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6 The North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan claims thirtyeight hundred members. 8 North Carolina forbids prisoners from reading Mein Kampf—and an issue of Allure with Jennifer Aniston on the cover. 10 Before the Garden Party Against Hate was canceled, Governor’s Mansion officials ordered Progress NC to reduce the guest list by nearly 80 percent. 11 Some people think pit bulls are dangerous, but Bronwen Dickey knows that writing about them is. 16 Psst … your brunch waiter is fed up with your bullshit. 19 Every great city has a great urban park. Destination Dix is poised to give Raleigh one. 23 Nostalgia for 1980s Durham summers is built into new Netflix series Stranger Things.

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According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s map of active hate groups in the United States, there are eight separate organizations operating under the Ku Klux Klan banner in North Carolina. One of them dropped flyers in the Raleigh neighborhood of Oakwood on Sunday, as part of a seemingly coordinated literature campaign throughout the United States. Oakwood resident Jesse Jones, a lawyer in Harnett County, says that his recording system caught a car stopping in the middle of the rainstorm. A man in a raincoat got out and threw bags filled with rocks and abjectly racist flyers— “Notice to All [N-word]: Any of You Black Apes Caught ‘Making Eyes’ at a White Girl Will Be Beaten,” etc.—onto his and his neighbors’ yards. The next morning, Jones says he found about ten on his property. He called the police. “An RPD officer was on patrol about 10:15 yesterday morning when he was flagged down concerning KKK pamphlets that had been found in the 500 block of Oakwood Avenue,” Raleigh Police Department spokesman Jim Sughrue said in a statement. “The pamphlets were collected as evidence and appropriate notifications were made within the department.” The flyers are attributed to the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which calls itself “the most active and biggest Klan in America.” That group’s leader, Chris Barker, told the AP recently that the Knights have about thirty-eight hundred members. (The Jewish Anti-Defamation League puts that number closer to two hundred.) According to the group’s website, the phone number listed on the flyer is its “national hotline”; it’s registered in the Rockingham County town of Reidsville, about a half hour north of Greensboro. When we called the number Monday afternoon, it went to a full voice mail. Jones tells the INDY that he wasn’t sure if the drop was random or the KKK was targeting him specifically. Jones represents several people who say they were abused by Harnett County deputies and was featured in a News & Observer investigation on policing problems there. But media reports suggest the same flyers were also dropped in Fayetteville and Greensboro, so maybe that’s a coincidence. In fact, Raleigh, Fayetteville, and Greesnboro aren’t the only places where these flyers have popped up in past week. First Coast News in Jacksonville, Florida, reported earlier this week that 6 | 7.20.16 | INDYweek.com

flyers listing the same organization and contact number showed up there over the weekend. And in both San Francisco and Mayfield, Kentucky, similar flyers have been found. The KKK’s renewed energy isn’t altogether surprising. Recently, white supremacist organizations have expressed joy at the success of Donald Trump’s political campaign, built as it is around deporting undocumented immigrants, restoring (code word alert!) “law and order,” and tweeting out anti-Semitic memes. Former KKK leader David Duke has been a loud supporter of Trump since the primaries started; he said in May that Trump could be “our white knight, our advocate, our person.” The Trump campaign’s thinly veiled racism has emboldened other racist politicians to come out of the shadows, too: in a Monday appearance on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, U.S. Representative Steve King, R-Iowa, asked Esquire writer Charles P. Pierce, “Where did any other subgroup of people [besides white people] contribute more to civilization?” This is where we are now, in Trump’s America. Jones says he doesn’t remember anything like this happening in Raleigh since Jesse Helms, the late senator and noted racist, was active in politics. “When it happened, I just started crying,” Jones says. “I couldn’t believe it. This environment that we have, our leaders are just making it more divided. It’s a mess, man.”

Flyers like these have appeared across North Carolina in the last week.

+IN MCCRORY’S NORTH CAROLINA It’s been a great week for Duke Energy. Let’s begin: on Friday, Governor McCrory—a former Duke executive, of course—signed House Bill 630, the coal ash sweetheart deal that environmentalists say lets Duke, a company that saw revenues in excess of $23 billion in 2015, off the hook for its toxic coal ash pollution. By court order, Duke has to clean up seven of fourteen coal ash sites across the state. The bill gives the utility giant the option of drying out and capping that coal ash in place rather than excavating it at a greater cost, provided the utility supplies a clean drinking water source to households near coal ash ponds by 2018. Almost all of Duke Energy’s coal ash ponds are located near state waterways. “There are families across North Carolina who cannot drink their own well water because it’s contaminated with the cancer-causing chemicals found in Duke Energy’s coal ash,” Dan Crawford, director of governmental relations for the N.C. League of Conservation Voters, said in a statement. And then: Duke Energy (likely) got win number two on Tuesday when the state’s Utilities Commission heard its proposal to acquire Charlotte-based Piedmont Natural Gas in a $4.9 billion merger.

TL;DR: THE INDY’S QUALITY-OF-LIFE METER (The commission was expected to vote on the merger after we went to press Tuesday, though there’s no definitive timetable.) Duke Energy says the merger will save North Carolina ratepayers money by allowing Duke to borrow cash for projects—including building more gas-fired power plants—at better rates, at a time when the energy market is moving away from coal. Duke says the move will also save PNG customers money on their electric and gas bills. Proponents of renewable energy sources, who fear the acceleration of climate change by methane-releasing natural gas operations, staged an elaborate protest Monday afternoon. A bride and groom wearing gas masks— symbolizing Duke Energy and PNG—were wedded by a stand-in pastor representing McCrory. “I’m concerned about the increasingly overwhelming political power of monopolies and the effect of that on our democracy,” said Beth Henry, a Charlotte attorney who participated in the skit and testified before the Utilities Commission on Monday. “Duke can already go to the legislature and basically get whatever it wants. The bigger they get, the more money they’ll have, the more powerful they’ll be, and the harder it will be for anyone at any level of government to say no to them.”

+BLACK WALL STREET, REVITALIZED?

A call from Atlanta rapper and activist Killer Mike for African-Americans to speak with their dollars in protest of police violence has produced some real results all over the country—including at Durham-based Mechanics & Farmers Bank. “Social media is very powerful,” says Mechanics & Farmers Bank president and CEO Jim Sills. “It’s effectively getting the word out to consumers all across the country.” On July 8, Killer Mike was a guest for a town hall special that aired on MTV and BET, to address the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Philando Castile in Minnesota, and five police officers in Dallas. “We can’t go out in the street and start bombing, shooting, and killing,” Mike said. “I encourage none of us to engage in acts of violence. I encourage to take our warfare to financial institutions.” His war plan is for one million people to deposit at least $100 in a small, black-owned bank. In turn, he said, those banks could extend loans to people who might otherwise be refused by large institutions.

The plan was launched with the hashtag #BankBlackBankSmallBankLocal, which, despite its length, caught on nationwide. In Killer Mike’s hometown, Citizens Trust reported eight thousand new sign-ups. Mechanics & Farmers Bank is feeling some love, too. BlackMainStreet.net reported M&F recently opened $1.25 million in new accounts. Sills told the INDY Tuesday that he hasn’t seen “the number that’s quoted out there in the media.” He also wouldn’t disclose how many new people have opened accounts. But he will say this: business has been good. “We have definitely seen a surge in new account activity, in all of our markets over the past seven or eight days,” says Sills. Mechanics & Farmers Bank has branches in Durham, Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem. “I think it’s really healthy to recycle dollars back into the community,” he continues. “Our bank has been in existence for one hundred and nine years, and that was one of the principal pillars of this bank when it was founded.” l triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Paul Blest, Danny Hooley, and Jane Porter.

Some prominent North Carolina delegates to the Republican National Convention express ambiguity or opposition to Donald Trump. Trump assails their sexual prowess. (Is this even a joke? We can’t tell anymore.)

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Richard Burr says he hopes Trump will pick not just the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, but the next three. “Think of it: Nugent, Giuliani, and Baio.”

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If the courts uphold North Carolina’s voter ID law, nearly thirty thousand votes might not be counted in November. “Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen,” says House Speaker Tim Moore.

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Moore is also preparing to sue an unnamed North Carolina media outlet for libel. “Nobody calls me a petulant, litigious nimrod and gets away with it!” he says.

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State Senator Tom Apodaca, head of the powerful Rules Committee, resigns to become a lobbyist. He’s done his time making the rules. Now comes the fun part: flouting them.

Pat McCrory signs the legislature’s budget, which includes modest raises for teachers, bumping them from the bottom quintile in the country to, as McCrory put it, “the low thirties.” The governor also promised teachers “one shiny red apple.”

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Lawmakers say the November elections should proceed as planned, despite Wake County’s gerrymandered districts being in legal limbo. Let’s see how low they can go!

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Severe weekend thunderstorms cause massive flooding all over the Triangle. In Raleigh, sewage spills were reported in seven places. So “sew” us, jokes city official; sewer-dwelling citizens unamused.

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AN EX-PRISONER’S LAWSUIT QUESTIONS WHERE INMATES’ FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS END BY JANE PORTER In most respects, Roy Askey is your typical twenty-six-year-old Raleighite. He likes eating ham and cheese croissants from Hereghty Heavenly Delicious. He’s studying political science at Wake Tech and works part-time at The Station. He posts selfies on Facebook with goofy captions. He’s close to his mom. And he’s suing North Carolina’s Department of Public Safety for violating his First Amendment rights while he was behind bars. In 2008, Askey was charged with multiple counts of breaking and entering, as well as robbing a Han-Dee Hugo’s on Southwest Cary Parkway with a firearm. His mugshot shows a shaggy-haired kid with glasses and a tie-dyed shirt. Askey was convicted; he spent a chunk of his formative years being shuffled around various correctional institutions across the state until he was released last year. “I was a dumb kid,” he says. “Anybody can look me up and see that, at eighteen, I committed armed robbery. I mean job searches, I can’t get an apartment. I’m house-sitting right now, because they say you have to wait ten years after your felony was committed to get an apartment, and it depends on the crime.” While Askey was locked up, he made a point of educating himself. He read widely, learned about his rights, and assisted other prisoners with their legal cases. In the process, he developed a keen interest in the politics of incarceration. He sought access to reading materials on this subject, which he says aroused his jailers’ ire, leading to frequent cell searches, harassment, and long stints in isolation. On one occasion, he says, he received a “theoretical political journal where ‘America’ was spelled with a ‘k,’” which compared mass incarceration to the

Jim Crow era. A guard made a snide remark about that journal, Askey says. When Askey talked back, he says, the guard broke his nose. Last May, before his release, Askey filed a federal lawsuit over several instances in which he was prohibited from receiving issues of Under Lock and Key, a bimonthly newsletter designed for prisoners and published by the California-based MIM(Prisons)/MIM Distributors. (The group has a website as well: prisoncensorship.info.) Under Lock and Key contains politically charged language and describes inmates’ struggles in prisons across the country. ULK, a publication of the Maoist Internationalist Ministry of Prisons, calls itself “the voice of the anti-imperialist movement.” “ULK serves as a forum to develop and promote agitational campaigns,” states a disclaimer that appears in each issue. “Our current battles in the United States are legally permitted. We encourage prisoners to join these battles while explicitly discouraging them from engaging in any violence or illegal acts.” Five issues of Under Lock and Key were placed on the DPS’s master list of disapproved publications in 2014, though neither the newsletter’s publisher, Jay Summers, nor Askey felt he was given a good reason why. As of May 2015, other publications on the list include sexually explicit materials and publications that could incite violence or devious behavior (Mein Kampf and Basic Wiring Techniques, for example), though relatively benign books and magazines (an issue of Allure magazine with Jennifer Anniston on the cover, a New Orleans cookbook) appear as well. So does Michelle Alexander’s seminal book on mass incarceration, The New Jim Crow. “We have to give prisoners their due process

“We take our rights for granted, speech rights, press rights. It’s just a given that they’re there, that we’ll always have them.”

