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RINGS j FIRE From Johnny and June to Tim and Faith, country music loves power couples.

But are its family values fickle?

INSIDE N.C.’S MILITIA MOVEMENT, P. 10

ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, P. 15

A SIGNIFICANT SIGNIFICANT OTHER, P. 30

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK RALEIGH

VOL. 35, NO. 25

DEPARTMENTS

6 The Durham jail charges inmates extra on commissary items to pay for blankets, sheets, and towels.

6 News

9 The self-styled patriots of North Carolina’s militia movement—even those who denounce racism—are willfully blind to the white nationalism within their ranks.

14 Food 24 Music 30 Arts & Culture

14 Chapel Hill’s Special Treats sources its products from nonprofits that employ people with disabilities.

34 What to Do This Week 37 Music Calendar

15 Ashley Christensen’s tomato pie recipe calls for Beefsteak or heirloom varietals, but its forgiving nature means you can use pretty much any kind.

40 Arts & Culture Calendar

24 Following a long line of famous country couples before them, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have assumed the role of royalty.

28 “In an effort to write about love in an interesting way and to understand love from a different perspective, I went pretty deep into a scientific investigation.”

30 Over the last fifty years, the marriage rate among American adults has dropped from 72 percent to 50 percent.

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NCDOT TO HOST A PUBLIC MEETING IN JUNE FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO U.S. 64 FROM JUST WEST OF LAURA DUNCAN ROAD (S.R. 1306) IN APEX TO U.S. 1 IN CARY WAKE COUNTY STIP Project No. U-5301 The N.C. Department of Transportation is proposing to make improvements to U.S. 64 from just west of Laura Duncan Road in Apex to U.S. 1 in Cary. The public meeting will be held at the Summit Church located at 3000 Lufkin Road, in Apex, on Thursday, June 21st from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The purpose of this meeting is to provide interested citizens with information on the project and gather public input on the proposed design.

Interested citizens may attend at any time between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Please note that there will not be a formal presentation. NCDOT representatives will display maps and be available to answer questions and receive comments.

Comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops. Written comments or questions can also be submitted at the meeting or later by July 21, 2018.

Project maps are available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings/.

To assist us in identifying other issues and areas of concern within the project study area, NCDOT requests your participation in a survey located on the project website: https://publicinput.com/U-5301-US64-Apex-Cary# For additional information contact Bob Deaton, AICP, NCDOT Project Manager, by phone at (919) 707-6017 or by email at rdeaton@ncdot.gov . Additionally, questions can be directed to NCDOT Consultant Project Manager, Ryan White, PE, with the firm of Stantec Consulting Services by phone at (919) 865-7374 or by email at ryan.white@stantec.com.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop.

Anyone requiring special services should contact Diane Wilson, NCDOT Senior Public Involvement Officer by phone at (919-707-6073) or by email at pdwilson1@ ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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Ego-Driven Boondoggle

from the Southpoint station past N.C. Last week, responding to criticism that Central to Duke—again, an easement the they’d sneakily sunk the Durham–Orange county already owns. Maintaining the right Light Rail Transit project in a backroom of way for a future railway was the stated budget deal, Republican lawmakers allowed purpose for preserving it to start with. it to limp on through what’s called a “techni“Now you have connected three major cal correction” to the budget passed earlier universities with RTP, the airport, a revithis month. In short, the correction—Sentalized downtown Durham, and suburban ate Bill 335—eliminates the Catch-22 the shopping. The north-south spur connectbudget created, in which the state wouldn’t ing South Durham with N.C. Central and fund the light rail until the feds did, knowing Duke would also provide needed transfull well the feds wouldn’t fund the light rail portation for workers living in disadvanuntil the state already had. taged areas of Durham. Would it be even But the General Assembly being the Genmore expensive than the existing proposeral Assembly, it did tack on some new al? Of course it would, but if finished all conditions. For starters, the project is only the way to N.C. State, the Triangle would eligible for $190 million in state funding, have something world-class and truly useless than the $247 million GoTriangle ful, not the ego-driven boondoggle we are had budgeted. Second, and perhaps more being sold now.” important, the project’s boosters have until In last week’s paper, Cole Villena wrote April 30, 2019, to gin up $100 million in about a group of Liverpool Football Club private funding and November 30, 2019, fanatics and whethto produce a commiter the North Caroliment for federal fundna Football Club has ing or light rail goes “If you really want the devotion it needs away forever.

Now that you’re up to build a light rail system, to lure Major League Soccer to Raleigh. to speed, here’s Fred design something that Commenter HH87 Herndon on why he will actually be useful.” believes it does: “An thinks the current MLS team would do iteration of DOLRT super well in this area. “needs to be put to Lots of transplants sleep”: “We are being from all over the place, the absence of a asked to pay millions of taxpayer dollars, sports team that plays through the summer, basically to connect Duke and UNC hosand a lot of young people. Sure, Atlanta is a pitals. This is not a system that will ever lot bigger, but a lot of the new fans for the attract enough riders to pay for itself or MLS team there say that they joined up that would even be very useful for the genbecause the new soccer team gives them eral community. There are far better ways a sense of identity in their city. The same to spend the money, but if you really want could happen in the Triangle. We need to get to build a light rail system, design somethe land sorted out in downtown Raleigh, thing that will actually be useful for the and I’m confident the stadium will sell out.” taxpayers.

CbroCitizen was at the London Bridge “Durham County owns a hundred-foot Pub with the group of pro-Liverpool reveleasement along both sides of I-40 that ers and calls it a “great outpouring of supthe property owners cannot use. Run the port for soccer and Liverpool. Soccer’s time railway down the right of way and pay the has come in the Triangle region. NCFC, landowners a reasonable lease fee for the lead us to one of the remaining MLS slots. use of the property. It wouldn’t have to be Fans are eagerly waiting.” a lot—all the landowners can do now is pay tax on the land. Follow I-40 to stops Want to see your name in bold? Email us at at Southpoint, RTP, and RDU, with plans backtalk@indyweek.com, comment on our to eventually follow Wade Avenue to the Facebook page or indyweek.com, or hit us up fairgrounds and N.C. State. Run a northon Twitter: @indyweek. south line up the American Tobacco Trail

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THE DURHAM JAIL’S COMMISSARY CHARGES DETAINEES A COMMISSION ON EVERYDAY ITEMS, THEN THE JAIL USES THAT MONEY TO PAY FOR THINGS ADVOCATES SAY THE COUNTY SHOULD BE PROVIDING ANYWAY

BY SARAH WILLETS Durham County jail

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sk almost anyone who’s spent time in the Durham County Detention Facility what it’s like and you’ll hear three things: The food sucks, it’s cold, and items for sale in the commissary are overpriced.

These complaints are related. Still hungry after dinner? Head to the commissary for an eighty-cent pack of ramen. Chilly? Buy a $6 thermal shirt.

During a public hearing last week on the proposed county budget, five speakers complained that this system places a double burden on people in the jail, a large percentage of whom are being held pretrial, not only because they have to pay for this stuff but because a portion of each sale goes toward what’s called the Inmate Welfare Fund, which is used to pay for other items and services in the jail.

“My concern is not where this money is going, but rather where this money is coming from,” Delvin Davis told the Durham County Board of Commissioners. “Ultimately, what we have now is a regressive tax that disproportionately costs people of color and criminalizes poverty. … We’re essentially asking people in poverty to pay money toward improving jail conditions—but if not 6 | 6.20.18 | INDYweek.com

for their poverty, they could afford to not be locked up in the first place.”

He and the other speakers raised questions about how Inmate Welfare Fund dollars are generated and spent. These questions grew out of an inquiry into jail contracts by Southerners on New Ground, an LGBTQ organization working to end money bail in Durham and other Southern cities.

Since 2010, the fund has averaged about $120,000 in revenue and $113,000 in expenditures a year—although it has, within the last decade, collected as much as $351,000 and spent as little as $37,000. The Durham County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the jail, did not clarify why the numbers vary so dramatically.

Advocates at last week’s hearing asked county commissioners for three things: that purchases currently made with the fund be covered by tax revenue, that they end the fund’s commission system on commissary purchases and keep prices as low as possible, and that they audit the fund and related contracts.

Sheriff’s Office policy dictates that money in the fund can only be used “on behalf of the inmates’ welfare for items or services that directly benefit the inmates.” There’s cur-

rently $381,012 available for future expenditures benefiting the jail population, says David McNulty, finance manager for the Sheriff’s Office.

Per the policy, Inmate Welfare Fund dollars can be used for things like televisions, athletic supplies, books, magazines, barbershop supplies, and instruments, as well as programming for detainees. The largest chunk goes to the Durham Literacy Center for GED and life-skills courses—$53,000 so far this fiscal year.

According to 224 pages of invoices reviewed by the INDY, the Inmate Welfare Fund has also been used this year to purchase toiletries, shoes, bedding, towels, and legal books for detainees. Last July, the Sheriff’s Office spent $2,105.76 on three hundred towels and $2,112.35 on 963 pairs of shower shoes. Thirty yellow rain suits cost $387.30 in April. Forty-five basketballs totaled $989.55.

Six hundred “safety” sheets, designed to mitigate the risk of hanging, cost $3,964.70.

The fund was also used to purchase books of Supreme Court opinions and North Carolina laws for the detention center library, as well as copies of the Bible and the Qur’an ($631.76), and a Herald-Sun subscription.

“I was shocked to see that that fund was

being used to pay for blankets, sheets, towels, shower shoes—why is that not being provided by the regular cost of running the jail?” asks Judy Kincaid, part of SONG’s jail contract research team. “Are they going to charge them for the tables and the chairs they sit on next?”

The average daily population of the jail declined from 560 in 2012 to 480 last year.

Yet, in the same timeframe, the Inmate Welfare Fund grew. Since fiscal year 2015, revenues have increased from $118,000 to $139,000, despite a 2016 contract amendment eliminating phone-call commissions that had also gone to the fund.

The amount of the commissary commission depends on the item. For most items, a 26 percent commission is built into the price. Other items, such as fresh food and care packages that can be ordered for detainees, have a 10 percent commission. Stamps and more expensive offerings like radios, which cost $24.99, are commission-free, according to McNulty.

According to a 2016 request for proposals to operate the commissary, detainees spent $491,309.05 on commissary items in 2015— the most popular were jalapeño-flavored Cheetos, chicken ramen, and stamps. A sales report breaks this down to an average of $982 per detainee, a figure those concerned about the Inmate Welfare Fund have used to highlight the burden these costs place on people who don’t have access to a few hundred dollars to make bail.

But the calculation is flawed, dividing total sales by the jail population on a single day. With 9,910 people booked into the jail in 2015, the real per-detainee average is closer to $49 in commissary purchases.

Still, speakers at last Monday’s hearing said more items should be provided for free, and those that are truly supplemental should be sold for minimal cost.

Right now, the 2.5-ounce Colgate toothpaste sold in the commissary, which is operated by Aramark, costs $2.78, but each tube costs $1.24 when bought in bulk online from distributor Bob Barker Inc. Irish Spring soap is listed for $1.44 on the commissary menu; it is seventy-two cents on the Bob Barker website. (Some basic hygiene items are provided to detainees.)

Davis, an analyst with the Center for Responsible Lending, told commissioners that, of the 7,187 people held in the jail in 2016, 1,732 had bonds of $5,000 or less, including 201 with bonds of $1,000 or less.

“If we can’t pay to get out of jail, how can we possibly pay for our own care?” Andrea Hudson, a community activist who has spent time in the Durham jail, asked commissioners. “We can’t. So we put that extra burden on our family members who send us money.” swillets@indyweek.com

NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON JUNE 25 REGARDING THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF N.C. 54 FROM SHILOH GLENN DRIVE TO PERIMETER PARK DRIVE AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL TURN LANES IN THE TOWN OF MORRISVILLE IN WAKE COUNTY STIP Project No. U-5750 The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes to widen N.C. 54 from Shiloh Glenn Drive to Perimeter Park Drive and provide additional turn lanes in the Town of Morrisville.

A public meeting will be held at Hyatt House located at 10962 Chapel Hill Road on Monday, June 25, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather public input on the proposed design. As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings/.

The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops.

The opportunity to submit written comments will also be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail by July 16, 2018.

For additional information, please contact Mr. Zahid Baloch, PE, Division 5 Senior Project Engineer by phone: (919) 707-6012 or via email at zbalock@ncdot.gov; or by mail: Zahid Baloch, PE, Division 5 Senior Project Engineer, 1548 MSC, Raleigh, NC 27699-1548.

Your week.

Every Wednesday.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop.

Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, by phone (919) 707-6069 or by e-mail at magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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WHITE MAKES RIGHT

North Carolina right-wing militia activists take up Trump’s fear of a migrant, Muslim planet

BY JORDAN GREEN

Militia activists celebrate Confederate Memorial Day in Graham in May 2017.

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nside the Greensboro Coliseum on June 14, 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump unleashed one of his more memorably over-the-top campaign promises: “We are going to start winning again. We’re gonna win at every single level. We’re gonna win so much that you’re gonna beg me: ‘Please, Mr. President, we’re winning so much. We cannot stand it.

Please, a little less winning, Mr. President.’”

The speech, coming two days after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, dripped with menace.

The candidate veered abruptly from his theme—jobs and trade—to read from a Washington Times report connecting shooter Omar Mateen and Islamic extremism in Afghanistan. Later, Trump read a poem called “The Snake,” which he used as an allegory for treacherous outsiders who exploit the kindness of benefactors.

“Now, you have to think of this in terms of Islamic terror,” he said. “You have to think

PHOTO BY DANIEL HOSTERMAN

of it in terms of our border. You have to think of it in terms of all the people that are crossing, that are criminals, that are killing people and hurting people.”

Outside the coliseum, protesters held signs reading, “Trump makes America hate again,” and, “A vote for Trump is a vote for fear, bigotry, racism, and fascism,” while supporters waved Confederate and Gadsden flags. Right-wing militias interposed themselves between Trump supporters and protesters, and hundreds of police officers stood ready in case of a disturbance. A dozen protesters were arrested, both for disrupting the rally inside and for misdemeanors like disorderly conduct, although the event remained largely peaceful.

As the rally was winding down, Rod Webber, a documentary filmmaker from Boston, intercepted Jason Passmore, a militia activist from Browns Summit. A video of the encounter posted on YouTube begins with Passmore giving a perfunctory after-report.

