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TO MARK THE OPENING OF RALEIGH’S UNION STATION, WE RODE THE RAILS TO DESTINATIONS THROUGHOUT NORTH CAROLINA AND BEYOND. IT WASN’T AS EASY AS IT SOUNDS.

THE WORLD’S LARGEST SUBWAY, P. 8

VAPES ON A TRAIN, P. 10

THE TOUR DE GLUTTONY, P. 13

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6 According to one study, nearly half of all evictions could be informal, meaning there’s no court order. Instead, a landlord ejects a tenant by shutting off the power or throwing out belongings.

6 News 24 Food 25 Music

8 The brand-new Union Station will be a transit hub for North Carolina and a catalyst for economic development in downtown Raleigh. Its opening also provided a convenient excuse for our staff to go on train adventures.

28 Arts & Culture 30 What to Do This Week 33 Music Calendar 36 Arts & Culture Calendar

24 From Mexican paletas to Thai rolled ice cream, you can take a frozen-dessert tour of the globe without leaving the Triangle.

26 Meeting banjo player Charlie Parr helped Ryan Gustafson find a new focus for The Dead Tongues.

27 Donald Trump Jr. is the cause of the biggest fumble on Punch Brothers’ new record, All Ashore.

28 Before Bulldog Theater Ensemble can begin its mission to carry on the legacy of Manbites Dog, it has to find a play.

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Here Comes the Judge

demonstrated substantial work in any one In last week’s paper, Sarah Willets profiled or more fields of law? Do they teach other a slate of Durham judicial candidates who lawyers or students? Do they participate are running on a reform platform. Retired in any professional groups? Legal organiDistrict Court Judge Nancy Gordon is zations? Are they leaders in those groups? alarmed: “As of this year, North CaroliAre there actions or commitments they na finds itself back in the mess of elected can point to in their past that demonstrate judges designated by political party. I sugintegrity and a commitment to communigest that, after making significant progress ty? Have they participated in any important and being the leader in nonpartisan judicial public service efforts? What civic clubs, elections, the reason we are here is clear: associations, or political groups are they We are embroiled in political factionalism involved with? What do those affiliations that has nothing to do with ideology or, in tell you? Can they point to activities or the case of judges, qualification, but that experiences that demonstrate advocacy to reflects a desire for control and power. something bigger than themselves? These “The Constitution doesn’t support the are the inquiries that will help us evaluate notion that any one of the three branches of who will do the best job on the bench.” government should completely dominate On the subject of a different kind of or control our governance. Why? Because judge, Rick Bivens is rather upset with Patthe executive and legislative branches are rick Wall’s assessment of emo-prog rockbeholden to constituencies. They repreers Coheed and Cambria in last week’s sent the people who elected them. Not so music calendar: “If Patrick Wall wants to with the courts. Judges don’t represent any be taken seriously as a music journalist, constituency or individual. So how have we then he would know gotten to a place where Coheed and Cambria we are examining the “Move aside and let are releasing their personal political ideolninth album (not sevogy of the people seekthe big boys play.” enth). Also, if he had ing judgeships? any taste in music, he “When I think of what would know that the band’s music and lyrqualities make a good judge, I think of integics transcend what passes as music today. rity, independence and the courage to be “By saying Coheed and Cambria have no independent, intellect, and legal training, substance, I believe Mr. Wall has never lisplus commitment to fairness and access to tened to an album of theirs in its entirety. justice. The job of being a judge begins and Perhaps the only way Mr. Wall can stay ends in a courtroom so that everyone should relevant is tearing down others’ works. Mr. have access to the courts, have a fair and Wall is merely jealous that he will never prompt opportunity for his or her grievance reach the level of respect that Coheed and to be heard, and then have a reasoned deciCambria has rightfully earned. Move aside sion that is consistent with the law of the and let the big boys play.” jurisdiction. That’s it. Judges are not lawFinally, on Friday, we reported that a makers. They are not policymakers.

Raleigh man in solitary at an immigration “Just as you and I are members of our facility in Georgia had apparently commitcommunity, everyone who seeks a judgeted suicide. Alex M. Pruteanu writes: “As an ship has an opportunity to be part of the immigrant with refugee asylum and now citconversations surrounding our court izenship for over thirty-five years, I can tell system. For example, what do we mean you: We immigrants have always known the when we incarcerate people? How can we U.S. doesn’t welcome us. It’s a loosely kept ensure fair treatment and access to justice for everyone regardless of wealth, race, secret around our dinner tables.” religion, sexual orientation, and gender or political persuasion?

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WHEN AN INFORMAL LEASE AND AN INFORMAL EVICTION COMBINE, TENANTS CAN BE LEFT WITH LITTLE MEANS TO HOLD LANDLORDS ACCOUNTABLE BY SARAH WILLETS

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our hundred and five days ago, a judge ordered Laticia Singleton to leave the Liberty Street apartment she shared with her sons. That month, June 2017, 871 eviction cases were filed in Durham County.

In the year since the INDY chronicled Singleton’s final day in her apartment, she’s stayed in her car, in hotel rooms, and with friends. She also sublet a room from a middle-school classmate she says retaliated against her when she told him she was moving out, causing her to once again be evicted despite a judge denying the classmate's request to have her removed from the property.

“Now we have nowhere to go and there are no consequences for him,” she says.

The details of the case—involving dueling protective orders and a dispute the classmate says occurred quite differently—are unique. But Singleton’s experience, of being forced by eviction and the costs that come with it into a worse living situation and a maze of insufficient resources for help, is common in a place that has had the highest eviction filing rate among North Carolina’s largest counties since at least 2005.

“Her story reflects the story of a lot of other folks in our community. There’s no doubt in my mind about that,” says Brent Ducharme, a Legal Aid attorney who represented Singleton and works with the Eviction Diversion Program that launched a year ago as a partnership between Legal Aid, Duke’s Civil Justice Clinic, and the Durham County Department of Social Services.

“Once the eviction crisis becomes a reality in somebody’s life, once they’ve got that judgment against them and it becomes harder to find a place to rent from a more traditional landlord, that’s when you see these sorts of issues pop up. And in that way, it’s a powerful example of why it’s so important to try to help folks address these issues on the front end.”

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Laticia Singleton sublet a room from William Ballentine at this Durham duplex. PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA cycle of instability that an eviction can cause.

The county is giving Social Services $90,000 more to spend on rental assistance in this year’s budget, and the city has budgeted $200,000 for two additional attorneys and a paralegal at Legal Aid, an investment Ducharme says could double the capacity of the program, where he’s currently the only full-time lawyer. In its first six months, the program helped 79 percent of its clients avoid evictions.

“Folks who get referred to me—single mothers, elderly couples, young college kids—it really runs the gamut. Of course, by and large, they have the common thread of being members of the community who are

low-wealth,” Ducharme says. “Experiencing that in the daily work has really driven home the scope of the eviction crisis in this community.”

In the year since the Eviction Diversion Program began, it has often been noted that Durham saw about ten thousand eviction cases initiated in fiscal year 2016, a number that has fallen since the recession but has nonetheless led the state when considered in terms of population. The number of actual evictions that occurred is lower—about twenty-eight hundred in 2016, according to the Eviction Lab’s online database—but even a complaint can show up on some tenant screening programs.

What these figures don’t encapsulate,

however, is the number of informal evictions that don’t go through court. And research suggests these “self-help evictions”—in which a landlord forces someone out by shutting off the power, throwing out belongings, or some other measure—may actually be more common than formal evictions.

A study of Milwaukee renters by Matthew Desmond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Evicted and principal investigator for the Eviction Lab, found that 48 percent of evictions were informal, compared with 24 percent that went through the courts and 28 percent caused by condemnation or foreclosure.

Singleton’s situation falls somewhere in the middle.

Singleton and William Ballentine have different accounts of the approximately eight months she sublet a room without a lease in the Green Street duplex he’s rented for years. Ballentine sought to have Singleton evicted legally, but his request was denied. Yet Singleton and her two-year-old son were displaced anyway.

When Singleton was evicted from her Liberty Street apartment last summer, her mother had been renting from Ballentine for about two years. She went to stay with her, and when her mother moved out a few months later, Singleton decided to stay.

Rent, at $400 per month, was cheap, and Ballentine only asked for $200 up front, less than a deposit and application at most other places.

Ballentine says Singleton took advantage of his generosity and skimped on rent, causing him to nearly be evicted himself.

Singleton says it’s Ballentine who wasn’t paying his share and that he shut off the power in her room when she told him, in early May, that she planned to move out.

Because of their informal arrangement, there are no receipts to show what Singleton paid. Ballentine produced late-rent notices for January and May, months he says she didn’t pay. In the eviction complaint he filed May 8, Ballentine claimed no back rent owed and didn’t give any specific reason for seeking to have her evicted.

“I tried to do the right thing and go downtown and take the correct papers out,” he told the INDY. “I didn’t want anything from her. I just wanted her to move.” (Ballentine’s landlord, Edgewood Properties, declined to comment, saying the issue is between tenants.)

Singleton started locking the door to her bedroom, determined not to move as quickly as Ballentine wanted. She says he tried to break down the door with a hammer while she and her son were inside. Photographs included in court documents show gashes around the dented, loose doorknob. When Ballentine eventually got the door open, the door struck the two of them, prompting them to go to a hospital, Singleton wrote in court documents. (Singleton also suffers from seizures, which she says can be triggered by stress.)

Ballentine, on the other hand, says he was trying to give Singleton the eviction paperwork, and she ignored him. Unable to get her to open the door, he says he called Edgewood and was advised he could remove the doorknob. While trying to get the door open, he says he saw a taser in Singleton’s hand.

The next day, May 10, he filed for a protective order against her. The eviction complaint was dismissed on May 18, and Ballentine’s request for a protective order was denied on June 4. On June 8, Singleton

sought her own protective order, citing the incident in which he tried to break down the door. That petition was granted, and he was not allowed to have any contact with her for one year. Ballentine was also “partially evicted” for one week while Singleton packed and moved out, taking as much with her as she could with nowhere to go but her son’s car.

After several days of sleeping in the car, Singleton got a hotel room for her, her toddler, and her twenty-year-old son, who stays with her in case she has a seizure.

They stayed there for about two weeks and have bounced around since.

Her room on Green Street was rented out again, but some of her belongings remain there in boxes. Ballentine says the fact that they haven’t been tossed on the curb is a testament to his good will.

“I did everything I was supposed to do and I still lost,” Singleton says.

Ducharme says cases without a written lease don’t come to the Eviction Diversion Program much, but he often hears about them when he gives tenant rights workshops. When an informal lease and an informal eviction combine, tenants can be left with little means to hold landlords accountable for forcing them out.

“They’re already in a particularly vulnerable state, and I think, by virtue of that, [they] are perhaps even less able than the folks who are typically getting referred to us to navigate those channels to get to us in the first place,” he says.

Singleton’s situation is also indicative of limits on resources to help people facing eviction and homelessness in Durham.

She looked for a shelter to stay in but found they were either full or had prohibitive rules, like one place that wouldn’t allow men—even her three grown sons. She says she didn’t qualify for rental assistance programs administered by the Department of Social Services, which can typically only be drawn once in twelve months and require tenants to have an income below certain levels and proof of future income. She feels like she would have had an easier time getting help if she were worse off—alone or with no income.

Between her disability check and the wages her son earns detailing cars, she says the family could afford a one-bedroom apartment. What they can’t afford is to save up for an application fee, deposit, moving expenses, and rent and keep a roof over their heads at the same time. At least for now, sitting in a dim hotel room while her toddler naps by her side, Singleton says all she is being offered is apologies.

“I’m sorry is not doing anything for us,” she says. swillets@indyweek.com

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For this summer’s Travel Guide—and to mark the opening of Raleigh’s Union Station—we sent five writers to ride the rails to destinations throughout North Carolina and beyond. It wasn’t as easy as it sounds.

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ast Tuesday, after three years of planning, two years of construction, and months of delays, Raleigh finally opened its much-hyped Union Station, a sleek, state-of-theart, $111 million, multimodal (eventually—buses will begin stopping there in a few years), twenty-six-thousand-square-foot transit facility in a former Dillon Supply Co. warehouse. The project, pitched as a catalyst for economic development in the resurgent Warehouse District, promises to serve as “a front door to the city,” in the words of Mayor Nancy McFarlane, and “the centerpiece of transportation, not only for Raleigh but also for North Carolina,” in the words of former governor Pat McCrory.

In other words, it’s a big damn deal.

To mark the occasion, we dedicated our summer Travel Guide to rail adventures. The rules were simple: Pick a place. Find a train to take you there. Go. Do stuff. Write about it.

For the five writers we dispatched hither and yon—to the Triad, Charlotte, Southern Pines, Philadelphia, and all the way from Durham to, um, Raleigh—the reality proved a bit more complicated than we envisioned. Trains run late. Their schedules are often less than ideal. They don’t always get you where you want to go as quickly as you could by flying or even driving. And once you arrive at your destination, you’re without transportation, forced to make do with Uber or your own two legs, which can curtail your entertainment options, especially when you’re cramming a bunch of things into a limited period of time.

So trains may not be the most convenient way to get around. But still, there’s something romantic about them, no? Something about watching the world go by from your window, something about contemplating the changing landscapes and small towns and big cities you pass along the way, something about drinking a beer and reading a book in air-conditioned comfort instead of road-raging at the dude who just cut you off on the interstate.

And though trains may be inconvenient—or at least require more planning—our writers found lots of ways to enjoy themselves on relatively meager budgets: They explored small towns and ate their way across big cities, hit up museums and plunged into the history of a state industry, found new adventures in their own backyard and vaped with strangers on a stalled train in the middle of nowhere.

As we discovered while we were planning this issue, you can get to lots of places from here by train, both in the Southeast and all over the country (poke around ncbytrain.org to get started). You may have to leave late at night or return before the sun rises, you’ll definitely have to figure out how to get around after your train drops you off, and you should probably plan on your trip taking an hour or two (at least) longer than the itinerary says, but you may just find yourself on a relaxing, unforgettable escape. jbillman@indyweek.com 8 | 7.18.18 | INDYweek.com

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nlike many cheerful people in suits and fancy hats last Tuesday, I rode the 6:30 a.m. Piedmontbound train as a way of actually getting somewhere.

Sure, it was fun to realize that I was on board the first train to ever leave Raleigh’s brand-new Union Station, but it was also hard not to laugh at the large group that boarded with me, rode for twenty minutes with huge smiles on their faces, and then got off in Cary while saying, “I think I’ll do this again!”

By the time my train pulled into the station in High Point—one of the three major cities, along with Winston-Salem and Greensboro, that comprise the Triad, where I was to spend the day— I’d mostly forgotten about these intrepid history-makers.

