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6 “We can only conclude that the General Assembly enacted the challenged provisions of [the voter ID law] with discriminatory intent.”

8 The state’s constitutional defense of HB 2 boils down to: “There’s no enforcement.”

10 The crux of the presidential election is this: if Clinton wins Sanders supporters, she wins in a landslide. If not …

14 The secret of Bull City Records’ success has little to do with its business model.

17 Plates with clever substitutes for tired ingredients often fail. Brier Creek Beer Garden’s duck and waffles doesn’t.

18 Three new records by Triangle rock bands convey the weird sensation of searching for something new and familiar.

21 Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s The Beautiful Beast draws its monsters from public folklore and private memory.

23 The rise and fall of Adam O’Fallon Price’s local indie band shaped his debut novel, The Grand Tour.

DEPARTMENTS 5 Backtalk 6 Triangulator 8 News 16 Food 18 Music

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In response to Charlotte losing the NBA All-Star Game over HB 2, Michael Thomas makes an important point: “[Lieutenant Governor Dan] Forest says, ‘We will never value a dollar over a woman’s or child’s safety and security.’ Based on that statement alone, HB 2 should be repealed in an immediate emergency session. The American Academy of Pediatrics has already asked for the repeal of HB 2 because it is hurtful to children. Also, HB 2 puts some Tennessee native women in danger. Tennessee will not change a birth certificate even after gender reassignment surgery, so some women are legally forced to share a bathroom with the likes of Governor McCrory, Phil Berger, Forest, and House Speaker Tim Moore. This isn’t a bathroom horror hypothetical.”

Commenter Nathaniel1 adds: “Still no explanation on how HB 2 protects male children from male pedophiles, so one can only conclude it is really about oppressing trans people. Also, no word on how stripping nondiscrimination protections from LGBTQ people protects women and children in restrooms. It is almost as if the ‘protection’ excuse was thought up after the fact.”

On Barry Yeoman’s exploration of the Republican National Convention last week, wafranklin argues that, these days, being a Republican “means being essentially a traitor. … How anyone can support the lineup of crass, uncivil, unsympathetic, mean racist alleged candidates in the Republican Party is far beyond me. These people have undertaken, primarily as members of White Christian America, to drive any and all they can into theocracy.”

As a counterpoint—posted on Facebook about our story on the N.C. GOP mistaking Tim Kaine’s Blue Star service pin for a Honduran flag pin—Stone Harker writes: “The majority of Democrats don’t have jobs and depend on the GOP for their living and government benefits.” So there’s that.

Finally, a comment on Eryk Pruitt’s piece about being a disgruntled brunch waiter. “Hey, I feel your pain,” writes narazezen. “Don’t let the haters get to you. Despite the seething inside, you keep a chipper face and let the customer keep that Disneyland fantasy of happiness. You’re not alone.”

Jordan is less forgiving: “Yet the cooks who got there two hours before the waiters or any frontof-the-house staff, who worked two hours later than you the night before, who also probably live farther from work, who never make tips or bags of money—fuck all F.O.B. You’re all babies.”

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triangulator +LAY DOWN THE LAW

We hereby nominate Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Diana Gribbon Motz for “Best Judicial Opinion” of 2016.

Last Friday, Motz and two other federal judges struck down sweeping voting restrictions enacted by North Carolina’s legislature—and dutifully signed into law by Governor McCrory—in 2013. (In April, a federal district judge, Thomas Schroeder, who is now hearing arguments on HB 2, upheld the law.) Motz laid out in almost chilling detail just how pernicious the General Assembly’s attempt to disenfranchise black voters really was, calling it “the most restrictive voting law North Carolina has seen since the era of Jim Crow.”

Good riddance. Here are some other highlights: ● “Although the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision, they constitute inapt remedies for the problems assertedly justifying them and, in fact, impose cures for problems that did not exist.” ● “The [lower] court seems to have missed the forest in carefully surveying the many trees. This failure of perspective led the court to ignore critical facts bearing on legislative intent, including the inextricable link between race and politics in North Carolina.” ● The photo ID requirement enacts “seemingly irrational restrictions unrelated to the goal of combating fraud.” ● “Neither this legislature—nor, as far as we can tell, any other legislature in the Country—has ever done so much, so fast, to restrict access to [voting].” ● “The totality of the circumstances—North Carolina’s history of voting discrimination; the surge in African American voting; the legislature’s knowledge that African Americans voting translated into support for one party; and the swift elimination of the tools African Americans had used to vote and imposition of a new barrier at the first opportunity to do so—cumulatively and unmistakably reveal that the General Assembly used [the legislation] to entrench itself.” ● And our favorite: “We can only conclude that the North Carolina General Assembly enacted the challenged provisions of the law with discriminatory intent. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the district court.”

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+PROFILES IN COWARDICE

Khizr Khan’s speech was by far most poignant moment of last week’s Democratic National Convention. In it, he paid tribute to his fallen son, Captain Humayun Khan, who died in Iraq in 2004. More pointedly, he called out Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslim immigration. “You have sacrificed nothing and no one,” Khan said, offering Trump his pocket Constitution in case he needed to bone up on it.

Trump, of course, took a grieving father’s criticism entirely in stride.

“Mr. Kahn, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same—Nice!” Trump tweeted.

Then: “This story is not about Mr. Khan, who is all over the place doing interviews, but rather RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM and the U.S. Get smart!”

Then, in an interview with ABC News, Trump accused Khan of having Democrats write his speech for him, criticized Khan’s wife for not speaking, and said, “I think I’ve made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard.”

Across the country, top Republican officials—Senator John McCain, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell among them—raced to distance themselves from Trump, though they didn’t rescind their endorsements. That’s not quite a profile in courage, but it’s better than what we’ve gotten from some North Carolina Republicans.

Which is: nothing. No statements, no tweets, no Facebook posts from Governor McCrory, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, and the state GOP. None of them would return our calls, either. Neither did Senator Richard Burr, but he did give this statement to The Wall Street Journal: “The parents and siblings of our fallen service members deserve the utmost respect— period—and the sacrifice made by their loved ones will never be forgotten. Captain Khan is an American hero in every sense of the term, and the Khans deserve our sincerest gratitude.”

But he’s still backing the guy who insulted them.

“If these antics haven’t [turned Republicans away], I’m not sure anything will,” says Dave Miranda, communications director for the N.C. Democratic Party.

That’s an interesting question, indeed: If insulting Gold Star parents doesn’t do the trick, what exactly would Trump have to do for McCrory and company to abandon him? Strangle a kitten on live television?

+BLOCK PARTY

About six weeks ago, Trace Ramsey noticed new neighbors moving their belongings into 215 North Briggs Avenue, the long-vacant house next door to him in east Durham. Not long after, he says, he observed people out in the yard, trimming the lawn and the bushes. But nobody was sleeping there at night.

“So, a few weeks ago, I walked over and peeked in the window,” Ramsey says, “and there was this big ‘DURHAM REPUBLICANS’ banner in the living room.”

Ramsey did a little research online and discovered that his new neighbor was, in fact, the Durham County Republican Party. Here’s the thing: the 200 block of North Briggs Avenue is residentially zoned; technically, it is RU-5(2). That means the Durham GOP—or any entity that intends to use a house on the block for nonresidential purposes—would have to, at minimum, apply for a change-of-use permit with the Durham City-County Planning Department.

Immanuel Jarvis, chairman of the Durham GOP, tells the INDY, “We verified everything with the city of Durham zoning laws before we moved in. The house can be used as a library and resource center without additional permitting fees and registration, and that’s how we’ll be using the space—as a headquarters for community outreach in this great neighborhood in Durham. It would have been very foolish of us to take ownership of a location and not be sure we could use it as such.”

But Steve Medlin, director of the Durham City-County Planning Department, says his office has no applications on file regarding 215 North Briggs.

“A community service use permit is potentially allowed in an RU-5(2), but nobody has applied for it at that address,” Medlin says. “If they did apply, they would have to meet the standards for a community service facility. Typically, that means activities that are nonprofit in nature, like education, training, and counseling. They would have to complete a change-of-occupancy form, from residential to nonresidential, showing the site is up to compliance with the building codes. And they would have to submit a plan that shows they have adequate parking on-site.”

Since the Durham GOP has completed none of these requirements, Medlin says, the situation is “most likely a zoning enforcement violation.”

“We don’t have the authority to go in and tell them to cease and desist,” Medlin adds. “They would have the opportunity to appeal, or submit their plans, or come into compliance. If none of that happened, we would eventually get to the stage where we have an enforcement action to bring the site into compliance.”

TL;DR: +THE HEAT IS GONE

On April 8, several officers from the Durham Police Department’s HEAT (High Enforcement Abatement Team) unit arrived at 3417 Misty Pine Avenue, in the Braggtown neighborhood. They were there to conduct a “knock-and-talk,” an investigative technique performed by police when criminal activity is suspected but there is not enough evidence to obtain a search warrant.

Khadir Cherry, a resident of the home, had been arrested four days earlier for selling pot. Immediately upon arriving at the residence, an officer with the HEAT unit, J.M. Foster, said he smelled marijuana. The HEAT officers then entered the home. A volatile scene ensued, much of which was captured on cell phone video.

Cherry was struck repeatedly with a baton, and another person in the home, Raynell Hall, was tased. Others, including homeowner Vera McGriff, were thrown on the floor and handcuffed. Officers found only a small amount of weed and paraphernalia.

THE INDY’S QUALITY-OF-LIFE METER The DPD said the HEAT unit’s use of force was a reaction to events not captured on video. DPD spokesman Wil Glenn told the INDY at the time that Cherry tried to grab an officer’s weapon and Hall struck an officer on the shoulder.