“We’re happy it turned out peaceful, and no violence as of yet, so hopefully we can all go home and see our families,” said Passmore, sunglasses propped on the camouflage bill of his hat. “And that’s all that matters.”

Passmore’s friend, Manuel Luxton, with wraparound shades and a walrus mustache, stood on the sidewalk holding a Gadsden flag.

“You got anything?” Webber asked Luxton.

“End the Fed,” Luxton responded. “Stop the war crimes against the people of Novorossiya.”

Trump’s seeming admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of many threads in the campaign, but the term Novorossiya is still unfamiliar to most Americans.

Mostly that’s because it’s not a real country, but a relic of imperial Russia. Situated north of the Black Sea, the territory was seized from the Ottoman Empire by Russia in the late eighteenth century, then became part

of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic under the Soviet Union and remained part of independent Ukraine after the Cold War. Before Luxton could expand on his sympathetic view toward Russia’s expansionist aims, someone caught Passmore’s eyes—a man he thought was a federal agent.

“Ports, forts, and ten square miles, you son of a bitch!” Passmore yelled.

For far-right militia activists, this phrase is foundational doctrine. The Constitution grants Congress the power “to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding 10 miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States.” The Tenth Amendment, reserving “all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution” to the states, in turn, invalidates the authority of the FBI and other federal agencies, according to the logic of far-right constitutionalists.

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“Anything else is violation of the U.S. Constitution and is a tyrannical act of the federal government,” Passmore said. “And, uh, it should be dealt with appropriately.”

As the militia activists took leave of the filmmaker, Passmore, a former military contractor in Afghanistan, issued a parting shot at a cluster of protesters who’d been arguing against Trump’s stance toward Syrian refugees.

“Muslims don’t coexist!” Passmore shouted.

A debate ensued, drawing the militia activists back into the fray. Luxton fell into a rant stitched out of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

“They’re trying to start a war against Russia, who’s never done anything against us, despite numerous provocations,” he said. “Despite U.S. and London bankers backing the non-Russian Bolsheviks, who murdered more than a hundred million Russians, mostly Christians, that’s just swept under the rug of history.”

Trump’s paeans to “the forgotten people” and disparagement of “globalists” resonate with this alt-right view of Jewish people as a powerful, manipulative force shaping the course of history to undermine the white, Christian homeland. Fear of Muslims, refugees, and migrants, coupled with resentment of a supposed globalist elite, would build the foundation of Trumpism and supply themes that would reverberate back and forth between a future president who rails against the “Deep State” and a right-wing militia movement already prone to conspiratorial views of federal government.

Three days after the Trump rally, Passmore posted a photo of himself on Facebook with Luxton and other friends outside the Greensboro Coliseum, writing, “This will be the start of something great.” He elaborated in a separate comment: “GCM (Guilford County Militia). How does that sound to everyone?”

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ith Trump’s election, the aspirations of newly emboldened white nationalists transitioning from internet trolls to street fighters would soon collide with a re-energized antifascist resistance, culminating in fierce clashes and a deadly car-ramming attack after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August.

The new alt-right shares an activist ecosystem with the older far-right militia movement, which emerged in the nineties in response to federal agencies’ enforcement actions at Ruby Ridge in northern Idaho and the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. From an ideological standpoint, militia activists identify as patriots, constitutionalists, and 10 | 6.20.18 | INDYweek.com

“Three Percenters”—an allusion to the idea that only a select few colonists took up arms to overthrow British rule.

It’s easy for those on the outside to paint the militia movement with a broad brush— that they’re all animated by racism or white supremacy. The truth is more complex.

Militia groups aren’t monolithic. Some, for example, have disavowed white nationalism and struck up conversations with

toward Muslims. They also tend to share a hostility toward antifascists, which is usually repackaged in the rhetoric of anticommunism.

Passmore and his associates have formed a cohesive set. Many of the individuals who showed up to the 2016 Trump rally also went to Unite the Right a year later, as well as other events focused on preserving the legacy of the Confedera-

Many of these views, particularly neoConfederate and anti-Muslim, share currency with the patriot movement. And for that reason, these self-styled patriots, even those who denounce white supremacy, may not recognize—or may be willfully blind to—white nationalism within their ranks, allowing resurgent white supremacists to organize and recruit from within the larger far-right universe.

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“Anyone that feels we should just talk on Facebook and have meetings without shooting and training for a fight is not on my sheet of music.” antifascists in hopes of maintaining public safety, protecting property, and upholding the First Amendment.

But while it claims to be open to all races, there’s no denying that the broader militia movement has provided a haven for violent white supremacists. Many militia groups have embraced the same causes as white nationalists, including the veneration of Confederate monuments and hostility

cy and promoting Islamophobia. A close look at their activism reveals how farright activists can choose from a buffet of ideologies and esoteric interests—neoConfederate, anti-Muslim, anti-migrant, anti-Semitic, conspiratorial anti-globalist, extreme libertarian, Second Amendment absolutist, anti-modernity, male chauvinist, even flat-earth—that every member may not share.

ason Passmore’s fluid stance on white nationalism can often be found among the hardened warriors of the militia movement. Paradoxically, as the father of biracial children, Passmore embraces a vision of racial enclaves, while professing a willingness to fight alongside both David Duke and Louis Farrakhan against a “tyrannical government.”

Despite his disavowal of racism, Passmore has literally weaponized white nationalism by conducting firearms training with white racialist activists, including Luxton, who calls himself a national socialist, and Cody Beachy, who has publicly expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, whose bloody war on drugs has claimed more than twelve thousand lives.

And Passmore has insinuated that he would be willing to use violence against federal authorities. Five days before the 2016 Trump rally, he posted on Facebook: “Anyone that feels we should just talk on Facebook and have meetings without shooting and training for a fight is not on my sheet of music. … When it comes to a fight, we will stop the blood or shoot the people that shoot at you.”

Beachy, who could not be reached for comment for this story, responded, “I got your six.”

Passmore says that shortly after the Trump rally, he received a visit from a Joint Terrorism Task Force comprised of elements of the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.

“They knocked on my door and wanted to talk, accused me of being a terrorist,” Passmore recalls. “They asked me if I would turn in anyone who tried to coerce me or involve me in a terrorist act. I politely told them no, I wouldn’t because they don’t have no jurisdiction.”

Passmore says he was radicalized by the Ruby Ridge siege, a 1992 incident in which U.S. marshals scouted the homestead of a loner named Randy Weaver, who was wanted on gun charges in a remote corner of northern Idaho. A deadly shootout set in motion an eleven-day siege that resulted in the death of Weaver’s wife by FBI sniper fire. Now thirty-three, he met Weaver at age fifteen.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Passmore has an inherent distrust of U.S. foreign policy. He believes the 9/11 attacks were an inside job.

And, even though he went to Afghanistan as a contractor—he did so strictly for financial reasons, he says, as his business struggled when the recession hit—he believes the military has no business in the Middle East. He even marched in Greensboro to protest the impending invasion of Iraq.

“I protested the war before I went to Afghanistan,” Passmore says. “I don’t think we should be in Afghanistan or Iraq. It’s a waste of money and lives. We shouldn’t be involved in Israel or Syria. I can say firsthand I’ve seen our government play both sides.”

Passmore says he’d been conducting firearms training with four to seven Three Percenters from across the state at the time at the 2016 Trump rally. He’d met Luxton four years prior at a training with a group of North Carolina Three Percenters and invited him to join him for rifle practice. Passmore says he met Beachy after the Trump rally. Following a background check to ensure that he wasn’t an undercover agent, Passmore says Beachy joined the Guilford County Militia for a couple of trainings.

On June 30, 2016, Passmore posted a call for “open recruiting” for GCM on his Facebook page. The post indicated the group was open to all, regardless of “age, sex, creed, color, religion.” The newly minted militia appropriated the Guilford Courthouse flag, the banner flown by patriots during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in 1781.

On Independence Day 2016, Passmore posted a photo of himself and his crew practicing riflery from a shed roof, commenting, “God, please grant us the strength and protection we will soon need. Please … protect our family from the storm they will surely be exposed to. We know this fight is righteous. Please keep us brave in the face of evil. May our bullets fly true and our friends keep us well supplied.”

Casey Becknell, a forty-three-year-old Civil War re-enactor from Lexington, commented, “And may God bless Dixie thru it all.”

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oon after Trump’s election, the North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan drew international headlines with a pledge to hold a “victory parade.” When the appointed date of December 3 arrived, upward of one hundred mostly masked far-left antifascists from the Triangle were waiting at the anticipated parade route in rural Caswell County, armed with aluminum baseball bats. The Loyal White Knights finally mustered a motorcade around 3:00 p.m.—but surfaced two counties away in Roxboro.

Encouraged by their success, the Triangle antifascists turned their attention to a Confederate Memorial Day rally event organized

by Alamance County Taking Back Alamance County, or ACTBAC, on May 20, 2017.

Passmore, Luxton, and a friend named Jason Campbell joined the Alamance Regulators militia and ACTBAC to defend the Confederate monument in downtown Graham. With them were Becknell, the reenactor and Three Percenter, and Hunter Smith, a thirty-year-old Denton resident who was also involved in the Civil War reenactment scene.

An anti-sharia rally in Raleigh in June 2017 A video posted by Ruptly—a Berlin-based video news agency that is part of the Russia-slanted RT network—captures the tension as the two sides traded insults.

While leftists chanted, “Fuck your flag,” Passmore, Luxton, Becknell, Smith, and Campbell stood in a throng of right-wing activists waving Confederate, Gadsden, and Three Percenter flags. Passmore carried the Guilford Courthouse battle flag.

“We live in a country where the most successful demographic is Asian men,” Smith shouted. “White supremacy! The most successful demographic in this country is a minority.” Luxton, meanwhile, accused the

leftists of harboring an Israeli intelligence agent agitating for war with Syria.

Campbell, Luxton, Smith, Becknell, and Beachy—though not Passmore—showed up three weeks later at a rally in Raleigh organized by ACT for America, a national group that promotes a defamatory view of Islam as a treacherous religion full of stealth jihadists. Zach Smiley of Davidson County also joined the ad hoc group.

Luxton wore a T-shirt that said, “Deus vult,” a battle cry of the Crusades. He carried a sign reading, “Invade the world, invite the world is not sustainable.” Later,

and mass immigration” in “an attempt to import a new people, who are seen as more politically malleable than Americans—particularly those of European descent.”

Orry Von Diez, at the time an Identity Evropa leader from Yadkin County, warned during a speech: “We will not stand by while our women are draped in scarves, while our children are mutilated, and while our men are emasculated before our very people.”

Luxton and Campbell chatted idly with von Diez and other Identity Evropa members.

One admired Campbell’s whiteboard, which read, “Free helicopter rides for commies.”

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on Facebook, he acknowledged the white nationalist group Identity Evropa as the inspiration for the sign.

Although ACT for America had publicly distanced itself from white nationalism, members of Identity Evropa filled out a significant portion of the relatively small event in Raleigh. Appealing to young white men on college campuses, Identity Evropa proclaims a “demand that we, people of European heritage, retain demographic supermajorities in our homelands.” Trading on anti-Semitic tropes, the organization’s website charges that a “globalist elite … has relentlessly pushed for open borders

The helicopter ride meme, which entered far-right circles in 2016, is a reference to a practice by the Chilean and Argentine military dictatorships in the 1970s of executing left-wing activists by dropping them from helicopters into the ocean.

Campbell acknowledges that the meme was “extreme,” but says, “Just because I held up a sign, I’m never going to act on it.”

Von Diez deleted his Facebook page after the Unite the Right rally and has since dropped off the radar, Campbell says, but a Google Hangouts video conversation— made public as part of a leak of the server used by the group Anti-Communist Action, INDYweek.com | 6.20.18 | 11

or Anticom, that was publicly archived by the nonprofit news organization Unicorn Riot—offers a window into his worldview.

(Anticom announced plans for a rally in Charlotte as a sequel to Unite the Right, but then canceled after celebrity white nationalist Richard Spencer withdrew.)

In the video, an unidentified member asks, “Do you want to bring up the group specifically that was disproportionately present in the formation of early communism?”

Von Diez, sitting at a desk surrounded by maps and stacks of old books, responds, “That’s an easy one, considering that Marx himself was a Jew. I have no qualms with calling them out.”

He turns for a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious anti-Semitic forgery frequently cited by neo-Nazis that purports to expose a Jewish plot for world domination. “In fact,” von Diez says, “I have this always with me.”

Later, as the group discusses the liability of James A. Fields Jr.’s alleged deadly car-ramming attack in Charlottesville, von Diez opines, “The only way to control the hysterics is to control the means of producing the hysterics, and that is through the media sensationalism that is put out into the direct palms of every individual.”

Another Anticom leader quips, “So what you’re saying is, ‘We should hang the lügenpresse.” The German word, which translates as “lying press,” was widely used in Nazi Germany.

Von Diez responds lightheartedly with a phrase that echoes Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich propagandist: “Our patience has run out.”

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rior to the Unite the Right rally in August, Passmore moved from Browns Summit to rural Stokes County. He says it was best to leave Guilford County to avoid being “LaVoyed,” referring to LaVoy Finicum, a militia activist who was fatally shot by an Oregon State Patrol officer at a roadblock during the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff in January 2016. Passmore stopped promoting the Guilford County Militia. After moving, he joined the Stokes County Militia.

Darrell Calloway, the commander of the Stokes County Militia, says he counseled Passmore against going to Charlottesville, even though he appreciated that many militias went with the noble intention of protecting people and property.

“They didn’t have a dog in the fight,” Calloway says. “But we thought it could be turned against them. And it turned out that it was.”

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as a tactical unit. Equipped with wooden shields bearing “NC” lettering, helmets, goggles, and sticks, they held Emancipation Park side by side with similarly outfitted squads from the white nationalist Traditionalist Worker Party, League of the South, and Vanguard America groups.

Hunter Smith painted the number “14” on his shield, in reference to the “fourteen words,” a white nationalist slogan: “We must secure the existence for our people, and a future for white children.”

The NC Shield Guard also included Luxton, Campbell, Becknell, and Smiley, along with Clyde Bone, a Gaston County carpenter and war veteran, and his cousin Nikita Bone, a Davidson County resident with an interest in fascist philosophy.

The video shows the group holding up their shields to create a battlement at the southeast entrance to Emancipation Park, as water bottles and other projectiles flew back and forth. But they can also be seen pushing into the crowd of counterprotesters in the street in a provocative offensive.