The sidewalks in downtown High Point are wide—too wide, maybe, given that I only counted a handful of other pedestrians. For two weeks each year, though—one

who don’t work in the furniture industry aren’t allowed inside without an appointment, but there was one place I knew I’d be welcome: The Red House, “Where Black People and White People Buy Furniture.”

A small family-owned furniture store, The Red House was featured in a 2009 commercial that went viral thanks to its jarringly cheerful declarations that it is a furniture store “for all people” where “we can all just get along.” The store mainly serves people from around the state rather than around the world.

“People might come in here and buy a T-shirt,” sales manager Richard Pina says. There’s furniture, too, of course— everything you’d need to fix up a decent house, from sofas and bed frames to appliances and lighting fixtures.

I checked out some more furniturecentric places further north, including the World’s Largest Chest of Drawers and the Bienenstock Furniture Library, before stopping in at Krispy Kreme for

enormous fish tank-headboard combo for sale for $60,000. The most disorienting room was on the first floor: the world’s largest Subway, a predictably well-furnished sub shop and one of the only indoor places I visited in High Point that didn’t smell like expensive wood.

The furniture industry made High Point what it is today, but the city’s downtown “Catalyst Project” stands as its way of saying that it can and does exist for fifty non-Market weeks a year. When it’s complete, High Point hopes to have added 15–20 shops, 250 residential housing units, and a new $35 million stadium that will be the home of an Atlantic League of Professional Baseball team called the High Point Rockers.

Next, I Ubered to Greensboro, but a train from downtown High Point to downtown Greensboro would have cost $7 and taken about twenty-five minutes. The contrast between High Point and Greensboro is immediately obvious:

week each in April and October—retailers, designers, and decorators flood the streets for the High Point Market, a semiannual furniture exposition that attracts furniture professionals (less so consumers) from all over the world. The city completely transforms, with everything from pop-up restaurants to temporary transit systems springing to existence to accommodate the seventy-five thousand visitors to a city of one hundred thousand.

My first few minutes in High Point were spent wandering between the vast showrooms downtown, and trying to get a look at whatever might be for sale within the “Furniture Capital of the World.” I was dismayed to discover that people like me

a late breakfast. (Since the donut chain originated in Winston-Salem, which isn’t easily accessible via train, this is the closest I actually came to visiting the second-largest of the Triad’s cities.) I then hopped in an Uber and headed east toward Greensboro and Furnitureland South in nearby Jamestown.

If The Red House had everything I might need, Furnitureland South had more furniture than I could possibly imagine. The 1.3 million-square-foot complex calls itself the largest furniture showroom in the world and attracts customers from as far as Saudi Arabia and Dubai. One room had twenty-five styles of home theater seats. Another had an

Far from being a two-week-a-year town, Greensboro is an urban area of 270,000 residents and home to seven colleges and universities, including UNC Greensboro and North Carolina A&T University.

I first stopped in at Old Photo Specialists on Elm Street to visit a friend and get a look at hundreds of antique photos and the equipment used to restore them.

The downtown seems to be full of vintage spots like this—the biggest regret of my adventure is that I wasn’t able to visit Elsewhere, a quirky-looking museum and artist residency housed in a former thrift store, because it’s only open on weekends.

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visiting Old Photo Specialists was finding a place to watch the end of France’s semifinal match against Belgium. I entered the first bar I saw outside of Old Photo Specialists, Little Brother Brewing. After taking a look around and introducing myself, I was asked if I’d like to try one of their beers.

The honest answer was that yes, that sounded great. The honest answer was also that I am twenty years old and really would like to not get my employer in trouble. As I sipped on a delicious housebrewed club soda, I talked with brewmaster Steven Monahan about the brewery and Greensboro’s bar and brewery scene generally.

The impression I got is that Natty Greene’s is a big draw for out-of-towners, but bars like Joymongers, Preyer, and The Bearded Goat are where locals go. Hops Burger Bar is a bit of a hike from downtown but came up quite frequently—most notably because in 2015 TripAdvisor named its burger the best in the United States (an honor recently bestowed upon Al’s Burger Shack in Chapel Hill).

Before I left Little Brother, I asked the bartender what I should see while I’m in Greensboro.

“We’ve got a kickass science center,” he said. “I haven’t been yet, but I’ve heard it’s great.”

“Kickass” is maybe the third compound word I would have used to describe the Greensboro Science Center, after “brandnew” (thanks to a $20 million renovation in 2011) and “family-friendly.” I arrived shortly before it closed, meaning I was unable to feed any penguins, couldn’t read much about weather and dinosaurs, and didn’t see a show at the OmniSphere Theater. I did have enough time to nearly trip over a peacock in the outdoor zoo area; according to an employee, “they just kind of roam around” outside the cages containing alligators and red pandas.

My Uber driver to the Science Center insisted that I visit the International Civil Rights Center & Museum, so I rode back downtown and stepped into the center at around 5:20 p.m. This was an hour after the last tour of the day had left (Greensboro’s museums really should be visited in the morning and afternoon), but I was lucky to run into Center CEO John Swaine in the lobby.

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TIME’S ARROW

Twenty-four hours on an Amtrak train: a horror story, an adventure yarn, and a lesson about embracing life’s rails

BY BRIAN HOWE

A main draw of the Center, he told me, was the original lunch counter where the sit-in movement kicked off in 1960. It began on February 1, when four AfricanAmerican A&T students refused to leave a Woolworth’s after being denied service.

Four days later, some three hundred civil rights activists had joined them, along with copious media attention, bringing downtown Greensboro to a standstill. By the end of March, the sit-in movement in protest of segregation had spread to fiftyfive cities in thirteen states.

Perhaps it was the talk of the lunch counter, but I realized soon after leaving that I’d forgotten to eat. I turned to M’Coul’s Public House for dinner, enjoying an Emerald Isle chicken before wandering back out into the streets to kill time before my 8:30 p.m. train home.

Most of the places I wanted to check out were closed by this point, but I passed by lively crowds of people spilling out of Elm Street’s many bars and restaurants.

By 10:30 p.m., I was back in Raleigh waiting for a behind-schedule Floridabound train parked at Union Station to get out of my train’s way so I could get home and sleep. We ended up sitting just outside Union Station for half an hour—the sort of delay Amtrak employees assured me was normal for the opening of a large new station. A drink would have been nice. backtalk@indyweek.com

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he eleven-thirty Amtrak Silver Star bound for Tampa and Miami,” announces a voice at Grand Central Station. Then Al Pacino shoots like seventeen people to death before being killed himself, his body sliding down the dull silver hull of a coach-class train.

My sojourn on Amtrak’s Silver Star line wasn’t quite as dramatic as that scene in Carlito’s Way. Obviously, I survived, and the only violence I came near was when I heard a cabin attendant complaining about getting whacked with someone’s cane during the boarding rush. But there were moments, as the eight-hour trips to and from Philadelphia both stretched to twelve, when I did feel that maybe Pacino had gotten off easier. To be on a train for twelve hours is to undergo a whole gamut of emotional states, from anticipation and interest to monotony and restlessness, on through a tunnel of despair that, if you’re lucky, emerges into a clearing of giddy, almost surreal acceptance of your endless hurtling captivity in a rapidly dissolving social order.

I’d like to share a few hard-won tips for long-distance train travel. One, even in summer, it’s freezing, but you can always catch a burst of warmth by lingering on the walkways between cars. Two, relish the romance of the train whistle’s lonesome choo-choo for the first hour, because you’re going to get really sick of it. Three, prepare to become as intimate with the insides of strangers’ mouths as you possibly could without going to dentistry school, because American train travel seems to inspire the most lolling open-mouthed slumber imaginable.

And yet, while I don’t relish the thought of riding a train for twelve hours again, I don’t regret having done it now that it’s over, dissolving into bright little stripes of memory I can keep, seconds I can save, stories I can tell.

Whether it’s worth your while to take Amtrak depends on your appetite for serendipitous, glancing encounters—for existential comedy and raw humanity.

It’s definitely not about getting anywhere on time.

explains the Sazerac so strong it made me almost hallucinate, watching the sun set over the Schuylkill River. But thirty-six hours in Philly felt infinitely shorter than twenty-four on the train, as if I’d simply fallen asleep at Thirtieth Street Station and had an expensive dream.

To get home, I took the Carolinian rather than the Silver Star, but the experience was much the same. My seatmate was moving to Raleigh to be a city planner, so I briefed him on the light-rail sitch and beseeched him to solve it. When we passed through D.C. without issues, I started to get cocky, which of course caused a freight train to break down ahead of us and strand us for hours in a cornfield near Selma.

Oh, time. Nothing makes one as keenly aware of its irretrievable, arrowing flight as train travel, which feels like an almost gratuitous metaphor for life itself. Though Pacino was trying to head south from New York while I was heading north from Raleigh, we were really both pointed in the same direction as all rail riders: only forward, fitfully stopping and starting but always closer to something a thousand hours ahead than something one second behind. And yet not always sure whether it’s you or a train on the next track that’s moving, if you’re hurtling toward your destination or sitting still as it hurtles toward you.

This, you see, is what being on a train for too long will do to a person’s mind.

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lso like life, a trip on the Silver Star begins in deceptive novelty and comfort. The seats are a comfy, cozy blue with ample leg room. The engine runs at a quiet, soothing whir as you smoothly glide through the farmland north of Raleigh.

As I boarded, I planned to catch up on The New Yorker, do some work courtesy of the train’s free Wi-Fi, and watch sun-dappled meadows and industrial architecture scroll by until I slid into Thirtieth Street Station just after five, in plenty of time to freshen up at my Airbnb in University City and go out in West Philly. It turned out that I would achieve the first item, mostly fail at the second (the Wi-Fi was spotty, and my brain felt as jiggly as my laptop screen), and get my fill of the third well before arriving near nine, stumbling toward the first food I could find, a pop-up beer garden near Drexel University with tasty fish tacos and oversweet undergrad margaritas.

It’s on me that I was unduly optimistic about the arrival time, considering that Amtrak had clearly signaled its m.o. that morning. I’d received a text saying the train was delayed, but it might catch up, so basically, forget we told you that.

It wound up leaving half an hour late, which was fine. The real trouble started in Washington, D.C., where apparently the diesel engine had to be replaced with an electric one. Some hitch there accounted for most of the delay, as passengers either sat in the powerless train or milled around by the tracks, studying what can only be described as train pee and queasily wondering where it was coming from.

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But it was during this interstice that we began to drift away from our devices and magazines, as a certain American impulse to figure out just what the hell the problem was and who was to blame took hold. Even tiny emergencies have a way of bringing people together, and you can only sit next to someone pretending they aren’t there for so long.

By the time we got moving again, I had gotten to know my seatmate, a kind, patrician eighty-two-year-old potter. Emboldened by my quiet cackling over Anthony Lane’s takedown of Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s thriller, she took a deep breath and asked what I thought about “the direction the country was going,” and we cemented our bond in anxious commiseration. Our little society soon drew in the guy in front of us, a garrulous hard worker and player with a snowy white ponytail. A frequent rider who seemed cheerfully furious about the delay, claiming it happened every single time, he talked about Amtrak in a “never again” way that made you certain he would be back next week, repeating his talking points.

By the time we crossed into Pennsylvania, someone had gotten out a guitar and was playing songs for two women in front of him, who draped themselves over the headrests as if they were in the balcony of a concert hall. I have no doubt that, had the trip lasted another hour, someone would have started roasting meat on a spit in the aisle, perhaps using the guitar as kindling. And maybe with the guitarist on the spit.

Some passengers were immune to annoyance, though. A little boy was perpetually excited by everything he saw, wanting to know what was inside all the tall buildings and asking if he could go on a boat someday when a harbor stretched below us. “Mommy, a train, a train!” he shouted whenever one passed us, seeming to forget he was on one. But aren’t most things easier to appreciate when they’re zooming by you than when you’re snug inside them?

This, you see, is what being on a train for too long will do to a person’s mind.

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f time on a train stretches out in stages, like linked cars, then time in a city scrunches up and rushes by, like all those buildings and pedestrians. What do I remember? A third-floor walk-up, small but clean and pretty adorbs, with a surprisingly large TV I never turned on and a surprisingly large shower that, in the Philly summer, I definitely did. A spicy old fashioned in a crowded little cash-only speakeasy above the Ethiopian restaurant Abyssinia. Breakfast at The Gold Standard Café and a tarot reading in the park. Sweet, sesame-crusted salmon at a BYOB Mediterranean-Moroccan restaurant called Figs. Wandering between tall row houses through a neighborhood block party near the museum and into a bar called Bridgid’s that, I now know, specializes in craft beer, which perhaps

I mean, look, I get it. The locomotive is one of those machines, like the piano, that got as good as it could get long ago, and then never changed. It’s not like I think Amtrak could ever make the trains arrive right on time. (Or maybe they could, and it’s just a ploy to shake us down for $9 microwave pizzas.) They just shouldn’t say 5:00 p.m. when they mean between five and ten. Just say that, Amtrak! Let the misadventure be an informed decision.

As we neared Durham, the vibe was getting decidedly Snowpiercer. People were smoking in the bathrooms, like, go ahead, Amtrak, say something to me. The toilets were unspeakable. Carts stood haphazardly in the aisles. There was no more ice. I swear the lights started flickering ominously in the dining car, though that may have been an aftereffect from the vape pen a stranger had thrust into my hand at the last stop.

But even then, when I thought I’d go mad if I didn’t get off this train, I had the inkling that it had all been worth it. I had lost a few hours, sure, but what had I gained? The high trill of the sculptor’s laugh. The ponytailed man’s maniacal grin. The friendly bro drinking Jack Daniels airplane bottles who had a dubious fact at the ready on any topic that might arise, including the current market price of a bushel of corn. This, I found ineffably hilarious, deep inside the paradoxical sense of freedom that can emerge when you’re forced to give up your plans and just be right where you are.

This, you see, is what being on a train for too long will do to a person’s mind. bhowe@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 7.18.18 | 11

SMALL-TOWN ESCAPE

Within a half-mile of our hotel, the quintessentially Southern Southern Pines offered an idyllic weekend getaway

BY SARAH WILLETS

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first visited Southern Pines when I was living in Lumberton, a town of about twenty thousand in rural Robeson County. My time as a reporter there was rewarding—I met earnest people and learned a lot—but I’d be lying if I said it was an exciting place to live. So, my significant other and I would go to pretty great lengths to seek out something to do. We’d hit up Columbia for concerts, Wilmington for the weekend, Fayetteville to grocery shop.

And Southern Pines to treat ourselves.

It was in that spirit that we took the hour-and-half train ride from Raleigh for a recent weekend trip.

