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The Myth of Gender
Just one letter this week—from Peter Klopfer, professor emeritus of biology at Duke, and Dr. Gerard Honoré—but it’s an important one that deserves to be read in its entirety: “Your admirable edition on HB 2 unfortunately missed an opportunity to clarify why, from a purely biological point of view, the law is as nonsensical as it is. The sex of a newly born infant has historically been based upon specific physical differences: a vagina or penis, ovaries or testis, and other, associated, structures. Not every individual necessarily possesses all of the attributes of one sex or the other, but, for the most part, the division into males and females has seemed unproblematic. Until recently … We now recognize that the physical differences are not dichotomous—a small penis may be indistinguishable from a large clitoris; a not-fully-fused scrotum can resemble partially fused labia. Even the chromosomes of an individual may not be solely XX or XY, but part
of a mosaic, with some cells XX and others XY. More importantly, all of these markers that appear to define one’s sex are not concordant: one can rank as a male according to some, or as female according to others. For example, an individual with organs that appeared at birth to be male (penis and scrotum) might later be found to possess ovaries and breasts. Birth certificates, which are based on genital structure alone, are inevitably flawed. In short, from a biological point of view, it is not just that there is a continuum from characteristics that are clearly male-like to those that are clearly female-like, but that these continua exist in a multidimensional space. It is, in some respects, analogous to a situation found in the protozoan, paramecium, which, rather than having two sexes, has multiple “mating types,” with some restrictions as to which types can actually mate. The varieties of biological sex are certainly greater
than two. One supposes that there are limits and that there may be reasons why certain possibilities or combinations thereof are not possible, as with paramecium. The visible horizons of our scientific, social, and humanistic knowledge regarding what was once believed to be a very simple scenario—assignment of sex and gender—have expanded rapidly in the past fifty years. We now consider a thrilling and uncharted frontier for further understanding the possibilities of human sex and gender, where uncertainties are multitudinous and absolute rules seem to be few. The tantalizing prospect of new knowledge to be gained can be shared alike by scientists and poets, psychologists and playwrights, as well as all of humankind—is there anyone whose life could not be touched by this?”
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triangulator +MCCRORY LOSES IT
As you probably know by now, the NBA moved the All-Star Game out of Charlotte last week, and Republicans sure are pissed about it—especially the governor, who blasted the media, activists, and the “sports and entertainment elite” for the NBA’s decision. Chris Sgro, the Equality NC director who served in the short session as a state representative from Greensboro, had an interesting interaction with McCrory as he was walking into a press conference in Charlotte last Friday. As Sgro recounted on Twitter: “.@PatMcCroryNC just shouted at me ‘congrats, you got what you wanted.’ Actually, Governor, we all lost—because of you.” “The governor was on Charlotte Talks this morning,” Sgro told the INDY Friday. “He was just spouting a tremendous amount of mistruths about Charlotte’s role in losing the All-Star Game and safety and security, so I went over to his press conference, and then he moved the press conference to a secure location that I didn’t have access to.” That’s when the interaction he described on Twitter happened. “No one got what they wanted, and the fault is with the governor,” Sgro says. “If the governor is going to continue to spread false information about HB 2 and its impacts, as well as what happened with the All-Star Game, when he knows very well that it’ll move to a city with the protections Charlotte had, he owes a conversation to the LGBT community. And that’s something that needs to happen soon.” Sgro is right: New Orleans, which is said to be the frontrunner to get the All-Star Game, is one of over two hundred American cities with a nondiscrimination ordinance that includes protections based on gender identity. McCrory shouldn’t take it from us; he should give the NBA’s statement a read: “While we recognize that the NBA cannot choose the law
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in every city, state, and country in which we do business, we do not believe we can successfully host our All-Star festivities in Charlotte in the climate created by HB2.” Notice that you won’t find Sgro, Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts, the Charlotte City Council, the LGBTQ community, or any other group McCrory would like to blame for losing a $100 million-plus event, listed as the reason why the NBA is moving the All-Star Game. No, the NBA specifically says that the “climate created by HB 2” was the basis for the decision. Own it, Governor.
+AND NOW THE GOLFERS
After losing the All-Star Game, Governor McCrory heard from another sector of that “sports and entertainment elite” last week: golfers. The PGA released the following statement on Thursday: “The PGA of America strongly opposes North Carolina HB2. It contradicts our commitment to create an inclusive and welcoming environment at our events. We remain hopeful that the law will be changed.” There’s no threat, even implicitly, that the PGA plans to move the PGA Championship, scheduled for August 2017. The statement makes that clear—albeit with a laudable poke in the eyes of HB 2 supporters. “Since the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte is a private facility not subject to the provisions of HB 2, at the 2017 PGA Championship, we plan to allow spectators to use the restroom that conforms to their gender identity or gender expression.”
And then, there’s a warning: “As we look to future events, our willingness to consider coming back to the State of North Carolina will be severely impacted unless HB2 is overturned.” The championship tournament is already booked elsewhere through at least 2020, according to PGA spokesperson Jamie Carbone. However, the PGA’s statement opens up the possibility that the annual Wells-Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow (next year, it will move to Wilmington) could be in jeopardy, as well as the annual Symetra Classic, a Charlotte stop on the LGPA’s developmental tour.
+A MORE PERFECT UNION
North Carolina has long been known as an anti-union state. We have the second-lowest unionization rate in the country, just behind South Carolina. Recently, however, labor has had some cause for optimism: Duke adjunct faculty members voted to form a union, and in December, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee helped seven former workers of state senator Brent Jackson sue him in federal court for unpaid wages. Now one of the state’s largest progressive think tanks, the North Carolina Justice Center, has unionized, too, joining the National Organization of Legal Services Workers. The contract went into effect July 15. Marion Johnson, policy advocate for the Justice Center’s Budget & Tax Center and the union chairman, tells the INDY that members started organizing in the summer of 2013. The Justice Center voluntarily recognized the union in spring 2014, after a majority of the members indicated they wanted to join a union. “The Justice Center practices what it
preaches,” says executive director Rick Glazier. “We believe in workers’ rights and union capacity to advocate for and protect those rights in a myriad of circumstances. We would be hard-pressed to lobby other employers and the state to do what we say but not follow through on that ourselves.” “We wanted to have a formal say in the decision-making process about our own wages, benefits, layoffs, and other working conditions in the organization,” Johnson adds. “We felt like a union was the best way to allow us to have a formal seat at the table when these things were being discussed.” Union leaders are obviously happy with the decision. “The staff at the N.C. Justice Center have long been allies of ours in the fight for economic fairness, so we are excited to welcome them as members of our state’s labor movement,” state AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer MaryBe McMillan said in a statement. “I hope this inspires other non-profit employees to organize.” In some nonprofits, there’s a stigma around unionizing because of limited resources. AFL-CIO communications director and Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild member Jeremy Sprinkle says these concerns shouldn’t be a deterrent. “Just because we work for just causes doesn’t mean we don’t deserve just wages or to have a good life outside of work,” Sprinkle says. “If anything, joining in union and having a negotiated contract makes it possible for me to be a more effective advocate for my cause.” Johnson says she’s optimistic that unions can make a push in North Carolina in the future. “We have such fantastic unions working here already: Black Workers for Justice, AFL-CIO, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, and UFCW are some that come to mind,” she says. “I really think it’s just a matter of showing people that hey, this works, and it’s not about anything but protecting the rights of all kinds of workers.”
+ALL THIS KILLING
In Durham, a memorial of balloons and flowers marks the area where pastor Jamie Daniels was killed. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER
The ambulance and police cars zoomed down Dunbar Street just after 8 a.m. on Saturday morning, July 16. They were responding to a cardiac arrest call, but when they arrived, they found a man dead of a gunshot wound near the intersection of Lincoln Street and Dunbar—across the street from Catherine Mangum’s house. Mangum, an elderly woman and long-standing resident of the 600 block of Dunbar, heard the commotion outside and saw the body, face-forward on the ground. But it wasn’t until after midnight that she got the call from a relative: the dead body belonged to Pastor Jamie Daniels, of Divine Grace Worship Center. Her pastor. “He sang at my husband’s funeral,” Mangum says. “He sang at my son-in-law’s funeral. He was as kind and good-hearted as a person can be. Who would do a thing like that to him?” The Durham Police Department is investigating Daniels’s death as a homicide but has otherwise released no further information. Some people in the neighborhood reported hearing gunshots in the neighborhood late Friday night. One theory is that Daniels was shot nearby, sought help at Mangum’s house, and collapsed on the way. But it’s also unclear why Daniels, who didn’t live in the neighborhood, wound up there in the first place. Mangum isn’t sure. “I don’t know how he got there, where he was shot, why he was shot, nothing,” she says. As the INDY reported last week, the area where Daniels’s body was found—just north of N.C. Central University campus—is increasingly blighted and crime-ridden. Mangum remembers a time that wasn’t so. “This has been a respectful neighborhood, with teachers and principals living on this street,” Mangum says. “We’re two blocks from [N.C.] Central. We’ve never had this type of thing before. Night before last [July 18], there was another shooting— a twenty-one-year-old man, shot over on Linwood Street. “All this killing in Durham,” she says, “it don’t make no sense.” triangulator@indyweek.com
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The NBA follows through on its threat to pull the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte over HB 2; McCrory blames the “sports and entertainment elite.” Maybe the Air Horn Orchestra should play him a cover of “Man in the Mirror.”
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Coach K speaks up on HB 2, denounces it as “embarrassing.” Finally, something even rabid Duke haters can get behind.
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Republican governors Sam Brownback (Kansas) and Scott Walker (Wisconsin) will campaign for McCrory. “This is about the future of North Carolina, not about what’s going on in our states,” the governors proclaim. “Ooh, look—shiny!” they add.
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Richard Burr announces 2016 will be his last run for elected office, changes campaign song to “We’ve Got Tonight.”
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After Ted Cruz refuses to endorse Donald Trump at the RNC convention, the N.C. GOP chairman who flew Cruz delegates to Cleveland tells them to find their own rides back to North Carolina. “Shotgun!” the chairman’s minions all cry at once.
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Health officials recommend the temporary shutdown of Wake County public pools after two dozen children contract a parasitic diarrheal disease from the water. New slogan “Summer fun—catch it now!” is immediately scuttled.
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A rabid fox found in a Durham home is the fourth confirmed rabies case this summer. A city official reached for comment could not be understood because he was foaming at the mouth.
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The Durham County Republican Party sets up new headquarters in east Durham—in violation of local zoning laws. Holy crap, are they gerrymandering themselves now?
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IF THE POLICE WON’T LET YOU SEE THEIR BODY-CAM FOOTAGE, WHIP OUT YOUR PHONE BY PAUL BLEST
Two weeks after Raleigh police officer D.C. Twiddy shot and killed Akiel Denkins in southeast Raleigh, the city council voted to purchase six hundred body cameras and put them on the street over the next three years. They’re still working through the details; local activist Akiba Byrd, of the Police Accountability Community Taskforce, says that he has met with police chief Cassandra Deck-Brown, deputy police chief Joseph Perry, and city manager Ruffin Hall, and says that PACT should have an official response from the city by the end of the month. “We’re in a holding pattern,” he says. Raleigh isn’t the only city in a holding pattern: Durham has been considering body cameras since last year but has been mired in a debate over who should be allowed to view the recordings. In March, the Durham City Council “indefinitely” delayed a vote on ordering body cameras. But, as they are wont to do, state legislators shoved their way into the debate at the end of this year’s legislative session: with big majorities, the House and Senate passed a law that gave local departments complete control over who even gets to see the footage; if people on the tape are denied access or law enforcement fails to respond within three days to their request, they have to obtain a court order to see it. Moreover, the law mandates that, no matter who wants to release the video— even if it’s law enforcement—the person or department has to first obtain a court order. Asked if the Raleigh Police Department would make body camera footage accessible to the public, spokesman Jim Sughrue said the RPD would follow the new law, “which prescribes criteria for case-by-case-reviews.” Opponents say that this is a significant step backward for police accountability in North Carolina—and it’s not just activists saying so. Some police chiefs have started to speak out against the law. “I think that police departments and law enforcement agencies need to find every way possible to demonstrate the work going on every day,” Fayetteville chief Harold Medlock told The Charlotte Observer. “There is no better way to do that than through body camera footage that the public can see.” In the absence of a coherent and transparent policy, however, pro-reform groups think they’ve found a short-term solution: for community members to take matters into their own hands, literally, by pulling out their cell phones and filming interactions with the police.