Campbell says he went to Charlottesville not because he’s a racist—he calls that notion “laughable” and expresses sympathy for Black Lives Matter—but to defend the statue of General Robert E. Lee, whom he considers an “American hero, not a pillar of slavery. He believed in states’ rights, as everyone should.” (Lee, despite the revisionism of the Lost Cause mythology, was a slave owner; he, of course, also led an army dedicated to protecting white people’s right to own other human beings in a war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.)

Rather than focusing on race, he says what matters to him is a federal government he considers oppressive. In his view, Governor Cooper is a tyrant, and U.S. Representative Mark Walker, a staunch conservative, is too weak-kneed when it comes to Syrian refugees.

“You do realize the founding fathers would be done shooting by now,” he says— in other words, if Washington, Jefferson, and Madison found the federal government as it is now, they would have overthrown it.

But he justifies his friendship with Luxton, a self-described national socialist, in terms of personal loyalty.

“I like Manuel,” Campbell says. “He’s a very nice guy. And he’s very smart. There’s a lot we disagree on. A lot of his political affiliations I don’t agree with. I’ve had long conversations and disagreements with him. I know if there’s ever a situation, I could call him and he would be there to help me.”

To put an exclamation point on their disagreements, Campbell adds, “The man believes the earth is flat. Come on now!”

“So what you’re saying is, ‘We should hang the lügenpresse.’”

The German word for “lying press” was widely used in Nazi Germany.

Although Passmore didn’t go to Charlottesville, a week afterward he posted a photo of himself on Facebook carrying the Guilford Courthouse battle flag. In that time, antiracist demonstrators had torn down the Confederate monument in Durham and Bull City residents had staged a spontaneous antiracist street party in reaction to a threatened Klan rally.

In that post, Passmore boasted that he had harassed “local Antifa commies” in Winston-Salem on August 18. In the comment thread, he posted a meme that said, “Hospitalize your local Antifa scumbag.”

Underneath it: “You will not replace us.”

That slogan and a viler variant, “Jews will not replace us,” were chanted at the Unite the Right rally. The same image cropped up in fliers posted to telephone poles in Durham and Chapel Hill around the same time.

Passmore says his intended meaning was, “You will not replace us with socialism,” though he acknowledges that racist

groups are typically referring to Jews when they say it.

After the Unite the Right rally, Luxton’s social media posts increasingly took a turn toward violence and extremism. One cover photo celebrated the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville with an image of a Dodge Challenger, the car allegedly driven by Fields. Another post depicts a grotesque caricature of a supposed Jewish man rubbing his hands together. A meme features a photo of an Orthodox Jewish man in miniature on a pizza peel being slid into a clay oven, with the words, “Come home, chosen man.”

In early March, Luxton updated his Facebook profile with a photograph of Luca Traini, an Italian fascist who went on a shooting rampage on February 3 in Macerata, a small town in central Italy, wounding six migrants of African origin.

Luxton also shared a meme on Gab, a social media network favored by white

nationalists, that appropriates an image of Al Pacino spraying machine-gun fire from the movie Scarface, along with the text, “Fucking kikes!”

Reached for comment, Luxton ignored a set of detailed questions, though he did reply: “I don’t remember the Scarface meme, but it sounds funny.”

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ince the Unite the Right rally, the farright activists connected to Passmore have for the most part managed to minimize or conceal their white nationalist leanings and associations enough to not raise the ire of the larger patriot militia and Second Amendment advocacy communities. Their relative discretion, coupled with a lack of discernment among many patriot militia activists, allowed Passmore and Campbell to ingratiate themselves with a South Carolina Black Lives Matter activist named Andre Gregory in April. The encounter between Gregory and the two far-right activists potentially jeopardized the BLM activist while also escalating risks to Gregory’s associates in the antiracist militia Redneck Revolt.

Gregory, the leader of Black Lives Matter in Gaffney, had forged an unlikely relationship with American Pit Vipers, a militia active in western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina that fielded armed personnel during Unite the Right but issued a statement beforehand rejecting white nationalism and pledging to protect public safety. After the Unite the Right rally, American Pit Vipers founder Chance Allen continued to build relationships with groups and individuals on the opposite side of the political ledger, including Gregory.

African-American community leaders and far-right activists from a range of organizations took part in a series of conversations in South Carolina in late August, motivated by a desire to avoid a repeat of the bloodshed in Charlottesville, with particular concern surrounding debate about the future of a Confederate monument in Greenville.

“I was the only BLM member out there, and they had the [Confederate] flaggers, and they were doing their thing,” Gregory recalls. “I stood toe to toe with the flaggers by myself. And one of [Allen’s] members seen it, and reached out to me. And once us and the flaggers, we made common ground, we put our personal issues aside. We actually went and sat down and had a beer, had lunch, and we conversated like some adults instead of like assholes.”

In October, the two groups hosted a “Changing the Narrative Unity Rally” in Gaffney that drew representatives of the South Carolina Secessionist Party, the SC

Light Foot Militia, antifascist groups, and a local mentoring organization. During that rally, Gregory accepted an invitation from the Secessionist Party to co-host a press conference to protest Greenville police chief Ken Miller. They had separate grievances: The Secessionist Party was unhappy with the police department’s enforcement of a local ordinance prohibiting them from publicly displaying the Confederate flag. Gregory, meanwhile, says that during a rally calling for the removal of the Confederate monument in Greenville, Miller told him, “Go back where you came from,” which Gregory took to mean Africa. (Miller, who previously served as chief of police in Greensboro from 2010– 14, did not directly respond to these claims in a statement.)

Gregory declines to say anything negative about the Secessionist Party or its veneration for the Confederate flag. He and Allen both emphasize the importance of looking beyond labels and getting to know people as individuals, suggesting the Confederate flag is no different than a “Black Lives Matter” shirt or Three Percenter patch.

“I can’t knock them because if I pick up the phone and say I need them, they [are] there in support,” Gregory says. “Everybody wants to separate us. Why separate when the goal is to come together and stand against the government?”

(The Black Lives Matter Global Network noted in a statement that BLM of Gaffney is not affiliated with the network and does not “have the authority to speak on behalf of the network or the work our activists are doing globally.”)

Allen has made it his mission to broaden the patriot militia movement. To that end, he brought Gregory and two members of Redneck Revolt to an April 14 Second Amendment rally in Raleigh that was dominated by militia activists and Three Percenters.

“Our welcome mat walking in was kind of tense for the first few minutes,” Allen recalls.

The next weekend, Allen brought Gregory and a small entourage of African-American activists from Gaffney to the Patriot Network Summit, a gathering outside of Winston-Salem that drew militia activists from as far away as New York, Illinois, and Georgia.

The two Redneck Revolt members, notably, were not part of the entourage. As early as late January, Passmore had been monitoring social media to guard against the possibility of Redneck Revolt attending the gathering, because the group has a reputation for trying to shift militia organizations to an antiracist or leftist stance.

Gregory’s reception at the summit was not altogether hospitable. Video that Gregory posted on Facebook shows two individuals, who identified themselves as “JW” from the Illinois State Militia and “Renee,” hectoring him about his message and asking how he could claim to have unity with the patriot movement.

Gregory says the discussion was starting to draw a crowd and distracting attention from one of the event’s official speakers.

Gregory was flanked by a security detail, and they hustled him away so he could put on a bulletproof vest. While Gregory was away, a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat approached Gregory’s friend, mistaking him for the Black Lives Matter leader.

That man, Jovanni Valle of Brooklyn, came to some renown in July 2017 after his face was slashed in a Lower Manhattan bar by a man who took offense to his pro-Trump hat. Valle identifies with the Proud Boys, a street-fighting outfit that is described by its founder as a “pro-Western fraternal organization.”

Valle struck up a conversation with Gregory’s friend and goaded him to get on stage and give a speech. The speech, which struck soothing notes of unity and the importance of reaching beyond divisions for the sake of children, went over well, but Gregory says he thought Valle’s encouragement was a “trick.”

(Contacted for this story, Gregory’s friend asked that his name not be published.)

In an interview, Valle all but confirms Gregory’s suspicions of his motives.

“I told him to speak because he was being very loud,” Valle says. “If you’re going to speak to me, everyone may as well hear it.”

Valle adds that he was disappointed that Jason Kessler, who organized Unite the Right, wasn’t given a platform to speak at the militia gathering. “The guy they think is a white supremacist, they didn’t allow him to speak. The guy with BLM was allowed to speak. I was bothered by that.”

In Facebook comments, Campbell defended Gregory’s presence at the summit. But Campbell’s friendly posture toward Gregory is at odds with his participation in a comment thread shortly afterward calling attention to a photo of Gregory posing with members of Redneck Revolt.

“Notice the black guy in the photo,” a militia activist identified as Monk A. Lightfoot wrote. “He’s training with a communist militia the Redneck Revolt, so I was shocked and wondering why he was there with an armed guard. I guarantee no one did their homework on this guy.”

“Look at Redneck Revolt LOL,” Passmore chimed in. “Hardcore fighters. I wonder how many memes were made from this picture.”

Other alumni from the NC Shield Guard piled on. Luxton posted a meme mocking Dwayne Dixon, a Redneck Revolt member from Durham who was next to Gregory in the photo. Becknell fulminated, “Commie punk bitch!”

The aggression directed at Redneck Revolt raises concerns about the potential for violent confrontation in a state with no shortage of such episodes, including the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, when a coalition of Nazis and Klan members drove into a black housing project and opened fire on a group of antiracist organizers.

Told about Campbell’s participation in Unite the Right and his association with white nationalists, Gregory expressed surprise.

“I never heard of him being involved in racism at all,” Gregory said shortly after the summit. “That’s new to me. He reached out to me. We talked on the phone about an hour. He wanted me to come up and go shooting with him.”

A few weeks later, Gregory had reconsidered his opinion of Campbell: “I think he’s full of shit. Don’t say you want to bring unity, and the whole time you’re part of a white-supremacist group, and you hang with white supremacists.”

On a separate thread on the final day of the summit, Passmore also defended Gregory’s presence, arguing that he had paid the entry fee and should enjoy the same right as anyone else to express his views.

“I will fight tyranny in government with anyone by my side, and if we have differences after the tyrants are gone, then there is two ways to handle that: One is we fight later, or separate spaces and mind our own business,” Passmore wrote.

“Blacks and whites have different cultures, there’s no denying it,” Passmore explains in an interview. “I did mean it in a racial sense. Or a political sense. The cultures are not the same. If people want to live separately, they should be able to live separately.”

Asked how he could rationalize conducting firearms training with both a Black Lives Matter activist and white nationalists, Passmore doesn’t back down, mentioning Gregory, Luxton, and Smith as people he would be comfortable fighting alongside.

“One goal would be to work together as a tactical unit, so you don’t oppose each other,” Passmore says. “If things go down in the streets of Greensboro, those groups aren’t my enemy. The tyrannical government is my enemy.” backtalk@indyweek.com A version of this story originally appeared in Triad City Beat.

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t’s not unusual for chocolate shops to be intimate. Diminutive treats like bonbons and truffles don’t take up much room, and unless a shop has a production kitchen on site, there’s no need for a sweeping space. So when Dan Friedman, a former real estate investment manager, noticed that the smallest space in Chapel Hill’s Timberlyne Shopping Center was vacant, he saw it as the perfect place to start a business with his adult son, Alex.

Alex has hyperlexia, an autism-related syndrome characterized by an unusually high reading ability, offset by deficits in verbal communication. As is the case for many people with disabilities, finding a job can be difficult. With Special Treats, which opened in August 2017, Friedman envisioned a way to semi-retire, spend more time with Alex, and provide a steady and fulfilling job for him and others with disabilities. The shop may be small, but it’s got the biggest heart around.

Special Treats’ products are sourced from nonprofits that employ people with disabilities. Main supplier Chocolate Spectrum is run by a professional chocolatier in Florida who is also a speech and language therapist and an autism expert. Her disabled employees receive training and help turn out the gourmet truffles that line Special Treats’ display case, including flavors like dulce de leche, coconut lime, and blueberry lemon. Pennsylvania’s Highland Chocolates primarily employs with people with Down Syndrome and produces treats like almond bark, pretzel bark, and the uber-popular Tree Stumps, chocolate-covered mini pretzels sandwiching caramel and peanut butter.

Recently, cannabidiol chocolates from Nutty Steph’s, a Vermont company that employs people with disabilities, have been flying off the shelves. The dark chocolates are made with a non-psychoactive compound of the cannabis plant (read: these will not get you high) and are available in thirteen-milligram heart-shaped chocolates and ninety-milligram bars. In addition to chocolate, Friedman sells candles and soaps from 14 | 6.20.18 | INDYweek.com

Chapel Hill’s Extraordinary Ventures, where Alex used to work.

Alex moved to Florida with his mother a few months after the shop’s opening, but Special Treats continues to be a sought-after place for people with disabilities to work.

Even without a place to make product, and without a working knowledge of chocolatemaking, Friedman’s entrepreneurial spirit and dedication fueled him to persevere. During his research, he discovered Piedmont Food and Agriculture Processing Center,

Whiskey Crackers at Special Treats PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA “We’ve always had plenty of people who want to work here,” Friedman says. “The unemployment rate for people with disabilities is very high. There are always people with autism, Down Syndrome, and physical disabilities looking for work, typically part time. Which works well for the store, too.”

Special Treats is also earning a reputation as a boutique chocolate shop (particularly for last-minute Valentine’s Day gifts) among shoppers who like its mission.

But they kept asking if any of the confections were made locally. Until recently, the answer was no.

“Many of our customers like the idea of products made locally by people with disabilities. It adds another layer or favorable quality to the product,” Friedman says.

a Hillsborough-based nonprofit that is an incubator for new food businesses. In addition to having a commercial kitchen, including a chocolate-tempering machine, PFAP provided vital resources for training, ingredient-sourcing, safety and health requirements, and packaging and design.

Friedman’s first creations were called Whiskey Crackers: round, buttery crackers dipped in semi-sweet chocolate and topped with Tennessee-whiskey-infused pecan chips. It took months of recipe testing and informal taste-testing—Friedman plays in two local bands, and his bandmates were eager testers—to strike the perfect balance between sweet and savory, creamy and crunchy. It also took time for Friedman and his kitchen manager, Paul Parsons,

a legally disabled man with previous restaurant experience, to figure out scaling production—finding the right blade for chipping the pecans without pulverizing them and mastering the chocolate tempering machine. The duo works at PFAP’s kitchen from ten p.m. to four a.m.