When you think of Southern Pines (if you ever have), you probably think of golf and ladies with sweaters around their shoulders. You would not be wrong.

There’s also a lot of good food, a topnotch beer store, and a surprising amount of crunchy-granola people. In addition, Southern Pines is home to a Creation Museum that’s really just a collection of tools, taxidermy, and Bible verses, and the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, but I didn’t get to see those things, so you’ll have to Google them yourself.

Southern Pines is a quintessential small Southern town. It’s both preppy and downto-earth—the kind of place where you’re definitely going to hear “Wagon Wheel,” but it’ll be the original version. Being there is like being in this bubble where the grass is always trimmed and everything is clean and shaded by a big magnolia tree. It’s a bit like Disney World in that way, only the storefronts are real, the beer is cheap, and everyone says hello to you because they’re genuinely nice people, not because they’re paid minimum wage to do so.

We took the Silver Star from Raleigh’s old train station on a Friday night, the last weekend of operation before Union Station opened. The train was late (I’m told this happens often), so we arrived at the station in downtown Southern Pines—restored to its original 1898 glory—at about midnight.

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We were staying about a block away at the Jefferson Inn, which opened in 1901. There was live music in the lobby bar and a crowd in the courtyard, but we couldn’t hear a thing from our second-floor room.

Without a car, we managed to spend our trip within about a half-mile radius of the hotel. With a car (and better weather), we might have ventured to the farmers market, hiked in the nine-hundred-acre Sandhills Nature Preserve, or visited the Southern Pines Brewing Company taproom.

I started Saturday bright and early with warm yoga at Hot Asana, which is above the historic Sunrise Theater, a space for plays, music, and independent films. The class was luxurious; for just $15, the sixtyminute practice also came with a quick shoulder massage.

For breakfast, we headed down the street to Betsy’s Crepes. They’ve changed the menu since we last visited, eliminating our favorite, a mix of sautéed apples, brown sugar, and cheddar cheese called the Oo La La. We recreated it as a “build your own” crepe—just make sure you get that with the cinnamon-flecked Hungarian batter. There are also savory, glutenfree, and non-crepe options.

Our next must-see was the Country Bookshop, which has been open since 1953 and is now owned by the local newspaper, The Pilot. I love walking into this place. It’s cool and crisp with the smell of brand-new books and little soaps for sale in between. The book covers are dotted with yellow Post-Its bearing handwritten employee reviews.

I love, too, that there are chairs scattered throughout so you can plop down whenever something catches your eye. I love that purchases support a local bookstore and a local newspaper. I love that John McPhee’s The Control of Nature was on the shelf marked “Required Reading for School.” (I say was because I took the last copy home, along with a Margaret Atwood missing from our collection and Action Bronson’s cookbook).

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Downtown is just a few blocks, but there are enough shops and restaurants to keep you occupied for an afternoon. We perused the kitchen gadgets and bath products at Green Goods, which stocks recycled and natural items. At Swank Coffee Shop, which also sells locally made jewelry, clothes, and salves, I had my first golden latte—a savory blend of espresso, almond milk, coconut oil, turmeric, cinnamon, and black pepper perfect for the drizzly weather.

For lunch, we went to Southern Whey, a cheese shop with local products and spectacular grilled cheese sandwiches.

The shop is decorated with concert posters and chalk drawings. The visual stimulation continues to the (gender-neutral) bathroom, which is covered wall-to-wall with stickers and photos, like a cutout of Matthew McConaughey perched at eye level directly across from the toilet.

Anyway, the sandwiches. There’s a selection of cheeses, meats, locally made bread, and housemade extras, like spicy

plum jam, to mix and match. Overwhelmed by the options, I panicked and ordered pimento cheese and pickles on sourdough (what?), but it turned out creamy, tangy, crispy, and delicious. My S.O. got crusty prairie bread with speck, hot peach chutney, hoop cheese, and cheddar and was silent until finished.

We took a short walk to the Southern Pines Growler Company, a welcoming, nofrills bottle shop with a rotating selection of thirty beers on tap. The proprietors are just as happy to help a novice navigate the menu as they are to discuss the politics of beer distribution in North Carolina (guess which one we were). They take special care to stock North Carolina beers, even driving to Durham for Fullsteam and Ponysaurus.

Following an afternoon of catching up with old friends from our Lumberton days, a second trip to the bookstore, and a failed attempt at the Creation Museum, which was sadly closed, we headed to the Leadmine for cocktails and Korean fusion.

The place opened last year as a needed middle ground between pubs and sandwich shops and formal restaurants. Dimly lit with an industrial look, the Leadmine feels more like New York City than smalltown North Carolina, except the ceilings would be two feet lower and the cocktails $4 more expensive in the Big Apple. Fair warning: The portions were way bigger than we expected. Another fair warning: We both ended up sick after the meal, but we’re not sure of the culprit.

EAT LIKE A QUEEN Banks may have built Charlotte, but restaurants are giving it a new identity

BY LAYLA KHOURY-HANOLD

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eing there is like being in this bubble where the grass is always trimmed and everything is clean.”

We started with maple and mustard brussels sprouts. They were slightly burnt, sweet, sticky, and dolloped with tangy mustard made with Southern Pines Brewing Company’s Man of Law IPA. Next, we tucked into pillowy bao buns, mine with tempeh, his with bulgogi, and both packed with cilantro, kimchi, and crunchy cucumbers.

For drinks, I ordered a Russian Donkey, a refreshing mix of whiskey, ginger beer, mint, and lime. He got the signature Leadmine, made of bourbon, lemon, activated charcoal, and egg whites. It was creamy, light, balanced, and, yes, black.

While both were good, we agreed the Leadmine was better and ordered another round, which suffered from too much gritty charcoal. The bar stocks thirty bourbons plus a couple dozen other whiskeys if you prefer a neater drink.

Early the next morning, not one person or car passed by as we walked the 423 feet from the hotel to the train station.

The town was silent. Southern Pines was still a treat—as it was when we used to visit desperate for things to do—but this time the treat was slowing down.

Naturally, the train was late. swillets@indyweek.com

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hen I boarded the train for my first visit to Charlotte, I had no preconceived notions about or great expectations for the Queen City. My INDY colleagues had found it curious that, of all the destinations reachable by rail, I’d chosen this one. One described Charlotte as the “city that Bank of America built.” Another painted it as a cultural vacuum known for finance, NASCAR, and pro wrestling.

All I wanted was to eat my way through the town and reach my own verdict. I gave myself eight hours to do it.

The challenge with Charlotte is that it’s such a sprawling metropolis. To maximize my time, I solicited advice from Kathleen Purvis, food editor at The

Charlotte Observer Observer, and built an itinerary around three recommended restaurants in different neighborhoods.

My first scheduled stop was Haymaker in Uptown—which is actually downtown, where BOA, Duke Energy, and other mega-corporations call home; the name change came in the seventies, after a marketing campaign to improve the city’s image— but it wasn’t until 11:00 a.m. With an hour to kill, I decided to grab some coffee.

I stopped into local outfit Not Just Coffee for a latte before heading to the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. At the exhibit Wrestling the Angel: A Century of Artists Reckoning with Religion, Religion I discovered that several of my favorite pieces were by Charlotte artist Gina Gilmour.

See, guys, not just bankers here!

I loved Haymaker as soon as I stepped in, especially the bar, with its handpainted blue and white tiles, marble bar top, and cognac-hued leather stools that beckoned me to pull up a seat. I asked the affable bartender for advice. I knew I wanted the hushpuppies with jalapeño sorghum butter, but should I opt for the roasted lamb tartine or herb dumplings with foraged mushrooms? Since I mentioned I had back-to-back lunch plans, he steered me to the tartine.

At its most basic, a tartine is toast, but you can’t have good toast without good bread. And at Haymaker, it’s really, really good. Loaves are baked by

pastry chef Ashley Anna Tuttle using organic, stone-milled flours from Farm & Sparrow, an Asheville bakery whose owner fastidiously collects seeds and stone-mills grains on a custom-built mill.

If all that sounds a bit twee, just know that this information isn’t recited like something out of a Portlandia episode.

But the spirit of what it represents— heirloom ingredients, sustainability, local sourcing—is there in the slab of toasted country bread that arrives slicked with herb aioli and artfully topped with celery root slaw, thinly sliced roasted lamb, and spring lettuces.

Though I hadn’t announced myself, chef William Dissen, who also owns The Market Place in Asheville and Billy D’s Fried Chicken in Asheboro, stopped by to introduce himself. He said that although he was initially skeptical about the Uptown location for his first Charlotte restaurant, he’s since been pleased to notice how the city—and neighborhood—is changing.

“Charlotte is going through an evolution. It had a reputation as a banking capital; it used to be blue shirts, banking, and steakhouses,” Dissen told me.

“It used to be that at five o’clock everyone would head from Uptown back to the ’burbs, but now there’s a population of twenty-five-to-forty-year-olds living in Uptown, so there’s more demand for [places like this]. People want food to define us beyond the corporate places.”

I Uber’d to NoDa, named for the former mill town of North Davidson, for a second lunch at Haberdish (a portmanteau of haberdashery and dish). It’s the latest opening from Jeff Tonidandel, who also owns Crêpe Cellar Kitchen & Pub, Growlers Pourhouse, and Reigning Doughnuts on the same stretch of North Davidson Street. I’d heard good things about the fried chicken here, which you can order a la carte with sides such as pickled coleslaw and kale salad with candied benne.

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But the dish that captured my attention was Livermush Toast, described as “set with rice, topped with mustard, molasses, and bread and butter pickles.” My waitress explained that livermush is a traditional rural North Carolina breakfast dish that’s kind of like pâté and breakfast sausage but crumblier. It’s an apt description; I’d also add that it’s an acquired taste. I do enjoy pâté, but where the liver flavor in pâté is smoothed out with fat, herbs, and usually wine or brandy, here the liver’s metallic twang doesn’t have anywhere to hide. But the molasses and mustard help cut it, and the housemade bread and butter pickles are superb.

“As we delved into our local cuisine and really tried to define Charlotte’s cuisine, we came to the fact that Charlotte is a Southern crossroads, where Appalachian, Piedmont, and low-country cuisine come together,” Tonidandel explained. “All of this has had an influence on our style and cooking. Livermush

is quintessentially from this region and is an important part of the childhoods of generations past. It really was about saving money and using the whole animal in a part of the country that was really not that prosperous.”

On to the fried chicken: The thigh I ordered was textbook, with a craggy, golden-ombre exterior and moist, juicy meat within. I’m always happy when a dish like livermush delivers a side of history, but for my next visit to Haberdish, I’d order a fried chicken thigh and Biscuits with Fixings to make a fried chicken sandwich with a biscuit chaser.

After lunch, I wandered up North Davidson to poke in and out of shops, admiring the street murals along the way before I headed to coffee-shop-and-bar Trade & Lore for an afternoon pick-me-up. I copied a couple of locals’ off-menu order for an I Love You A Mate, a yerba mate-based beverage made with oat milk, cardamom hibiscus vanilla syrup, and aromatic bit-

ters. It would have been easy to while away the afternoon under the ivy-draped canopy, but I’d made plans to meet an old friend in the Southpark neighborhood.

After a too-short catch-up over horchata ice cream at Golden Cow Creamery and a quick peek at the Oscar de la Renta exhibit at the Mint Randolph, I headed to The Stanley in the Elizabeth neighborhood for a few small plates and a cocktail before my 7:00 p.m. return train.

The Stanley is helmed by chef Paul Verica, who earned his James Beard Award semifinalist nod at his previous restaurant Heritage in Waxhaw (a town forty minutes away). The hyper-seasonal menu here is as subject to the bounty of local farms as it is Verica’s whims; the number printed in the upper right-hand corner indicates the number of times the menu has changed—thirty-two on the night I dined, less than two months after the restaurant’s opening.

The foie gras funnel cake Purvis raved

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about was no more, but Verica’s whimsy was on display with a dish called Corn— As Many Ways as We Could Think Of, which included corn panna cotta strewn with crispy corn silks, a glass of corn “bubbles,” and corn sorbet with a savory corn crumble among its nine components (he’s since added two more).

The Surf and Turf was another standout; beef tartar is anchored by veggie slaw, topped with fried oysters, crowned with frizzled onions, and plated with truffle aioli. It’s no wonder that the contrasts of textures and flavors—hot and cold, crunchy and creamy, briny and earthy— makes it one of Verica’s favorite dishes.

This dish—and The Stanley’s menu— also sums up my impression of Charlotte.

It’s at once familiar yet surprising, constantly evolving, and much prettier— and more delicious—than I imagined.

Know what I think of Charlotte? It’s a destination food city in the making. laylakh@indyweek.com

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I-40 IS FOR SUCKERS A short Amtrak ride from Durham to Raleigh offers a window into the Triangle’s mass-transit future

BY ALLISON HUSSEY

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ight rail in the Triangle is a messy subject, as evidenced by this publication’s stories and comments section on a fairly regular basis. The debates about its $2.5 billion price tag and the planned seventeen-mile route, from Durham to Chapel Hill, are fractals of conflict. But taking the Carolinian from Durham to Raleigh on a weekday morning was such an aggressively pleasant experience that it made me want to start breaking ground on a rail project with my own bare hands.

If you buy a one-way, reserved coach seat more than a day ahead of time, it’ll cost you a flat $7. A $14 roundtrip for a regular commute seems ludicrous, but for the convenience of one day of not having to sit in traffic or pay for parking, it may be worthwhile. Cruising peacefully and letting my mind wander while I gazed out the window from a cushy seat certainly beat the hell out of hurtling down I-40 through a gauntlet of menacing tailgaters, left-lane slowpokes, and turn-signal avoiders.

Raleigh’s gleaming new Union Station opened the day before I made my trip, and everything had that oddly specific chemical smell of new stuff: the punch of fresh paint, of course, but also the cool, sterile smell of unblemished brushed-metal fixtures and the mellow, clean scent of hard plastic that hasn’t yet met a thousand asses. The station’s interior is a familiar warehouse-chic style—crisp, modern fixtures amid exposed beams. We’re trying, we really are, it all seemed to ooze.

A “staycation” in a city I already visit all the time was a challenge I didn’t expect. I didn’t have a chance to find a way to the art museum before grabbing coffee with a friend, leaving the history and science museums as my main options for free daytime entertainment. Having grown up in Cary, I’ve visited these institutions approximately one thousand times. I wandered through the science museum feeling like a patient ghost taking inventory. There’s the dinosaur heart, there are the fake plastic woods, there’s the escapeartist sloth. The gang’s all here.