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Philando Castile in Minnesota, the role of cell phones and citizen-shot video footage in interactions between the police and public has cropped up again. Bystanders filmed Sterling’s shooting by Baton Rouge police officers, and—in a surreal event—Castile’s girlfriend livestreamed the aftermath of his shooting by a St. Anthony, Minnesota, police officer on Facebook. Complicating matters, though, is the perception that filming or posting a video could result in retaliation. Chris LeDay, the thirty-four-year old Air Force veteran who posted the video of Sterling’s death online, was arrested in Georgia for an unpaid traffic ticket, something he told Mother Jones was retaliation for helping the footage go viral. Likewise, Ramsey Orta, the Staten Island man who filmed Eric Garner’s death in 2014, has said he’s been harassed ever since. (In July, Orta began serving a four-year sentence on weapons and drug charges.) That, activists say, could be why Raleigh sees relatively few citizen complaints against officers. “We have a problem with people fearing targeting, intimidation, and coercion when it comes to documenting and reporting the police,” Byrd says. Sughrue told the INDY that an average of thirty-five citizen complaints a year were made in Raleigh between 2011 and 2014. In addition to that, the Internal Affairs Unit investigated ninety-seven complaints filed internally during that period. Overall, Sughrue says, 36 percent of those complaints were classified as “sustained,” meaning Internal Affairs found evidence of wrongdoing. “Both the department and its officers know that our interactions with the public may very well be recorded and don't have any objections to that,” Sughrue says. “… The only thing we ask is that those doing videotaping maintain a safe distance and to please comply if an officer asks them to move back.” But for all of the help that cell phone videos can provide, documentation isn’t the only prescription needed to fix the relationship between police and the working class and people of color. “We gotta bring down these walls on both sides,” Byrd says. “If an area is eighty percent African-American, Latino, or poor, that needs to be reflected in the police patrolling that area. We need to monitor stops, the training police are equipped with, and how they’re implementing their training, holding them accountable. And we need an independent review board with subpoena power. It’s not this piece or that piece, it’s all of it.” l pblest@indyweek.com
In May 2015, the ACLU of North Carolina rolled out “Mobile Justice,” a free smartphone app that assists people who are witnessing an interaction between the police and someone in the community. “It allows you to record interactions with the police, upload that footage so we can review it, and lets you share your location so people can know there’s a recording happening in the area where you are,” ACLU policy counsel Susanna Birdsong says. The ACLU says that, so far, the app has over twenty-five thousand downloads in North Carolina. (Chapters in seventeen states and Washington, D.C., have their own version.) “Even though [the body camera bill] is now law, they can’t take away the public’s right to film police interactions,” Birdsong says. “We definitely need to get that message out that people should never cede their right to film the police, regardless of the legislation or if their localities have body cameras,” says Byrd. In the wake of the deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and
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The Trump Show
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SUNDAY NIGHT Before he left for the Republican National Convention, Bob Orr started reading William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. He’d heard Donald Trump’s political ascent likened to that of Adolf Hitler. But as a retired judge who spent eighteen years on the N.C. Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, Orr believes that arguments should be backed by evidence. So he cracked open the 1,143-page volume to see if the comparison held up. Orr is a twenty-first-century rara avis: a moderate Southern Republican steeped in the GOP’s anti-Confederate history. His great-grandfather, a Henderson County farmer named Robert Franklin Orr, refused to defend slavery during the Civil War and traveled over the mountain to join the Union army. Orr wore an “I Like Ike” button in elementary school. When he launched his first judicial race in 1988—no Republican had been elected to a statewide appellate court seat since the 1890s—“it required me to reach out to a broader spectrum of voters,” he says. “Most people are interested in fairness and competence, and not so much in chest-beating.” Today such bridgebuilding talk sounds quaint. “We are a dying breed,” he says. We are talking in the lobby of the suburban Cleveland hotel hosting North Carolina’s convention delegation. Orr is one of nine state delegates pledged to Ohio governor John Kasich. (Trump has twenty-nine delegates; Ted Cruz, twentyseven; Marco Rubio, six; Ben Carson, one.) When Trump secured the nomination after a campaign marred by violence and racebaiting, Orr wanted to understand this historic moment in a longer
context. That’s when he picked up Shirer’s history of the Third Reich. The circumstances in 1930s Germany and twenty-first-century America don’t line up neatly. Nonetheless, Orr couldn’t help but notice “some of the very same dynamics: a lack of institutions being willing to say no, prejudices and fears, economic strains upon the masses. You had a huge rise in the nationalism: ‘Deutschland über alles’ versus ‘Let’s make America great again.’ There are enough frightening similarities that I hope give people pause.” Orr, sixty-nine, has never been a delegate before. But Trump, to him, represents such a grave threat that he feels compelled to speak up. “I’m not here to cause problems,” he says. “But somebody’s got to say—even if we’re in a tiny minority—that not all of us believe this.” l l l
Before she left for the RNC, Ann Stokes prayed: “Let me hear your voice, Sovereign Lord. And let me stand for what is right no matter what comes.” Stokes, who lives in Lexington, has
only been politically active since 2012. But her values, she says, were forged as a child. “I was raised on the Bible,” she says. “My grandfather was a minister, so I was taught the word of God.” Starting in her twenties, Stokes flirted with liberalism, but “then I came home to my roots. Socialism sounds wonderful on paper. But the reality of socialism is you run out of other people’s money. The Bible clearly teaches us that you’re going to answer for your own actions. The Bible tells us if you don’t work, you’re not going to eat.” Stokes, sixty, was once on food stamps herself; she was in college, and her husband lost his job. “But as soon as we were self-sustaining, we were immediately off,” she says. By contrast, she calls Obamacare socialist—an enduring government incursion into people’s lives. Stokes found her candidate in U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a preacher’s son who, launching his presidential bid, talked about “the transformative love of Jesus Christ” and described the Constitution as a check on overzealous government. In the Texan, she saw a “standard-bearer for religious liberty.” In December, she
retired early from her career as a marketing representative and went on the road to volunteer for his campaign. If Cruz is, to Stokes, a fighter for her values, Trump is merely a dealmaker. “If you don’t have core values, everything is negotiable,” she says. “And the bottom line then becomes: What’s in it for me?” Believing a national convention should be deliberative, Stokes became involved in Free the Delegates 2016, a coalition trying to write a “conscience clause” into the convention rules. That would allow delegates to change their votes if their pledged candidates behaved badly. “The delegates,” she says, “are a firewall against mob rule.” Adopting the rules will be one of the first orders of business tomorrow. Stokes knows a conscience clause is improbable. Still, she’s ready to make her stand.
MONDAY MORNING
I wake up with a plan for the week: to follow three North Carolina Republican delegates—a moderate, a religious conservative, and a libertarian—as they try to resist the Trump juggernaut. The last of this trio to arrive is Daniel Rufty, a twenty-nine-year-old law student and army veteran from Charlotte. We had met during the 2012 Republican convention, where we talked at length about libertarianism and democracy. Today, after the state delegation’s breakfast meeting, I tell Rufty that I’m driving downtown to watch some protests. To my surprise, he asks if he can tag along. Rufty was stationed at Fort Bragg in 2008 when he discovered an army buddy reading End the Fed, in which then-congressman Ron Paul argued that the Federal Reserve System Daniel Rufty of Charlotte says the voices of dissenting delegates were squelched. INDYweek.com | 7.27.16 | 11
The streets of downtown Cleveland is inflationary and unconstitutional and called for a return to the Gold Standard. “I proceeded to tell him how crazy he was, because he was telling me how corrupt our government was,” Rufty recalls. “I said, ‘Are you kidding? It couldn’t be that bad, man. The media would expose it.’” As he debated his friend and did his own research, though, Rufty came to embrace Paul’s libertarian critique. Shortly after that, a knee injury landed Rufty in the Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. There, he met soldiers whose emotional wounds highlighted, for him, “the consequences of the Bush administration’s failed foreign policy.” When he left the military, Rufty dove into politics. He won a spot as a Rick Santorum delegate during the 2012 convention. When the Pennsylvania ex-senator dropped out, Rufty transferred his vote to Ron Paul. But the convention taught him the brutality of major-party politics: not only did he see efforts to strip Paul’s delegates of power, but Rufty’s own vote was automatically cast for Mitt Romney against his will. “All this stuff I thought—you vote, and your vote is counted—it’s a façade,” he told me back then. Instead of with-
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drawing from politics, he plunged deeper. He became the Republican chair for the Twelfth Congressional District. He managed the 2015 insurgent campaign of Hasan Harnett, an African-American tea party activist, to chair the state party. Harnett won that election, but his tenure lasted less than a year before the Republican establishment seized control in April and replaced him with former congressman Robin Hayes. Now Rufty is a Cruz delegate. He disagrees with the Texas senator on a lot. “But he was close enough to my ideology that I could support him,” Rufty says. Trump, he believes, is far worse. “All these trade barriers and tariffs, that’s big government,” he says. Plus, there’s Trump’s authoritarian streak, which makes Rufty bristle: “He wants to be able to put the press in prison for saying something against him.” l l l
Rufty and I arrive at an anti-Trump protest. Attendance is pretty sparse. A wall of young demonstrators hold banners with slogans like “Trump Makes America Hate.” There are several causes represented: higher wages, Black Lives
“They seem like nice kids,” Rufty says as we walk away. “Socialism seems to attract a lot of college students because they’ve got mountains of debt.”
Matter, immigrant rights. Someone hands out medicine boxes promising “Multi-Symptom Relief for Chronic Islamophobia.” (They contain chewing gum.) A woman with a megaphone leads a chant: “We are the revolution!” Rufty leans toward me. “It’s like a cult, man,” he says. “Chant what I tell, when I tell you.” No Trump! No KKK! No fascist U.S.A.! “Occupy Wall Street was much more,” Rufty says. “This is pathetic. You better get with it, kids. If you’re going to scare people, you’ve got to get more numbers.” Donald Trump, you’re going down. We don’t need another clown! “You want to walk around?” I ask. “Let’s go rabble-rouse,” Rufty says.
Down the block, he spots a group of young adults in white Socialist Alternative T-shirts. “Is that a third party?” he asks them. “We’re calling for a party of the ninety-nine percent to the left of the Democrats,” a young man explains. (Socialist Alternative already holds a seat on the Seattle City Council.) They talk respectfully for a few minutes about police brutality and community oversight of law enforcement. Rufty mentions the Libertarian Party: “They’re not socialist. They’re capitalists. But we might actually have a third choice.” The young socialist affirms his belief in a multi-party system before he and his friends excuse themselves. “They seem like nice kids,” Rufty says as we walk away. “Socialism seems to attract a lot of college students because they’ve got mountains of debt.” Libertarians and socialists, he says, are “fighting the same fight: getting on the ballots and having that alternative to the two-party system. Who wouldn’t want more than two? Geez, Louise! Look at what we’re stuck with right now.” Soon Rufty peels away, leaving me to explore the downtown sideshow. The first convention session is getting under-
Competing voices outside the RNC way, and Rufty plans to help challenge the convention rules.
MONDAY AFTERNOON Unbeknownst to me, while I was downtown, the RNC’s opening session was devolving into chaos. “Never Trump” forces were pushing for a roll-call vote on the rules, nursing the long-shot hope that delegates might be freed to vote their consciences. Eleven states offered petitions demanding a roll-call vote, but Trump aides squelched the rebellion by pressuring delegates to withdraw their signatures. Shouting ensued. The Colorado contingent walked out. When delegates objected, their calls from the floor were ignored. I learn this a few hours later, when the North Carolina and Washington delegations gather for an afternoon party at an Italian restaurant. Dallas Woodhouse, the state party’s executive director, is encouraging everyone to drink heavily. But no amount of liquor can mask the tension. Dinner tables self-sort by preferred candidate. There’s lots of nervous whispering. Susan Hutchison, head of the Washington State GOP, climbs onto a low
stage and tries to make peace. The floor fight, she says, “was a victory for all of you who wanted a voice—you were heard. But the rules have been approved. Now that it’s over, it’s going to be a little quieter. At the end of the convention, we will be together.” “Good luck with that,” Rufty says to me. “You cheat, you lose. I learned that in first grade.” “Talk with your neighbors,” Hutchison says. “Talk about how you feel. And then slowly, as the days go on, we’re going to come together. This is how most conventions work. You’ll all be very happy.” I sit at a table that includes Ann Stokes. There’s a lot of grousing about what happened on the convention floor. Stokes, though, keeps quiet. “I’m not going to say much now,” she says. “Just say I’m not happy.”
MONDAY NIGHT I arrive at the convention for its first evening session. The North Carolina section is smattered with empty seats. Only about half of those in attendance are reacting with any enthusiasm to speakers like former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani— who waves his arms, warns Islamic
terrorists that “we’re coming to get you,” and asserts, incorrectly, that “Hillary Clinton is for open borders.” One of the delegates here tonight is Orr, the retired judge. His criticism of Trump has been rankling GOP officials. “Bob Orr left the Republican Party a long time ago,” Woodhouse, the state party director, tweeted the night before. “Fought the @ncgop on school choice, in the pockets of @ncae.” As an attorney, Orr has represented the North Carolina Association of Educators, a professional organization that the state GOP calls “labor union bosses.” (It is not a union.) Orr’s mother, a career teacher, was a charter member of NCAE. The organization’s endorsement was key to his first election victory. “No apologies,” he says. On the convention floor, Orr calls his fellow Republicans decent people. But he worries that evangelicals and tea party activists—along with the “cult of Trumpism”—have built an organization that no longer welcomes moderates. He worries that, as millennials rise into national political leadership, they will find the GOP irrelevant. “My question is: Is there a place in the Republican Party for people like me?”