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Roy Askey rights,” says Brad Batch, a program administrator at the N.C. Department of Public Safety. “So they don’t abandon all their First Amendment rights, but they are restricted.” North Carolina has a seventeen-point policy that outlines what kinds of material prisoners can and cannot receive and which prisoners can receive what. Banned publications include those that encourage violence and all pornography; high-risk inmates can also be barred from receiving hard-bound books. But there is precedent in numerous court rulings that the government cannot regulate speech based on the political message it conveys—even for people behind bars. Askey’s lawsuit names one employee and one former employee of the DPS. (Samantha Cole, a spokeswoman for the N.C. Depart-

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HOPE VALLEY BREWING COMPANY lisher Summers corresponded with Cynthia Bostic, the assistant director of support services for prisons, about why different issues of the publication had been censored in North Carolina prisons between 2011 and 2014. (These issues were later added to the state’s master list of banned publications.) The chairwoman of the state’s three-person Publication Review Committee at the time, Fay Lassiter, told Summers in 2013 that the publication violated the DPS’s guidelines for what prisoners can receive. Summers wasn’t satisfied with Lassiter’s explanation. “It seems [Lassiter] is claiming that the newsletter promotes criminal activity or breaking the law,” Summers wrote to Bostic in May 2013. “Every issue … states on page 2, ‘we encourage prisoners to join these battles while explicitly discouraging them from engaging in any violence or illegal acts.’” After a few more exchanges, Bostic wrote in June 2014 that two issues had been banned for encouraging prisoners to “boycott the commissary,” “stop ordering packages from the state-approved vendor,” and file more civil suits. During this period, Askey repeatedly received Under Lock and Key through the mail in the dozen or so prisons in which he did time. At some prisons, guards would find issues in his cell and confiscate them, he says. At others, they wouldn’t make it out of the mailroom. Hoping to resolve the matter, Askey filed a grievance to the state’s five-member Inmate Grievance Resolution Board in December 2013, when he was incarcerated at Hyde Correctional Institution, asking for access to and copies of all records of independent reviews of disapproved mail from MIM Distributors. When he received the records, he asked the board to cite specific examples of language that warranted disapproval. The board’s response, he says, was inadequate. “They rubberstamped the decision [from Hyde] that the mailroom had been breached and it threatened the institution’s safety and security,” he says. “That [ULK] contains information that disrupts the normal order of prison. Those answers were vague in nature; there were no quotations or page numbers. It was like they were just throwing it out there: ‘We determined this, but won’t tell you why.’”

Askey’s grievance resulted in a fifteen-day stint in isolation, he says. After that, he was transferred to a different housing unit with a sergeant “who was more proactive, more aggressive.” “They would constantly enter my cell, toss it, do a search, flipping the mattress, getting your books,” he says. Bostic is still employed as the assistant director of support services for prisons; she did not return messages seeking comment. Lassiter, who is retired, declined to comment. The state’s Publication Review Committee was established to screen publications for approval following a 2007 federal-class action lawsuit against the state’s Department of Corrections, brought by North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services. NCPLS claimed the DOC was unreasonably denying North Carolina prisoners access to incoming publications, and, in 2008, the state revised its policies. According to Cole, the DOJ spokeswoman, “the number of publications-related cases are drastically fewer ever since.” Cole says attorneys who handle litigation from state prisoners “could not immediately recall any other recent publications cases besides the one that is pending,” though she noted that inmates have sued recently on grounds of religious liberty. In December 2015, U.S. District Court Judge Louise Flanagan ruled that Askey’s lawsuit was not frivolous and directed U.S. marshals to serve Bostic and Lassiter with the complaint. Earlier this year, both asked that the case be dismissed; the court hasn’t ruled on those requests. Each side has until November to gather evidence. A trial date has not been set. Askey says he wants several things. He wants an acknowledgment that his rights were violated. He wants the DPS to explain what specifically is objectionable when materials are banned. He wants an independent board, not composed of state employees, to review publications. And he wants a jury trial and at least $20,000 in damages. Over the next few months, Askey will try to raise money to obtain legal assistance. “The paper trail makes it an open-and-shut case,” he says. “But such is the nature of justice in this country, when money is the only way to make a judge rule in your favor.” l jporter@indyweek.com

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Our Governor, the Coward

PAT MCCRORY CAN’T STAND HAVING SUPPORTERS OF LGBTQ EQUALITY IN HIS HOUSE BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN Logan Smith always assumed the Garden Party Against Hate would never happen. He thought it would be canceled when Progress NC—for which he is communications director—secured a $1,150 permit to rent out the bottom floor of the Executive Mansion. But it wasn’t. He thought it would be canceled last week, after news outlets reported on its existence. But it wasn’t. “I spent the last month planning this thing under the assumption that it was going to be canceled,” Smith says. “The day of, I woke up and realized, Oh my God, this is actually happening.” Smith conceived the Garden Party a month ago, after learning that the mansion had rented space to the Jesse Helms Center, and officials said they would do the same for any nonprofit. He had an exquisitely devilish idea—a sort of quiet statement against HB 2 juxtaposed against the cacophonous weekly performance of the Air Horn Orchestra. More than two hundred people RSVP’d. The plan was simple: around six o’clock last Wednesday night, the attendees would make their way to Governor McCrory’s house. There they would spend the next ninety minutes munching hors d’oeuvres (no alcohol; Pat runs a dry mansion) and listening to a handful of short speeches on the front lawn (including one by yours truly). At six thirty, the event would turn into a listening party for the Air Horn Orchestra. The whole thing would be understated—at least on the east side of Person Street—no loud protests or disruptions, just a gathering in support of equality in the residence of a man who put a political target on LGBTQ people’s backs. And then, just two hours before all of this was to happen—and after Progress NC spent the day whittling the guest list from 230, the maximum allowed by the contract, to just 50, per the mansion staff’s last-minute directive—the governor’s office did what Smith

expected it to do all along: cancel the event. “They put themselves into a really kind of indefensible position by allowing the Jesse Helms folks to have their party,” Smith says. “I’m sure I don’t have to tell you what a despicable racist and homophobe Jesse Helms is. For the governor to allow Jesse Helms acolytes to party it up at the mansion but refuse to give a space to supporters of equality—[that’s] just a very disturbing double standard.” The official reason, issued in a press release, was that the Garden Party was a “coordinated political protest,” the kind of “political campaign event” prohibited by the contract. As evidence, spokesman Graham Wilson appended a Facebook post from INDY contributor and Air Horn Orchestra organizer Tina Haver Currin indicating plans for call-and-response between protesters and Garden Party attendees. This explanation has a few shortcomings. First, Tina isn’t a Progress NC official and thus isn’t party to the contract; what she posts on social media shouldn’t be cause for summary judgment. (Smith says the mansion never called to ask about Tina’s post before dropping the ax.) Second, the contract forbids “political campaign events,” not political events in general. In fact, “political groups” are among those organizations expressly allowed to rent the space. Because of Progress NC’s nonprofit status, Smith points out, “we legally can’t be a campaign, nor can we have anything to do with campaigns.” So we can surmise, then, that the official reason is bullshit—a pretext to preserve the governor’s apparently brittle ego. As Smith puts it, “I think it’s very sad when the mere presence of supporters of equality and the LGBT community, the mere presence of these people at the governor’s mansion embarrasses the governor.” In other words, our governor is a coward. l jbillman@indyweek.com

Dogs of War

Bronwen Dickey in her element

ARE PIT BULLS DANGEROUS? SOME ARE. SOME AREN'T. BUT, AS BRONWEN DICKEY KNOWS, WRITING ABOUT THEM SURE IS.

BY DAVID KLEIN | PHOTOS BY ALEX BOERNER Bronwen Dickey was working as a freelance journalist for various publications (including this one) when she met her first pit bull. Within a few years, she had embarked on an extensive study of the notorious dog breed and, with her husband, adopted one of her own. The result is Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon, the rare book that turns a scholarly, balanced lens on the charged cultural narratives around pit bulls. Published this year to wide acclaim, it also garnered a lot of hate. Dickey wasn’t surprised by the

backlash, only by its severity. “Why does Bronwen Dickey hate children?” one tweeter asked. There were death threats. At a June reading in Durham, a protester shouted until the police came to escort Dickey out of the building. When we met at an outdoor café recently, weeks after the hubbub had died down, she never removed her mirrored glasses, and she wore a silver neckclace she'd bought at the height of the craziness: a silver bar stamped with the words, “NEVER READ THE COMMENTS.” INDYweek.com | 7.20.16 | 11

Dickey (second from left) and others at the home of Lori and Robert Hensley. Lori directs the Coalition to Unchain Dogs; Robert is a lawyer for the ASPCA.

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INDY: I was interested to learn that the pit bull was once seen, basically, as “America’s dog.” BRONWEN DICKEY: You look at popular culture from, say, 1890 to 1930, and the dog with the patch over his eye is everywhere: bank ads, shampoo ads, railway ads. It’s seen as the most all-American, unfussy, goodnatured dog. There was very much this Horatio Alger theme with the pit bull, the plucky scrapper that maybe came from the streets but had a good work ethic and pulled himself up. The fear narrative got going in the mid1970s around dog fighting, especially when the dogs found their way into urban neighborhoods. The media really hyped them as being the dog of choice for drug dealers, and it just exploded into this mushroom cloud. The other side of the pit bull argument is that it’s really down to the owners. But it’s not as simple as that. Not at all. I was really careful throughout the whole research process because there was so much bullshit. There was negative bullshit, tons of that, but there was also tons of positive bullshit. Who’s putting out the positive bullshit? The pit bull community is kind of divided between people who think they’re ultra, uber, extra dogs and people who see them as underdogs and victims of cruelty and abandonment. The thing is, both can be true. The pool is so big. When people reduce it to it’s this or it’s that, none of it is accurate. The world is a very complicated place. Animal behavior is a very complicated field. You talk about “breedism”—does that mean believing that pure breeds are better? And also just that some breeds are not normal. They are not deserving of homes; they need to be exterminated, and then things will somehow get better. It’s simply not true. I think that, for most complex social problems, the punitive approach does not work. Abstinence-only education does not reduce teen pregnancy. Incredibly punitive drug possession laws do not solve the problem of addic12 | 7.20.16 | INDYweek.com

tion. So eradicating animals that people love and that, in most cases, have never harmed anyone, is not going to solve the problem of dog bites and public safety. It hasn’t been a cakewalk promoting this book. I read the transcript of your interview with Terry Gross. It seemed almost a little voyeuristic, with so much of the interview devoted to your parents. That was the most harrowing experience of my life. That surprised me a bit. Terry’s a wonderful interviewer, and if you listen to most of her interviews, she wants each one to have that emotional heft. And with a book with a lot of science and data, but with a little bit of that stuff about my background and my family, I think she just wanted it to feel richer and fuller. But I wasn’t expecting it, for sure. I was so nervous. It was the first interview I had ever done. I think I cried afterwards. My mind went blank; my throat went dry, and you realize you’re talking to this person who is one of the best in the world at what she does, and

you want to say everything right and be clear and have nice pithy sound bites. And then, of course, it gets into some really intensely emotional stuff that you’re highly aware of telling eight million people, and of course I’m aware that my family is listening, and of not wanting to say anything that’s painful to them, because while I may have chosen to put myself out in the public this way, they did not. So it’s a really delicate thing.

everything, you get what’s coming to you. And I think that’s a really toxic and dangerous proposition. I certainly don’t want other journalists who look at what’s happened to me—which is only this tiny percentage of what’s happened to a lot of other people— and think, I don’t want to go there, because I just don’t want to deal with it. That’s a horrible prospect, to have that chilling effect on a conversation.