A friend and I met up for coffee at Morning Times, a reliable standard, and made our way to Capital Club 16 to meet up with a larger group of friends who were enjoying the England vs. Croatia World Cup soccer match. I sat near a wall in a puddle of sunlight, halfway paying attention to the game between sips from a half-liter of Croatian beer.

The game ended with a Croatian victory, and I parted ways with the group to meet yet another friend for dinner. We’d hoped to eat at Mecca, the almost-ancient mainstay on Martin Street that hits the trifecta of being cheap, convenient, and delicious. Although the day’s lunch menu was posted in the window, the patio furniture was out, and a table was littered

with half-filled water glasses and a vinegar bottle, the restaurant was closed with no sign of reopening for dinner service.

Again, I thought of ghosts.

So we got a burger at Chuck’s, and after, I found myself solo again. I ambled around town partaking of other decadent delights: a scoop of Maple View ice cream from Treat, a shocking blue alcoholic slushy at Fox Liquor Bar, a full hour of pinball and Galaga at Boxcar Arcade.

It all felt like a strange marriage of childhood and adulthood, a food-and-beverage Neverland where I could enjoy the substances and settings of being grown up while pretending I hadn’t.

My big day out ended with a concert at Neptunes Parlour, where the music

offered a soothing coda to a long day of relative luxury. As a silly conclusion, I took a $25 Uber home, because the last train to Durham leaves Raleigh at 5:16 p.m. (With a little more planning, I probably could’ve gotten a hotel for the night, but that felt like a bit much.)

Will the Triangle get a light rail? We’ll find out next year. If all goes to plan, it’ll begin running in a decade—right around the time Wake County’s planned thirty-seven-mile commuter rail line begins connecting Raleigh to RTP to Duke University.

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deep dive EAT • DRINK • SHOP • PLAY

NORTH HILLS/MIDTOWN

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ell people from Durham or Chapel Hill that you live in North Hills, and you may get a quizzical look. “You live at the shopping center?” they ask, while pondering if they care enough about you to stage an intervention for retail therapy addiction. And while it’s quite feasible to live there thanks to the complex’s multistory apartment buildings, a nice little residential neighborhood thrives nearby, with home-sale prices guaranteed to make a real estate agent happy. Chains such as Target, Harris Teeter, Total Beer & Wine, and Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse anchor the open-air retail village that shares the neighborhood’s name, but myriad smaller shops and restaurants make living there a legit temptation.

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41 HUNDRED

4100 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-278-1478; 41HUNDREDRESTAURANT.COM Located in the Renaissance Raleigh Hotel, 41 Hundred offers a breakfast buffet before ten.

Menus for lunch and dinner appear as the day advances—opt for shareable plates of halloumi and steak tacos if available. Wash it down with some house-aged whiskey.

ALADDIN’S EATERY

4209 LASSITER MILL ROAD, #136; 919-977-9025; ALADDINSEATERY.COM Part of a chain that has locations in four states, this spot serves Lebanese-American fare with welcoming warmth.

B.GOOD

201 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-916-5410; BGOOD.COM Grab a kale and grain bowl or a seasonal watermelon and feta salad for some healthy refueling. The chain tries to live up to the name, too. This location, for example, works with Activate Good, which connects people to volunteer openings across the Triangle.

EDIBLE ART BAKERY AND DESSERT CAFE

4351-115 THE CIRCLE AT NORTH HILLS; 919-856-0604 If you’re on a diet, stay away. Otherwise, dive in and decide between delectable pies, cheesecakes, cookies, cupcakes, and cakes.

Get there early if you want the Red Velvet cupcake (it tends to sell out), but you won’t go wrong with the Almond Amaretto or Chocolate Truffle cupcakes or the Coconut Cream pie.

MIA FRANCESCA TRATTORIA

4100 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-278-1525; MIAFRANCESCARALEIGH.COM Next door to the Renaissance, this is the destination for farm-to-table Italian cuisine. When the weather is pleasant, take advantage of the restaurant’s outdoor patio.

THE COWFISH

4208 SIX FORKS ROAD, #100; 919-784-0400; WWW.THECOWFISH.COM Burgushi, combining burgers and sushi, seems to the novice like a highly questionable concept, but the way crowds roll in to Cowfish indicates there’s no question at all—it’s a fun place to eat.

You can also get your burger or your sushi separate if you’re still wrapping your head around the concept.

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101 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-571-2500; LEVEL7ROOFBAR.COM

Atop the AC Hotel, this extremely stylish bar serves craft cocktails such as the Claim Jumper (bourbon, cinnamon syrup, lemon juice, raspberry puree, bitters) and the Lassiter (Basil Hayden, simple syrup, black walnut bitters, lemon peel), along with a small number of beers. A tapas menu addresses any nibbling needs you may have. Ride the glass elevator to an escape from the everyday as you sip a small-batch whiskey and drink in an impressive view.

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4351 THE CIRCLE AT NORTH HILLS; 919-789-0606; COQUETTERALEIGH.COM This upscale restaurant in North Hills offers a romantic and decidedly French atmosphere and menu, accented by an all-French wine list. Intimate and, perhaps, a bit Parisian, this is a great place for a special occasion.

CREPE TRADITIONS

141 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-977-3425; CREPETRADITIONS.COM Born in Chapel Hill, Crepe Traditions aims to provide an alternative to cookie-cutter coffee shops. Serving Intelligentsia coffee, bubble tea, smoothies, and, as you probably guessed, crepes, Crepe Traditions is a quick, refreshing break.

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MIDTOWN GRILLE

4421-115 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-782-9463; THEMIDTOWNGRILLE.COM A contemporary American restaurant, Midtown Grille is a local fave. It’s not unusual to spot more than one business lunch taking place during the day and special-occasion dates in the evening.

The excellent bar draws a lively crowd, too. And the brunch is among the better ones around.

MURA

4121-110 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-781-7887; MURANORTHHILLS.COM Expect to spend a little more at this upscale sushi and Japanese restaurant, but you’ll get some superbly crafted sushi.

PHAROAH’S AMERICAN GRILL

4421 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-420-0840 If you’ve got kids in tow, this deli-style shop is a tasty, inexpensive option for homemade soup, a burger, excellent chicken salad, or a thick milkshake.

PIEOLOGY PIZZERIA

4158 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919803-5860; PIEOLOGY.COM They make a plethora of pizzas here, but perhaps a bigger draw is the extensive make-your-own system. Choose a crust, select a sauce from the seven options, pick your cheeses and meats, and then decide on toppings to finish it off.

THE Q-SHACK

4120-135 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-786-4381; THEQSHACK.COM This locally sourced barbecue joint has the standard pulled, smoked, and sauced fare, along with sides such as collard greens and sweet potato fries. You can (should!) also get jalapeno deviled eggs.

SPRING ROLLS

4361 LASSITER AT NORTH HILLS; 919-783-8180; SPRINGROLLSRESTAURANT.COM Enjoy well-made Asian fusion dishes in a modern decor. Spring Rolls is an especially good choice if you have a vegetarian in your party.

VIVACE

4209 LASSITER MILL ROAD, #115; 919-787-7747; VIVACERALEIGH.COM A vibrant Italian restaurant with a fine selection of Italian wines. Or skip the wine list and indulge in a house-made limoncello—or two.

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BULL AND THE BEAR

5442 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-847-3617 Located on the edge of the North Hills neighborhood at the corner of Six Forks and Millbrook, this is a dive bar, in a good way. No frills or fancy craft cocktails. A lot of regulars in the seats. There’s food, but it’s hit or miss.

And that’s not why you’re here, now, is it?

FOX & HOUND

4158 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET, #111; 919-781-4495; FOXANDHOUND.COM A fairly standard sports bar with a typical menu of burgers, sandwiches, and the like. It does have a quality selection of beers (and a full liquor bar if your team is losing). Most

notably, if you’re a fan of the UFC or boxing, you’ll find yourself here eventually, as they often show the big PPV fights.

WORLD OF BEER

4208-150 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-784-9261; WORLDOFBEER.COM/ LOCATIONS/NORTHHILLS The name gives you the idea, but the numbers drive the point home: more than five hundred brands of beer from around the globe, fifty taps, and twenty fifty-inch flat screens.

YARD HOUSE

4208 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-881-2590; YARDHOUSE.COM More upscale, with better food (try the chicken tortilla soup) than a lot of sports bars and more TVs and beer than your average restaurant, Yard House is kind of business casual. It boasts 140 taps with a heavy emphasis on craft and specialty brews.

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GINA CHANDLER

4209 LASSITER MILL ROAD, #106; 919-881-9480; GENACHANDLER.COM Women’s fashion from the likes of Juicy Couture, True Religion, and Michael Kors.

LEARNING EXPRESS TOYS

4209 LASSITER MILL ROAD; 919-881-4141; LEARNINGEXPRESS.COM Learning Express offer all manner of toys, ranging from classics to recent creations.

You’ll have fun exploring them all (with or without kids).

LILES CLOTHING STUDIO

4350 LASSITER AT NORTH HILLS AVENUE, #106; 919-510-5556; LILESCLOTHINGSTUDIO.COM There are some designers you won’t find anywhere other than here, as Liles has exclusive rights to labels such as Adrian Jules, Psycho Bunny, Barker Black, Duchamp, and several others.

MARTA’S OF RALEIGH

4120 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET, #100; 919-788-4200; MARTASOFRALEIGH.COM 4421 SIX FORKS ROAD, #123; Where women go for top-line designer 919-787-9533; ARTSOURCEFINEART.COM clothing.

A huge amount of art to choose from and consultants to help you find the perfect piece.

MIDTOWN OLIVE OIL

4421-105 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-510-5510; MIDTOWNOLIVEOIL.COM Sample olive oils and balsamic vinegars to 201 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET; find the taste that’s right for you. You can BLOWNAWAYRALEIGH.COM even create your own flavor combinations.

If you need a cut, this isn’t for you. This salon Your purchases are freshly bottled on site for only offers relaxing shampoos and blowouts you to take home. in a variety of styles. And champagne. Don’t forget the champagne.

MONKEE’S

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CHARLOTTE’S JEWELRY & GIFTS

4350 LASSITER MILL ROAD; 919-787-7113; CHARLOTTESINC.COM There’s something for every budget at Charlotte’s, which features a wide range of jewelry, clothing, and home accessories.

COPPER PENNY

4120-115 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-366-5000; SHOPCOPPERPENNY.COM Originating in Charleston, Copper Penny has expanded into a group of six upscale women’s boutiques.

FLEUR BOUTIQUE

4321 LASSITER AT NORTH HILLS AVENUE, #115; 919-571-6203; FLEUR-BOUTIQUE.COM Designer fashion and interiors in a posh setting.

4158 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS; 919-785-1400; MONKEESOFRALEIGH.COM Handbags, shoes, and clothing from buzzworthy designers such as Ella Moss, Alice & Trixie, Tom Ford, Tibi, Tory Burch, and more.

PAPERBUZZ

4209 LASSITER MILL ROAD, #125; 919-781-0351; PAPERBUZZ.COM Unique gifts and stationery have made Paperbuzz a popular destination for more than twenty years

QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS

4209 LASSITER MILL ROAD, #100; 919-828-1588; QUAILRIDGEBOOKS.COM Founded in 1984 (at a different location), Quail Ridge features all the best bits of an independent bookstore and is a lovely place to while away an hour or two. The shelves are full

of carefully curated selections, and the aisles are full of helpful and knowledgeable staff.

Also, Quail Ridge’s calendar is constantly packed with visiting authors and literary figures, from the famous to the soon-to-be.

SCOUT AND MOLLY’S

4120 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-754-8430; SCOUTANDMOLLYS.COM Women’s clothing from a variety of designers. Stylists help you find the right look.

VERMILLION

4321 LASSITER AT NORTH HILLS AVENUE; 919-787-9780; VERMILLIONSTYLE.COM Designers such as rag & bone, Balenciaga, Pero, Diane Cotton, and many more await well-heeled high-fashion shoppers.

WOOF GANG BAKERY AND GROOMING

4158 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS; 919-833-5263, WOOFGANGBAKERY.COM Pamper your pooch with a grooming session or a special chew toy, holistic food, or a doggie birthday cake.

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THE ART BOX

INSIDE THE BANK OF AMERICA TOWER, 4242 SIX FORKS ROAD; VISITNORTHHILLS.COM/LOCATION/THEART-BOX A collaboration between the N.C. Museum of Art and North Hills, The Art Box features rotating displays of regional and North Carolina artists. The current installation, which will run for a year, showcases the work of Raleigh artist Nate Sheaffer.

KINGS DINING AND ENTERTAINMENT

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

FLOUR POWER KIDS COOKING STUDIO

201 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET; 919-889-7257; FLOURPOWERSTUDIOS.COM From preschoolers to teens, kids learn kitchen skills while having fun at camps, classes, kidsnight-out events, and birthday parties.

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MIDTOWN FARMERS MARKET

NORTH HILLS COMMONS, 4160 MAIN STREET; VISITNORTHHILLS.COM/EVENT/ MIDTOWN-FARMERS-MARKET-25 This producers-only market happens every Saturday morning (8–noon) from April through November and features local produce and meats, homemade breads, and hand-crafted items.

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he term “north Raleigh” is about as precise as the adjective “cool”—it means something different to everyone who hears it. Some say it’s the area between Capital Boulevard and Leesville Road.

Others take it farther east; still MIDTOWN PARK 4011 CARDINAL AT NORTH HILLS STREET; others take it farther west.

VISITNORTHHILLS.COM/LOCATION/ Generally, everyone includes MIDTOWN-PARK/ everything north of the Beltline This greenspace has a stage at one end, until you get to Wake Forest, which fronted by an interactive fountain. It’s no doubt feels a tad concerned home to community events, plays, and about Raleigh creeping ever closer concerts. to it. For our purposes, we’re REGAL CINEMAS NORTH treating north Raleigh as a large HILLS rectangle with smudged lines on 4150 MAIN AT NORTH HILLS STREET; each end and a chunk (known as 844-462-7342, EXT. 1305 North Hills, which is its own beast) Want to catch the latest Marvel release on missing from the bottom. You’ll the big screen? This stadium-seating theater need a car to explore the whole has you covered. thing, but there are plenty of places to park and walk, bike, or play.

MUST COMPASS ROSE BREWERY

3201 NORTHSIDE DRIVE, #101; 919-875-5683; COMPASSROSEBREWERY.COM This fine ten-barrel brewery opened in 2015. The taproom has more than fifty-five hundred square feet of space and a mix of long tables for groups and smaller ones if you’re feeling less social.

Compass Rose makes excellent beer in a variety of styles and usually has about ten of them on tap.

If that isn’t enough for you, they also sell quite a few from other brewers. Just remember, when you think you’re lost, that means you’re almost there—it’s tucked away in an industrial park area.

