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Burst into song

Years after Squirrel Nut Zippers, Katharine Whalen revisits the music that made her famous

By Allison Hussey, p. 13 THE TATTLER’S TALE, P. 6

BIG PORK’S PAWNS, P. 9

PUT THAT IN YOUR PIT AND SMOKE IT, P. 12

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6 On April 24, according to a lawsuit, the Montessori School of Raleigh learned that teacher Janie Jackson was cooperating with the police. Six days later, she was terminated.

6 News 10 Food 13 Music

8 State Representative Jimmy Dixon believes Judge Earl Britt, who is presiding over the nuisance trials against Smithfield Foods, “doesn’t have his thumb on the scales; his sorry ass is sitting on the scales!!!”

16 Arts & Culture 24 What to Do This Week 26 Music Calendar 29 Arts & Culture Calendar

9 The Department of Housing and Urban Development says the Durham Housing Authority is “troubled,” but its Section 8 program is in tip-top shape.

10 The North Carolina Watermelon Association’s online recipe arsenal includes watermelon soup, tacos, lettuce wraps, and pizza.

13 To jog her memory of songs from her former band, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, vocalist Katharine Whalen turned to Spotify.

22 The 1971 murders of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane had all the sensationalist trappings of a classic horror story.

Apex pitmaster Shannon Turner (p. 12) PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA

On the cover PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED GRADE SEPARATION AT THE CORNWALLIS ROAD RAIL CROSSING IN DURHAM COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. P-5717 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed grade separation at the Cornwallis Road (S.R. 1121) rail crossing of the Norfolk Southern/N.C. Railroad Line, in Durham County. The purpose of this project is to improve operations and safety at the crossing.

The meeting will be held on Thursday, July 12, 2018 at The Frontier, 800 Park Offices Drive in Research Triangle Park from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments regarding the project.

Please note there will be no formal presentation. All comments received will be taken into consideration as the project progresses.

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Screeching Feminist Harpy

Americans can see leftist thought as the Last week, the Durham Performing Arts cancer it is.”

Center announced that it would be hostAnd you, Michoel Stern: “I read the hit ing Jordan B. Peterson, professor, author, piece on Jordan Peterson by Laura Bullard.

YouTube star, and Lord of the Incels (that’s Is there no standard for articles to be internet-speak for “involuntarily celibate”), published on your website? The piece was on its stage in September. [as] intellectually lazy as it was dishonest, Given that Peterson has a well-docuby that I mean very. The irony also was not mented history of making misogynistic, lost that the author of the piece stereotyped homophobic, transphobic, and racist stateand maligned a swath of the population ments, Laura Bullard had some thoughts (the South) as bigoted as she was virtue about the wisdom of this particular booksignaling about being sensitive to the needs ing, especially at a publicly owned facility. of others.

As you might expect, Peterson’s bro min“The article has everything that normal ions (and they were almost all bros) from society finds appalling about some in the all over the globe were unleashed on Twitsocial justice activism crowd: intellectual ter and Facebook and email and our comlaziness and dishonesty, flippant charges ments section. So what the hell, let’s let of racism and other bigotry, bigotry toward them vent their feelings. people in the ‘non-marginalized’ population, Up first, Noah, who describes himself and a pompous assumption they represent as a “former liberal Democrat”: “Just read marginalized people and speak for them.” your column in INDY regarding Professor And finally, Timothy Short: “I seriously Peterson. I say professor because you forgot doubt the writer/editor for this piece of to mention his credentials, which makes ‘journalism’ has ever heard a single full his opinion on such matters correct and lecture by JP. Either no yours wrong. See how research was conductthat kinda sucks when “I notice you are using ed into Mr. Peterson’s it doesn’t work in your the tactic of silencing ideas, or there is a wild, favor? I notice also that his free speech.” blinding bias within you are using the tacyour organization. The tic of silencing his free reason why people like JP are receiving speech. There are all the other countries so much support from the general populaof the world to choose from if you’d like tion around the globe is because the left has limited speech; this isn’t one of them. I become ideologically possessed and franjust read your dribble, which I consider far tic. The left is now opposed to any tradimore offensive than anything that that man tion, confuses male competence with male has ever said. You try to silence Dr. Jordominance, celebrates mental illnesses dan Peterson, but guess what: The genie is like gender dysphoria (even in children), already out of the bottle. You ‘compassionand wishes to see Western civilization ate’ liberals are being exposed as the freedestroyed. loading commies that you are. I suppose “You have lost the culture war. Amerthat’s the problem with trying to outwit icans are rejecting progressivism, which smart people like him. When you have no is only propagated by legislative fiat and way to combat him with reason, you reach by force. Generation Z leans more toward for the air horns and nickel jars. Sorry, conservatism than the previous three he’s not going anywhere, his ideas are far generations. The face of the left is now a more credible than you give him credit for. screeching feminist harpy. You have lost.

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The Tattler’s Tale

DID THE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF RALEIGH FIRE A BELOVED TEACHER BECAUSE SHE TALKED TO THE COPS?

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

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n May 16, the day police arrested Montessori School of Raleigh headmistress Nancy Errichetti on charges of aiding and abetting alleged sexual abuser and former middle-school teacher Nick Smith, more than two-dozen parents fired off an email to the school’s Board of Trustees, begging the board to rethink what they believed to be one of Errichetti’s most inexplicable decisions: the sacking of Janie Jackson.

Two weeks earlier, Jackson, who had worked at the school for nine years, including the past six as directress of MSR’s Children’s House II (pre-K and kindergarten), had learned that her contract would not be renewed for the upcoming school year.

Jackson was one of six teachers whose contracts weren’t renewed—several of them, including Jackson, had previously gone to the board to complain about Errichetti’s leadership style—and one of at least sixteen teachers who won’t be returning this fall.

“As parents of Children’s House II students,” the parents wrote, “we were both surprised and concerned to learn of this decision. We firmly believe she embodies the values of grace, integrity, and leadership we want the Montessori School of Raleigh to instill in our children. … Many of us have already enrolled our children for next year with the understanding that Janie would continue as their teacher.”

The parents never found out why Jackson was terminated. Like Jackson, they were only told that she no longer “fit the school’s culture.” One Children’s House parent says a board member told her “there was something they knew but couldn’t tell us. We absolutely didn’t believe it. Nancy was feeding them BS reasons. It was so frustrating. I know for a fact that [Janie is] a very honest person, very up front.”

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investigation into Smith and Errichetti.

Smith, a longtime math teacher, was indicted in November on twenty counts of statutory rape and child pornography stemming from an alleged yearlong sexual relationship he had with an eighth grader, identified in court documents as Jane Doe I, in 2011–12; he is currently in the Wake County jail on a $3 million bond.

In January, Jane Doe I and her family filed a lawsuit against Smith, Errichetti, and the school, alleging that Smith had also sexually abused Jane Doe I’s younger sister and that the school knew about his inappropriate behavior but didn’t take action.

In May, in a potentially precedentsetting prosecution, the District Attorney’s Office indicted Errichetti on charges of aiding and abetting Smith, a felony, and contributing to the delinquency and neglect of a minor, a misdemeanor.

Errichetti has stepped away from management of the school. Although her contract was up for renewal at the end of June, the Board of Trustees declined to take any action while the charges against her play out, according to a school spokeswoman.

MSR is currently searching for an interim head of school. On Monday, Errichetti’s scheduled arraignment was postponed for the second time.

Jackson says she first spoke with Detective Alex Doughty ten days after Smith’s arrest. Then, and in a follow-up conversation in December, she relayed some disturbing stories she’d either witnessed directly or heard about secondhand.

Her first red flag, which she described to Doughty, came in 2010, when Smith accused her then-thirteen-year-old daughter of making him “uncomfortable.” (Jackson says she wasn’t told what her daughter did to make him feel that way.) Years later, after Smith’s arrest, Jackson’s daughter told her about a time before that when Smith had taken her off-campus in his car while blaring sexually explicit rap music.

Jackson also told Doughty about

“Nancy put her fingers in her ears and said, ‘La la la la la, I don’t want to hear this.’” concerns raised by a teacher named Carolina Eidson. In August 2012, soon after Errichetti became head of school, Eidson sent her an email detailing reports of inappropriate behaviors between Smith and female students. In that email, Eidson described Smith hanging out late into the night in girls’ hotel rooms on overnight trips and being alone with and holding hands with Jane Doe I. (In an email, Eidson declined to comment.)

In addition, Jackson told the detective about an end-of-year faculty party in June 2015 held at MSR’s middle-school campus, in which a retiring teacher named Subhash Patel regaled the audience of about fifty with a story about a school trip—to Europe, Jackson believes—when Smith took students to a nightclub or a bar and got so drunk that Patel needed to come pick him up. (Patel did not return a phone call, but another former teacher who was there seconds Jackson’s account.)

“When she heard this, Nancy put her fingers in her ears and said, ‘La la la la la, I don’t want to hear this,’” Jackson says.

It’s difficult to know how seriously people took this exchange, Jackson admits.

Many of the faculty members had been drinking, and a lot of people laughed.

“But there were some of us that looked at each other like, whoa,” Jackson says. “We didn’t really have enough information. You

don’t know how much was embellished.”

After she spoke to the police, things carried on as normal, Jackson says. On April 19, she was given her student roster and classroom assignment for the 2018–19 school year, according to the lawsuit, an indication that MSR planned to keep her on. But then, as part of the discovery process in the civil case filed by the Doe family, on April 24 the school received a summary of Jackson’s interviews with the police.

Six days later, Jackson was told she wouldn’t be returning. She says she wasn’t told why, after nine years, she no longer fit the school’s culture.

“I was a mentor for numerous teachers; I was put in leadership positions; I was the chairman for a committee on reaccreditation as a result of that work,” Jackson says.

“I mean, it just didn’t make any sense.”

In a statement, MSR Board of Trustees chairman Joe Lee denies that these events are related: “Ms. Jackson’s lawsuit wrongly attempts to tie her employment status to a tragic and unrelated event in our school’s history. The decision not to renew this teacher’s contract had absolutely nothing to do with her cooperation with the police.

From the very moment of Nick Smith’s arrest, we encouraged everyone—students, parents, staff, faculty, and alumni—to go directly to law enforcement if they had any pertinent information to share.”

Jackson’s case doesn’t rest solely on the coincidental timing of her termination. It also involves conversations she says she had with Kathleen Malik, an MSR parent and the sister-in-law of a board member, in May. In the first of these conversations, Jackson says Malik explicitly told her, “What we have been told was that you were not renewed because you went to the police.”

The next week, Jackson says, Malik told her she couldn’t help her get reinstated because “it’s tearing my family apart.”

In an email Friday, Malik denied telling Jackson she was fired for talking to the cops.

“I did not say any of the things attributed to me in the lawsuit. I was disappointed to see these false statements in the lawsuit, and I look forward to seeing the truth come to light,” she wrote. She did not respond to follow-up inquiries seeking additional information.

However, in a letter of recommendation Jackson’s attorney says Malik gave Jackson on June 4, Malik praised her child’s former teacher: “Nobody is more dedicated towards the improvement of our kids than Janie Jackson. … In our eyes, she represents the best of the best when it comes to integrity and ethics and doing the right thing.”

Asked about Malik’s denial, Jackson says, “She is in a horrible situation. I can’t even imagine what is going to happen in her family now. So I understand why she’s doing what she’s doing.”

In the wake of Jackson’s dismissal, says the Children’s House parent, “the majority of children have pulled out of Children’s House II. The amount of people who withdrew their children is unbelievable.”

(Reached shortly before press time, an MSR spokeswoman couldn’t immediately confirm or deny this parent’s account.)

“I just got a text from one of Janie’s parents asking me about withdrawal deadlines because a lot of parents are planning on leaving,” a former longtime teacher told the INDY Tuesday morning.