And that choice you made can be wielded against you. I guess when you’re a writer and you decide to make your work public, you have to be prepared for the consequences. That whole thing was interesting, too, because women get so much more of the real vicious, personal attack stuff. Female journalists get a lot more of that. It made me really interested in the harassment of female journalists online. Someone wrote in The Guardian, “Having an opinion is the new short skirt of the Internet.” If you are a female journalist and you have an opinion about

How much of a negative reaction did you expect? I definitely knew I would get some, but I didn’t know how unbridled it would be. Part of the research that was really important to me was to hang out with various factions of the pit bull communities and look at message boards and what people were preoccupied with, the issues they felt were most important. The anti-pit bull faction was really, really worked up—and I had heard about a dog rescuer in Colorado who had to file a police report. She had received some really disgusting, homophobic stuff since she was married

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Voted BEST BEER SELECTION How sustained was it? It’s really died down, thank goodness. Most online mobs have kind of a short attention span, but when I was getting interviewed a lot, that was the worst of it, because every time my name would come up in a Google Alert, they would descend on not only the article and the comments section, but there were several reporters who messaged me said, “I’m now starting to get nasty messages because I reviewed the book or because I spoke to you.”

to a woman, and I was aware that stuff was out there. But I didn’t think it would be as personal and unrelenting. It made me understand that bullying and harassment is so not about the target. It’s about other people bonding with each other over a common enemy, signaling that they’re part of this group: I hate X. And hating X is a really good way to form bonds with each other, especially in the online community.

Your intent was to give a balanced look at this phenomenon. How about the racial hypothesis? Do you think that plays into the backlash you experienced? Early on when I started researching the book, I had been looking for a long time for a subject that would allow me to take one thing and use it as a lens for a whole lot of things I was interested in. In 2008, when by happenstance I met a friend’s pit bull, I had always been afraid of the dogs, and it just made me pause and wonder if this dog was the exception to the rule or if there was something more there. I just started asking the question, and as a journalist I started doing a little research and getting more and more into it. I wanted a simple answer to what I thought was a very simple question: Are pit bulls more dangerous than other dogs? And there was absolutely no simple answer to the question. The rabbit hole got way deeper than I ever thought it could get, and when

I adopted my own dog and I saw these very strong reactions that people had to her, the kind of weird comments that would come up, that’s what started me paying attention to the racial stuff. Comments about “thugs,” “dealers,” “gangbangers,” “the ghetto,” “criminals”—it was pervasive. And the more I researched it, it was like this heavy fog over everything. Even people who really loved the dogs, that language is so ingrained in the way we talk about pit bulls. And the people who were assumed to be “thugs” and “dealers” were just people. When I started noticing that everywhere I went, I thought, it may make people uncomfortable, but if I didn’t talk about this, I would be such a coward. How is the book doing? It’s in its fourth printing, which is great. The thing that I was most worried about— will people in the sciences, sociology, and anthropology think that it was a worthy effort? And they did. It’s much more important to me that a group of smart, thoughtful people find something of value in it than it sell a bazillion copies. I’m so grateful to have a book with my name on it that I’m not even worried about how it does commercially. But the response has been really amazing in terms of outlets that want to talk to me. I mean, Fresh Air—that was mind-blowing. It was reviewed in the Science section of the Times. So it all feels surreal. l dklein@indyweek.com

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AFTER WINNING TEENAGE RAP BATTLES AND BREAKING INTO REALITY TV, DURHAM’S J. GUNN IS READY TO BLOW UP BY ERIC TULLIS

You probably only need two hands to count the total number of black folks who rent or own a condo or loft in downtown Durham, and you likely need just one finger to count the number of black rappers who live in those spaces. Joshua Gunn is that one rapper. 14 | 7.20.16 | INDYweek.com

There’s a historical irony to Gunn’s living situation: From the early 1940s to 1986, the downtown building in which Gunn currently lives was home to Baldwin’s department store. At one time, it was the best place in town to find a nice bow tie and one of the last places you’d find a person of color.

In the next few months, though, Gunn will debut his own line of bow ties. The neon bull in the Old Bull sign of American Tobacco Campus—once home to the biggest tobacco company in the world—snarls at the back face of the Baldwin's building from across the railroad tracks. Next Thursday,

Gunn and Bull City Cigars will host a launch party to debut their collaboration on the rapper’s The Smoking Gunn cigar collection. All of it strategically comes on the heels of the surprise release of Gunn’s new LP, Rage to Survive. On a humid Thursday evening, Gunn shows up at the front door of his building clad in a special Runaway-edition DURM Bulls baseball jersey, camouflage shorts, and a knee brace. He has a torn meniscus from chasing his pet bulldog down Main Street. We head up the stairs to a Christmaslight-laced rooftop terrace to talk, and a passing freight train underlines the panoramic view of Gunn’s terrace, from the Durham Performing Arts Center to the adjacent American Tobacco Campus. Now twenty-eight, Gunn has had a rap career rife with derailments, destinations, and peculiar dustups. In the early 2000s, he helmed the underground Durham rap trio The Thyrday before briefly giving up on rapping altogether to earn a degree from N.C. A&T University. Upon his return home, he signed to MC Lyte’s DuBose Music Group imprint, which in turn led him to become an artist on the BET Music Matters campaign. More recently, he’s had a top-charting song in Jamaica, of all places, and a diss song aimed at Bow Wow, of all people. However, his goal is clear: He wants to create a Durham dynasty out of his rap talents, much like his North Carolina cohort J. Cole has done for his own hometown of Fayetteville. And coincidentally, this new chapter surrounding the release of Rage to Survive finds Gunn partnered up with Dame Dash, the dynasty maker who cofounded Roc-A-Fella Records with Cole’s current boss, Jay Z. The two met through a mutual friend after Gunn discovered that Dash had relocated to the Charlotte area. “When I first met him nine months ago, I was really trying to impress him. He was saying that he didn’t want to do music anymore, but I really knew that I could convince him to come back and do music,” Gunn says. “He respects me as a person. He knows who I am and he knows that I can rap. He respects what I do for my live shows and he respects my business model.” Dash’s wish to leave his music industry days behind him is currently being chronicled in the BET reality television series Music Moguls with co-leads Snoop Dogg, Birdman, and Jermaine Dupri. However, a recent episode of the show heavily featured Gunn as Dash’s next protégé. “He’s a rap star. For a high-yellow dude, he’s kinda tough on his battle shit,” says Dash over the phone in the typical jokester tone for which he's always been known. “When he comes around us and we’re hosting shows in strip clubs or in different places, he’s running around with the bow tie on, looking different from everyone else in there. But then he gets on the stage with no fear and raps. The

crowd eats it up every time,” he says. Strangely enough, Gunn’s fifteen-year rise is directly linked to another hip-hop luminary and a fifteen-acre ostrich farm in Vance County, about forty minutes northeast of Durham. It was there that, following a serious motorcycle accident in 1994 and general wariness of the music industry, longtime Public Enemy DJ Terminator X joined his family's business in a new and rare enterprise raising African black ostriches. By 1998, X had become a full-blown ostrich farmer, occasionally booking DJ gigs at Triangle clubs. For years, X and Gunn’s fathers had worked together at the same Durham post office, so Gunn’s demo tape landed in X’s hands. The two wound up in a recording session together in Durham’s Overdub Lane studio, and X eventually began managing Gunn. At the time, Gunn was a thirteen-year-old rap prodigy who had already gained local acclaim from calling into Duke and N.C. State University’s radio stations during hip-hop

“I watched these rappers,

something about ‘hostages’ and ‘Why don’t you go run back to Terminator X and them fucking ostriches?’” Gunn says. “I didn’t even know that everyone else in the crowd already knew what Terminator X was doing with those ostriches. It was a hilarious line with an incredible delivery. I was like, ‘Fuck, I lost.’” Still, the much-younger Gunn had won the respect of the Triangle hip-hop community for going the distance against an emcee who would ultimately become one of hip-hop’s lyrical heavyweights. In the years since, Gunn has left the battling behind—for the most part, at least. In a promo clip from one of the first episodes of Music Moguls, producer Jermaine Dupri and rapper Bow Wow are seen sitting in a music studio criticizing Dash’s relocation to North Carolina. “Ain’t nothing crackin’ in Durham,” says Bow Wow. It was another setup, which Gunn suspected came from the show’s producers. “They specifically told Bow Wow to say ‘Durham’ because of me. I know they did. Dame lived in Charlotte, not Durham,” Gunn says. Initially, Gunn admits he tried not to take the bait. Instead, he made a post about it on Instagram. But after consistent encouragement from his followers, he decided to record the diss track “Crackin’,” a brutal, three-and-half minute assault on everything from Bow Wow’s “trash-ass movies,” to his past relationships. Maybe Gunn’s reaction was extreme against some very low-hanging fruit, but his battle-rap mentality meant he could not have handled it any differently. “I know for a fact that Bow Wow heard the song,” Gunn says proudly. “I wore this jersey that I have on to the [2016 BET Experience] Genius Talks event. Jermaine Dupri saw me and recognized where I was from and got out the way. So, we made our point.” Moving forward, however, Gunn is engaged in an entirely different and more important battle, one that’s equally entrenched in how to balance aspirations of being the state’s next greatest rapper and using his platform to, as he puts it, “fight some of the injustices of the world.” At home, that’s translated into selling out concerts while also making concerted efforts with Durham community activists to preserve the integrity of downtown’s Black Wall Street legacy. It’s a two-front battle that Gunn has been training for since he was going toe-to-toe with rappers twice his age over a decade ago. “Two-thousand and three/ I knew how this would be/ and I put this work in so ask me who I think deserves it and I’ll tell you me,” he raps on “Say Me,” one of Rage’s standout tracks. He set himself up. l Twitter: @erictullis

and all they were doing was rapping about how good they could rap ... I knew that my punch lines would hit harder because I was young.” shows and arrowing through on-air freestyles. “Everybody would be blown away by this little kid who had a high-pitched, girly-sounding voice, but with very mature bars,” Gunn says. He then decided to take that ripeness to a higher-stakes arena—the locally fabled Duel of the Iron Mics battle rap contest. Gunn says he didn’t know what to do for his first battle, but he pulled it together. “I watched these rappers, and all they were doing was rapping about how good they could rap. I was good at that. Plus, I knew that my punch lines would hit harder because I was young,” he says. Gunn won that battle and took home the hundred-dollar grand prize. He dominated the local battle rap circuit until his next Duel of the Iron Mics event at the Durham Armory, where he found himself going head-to-head in multiple final rounds with another respected and feared emcee Phonte Coleman. Earlier that night, though, Gunn had casually explained to Coleman the story behind how Terminator X came to be his new manager. “Phonte set me up. In the last round of the battle he said