Thankfully, Parsons also makes a mean cup of coffee.

Another hurdle was making sure the Whiskey Crackers were alcohol-free.

Though the whiskey imparts a subtle flavor, all the booze is cooked off. To ensure that the treats were certified alcohol-free, a requirement for labeling, Friedman worked with N.C. State’s Food Lab to conduct an analysis.

“One of my most exciting days as a chocolate maker was when an inspector from the Department of Agriculture watched us make a batch of Whiskey Crackers, and he signed off,” Friedman says. “It meant I could sell Whiskey Crackers to the public. I think we have a hit on our hands.”

Saxapahaw General Store has already placed an order; Friedman is in discussions to place them in other area specialty shops.

He hopes his product will be on Southern Season’s shelves by the fall.

In addition to Whiskey Crackers, Friedman makes flavored popcorn in combinations like dark chocolate espresso and maple bacon chipotle. He’s also developing a chocolate coffee bark using Gabi’s Grounds coffee beans, a special blend made by local roaster Larry’s Coffee for Gabi Angelini, a young woman with Down Syndrome who is selling it to raise funds to open a Raleigh coffee shop that will employ others with disabilities.

(Friedman also sells bags of Gabi’s Grounds coffee in his shop.)

On what it means to him to be able to help other people with disabilities, both through his shop and by supporting likeminded businesses, Friedman says, “It’s been one of those things when you do something to help other people in the community, and it ends up helping you.” laylakh@indyweek.com

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101 NORTH CHURTON STREET; 919-643-7722; ANTONIASHILLSBOROUGH.COM At this popular, low-key Italian spot, you can linger over a bottle of Chianti and hear yourself think as you enjoy a meal lovingly prepared with fresh and locally sourced ingredients. Pastas are wonderful, the fish is out of this world, and the desserts— like the Nutella Crème Brulee—are pure heaven.

COLORADO BURRITO 116 DANIEL BOONE STREET; 919-245-3335

This modestly apportioned, family-run Mexican eatery distinguishes itself with the freshness of its ingredients, ample veggie options, and its warm atmosphere. Familiar items like quesadillas, tortas, chimichangas, and tacos gain zing from house-made sauces and well-prepared chicken and pork fillings.

HILLSBOROUGH BBQ COMPANY

bonkers Bloody Marys, which have their own menu and can amount to a meal in a glass, stacked high with sculptures of bacon and shellfish.

236 SOUTH NASH STREET; 919-732-HOGS; HILLSBOROUGHBBQ.COM Hillsborough has an annual Hog Day festival, so you’d best believe that this emporium of pit-cooked ’cue holds a hallowed spot in the hearts of locals and beyond. HBC upholds BBQ tradition with the zeal of true believers, right down to its 732-HOGS phone number. Accept no substitute. And top it off with nanner pudding if you’ve got room.

MAPLE VIEW FARM

6900 ROCKY RIDGE ROAD, CHAPEL HILL; MAPLEVIEWFARM.COM This scenic Orange County farm manufactures hormone-free, antibiotic-free, and completely delicious milk, cream, and buttermilk. It then uses its own dairy to produce even more delicious ice cream. Get yourself a couple scoops of honey-toasted almond grab a rocking chair on the front porch to gaze at the cow pasture ahead, and never leave.

LAPLACE LOUISIANA COOKERY

111 NORTH CHURTON STREET; 919-245-0041 LAPLACEHILLSBOROUGH.COM Set up in a historic pharmacy downtown, this polished but casual eatery works regional ingredients into hearty but refined Cajun cuisine, from gumbo to beignets. It’s a bustling brunch spot on Hillsborough’s main drag, not only for its food (including house-made sausage) but also for its

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110 SOUTH CHURTON STREET; 919-732-6261; PANCIUTO.COM Chef Aaron Vandemark’s fine-dining mecca weds the classic cuisine of southern Italy with the freshest Southern foods and traditions. The results use familiar ingredients sourced from local farms and food purveyors in ingenious ways, such as its much-lauded chestnut tagliatelle. If you’re going to go for it, don’t miss this perennial Best of the Triangle winner.

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Margaret Lane Gallery & Studios

Offering artwork from local artists in a family-friendly environment...

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RADIUS PIZZERIA & PUB 112 NORTH CHURTON STREET; 919-245-0601; RADIUSPIZZERIA.NET

Radius not only serves amazing pizza; it’s also a monument to pizza culture without adhering too much to tradition. Its copperaccented ovens are works of art, and some of its signature pies, like the Strawberry Delight, gleefully taunt the old school.

Guaranteed there’s a pizza, many of them vegan-izable, just for you.

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EL RESTAURANTE IXTAPA 162 EXCHANGE PARK LANE; 919-644-6944; IXTAPA.HOMESTEAD. COM/HOMEPAGE.HTML Specializing in regional cuisine from the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, Ixtapa’s authentic food is a revelation for those used to Americanized takes on items like fish tacos, enchiladas, and fajitas. The chips and tortillas are made in-house, it’s family-friendly, and the price is right, too.

SARATOGA GRILL

108 SOUTH CHURTON STREET; 919-732-2214; SARATOGAGRILL.COM For more than two decades, this homey, couple-owned seafood restaurant has delivered traditional seafood specialties— scallops, surf and turf, salmon—enticingly seasoned with mesquite and charcoal smoke. If a luscious bowl of New England clam chowder seems appealing, head on over—preferably on a brisk day, but not necessarily.

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CUP A JOE

112 WEST KING STREET; 919-732-2008 Cup A Joe is exactly what you want in a neighborhood coffee shop: a friendly place, hip enough for hipsters, that first and foremost values and delivers a good cup of coffee from a local roaster. So the fact that Cup A Joe takes its baked goods seriously is just icing on the you-know-what.

HILLSBOROUGH WINE COMPANY

118 SOUTH CHURTON STREET; 919-732-4343; CHAPELHILLWINECOMPANY.COM This warm, welcoming wine store has a carefully curated, well-labeled stock, much of it priced to please the frugal oenophile.

It’s also got a wine-tasting machine that provides up to twelve pours of different sizes that you sip on a comfy couch while munching a few free olives. How civilized.

between drinker and ingredients), tying itself intimately to nature’s bounty and rhythms. Each season, you’ll find something dark, something hoppy, something ale-y, and something saison-y in its nouveau-rustic taproom.

NASH STREET TAVERN

250 SOUTH NASH STREET; 919-245-1956; FACEBOOK.COM/NASHSTREETTAVERN This is your corner bar, pure and simple, the place where you can grab a cheap PBR or choose from a shifting lineup of craft beers, as well as take in some fine musical acts. Its laid-back atmosphere also nurtures impromptu picking circles and jams.

THE WOODEN NICKEL PUB

105 NORTH CHURTON STREET; 919-643-2223; THEWNP.COM Fulfilling the community hub role of a traditional pub, The Wooden Nickel is committed to the simple joys of wellprepared Southern-tinged pub fare: fish and chips, fried pork skins, as well as a good old bison burger. This is where the locals drink and the visitors visit first.

GARDEN ART 200+ handcrafted stone pieces Birdbaths • Lights Benches and Tables • Sculpture and more 919 382-8773 • simchockstone.com 5404 Old Hillsborough Rd. (Old NC 10) Durham

HOT TIN ROOF

115 WEST MARGARET LANE; 919-296-9113; HOTTINROOFBAR.COM With its juke joint decor, Hot Tin Roof conjures a more rollicking essence than the rest of historic Hillsborough. The ample outside deck reserved for cornhole is a bit of a throwback, but the slate of “concocted beverages,” like the Maggie-Tini, named for Elizabeth Taylor’s character in the joint’s namesake play, nod to the present.

MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE 230 SOUTH NASH STREET; 919-245-1325; MYSTERYBREWING.COM Unvarnished, experimental, and seasonal— those are the watchwords at this artisanal brewery, which eschews a flagship brew (as well as filters, pasteurization, preservatives, and other interventions

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ENO RIVER FARMERS MARKET

144 EAST MARGARET LANE; ENORIVERFARMERSMARKET.COM The Eno River Farmers Market carries on a tradition of a downtown farmers market that has lasted more than 250 years in Hillsborough. It runs year-round on Saturdays before noon and draws much of its fare from a sixty-mile radius (and nothing from outside the state).

HILLSBOROUGH ANTIQUES MALL 387 JA-MAX DRIVE; 919-732-8882; HILLSBOROUGHANTIQUESMALL.COM

With twenty dealers contributing their hoardings, it should be no problem to discover the antique armoire, vintage hobbyhorse, classic ad signage, decorative metalware, or virtually anything else archaic your heart desires at this forty-year institution.

HILLSBOROUGH BICYCLE 110 WEST CORBIN STREET; 919-6440000; HILLSBOROUGHBICYCLE.COM

There might be other places in Hillsborough to get your bike fixed. But this is the only place to get it fixed in a charming little nook by a father-and-son team wherein the father (Aaron Belz) also happens to be a nationally noted poet and humorist.

MATTHEW’S CHOCOLATES 107 NORTH CHURTON STREET; 919-732-0900; FACEBOOK.COM/ MATTHEWSCHOCOLATES

Matthew Shepherd’s artisanal concoctions, in a rainbow of elegant colors and shapes, are almost too beautiful to consume. (Though, don’t worry, you’ll get over it.) This is your first-stop shop for Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, or any day when you want to tell someone they’re special with a gift of truffles that look like art.

PURPLE CROW BOOKS

109 WEST KING STREET; 919-732-1711; PURPLECROWBOOKS.COM Its paper-and-ink scent and well-tended stacks of new and used titles make this homespun neighborhood bookstore a hub for local literary minds and other book lovers.

And with its dedicated children’s room, Purple Crow nurtures readers at all stages and urges them forward.

UNIQUITIQUES

125 EAST KING STREET; 919-644-8000; UNIQUITIQUES.COM This is not an antiques shop but rather a store in love with vintage styles tweaked with a modern sensibility—think ornate cowgirl boots, embroidered dresses, and pink cowgirl hats. It’s located in a small farmhouse, and it’s packed with items ranging from linens, handbags, and housewares to garden furniture.

WEAVER STREET MARKET

228 SOUTH CHURTON STREET; 919-2455050; WEAVERSTREETMARKET.COOP/ LOCATION/HILLSBOROUGH This organic grocery/food co-op serves as a hub for local farmers and food purveyors and offers a unique array of local items. It’s the place you go for fresh foods and groceries, exquisite baked goods, specialty items such as locally sourced chestnut flour, great craft beer, and food-related events of all stripes.

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AYR MOUNT

376 ST. MARY’S ROAD; 919-732-6886; CLASSICALAMERICANHOMES.ORG/ AYR-MOUNT This Federal-era planation house built by a Scottish merchant has some of the most palpable history that Hillsborough has to offer. The first major home built of bricks in the area, it’s now restored to its original glory and open for guided tours, and the Poet’s Walk pathway leading to the Eno River makes the grounds the perfect destination for an appreciative afternoon amble or sprawl.

240 S. Nash Street • Hillsborough, NC 27278 (919) 245-8123 whitshillsborough@gmail.com

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ENO GALLERY

100 SOUTH CHURTON STREET; 919-883-1415, ENOGALLERY.NET Hillsborough’s leading dealer and displayer of contemporary fine art is the beating heart of the town’s Last Friday gallery walks. You’ll find everything from oil paintings to metalwork inside its gracious gallery.

OCCONEECHEE MOUNTAIN STATE NATURAL AREA

625 VIRGINIA CATES ROAD; 919-383-1686; NCPARKS.GOV/ OCCONEECHEE-MOUNTAIN-STATENATURAL-AREA In the placid center of town, it’s easy to forget that you’re only minutes away from breathtaking views and the wonders of nature. Occoneechee Mountain offers three miles of trail to hike or stroll, and the view from the lookout on top is well worth the not-so-tough climb.

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OCCONEECHEE/ ORANGE SPEEDWAY

320 ELIZABETH BRADY ROAD; HISTORICSPEEDWAYGROUP.ORG Erected in 1949, this forty-four-acre former site of NASCAR races fell into disrepair until preservationists’ efforts led to its gradual restoration. Now the area hosts a yearly vintage car show, but mostly it’s just yours for the strolling and basking in ghostly remnants of bygone races

by Junior Johnson and Fireball Roberts.

OLD TOWN CEMETERY

NORTH CHURTON AND WEST TRYON STREETS; 919-732-1270; HILLSBOROUGHNC.GOV Old cemeteries are fascinating places, full of intimations of distant eras, of lives lived, the graves marked with locutions beamed from another time. “Her price above rubies” reads the inscription on one such marker in Hillsborough’s cemetery, which contains 183 others and more that are unmarked.

ORANGE COUNTY SPORTSPLEX

101 MEADOWLANDS DRIVE; 919-644-0339; TRIANGLESPORTSPLEX.COM If you like your sporting activities in regulation-size settings, this is your place, from the NHL-certified rink for skating and hockey to the competition-size pool where you can see your times displayed. There are also plenty of fitness options, from group exercise to water aerobics.

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MORE FROM OUR ADVERTISERS HAUNTED HILLSBOROUGH

336-538-3117; HAUNTEDHILLSBOROUGH.COM Hillsborough is the Triangle’s oldest town, and lots of history and legends can accumulate in 270 years. Haunted Hillsborough offers two-hour ghost walks around downtown led by a hanged Regulator, Enoch Pugh (1735-1771). See haunted houses and hear about real history and mysteries, “haints,” and verified spooky tales.

HILLSBOROUGH VISITORS CENTER

150 E KING STREET; 919-732-7741; VISITHILLSBOROUGHNC.COM/THINGSTO-DO/VISITORSCENTER The Hillsborough Visitors Center is located at 150 East King Street in Beautiful Downtown Hillsborough. Housed in the historic Alexander Dickson House (c. 1790) the Visitors Center offers information to visitors and locals alike about how to best enjoy this charming, southern getaway on the banks of the Eno River.

HILLSBOROUGH YARN SHOP

114 S CHURTON STREET; 919-732-2128; HILLSBOROUGHYARN.COM Hillsborough Yarn Shop specializes in high-quality natural fiber yarns for people who love to hand knit and crochet. They are set up a little like a shoe department in a department store; there’s a skein or two of every available color and kind of yarn on the shelf, and more in the back if you need it for a bigger project. Please come visit us in downtown historic Hillsborough, North Carolina, to have a cup of tea, knit, relax, and shop!