Tuition for Children’s House is $10,450 (for half-day) to $17,290 (for extended day), according to MSR’s website. As part of the Montessori program, parents expect their children to have the same teachers for three-year cycles, to allow the teachers to get to know the kids socially, emotionally, and academically. It’s a major selling point of the model. So it’s not surprising that, amid such upheaval, some parents would look elsewhere.

“The students that would be with me for another year or two, their parents were shocked,” Jackson says. “I have letter after letter after letter from parents saying they were devastated.” jbillman@indyweek.com

NCDOT TO HOST PUBLIC MEETINGS IN JULY FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO N.C. 54 FROM U.S. 15/U.S. 501 TO N.C. 55 DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES STIP Project No. U-5774 The N.C. Department of Transportation is proposing to make improvements to N.C. 54 between U.S. 15/U.S. 501 to N.C. 55. Two public meetings will be held for this project.

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at The Friday Conference Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill Wednesday, July 11, 2018 from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at Double Tree Inn and Suites, 2515 Meridian Parkway, Durham The purpose of these meetings is to provide interested citizens with information on the project and gather public input.

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 25, 2018.

Project maps will be available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/ publicmeetings/ or on the project webpage at https://ncdot.gov/projects/nc-54corridor-improvements/.

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, Christy Shumate, AICP, with the firm of AECOM by email at Christy.Shumate@aecom.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 1-800-233-6315.

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Here Comes Trouble

SHOULD A POOR HUD DESIGNATION GIVE THE DURHAM HOUSING AUTHORITY CAUSE FOR CONCERN?

BY SARAH WILLETS

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he CEO of the Durham Housing Authority says the agency is appealing for a second time a low assessment score that deemed the authority’s public housing operations “troubled” for 2016.

DHA was notified in April that it had been designated “troubled” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Real Estate Assessment Center, which reviews public housing agencies’ finances, management, and housing conditions. The assessment covered 2016 and gave DHA’s public housing program fiftyseven out of one hundred possible points.

Agencies that receive scores of sixty or less are deemed “troubled,” the lowest designation. (The 2016 scores are the most recent available.)

The designation continues a decline in DHA’s scores as it prepares to undertake a redevelopment of most of its public housing stock. The agency had been considered a high performer in 2013, then dipped to a standard performer in 2014 and 2015, with high scores in every area but physical condition. In 2016, DHA received a perfect score for its finances, but scored nineteen out of forty points for the physical condition of its buildings. It recieved a management score of eight out of twenty-five, and a capital-fund score of five out of ten points.

It was the management and capitalfund scores that landed DHA in “troubled” territory. Vacancy rates inform both scores.

CEO Anthony Scott says the agency would not have had as many vacancies as it did if not for plans to redevelop its public housing units through HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration program, or RAD. It’s on these grounds that DHA is appealing the 2016 score, after already having one appeal rejected.

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basic repairs—although major fixes like new roofs, plumbing, and HVAC systems are also needed. The program lets housing agencies convert units to the more stably funded Section 8 voucher program, borrow money (which they traditionally have not been able to do), and partner with private investors.

Former DHA CEO Dallas Parks, who left the agency two years ago, planned a full-scale renovation of all the public housing sites through RAD. So when residents moved out, the agency kept their units vacant so other residents could move in temporarily while their own units were being redone.

However, under Scott, who became CEO in June 2016, RAD plans have changed.

Two sites—Moreene Road and Damar Court—are being gutted, while the rest will be rebuilt in phases as mixed-income and, in some cases, mixed-use neighborhoods.

Because plans changed, DHA lost or withdrew RAD contracts, known as CHAPs, which lay out broad plans for a site but more importantly start the clock ticking on tight timelines to arrange financing and get to work.

Properties with CHAPs aren’t factored into the public housing assessment score because it’s understood that the agency is working to improve them. So when DHA lost those contracts on some of its sites, those vacancies were suddenly counted against it, although DHA still intends to convert the properties.

“The ‘troubled’ designation is basically a consequence of not putting these units back online quick enough when they went from wanting to go from full RAD to partial RAD,” HUD spokesman Joe Phillips told the INDY last week.

Scott says the agency was not aware that creating vacancies to prepare for RAD would have this effect on its assessment score. He expects the agency will again be deemed “troubled” for 2017 because those vacancies still existed in properties not under RAD contracts. Prior to receiving the latest score

DHA CEO Anthony Scott FILE PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA in April, the agency hired additional contractors to more quickly get vacant units ready to rent, and it expects to improve occupancy rates within the next few months.

“We have clear evidence that we were already working toward this,” Scott says.

As of May 31, there were 137 vacant units, with the highest number—thirty-four— at Oldham Towers, a senior housing site.

Meanwhile, there are nearly two thousand households on the waiting list for housing, according to a presentation made to DHA commissioners. (Phillips says DHA’s designation would remain until the next annual assessment.)

Scott says having to fill those vacant units—rather than keep them open in anticipation of upcoming RAD renovations—is not a significant setback for redevelopment plans. Work is underway at Morreene Road and Damar Court, and while DHA recently selected some development partners to work with on its downtown sites, it has not decided which property they’ll focus

on first. The agency is trying to determine which would be the best contender for crucial low-income housing tax credits, with the aim of beginning construction on the next site in early 2020.

“Because we won’t be developing all of the properties downtown at the same time, I don’t think we have the same concern the authority had under the old model,” Scott says.

The “troubled” designation only becomes a significant issue when a housing authority is considered chronically troubled. The designation doesn’t preclude DHA from participating in RAD or other programs.

Generally, HUD considers an agency’s scores for both its public housing and Section 8 operations when approving grants or programs; DHA’s Section 8 program is considered a high performer.

DHA has until July 15 to submit a proposed plan to HUD that will form the basis of a binding recovery agreement. swillets@indyweek.com

soapboxer Pigs in Slop

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY KNOWS BETTER THAN THOSE SILLY JURORS: BIG PORK MUST BE PROTECTED

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

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n Sunday, state Representative Jimmy Dixon, a Republican from Duplin County, published a remarkable op-ed in the Goldsboro NewsArgus. Reacting to the $25.1 million verdict that came down against Smithfield Foods Friday in the second of twenty-six scheduled hog-farm-nuisance trials taking place in Raleigh, Dixon, an unabashed Smithfield apologist, lashed out at the plaintiffs’ lawyers (who are trying to “rape these families” and have “raped and prostituted” their clients) and Judge Earl Britt (“who doesn’t have his thumb on the scales; his sorry ass is sitting on the scales!!!” [sic]).

Family farmers, he argued, were under attack: “We, the people must continue to rally and demand justice for the property rights of our hard-working family farmers … and we must do it in the court of public opinion because we are damn sure not getting justice in Judge Earl Britt’s courtroom.”

For years, this is how Dixon and other Big Pork allies have framed the debate over the noxious odors and swarms of buzzards and pests that the mostly poor, mostly African-American neighbors of the state’s hog farms have complained about: as the meager family farmer being beaten down by the greedy out-of-state lawyer who is willing to burn and pillage North Carolina’s agriculture industry in his quest for lucre.

Only they, the brave souls of the General Assembly, stand in the way.

In 2013, about five hundred neighbors of farms that raise Smithfield pigs sued the company, alleging that the farms’ method of waste disposal, which involves openair cesspools and spraying liquefied waste onto fields, infringes on their right to enjoy their property.

Weeks later, the legislature vastly expanded the protections it affords agricultural operations and eliminated a provision that said that nuisance protections don’t apply to negligent operators.

Then, in 2017, after the lawsuits survived Smithfield’s motions to dismiss, Dixon

pushed through legislation (over Governor Cooper’s veto) that dramatically narrowed the amount of compensatory damages plaintiffs in future nuisance lawsuits could collect. Dixon tried to make this retroactive, effectively negating the cases against Smithfield, but he couldn’t get enough Republicans to go along.

And in this year’s short session—which opened a few weeks after a jury in the first Smithfield trial awarded ten plaintiffs more than $50 million—the legislature went to bat for Big Pork again, this time with Senator Brent Jackson (himself a farmer) spearheading the Farm Bill.

“Whereas,” it begins, “frivolous nuisance lawsuits threaten the very existence of farming in North Carolina ….” A federal court, the bill continues, had “incorrectly” interpreted state law, and now the legislature “regrettably … is again forced to make plain its intent.”

Its intent, it seems, is that the neighbors of shit-spraying hog farms—not just the farms involved in the Smithfield litigation, but the more than two thousand hog operations across the state—should have almost no legal recourse.

Under the bill—passed last week over Cooper’s veto—would-be plaintiffs have to live within a half-mile of the alleged nuisance and can’t file a lawsuit in most cases if the farm has been in operation for more than a year. In addition, plaintiffs can’t recover any punitive damages if the farm in question hasn’t previously been slapped with a criminal conviction or civil enforcement action over the alleged nuisance.

Given the state of North Carolina’s underresourced regulatory apparatus, one attorney for environmental advocates points out, “that substantially limits if not eliminates” the possibility of punitive damages.

It’s not like industries in North Carolina aren’t already shielded from angry juries. For two decades, the state has had a strict cap on punitive damages that will render the first two verdicts against Smithfield a relative slap on the wrist. The first

judgment, for more than $50 million, has already been reduced to just over $3 million. The most recent verdict, for more than $25 million, will come down to $630,000.

There are, as the plaintiffs’ attorneys have argued, proven steps Smithfield could have taken to address these issues; the company just didn’t want to spend the money.

These juries wanted to send the company a message. Thanks to the legislature, however, that message is but dirt to be brushed off Smithfield’s shoulders.

To recap: Step one, crack down on how much bad actors can be sued for. Step two, crack down on who can be sued. Step three,

crack down on compensatory damages.

Step four, crack down on who can sue and who can receive punitive damages. Add it all up: Big Pork can do whatever it wants.

And, contra Dixon’s rhetoric, it is Big Pork we’re talking about. Farmers don’t have the resources to upgrade their wastedisposal tech. Smithfield, a multibilliondollar Chinese-owned conglomerate, does.

Make no mistake: This isn’t about bucolic farms and family farmers. This is about power and money protecting profits and shareholders. Don’t let Big Pork’s pawns pretend otherwise. jbillman@indyweek.com

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atermelon is an iconic summer food. It’s the perfect choice for a potluck picnic dessert, an essential part of any barbecue spread, and a refreshing poolside snack. For many of us, watermelon recalls childhood memories of hot summer days munching ripe, ruby slices, juice dripping down our chins. Raise your hand if, like me, you ate down to the rind and scraped off every bit of pink flesh with your front teeth.

Even though it’s perfect on its own, watermelon is a versatile ingredient and can be enjoyed in many ways. In the South, folks like to sprinkle salt on their slices. The combination of sugary watermelon with a dash of salt—be it sea, Kosher, pink Himalayan, or table salt—yields an irresistible sweetsavory combination. Mint is a classic addition to watermelon drinks, where it lends a crisp, herbaceous foil to the fruit’s sugary sweetness.

Watermelon can also cross over to the savory side. On a Carolina Beach trip three years ago, I ordered my first watermelon and feta salad and swore I’d never eat it any other way. And the North Carolina Watermelon Association’s online recipe arsenal proves that watermelon can go beyond salads, featuring recipes for watermelon soup, tacos, lettuce wraps, and pizza. There is even a recipe for Parmesan-roasted watermelon rind, a part that I’d previously considered inedible. I’ve also since discovered that in the South, rinds are often pickled.

Watermelon may be a summer-long fixture, but it’s especially delicious in July when it hits peak season in North Carolina.

There’s even a designated Watermelon Day at the State Farmers Market—this year’s event will be held on July 26 and will feature free slices, recipes, and the Largest Watermelon in N.C. contest (last year’s winner weighed in at more than two hundred and thirty-seven pounds!).

