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GOOD DOUGH A Brooklyn ex-pat’s carb-fueled quest to find a slice of home in the Triangle

BY ANDREA RICE

“SEND HER BACK”

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FAR-RIGHT FLIRTATIONS

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THE COCKTAIL RUSH

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK RALEIGH VOL. 36 NO. 28

DEPARTMENTS

5 Donald Trump wants you to talk about his racism.

6 News

6 The First Amendment “doesn’t mean that people have to be nice to fascists.”

17 Food 18 Music

7 In January 2018, the Wake County Young Republicans asked the State Board of Elections to waive $5,250 in fines. They’re still waiting for a hearing.

20 Arts & Culture 30 What to Do This Week 33 Music Calendar

8 Annamaria’s Pizza House, which opened in 1956, is believed to be the Triangle’s first pizzeria.

37 Arts & Culture Calendar

17 New legislation will give distilleries the option to become cocktail bars, but not everyone is getting in on the game.

19 When Nick Sanborn and Chris Rosenau recorded an improvised set, they let the tape run through everything: bird calls, barking dogs, rainstorms, whatever.

21 Buying a festival pass to the Women’s Theatre Festival meant paying only $1.32 a show.

Much Ado, at this year’s Women’s Theatre Festival (see page 21) PHOTO BY GENISE THORNTON

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INDY VOICES

Lines of Attack

Cheap Tricks

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ast week, Leigh Tauss interviewed George Knott, who is running for Raleigh mayor— even though he says he doesn’t want the job and has raised no money toward getting it—on a campaign rooted primarily in antipathy toward development, leaf blowers, and bike lanes.

Suzy Hooker tells us she “found the piece to be disingenuous at best, openly hostile at worst, and at its root, irresponsible journalism. Yes, Knott has some nontraditional ideas, and he might be funny, but his campaign is no joke. If Tauss believes her line of [the campaign being] ‘somewhere between a protest and a joke,’ why not ask him what he’s protesting? The answer could have been illuminating for readers like me who are tired of big money in politics, and even more weary of overdevelopment and gentrification under the guise of progress. By foregoing standard light editing for readability (a cheap trick) and choosing the silliest picture available on his website, Tauss attempted to paint Knott as an inarticulate and bumbling candidate. If she had asked him about his comprehensive non-discrimination ordinance, or his idea to incentivize the protection of old-growth trees from development, readers might have had a chance to learn about the true substance behind Knott’s campaign. Instead, Tauss chose to write an article that fit her preconceived notions.”

For what it’s worth, Knott told us he thought the piece was “great.”

Our cover story last week talked about the struggle of Duke graduate students to unionize. MaryBe McMillian, the president of the North Carolina AFL-CIO, took issue with the title, “Hollow Victory”: “Through their organizing efforts, Duke grad workers got the university to eliminate both the continuation fee for sixth-year doctoral students and the fee to use campus recreational facilities.

And despite what the university administration says, union efforts clearly pushed the university to raise wages and extend family leave. Yes, there is still more work to do to ensure fair pay and economic security for all graduate workers on campus. While change may not always be as dramatic or rapid as we would like, any time working people take collective action and improve working conditions is a victory worth celebrating.”

Want to see your name in bold? Email us at backtalk@indyweek.com, comment on this story at indyweek.com or our Facebook page, or hit us up on Twitter: @indyweek.

YES, TRUMP IS A RACIST. THAT’S NOT HOW YOU BEAT HIM. BY JONATHAN WEILER JONATHAN WEILER is a teaching professor in global studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and co-author of Prius or Pickup? How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America’s Great Divide and Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics.

NEXT WEEK: COURTNEY NAPIER, a Raleigh native, community activist, and co-host of the Mothering on the Margins podcast.

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ast week, President Trump unleashed a torrent of attacks against four high-profile Democratic members of Congress, all women of color: Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ayanna Pressley.

When Trump started tweeting about “The Squad,” he clearly hoped to exploit a recent dustup with Speaker Nancy Pelosi to further stoke Democratic divisions. Trump quickly pivoted, however, leaving behind their spat with Pelosi to accuse the four women of being “proterrorist” and anti-American and suggesting they go back to their own “totally broken and crime-infested places.”

Three of the four were born in the U.S. The exception is Omar, a Somali refugee who became a naturalized citizen as a teenager. (Last Wednesday, at Trump’s campaign rally in Greenville, thousands of his supporters chanted, “Send her back!” as the president looked on.)

Many Democrats inside and outside of Congress condemned Trump’s comments as racist. Polls suggest a large majority of Americans agree.

But it doesn’t necessarily follow that the sole focus of the response to such Trumpian eruptions should be on whether this is proof that Trump really is a racist. It’s doubtful there’s an American alive who hasn’t already decided whether Trump is or isn’t—or whether that judgment will influence their vote in 2020.

The question isn’t whether this was a new low for a bottomless presidency. It’s moot. Instead, two lines of attack might be more fruitful.

First: The latest rants came within a week of new charges against Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, the elusive financier,

was arrested on multiple felony counts related to sex trafficking and sex with minors in 2008. But a sweetheart deal with the U.S. attorney’s office in Florida—then led by Trump’s now-former labor secretary, Alex Acosta—allowed Epstein to avoid conviction on the most serious charges and to serve an unusually comfortable thirteen-month sentence in a Florida jail. Acosta was forced to resign as labor secretary earlier this month amid renewed scrutiny over his handling of the case.

In 2016, a woman filed a civil suit that accused Trump of raping her in 1994, when she was thirteen. The woman alleged that the rape took place in Epstein’s home, and Epstein was a named co-defendant. (The woman dropped the suit days before the 2016 election.) Last week, MSNBC’s Morning Joe unearthed a video of Trump at a party with Epstein in 1992, commenting on young women; at one point, Trump is seen pulling a woman toward him and patting her backside.

Long story short: Trump had good reason to divert the news cycle. Epstein is a point of vulnerability, a potential gateway to Trump’s troubling history with women. Democrats should be emphasizing this fact. Indeed, they should be at least as relentless in pouncing on Trump’s pattern of trying to change the subject whenever his sordid past threatens to bubble up to the surface as they are in condemning his racism.

Second: At every possible turn, Trump’s opponents should be highlighting the utter cowardice of the GOP. With almost no exceptions, Republicans in Congress were either silent in the face of the recent rants, actively defended

Trump, or issued pathetic statements condemning the Democrats while tsktsking Trump. The party’s sycophancy is one reason a majority of Americans— including many Republicans—hold it in such contempt. Therefore, it’s a good way for Democrats to stay on offense.

When a public figure, especially a president, engages in vile conduct, it’s essential to repudiate it. But it’s also important to recognize the special circumstances with which the Trump presidency confronts us. His attacks on people of color are, of course, deliberate. Trump is fully committed to stoking racial resentment and playing to his base by doubling and tripling down on us-versus-them politics.

It’s both a reflection of his core character and a political approach that he believes helped deliver him the presidency. By all means, that should be called out.

But it’s also territory with which Trump is familiar, comfortable, and confident. Trump is on much shakier ground when attention shifts to the underlying motives for these public blowups—his deep insecurity about the mountain of misconduct that has characterized his adult life. Call him out not only on what he wants to put on display but also on what he’s desperate to conceal.

To the extent that there are movable voters in 2020—there are some, and they could make all the difference—the latter will be a more effective line of attack. backtalk@indyweek.com INDY Voices—a rotating column featuring some of the Triangle’s most compelling writers and thinkers—is made possible by contributions to the INDY Press Club. Visit KeepItINDY.com for more information.

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Proudest Moments

A LOCAL REPUBLICAN GROUP GOT CURIOUS ABOUT THE PROUD BOYS. ANTIRACISTS SHUT IT DOWN. BY JORDAN GREEN AND THOMAS C. MARTIN

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ollowing criticism from antiracism activists and questions from media outlets, an event to introduce the Western-chauvinist group Proud Boys to a local GOP organization was abruptly canceled Monday.

The Wake County Republican Liberty Caucus—part of a national organization that seeks to elect libertarian-minded Republicans—had scheduled a members-only event for August 15 called “Who Are the Proud Boys?” Set to follow the Wake RLC’s regular monthly meeting at the RallyPoint Sport Grill in Cary, the event featured speaker Hussein Hill, an openly LGBTQ ex-Muslim who is active with the farright groups Proud Boys and the American Guard.

A restaurant manager, who asked not to be identified, told the INDY Monday afternoon that she’d only just learned about the event that day, following a Twitter campaign by Triangle antiracists asking people to call RallyPoint.

Within an hour, Erik Wilson, southeast regional director of the Republican Liberty Caucus, told the INDY that, “due to threats and security concerns by the venue,” the organization was canceling the event.

At the time, six people were listed as “going” on the event’s Facebook page—about the same number who usually attend the Wake RLC’s meetings at RallyPoint—and twenty said they were “interested.” Among the latter group: Chad Brown, a Gaston County commissioner seeking the Republican nomination for secretary of state. Reached Monday night, Brown told the INDY that his staff controls his Facebook page and he didn’t know who the Proud Boys were or have plans to attend.

Unlike other far-right groups that flowered during the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, the all-male Proud Boys eschew explicit white supremacist ideology, instead promoting “Western values” matched with antagonism toward antifascists. The Wake RLC billed its August event as “an interesting talk” that would “give those in attendance a better understanding of the alt-right,” though both Hill and the Proud Boys reject that label. Announcing the event on his own Facebook page in May, Hill said he’d be “explaining the Proud Boys as well as delineating ‘the New right’ from the toxic and regressive ‘Alt Right.’”

The Proud Boys gained notoriety in October 2018 when members threw three counter-protesters to the ground and punched, kicked, and stomped them outside the Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan. The organization has also played a prominent role in violence in Portland, Oregon, over the past two summers as supporters of Joey Gibson, an inflammatory Republican candidate for U.S. Senate 6 | 7.24.19 | INDYweek.com

“The First Amendment doesn’t mean that people have to be nice to white supremacists.

You have the right to tell fascists to go away.” in Washington State. Proud Boys member Lyle Flippo recently pleaded guilty to assault for his role in the beating of a Portland man after a June 2018 rally.

State and local GOP leaders have so far been silent about the scheduled event at RallyPoint. Wake County party chairman Darren Eustance has not responded to the INDY’s requests for comment.

Hill, a Triangle resident, has been active in local GOP campaigns, according to his Facebook posts. In June 2018, he boasted about spending eight hours phone-banking for the party, and Facebook updates from late September to early November document his get-out-the-vote efforts on behalf of state representative Nelson Dollar, who lost his reelection bid.

On June 30, 2018, Hill posted a photo of himself with other GOP volunteers at a gun show while giving the Proud Boys’ “A-OK” hand sign. Four days before the 2018 election, Hill posted a photo of himself standing next to thenNCGOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse, whose hand was clapped on Hill’s shoulder.

While he was campaigning for local Republicans, Hill signaled his involvement with far-right groups on his Facebook pages. In a July 4, 2018, post, Hill wore a Proud Boys hat and an American Guard shirt with the word “president,” apparently denoting his reported status as the American Guard’s state leader. A couple of months earlier, he’d posted a photo of himself posing with the North Carolina Proud Boys during a Second Amendment rally in Raleigh.

An openly gay black man, Hill represents the Proud Boys’ outwardly inclusive positioning in the far-right universe.

But the trans community is where the Proud Boys draw the line. Hill defended North Carolina’s HB 2 during a June 2018 forum on LGBTQ issues held at the NCGOP headquarters in Raleigh, calling it “a reaction to people who are asking a very valid question.” Three months later, Hill wrote on Facebook that he’d been suspended from the platform for thirty days, though he didn’t say why. In an earlier post, however, he belittled the twelve-year-old drag performer Desmond Napoles, writing that he “appears to be being fed narcotics by his deranged, cross-dressing handler.”

American Guard, like the Proud Boys, embraces a nativist and Islamophobic stance while opening its membership to people of color and distancing itself from white supremacy. The organization was founded in Indiana in 2016 by Brien James. While James no longer considers himself a white nationalist, his ideological past is not buried deep.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, James cofounded the violent and explicitly racist skinhead organization Vinlanders Social Club.

Hill told the INDY Monday that “you have literally no concrete evidence that either group [Proud Boys or American Guard] is a ‘hate group.’” The SPLC listed both organizations as hate groups in 2018; the founder of the Proud Boys sued the SPLC over that label.

Lindsay Ayling, who is seeking her PhD in history at UNC-Chapel Hill, was among the antiracists denouncing Hill and local Republicans on Twitter on Monday and encouraging people to call RallyPoint.

She makes no apologies for pressuring the venue to pull the plug on the event.

The First Amendment “doesn’t mean that people have to be nice to fascists and white supremacists,” she says.

“Among moderates and people that would rather not make waves, they tend to equate not being polite with infringing on people’s free-speech rights. You have the right to tell fascists to go away.” backtalk@indyweek.com

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WHY HAVE WAKE’S YOUNG REPUBLICANS WAITED SO LONG FOR THE SBE TO HEAR THEIR CASE?

BY LEIGH TAUSS

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n March 28, 2018, the State Board of Elections received a handwritten note from Logan Martin, who had recently assumed leadership of the newly revived Wake County Young Republicans, asking the board to waive outstanding penalties against the group.

Following a series of leadership changes that began in 2009, the Young Republicans failed to file a crucial document with the SBE certifying that they would raise and spend less than $1,000 per election cycle for three straight years, beginning in 2014.

Without that document, the SBE requires groups to file regular financial reports to the state, which the Young Republicans weren’t doing, either. So the SBE began slapping the Young Republicans with fines, and in 2015 it deactivated the group— though the fines kept accruing.