PAWS AT THE CORNER

246 S NASH STREET 919-644-0729; PAWSATTHECORNER. COM An independent, locally-owned pet store where you and your dog can shop, relax and play or enjoy our self serve doggie spa. You will be greeted by Aspen, Izzie & Whiskey - the 4-legged CEOs. You will find healthy food for your dog, cat, bird, fish and rabbit; jewelry, apparel, toys, treats, collars, leashes, human T-shirts, beds and other unique gifts.

ORANGE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM

201 N CHURTON STREET; 919-732-2201; ORANGENCHISTORY.ORG The OCHM is working to make history fresh and dynamic. The Museum currently has two special exhibits: Click Clack: Typewriters and Authors and Memories and War: Stereographs of WWI. Click Clack features typewriters that show the evolution of the machine from the late 1800’s-1960’s.

Memories has stereograph images that show life at home and on the front.

RSVP EVENTS

2211 LEAH DR SUITE 3; 919-245-1380; RSVP-EVENTS.COM RSVP Events is a full service corporate event business offering design, production, and consulting. We blend imagination with innovation to produce events that are beautiful, engaging and logistically sound. Let our unique combination of experience, creativity, and resources make your event just what you need it to be!

WHIT’S FROZEN CUSTARD

240 S NASH STREET; 919-245-8123; WHITSCUSTARD.COM/NCHILLSBOROUGH Whit’s Frozen Custard originated from Ohio, and is now here in NC located in Historic Hillsborough! This family owned and operated shop has been in Hillsborough less than a year and is already a hot spot to get creamy frozen custard. Each batch is handmade fresh every day. With over 20+ different toppings you are sure to create your perfect cup or cone! Make sure to try their homemade weekly flavor combinations, you’ll be very glad you did.

RIGHT OUTSIDE OF HILLSBOROUGH BOTANIST & BARREL

105 PERSIMMON HILL LANE, CEDAR GROVE; 919-644-7777 Botanist & Barrel crafts ciders, sours and dry fruit wines. Using techniques from winemaking, brewing, and craft cocktail, we are constantly blurring the lines and re-thinking cider and fruit wine. We are also farmers raising organic blueberries on Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm, which is also home to our winery/cidery. We are hyper-local, sourcing ingredients whenever possible from within 120 miles of our farm winery. Even our labels and corks are made in NC.

SIMCHOCK STONE

5404 OLD HILLSBOROUGH ROAD (OLD NC 10), DURHAM; 919-382-8773; SIMCHOCKSTONE.COM After retiring from the stonemasonry business, I now devote my time to creating landscape art from the stone I’ve worked with for so long. My workshop is at my home, where my wife and I also display an inventory of stone pieces: tables, benches, birdbaths, low-voltage lights, and many other decorative pieces. We are open most of the time, including evenings and weekends, and we’d be delighted to have you come visit.

MARGARET LANE GALLERY

121 WEST MARGARET LANE; 919-296-8938; MARGARETLANEGALLERY.COM Margaret Lane Gallery offers work from 25+ local artists in a family-friendly environment. Each Last Friday Art Walk brings a new themed show. Ongoing displays include paintings, photography, stained glass, wood carvings, clay figures, jewelry, fiber arts, and small gift items.

A free children’s art corner is always available.

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FAITH HILL & TIM MCGRAW Friday, June 22, 7:30 p.m., $26–$126 PNC Arena, Raleigh www.thepncarena.com

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FROM JOHNNY AND JUNE TO TIM AND FAITH, COUNTRY MUSIC LOVES POWER COUPLES, BUT THERE’S MORE TO IT THAN MEETS THE EYE

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ast November, the Country Music Hall of Fame opened Mississippi Woman, Louisiana Man, an exhibit exploring and celebrating the careers of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. It was timed to coincide with the fourth joint tour in the duo’s twenty-year marriage and their first duets album, The Rest of Our Life. The title is a callback to “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man,” a song from another country duo, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, whose relationship was platonic. In a bit of country destiny, though, Hill (the Mississippi Woman) and McGraw (the Louisiana Man) did end up together, filling some void for that humble, classic love story twenty years later.

Following a long line of famous country couples before them, McGraw and Hill have assumed the role of royalty as their peers have either separated or fallen out of the spotlight in recent years. Their partnership began just as their respective careers were taking off, and their growth since has been intertwined. Perhaps being in the public eye from the beginning is part of the reason why Hill’s and McGraw’s relationship exists on a level of its own—fans have seen the couple’s ups and downs over the years. But their staying and selling power is currently unparalleled, likely tied to the marketability of their conventionally ideal marriage, given a country fanbase that craves icons who subscribe to their stereotypically wholesome values.

The couple met in 1996, when McGraw tapped Hill to join his aptly titled Spontaneous Combustion Tour as the opening act. She was riding the success of her second album, 1995’s It Matters to Me. The record boasted five top-ten hits and was produced by her fiancé, Scott Hendricks, whose credits included Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, and John Michael Montgomery. Coincidentally, McGraw had just broken off his own engagement. The two fell hard, and by the end of tour, Hill 24 | 6.20.18 | INDYweek.com

had called things off with Hendricks and entered a relationship with McGraw, who eventually proposed before a show. After learning Hill was pregnant with their first daughter, they married later that year.

Theirs was certainly not the most innocent beginning, but it was also not the first of its kind: What most call the original country duo, Johnny and June Carter Cash, began when Johnny toured with the Carter Family while still married to his first wife, and while June was still married to her second husband. Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, Amy Grant and Vince Gill—country power couples have a pattern of swiftly taking form after divorces, but that somehow doesn’t dilute their fans’ investment, as the stars’ pasts are quickly wiped away from public scrutiny.

Missteps later in the relationship are also often paved over and spun to be part of the larger idealistic narrative. June Carter Cash is credited with “saving” Johnny from his various addictions throughout their marriage. Jessi Colter, the singer who was married to Waylon Jennings from 1969 until his death in 2002, largely gave up her own career to help her husband with his own substance abuse and health problems. Tim McGraw himself, who quit drinking in 2008, attributes his ability to maintain that lifestyle, as well as his initial decision to adopt sobriety, to Hill. Each of the women in these dynamics was portrayed as a matronly savior, dutifully leading her partner, who was bound to fall into trouble by his very nature as a man, back to the light, even if it meant taking the back seat. This vulnerability only makes them more relatable. Stand by your man, right?

That stepping away from the musical spotlight seems to be another pattern, at least for the women. Beyond Colter’s aforementioned hiatus, Trisha Yearwood retreated a bit after she began dating Garth Brooks in 2002, and besides a success in 2005’s Jasper County, she’s been far more

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw PHOTO COURTESY OF MESSINA TOURING visible in recent years with projects like her Emmy Award-winning Food Network series Trisha’s Southern Kitchen. And despite a few one-off tracks, Hill—who has an entire portion of the Soul2Soul show devoted to her own catalog—hasn’t had a proper solo release since 2005’s Fireflies.

Of course, separation for these couples was once unforgivable and could drastically

alter one or both partners’ careers and public perception. Tammy Wynette fell out of the charts after her very public divorce from George Jones—neither of the former couple’s post-divorce duet albums cracked the country Top 10, but Jones’s career largely thrived even through the nineties. More recently, Blake Shelton invited controversy by divorcing fellow country star Miranda Lambert and

quickly entering a relationship with Gwen Stefani, his co-host on NBC’s The Voice. It’s not affected his chart performance—he’s a bona fide celebrity and People’s Sexiest Man Alive—and it seems to have boosted critical reception of Lambert’s most recent album, 2016’s The Weight of These Wings. On this front, it seems as though country fans have relaxed their attitudes a bit. There have been plenty of rumors about marital turmoil for McGraw and Hill over the years, but they’ve kept it together and steadily ascended. Their crossover appeal and household status makes it all the more special to their biggest fans that they depict such a conventional family to an audience that extends far beyond country music listeners.

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Hill and McGraw’s Soul2Soul tour usually closes with two solo songs, Hill’s “Mississippi Girl” and McGraw’s “Something Like That.”

Both are signature songs, and both channel the humble roots that are such a big part of the couple’s appeal. As they make their way through the crowd, shaking hands in the mid-level seats, it’s not hard to see why they feel like the dream couple next door.

With so much power and money at their disposal they could lay low—most of the setlist is culled from the late nineties to the mid-aughts anyway. But instead, they keep moving, open enough so that fans still feel like they’re part of the story, and that the story is one they approve. music@indyweek.com

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AMERICAN AQUARIUM THINGS CHANGE NEW WEST RECORDS 1/2

Things Change is the first American Aquarium album since singer-songwriter BJ Barham started the band over with a whole new cast of characters, but it feels more like the continuation of a story than the start of a brand new one. The new crew, including Shane Boeker on lead guitar, Adam Kurtz on pedal steel, bassist Ben Hussey, and drummer Joey Bybee, brings to bear a solid brand of roots rock unlikely to disorient anybody who's been following the band for the last dozen years.

But while Barham still pens tunes that marry a poetic perspective with a proletarian point of view like a Southern Springsteen (or at least a North Carolinian Patterson Hood), he moves into another lyrical level this time around. Part of it is his edging towards middle age and his newly minted family-man status; much of it is clearly his reaction to the sociopolitical morass in which our country is currently immersed. Things Change is the sound of someone struggling to come to terms with the world around him and his place in it. Despite what all those coming-of-age tales would have you believe, it's a feat that becomes more complicated the older you get, and these songs show Barham to be completely cognizant of that fact.

Barham puts it pretty plainly from the outset with opening track "The World is on Fire," singing, "This ain't the country my grandfather fought for, but I still see the hate he fought against" and soon adding, "I've got a baby girl coming in the spring, and I worry about the world she's coming into." It's a corner a lot of people feel themselves being painted into these days, and it helps to have somebody giving voice to it with equal parts compassion, commiseration, and conviction. The song ends with the vow, "We must go boldly into the darkness and be the light," acknowledging the hard road ahead but not backing away from it either.

That feeling holds true throughout the record, especially on working people's anthems like straight-up rocker "Tough Folks" and country-tinged "Work Conquers All." And when American Aquarium gets its honky-tonk on with an old-school elbow-bender's tune like "I Gave Up the Drinking (Before She Gave Up On Me)," it serves as a reminder that amid all the sober reckoning, they can still come off like a good old mud-on-your-boots alt-country band whenever they have a mind to. —Jim Allen INDYweek.com | 6.20.18 | 25

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inneapolis is an unexpected hub for intellectual hip-hop, due in no small part to it being the headquarters for Rhymesayers Entertainment and home to such underground fixtures as Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, and Brother Ali. But there’s another loaded, fiercely intelligent crew in the Twin Cities area known for stylistic experimentation and complex wordplay: Doomtree.

The collective is led by Dessa, a chameleonic poet-emcee, record producer, and author who’s a killer singer, too. (In fact, she sang the national anthem at the Minnesota Twins’s home opener in April.)

But she’s at her best when laying down candid raps, such as this lyrical nugget from “Shrimp,” a playful forty-five-second song on her most recent album: “Talk real fast when I get nervous/Rap real fast, but that’s on purpose.”

The world outside of Minnesota is quickly getting acquainted with Dessa (real name Margret Wander). Most notably, she worked with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and was featured on the Hamilton Mixtape, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Her fourth studio album, Chime, dropped this spring on Doomtree Records to widespread acclaim.

Ahead of her Saturday night show in Carrboro, we caught up with Dessa and discussed her ever-evolving live performances, her writing career and how she tried to sic science on romance.

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INDY: What’s your live setup like these days?

DESSA: I’m touring with a full band this time.

It’s full of multi-instrumentalists, so we’ve been able to put on a show that sounds a lot like the record. We’ve got some really cleverly designed electronics onstage and three-part harmonies and live drums. It’s a five-piece ensemble. For me, one of the most exciting parts is being joined by the energy of live players, but also to be able to pull off the harmonies live. I’m a sucker for vocals, you know?

What challenges have you encountered with bringing your recorded sound to life?

It’s been interesting because it takes a specific skill set to do that well. I saw this band from Chicago that I just really admired as a listener. I asked if they wanted to join forces—they could open the show and then become my band when I took the stage with them. I was super impressed by their ability to perform electronic music. They said yes, and we’ve been on the road together for the past four months.

What realms of science fascinate you specifically?

I did a case study on my own brain at the end of 2016 with the University of Minnesota to see if you could identify and ultimately eradicate the feeling of romantic love from the cortex. It was part art project, part science project, part effort to get over an ex. In an effort to write about love in an interesting way and to understand love from a different perspective, I went pretty deep into a scientific investigation.

Did you reach any conclusions?

I mean, with a sample size of one, I can’t say any of my conclusions are scientifically significant. But I did emerge from that experience feeling changed, yeah. There’s one essay that centers around my relationship with my little brother, who sells legal weed in Seattle. To investigate our relationship, I bought a 23andMe genetic testing kit so we could sit side-by-side and look at the genetic levels of our relationship and our shared history of growing up with mom and dad.

“In all our lives, we’re aware that we can’t do it all, and we do our best to make choices about what makes you happy.”

You’ve had work published in The New York Times Magazine. What’s your earliest memory of putting pen to paper?

In college, I wanted to be a creative nonfiction writer, which means essentially telling true stories but using all of the techniques of a novelist to make those stories interesting and suspenseful. But I wasn’t sure how to go out and be that after graduating college at twenty. So, I wound up onstage in part because I wasn’t sure how to get published. I fell in and fell in love with the Doomtree guys and toured with them for a long time.

After having lived in a tour van for over a decade, I was able to write up the stories of the road and found a New York publishing house that was interested in taking me on as a first-time author. My first hardcover collection of essays is due out in December, and that one’s called My Own Device. The themes that overlap in my book most often are ambition, art, love, and science.

What did you discover through that process?

I got some lousy news about Alzheimer’s disease, actually, and learned some fascinating facts about the origin of people, the proportion of my genes I inherited from Neanderthals and how my propensity to move in my sleep is linked to the way my brain processes a particular chemical.

You’ve written about the concept of an “adventure tax.” Basically, as a touring musician, you spend so much time on the road and miss out on milestone events for the people you love. Do you regret stuff like that?

