball items. Biggest shock? How many people still know the lyrics to “One Week.” With OMD and Howard Jones. —TC [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $29.50–$75 /6:30 P.M.]
COLOSSUSA EAGLE Raleigh NWOBHM DARES worshippers Colossus (billed here as COLOSSUSA) return for their annual night-before-the-Fourth celebration of all things patriotic—and a heavy dose of irony, of course. From Top Gun favorites “Danger Zone” and “Take My Breath Away” to “God Bless the USA,” expect a raucous and fun night of much-needed satire. TV Man and His TV Band, a favorite at this year’s Great Cover Up, open with an encore performance of your favorite theme songs. —CB [KINGS, $5/9:30 P.M.]
Ty March MODERN Country singers COUNTRY have always relied on cover songs to launch their careers, but the ways and reasons they’ve done so have changed. While an unknown Alan Jackson covered George Strait on the honky-tonk circuit to build a fanbase slowly, modern-day hopefuls such as Ty March post insta-renditions of current favorites on YouTube. The newcomer (and former drummer for metal band Capture the Crown) gained notice with a rendition of Luke Bryan’s “Crash My Party,” and the influence of bro country’s reigning king clearly influences original cuts, including the hilariously titled “Fishin Boat Lovin’.” Logan Wojcik opens. —KM [POUR HOUSE, $8/9 P.M.]
Part of My Sumer Story BRANDS Among the CALLED U headliners on this tour of blandly cute, inscrutably
“inspirational” YouTube stars are the brotherly duo 99GoonSquad, whose citations of books by the real estate market gamer Grant Cardone and the self-help pioneer Napoleon Hill on their otherwise adorable (one likes Sour Patch Kids, the other likes Haribo Gummi Bears!) “about us” page should send chills down parental spines. Say what you will about boy band/Ponzi mastermind Lou Pearlman, but he probably wouldn’t have let Timberlake tell the world he was boning up on his Tom Peters between meet-andgreets. —MJ [LINCOLN THEATRE, $35/2 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Gary Brunotte; 11 a.m.-2 p.m. • DEEP SOUTH: Aslan Freeman; 10 p.m., free. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Dex Romweber & Jennifer Curtis; 5 p.m., $10. • IRREGARDLESS: Larry Hutcherson; 10 a.m. Multiples; 6 p.m. • WEST END WINE BARDURHAM: Eric Meyer, Noah Sager & Friends; 4-6 p.m., free.
MON, JUL 4 N.C. Symphony Summerfest: Independence Day FIREIt’s the Fourth of WORKS! July—a time for picnics, fireworks, and American music, which is exactly what the N.C. Symphony has in store with all the Sousa and Copland you can shake a sparkler at, along with some related movie scores. Plus that noted American masterpiece, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. —DR [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, FREE/7:30P.M.] ALSO ON MONDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Bo Lankenau; 7 p.m. • DEEP SOUTH: Kasey Tyndall; 9:30 p.m., free. • THE KRAKEN: Evil Wiener, Psycho Acoustics Research and Development; 7:30 p.m. See box, page 29. • RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: Yarn, Barefoot Manner; 6 p.m., free. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the
Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5. • WEST POINT ON THE ENO: Festival for the Eno; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., $11–$35. See box, this page.
TUE, JUL 5 Jessy Lanza SPACEY Pulsing beats CANADA combined with gasping female vocals is a combination normally associated with Latin freestyle, which briefly ruled pop radio in the late eighties before being relegated to the nostalgia bins. Canadian producer-singer Jessy Lanza’s reconfiguration of the form boasts twenty-first-century muscle, but it doesn’t skimp on the essential sense of longing. DJ Taye opens. —MJ [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $12/8 P.M.]
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CAPITAL After a recent move BEATS to Los Angeles, former Raleigh producer Blursome steps back onto a local stage. Blursome drapes webs of gray tones and disconnected samples around intricate beats, pulling you into the mix and holding you close. As the leader of Lollipops, Iggy Cosky built a reputation for brash pop, but recent productions under his own name conjure the deep bass and colorful themes of Hudson Mohawke, with Cosky’s sense of restlessness certainly intact. With Rude Shade. —GC [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $6/10 P.M.]
The Dink Down FOR DINK Raleigh artist and rock-club lover Shawn “Dink” Densmore doesn’t just have birthdays; he has “The Dink Down,” an annual concert that helps him usher in yet another year. He’s got a strong, varied bill for this party. Kentucky’s Wonky Tonk makes ramshackle country with a fetching melodic core; up front, Jasmine Poole is a terrific singer, her cool delivery recalling Shovels & Rope. Taking the middle slot, the raucous songs of The Infamous Sugar now sport a full band. The Young Cardinals headline with their blues-rooted modern rock, where guitars howl alongside hummable hooks. —GC [POUR HOUSE, $5/9 P.M.]