By March 2018, when Martin wanted to relaunch the Young Republicans, the group owed the SBE $5,250. But it had just $125.97 in its bank account, according to records it provided to the SBE. Pleading poverty, the Young Republicans submitted three years of bank statements to the SBE. That was enough to convince the board to reactive the group last March.

But more than a year later, the SBE has yet to hear the Young Republicans’ appeal to waive the fines.

In fact, there’s not even a hearing date.

The Young Republicans aren’t alone. The SBE—which was inactive for most of 2018 during a dispute over its makeup—is facing a backlog of similar cases, though no one’s sure how deep it goes.

“It had been about three years since the board had been approached to look at fines that way,” says SBE chairman Robert Cordle. “I don’t know the exact backlog, but it’s big.”

An SBE staffer told the INDY that twenty-seven appeals have been filed so far this year, but it’s unclear how many earlier appeals are still pending.

After Governor Cooper’s election in 2016, Republicans changed the SBE’s composition and stripped Cooper’s power to appoint the board’s majority. Cooper sued and ultimately prevailed, but the SBE was vacant from June 2017 to March 2018.

For small political committees like the Young Republicans, the bureaucratic labyrinth can be difficult to navigate, says Shaun Pollenz, treasurer for the Young Democrats of Wake County.

After the filing requirements switched from semi-annual to quarterly in 2018, Pollenz says he also failed to file two financial reports and accrued $950 in fines before being notified by the SBE of his mistake three months later, when the second wave of fines was already underway.

“These fines will take approximately one-third of our remaining funds and prevent us from finishing our work for the year without our members opening their very young and very empty wallets,” Pollenz wrote in his appeal to the board.

While $350 in fees were ultimately waived “for good cause,” according to a letter from SBE deputy director Amy Strange, Pollenz says he never got the letter, which is marked as “undeliverable” on the SBE website.

“The [SBE] needs to get its life together and stop making it so difficult to be involved in the political process,” Pollenz says.

Gerry Cohen, who serves on the Wake County Board of Elections, says fines like the ones leveled against the Young Republicans can be especially onerous for small political groups.

“A lot of especially small organizations just can't get it together to follow the law, especially ones that are volunteer organizations and have a budget that consists of funding dinners for their members at meetings,” Cohen says. “There’s a lot of appeals pending before the state board, and a lot of it got held up while there was no board for a long time.” ltauss@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 7.24.19 | 7

GOOD DOUGH

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A Brooklyn ex-pat’s carb-fueled quest to find a slice of home in the Triangle

BY ANDREA RICE

Pizza is home.

My husband and I moved to Raleigh from Brooklyn eighteen months ago, and I’ve been looking for pizza that reminded me of home ever since. Wherever you’re from, you’ve probably done the same. Maybe it’s the greasy 1:00 a.m. slice you devoured at Joe’s in NYC; the crispy, thick crust you grew up with in Detroit; or even your greatgrandmother’s family recipe—whatever that memory is, that’s what you’ll associate with good pizza.

Pizza is a feeling.

It’s familiar, comforting. It makes us happy. It brings us together, offers us a sense of community, of family—la famiglia—as it has for centuries.

Pizza is local.

Or it becomes local. Take Annamaria’s Pizza House, known as “Bat’s,” started by a New Jersey couple in 1956 after they moved to Durham so their critically ill three-year-old daughter could get medical treatment at Duke. (She survived.) Annamaria’s was likely the Triangle’s first pizza

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joint—pizza was new to the South—popular among Duke students until it closed (and the property sold and razed) in 1986.

Like Bartholomew and Annamaria Malanga, many of those students were from up North. They, too, were looking for a slice of home.

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alph Ottaviano still is.

A second-generation ItalianAmerican whose parents immigrated from Naples, the New York native says that soon after he moved to Raleigh, about a decade ago, he began running into fellow Northeastern ex-pats who’ve found camaraderie in the search for a pie that gets it just right.

“We all seem to come down here and find each other,” he told me recently, “wondering where to find the good dough.”

I’d been wondering the same thing. And that’s how this story began.

My goal wasn’t to declare this or that pie the “best.” Pizza, after all, is diverse and subjective (see “Pizza’s Evolutionary Tree,” page 14). What you and I look for in our ideal slices are likely very different—brick-

thick crust or cracker-crisp, red sauce or white, sparse toppings or loaded.

But I’d argue there are four general criteria we can use to evaluate a pie: the crust, the sauce, the toppings, and, well, the grease.

The crust: Would you eat it or leave it?

Is it appropriately thin and crispy with a good char (or, depending on the style, thick, bready, and glutinous)? Does it have crumb—a baker’s term for pockets of air that appear during the baking process?

The sauce: Is it zingy and zesty, or bland and tomato-y, like SpaghettiOs? The toppings: Whether sourced locally or imported from Italy, high-quality toppings can mean the difference between a release of dopamine and a bout of acid reflux.

The grease: Don’t shoot the messenger, but grease is bad for you. For me—and your gastrointestinal tract—less is more.

Over the last few months, I’ve eaten a lot of pizza. Great pizza, fine pizza, bad pizza (it exists), pizza that made me sick (although, given my pizza-heavy diet, that might not be the pizza’s fault). I ate pies in restaurants with wine lists and slices from holes-in-the-wall. I had pizza in every

shape and style imaginable, including some I’d never heard of before.

I didn’t visit every pizza place in the Triangle; that would’ve been impossible, perhaps fatal. I mostly abstained from national chains (sorry, Mellow Mushroom), except for a few that offered select regional styles.

And I no doubt overlooked some neighborhood gems that aren’t on the foodie radar.

But I didn’t set out to create an exhaustive or definitive list of good pizza. Instead, I tried to capture a snapshot of a surprisingly complex, constantly evolving scene: twenty-six restaurants comprising a mix of styles and stories from natives, Italians, New Yorkers, and other Northeasterners who are shaping the Triangle’s dough culture.

Along the way, this journey taught me more than I ever thought possible about the art of the pie—and humbled my inner Brooklyn Pizza Snob.

Good dough, I learned, does, in fact, exist outside of New York. It even exists here.

Somehow, that’s made the Triangle feel all the more like home.

HOW IT WORKS

This list is organized by the styles of pizza I sampled. There’s some crossover among styles: I got a Sicilian slice at a place that also makes Neapolitan pies, for instance.

I rated each pizza on the Four Essential Criteria—crust, sauce, toppings, and grease—on a scale of 1–5, from anger-inducing (1) to pleasurable-bordering-on-orgasmic (5). The tricky one is grease, because, as we’ve established, less is more. For consistency, less grease, being good, gets a higher rating. Apologies in advance for any confusion.

For those with sensitivities and dietary restrictions, I’ve also included places with gluten-free and vegan options on the menu.

Napoli Cafe & Gelateria’s Neapolitan-style pizza

Neapolitan ABOUT THE STYLE: In 1889, King Umberto I and Queen Margherita of Savoy visited Naples, dined at Pizzeria Brandi, and, as legend goes, asked the pizzaiolo, Raffaele Esposito, to the Royal Palace of Capodimonte to make pizzas for them. He crafted a simple pie of basil, mozzarella, and tomatoes, the Pizza Margherita— its green, white, and red ingredients an image of the Italian flag. Neapolitan-style pizza was revered as the best in Italy.

True pizza Napoletana uses fresh basil and mozzarella and pureed San Marzano tomatoes. The dough is strictly zero or doppio zero Caputo flour, a finely milled refined wheat flour native to the region, with brewer’s yeast as a rising agent. It’s classically kneaded and shaped by hand, never rolled out. Neapolitan pizzas are typically ten to twelve inches and baked in a blazing wood-fired oven for sixty to ninety seconds.

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took their pies to go. Here, the Napoli— San Marzano tomato sauce, Fior di Latte, Italian anchovy fillets, capers, shaved Grana Padano, basil, and Calabrian chili oil—was wonderfully charred. Though the dough— chewy, light, and crisp—was slightly thicker than other Neapolitans, it was easier to pick up, an advantage for a self-sufficient, DIY establishment where you grab your own plates, napkins, water, and even to-go boxes.

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Pizzeria Faulisi

Coronato Pizza (opening late summer)

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In 2017, chef-owners Zach and Amber Faulisi, who met at culinary school in Pittsburgh, opened Pizzeria Faulisi. Amber taught herself how to make pizza at home in an electric oven while Zach was a chef at The Durham. The mosaic-tiled, woodfired Napoli oven bakes the doughy disks, a hybrid of Caputo flour and freshly milled flour from Boulted Bread, to charred perfection. The mozzarella comes from Wisconsin’s Crave Brothers; the unfussy sauce, San Marzano tomatoes, and salt is aromatic and flavorful. The center gets a bit soupy, making each slice, which can be eaten in three or four bites, a little on the flimsy side, but that’s part of the fun. Start with the wood-fired Caesar cauliflower, then move on to the Margherita and the Funghi, a white pie with cremini and shiitake mushrooms, red onions, mascarpone, and mozzarella.

Teddy Diggs, the former executive chef at Il Palio and self-proclaimed “Pizza King,” will soon open the Triangle’s first Romanstyle pizza spot in Carrboro. Diggs says there’s only a handful of places in Rome that still produce the original thin cracker Roman crust that he’ll have at Coronato: “It’s easier to eat, it’s more fun to eat, and for me, it’s lighter and a lot easier to digest—it just makes me happier to eat this than Neapolitan pizza.” It made me happier too. The crisp of this lightweight, cracker-style bread, topped with mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, olive oil, and sea salt, was a welcome change. Diggs has developed a tomato sauce sourced from organic Arizona-grown Bianco DiNapoli tomatoes, and he’ll experiment with other flatbread-inspired toppings like potatoes and caramelized onion paste.

Pompieri Pizza (GF) (V)

Sicilian

102 City Hall Plaza, Durham pompieripizza.com CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE “Pizza is secretly a taco,” our server told us. I began cutting into a crisp, smoldering twelveincher with kitchen shears as she explained that we could always just pick it up and fold it in half. Previously a Durham firehouse, Pompieri (Italian for “firefighter”) explores the theme of heat. The namesake pie was covered with hot peppers and chili oil. A quote from an INDY review adorned the wall beneath a devil’s mask: “Pizza should arrive as if by dumbwaiter from the pits of hell.”

Sicilian-style pizza at Italian Pizzeria III

Poole’side Pies (opening late summer)

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Treforni Neapolitan Pizza (GF) 1125 West N.C. Highway 54, Durham treforni.com

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A Neapolitan-inspired, swim club-themed spot, Poole’side Pies will open later this summer adjacent to Poole’s Diner, the latest concept from James Beard winner Ashley Christensen. “Pizza is approachable,” she told me in an email. “And excellent pizza is all in the details.” For Christensen, good pizza is about striking a balance between traditional and experimental. The formula for the dough is still a work in progress, but Christensen says that she’s been most inspired by places that have nailed the Napoletana-style crust.

Watching the three nine-hundred-degree Napoli ovens in action at this flashy, familyoriented pizza restaurant—which also has an AVPN certification—makes you forget you’re inside a Hope Valley strip mall. Chef and co-owner Dave Diggins studied with Roberto Caporuscio, who learned pie-making at the nearly 120-year-old Pizzeria Starita in Naples.

Diggins has perfected the art of the lightas-air, chewy crust. We washed down the Prosciutto Arugula—mozzarella, prosciutto di parma, arugula, pecorino romano, and basil— with a dry and fruity Lambrusco dei Portici.

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Roman ABOUT THE STYLE: Roman-style originated in the mid-1800s and centered on a long, thin unleavened flatbread with a short fermentation process. Brushed with olive oil, sea salt, and rosemary, it was eaten for breakfast or as a snack. By the mid-1900s, bakers began producing artisanal bread with a longer fermentation process, resembling the thicker, focaccia-like pizza Romana of today: al taglio (by the rectangular slice) and tonda (whole thin-crust rounds).

Unlike Neapolitan pizza, the godfather of pizzaiuolo, Roman-style pizza-making is not recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage.

ABOUT THE STYLE: Originating in Palermo, Sfincione (or “thick sponge”), is a yeasty bread baked in an oily sheet pan until crisp on the bottom and moist in the middle, the only style of pizza consumed by Sicilians until the 1860s.

Sfincione was traditionally topped with an anchovy-onion tomato sauce and hard sheep’s cheese seasoned with oregano.

The spongy crust came to America with Sicilian immigrants in the early twentieth century; in New York, Italian bakeries swapped sheep’s cheese for the more affordable mozzarella.

Italian Pizzeria III

508 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill italianpizzeria3.com CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE Angelo and Vincenzo Marrone, born and raised in Naples, moved to Chapel Hill in 1996. They bought Italian Pizzeria III (there are nine iterations throughout North Carolina) from their uncle in 2000. The Franklin Street institution slings upward of thirty specialty Neapolitan rounds—though Angelo says he prefers the Sicilian. I ordered a $3 plain Sicilian slice and watched as a brick of dough and cheese was transferred to the oven. My jaw dropped as the hefty block of hot, gooey mozzarella, bread, and sauce reemerged in a to-go box, a tiny trail

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of grease following its path. Despite its density, it was shockingly lightweight to eat and on the drier side, with a flavorful and zesty sauce.

New York ABOUT THE STYLE: Baker Anthony “Totonno” Pero and grocer Gennaro Lombardi, both Italian immigrants, reportedly opened the first pizza restaurant in the U.S. in 1905—and Lombardi is credited with creating the first New York slice in his brick-walled coal oven, an American adaptation of pizza Napoletana. The modern New York slice is typically baked in a gas oven that heats the pie from the top and bottom to release the trademark grease. Its notoriously large, thin, and crispy crust gets tossed by hand, often overhead, and is sturdy enough to pick up and eat off a paper plate but malleable enough to fold in half. (Eat it with a knife and fork, and you’ll be publicly shamed). Grandma-style pizza also comes from New York, a thin-crust square or rectangular pizza heralding from Long Island, a modification by Italian housewives who lacked a proper pizza oven. Baked in a pan, its square shape is often compared to a Sicilian, though the crust, texture, toppings, and slight sweetness are distinct.