All of us make those choices every day. We only get so much time, and we have to live it linearly. In all our lives, we’re aware that we can’t do it all, and we do our best to make choices about what makes you happy, what serves the people you love and what feels purposeful and contributive. music@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 6.20.18 | 29

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ALREADY DROWNING IN DANCE? SORRY, BUT HERE ARE THREE STELLAR LOCAL PLAYS YOU’LL WANT TO SQUEEZE IN BY SUNDAY

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In this crisp, incisive Theatre Raleigh production, Joshua Harmon’s 2017 Broadway dramedy carefully examines how intimacy among a quartet of professionals in their late twenties gradually turns into a zero-sum game as marriage enters the picture—most conspicuously for Jordan (Jesse Gephart), the lone gay man among three women.

Until now, the gang’s sarcastic sophistication has held it together through the purgatory of starter jobs and relationships endemic to young adults in the big city. But as Jordan’s friends get married—first, confident, self-centered Kiki (Meagan Chieppor); then, moody art fiend Vanessa (Shayla

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LaGrange)—he finds his calls increasingly going to voicemail.

That’s a problem, since Jordan is pretty high-maintenance: obsessive, neurotic, and fundamentally insecure, with body issues that keep him from seeking the meaningful romance he’s clearly starving for. On the other hand, he has more than a touch of the poet in him. His sharply lyrical descriptions of a doomed office crush, an emotionally unavailable hunk named Will (Adam Poole), make Jordan a twenty-first-century Sei Shōnagon, busily adding irretrievable chapters to a long, gay version of The Pillow Book.

When it takes all three women to keep him from hitting send on an ill-advised mash note after the first date, it’s clear that Jordan needs more friends, not fewer. A little therapy wouldn’t hurt either. But the engagement of his closest friend and former roommate Laura (Emily Bosco) triggers a brutally candid examination of the place a

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Through Sunday, Jun. 24 Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh www.womenstheatrefestival.com Grief breaks families. Research shows that after a child dies, parents are 60 percent more likely to divorce. When a parent dies, the surviving spouse and child can become similarly estranged. Since divorce is not an option, what happens then?

Playwright Sheila Callaghan explores these troubled emotional waters in the prismatic, earthy, surreal, and deeply poetic Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), the first show in this summer’s Women’s Theatre Festival. At first, Callaghan approaches her subjects with deceptive lightness. The first character we encounter is a charmingly eccentric embodiment of the apartment where they live. In actor Laurel Ullman’s first monologue, the house kvetches about its present state of disrepair, then waxes nostalgic, with disturbing sensuality, about her time as a mansion. “Is there anything more delicious than a servant girl’s knees?” she asks.

The schism between Clara (Laquana Henny) and precocious eleven-year-old Janice (Kimmy Fiorentino) initially seems delightfully domestic. After Clara asks Janice to put on a hideous pullover because the heating is out of order, the girl invents an impromptu song about “that snowsuit duckie-fuck butt butt butt butt” sweater. So far, so fun.

But when Janice starts serving bleach during tea parties with her dolls—and begins to devise other uses for the corrosive chemical—it’s clear that a distracted, grief-stricken Clara has pretty much checked out of parenting. Never mind, Janice is taking care of that.

In fact, she has a plan to fix everything.

Under Kayla Minton Kaufman’s direction, Fiorentino’s Janice is an achievement: a multilayered study in awkwardness, vulnerability, loneliness, rage, and deep desire. Her pathology blossoms when the title character, Janice’s crush (coolly read by Gerald Louis Campbell), appears to reassure her that everything she’s planning is right. But when is it too late to reverse the effects of neglect in a psyche, a family, and a house all divided against themselves? The question lends suspense to this drama of dichotomies.

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I don’t want to say we’ll never see a better iteration of Patrick Barlow’s loopy homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps than the one that closes this weekend at TheatreFest.

But here’s what anyone trying to follow its act will have to do to surpass it: First, get a designer to create a vintage British stage more sumptuous than Jayme Mellema’s elaborate two-story red-and-gold proscenium. Then, find a costumier wittier than Laura J. Parker to dream up numbers more deft and daft than the feathered getup that makes femme fatale Annabella Schmidt look like an haute couture version of an oil-slicked crow, while dashing lead Richard Hannay is tweedy but not twee, traversing an international web of intrigue as he flees a shadowy spy network and the police.

After that, procure a director more steeped in improv and physical comedy than Rachel Klem, who finds new comic possibilities in Hitchcock’s world. Cast a Hannay more never-say-die than actor Jonathan King and a Schmidt who simultaneously expresses and mocks stereotypical female roles better than Marisa Markoch.

It gets harder. Hire actors with broader range than Gus Allen and Daryl Ray Carliles to juggle literally dozens of other supporting characters, including Allen’s memorable Mr. Memory and Carliles’s semi-sinister Professor Jordan. Recruit stagehands more quicksilver than Roman Lawrence and Austin McClure to perpetually propel props and set pieces in and out of scenes. Then pray for dressers like Sara Marin, Nicole Hiemenz, and Aysia Slade to make it possible for your actors to transition between all those characters in seconds flat.

It can be done, in theory. But I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you. See this accomplished version while you still can.

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A LOCAL FILMMAKER JOINS THE SEARCH FOR A TREASURE CHEST FULL OF GOLD, EMERALDS, AND RUBIES HIDDEN SOMEWHERE IN THE ROCKIES

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Fenn originally teased the location of the hidden treasure in his 2010 book The Thrill of the Chase, which included a twenty-four line poem that supposedly conceals nine clues. (You can find it on Fenn’s Instagram.) The clues, along with cryptic emails and interviews by the eighty-sevenyear-old millionaire, have fueled a cult-like devotion in searchers from all walks of life, who gather online to scrutinize quirks in typography and syntax, and who regularly descend on the Rockies in the hopes of uncovering the elusive treasure.

Since Fenn announced the concealed bounty, almost three-hundred-fifty thousand people are estimated to have tried to discover it, mostly peacefully but not without controversy. Multiple people have claimed they found the treasure over the years, though Fenn insists it remains where he hid it. And in January, an autopsy confirmed the identity of a treasure seeker who had washed up in the Arkansas River the previous summer. This brought the quest’s death toll to four, and authorities encouraged Fenn to call off the hunt. Since then, he has released more clues to discourage reckless behavior, but the hunt goes on.

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Fenn has said that his inspiration came in the form of a cancer diagnosis. Convinced he was dying, he conceived of the hunt in 1988 and considered including some of the more unusual artifacts he had acquired, such as Sitting Bull’s peace pipe and a mummified falcon from King Tut’s tomb. Then he convalesced. But, decades later, he went through with it. This time, he claimed his goal was to encourage families to get outdoors and experience nature, to stop texting, to interact more.

We learn all this and more in Fenn’s Searchers, local filmmaker Matt Maisano’s new documentary, which has its local premiere at Full Frame Theater on Thursday. A graduate of the Fitchburg State

and they shot most of the film there in less than two weeks. Maisano knew that the real story would not be Fenn, but those who undertook the Herculean task of finding his treasure. But at first, many of the searchers were wary of him.

“I had to really earn their trust,” he said.

“A lot of Skype, a lot of email. Most people hold on to their solve”—the term used for an interpretation of Fenn’s cryptic clues—“as close as you would hold onto your wallet.”

Maisano’s efforts paid off as he embedded himself in different groups of searchers.

One was led by a woman who scoured the same side of a single hill more than fiftynine times before finally deciding to take a crack at the opposite side.

“He’s the closest thing we have to a real-life Indiana Jones.”

University film school, Maisano moved to the Triangle in 2014 to take a position as a videographer and producer at PBS. When a coworker told him about the hunt in 2013, the seed was planted for Maisano’s first feature documentary film project.

“I spent two years with it brewing in my mind,” Maisano says. “Then, on New Year’s Eve in 2015, I decided to just go for it.”

And go for it he did. In 2015, with a crew consisting only of himself and Deborah Saez, who was his wife at the time, and a car full of film gear he’d acquired over years of professional production work, he went to New Mexico, where Fenn lives. He had very little idea of what to expect, but at least he had made contact.

“I sent Forrest Fenn a blind email, and he emailed me back,” Maisano says. “I knew there was no project if I couldn’t interest Fenn in participation.”

The timing of the trip was also important, coinciding with Fennboree, an annual convention of Fenn’s treasure searchers,

When Maisano finally assembled his footage in 2015, he felt he still needed an ending. He found it in 2017, when the searcher community financed a premiere screening of an in-progress rough cut at Fennboree.

“Fenn attended that first screening,” Maisano says. “When it ended, he patted me on the shoulder and said, ‘Great job, Matt.’ I couldn’t ask for anything more than that.”

With so many fervent hunters seeking the same treasure with the same clues, it’s natural to wonder how it remains undiscovered. Maisano believes the answer lies not in the individual interpretations of the poem and clues, but in Fenn himself.

“Too many searchers put too much of themselves into the hunt,” Maisano says.

“Instead, they need to focus on Fenn. He spent fifteen years on the poem. This poem is an extension of himself. He’s the closest thing we have to a real-life Indiana Jones.” arts@indyweek.com

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Thursday, Jun. 21, 7:30 p.m., free Full Frame Theater, Durham www.americantobaccocampus.com

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK

Coming Home: ADF Alumni Return: Raja Feather Kelly PHOTO BY KATE ENMAN

FRIDAY, JUNE 22

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In recent years, you can hardly turn around without bumping into the uncanny puppet artistry of Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins, whether it’s in Paperhand Puppet Intervention shows, Missy Elliott music videos, public libraries and schools, The Steve Harvey Show, or the Durham Hotel’s lobby. Last year, Jeghetto’s talent and work ethic earned him a Jim Henson Foundation grant to develop signature work 5P1N0K10, a hip-hopera created with The Beast bandleader and 2017 Durham mayoral candidate Pierce Freelon. Using music, video, and magical marionettes, the show spins the story to which its title and Jeghetto’s moniker refer into an Afrofuturist parable about a robot that longs to be a real B-boy in a post-apocalyptic future. “It confronts urban issues, police brutality, and asks questions like, What is humanity?

What are human rights?” Pipkins told the INDY last year.

At the ArtsCenter, find out how he and Freelon spent that Sesame Street money to upgrade a show that was a must-see in the first place. —Brian Howe THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO 8 p.m., $15, www.artscenterlive.org 34 | 6.20.18 | INDYweek.com

SATURDAY, JUNE 23 & SUNDAY, JUNE 24

COMING HOME: ADF ALUMNI RETURN

SATURDAY, JUNE 23

DURHAM COMICS FEST

Each summer at the American Dance Festival, student choreographers and dancers sharpen their skills in its rigorous Six-Week School and frequently launch professional careers. Here, a blue-ribbon panel of choreographers has chosen five emerging talents, all ADF alumni, for a showcase of their divergent work.

Burr Johnson’s grace, precision, and long physical lines have made local choreographer Helen Simoneau’s work look good for years. Raja Feather Kelly continues his series of Andy Warhol dance interpretations. Alex Springer and Xan Burley’s study in proximity, You Being Me Being You and the Eye, stems from mimicking guest movers during their field studies. Julio Medina’s I Gotta fuses spoken word, hip-hop, and modern dance to interrogate concepts of masculinity, sexuality, and vulnerability. The last also figures into Chafin Seymour’s Gaze, a sometimes-amusing, sometimes-poignant exploration of the interrelationships among three men in the big city. —Byron Woods

If your budget or tolerance of crowds makes you wary of NC Comicon or Raleigh Supercon, the Durham County Library’s free, relatively intimate annual comics festival is a less intimidating venture into the waters of fandom.

The main event is at the library on Saturday, where alternative comic creators will offer family-friendly insights into their craft. Guests include Molly Ostertag, creator of the webcomic Strong Female Protagonist (about a female superhero braving the challenges of college); and Liz Prince, whose comics range from Steven Universe tie-ins to autobiographical works such as Tomboy, an exploration of her struggles with gender identity growing up. Activities include exquisite-corpse-style comic creation with Ostertag and a cartooning self-portrait tutorial with Prince. The festival is surrounded by a variety off offsite events throughout the coming week, including an adult-oriented Comics Trivia Night at Fullsteam Brewery (June 21), a drink-and-draw at Cocoa Cinnamon (June 22), and a networking night for local creators at Atomic Empire (June 27). Comics for everyone! Ain’t life grand? —Zack Smith

REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER, DURHAM 7 p.m. Sat./2 p.m. Sun., $12–33, www.americandancefestival.org

DURHAM COUNTY LIBRARY (SOUTHWEST REGIONAL BRANCH) 11 a.m.–3:45 p.m., free, www.durhamcomicsfest.org

6.20–6.27

The US Environmental Protection Agency is seeking Healthy Adults: Ages 18-35 for Research Study This is a study about air pollution, for people who are healthy and physically active. You will do breathing, and heart rate tests, and breathe clean filtered air and air with carefully controlled amounts of pollutants in an exposure chamber during one 3-day study session.

The EPA Human Studies Facility is located on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Payment for screening, study and out of town travel.

1-888-279-9353 www.epastudies.org

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SATURDAY, JUNE 23–SUNDAY, JUNE 24

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL PARTYFEST

To some extent, every music festival is an endurance test. But whereas most music festivals are marathons, Raleigh’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Partyfest—back in action after a year off—is a two-night sprint, a mad dash that crams more than twenty bands into shotgun-shack Slim’s between early evening and last call. The sonic breadth covered by the acts—a wild mix of punk, garage, psych, and more—promises some interesting pairings. On night one, Obnox’s dense, noise-slathered garage guitar heroics contrast with Natural Causes’ synth-punk spasms; Zodiac Panthers’ grimy garage-punk somehow meshes with Cruzer’s dense, lo-fi psych-pop and Crystal Meh?’s acid-punk. During night two, Paint Fumes’ throttling garage-rock butts up against The Dinwiddies’ self-referential pot-party psych, and Stevie’s lo-fi, floral femme-pop is juxtaposed with Konvoi’s icy, debonair post-punk. Night two’s special treat is the return of Royal Nites, fusing hardcore intensity and seventies hard-rock grooves, albeit as a cover band with rotating singers. —Patrick Wall SLIM’S, RALEIGH 6 p.m. Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday, $15–$25, www.slimsraleigh.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

THE 39 STEPS AT N.C. STATE (P. 31), THE BIPEDS AT THE FRUIT (P. 42), CRUMBLE (LAY ME DOWN, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) AT BURNING COAL THEATRE (P. 31), DESSA AT CAT’S CRADLE (P. 28), FLORENCE DORE AT THE DURHAM HOTEL (P. 44), DANIELLE DURCHSLAG AT THE ACKLAND (P. 40), FENN’S SEARCHERS AT FULL FRAME THEATER (P. 32), FAITH HILL & TIM MCGRAW AT PNC ARENA (P. 24), RETROARTHOUSE AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE (P. 44), SIGNIFICANT OTHER AT KENNEDY THEATRE (P. 30) INDYweek.com | 6.20.18 | 35

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THU, JUN 21

2ND WIND: Yeaux Katz; 7-9 p.m., free.