But what everyone really wants to know is, how do you pick a melon that hits the trifecta—ripe, sweet, and juicy? The National Watermelon Promotion Board confirms the oft-repeated advice to use color and sound as your guide. A melon should have a creamy underside, the yellower the better, and should sound hollow when you knock on it. But if you prefer to leave the selection and creative preparation to the pros, here’s where to munch and sip your way to watermelon-induced bliss at restaurants around the Triangle.

PANZANELLA SALAD at Whiskey Kitchen

Downtown Raleigh’s Whiskey Kitchen gives savory watermelon salad a fresh spin, pairing locally-sourced melon with

smoked mozzarella cheese instead of feta.

Chef Clayton Anderson lightly cold-smokes ciliegine—soft, rich, and creamy balls of mozzarella—to impart a subtle smoky flavor that tamps down the melon’s bright sweetness.

Melon and mozzarella make a fine pairing, but Anderson takes things firmly into summer territory by adding the duo to panzanella. Panzanella is a traditional Tuscan tomato-and-bread chopped salad that was created to revive pieces of stale bread, which eagerly soak up the juices of summer-ripe tomatoes and olive-oil-and-vinegar dressing. Here, watermelon cubes and mozzarella balls are combined with chunks of heirloom tomatoes and buttery croutons crafted from Tribeca Bakery baguettes, then dressed in a red-wine vinaigrette and garnished with fresh basil.

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Sangria knows no seasonality and is practically synonymous with party time, but, when the wine is rosé, and the fruit is watermelon, it adds up to a refreshing summer sipper. Though diners at Durham’s Nanataco start asking for the Watermelon Rosé Sangria in spring, but the seasonal libation isn’t available until summer. It’s best enjoyed on the patio with a trio of tacos or a big ol’ plate of nachos. ad of feta. The sangria was created by owner Jennid-smokes fer Gillie, who drew on her bartending backmy balls ground to transform sangria, which can be le smoky cloying, into a balanced, nuanced bevern’s bright age. Instead of chunks of fruit, Gillie starts with watermelon agua fresca, a refreshing fine pair- non-alcoholic fruit beverage that’s popular rmly into in Mexico. To make things boozy, she comuo to pan- bines it with Laurent Miquel rosé, a dry, onal Tus- French wine, and silver tequila, an unaged salad that tequila with sharp flavor. To add in citrus ale bread, and spice (and everything nice), she mixes s of sum- in habanero simple syrup, fresh orange and and-vine- lime juices, and a dash of salt. To tone down ubes and the sweetness and add effervescence, Gilth chunks lie tops her creation with rosé Cava and croutons garnishes it with a cilantro sprig for a pop ettes, then of color. and gar-

WATERMELON COOLER CUPCAKE at The Cupcake Bar

Since 2008, The Cupcake Bar in Durham has earned a following for its specialty cupcakes, whose flavors are often inspired by owners (and sisters) Anna Branly and Katie Braam’s favorite cocktails. July’s menu will welcome back the perennially popular Watermelon Cooler Cupcake, which was inspired by a watermelon and mint tipple Branly discovered at nearby Geer Street Garden.

For the cupcake base of the cocktailturned-confection, Branly and Braam start by sourcing locally-grown watermelons from Lyon Farms or the Durham Farmers Market, then make a watermelon puree.

They discovered that if they replaced the milk in the cupcake batter with puree, they could achieve a delicate watermelon flavor without thinning it out (which would result in a soggy cupcake). The watermelon cupcake is then topped with mint buttercream frosting and pieces of fondant fashioned to look like watermelon seeds. food@indyweek.com

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BEHIND THE SCENES OF COMPETITION BARBECUE WITH CHAMPION PITMASTER SHANNON TURNER

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he incoming text from Shannon Turner reads, “We are in spot 29—2 or 3 from the start of the big rigs. We have a Raptor.”

I walk down Salem Street, which has been blocked off for Apex’s annual Peak City Pig Fest, a Kansas City Barbeque Society-sanctioned competition. Behind The Promenade I spy a row of RVs, including one emblazoned with the word “Raptor.”

When I see the smoker set up next to it, I know I’m in the right place. Turner introduces herself, and after she sees me gawking at the equipment, explains that its a stick smoker that weighs twelve hundred pounds.

I see why the RV—and smoker’s trailer in tow—are necessary. Plus, competition barbecue, which requires monitoring the smoker’s temperature overnight, takes Turner all over the East Coast, so it makes sense she’d sleep in something that could pass for a tour bus.

Turner and her husband Brian make up the competition barbecue team Muttley Crew BBQ, named after their five dogs.

Technically, anyone with a cooker that cooks meat low and slow can call themselves a pitmaster. But there’s more to being a pitmaster than throwing a rack of ribs on the grill. “[The pitmaster] is the person who’s a leader,” Turner explains. “It’s the person who makes the major decisions, the person deciding which meat goes into the box to go in front of the judges.”

In competition barbecue, teams submit entries for four categories: chicken, pork ribs, pork, and beef brisket. The pitmaster must be able to cook several kinds of meat at once using multiple techniques, control the smoker’s temperature (Turner’s is between 275 and 300 degrees), and make the food taste and look as good as possible.

“This is a whole new ball game. We use brines, we use rubs, we use injections. We have [gadgets] to monitor the temperature,” Turner says. “I don’t know how much butter we go through; it’s a lot.”

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Shannon Turner PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA feeds in wood—first hickory, to imbue pork butt and brisket with a strong smoky flavor, then applewood, which imparts a mild, fruity smoke flavor to chicken and ribs.

Even the sauces aren’t the typical bottled variety. Turner orders several pro-grade sauces—which are richer and glossier—and combines them into her signature sauce, heavy on the tomato with a vinegar kicker.

Once the meat has cooked, Turner tastes, inspects, and selects samples to deliver to the judges. Every half-hour within a two-hour block, competitors have a ten-minute window to turn in meat using an insulated box.

KCBS-certified judges critique barbecue based on presentation, taste, and tenderness.

For chicken, Turner adds rubs and sauces to give drumsticks a sweet-heat flavor, but she’s careful not to mask the flavor of the meat.

And the chicken can’t look too juicy, lest the judges think it’s undercooked.

For ribs, Turner looks for a “clean bite,” so the meat must easily pull away from the bone but not come off completely.

For pork, Turner slices or chops meat from “the money muscle”—nicknamed for its reputation for winning competitions and prize money—then adds a finishing rub or sauce.

For brisket, Turner decides whether she wants to turn in burnt ends or slices; perfectly tender slices drape over her finger without breaking. To boost its visual appeal, she’ll add black pepper, a finishing rub, or drippings.

Cooking award-winning barbecue takes practice. Muttley Crew has participated in over a hundred competitions, but the Turners didn’t win their first Grand Championship until last year, around their seventy-fifth effort. Then they won two more, along with a few Grand Reserve Championships (second place overall), and placed in individual categories in multiple contests. These results helped qualify Turner for the 2017 Cowboy Charcoal Fire & Ice championship, which crowns the best female pitmaster among the ten highest-ranking KCBS female-led teams.

To determine the winner, fifty percent of competitors’ scores come from a KCBS con-

test in which the pitmasters cook with their n teams, while the other fifty percent come c from a separate contest between the women t (Turner recruited her sister to help). whose 19 Turner presented a luxe take on steak and lion copie potatoes—grilled Wagyu filet mignon topped weapons with a blue-cheese-garlic-chive compound smoky, Bi butter, served with grilled asparagus and Zippers p Hasselback potatoes drizzled with red pep- landscape per jelly. Along with Muttley Crew’s solid abundanc performance, the dish crowned Turner the company 2017 Fire & Ice Champion. air. But t The necessity of gender-specific compe- drummer titions is oft-debated, and I wonder what wouldn’t Turner thinks about it in the context of com- the band f petition barbecue. Turner credits contests But on like Fire & Ice for bringing awareness to the long break fact that female pitmasters exist. to some o “Before, you may have walked through a of her life contest and not realized that that woman is them all h a pitmaster. Because typically, they’re not all- On sta women teams. You might have some, but for alone. He the most part, it’s men and women.”

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“There’s a lot of strong women out there who “Wash Jo can really work a pit and get some good food by frontm turned in and they’re winning contests. And the band’s those women are getting that respect.” the pair.

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KATHARINE WHALEN’S DECADE-LONG BREAK FROM PLAYING SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS SONGS COMES TO AN END

BY ALLISON HUSSEY

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ne of the most commercially successful bands to ever spring out of the Triangle is Squirrel Nut Zippers, whose 1996 LP Hot sold more than a million copies. One of the group’s not-so-secret weapons was Katharine Whalen, whose smoky, Billie Holiday-esque vocals gave the Zippers plenty of zing. In a chaotic radio landscape that was still reckoning with an abundance of moribund grunge, Whalen and company were an unexpected burst of fresh air. But the band’s “redneck Camelot,” as drummer Chris Phillips described it in 2016, wouldn’t last; strained relationships within the band fractured it permanently.

But on Saturday, after a nearly decadelong break from the Zippers, Whalen returns to some of the songs that changed the course of her life for good. This time, she’s making them all her own.

On stage, though, she won’t be entirely alone. Her friends Danny Grewen, whom Whalen credits with reinvigorating her love of West Coast jazz, and banjo player Ellis Dyson, have been learning these songs alongside her.

“It’s the songs, but it just feels different. It feels very natural and easy—kind of like the very beginning days when we used to play in our living room out in Durham, and it was super organic and quiet,” Whalen says.

Her efforts to revisit those songs began when she and Dyson wanted to learn a song together. Whalen realized that the Zippers’ “Wash Jones,” a banjo-driven tune written by frontman Jimbo Mathus that appears on the band’s 1995 debut, would be a good fit for the pair.

“Jimbo had written it for a band he was in that was sort of a surf punk band. They did a good version of it, but it wasn’t exactly what he wanted,” Whalen recalls. “He was like ‘I want to play piano, would you learn this on the banjo?' and taught me that, so that made me feel super cool, super powerful.”

As she and Dyson worked on the song, Whalen realized she wanted to build a full set, so she started searching for arrangement charts,

digging up “Danny Diamond” and more. Some of her choices were dictated by which charts she could find, and Whalen had to listen to some of the songs on Spotify to jog her memory. Her set won’t be limited to the tunes on which she sang lead—she says she’s even likely to leave out some of the most well-worn numbers she’s sung over the year (it’s worth noting, though, that she’s planning on doing “Hell,” the band’s massive hit penned by Tom Maxwell).

The Zippers first went on hiatus in 2001 and reconvened for a few strings of shows between 2007 and 2009. Under Mathus’s leadership, a version of the band sprung up again in 2016 in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Hot. He and drummer Phillips are the only original Zippers personnel to participate in the revival, which has remained active. Since retiring from the Zippers for good after the first reunion, Whalen has continued to make music under her own name and with Swedish Wood Patrol. She also ran a small business where she made hats and fascinators, many of which were made from parts of an old, unfinished quilt her aunt had given her. Upon returning to the Zippers catalog, Whalen says she hasn’t encountered any uncomfortable feelings about it.

“I’m just going to sing, which is very refreshing. It was just kind of in there, and it didn’t make me feel sad or bad, it was just kind of like, ‘Ohh.’ It just made sense, in a weird way,” she says.

When the Zippers were at their peak, Whalen says that an essential part of keeping her head on the shoulders was to stay engaged with other music to help her improve at her own craft. That’s something she’s held on to over the years.

“I would’ve gone crazy with the pressure of all the work if I hadn’t always had something I was working on to get better at. There would be whole tours where I would try to learn an entire Loretta Lynn record on my guitar in the bus, just to have something that I was working on,” she says. “It wasn’t what we were performing, but it would inform it. I had to be learning.”