TUESDAY MORNING At the delegation breakfast, the star speaker is U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, who had waited until June to endorse Trump. Ryan asks for a show of hands to gauge college loyalty: N.C. State, UNC, Duke. “Like in the Big 10, we root for our team. We want them to go all the way,” Ryan says. “But at the end of the day, when … one of the teams from our state goes to a championship, we root for them, right?” There’s a bit of confused silence, and I imagine the Chapel Hill fans contemplating rooting for Duke. “Come on, work with me here,” Ryan says. “Good grief! The point I’m trying to make is, we started this year with ruptures. Let’s just be honest about it.” But those, he says, can be mended. “Our country is going in the wrong direction. We are losing the core principles that makes this country so special. And we have got to unify to get it right, so that we can get this job done.” Afterward, Hayes, the newly installed party chair, admits to me that unity has been “a particular challenge in this election cycle because of legitimate questions about Donald Trump. I’ve been married for forty-eight years. He’s been INDYweek.com | 7.27.16 | 13
TUESDAY AFTERNOON I catch up with Stokes at another reception at a New American café. Twentyfour hours after the chaotic floor fight, she has collected herself enough to talk. “How did you feel as you saw this going down?” I ask. “Brokenhearted,” she says. “I thought better of the Republican Party.” All she wanted was a “transparent vote on the rules,” but the GOP and Trump campaign shut that down. “They wanted a voice vote because you can manipulate a voice vote.” Her friend Robb Ward, an alternate delegate from Raleigh, adds that he witnessed some of that manipulation. Ward watched Trump’s whips, who wore limegreen hats, encourage the non-voting alternates to shout “yea!” during the voice vote. They also led chants of “U-SA” to drown out the delegates seeking a roll call. “It was disgusting,” he says. 14 | 7.27.16 | INDYweek.com
in Indiana, Cruz said, “there were a group of volunteers who had traveled the country who had bled. And I am, to this day, upset with myself that I could not stay and hug each of your necks, that I couldn’t thank you one at a time.” “You didn’t hear ‘me-meme,’” Stokes says. “You heard ‘we’ and ‘us.’” Tonight Stokes is looking forward to Cruz’s convention speech. When that moment arrives, many North Carolinians rise from their seats. Cruz talks about ISIS and Benghazi. He invokes the recent massacres in Dallas, Orlando, Baton Rouge, and Nice. He claims that Iran celebrates a “Death to America” holiday (which PolitiFact has rated “mostly false,” though the slogan is used). He says the Bill of Rights extends to Muslims, atheists, and gays, while also saying that many policies should be decided by the states. He warns that under a Clinton administration, “education, health care, marriage, speech [would] all [be] dictated out of Washington.” He reaffirms his opposition to abortion and his belief in the “right to keep and bear arms.” In the middle of North Carolina’s seating area, a row of tall male delegates applauds. Standing next to them, the more diminutive Stokes cocks her head upward and quietly clasps her hands, as if in prayer. Little of this litany of principles will be remembered, though, because of what comes next: the senator’s conspicuous non-endorsement of Trump. “Don’t stay home in November,” he says. “Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience.” The arena erupts in boos from Trump supporters. Three minutes later, the boos morph into cheers as Trump enters the arena’s VIP section. The nominee waves to the cameras and gives them a thumbs-up, upstaging Cruz’s last lines. Stokes leaves after that, skipping the acceptance speech by vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence. She passes me in an aisle. “That,” she says of Cruz’s address, “was perfect.” Ann Stokes (right) stands during Ted Cruz's speech.
married three times. There have been questions about some of his business dealings. But you can’t change the past; you can shape the future.” Hayes didn’t favor Trump originally; he was drawn to Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, and Scott Walker. He takes heart, though, from evangelical leader James Dobson’s recent claim that Trump has accepted Christ. “He’s a baby Christian,” Hayes says, echoing Dobson. “We all have a responsibility to help him grow.” The chairman draws an analogy to Chuck Colson, the self-described “hatchet man” for President Richard Nixon, who pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice after Watergate and went on to found a Christian prison ministry. “I say to people who have questions [about Trump]: look at the change in a modern-day political operative. Yesterday is done. What are you going to do in the future?”
TUESDAY NIGHT Trump is nominated for the presidency of the United States. Stokes and Rufty are on the convention floor during the official vote. Orr is nowhere to be seen.
WEDNESDAY MORNING I wake to a report that Orr has flown back to Raleigh early, stung by the rebuke by party leaders. “If I’d known there was some oath of loyalty, some code of omerta, where I couldn’t say anything against Trump, I probably wouldn’t have come,” he told The Charlotte Observer. I don’t see Rufty at the delegation breakfast, either. I text him to ask if he’ll be at the convention later. He notifies me that he’s returned home. “Looks like the business sessions are finished,” he writes. “I’m not into the commercial crap.” That leaves Stokes as the sole remaining delegate of the three I’ve been following. She will be at the convention tonight, but plans to skip Thursday, when Trump formally accepts the nomination. “The coronation,” she calls it. “I’m not ready to celebrate.” Stokes feels worn down by the hostilities. Yesterday, she posted on Facebook (jokingly, she says), “If anyone is interested, I have all the official Donald Trump memorabilia from the convention. Pins,
hats, stuff. Going to highest bidders!” “WOW!” responded Guy R. Smith, a Trump supporter and founder of the Patriots Business Alliance. “We call that a road whore where I come from!” Smith repeated the “road whore” epithet further down the thread. “And the sad thing,” Stokes tells me about Smith, “is we worked together in the trenches.” Stokes plans to return to those trenches this fall, but probably only on behalf of down-ticket Republicans. Of Trump, she says, “I want him to have an epiphany. And I want him to be able to convince me that he’s the right person for the job. Right now, I can’t campaign for him because I’m not convinced that he would be better than Hillary.”
WEDNESDAY NIGHT On the convention floor tonight, the North Carolina section is again checkered with empty seats. Stokes is here, as promised, and happier than I’ve seen her all week. “Today was refreshing,” she tells me. She had attended a rally where Cruz supporters chanted, “Twenty-twenty!” and the Texan spoke about his gratitude. “The men and women gathered here today: you are patriots,” he said. When he suspended his campaign
“The silent Cruz supporters, standing or sitting with lips pressed tight, feel to me like the loudest voices in the room.”
THURSDAY MORNING At breakfast, Donald Trump’s son Eric plays up his connection to North Carolina, where his wife grew up. He tells the story of buying a “distressed” lakefront property north of Charlotte in 2012 and turning it into an elite golf resort bearing the family name. (The resort made headlines this month because of the candidate’s successful fight “to pay as little tax as possible” to financially needy Iredell County.) Just as his father has upgraded real estate, Eric Trump says, the nominee will also uplift the country—“fixing the deep dark mess that we have right now.” When I tweet this remark, another journalist responds, “Sometimes it feels like every Trump quote is 1st put through the RacialTron Insinuator 3000.” Truth is, I’m pretty sure there’s no intended insinuation in the phrase “deep dark mess.” Less ambiguous is a comment by Robin Hayes, who takes the microphone after Eric Trump leaves. Following some witty back-and-forth about crowdfunding new shoes for the chairman, whose old ones are held together with duct tape, someone playfully tells the delegates to pull some cash from their wallets. “Which bill,” Hayes asks, “has Robert E. Lee’s picture on it?” As usual, the breakfast speakers circle
back to party unity. State Representative William Brawley, a delegate from suburban Charlotte, comes to the podium and disputes reports by journalists that Republicans are divided. “Are they even at the same convention we’re attending?” he asks. Then, as we file out, I hear rumors that Hayes has told two Cruz delegates, whom he had flown to Cleveland on his private airplane, that they would need to find another way home after they failed to denounce last night’s Cruz speech. The Charlotte Observer’s Jim Morrill confirms the story, quoting Hayes as saying that Ted Hicks of Durham and Rod Chaney of Hillsborough “embarrassed our delegation and our party.” I ask Hayes about the article. He confirms that he rescinded his offer. “You do someone a favor,” he says. “They turn around and poke you in the eye. You don’t do them another one.” Meanwhile, Stokes, the last of the delegates I’ve been following, packs and leaves Cleveland before lunch.
THURSDAY NIGHT This is my twelfth national party convention. Some have been coronations. Others have exposed intra-family fissures. I was in New York in 1980 when
Democrat Edward Kennedy, who had lost a hard nomination fight to President Jimmy Carter, slunk off the stage before a unity photo could be taken. Four years ago in Tampa, I watched libertarians (including Rufty) and establishment Republicans exchange aggressive chants during a showdown over the rules. But the dissension on display in Cleveland is unprecedented in both intensity and openness. Not only are the disagreements fundamental, but the candidate himself seems to relish the conflict that party officials would like to make go away. On the convention floor this last night, the North Carolina delegates are subdued. There are occasional spirited moments: when PayPal co-founder and Trump supporter Peter Thiel suggests turning away from the culture wars— “Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?”—several delegates stand and boo. One of them, Jeff Lominac—a Cruz delegate from the Hickory area—disses Thiel by saying, “He’s an open homosexual.” Even Trump’s Vegas-style entrance, his name spelled out in giant letters over a forest of American flags, fails to inspire many North Carolina delegates. As the
candidate launches into a dystopic picture of America—“violence in our streets and the chaos in our communities”—there’s a stirring among the North Carolinians. Some call out, “Build the wall,” but without the fervor coming from other delegations. Even this measured enthusiasm is far from unanimous. The silent Cruz supporters, standing or sitting with lips pressed tight, feel to me like the loudest voices in the room. Trump wraps up seventy-five minutes later. Balloons descend to the 1970 Free song “All Right Now.” A blizzard of latex covers briefcases and half-buries a child near me, momentarily turning the convention floor into a playground that all can enjoy. The Trump and Pence families come together. The nominees step forward and shake hands. The music switches to the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” It takes a moment for delegates to recognize the tune. Some climb onto on their red metal chairs as the balloons rain down, singing and gesticulating triumphantly. Others try to ignore it and make for the exit. But many seem to understand what the song represents: a final rebuke to the losers, a sharpened middle finger, slicing the Republican Party straight down its tender middle. backtalk@indyweek.com
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Women on the Verge
CAN A NEW FESTIVAL FIX LOCAL THEATER’S LONGSTANDING GENDER PROBLEM IN A MONTH? BY BYRON WOODS At a North Raleigh restaurant, producer Ashley Popio is ticking off the milestones of an ambitious new theater festival launching this weekend. It all came together in a few months, after Popio reached out to female theater artists (and their male allies) in a Facebook post in March. “We’ve signed the contracts with every single venue,” she says. “We’re producing not one or two but eight productions, and that’s not counting our sister shows. We’ve just sent the program to the printer.” Her eyes close for a moment as she savors a bite of a sushi roll. When they open, she says, “It’s going to happen. We’re actually having a women’s theater festival.” North Carolina’s first festival devoted to female playwrights, actors, producers, designers, and technicians is calculated to challenge and change statistics from last season, when less than a quarter of regional productions were written by women, and less than a third had female directors. These dismal figures mirror a national genderparity problem that has sparked similar women’s theater festivals across the country. Women’s Theatre Festival begins Saturday morning with Occupy the Stage, an audacious around-the-clock marathon of staged readings, full productions, workshops, and an ad hoc slumber party at Umstead Park United Church of Christ in Raleigh. “It’s the best deal in town,” Popio says. She has a point: a mere sawbuck to see twenty-one works in twenty-four hours. They include mini-festivals of ten-minute plays at ten a.m. and ten p.m.; a new work by Adrienne Pender (whose historical drama, N, will open Theatre in the Park’s 2017 season); and a haunting Appalachian tale by noted actor Rebecca Bossen.
Then, every weekend through Sept. 3, the festival will open new mainstage productions in Raleigh, Carrboro, Sanford, and Burlington. Meanwhile, around the Triangle, there are eleven “sister shows,” local independent productions that meet the festival’s criteria—plays written and directed by women, with women making up at least half of the cast and filling many tech and design roles. “In general, men seem so willing to say, ‘I can do that’ with things they’ve never tried before,” observes senior project manager Bronwen Mischel. “But a lot of women don’t step into different roles because they feel they’re not prepared. The festival lets them take that risk, because they feel safe, encouraged, and supported, and if they need help we’ll find them the resources.” The result, Mischel says, is “the opportunity for yes, and helping each woman achieve that yes.” l l l
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WTF is a fully crowdsourced theater festival—the first of its kind as far as its leaders know. Regional theaters have often used crowdsourcing for production costs, but WTF also used it for soliciting scripts and project proposals, auditions, staffing, rehearsal spaces, costumes, and props. More than 250 volunteers proposed, evaluated, and staffed twenty-nine shows and the infrastructure to stage them for five weeks. Twenty-five of the playwrights are local. Five women are making their public debuts as playwrights, ten more as directors. So many new directors might give seasoned theatergoers pause, but it's part of
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an agenda to effect change in the local theatrical ecosystem—not just for a month, but OODS permanently. “If you’re trying to get a directing job in this town without any experience, forget it,” Popio says. “And there are virtually no opportunities stival willfor women to get that experience locally.” Carrboro, In response, the festival includes a sort of boot camp for first-timers, and people at variven “sisterous levels of experience will staff almost every t the festi-play. For example, veteran actors Rozlyn Sorrell men, withand Carly Prentis Jones and designer Miyuki ling manySu work with noted actor—but first-time director—Diana Cameron McQueen in the scientific that’ withdrama The How and the Why. or project Popio, who is enthusiastic about the eight don’t stepmainstage productions, calls Men Always prepared. y feel safe, we’ll find
to be much less staggering,” Popio says, “but this shows how vigilante fantasies can go wrong.” Music in the Mirror uses choreography as storytelling in a cabaret of famous Broadway songs. At times, the characters illustrate and affirm the lyrics; at others, they tell a very different story. The political satire Thunderbodies combines the blunt absurdism of Alfred Jarry with the social criticism of Bertolt Brecht, probing comedy’s potential to destroy as well as create. And in The How and the Why, two accomplished female scientists square off over different findings about the biological evolution of women—and the meanings they’ve given to love, career, and family.