2ND WIND: 2 fer; 7:30-9 p.m.

BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Herded Cats; 8 p.m.

DUKE GARDENS: Music in the Gardens: Lydia Loveless; 7 p.m., $5–$10, 12 and under free.

HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 8:30 p.m.

THE KRAKEN: Shake Sugaree Americana Residency with Jonathan Byrd & Friends; 7-10 p.m., free.

LOCAL 506: White Denim with Uni; 8 p.m., $18–$20.

MOTORCO: Aborted, Psycroptic, Ingested, Disentoub, Arkaik, Venom Prison, Signs of the Swarm, Ergodic; 4:30 p.m., $20–$25.

4020 LOUNGE: African Rhythms; 10 p.m., $5.

THE ARTSCENTER: PopUp Chorus; 7:30 p.m., $8–$13.

BLUE NOTE GRILL: Carolina Lightnin’; 7-9 p.m., free.

CAT’S CRADLE: Manchester Orchestra, O’Brother; 8 p.m., Sold out.

DEEP SOUTH: Foxture; Shy, Low; City in the Clouds; 8 p.m., $7–$10.

LOCAL 506: McFarland, Why The Hell Knot, The Yardarm; 9 p.m., $5–$7.

THE MAYWOOD: Ancalagon, Arghast, Ose; 9 p.m., $10.

POUR HOUSE:

Local Band Local Beer: Demon Eye [$3–$5/8 P.M.]

Depending on your predilection, Raleigh’s Demon Eye either soups up doom metal with an engine built on classic rock riffs or adds heft to classic metal tropes with thick slabs of power amp distortion. Either way, it’s heavy music that’s both modern and progressive, leaning on the twin guitar leads of Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden and the gloomy introspection of Pentagram and Black Sabbath while pushing at heavy music’s outer boundaries. With Disenchanter, Doomstress, and Vacant Company. —Patrick Wall

FRI, JUN 22

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acts, including Big Hush and Priests, Flasher is something of a D.C. supergroup. Far from being a cheap trick to attract prewritten press headlines for a so-so side project, those various talents gel together into something wonderful and strange, a band greater than the sum of its parts. Imagine cerebral, breezy punk-pop that namechecks Dischord weirdo punk history and modern gazer rock in the way that only an oddball D.C. band like this could. The critical hype the band has been earning for its debut LP, Constant Image, is well warranted. With Dhed.

—David Ford Smith

Featuring alumni of several other Washington, D.C.

POUR HOUSE: Beatlesque, The Petty Thieves; 8 p.m., $10–$15.

618 BISTRO: Randy Reed; 7-9:30 p.m.

BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free.

THE BULLPEN: Sol Roots; 8:30 p.m.

DEEP SOUTH: Porch Light Apothecary, Dane Page, The Band Sorelle; 8:30 p.m., $7–$10.

DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: Aztec Sun, stArt of Cool; 6 p.m.

LOCAL 506: Vibehouse Live; 9 p.m., $12–$15.

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Durham’s Hardworker fits within these ranks, as they capably demonstrate on their debut record, last year’s Go Alone. The band’s big reaches feel like gestures toward Top 40 ambition, but its apparent obsession with overdrive make songs like “Kate” and “Kansas City” feel a little clumsy. AnneClaire and The Two Youths open. —Allison Hussey

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THE MAYWOOD: Up The Irons, Dirty Remnantz; 8 p.m., $10.

MOTORCO:

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CAT’S CRADLE: The Feelies; 8:30 p.m., $20–$23.

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album-oriented rock cuts into accessible modern styles, yet few do it with the verve or outright humor of Los Angeles pop purveyors TV Girl. Onetime blog staples of the 2010s chillwave boom, the band has since taken its airy, often deeply sarcastic sampledelia pop off the internet and onto the road every year. May’s Death of a Party Girl doubles down on the band’s trademark caustic commentary, with pointed lyrics about aging and the diminishing returns of party culture. The soundscapes are appropriately lush and eclectic to soften the passive aggression. With Infinity Crush and Slow Glow.

—David Ford Smith

[$10–$12/8:30 P.M.] Plenty of producers cut up hip-hop breaks and seventies

The Walls Group From Donny and Marie to the great warring Gallaghers, music is full of sibling pairs and ensembles. The Walls Group, a Houston quartet of siblings Rhea, Darrel, Alic, and Ahjah, follow that path toward a higher power. The gospel group conveys its spirituality through songs that are groovy and earnestly upbeat, replete with messages of positivity.

Durham’s own powerhouse Tamisha Waden opens.

—Allison Hussey

SHARP NI McGarry with Versace; 8 p.m PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

NC MUSEUM OF ART: Mandolin Orange with Charlie Parr; 8 p.m., Sold out.

POUR HOUSE: Litz, Tyny; 8 p.m., $10.

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Every year, Band Together hosts Blurring th a major musical throwdown to many beat help a local nonprofit further BrassiousM its mission to do some good. North Caro This year’s headliner is Walk artists. Few the Moon, the band responsible adventures for the inescapable 2014 of convent single “Shut Up and Dance.” as he takes The band’s newest single, through tri “Kamikaze,” is a little more like the son familiar pla mellow than “Shut Up and smooth loc Dance,” but the band hasn’t lost its affinity for aggressive Days.” As B bombast. Some of the proceeds release his it’s a guara benefit Triangle Family Services, a Raleigh organization will continu —Charles M that connects those in need

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American Aquarium, fresh off the release of the new album Things Change, opens (and you can read a review of the record on page 25). —Allison Hussey SAXAPAHAW RIVER AMPHITHEATER: Saturdays in Saxapahaw: Ragweed Brass; 6 p.m., donations.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Kate McGarry with Keith Ganz and Gary Versace; 8 p.m., $10–$25.

THE STATION:

Creative Music Performance Student Band [$10/6 P.M.]

Carrboro’s Creative Music Performance is a sessionbased program that provides resources for its students to perform and record music in a studio, helping build young musicians’ toolkits. This EP release show celebrates the students’ accomplishments at the end of their two-week session. All proceeds benefit TABLE, which offers food relief to local children in need. Heat Preacher and AZULZ open.

—Elizabeth Chen STEEL STRING BREWERY: Hal Engler Quartet; 5 p.m.

WALL OF SOUND MUSIC CENTER: Eyeball, Those Dogs, Armani & Friends, Nevernauts; 8 p.m.

THE WICKED WITCH:

BrassExpansion: Working [$10–$15/9 P.M.]

Blurring the lines between many beatmaking genres, BrassiousMonk is one of North Carolina’s most fearless artists. Few are willing to take adventures outside of the box of conventional rap than Brass, as he takes listeners on voyages through trip-hop landscapes like the song “Roads,” to more familiar places with his lyrically smooth local favorite “These Days.” As Brass prepares to release his new album Working, it’s a guarantee that the journey will continue.

—Charles Morse

SUN, JUN 24 CAROLINA MEADOWS: Tony Williamson Band, Heart of Carolina Jazz Band; 6:30 p.m., $20.

DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3.

LIVING ARTS COLLECTIVE: Orquesta GarDel; 3:30 p.m., $7–$25.

THE PINHOOK:

King Draft [$10/9 P.M.]

album, Our Raw Heart.

Though inspired by Scheidt’s brush with death, Our Raw Heart isn’t blackened and dour. It’s hyperaggressive, yes, but also jubilant, each slow guitar chug and bongrattling bass hit filled with radiant joy. It both crushes and soothes. —Patrick Wall LOCAL 506: Retro Candy, Kate Dressed Up, Caitlin Washburn; 9 p.m., $7.

In his first headlining performance since representing Durham at BET’s Freestyle Friday reboot in New York City earlier this year, King Draft brings his brand of Little Brother-inspired no frills rap to The Pinhook with an electrifying lineup of local up-and-comers and veterans alike. On Draft’s most recent record, 2016’s Live Forever, producer Jerm Scorsese brought a dark, heavy, sample-based style to the project that accentuates the rapper’s lyrical storytelling.

With EBZ, OC from NC, B2, Swank, Ethan Taylor, and Facts About Bob. —Charles Morse

MOTORCO: Flash Chorus; 7 p.m., $7–$10.

POUR HOUSE: Jimmy’s Arcade, Arrow Beach, Silver Skates; 1 p.m., $5.

Cannibal Kids, Virginia Man; 8 p.m., $5–$7.

WEST END WINE BARDURHAM: Eric Meyer, Noah Sager & Friends; 4-6 p.m., free.

WED, JUN 27

MON, JUN 25

DUKES’ KIRBY HORTON HALL: Ciompi Quartet: Quotation and Variation; 7:30 p.m., $10–$25.

IMBIBE: Grewen and Griffin; 7-10 p.m., free.

KINGS:

Yob

[$15/8:30 P.M.] Yob frontman Mike Scheidt was hospitalized with acute diverticulitis—an inflammation of the digestive tract that, in its worst throes, can feel like you’re hosting one of those chest-bursting aliens from Alien—during the writing process for the Oregon doom trio’s new

THE PINHOOK: Mama Played Mondays; 7 p.m., free.

POUR HOUSE: Extended Trio; 8 p.m., $8–$10.

RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m.

TUE, JUN 26 LOCAL 506: Youth League, Retirement Party, Earther; 8 p.m., $8–$10.

POUR HOUSE: The Blasters, Clownvis Presley; 7 p.m., $15–$20.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: NCJRO; 8 p.m., $10–$20.

BLUE NOTE GRILL: Blue Wednesday; 8 p.m.

DUKE GARENS:

Music in the Gardens: The Sadies [$5‑$10, 12 AND UNDER FREE/ 7 P.M.]

The Sadies have made a quarter-century career out of cool versatility, moving with ease between garage, psych, alt-country, and punk. Though their back catalog varies wildly, some things remain reassuringly constant. The band bursts with personality and is a resident “band’s band,” having backed everyone from John Doe to Neko Case to Neil Young. Expect Nudiestyle suits and muttonchops, off-kilter guitar solos, and a noticeably threadbare fiddle bow sailing wildly through the air. —Josephine McRobbie

Find Flasher at The Pinhook on Friday.

THE KRAKEN: Shake Sugaree Americana Residency with Jonathan Byrd & Friends; 7-10 p.m., free.

MOTORCO: Blac Rabbit, Sun Parade; 8 p.m., $10–$12.

THE PINHOOK:

Pylon Reenactment Society [$10/8 P.M.] What a treat to see the jumpy, muscular post-punk of seminal Athens, Georgia band Pylon

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reenacted, as it were, with original frontwoman Vanessa Briscoe Hay at center stage.

Hay wails mournfully like Patti Smith or Tom Verlaine; her voice is gruff, it’s guttural, even campy. To help care for Pylon’s legacy, Hay enlisted locals from bands like Casper and the Cookies and The Glands, who set aside the free-form freakery associated with their hometown to lay down perfectly nervy instrumentals.

—Josephine McRobbie

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OPENING Durham Comics Fest 2018: See p. 34. Sat, Jun 23, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Southwest Regional Library, Durham. durhamcountylibrary.org.

THURSDAY, JUNE 21

DANIELLE DURCHSLAG

Lobby Call: Typocalypse: Typewriter-based poems on demand, music, and more.

Sat, Jun 23, noon-3 p.m. The Durham Hotel, Durham. thedurham.com.

Louisiana Trail Riders: Jeremiah Ariaz’s photographs of African-American trailriding clubs in Louisiana. June 21-Sept. 22. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

Grant Lyke: Reception with Durham-based photographer Grant Lyke, whose work is on view at the brewery. Fri, Jun 22, 5-11:45 p.m. Durty Bull Brewing Company, Durham.

Painting the Camino de Santiago: Oil paintings by Sonia Kane. June 27-Aug 26.

Cary Town Hall, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

Playscape Artist Reception: Marguerite Jay Gignoux, Becky Joye, and Georges le Chevallier.

Wed, Jun 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Block Gallery, Raleigh.

Universal Access & the Arts Day 2018: Raleigh Arts conference on new uses for technology in the accessibility field. $35. Thu, Jun 21, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m. Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh. www. raleighconvention.com.

VAE Prom: VAE fundraiser. $30. Sat, Jun 23, 7-10 p.m.

VAE Raleigh, Raleigh.

Wandering Through the Clouds: Reception with artist Anna Podris. Fri, Jun 22, 6-8 p.m. Liquid State, Raleigh.

ONGOING The Art of a Scientist: Art and science exhibit. Sat, Jun 23, 2-4 p.m. Rubenstein Art Center Gallery 235, Durham.

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“Relative Unknown 12” by Danielle Durchslag

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

Artists, especially those with their own proprietary methods, aren’t always eager to give away their secrets. But Brooklyn-based artist Danielle Durchslag, who currently has works on view at both Cassilhaus and the Ackland Art Museum, is visiting Chapel Hill in a more generous mood. At the Ackland on Thursday, she’ll teach her collage technique, which involves assembling hundreds of pieces of cut paper with tape and glue into deceptively painterly or photographic-looking reliefs. They frequently depict her family members or ancestors, and the imbricated layers allude to the complexity of lineage and genealogy. At 11:30 a.m. on Friday, the day after the public workshop, Durchslag will also be the guest speaker at the Ackland’s annual luncheon. Don’t recycle the INDY this week; after Thursday, you might be primed to cut some paper. —Brian Howe

ACKLAND ART MUSEUM, CHAPEL HILL 5–8 p.m., free, www.ackland.org

Artspace Corridor Exhibition: Member artists Jane Cheek, Autumn Cobeland, Arsis Fruritch, Joyce Watkins King, and Susan LaMantia. Thru Jul 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Business as Usual: A massive white man’s head hangs from the ceiling, with furrowed brows, beady eyes, and veins protruding at the temples.

This omnipresent “boss” watches over Winston-Salem artist Bob Trotman’s exhibit, which incorporates mixed media and video art into dozens of figurative sculptures that critique big business by unmasking its gospel of greed and envy at the expense of workers. In wood, resin, tempera, and wax, the handcarved figures range from doll size to larger than life. The details in their caricatured faces show that they have become hardened to their expendability in an ecosystem of private enterprise. Echoes of 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis are also present.