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BANGKOK THAI

13200 NEW FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-554-1561; BANGKOKTHAINC.COM This super-simple Thai restaurant sits in a relatively unremarkable strip mall in Wakefield (think way north Raleigh). It’s everything you’d want out of an easygoing Thai spot and nothing more.

BIG ED’S NORTH

5009 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-747-9533; BIGEDSNORTH.COM The northern outpost of the Big Ed’s Restaurant located downtown is the place to go for Southern cooking. Breakfast features such options as red eye gravy, herring roe, fatback, and fried catfish biscuits.

CHUCK & BUCK CONES N CUPS

4610-B CAPITAL BOULEVARD; 919-887-2992; RALEIGHICECREAM.COM You wouldn’t know it from the outside, but this shop in a Capital Boulevard strip mall holds its own with the best ice cream parlors we’ve ever encountered. Get the cookies and cream.

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DANTE’S ITALIANO

13200 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-556-2146; DANTESITALIANO.COM This Italian spot is small—about twenty tables—so unless you have a reservation, you may want to avoid going on a busy night.

People rave about the bread.

DAYLIGHT DONUTS

7550 CREEDMOOR ROAD; 919-676-7442; DAYLIGHTDONUTS.COM Daylight Donuts has been addressing Raleigh’s pastry needs since 1990. Varieties include Oreo, Toasted Coconut with Vanilla Frosting, and Boston Crème, along with more traditional flavors.

FOGATA BRAVA

3351 CYPRESS PLANTATION DRIVE; 919-977-0168; FOGATABRAVA.COM Designed to give off an urban cantina vibe, Fogata Brava’s menu is smaller than your typical Mexican restaurant, but its ambitions are grander.

GONZA TACOS Y TEQUILA

7713-39 LEAD MINE ROAD; 919-846-5478; GONZATACOSYTEQUILA.COM Before opening three other locations, the original Gonza nestled in a small shopping

PHO SUPER 9

6401 TRIANGLE PLANTATION DRIVE, #111; 919-878-1599; PHOSUPER9.COM Right across Capital Boulevard from Triangle Town Center, Pho Super 9 is a casual Vietnamese spot with an excellent selection of pho, or Vietnamese noodle soups. Quiet, comfortable, and affordable.

RELISH CRAFT KITCHEN & BOURBON BAR

5625 CREEDMOOR ROAD; 919-787-1855; RELISHRALEIGH.COM Relish is a Southern-inspired yet adventurous restaurant. Allot a few extra zminutes to read the huge menu, and pay particular attention to the relishes (sauces) that come with the various dishes.

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center off Lead Mine Road. Gonza features a tasty menu of contemporary Mexican dishes and a vast selection of tequilas. The atmosphere is festive and fun.

MARGAUX’S

8111 CREEDMOOR ROAD; 919-846-9846; MARGAUXSRESTAURANT.COM Margaux’s has been on the Raleigh scene for twenty-five years. Its menu changes frequently, but keep an eye out for appetizers such as crispy fried oysters with red pepper

remoulade and bacon dressing and entrees such as pan-fried venison with parsnip puree.

MILTON’S PIZZA & PASTA

8853 SIX FORKS ROAD, 14520 NEW FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-847-0604 AND 919-570-9099; MILTONSPIZZA.COM This locally owned pizza-and-pasta joint has been a go-to family-friendly north Raleigh restaurant since 1983. The pasta is good, but the pizza is where Milton’s shines.

RISE BISCUITS AND DONUTS 6325 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD, 984-200-5751; RISEBISCUITSDONUTS.COM Head here to indulge in sweet and savory breakfast fare and coffee. We recommend the Fruity Pebbles.

SALSA FRESH

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

SASSOOL

9650 STRICKLAND ROAD; 919-847-2700; SASSOOL.COM Neomonde’s sister restaurant serves Mediterranean food that’s second to none, at least around here. Get the four-item sampler and load it up with hummus, baba ghanouj, stuffed grape leaves, and tabouli.

TARBOUCH

5645 CREEDMOOR ROAD; 919-239-4408; TARBOUCH-NC.COM Tarbouch is exactly what you want from a Greek lunch spot. Casual, quick, tasty.

VINNIE’S STEAKHOUSE AND TAVERN 7440 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-847-7319; VINNIESSTEAKHOUSE.COM

Vinnie’s is on the white-linen end of the steakhouse spectrum, but its tavern is more laidback, while still offering the full dinner menu.

ZEST CAFE & HOME ART

8831 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-848-4792 The cafe features a changing menu of contemporary American fare. Some regulars say Zest’s coconut cake is the best in town.

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There are also plenty of regional sodas on the shelves, as well as enough different candies to send the entire city into sugar shock.

7713 LEAD MINE ROAD; 919-526-7262; BOTTLEREV.COM

5045 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-809-8914; THEBUTCHERSMARKETS.COM Quality meats and other edibles from area producers are available here, but if you have a taste for something more exotic, wild boar, rattlesnake, elk, duck, and buffalo could be on offer.

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BOTTLE REVOLUTION

One of six Bottle Revolution locations, this spot offers a well-curated selection of bottles and cans to take home, plus about a dozen craft beers on tap.

BOTTLEMIXX

8111 CREEDMOOR ROAD, #153; 919-615-1703; BOTTLEMIXX.COM

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JUBALA COFFEE

8450 HONEYCUTT ROAD; 919-758-8330; JUBALACOFFEE.COM

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Jubala is the coffee shop that Falls of Neuse Road needed. It’s almost always crowded. Be sure to try one of the fresh, crumbly biscuits.

LYNNWOOD GRILL & BREWING CONCERN

4821 GROVE BARTON ROAD; 919-785-0043; LYNNWOODGRILL.COM Lynnwood’s got some of the best local beer around. Here’s proof: Lynnwood Brewing Concern placed third-best in the nation at the 2017 U.S. Open Beer Championship.

THE PICKLED ONION

10750 WAKEFIELD COMMONS DRIVE; 919-848-4161; THEPICKLEDONIONRESTAURANT.COM This longtime drinking establishment recently relocated to this spot, but expect it to continue offering plenty of food, booze, and TV screens.

PIPER’S TAVERN

8304 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-676-7413; THEPIPERSTAVERN.COM Think sports bar meets Irish pub—a great place to have a drink and watch a Panthers game or simply decompress after a mindnumbing afternoon commute on I-40.

SOLA COFFEE CAFE

7705 LEAD MINE ROAD; 919-803-8983; SOLACOFFEE.COM Durham-based Counter Culture Coffee is served here, along with a comprehensive cafe-style menu, pastries, and several local craft beers on tap. You’ll find a nice mix of folks hanging out, from laptoppers to families with children.

THE BUTCHER’S MARKET

6675 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 984-242-0039; FIGHTORFLIGHTCOMICS.COM A haven for comic book enthusiasts of any age, Fight or Flight keeps its walls lined with racks of comics and classic posters of graphic lore. There’s a nice mix of comics, with plenty aimed at mature audiences as well as releases suitable for the youngest of budding comic fans. The owners know their stuff and are unfailingly helpful.

HARMONY FARMS

5653 CREEDMOOR ROAD; 919-782-0064; HARMONY-FARMS.NET Harmony Farms sells fresh, organic produce and groceries and makes smoothies and juices on site.

LAFAYETTE VILLAGE

8450 HONEYCUTT ROAD; 919-714-7447; LAFAYETTEVILLAGERALEIGH.COM Despite its kitschy faux-French theme, this little shopping center actually contains a number of gems, including Crafty Beer Shop, Orrman’s Cheese Shop, and The Chocolate Boutique. There’s plenty of parking, too.

NORA AND NICKY’S

6520 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-876-1181; NORAANDNICKYS.COM Add unique and fashionable pieces to your wardrobe at this charming North Ridge consignment clothing store.

TLC FOR BIKES

8480 HONEYCUTT ROAD, #126; 919-324-4966; TLCFORBIKES.COM The purveyors of this quaint bike shop are always up for a conversation about their favorite subject. They sell clothing, accessories, and bikes, and also do maintenance on your two-wheeler.

ROCKET FIZZ

5017 FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD; 919-706-5142 If you’re looking for unusual sodas—Bacon flavor? Key lime pie flavor? Check and check—Rocket Fizz is your destination.

6320 CAPITAL BOULEVARD; 984-200-0186 The third and newest location of the popular Triangle comics purveyor. There’s a reason Ultimate keeps growing—it’s an excellent resource for the comics fan.

7414 CREEDMOOR ROAD; 919-521-4963; UNLEASHEDMUTT.COM Unleashed has most anything your furry companion needs, as well as friendly answers to your more technical pet questions.

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ADVENTURE LANDING

3311 CAPITAL BOULEVARD; 919-372-3603; RALEIGH. ADVENTURELANDING.COM Go-karts, laser tag, batting cages, miniature golf, and a gaming arcade should keep even the most hyper kid (or adult) entertained.

BUFFALOE LANES

5900 OAK FOREST DRIVE; 919-876-5681; BUFFALOELANES.COM Bowling—period. This alley doesn’t serve fancy cocktails and it’s not hip, but for those who grew up in north Raleigh, Buffaloe Lanes was a regular high school hangout. The only downside is it’s alcohol-free.

CAPITAL AREA GREENWAY SYSTEM

MAP AVAILABLE AT RALEIGHNC.GOV Technically, the comprehensive Raleigh greenway system covers the whole city; it’s nearly possible to bike a complete loop around Raleigh without leaving the trail. But even when the trail bumps up against major thoroughfares or busy neighborhoods, it almost always remains wooded and quiet. You can park and hop on the greenway at several different locations in north Raleigh, including Falls Dam and Shelley Lake.

COCONUT CHARLIE’S BUMP’N BOUNCE

7409 SIX FORKS ROAD; 919-307-8495; BUMPNBOUNCE.COM A huge indoor soft playground and collection of inflatables with open play every day for kids up to twelve.

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DURANT NATURE PRESERVE

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

FALLS DAM

9745 FONVILLE ROAD Both sides of Falls Dam, which creates Falls Lake and opens to the Neuse River, offer some picturesque spots for playing. You can fish, kayak, hike, run, and bike in and around the water. And there’s no better place to watch the sunset than from atop the dam.

MILLBROOK EXCHANGE PARK

1905 SPRING FOREST ROAD; 919-996-4156; RALEIGHNC.GOV This city park was built in 1971 and has become a recreation destination for north

Raleigh. It features basketball and tennis courts, two playgrounds, a community center with fitness equipment, a pool, dog park, picnic shelters, and several big fields.

NORTH RALEIGH ARTS AND CREATIVE THEATER

7713-51 LEAD MINE ROAD; 919-866-0228; NRACT.ORG NRACT is a community theater tucked away in a strip mall off Lead Mine Road. It presents several live plays and musicals a year and also offers a variety of theater classes.

SHELLEY LAKE & SERTOMA ARTS CENTER 1400 WEST MILLBROOK ROAD; 919-996-2329; RALEIGHNC.GOV

A paved, two-mile trail loops around this small lake. It’s perfect for a walk and conversation, or simply to take in a sunset from a park bench. Also on site is the Sertoma Arts Center, which offers classes and workshops for aspiring artists.

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Lesley White is the founder of Peak City Puppy, a company built around her own four-legged family: “As a busy working professional in RTP, I was frustrated with the lack of good options for our dogs when I needed to stay late at work or get them the exercise they needed. I had a lot of experience with other companies and a few individuals and finally realized that I could offer something better. I personally screen, hire and train each of my employees and we really do operate like a family.

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WHY SETTLE FOR A CAKE CONE WHEN YOU CAN HAVE THAI ROLLED ICE CREAM, SOURSOP PALETAS, OR MACARON ICE CREAM SANDWICHES?

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hat do Unicorn Poop, Black Magic, and Monkey Business have in common?

They are all ice cream flavors at Milk Lab, a Cary treat shop that specializes in Thai rolled ice cream, a street-food treat that’s popular in Thailand and Vietnam.

Our food scene is exploding, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we’d be spoiled for choice when it comes to sating our summertime cravings for frozen desserts. But still, it’s a pleasant surprise to see just how far we’ve come from scoops and sundaes. We’re not saying you should give up your neighborhood ice cream shop, but summer’s scorching temperature is the perfect excuse for ordering beyond the scoop.

Milk Lab’s flavors of Thai rolled ice cream may be unconventional, but co-owner Bin Chen uses top-notch ingredients and a house-made ice cream base to deliver a quality rendition. Once you pick your flavor, a liquid ice cream base is poured onto a frozen stainless-steel surface and topped with ingredients like Fruity Pebbles and caramel sauce (Unicorn Poop); pineapple chunks, pineapple puree, and activated coconut charcoal, (Black Magic); or Nutella and banana slices (Monkey Business). Once the ice cream starts to freeze, it’s smoothed, scraped, rolled, and artfully arranged into cups for you to customize with unlimited toppings such as fresh fruit, nuts, or Pocky Sticks.

Raleigh Rolls, located in the Morgan Street Food Hall, is also getting in on the Thai rolled ice cream trend, with flavors like Grandma’s Nanner Puddin’. A vanilla ice cream base is mixed and rolled with bananas and vanilla wafers, then topped with wafers, sliced bananas, and whipped cream to mimic the flavors of the classic Southern dessert.

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taco shell. But the real draws here are the paletas. The profusion of ice cream and paletería shops in Mexico, including one owned

by Eric Torres’s grandfather, inspired him to open Vida Dulce in Cary.

His homemade paletas come in more than sixty flavors, including both dairyand fruit-based varieties. Unlike the usual American popsicles, which are commonly made with artificial flavors and processed sugars, paletas are prepared using natural ingredients such as fresh fruits, spices, and nuts. Look for standbys like chocolate, coconut, and pineapple, as well as unique flavors such as horchata—a milky, iced Mexican beverage made with rice—or carrot yogurt, which gets its exceptionally satisfying texture from crushed pecans, cranberries, and finely grated carrots.

The fruit paletas are water-based (and vegan) and include flavors like mango, blueberry, and the ultra-refreshing soursop, a bright green, spiky fruit native to the Caribbean that tastes like strawberries and pineapple.

In Durham, LocoPops also offers a diverse line-up of water- and cream-based paletas. Owner Summer Bicknell spent three months in Mexico learning the proper craftsmanship for producing paletas using fresh fruit purees and unique flavor combinations.

Bicknell brought back several traditional recipes to add to her menu and dreamt up a few of her own. Distinctive flavors like chocolate brownie, Mexican chocolate, and mojito are year-round fixtures, while guest stars like Fluffernutter and watermelonginger limeade appear seasonally. Bicknell uses all-natural produce to ensure that all her fruits and vegetables are free of toxins; she sources ingredients locally when possible, such as peaches and spearmint from Funny Girl Farm in Durham.