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The gender disparity this lineup aims to correct is partly the consequence of gaps in artistic education, say Popio and Sarah Duncan, director of Music and the Mirror. “We were taught to dissect literary works and taught the Stanislavski method,” Popio recalls. “But no one taught us how to produce. I’ve had to learn that as I go.” From her degree in dance, Duncan learned how to rehearse, perform, and choreograph, but not how to structure and manage a production, secure a venue, or market to donors and audiences. “They were just sort of invisible things that happen behind the scenes in college,” Duncan says. “Then you graduate and you realize you have no idea how to do them.” Though once convinced she didn’t have the skills to stage her own work, she is now more confident that she can. Popio hopes that, by the festival’s end, she won’t be the only one. l Twitter: @ByronWoods
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“The syrup itself is kind of like magic sauce,” Daumen says, adding that he’s also mixed it into cocktails and regular milk with delightful results. He developed it after reading up on coffee liqueurs and realizing that the coffee flavor had to be the foundation of the drink, not a mere addition. Daumen’s magic syrup makes the soda a success, yielding a more full-bodied, cohesive flavor than that of most sparkling coffee drinks. He pours sparkling water over the back of a spoon to curtail the carbonation before mixing it with the syrup. Next comes a scoop of chewy ice, the crushed pellets that Daumen swears help make sodas of all stripes taste even better. The drink was a little flat on his first few tries, but then he figured out the crucial missing ingredient. He tops off each coffee soda with a thin curl of fresh lemon peel. It’s
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TREFORNI TRADIZIONALE PIZZA NAPOLETANA 1125 West NC Highway 54, Durham www.treforni.com
The Red and the White
A NEAPOLITAN TRADITION LIVES ON IN TREFORNI’S PIZZA. IT MIGHT BE THE BEST IN DURHAM. BY DANNY HOOLEY
“no gas assist,” Diggins assures me). Brace yourselves, downtowners: It’s all done in an open kitchen so that The best pizza in Durham is way out on customers ordering at the register can Highway 54. watch the fun. Dave Diggins is a pizza lifer. It’s a The crust comes out flavorful and true calling. The chef and co-owner of slightly crisp, with just a speckling of Treforni Tradizionale Pizza Napoletachar on the bottom and a nice fluffy na in South Durham fell in love with chew inside. If you’re in the habit of “the physical act of making pizza” thirty leaving “pizza bones” on your plate after years ago, when he took a pizzeria job as you’ve eaten your slices down to the a fifteen-year-old in Cherry Hill, New sauce-and-cheese border, you may find Jersey. your behavior changing. “It was great pizza,” he says, “but it My favorite meat pizza on the red wasn’t the pizza of my life.” menu is the spicy Sarita, with sopressata, Diggins’s search for the best pie led mozzarella, basil, and extra virgin olive him to Neapolitan pizza, which he oil. If you like it slightly hotter, Diggins learned how to make from a mentor, recommends asking for some Calabrian Roberto Caporuscio, who’d mastered chili peppers, available at the condiment his craft at Italy’s Pizzeria Starita. At station, to be baked onto the pie. age 115, it’s the oldest pizzeria in Naples. Treforni’s most popular white pizza Nearly a dozen fact-finding trips to is the Prosciutto Arugula—paper-thin that shrine made Diggins an expert. prosciutto di Parma on a bed of mozzaGo ahead—ask him about it. He’ll tell rella, topped with a pile of arugula after you the best pizza is made with basic it’s pulled out of the oven. But my favoringredients from Italy (and only Italy), The pizza of his life: Dave Diggins crafts Neapolitan pies at Treforni. PHOTO BEN MCKEOWN ite is the Pistachio Sausage, an inspired where he gets all his flour, crushed blend of pistachio pesto, tender fennel tomatoes, olive oil, and buffalo mozsausage, basil, and cheeses. It’s probably zarella. Don’t overload the pizza. Don’t tion. The marinara is the star—a perfect blend of tomatoes, the greasiest pizza in the house, in a good way. overload anything, including salads. It’s all about balance. garlic, basil, and little else. All of Treforni’s hot items, including calzones and sandStrive for a slightly different flavor in each bite. Treforni offers two versions of the Margherita. The “D.O.P,” wiches, are made with the same dough but stretched differDiggins has proudly applied those rules since he opened made with creamy imported buffalo mozzarella, costs three ently for a slightly different texture. Sandwich bread is baked Treforni with partner Will Lane in Hope Valley Commons dollars more than the standard thirteen-dollar version. Both to order. (Try the Meatball Parmigiana.) about two and a half months ago. It’s a bold statement to are excellent, so it’s really a matter of taste: stretchy versus Nice guy that he is, Diggins probably couldn’t sound mean declare Treforni’s pie the best in town. Fine pizzas are sold creamy. if he wanted to, even when he dismissively compares most downtown at Pompieri Pizza and Pizzeria Toro, not to menHere’s something I learned from Diggins: Neapolitan pizza American calzones to Hot Pockets. He’s just being honest. tion The Boot in Rockwood Shopping Center. In South Duris baked in ninety seconds or less. I admit I was suspicious the Many restaurants turn calzones into vessels for all kinds of ham, Pulcinella’s and Bocci both enjoy the faithful followings first time I ordered one at Treforni, because it arrived at my fillings, but, as Diggins learned in Naples, the classic Neapolitheir pizzas deserve. table fast. I suspected the crusts were kneaded and spread out tan calzone is salami, ricotta, and mozzarella. That describes But Treforni might just ruin you for anything else. It’s not a on the pan in advance, ready to dress and pop into the oven. So his best calzone, the Treforni. Topped with fresh basil and a place where you can “build your own pizza” or order up pasta I didn’t expect much. sprinkling of Reggiano, it looks huge on the plate but is surdishes or small plates when you’re not in the mood for a pie. My suspicions were totally unfounded: My first bite introprisingly light enough to eat in one sitting. Treforni is not an Italian restaurant. It’s a Neapolitan pizzeduced me to my favorite pizza crust ever. Treforni’s dough Four appetizer-size salads are available, with various ria, as Diggins insists. (made with “a tiny bit of yeast,” says Diggins) goes through choices of greens (spring mix, arugula, and spinach). The The menu is simple, with seven generously sized personal a double-fermenting process. It takes about a day and a half house vinaigrette—a balsamic reduction with olive oil and a pies on the rosse side and seven more on the bianche side, plus of proofing at sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. Refrigeration little seasoning—couldn’t be simpler. The salads are dressed a few calzones, insalatas, and panuozzos, or sandwiches. would just slow that process. lightly, not drowned. Balance! It’s the Naples way. l The Margherita—that classic red pizza with sauce, mozzaThe pizzas are cooked in three 900-degree ovens, the “tre rella, Pecorino Romano, basil, and extra virgin olive oil—is the dannyhooley.nc@gmail.com forni,” fired by high-burning oak and fragrant hickory (with one Diggins recommends to first-timers. It’s a great introducINDYweek.com | 7.27.16 | 19
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Metropolitan Malaise
DURHAM’S BRICE RANDALL BICKFORD EXPLAINS OUR ALIENATION ON HIS BEAUTIFUL NEW ALBUM, PARO BY CORBIE HILL
An American couple backpacking in Bolivia got off a bus and hiked nine miles into the city of Tarija. They arrived as the sun came up, but everything was shut down. The roads were barricaded by vehicles parked nose-to-tail. It was a paro, a government worker strike, and it was total. Brice Randall Bickford and his wife, Lara Khalil, had never seen anything like it before. The thirty-seven-year-old songwriter recalls the scene from the upstairs den of his home in a wooded Durham neighborhood as he spins quiet, gentle records and sips a beer while the daylight wanes. A copy of his latest LP leans face-out near the turntable. "You couldn't get in; you couldn't get out," he says. In the months before arriving in Tarija, Bickford had become fascinated by soft-science books that attempted to explain the ills that come with society’s ambitions, including Spencer Wells's Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization, which casts advanced society as a psyche-wrecking blight. Bickford, having lived in both New York City and Washington, D.C., has felt those metropolitan pains firsthand. His time in D.C. in particular led him to wonder what was so wrong with urban existence and, ultimately, civilization itself. Wells's theory that we’re out of sync because our technology evolves faster than our biology was so compelling to Bickford that he and Khalil decided to quit their jobs and skip town. In Tarija, Bickford felt like he was witnessing an expression of Wells's scenario: the machines had stopped and a modern city was in complete shutdown, the streets filled with people on foot. Human civilization appeared to be scuttling itself. Bickford and Khalil found themselves isolated there, in a city four thousand miles away from home, stranded by the strike. "Alienation is kind of the bread and butter of the songwriter,” Bickford says, “But I don't
think many people have approached alienation like, 'What if you can explain it?'" Beholding the almost apocalyptic scene of the Bolivian paro crystallized Bickford’s latest musical treatise, which he releases on Saturday. He's been making albums as The Strugglers since 2001, but the expansive Paro is the second record he's released under his own name. In "The First Seed," citing Pandora’s Seed, Bickford dates the genesis of alienation to the first cultivated plant, singing, "The first time thinking you don't belong/ you don't know the half of it." The song is a mixture of folk-rock and cosmic country, like Nick Cave meets Beck's Morning Phase. Paro was also informed by other whatif sociology books like Cacilda Jethá and Christopher Ryan's Sex at Dawn and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. The unifying theme of these works is simply that if the symptoms of civilization include the oppression of women and widespread feelings of disconnection, then it probably isn't our greatest achievement after all. "Whether it's true or not, I've always been really riveted by things like The Matrix—‘Oh, this is the theory that explains everything,’" Bickford says. "It's like, what if once we became agrarians it led to this need to impose structure on things? It compounds problem upon problem, and you end up coming up with solutions to problems that end up becoming worse than the problem to begin with."
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Bickford and Khalil, two self-described "bourgeois backpackers," set off across Peru, Bolivia, and Chile on a three-month trek that would eventually lead to Tarija. In early 2012, the couple returned to North Carolina, where they'd first met. Several months later, Bickford had the skeleton of Paro. It just took him several years to get the record the way he wanted it.