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A NOTE ON FOOD TO GO’S MOVE TO OUR CALENDARS While The INDY curates calendars brimming with user-submitted listings and editorial copy for music, art, stage, page, and screen, our food calendars have been relegated to this sporadic feature, tucked inside our other food coverage, which highlights a few events we’ve heard about. No more. At a time when the Triangle’s food scene is active and growing, we decided we need a food calendar that’s as robust and readerresponsive as our other calendars. Starting in next week’s issue (or the week after, depending on how quickly the submissions roll in), we’ll add a more comprehensive food calendar to the others in the back of the paper and on our website, combining reader-submitted listings of food, farm, and dining events with our takes on the must-go events of each week. Those of you who submit other kinds of listings to us already know the drill. Send the name, date, time, location, and cost of the food event—with a very brief description and your contact info—in the body of an email to calendar@indyweek. com. (To be considered for editorial coverage, also cc our new food editor, Victoria Bouloubasis, at vbouloubasis@ indyweek.com.) Or, even simpler, use our online submission form, which can be found along with full guidelines under the “Submit” tab at www.indyweek.com. Bye-bye, intermittent Food to Go. Hello, weekly food calendars. We’re going to do some wonderful eating together. —Brian Howe 16 | 7.20.16 | INDYweek.com

Your Brunch Waiter Hates You

A SUNDAY MORNING WAKE-UP CALL FROM A LOCAL SERVER WHO’S JUST ABOUT FED UP BY ERYK PRUITT

Hi, I’m your brunch waiter and I’ll be taking your order this morning. How am I doing? You don’t want me to honestly answer that. We’re short-staffed, so I closed last night, which left me barely enough time to pound some Grand Marnier shots at 106 Main at last call, sneak in three hours of sleep, Hasselhoff a burrito off my kitchen floor, and then haul ass back here to serve eggs. I’m currently a broken jangle of corn starch, Adderall, and forgotten dreams, but all the same, I’ll simply answer “I’m fine.” Our specials? Chef didn’t bother with any this morning. He’s in an exceptionally bad mood, you see. He went to culinary school and trained at some foofy joint in New York City. However, thanks to brunch service, he’s been reduced to a short-order cook and it’s got him a touch rankled. How about you go easy on me and keep the substitutions and special requests to a minimum? Would you like more time to read … er, peruse the menu? No? It’s no problem, really. The restaurant is packed, and my co-worker Kate … well, she walked up to me at the coffee machine and said, “Karma is a hollandaisecovered bitch.” Now no one has seen her for thirty minutes, so I’ve got an unusually large section. I can give you more time and come back to … No? You’d prefer me to stand here while you make up your mind? Great. Want to know what’s really depressing me? How much money I’m not making right now. All week long, I make bags of cash for dinner service, but this shift stinks so bad I would literally pay double my tips to stay home and sleep in. This is the shift when we work three times harder for a quarter of the pay. We show up an hour earlier than usual so we can stock things like ketchup or jams or one hundred extra coffee mugs, then stay an hour later to put them away again. On this shift, I walk my feet down to the ankles fetching refills. Oh, you have a hangover? Poor thing. There’s four of you, but you need the bill split five ways? No problem. You’ve got dietary restrictions and need an extra ninety seconds

to explain them to me? I’m all ears. You’re angry that we don’t serve vegan bacon? I’m angry that you have yet to chase a Pokémon into the street. It’s too bad we can’t unionize. Can you imagine? While I’m standing here slack-jawed, waiting for you to order, I’ve come up with quite the platform should we ever organize. 1. It should be illegal to work brunch after a Saturday night closing shift. 2. All brunch guests are restricted to a single list of egg-style choices. No more “dry scramble hard” or “over easy medium with a slightly runny yolk.”

3. Stop arriving twenty minutes before service ends. There is no greater false hope than making it to the last five minutes, only to have a one-top walk in and hold you hostage for an additional hour. And no, you don’t want me to look up from my notepad. I want you to see neither the hate nor the desperation in my eyes. If looks could kill, Your Brunch Waiter would be American Sniper. But looks can’t kill, so instead I’m dosing you all with decaf. ● Twitter: @reverenderyk

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EL CHAPIN

4600 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham 919-908-7975, www.el-chapin.com

A Family Affair

RONY ORDOÑEZ’S EXCELLENT EL CHAPIN BRINGS THE OFTEN-OVERLOOKED CULTURE AND CUISINE OF GUATEMALA TO DURHAM BY VICTORIA BOULOUBASIS

“You come to this country without any money.” Rony Ordoñez is frank about this collective immigrant experience. But as dashes of afternoon sunlight bounce off the celestial blue paint on the wall behind him, it’s evident that he can now share this truth with levity, in his very own restaurant, after nearly two decades in America. El Chapin, the Guatemalan restaurant Ordoñez opened a year ago with his family, is, like many culinary hideaways, located in a strip mall and well worth the sometimes-aggravating journey down 15-501 to find it. Two potted lime trees welcome visitors at the concrete edge of the restaurant’s entrance. The decal on the door reads, “Bienvenidos a nuestro rinconcito chapin.” Welcome to our little Guatemalan corner. The best table in the house is adjacent to a large window and shelves of dried beans—red, black, and brown—neatly stacked in premeasured Ziploc bags for sale. Playful marimba rhythms come from the radio speakers overhead. A potted aloe plant on the table soaks up the rest of the window light, fanning its succulent stems over bottles of hot sauce that sit in lieu of salt and pepper shakers. Bright, folksy printed fabrics drape each table. Illustrations of women weaving in traditional dress peek out from under a plate of tamales steaming atop a banana leaf. On the other end of the tablecloth, the word Guatemala acts as a rainbow halo for whatever drink you order: the freshly made blueberry or cantaloupe juice is a must. You could go to El Chapin at least three times and only put a minor dent in the antojitos menu. The smaller items are only $1.75 each. Larger tamales run at $3.25. Ask one of the servers if you’re stumped on making a selection. Your first visit should include the following: at least one tamalito de chipi-

lin, a mini tamal mixed with a green, leafy herb meant to be dipped in a salsa or smothered with a light tomato sauce and fresh cheese crumbles; a chuchito, similar but filled with your choice of chicken or beef (both are steamed in corn husks and topped with Ordoñez’s cabbage and beet salad); and one or two bite-size garnachas, small, thick corn tortillas topped with a minty ground beef and the aforementioned toppings. Ordoñez tinkers with the salsa bar every other day, using whatever fresh chiles are available to create spice accompaniments based in either green tomatillos or red Roma tomatoes. His escabeche, a quick pickled vegetable medley, also changes. The carrot version trumps the rest. Grilled jalapeños appear frequently on the condiment bar. On another day, treat yourself to a heartier lunch with the pollo en pepian, a steaming bowl of simmered chicken on the bone deluged in a warm, orange, stew-like sauce. Ordoñez says his mother, Marta Delia, is “la dueña de las recetas,” and, even when I asked her myself, she wouldn’t give her recipe away. From what I could cull from their comments and the flavors, her secret ingredients include a blend of toasted sesame seeds and dry mild red chiles. The stew features chunks of chayote, a squash indigenous to Mexico and Central America, and zucchini. A side of rice, beet and cabbage salad, and thick, hand-made tortillas fresh off the comal round out the best meal in the restaurant. For a broth fully infused with nutrients, the caldo de pata, or cow feet soup, is a saltier and more piquant comfort food. The grilled steak entrée offers a basic and delicious DIY-style meal (with salad, tortillas, and grilled green onion) more than worth it if only for the chirmol, a Guatemalan-style salsa that substitutes fresh mint for standard cilantro. Don’t make the

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gringo mistake of dipping the steak like I did; Ordoñez quickly pointed out that I should just pour the chirmol over the filet the way they do. It would be insulting to call El Chapin a greasy spoon, or even classify it with an outdated term like “ethnic.” The Ordoñezes used the word orgullo when talking about their restaurant: pride. “I never thought I’d open my own restaurant,” says Ordoñez, who grew up farming in the rural state of Jutiapa in a town with no name. He worked for over a decade as a general manager at Chapel Hill’s Mediterranean Deli. It was the owner, Jamil Kadoura, who encouraged him to open his own place. All the Ordoñez boys—fraternal twins Jeremiah and Elias, seventeen, and their younger brother, Luis, sixteen—help out. They also got their start at Mediterranean Deli. El Chapin belongs to everyone, Ordoñez says: his parents, his wife, his sisters, and his children. They, especially, have gained a greater respect for their culture while working for him. “We mostly speak English [to one another],” says Luis. “Sometimes we’d forget some Spanish words because we didn’t speak it that well. And they’d make fun of us.” He points to his grandparents and father. “And then when we opened the restaurant, we kind of got our skills back.” “But the food that we eat at home is now here,” Elias adds. “We get kind of bored with it.” “Then let’s just eat pizza at home,” Ordoñez says with a laugh. For those of us who are sick of pizza, El Chapin is open seven days a week. l vbouloubasis@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 7.20.16 | 17

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DESTINATION DIX

Saturday, July 23, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., free Dix Park, Raleigh www.dix306.org

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CAN THE DESTINATION DIX FESTIVAL AFFIRM ITS SITE AS RALEIGH'S PREMIER URBAN PARK? BY DAVID KLEIN

that property, that the city would do someAll of the world’s great cities have a great thing with it instead of turning it into conpark that shows their best face to the world: dos,” he says New York’s Central Park, Paris’s LuxemThose condos could have happened. bourg Garden, Barcelona’s Gaudi-designed Instead, when the city purchased the site Parc Güell. Raleigh has no such equivalent from the state for fifty two million dollars, it at the moment, but if Dix Park comes to fruicast its lot with the enlightened urban plantion in the way its planners envision, downtown Raleigh will soon boast a gem that would become a vital part of the city’s life and an unmissable destination. In a show of support toward making this scenario a reality, the city and Dix Park Conservancy are ponying up a hundred thousand dollars for Destination Dix, a free, oneday community festival on the park grounds this Saturday. For many of the estimated thirty thousand attendees, it will be the first time they actually set foot in the park, and organizers want to make sure that they keep coming back. Set on the sprawling lawn behind the State Farmers Market, the extravaganza will tap the area’s rich musical resources to trumpet the value of Dix Dix picks: It's up to Raleigh Park, so christened in January and its citizens to figure 2015 after a protracted legal batout the future of Dix Park. tle over the fate of its three hunPHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN dred and eight acres. Though the park is still mostly a blank canvas, it’s really happening, ners who have seen fit to reserve a place for and now is the time for citizens to have a say the natural world in the midst of civilizain what the space ultimately becomes. tion’s bustle. Parks provide refuge for aniDave Wilson leads Chatham County Line, mals and humans alike, while serving as an one of the event’s two headliners, and has attractive, lush hub for local and out-of-town been a Raleigh resident for twenty years. He visitors. closely followed the push and pull over the The centerpiece of Destination Dix is site of the Dorothea Dix Hospital, one of the music. Three stages—Oak, Acorn, and country’s first facilities for treatment of the Pine—will feature a breadth of styles and mentally ill, which shuttered in 2012. Wilson sensibilities ranging from funk and reggae says he is all in for the future of Dix Park as a to traditional country fare, with Chatham true destination park. County Line and Bombadil in headlining “I’ve definitely been very excited about

slots. Chatham County Line, going strong after more than a decade, represents the traditional wing of the region’s music with its modern take on Americana. Bombadil’s hazy folk-pop emanates from a vastly different part of the musical landscape, colored with deep regret, fragility, and occasional glory.