Several charges were filed against the adults in the home. Cherry was charged with two counts of possession with intent, as well as assault on a government official, resist-

Last week, however, all charges were formally dismissed.

McGriff says the situation is “bittersweet.”

She says she’s received no apology from anyone at the DPD. “It appears that the Durham Police Department thinks if the charges are dropped then my family will just say thank you, celebrate, and forget what those officers had done to us,” McGriff says. “I’m not going to sit back and let what they done to my family happen this way.”

As the INDY previously reported, city manager Tom Bonfield requested an expedited formal review of the incident by the DPD’s internal affairs division. The findings of that report are not a matter of public record, but Glenn, the DPD spokesman, confirms that Officer Foster is no longer with the DPD. Earlier this year, an independent study— commissioned by the DPD itself—found patterns of racial profiling in the HEAT unit. triangulator@indyweek.com

“I’m not going to sit back and let what they done to my family happen this way.” ing a public officer, and possession of paraphernalia. Hall was charged with assault on a government official and resisting a public officer. Another person in the home, Jahmon Cedeno, was charged with assault on a government official. McGriff, an Iraq war veteran, was charged with maintaining a dwelling where controlled substances were found and resisting a public officer.

This week’s report by Samantha Bechtold and David Hudnall.

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The N.C. GOP calls out Tim Kaine for wearing a Honduras flag lapel pin, then discovers it was actually a Blue Star service pin, which he wears for his son, a deployed marine. The GOP also charged Kaine with waving the white flag of surrender until it was revealed to be a piece of toilet paper on the senator’s shoe.

-2

UNC and WakeMed hospitals are rated two out of five stars by Medicare; Duke gets four stars. Coach K says it all comes down to controlling the perimeter and being aggressive early in the game.

-1

In striking down the voter ID law, a federal court cites a Daily Show interview with a Buncombe County GOP official, who says, “If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it.” You can practically see the aide desperately mouthing, “The mic is on!” in the wings.

+4

Raleigh entrepreneurs Jesse Lipson and Brooks Bell blast HB 2 while speaking at the DNC. Governor McCrory scratches their names at the bottom of a roll of butcher paper labeled “Kill List.”

-2

Now that Wake County’s commission and school board districts have been declared unconstitutional, no one knows what the new districts will look like. We’re hoping for something in a tartan pattern, or maybe a nice gingham.

+1

Actual N&O headline: “Garner’s hip-hop seniors, the G-Squad, get an invitation to perform in Taiwan.” G-Squad members say they look forward to cold lampin’ in the Far East and checking out the city’s early-bird specials.

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Raleigh police stop Pokémon Go aficionados from playing at midnight in Nash Square. “Shouldn’t you be getting wasted?” the officers chide.

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Police seize eighty-two kilos of cocaine in Hillsborough. Perhaps relatedly, a massive shipment of baby laxative is abruptly canceled.

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THE STATE ARGUED ITS CASE FOR HB 2 IN FEDERAL COURT ON MONDAY. IT DIDN’T GO WELL.

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men’s bathroom,” Schroeder mused. “How on earth is that supposed to work?”

“Partially by single-occupancy bathrooms, which admittedly are not available in all instances,” Bowers replied. “And this would be purely speculation on my part: some transgender individuals will continue to use the bathrooms they always have.”

“They would be violating the law,” Schroeder shot back.

“There’s no enforcement,” Bowers admitted.

“Then why have a law?” the judge asked.

Barely suppressed laughter could be heard in the gallery.

Representing UNC, Noel Francisco didn’t defend the law so much as argue that his client should be dropped from the lawsuit. He took issue with statements by Joaquín Car-

Attempting to explain why North Carolina has a compelling interest in requiring transgender people to use the bathrooms that align with their biological sex, Governor McCrory’s lawyer lost control of his argument before he’d even begun.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder, a George W. Bush appointee, was trying to understand how HB 2 makes bathrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms safer during a hearing in Winston-Salem on Monday.

“If a transgender female goes into a women’s public restroom, there’s a risk of public exposure,” Butch Bowers, the governor’s lawyer, posited.

“How can there be public exposure?” an incredulous Schroeder responded. “There are no urinals in a women’s bathroom.”

It went downhill from there, as Bowers and two other attorneys for the defendants, representing the General Assembly and the University

“There’s no enforcement,” Bowers admitted. “Then why have a law?” the judge asked. of North Carolina, argued against a preliminary injunction that would block the bathroom provision of HB 2. The state ACLU has filed suit against the state, along with a transgender man employed by UNC-Chapel Hill, two transgender students at UNC-Greensboro and UNC School of the Arts, respectively, and three lesbian women. The federal government has filed a separate lawsuit, alleging that HB 2 violates the sex discrimination provisions of Title IX. The two lawsuits are expected to be consolidated for a trial scheduled for November 14.

After Bowers’s bathroom scenario fell flat, he tried again with a hypothetical involving military facilities where soldiers are separated by sex. But he had to acknowledge that he couldn’t think of a situation where that would apply under the provisions of HB 2, which covers state public agencies.

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caño, a twenty-seven-year-old employee of the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases at UNC-Chapel Hill, that he would be harmed by having HB 2 on the books.

“One thing these declarations don’t say is that any administrator has threatened to take any action against them based on using a bathroom consistent with their gender identity,” Francisco said.

Schroeder seemed puzzled. “Why didn’t the university file a one-page response saying, ‘We don’t like the law and go ahead and enforce an injunction?’”

Paul Smith, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, who argued the landmark Lawrence v. Texas case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003, challenged Francisco’s claim that employees and students have not been harmed.

“Mr. Carcaño was directed by his supervisor to stop using the bathroom where he worked and go down the service elevator to use the bathroom with the housekeeping

news staff,” he said. “He is stigmatized by having to wait by the elevator in front of his coworkers to go to the bathroom and has stated that he avoids going to the bathroom as much as possible.”

Schroeder also questioned the point of the law, if public agencies like UNC and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools don’t feel obligated to comply with it.

“Presumably your law had some importance because the legislature passed it on an expedited basis,” he told Kyle Duncan, the lawyer for the General Assembly. “But you have important institutions saying, ‘We’re not going to follow it.’ I haven’t seen any threat letters coming from the state to these institutions.”

When it was the plaintiffs’ turn to make their case, Schroeder asked Smith to consider whether there might be a case for HB 2 protecting the privacy rights of people who don’t want to be exposed to a transgender person stripping down in the middle of a bathroom.

“I think that would be illegal in any bathroom,” Smith responded. “There’s no purpose in stripping naked in a bathroom.” Such behavior, he added, would likely be covered by the statute governing indecent exposure.

“Transgender people are the last ones you need to worry about with that, but if they were loitering, harassing people, or engaging in predatory behavior in a sensitive area like a locker room, they would be subject to the law just like anyone else. The idea that this law is going to help law enforcement address other problems is simply a fantasy.”

Schroeder’s decision will likely be guided by a ruling from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in April, which found that Gavin Grimm, a transgender high school student in Virginia, has the right to use the bathroom he prefers. Bowers, McCrory’s lawyer, seemed to hedge his bets. He requested that any injunction be “narrowly tailored” to the named plaintiffs and to Title IX requirements that school systems not engage in discrimination. He also asked that it only apply to bathrooms.

“I’m going to endeavor to get you a decision as soon as I can,” Schroeder promised.

“I know that school is about to crank up for some unfortunate or fortunate students.” l backtalk@indyweek.com

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IN THE TRENCHES OF THE BATTLE

FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S SOUL

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

LAST SUNDAY, THE DAY BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION GAVELED OPEN IN PHILADELPHIA, I was standing in the courtyard of the city’s Municipal Services Building, an austere bureaucratic home base that forms an odd juxtaposition with the elegant, 145-year-old City Hall across the street.

Even with the mercury reaching triple digits, there were thousands of protesters, mostly young, all angry—an inchoate fury, raw and unfiltered, directed toward the media, the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, capitalism in general. People wore T-shirts that said “Hillary for Prison 2016” and held posters that read “Bernie or Bust.”

A CNN reporter was mercilessly harangued: “About time you cover the revolution, CNN!” one guy screamed at her. This evolved into a chant: “The Crooked News Network! The Crooked News Network! The Crooked News Network!”

“You cannot expose us to corruption of the party and then expect us to get in line with that corruption,” Gary Frazier, Philadelphia coordinator for Black Men for Bernie, said from the stage. “We will deliver a powerful blow to the Democratic Party if they do not elect Bernie Sanders. … We are disciplined.

We are knowledgeable. We are peaceful. But we WILL BE HEARD!” “We know they cheated us,” Frazier told me later, referring to reports of voting irregularities in New York, Nevada, and California.

“We know something’s going on.”

The Democratic National Committee’s email hack only poured kerosene on the fire.

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One day earlier, Wikileaks had released a trove of DNC officials’ emails, which more or less confirmed what we already assumed: party officials wanted Clinton to win. The Bernie diehards took it as proof that the election was rigged.

To the protesters, falling in line—even with the threat of President Trump—meant supporting a corrupted system. So when the party nominated Clinton, they said, they would do their best to burn the whole thing down. Millions of Democrats would deregister from the party and vote for Green Party nominee Jill Stein—enough to cost Clinton the White House.

A little after three o’clock—as the crowd began to organize into a march down Broad Street to FDR Park, which abuts the Wells Fargo Center, where protesters would encamp for the week—Frazier stood atop a tour bus, leading a call-and-response with the audience.

“If we don’t get it …”

“SHUT IT DOWN!” THIS PROBABLY WASN’T HOW CLINTON ENVISIONED HER HISTORY-MAKING NOMINATION. The convention was designed to bring Bernie supporters into the fold and improve Clinton’s image, while at the same time marginalizing Trump as a bigoted huckster. It was meticulously choreographed, mixing celebrity with soaring oratory, poignant symbolism with powerful denunciations of demagoguery. As stagecraft, it was nearly flawless.