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CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE Nestled in an unassuming strip mall in Southeast Raleigh, Frank’s dining area has a romantic quality reminiscent of an oldschool Italian joint in South Brooklyn. Frank’s does the dough the way New York intended: strong and bready, dense, chewy, and delightfully greasy—a job for at least two heavy-duty paper towels.

Hutchins Garage (GF) (V)

402 West Geer Street, Durham CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE This funky converted garage space, from the owners of Bull McCabes and former Pizzeria Toro chef Michael Morrone, slings both New York-style Margherita wheels and Grandmastyle rectangles. Be it an on-the-menu white pie with cremini and shiitake mushrooms, sweet onions, and smoked mozzarella and parmesan, or a DIY Margherita with Fresno chiles, anchovies, and kalamata olives, the crust is well-constructed and crunchy, even slightly sweet and nutty like pastry dough. These pies retain their visual appeal from start to finish, though they’re much better eaten while hot.

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Magone Italian Grill & Pizza (GF)

1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Suite F, Chapel Hill

Oakwood Pizza Box's NY-style pie with pepperoni PHOTO BY JADE WILSON

CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE In 1990, Salvatore “Rino” Fevola swapped the crowds of Naples for the more open spaces of the Triangle, working his way through Italian restaurants like Pulcinella’s in Durham before opening Magone in Chapel Hill in 2015. Fevola says his thin-crust, Neapolitaninspired pizzas are actually New York-style since he uses a gas oven instead of brick.

He’s spent time tasting slices around the Big Apple to develop his own take. The Margherita was easy to pick up (I ate one while driving), and I could still detect those authentic Napoletana flavors even though it lacked the trademark wood-fired crisp and airy crumb. Fevola says he isn’t interested in imitating the original. Most Americans, at least around here, don’t know the real thing, he told me. “It’s getting there,” he says. “But it needs another ten years before people realize the difference.”

Oakwood Pizza Box (GF)

610 North Person Street, Raleigh oakwoodpizzabox.com CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE Long Island native Anthony Guerra wields large wheels of thin-crust New York magic 12 | 7.24.19 | INDYweek.com

made from doppio zero flour, baked to a crisp in a gas deck oven at seven hundred degrees for five to six minutes. (He also uses what he describes as a “pretty dope” gluten-free dough, made from rice flour and potato starch, to give it the texture and chew of regular dough, baked to a crisp in olive oil.) One pie will feed three to four people—and you can customize your toppings however you like; there’s only a few to choose from. We got a half-red with peppers and leafy greens, and halfwhite with meatballs.

The Pizza Times

210 South Wilmington Street, Raleigh raleightimespizza.com CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE From the owners of The Raleigh Times, The Pizza Times is your average NY-style pedestrian pie by the slice—if you don’t mind a little indigestion followed by a food coma. The non-stretchy, generous layers of cheese coagulate to form an amoebic entity, which makes for less mess for eating on the go. The dough gets the authentic New York hand-tossed-andstretched treatment, baked in a gas oven until golden brown. At $2.50 plus toppings, you can’t really beat the price, though you get what you pay for.

Ruckus Pizza and Bar Multiple locations ruckuspizza.com

Nancy’s Pizzeria (GF)

8111 Creedmoor Road, Raleigh (multiple locations nationwide)

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I was pleasantly surprised by this collegiate paradise’s large NY slice, rolled out ultra-thin and cut to an unusual, oblong slant that measured nearly fifteen inches on its longest side. The dough, a close cousin of unleavened bread, was beautifully browned on the bottom, but devoid of the air bubbles that percolate with a good char. Banana peppers added an element of zing to an otherwise milder sauce.

Three bucks will get you the aptly named Huge Slice, a wedge so big you might have to cut it in half before you pick it up and fold it.

The Triangle’s closest link to deep-dish Chicago pies is on Creedmoor Road, part of a chain that claims to have invented the stuffed pizza in 1971. These dense pies eat like a quiche: A river of molten hot cheese ran through the middle of a small but mighty six-inch personal pie, weaving amid Giardina peppers and mushrooms and a thick, chunky red sauce. This was somehow the “Stuffed Lighter” version— and it was dangerously good.

Sal’s Pizza and Ristorante

2805 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill salspizzaofchapelhill.com CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE Maybe it’s the oversized photo of the Cinque Terre or the cliché black-and-white shot of the Brooklyn Bridge, but there’s a vacation-like atmosphere of Sal’s Pizza, maybe the closest thing to a legit New York slice I found on my adventure. For $1.95, I got a cheese slice and added anchovies and kalamata olives, an odd, salty pairing may have overpowered the light sauce. The dough was rolled out like a crepe, and the crust was somehow as airy as it was dense, denoting serious craftsmanship.

Vivo Ristorante Pizzeria (GF) 7400 Six Forks Road, #2, Raleigh vivoraleigh.com CRUST

Detroit ABOUT THE STYLE: These well-oiled, thick-crust square or rectangular pies are crispier than New York or Chicagostyle, and come from Sicilian lineage. Detroit-style pizza was born in 1946 and developed by Gus Guerra, a bar owner who adapted his Italian mother-in-law’s recipe.

Jet’s Pizza (GF)

Multiple locations in Raleigh and Cary jetspizza.com CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE If Jet’s conjures memories of Little Caesar’s, that’s because both pizza empires originated in Detroit. This crust gets its crisp from an oiled skillet. Thick but springy, Jet’s is the only Detroit-style dough in the Triangle (there are three locations in Raleigh and Cary); for a national chain, it’s quite tasty.

The pizza runs to the edges on these pies, an infinity pool of cheese, green peppers, black olives, and mushrooms. And despite being so thick, it wasn’t like eating a brick.

SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE Rome-born Gianni Cinelli’s family recipe for the Grandma Margherita landed in North Raleigh by way of New York more than twenty years ago. Baked in anodized square pans, this Grandma is rich with extra virgin olive oil, yielding a crisp, ultra-thin crust. Jackie Martin Maloney, a Manhattan transplant and self-described pizza snob, told me it doesn’t get much better than the Grandma at this rustic Italian restaurant: “To me, good pizza is thin, crispy, garlicky, greasy—typical NYC pizza.”

Pizza /'pētsә/ (noun): a usually large open pie made typically of thinly rolled bread dough spread with a spiced mixture (as of tomatoes, cheese, ground meat, garlic, oil) and baked Origin: Italian (“pie”), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin picea.

Birthplace: Though historians credit Naples, Italy—which began as a Greek settlement around 600 BCE—with the invention of pizza in the eighteenth century, the earliest documentation of the word, or its linguistic predecessor, dates almost a millennium earlier, to 997 CE in Gaeta, another Greek settlement on the central coast of presentday Italy. This version of pizza did not contain tomatoes, which are native to Peru and didn’t appear in Europe until the 1500s.

Adaptation: When they were first introduced, tomatoes made many medieval Italians ill. It took them nearly two centuries to adapt to the nightshade, which was originally thought poisonous. The vegetable did not routinely appear in Italian recipes until the mid-eighteenth century.

But as tomatoes made their way into working-class Napoli households, which had minimal provisions of flour, olive oil, and cheese, the modern pizza began to develop.

The First Pizzeria: Antica Pizzeria Port ’Alba,

in Naples, established in 1738, is considered the world’s oldest pizzeria. It’s still open today.

The First Pizza Margherita: Pizzeria Pietro e

Basta Cosi—which translates to “the pizzeria of Peter, and that’s enough”—opened in Naples in 1780. When Enrico Brandi took it over, it became Pizzeria Brandi, where the Margherita pizza was born. It’s also still in operation.

The First American Pizzeria: The most common story goes like this: In 1905, as waves of Italian immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, the first American pizzeria opened in New York, a partnership between baker Anthony “Totonno” Pero and grocer Gennaro Lombardi, both immigrants from Naples; Lombardi later created the famed NY slice. But this narrative is disputed. According to pizza historian Peter Regas, newly unearthed evidence indicates that an Italian baker named Filippo Milone started six pizzerias in New York beginning in the 1890s, three of which—including Lombardi’s—became famous under someone else’s name (and two of which still exist).

The First Triangle Pizzeria: Annamaria’s Pizza

House, opened near Duke University in 1956 by two New Jersey transplants, was probably the area’s first pizza joint. It was soon followed by Brothers Pizza in Raleigh, then countless others.

Chicago ABOUT THE STYLE: Chicago is best known for a deep-dish, high-edged-pan interpretation of a heavy Midwestern casserole assembled from the inside-out: cheese and toppings on the bottom, sauce on top. Its precise origin is unknown, though many trace its birth to Pizzeria Uno in Chicago in 1943.

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Detroit-style eight-corner pepperoni from Jet's Pizza

Sources: Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, Encyclopedia Brittanica, Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, Brandi. it, The Chicago Tribune, The Telegraph, Food & Wine, VICE, OpenDurham.org, and chef Teddy Diggs.

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PIZZA’S EVOLUTIONARY TREE

Which came first: The circle, the rectangle, or the square?

The pizza family tree starts in Naples, the birthplace of pizza Napoletana, which spawned the Margherita, which, in turned, branched off to Rome and Sicily, and eventually, New York. Each branch of the evolutionary tree descends from its ancestor. There’s pizza Rustica (Italian Easter Pie), calzones and focaccia, New York and Grandma style, and pizza Americana. From New Haven’s apizza to New Jersey’s tomato pie, deep dishes in Detroit and Chicago, and the giant Virginia slice, each style has staked its claim to supremacy. (As a disclaimer, it’s worth mentioning that much of pizza’s timeline is based on oral history.)

ABOUT THE STYLE: In Connecticut, New Haven-style pizza, also known as “apizza,” is a big deal. It’s a first cousin of Neapolitan pizza, with a hotter, crispier, and even thinner coal-fired crust, borne out of Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in 1925.

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GREASE Though CAPP’s touts its Neapolitan-style rounds, its menu also features four classic apizzas, like the Napoli, with crushed tomato, garlic, red onion, mozzarella, Agostino Recca anchovy, capers, and oregano. Chef-owner John Cappelletti, from Connecticut, sources his ingredients locally and crafts his dough with a blend of organic bread flour from Lindley Mills, Caputo-brand 00 flour, and milled hard wheat. The crust gets its trademark blackened char from the Vesuvio II, a hickory-burning oven.

Virginia ABOUT THE STYLE: These twenty-eight-inch (!) monsters are all over Virginia, as well as West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania. They’re so huge that the crust is naturally thinner, like New Yorkstyle on steroids. That’s out of necessity, since one pie is enough to feed a platoon.

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Al Kapherr, a regular at Benny Capitale’s on Fayetteville Street, holds a slice of the Virginia-style pizza. PHOTO BY ANDREA RICE

Benny Capitale’s

121 Fayetteville Street, #110, Raleigh (multiple locations nationwide) bennysva.com/locations/benny-capitales CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE There’s a certain freak-show appeal of a slice so big you need several paper plates and both hands just to hold it. Indeed, Polaroids of giant-slice fans holding their prize like a big sea bass adorn the walls of Benny Capitale’s, which is something of familyfriendly tourist attraction. This slice was so big I didn’t know where to begin—and the crust was, unsurprisingly, underdone. Is it possible to bake a pie that big all the way through without burning it?

mushrooms, garlic, parmesan, and arugula.

You won’t find any crumb in this flatbreadstyle crust; the deep-brown dough is dry, more like socca or matzo than pizza, but it works. The gluten-free parmesan baked crust—tapioca flour, eggs, herb oil—is basically a sturdy cracker. My server told me that maybe a quarter of the pizzas ordered at Radius are gluten-free.

Trophy Pizza: “Beer-Lovers’ Style” (V)

827 West Morgan Street, Raleigh trophybrewing.com/the-pizza CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE

Lilly’s: “Organic Style” (GF) (V)

Trophy’s creative pizzas, always designed with beer pairings in mind, aren’t afraid of experimentation. With baseball-size crusty bubbles, the substantial dough had serious crumb—crunchy, salty, and spongey. The heat from the Daredevil— fire-roasted tomato sauce, mozzarella, ghost pepper salami, jalapeño, caramelized onions, Sriracha—will make you sweat.

The Most Loyal—basil pesto, mozzarella, roasted chicken, Roma tomatoes—featured a pleasure-inducing touch of honey, the kind of decadence that puts you in a catatonic state.

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Triangle ABOUT THE STYLE: Not every pizzeria strives to emulate something else. Lots of chefs are creating new pizza paradigms by borrowing from multiple influences to craft something all their own—including in the Triangle.

1813 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh lillyspizza.com

SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE Since 1993, John Garrison’s Five Points neighborhood joint has prided itself on staying as organic, fresh, and local as possible. With artisanal cheeses and a signature made-from-scratch sauce, these pies are thick like focaccia, heavy like lasagna, and sweet like honey. Lilly’s chunky statement toppings—smoked oysters, Siler City country ham, chipotle peppers, roasted potatoes, straw mushrooms—lend these pizzas extra heft. And the eye candy of the carnivalesque atmosphere gives you something to look at (other than your phone) while you wait.

Radius Pizzeria & Pub: “Brick-Oven Style” (GF) (V)

112 North Churton Street, Hillsborough radiuspizzeria.net CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE

408 West Weaver Street, Carrboro pizzeriamercatonc.com CRUST SAUCE TOPPINGS GREASE Gabe Barker, the son of James Beard Award-winning chefs Ben and Karen Barker, describes his pies at Mercato as “Americana”— pizzas that draw on multiple influences to create something unique.