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Most recently, she’s fallen in love with A Giant Dog, the Austin, Texas rock band renowned for its raucous, fast-and-loose songs.

She heard them on NPR’s Sound Opinions and immediately became “obsessed,” as she puts it.

“It triggered something in my mind of, if you’re going to perform—which I’ve been doing for a long time—try to do something that people want to see and want to hear,” she says.

Whalen says she’s gotten a blessing from Phillips and Mathus to do her Zippers show, which may be reprised later this year. Though she hasn’t been in touch with the band’s other members, she felt compelled to give the two active members a heads-up.

“Jimbo has a band named the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and he’s touring, so I didn’t want it to be like I was trying to compete. I’m not a

good liar; I’m not good at being dishonest or clouding things. I’m much better with things just being out in the open,” she says, continuing, “It could’ve been weird if they heard it from somebody. Not that they’re even going to care or know—I just didn’t want anybody to feel bad.”

Whalen herself is eager to return to the songs that have already been such a huge part of her life, especially when they still carry meaning for audiences decades later.

“People still have such a fond feeling for it.

Like ‘Oh, I listened to that with my tiny baby dancing,' or ‘I listened to that with my grandparents,’” she says. “We knew the whole time that if you could do that, and have every generation dig it, that was something. And I think it’s still happening.” ahussey@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 7.4.18 | 13

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SNAIL MAIL’S LINDSEY JORDAN SURFS A WAVE OF SENSATION SURROUNDING HER DEBUT RECORD

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n a Wednesday in late June, Lindsey Jordan admits that she’s been a bit stressed lately.

“I don’t have a lot of time to myself these days,” she says.

Though originally from Maryland, she’s calling from the West Coast, in the throes of a multi-month headlining tour and a press cycle that never seems to end. Though she keeps a good sense of humor about it all, the eighteen-year-old’s schedule is draining. She says she barely had time for Netflix or the modern things that people usually do to unwind.

“It’s sick. I really only have time right now to watch TV when I’m desperately trying to force myself to relax,” she says.

Her temporary exhaustion is understandable. Three weeks before our conversation, Jordan dropped a remarkable first fulllength, Lush, via indie institution Matador Records. The acclaim was instant and universal. Blogs sung her praises through an endless cavalcade of glowing reviews and profiles, which led to a first-week storming of the Billboard Top 100 charts, where she debuted at No. 46. And though the press obsession around her teenage achievements has felt a bit weird and infantilizing at times, the general praise is warranted. Lush’s singles, “Pristine” and “Heat Wave,” are among Jordan’s best tracks. Their melancholic verses and unexpectedly powerful riffs gel into two soaring, instantaneously memorable indie rock songs.

The de facto form of popular indie rock in the late 2010s is nineties revivalism, and older indie record executives have been vigorously pushing the sounds of their own youth onto the latest generation. This is the constant twenty-five-year cycle of culture we seem to live in, and these tendencies often result in a lot of derivative art masquerading as innovation. Lush isn’t free from sin in that regard, but it is certainly one of the best, most compelling examples of songwriting to emerge from this moment.

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Where other recent bands are content with slavish adherence to the affectations of old indie-rock totems or cake everything in fuzz to disguise their lack of ideas, Jordan’s songs go all in on crisp aesthetics and unique, thoughtful assemblage. They arrived fully formed, powerful and immediately memorable, even if they borrow identifiable aesthetic ideas from the past.

Of course, Jordan’s recent rapid ascent has also invited a flood of sudden, often uncomfortable personal attention. She notes that acclimating from the early days to the sudden explosion of attention and her current, mostly sold-out tour has been a slow process.

For one, she hasn’t been able to sift through her Facebook messages in a while, the result of obsessive fans of all ages and hanger-on types who want to catch her ear.

“I use Instagram and Twitter for fun, but I’ve definitely had to step away from social media [since the record came out],” she says.

“I don’t check it myself, but I am pretty sure that a lot of the messages I get on Facebook are completely terrifying.”

The constant press attention and comparisons to the same few acts probably get old too. I ask her whether she gets tired of constantly being compared to Liz Phair and Helium’s Mary Timony. She counters by mentioning that even though she genuinely loves a lot of the music that people compare her to, it helps that a lot of her personal taste is at odds with her work.

“What I write and what I listen to to get inspired can be totally unrelated,” she says.

One such example is country—she’s a big fan of Lucinda Williams and the 1970s gay country icon Lavender Country and the late folk balladeer Townes Van Zandt.

Jordan also loves punk music, and she says she still has the utmost respect for the original Maryland-area punks who helped strengthen her backbone in her early years.

Specifically, she cites the singer Katie Alice Greer and the other members of Washington, D.C., punk stalwarts Priests, who mentored her from a young age. Before her

Lindsey Jordan PHOTO COURTESY OF GROUND CONTROL TOURING current deal with Matador, she released her first EP Habit on Sister Polygon Records, the record label helmed by members of the band.

“All of them have firm ideas and ethics and are all incredibly driven people. Growing up, they helped me set exact standards early on for what’s cool ethically and what’s not.

What is fair to ask for monetarily for a show, how to effectively respond to obvious sexism in the arts, all that stuff that you have to find your way through,” Jordan says. “In a lot of ways, they taught me how to deal with things early on that I only experienced way later.”

Jordan’s self-deprecating, humble social

media presence indicates an endearing sincerity—it’s abundantly evident that she’s not merely a label-engineered product. It would be equally difficult to argue that Lush isn’t one of the strongest, most polished indie rock full-length debuts of the year. When asked about what the most surprising thing about her sudden fame has been, she offers a frank yet genuine answer: “I think it’s crazy that these crowds actually know all the words.” music@indyweek.com

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CHRIS BROWN STILL SUCKS A comical side effect of the #MeToo movement has been the concern that it’ll ruin the lives and careers of powerful men.

I say “comical” in the “laugh-to-keep-fromcrying” sense—to see the utter failure of this feeble strain of whataboutism, we need look no further than Chris Brown.

On Tuesday, Brown headlines the Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, which has a capacity of twenty thousand. He’s still being afforded lucrative top-tier opportunities and his songs still crack the Billboard Top 100, even after abundant documentation of his violent relationships with women.

Photos of Rihanna’s bloodied, battered face weren’t enough to end Brown’s career in 2009. In 2016, he punched a woman at a nightclub, and a few months later, he threatened another with a gun. Last year, the actress Karrueche Tran won a five-year restraining order against Brown after dating him on and off from 2010 to 2015.

Even years after they’d broken up, Tran still felt like she needed to “protect [her] safety,” as she told talk show host Wendy Williams. And yet, here comes Brown to sing and dance like there’s nothing wrong.

Brown certainly isn’t the only man whose career has been more or less unaffected by women coming forward about the abuse they wrought. R. Kelly still skulks across this horrible earth, and so does Woody Allen. The list is sickeningly long. And yet, Brown and his miserable cohort can still book shows, make art, and exist in public. It’s almost like none of it ever happened at all.

The #MeToo movement was long overdue, and it’s encouraging to witness an apparent sea change in power structures and dynamics. But it can’t last unless those who have done wrong face consequences for the damage they’ve wrought—and we certainly can’t get anywhere if none of those consequences end up sticking.

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AS SCIENCE CATCHES UP WITH DECADES OF ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE THAT DANCE HELPS PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON’S DISEASE, LOCAL EFFORTS CONVERGE AT ADF

BY BYRON WOODS

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t’s one thing to read an article in a medical journal about how dancing can assuage the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. But Susan Saenger, a dance and movement therapist with the American Dance Festival’s Parkinson’s Movement Initiative, was watching it happen right in front of her.

She and occupational therapist Lindsay Voorhees were teaching their Dance for Parkinson’s class at Broad Street Studios, using the soundtrack from The Music Man. At the end of the session, one student found she couldn’t leave. She was “frozen,” a Parkinson’s condition in which the person’s feet feel glued to the ground.

“Well, march out,” Saenger said, and started singing “76 Trombones.” The student immediately walked out of the room.

The instructor’s unconventional request lifted an everyday movement out of the woman’s subcortex, where habitual gestures like walking are stored, and into the problemsolving cortex, a part of the brain unaffected

by Parkinson’s.

“Anything that demands a new physical response is an answer to the problem,” says Voorhees. “We ask, ‘Can you get from here to that counter to take your pills if you think of it as a dance?’ And people have said yes.”

Voorhees hastens to add that it doesn’t work all the time, and that dancing doesn’t represent a cure for the world’s second-most common neurological disease, which affects some six million people, most over age sixty.

But dance “is one of the most immediate things that we know can really help people in their lives,” Saenger says. “We already know a lot about what can enhance quality of life, and finding movement you love and engage in consistently—we know that works.”

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their symptoms. Over the last decade, dozens of peer-reviewed articles have found that dancing can improve the motor and cognitive functions, mental symptoms, and quality of life among people with Parkinson’s.

In 2001, the Brooklyn Parkinson’s Group proposed a dance class for its patients to the Mark Morris Dance Group, already one of the top modern dance companies at the time. As the classes’ popularity spread—and research began confirming its medical effects—the company’s Dance for Parkinson’s program spread to two hundred and fifty communities in twenty-four countries.

Duke student Alana Jackson founded NC Dance for Parkinson’s during her senior year in 2013, and recruited Voorhess and Sanger over the following years, first as volunteers, then as teachers. Last year, ADF began coordinating that effort with those of Poe Wellness Solutions into a cohesive program of weekly free classes at the festival’s Broad Street Studios. A grant from the Parkinson’s Foundation, with funds from its annual Moving Day North Carolina walkathon in Raleigh, made the series possible, including Saenger and Voorhees’s dance classes, Pilates for Parkinson’s, and workshops and outreach classes in Tai Chi and physical and music therapy.

According to Julia Pleasants, ADF’s community engagement manager, the initiative reached more than one hundred and thirty people in its first year, which concluded in late June with a workshop in Argentine tango led by local dancer and Culture Mill codirector Murielle Elizéon, who is also the only local choreographer on ADF’s mainstage season (see sidebar). The festival has applied for funds to continue the program after its summer hiatus.

Saenger, Voorhees, and Pilates instructor Meg Poe resist labeling their classes as therapy.

“People with Parkinson’s are always going

“W

e ask, ‘Can you get from here to that counter to take your pills if you think of it as a dance?’

And people have said yes.”

to therapy,” Saenger says. “Their lives are filled with doctors’ appointments. They don’t want another therapy. They want to feel like they’re just living their lives.”

That makes the ADF classes “the antitherapy,” a room where people can leave Parkinson’s—and their usual roles as patients and caregivers—at the door. Voorhees says the teachers attempt to “create a space where there is freedom from the limitations that Parkinson’s can impose on the mind and body.” That space also has to suspend the judgments found in ordinary exercise classes.

“It takes the stress of, ‘Am I doing it right?’ away and allows all of us to be in our own bodies however we can,” Saenger says. “In this class, there is no Parkinson’s, and no observers. There are only dancers.”

She pauses for a moment, grins, and adds,

“There are no mistakes. There are only solos.”

How rare is such an environment for people with Parkinson’s? A student in Poe’s Pilates class told her, “This is the first time I felt I belonged somewhere in six months.”

Paula Easton, a neighborhood coordinator with Fearrington Cares, says the ADF classes have been “the beginning of a turnaround for me. When I left that first class, I called a friend and said, ‘This is the most wonderful thing I could have found.’”

Easton believes the classes have helped her keep her Parkinson’s at bay. “My muscle movement is better, my control of movement is better, my stiffness and muscle weakness are improving, and it helps with my body awareness. I just feel more in control of my movement and everything I do.” arts@indyweek.com

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This is a condensed version of our review of the premiere of Brown at Monkey Bottom Collaborative last December.