While the two acts might come across as strange bedfellows, they’ve shared stages before. “We’ve enjoyed having them open up some shows in the past. We don’t particularly try to seek out a band that’s gonna be exactly like us, or the same type of music as us,” says Chatham County Line’s John Teer. “We like to mix it up and get weird with everybody.” For the festival’s hundred-grand outlay, its organizers will offer the full array of familyfriendly amusements, Ferris Wheel includ-

ed, along with food trucks and purveyors of wine and craft beer. Artists from in and around the Triangle will display wares, and visitors can learn about the fascinating, rich history of the site in informal educational discussions about its features and current condition. The city’s vision of the park has always included input from Raleigh citizens considering the space. So far, though, that’s all in the preliminary stages. "We’re anticipating starting a planning process in early 2017, and through that planning process develop the future vision for the park," says Kate Pearce, the senior planner for Dix Park. "Nothing’s on the table, but nothing’s off the table.” In May, the city and its consulting team invited residents to apply for seats on the park’s forty-five-seat Master Plan Advisory Committee, an outreach effort that will continue Saturday. The event itself will feature a lot of interactive activities designed to collect ideas, both kid-specific and for adults. “It’s not just going to be the traditional 'write your idea on a Post-it note,'" says Pearce. Beyond that, it’s not clear how the park's future will play out. On the Dix Conservancy website, the section titled “Get Involved” just says “Coming soon.” There’s hope that the city and its citizens will reach a consensus on how to make Dix Park a place of lasting value, an asset for Raleigh for decades to come. For the immediate future, though, Dave Wilson has his eye on practical but mundane reality. “Hopefully, it will be a place with parking,” he says. l Twitter: @DKleinandFall INDYweek.com | 7.20.16 | 19

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DURHAM ARTISTS MOVEMENT

10 a.m.–2 p.m. July 22/noon to 6 p.m. July 23 & 24 111 West Parrish Street, Durham www.durhamforall.org/dam

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DURHAM ARTISTS MOVEMENT TURNS THE FORMER CARRACK INTO A VITAL SAFE SPACE FOR DIVERSE VOICES BY BRIAN HOWE

Last Friday, after being closed for the month since The Carrack Modern Art moved out, the loft gallery at 111 West Parrish Street suddenly burst back to life. A banner that read “Queer Development, Decolonize Durham” hung down the façade, and the names of black people killed by police officers were projected on buildings across the street. These urgent messages echo through the art show within, Durham Artists Movement’s first since moving into the space, which is open to the public again this weekend. DAM is a collective of people of color and LGBTQ people seeking safe space to create and share art outside of the white heteronormative framework of the gallery world. The INDY has reported on how the group came to take over the last six months of the Carrack’s lease through internal and external fundraising—an idea that was planted when DAM had a pop-up show there in 2015 and then came to fruition with startling speed this month. Saba Taj, who recently earned an MFA in art from UNC-Chapel Hill, is one of the key organizers of DAM’s move. The day before the Third Friday opening, we met her in the gallery. Two of her portraits of Muslim women are in the show, a continuation of one of her main bodies of work—with one important modification. “Before, the folks I included in the series were people I knew, who reflect my own background as a Pakistani women, and that’s an easy cop-out,” Taj explains. “So I sent out a call for images. I love that I didn’t take the photos; it’s these women through their own lens, and my connection is through this intimate process of painting them.” The concepts of marginalized people having a say in how they’re represented and of broadening the chorus art includes are central to DAM’s goals. In our conversation, we learned about the group’s vision and why it’s vital, even in progressive art circles, to break out of the white cube, creating a space that lifts up voices other galleries leave out. INDY: Tell us about Durham Artists Movement’s history. SABA TAJ: It’s a community of artists and activists in Durham who had a collective desire for art space and more collaboration. Sharing art-making space with people who are engaged in a certain manner of critical thought is really important. We started about two years ago, just meeting in this studio space that Catherine [Edgerton] built in her back-

we’re going to function and then we had to fundraise. We just got shot out of a rocket. Over time, the role that I’ve played will be diminished, and then I’ll be able to participate more. How were you were able to move into this space? I had applied for a group show at The Carrack with some friends who are almost all members of Durham Artists Movement. Laura [Ritchie] told us they were moving, and I made a joke: “What if we were the ones to take over this space?” Part of me felt like, “OK, this is a long-term goal, but isn’t it great to dream about it?” And then Catherine contacted me with the same idea. Together, we were like, “Oh, fuck, maybe we can actually make this happen.” We sent an email to folks who have been involved with Durham Artists Movement, asking, “Do you believe in this? Would you actually be willing to pay monthly in order to make this happen?” We had enough of a response to think we could make it work. I love that it started from that place. They were willing to throw down in a way that wasn't necessarily financially comfortable to make this happen. That energy, excitement, and commitment translated into the fundraising effort—I mean, I can’t even believe it worked. Are you set for the month at least? Yeah, we’re set for the month—I think maybe about four months. We still need to raise funds to cover the entire six months of rent, but now we have the PHOTO BY space to be continuously fundraising, and a lot of ALEX BOERNER folks have reached out about ways to connect and help. The thing that makes it a little blurry is that yard. When this opportunity came, and also, with the pop-up we are hoping to have materials and offer support to show in March 2015, these were two moments when we saw our artists for their projects. For example, if we want to have a this loose, amoebic group of people become more concretized banner outside, we want to be able to pay for the materials, or around specific goals. even to support our artists to apply to other local shows that have entry fees. These projects are about active engagement The pop-up galvanized the need for DAM to have a space? with issues that folks in Durham are facing. And we’re conIt’s something I’ve been thinking about, as have a number of necting with Black Lives Matter, as this creative component artists that I have talked to. We kind of just needed someone of the movement. That's really exciting. to do the work of organizing. When I was in grad school and working two jobs as a single parent, I had no space for it. [But Have you had any chance to gauge the public response yet? after graduation], I was conveniently unemployed, so I hapThis Friday’s going to be that moment. There’s not a lot of foot pened to have the time and space. A lot of folks stepped up in traffic, especially with the construction, so having the space a lot of ways; it just needed someone to do the administration, staffed all the time doesn’t seem worth it. But our artists have especially in its formation. We hadn’t even figured out how been in here working, and we’re going have some open hours Saba Taj with her portaits in DAM's show.

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for folks to come see the show if they miss it Friday (see info box). It sounds like things are in flux for the near future, let alone the rest of the lease. Yeah, they’re shifting. What this space provides is really hard to find—a place we can actually put work on the walls and light it, as simple as that is, and keep it up for more than a few hours. We’re talking about monthly programming with our members in order to set a solid foundation that will, over time, be offered to the public. We’re not doing that right away because we’re thinking about accessibility concerns first. It’s possible that public workshops won’t happen in this space because it isn’t accessible, because of the stairs. We need to be clear in our strategies for bringing folks in who typically wouldn’t be coming to these kinds of workshops, which is incredibly important to us. There aren’t INDY Week racks in some parts of Durham, for example, so if we list things there, not everyone’s going to see it.

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So you’re creating more of a studio and support system for artists than a gallery. Yeah, it’s partially about building an art community. A gallery space is hard for some folks to feel like they can be in. I’ve felt this in my life, and I’ve been lucky to have a certain amount of exposure. In terms of skill sharing in an environment where we can talk about art, we want to be broadening the conversation. In graduate school, I got a lot of formal feedback, but people sometimes saw these symbols I was using—the evil eye, for example, was “googly eyes”—through a certain lens. Having a community that looks through a different lens is really an antidote to the struggle I felt in academic environments where you don’t feel people understand what you’re doing. There’s this pressure to almost exoticize and tokenize yourself as a person of color, which makes it really hard to know how to approach that subject matter. If you look around, there’s so much figurative work in here. That's really meaningful, how many of these artists are thinking about identity and their bodies. If you’re trying to broach these topics in an environment where there’s this lens on you, it can be difficult to be free with your expression. From a personal standpoint, I’m like, “If I use this imagery, will someone use it against Muslims in some way?” If that’s what you’re thinking about all the time it can really stifle you. So being in

community with folks that understand the nuance there feels so essential. It’s very hard to explain to folks who aren’t feeling this on an everyday basis. That’s why we see our members as being majority people of color, and almost everyone’s queer as well. Fostering safe space among us is just what’s necessary. Being in a place where you can feel seen and understood, where people have got your back, where you can bring your kid—it’s these basic things, but also some more layered ones, I’m hoping we can offer our members. Tell us about what else you see in this show. There’s a lot of representation of black and brown bodies, and text as well, which also brings it into this context of movement space. We’re putting signs out on the streets, so communicating through phrases in visual work is a crossover between those realms. That’s also interesting to think about in terms of accessibility—abstract work has been made to feel inaccessible to a number of people, like you need to know some dumb, big words to communicate about it. Text is far more straightforward. And you also see an illustrative quality to some of this work that brings it into the digital social-media realm. So figurative art might be viewed as simplistic in a gallery context where people aren’t constantly thinking about how their bodies are endangered or represented by others. But in DAM, figurative work can be understood in a more robust, nuanced way. Yes, putting an image (a self-portrait, for example) into a white cube, with white people sipping wine and looking at a black or brown body, feels different than having this— I don’t want to say “ownership” exactly, but our imprint is here, our energy is here. That community is making this happen. You know whose hands put this art up. And then the work isn’t exocitized: “Here’s a show of LGBTQ artists or black artists,” as if those things are passing through a context rather than being part of it. It’s tricky because, in some ways, the art world being progressive, you see Black Lives Matter and other radical issues being capitalized on. In a way, it's great that you’re bringing it into a visible sphere. But it’s being taken out of the hands of the people who are most affected by it and placed into that white cube. Something changes. l bhowe@indyweek.com

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TWO BROTHERS FUNNEL THEIR NOSTALGIA FOR DURHAM SUMMERS INTO THE NEW NETFLIX SERIES STRANGER THINGS BY ZACK SMITH Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer still vividly remember growing up on the Orange County line, in the suburbs of Durham. Each “sticky, humid summer,” when they were on break from Duke School, they’d make a movie with their friends. “Some of our fondest memories are of the movies we made during the fourth grade,” Matt says. “They’re rough, but it was the most fun we ever had. A lot of what we do is trying to recapture what we had growing up.” The Duffers are now poised for a breakthrough with a love letter to the era of their childhoods. They created the eight-episode series Stranger Things, which recently went up on Netflix. Equal parts horror and nostalgia-fest, the series concerns the disappearance of a young boy in the 1980s, which prompts his friends and family to investigate as sinister forces descend on the town. Fans of the era’s genre films will spot plenty of visual and narrative homages in Stranger Things, from the synthesizer-driven score and the Stephen King-style title card to the presence of eighties mainstays Winona Ryder and Matthew Modine in major roles. There are shout-outs to movies such as Poltergeist, The Goonies, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Less Than Zero, and to pop-culture touchstones from X-Men comics to Dungeons & Dragons. “What we responded to when we saw films like that as kids was that they didn’t talk down to us, that the stakes were really high,” Ross says by phone from Los Angeles, the day after the last episode of Stranger Things is finalized. “If you read something like It or watch that train coming at them in Stand by Me, you’re afraid they could die. The kids felt real, and reminded us of us and our friends.” After producing several shorts, the Duffers initially got attention for their 2015 feature film, Hidden, and for writing a few episodes of TV’s Wayward Pines. Later that year, they signed the deal with Netflix for Stranger Things.