The Spicy Mango popsicle at Vida Dulce in Cary PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA Even staples like ice cream sandwiches are getting a gourmet upgrade. At Raleigh bakery-cafe lucettegrace, owner Daniel Benjamin riffs on the classic using his perennially popular macarons as a base. Benjamin makes a larger version of the macaron shell, a delicate French cookie made of egg-whites, sugar, and finely ground almonds. Typically, macarons contain a piped-in filling, but it turns out they’re a fine match for scoops of Benjamin’s house-made strawberries-andcream or chocolate-chip-cookie-dough ice cream, too.

Bittersweet, a downtown Raleigh cocktail and dessert bar, incorporates both booze and sugar into its ice cream sandwiches.

The Salty Chipwich features a sweet and savory combination of chocolate-chip-seasalt cookies that clasp house-made vanilla

ice cream, rolled in bourbon caramel corn. If you’re thinking that this sounds like a stoner’s dream, you’re right. Owner Kim Hammer says it was inspired by offduty line cooks who came in one night with a serious case of the munchies. The labor-intensive dessert takes three days to make, allowing ample time for the dough to rest and freeze, and has been such a hit that Hammer has had to enforce a twosandwich-per-customer limit.

“I just really love desserts that change as you eat them and let you interact in a lot of different ways,” Hammer says. “It tells us to focus on what we are eating and enjoy the experience instead of just unconsciously shoveling food into our bodies.”

Unless you’ve got the munchies. food@indyweek.com

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Speaking in Tongues RESTLESS MUSICIAN RYAN GUSTAFSON EMBRACES BEING A FOLK-ROCK GEM ON UNSUNG PASSAGE

BY ALLISON HUSSEY

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orth Carolina music history is lousy with singer-songwriters, from classic examples like John D. Loudermilk and James Taylor to a younger set that includes Ryan Adams and Tift Merritt. More recently, Ryan Gustafson—a longtime Carrboro fixture who decamped to Asheville four years ago—has quietly established himself as an essential entry in that canon.

While he may not have major-label winds in his sails, Gustafson has a knack for writing songs that are gently heartbreaking and subtly stunning. On the new Unsung Passage, he makes that case even stronger.

Gustafson issued his solo debut, Donkey, in 2009 under his own name, but within a few years adopted the moniker of The Dead Tongues to help delineate his identities clearly. He wasn’t used to being identified as a singer-songwriter; he’d always been in a group.

“I don’t know if it was a mixture of being self-conscious, or if I actually just needed to step away from my name for it to make sense, and to be able to develop these ideas about it as opposed to ideas directly about myself,” he explains. “I liked being able to get a little bit away from myself and just let it be its own

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world as opposed to my everyday world. It’s pretty much the same thing, but it’s easier for me to make sense of it with a name.”

As The Dead Tongues, Gustafson has issued some of the sturdiest, most enrapturing folk-rock records anywhere of the past few years. Gustafson released Unsung Passage in May, having written it in pieces over the past two or so years while touring extensively in the United States and Europe as a hired gun for Phil Cook and Hiss Golden Messenger. The songs ride along an undercurrent of undefined heartache, with Gustafson’s vocals emphasizing a weary spirit on “Clip Your Wings” and “The Broken Side of People Everywhere.”

They feel as comfortable as a family heirloom quilt and yet sparkle like one-of-akind gems, from the open airiness of “My Other” to the groovy stomp of “Thunder and Crash.”

Though it may not be immediately evident in his songs, Gustafson cites Appalachian old-time music—pre-World War II songs and ballads that are frequently heavy on fiddle and banjo—as one of the most significant influences for his work.

“A lot of old time music is only four chords and a few notes, but for some reason, there’s something written inside people that is moved by these simplistic things,” he says.

“I’ve done lots of different types of music, but I feel like this is what’s innately most comfortable for me to express in a way that is satisfying to me, and I feel like it is actually doing what I want it to do,” he says.

Before locking his attention on folkinclined rock songs, Gustafson’s efforts were far more scattered. There was the alt-rock of Boxbomb, the pop-leaning rock of Max Indian, and the gentle electronic compositions of The Daughter Is Ambiguous, another solo effort. But following the threads of old-time and folk music felt the most natural for Gustafson.

“Some people are freaks of nature, and they can just do it. It’s taken me a while to find a voice that I feel comfortable with,” he says.

Between 2013’s Desert and 2016’s Montana, Gustafson met another musician who would help him further hone what he wanted to be doing with his music: Minnesota banjo player Charlie Parr. Following an introduction via Phil Cook, Gustafson worked on Parr’s 2015 LP, Stumpjumper,

“Some people are freaks of nature, and they can just do it.

It’s taken me a while to find a voice that I feel comfortable with.” where he absorbed Parr’s ragged but lightning-fast approach to clawhammer banjo.

Witnessing Parr in action clicked a few things into place for Gustafson about how he wanted to approach his own craft.

“I just made all of these connections in my head, and that’s when I went and wrote Montana, right after doing that record with him,” Gustafson says. “I got my fingerpicking chops up, and it felt like it really set me down this one path of things making sense for a little bit.”

The difference between Montana and Desert is subtle yet striking in that regard— where his songs were loose and relaxed on the former, Gustafson’s carefully honed picking adds a new layer of detail to songs like “Empire Builder” and “Stained Glass Eyes” on the latter. On Unsung Passage,

THE DEAD TONGUES Saturday, July 21, 8 p.m., $12–$14 Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro www.catscradle.com

those chops stand out on sprightly banjo line leads in “The Giver,” while a glimmering web of guitar makes for a soft complement to the taut, popping percussion on “Pale November Dew.” Gustafson’s albums as The Dead Tongues so far feel like a game of oneupmanship against himself, with each new release somehow outstripping its predecessor. The circumstances of Unsung Passage’s construction seem to indicate that the perpetual motion of life on the road suits Gustafson’s spirit, and he seems to have his eye on following his songs as far as they’ll take him. One thing’s for certain: when it comes to reliably excellent records, Ryan Gustafson will always have something to offer. ahussey@indyweek.com

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PUNCH BROTHERS

Sunday, July 22, 8 p.m., $35–$183 Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham www.dpacnc.com

Big Fat Gap

PUNCH BROTHERS MAY BE PACKED WITH TALENT, BUT THEIR NEW RECORD, ALL ASHORE, BARELY STAYS AFLOAT

BY ALLISON HUSSEY

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unch Brothers has always been a band of big leaps. Its mere existence is a feat of sleight of hand. Its components—mandolin, banjo, fiddle, acoustic guitar, and upright bass—indicate a bluegrass ensemble on paper, but their music has always rejected any and all genre qualifiers. Led by mandolin titan Chris Thile, the group tugs at threads of jazz, classical, pop, rock, country, and yes, sometimes bluegrass, for its distinct amalgam. But with their new record, All Ashore, Punch Brothers flounder rather than fly, revealing the widening gap between Thile’s roles as a personality and a songwriter.

Punch Brothers’ members have always been far too talented to limit their skills to a single pursuit, and in the years between 2015’s The Phosphorescent Blues and the new All Ashore, they’ve naturally busied themselves with other projects. Guitarist Chris Eldridge issued his second sublime album with jazz phenom Julian Lage, and banjo player Noam Pikelny delivered another scintillating solo record; fiddler Gabe Witcher produced both of those LPs as well as Sara Watkins’s Young in All the Wrong Ways. Bassist Paul Kowert released a record called Useless with his other band, Hawktail, in addition to touring with Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings.

Thile, meanwhile, has stepped into the full-time role as the host of Live from Here, rebranded as such after it came to light that A Prairie Home Companion’s Garrison Keillor had trouble keeping his hands and lusty thoughts to himself. (Thile’s Punch Brethren have joined him frequently on the program.) Thile has always been a chatty, cheeky performer whose onstage banter is as much a part of the show as any of his songs. The variety-show format suits him unabashedly well, allowing him to vamp as a talking head while still playing plenty of music. But while Thile has amped up his ringleader showmanship, the show’s hoary eclecticism has seeped into Punch Brothers’ songs, to their overall detriment.

Punch Brothers PHOTO BY JOSH GOLEMAN There are more than a few head-scratchers across All Ashore. A line like “The struggle is fake, the triumph is real,” from “It’s All Part of the Plan,” sounds like something written by a buggy automaton trying to make clickbait content for millennials, not a man who has won a MacArthur “genius” grant.

The record’s second track, “The Angel of Doubt,” falls off the deep end in its fourth quarter, with Thile heading full-throttle into a bizarre spoken-word/slam-poetry passage while the rest of the band locks into a low-end groove. Thile’s lyrics have often addressed anxieties and uncertainties in the fields of love, religion, and life at large, but his stream-of-consciousness ruminations on “The Angel of Doubt” carry little weight.

The message in no way justifies Thile’s thoroughly corny means.

But “Jumbo” is All Ashore’s most unfortunate offender. With Donald Trump Jr. as its unnamed antagonist, “Jumbo”

marks first time Punch Brothers have gotten overtly political on an album, alluding to the lesser Trump’s various flailings: his general ineptitude, his posing with a horrifying trophy of a dead elephant’s tail, his probable meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

The song fails to leverage much in the form of sharp criticism or satire; instead, it’s built from cheap, obvious shops at Trump Jr.’s plain oafishness. “Here comes Jumbo/ American as gumbo” is the cringe-inducing start to the song’s chorus. As a whole, the song is rude but not too rude, lest the discourse get too uncivil. As Thile sings, “Privileged is a pretty hard thing to be,” he’s apparently unaware of the irony of including such a line in an ultra-lite “resistance” song that feels on par with The Simpsons’ Nelson Muntz pointing and shouting, “ha-ha!”

Part of the thrill of earlier Punch Brothers records was the knowledge that the band was constantly trying to propel itself forward,

achieved through employing effects pedals and percussion on Who’s Feeling Young Now? and The Phosphorescent Blues. But All Ashore generally lacks that same ambitious energy.

The album’s instrumental numbers are precise and delightful, but they also sound as though they could fit almost anywhere in the band’s back catalog. That is to say, the songs where the band should be shining brightest instead leave you wondering where the spark went. “Jungle Bird,” like 2012’s “Squirrel of Possibility,” is the one where the band shows off its bluegrass side a little more.

Even “Three Dots and a Dash,” All Ashore’s high water mark, recalls the fluidity of 2013’s “Flippen” or the entirety of the band’s 2010 EP, All of This Is True.

All Ashore’s title alludes to some sort of grand new adventure, but in the context of Punch Brothers’ discography, it mostly just sounds like they’ve run aground. ahussey@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 7.18.18 | 27

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Old Dogs, New Tricks

MANBITES DOG THEATER VETS REGROUP AS BULLDOG ENSEMBLE THEATER TO TRY TO CARRY ON THE COMPANY’S HIGH STANDARDS. BUT FIRST, THEY HAVE TO FIND A PLAY. BY BYRON WOODS

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fter Manbites Dog Theater announced its impending closure last fall, it didn’t take long for strong mixed emotions to arise among the artists and technicians who’d found a theatrical home there. Dramaturge and actor Akiva Fox doesn’t think he was alone in his first reaction—extreme gratitude to cofounders Ed Hunt and Jeff Storer for their thirty years of labor—or his second. “[It was] panic,” Fox says, “because that home was going away.”

As these lost souls exchanged thoughts at shows and over coffee during the subsequent months, a group coalesced that was determined to keep producing the kind of work that placed Manbites at the forefront of the region’s independent theaters. At present, they number more than twenty: a who’s-who of notable designers, directors, playwrights, technicians, and actors, all intent on filling what Fox calls “the Manbites Dog-shaped hole in the community.” Their name, Bulldog Ensemble Theater, reflects their focus on extending that legacy. Their first show is planned to open in September at The Fruit.

Bulldog is not an official successor to Manbites, which will transition into a support and granting agency for Triangle theater artists in 2019.

“We want to be able to strike out on our own,” Fox says, “and not only do some of the things they did well, but things they didn’t get a chance to do.”

Bulldog also plans to offer classes in acting and playwriting in conjunction with the Durham Arts Council this fall. The goal, says playwright Howard Craft, is to “help bring up the next group of creatives in the community.”

Still, in its approach to programming and organizing principles, Bulldog is clearly patterning itself after its predecessor. Even the company’s projected first-season budget, $100,000 for four productions, is based on a model from the senior company.

Top row from left: Akiva Fox, Alex Maness, Sonya Drum, Thaddeus Edwards, Lakeisha Coffey, and Steve Tell. Bottom row from left: Lenore Field, JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell, Marconi (the dog), and Marshall Botvinick. PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA Bulldog’s first choice for its inaugural production, the 2015 off-Broadway comedy The Legend of Georgia McBride, had a number of qualities the company is interested in, according to Fox and dramaturge Marshall Botvinick. It would have been the North Carolina premiere of a recent American work with an edgy but bridge-building approach to gender issues, as a seasoned gay performer teaches a desperate, failing, straight Elvis impersonator how to become a drag queen.

But when Bulldog learned that Raleigh’s Honest Pint Theatre had already chosen the script for its 2019 season opener, they didn’t have an immediate substitute. At press time, after weeks of deliberation, the company still hadn’t chosen its replacement or announced

any first-season shows. But it has chosen three directors: JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell, artistic director of Black Ops Theatre Company; Process Series founder Joseph Megel; and Jules Odendahl-James, who was associate artistic director at Manbites Dog. “It takes a lot of reading to select a season,” says Botvinick, who estimates that Bulldog’s literary-management committee has read fifty to seventy plays. “We’re interested in works with the potential to speak to us on a local level and as a part of a larger conversation in our national and historical moment.”

Odendahl-James believes that people went to Manbites Dog plays in part to see how characters in a recognizable world survive when that world doesn’t do what it’s supposed to.

“I go to the theater to learn how to live in a constantly changing universe, not a perfect one, or one I have all the answers to,” she says.

Odendahl-James is excited about “the conversations we’re going to be a part of that were unavailable twenty years ago. What can you say and how can you say it now in ways that weren’t even possible back then?” One way is through gender parity; the company plans to achieve it with an equal number of male and female playwrights and directors in its first season.

No company could attempt to follow Manbites Dog’s legacy without focusing on community. On its website, bulldogdurham.org, Bulldog unambiguously states its locally sourced ambitions: Of Durham, By Durham, For Durham.

“We’re all longtime artists in Durham, and our vision for Durham is still evolving,” Odendahl-James says. The company aims to reflect Durham’s diversity—in race, gender,

“We want to be able to strike out on our own, and not only do some of the things Manbites Dog did well, but things they didn’t get a chance to do.”