Or, rather, it would have been, but for the

Protesters outside the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia

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Bernie or Bust crowd.

“In this election cycle, voters are looking for a candidate who is a disruptor,” Jake Quinn, a DNC member and Bernie super delegate from Asheville, told me Monday morning. “Voters are looking for something different. This cycle is different. Trump and Sanders put the focus on that.”

A retired bank regulator with the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission, Quinn went to a DNC meeting in Minneapolis last year. “I went there expecting to be a [Martin] O’Malley supporter,” he says, referring to the former Maryland governor. “I saw everyone lining up behind Clinton. Why are you doing this now?” A few months later, after watching Sanders excite the activist base, he wrote an op-ed in the local newspaper announcing his endorsement. “Has the party missed this?” he wondered.

The party—and most journalists, too, it

The North Carolina delegation casts its votes for the party’s nominee.

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seems. While the primary was never particularly close—nowhere near as close as Clinton-Obama in 2008—and was effectively over after Super Tuesday, Clinton couldn’t seem to put the socialist Vermont senator away. Sanders had unrivaled enthusiasm and unprecedented small-dollar donations on his side, if not enough votes to quite catch up.

But 46 percent of the delegates in the Wells Fargo Center were pledged to Sanders; while Clinton’s delegates were usually loyal, longtime Democrats, a sizeable number of the Sanders delegates weren’t. They were often young and new to the political process, N.C. Democratic Party communications director Dave Miranda—who, though he says it was a touch call, voted for Bernie—told me. “They don’t understand how this thing works.”

At daytime meetings inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center Monday, Bernie delegates booed off stage Debbie Wasser-

man Schultz, the DNC chairwoman who had stepped down after the email hack broke.

Then they booed Bernie himself when he encouraged them to support Clinton.

On Monday night, inside the Wells Fargo Center, they were restive and sometimes boorish, heckling pro-Clinton speakers, booing any mention of Hillary’s name, and breaking out into “Bernie! Bernie!” chants loud enough to be picked up on TV broadcasts. Things got so bad that Sanders sent a text message to his supporters asking them to stop.

Outside the arena—on the other side of an eight-foot chain-link fence that marked a perimeter around the convention—things were even rowdier. Hundreds pressed against the fence, waving signs and yelling at the delegates walking by. “Hell no, DNC, we won’t vote for Hillary!” they chanted. Later that evening, a reporter told me that, after I’d gone inside, protesters started climbing the

fence—not the kind of thing the cops take kindly to. “Look,” the police reportedly told them, “we’re just gonna arrest you anyway. So we’re gonna open the door. If you want to get arrested, walk through.” Apparently, a handful did just that.

“I’ve been covering these events professionally for thirty years,” alternate delegate and Johnston County Board of Commissioners candidate Wendy May told me. “This is how it starts. By day three, people have calmed down.”

The next night, after the roll call vote that officially made Clinton the nominee, a group of perhaps two hundred Bernie delegates, many from the California delegation, staged a walkout. (Most of us didn’t notice, as the walkout coincided with a dinnertime lull in the proceedings, and many delegates left their seats to grab a bite.) They amassed outside of the media tent. By the time I got there, the scene was chaotic: 100, maybe 150 Sanders delegates, surrounded by an almost-equal number of media and a handful of onlookers, with a row of uniformed Philadelphia police blocking the tent’s doors, not letting anyone in or out. (One journalist pressed his face to the window and held up a handwritten sign: “Trapped by Bernie Bros.”)

There was a rumor that Jill Stein was inside the tent. “She’s welcoming us with open arms,” one protester told reporters.

“She’s willing to listen to us.”

The Democrats, in their view, had refused to listen—and thus, even though Bernie had asked them to support Hillary, their votes were up for grabs.

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from CBS earlier this week that had Clinton leading 46–39, put that number in the low seventies.

If you dig into the data, this is an important point: if Clinton gets most Sanders supporters on board, she wins by a landslide—perhaps a margin large enough to swing the Senate, and maybe the House, to the Democrats, thus giving her the same sort of progressive backup Obama had in his first two years. But if they defect or sit the election out—especially in swing states like North Carolina—it will be much closer to a coin flip.

Sanders used this leverage skillfully, pulling the party platform to the left and cajoling Clinton into opposing the TransPacific Partnership trade deal. Sanders also secured commitments to reforming the primary process itself. And so, for all the showmanship and speechifying, the convention’s central question boiled down to, Would Sanders’s supporters take yes for an answer?

Before the convention began, I asked Quinn what he thought Sanders’s supporters needed to hear. “One word,” he replied. “Respect. That’s it.”

They got plenty of it.

“They gave the guy a prime-time speaking spot,” says Thomas Mills, a former Democratic consultant from Carrboro who is running for Congress. “Virtually every single Democratic leader mentioned him and praised his movement in their speeches, from Michelle Obama to Bill Clinton to President Obama to Hillary. I don’t know what else they could ask for.”

On Thursday night, Hillary was explicit: “Bernie, your campaign inspired millions of Americans, particularly the young people who threw their hearts and souls into our primary. … And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I’ve heard you. Your cause is our cause.”

“The goal was to unify the party and redefine the party as a party of ideas and a party of hope,” Mills says. (He was at the convention but was not a delegate.) “That they did.”

The most hard-core Sanders diehards—the ones who staged the walkout and heckled Clinton during her speech— comprise a “very small contingent of Bernie supporters, people who would not be

involved in the political process” were it not for Sanders’s movement, he says. “If they don’t show up, so be it.”

EIGHT YEARS AGO, A SMALL BUT LOUD BAND OF HILLARY SUPPORTERS, calling themselves PUMAs (which stands for either “People United Means Action” or “Party Unity My Ass”), declared that they wouldn’t support Barack Obama. They, like the Sanders diehards, castigated the party’s nominating process and thought that Clinton had been robbed. Ahead of the 2008 convention, fewer than half of Clinton backers said they were certain to vote for Obama. In the end, almost all of them did.

“I expect the same thing to happen here,” Quinn says. “A guy named Trump is running for the White House.”

But anxiety still lingers in Democratic circles. In a close election (e.g., 2000), even a relative handful of Bernie holdouts could swing a key state (e.g., Ralph Nader in Florida).

There’s also concern that party disunion could affect down-ticket races. In North Carolina, for example, U.S. Senate candidate Deborah Ross’s chances are almost inextricably tied to Clinton’s success. If Hillary wins

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North Carolina—meaning Democrats’ turnout efforts were successful and some disillusioned Republicans stayed home—Ross has a chance. Long-shot congressional campaigns—like Mills’s race against incumbent Republican Richard Hudson—need Clinton to run up the score. (That’s probably less true for Roy Cooper, who can campaign against the unpopular Governor McCrory and the GOP legislature, Mills says.)

There are some Sanders supporters— “third-degree Berners,” Quinn calls them— who will never fall in line. But the others are persuadable. And, if the party reaches out to them, they’ll all vote for Ross, if only because a Ross victory will help Sanders become chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

“Don’t walk away from this party,” Quinn urges them. “This party needs you.”

And if they stay in the party, he argues, they’ll be able to reshape it from the ground up. “The key is to get participation in every county, every district. What a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters learned is how incredibly accessible it is to participate. If you show up, if you participate, you can do whatever you want.” jbillman@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.3.16 | 13

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unlight pours in through the plateglass windows of Bull City Records as a few lunch-hour browsers leisurely investigate the shop’s wares. It’s midafternoon in early July, and the heat of summer has not yet become insufferable. Up front, near the register, a member of a local hip-hop collective flips through the used bins in search of sampling material. A trio in their early twenties combs through hefty rows of new arrivals. At the front desk, Chaz Martenstein fields a phone call about his stock of MC5 records—a commonplace occurrence here.

“We have all three,” he says. “Kick Out the Jams, Back in the USA, and …

High Time.” Martenstein hesitates for a moment before completing the list— he’s human, not a walking encyclopedia.

Then he does something that the average record store proprietor isn’t likely to do.

“Hang on,” he tells the caller. “Lemme just check.”

Putting down the phone, Martenstein slips from behind the counter and over to the place where MC5 records are kept. He returns to deliver the good news. It’s not a huge act, but it shows heart. And while he genuinely would hate to provide a customer with faulty intel, Martenstein admits later that it wasn’t entirely selfless.

“I like to know,” he says. “It’s just that thing where your brain kind of likes you to know your stock. My own mentality,” he adds with a chuckle.

Over the past decade, Martenstein’s mentality has helped his Bull City Records become what is now the longest-running record store in Durham. Martenstein has enlisted a host of friends to help him celebrate the shop’s eleventh year of business with a two-day festival, Friday night at The Pinhook and 14 | 8.3.16 | INDYweek.com

Saturday at Ponysaurus Brewing Company. The roster will be decidedly Chazcentric, from Superchunk on down.

“I called in all my favors for this one,” he laughs. “I figured if I could get [Superchunk] it would be a huge achievement. And Pipe, to me, was just a natural fit. It was, ‘What would a dream bill of mine be?’”

So the expert curator curated his own music festival, with each choice reflecting Martenstein’s deep love of each act’s music along with a deeper rationale. He wanted bands that had played the early instore shows in his old space, like the Dirty Little Heaters, plus members of Megafaun and Solar Halos. He convinced a couple of his favorite local outfits, Last Year’s Men and The Dry Heathens, both currently on hiatus, to reunite for the occasion. Every band on the roster has a connection with the Triangle and the shop, even the Seattle-based Happy Diving—guitarist Will Anderson lived and played in the area a few years back and just happened to be passing through this weekend.