“Pizza to me is inclusive,” he says. The dough is blended with Caputo flour, bread flour, and a starter to create a chewier, sturdier crust. Barker says Mercato’s pizzas have something akin to a traditional Neapolitan crust but bake more like New York-style. I stopped by Mercato for takeout early on a Friday evening, and the dining room was nearly full. I ordered the Puttanesca with tomato, anchovy, olives, capers, chile, garlic, and Fior di Latte. They had to remake my pie after it emerged from the oven with cheese that hadn’t been distributed properly. I’m glad they did. I reheated one slice with an egg on it for breakfast the next day; my husband ate the other cold. We were both happy.

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Pizzeria Toro's “Toro-style” buffalo mozzarella pie.

Pie Pushers: “Durham Style” (GF) (V)

117 West Main Street, Suite A, Durham piepushers.com

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GREASE “Neither one of us are from New York, so why claim that heritage?” says co-owner Becky Hacker, who runs Pie Pushers with her husband, chef Mike Hacker. When the pair first started Pie Pushers as a food truck eight years ago, they never had any intention of doing so, though they do borrow from aspects of the New York tradition. “Durham loves doing things their own way,” she says. Pie Pushers’ bready, Sicilian-inspired square style comes in eight or sixteen slices, while the thin, hand-tossed crust, despite not receiving official the official New York designation, is just greasy enough to come close. This is simple, easy pizza, ideal for quick lunches or late nights.

Try a Pace Car—corn mix, basil, jalapeños, parmesan, mozzarella.

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“Pizza puts everyone in a good mood,” says chef-owner Gray Brooks, removing a charred San Marzano tomato and buffalo mozzarella pie from the wood-fired ceramic oven. “It’s the one single food that people from age four to ninety-four will always love eating.” At Toro, it’s all about the crumb. Try any pie on this seasonally rotating menu, and you won’t be disappointed, especially when doused with Calabrian chili-infused sunflower oil. Brooks experimented with different flours until he found one with the right levels of protein, a blend sourced from Lindley Mills in Graham and high-gluten flour from King Arthur. His hand-tossed pies puff up in seven minutes at 650 degrees (the more gluten in the flour, the longer the cooking time), and they’re removed from the oven before the cheese, which gets added halfway through the firing time, has a chance to separate, which Brooks calls a big no-no. Most of the cheese, like the mozzarella di bufala, he says, comes straight from Italy.

Another key is the deceptively simple sauce— olive oil, garlic, San Marzano tomatoes, salt and pepper, and other wizardry. arice@indyweek.com

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The Cocktail’s Hour

HERE’S HOW TRIANGLE DISTILLERS WILL RESPOND TO A NEW LAW THAT LETS THEM SELL MIXED DRINKS BY LENA GELLER

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tarting September 1, every distillery in North Carolina will have the option to serve cocktails— assuming, that is, that Governor Cooper signs Senate Bill 290, which the General Assembly passed last week. The bill loosens restrictions on the state’s distilleries, including giving them the ability to sell mixed drinks on-site and no longer limiting them to directly selling only five bottles of liquor a year per customer.

The day after the bill cleared the Senate, Durham Distillery announced plans for a cocktail bar. Lassiter Distilling Company in Knightdale has already started renovations to make room for its bar.

But not every distillery is getting in on the action. Esteban McMahan of TOPO Organic Spirits in Chapel Hill says that TOPO’s industrial space isn’t suited to a bar: “We don’t think that people would want to come hang out at a distillery for three or four hours.

Our distillery is not set up right now to offer food, and our experience has been that if you don’t offer food, then people are gonna come for a drink or two and then take off.”

For smaller operations, there’s a manpower problem: “It’s just me, so I would probably have to hire somebody and get a larger space,” says Don McIntyre, who owns Seventy Eight ºC Spirits in Raleigh.

This week, we asked Triangle distillers how they planned to shift their business models once SB 290 became law.

Durham Distillery 711 Washington Street, Durham durhamdistillery.com Last week, Durham Distillery announced plans to open Corpse Reviver, a craft cocktail bar on the ground floor beneath its distillery, in early 2020. Corpse Reviver, named for both its basement setting and the classic gin cocktail, will be primarily art deco, featuring an outdoor patio, martini carts, and luxe finishes modeled after the modern gin bars of London.

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The Brothers Vilgalys Spirit Company 803 Ramseur Street, Suite D, Durham brothersvilgalys.com A few years ago, Brothers Vilgalys took over the space adjacent to its industrial facility and turned it into a tasting room.

With the passage of SB 290, the distillery intends to transform it yet again, converting the lounge into a cocktail bar.

Co-owner Rim Vilgalys says he’s especially excited about the bar because it will allow him to test new products and determine their popularity.

“Breweries can make a good beer, throw it on draft right away, and get feedback,” Vilgalys says. “We haven’t been able to use our local places like a laboratory for new stuff.”

Graybeard Distillery 4625 Industry Lane, Durham bedlamvodka.com Graybeard Distillery is building a cocktail bar attached to its current facility, set to open in the next six months. Co-owner Sam Searcy says the bar will feature North Carolina spirits and be modeled after a 1920sera speakeasy.

Raleigh Rum Company 1100 Corporation Parkway, #132, Raleigh raleighrumcompany.com Owner Chris Mendler describes the space at Raleigh Rum as a “glorified, oversized garage.” Even so, he’s planning to expand the distillery’s small walk-up bar and potentially put in a full-sized bar in a separate facility.

Lassiter Distilling Company 317 North First Avenue, Knightdale lassiterdistilling.com Gentry Lassiter began renovations before SB 290 passed. His bet paid off: The distillery is primed and ready to start serving cocktails in the upgraded space as soon as the law takes effect. Lassiter also says he plans to offer cocktail classes.

“Most people don’t drink a shot of straight rum, or they haven’t in the past ten years since they graduated from college,” Lassiter says. “Now, people can taste what can be done with our products instead of imagining what kind of potential that product can have.” food@indyweek.com

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IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE FRONTWOMAN ENO WILLIAMS ON HER BAND’S EXUBERANT NEW ALBUM AND MRG30 APPEARANCE BY ERIC TULLIS

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usically speaking, the Londonbased Afropop highlife band Ibibio Sound Machine is a fascinating anomaly on an indie rock-centered label like Durham’s Merge Records.

But when you consider the label’s recent history of accentuating female-fronted bands and generally advancing more experimental sounds, it makes sense for Merge to be home to ISM, a band fronted by the versatile Eno Williams, who was born in London and raised in Nigeria.

On the eight-piece band’s third and latest release, Doko Mien, Williams pilots party vibes that swerve from electro-funk jams in her native Nigerian Ibibio language (“Wanna Come Down”) to gentle kickback ballads (“Guess We Found a Way”) sung in English. In a post-Sharon Jones world, the prevalence of funk divas such as Williams can’t be emphasized enough, and the current crossover appeal of “Afrofusion” (i.e.

Davido, Burna Boy, and the recent The Lion King: The Gift soundtrack, which was executive produced by Beyoncé and features tracks from several prominent African pop artists) is helping propel ISM’s appeal.

On Saturday night, in a rare U.S. appearance, the outfit helps its labelmates close out the MRG30 festival at Cat’s Cradle.

Ahead of the trip, Williams chatted with the INDY from her home in London about signing Merge, women’s liberation, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

INDY: You’re the only band of its kind on Merge. What was it about the label that made you want to work with them?

ENO WILLIAMS: I think it was a two-way thing, really. Even though they’ve never really put out anything like what we do, they believed in what we do and we got the vibe that they believed in what we were trying to bring to the label. And looking at their past of having female-backed bands that were very successful, we felt very at home with them.

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what would you say is the theme of Doko Mien?

The overall theme is truth-seeking. It’s about asking questions and seeking answers. From listeners’ point-of-view, it’s about telling me what you’re feeling, telling me what you’d like to hear, or just telling me what you want me to do. But it’s still about women’s liberation and giving women the chance to be heard.

Oftentimes, with highlife and Afrobeat, a song’s message may get lost in the euphoria of the groove. Is that something that you worry about?

The thing with the Ibibio language in itself is that the language is all about storytelling and the music is all about storytelling as well. Especially with this album (Doko Mien) we tried to incorporate a little bit of the English language as well—either in a verse or the chorus to create a little bit of backdrop to what the song is actually about. But of course, we do get caught up or carried away with the groove of a particular beat.

Ibibio Sound Machine PHOTO BY DAN WILTON How has the label helped with familiarizing Afropop with a U.S. crowd?

It’s slowly changing. Afrobeat culture is coming to the forefront now. It’s picking up.

How would you explain highlife music to those who may be unfamiliar with Afrobeat and its offshoots?

It originates from West Africa, Nigeria, and Ghana. It’s just a different time register with how the music sounds. The guitar playing, the percussion, and the rhythm section is more of a laid-back sound. It’s jazzier and more folky.

For those who may not understand the Ibibio language, the vibrancy of the songs still resonate. Is there some sort of rhythmic advantage to writing and singing in Ibibio versus English?

Yeah, it’s supposed to do that. Music is quite universal in that way. I remem-

ber when we started the project and just thinking about the emotional connectivity that was there even though we were writing in Ibibio from the get-go. We wanted to stay authentic, but also the Ibibio language is very musical. It wouldn’t have the same depth if it were translated.

You've talked about a “cultural resistance to women fronting bands.” In what ways do you think ISM has helped combat that?

Well, I think that the fact that I’m a woman fronting a band that’s made up of mostly guys, people think, “Oh wow, you’re doing that as an empowerment thing.” It’s not the norm that I’m a woman fronting a band and singing in the Ibibio language. It’s liberating. But I would like to see more of that moving forward.

If your first album Uyai addressed women’s liberation and representation,

Your music has often been described as being on the pop-side of highlife and Afrobeat. Is that something that bothers you or do you see it as beneficial for the band’s reach?

I think it depends on how the listener digests music. There are a lot of highlife elements to the music, but it’s also very electronic. If people think that it’s more poppy, it’s probably because they can easily dance to it or sing along to it. But I wouldn’t get offended, no.

You closed out Doko Mien with “Basquiat.”

How does his art inform your music?

We were asked to do that song for an exhibition last year here in London, and everyone loved it, so we decided to put it on the album.

I really got interested in how different and unique he was and how he got everyone’s attention by doing things his own way. It plays into what we’re doing as well. music@indyweek.com

ROSENAU & SANBORN: BLUEBIRD 

PSYCHIC HOTLINE; JUL. 23 When Chris Rosenau (Collections of Colonies of Bees) and Nick Sanborn (Sylvan Esso, Megafaun) played their first improvised set as a duo at the Eaux Claires festival in 2015, they weren’t prepared for what happened.

Longtime friends and occasional collaborators, they had planned on improvising for maybe twenty minutes, with Rosenau on guitar and Sanborn on electronics. It was a hot July day, even hotter inside the geodesic dome-shaped venue.

“When we finally looked up at each other and smiled after the final note ended fifty minutes later,” Rosenau writes, “we knew we were onto something.”

Two years later, in October 2017, they got together for a weekend of recording to break in Sanborn’s then-new home recording studio between Durham and Chapel Hill, keeping that same spirit of open-ended exploration. In proper improvisatory fashion, they let the tape run through everything: rainstorms, bird calls, barking dogs, studio chatter, the sound of them shuffling around. When it was done, they made some quick mixes to document what they had done and to think about next steps.

The thing about improvised music, though, is that it resists refinement. The time and space in which it was created becomes indelibly inscribed on the sounds themselves, regardless of the sound world. Improvisation’s temporality makes it nearly impossible to fully replicate a sound or energy of the moment of creation; recreations will always be mere simulacra. When Sanburn and Rosenau listened back to the recordings a few months later, they realized that those rough mixes were just right, and released them as is.

Bluebird sounds like what would happen if you subtracted the songs from Collection of Colonies of Bees or Sylvan Esso. Both men play with familiar vocabulary—Rosenau’s open-ended acoustic guitar lines, Sanborn’s burbling synths and stuttered processing— stretched to tectonic scales. At the start of “Rainy Dog,” Sanborn spends nearly three minutes dissecting a plangent guitar line from Rosenau. At some point, Rosenau starts playing, but it’s hard to tell quite where his plucking stops and Sanborn’s processing starts.

The effect is soothing and ethereal, especially as the sound of rain slowly filters in around the edges. On “Sharon,” a stuttering sample of Sharon Van Etten forms an unstable bed for placid, ringing guitars. And when the tempo picks up, as it does in “Saturday” or “Last One,” the pace is unhurried, their conversation simple and direct. Which is something no amount of rehearsal or planning could ever duplicate.

—Dan Ruccia

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illed as “The Master of Geeked-Out Linguistic Humor,” Myq Kaplan’s comedy takes dry, deadpan looks at religion (“I think the Jewish messiah will be an octopus, because it’s the only thing we could crucify on the Jewish star, it can hold all the candles in the Menorah, and it already walks on water”), adulthood and parenting (“I think having kids is like doing drugs: it’s expensive, you have to be in the right mindset, there’s a lot of peer pressure involved…”) and, well, himself (a podcast he previously did for Stitcher was simply called, Hang Out with Me).

His work hits that rare sweet spot of combining hardcore absurdity with genuine introspection and a sense of growing maturity that is often absent in many comedy acts today.

At his upcoming appearance—brought to Motorco by Durham’s own Deb Aronin—audiences will be the first to experience some of Kaplan’s new material. A veteran of the stand-up scene, he has regularly appeared on Netflix and Comedy Central specials, as well as in high-profile shows like Last Comic Standing, America’s Got Talent, and the Late Show with David Letterman. Recently, the INDY called up Kaplan to chat about the Motorco set, his new material, and the kind of self-reflection that makes good comedy.

INDY: Can you tell us about what you’ll be talking about at Motorco?