Tony Furtado Duo ARTSY Banjo great and slide ROOTS guitar ace Tony Furtado once joked he was “kind of doomed to be a multi-genre player.” His musical wanderings have mostly stuck to the roots spectrum, though, inside which the masterful multi-instrumentalist composes progressive, atmospheric songs. Sam Howard, who’s played on Aoife O’Donovan’s last two albums, will flank Furtado on bass. Sans Shambles, Chapel Hill’s Ellis Dyson adds jazzy old-time banjo tunes. —SG [LOCAL 506, $12–$15/8 P.M.]
Sierra Hull MANDO Duke Performances’ MASTER Music in the Gardens series has made a fine showing for American roots music so far this year, with top-notch appearances from the likes of Skylar Gudasz and Leyla McCalla. This week’s arrival of Sierra Hull is no exception. The Tennessee mandolin player is in her mid-twenties and already one of the brightest stars in bluegrass. She mastered the instrument at an early age and is now entering intriguing new territory on tunes like “Black River.” If you’re tired of trite adherence to tradition, Hull will offer a welcome, wonderful diversion. —AH [DUKE GARDENS, $5–$10, UNDER 12 FREE/7 P.M.]
In This Moment, Hellyeah HEAVY Both Hellyeah and In HEART This Moment look like your stereotypical image of a popular metal band—the former, longhaired dudes with dreads and mohawks and all-black garb, sometimes soaked in fake blood; the latter, four similarly grim dudes, led by the sleeved and sinister Maria Brink. But both the groove metal of supergroup Hellyeah and the gothic bombast of In This Moment are strangely positive, with one covering Phil Collins and the other invoking Beyoncé’s survivalist mantra. These bands look tough but act tender, a familiar feint for major-label metal in recent years.
With Shaman’s Harvest and Sunflower Dead. —GC [THE RITZ, $25/7 P.M.]
Kitten GLITTER Chloe Chaidez is SMEAR one of the best bandleaders in rock; she’s all charisma and pent-up energy, turning stages into her playgrounds. On this year’s Heaven or Somewhere in Between, Chaidez and her bandmates dive deep into goth signifiers. Church imagery abounds, while tracks like “Heaven” burrow into thudding bass and latticework guitar. Chaidez’s pop impulses are keen, too. The storming “Fall on Me” winks toward Suede and is one of 2016’s best singles, its dashed hopes tied up in a too-lucid dream. Sizzy Rocket and Clean Spill open. —MJ [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $14–$16/7 P.M.]
Mothers WALK When You Walk a HARD Long Distance You Are Tired, the debut from Athens indie outfit Mothers, has earned the young band high praise. NPR debuted the record, and The New York Times, Pitchfork, and Stereogum have fawned over it. The crux of Mothers’ beguiling subtlety is the intensely riveting self-scrutiny of leader Kristine Leschper. Her straightforward observations of frailty and insecurity possess a deep understanding of melancholy. With Sun Club. —PW [THE PINHOOK, $10–$12/9 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Spoonbenders; 8 p.m. • HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 8:30 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Ricky Stein; 6:30 p.m. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Brand New, Modest Mouse; 6:30 p.m., $40–$60. See page 26. • THE STATION: DJ Craig Layabout; 8 p.m. • WAVERLY PLACE: Bull City Syndicate; 6 p.m., free.
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A Short History of Orange County Baseball: Photographs. Jul 5-31. Orange County Historical Museum, Hillsborough. www. orangeNChistory.org. Abstract Territory: Lolette Guthrie and Sandy Milroy. Jul 5-Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. The Adventures of Two Red Bicycles: Paintings by Phyllis Andrews. Jul 1-28. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www.eruuf.org. SPECIAL The Art of Shadow & EVENT Light: Beth Bale. Jul 3-31. Reception: Sun, Jul 3, 1-3 p.m. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www.joyfuljewel.com. SPECIAL Chill Out: Jul 1-30. EVENT Reception: Fri, Jul 1, 6-9 p.m. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com. SPECIAL Davis Choun: Jul EVENT 1-Sep 24. Reception: Fri, Jul 1, 6-10 p.m. HQ Raleigh, Raleigh. Color Abstractions: Allen Clapp, Mary Storms, and Sherri Stewart. Jun 30-Jul 30. 311 Gallery, Raleigh. Creative Recovery: Mixed media by Grayson Bowen. Jul 5-Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. SPECIAL Ingrid Erikson, EVENT Tonia Gebhart, Caroline Hohenrath, Anna Podris, and Tim Saguinsin: Jul 1-Sep 24. Reception: Fri, Jul 1, 6-10 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. FRANK Summer Invitational: Janet Cooling, Drew Deane, Laura Hughes, Jenny Eggleston, Mary Kircher, and Jim Lee. Jul 5-Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. SPECIAL Andrew Hladky: EVENT Found object paintings. Jun 29-Sep 5. Reception: Fri, Jul 1, 6-10 p.m.