Trotman uses the form of the automaton to propose his concerns about the dehumanization of workers.

Though it was made two years prior to Trump’s election, “Trumpeter” seems like an on-the-nose caricature of our POTUS as a CEO. A trumpet connected to a motionactivated speaker stands in for the figure’s head. As you draw close, it emits indiscernible squawking sounds, implying that the bullying figurehead offers citizens nothing more than a farcical circus of noise.

Thru Jul 1. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts. ncsu.edu. —Julie M. Hamilton Elizabeth Bradford: Paintings.

Thru Jul 31. Umstead Hotel & Spa, Cary. theumstead.com.

Bursting into Bloom: Abstract florals and cats by Debra Wuliger. Thru Jul 19. Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham. eruuf.org.

LAST Coalesce: CHANCE Watercolor Society of N.C. Central Region exhibit.

Thru Jun 27. Sertoma Arts Center, Raleigh. www.parks.raleighnc.gov.

LAST Combinations: CHANCE Pottery by Garry Childs, photography by Eric Saunders, and paintings by Pat Merriman. Thru Jun 24.

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Folk Keepers: Art by Charlie and Susan Frye: Paintings and found-art assemblages. Thru Aug 9. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www.historichillsborough.org.

LAST Free as a Bird: Art CHANCE exhibit.

Thru Jun 26. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

FRESH Juried Exhibition: Work

by N.C. artists juried by NCMA curator Jennifer Dasal. Thru Jun 29. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

June Exhibit: Woodworker Keith Allen, painter Carroll Lassiter, ceramicist Linda Prager, and photographer John Rosenthal. Thru Aug 5. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Let’s Use Lots of Color: Paintings by Joan Vandermeer.

Thru Aug 1. Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau, Chapel Hill.

SPECIAL Loud Color EVENT Luminous Sound by Parasol B: Interactive, colorful, noise-making sculptures and assemblages curated by Kerry Crocker. Thru Jun 24.

Reception: Fri, Jun 22, 6-9 p.m., music by Tescon Pol and Sunset Palette. Curator tour: Sun, Jun 24, 2-5 p.m. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. www.thecarrack.org.

Our House: Durham Arts Council student and instructor exhibition. Thru Jul 7. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Debbie Quick: PNC Pop In Artist in Residence. Beaded drawings and figurative sculptures. Thru Jun 29.

Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Rise of the Phoenix – El Ascenso de la Fénix: Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo, Felicity Palma, and Yuko Nogami Taylor. Thru Aug 4.

Duke Campus: Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Building), Durham.

Snippets: Paintings by David Molesky. Thru Aug 15. Gallery A, Raleigh. www.gallerya-nc.com.

Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/ Giuffrida Collection: The most famed names in postwar abstract art—Mondrian, de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko—had very different ways of pushing painting past representation.

They also had something in common: all were white. Of course, it isn’t that African Americans weren’t making vital contributions to the course of art history; it’s that the white male canonmakers didn’t as readily embrace them. This touring exhibit at the Nasher is a spectacular corrective, highlighting the Africandiaspora abstract artists

who refined this new way of seeing. They range from midtwentieth-century Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis to contemporary iconoclasts such as Theaster Gates and Mark Bradford, whose twentyfive-foot-tall sculpture anchors the exhibit. Thru Jul 15. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

—Brian Howe Step Right Up: Sculpture by Patrick Dougherty. Thru Aug 31.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org.

Summertime: Summer-themed nature paintings. Thru Jun 30.

V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. www. vlrees.com.

The SuperNatural: We’ve lost sight of the seams, once considered inviolable, between nature, technology, and commerce. The SuperNatural explores how we see and shape the contours of our planet as the physical refuse of the industrial age shades into the digital refuse of the present.

The show includes a generative digital video by Tabor Robak, a virtual reality installation

by Jakob Kudsk Steensen, and photos by Lars Jan, among many others. Brooklyn

artist Chris Doyle created “Dreams of Infinite Luster,” a digital animation. In it, “All the elements are rendered in gold, the color of lucre—the product, engine, and goal of capitalism.” Is a luxury hotel an odd site for post-capitalist critique? Sure. But, as we’ve said, what seams? Thru Jul 1.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Brian Howe Three Quilts: Fiber art by Martha Clippinger. Thru Aug 12. Durham Arts Council, Durham. durhamarts.org.

Through Eyes of My Own: Exhibit exploring identity curated by the Nasher Teen Council. Thru Jul 7. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

SPECIAL Transendental EVENT Concord: Photographs by Lisa McCarty.

Thru Jun 24. Reception: Sun, Jun 24, 2-4 p.m. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpreservation.com.

LAST UNTITLED, 2018: CHANCE 2018 MFA graduates Allison Coleman, Lindsay Metivier, Kimberly English, Jeanine Tatlock, Sara Farrington,

Carley Zarzeka, and Joel Hopler.

Thru Jun 23. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Visualizing Micro Environments: Paintings by Orr Ambrose inspired by cosmology, physics, and microbiology. Thru Oct 11. Durham Convention Center, Durham. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.

The Walls We Build: (dis)Ability: Pleiades member artists and guest artists with a range of special needs and disabilities.

A collaboration with artist UNITED. Thru Jul 1. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Watercolor Paintings from the Estate of Harry De Maine (1880 – 1952): Thru Jul 31.

Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

LAST The Wild: Leah CHANCE Sobsey, Joy Meyer, and Jeff Whetstone videos in downtown Raleigh’s Market Plaza. Thru Jun 27. BLOCK2 Video Series, Raleigh.

Worlds Apart: Thru Jul 7.

Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com.

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Thu, Jun 21-Sun, Jun 24. The Fruit, Durham.

LAST  The 39 CHANCE Steps: Reviewed on p. 31. $8-$23. Thru Sun, Jun 24.

NCSU Campus: KennedyMcIlwee Studio Theatre, Raleigh.

5P1N0K10: Puppet show by Jeghetto and Pierce Freelon.

See p. 34. $15. Fri, Jun 22, 8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org.

Coming Home: ADF Alumni Return: American Dance Festival. See p. 34. $12-$33.

Sat, Jun 23, 7 p.m. & Sun, Jun 24, 2 p.m. Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham.

FatMouth Improv’s Pink Flamingo Show: With special guest Prism. $12. Sat, Jun 23, 8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org.

Paul Taylor Dance Company: American Dance Festival. $12-$62. Tue, Jun 26, 8 p.m.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com.

Pilobolus: American Dance Festival. $12-$68. Thu, Jun 21 & Fri, Jun 22, 8 p.m./Sat, Jun 23, 1 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

Places Please! Starring Nicole Wolcott and Larry Keigwin: American Dance Festival. $12$27. Fri, Jun 22-Sun, Jun 24.

Rubenstein Arts Center: von der Heyden Studio Theater, Durham.

Anything Goes Late Show: Saturdays, 10:30 p.m.

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

LAST  Crumble CHANCE (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake): Reviewed on p. 31. $10. Thru Sun, Jun 24.

Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh. www.burningcoal.org.

The Harry Show: Ages 18+. Potentially risque games improv games with audience volunteers. $10.

Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m.

ComedyWorx, Raleigh. www.comedyworx.com.

Home Brew: Craft beer and storytelling by Katie Connors Martin, author of Midway Mindset blog. Presented by Honest Pint Theatre Co. Sat, Jun 23, 7 p.m. Sonorous Road Theatre, Raleigh.

Improv at the Varsity: Stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy. $6. Saturdays, 9:30 p.m. Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. improvatthevarsity.com.

It Shoulda Been You: In addition to two TV shows, the bestseller The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook spawned a number

of special editions and assorted tchotchkes in the early aughts.

Brian Hargrove’s dizzy 2015 musical farce, It Shoulda Been You, could have been the wedding version of the series.

It’s the morning of the nuptials of Rebecca Steinberg and Brian Howard, so check the box beside “Jewish-Irish Catholic wedding” and brace yourself for lyrics like, “Rabbi Schwartz and Father O’Shannon/Somebody shoot me with Pachelbel’s Canon.” The mothers-in-law are not entirely reconciled to the merger. Or each other. Check.

And look who just showed up: the bride’s ex-boyfriend, who has an ax to grind—and several inebriated family members on his side. Double-check, and cue the title song. Mackie Raymond and Tyler Graeper play the happy couple, with support from stalwarts Alison Cooper and Sandi Sullivan. Jackson Cooper directs. $20-$30. Thru Jul 1.

Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www.theatreinthepark.com.

—Byron Woods LAST Oliver!: Presented by CHANCE Justice Theater Project. $23-$27. Thru Sat, Jun 23. Umstead Park United Church of Christ, Raleigh. www.upucc.org.

LAST  CHANCE Significant Other: Reviewed on p. 30. $30-$32.

Thru Sun, Jun 24. Kennedy Theater, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

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From the River to the Ocean: Live scores by flutist Roazalind MacPhail for short films from Wilmington-area filmmakers. Sponsored by the Cucalorus Film Festival. Fri, Jun 22, 7:30 p.m. Shadowbox Studio, Durham. www.shadowboxstudio.org.

Movie Loft: Killers Three film screening. Live music by John Howie and Sarah Glasco. Thu, Jun 21, 7-10 p.m. Shadowbox Studio, Durham. www. shadowboxstudio.org.

Reinventing Power: Renewing North Carolina’s Economy: Documentary about clean energy. Thu, Jun 21, 6 p.m. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. naturalsciences.org.

TUESDAY, JUNE 26

FLORENCE DORE: NOVEL SOUNDS In Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll (Columbia University Press), UNC professor Florence Dore delves into the intersections of two phenomena that were new in the 1950s: rock music and Southern literature as a category recognizable to us today. The music was full of vernacular from the South, while Southern books were filled with the electrified spirit of the music, reckoning with the cultural shifts rock presaged and unleashed. Considering the likes of William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and William Styron in relation to Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan, Dore explains how literature came to be “an antiinstitutional art form … at the very moment academics claimed literature for the institution.” This book-release reading on the roof of The Durham Hotel also features live music from a group including Will Rigby (Dore’s husband) and Peter Holsapple of The dB’s, North Carolinians who planted an august lineage of Southern power-pop in New York City in the late seventies. —Brian Howe

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READINGS & SIGNINGS North Carolina Poetry Society Reading: With Chris Abbate, Dorothy Baird, and Beth Copeland. Sun, Jun 24, 2 p.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

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LECTURES ETC. Audio Under the Stars: Awkward: Audio stories about overcoming challenges and facing fears. Outdoor event. Fri, Jun 22, 8 p.m. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

Seth’s Dominion: Part of Durham Comics Fest. Sun, Jun 24, 3 p.m. Southwest Regional Library, Durham. durhamcountylibrary.org.

OPENING American Animals—Bart Layton’s crime drama is based on the true story of suburban criminals trying to steal Audubon prints from a Kentucky library. Rated R. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom—An erupting volcano threatens to make the dinos extinct again in this latest franchise sequel.

Rated PG-13.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com.  Black Panther— Marvel’s Afrofuturist breakthrough shows what black writers, actors, and characters can do with center stage. Rated PG-13.  Deadpool 2—If the first Deadpool movie was a halfhearted R-rated SpiderMan, the sequel is a controlled detonation of the superheromovie template: filthy, funny, and cheerfully ultraviolent.

Rated R.

The Man Who Fell to Earth is screening in RetroArtHouse.

The local revival film scene is so booming that it’s hard to keep track of all the worthy screenings. It’s particularly hard to pick the best of the fourteen classic films playing this weekend in RetroArtHouse at the Carolina. There are new restorations of David Bowie’s vehicle The Man Who Fell to Earth, Lina Wertmüller’s Seven Beauties, and Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice. For romance, there’s the LGBTQ classic Desert Hearts, Pedro Almodóvar’s kinky Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Gillian Armstrong’s Australian period piece My Brilliant Career, and Alex Cox’s twisted biopic Sid and Nancy. On the surreal side are the dark comedy Eating Raoul, the hypnotic Philip Glass-scored Koyaanisqatsi, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s warped Santa Sangre. And after all that, there’s the influential Japanese tragedy Sansho the Bailiff, Ingmar Bergman’s penetrating Persona, William Friedkin’s witty, suspenseful To Live and Die in L.A., and Robert Altman’s subversive take on the private-eye film, The Long Goodbye.

Each is worth a few hours of your time and several more of discussion. Whether you’re a Criterion Collection connoisseur or you’re just in search of an intellectual alternative to the latest superhero flick, RetroArtHouse proves there’s always something worth seeing on the big screen, even if it’s decades old. —Zack Smith

THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM Various times, $10+, www.carolinatheatre.org ½ First Reformed— Paul Schrader, a giant of American cinema, connects secular and spiritual forms of despair with glimmers of humor and hope. Rated R.

 RBG—Forgot those Avengers. This doc about pioneering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the best superhero movie of the year. Rated PG.

 Hereditary—This truly disturbing horror film thrives on real human anxieties, hideous images, and the occasional headless cultist.

Rated R.

 The Seagull—In this Chekhov classic, Irina loves Trigorin, who loves Nina, who is with Irina’s son.

Medvedenko loves Masha, daughter of the steward, whose wife loves—you know what? Never mind. Just see it for Bening, Moss, and Ronan.

Rated PG-13.

½ Incredibles 2— Dialing up socially progressive themes fourteen years after the original, Pixar’s sequel is fun, funny, and timely but not quite transcendent. Rated PG.

½ Solo: A Star Wars Story—If Rogue One was a

war picture set in the Star Wars universe, then Solo is a space western, and a pretty good one, too. Rated PG-13. ½ Won’t You Be My Neighbor—This documentary about a nationally beloved kids TV icon captures the incredibly genuine nature of the late Mr. Rogers.

Rated PG-13.  A Wrinkle in Time— Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of the classic novel is bold and messy, but with its diverse cast, it could be a touchstone for today’s twelve-year-olds.

Rated PG.

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INDY Week is seeking two goal driven, self motivated, passionate, Raleigh-based sales people to sell a cool product that helps businesses grow. There is a solution for every client with multimedia advertising: our weekly publication, glossy magazines, online display ads, e-newsletters, & more!

We offer a base of accounts, commission, bonus incentives & excellent benefits. YOU offer a love of local culture, art and politics, plus a burning desire to support the free independent press.

And...a proven sales track record.

Please send a cover letter and resume to Stephanie Miller: smiller@indyweek.com No phone calls please.

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