MYQ KAPLAN: Sure. I’m going to come and do a very funny comedy show. What if that was all I said? [laughs] I’ve been to Motorco before and Deb Aronin always puts on a fantastic show. It’s one of the best venues I’ve ever been in, and hopefully, the hybrid of producer, audience, and venue will combine into the Voltron of the most positive comedy show Durham has ever seen. I just recorded an hour of comedy a month ago, and now I’m working on a new hour I want to bring to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival next year to record as a new

ever, but then an audience … doesn’t, then I can protest, “But my grandmother says I’m good!”

There’s a thing I talk about in my act from the Talmud where a rabbi says he always has two pieces of paper in his pocket. The first says, “This world was made for you,” and the other says, “You are nothing but ash and dust.”

So, there are contradictions in life: we are the center of our own universe, we only have access to our own consciousness, but others have that consciousness as well. In life, I feel, it makes sense to work to help others, but to work on yourself first and eventually, to strike a balance.

Myq Kaplan PHOTO COURTESY OF MOTORCO album or special. Right now, though, it’s in one of my favorite stages, where I know it all, but it still needs to be worked on, and there are new things that will come up as I go along. So even if you’ve seen my stand-up before, you’re going to be surprised.

This new chunk of material is all about growth—right now, the working title is “Imperfect.” It’s about a lot of things, like being told by my family and society that I was good at everything, and then finding out that wasn’t necessarily true. There’s a lot about my current relationship, which is—currently, hopefully—the best one I’ve had so far. It’s just about becoming better. I offer myself advice, and other people can have it also.

That’s a theme a lot of people contemplate in today’s world—that contradiction between being told, “Be yourself,” and later on, “Fix yourself.”

Being told you have all this potential can be good when it’s descriptive, but it’s not as good when it’s prescriptive. If my grandmother tells me I’m the funniest person

What would you say is the greatest level of personal progress you’ve made yourself in the last few years?

I just celebrated my third anniversary with my girlfriend, who’s helped me focus on the best parts of myself. I’ll give this example: I love my mother, but in the past, I’d come away from a meal or an interaction with her and there’d be things that … wouldn’t move the needle for anyone else, but that would stay with me. Like, I’d get off the phone with her and go to my girlfriend, “Why does my mom talk about food so much?” And my girlfriend pointed out, “That’s interesting because you talk about food a lot.” And I went, “How dare you.”

But I realized that she had a perspective I didn’t—that things that I complained about with my mother were also things that were completely true of myself. In those moments, it helped me laugh at myself.

It’s kind of a gradual climb that is ongoing; the struggle to not only focus on the positives but to take the challenges and use them to examine myself. For example, if it’s raining out, you can be upset that it’s raining, or you can acknowledge, it’s going to be raining no matter what your mood is. You can be mad at the rain, or you can accept the rain. arts@indyweek.com

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ne dollar and thirty-two cents.

It may be hard in some ways to calculate the value of a fringe festival like the one that the Women’s Theatre Festival inaugurated during its fourth annual stand last weekend. But on one level the number is crystal clear: $1.32, the ticket price smart shoppers paid per show when they bought a $25 pass for the 2019 WTF Fringe.

That was all it took to experience nineteen productions from talented locals and visiting artists from far away, over three days and nights, on one professional and one makeshift stage that bisected downtown Raleigh. In retrospect, even the $5 single-show Fringe tickets were a rockbottom bargain, unmatched in regional theater—and one we’d be lucky to see again.

By any measure, the Triangle is a latecomer to the fringe movement, that audacious genre of edgy, saturation-based arts programming that began in the 1940s in Edinburgh, Scotland. In North Carolina, Charlotte toyed with the format in a 2013 one-off, but Asheville and Greensboro’s fringes have continued respectively since 2002 and 2003.

No matter. If the WTF Fringe is tardy to the party, it had the goods when it arrived, surpassing most expectations long associated with the form. Veterans of the genre know that, with its emphasis on new, risktaking artists and not always ready-forprime-time works, the signal-to-noise ratio is always a gamble at a fringe.

But with an eighteen-to-one payoff— eighteen successes and only one clear fail across this year’s cohort—the festival’s bets were unusually well-covered and underwritten, for the most, by the WTF’s careful curation. And since logistics are always a potential disaster in the making when so many shows are staged in such short order, indispensable production managers Katy Koop and Sarah Koop kept the inevitable chaos well behind the scenes.

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In Cry It Out, California playwright Molly Smith Metzler’s 2017 drama, three women from different social strata on Long Island confronted the profound isolation and alienation—from spouses, from work, from the world—that often follows childbirth. Under Vivienne Benesch’s direction, Rachel Spencer Hewitt took matters to the breaking point when her character hissed, “I don’t have postpartum depression. What I have is rage.”

Up until now, Rebecca Ashley Jones has defined herself as a young regional actor, but her adaptation and co-direction with newcomer Genise Thorsen of Much Ado About Nothing elevate both considerably on the critical watch list. New York playwright Chris Cragin-Day’s brainy, soulful drama, A Woman, meanwhile, places her well within the realm of Tom Stoppard and Michael Frayn, as two old friends who attended seminary together—Pastor Cliff (Steve Roten) and Kim (Tamara Farias)—wrangle with centuries-old sexism in the Presbyterian Church in America. Covering years of church history could have easily made

A Woman dry, but its warm and lively wit and real emotional stakes prevent that Actor Jennifer Suchanec’s addition to this seldomseen onstage trio further grounds the work under visitor Kel Haney’s direction.

A Southern drama by a New York playwright doesn’t always take us into promising territory. But Lori Fischer’s drama, Petie, ushers us into a Christ-haunted landscape familiar to small-town natives. The playwright, convincing here in the poignant lead role of the hardscrabble Bonnie, struggles with broken faith and a broken home in flashbacks with a charismatic— and dangerously schizophrenic—husband (an authoritative Nathan Rouse).

These, plus other fringe highlights including Adrienne Earle Pender’s The Strawberry Girl, a remarkable revival of the 1916 psychological drama Overtones, a promising student playwright’s take on sex ed in Oh Righteous God and Sinful Me, and Nancy Rich’s droll work-in-progress, The Introvert’s Club, were worth far more than the price of admission.

Is it too soon to make a firm down-payment for next year’s edition? arts@indyweek.com

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NORTH HILLS/MIDTOWN

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orth Hills (aka Midtown) is a collection of residential sections forming a semicircle around the open-air retail center that serves as the area’s active heart, hosting concerts, literary events, a farmers market, and, yes, a wide range of shopping from off-the-rack choices at Target to high-end designer fashion at boutiques such as Liles Clothing or Gena Chandler. The neighborhood isn’t all retail therapy, thanks to the popular park at Shelley Lake and the smaller but also enjoyable Optimist Park and its covered pool. —Curt Fields

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41 HUNDRED

4100 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-278-1478; 41HUNDREDRESTAURANT.COM I’ve long been a fan of hotel restaurants when they’re done right, and the Renaissance Raleigh Hotel’s 41 Hundred does it right. Order a shareable plate of halloumi or tuna poke, do some people watching, and relax.

BARTACO

4121 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-626-8226; BARTACO.COM Yeah, it’s a chain, but lots of things around here are. Besides: duck quesadillas.

B.GOOD

201 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-916-5410; BGOOD.COM If you’re more healthfully inclined than me, this is your spot. Grab the Spicy Avocado and Lime Kale Bowl to ready yourself for a day of shopping. I’ll happily join you while chowing down on a side of sweet potato fries.

THE COWFISH

4208 SIX FORKS ROAD, #100; 919-784-0400; WWW.THECOWFISH.COM Burgushi, combining burgers and sushi, may seem like an unwise food mashup, but it works. Try the Prime Time Filet & Lobster Roll for the concept at its shiny best. There is a boatload of other dishes to choose from, including The Nature Boy’s Wooooo–Shi Buffalooooo–Shi Roll, Birkenstocky Shiitake Maki, and The Arnold Hamandeggar. That short list gives you a hint of the menu’s range—and Cowfish’s penchant for a sometimes convoluted naming system.

COQUETTE BRASSERIE

4351 THE CIRCLE AT NORTH HILLS; 919-789-0606; COQUETTERALEIGH.COM This upscale restaurant is tres French and perfect for a special occasion.

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141 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-977-3425; CREPETRADITIONS.COM Crepe Traditions is a great little spot for a pick-me-up break. Order an Intelligentsia coffee and a curry chicken crepe and life will be looking up.

EDIBLE ART BAKERY AND DESSERT CAFE

4351 THE CIRCLE AT NORTH HILLS, #115; 919-856-0604 “Sweet, Southern, and scratch-made”— Edible’s slogan sums up all you need to know about its scrumptious assortment of desserts.

Get there early if you want the Red Velvet cupcake (it tends to sell out).

MIDTOWN GRILLE

4421 SIX FORKS ROAD, #115; 919-782-9463; THEMIDTOWNGRILLE.COM This contemporary American restaurant is what you make it. Take a colleague for a working lunch or take a date for dinner. But the best time to go is for brunch. Get the Southern Benedict with its biscuit, poached egg, Johnston County ham, hollandaise, pimento cheese, and home fries.

MURA

4121-110 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-781-7887; MURANORTHHILLS.COM This upscale sushi and Japanese restaurant has shown staying power. How good is it? It gets a thumbs up from a sushi snob friend who spent more than a decade haunting sushi spots in California, Hawaii, and Japan.

VIVACE

4209 LASSITER MILL ROAD, #115; 919-787-7747, VIVACERALEIGH.COM I’ll be honest. The food at Vivace always looks good, but other than a foray or two involving zeppoli (lemon zest ricotta fritter, raspberry gelato, lemon curd) or margherita pizza, I can’t vouch for it. That’s because I go there to savor the homemade limoncello. Seriously, a couple of the limoncellos and all I want is another one (and a ride home from Lyft).

DRINK

BULL AND THE BEAR

5442 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-847-3617 Find this unassuming spot in a shopping center at the corner of Six Forks and Millbrook. Low key, friendly, and, above all, comfortable—and, really, sometimes that’s all you need in a bar.

FOX & HOUND

4158 MAIN NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-781-4495; FOXANDHOUND.COM Fox & Hound is good place to go to catch the game of your choice while sipping a cocktail or craft beer. The menu is typical—burgers, sandwiches, etc. If you’re a fight fan, get familiar with Fox & Hound. I’ve seen more than one big PPV match there, a viewing option most sports bars don’t offer.

LEVEL 7

101 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919AND 571-2500, LEVEL7ROOFBAR.COM Go for the rooftop view, stay for the craft cocktails. Let’s be real, you’re on top of the AC S, #115; Hotel in Midtown (Raleigh ’burbs Midtown, not the other one), so vistas aren’t exactly ”— Manhattan quality. Still, Level 7 is a fun place to to know imbibe and a great spot to end an evening out. desserts. elvet WORLD OF BEER

4208-150 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-784-9261; WORLDOFBEER.COM/ LOCATIONS/NORTHHILLS It’s conceivable that you’ll spend more time here LLE.COM deciding what to drink than actually drinking. nt is what There’s nothing wrong with that, because WOB king lunch serves more than five hundred brands of beer. time to go ict with YARD HOUSE unty ham, 4208 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-881-2590; e fries.

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BLOWN AWAY BLOW DRY BAR

201 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET; BLOWNAWAYRALEIGH.COM This salon gives you a relaxing shampoo and a blowout in a variety of styles, plus champagne.

COPPER PENNY

4120 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET, #115 ; 919-366-5000; SHOPCOPPERPENNY.COM This Raleigh location of a small string of boutiques that originated in Charleston offers designer fashion “curated with a Southern eye.”

GINA CHANDLER

4209 LASSITER MILL ROAD, #106; 919-881-9480; GENACHANDLER.COM Founded in 2006 by a couple of N.C. natives, Gena Chandler presents women’s fashion from the likes of Rag & Bone, True Religion, and Love Shack Fancy. Don’t be surprised if you meet the owners, as they’re often there.

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QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS

4350 LASSITER AT NORTH HILLS AVENUE, #106; 919-510-5556; LILESCLOTHINGSTUDIO.COM For men who care about their clothes, Liles is pretty heavenly. Exclusive rights to some labels means it’s the only place around that you’ll find some designers. Better yet, Liles also does custom and made-to-measure pieces.

4209 LASSITER MILL ROAD, #100; 919-828-1588; QUAILRIDGEBOOKS.COM Invariably, if I end up in North Hills with an out-of-town guest, we’re stopping at the wonderful independent bookstore Quail Ridge Books. Usually it’s on a Sunday morning to pick up a New York Times and meander the aisles browsing Quail Ridge’s well-curated selection. The mainstream bestsellers are of course represented, but you’ll also discover gems you hadn’t heard of before—gems that may become your new favorites. Founded in 1984 (at a different location), Quail Ridge also is, thanks to signings and readings on an almost daily basis, the go-to destination to see visiting authors ranging from famous bold-face name types to up-and-coming writers eager for you to sample their first book.

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SCOUT AND MOLLY’S

4209 LASSITER MILL ROAD; 919-881-4141; LEARNINGEXPRESS.COM One of my favorite sources of gifts when shopping for a youngster, here you can find everything from the classics to the brand new. You’re sure to find a gift fun enough to please the kid and educational enough to please the parents.

LILES CLOTHING STUDIO

4421-105 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-510-5510; MIDTOWNOLIVEOIL.COM Sample olive oils and balsamic vinegars until you find the perfect one, or, if you’re impossibly picky, create your own flavor combination. It’ll be freshly bottled on site for you to take home.

4120 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-754-8430; SCOUTANDMOLLYS.COM Shopping at Scout and Molly’s is kind of like a few girlfriends getting together and trying stuff on. The stylists make you feel comfortable, but, like a real friend, they’ll tell you when the look you like is more “Girl, please” than “Girl, yaaasss.”