Murielle Elizéon sets the scene for Brown, her hour-long dance solo, by telling the story of reconnecting with her estranged father shortly before his death. “It was a fucking bummer,” she says, characteristic of her monologue’s taut emotion and brutal brevity.

That’s a fucking understatement. Brown leaves you not depressed so much as scoured and purged, sorely intimate with the performer, the other spectators, and yourself. When Elizéon batters herself against floors and walls, it is not easy to watch. But she cracks her vessel for pain with a single gesture of sublime beauty, mightily bending an arc of loss back toward repletion.

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Her father’s presence in the show is at once pervasive and elusive. His name is etched on a glass urn filled with what appear to be cremated remains. Defiantly literal, the urn is also symbolic of a mortal meeting that became a sort of container—a face and a form—for the unmade memories that previously swirled through Elizéon’s life like so much cloudy ash.

Though autobiographical, Brown is neither narrative nor confessional. Elizéon’s strained, too-bright smile and edge-of-breakdown jauntiness preclude sentimentality, and the suffering in the urn has many strata, including racism, sexism, cultural displacement, and domestic violence against women. The piece is more like an exorcism than an elaboration. Elizéon beats the mic on her thigh like a dying heartbeat.

She has seizure-like episodes, strafing her bare skin on rough surfaces. She carries herself by the hair. She jogs, staggers, loses her breath, collapses.

At one point, she becomes the absent father, tying back her hair with a necktie. But in a vignette too special to spoil, she becomes the present mother as well. If not for this, Brown would be intolerably painful; because of it, the piece heals as well as hurts. But its self-immolation, effort, and futility are too intense to say one “likes” it.

Instead, it is daringly authentic, and a reminder of the difference between entertainment and art. Elizéon’s visceral portrait of trauma, abstracted from her backstory until it stands alone and darkly shines, has something hard and true to say to everyone. It’s a universal template of damage and resilience, vulnerability and defiance, and the love and loss we carry down the generations. —Brian Howe

HOMELAND SECURITY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE DANA RUTTENBERG AT ADF Dana Ruttenberg Dance Group is scheduled to perform at the North Carolina Museum of Art in the American Dance Festival’s mainstage season July 14–17, but last-minute Department of Homeland Security challenges to the Israeli dance company’s visa applications have put the show in jeopardy.

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ficial at a U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services center in California issued four requests for evidence of notability beyond what ADF had provided in the initial applications. The center’s director, Kathy A. Baran, questioned whether the company, which has performed at the Israel Museum of Art and various international festivals, has ever “starred or led in a distinguished production” or had “commercial or critically acclaimed success.”

Baran also questioned whether or not the group’s namesake artistic director and company manager are significantly linked to its performers—reflective of the department’s ignorance of the dance world—and challenged the company’s degree of turnover this year, during which two dancers became pregnant, and a third was hired to manage another company’s American tour.

Homeland Security also wanted to

know why dance doesn’t get much press, which caused ADF to reach out to arts reporters at the INDY, The Herald-Sun, and The News & Observer for testimony last week. ADF Executive Director Jodee Nimerichter says requests for additional supporting materials aren’t that unusual for visa applications. But festival officials are troubled by the degree of pushback so near a scheduled performance in this case.

“On the last day of the processing period, they requested proof of almost everything I had given them,” says ADF performances coordinator Megan Yankee. That sent her and her colleagues scrambling to compile evidence from academic articles assessing dance journalism to detailed box office receipts written in Hebrew.

By last Thursday, they’d assembled some eighty pages of data, affidavits, and testimonials.

Homeland Security is expected to render a final decision on the Ruttenberg visas on Tuesday; watch our website for an update.

—Byron Woods

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BOOM OR BUST: GREEN LIGHT BURLESQUE Saturday, Jul. 7, 8 & 10 p.m., $25 Criterion, Durham www.facebook.com/boomorbustburlesque

Confidence Game

PEEK INTO THE FLOURISHING, EMPOWERING WORLD OF LOCAL BURLESQUE WITH MISS BLISS AND BOOM OR BUST

BY JAMES ROCKEFELLER GRAY

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urious about the world of local burlesque? There’s more to it than “sex sells.” The art form was brought from England to the United States in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and modern burlesque is commonly known as neo-burlesque. It encourages people to become more confident in their bodies. It’s also extremely entertaining to watch dancers tastefully tease the audience while also providing a laugh. Let’s be clear: It’s not stripping. It’s more theatrical and, in most cases, not fully nude.

Across the nation and in the Triangle, burlesque has flourished in recent years, as anyone who watches the INDY’s events calendars must have noticed. If you follow the scene at all, one name that keeps coming up is Bliss Floccare, aka Miss Bliss. I’ve known Bliss for years; we worked together to coordinate a series of burlesque dance parties from 2012– 2014. Bliss is the founder of the burlesque troupe Boom OR Bust, which performs all over the Triangle, including two Prohibitionera-themed speakeasy shows at Criterion in Durham this Saturday, sponsored by Bedlam Vodka, a new “grain-to-glass” vodka from Durham’s Graybeard Distillery.

When celebrity burlesque dancer Dita Von Tease, who gained international attention when she was briefly married to Marilyn Manson, came to the Ritz in Raleigh in April, I thought it would be fitting to interview the Raleigh burlesque queen at the international one’s show. She discussed confidence and sexuality and the cultural reasons for burlesque’s surging popularity, and she shared a few tricks of the trade.

INDY: How did you get into burlesque?

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generally a free spirit my whole life. This art form seemed to embody all of that for me.

I started dancing burlesque that year and started my troupe, Boom OR Bust, about two years later.

What makes a great burlesque dancer?

What makes an awful one?

Great stage performers usually all have one underlying thing. It’s what we call stage presence, pizazz, or simply confidence. If

this is missing, it’s harder to capture an audience’s attention.

When you are on stage, you seem to transform into someone else. Would you say Miss Bliss is your alter ego?

I wouldn’t say that Miss Bliss is my alter ego. I’d say that on stage I am at my most confident and unapologetic. A lot of that has to do with creating a space for myself and my performers where we can feel comfortable. I’ve cultivated my audience and shows over many years to do just that.

What do you look for when you choose someone to perform with Boom OR Bust?

Beyond dance talent and creativity, I love to see some grit in my performers. Burlesque, like anything else, is not always easy or glamorous. I want to know that they can hang if our dressing room is a broom closet, or perform in an awkward situation.

How would someone create their personal burlesque name?

I think most performers choose something about themselves, their career, or their appearance, and tie it in with a fine word. I always encourage my students to research their names before settling on one to make sure no one in the area has the same name.

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“I wouldn’t say that Miss Bliss is my alter ego. I’d say that on stage I am at my most confident and unapologetic.”

Who makes your costumes?

Most of us nighttime burlesquers make our own costumes. I can’t tell you how many hours of my life I’ve spent rhinestone-ing, hot gluing, and hand stitching!

What do you find sexy?

I love when I see a hiccup on stage—for instance, a wardrobe malfunction or a music issue, and the performer is able to sail right through it. This takes improv skills and confidence.

What’s the best and worst thing a fan has done at a show?

My fans are pretty amazing. They are so supportive, and hearing the influence a show or performance has had on them is always really gratifying.

The worst?

I’ve had all kinds of silly things happen at shows: change being thrown at me, women screaming at me to put clothes on. But in the end, those instances don’t amount to the positive ones.

What do you say when people criticize burlesque as being degrading to women?

More and more people are learning how important it is to take control of their sexuality. It’s not something that should be hidden; it should be celebrated. I hope that even

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people who have doubts will come see a show and realize what a beautiful, empowering expression burlesque is. And that goes for all sex work. Find someone who works in the industry and just talk to them. We are all humans trying to live our best life. It just so happens that ours include taking our clothes off in public.

Why do you think burlesque in the past five years has become so popular? What makes people respond?

I think this has a lot to do with people becoming more comfortable with self-expression and sexuality. Gender fluidity and sex work are becoming more commonly talked about topics. People want to see the body celebrated, they want a taste of the past, and they want live entertainment. arts@indyweek.com

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As a second-tier superhero movie with modest ambitions, Ant-Man and the Wasp works just fine for what it is. It’s the opposite of epic: a goofy, fun sci-fi ride with the spirit of old-school pulp fiction, the kind of adventure you might find in a beat-up copy of Amazing Stories circa 1953.

Paul Rudd returns as Ant-Man, a good-hearted ex-con who can shrink down to the size of an insect thanks to technology developed by Hank Pym (Michael Douglas). Evangeline Lilly reprises her role as Pym's daughter, Hope, aka the Wasp, who now has a super-powered suit of her own.

Appropriately enough, the movie keeps the stakes small. There are no planet-devouring villains to fend off, no existential threats to the multiverse. Instead, our heroes endeavor to rescue Pym’s wife, Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer), who has disappeared into a subatomic dimension known as the quantum realm.

These excursions provide the film’s best visual moments; this is one of the very few times when seeking out the 3-D version of a movie is warranted. The effects team has great fun playing with perspective and toggling the micro/macro switch so that caroming quarks and bosons appear as coPHOTO COURTESY OF MARVEL STUDIOS lossal organic geometries.

The visual designers also deliver some clever riffs on standard-issue action movie scenes. A car chase through San Francisco takes on a new dimension, quite literally, as the vehicles flip to Matchbox size and back again. The usual fight scenes go pleasantly haywire as our heroes dispatch the goons using radical shifts in scale.

Such conceptual design flourishes power the movie's old-fashioned science-fiction appeal. The featherweight tone keeps everything agreeable so that, for the most part, you won't even notice the rickety script underneath. Like those old pulp magazine stories, Ant-Man and the Wasp is good, dumb American fun, exuberant and disposable. —Glenn McDonald

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indyetc Public Interest Private Eyes IN THE LONG DANCE, TWO JOURNALISTS REPORTING ON A COLD MURDER CASE IN DURHAM BECOME PODCASTERS PARTICIPATING IN AN INVESTIGATION

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met Drew Adamek in a Chapel Hill bar.

He’d emailed me after reading a piece of mine in the INDY, where he was also a contributor at the time. He said he thought I’d be a good collaborator for an idea he had brewing: to find a story with local interest and write a deep investigative piece.

We decided to meet again in a week, armed with five ideas each.

For me, there was only ever one.

The 1971 murders of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane had all the sensationalist trappings of a classic horror story. The young lovers disappeared after a Valentine’s Day dance at Watts School of Nursing. For two weeks, the entire state of North Carolina was on the lookout for them. Then, on February 25, their bodies were discovered in the woods on the edge of Orange County. They had been tortured and strangled, then covered with leaves. Their killer or killers were never identified.

When Tim Horne, the major of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office’s criminal investigation division, reopened the case in 2010, the publicly available information about the murders would barely fill a quarter page of tablet paper, and his press releases became this century’s only news source. But there were some new details: A mysterious confession had been traced to a payphone in Loehmann’s Plaza. Horne now believed the primary suspect was a doctor with ties to Watts Hospital, a person who was still alive and residing in the area.

Our initial attempts to gain access to case information were rebuffed by both Horne and the spokesperson for the victim’s families, who considered it over the 2016 Thanksgiving holiday and then politely declined. But we continued to research the case, crisscrossing the state to explore public records and scan microfiche in libraries and city halls.

Jesse McBane and Patricia Mann PHOTO BY CAROLYN SPIVEY Every morsel of information we uncovered drove our desire to find more. By March 2017, we had amassed enough to point our suspicions at a single suspect, and we asked Horne to meet with us again.

He took one look at our packet, placed his coffee on it so that the name of our suspect was obscured, and again declined to give us access to the case files. We chatted about basketball for a few minutes. He wished us luck and sent us on our way.

But five minutes later, my phone rang. It was Horne. He told us to visit him the next day at his office to meet a lawyer and sign some papers because he was opening the case file to us.

“Let’s stop kidding around,” he said.