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and age—which Craft says was “organic” at Manbites Dog because the people involved were living and active in the community. For Craft, the lesson is obvious: If you want to create diverse audiences, stage diverse work with diverse casts.

“If you don’t feel like theater belongs to you, we’re going to do shows that reflect as many of the different communities in Durham as possible,” Fox says. “We don’t mind being the first place someone comes to see a play.” arts@indyweek.com

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GOBLIN MARKET 

Through Sunday, Jul. 22 Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh www.womenstheatrefestival.com It’s worth pulling out that old Norton Anthology again to remember Christina Rossetti’s 1862 poem, “Goblin Market,” a fantastical story of Victorian-era sisters tempted by literally forbidden fruits and the fate that befalls them when one succumbs. Scholars have noted the sexual and corporate metaphors Rossetti pursues as teenage siblings Laura and Lizzie are relentlessly marketed to and seduced by the enigmatic half-human, half-animal title characters, whose sumptuously described produce proves first addictive and then poisonous.

When composer Polly Pen realized that a conventional musical theater approach would strip the magic from this rich and darkly verdant tale—sorry, no eleven-o’clock-number here—she and playwright Peggy Harmon wrote a delicate chamber operetta instead. In this double-cast Women’s Theatre Festival production, I heard Elizabeth Galbraith and Jemeesa Yarborough, one of the production’s two duos, expertly sing the twin soprano roles against an orchestral quartet under Katherine Anderson’s discerning musical direction. The resulting music was as beguiling as Rossetti’s text.

In her directorial mainstage debut at the festival she founded in 2016, artistic director Ashley Popio adds an intriguing layer of complexity. She bifurcates the sisters, her singers becoming adults looking back at their younger selves, as choreographer Jennifer Palmer and Carolina Ballet dancer Carmen Felder portray the characters’ unwise adolescent indulgence in a wordless, mimetic dance.

The design team exhibits compelling attention to detail. Popio’s costumes depict both Victorian innocence and a darker knowledge of the world, and her fearsome masks give the goblins eldritch power. Candace Hescock’s intricate props and Lisa Suzanne’s dappled lighting complement Miyuki Su’s two-story set of fabric, wood, and illuminated hanging fruit.

True, Harmon’s opening sequence lingers too long as it evokes a remembered world, and Palmer’s promising young choreography plateaus without fully exploring the physical extremities Rossetti describes. Still, Goblin Market’s clear achievements make it the most difficult, ambitious, and successful production in the Women’s Theatre Festival’s three-year history. See it before it closes. —Byron Woods INDYweek.com | 7.18.18 | 29

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK 7.18–7.25 THURSDAY, JULY 19–SATURDAY, JULY 28

NC 10 BY 10

It’s been two years since The ArtsCenter presented the final installment of its short-play festival, 10 By 10 in the Triangle, after a fifteen-year run. The emerging playwrights series, which also regularly introduced us to a host of rising regional actors and directors, has been missed. Cary Playwrights Forum and Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s OdysseyStage share the staging duties in this reboot, with each producing five of the showcase’s ten ten-minute plays. They’ve also changed the focus of the once-international festival to feature only North Carolina playwrights. The works still range from ridiculous to dramatic: A woman in a record store seeks something deeper than the latest hits in Needle Drop, and a college student bears flowers—and an agenda—when he arrives at a teacher’s door one night in When the Wolfbane Blooms. And playwright Ed Southern gives an old Appalachian folktale a different twist in Ol’ Jack Spooks the Devil. After opening at the ArtsCenter this weekend, the production moves to The Cary Theater the next.

—Byron Woods THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO THE CARY THEATER, CARY Jul. 19–22 (Carrboro) & 26–28 (Cary), $10–$18 www.caryplaywrightsforum.org

THURSDAY, JULY 19

BLOWIN’ UP

Protest music can take many forms, from the gently strummed anti-war anthems of the sixties to Rage Against the Machine; from Joe Hill’s pro-union labor songs from the 1910s to the coded spirituals that aided enslaved people in their escape to freedom. Los Angeles’s Las Cafeteras may not explicitly brand themselves as a protest band, but their music speaks to similar themes of struggle and triumph. The ensemble offers a colorful, exuberant blend of Mexican folk music, hip-hop, rock, and more. On “If I Was President,” the lead single from last year’s excellent Tastes Like L.A., the band imagines a future free of poverty and corruption, where clean water flows “from Flint to Cali” and where youth of color can “ride to their future, not their past.” To be sure, Las Cafeteras will get your mind moving just as much as your body. —Allison Hussey

Can you imagine if the courtroom to which intricate global forces inevitably lead sex workers were designed to solve their problems rather than heap punishment on top of them? For the last five years, just such an experiment has been taking place in Queens County, New York, in the Queens Human Trafficking Intervention Court of Toko Serita, which is run by women and seeks the most humane paths through a criminal justice system that holds women who do sex work, voluntarily or not, in greater contempt than those who create the demand, and which overwhelmingly targets undocumented immigrants, people of color, and transgender youth. In Blowin’ Up, which premiered to acclaim at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, director Stephanie Wang-Breal takes us into Serita’s courtroom and nonjudgmentally unveils the variety and complexity of the situations that brought these women there. The film is still making the festival rounds, with no theatrical release announced yet, but you can see it Thursday in the Full Frame Summer Road Show. —Brian Howe

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25

LAS CAFETERAS

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FRIDAY, JULY 20

CHÉ APALACHE

Bill Monroe, the Kentucky-born mandolin player generally regarded as the father of bluegrass, probably couldn’t have imagined that the style he pioneered would find popularity throughout the United States and around the world. But what happens when the American South meets South America? The Buenos Aires-based band Ché Apalache makes for a fascinating case study for this question with what it calls “latingrass.” Led by Winston-Salem native Joe Troop, the band’s other members hail from Mexico and Argentina, and together they perform traditional music from North and South America with the usual bluegrass suspects—banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and acoustic guitar. Their efforts are an unending delight, from their dizzying take on Flatt & Scruggs’s “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” to the charming, playful swing of “Cambalache.” Opening act Los Angeles de Hidalgo offers a style of traditional music from northeast Mexico known as huasteco. —Allison Hussey THE BULLPEN, DURHAM 8:30 p.m., free, www.thebullpenatc.com

Ché Apalache PHOTO BY MAURO MILANICH

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

THE CAVE: Lucid Jazz; 8 p.m., donations.

DUKE GARDENS: Music in the Gardens: Anna & Elizabeth; 7 p.m., $5-$10, 12 and under free.

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

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

POUR HOUSE: Consider the Source, Magma Opus; 8 p.m., $12.

UNITY CENTER OF PEACE: Freebo and Alice Howe; 7:30 p.m., $20.

THU, JUL 19 2ND WIND: 2 fer; 7:30-9 p.m.

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

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

CAROLINA THEATRE:

Tommy Emmanuel [$38–$47/8 P.M.]

Australian fingerstyle guitarist Tommy Emmanuel has worked as a professional musician since the age of six, when his family packed up their house and created a touring family band. He’s now in his sixties, but still worships at the altar of Chet Atkins, performing with the same cheery mastery of his idol and friend.

—Josephine McRobbie CAT’S CRADLE:

Deafheaven [$18–$20/8 P.M.]

For all its gleeful blasphemy, black metal attracts a peculiar orthodoxy. Any who would claim the genre without adhering to its strictures can expect a polarizing reception.

San Francisco’s Deafheaven is perhaps the most high-profile example. While the band adopts black metal’s harsh austerity and bitter gusts of guitar, Deafheaven infuses it with stadium rock’s soaring

solos, shoegaze’s bright textures, and a knack for pop hooks that contrasts with an equal knack for sprawling songs. The new Ordinary Corrupt Human Love doubles down on all these tendencies for a surging album that betrays every genre it absorbs, for a thrilling entry in the year’s heavy music canon. With Drab Majesty and Uniform.

—Bryan C. Reed CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Joe Pug; 8 p.m., $15-$18.

DEEP SOUTH: Delta Son, Brady Toops, AZULZ; 8 p.m., $10-$13.

POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: The Nitrogen Tone, Metaphonia; 8 p.m., $5.

FRI, JUL 20 2ND WIND: Skinny Bag of Sugar.

BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Lionel Lyles; 7 & 9 p.m., $13.

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

THE BULLPEN: Ché Apalache; 8:30 p.m., free. See page 30.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM_: Skyblew, EyeQ, Taynov, FlapJackk & ODD, Vaughn, Sugelema; 9 p.m., $8-$10.

THE CAVE: Drunken Prayer, Rod Hamdallah, Deadly Lo-Fi; 8 p.m., $10 Suggested donation.

COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK:

Dave Matthews Band [$45+/8 P.M.]

In the mid-nineties, fans of pop music that was loose limbed and quasi-experimental but still extremely commercially viable were searching for a replacement for Jerry Garcia following the Grateful Dead frontman’s death in 1995. They found one in Dave Matthews, whose eponymous folk-rock band tickled the fancies of Haight-Ashbury burnouts and cargo-shorted UVA frat bros alike. Matthews smoothed out the Dead’s crunchier tendencies for commercial sheen, and that veneer has only gotten thicker as the

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years wound on. Case in point: this year’s Come Tomorrow, a collection of Disney-movieready songs so phoned in and glabrous it makes Hootie and the Blowfish sound remotely dangerous. —Patrick Wall DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: Devon Gilfillian; 6 p.m., free.

THE MAYWOOD: Pröwess, Abstract Manner, Antigone; 9 p.m., $10.

MOTORCO:

Chris Webby [$15–$65/9 P.M.]

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The archetypal privileged white guy who yearns to be “urban,” Chris Webby’s rap career started in 2009 after being kicked out of Hofstra University and his frat for trying to rob a drug dealer. As obnoxious as that sounds, he’s been a prolific and skilled independent artist, starting his own label and collaborating with DJ Drama several times. His music is mostly upbeat, and he rhymes with a double-time flow that gets audiences jumping. With Anoyd, Brodie Fresh, Rook, and 3AM. —Charles Morse

MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Curtis Eller; 8:30 p.m., free.

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Belying the doom or gloom implied by its name, Mourn opens last month’s Sorpresa Familia by pairing riot grrrl shouts with jagged guitars and a propulsive bassline. It’s emblematic of the catharsis the Catalonian quartet experiences as it channels pent-up frustration from a years-long battle with their former label into furious rants amplified by visceral postpunk aggression. Captured Track labelmate Chastity references nineties alt-rock on its morbid, menacing debut, stressing the severity of its tortured angst with distorted, piledriver riffs. Lilac Shadows open.

—Spencer Griffith

THE STATION: Hardworker, Winfield, The Affectionates; 9 p.m., $7.

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Her R&B vocals can be bold, gentle, heartfelt, or silky smooth, depending on the needs of the piece and performers. This versatility has led to her providing back up vocals for Mary Mary and Fantasia, but since studying with former Met mezzosoprano and NCCU artist-inresidence Elvira Green, Pearl is primed to take center stage.

—Josephine McRobbie

CAT’S CRADLE: The Dead Tongues; 8 p.m., $12-$14.

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CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Summer Salt, Hot Flash Heat Wave, The Symposium; 8 p.m., $13-$15.

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The Revelers [$12–$15/8 P.M.]

Featuring founding members of Red Stick Ramblers and The Pine Leaf Boys, The Revelers are a supergroup of Louisiana roots musicians equally adept at Cajun and zydeco as country and blues. Sandwiching their Grammy-nominated Get Ready with swamp pop cover EPs, expect a soundtrack of spirited bayou classics and lively originals. Paige Johnson opens.

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CREDIT UNION APER COASTAL MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT APER CREEK: APER Evanescence, Lindsey Stirling APER [$25+/7 P.M.] APER This concert comes with APER strings attached, in the sense that the co-headlining acts— APER the multiplatinum gothic APER alt-rock band Evanescence and Lindsey Stirling, an electric APER violinist, dancer, and YouTube be performing APER sensation—will with a full orchestra. That’ll APER likely work in Stirling’s favor, orchestra grounding her APER the extensively choreographed APER classical-music-for-millennials Maybe less so with APER pop.

Evanescence, whose dramatic APER hubris and midrange woof with the orchestra’s APER clashes pomp and circumstance.

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opposite Greensboro’s vicious Torch Runner. Bongripper’s excellent new LP, Terminal, claims only two tracks, but with the longest reaching past twenty-five minutes and the shortest coming in past eighteen, it’s safe to say the band takes its time developing the dynamic transitions between its lumbering riffs.

Torch Runner, on the other hand, showcases a broad dynamic palette within feral grindcore sprints, often filling a full album faster than Bongripper can finish a song.

On the undercard, Wilmington’s Toke offers straightforward stoner doom, while Raleigh’s Old Painless delivers a violent outburst of frantic grindcore.

—Bryan C. Reed MOTORCO: Girls Rock NC Showcase for Rising 5th Through 10th Graders; 1 p.m., $10.

POUR HOUSE: The Shakedown performs Creedence Clearwater Revival; 8 p.m., $10-$12.

SAXAPAHAW RIVER AMPHITHEATER: Saturdays in Saxapahaw: John Howie Jr. & the Rosewood Bluff; 6 p.m., donations.

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

SUN, JUL 22 DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3.

FULLSTEAM: The New Hillbillies; 5 p.m., free.

GROWLER GRLZ: Patrick Turner, Stephen Vincent, Uzzie K.; 5 p.m., free.

KINGS:

PC Worship [$8–$10/9 P.M.]

PC Worship keeps it weird.

Led by Brooklyn’s Justin Frye, the band weaves through damaged sounds on its latest, last year’s Buried Wish: janky lo-fi folk (“River Running Sideways”), lunging NYC scum rock (“Blank Touch”; “Back of My $$$”), tripped-out drones (“Lifeless Rain on an Empty Moon”), pounding kraut-psych (“Tranq”), and fever dream Americana (“Tranquil Pain”).

Frye’s stylistic breadth and surprising resonance make his band compelling and strange.

South Carolina’s ET Anderson dissolves its angular indie rock into acidic drones. Enemy Waves take the middle.

—Patrick Wall

One of hip-hop’s most polarizing crews, the members of Dipset—Camron, Juelz Santana, and Jim Jones— blazed a trail throughout the early aughts based on hilariously clever rhymes, inimitable fashion, and loyalty to the Harlem streets they came from. The legacy they established with songs like “Dipset Anthem” and “Hey Ma” excite audiences who were toddlers upon their release—and spawned the creation of A$AP Mob, who carry the Harlem rap torch.

—Charles Morse

MON, JUL 23 MOTORCO: Flash Chorus; 7 p.m., $7-$10.