“We’re more movie guys than TV guys,” Ross says. “But we realized it’s getting harder to make movies of a certain style, and this story felt like it needed much more than two hours. Plus, TV is becoming much more like movies, with Steven Soderbergh doing The Knick and Cary Fukunaga doing the first season of True Detective.” The Duffers built the series on the elements they remembered best from Stephen King’s stories. They wanted to tell a story focused on young characters who are allowed to swear and face real danger. “They’re genre tales, and there are supernatural and horror elements, but you get a chance to spend some time with the characters and get to know the town,” Matt says of King's work. “There aren’t that many examples of stories that have meaty leading roles for kids, but aren’t aimed at children." When you’re trying to put kids in danger,

there’s an advantage in going retro: Before the Internet and cell phones, it’s easier to get them lost and in trouble. “You’re young, you go out on your bikes or into the woods, and your parents can’t reach you,” Ross says. “There’s a sense of freedom, that maybe we’ll stumble upon a treasure map. It doesn’t feel like you can get lost in the same way as you could back then. It’s nostalgia for that type of storytelling, and for our own childhoods, hanging out with our friends and getting into trouble.” The Duffers say their childhoods were relatively untroubled. The most disturbing things they saw in Durham were at the movies, and not just in Stand by Me. “Our dad loved movies, but none of his friends did, so we were the movie-going partners,” Matt says. “We were seeing R-rated stuff before we should have." “The Carolina Theatre was a big part of our

Stranger danger: Winona Ryder in Stranger Things PHOTO COURTESY OF NETFLIX movie-going experience,” Ross adds. “Amélie and Memento—seeing films like those were a big deal, and we were the youngest there by thirty or forty years.” Stranger Things is already earning positive reviews from outlets such as The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, and while the eight episodes complete a self-contained story, the Duffers hope to continue the series with their young actors. “We fell in love with them and want to tell more stories with them as we watch them grow up,” Matt says. And why wouldn’t they? The Duffers have successfully resurrected their childhoods. That's not something many people would easily let go. l Twitter: @thezacksmith INDYweek.com | 7.20.16 | 23

07.20–07.27 FRIDAY, JULY 23

KOOL & THE GANG

Summer is the perfect time for the bright, energetic soul-funk that Kool & the Gang has peddled for nearly fifty years. The band’s groovy “Get Down On It,” and yes, even its omnipresent “Celebration” are woven into just about everybody’s familyfriendly party playlist. While Kool & the Gang ought to provide a lively set, the rest of the bill is bonkers with heavy-hitters and pioneers: Morris Day and the Time, Bootsy Collins’s Rubber Band, and Doug E. Fresh. Morris Day’s struts have stayed fresh, as he proved in Raleigh last year, while Collins’s fantastic intergalactic funk remains otherworldly. Doug E. Fresh, the Human Beat Box himself, gets the ball rolling. Even considering that these acts are well removed from their prime years, it’ll be tough to keep your seat once Fresh hits the stage. —Allison Hussey

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FRIDAY, JULY 22–SUNDAY, JULY 31

HAMLET

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and it’s going to take almost four hours to fix it. That’s right: Raleigh’s Honest Pint Theatre Company presents what it touts as an “uncut” Hamlet, a production that sucks up scraps of various Shakespeare scripts—especially from the Second Quarto and the First Folio—in an epic vortex of the Danish play. The extra time is devoted to fleshing out minor characters such as Fortinbras, the impulsive Norwegian prince, who is often mentioned but seldom appears in more common versions of Hamlet. You already know the story of the melancholy prince with an effed-up family and a penchant for quotable existentialism, but you don’t know it like this. As theatrical overload goes, it’s not quite up to the insane level of Burning Coal’s five-day-long, nonstop reading of every Shakespeare play at the N.C. Museum of History last April, but it’s more than enough Bard for your buck. Fayetteville State University theater professor Jeremy Fiebig directs; David Henderson stars in the title role. —Brian Howe PEACE UNIVERSITY’S LEGGETT THEATRE, RALEIGH 7 p.m. Fri. & Sat./1 p.m. Sun., $12–$20, www.honestpinttheatre.org 24 | 7.20.16 | INDYweek.com

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20– SUNDAY, JULY 31

SATURDAY, JULY 23 & SUNDAY, JULY 24

In “The Ugliest Pilgrim,” Doris Betts’s short story, and in Violet, Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Broadway musical adaptation, a young woman travels by bus from her home in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in search of a cure for a scar. It’s 1964, and the characters she meets along the way bring her into contact with issues of civil rights and economic strife, powerful currents of Southern religion, and a smorgasbord of American musical vernaculars. Her experience will in fact transfigure her—but perhaps not quite in the way she was expecting. The high school kids in PlayMakers Rep’s Summer Youth Conservatory are producing Violet with director/choreographer Matthew Steffens, and the material, though historical, should be a fine testing ground for some of the brightest young regional actors of tomorrow. —Brian Howe

It’s been a roller-coaster year for Raleigh’s most venerable independent bookshop. Quail Ridge Books closed its longtime Ridgewood Shopping Center location and moved into a temporary shop at North Hills with only a third of the space. During this period, the store’s beloved founder, Nancy Olson, passed away, an emotional blow for longtime employees and customers alike. But at last, Quail Ridge fans and staff can finally take a breath of relief. It took several months to move the store’s considerable inventory to its new, stable home at North Hills, where it has room to spread out in a ninethousand-square-foot location at 4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road. The grand reopening festivities last all weekend and include prize drawings, craft stations, games, and author events. On Saturday, North Carolina children’s book author Sheila Turnage (The Odds of Getting Even) will appear at 2 p.m. for a reading and signing; watch Quail Ridge’s website and Facebook page as further activities are announced. —Zack Smith

VIOLET

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WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO? THE BIG SHORT AT THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART (P. 35), BLACK TWIG PICKERS AT DUKE GARDENS (P. 27), COMPANY WANG RAMIREZ AT DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (P. 33), DESTINATION DIX AT DOROTHEA DIX PARK (P. 19), FOOTPRINTS AT REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER (P. 33), GAYLE STOTT LOWRY AT TYNDALL GALLERIES (P. 31), ANDY WOODHULL AT MOTORCO MUSIC HALL (P. 34)

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MARISSA NADLER

Marissa Nadler likes it dark. In seven records spread across twelve years, she has perfected her eerie and enchanting American Gothic folk. Strangers, released in May, goes wider and deeper than 2014’s superb July; it’s layered with sparse string arrangements, languid keyboards, textured ambience, and washes of reverberating electric guitars. The record refines Nadler’s exquisitely macabre songs, in which surreal, apocalyptic dreamscapes murmur of medieval places. Her voice is a wraithlike mezzo-soprano that seems to come from the realm of spirits rather than from her body. With its sophisticated nuances, Strangers might be Nadler’s most accessible record, but it still lurks in the shadows—that black-and-white balance cements her status as one of today’s most intriguing, intelligent singer-songwriters. Experimental collective Wrekmeister Harmonies and atmospheric drone duo Muscle and Marrow open, their rough, ugly physicality providing a hypnotic counterpoint. —Patrick Wall

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FAUX Most hardcore FIGHT hip-hop fans always harbor some sort of inner warmonger, which sometimes erupts into multi-front rap wars between artists and their respective camps. For now, we’ll have to settle for these two independent labels exchanging friendly fire. It stands to turn into a “King of the Castle” scenario in which Rawsole’s shooters, Uth, Mallz, and Samson, try to dethrone Golden Era’s berserk battle-rapper Tuscon. He’ll be supported by label mates Finian St. Omer. —ET [DEEP SOUTH, $5/ 10 P.M.]

RAGING On last year’s No GARAGE Place Else, garage rock outfit Brainstems found a groove in tense, scuzzy post-punk revision not far from the likes of Thee Oh Sees or Parquet Courts. But on Tour Tape: Summer 2016, the St. Louis ensemble amps up the intensity with a brisk collection that includes covers of the Circle Jerks and The Nerves. Brainstems is at its best when dwelling somewhere in the middle of the frantic spasms of L.A. hardcore and the taut hooks of power pop. Brazilian post-punk outfit Rakta and local synth-punk trio Natural Causes open. —BCR [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/8 P.M.]

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THU, JUL 21 Amy Black Band: A Muscle Shoals Revue SOUL Amy Black has REVIVED always felt a connection to Muscle Shoals— Fame Studios pulled on her at a young age when she visited her grandparents there. But a chance pairing for a proposed EP with veteran swamper Spooner Oldham, who played on soul’s greatest hits including Aretha, Percy, and Pickett, inspired Black to cut a whole album of soul tributes. She pours as much country as soul into her renditions of the classics cut at Fame. —GB [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $12–$15/8 P.M.]

CONTRIBUTORS: Jim Allen (JA), Elizabeth Bracy (EB), Timothy Bracy (TB), Grant Britt (GB), Charlie Burnett (CB), Danny Hooley (DH), Allison Hussey (AH), Maura Johnston (MJ), Desiré Moses (DM), Bryan C. Reed (BCR), Dan Ruccia (DR), David Ford Smith (DS), Eric Tullis (ET), Patrick Wall (PW)

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Gown OUTER Debut shows can be ZONES stressful scenes, but effusive Durham metal outfit GOWN have little to fret about. For this first outing, the band’s blistering tunes will pair appropriately with longtime Triangle noisemakers Organos, who slice apart melodies only to rebuild them in new, clever ways. There’s also the delightfully strange excursions of Clark Blomquist’s Tegucigalpan, which alternates between squelching noise and ambient burnouts at a moment’s notice. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/9:30 P.M.]

Local Band Local Beer: Dragmatic HEART These Raleigh boys POWER know getting to the true heart of rock ‘n’ roll means not caring about ironic distance. When frontman Ryan Kennemur sings, “I got blisters on my fingers, baby, from rocking all night long,” not only does it not seem remotely clichéd, you believe him a hundred percent. Blending timeless power pop hooks with a dash of Wilco-derived Americana and alt-country, Dragmatic is all about loud guitars and earnest emotions—the kind you can get caught up in. With Texoma and Rob Nance & the Lost Souls —JA [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9:30 P.M.]

Old-time music boasts a particular, intoxicating charm. It’s a corner of the folk world that revels in its creaks and cobwebs, with minor-key harmonies and fiddle licks that make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. The music is often as goosebumpinducing as it is gorgeous, separating itself from the pristine precision that gilds bluegrass and other acoustic styles. The Black Twig Pickers are among the finest contemporary purveyors of old-time tunes, but the four-piece outfit is hardly tied to the prewar traditions that tend to govern the genre. The band’s most recent LP, last year’s Seasonal Hire, found the Pickers in cahoots with guitarist Steve Gunn. There, Gunn’s warm, drifting style melds beautifully with the Pickers’ intricate work: the sharp guitar picking of Isak Howell, the percussive clawhammer strokes of Nathan Bowles’s banjo, the moans and yowls of fiddles in the hands of Sally Anne Morgan and Mike Gangloff. Springy jaw harp interjections make for quixotic, delightful little finishes. Live, the Black Twig Pickers can go off on improvisational spirals that are utterly captivating as they unfurl. Old-time music relies heavily on community, with players convening to jam and improvise together for hours on end. But this sort of improvisation almost never gets the same high-minded consideration as jazz or other experimental improv music might, even if the respective players are equally adept. Those distinctions and false dichotomies don’t matter to the Pickers as they push beyond old-time riffing on a theme and into more unorthodox territory. The resulting yarns are mesmerizing as the group dips its toes into drones and rising whirls of stringed sound. As magnificent as the band’s more far-flung moments are, the Black Twig Pickers still excel at the simple sweetness that so often accompanies acoustic music. The Pickers’ ability to play the fields of the familiar and the freakish with equal skill is a unique marvel—it’s ground as green and fertile as the Duke Gardens turf they’ll hold court on Wednesday night. —Allison Hussey SARAH P. DUKE GARDENS, DURHAM 7 p.m., $5–$10 (under 12 free), www.dukeperformances.duke.edu

Orquesta GarDel RALEIGH City plazas were RUMBA made for dancing, not lawn chairs. Tonight, leave ’em in your trunk and grab the beach towels instead for the maximum sweat drippage from this evening of salsa in the early evening sun. Haven’t danced bachata in a while? No worries. It’s also been a

while since Orquesta GarDel— the beloved, Triangle-based, Latin dance music ensemble—has granted us an opportunity to show off just how uncoordinated some of us still look, no matter how many salsa classes we’ve taken. Also with Debonzo Brothers and Lemon Sparks. —ET [RALEIGH CITY PLAZA, FREE/5 P.M.]