This victory lap might have seemed unlikely in 2005, when Martenstein set up shop above a Mexican restaurant on Perry Street in Durham. The location was conspicuously off Ninth Street’s main drag, and only accessible via a narrow, rickety staircase that was more foreboding than is ideal in a retail situation.

“It was a cool spot and it had character,” Martenstein recalls. “And if you knew the space, it was a comfortable space. But it was hard getting first-time visitors.”

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Nevertheless, customers ventured up the creaky stairs, and many spread the word after they came back down. Durham’s music community showed up, too. Early on, in-store performances helped cement the store’s presence.

Eventually, those shows led to the formation of Bull City HQ in 2007, a multi-use public space overseen by Martenstein and a handful of area musicians and artists. At a time when Durham was woefully lacking in small venues, BCHQ helped give numerous near-unknown musicians a start. Martenstein also teamed up with other sources—WXDU, Duke Coffeehouse, and the now-defunct Troika Music Festival—in continued efforts to stir up the city’s concert scene.

Kym Register, who owns the Pinhook, and who takes the stage with Bad Friends for the BCR party Friday night, co-founded BCHQ with Martenstein. She describes her friend as morally driven.

“He gives a really big shit, for lack of a better term. He cares about this town a lot,” she says.

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artenstein says music found him at an early age. As a child in Richmond, Virginia, his parents gave him a portable radio, which he carried around and kept tuned to oldies radio even as he played with his toy trucks. When he was about fifteen, the college radio station at the nearby University of Richmond gave him his first glimpse of the depth of it all.

“There was this underneath,” he recalls.

“Indie rock, college rock, art rock. I got very obsessed with that.”

He took to haunting used-CD stores, looking for the bands he’d heard on the radio, and fell in love with the hunt itself. Around then, he decided this was the world he wanted to occupy. “I just decided it was worth working hard to move toward,” he says.

Bull City Records’ reputation is built upon that kind of commitment. It’s the kind of place where you’re not afraid to ask questions or risk seeming dumb. Martenstein’s belief in customer service is what makes the difference.

“It’s as important as your stock, if not more important in the music world, where it’s not any secret that pretty much a hundred percent of my stock is available for free—or not—online,” he explains. “You have to give people a reason to come in.”

For Martenstein, that relates to the way

he talks to people, learning their names and remembering their preferences. “Customer service is that little thing that gives people that reason to come back,” he says.

Once he settled into the new space in the fall of 2011, the store’s fortunes swiftly improved, aided by a ground-floor location and an adjacent parking lot. The current Hillsborough Road storefront is easily accessible for walking and driving customers. And the resurgence of vinyl in recent years has been a major boon.

Ultimately, though, what distinguishes and sustains Bull City Records is the goodwill that Martenstein engenders, one customer at a time.

“In a music scene where knowing the right people can be important, he’s one of the most genuine humans that I know,” Register says.

“He just doesn’t seem to feed into that. He does it because he really likes it or wants to.

There’s nothing fake about that guy.”

Martenstein is nothing like the stereotypical record store owner. Mac McCaughan, who worked in record stores prior to forming Superchunk and Merge Records, confirms that Martenstein’s approach isn’t always a given.

“There’s kind of an old trope, at least from when I was working in record stores in the eighties and nineties, that record store employees are grumpy and snobby and they think they know better than the customer,” McCaughan says. “I think Chaz does a good job of actually listening to the customers and finding out what they want, what else is going on around that artist or scene. I think that’s the main reason he’s built up such a loyal customer base.”

Still, Martenstein proudly calls High Fidelity, Nick Hornby’s novel with surly record store employees at its center, one of his favorite books and movies. On the eve of opening Bull City Records, Martenstein’s brother gave him a copy of the book signed by the author. Hornby wished the new recordstore owner good luck, adding a foreboding, “You’re going to need it.”

But as it’s turned out, luck hasn’t played much of a role in the success of Bull City Records. The real reason for that lies closer to Martenstein’s own modest explanation for his success.

“You gotta work hard and like what you’re doing,” he says. 8 dklein@indyweek.com

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Saturday mornings had a very reliable rhythm in my New Jersey youth. My brothers and I would park in front of the TV to watch cartoons while my mother stepped out for her weekly therapy session at the hair salon. She would return refreshed, scrubbed free of whatever we’d done to irritate her, and gleefully loaded with new gossip.

Crowned with a freshly lacquered set and wearing an expression of feigned tedium, she’d place a large paper sack on the kitchen table, open it, and instantly perfume the air with the essence of her own youth.

These bags were filled with hauls from our favorite Jewish deli, operated by the son of one of her best friends, who always tucked in an extra container of sharp mustard for my dad.

Bulging sandwiches wrapped in grease-stained butcher paper—and, if hot, folded into foil— emerged, along with kosher hot dogs loaded with steaming sauerkraut, huge half-sour pickles, and, on occasion, a tub of chopped liver so good that arguments would erupt if someone had the nerve to finish it in secret.

No deli I’ve experienced in the Triangle ever came close to delivering such luxurious excess. But this and more rushed back from long-stored memory upon my arrival at Lucky’s Delicatessen, Matt Kelly’s deeply satisfying new eatery, which is located two doors down from Mateo Tapas on West Chapel Hill Street in Durham. Drew Brown, a former coowner of Piedmont restaurant and staff chef at Firsthand Foods, is Lucky’s executive chef.

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adella, the real deal imported from Bologna, which tumbled into a pillowy mound of porky goodness.

My brother Alan, who had arrived at RDU from New Jersey barely an hour before, also marveled at the sensory overload. “When was the last time you heard ‘Down by the River’ in a deli?” he asked, as bemused by the Neil Young soundtrack as by our sweet, tattooed server, who politely apologized that the early lunch crowd had depleted the popular roast pork. More disappointing was the discovery that the whitefish salad, which has created considerable buzz, had also sold out.

We started with an assortment of housecured pickles ($6), including crunchy green tomato wedges, and an order of herbed gravlax ($14), a cured salmon that arrived in shimmering slices with labneh, onion, and capers, more pickles, and hearty bread from Weaver Street Market. The gravlax looked suspiciously sushi-like to Alan, but he could not resist the pickles. “Ordinarily, I don’t even like pickles,” he said, popping a garlicky tomato bite in his mouth, “but these are great.”

Alan quickly settled on his favorite deli

fare, the corned beef reuben ($9). While not as overflowing as you’d expect in a northern deli, the meat was lean and tender, with the accompanying kraut, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing neatly stuffed between grilled slices of rye bread. Tempted by one of the vegetarian choices, I opted for the roasted beet sandwich ($7). Next time I’ll skip the Kaiser roll and enjoy this stack of slippery beets, herbed ricotta, pickled onion, and savory pistachio pesto on the optional bed of greens.

Without question, the showstopper of our order was the open-faced chopped liver sandwich ($7). While I couldn’t help but imagine my mother spinning at the idea of chopped liver topped with a dollop of chow-chow, the vinegary bite provided the perfect counterpoint to the silky richness of the still-pink liver. “It’s not the easiest sandwich to eat,” observed my husband, as the layers of liver, chow-chow, and hard-boiled egg slid around his plate. “And it’s a shit-load of chopped liver,” he added appreciatively, garnishing his prize with onion slices from the fish plate. “I’m pretty sure that’s the correct technical term.”

While we confined our choices to the famil-

iar, Lucky’s menu is rich with affordable indulgences. Heroes delivered to other tables left trails of intoxicating aromas. Aside from the roast pork, options include a classic Italian (salami, mortadella, ham, and provolone), pork-and-beef meatballs, and eggplant parm.

At $7.50 for a six-inch sandwich or $14 for a foot-long, these hearty behemoths are a bargain. All-beef hot dogs can be enjoyed with sauerkraut, relish, or slaw ($3.50 for one or $7 for two, including a fountain drink). You also can opt for chili or cheese sauce for an extra buck each.

Lucky’s offers a selection of beer and wine, but I suggest that there is no better accompaniment for a great deli lunch than a cold can of Dr. Brown’s cherry soda. If by some miracle you have any room left, consider a tempting fresh baked cookie for dessert.

Sadly, Lucky’s is only open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday–Saturday, making dinner the stuff of dreams or sensible pre-planning. Deli salads, sliced meats, and cheese all are sold by the pound, and you can enjoy Lucky’s pickles, olives, and soup in take-out containers. l Twitter: @jwlucasnc

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At the newly opened Brier Creek Beer Garden, the weekend brunch menu delivers an intriguing surprise: duck and waffles. In the grand (marketing) scheme of things, there are trash bins full of failed plates featuring clever substitutes for tired ingredients. Lucky for us, BCBG’s duck and waffles isn’t one of them.

The generous duck portion, a quarter comprising breast meat and an attached leg, wears a satisfying sear that gives the meat a slightly crisp coat. It also locks in the fat of the bird, which essentially melts and permeates each bite. That hefty juiciness takes center position on your palate. One bite and you’ll recognize why duck fat is a popular flavoring tool for many chefs.

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That’s not to suggest that the musicians who made Tender Madness didn’t need to make it.

It conveys conviction, just not inspiration.

Funny though, how a wellplaced hook can trounce a carefully evoked tone. The Everymen are a New Jersey band with a New Jersey sound who happen to have partially relocated to Chapel Hill. On its third record, These Mad Dogs Need Heroes, the band is instantly identifiable as a bar band, but what a relief to say it’s not a historically specific one.