“You’ve figured out the name of our primary suspect.”

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’ve written films, stories, and books, but one of the most transformative experiences I’ve had with storytelling was none of those. It was listening to Serial. I got caught up in the twists and turns of the case against Adnan Syad and the murder of Hae Min Lee. Each week, I pulled out tufts of my hair waiting for the latest installment.

When it was over, I reckoned I’d do anything to replicate that.

When I met Drew, I saw my chance. But we realized we wanted to tell a larger story than traditional print media could accommodate. As we lined up interviews with family members and friends of the victims, we knew their voices would share much more than our words ever could. We added local sound engineer Piper Kessler to the team. We were going to make a podcast.

Drew and I ended up taking an active role in the investigation. We must have seemed harmless because the case was so cold.

(Throughout the process, we were continually reminded that they never do this.)

We helped Horne acquire new DNA profiles and introduced new information into the case file. Law enforcement had always been unable to rule out three suspects. In exchange for access to the case file, we were given one caveat: We had to build a case against all three suspects, not just the one.

The goal was to not only show that one person committed these murders, but that the other two did not.

Tim Horne PHOTO BY ERYK PRUITT Conducting the interviews was both exciting and heartbreaking. Some were eager to share, hoping to provide insight or a missing piece of information. Others needed reassurance from a family spokesperson or Horne.

One time, a subject’s wife coincidentally suffered a heart attack while we were talking to him, and we waited with him while she was taken away in an ambulance. (We spoke to her the next day. She’s OK.) Another time, we feared we had agitated a man to the point that he wanted to harm us. Another time, we had to deliver the news to a man that his father had died nearly eight years ago.

After we interviewed every willing family member and friend, we sought out lawenforcement officials who had been involved.

Many had passed away. Others were wary of speaking with journalists. Horne often vouched for us, which opened doors. We spoke to surviving police officers and SBI agents in Durham, working from a list of

more than two dozen names from six different law enforcement agencies.

But the most exciting part was when we interviewed the primary suspect. He was notoriously wary of the press and often refused to be interviewed by anyone, including law enforcement. Armed with five hidden microphones, we ambushed him at his medical practice. Needless to say, the next hour of our lives was the most nerve-wracking of my career.

You can learn about this and other threads I’ve left dangling here in our eight-episode podcast, The Long Dance, which we've just independently released for free on all the usual platforms. I wrote the scripts. Drew and I narrated them around original audio interviews. Piper Kessler edited the episodes.

Mike Rollin composed a simple, eerie score that heightened the tension.

As we were wrapping up production on The Long Dance, we got word that the Carolinas Cold Case Coalition had taken an interest. They asked Horne and me to present the details at a forum in Greensboro, where an MVAC machine—which analyzes DNA—owned by the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office would be presented.

It took forty-five days for Bode Cellmark labs to analyze the DNA on a forty-seven-year-old piece of rope. As we waited, we entertained several offers from major media corporations. But on June 14, the results came back inconclusive. The amount of DNA that could be extracted was too minuscule to be successfully compared against the profiles.

While this was a blow, it was by no means a defeat. Not for us or for Horne. Throughout this process, I had to remove myself from thoughts of justice and morality and remember I’m not law enforcement. My job was to research, write, and produce a story that would serve my needs, those of law enforcement, and those of the families and public.

For his part, Horne says he continues to field calls every day now, some offering other advanced technologies he might try or memories the new attention dredged up. Will they successfully analyze the rope or provide a missing piece of the puzzle? If they do, maybe we’ll have a second season on our hands. arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 7.4.18 | 23

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TERE O’CONNOR DANCE

Even if you didn’t see Tere O’Connor Dance perform four-part project Bleed—also including the works Poem, Secret Mary, and Sister—at ADF in 2014, you might remember the hype signs dotting Duke’s East Campus: a graffiti-esque rendering of O’Connor’s face, surrounded by the phrase, “Tere, it’s about time.” It was the festival’s inaugural presentation of O’Connor’s work, which has accumulated reams of accolades over more than thirty-five years. O’Connor’s choreography fits into no neat package, insofar as some expect dance to be tidy and easily categorizable, with clean narrative arcs and gestures toward audience comprehension. Powered by the unique energies of the performers, his dances interrogate time’s unfolding, rendering that 2014 slogan especially apt. Structures arrive and dissolve; movements materialize like palimpsests. O’Connor returns with Long Run, an ADF commission that, for me, feels particularly welcome compared to other, well, more neatly packaged offerings. —Michaela Dwyer REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER, DURHAM 8 p.m., $12–$33, www.americandancefestival.org

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I’M WITH HER

Let’s forget about the still-stinging reminder of the 2016 presidential election that follows I’m With Her’s name and focus on the positives, shall we? There are a lot of them: The band I’m With Her is an ensemble of three immaculately talented singers who are among the most highly regarded figures in contemporary folk worlds. Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan are alumni of Nickel Creek and Crooked Still, respectively, though more recently, they’ve built sparkling solo careers. Sarah Jarosz rounds out the trio with a captivating, smoky voice of her own. Brought together as a unit, their voices slide together in a way that feels preternatural—even in a cover of “Send My Love (To Your New Lover),” the trio teases out curlicues of harmony that make Adele’s original feel almost flat in comparison. —Allison Hussey HAW RIVER BALLROOM, SAXAPAHAW 8 p.m., $25–$27, www.hawriverballroom.com

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PARCOURS: A PERFORMANCE JOURNEY

It could have been just another discarded compliment; performers tend to get them. But when a guest told actor, singer, dancer, and burlesque performer Johanna Burwell, aka JoRose, that she looked a lot like the iconic Josephine Baker—celebrated entertainer, avatar of fashion, and agent in the French Resistance during World War II—JoRose checked it out. “I was stunned by how much we resembled each other,” she says. “Given the fact that our artistry lined up so well (Baker also acted, sang, and danced), I decided I’m just kind of Josephine, reincarnated in a different time and climate.” In Parcours—not parkour, the extreme free running craze—JoRose invokes the dance sauvage of Baker in her Folies Bergère days, then segues into more autobiographical narrative and musical sequences involving tap, aerial, and modern dance. The work, JoRose says, weaves Southern history and the history of performance into her ongoing personal quest for passion and purpose. —Byron Woods THE FRUIT, DURHAM 8 p.m., $10–$25, www.johannaroseburwell.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

BOOM OR BUST AT CRITERION (P. 20), MURIELLE ELIZÉON AT THE FRUIT (P. 17), LEGEND AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE (P. 32), ROSIE HERRERA DANCE THEATRE AT REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER (P. 31), SNAIL MAIL AT THE PINHOOK (P. 14), THE WEDDING OF BATMAN & CATWOMAN AT ULTIMATE COMICS (P. 32) KATHARINE WHALEN AT CAT’S CRADLE (P. 13) 24 | 7.4.18 | INDYweek.com

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MARISA ANDERSON

Marisa Anderson is, hands down, one of the best guitarists in the business.

Based in Portland, Oregon, Anderson has developed a sound unlike any other; she luxuriates in low ends and intricate guitar lines drenched in reverb to explore the boundaries (or lack thereof) between strains of American music. Her new record, Cloud Corner, expands these ventures even further, with Anderson adding Wurlitzer keys and South American stringed instruments. Live, Anderson melts down her catalog into sets replete with unique tumbles and turns. She might start with a gnarled, haunting take on a blues song before veering into a burning bluegrass tune.

Anderson is a player who will keep you on your toes, and it’s a delight to get to follow her journey. Nathan Bowles opens with sympatico sonic explorations on the banjo. —Allison Hussey NEPTUNES PARLOUR, RALEIGH | 10 p.m., $8–$10, www.kingsraleigh.com

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ELLIS DYSON & THE SHAMBLES

W/ KATHARINE WHALEN PERFORMING SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS

7/19 DEAFHEAVEN W/ DRAB MAJESTY AND UNIFORM

7/20 CREATE YOUR SUMMER TOUR FEAT. KARINA GARCIA,

7/25 DANNY DUNCAN ($25/ $30, VIP AVAILABLE)

TH 7/19

DEAFHEAVEN

8/6 KINA GRANNIS

9/6 MELODIME ($12/$14)

W/ IMAGINARY FUTURE

8/7 AMANDA SHIRES

7/5 SAM MORROW W/ D TOWN DEUCE ($10/$12)

8/9 THE SWORD W/UME ($18/ $20)

7/6 SLEEPYHEAD, ELVIS DIVISION, HALF-COCKED (FILM) ($8)

W/ CORY BRANAN

8/10 TOWN MOUNTAIN ($12/ $15) 8/11 SAM BUSH W/ HANK AND PATTIE DUO ($30/$33) 8/17 ABBEY ROAD LIVE! ($12/ $15) 8/22: ALKALINE TRIO W/ TOGETHER PANGEA ($24/$29) 8/24 25 BE LOUD! '18: 8/24: MATTHEW SWEET, THE RIGHT PROFILE, SURRENDER HUMAN ($25) 8/25: SEX POLICE, COLLAPSIS, PRE-RAPHAELITES

BE LOUD '18 WEEKEND PASS: $40 8/28 WOLF PARADE ($20/$23) 9/4 X ($25/$28) 9/8 OHGR W/ OMNIFLUX, LEAD INTO GOLD

9/15 DEAD SARA 9/19 FIDLAR W/ DILLY DALLY AND NOBRO ($22/$25) 9/ 26 THE GROWLERS’ BEACH GOTH TOUR 2018 ($25/$30) 9/27 CAAMP ($14/ $16) 9/29 MT. JOY W/ ARLIE ($15/$17)

7/7 QUIET SLANG W/ABI REIMOLD ($13/$15) 7/11 FAMILY VISION, TIRED FRONTIER 7/12 INT'L PLAGUERS ANTHEMS / A COMIC BOOK RELEASE PARTY FT. DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, SHINER, BRUTAL JR ($10; INCUDES COMIC BOOK) 7/13 PIERCE PETTIS ($15) 7/14 MATTHEW E WHITE ELLED CANC

7/15 UP FROM HERE, COME CLEAN, CONTINUATIONS 7/17 PETAL & CAMP COPE W/ SIDNEY GISH ($13/ $15) 7/19 JOE PUG ($15/ $18)

7/27 BODY GAMES W/ TOW3RS ($10/$12)

10/12 NEIL DIAMOND ALLSTARS W/ LESTER

8/3 SCHOOL OF ROCK ALLSTARS ($10)

10/15 BOB MOSES

8/4 ALBUM RELEASE PARTY ANNE-CLAIRE PETER HOLSAPPLE COMBO CHESSA RICH ($8 /$10)

10/24 BIG THIEF W/ THE RANGE OF LIGHT WILDERNESS ($16/ $18) 10/27 ROKY ERICKSON ($25/ $28) 10/30 HIPPO CAMPUS W/THE DISTRICTS

11/2 GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY W/ GIBBZ ($25/$27) 12/18 2ND ANNUAL HORTON’S HOLIDAY HAYRIDE: REVEREND HORTON

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10/16 MIKAELA DAVIS ($12/ $14) 10/18 SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS DOCUMENTARY SCREENING & LIVE PERFORMANCE ($15) 11/3 MAX FROST ($15/$17) MEMORIAL HALL (UNC-CH)

9/14 NEKO CASE W/ THAO (OF THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN) DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

9/29 JOAN BAEZ SOLD

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OUT

7/17 THE GET UP KIDS W/ RACQUET CLUB AND AGEIST ($22/ $26)

8/2 SPIDER BAGS W/ DRAG SOUNDS ($10/$12)

10/20 GLORIETTA

9/15 LVL UP 10/12 THE VEGABONDS W/ KENDALL STREET COMPANY ($10/ $15 FOR TWO-PACK)

7/25 MEGA COLOSSUS, WITCH MOUNTAIN, BIBLE OF THE DEVIL, DEMON EYE ($10)

10/11 APARNA NANCHERLA ($22/$25)

10/16 WILD NOTHING

9/11 REMO DRIVE, FIELD MEDIC PRINCE DADDY & THE HYENA ($13/$15)

7/8 BOB SCHNEIDER (RESCHEDULED) ($20/ $23)

10/4 SKIZZY MARS THE ARE YOU OK TOUR -PHASE 2 ($20/$22)

W/ MANSIONAIR

9/8 TIM BARRY 9/9 SLOAN ($22/$25)

7/21 SUMMER SALT W/ HOT FLASH HEAT WAVE AND THE SYMPOSIUM ($13/ $15)

7/28 DR BACON W/ ENO MOUNTAIN BOYS AND ANDY LYLE HALL ($8/$10

COALBANKS & THE SEVEN SORROWS ($10)

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.