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06.29–07.06 Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. SPECIAL George McKim: Jul EVENT 1-Sep 24. Reception: Sat, Jul 1, 6-10 p.m. Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www.skyhouseraleigh.com. Erin Oliver: Site-specific installation. Jul 1-Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. Traveling Museum of Artifacts from the Negro Leagues Era and Players: Jerseys, baseball mitts, trading cards, autographs, photographs and more. Fri, Jul 1 & Sat, Jul 2. Whitted Building, Hillsborough.
ONGOING 20 Years of Horse & Buggy Press and Friends: In this must-read retrospective, the past twenty years are an open book. That’s how long Dave Wofford has been letterpress printing paper pleasures at Horse & Buggy Press. Wofford collaborates with writers and artists to produce beautiful, minutely tailored books in small runs, their content ranging from abstract photojournalism to translations of Rilke. You can read them all in this exhibit, which also includes dozens of framed artworks. Thru Aug 7. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh. org. —Brian Howe A Retrospective Exhibition of Photo Essays: Donn Young. Thru Jul 24. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery.net. LAST Abstraction: FRANK CHANCE Artist Invitational: Una Barrett, Peg Gignoux, Lew Graham, Murry Handler, Emily Lees, Anita Wolfenden. Thru Jul 3. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. Afghanistan: A Country A People—Through the Eyes of the Men and Women of the U.S. Military (Part I): Thru Jul 24. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org. Along These Lines: Constance Pappalardo. Thru Oct 16. Durham Convention
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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 Art from Raleigh Sister Cities: Fifty-one works by seventeen artists in Raleigh’s sister cities in France, Germany, England, and Kenya. Thru Jul 31. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. The Art of the Bike: Bicyclethemed art exhibit. Thru Oct 23. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www.co.orange.nc.us/ library/carrboro. LAST ARTQUILTSvoices: CHANCE PAQA-South. Thru Jul 2. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org. LAST Breathing Space: CHANCE 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 Chatham Artists Guild: Thru Jul 27. NCSU Campus: The Crafts Center, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/ crafts. LAST Collectors’ Open CHANCE House: Thru Jun 30. Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh. www.leehansleygallery. com.
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Whereas many glassblowers content themselves with bongs and lampshades, Dale Chihuly has taken the technique into the upper echelons of fine art with his often large-scale sculptural fantasias. George R. Stroemple’s private collection of Chihuly’s works is currently on tour, and the Captain White House in Graham is the only place to see it on the East Coast. The collection focuses on Chihuly vessels inspired by Venetian art deco vases from the 1920s and ’30s, almost fifty of which are in the exhibit, arrayed around the centerpiece of the Laguna Murano Chandelier, a tour de force made of more than 1,500 pieces. Raise a glass to Chihuly through Oct. 15. —Brian Howe CAPTAIN WHITE HOUSE, GRAHAM 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Tues.–Sat./1 p.m.–6 p.m. Sun., free, www.alamancearts.org 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. LAST The Creepy & the CHANCE Crawly: Watercolors, acrylics, and ceramic sculpture by Shannon Bueker. Thru Jun 30. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www. joyfuljewel.com. Kathy Dawalt and Michiel Van der Sommen: New oils and
bronzes. Thru Jul 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net. LAST Alan Dehmer and CHANCE 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 wabi-sabi ephemerality. Thru Jul 3. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com. —Brian Howe
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Durham’s Lauren Faber, winner of the 2016 Carolina’s Funniest Comic championship at the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, joins the other three finalists at DSI Comedy Theater on the Carolina’s Funniest Tour. Friday, July 1, 8:30 p.m., www.dsicomedy.com
The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. North Carolina’s Favorite Son: Billy Graham and His Remarkable Journey of Faith: Thru Jul 10. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org. 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, Durham. www. durhamarts.org. People and Places: Meera Goyal. Thru Jul 22. Cary Town Hall, Cary. www.townofcary.org. Picturing Sound: Gemynii, Frank Myers, and James Cartwright. Thru Jul 10. Arcana, Durham. www.arcanadurham.com. The Process of Seeing: Paintings by Lisa Creed and William Paul Thomas. Thru Sep 30. American Tobacco Campus, Durham. americantobaccohistoricdistrict. com. Rare Earth: Photographs by Marjorie Pierson. Thru Jul 10. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.