The Everymen’s songs aren’t The Everymen's These Mad Dogs Need Heroes time machines that open up into Max’s Kansas City in New York 1971 or Eric’s Club in Livitchy, overstimulated quality that at least erpool 1986. nods to modernity. Sudden Comfort is too The “bar band” description still feels well-worn to suggest that kind of agitation, like an unfair epithet that suggests lowered let alone actual danger. The record instead standards and creative limits, just a shade feels casual and cozy, the relaxing dash of less dismissive than “wedding band.” Think seediness provided by a dim dive bar on an about what you might find in both of those otherwise well-lit block. It’s easy inessensituations: friends, loved ones, and a few rantiality is weirdly charming, in spite of that. dos dancing to music that makes them feel Listening to this stuff and coming away good. They’re drinking, talking, eating, carbummed would be an odd outcome. rying on, and making out if all goes well. The More likely to sour your mood is Jenny music that makes you feel that way is still Besetzt who, as it turns out, is a mascurelatively rare and precious. line, brooding alt-rock band and not the These Mad Dogs Need Heroes bursts female singer-songwriter the name might with energy, sax wails, guitar riffs, audible suggest. Tender Madness, the band’s second sweat. They use pop/rock elements that record, offers up a slightly different time and are every bit as common as the other bands place that’s no less recognizable, homing in mentioned. On “No One Seems to Matter on mid- to late-eighties Britain. John Wolto Me,” singer Mike V. wails like a soused laber’s voice booms from a reverb cave to dude really leaning into some Elvis Costello an almost comically grave effect, a fourthkaraoke. Crucially, he makes it sound like a generation shade of singers like Echo & the pretty cool time as opposed to a studiously Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch and U2’s Bono. hip stance. The most compelling thing about Synth swells and crisp drums are more The Everymen is that they seem very in the prominent than shoegaze guitars. moment, this one, now. They turf out someA refined ambient track is welcome after times, shooting for universal and crashing on a few end-of-the-world ballads, and warmtrite. A tongue planted in cheek can’t redeem er tones creep in as the record progresses. lines like “Best watch your back/I’m a heart The slight variations fall in a compact, tasteattack/Come and taste the disgrace,” but the ful range, but this isn’t necessarily a fatal dumb bits feel like a reasonable surcharge for flaw. The primary job of effective art doesn’t the immediacy. They’ve heard all the same have to be to shock or surprise; music isn’t records you have, but there’s nowhere else instantly invalidated when it reminds you of they’d rather be. l something else. Held to a higher bar, no, you Twitter: @jeff_klingman

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PAPERHAND'S NEW PUPPET PAGEANT CASTS LIGHT ON THE ROLE OF MONSTERS IN LEARNING AND CULTURE

As monsters go, The Skrawk is a curious sight. It's an overinflated emu with extra bits— a neck that telescopes from a couple of inches to a couple of feet, and inquisitive, intelligent eyes set above a yellow triangular beak. Its feathers are dun-colored, almost nondescript

Whoa, gnarly: Paperhand's vision of Humbaba in The Beautiful Beast

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at first glance. But as they catch the light, they shimmer in an odd, familiar way.

A closer look confirms it. The geometric plumage on the bird's ungainly torso consists of hundreds of swatches of magnetic tape snipped from old VHS videos. Coils of

the stuff spill across the floor of Paperhand Puppet Intervention's studio in downtown Saxapahaw. The finer hairs around the creature's face and mouth are the repurposed innards of eighties-era audiocassettes— the entrails of mixtapes past.

The unlikely fowl isn't the largest or most eye-catching creation in The Beautiful Beast, Paperhand's seventeenth annual summer pageant, which opens at Chapel Hill's Forest Theatre before moving on to NCMA in Raleigh (Sept. 9–11) and The Carolina Theatre of Greensboro (Sept.

17–18). But there's no denying the creature's personality. Intern Emily McHugh, who has helped build it over the last few weeks, describes its disposition.

"It's very curious but it isn't self-aware.

It squawks a lot, putting its nose where it doesn't belong," she says, concluding that the Skrawk is the "most obnoxious" of all the monsters the group has been building.

Paperhand's new show is based on our complicated lifelong relationship with such chimeras—how we find ourselves reflected in the beasts of the natural world and the monsters of our imagination. From early childhood onward, they essentialize our drives and fears. They help define our identity and set its limits. That subject makes this show especially personal for its creators.

The Skrawk comes to life in the hands of Paperhand co-founder Donovan Zimmerman, who experiences a sense of discovery in creating each puppet.

"They surprise you as you get to know them," he says. "As we make them, we start to play with them, and the materials influence the character." Lengths of tape quietly rustle and hiss as the Skrawk's head darts left, then right. "That sound is now a part of it. You get excited by the stimuli."

Jan Burger, the company's other cofounder, finds that ideas for these monsters come to him easily: "I've been in love with them my whole life," he says.

Burger draws on the imaginary bestiaries of his childhood in the show's opening sequence, when a procession of creatures (including the silvered Zangamash and the guileless Wumpaflump) crawls out of a remarkable book during a magical sleepover party. Surprise, mingled with a little fear, transforms into celebration and discovery as the children meet their

strange new guests.

But terms like “beast" and “monster” also have darker, more political implications.

When Zimmerman considers our civilization’s earliest surviving literary work, he concludes that’s always been the case. In Gilgamesh, a great king is challenged by a halfman/half-beast named Enkidu. Ultimately, they become friends, going on excursions of conquest until they encounter their true nemesis, Humbaba.

"He's supposedly this monster, a shapeshifting beast with long claws and fiery breath," Zimmerman says. “But he's got as much humanity as the king who's come to destroy him.”

In retelling “Humbaba's Song,” Jennifer Curtis, the show's music director and composer, went back to foundational source material: the ancient Syrian clay tablets on which the oldest surviving notated song is etched in cuneiform. Zimmerman hums it while strumming a Rwandan inanga—a carved-out tree section fashioned into a twelve-string lyre. The music also incorporates pentatonic modes from early Egyptian and Arabic music on period instruments.

“The challenge for me, as an investigative musicologist, is that I never want to be historically inaccurate or culturally inappropriate,” Curtis says, though she greatly enjoys reviving the dances of antiquity.

She turned to her love of Mexico while writing the music for the show's final tale, the story of La Loba. The archetypal character sings over the bones of the dead, ritually reviving the ancient wisdom of the world—a constant Paperhand theme. “[La Loba] is all about finding the inner voice and bringing it back to life,” Curtis says. As a young girl joins the mythic figure, a grandmother encourages a granddaughter to find her own song.

“I'm a woman who has been through many cycles of life as well,” Curtis says. “It quenches my thirst to get to make so mysterious a Mexican song-scape. It's a beautiful piece to write for.” This, too, is characteristic of Paperhand shows—a thematic richness for adults, even with a focus on children.

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Educated at The Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan, Cushman is the author of her own cookbook, “Simple, Real Food.”

Amanda’s healthy recipes have appeared in publications such as Food and Wine, Cooking Light, Fine Cooking and Vegetarian Times. In Los Angeles her highly successful private classes included celebrities such as Neil Patrick Harris, Molly Sims and Randy Newman.

Wanting a slower pace with more focus on local, farm to table access and a stronger sense of community Chef Amanda and her husband recently moved to Durham.

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Amanda’s healthy recipes have appeared in publications such as Food and Wine, Cooking Light, Fine Cooking and Vegetarian Times. In Los Angeles her highly successful private classes included celebrities such as Neil Patrick Harris, Molly Sims and Randy Newman.

Wanting a slower pace with more focus on local, farm to table access and a stronger sense of community Chef Amanda and her husband recently moved to Durham.

Educated at The Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan, Cushman is the author of her own cookbook, “Simple, Real Food.”

Amanda’s healthy recipes have appeared in publications such as Food and Wine, Cooking Light, Fine Cooking and Vegetarian Times. In Los Angeles her highly successful private classes included celebrities such as Neil Patrick Harris, Molly Sims and Randy Newman.

Wanting a slower pace with more focus on local, farm to table access and a stronger sense of community Chef Amanda and her husband recently moved to Durham.

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These days, there’s a lot more buzz about Night Kitchen.

European classics such as croissant, scones, and french macarons have received high marks; as well as more American items such as brownies or the bread pudding, a muffin-shaped treat with caramelized sugar on top.

The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus.

“I got started as a bread baker,” explains Pfann, “...and though I enjoy pastry work, making bread is what I love most.” Night Kitchen sells Sourdough, 9-Grain, and French bread everyday, and features daily specials. The bakery supplies bread to several local restaurants, including Farina, J Betski’s, and Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar. “I designed the kitchen so we could do wholesale and have room to grow. We’ve just started working with the Produce Box, so folks statewide can try our breads.”

The final piece of the pie is the cafe at Night Kitchen.

Exchange and fine teas from Tin Roof Teas, it’s a great space to meet a friend or have a small gathering at one of the larger farm tables. A selection of sandwiches, daily soup and quiche specials round out the menu.

The breads at Night Kitchen, however, are the real focus.

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A CHAPEL HILL INDIE ROCKER TURNED MAINSTREAM NOVELIST CHANGES THE ANXIETY OF FAILURE INTO SUCCESS

BY BRIAN HOWE

Adam O’Fallon Price left Chapel Hill as the bassist for The Mayflies USA, a power pop band that earned national notices in the late nineties and early aughts—the uncertain time just after local indie rock’s golden age.

Now Price returns as a novelist, drawing on his band experience with some authorial sleight of hand. The Grand Tour (Aug. 9, Doubleday) is about a washed-up fiction writer who gets a second wind from a Vietnam War memoir and a fan he meets on his book tour.

I called O’Fallon as he and his wife packed their home in Iowa to move back to Chapel Hill. After swapping memories of Hell, Henry’s, and the early days of OCSC, we delved into the link between the brief life cycle of the aptly named Mayflies and how a novelist just starting his career could empathize with one who finds new life at the end of the line.

INDY: The late nineties were a weird time.