POUR HOUSE: Back to BACK to Black: Amy Winehouse Tribute feat.

Remember Jones; 9 p.m., $15–$20.

WENGIE AND NATALIES OUTLET

7/21 THE DEAD TONGUES ($12)

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8/5 JOAN OF ARC W/ CURT CASTLE ($12) 8/9 THE ESSEX GREEN 8/11 OPEN FIELD, OBJECT HOURS, SHELLES 8/13 DK THE DRUMMER/ SUCRE ($15) 8/16 VACATIONER W/ SEGO, DIRTY ART CLUB ($15/ $17) 8/30 SLAUGHTER BEACH, DOG W/ THIN LIPS($12/$14) 8/31 THE MATTSON 2 AND ASTRONAUTS, ETC. ($13/$15)

MOTORCO (DUR)

9/26 ANDREW WK ($20) 10/24 AMY RAY AND HER BAND W/ H.C. MCENTIRE ($20) NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART

7/12 LAKE STREET DIVE

SOLD OUT

7/28 THE MAVERICKS 8/1 FATHER JOHN MISTY WITH SPECIAL GUEST SOLD JENNY LEWIS OUT 8/3 KISHI BASHI AND JAKE SHIMABUKURO 8/18 TROMBONE SHORTY'S LD VOODOO THREAUXDOWN SO OUT THE RITZ (RAL)

(PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION W/ LIVENATION)

7/27 BEACH HOUSE W/ ED SHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT 9/16 SHAKEY GRAVES HAW RIVER BALLROOM

11/30 MOUNTAIN GOATS W/DEAD RIDER RALEIGH LITTLE THEATER

9/15 THE CONNELLS W/ DILLON FENCE AND THE MAYFLIES USA 3:30 DOOR/ 4 PM SHOW ($20/$25)

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: Barenaked Ladies, Better Than Ezra, KT Tunstall; 6:30 p.m.

THU, JUL 5 BLUE NOTE GRILL: Nash Street Ramblers; 7-9 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM:

Sam Morrow [$10–$12/8 P.M.]

Though positioned as a modern torchbearer of the Bakersfield Sound, Sam Morrow crosses the freewheeling country rock of his California home with the honky-tonk of his native Texas.

Morrow grew up on Houston rap icons DJ Screw and Lil’ Flip, only digging into country after getting sober several years ago. He can come off as an inauthentic revivalist, but he’s not afraid of pissing off traditionalists. On the snarky “Good Ole Days,” Morrow rails against the racism and sexism often overlooked when romanticizing bygone decades.

—Spencer Griffith THE CAVE: The Unmentionables, Arrow Beach; 8 p.m., $5. The Unmentionables; 8 p.m.

COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK:

Imagine Dragons [$96+/8 P.M.]

Since 2012, Imagine Dragons has produced a steady stream of upbeat, scream-along-withthe-radio bangers, emerging with smash hits “Radioactive” and “Demons,” and recently dominating the pop scene with “Believer” and “Thunder.” Their energetic sound and lyrical themes of personal growth and battling insecurities typically appeal to a younger crowd,

but the band’s massive fan bas spans multiple demographics.

—Lena Geller THE PINHOOK:

album was recorded at the Chattanooga Public Library music studio.

—Josephine McRobbie

Young Dirty Bastard, Cayenne the Lion King

DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: Mamis & the Papis, Gemynii; 6 p.m., free.

Local reggae maestro Cayenne the Lion King brings Young Dirty Bastard to Durham this week for his Golden Dragons Tour. Yes, YDB is the son of the Wu-Tang Clan founding member Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and looks and sounds almost identical, executing a no-frills old-school New York flow in the tradition that his father created for the city’s style.

—Charles Morse

MOTORCO:

[$10/9:30 P.M.]

POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: Honey Magpie, Justin Lacy, Exit Mice; 8 p.m., $3–$5.

THE MAYWOOD: Era Gone, Fear The Indifference, Through All This Time, Attracting the Fall, Freaks; 8 p.m., $10.

Cloudy Nueve [$10–$12/8 P.M.]

It’s hard to determine whether Cloudy Nueve is more of a rapper or singer, but his eccentric repertoire consists of trippy, drug-laden melodies, with a voice that sounds like an AutoTuned Danny Brown.

Members of his The Lo$t Generation collective, Yung Yent and 2K Kimbo share the stage. —Charles Morse

THE FRUIT: Rent Party!; 10 p.m.2 a.m., $5.

MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Dave Wilson Trio; 8:30 p.m. See July 8 blurb for Steel String Brewery.

FRI, JUL 6

POUR HOUSE: Dr. Bacon, Custard Pie, Hustle Souls; 8 p.m., $7–$10.

ARCANA: Super Secret Dance Party: DJ Rang, DJ Forge; 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $7.

SAT, JUL 7

BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Strange Rootz; 7 & 9 p.m., $14.

ARCANA: Nym; 10 p.m., free.

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

BEYÙ CAFFÈ:

THE BULLPEN: Cosmic Country, Nathan Bowles; 8:30 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Sleepyhead, Elvis Division; 6:30 p.m., $8.

[$14/7 & 9 P.M.]

THE CAVE: Rye Baby, Thirsty Curses; 8 p.m., $5.

THE CAVE:

Rye Baby [$5/8 P.M.]

There’s something about the off-kilter and hiccupy twang of Rye Baby vocalist Jennifer Brumlow that brings to mind the magic of fifties rockabilly mystery Sparkle Moore. Like Moore, Rye Baby performs unpolished compositions with gusto, this lack of inhibition becoming central to their charm.

The duo puts on a stompy and dramatic scene but stays humble—their most recent

Dante Lewis Smooth jazz saxophonist Dante Lewis gigs frequently around the Carolinas, calling upon grounded experience as former Minister of Music at St. Luke Baptist Church in Winnsboro, and as a music teacher in South Carolina to imbue his instrumentation with meaning. For Lewis, performing is a soulful act of worship that celebrates a continued musical lineage. His sets incorporate both originals and covers, with this current tour showcasing a recent album dedicated to the legendary singer Anita Baker.

—Josephine McRobbie THE BULLPEN: Russ Varnell & His Too Country Band; 8:30 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE: Ellis Dyson & the Shambles, Katharine Whalen; 9 p.m., $10. See page 13.

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A Benefit for Community Music School [$7/1 P.M.]

For twenty-five years, Raleigh’s Community Music School has offered music education to Wake County students of limited financial means. The nonprofit typically provides resources—lessons, instruments, and recital opportunities—to about a hundred enrollees each year.

TUE 7/24

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is composed or improvised, governed by rules or wholly anarchic. We could wonder, sure, but sometimes it’s best to just watch the trick unfold.

—Patrick Wall

TUE, JUL 10

DUKE’S KIRBY HORTON HALL: Ciompi Quartet: Then I Knew ‘Twas Wind; 7:30 p.m., $10–$25.

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER:

Jill Scott [$66/7 P.M.]

Catch Quiet Slang in the Cat’s Cradle Back Room Saturday night.

This benefit features students performing alongside an eclectic array of local groups. Alley Seventeen inventively pairs jazzy vocals with indie pop arrangements and Zephyranthes twists through spaced-out, psychedelic prog and math rock. James Olin Oden brings Celtic-flavored storytelling, while Frontside adds pop-punk. —Spencer Griffith SAXAPAHAW RIVER AMPHITHEATER: Saturdays in Saxapahaw: Bobby Britt, Josh Moore; 6 p.m., donations.

SUN, JUL 8 DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3.

THE DURHAM HOTEL: The Beast; 5:30 p.m., free.

FULLSTEAM: The Guilty Pleasures; 5 p.m., free.

MOTORCO:

Bob Schneider [$20–$23/8 P.M.]

Austin singer-songwriter Bob Schneider isn’t the first singer-songwriter to find emotional resonance in personal experience. But Blood 28 | 7.4.18 | INDYweek.com

and Bones, the sixth LP from the former Ugly Americans frontman, boasts a punchy pop playlist where facile hooks camouflage the creeping existentialism of adulthood before building to powerful emotive crescendos. Schneider swerves unexpectedly between smooth pop and skittering scat. But it’s the moments of sincere reflection, buoyed by Schneider’s interesting and immaculate turns of phrase, that stand out. —Patrick Wall POUR HOUSE:

Gracie Lane [$5/1 P.M.]

This post-brunch show, complete with a bloody mary bar, showcases the songs of Asheville’s Gracie Lane.

After leaving her birthplace of Southeast Louisiana for Arkansas, Lane cut her teeth at open mics in various ragtag country bands. She has since transitioned to creating music as a solo artist, her clear and strong voice exploring concepts of lonesomeness, travel, and connection.

With Charles Latham and Bigdumbhick.

—Josephine McRobbie

PHOTO BY CHARLIE LOWE

STEEL STRING BREWERY:

SLIM’S:

[$10/4 P.M.]

[$5/9 P.M.]

Dave Wilson Trio Chatham County Line leader Dave Wilson debuts his new acoustic three-piece—which he’s dubbed a “low-power trio”—featuring Countdown Quartet and Whiskeytown bassist Steve Grothmann and Old Habits drummer Evans Nicholson. Look for a set split between obscure AM Gold covers and mostly unrecorded Wilson originals. Wilson’s trio also plays at Mystering Brewing on Friday and at Slim’s on Tuesday.

—Spencer Griffith

MON, JUL 9 IMBIBE: Grewen and Griffin; 7-10 p.m., free.

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

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

POUR HOUSE: Gryzzle, The Reliably Bad Band; 8 p.m., $6–$8.

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

The term “OG” is overused on men, but if there’s anyone who deserves OG status, it’s Jill Scott, who blazed a trail as one of the most powerful neo-soul singers to come out of the nineties. She exemplifies grace, self-awareness, and natural beauty, and a live performance from her is a must-see for anyone who cares about soul history. —Charles Morse

Magician’s Hand Practice

HAW RIVER BALLROOM: I’m With Her; 8 p.m., sold out. See page 24.

A magician’s most important asset is their hands; whether the trickster’s picking a pocket or palming a card, it seems that the harder you try to pay attention to their lightning fingers, the more easily you’re fooled. Experimental and noisy Raleigh outfit Magician’s Hand Practice operates similarly.

It’s never quite clear if the conflagratory chaos its creates

SLIM’S: Dave Wilson Trio, TONK; 8 p.m. See July 8 blurb for Steel String Brewery.

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POUR HOUSE: Mobley, Orlando Parker Jr.; 7:30 p.m., $8–$10.

WED, JUL 11 ARCANA:

Goldfeather [$5/8 P.M.]

Goldfeather’s 2016 album Patchwork Quilt is comprised of whimsical songs driven by the clear voice of lead singersongwriter Sarah Goldfeather and augmented by soaring harmonies and indie folk-rock instrumental accompaniment.