"They're very painstakingly written songs," he says. "Every word has been put on trial, every song has been labored over quite a bit." Durham producer Scott Solter lent Bickford a big hand with Paro’s labor. The themes of the record spoke to him immediately, though he notes he's a bit of an anarchist anyway. "The fundamental narrative of this album is the exploitative tendency that humans have toward each other," Solter says, speaking from a music farm in a New Mexico desert. He recalls driving around Bickford's hometown of Danville, Virginia, with a mutual friend and witnessing decaying, abandoned buildings, fallout from a long-gone developer's failed efforts. "If hatred for that is a desire to go back to nature, then I'm all for it," Solter says. Bickford credits Solter with more than just secondary studio work on Paro. The two went through several sets of session musicians before finally finding a backing band that understood the kind of negative space the album needed. From hearing the raw tracks, Solter knew Paro deserved smart arrangements and subtle experimentation. The slow tempos of the songs begged for something huge and cinematic, yet nothing so lazily composed as the plug-in drones he encounters in too much electroacoustic music. Solter instructed the session players to draw electric tones out of acoustic instruments, and as he realized the sonic landscape required more ethereal sounds, added bowed piano. Then he brought Bickford, his voice almost unadorned, to the fore. As a visual translation of his approach, Solter says to picture a film scene with an actor standing in front of an accelerated cityscape. The actor speaks at a normal speed as the lights and activity rush by, too fast to process. Now imagine Bickford as the actor, his considered, sincere lyrics like a direct conversation in the shifting chaos. "He has such a beautiful, melodious voice and it's his natural voice," Solter says. "There's no pretense. This is who Randy is." Paro isn’t a manifesto, Bickford is sure to say—he doesn't want us to throw away ten thousand years of history and become hunter-gatherers again. He was simply processing what, to him, believably explains why the modern, advanced world makes so many people feel heartsick, awful, and shut out. Paro has another meaning, too, with a literal translation of "I stop." Every time Bickford makes a record, he considers those words as well: Will this one be the last? Opening track "Fatal Vision" is about Bickford's anxieties about the death of his own artistic drive. "There's been a fair amount of space between each record, and each record was like, 'Maybe this will be my last statement,'" Bickford says. He has new songs, sure, but he wonders if he’ll be able to build the necessary infrastructure to do right by them. With every outing, he raises the bar for himself, meaning anything in the future will have to surpass Paro. Yet it also sounds like he's come to a place of openness and self-confidence, both with Paro and his life, which could inspire albums for years to come. Now a father of a five-month-old, Bickford is still coming to terms with parenthood. He doesn't know what he wants to say about it or how he'll write honestly and without cliché about Isaac, the infant with big, questing eyes who arrived exactly four years after Bickford and Khalil returned from South America. Bickford says he feels younger in some ways than he has in a long time, and finds himself more open to beauty and profundity anywhere he finds it. More music may be waiting down the line, or Paro could be his "I stop" statement. One thing's for sure: if there's another record, it won't—and shouldn't—come quickly. To fully process a concept like alienation or an experience like the paro in Tarija, Bickford needs time. "Like most travel, the real value is in retrospect," he says. Twitter: @afraidofthebear
Paro for the course: Brice Randall Bickford, at home in Durham. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER
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20 YEARS OF HORSE & BUGGY PRESS (AND FRIENDS) Through Aug. 7 CAM Raleigh, Raleigh www.camraleigh.org
A Book Laid on Its Binding
HORSE & BUGGY MARKS TWENTY YEARS OF ARTISANAL PRINTING IN A PAGE-TURNER OF AN ART SHOW BY BRIAN HOWE
In most exhibits, you’re not supposed to touch the art. But in this one, it’s practically mandatory. In most exhibits, you’re not supposed to get too comfortable. (After all, art is pain, or at least acute self-consciousness.) But in this one, there's inviting furniture to help you settle in. In fact, the coffee tables, chairs, cushions, lamps, end tables, and bookshelves, designed and built by the likes of Al Frega and Ben Galata, were made just for the show. In most exhibits, you look. But in this one, you read—and read and read. As I browsed through 20 Years of Horse & Buggy Press (and Friends) at CAM Raleigh, the Superchunk classic “Slack Motherfucker” came up on the playlist. It was apt in its local terroir, if not in its message—Horse & Buggy's Dave Wofford is anything but slack. For the past two decades, Wofford has been hand-setting movable type and cranking paper through a press to create beautifully textured, minutely varied printed artifacts, one by one. The letters, impressed on the page, have a physicality absent from the slick surface of a magazine, let alone a liquidcrystal display. Hand-stitched spines and rough-cut leaves offer further distinction. In a run of fifty chapbooks or broadsides, no two will be exactly alike. After learning hand printing at the Penland School of Crafts, Wofford started Horse & Buggy Press in Raleigh before moving to Durham, where he has run it out of the Bull City Arts Collaborative, which he cofounded, for the last decade. For about four hundred years after Gutenberg, letterpress printing was basically just printing. Then industrial offset printing came along and rendered it obsolete. But not to Wofford—and not to many others who seek the handmade in an age of automated production—though he is no reflexive purist. He uses letterpress in conjunction with the latest technologies, combining metal type with polymer and digital techniques. As much an artist as a tradesman, Wofford calls his clients collaborators, helping them create the vessel their work needs, whether they’re poets, artists, photographers, memoirists, musicians, or simply business owners in need of a special calling card. This “mid-career retrospective,” which was on view at Cassilhaus in Chapel Hill before moving to CAM Raleigh, focuses on Wofford’s fine press books, though it also includes other artifacts, including thirty framed artworks. The show is packed but not overwhelming—you'll want to delve in to find the fun things hidden in every nook. Look for a framed col22 | 7.27.16 | INDYweek.com
LEFT TO RIGHT The Horse & Buggy Press exhibit at CAM Raleigh; Courtney Fitzpatrick's Maji Moto; a Wofford-designed and printed flyer for Durham Critical Mass ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF DAVE WOFFORD
umn about Wofford’s dust-up with a towing company by the late Raleigh fixture Peter Eichenberger; I also chanced upon a random blue letter A on a shelf under Roger May’s photography book, Testify. Since the focus is printed matter, which can contain just about anything, the exhibit teems with diverse topics, stories, and slices of local micro-history. There are memoirs, journals, and sketchbooks. There are art books filled with line drawings and engravings. There is a section on music, dominated by Wofford’s collaborations with Kenny Roby. There are poetry books by N.C. poet laureates including Kathryn Stripling Byer, whose Southern Fictions has a cover made of pulp mixed with cut-up Confederate flags. There are photography books like Maji Moto: Dispatches from a Drought, where Courtney Fitzpatrick pairs lyrical essays with color pho-
tographs of Kenya. Wofford wrapped a hand printed cover around Indigo printed pages, a high-end digital method that makes photos glow. Each book is like a rabbit hole through which you might fall into a different discipline, a different context, a different little life. Wofford always makes nice-looking books, but the meaning of nice-looking varies widely. Some books have pulpy covers and end pages; others are as smooth as fine red vellum. Some look like slick gallery catalogues, and some look like waterlogged leather pulled from the floor of the sea. The last describes a 1994 book in which Wofford created the contents as well as the container, The Ability to Be Good & the Desire to Do Good, a personal collection of oddments. One page contains a Wendell Berry poem that says, “The ability to be good … is the ability to do something well. To do good
work for good reasons.” Though the exhibit is rich with layered context, some of the books have a way of slipping free from it and turning into strange avant-garde art experiences. In one stately tome with an unmarked cover, I stared at an inscrutable page that listed names beside the words “Organ Pipes,” over and over, in considerable wonder. Finally, I leafed back to the title page and discovered it was a dedication book for St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Chapel Hill.
Wofford has kept CAM bustling with events since hitching his buggy there in June, and there are several more before the exhibit closes with a party from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, August 7. At 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 28, Wofford discusses how the N.C. State College of Design and the Penland School of Crafts shaped Horse & Buggy Press, in what amounts to an informal class reunion. And at 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 31, Wofford hosts a discussion with photographers Rob McDonald and Catherine Carter. The former has two books in the exhibit; the latter is celebrating the release of her new Horse & Buggy book, Journey, which combines photomontage with short writings by Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung. But I also recommend visiting the exhibit during a slower time so you can treat it like the library it essentially is. Then, you should be able to settle into the comfy chair in the back corner, under a soft hanging lamp, and peruse Gail Goers's photography book, Muse, by the light of a lava lamp on the table, the hush settling over you. That's also a good spot from which to contemplate what Wofford has achieved in these twenty years, what it means, and why it moves us. In an exhibit that, among the art projects, also includes strikingly designed business cards, ads for the likes of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Durham Critical Mass, a couple of INDY covers, and much more, we see how a life in commerce and a life in art are not mutually exclusive—not for those who do good work, for good reasons. l bhowe@indyweek.com
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I WISH YOU A BOAT Through Aug. 28 Ward Theatre Company, Raleigh www.wardtheatrecompany.com
Diving Into the Wreck
I WISH YOU A BOAT SAVES ITS SYMPATHY FOR THOSE IN STEERAGE DURING A FATEFUL SHIPWRECK BY BYRON WOODS
Brian Eno’s ambient Music for Airports might seem like a musical non sequitur, placed against the eerie slow-motion pantomime of a shipwreck in Ward Theatre Company’s I Wish You a Boat. On the main deck, the champagne-fueled flirtations of a wealthy young couple are interrupted by loud, jarring thumps before the woman falls, with accidental grace, to the floor. Moments later, a porter ushers the unwilling pair into old-fashioned life jackets, toward safety. But in 1897, when the drama occurs, steamships were like today’s airliners: imperfect devices conveying travelers over potentially fatal territory. More than fifteen hundred shipwrecks were documented in the nineteenth century, and the odds of surviving an Atlantic passage must have been in the minds of all the passengers. Eno’s album is about being between places, which makes it even more apt for this immigration story and memento mori. In the second half, which turns to the people in steerage, director Wendy Ward mostly removes the contemplative music and pace that lent aesthetic distance to the fates of the upper class. Pursuing a future in America, immigrants from France, Poland, Albania, and Ukraine mingle in improvised common rooms. Some cultural constants briefly overcome their different languages: hospitality, music, and games. Karin Schmid and Amber Oliver’s crystalline performances express wives' contempt and concern for restive husbands in a universal tongue. Then disaster strikes. In its aftermath, we witness desperation, devotion, and sacrifice as the emigrants are largely left to fend for themselves. We feel the emotional impact when the actors pantomime rising waters in the close quarters of Ward’s studio space. Prefacing and punctuating these chronicles are courtroom scenes featuring actor Robbie Wiggins as a judge assessing blame 24 | 7.27.16 | INDYweek.com
The saltiest sea: I Wish You a Boat PHOTO COURTESY OF WARD THEATRE COMPANY
for the shipwreck. He admits a cross section of society in testimony, from a grieving, humble linen maid (an effective Schmid, again) to a haughty society matron (Katie Sheffield) who keeps her milquetoast husband (Ryan Fleming) on a close verbal leash. But the energy dips at several points. Oliver, as an oddly preoccupied socialite, has a questionable accent on the witness stand. Recitations of didactic Victorian inspirational verse add little to the work. Low lighting makes details in certain scenes indistinct. We glimpse the immigrants’ preparations for travel, which include a touching marriage proposal. But when actors have to bring out (and remove) props to establish momentary tableaux, some sequences seem too brief. Mixing poignancy and emotional distance, Ward crafts a faded, torn tapestry of a disaster. History, we realize, is always incomplete. I Wish You a Boat reminds us of what—and who—we’re missing. Twitter: @ByronWoods
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BAD MOMS Opening Friday, July 29
Mother Bored
BAD MOMS RECALIBRATES THE CHANGE-UP AND THE HANGOVER FOR WOMEN. YOU’RE WELCOME? BY NEIL MORRIS
With a laser sight on its target audience, Bad Moms provides a communal, cathartic night out for the Magic Mike crowd. It’s a chance to live vicariously through world-weary women who cast off their maternal shackles and let their fun flags fly. Realism doesn’t matter when viewers are looking for an escape from reality, so if that means getting a hot rod and hotter guy—hey, go with it. Funky mothers: Bad Moms PHOTO COURTESY OF STX PRODUCTIONS Amy Mitchell (Mila Kunis) is the sort of movie mom who sipates into a premenopausal Mean Girls looks like Mila Kunis, lives in a chic Chicago after Amy decides to run for PTA prez against suburb, works part-time for a coffee co-op, and Gwen and her catty coterie (Jada Pinkett is married to a successful mortgage broker. But Smith and Annie Mumolo)—a box-wine Amy can’t juggle all the expectations of being a and pizza candidate against one who invites wife, underpaid worker, and mother of two. She Martha Stewart to her campaign soiree. splits from her husband after discovering his There are echoes of directors Scott Moore online affair and then quits the school’s PTA, and Jon Lucas’s screenplay for The Changeled by oligarch Gwendolyn Jones (Christina Up, which tackled the dichotomy of famApplegate)—the sort of Stepford supermom ily responsibilities and liberating fun from a who names her children Blair and Gandhi. male standpoint. Moore and Lucas also borAmy’s stand attracts disaffected moms Kiki row the tri-headed protagonist from their (Kristen Bell) and Carla (Kathryn Hahn), who script for The Hangover. Kunis, like Bradley band together to reclaim their self-respect. Cooper, is the put-upon lead. Bell, like Ed Kiki’s sex life is limited to a weekly ritual after Helms, plays a timid homebody suppressing Blue Bloods, and her only hope for a vacation an inner wild child. And Hahn, like Zach Galfrom her four kids is an extended, insuranceifianakis, carries the film through many ebbs paid hospitalization. Carla is the group’s id, a with ribald asides and comedic personality. bawdy, boozy single mom who indiscriminately Accompanied by a throwaway soundtrack flirts with every man in sight, available or not. cribbed from the Billboard pop charts, Bad Soon, Amy has swapped homemade school Moms loses its moorings during its de rigueur lunches for Arby’s, work for brunch, and her final-act stab at sentimentality, including a Big minivan for hubby’s cherry-red muscle car. Speech and the disappearance of all conflicts. Carla helps upgrade Amy’s matronly bra, There are flailing digs at standardized tests and teaches her the proper handling technique excessive homework, and there’s Amy’s forced for an uncircumcised penis, and throws her campaign mea culpa that “We’re all bad moms.” back into a dating pool seemingly stocked But we’re all bad parents, in many ways, solely by the hunky widower living down the and that’s a mantra that has an expiration street (Jay Hernandez). date of the next school day. l It’s a solid thirty-minute premise that disTwitter: @ByNeilMorris