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4158 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS; 919-833-5263, WOOFGANGBAKERY.COM No one loves you more unconditionally than your canine companion. Reward that devotion with a bit of grooming, a special chew toy, some holistic food, or a doggie birthday cake.

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KINGS DINING AND ENTERTAINMENT

141 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET, #120; 919-600-5700 “Eat, Drink, Play, Score!” is this dressy bowling center’s slogan. There is bowling, of course, but also a menu that boasts scratch-made dishes, quality cocktails, and craft beer. Kings leans toward family-friendly during the day and becomes more of an adult playground in the evenings.

MIDTOWN FARMERS MARKET NORTH HILLS COMMONS, 4160 MAIN STREET; VISITNORTHHILLS.COM/EVENT/ MIDTOWN-FARMERS-MARKET-25 This producers-only market happens every Saturday (8:00 a.m.–noon) from

April through November and features local produce and meats, homemade breads, and hand-crafted items.

MIDTOWN PARK

4011 CARDINAL AT NORTH HILLS STREET; VISITNORTHHILLS.COM/LOCATION/ MIDTOWN-PARK/ Community events, plays, and concerts take place on this greenspace that also includes a stage and an interactive fountain.

OPTIMIST PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER

5900 WHITTIER DRIVE; 919-870-2880; RALEIGHNC.GOV A covered pool and an eighteen-thousandsquare-foot community center sit next to the thirty-acre park.

SHELLEY LAKE PARK

1400 WEST MILLBROOK ROAD; RALEIGHNC.GOV/PARKS A little over 144 acres with a pleasant twomile walking trail circling the lake, this park also has a playground, a basketball court, structures to climb on, and enough room that, with a bit of walking, you can feel like you’re getting away from it all. It was my family’s default choice when anyone in it needed to get out of the house.

NORTH RALEIGH

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t some point in the past, “North Raleigh” was truly suburban, a conglomeration of neighborhoods that people escaped to each evening.

Now, of course, downtown stays active well after the last cubicle is empty. Meanwhile, the longish rectangular swath of geography that is North Raleigh has seen a steady, multi-decade rise in traffic, shopping centers, dining destinations, and entertainment options. Despite that, it hasn’t quite shaken that suburban feel. So crank up the car (or hop on your bike if your cardio is better than mine) and let’s explore. —Curt Fields

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BIG ED’S NORTH

5009 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-747-9533; BIGEDSNORTH.COM Big Ed’s has established a northern beachhead, and like the downtown location, Southern cooking is the draw.

There are salads on the menu, but if you’re ordering a salad, you’re doing it wrong. Get some country ham with red-eye gravy or any one of the other old-school dishes.

CHUCK & BUCK CONES N CUPS

4610 CAPITAL BOULEVARD, SUITE B; 919-887-2992; RALEIGHICECREAM.COM Despite being in a Capital Boulevard strip mall, this shop holds its own with the best ice cream parlors anywhere.

DANTE’S ITALIANO

13200 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-556-2146; DANTESITALIANO.COM This inviting Italian spot is small—about twenty tables—so reservations are a good

idea. I recommend going on a Sunday and enjoying the $7 sangria and perhaps an order of cheese ravioli.

DAYLIGHT DONUTS

7550 CREEDMOOR ROAD; 919-676-7442; DAYLIGHTDONUTS.COM Daylight closes at noon, so don’t sleep in, lest you experience the crushing disappointment of craving a toasted coconut donut with chocolate frosting only to arrive too late.

GONZA TACOS Y TEQUILA

7713 LEAD MINE ROAD, #39; 919-846-5478; GONZATACOSYTEQUILA.COM There are others dotting the Triangle, but the original Gonza, which abides in a small shopping center off of Lead Mine Road, is my favorite. Gonza features a tasty menu of contemporary Mexican dishes and a vast selection of tequilas, and the atmosphere is festive and fun.

MARGAUX’S

8111 CREEDMOOR ROAD; 919-846-9846; MARGAUXSRESTAURANT.COM Margaux’s has been on the Raleigh scene for twenty-five years. Its menu changes frequently, but it’s consistently been a fine date destination. If you spot the pan-fried crab cakes over polenta on the menu, go for it.

PHO SUPER 9

6401 TRIANGLE PLANTATION DRIVE, #111; 919-878-1599; PHOSUPER9.COM Pho Super 9 is a casual Vietnamese spot with an excellent selection of pho. Try the egg roll vermicelli bowl or a Vietnamese crepe.

RELISH CRAFT KITCHEN & BOURBON BAR

5625 CREEDMOOR ROAD; 919-787-1855; RELISHRALEIGH.COM The fried black-eyed peas and house-fried potato chips can fill you up before you get to an entrée. Or, skip those and dive into the mac and cheese skillets. Truth be told, though, it’s the bourbon-bar part of Relish that brings me there. Bourbons of all kinds, including single barrel, second finish, and flavored, fill out the long list of choices. Relish also serves a good number of ryes and other American whiskeys.

If you don’t find a glass of something that suits you, switch to tea.

RISE BISCUITS AND DONUTS 6325 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD, 984-200-5751; RISEBISCUITSDONUTS.COM Rise, which started in Durham, now has several locations across the Triangle and is spreading like kudzu. Try the Spicy Chickaboom with “boom boom sauce,” pickled jalapenos, and onions.

SALSA FRESH

9650 STRICKLAND ROAD, #155; 919-870-1107; SALSAFRESHGRILL.COM A casual, self-described “California-style Mexican” restaurant, this spot offers burritos, tacos, nachos, and so forth.

SASSOOL

9650 STRICKLAND ROAD; 919-847-2700; SASSOOL.COM This family-owned restaurant serves Mediterranean food that’s as good as you’ll find anywhere in the Triangle. Get the fouritem sampler and load it up with classics like hummus, baba ghanouj, stuffed grape leaves, and tabouli.

VINNIE’S STEAKHOUSE AND TAVERN

7440 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-847-7319; VINNIESSTEAKHOUSE.COM You can go formal in the steakhouse proper, or enjoy a more casual atmosphere in the tavern.

The menu is the same. What’s in season dictates what you’ll see on offer, but if you’re there during blueberry season, order the blueberry crostata.

Heed my advice on this.

ZEST CAFE & HOME ART

8831 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-848-4792 The café portion features a changing menu of fresh contemporary American fare. Whatever your order, leave room for the coconut cake.

It’s quite possibly the best in town. If you don’t leave room for dessert, wander around the home and art boutique portion of the business looking at the furnishings and gifts until you are hungry enough for dessert. Then order the coconut cake.

DRINK

BOTTLEMIXX

8111 CREEDMOOR ROAD, #153; 919-615-1703; BOTTLEMIXX.COM Bottlemixx has aisles of bottles and cans for you to purchase and take home. Stop by at the end of the day, and you’ll find it a popular stop for the commuting crowd drawn by the ten taps of carefully chosen brews.

COMPASS ROSE BREWERY

3201 NORTHSIDE DRIVE, #101; 919-875-5683, COMPASSROSEBREWERY.COM I’ve had more than one friend ask if I was setting them up for abduction while driving to meet me at Compass Rose. This is a testament to two things: One, I have paranoid friends; two, Compass Rose’s location in an industrial park area off of Gresham Lake Road is way the hell out in the middle of

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nowhere. It’s worth finding, though. The taproom has more than fifty-five hundred square feet of space to accommodate beer lovers from all around. There are usually about eight to ten beers on tap that are brewed in the neighboring room. Also, Compass Rose sells the creations of several other craft brewers so you can do your own compare-and-contrast tasting session if you’re so inclined. Make the trek; you won’t be disappointed.

JUBALA COFFEE

8450 HONEYCUTT ROAD; 919-758-8330; JUBALACOFFEE.COM Jubala proves that if you serve quality coffee, you’ll draw a crowd. This location is always bustling thanks to cups of Counter Culture, prepared with as many or as few frills as you desire. If you’re in the mood for a nibble, try the Liege Waffle, which comes with a variety of flavor options—some cooked inside the waffle, some piled on top.

THE PICKLED ONION

10750 WAKEFIELD COMMONS DRIVE; 919-848-4161; THEPICKLEDONIONRESTAURANT.COM Forty big-screen TVs make this an ideal spot to catch the big game, whatever it may be.

But there’s more to The Pickled Onion than sports. The kitchen is open late, perfect for when you need more than just a drink at midnight. Also, it’s open 365 days a year, making it a perfect escape from holidayinspired family get-togethers.

SOLA COFFEE CAFE

7705 LEAD MINE ROAD; 919-803-8983; SOLACOFFEE.COM Sola serves Counter Culture along with a café-style menu and pastries.

SHOP

THE BUTCHER’S MARKET

5045 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-809-8914; THEBUTCHERSMARKETS.COM The last time I dined on ostrich, I was in college. It reminded me of duck. I haven’t had any since, but if I developed a craving, the first place I’d look is The Butcher’s Market. I’ve seen wild boar, elk, buffalo, and rattlesnake meat there, so ostrich wouldn’t be a stretch.

FIGHT OR FLIGHT COMICS

6675 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 984-242-0039; FIGHTORFLIGHTCOMICS.COM Fight or Flight has a good mix of comics, with releases suitable for the youngest of fans as well as series for jaded fifty-somethings. The owners are knowledgeable and incredibly helpful.

LAFAYETTE VILLAGE

8450 HONEYCUTT ROAD; 919-714-7447; LAFAYETTEVILLAGERALEIGH.COM This little shopping center has only been around a few years, but despite its kitschy faux-French theme, it contains a number of places worth a visit. One of my favorites is Crafty Beer Shop, where I’ve comfortably whiled away more than one afternoon. Other spots to check out include Orrman’s Cheese Shop, Southern Craft Butchers, Gigi’s Boutique, Driftwood Southern Kitchen, and The Chocolate Boutique.

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STEVENS BOOKS

6700 OLD WAKE FOREST ROAD; 919-872-5995; STEVENSBOOKS.COM Don’t go here when you have somewhere to be—you’ll be late. There are thirty-nine thousand square feet of space with several hundred thousand used books, comics, video games, DVDs, and audiobooks to peruse. There’s a little bit of everything, but Stevens specializes in used textbooks and theological subjects.

TLC FOR BIKES

8480 HONEYCUTT ROAD, #126; 919-324-4966; TLCFORBIKES.COM TLC sells clothing, accessories, and bikes, and can also do maintenance on your two-wheeler.

ULTIMATE COMICS 6320 CAPITAL BOULEVARD; 984-200-0186

This is the third and newest location of the popular Triangle comics purveyor. There’s a reason Ultimate keeps growing—it’s an excellent issues, collectibles—Ultimate can scratch almost any itch a comic geek might have.

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PLAY

ADVENTURE LANDING

3311 CAPITAL BOULEVARD; 919-372-3603; RALEIGH. ADVENTURELANDING.COM Spend a day playing laser tag, driving go-karts, swinging in the batting cages, putting on a miniature golf course, or being an arcade wizard.

BUFFALOE LANES

5900 OAK FOREST DRIVE; 919-876-5681; BUFFALOELANES.COM These lanes are Old School with a capital O and S. You don’t go for fancy cocktails or craft beers (it’s alcohol-free, sorry). Instead, you go to bowl, and maybe to relive your youth—for those who grew up in North Raleigh, Buffaloe Lanes was a regular high school hang.

CAPITAL AREA GREENWAY SYSTEM

MAP AVAILABLE AT RALEIGHNC.GOV Technically, the comprehensive greenway system covers East, South, and West Raleigh, too, but there are several locations in North Raleigh where it’s easy to get on the trail. I’ve never encountered a section that wasn’t enjoyable.

FALLS DAM

9745 FONVILLE ROAD Both sides of Falls Dam, which creates Falls Lake and opens to the Neuse River, offer picturesque spots for playing. The address says Wake Forest, but that’s a technicality because Wakefield, a Raleigh neighborhood, is north of the dam itself. You can fish, kayak, hike, run, and bike in and around the water.

And some swear that the top of the dam is the best location around to watch the sun set.

MILLBROOK EXCHANGE PARK

1905 SPRING FOREST ROAD; 919-996-4156; RALEIGHNC.GOV This city park, built in 1971, has become a comprehensive recreation destination for North Raleigh. It features basketball and tennis courts, two playgrounds, a community center with fitness equipment, a pool, a dog park, picnic shelters, and several big fields for softball and kickball.

NORTH RALEIGH ARTS AND CREATIVE THEATER

DURANT NATURE PRESERVE

7713-51 LEAD MINE ROAD; 919-866-0228; NRACT.ORG NRACT is a small community theater tucked away in a strip mall off of Lead Mine Road.

It presents several live plays a year and also offers a variety of theater classes for kids and adults.

EAT

THE OAK, KITCHEN + BOURBON BAR

8305 CAMP DURANT ROAD; 919-870-2871; RALEIGHNC.GOV The city-owned Durant Nature Preserve offers five miles of verdant hiking trails as well as a few dedicated mountain bike trails.

There’s a big open field that’s perfect for a game of Ultimate, a sand volleyball court, and a number of picnic shelters. The park is focused on nature (in case you didn’t pick that up from the name), with camps, programs, and self-guided tours dedicated to exploring the local flora and fauna.

ANGUS BARN

9401 GLENWOOD AVENUE; 919-781-2444,; ANGUSBARN.COM This is the steakhouse in Raleigh—a power place that attracts champion coaches and celebrities to its dining room. Regardless of who’s breaking bread, the biggest star will always be the steaks.

AZITRA

8411 BRIER CREEK PARKWAY 919-484-3939, AZITRA.US Might I suggest the peppercorn mango lamb with a bottle of Flying Horse?