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The Improv Percolator: Comedy ensembles. $12. Thu, Jun 30, 8 p.m. Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www. cgtheatre.com. League Night: Improv and sketch comedy teams. $6. Thu, Jun 30, 8 p.m. DSI Comedy Theater, Chapel Hill. www. dsicomedytheater.com. The Light in the Piazza: Musical based on the novella by Elizabeth Spencer. Jul 6-14. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. North Carolina’s Funniest Championships: Comedy. $20. Wed, Jun 29, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.
Student Showcase: $6. Thu, Jun 30, 7 p.m. DSI Comedy Theater, Chapel Hill. www. dsicomedytheater.com.
ONGOING LAST Two Gentlemen of CHANCE Verona: Thru Jun 30. Various locations. www. baretheatre.org. See p. 23.
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Durham Cinematheque: Making Art in the Universe: Art documentaries and science films. Fri, Jul 1, 9 p.m. Durham Central Park. See p. 26. Goosebumps: Thru Jun 30, 9:30 am. Northgate Mall, Durham. www.northgatemall.com. Minions: Jul 5-7, 9:30 a.m. Northgate Mall, Durham. www. northgatemall.com. The Sandlot: Fri, Jul 1, 6 p.m. Raleigh City Plaza, Raleigh. Shrek: Thu, Jun 30, 7:30 p.m. Northgate Mall, Durham. www. northgatemall.com.
Eyes Up Here Comedy Showcase: Stand-up comedy. $5. Wed, Jun 29, 8:30 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www. kingsbarcade.com. Hair: Musical. $24–$30. Jul 3-24. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www.theatreinthepark. com. See p. 27.
The West End Wine Bar in Chapel Hill’s free summer film series turns to comedies by local directors this week, including Bob Walters’s Dan Brown in Real Life and Katie Carpenter and Eryk Pruitt’s Maid to Order webseries. Wednesday, July 6, 7 p.m., www.westendsummerfilms. wix.com/home
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OPENING The BFG—Roald Dahl’s Big Friendly Giant gets a shiny Spielberg adaptation. Rated PG. See review, p. 24. The Legend of Tarzan—After adjusting to London life, Tarzan returns to the jungle to save it from sinister mining operations. Rated PG-13. Our Kind of Traitor—A couple is trapped between the equally untrustworthy Russian mafia and British Secret Service in this thriller. Rated R. The Purge: Election Year— The Purge—a twelve-hour suspension of all laws— returns in time for electionyear drama. Rated R. Swiss Army Man—The dude from Harry Potter in an arty version of Weekend at Bernie’s? OK ... Rated R.
A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com. ½ Alice Through the Looking Glass—The story’s thin but the visuals shine; see it in 3-D or not at all. Rated PG.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice—D.C. Comics’ most iconic heroes clash in an overstuffed slog littered with great moments. Rated PG-13. ½ Captain America: Civil War—As in Batman v Superman, superheroes turn on each other, but the action is served with a Marvel smirk instead of a D.C. frown. Rated PG-13. The Conjuring 2—This supernatural thriller checks off fifty years’ worth of horror movie tropes. Rated R. The Jungle Book— Disney’s animated classic gets a well done, CGI-heavy update. Rated PG. The Lobster—Yorgos Lanthimos skewers society’s fear of single people in this surrealist dark comedy. Rated R. Love & Friendship—Whit Stillman misplaces his wit in this achingly boring Jane Austen adaptation. Rated PG. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising—A sorority and a suburban couple square off with mindless gross-out gags. Rated R.
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½ Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping—Well, here’s a feature-length Lonely Island sketch. Rated R. 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.
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page READINGS & SIGNINGS Timber Hawkeye: Memoir Faithfully Religionless. Wed, Jun 29, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks. com. — Thu, Jun 30, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com.
LITERARY R E L AT E D Durham Comics Fest: See website for a full schedule and more details. Jul 6-10. www. durhamcomicsfest.org.
THE SANDLOT My enduring affection for the 1993 PG comedy The Sandlot has never had much to do with its ostensible subject, baseball. It hit multiplexes when I was thirteen years old, in the process of sharply pivoting out of my childhood, and I was feeling a keen new nostalgia for the long summer days of sandlot ball and swimming-pool shenanigans the movie already depicted with a rosy tint. The year is 1962, and a new kid in the San Fernando Valley learns baseball from a prodigy on a neighborhood pickup team, which is vying with a stuck-up rival team for turf and glory. The plot is mainly driven by the effort to evade a terrifying dog and retrieve a Babe Ruth-signed baseball from behind the fence of a spooky neighbor’s yard. Though I now have to close my eyes during the amusement-park puking scene, The Sandlot’s childish charm still shines, however murkily, through three layers of nostalgia. Let it take you back in the PNC Downtown Raleigh Movie Series. —Brian Howe RALEIGH CITY PLAZA, RALEIGH 6 p.m., free, www. downtownraleighmovieseries.com
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