Bands like Archers, Superchunk, and Polvo had just broken up or were touring Europe with string sections. Some bands, like Sorry About Dresden, seemed to be trying to carry on that moment. Others, like you and The Comas, were trying something different. Did you feel the shadow cast by Chapel Hill's indie rock legacy?

ADAM O'FALLON PRICE: Definitely. We got together in ’96, right as that wave was petering out. It was still going on, but that highwater mark had passed. We felt like outsiders a little bit, because it seemed like Polvo had the most influence. Everyone was doing that dark, dissonant math-rock kind of stuff.

And you all were so bright and polished.

Yeah, we loved Guided by Voices and The Beatles and The Replacements and Big Star. We were pretty self-consciously out of step with what was going on, and, as you do at that age, had a little internal rallying cry against the world. [Laughs] On the other hand, there were bands doing different things, like Ben Folds and Squirrel Nut Zippers. I think there certainly was a compensation after that super

coherent indie-rock moment—all these weird pop bands and country bands started.

You were the It band in Chapel Hill for a minute. You got written up in Spin.

There was a year or two when we felt like something was really going to take off. It was such a weird era, right before the Internet.

We were the last generation of bands that went to CMJ hoping to get signed by Elektra or whatever. It sounds preposterous today.

For better and worse, we got to enjoy that last moment of the traditional record-company paradigm, and then everything changed.

A lot of bands got sacrificed to that shift.

The late nineties and early aughts were a really awkward moment to be an up-and-coming band. There was a lot more money before that, and I don’t know if there’s more now, but it’s clearer how you get somewhere now than it was then. Bands like Spoon survived that paradigm shift, but they were already big enough to make a coherent transition.

get into your mid-thirties, becoming a successful rock musician seems kind of silly. I increasingly loved writing, and it was something you could age gracefully into. Forty is essentially dead if you’re a rock musician and just getting going if you’re a novelist.

Did touring with Mayflies inform your depiction of a book tour?

At least in the amount of alcohol the characters are drinking. [Laughs] We did a lot of sleeping on floors and couches, as you do, so I did try to imagine that for someone with hotels booked for them. When the book sold and my editor got ahold of it, she disabused me of some things so it resembled what an actual book tour would look like.

The protagonist meets a super-fan—that must have happened to you in Mayflies.

We didn’t have that many fans, but occasionally we did have these very intense fans, which must have been a kind of lonely role to play—the Mayflies super-fan. [Laughs]

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Novels and stories are often enlarging—you don’t want it to be caricature, but a magnification of smaller, more local anxieties. It’s definitely a more disastrous version, but it absolutely came from that experience for me.

Why had you come to Chapel Hill?

I was in a surprisingly successful high school band in Knoxville, Tennessee. We had a number-one song on college radio. We were called Dim Kitchen, which is horribly embarrassing. It was me and Andy Herod. I got into UNC, and we were desperate to be in a more happening scene. This was 1994, the year for Archers and all that stuff, which we liked. So I moved the band with me and then I dropped out, predictably. We broke up and Andy started The Comas; I played in that band as well.

How did this story come together?

The first chapter was originally a short story about this older guy who has failed in various ways and then experiences this late-life success. I thought these characters had more legs.

I had wanted to be a successful musician, but never made a living doing it. I’d gotten into my thirties, afraid of feeling like, what if none of this ever happens? The novel is fed by the anxiety of failure. The main character is a manifestation of my worry of never amounting to anything, or amounting to something too late.

It’s a darkly funny book, with cantankerous characters, but it’s also kind of redemptive.

Yeah, Richard is a misanthrope, but I don’t think the book fully endorses his take on things. There’s a space between his point of view and mine. It’s really a pretty dark go through a lot of it, but at the end, I wanted to leave a little glimmer of hope. Certainly I wouldn’t want anyone to think he’s meant to be a really cool guy. [Laughs] But I do, for that reason, find him interesting to write.

Talk about the transition to becoming a novelist. You had a short story in The Paris Review ...

I moved to L.A. in the early aughts and started screenwriting. Then I went back to school and started tinkering with fiction. UNC has a really good undergraduate creative writing program, and I realized that an MFA was a viable next step. I got into Cornell. When you

I wondered how, at the start of your literary career, you identified with a character who gets a surprise second act after his literary career hits the skids. Now I see.

He's sort of a proxy for those anxieties and disappointments I’d felt through my twenties and thirties, though it’s a bleaker, exaggerated version of what I went through. I’m not trying to make a claim of having had it hard.

Does it feel significant to launch your first book in Chapel Hill?

Doing it here, with a lot of longtime friends who’ve seen me in different incarnations, is very gratifying. I’m looking forward to getting back into playing some music. It’s an embarrassment of riches here, and everyone still has projects. It’ll be fun to get some dad rock together. bhowe@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.3.16 | 23

08.03–08.10 FRIDAY, AUGUST 5

GRILLO/GEARY

The close, fertile relationship between Raleigh’s space-sharing Lump and Flanders galleries bears fruit in this new exhibit by Joe Grillo and Mike Geary. After being artists in residence at Flanders for the month of July, where they curated a group show and hosted pop-up performances while working on collaborative paintings, sketches, collages, and sculptures, Grillo and Geary display the works at Lump for the month of August, starting with this opening reception. Grillo, who lives in Virginia Beach, was a founding member of avant-garde comics collective Paper Rad, and that rude, energetic punch is also evident in collages that blend drawing and pop-culture detritus into high-velocity overloads of visual information. Meanwhile, Boone’s Mike Geary brings the same exponential repetition and distended perspective to his visual works as he brings to his tape-loop compositions. The pair is certain to make weird, beautiful music together.

—Brian Howe LUMP, RALEIGH 6–9 p.m., free, www.flandersartgallery.com

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MONDAY, AUGUST 8

SARAH LOUISE

Fancy fingerpicked guitar is enjoying a boom cycle: Steve Gunn, Glenn Jones, Daniel Bachman, Chuck Johnson, and William Tyler, to name but a few. North Carolina’s Sarah Louise matches the chops of any of these guys, but hasn’t yet found the same level of acclaim—a shame, because she’s easily one of the best guitarists in the business right now. Her new VDSQ Solo Acoustic Vol. 12, released in May, is a wonderful collection that shows off her ability to balance open space with tightly wound twelve-string flurries. Her compositions are beguiling in their intricacy; each note sparkles as she rolls through every round, warm piece. There are moments, as on “Silent Snow,” where the guitar seems to glow in her hands. Sarah Louise’s picking is as meditative as it is masterful, not to be missed on any occasion. She’s joined in Raleigh by cellist Emmalee Hunnicutt and Jake Fussell. —Allison Hussey NEPTUNES PARLOUR, RALEIGH 8:30 p.m., $8, www.kingsraleigh.com

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 7

HISTORY AND MYSTERY: THE INSIDE STORY

Unless you happen to have a strong working knowledge of the cultural intricacies of Elizabethan and Jacobean aristocratic portraiture, this lecture is an indispensible keyhole into History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection. Opening Aug. 6, the free exhibit is centered on nine rarely exhibited portraits from about 1580 to 1620, which have been the subjects of a research project by NCMA staff and regional university students. Who are the sitters; who painted them; what is hidden under past restoration efforts? In the lecture, NCMA associate conservator Perry Hurt illuminates these findings and others in a discussion that will encompass court fashion, witchcraft, chivalry, and colonialism, followed by a guided tour of the exhibit at 3 p.m. It’s the first time in four decades that NCMA has curated an exhibit from its British holdings—oh, and by the way, if you simply don’t care about pictures of random rich people in ruffs, the show also includes portraits by famous names from Anthony van Dyck to William Beechey. NCMA is building the mystery through March 19. —Brian Howe NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH 2 p.m., free, www.ncartmuseum.org

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In February, Durham’s Shirlette Ammons released Language Barrier, an ambitious LP that finds the rapper, singer, and bassist pulling on threads of folk, pop, and punk to bolster her own hiphop and soul background. Ammons enlisted a handful of interesting guests—Meshell Ndegeocello, Amy Ray, and fellow Durhamites Heather McEntire, Amelia Meath, and M.C. Taylor—to make her vision possible. There are times when Ammons feels like a guest on her own record as others take the lead on vocals, but her strong and thoughtful writing is consistent throughout. Her sharp lines and rhymes will only land harder when she takes the stage with (J) Rowdy & the NightShift, Will Wildfire, and Nance. —Allison Hussey THE POUR HOUSE, RALEIGH 9 p.m., $7–$10, www.thepourhousemusichall.com

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• LINCOLN THEATRE: DigiTour Summer: Rickey Thompson, Dylan Dauzat, Baby Ariel’s, Jake T. Austin; 6:30 p.m., $25–$130. • LOCAL 506: Hunny, The Frights, Gymshorts; 7 p.m., $12–$14. • NIGHTLIGHT: Will to Die, The Jig, Seeing Red, Capitol Offense, Self Destruct, Future Primitive; 7:30 p.m., $12. • THE PINHOOK: Bars & Black Flags: JooseLord Magnus, theDeeep End, Brassious Monk, Smack Bros; 9 p.m., $8. • POUR HOUSE: Radio Birds; 9 p.m., $6–$8. • SLIM’S: Zephyranthes, GT, Look a Ghost; 9 p.m., $5. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Benjamin Bennett; 8 p.m., $7.