4035 LAKE BOONE TRAIL 919-787-9100, JMRKITCHENS.COM The Oak features more than sixty bourbons, including some difficult to find bottles. Have some dinner while you drink; you’ll find they also take the Kitchen part of their name seriously.

I recommend the Beef & Bourbon Sliders.

WARAJI JAPANESE RESTAURANT

5910 DURALEIGH ROAD; 919-783-1883; WARAJIJAPANESERESTAURANT.COM For many, this is Raleigh’s go-to sushi spot. I’m more interested in Waraji’s huge sake selection.

DRINK

BRIER CREEK BEER GARDEN 8521 BRIER CREEK PARKWAY, 919-7483900 As the name implies, BCBG has plenty of beer to choose from. Fifty-two taps, in fact, and more by the bottle. Go early on a weekend to get the duck and waffles from the brunch menu.

GIZMO BREW WORKS

5907 TRIANGLE DRIVE 919-782-2099, GIZMOBREWWORKS.COM I’ve yet to try a Gizmo brew that I didn’t enjoy. The year-round creations are all tasty, but keep an eye out for Gizmo’s seasonals and one-offs.

THE HIDEOUT AT LONERIDER BREWERY

8816 GULF COURT 919-442-8004, LONERIDERBEER.COM Visit on the first or third Wednesday of the month, because that’s when the brewery releases a keg of specialty beer.

LYNNWOOD GRILL & BREWING CONCERN

4821 GROVE BARTON ROAD 919-785-0043, LYNNWOODGRILL.COM Even with a rooftop patio, this place can fill up.

Lynnwood has some of the best beer around, including the seasonal Big Papi Porter.

SHOP

GAME THEORY

5910 DURALEIGH ROAD 919-787-4449, GAMETHEORYSTORE.COM Even the best game isn’t much fun if you have no one to play it with, and that’s where Game Theory really shines. People gather at the store on a daily basis to play and

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socialize. Check online to see which games are featured on which days, or join Meetup for more detailed info.

PLAY

CAPITOL COMICS

6022 DURALEIGH ROAD; 919-803-5534; TRIANGLEROCKCLUB.COM TRC has more than thirteen thousand square feet of Eldorado climbing walls, seven thousand square feet of bouldering terrain, areas for lead and top-rope climbing, workout areas, and many other amenities. (TRC also has locations in Morrisville and Durham.)

5212 HOLLYRIDGE DRIVE 919-781-9500, CAPITOLCOMICSNC.COM This old-school shop is small, but don’t be misled by the size. Capitol has a ton of comics.

New releases are along the wall on the right.

Older editions are in the middle and on the left.

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WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD STATE PARK 8801 GLENWOOD AVENUE; 919-571-4170; STATEPARKS.COM/WILLIAM_B_ UMSTEAD.HTML Hiking, bridle, and bike trails weave through the more than five thousand acres of Umstead Park. There are also plenty of sites for camping, picnic areas, and educational programs.

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK

FRIDAY, JULY 26

SUPER/NATURAL: STORIES OF THE UNKNOWN

While most people aren’t particularly lacking for media saturation—sounds and stories seem piped into our consciousness from every angle—there’s something about lying silently outside on the grass, surrounded by other people lying silently on the grass, that feels antithetical to the ravages of the attention economy.

Launched in 2014, Audio Under the Stars is an immersive invitation to socialize, drink wine, smell sweet clover, and quietly experience the power of listening. In this second installment of a three-part summer series, locally-produced or focused audio segments will converge around themes of the supernatural: tales of “weird science, dramatic breakthroughs, the power of belief, and the allure of the unknown.” As for the knowns, the CDS event page advises that the event is BYOB, that Dang Good Dogs will be on hand to sell both veggie and hot dogs, and that, invariably, the event will be interrupted by the pleasant refrain of a passing train whistle or two.

—Sarah Edwards DUKE’S CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES, DURHAM 8 p.m., free, www.audiounderthestars.org

SATURDAY, JULY 27

SHAKESQUEER: A STAGED READING

THURSDAY, JULY 25

ERIC B. & RAKIM

Like clockwork, whenever a deejay decides to cue up one of the “god emcee” Rakim Allah’s hits during their “old school” hip-hop set, they’re usually going to throw on “Microphone Fiend,” or “Paid in Full.” But, by and large, most of them gloss over any jewels from Eric B & Rakim’s 1990 Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em LP. It was responsible for countless around-the-way-girls falling in love with Rakim (a.k.a. “Mr. Sexy”) over the Al Green-sampled “Mahogany,” and also a host to “Untouchables,“ on which Rakim surfs over a breakbeat, proclaiming at the crest of one of the bar’s waves: “I plant a thought, extend, and then grow.” The duo’s influence also helped Harlem’s legendary street couturier Dapper Dan grow his brand into recognition when the duo donned his creations on the covers of both their debut album Paid in Full and their follow-up, Follow the Leader.

According to Rakim, “MC” means “move the crowd,” but with such a romanticized legacy of armored lyrics attached to his name, he’s moved the culture and every class of true emcees after him. —Eric Tullis THE RITZ, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $18–$30, www.ritzraleigh.com

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After leading two plucky quartets on a comic bar crawl for the Bard in last season’s ShakesBeer and ShakesBeer II, director/ adaptor Dustin Britt calls ShakesQueer, his latest collection of Stratfordian second takes, “a game of what-ifs.” This compendium not only examines queer subtexts in likely places (including the cross-gender hijinks in As You Like It and Shakespeare’s twentieth sonnet), it also poses an intriguing series of whatifs elsewhere to see how they change the way we look at familiar texts. For example, if Romeo had been a woman, two influential Verona families would have had another reason altogether in keeping their children apart. “It becomes a very different conversation, without changing a word of the text,” Britt notes. Singer-songwriter Al Riggs hosts an evening in which ten actors reconsider passages from Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s a benefit for Bare Theatre’s upcoming season, which will be revealed that night on stage.

—Byron Woods IMURJ, RALEIGH 7 p.m., $15 suggested, www.baretheatre.org

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FRIDAY, JULY 26

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

Known by some simply as FGL, this pop-country duo broke through with 2012 single, “Cruise,” which occupied the top spot on U.S. country charts for twenty-four weeks and became the best-selling country song of the digital era. And it wasn’t a fluke: A dozen more of FGL’s songs became wildly popular, too, making tank-top-rocking millionaires out of Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley, and also positioning them as something like the Nickelback of country music.

Now they’ve been singing about jean shorts, lifted trucks, and girls in jeans shorts in lifted trucks long enough for fans to lament the passing of the band’s “golden era.” But don’t worry, they’re still rolling strong in their Chevy. Despite the backlash against so-called “bro-country”—a genre FGL helped launch with “Cruise”—the duo is still popular enough to pack arenas and amphitheatres across the country. Just like, you know, Nickelback.

—Howard Hardee WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE, RALEIGH 7 p.m., $133+, www.walnutcreekamphitheatre.com

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MARY J. BLIGE & NAS Two hip-hop legends—Nas, one of the greatest MCs of all time, and Blige, who has shifted the trajectory of R&B, blending the genre with a more urban hood sound—co-headlinine the Royalty Tour, which makes a stop in Raleigh this week. With over forty combined hits and a number of classic album tracks, fans of the hiphop royalty duo are in for a night of nostalgia.

To prepare for this joint collaboration, earlier this year the two released “Thriving,” a track dominated by Blige’s vocals but accompanied by a premise that celebrates their strength, endurance, success, and longevity. After all, it was all of twenty-two years ago that the pair reminded the world that “Love is All We Need” on Blige’s classic Share my World album. With a reputation for well-produced concert shows filled with high energy and Blige’s legendary dance moves, this tour is a match made in hiphop heaven. —Kyesha Jennings WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE, RALEIGH

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POUR HOUSE Mephiskapheles, The Ghost Of Saturday Nite; $10-$12. 9 p.m.

THE ARTSCENTER Bettye LaVette; 8 p.m.

THE RITZ Teyana Taylor; 8 p.m.

CAROLINA THEATRE MRG 30: The Mountain Goats, Hiss Golden Messenger; $35. 7:30 p.m.

THU, JUL 25

THE CAVE David Israel, Short Cuts; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

LOCAL 506 Smoke From All the Friction, Petite Celine, Wolf & Moon, John Foley; $8. 8 p.m.

MOTORCO MRG30 Opening Night Party: The Rock*A*Teens, Escapism; $10. 11 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Local Band Local Beer: The Pinkerton Raid, Hardworker, Stray Local; $5. 9 p.m.

THE RITZ Eric B & Rakim; $30. 8 p.m.

SLIM’S The Stone Eye, Magma Opus, Inanimus; $7. 9 p.m.

LOCAL 506 The High Divers, and The Yardarm; $10-$12. 9 p.m.

WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE Mary J. Blige, Nas; $31+. 8 p.m.

FRI, JUL 26 ARCANA Wiley Fosters; free. 9 p.m.

BLUE NOTE GRILL Tennessee Jed; $8. 9 p.m.

THE CAVE The Two’s, The Dapper Conspiracy; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE Florida Georgia Line, Dan + Shay, Morgan Wallen, Hardy; $54+. 7 p.m.

DURHAM CENTRAL PARK Bull City All-Stars Drumline, K-Hill, Caroline Brodie; free. 7 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE Lo$t in the Cosmos: The Lo$t Generation, Cloudy, Nueve, Sangstaa, Ny Banga, JUSTO, DGWAP, LEVI, Zay The Goat, Diz Rielle; $5. 8 p.m.

LOCAL 506 Julia, Coomassie Bloo, Mattie & the Masters; $8. 9 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD Byzantine, Gross Reality, Into the Deep; $10-$12. 9 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT Vassal, Quadrant; $7. 9:30 p.m.

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NIGHTLIGHT Explorations; $8. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Girls Rock NC Summer Showcase; free. 2 p.m.

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ODD COMPANY Land Is, Sun Studies; 8 p.m.

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POUR HOUSE Just Fine, Orlando Parker Jr.; $15-$20. 8 p.m.

BLUE NOTE GRILL Jonathan Byrd & The Pickup Cowboys; $10$15. 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Sons Of Paradise; $5-$10. 11 p.m.

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER Iration, Pepper, Fortunate Youth, Katastro; $20+. 6:30 p.m.

RHYTHMS LIVE Aaron Mills Project; $8. 8 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY Shana Tucker & James Saxmo Gates; $20. 8 p.m.

SLIM’S Michael Myerz, Huffer, Mallprowler, Tuttle Recall; $5. 8 p.m.

THE STATION Finding Feebas, The Velvet Sky; 8 p.m.

THE CARY THEATER David Olney & John Carlson; 8 p.m.

Durham’s Loamlands offers a distinctive slant on Americana. The title of their latest album, Lez Dance, leaves little question about which cultural corner they’re coming from, and they call their songwriting approach “queer storytelling.”

While country and folk are the primary stylistic touchstones, their brand of twang has plenty of moody atmospherics and wide, open spaces—all the better for letting those stories come across.

—Jim Allen

KINGS The Petty Thieves; $10.

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SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS Raleigh Flood District, Waking April, KEYSE; donations. 6 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY Keith Ganz Quartet & Ariel Pocock; $20. 8 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE Dirty Logic; $12-$25. 9 p.m.

SLIM’S Oroboro, Via, Black Surfer, Absent Lovers; $5. 8 p.m.

THE CAVE Phat Lynx, Billy Sugarfix and the Early Girls; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

LOCAL 506 The Emotron, Clang Quartet, Tristan Welch, Gloop, Spookstina; $8. 9 p.m.

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MON, JUL 29 THE KRAKEN Rootzie Legacy Band; 8 p.m.

MOTORCO We Were Promised Jetpacks These Four Walls 10th Anniversary with Catholic Action; $16-$18. 8 p.m.

NEPTUNES PARLOUR Atomic Rhythm All Stars; $5. 8 p.m.

THE CAVE Daniel Markham, A. Lee Edwards; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

TUE, JUL 30 NIGHTLIGHT Street Fight Radio, The District Sentinel, The Trillbillies; $20. 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE National Park Radio; $7-$10. 9 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY NC Jazz Repertory Orchestra; $20. 8 p.m.

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[$18+, 7 P.M.] While it’s true that So So Def Recordings founder Jermaine Dupri has been recently saying some outlandish things in regards to the breadth of his influence on Atlanta rap, he is responsible for introducing TLC to the world and writing the ageless Jagged Edge hit “Where The Party At,” which featured a flawless guest verse

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old-timey music, you need to pay heed to somebody like Fiddlin’ Al McCanless.

He’s been at it since the ‘60s, playing with The Red Clay Ramblers and a bunch of others, but on his own he goes deep into the loam of American music. Fiddle isn’t his only axe either —if all goes well, he might whip out a guitar, banjo, or mandolin to make his point. —Jim Allen

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THE CAVE Pete Pausey, Matty Sheets, Crumb Catcher Acoustic; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

SUN, JUL 28 CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM

IMURJ Summer Wars, Overgrow, Frontside, Swim Down, Clavicle; $10$12. 8 p.m.

NEPTUNES PARLOUR Open Field, Dove Legs; $8. 8:30 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Obb, The Five Nines; $12-$15. 7:30 p.m.

SLIM’S Noah Cross, Gnawing; $5. 8 p.m.

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[$26+, 5:45 P.M.] This alt-rock band out of Nebraska came up during

the unspeakably awful heyday of rap-rock and numetal in the 1990s, but is perhaps better known for its smooth, reggae-influenced singles “Amber” and “Love Song.” Despite its polarizing status—you either love ‘em or hate ‘em—311 has a huge cult following and is currently touring its thirteenth studio album, Voyager.

—Howard Hardee

SLIM’S Andrew Wilco’s American Band, Cloud District, Condado; $5.