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

POUR HOUSE: Cave of Swimmers, Shadows, Etiolated; 8 p.m., $5-$7.

THE RITZ:

Janelle Monáe [SOLD OUT/8 P.M.]

Like her most significant mentor, Prince, Janelle Monáe is a once-in-a-generation talent whose creative vision is far bigger than herself. Her music combines R&B and soul with hip-hop and rock, and when Monáe applies her

far-out futuristic vision to it all, she makes you believe that you really can make anything possible for yourself.

—Allison Hussey

TUE, JUL 24 THE CAVE: Ancestor Piratas, Kardashevix; 8 p.m., $5 Suggested donation.

COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK:

Weezer, Pixies [$25–$91/7:15 P.M.]

Last fall’s slick, summery Pacific Daydream continues a trend of uneven Weezer releases on which the band trades crunch for bubbles, its brand of power pop increasingly skewing towards the latter. Though frontman Rivers Cuomo continues to chase modern trends, live sets still lean heavily on the band’s big hits mixed with a selection of lightweight but unquestionably catchy singles from more recent years. Pixies are more likely to wade deep into early catalog cuts during its co-headlining set, those uniquely melodic yet abrasive alternative nuggets inimitable even by the band itself on its recent releases. Sleigh Bells open. —Spencer Griffith MOTORCO:

Fantastic Negrito [$12–$24/8 P.M.]

Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, who goes by the stage name Fantastic Negrito, has cultivated the kind of backstory that inspires such cringe-worthy descriptors as “the drug-dealing hustler who became Bernie Sanders’ favourite bluesman” (thank The Guardian for that one).

But even without the mythmaking persona, Dphrepaulezz inspires attention with his tightly coiled stage presence and cheeky asides. His songs span funk, blues, and R&B, lyrically reworking tropes of each genre into a raw collage that feels totally new.

—Josephine McRobbie

THE PINHOOK:

Shannon and the Clams [$15/9 P.M.]

Shannon and the Clams chuck a vintage jukebox into an industrial blender, using an ample supply of hooks to piece together fragments of girl groups and doo-wop with lo-fi psych and early pop-rock.

Imagine the ideal band to play a retro prom party, complete with reflective songwriting and enchanting vocals to score that final bittersweet slow dance.

Charlotte’s scruffy Paint Fumes sticks to loud blasts of snotty garage-punk scuzz.

—Spencer Griffith POUR HOUSE: Henbrain, Pinky Doodle Poodle; 8 p.m., $6-$8.

WED, JUL 25

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Mega Colossus, Witch Mountain, Bible of the Devil, Demon Eye; 8 p.m., $10.

THE CAVE: Reels, Dead Bedrooms; 8 p.m., $5 Suggested donation.

DUKE GARDENS: Music in the Gardens: Las Cafeteras; 7 p.m., $5-$10, 12 and under free. See page 30.

THE PINHOOK:

Sinner-Songwriter Night [$5/8 P.M.]

This low-key offering presents solo sets by four distinct local voices, but it also marks the debut of a new project by one of those voices. Reid Johnson (of Schooner and more) is the man behind Sun Studies, and the songs he’s developing slot comfortably into his larger catalog, Johnson’s barbiturate baritone nestles sweetly in a humid haze of reverbdrenched acoustic guitar.

Reese McHenry, Scott Phillips (The Monologue Bombs), and Catie Yerkes (Naked Naps) also play short solo sets.

—Patrick Wall POUR HOUSE: Lines In The Sky, Merges, Raid The Quarry; 7 p.m., $7-$10.

THE VAULT AT THE PALACE INTERNATIONAL: Lady Moon & The Eclipse; 7 p.m., $10-$15.

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Jul 23-Aug 26. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

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

Don’t Wait Til It’s Cool: A NC Hip Hop Photography Exhibition: New works by area photographers. Fri, Jul 20, 7 p.m.

Alley Twenty Six, Durham. www.alleytwentysix.com.

SPECIAL Existential Distress: EVENT Drawings by Jessica Burke. Jul 20-Sep 16. Reception: Fri, Jul 20, 6-9 p.m. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

SPECIAL M.E.: Mixed media EVENT by Susie Silver. Jul 20-Sep 16. Reception: Fri, Jul 20, 6-9 p.m. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

SATURDAY, JULY 27

PAUL HRUSOVSKY, PEG BACHENHEIMER, AND RONAN KYLE PETERSON Though it’s full of abstract forms, what could be more concrete than nature? This quiet paradox beats at the heart of the new triple show at Durham’s Craven Allen Gallery, which runs through September 8 after this opening reception. But the three formally diverse exhibits become one in the resonances of their titles and themes. In Layered, FRANK Gallery member artist Peg Bachenheimer shows her imaginative landscapes and abstractions in encaustic wax. In Fecundity, Ronan Kyle Peterson displays wheel-thrown red earthenware that embraces a “comicbook interpretation of ... the perpetual organic comedy of growth and decay.” And in Embellished, former Craven Allen director Paul Hrusovsky comes home with a clutch of new paintings, complicated with stencils and silk screens, which portray organic shapes in what the artist calls “a cacophony of excessive adornment.”

—Brian Howe

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Artspace Corridor Exhibition: Member artists Jane Cheek, Autumn Cobeland, Arsis Fruritch, Joyce Watkins King, and Susan LaMantia.

Thru Jul 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Elizabeth Bradford: Paintings.

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

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

By the Sea: Seascapes and shore living. Thru Sep 1. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com.

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

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

HEATWAVE: Works inspired by summer heat. Thru Aug 5.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com.

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

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

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Intersections: Minimalist and organic works by Danny Laffey, Trudy Thomson, Melanie Stoer, and Marnie J. Blum. Thru Jul 26.

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Ode to Matisse: Oil paintings

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

One Eno: Photography by Holden Richards. Saturdays, Sundays. Thru Aug 12. West Point on the Eno, Durham. www.enoriver.org.

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

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

Rise of the Phoenix – El Ascenso de la Fénix: Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo, Felicity Palma, and Yuko Nogami Taylor. Thru Aug 4. Duke Campus: Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Building), Durham.

LAST Say What Now?: CHANCE New collages by DAG member artist Kathryn

DeMarco. Thru Jul 24.

Golden Belt, Durham. www.goldenbeltarts.com.

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

Solidifying Roots: When we lose family members, we have to figure out what to do with the things they leave behind— emotional and actual. When artist Dale Niles inherited boxes of family images and objects after the death of her mother, she found a way to both keep and combine the figurative and the literal, all in one fell swoop. She made photographs of the memorabilia with the family members she associated the objects with, a way of simultaneously grieving and aesthetically archiving a family history for herself and her children. The resulting exhibit won a Moscow International Foto Gold Award. Thru Aug 19.

Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpreservation.com.

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

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

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

The show includes a generative digital video by Tabor Robak, a virtual reality installation by Jakob Kudsk Steensen, and photos by Lars Jan, among many others. Brooklyn artist Chris Doyle created “Dreams of Infinite Luster,” a digital animation. In it, “All the elements are rendered in gold, the color of lucre—the product, engine, and goal of capitalism.”

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Thru Aug 18. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels. com/durham. —Brian Howe Tandem Transitions: Portals and Hues: Painter Darius Quarles and guest ceramic artist Linda Marcuson. Thru Aug 5.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Three Quilts: Fiber art by Martha Clippinger. Thru Aug 12.

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

LAST Unite and CHANCE Illuminate: Exhibition inspired by Artists United’s The Walls We Build.

Featuring Kenneth Nkosi, Julyan Davis, Bill Brown, Alexis Lavine, Tezh Modarassi, Tinka Jordy, Gayle Stott Lowry, Ben Hamburger, Donn Young, and Katy Bowler. Thru Jul 24.

Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery.net.

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Creative Workshops & Food Truck Fridays: A different food truck and craft workshop every Friday. Fridays, 3-7 p.m. Thru Aug 31. Inspirations Home Decor and More, Raleigh.

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

Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

LAST A World of Glorious CHANCE Color: Thru Jul 24.

Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org.

Bull City Food Swap: Homegrown, handmade, or foraged food swap. Tue, Jul 24, 7 p.m. Bull City Ciderworks, Durham.

Someday: A Brunchy Party for Everyone: Weekly summer brunch series with various guests and activities. Sundays, noon Thru Sep 2. The Durham Hotel, Durham. thedurham.com.

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In the final concert of the American Dance Festival’s 2018 season, three emergent choreographers create and place new works on the pre-professional students in the festival’s Six Week School. Discoveries are often made in the process; the most audacious work of the season, Rosie Herrera’s Make Believe, began in a workshop version there two years ago. We’re wondering if we should fear for the students in Abby Zbikowski’s Tectonic, after Dayton Contemporary Dance Company premiered her endless, grueling endurance piece, Indestructible, last month. By contrast, Dafi Altabeb’s choreography veers between the fierce intimacy of early Kate Weare and Doug Varone’s more percussive group works. And relatively few choreographers include a bibliography in their playbill, so pay attention to Jillian Peña’s, where the discerning, brainy postmodern choreographer name-checks Foucault and Tonya Harding, theorist Mårten Spångberg and Animal Planet’s Insane Pools, and more regarding her new work. Its title? Empire. —Byron Woods

REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER, DURHAM Various times, $12–$43, www.americandancefestival.org

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A.I.M: Kyle Abraham.

American Dance Festival. $12$38. Wed, Jul 18 & Thu, Jul 19.

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

100% Comedy: Local comedians. $5. Third Fridays, 8 p.m. The Cotton Company, Wake Forest. thecottoncompany.net.

Cabaret: PlayMakers’ Summer Youth Conservatory. $10$15. Jul 18-30. PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill.

Disney’s Newsies: Musical. $25+. Jul 24-29. NC Theatre, Raleigh. nctheatre.com.

Danny Duncan: Stand-up comedy. $25-$30.

Wed, Jul 25, 7:30 p.m.

Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro. catscradle.com.

The Monti Storyslam: Frenemies: Live storytelling. $12. Thu, Jul 19, 7:30 p.m.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic.com.

NC 10 by 10: See p. 30. $10-$18. July 19-22. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.

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

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Big Fish: Magical realism is charming, at least until you have to grow up under the same roof with it. Southerners have a longstanding love for the tallest of tales, though most of us know when enough is enough. But not Edward Bloom, the loving but relentlessly selfmythologizing central figure in Big Fish. After Tim Burton made a film version of Chapel Hill author Daniel Wallace’s 1998 best-selling novel, playwright John August and composer Andrew Lippa adapted it as a Broadway musical in 2013.

This iteration differs from the film in enough key points to

keep us guessing. Still, the witches, giants, and Alabama werewolves that populate Edward’s yarns about his life have thoroughly alienated his son, William, and threaten to further estrange him at his upcoming wedding. Then a cancer diagnosis puts a final deadline on both to discern the real home truths of an enigmatic life. $33-$35.

Kennedy Theater, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

—Byron Woods The Dangling Loafer: Comedy. $5. Fri, Jul 20, 8 & 9 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. kingsraleigh.com.

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

Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m.

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Improv at the Varsity: Standup, sketch, and improv comedy. $6. Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.

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SPECIAL SHOWINGS Blowin’ Up: See p. 30. Thu, Jul 19, 7 p.m. Full Frame Theater, Durham.

Moviediva Film Series: The Awful Truth: $7. Wed, Jul 18, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre.org.

Movies Under the Stars: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Free movies atop the parking deck.

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THOMAS O’KEEFE: WAITING TO DERAIL What is it about Whiskeytown that still commands attention nearly two decades after the quintessential Raleigh alt-country band’s breakup? Author Thomas O’Keefe might have some ideas on the topic when he turns up in the band’s hometown to tell some stories from his new book (with Joe Oestreich), Waiting to Derail, which chronicles O’Keefe’s 1997–2000 stint as Whiskeytown’s tour manager. If anybody’s likely to have the inside scoop on the ups and downs that Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary, and the rest of the troupe experienced while they were out there blazing a trail for hordes of Americana acts to follow, it’s O’Keefe. Coming on board right around the time of Strangers Almanac’s release and helping the band fulfill its destiny, at least for a while, the author had a front row seat for the heaviest part of Whiskeytown’s history, and he isn’t shy about sharing it. —Jim Allen

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READINGS & SIGNINGS Nora Gaskin Esthimer: With novel The Worst Thing. Wed, Jul 18, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Scott Reintgen: Nyxia Unleashed launch party. Sat, Jul 21, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

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David Rosenfelt: With novel Rescued. Sat, Jul 21, 11 a.m.

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

LECTURES ETC. TEDxDurhamSalon: Tearing Down Power Structures: Talks about revolutionary change. $15. Tue, Jul 24, 7 p.m. Uptown Bar and Lounge, Durham.

The Equalizer 2—In this thriller, retired CIA operative Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) gets pulled back into the vigilante life—again!—to avenge a murdered friend. Rated R. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again—This romantic comedy serves as both prequel and sequel to the 2008 hit film of the jukebox musical. Rated PG-13.

Unfriended: Dark Web—In this sequel to the 2014 found-footage horror film, a young man discovers some disturbing secret files on a lost laptop. Rated R.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com.  Ant-Man and the Wasp—Marvel takes a goofy, low-stakes break from existential threats. The tone is so agreeable you hardly notice the rickety script.

Rated PG-13.  Deadpool 2—If the first Deadpool movie was a halfhearted R-rated SpiderMan, the sequel is a controlled detonation of the superheromovie template: filthy, funny, and cheerfully ultraviolent.

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THURSDAY, JULY 19

ROCKERS

A buried treasure of Jamaican cinema, Theodoros Bafaloukos’s Rockers is like: take one of those movies where The Beatles play themselves (A Hard Day’s Night, for instance), set it in the reggae scene, slap on the plot of the Italian neorealist classic The Bicycle Thief, and change it into a Robin Hood story. There are probably a lot of terms in that previous sentence that you would not have thought to put together.

Featuring a cast of reggae singers (including Burning Spear and Gregory Isaacs) playing themselves, the 1978 film was supposed to be a documentary but gradually changed into a fictional story that still portrayed authentic Jamaican culture, music, and settings. The patois is so rich that the film has subtitles despite being in English. The screening starts at eight, with hot dogs and a deejay beforehand, but you’ll have to BYO jerk chicken. —Zack Smith

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

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

Rated PG.

½ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom—A murky moral, plain old jump scares, and the diminishing returns of digital dinos weigh on this oncemighty franchise.

Rated PG-13.  RBG—Forgot those Avengers. This doc about pioneering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the best superhero movie of the year. Rated PG.

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

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Yoga in men’s community, Triangle, NC http://www.meetup.com/Yoga-for-Good-Guys/

EATS A tour of the Triangle’s nationally recognized food scene.

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