Water Liars BE LIKE Mississippi’s Water WATER Liars juxtapose thrumming punk energy and whiskey-soaked Americana. Like Jason Molina, the late frontman of Magnolia Electric Co., Justin Kinkel-Schuster writes songs colored by the darkness at the edge of town and bearing the

scars of displacement, desperation, and hard living. But, like LPs from the great Dischord catalog, Water Liars records are also marked by defiance and weariness. Pinto opens. —PW [KINGS, $8/9:30 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY THE CAVE: Curtis McMurty; 9 p.m., $5. • DUKE’S KIRBY HORTON INDYweek.com | 7.20.16 | 27

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NEWJohn Cowan gets GRASS + around. Over the years, he’s played with everybody from New Grass Revival to The Doobie Brothers, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. His solo outings have covered territory ranging from soul and blues to newgrass and roots rock. So what can you expect from Cowan in concert? Probably all of the above. Darin & Brooke Aldridge open. —JA [MOTORCO, $25–$30/8 P.M.]

Peter Frampton, Gregg Allman CLASSIC Back in the classic ROCK rock era, when men were men and guitar solos stretched past the ten-minute mark, Gregg Allman and Peter Frampton strode the earth like gods. Now, more than slightly diminished, they stalk the nostalgia circuit. Nevertheless, for fans, there figures to be no shortage of ecstasy. Drawing on classics from their respective time in The Allman Brothers, Humble Pie, and Frampton’s multiplatinum solo career, this might be the best senior prom lineup ever assembled. —TB [RED HAT AMPITHEATER, $29.50–$85/7:30 P.M.]

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POP IN “7 Years” by dreadful CRISIS? Danish act Lukas Graham is one of 2016’s worst hits, its unearned “wisdom” made extra irritating by frontman Graham’s wounded-cat vocals and the song’s dreary plod. Somehow it isn’t even Graham’s nadir—that dishonor goes to “Strip No More,” a portrait of strip-club romance that thinks it’s more sympathetic than it actually is. Opener Jordan Fisher, late of Grease Live and various teenagerdirected entertainments, at least has some panache on his bubbling debut single, “All About Us.” Also, Ben Rector. —MJ [THE RITZ, $22/7 P.M.]

JAZZ FIRE Zen Poets, a fiery jazz ensemble led by stalwart saxophonist Annalise Stalls and featuring a surfeit of the Triangle’s best young performers, imbue a reverent traditionalism with a flair for innovation that situates the group between the boundary-pushing elements of early-sixties Blue Note releases and the more conventional side of Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Catch this ascendant talent in an intimate setting while that’s still possible. —EB [THE SHED, $12/8 P.M.]

Mark G. Meadows & the Movement WOKE Pianist and staple of JAZZ the D.C. jazz scene, Mark Meadows makes a socially conscious soul and funk fusion that carries special resonance in the tumultuous wake of recent events. On tracks like “Stay Woke,” from 2014’s To the People, Meadows offers a charged gospel of empowerment that wouldn’t sound out of place alongside Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions. —EB [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $10/8 & 10 P.M.]

Tedeschi Trucks Band SCORCH Derek Trucks was ROCK twenty-five when critic Robert Christgau bravely declared the guitar virtuoso had greater chops than his late inspiration, Duane Allman. No outcry followed—maybe Allman Brothers fans revisited live bootlegs and just shrugged it off. Now thirty-seven, Trucks still dazzles on slide guitar like nobody living or dead. He co-leads a band with a worthy partner in blues: belter, Tele picker, and spouse Susan Tedeschi. This group cooks. The songwriting is good enough, sometimes better on the recent LP Let Me Get By. Second-billed Los Lobos are more tunefully consistent. Memphis rockers North Mississippi Allstars open. —DH [KOKA BOOTH AMPITHEATRE, $44.50–$75/7 P.M.]

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Persona 12: Jay Simon DEEP In 2016, everyone is CUTS a musical curator, which often means scrolling through the same RateYourMusic lists, archived Blogspots, and YouTube channels as everyone else. Thus it can be refreshing and edifying to cede the decks to someone whose taste is less predictable. As the founder of Must Have Records, Jay Simon walks an instinctive path through dance music in his sets, one that spans slinky nineties R&B, floor-filling house, disco funk, and just about everything else. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $10/10 P.M.]

SAT, JUL 23 Dragged Into Sunlight NO These masters of MERCY horror deliver venomous, brutal metal that never sheds its haunting sense of dynamics and atmosphere for overeager blasts; the band’s patient, deliberate approach only makes the music more vicious. Denver sludge lords Primitive Man and local heroes MAKE— who just released the scathing and excellent Pilgrimage of Loathing—complete the bill. —BCR [KINGS, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Sarah Jarosz FINEST Texan singer-songFOLK writer Sarah Jarosz has one of the finest voices in folk music. Her June LP Undercurrent is a smooth, gorgeous affair, with simmering acoustic instrumentation forming a lush backdrop behind Jarosz. With its worn-in charm, the Haw River Ballroom ought to make a perfect setting for Jarosz’s sweet songs. Scott Miller opens. —AH [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, $20–$22/8 P.M.]

Jenny Besetzt TOUGH & Tender Madness, the TENDER new full-length from Greensboro band Jenny Besetzt, counts as one of the year’s strongest North Carolina releases. Bouncing between melodic

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Bobby Messano BLUES Blues Hall-of-Famer ROCK Bobby Messano adds a touch of soul to his blues rock sound, giving his cover of Santo and Johnny’s “Sleepwalk” a soothing makeover. He turns on the afterburners for a scorching rendition of Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood’s Blind Faith classic “Had to Cry Today.” —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

N.C. Metal Meltdown LOCAL The six-band bill, HEAVIES stacked with heavy local bands, offers a showcase of varied styles within metal’s increasingly broad spectrum. Hexxes deliver a snarling mix of thrash and death metal, while PROMO’s melodic songs borrow from stoner and alt-rock. Fall River Massacre injects sweeping black metal with a pop-punk sense of melody. Aittala tilts toward chugging, industrial tinges in its

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Nikol CHUGGA Those who nurse a CHUGGA soft spot for early Paramore or remember earnest aughts outfits like Flyleaf and VersaEmerge may find nostalgia in the post-grunge riffage of Raleigh’s Nikol. This is the release show for the band’s new EP, White Lies, an assortment of delaysoaked guitar leads and hooks so uplifting they could easily slide unnoticed into a 96 Rock playlist from 2004. With Youma and Bear With Me. —DS [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $8–$10/8 P.M.]

The Paul Swest FREE Charles Chace likes IMPROV to make a racket. When he’s recording on his own as The Paul Swest, he bounces between instruments, constructing layered improvisations that range from free-form splatter to surf-jazz, from Derek Bailey to post-rock. The live version of the band should keep the same loose feel. Chace is on guitar, joined by bassist Casey Toll (Mount Moriah) and drummer Tony Stiglitz (Chris Stamey, Free Electric State). It should make for a challenging but intriguing set. —DR [THE SHED, $7/8 P.M.]

Tuba Skinny FAT This ten-piece jazz HORNS ensemble from New Orleans faithfully renders Crescent City fare ranging from Dixieland to ragtime to Depression-era blues. The once-ramshackle collection of street musicians are now well-traveled musical ambassadors, exporting their jazz heritage to locations far and near. —TB [THE STATION, $10/8 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY ARCANA: Let’s Go Crazy 80s Dance Party; 9 p.m., $5. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: (U)nity; 8 & 10 p.m., $12.50. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Magnolia Still, Honey Magpie; 8 p.m., $6–$8. • COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK: Kool & The Gang, Morris Day & The Time, Bootsy Collins’ Rubber Band, Doug E. Fresh; 7 p.m., $25–$125. See page 24. • DEEP SOUTH: Daniel Nickels, JP & Leon Band, Michael Daughtry Band, Jack Grace; 8:30 p.m., $7. • LINCOLN THEATRE: The Breakfast Club, The Soul Psychedelique; 9 p.m., $10. • LOCAL 506: Jameson Elder, Nick White, Chris Frisina; 9 p.m., $8. • MOTORCO: Girls Rock NC Showcase; 2 p.m., $10. • POUR HOUSE: Caramel City: Angela Johnson, The Material; 9 p.m., $12–$15. • THE RITZ: Orquesta Guayacan; 8 p.m., $35. • SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL: Gasoline Stove; 6 p.m., free. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Dream Dates: Emma Swift, HOLLY; 6:30 p.m. $15. • SLIM’S: Roar the Engines,

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Corpse, which features members of The Royal Nites and Kolyma, opens. —BCR [NEPTUNES, $5/9 P.M.]

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311 ALL MIX- Has 311 changed a ED UP lot since 1995, when it broke through to mainstream success with “Down”? Some, some: on 2014’s Stereolithic the Nebraska quintet sticks to its glib and glossy reggae-rap-rock guns but contemplates life as harried, aging rock stars. (Sample lyric: “Always on the go and you’re thirty thirty/Gotta make the ends and get dirty dirty.” Groan.) 311 still embodies alt-rock’s doofy humor, but I guess the joke’s really on me, since I still remember the lyrics to “Down.” —PW [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $35–$55/7 P.M.]

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CREAMY Before this year’s SPIES reunion tour, Butterfly, Ladybug Mecca, and Doodlebug, of the jazz-sampling hip-hop trio Digable Planets, hadn’t performed together since an uninspiring 2011 shot at rebirth. But the real fracture happened over twenty years ago, following the Brooklyn outfit’s 1994 LP, Blowout Comb. The record was a radically styled and composed B-boy treatise, ceremoniously in opposition to the group’s safer, jazz-abiding debut, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space). In the years since, each member has forged their own solo path, with IshPalaceer Lazaro’s (real name: Ishmael Butler) Shabazz Palaces the most formidable of the three. Camp Lo opens. —ET [CAT’S CRADLE, $22–$25/8:30 P.M.]

DOUBLE What do you get STARS when you cross a folk-pop star with an alt-country hero? In the case of Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle’s recent duo album, you get a stripped-down, shoot-from-the-hip approach to some rugged new tunes, as well as rootsy reinventions of covers, like the Stones’ “Ruby Tuesday.” On stage, there’s also a pretty good chance that each of them will throw in something from their own esteemed catalogs. —JA [FLETCHER OPERA THEATRE, $32–$52/8 P.M.]

FAWNING If you need a FANTASY dramatic suspension from everyday dreariness, look no further than Faun Fables. The new Born of the Sun finds Dawn McCarthy leading a dreamy adventure, where pan flutes and light strums flit above meaty guitar and percussion. McCarthy makes equal room for flighty fantasy and intriguing darkness even from moment to moment. Al Riggs opens. —AH [THE PINHOOK, $8/8 P.M.]

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MATH The new local band BOOGIE Deltoid boasts a long résumé. Its members have played with local icons Confessor, The Cherry Valence, The Bq’s, and Urge Overkill. With their new outfit, though, the veteran crew gives a new dimension to classic rock. Deltoid, released on Bandcamp in May, undercuts boogie-rock grooves with sinewy math-rock detours. “Dimez” feels like Polvo covering Grand Funk Railroad, while “Shackleton” feels like a lost Cheap Trick hit. ZZ

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show the band hasn’t lost its taste for abrupt changes and slick riffs. Jesse Smith & The Holy Ghosts open. —BCR [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $13–$15/7:30 P.M.]