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Lachlan Watson in Henry VI PHOTO BY G. TODD BUKER
FRIDAY, JULY 29–SUNDAY, AUGUST 7
HENRY VI: THE WAR OF THE ROSES
Local companies have taken on earlier parts of the Henriad—Shakespeare’s plays chronicling Britain’s game of thrones in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries—in productions of Henry IV and Henry V. But this Bare Theatre co-production with Raleigh Little Theatre picks up as political order breaks down in England when a nine-month-old Henry VI is crowned king following the unexpected death of his father. In this postapocalyptic England, the houses of Lancaster, York, and Tudor openly battle for power. Director Lucinda Gainey stitches Shakespeare’s three-play chronicle of the War of the Roses into a ninety-minute drama, augmented by pyrotechnics from Cirque de Vol. Lachlan Watson stars as the child monarch who must grow up in a hurry. —Byron Woods STEPHENSON AMPHITHEATRE, RALEIGH Various times, $17, www.baretheatre.org
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SUNDAY, JULY 31
SATURDAY, JULY 30
BARS AND BLACK FLAGS
PICKLEFEST
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD RELEASE PARTIES
Placing the word “bars” anywhere near “black flag” summons images of Raymond Pettibon’s classic four-bar logo for eighties hardcore titans Black Flag. Despite its legendary live performances, the band was also frequently accused of bullying and macho excess. But make no mistake: This Pinhook throwdown is about hip-hop community, not angry-white-guy posturing. Durham rapper JooseLord Magnus, who headlines, does happen to channel Black Flag’s uncompromising gut-level energy and anti-authoritarian grit with his Busta Rhymes-style flow, but he leavens it with a compassionate mind-set. He selfidentifies as “against bullies” and packs more empathy into sixteen bars than Henry Rollins did in his whole career. Sharing the stage is cerebral Triangle rapper Brassious Monk, who spits introspective lyrics about social media and the world around him with a clever, idiosyncratic delivery. There’s also the lush, jazzy raps of theDeeepEnd, as well as the rap collective Smack Bros. Proceeds go toward the charity I Gotcha Back, which provides backpacks and school supplies for kids. —David Ford Smith THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 9 p.m., $8, www.thepinhook.com
Love fermented things? Love vinegar? Love cucumbers? Love pickles? PickleFest is back for its second consecutive year, and this time it’s benefitting Durham Central Park. The Rickhouse invites you to sample and buy all things briny from local vendors such as Green River Picklers, Get’n Pickled, and many more. PickleFest also features a pickle-making demo (with a VIP ticket); local brews and beverages (Alley Twenty Six and Oval Park Grille will be there); and a buildyour-own Bloody Mary bar sponsored by Tito’s Vodka. Last year, people lined up around the block for a taste of pickles, which is why the afternoon is split into two sessions this year. —Erin Urquhart THE RICKHOUSE, DURHAM Noon–4 p.m., $5–$15, www.ticketbase.com/events/picklefest
Dust off your Gryffindor gear and celebrate the long-awaited release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. In this eighth installment, Harry is nineteen years older than in the original books and working at the Ministry of Magic—a father of three struggling with his legacy. The book is the script of the stage play by Jack Thorne, based on a J.K. Rowling story, which premieres in London simultaneously. Most of the Triangle’s indie bookstores are throwing late-night release parties for old times’ sake. In Durham, The Regulator Bookshop will host a costume party and raffle (11:30 p.m.–midnight, www.regulatorbookshop.com). In Chapel Hill, Flyleaf Books will have a costume contest, crafts, and a birthday cake for Harry with butterbeer to wash it down (10 p.m.–midnight, www.flyleafbooks.com). And in Raleigh, Quail Ridge Books will have Potter-inspired musicians as well as live snakes and owls (10 p.m.– midnight, www.quailridgebooks.com). Be sure to preorder the book from the store of your choice in order to recapture the magic at midnight. —Iza Wojciechowska VARIOUS VENUES, TRIANGLE-WIDE Various times & prices
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ight Kitchen Bakehouse & Cafe opened in November of 2014 rather quietly. “We didn’t have much time or extra cash to have a big to-do,” says owner Helen Pfann, “My Dad brought some wine for a soft opening party, and then we were off.” These days, there’s a lot more buzz about Night Kitchen. European classics such as croissant, scones, and french macarons have received high marks; as well as more American items such as brownies or the bread pudding, a muffin-shaped treat with caramelized sugar on top. The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus. “I got started as a bread baker,” explains Pfann, “...and though I enjoy pastry work, making bread is what I love most.” Night Kitchen sells Sourdough, 9-Grain, and French bread everyday, and features daily specials. The bakery supplies bread to several local restaurants, including Farina, J Betski’s, and Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar. “I designed the kitchen so we could do wholesale and have room to grow. We’ve just started working with the Produce Box, so folks statewide can try our breads.” The final piece of the pie is the cafe at Night Kitchen. Exchange and fine teas from Tin Roof Teas, it’s a great space to meet a friend or have a small gathering at one of the larger farm tables. A selection of sandwiches, daily soup and quiche specials round out the menu. The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus. “I got started as a bread baker,” explains Pfann, “...and though I enjoy pastry work, making bread is what I love most.” Night Kitchen sells Sourdough, 9-Grain, and French bread everyday, and features daily specials. The bakery supplies bread to several local restaurants, including Farina, J Betski’s, and Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar. .These days, there’s a lot more buzz about Night Kitchen. European classics such as croissant, scones, and french macarons have received high marks; as well as more American items such as brownies or the bread pudding, a muffin-shaped treat with caramelized sugar on top. ●
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ight Kitchen Bakehouse & Cafe opened in November of 2014 rather quietly. “We didn’t have much time or extra cash to have a big to-do,” says owner Helen Pfann, “My Dad brought some wine for a soft opening party, and then we were off.” These days, there’s a lot more buzz about Night Kitchen. European classics such as croissant, scones, and french macarons have received high marks; as well as more American items such as brownies or the bread pudding, a muffin-shaped treat with caramelized sugar on top. The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus. “I got started as a bread baker,” explains Pfann, “...and though I enjoy pastry work, making bread is what I love most.” Night Kitchen sells Sourdough, 9-Grain, and French bread everyday, and features daily specials. The bakery supplies bread to several local restaurants, including Farina, J Betski’s, and Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar. “I designed the kitchen so we could do wholesale and have room to grow. We’ve just started working with the Produce Box, so folks statewide can try our breads.” The final piece of the pie is the cafe at Night Kitchen. Exchange and fine teas from Tin Roof Teas, it’s a great space to meet a friend or have a small gathering at one of the larger farm tables. A selection of sandwiches, daily soup and quiche specials round out the menu. The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus. “I got started as a bread baker,” explains Pfann, “...and though I enjoy pastry work, making bread is what I love most.” Night Kitchen sells Sourdough, 9-Grain, and French bread everyday, and features daily specials. The bakery supplies bread to several local restaurants, including Farina, J Betski’s, and Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar. .These days, there’s a lot more buzz about Night Kitchen. European classics such as croissant, scones, and french macarons have received high marks; as well as more American items such as brownies or the bread pudding, a muffin-shaped treat with caramelized sugar on top. ●
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HOT ONE Recently, the ever-changing waves of internet taste have washed Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas into a resurgence, if only for his omnipresent and Grammy-winning cheese anthem, “Smooth.” The jokes have been funny, but why? One reason is that even though both Thomas and the Counting Crows have entered the summer roadshow stage of their careers, it’s hard to overstate how heavy their catalogs loom over American culture. In many ways, the bands are the most successful ambient artists of our time, as songs like “Mr. Jones” and “Lonely No More” have become low-volume rotation staples in almost every major retail space imaginable. Score some lawn seats and realize you know half these songs, if unconsciously. K. Phillips opens. —DS [COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK, $26–$81/6:45 P.M.]
The Stray Birds
ROOTS Nashville roots-rockROCK ers The Cordovas feature capable harmonies and an appealingly low stakes seventies slouch, but the band sounds better channeling its inner Delbert McClinton than its inner Eagles. But The Cordovas can do the math too, and they’ll probably sound pretty good either way. Joe Firstman and Kamara Thomas open. —TB [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY BLUE NOTE GRILL: Clark Stern & Chuck Cotton; 8 p.m. • THE CAVE: Noctomb, Deathstill, Grave Gnosis, Mehenet; 9 p.m., $5. • DUKE GARDENS: Black Twig Pickers; 7 p.m., $5–$10, 12 and under free. • HUMBLE PIE: Sidecar Social Club; 8:30 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: Undermanned String Band; 6:30 p.m. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: FKB$, Band and the Beat, Tin Foil Hat; 10 p.m., $7. • NIGHTLIGHT: July 919Noise Showcase; 8:30 p.m., $5–$7. • THE PINHOOK: American Empire, Suppressive Fire, City of Medicine; 9 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Sarah Potenza, Emily Musolino Band; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • THE STATION: DJ Fader; 7 p.m.
THU, JUL 28 Black Dog Syndrome RUFF-A- Black dog syndrome BILLY is the tendency of people to ignore black dogs for adoption, favoring lighter-colored canines. Black Dog Syndrome guitarist and vocalist Kirk Ridge makes a good argument for being left in the pen with his shockabilly original “She Drives with Her Knees,” sounding like Willie Nelson loaded on Ritalin and cough syrup. Individually Twisted and Carrie Marshall open. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, FREE/7 P.M.]
Demon Eye PROTO Raleigh’s Demon REVIVAL Eye brings a faithful proto-metal revival to its headlining slot. Basing its songs in the broad, bluesy riffs of acts like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, Demon Eye moves freely from melodic boogie to heavy psych rock. West Virginia’s Horseburner goes harder and heavier, chugging through dense sludge, while Chapel Hill’s Ruscha charges its crackling doom with punk ferocity. —BCR [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $7/9 P.M.]
Mingo Fishtrap FISH Long-running Austin FUNK soul and funk outfit Mingo Fishtrap features an agreeably accomplished horn-driven sound evocative of everything from Curtis Mayfield to early Chicago. Infectious tunes and plentiful chops figure to make for a crowd-pleasing evening.
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BLUEThis PennsylvaniaGRASS based acoustic trio is renowned for its soaring harmonies and masterful picking. The Stray Birds broke through with a self-titled debut in 2012, and 2014’s Best Medicine hit No. 2 on Billboard’s bluegrass charts. For the forthcoming Magic Fire, the group recruited multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell, known for his work with Bob Dylan, for a deeper foray into string band precision. With Sarah Shook & the Disarmers. —DM [AMERICAN TOBACCO CAMPUS, FREE/6 P.M.]
Susto HANGIN’ Susto’s standalone OUT single “Chillin’ on a Beach with My Best Friend Jesus Christ” is kind of like King Missile’s irreverent “Jesus Was a Way Cool Guy” via Band of Horses. The song’s beachy jangle and pumping organ swells offer a loosely hymnal, middle-schoolchurch-camp vibe while Justin Osborne sings about “Going out for beers/but not too many beers” with the Christian messiah. It’s a stark contrast from the group’s typical confessional Southern Gothic folk, but a welcome one. —PW [KINGS, $10–$12/9 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY 2ND WIND: 2 fer; 7:30 p.m. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Russell Favret Trio; 7 p.m. • DEEP SOUTH: Summer Wars, Magnolia, Conglomero; 8 p.m., $5. • IRREGARDLESS: The Going Back Band; 6 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: Youma, Heartracer, Tinkerer; 9:30 p.m., free. • RALEIGH CITY PLAZA: Old Habits, The Carmonas; 5 p.m., free. • SLIM’S: Sonic Graffiti, Hundredftfaces, Thick Modine, Konvoi; 9 p.m., $5.
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Friday night’s bill in the Cat’s Cradle Back Room is stacked, as far as local rock outfits go. There’s Sarah Shook’s rollicking outlaw country, followed by Natural Causes’ tight synth-punk tunes, Wailin Storms’ dark heavy-hitters, and the driving charm of the new No One Mind. At the top of it all sits Gross Ghost, the fuzzed-out rock project that Mike Dillon’s been leading in earnest since 2010. The occasion for such a wonderful lineup isn’t entirely happy, as it’s a going-away party of sorts for Dillon, who’s relocating to New York City the day after this gig. Dillon landed in the Triangle fifteen years ago, moving inland from his Outer Banks home after graduating high school. The allure was almost entirely musical. “I had friends that moved out to the Outer Banks and they were from Raleigh, and they would always tell me about Kings,” Dillon says. “When you’re about eighteen or nineteen and all you’ve got is the Outer Banks music scene, it sounds really appealing.” In the years since his arrival, Dillon has worked in a handful of clubs and bars and played in multiple bands. The relationships he’s built along the way are what inform the Back Room party. He’s worked at venues with Sarah Shook and Wailin Storms’ Todd Warner. From Natural Causes, Dillon has worked with guitarist Ben Carr and lived with synth player Ian Rose, and just about every member of No One Mind has shared a stage with Gross Ghost in some other musical context. “It seems like there’s waves where every one of your friends is making killer music and really good stuff, and
right now it’s one of those waves that’s happening,” Dillon says. “You know when your friend’s band sucks? I don’t have that feeling right now.” But make no mistake: Dillon’s departure it doesn’t spell the end of Gross Ghost. There’s still a forthcoming seven-inch that the band will wrap up this fall, and Dillon anticipates Gross Ghost continuing as more of a recording project than a live band. Dillon says he’ll miss the massive creative community he’s watched and helped grow over the past decade and a half, but that he’s proud of everything he’s seen the Triangle accomplish. This assemblage of pals should make for a shining example of those feats, and a mighty warm send-off to boot. —Allison Hussey CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, CARRBORO 7 p.m., $10, www.catscradle.com
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p.m. • 919 RAP Arguably the most Favret Trio; to-the-point event H: Summer name in recent months, this late ero; 8 p.m., summer bacchanal features S: The performances from several • POUR underground Chapel Hill rappers, al Beer: including Kev-O, Patton Evans, Lil er; 9:30 D, and Spice on the Track. The CITY phrase “all star” might be a bit Carmonas; much, as the lineup varies in onic Graffiti, quality, but for ten bucks, you dine, Konvoi; can’t beat the price for a night of unruly fun. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $8–$10/10 P.M.]
Samantha Fish BLUES A gifted young GRIT singer and guitarist with a fast growing cult, Missouri-born Samantha Fish specializes in the kind of populist blues rock exemplified by Stevie Ray Vaughan with a bit of ZZ Top-style Southern boogie thrown in for good measure. Abetted by a gritty rasp and a devil-may-care willingness to chase her deep grooves into long jams, Fish’s winning formalism provides an express ride to the pleasure centers of any classic rock soul survivor. —EB [DURHAM CENTRAL PARK, FREE/5:30 P.M.]