THU, AUG 4 Birds of Avalon

PSYCH Birds of Avalon OUT simultaneously revive twin-guitar seventies rock and sprawl into spaced-out psych rock. Is that a contradiction? Very well, then: Birds of Avalon is large; it contains multitudes. (Remember: The band now carries a second drummer, too.) Few bands anywhere are better at carving wild weirdness, roaring distortion, and unusual rhythms into instantly catchy anthems. On the outdoor City Plaza stage, the Raleigh troupe’s sound will stretch as far as its ambition. With The Balsa Gliders and K-Hill’s Power of the Tongue. —PW [RALEIGH CITY PLAZA, FREE/6 P.M]

Fonix

BLENDED It’s refreshing that FAMILY two proficient N.C. jam-rock outfits like Makayan and Nautilus have turned the sum of their respective strongest parts into Fonix, their new funk-forward family. The collaboration has softened some of each band’s more heady rock tendencies. The midpoint of Fonix’s “Masquerade,” for instance, briefly wanders into a soul pose before jumping into a clang. These moves could keep Fonix around longer then its members’ previous manifestations. Durty Dub opens. —ET [KINGS, $5/9 P.M.]

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PSYCHIC By the time you WAVES read this, Tommy Stinson of the Replacements will have played his July 30 gig at The Cave, a show you probably did not get into because it’s The Cave. Instead of dwelling on that lost opportunity, you might consider checking this show for Alabama’s GT, which claims to sound like Japandroids and No Age but actually leans closer to scrappy surf-punk like Wavves or slow-burn psych. —DS [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

SING OUT In recent years, the sounds of massed choral voices intoning pop songs have become part of the Triangle’s soundtrack. The Community Chorus Project, now five years old, has been at the forefront, with innovative youth programs that foster musical appreciation and are just plain fun. Tonight’s show features forty students in their mid-teens from the group’s Summer Recording and Vocal Workshop, performing songs by Tracy Chapman, Ben Folds Five, and others, with expert musical accompaniment. —DK [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $5–$8/7 P.M.]

Local Band Local Beer: Young Cardinals, Le Weekend RELIABLY As ever, this ECLECTIC installment of the Local Band, Local Beer series presents a diverse array of Triangle talent. Young Cardinals point toward the arena-ready alt-rock of The Black Keys and Kings of Leon. Le Weekend’s enigmatic indie rock comes with classic pop hallmarks. Tomato Dodgers’ irreverent slacker rock bends slightly theatrical. —PW [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9:30 P.M.]

Sad Magazine DAD With songs that ROCK could easily pass for Tom Petty B-sides, Sad Magazine’s wistful lyrics and pulsing guitar work come together for a loose, twangy sound that recalls the classics of the seventies and eighties. With Coyote Vs. Acme.

—DM [THE PINHOOK, $5/9 P.M.]

TTNG MATH Following a prudent ROCK rebranding, the long-running UK post-rock outfit TTNG, formerly known as This Town Needs Guns, arrives in support of its recent third LP, Disappointment Island. Punishing and attractively atmospheric, TTNG’s beguiling brew of knotty guitars and tricky time signatures evokes Cap’n Jazz at its proggiest or Polvo at its most straightforwardly song oriented.

LITE and Cuzco open. —EB

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 2

JUSTICE YELDHAM The history of outsider art contains a particular strain of work by those who use their own bodies as living tools to set out for new, outlandish frontiers in performance. This style has existed for decades, but popular examples include the sixties and seventies performance art of Chris Burden and Günter Brus, which tested the agonizing limits of self-abasement. In the eighties, Japanese noise acts like Hijokaidan and The Gerogerigegege included bodily discharges in notorious exhibitions. Or there’s the Boredoms’ Yamataka Eye, who didn’t eat for three days before the band’s first show and jammed out a set of hopelessly pained moans, the only sounds he could physically create.

Lucas Abela exists in this vein. Under several monikers, Abela has employed many homemade and found objects—trampolines, vinyl-needle gloves, samurai swords, to name a few—into shocking configurations for his sound worlds. His premier tool for Justice Yeldham, his best-known project among the international noise underground, is his own face. The setup is simple, if highly disorienting. He contact-mikes a jagged cut of plate glass and suctions it to his mouth with K-Y Jelly. Then the fun starts.

He works the glass with his mouth and hands, blowing into it to create a cacophony of discordant sounds and often cutting his face in the process. Blood and lube fly everywhere, creating a spectacle that’s better seen than described.

It would be easy to label what Abela does as thoughtless GG Allin imitation, or worse, Jackass-style stunt shockery. But either assessment would be doing Abela’s art a disservice. He’s an oddity, to be sure, but he’s a clever, self-aware artist through and through. People with weak stomachs should stay home, but Abela’s stop in Chapel Hill is a chance to see something truly weird and unclassifiable, even in a world where those words get bandied around a lot. The weapons-grade sonics of Housefire, the spirited Christian noise of Clang Quartet, and Actualia’s harsh drones open. —David Ford Smith NIGHTLIGHT, CHAPEL HILL 9 p.m., $8, www.nightlightclub.com [LOCAL 506, $13-$15/6:30 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY DEEP SOUTH: Chit Nasty; 10:30 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Periphery, SikTh, Chon, Toothgrinder; 7 p.m., $18. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Michael Malis Trio; 8 p.m., $10–$12.

FRI, AUG 5 Hollis Brown YANKEE This Americana ROOTS outfit hails from Queens, New York, which might explain the lack of an overtly rural vibe in their sound, which hews closer to alt-rock than it does to

alt-country. Regardless of the band’s relative rootsiness, its Mike Montali is a rarity of rarities, a singer who can really sing. The band isn’t stingy with the hooks either. So what if it doesn’t reinvent the wheel? Hollis Brown still puts a nice spin on it. —JA [MOTORCO, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Grody Jones ARRIVE Knightdale trio EARLY Grody Jones brings a grumbling brew of post-grunge and death metal to its headlining slot, but western North Carolina outfit The Seduction and Charlotte trio Scowl Brow leave the biggest impressions. The Seduction’s amped-up hard rock is a rush of seventies revivalism cut with the sort of freewheeling party metal on which Valient Thorr built a legion of fans. Scowl Brow uses a gruff punk foundation to frame gritty and self-deprecating storytelling with a compelling knack for imagery and hooks.

Edge of Humanity opens. —BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $8/8:30 P.M.]

PULSE Electronic Dance Party AGING Raleigh’s monthly LOUDLY dance party, PULSE, doesn’t get quite the credit it deserves for being one of the anchors of the Triangle’s electronic music scene. This month’s installment is further proof that its progression doesn’t rely on any sort of validation.

Virginia’s “multi-hybrid” producer and DJ, Infexzion, stops through with a confluent bass set of remix magic, while Raleigh’s Stay Phresh keeps trap alive with the aid of some New Jersey club and a wonky dub-and-bass marriage.

Plus Yuki and Mt. Crushmore.

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Ed Stephenson and the Paco Band GUITAR Flamenco guitar has EN FUEGO acquired a lot of clichéd associations over the years, mostly to do with passion and intensity and virtuosity and dance. The power comes from its tightly wound energy. Meredith College guitar professor Ed Stephenson and the Paco Band offer a slightly more laid-back version of the style, mixing traditional tunes and dances with saxophone theatrics, Led Zeppelin tunes, and that feeling of driving through the chaparral on a sunny day. —DR [N.C. MUSEUM OF ART, FREE/5:30 P.M.]

TLG LOST The challenge with BOYZ most new rap crews (see: A$AP Mob, Pro Era, Dreamville) is that many of their members hardly ever come from under the shadows of their presumed leader (see: A$AP Rocky, Joey Bada$$, and J. Cole, respectively). That’s both a gift and a curse for Raleigh rap collective TLG (The Lost Gen).

You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in this lost mess of a crew who displayed a hint of leadership ability. One member, Jaheal, even employs the nursery rhyme line “‘knick knack paddy whack, give a dog a bone” in his lyrics. Yes, TLG seems lost indeed. With Emilio Zapata, Danny Blaze, Sangstaa, and VE$T. —ET [KINGS, $10–$12/7 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY BERKELEY CAFÉ: Rev Billy C Ritz; 8 p.m. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Butcher Brown; 8 & 10 p.m., $10. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Microwave Dave and the Nukes; 9 p.m., $8.

Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. • BYNUM GENERAL STORE: Onyx Club Boys; 7 pm, free. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): The Roman Spring, Aunt Sis; 9:30 p.m., $6–$8. • DEEP SOUTH: The Live Oaks, Cousin Cy, To Better Waters; 8 p.m., $5. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Evil English; 7 p.m. • MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: The Feral Conservatives; 8:30 p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Chaz’s Bull City Records 11 Year Anniversary

Kickoff Party; 8 p.m., $15. See page 14. • POUR HOUSE: Dark Water Rising, Funk You, Delta Son; 8 p.m. See box, page 31. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ DNLTMS; 10 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Preachin’ to the Fire; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Uncovered, Blue Frequency; 9 p.m., $10.

bogged down with aestheticized sadness and a lack of fresh musical ideas, the two bands transcended it by simply being funnier, more curious, and more willing to call out bullshit than their peers. With Nicole Dollanganger. —DS [LOCAL 506, $12–$14/10 P.M.]

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Benefit for United Caucuses of Rank and File Educators TEACH The teaching ‘EM WELL profession has always had to fight for respect.

UCORE is a national nonprofit for teachers’ unions that strengthens bonds among educators and promotes social justice and educational reform. It’s a good cause, and this party seeks to raise money to support it with DJ Whole Wheat on hand to supply high-fiber beats. —DK [KINGS, DONATIONS/9 P.M.]

Carnival of Madness JOCK As anthemic, ROCK Southern-tinged guitar music slowly becomes the new paradigm of aughts-era rock, a lucrative audience steps up to remember the bygone days of jock rock and immediately dull those memories with alcohol. This tour corrals Shinedown, Black Stone Cherry, and Whiskey Myers into one package that is butt rock of the highest order. If you scored tickets assuming that Halestorm was playing, Red Hat has stated the band is not on the Raleigh date, so buyer beware.

The same goes for Five Finger Death Punch. —DS [RED HAT, $29.50–$175/7:30 P.M.]