Natural Velvet POSTBaltimore’s Natural PUNK Velvet plays its post-punk with almost sacral seriousness. Guitarists Kim Te and Spike Arreaga bounce between acerbic drones and high-pitched peals. Drummer Greg Hatem and bassist Corynne Ostermann thread a balance between machine-like precision and frenetic urgency. Ostermann’s vocal delivery ranges from quiet cooing to stentorian shouting, often in the space of a few syllables. Little wonder they’ve been lauded by Baltimore’s City Paper as one of Charm City’s best bands. With Doc Ellis Dee. —PW [KINGS, $6–$8/9 P.M.]

Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa HIGH ART As much a test of Walnut Creek’s pat-down procedure as a concert, the “High Road” tour brings together two of America’s premier smokers, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa, to headline a solid assortment of B-level rap and R&B talent. The long-underrated Kevin Gates, fresh off the success of his recent single “2 Phones,” provides support duties with singer Jhene Aiko, who hasn’t seen much success with solo efforts but exploded back into the public consciousness last year with a memorable feature on Omarion’s “Post to Be.” There’s also DJ Drama and the mildly underrated Odd Future affiliate Casey Veggies. —DS [WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE, $30–$71/7 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY CAT’S CRADLE: Swans, Okkyung Lee; 8 p.m., $20–$24. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Fear of Men, Puro Instinct, Janxx; 8 p.m., $10–$12. • POUR HOUSE: Black Horse Run Band; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra; 8

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WED, JUL 27 Sarah Potenza BLUES & Nashville songwriter SOUL and blues belter Sarah Potenza was serving as a personal assistant to country cult-favorite Elizabeth Cook when she was given the opportunity to compete on The Voice, a surreal development that she parlayed into large swaths of television time and heretofore unimagined exposure. By finishing among the show’s top twenty finalists, Potenza revealed to reality TV audiences what longtime followers already knew: she possesses a powerful and resonant alto capable of tearing the house down. The Emily Musolino Band opens. —EB [POUR HOUSE, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Tin Foil Hat TRUTH’S As Tin Foil Hat, THERE Asheville’s Jared Hooker borrows from dream pop, lounge, disco, and techno to create synth pop that vacillates between lush and handsome and twitchy and burbling. Hooker studied guitar at the Berklee College of Music and earned a degree in vocal performance at UNC-Asheville, which lends his music a dramatic, jazz-handsy flair. Band and the Beat and FKB$ join. —PW [NEPTUNES, $7/10 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY DUKE GARDENS: Black Twig Pickers; 7 p.m., $5–$10, 12 and under free. See box, page 27. • THE PINHOOK: American Empire, Suppressive Fire, City of Medicine; 9 p.m., $5. • SLIM’S: Demon Eye, Mos Generator, Year of the Cobra; 9 p.m., $5.

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Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. scenes. Stamer paints a barn with black-and-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Thru Sep 11. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Art from Raleigh Sister Cities: Fifty-one works by seventeen artists in Raleigh’s sister cities in France, Germany, England, and Kenya. Thru Jul 31. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. The Art of Shadow & Light: Beth Bale. Thru Jul 31. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www.joyfuljewel.com. The Art of the Bike: Bicyclethemed art exhibit. Thru Oct 23. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www.co.orange.nc.us/ library/carrboro. Avant-Gardens: Mixed collage work by Lauren Worth. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. Phil Blank: Works on paper. Thru Aug 19. Bull City Arts Collaborative: Upfront Gallery, Durham. www.bullcityarts.org.

Liz Bradford: Oil paintings. Thru Sep 30. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org. Jarrett Burch: Paintings. Thru Aug 31. Culture Hair Studio, Durham. Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock. Thru Sep 25. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe LAST Chatham Artists CHANCE Guild: Thru Jul 27. NCSU Campus: The Crafts Center, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/ crafts. Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection: Whereas many glassblowers content themselves with bongs and lampshades, Dale Chihuly has taken the form into the upper echelons of fine art with his sculptural fantasias. This private collection of Chihuly’s works is currently on tour. The collection focuses on Chihuly vessels inspired by Venetian art

deco vases from the 1920s and ’30s, almost fifty of which are in the exhibit, arrayed around the centerpiece of the Laguna Murano Chandelier, a tour de force made of more than 1,500 pieces. Thru Oct 15. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham. —Brian Howe Chill Out: Thru Jul 30. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com. Color Abstractions: Allen Clapp, Mary Storms, and Sherri Stewart. Thru Jul 30. 311 Gallery, Raleigh. The Colors of Summer: Peg Bachenheimer. Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com. Corruption of the Innocents: Controversies about Children’s Popular Literature: Thru Aug 15. UNC Campus: Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu/wilson. Creative Recovery: Mixed media by Grayson Bowen. Thru Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. Kathy Dawalt and Michiel Van der Sommen: New oils and bronzes. Thru Jul 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Raleigh’s Gayle Stott Lowry is a fine painter of landscapes and architecture whose pictorial realism glimmers with intimations of abstraction. Her new show at Tyndall Galleries showcases work from Lowry’s recent travels in England, where her mind turned to the timely topic of the plight of refugees as she researched her ancestors’ journey to the United States more than three hundred years ago. This context gives the works a lonesome patina—a misty valley, more than a view to behold, becomes a challenge to traverse. Travel with Lowry through Sept. 3. —Brian Howe TYNDALL GALLERIES, CHAPEL HILL 7–9 p.m., free, www.tyndallgalleries.com Durham and the Rise of the Baseball Card: An exploration of Durham’s role in popularizing the baseball card. Thru Sep 5. Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org. Durham by Ghostbike: In one of his mixed-media collages, Jeremy Kerman shows us a familiar downtown vantage through fresh eyes. Using bright colors, blocky shapes, and skewed perspectives remindful of a child’s drawing, Kerman depicts the collision of old and new Durham, as historic brick jumbles with shiny ELF vehicles in front of the Organic Transit building. A“Ghost Bike” parking sign pays a tribute to a friend of the artist’s in particular, and to all the people being erased, literally or figuratively, from Durham. “Road Closed Ahead,” reads a construction sign; the question Kerman quietly asks in

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this and other Durham scenes is “for whom?” Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com. —Brian Howe Ingrid Erikson, Tonia Gebhart, Caroline Hohenrath, Anna Podris, and Tim Saguinsin: Thru Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. FRANK Summer Invitational: Janet Cooling, Drew Deane, Laura Hughes, Jenny Eggleston, Mary Kircher, and Jim Lee. Thru Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. LAST Grounded: Paintings CHANCE by Pat Merriman and Ellie Reinhold, and pottery by Evelyn Ward. Thru Jul 24. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. www.hillsboroughgallery.com. Andrew Hladky: Found object paintings. Thru Sep 5. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. Hometown (Inherited): Photographic and mixed media work by Moriah LeFebvre. Thru Oct 2. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. Inside Out: Sculpture for all Environments: Representative and abstract sculpture. Thru Jul 31. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www. cedarcreekgallery.com. Local Color: Multimedia works by twelve local female artists. Thursdays. Thru Jul 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www. localcoloraleigh.com. Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org. George McKim: Thru Sep 24. Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com. Muhammad Ali’s Most Memorable Images: Photographic portraits of the late boxer by Sonia Katchian. Thru Aug 6. Vegan Flava Cafe, Durham. www.veganflavacafe.com. LAST Narrative CHANCE Landscapes: Eric Smith. Thru Jul 23. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org. Nature in Colored Pencil: The Colored Pencil Society of

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America. Thru Jul 31. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org. LAST Nature: The Beauty CHANCE of the Beast: Kathryn Green Patel. Thru Jul 24. Herbert C Young Community Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org. The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. Not Your Grandma’s Watercolors: Ryan Fox. Thru Jul 31. Mash & Lauter, Raleigh. www.busybeeraleigh.com. OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham/. —Chris Vitiello Erin Oliver: Site-specific installation. Thru Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. One More Drop in the Bucket: Improvisational installation by Paperhand Puppets. Thru Jul 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org. LAST People and Places: CHANCE Meera Goyal. Thru Jul 22. Cary Town Hall, Cary. www.townofcary.org. The Process of Seeing: Paintings by Lisa Creed and William Paul Thomas. Thru Sep 30. American Tobacco Campus, Durham. americantobaccohistoricdistrict. com. Calli Ryan: New paintings. Thru Jul 31. Galerij Eumbaach, Chapel Hill. SelfieRepresentation: Paintings by Shelby Bass. Thru Jul 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org. LAST Separation: Megan CHANCE Bostic, Samantha Pell, and Jan-Ru Wan. Thru Jul 24. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org. Jody Servon: Installations. Thru Aug 4. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

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WEEKEND MUSEUM MANAGER Kidzu Children’s Museum in Chapel Hill is seeking a Weekend Museum Manager to start in early August who can consistently work on weekends, work one half-day during the week, and manage during occasional evening events. This individual will be responsible for ensuring museum visitors of all ages have a positive and high-quality experience at museum and that our staff and volunteers receive the support necessary to carry out their responsibilities. Candidate must have past supervisory experience managing teams, excellent organization and communication skills. Best candidates will have past experience in the hospitality, retail, or museum industry. Send letter of interest and resume to: info@kidzuchildrensmuseum.org

ADMINISTRATIVE LEGAL ASSISTANT Nonprofit environmental law firm seeks an experienced administrative legal assistant to support a team of lawyers in their work to protect the environment of the Southeast. Outstanding job for the right person. Prior litigation support experience and an interest in environmental protection are essential. Requires college degree; strong computer, typing, and editing skills; and proven organizational and communication skills. Must be proficient in all MS Office applications. Excellent benefits, competitive salary, paid parking. We are an established organization and EEO employer. To learn more, visit https://www.southernenvironment.org/about-selc/jobs. Apply by emailing resume, cover letter and 3 professional references to ncjobs@selcnc. org with subject ìAdministrative Legal Assistantî, or by mailing the same documents to Administrative Legal Assistant, 601 W. Rosemary Street, Suite 220, Chapel Hill NC 275162356. No walk-ins or telephone calls please.

Pathways for People, Inc.

is looking for energetic individuals who are interested in gaining experience while making a difference! Positions available are:

Day Program General Instructor -

General Instructor needed for Day Program. Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 4:00pm. Experience with individuals with Intellectual Disabilities required and college degree preferred. Please submit resume with cover letter to Rachael Edens at rachael@pathwaysforpeople.org. No phone inquiries please.

Full Time Floater -

Position entails filling in with various consumers in Wake, Chatham, Orange, Person, Johnston, and Durham counties. Must be available from 8:00am - 7:00pm Monday - Friday. Experience with individuals with Intellectual Disabilities required. For more information contact Michele at 919-462-1663 or michele@pathwaysforpeople.org. For a list of other open positions please go to:

FAIR TRADE SALES ASSOCIATE AT ONE WORLD MARKET Part-time customer serviceoriented sales position with Ninth Street nonprofit store. Get more details and apply by Aug 3rd at shoponeworldmarket.com.

TECH SUPPORT REP WANTED - DURHAM Looking for strong customer service skills, tech savvy, and wants a great career. Email: mmarshall@ebsco.com

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Staff-1 has summer/ fall openings for event staff and event security personnel at area sports and entertainment events which include NC State Sports, Duke Sports, Durham Bulls Baseball, DPAC Events, and more. Our flexible part-time jobs are ideal for 2nd job seekers, military personnel, students and Retirees. This opportunity is perfect for the active and outgoing types. We also have fundraising opportunities available for groups. Staff-1 is the triangle’s largest provider of event staff and security personnel for sports and entertainment events.

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located at 915 Lamond Ave, Durham, NC 27701

• July 14, 19, 21, 26, & 28 (4PM to 7PM) • July 16, 23, 30 (10AM to 2PM)

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