The Eric Hirsh Quartet PIANO Pianist and JAZZ composer Erich Hirsh can play pretty much anything you throw at him. When he’s not leading his jazz quartet (Aaron Hill on saxophone, Peter Kimosh on bass, and Stephen Coffman on drums), he’s helping drive the progressive hip-hop of The Beast or the salsa shake of Orquesta GarDel. His original compositions have a propulsive thrust that combines a minimalist drive with the complex, expressive melodies. He’s one of the area’s best. —DR [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $8/8 & 10 P.M.]
Losering 3 ADAMS, Get set to indulge in ADMIRED an evening of homespun Americana nostalgia. Inspired by the book Ryan Adams: Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown by Raleigh music journalist and novelist David Menconi, the third installment of the Losering concert series will feature The Antique Hearts. True to the through-album theme of the Losering shows, the band will perform Whiskeytown’s Stranger’s Almanac from start to finish. Dragmatic singer Ryan “Showtime” Kennemur, Shane Smith, and others join in, and proceeds from the event will go to benefit the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. —JA [DEEP SOUTH, $6–$9/9 P.M.]
Nadus JERSEY The genre known as CLUB Jersey Club has blossomed in recent years, as internet tastemakers have pushed the hyperlocal, brilliantly eclectic style into national acclaim. As the wave has risen, Raleigh-via-Jersey beatsmith Nadus has been one of its most interesting practioners. His raw, forward-thinking style draws from recent footwork and EDM, and he synthesizes those disparate elements into elegant, hopelessly addictive bangers. Recently, he’s also worked with up-and-coming creatives such as Beyoncé director Lil Internet and members of Chicago’s Teklife collective. He’s pulling double duty this week, with back to back shows in Raleigh and Durham, so use this opportunity to see what the fuss is about. With thread Artists, TVH, Kiff, Oak City Slums, and Mighty Mouze. —DS [KINGS, $8/9 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY BERKELEY CAFÉ: 33 1/2; 8 p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: King Ayoola; 9 p.m., $8. Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m. • BYNUM GENERAL STORE: Gray Matter; 7 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Gross Ghost, Natural Causes, Wailin Storms, No One Mind, Sarah Shook; 7 p.m., $10. See box, this page. • THE CAVE: Stereoloud, Tange Lomax; 9 p.m., $5. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: John King; 8 p.m., $10. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Pete Pawsey, Chit Nasty; 7 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Diali Cissokho; 6:30 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: The Porchmen; 7 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Dumpstaphunk; 9 p.m., $16.50. • LOCAL 506: Knightmare, Walpyrgus, Vassal; 9 p.m., $7. • THE MAYWOOD: Meatbox, Veronica V, Raygun Romeo; 8:30 p.m., $8. • MOTORCO: Young Bull, Alex Aff, Durty Dub; 9 p.m., $8–$10. See box, page 30. • MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Alexandra Valladares, The Berlin Brothers, Wes Lambe Duo; 8:30 p.m., free. • PAGE-WALKER ARTS & HISTORY CENTER: Jamrock; 7 p.m., free • POUR HOUSE: The Riflery, Vance Fite, Antonio & the Cats; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: Maxwell, Fantasia, Ro James; 8 p.m., $35–$135. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Ernest Turner Trio; 8 p.m., $10–$15. •
SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Eyes Eat Suns, War in the Pocket, Messenger Down, The Ivory, Palamoda; 7 p.m. • THE STATION: Joe Romeo & The Juliets, Honey Magpie; 7:30 p.m., $5. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Trandle, The Odds, Discotoño; 8:30 p.m., $5. See box, page 30.
SAT, JUL 30 Alex Aff NOT There’s not enough ENOUGH Bull City blood in circulation to dilute the reality that Durham emcee Alex Aff is the little rap engine that can’t. He exhibits as much on his self-produced and well-intentioned latest single “Stairway to Heaven,” where he claims to be a “free thinker.” It’s a mighty title to uphold, especially when one of his openers, Defacto Thezpian, is miles ahead of him in terms of interesting rap ideas. Also with Danny Blaze, Kid Infamous and theDeeepEnd —ET [LOCAL 506, $7/9 P.M.]
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drumming, is smart and silly in equal measure. With The Bronzed Chorus and Zephyranthes. —PW [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $8–$10/9 P.M.]
Todrick Hall GLITZ & Since making it to GLAMOR semi-final rounds on American Idol six years ago, thirty-one-year-old Todrick Hall has built a career on developing highly entertaining, gender-bending video escapades that remix pop culture pieces into strangely fantastic new beasts. His “Cinderonce” short, for example, matches a string of Beyoncé
songs with striking visuals for a retelling of the classic Cinderella tale. He arrives in Raleigh touting his latest project, Straight Outta Oz, an original feature-length re-imagination of The Wizard of Oz. Hall’s efforts are always over the top, but he’s excellent in his extravagance. —AH [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, $27/7:30 P.M.]
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Slightly Stoopid SOOPER Slightly? Slightly?! STOOPID This SoCal outfit dilutes ska, rap, dub, folk, and pop into middling, schwag-grade roots-reggae. The band’s pursuit of carefree, jam-centric good times makes for a shitty hangover. Hey, someone had to fill the void Sublime created. With Soja, Zion I, The Grouch, and Eligh. —PW [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $19.50–$155/6:30 P.M.]
Tommy Stinson has already reserved his spot in rock ‘n’ roll iconography. With a freewheeling cast of friends and collaborators (tonight, that’s Frankie Lee and Chip Roberts), Stinson leads Cowboys in the Campfire, promising “new songs, old songs, maybe even some make-’em-upon-the-spot songs” played casually with a minimal setup. Skylar Gudasz opens. —BCR [THE CAVE, $15/8 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY THE ARTSCENTER: Brice Randall Bickford, Jphono1, Evil English; 8 p.m., $12–$15. See page 20. • BERKELEY CAFÉ: Six String Drag; 8 p.m. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Reginal Cyntje; 8 & 10 p.m., $12.50. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Mel Melton & the Wicked Mojos; 8 p.m., $10. • DEEP SOUTH: Sound System Seven; 10:30 p.m. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Abigail Dowd; 5 p.m. Charles Pettee; 7 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Matt Kanon; 11 a.m. Paul Bomar Duo; 6 p.m. Carolyn Mitchell; 9 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Michael Daughtry Band; 7 p.m. • KINGS: Girls Rock NC Showcase; 2 p.m., $5. Other Colors, S.E. Ward; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Carl Thomas, Tish Songbird, Project 919 Band, DJ Terminator X; 9 p.m., $20–$35. • MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Mysti Mayhem, Elana Scheiner; 8:30 p.m. • NC MUSEUM OF ART: Eileen Ivers; 7 p.m., $22–$40. See page 27. • NGOZI DESIGN COLLECTIVE: Natalie Wallace; 5 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: James Olin Oden, East Coast Bigfoot; 7:30 p.m., $7–$10. Treehouse!, Roots of a Rebellion; 11:30 p.m., $5–$7. • SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL: Dynamite Brothers; 6 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: N.C. Jazz Continuum Project: Dr. Billy Taylor; 8 p.m., $10–$20. • THE STATION: Summer Sessions: Jazz Saturdays; 2 p.m., free. Fifi Hi-Fi, Mike D; 10 p.m., $5. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Chad Eby Quartet; 8 p.m., $12.
SUN, JUL 31 Barrett Brooks ROOTSY Barrett Brooks’s SOUL throwback sound is a mix of soul and country, recalling Bob Dylan by way of the Mississippi River or a hipper Hank Williams. The pain and suffering
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rode voters’ preferences for white guys with guitars and an increasingly bland pop-radio milieu to the bank and back with his Mumford-meets-Mayer coronation single “Home.” On 2014’s Behind The Light, he added fuzz and kaleidoscopic scope to the mix, but retained his pop spunk even while mired in legal battles with now-bankrupt Idol producers 19 Entertainment. (Showbiz, right?) With Matt Nathanson, whose folk-pop somehow got the Idol treatment only once. Also, A Great Big World. —MJ [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $25–$55/6:30 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Marcus Anderson and Elan Trotman; 3:30 & 6 p.m., $25 • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Rissi Palmer; 5 p.m. • THE CAVE: Ihog; 7 p.m. An Invitation; 10 p.m., $3. • CHAVIS PARK: Raleigh Concert Band; 6 p.m., free. • DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Dmitri Resnik; 1 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Larry Hutcherson; 10 a.m. Jade Maurelle; 6 p.m. • LOCAL 506: 3@3: The Arcadian Project, Bellflower, Fredi Sholtz; 3 p.m. • MOTORCO: School of Rock Mid-Season Rockfest; 2 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: Ontologics; 9 p.m., $5.
MON, AUG 1 Jeanette Lynn and the Catholic Guilt FOLK POP Philadelphia singer-songwriter Jeanette Lynne weaves tales of love and hardship cloaked in airy pop sensibilities. Fresh off the release of her second album, Rabbit’s Foot, Lynne arrives in Raleigh backed by the two-piece Catholic Guilt. With Mercury Dimes and Honey Magpie. —DM [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.] ALSO ON MONDAY THE PINHOOK: S.E. Ward, Terror Pigeon, Nathan K; 8 p.m., $7. • POUR HOUSE: Abiotic, Butcher of Rostov, Birth the Wretched; 8 p.m., $10–$12. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5. 32 | 7.27.16 | INDYweek.com
TUE, AUG 2 Michelle Ceremuga Benefit LEND A This collection of HAND local rock and roots-soul ensembles aims to raise money for Michelle Ceremuga, who recently suffered from third degree burns in a work injury and spent several expensive days in the burn ward at UNC. Soulful roots quartet Skinny Bag of Sugar and rockabilly revivalists Kitty Box and the Johnnys headline, backed by performances by a bevy of local musicians, including Dave Spencer, Nathan Logan, Stu Cole, Jim Smith, and the Trio Band. —DS [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10/8 P.M.]
What Cheer? Brigade BRASS With nearly twenty SASS members in tow, Rhode Island’s What Cheer? Brigade is more comparable to a hurricane than any other musical act. The massive ensemble of brass and percussion players is a staggering force as it flings together jazz, punk, Balkan music and more, wrapping it all in utterly intoxicating energy and enthusiasm. It’s cacophony, chaos, and brassy brilliance in one rowdy package. The Pinhook’s stage is certainly too small to accommodate the full brigade, so expect to be rattled in the round. Horizontal Hold and Batala Durham open. —AH [THE PINHOOK, $8/8 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY THE CAVE: Brother Moses, Tomato Dodgers, Time Machine Drive-By; 10 p.m., $5. • IRREGARDLESS: Cole Koffi; 6:30 p.m. • LOCAL 506: The Kickback, Heyrocco; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • SLIM’S: Noctomb, Deathstil, Chateau; 9 p.m., $5.
WED, AUG 3 Benjamin Bennett STRANGE You never know STUFF quite what you’re going to get at a Benjamin Bennett
performance. He might stand motionless, breathing into a microphone or reciting some kind of stream-of-consciousness rant about who knows what. He might roll around on the floor with an odd assortment of objects, squeezing out impossible sounds. He might make some small noise for hours and hours. Or, he might just sit in a corner and smile. It’s a mystery. —DR [THE SHED, $7, 8 P.M.]
Boris AVANT When Boris’s tenth METAL studio album Pink reached American shores in 2006, the Japanese trio had already earned its status as avant-metal cult favorites. Ten years later, though, Pink feels like a pivotal moment in the band’s catalog as it shifted away from monolithic drone-metal toward more dynamic hard rock that fused pop hooks with shoegaze density. Pink stands firmly in between, flowing effortlessly from drifting post-rock into hard-grooving speed metal, deep drones into bold hooks. Tonight, the band will play the album in its entirety, but not before the similarly acclaimed Earth offers its smoldering and cinematic guitar-driven meditations. —BCR [CAT’S CRADLE, $18-$20/8:30 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Spoonbenders; 8 p.m. • THE CAVE: Cave of Swimmers, Irata, Plow; 9 p.m., $5. • HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 8:30 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: The Barred Owls; 6:30 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: DigiTour Summer: Rickey Thompson, Dylan Dauzat, Baby Ariel’s, Jake T. Austin; 6:30 p.m., $25–$130. • LOCAL 506: Hunny, The Frights, Gymshorts; 7 p.m., $12–$14. • NIGHTLIGHT: Will to Die, The Jig, Seeing Red, Capitol Offense, Self Destruct, Future Primitive; 7:30 p.m., $12. • THE PINHOOK: Bars & Black Flags: JooseLord Magnus, The Deeep End, Brassious Monk, Smack Bros; 9 p.m., $8. See page 26. • POUR HOUSE: Radio Birds; 9 p.m., $6–$8. • SLIM’S: Zephyranthes, \\GT//, Look a Ghost; 9 p.m., $5. • THE STATION: DJ Dae Emerson; 8 p.m.