Goldfeather’s lyrics explore regret and resolve, often utilizing nature-centric figurative language—in the spirited song “Wind and Rain,” Goldfeather muses, “I can’t complain of wind and rain, won’t realign my weather vane/The water’s mark won’t leave a stain, I will remain, and try again.” Locals M. Grig and Trippers & Askers join.

—Lena Geller

CAT’S CRADLE:

Kurt Vile & the Violators [$23–$26/8:30 P.M.]

Since leaving The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile has become one of indie rock’s most captivating frontmen, guitarists, and songwriters.

And as the years have passed, he’s gone more hi-fi. Where he was once a lo-fi DIY champion, his last solo record, 2015’s b’lieve i’m goin down..., shook out some of the haze for rootsy classic rock that recalled Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Neil Young. This tour marks Vile’s first with his longtime and fluid backing band The Violators in more than a year, and the songwriter will drop a new record in the fall. Gotta say: pretty pimpin’. Dylan Carlson—yes, the frontman of tectonic drone legends Earth— opens. —Patrick Wall THE CAVE: Coyote vs Acme; 8 p.m., donations.

DUKE GARDENS:

Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba

[$5–$10, 12 AND UNDER FREE/8 P.M.] With a distinct blend of American and West African styles, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba has been a local staple for years. But to record their new record, Routes, the band traveled to frontman Cissokho’s home country of Senegal to dig into the core elements of their influences.

The resulting album explodes with vibrancy, with Cissokho’s kora flowing effortlessly bewteen rich polyrhythms, horns, and electric guitars.

Of course, the band is far more than a study of cultural cross-pollination—it delivers on a damn good time, too, demanding its audiences to get up and move.

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

NIGHTLIGHT: Kee Avil, Desert Secretary, Secret Boyfriend, de_Plata; 9 p.m., $7.

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OPENING SPECIAL By the Sea: EVENT Seascapes. Jul 6Sep 1. Reception: Fri., Jul 6, 6-9 p.m. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com.

Dana Lynn Harper: Summer Artist-in-Residence. Thru Jul 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

SPECIAL Intersections: EVENT Minimalist and organic works by Danny Laffey, Trudy Thomson, Melanie Stoer, and Marnie J. Blum. Jul 6-26. Reception: Fri, Jul 6, 6-9 p.m. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www.litmusgallery.com.

Ode to Matisse: Oil paintings

by Mary Page Whitley. Thru Aug 12. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

Recent Activity: PNC Pop In Artist-in-Residence Jeana Eve Klein. Thru Jul 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

True to Our Roots: Local women artists. Fri, Jul 6, 6-9:30 p.m.

Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www.localcoloraleigh.com.

ONGOING Abstracture: Abstract paintings by Michelle Draughon. Thru Jul 31. Bull City Art & Frame Co, Durham. bullcityartandframecompany. com.

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.

Elizabeth Bradford: Paintings.

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

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Benelux Cafe, Raleigh. www.raleighmakersmarket.com.

A couple watches Tama Hochbaum’s “Elm” at CAM Raleigh, where Hochbaum’s new exhibit, Over/Time: Imaging Landscape, has its opening reception from six to nine p.m. on Friday, July 6.

Rise of the Phoenix – El Ascenso de la Fénix: Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo, Felicity Palma, 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.

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River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Durham. eruuf.org.

Folk Keepers: Art by Charlie and Susan Frye: Paintings and found-art assemblages.

Thru Aug 9. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www. historichillsborough.org.

Hotel Theory: Around the time he stepped away from his twenty-year tenure as founding director of Raleigh gallery Lump, Bill Thelen struck out for an artist residency in a hotel in Oaxaca. He brought two books with him, Huysmans’s decadent Against Nature and Wayne Koestenbaum’s Hotel Theory, an experimental philosophy of hotel life.

The result is Thelen’s own Hotel Theory. Consisting

of drawings, collages, wall paintings, and a new fiber piece, the exhibit tracks an artist “immersed in the colors and textures of the Oaxacan landscape and facing middle age” as he observes the lines of history, place, and personal identity from a rented room, a space (like middle age) that, in its nowhere-ness, offers fresh vantages. Thru Sep 21.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Brian Howe 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.

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Louisiana Trail Riders: Jeremiah Ariaz’s photographs of AfricanAmerican trail-riding clubs in Louisiana. Thru Sep 22.

Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

One Eno: Photography by Holden Richards. Thru Aug 12.

West Point on the Eno, Durham. www.enoriver.org.

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

Painting the Camino de Santiago: Oil paintings by Sonia Kane. Thru Aug 26. Cary Town Hall, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

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 canon-makers didn’t as readily embrace them. This touring exhibit at the Nasher is a spectacular corrective, highlighting the African-diaspora abstract artists who refined this new way of seeing. They range from mid-twentiethcentury Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis to contemporary iconoclasts such as Theaster Gates and Mark Bradford, whose twenty-five-foot-tall sculpture anchors the exhibit. Thru Jul 15.

Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. —Brian Howe Solidifying Roots: When we lose family members, we have to figure out what to do with the things they leave behind— emotional and actual. When artist Dale Niles inherited boxes of family images and objects after the death of her mother, she found a way to both keep and combine the figurative and the literal, all in one fell swoop. She made

photographs of the memorabilia with the family members she associated the objects with, a way of simultaneously grieving and aesthetically archiving a family history for herself and her children. The resulting exhibit won a Moscow International Foto Gold Award. Thru Aug 19.

Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www.chapelhillpreservation. com. —Brian Howe Step Right Up: Sculpture by Patrick Dougherty. Thru Aug 31.

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

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 Aug 18. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Brian Howe Three Quilts: Fiber art by Martha Clippinger. Thru Aug 12.

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

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

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Unite and Illuminate: Exhibition inspired by Artists United’s The Walls We Build. Featuring Kenneth Nkosi, Julyan Davis, Bill Brown, Alexis Lavine, Tezh Modarassi, Tinka Jordy, Gayle Stott Lowry, Ben Hamburger, Donn Young, and Katy Bowler.

Thru Jul 24. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. enogallery.net.

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Chefs for Change: Fundraising dinner series benefitting homeless families. $75. Mon, Jul 9, 6-9 p.m. The Rickhouse, Durham. www.rickhousedurham.com.

Visualizing Micro Environments: Paintings by Orr Ambrose inspired by cosmology, physics, and microbiology.

Thru Oct 11. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamconventioncenter.com.

Fourth Annual Pick-a-Ton: Blueberry picking, barbecue, wine tasting. Sun, Jul 8, 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm, Cedar Grove. cedargroveblueberry.com.

Watercolor Paintings from the Estate of Harry De Maine (1880 – 1952): Thru Jul 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Someday: A Brunchy Party for Everyone: Weekly summer brunch series with various guests and activities.

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The Durham Hotel, Durham. thedurham.com.

A World of Glorious Color: Thru Jul 24. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org.

Worlds Apart: Thru Jul 7.

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I think a lot of people do. But that’s work; that’s a struggle,” she says. Five years after a student workshop showing of Make Believe, Herrera has extensively changed it in recent months, along with a companion piece, Carne Viva. While both works reference religious iconography, Herrera asserts that the latter is now about the “violent nature of transcendence,” while Make Believe concerns interpersonal and spiritual faith “and our ability to keep, find, nurture, and deepen it.” —Byron Woods

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 Murielle Elizéon: Brown: American Dance Festival. See review, p. 17. $12-$27. Sun, Jul 8 & Mon, Jul 9. Durham Fruit Company, Durham.

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

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Pippin: Musical. $15. Fri, Jul 6-Sun, Jul 8. Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre: American Dance Festival. $12$43. Fri, Jul 6 & Sat, Jul 7. Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham.

Tere O’Connor Dance: American Dance Festival. $12$33. Tue, Jul 10 & Wed, Jul 11, 8 p.m. Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham.

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

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

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Cinema Overdrive Presents Contamination: Film screening. $6. Thu, Jul 5, 7:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Coming to America Movie Party: Interactive screening. $13. Wed, Jul 4, 7:15 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Jaws Movie Party: Interactive screening. $13. Wed, Jul 4, various times. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

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THE WEDDING OF BATMAN AND CATWOMAN Ever since DC Comics “killed” Superman in 1992 (he got better), the comic-book death event has been exploited into near-meaninglessness (they always get better). The wedding event, though, has a little life left in it, even if it tends to be just as reversible (usually through continuity reboots rather than divorces). As Marvel marries off Kitty Pride and Colossus, DC is ramping up toward a union people actually care about: Batman and Catwoman. These affairs tend to be sentimental cash grabs, but this one has also been a damn good story, and in the new issue of Batman this Wednesday, it comes to its happy conclusion (unless the Joker has his way). All three Ultimate Comics stores are celebrating with Batman and Catwoman wedding ceremonies. Get misty-eyed at the Raleigh store at ten a.m., the Cary store at noon, or the Durham store at two. Or hit all three and gorge yourself on wedding cake and photo ops. We won’t judge. —Brian Howe

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READINGS & SIGNINGS Robert Beatty: With Willa of the Wood. Tue, Jul 10, 6 p.m.

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

Anne R. Keene: With The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II. Tue, Jul 10, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

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Joshua Pollock: Meditation and discussion of The Heartfulness Way. Sat, Jul 7, 7 p.m. Durham Bahá’í Center, Durham.

LECTURES ETC. A Dialog with Molly Worthen: Q and A with UNC Professor of History Molly Worthen, author of Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelism. Sun, Jul 8, 1:30 p.m.

Ethical Humanist Society of the Triangle, Chapel Hill. www.ncethicalsociety.org.

Kids Camp: Monsters Vs. Aliens: Charity screening for local nonprofits and schools. $1-$5. Jul 9-12, 11 a.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Terror Tuesday: Madman: Archival 35mm film screening. $6. Tue, Jul 10, 7:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Terror Tuesday: Cropsey: Archival 35mm film screening. $6. Tue, Jul 10, 7:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Video Vortex: Demonwarp: Screening. $6. Sun, Jul 8, 7:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

OPENING  Ant-Man and the Wasp—Reviewed on p. 21.

Rated PG-13.

Boundaries—Laura (Vera Farminga) drives her potdealing dad (Christopher Plummer) from Portland to LA after he gets booted from his retirement home. Rated R. The First Purge—The latest in this franchise is a prequel detailing how the first lawless “purge” came about. Rated R. Whitney—Director Kevin Macdonald digs beyond tabloid headlines in his documentary about the late pop star Whitney Houston.

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N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com.  Deadpool 2—If the first Deadpool movie was a halfhearted R-rated Spider-

Among eighties dark fantasy movies, Legend, Ridley Scott’s massively weird fairy tale, ranks just below Return to Oz and Dragonslayer for sheer child-traumatizing imagery and just above The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth for terrifying prosthetics-enhanced villains. Tim Curry’s massive-horned, cloven-hooved Darkness is a literal pain in the neck—specifically, Curry’s neck, which suffered pain from holding up the headgear. Tom Cruise stars but is overshadowed by goblins and unicorns in the story of ... of ... actually, the plot doesn’t make much sense. It involves a princess (Mia Sara from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) accidentally luring one of the last unicorns into Darkness’s hands, and—well, whether you’re able to follow it from there might depend on which cut of the film you’re watching. (The version screening here is advertised as being 104 minutes, which is longer than the initial eighty-nine-minute U.S. release, with the Tangerine Dream score, but shorter than the 113-minute director’s cut, with the Jerry Goldsmith score. Yes, we’re nerds.) Legend is worth seeing for its brain-burning creatures and landscapes. You might not remember what it’s about, but there’s no way you’ll forget it. —Zack Smith

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Man, the sequel is a controlled detonation of the superheromovie template: filthy, funny, and cheerfully ultraviolent.

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

Rated R. 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 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom—A murky moral, plain old jump scares, and the diminishing returns of digital dinos weigh on this oncemighty franchise.

Rated PG-13.

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

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