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WED, JUL 31

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Gabby’s World, Bellows, Museum Mouth, Jenny Besetzt; $10$12. 7:30 p.m.

THE KRAKEN Glenn Jones & Friends; 7 p.m.

LOCAL 506 The Dollyrots, The Pink Spiders; $10-$12. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Brass Lightning, Ctrl Alt Del Band; $8-$10. 9 p.m.

SLIM’S Chaosmic, Friendship Commanders, Kult Icon; $7. 9 p.m.

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Cary Gallery of Artists: A Few of Our Favorite Things Group show. Jul 26-Aug 27.

Reception: July 26, 6-8 p.m.

Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org.

150 Faces of Durham Photos.

Thru Sep 3. Museum of Durham History, Durham.

The Grey Area Art Showcase Grayscale art from more than twenty artists of color. Sat, Jul 27, 6 p.m. Smashing Boxes, Durham. perkandniel.com.

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AfterSchool Arts Immersion: Internet Abracadabra Student art. Thru Jul 31.

The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org/gallery.

Tony Alderman: Waterline Paintings. Thru Aug 24. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com.

Ancestry of Necessity Group show. Curator, April Childers. Thru Aug 24. Reed Bldg, Durham.

Jimmie Banks Retrospective Thru Sep 9. Rubenstein Art Center Gallery 235, Durham. artscenter.duke.edu.

Wim Botha: Stil Life with Discontent Mixed media.

Additional work on view at 21c Museum Hotel. Thru Aug 4.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Jillian Clark: Age Thru Aug 10.

Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com.

EVERYTHING I CAN FIT, IN A DREAM-POD Lopsided and lively, the colorful figures in Jennifer Meanley’s paintings seem entirely fixed in their own world, one made up fractured shapes and dreamy, emotional colors. It’s a world that recalls a number of art history references—Balthus (the lounging girls, the cats), Cezanne (the lurching, modern lines that cram the frame), and Alice Neel (the weird, endearing bodies). The warm, engaging Cubist vision that Meanley enacts is entirely her own, though, and it’s an accomplished and inviting one. An Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the UNC-Greensboro, Meanley has had her collages, paintings, and small-text work exhibited in numerous galleries across the region. This particular exhibit will run through September 7 at Oneoneone. —Sarah Edwards

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Hurray for the Red White & Blue Paintings. Thru Jul 27. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com.

John James Audubon: The Birds of America Ornithological engravings. Thru Dec 31.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Kaleidoscope: Art of the Triangle Work from Duke Children’s Hospital pediatric patients. Thru Jul 27. FRANK’s Outreach Gallery, Chapel Hill. frankisart.com.

Kapow Group show. Thru Jul 27. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. localcoloraleigh.com.

Jim Kellough: Vine Paintings Thru Oct 10. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamarts.org.

Stacey L. Kirby: The Department of Reflection Multimedia. Thru Aug 4.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org.

Marsha Cottrell: Black and Light Works on paper. Thru Sep 8. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

Michael Klauke: In So Many Words Paintings, work on paper, and video. Thru Aug 18.

CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

Avery Danziger: In the Shadow of the Moon Photos. Thru Jul 31.

Through This Lens, Durham.

Rachel Kosbab: Possibility Paintings. Thru Aug 22. Durham Arts Council, Durham.

Kristen DeGree Screenprints.

Thru Sep 9. Durham Arts Council, Durham.

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Clarence Heyward: Conundrum Thru Aug 31.

Triangle Cultural Art Gallery, Raleigh. triangleculturalart.com.

Empirical Evidence Group show.

Thru Sep 30. Carrboro Town Hall, Carrboro.

Evee Erb & Sydney Sogol: A Force of Nature Textiles and sculptures. Thru Aug 3. Durham Art Guild, Durham.

Golden Expressions Golden Belt resident artists show. Thru Aug 25. Grand Gallery at the Golden Belt Campus, Durham. goldenbeltarts.com.

Berkeley Grimball, Jim Lux, Jim Oleson, Mary Stone Lamb, Phillip Welch Group show.

Thru Aug 3. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill.

Justin LeBlanc: Probable Normal Hearing Thru Aug 18.

CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

Local Color Group show.

Thru Aug 25. Reception: Jul 26, 6-9 p.m. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Shawhan Lynch: Light Fusion Glass. Thru Aug 24. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham.

Christian Marclay: Surround Sounds Synchronized silent video installation. Thru Sep 8.

Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Mac McCusker: Gendered Clay Works in clay. Thru Jul 31.

Claymakers, Durham.

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Jim McQuaid: Detroit Thru Aug 10. Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com.

Kirsten Stoltmann: I am Sorry Thru Jul 31. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org.

Vanessa Murray: Night Swim Paintings and sculptures. Thru Jul 24. Golden Belt, Durham. durhamartguild.org.

Tilden Stone: Southern Surreal Furniture. Thru Sep 8.

Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Outsider Art in the Visitors Center Group show. Works for sale. Thru Aug 30. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough.

Susan Harbage Page: Borderlands Documentary photos and found objects from the US-Mexico border. Thru Jul 28. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Paperhand Puppet Intervention: We Are Here Puppetry. Thru Jul 31.

The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org/gallery.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

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QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women’s Voices Through Quilts Thru Mar 8. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. ncmuseumofhistory.org. reNautilus Thru Jul 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

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Susan Skrzycki: These Things Take Time Mixed media. Thru Aug 3. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh. vaeraleigh.com.

Southern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off Interactive sculptures. Thru Oct 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

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PARADISO II: DESTINY HEMPHILL, ELI VISZK, JOSÉ ROMERO Thursday’s installment of Paradiso, a poetry and performance series that takes place at Nightlight Bar & Club, features the Durham-based writers Destiny Hemphill, Eli Viszk, and José Romero. In her poem “mapmaking,” Hemphill, a healer and the author of the chapbook Oracle: A Cosmology, writes “here is the honeysuckle/that mama never let me put in my mouth lest i think that sweetness/ was easy to take.” The embodied and relational is also central to Viszk’s work. In an interview with the journal Cixous72, she describes the use of bodily fluids in her performance as part of her “ever-changing search to join presence with transcendence.” Rounding out the group is Romero, an organizer with the Durham Beyond Policing coalition and Southerners on New Ground and “other experiments in flourishing.” The event will be followed by a DJ set by Alex Chassanoff. —Coco Wilder

Dennis Szerszen: Unstill Waters Photos. Thru Aug 27. The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist, Chapel Hill.

Truth to Power Thru Jul 28.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham.

William Paul Thomas: Disrupting Homogeny Portraits.

Thru Jul 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com.

Cheryl Thurber: Documenting Gravel Springs, Mississippi, in the 1970s Photos. Thru Mar 31. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill.

NIGHTLIGHT BAR & CLUB, CHAPEL HILL 8 p.m., free, www.nightlightclub.com

Way Out West: Celebrating the Gift of the Hugh A. McAllister Jr. Collection Thru Aug 25.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org.

Christina Lorena Weisner: Explorations Thru Jul 28. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

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Jennifer Dasal The #MeToo Movement in 17th Century Art. Tue, Jul 30, 7 p.m Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

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LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL Fair warning: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Lanie Robertson’s 1986 stage biography of Billie Holliday, is anything but another plotless jukebox musical. By March 1959, when it takes place, the legendary jazz chanteuse’s voice and body had already been ravaged by years of drug abuse; she’d die from cirrhosis four months later. The setting, a second-rate bar and grill in South Philly, reflects the fact that Holliday could no longer perform in clubs in New York City, due as much by then to her reputation for reliability as her legal woes. In this deeply discomforting production, director Deb Royals confronts us with an artist who is slowly collapsing in front of a live audience. Connie McCoy’s poignant, punchdrunk character convincingly belts out Holiday’s early hits before downing more liquor and staggering through standards and increasingly harrowing stories from her life. Though bandleader Jimmy Powers (pianist Ronzel Bell) valiantly tries to keep the concert on track, nothing in this four-star production rescues Holliday’s death spiral, or the audience who must bear witness to it. —Byron Woods

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OPENING 7 Stories: The Siren’s Song Storytelling. $7. July 28, 7 p.m.

Kings, Raleigh. kingsraleigh.com.

Advice From a F*ckboy Live podcast recording. $16-$23.

Thu, Jul 25, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

The Beat Club Podcast Live Live music podcast. Jul 27, 9 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham. thepinhook.com.

D.L. Hughes Comedy. Jul 26-28.

Fri-Sat: 7:30 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Sun: 7 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Myq Kaplan Comedy. With Minori Hinds and host Deb Aronin. Sun, Jul 28, 8 p.m. Motorco, Durham. motorcomusic.com.

Mary Poppins Orange Community Players. Musical. $8-$18. Thu-Sat: 7:30 p.m. Sun: 2 p.m. Jul 25-28.

Cedar Ridge High School, Hillsborough. ocpnc.com Mello Mike Comedy. $15. Sun, Jul 28, 7 p.m. Raleigh Improv, Cary. improv.com.

ShakesQueer Bare Theatre.

Staged reading. $15 suggested.

Sat, Jul 27, 7 p.m. Imurj, Raleigh. baretheatre.org.

Antigone Raleigh Little Theatre. $15. Thru Jul 28.

Fri-Sat: 7:30 p.m. Sun: 3 p.m. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. raleighlittletheatre.org.

Bizarre Drag. $7.

Ruby Deluxe, Raleigh. rubydeluxeraleigh.com.

Bright Star Playmakers Repertory Company. Thru Jul 28. Center for Dramatic Art, Chapel Hill.

Comedy Night With Michelle Maclay, Sarah Oleson, Jackie Flannigan, Nic Frederick, & CS Douglas.

Thru Jul 25. The Cave, caverntavern.com.

The Monti StorySlam Storytelling. $12. Motorco, Durham. motorcomusic.com.

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screen SPECIAL SHOWINGS 400 Feet Down Sat, Jul 27, 6 p.m. JC Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh. ncsu.edu.

An Absolutely Remarkable Evening with Hank Green Livestream from Austin, Texas. Wed, Jul 24, 8 p.m.

Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Adventureland Wed, Jul 31, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Beetlejuice Free. Thu, Jul 25. Food trucks: 7 p.m.

Screening: 8:30 p.m. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. raleighlittletheatre.org.

Blazing Saddles With actor Burton Gilliam in attendance.

Sat, Jul 27, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

The Burbs Tue, Jul 30, 1 p.m. & 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Farmer/Veteran Documentary. Free. Thu, Jul 25, 5:30 p.m. UNC’s FedEx Global Education Center, Chapel Hill. global.unc.edu.

Furry Animals & the Sins of Man A/V Geeks.

Mon, Jul 29, 7 p.m.

Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Holiday $7. Wed, Jul 24, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

Incredibles 2 Fri, Jul 26, 8:30 p.m. Koka Booth Amphitheatre Cary boothamphitheatre.com.

MysteryRealm Film Series Full schedule online. Jul 26-28.

Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

Phoenix, Oregon Q&A to follow. Mon, Jul 29, 7 p.m.

Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. thechelseatheater.com.

Teen Witch Wed, Jul 31, 2 p.m. & 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Tenebrae $7. Wed, Jul 31, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

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UHF Wed, Jul 24, 9 p.m.

Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

WALL-E Fri, Jul 26, 6 p.m.

Orange County Main Library, Hillsborough. hillsboroughclassicfilms.com.

OPENING Once Upon a Time in Hollywood—Quentin Tarantino returns with a love letter to the waning days of Golden Age Hollywood. Rated R.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com. ½ John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum— A bloody, Buster Keatonesque ballet meets Sam Peckinpah. Rated PG.  Men in Black: International—What if Men in Black, but Morocco and Chris Hemsworth’s torso?

Rated PG-13.  Toy Story 4—A spork’s severe ontological distress ballasts a half-daring, half-predictable extension of a beloved animated franchise. Rated G.

FRIDAY, JULY 26 & SATURDAY, JULY 27

TO CATCH A THIEF

Most of us will never enjoy a life of luxury on the French Rivera (if you do, please contact this writer), but you can at least enjoy the film that gave rise to that dream for countless moviegoers. One of Hitchcock’s lighter affairs, the film features Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief known as “The Cat” who finds himself under suspicion for burglaries committed by, well, a copycat; Grace Kelly, meanwhile, is an American heiress turned on by Grant’s criminal past, and subsequently turns him on in a scene featuring double-entendres involving jewels, the décolletage of Edith Head’s Oscar-nominated costumes, and literal/figurative fireworks. The film’s widescreen visuals of the French countryside and vivid colors make it the greatest travelogue of Hitchcock’s career. (The location also worked out for Grace Kelly, who met her husband, Prince Rainier III during filming.) The film runs in the Carolina Theatre’s “Mysteryrealm” series; other highlights include two other fabled Hitchcock classics, Lifeboat (1940) and Shadow of a Doubt (1943). It’s a good weekend to be suspicious in Durham. —Zack Smith

THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM | Friday 4:50 p.m./Saturday 7:10 p.m., $9.50, www.carolinatheatre.org

Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief

food & drink Conniption’s Rose Spritz PopUp Cocktail launch. Oysters, drinks, and more. Sun, Jul 28, 4 p.m. The Durham Hotel, Durham. thedurham.com.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CAROLINA THEATRE

Poptailpalooza Meads and Locopops desserts.

Jul 27-28. Honeygirl Meadery, Durham. honeygirlmeadery.com.

TapCork: Durham Drinks, music, games, and more. $30.

Sat, Jul 27, 3 p.m. Durham Central Park, Durham. tapcorkfest.com.

Wine Dinner With Max Kast of Broadbent Selections. Thu, Jul 25, 5:30 p.m. The Fearrington House Restaurant, Pittsboro. fearringtonhouse.com.

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