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SPECIAL Kimberly Alvis, JJ EVENT Jiang: Paintings. Jul 29-Aug 24. Reception: Fri, Jul 29, 6-9 p.m. Village Art Circle, Cary. www.villageartcircle.com. By the Sea: Robert Harrison. Jul 31-Oct 8. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www.eruuf.org. SPECIAL Garden’s Bounty: EVENT Paintings by Elda Hiser, jewelry by Monica Hunter, and ceramics by Susan Luster. Jul 29-Aug 20. Reception: Fri, Jul 29, 6-9 p.m. Cary Gallery of Artists. www.carygalleryofartists.org. High Tides, Good Vibes: Photography by Kristine Remlinger. Jul 29-Aug 31. The Qi Garden, Hillsborough. www. the-qi-garden.com. In the Footsteps Of...: Group photography show. Aug 1-Sep 9. Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex. www.thehalle.org. J: the Comic and Pop Art of L Jamal Walton: Solo comic exhibit. Aug 1-31. Holly Springs Cultural Center, Holly Springs. www.hollyspringsnc.us. SPECIAL Save-the-Earth: EVENT Assemblages by Ann Brownlee Hobgood. Jul 27-Aug 20. Reception: Fri, Jul 29, 6-9 p.m. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org. Seeing Beyond the Structures: Portraits of the Landscape: Paintings by Adam Bellefeuil, Rachel Campbell, and Caitlin Cary. Aug 3-Sep 16. Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Raleigh. www.raleighnc.gov/arts. Sunset: Sunrise: Works on paper by intergenerational artists including Victoria Turner Powers. Aug 3-Sep 1. The Carter Building Galleries & Art Studios, Raleigh. www.thecarterbuilding.com. Jina Valentine: Drawings and mixed media work. Jul 31-Aug 28. Horace Williams
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ONGOING 20 Years of Horse & Buggy Press and Friends: In this must-read retrospective, the past twenty years are an open book. That’s how long Dave Wofford has been letterpress printing paper pleasures at Horse & Buggy Press. Wofford collaborates with writers and artists to produce beautiful, minutely tailored books in small runs, their content ranging from abstract photojournalism to translations of Rilke. You can read them all in this exhibit, which also includes dozens of framed artworks. Thru Aug 7. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh. org. —Brian Howe LAST A Recovery Process: CHANCE Mixed media works by Scott Higgins. Thru Jul 31. Naomi Studio and Gallery, Durham. www. NaomiStudioandGallery.com. LAST A Short History of CHANCE Orange County Baseball: Photographs. Thru Jul 31. Orange County Historical Museum, Hillsborough. www. orangeNChistory.org. SPECIAL A Winter Day, a EVENT Summer Morning: Joe Lipka. Thru Aug 13. Reception: Fri, Jul 29, 6-8 p.m. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org. Abstract Territory: Lolette Guthrie and Sandy Milroy. Thru Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. LAST The Adventures of CHANCE Two Red Bicycles: Paintings by Phyllis Andrews. Thru Jul 28. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www.eruuf.org. Along These Lines: Constance Pappalardo. Thru Oct 16. Durham Convention Center, Durham. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.
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Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist: In Altered Land, Stamer and Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. scenes. Stamer paints a barn with black-and-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Thru Sep 11. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe LAST Art from Raleigh CHANCE Sister Cities: Fiftyone works by seventeen artists in Raleigh’s sister cities in France, Germany, England, and Kenya. Thru Jul 31. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. LAST The Art of Shadow CHANCE & Light: Beth Bale. Thru Jul 31. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www.joyfuljewel.com. The Art of the Bike: Bicyclethemed art exhibit. Thru Oct 23. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www.co.orange.nc.us/ library/carrboro. Avant-Gardens: Mixed collage work by Lauren Worth. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. Phil Blank: Works on paper. Thru Aug 19. Bull City Arts Collaborative: Upfront Gallery, Durham. www.bullcityarts.org. Liz Bradford: Oil paintings. Thru Sep 30. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org. Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock. Thru Sep 25. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe
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Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection: Whereas many glassblowers content themselves with bongs and lampshades, Dale Chihuly has taken the form into the upper echelons of fine art with his sculptural fantasias. This private collection of Chihuly’s works is currently on tour. The collection focuses on Chihuly vessels inspired by Venetian art deco vases from the 1920s and ’30s, almost fifty of which are in the exhibit, arrayed around the centerpiece of the Laguna Murano Chandelier, a tour de force made of more than 1,500 pieces. Thru Oct 15. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham. —Brian Howe LAST Chill Out: Thru Jul CHANCE 30. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com. LAST Color Abstractions: CHANCE Allen Clapp, Mary Storms, and Sherri Stewart. Thru Jul 30. 311 Gallery, Raleigh. The Colors of Summer: Peg Bachenheimer. Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com. Corruption of the Innocents: Controversies about Children’s Popular Literature: Thru Aug 15. UNC Campus: Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu/wilson. Creative Recovery: Mixed media by Grayson Bowen. Thru Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. LAST Kathy Dawalt and CHANCE Michiel Van der Sommen: New oils and bronzes. Thru Jul 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net. Departures and Arrivals: Raleigh’s Gayle Stott Lowry is a painter of landscapes and architecture whose pictorial realism glimmers with hints of abstraction. Her new exhibit showcases work from travels in England, where her mind turned to the plight of refugees while researching her ancestors’ journey to the U.S. The context gives the work a lonesome patina—a misty valley, more than a view to behold, becomes a challenge to traverse. Thru Sep 3.
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ELY URBANSKI: HU.MAN.KIND Ely Urbanski’s hu.man.kind calls for a novel form of audience participation. Urbanski’s monoprints on fabric depict donated clothing, and at the exhibit, you can donate an item and record a video about it to keep the project going. The outcome is an artistic X-ray of a stranger, inviting us to consider art not as a product, but as a composite of ingredients, each with its own story and sentiment. Donations and recordings will be accepted at The Carrack on August 2, 4, 9, 10, and 12, and the opening reception is at six p.m. on Friday, August 5. It’s a good fit for the gallery, in its new home in The Torus Building, as it seeks to engage with its new neighbors. —Abigail Hoile THE CARRACK MODERN ART, DURHAM Various times, free, www.thecarrack.org
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ART FROM HU.MAN.KIND BY ELY URBANSKI PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www. tyndallgalleries.com. —Brian Howe
Thru Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.
Durham and the Rise of the Baseball Card: An exploration of Durham’s role in popularizing the baseball card. Thru Sep 5. Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.
FRANK Summer Invitational: Janet Cooling, Drew Deane, Laura Hughes, Jenny Eggleston, Mary Kircher, and Jim Lee. Thru Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.
Durham by Ghostbike: In one of his mixed-media collages, Jeremy Kerman shows us a familiar downtown vantage through fresh eyes. Using bright colors, blocky shapes, and skewed perspectives remindful of a child’s drawing, he depicts the collision of old and new Durham, as historic brick jumbles with shiny ELF vehicles in front of the Organic Transit building. A“Ghost Bike” parking sign pays a tribute to a friend of the artist’s in particular, and to all the people being erased, literally or figuratively, from Durham. “Road Closed Ahead,” reads another sign; the question Kerman quietly asks is “for whom?” Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery. com. —Brian Howe
Andrew Hladky: Found object paintings. Thru Sep 5. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.
Ingrid Erikson, Tonia Gebhart, Caroline Hohenrath, Anna Podris, and Tim Saguinsin:
Hometown (Inherited): Photographic and mixed media work by Moriah LeFebvre. Thru Oct 2. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. LAST Inside Out: Sculpture CHANCE for all Environments: Representative and abstract sculpture. Thru Jul 31. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www. cedarcreekgallery.com. Christin Kleinstreuer: Thru Sep 24. more. Raleigh. www. jmrkitchens.com. LAST Local Color: CHANCE Multimedia works by twelve local female artists. Thru Jul 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www. localcoloraleigh.com.
Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org. George McKim: Thru Sep 24. Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com. Muhammad Ali’s Most Memorable Images: Photographic portraits of the late boxer by Sonia Katchian. Thru Aug 6. Vegan Flava Cafe, Durham. www.veganflavacafe.com. LAST Nature in Colored CHANCE Pencil: The Colored Pencil Society of America. Thru Jul 31. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences.org. The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep
Erin Oliver: Site-specific installation. Thru Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. LAST One More Drop in CHANCE the Bucket: Improvisational installation by Paperhand Puppets. Thru Jul 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org. Jody Servon: Installations. Thru Aug 4. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. SPECIAL The Sky is Falling: EVENT Jenn Hales. Thru Aug 13. Reception: Fri, Jul 29, 6-8 p.m. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org. Something Human: Sculpture by Julia Gartrell. Thru Aug 13. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www. scrapexchange.org. Space of Otherness: Paintings by Quoctrung Nguyen. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. LAST Thomas Teague: CHANCE Paintings. Thru Jul 31. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com. Transcending Nature: Thru Aug 5. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www. litmusgallery.com.
Truth to Power 4: Pleiades Gallery’s annual juried show in response to issues of social justice arrives at a moment of particular urgency. In the aftermath of HB 2, the Orlando massacre, the policeshooting deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, and the retaliatory shootings of officers, these North Carolina artists, selected by Center for Documentary Studies director Wesley Hogan, bring messages of resistance, grief, and the will to change. They do so through photography, sculpture, painting, video, and more, the diversity of the media reflecting the diversity of perspectives the show celebrates.Thru Aug 7. Pleiades Gallery. www.PleiadesArtDurham. com. —Brian Howe Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm: Ken Abbott’s color photographs of family farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Thru Sep 10. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org. LAST The Women: CHANCE Portraits by Rebecca Rousseau and John Samosky. Thru Jul 31. Cameron Village Regional Library, Raleigh. www. wakegov.com/libraries..
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Mark Brady: Stand-up comedy. $8. Fri, Jul 29, 8 p.m. Moonlight Stage Company, Raleigh.
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Henry VI: Play. $17. Jul 29-Aug 7. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www.raleighlittletheatre.org.
Bring It! Live: Dance. $32–$58. Sat, Jul 30, 7:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.
Steel Magnolias: Play. $28– $30. Jul 27-Aug 7. Kennedy Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.
Carolina Ballet Summer Intensive: $18.88. Sat, Jul 30, 2 & 7:30 p.m. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.
Straight Outta Oz: Musical theater based on The Wizard of Oz by Todrick Hall. $27. Sat, Jul 30, 7:30 p.m. Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.
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Paul Taylor Dance Company:
$23–$58. Fri, Jul 29, 8 p.m. & Sat, Jul 30, 7 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com. Eric Trundy, Lauren Faber, Brian Burns, Adam Cohen, Kenyon Adamchik, Grant Sheffield: Funny How? Locals at the Local series. $10. Thu, Jul 28, 8 p.m. Local 506, Chapel Hill. www.local506.com.
ONGOING Disney’s & Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins: $25–$97. Thru Jul 31. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www.
dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. Hamlet: Play presented by Honest Pint Theatre. $12–$20. Thru Jul 31. William Peace University: Leggett Theatre, Raleigh. theatre.peace.edu. Heathers: The Musical: $12–20. Thru Jul 31. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. www.nract.org. Violet: Play by PlayMakers Repertory Company’s Summer Youth Conservatory. $15. Thursdays-Sundays. Thru Jul 31. UNC Campus: Paul Green Theatre, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org.
page READINGS & SIGNINGS Tony Daniel: The Dragon Hammer: Wulf’s Saga 1. Thu, Jul 28, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks. com. Duke Young Writers’ Camp Readings: Tue, Aug 2, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com. Penny Parsons: Foggy Mountain Troubadour: The Life and Music of Curly Seckler. Sun, Jul 31, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY PHOTO BY PAUL B. GOODE FRIDAY, JULY 29–SATURDAY, JULY 30
PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY The world-renowned Paul Taylor Dance Company closes out the American Dance Festival’s mainstage season (but don’t miss Vanessa Voskuil’s free Footprints performance at Duke Gardens) with a rich program drawn from an eclectic repertoire. The quartet of works includes two pieces with music by classical greats and two with modern classical music. Promethean Fire, set to Bach keyboard works orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski, is followed by Images, where the music of another classical giant, Debussy, accompanies dancers whose movements evoke figures on ancient pottery. The second half features Profiles, set to Jan Radzynski’s string score, and Snow White, with original music by Donald York, underscoring the company’s knack for fresh takes on old themes. Given the large local following Paul Taylor Dance Company has attracted, this should be a highlight of the ADF season. —Jackson Cooper DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DURHAM 8 p.m. Fri./7 p.m. Sat., $10–$58, www.americandancefestival.org 34 | 7.27.16 | INDYweek.com
Beth Revis, Gwenda Bond, Megan Miranda, Renee Ahdieh, and Megan Shepherd: Discussing their YA novels. Fri, Jul 29, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks. com. Soul Speak Summer Abundance: Poetry, chants, art, and more. Sun, Jul 31, 5 p.m. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www. joyfuljewel.com. Ron Tanner: Missile Paradise, historical fiction. Sat, Jul 30, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks. com.
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2: Fri, Jul 29, 8 p.m. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. www.boothamphitheatre.com. In Pursuit of Silence: Thu, Jul 28, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. The Peanuts Movie: Aug 2-4, 9:30 a.m. Northgate Mall, Durham. www.northgatemall. com. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Thu, Jul 28, 7:30 p.m. Northgate Mall, Durham. www. northgatemall.com. Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Thu, Jul 28, 8:30 p.m. Wallace Plaza, Chapel Hill.
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