Elvis Depressedly, Teen Suicide DIY Lo-fi indie rock has PARTY been fruitful the last few years, with Elvis Depressedly and Teen Suicide as two of its most improbable stars. Both started as tongue-in-cheek Tumblr-centric bands with teen followings that seemed to not understand how sarcastic their heroes are. While that scene got

EASY Orlando’s Fat Night LISTEN brings the sunny soul of its native Florida on Lazy Days. Appropriately named, the six-song EP begs you to roll the windows down, surrender to the breeze, and take off to the beach.

With Mic the Prophet and The Bottom Line. —DM [THE STATION, $6/7:30 P.M.]

Oh Pep! NO PEP IN Australia’s Oh Pep! YR STEP feels like the result of years of millennial focus-group study on its debut LP, Stadium Cake. The record blends folk and electronic elements together and wraps them in fuzzy pop packaging, but the concept often feels too busy to be good. “Crazy Feels” stumbles with a clumsy violin line, while circles of synthy pricks interrupt “Doctor Doctor.”

There’s pep in excess, but little in the way of prowess. The Remarks open. —AH [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/8:30 P.M.]

Th5tet JAZZ This is a homecom‘BONE ing concert of sorts for trombonist Terry Hsieh. Hsieh is originally from Durham but moved to Beijing after graduating from Oberlin Conservatory.

Hsieh’s sound is big and round, in the tradition of trombonists like J. J. Johnson and Jimmy Knepper.

For this show, he brings together some of the Triangle’s finest— trumpeter Al Strong, guitarist Russell Favret, bassist Kenny Phelps-McKeown, and drummer Mike Ode—for two sets of hard-charging bebop. —DR [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $7/8 & 10 P.M.]

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Two Cow Garage TOUGH For fifteen years, TWANG Micah Schnabel has been peddling his songs at the front of the Columbus, Ohiobased Two Cow Garage. The band’s mix of grunge and twang is a familiar fit for fans of Lucero or Uncle Tupelo, but Two Cow Garage’s tenacity is unique. With hundreds of thousands of highway miles and six albums behind it, the band hasn’t slowed a bit—and a new record is due in October, too. The Feeds and Loose Jets open. —BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $10/9:30 P.M.]

Us the Duo FOLKSY The curious case of PAIR Us the Duo revolves around married couple Michael and Carissa Alvarado, two soft-harmonizing folkies who earned accolades and industry attention following a series of homemade performances posted on YouTube. Now that they’ve earned the backing of big business, it will be fascinating to see if this tech-savvy Sonny & Cher of the Vine era is capable of scaling its romantic spectacle up to superstar heights. Don’t bet against them. —EB [LINCOLN THEATRE, $17.50/8 P.M.]

Zen Groove Arkest LITE FUNK Though Dillon Partin’s amorphous jazz collective references the great cosmic-jazz weirdo Sun Ra in its nomenclature, the Zen Groove Arkest leans much more heavily on the middle part of its naming convention. The band’s tunes groove easily and amiably, though not especially challengingly, like John Scofield playing white-boy reggae. With Dave George & Friends and Gray Scale Whale.

—PW [DEEP SOUTH, $6–$11/9:30 P.M.]

Zig Zags JAGGED The L.A.-based EDGES scuzz-rock reprobates of Zig Zags fit comfortably in your collection alongside similarly degenerate garage denizens like The Black Lips and King Khan & BBQ Show,

all of whom have released records on the venerable In the Red label.

Zig Zags’ preoccupations—brainbusting intoxicants, true crime, light S&M—run the thematic gamut from A to B, and that’s a good thing. Few bands feature as quick a main line into rock ‘n’ roll’s unfiltered id. —TB [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Gravy Boys; 8 p.m., $10. • THE CARY THEATER: Jon Shain, Walter Parks; 8 p.m., $20. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: City Limits Saloon 12th Anniversary; 8 p.m., $10. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Juanito Folk; 7 p.m. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: Carolina Music Awards; 8 p.m., $27–$38. • MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Matt Phillips; 8:30 p.m. • OPEN EYE CAFE: Kristin Rebecca; 8 p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Stop the World Soul Dance Party; 10 p.m., $7.

• PONYSAURUS BREWING CO.: Chaz’s Bull City Records 11 Year Anniversary Music Festival; 5 p.m., $30. See page 14. POUR HOUSE: Shirlette Ammons, (J)Rowdy and the Nightshift, Will Wildfire, Nance; 9 p.m., $7–$10. See page 25. • SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL: John Howie Jr.; 6 p.m., free. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Don Stiernberg/ Greg Ruby Trio; 8 p.m., $10–$20.

• SLIM’S: The Everymen, The Affectionates; 9 p.m., $5. See page 18.

• SOUTHERN BOUNDARIES PARK: Shursoundz; 6 p.m., free. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Vividkind: Invasion; 10 p.m., $5–$10.

SUN, AUG 7 Bahamacide ROCK Austin trio CITY Bahamacide formed a little more than a year ago, played its first show in April, and released its first five-track EP, Make You Mine, at the beginning of July. The band bills itself as a “psychedelic party rock three-piece,” and at least the last two-thirds is right: Bahamacide delivers peppy, bleary-eyed power-trio garage rock with a little rev in its motor. But phasers and flangers do not a psych band make. —PW [POUR HOUSE, $5/9:30 P.M.]

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Love for Luke Benefit ROOTS Local legend Dex ROCK Romweber teams up with ascendant roots rockers Mr. Darcy to headline this benefit for Luke Van Beveren, who’s fighting a complicated brain ailment. Great music and karma will be on offer as Romweber plumbs the depths of his recent roots turn and Mr. Darcy conjures its populist tendencies for a good cause. —TB [THE STATION, $10/3 P.M.]

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Sages JAZZ Chapel Hill’s Sages is FUSION the brainchild of singer-songwriter Cameron Cook.

Since the spring, Cook has taken his time, releasing tracks one by one from his debut EP BBYLN via Bandcamp and Soundcloud. With one-off flourishes of piano, horn accents, and plenty of wah-wahs to go around, these singles sound like the product of homegrown tinkering. With The Landing and Gabriel David. —DM [LOCAL 506, $8/9 P.M.]

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons FAMED In pop songs, the FALSETTO momentary interpolation of a melody from a different pop song is a fine art.

Aimee Mann has four notes from “Born to Run” in “I’ve Had It,” and nineties grunge queens L7 insert the operative eight-bar salvo from Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons’ “Walk Like a Man” at the climax of “Mr. Integrity,” a diabolical take-down of a douchebag. Just goes to show the widespread influence of these falsetto-led chart kings. —DK [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $50–$130/7:30 P.M.]

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Townshend became a fan and invited Walsh’s then-band, the James Gang, on tour. Now best known for his biting fretwork on ubiquitous Eagles songs, Walsh never settled into complacency.

His tuneful mid-seventies solo work holds up especially well. J.D. & the Straight Shot, a media mogul’s band, opens, so don’t rush. —DK [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $30–$99/7:30 P.M.]

HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Tori Heller; 1 p.m. • KINGS: Queens at Kings; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Sunday Shake!; 9 p.m., $5. • RUBY DELUXE: Kitten Forever, Royal Brats, Pie Face Girls; 8 p.m., $5.

MON, AUG 8 NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Sarah Louise, Emmalee Hunnicutt, Jake Fussell; 8:30 p.m., $8. See page 24.

• POUR HOUSE: The Great Fall, Car Crash Star, Eyes Go Lightning, Magnolia; 9 p.m., $5.

TUE, AUG 9 Cyanotype

ART OF The Triangle’s IMPROV avant-garde scene has taken some hits this year.

Trombonist Jeb Bishop left for Boston earlier this year; engineer and enthusiast Dan Lilley died in February. But a scene always thrives with a home, and Carrack FIT at The Carrack in Durham provides one for free-improv music. Tonight, the amorphous collective Cyanotype takes center stage. —PW [THE CARRACK, FREE/8 P.M.]

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DARK WATER RISING Charly Lowry’s thick eastern North Carolina drawl tugs and stretches out the name of the band she leads, Dark Water Rising, as she explains the ominous name’s origins.

“It has a lot to do with our Native American heritage, which is a big part of who we are as people and how we move throughout the world,” she says, recalling growing up with bandmates Aaron and Corey Locklear on tribal territories near the banks of the Lumber River. “In these communities, the one thing that really ties us together is the river. It’s been a great source of nourishment and protection for people for hundreds and hundreds of years. We want to pay homage to our origins and where we’re from.”

The overall origins of the band’s soulful take on pop haven’t taken a normal route so far. Lowry, whose vocal acrobatics play off the band’s rootsy blues beats, was among thirty-two finalists on the 2004 season of American Idol. The sonic power requisite for those over-the-top vocal competitions is still present in her voice, but the lessons she took away from Idol extend beyond singing.

“It definitely gave me a crash course in the music industry. It was a fast-paced race compacted into just three weeks overall,” she recalled, noting the difference in the slow-moving post-Idol bid for success.

“After the show, coming back home and getting my life together, we started the band. And we’ve been managing ourselves and waiting for someone to take notice.”

The band is still working on earning that attention. On Friday night, it will test out new material that it hopes to pull together into a new record, despite a recent failed crowdsourcing campaign that only raised about a third of the twenty-thousand-dollar goal. Since 2013’s EP Grace & Grit: Chapter I, a commanding follow-up to the band’s self-titled debut album, the lineup has continued to shift. Newcomer Emily Musolino’s harmonies add an edgy punch to Lowry’s lead vocals, and the pair has been busy writing the bulk of the group’s latest set list.

“We’ve been diving really deep into the music and adding layers, trying out new arrangements,” Lowry says, referencing what the band has coined as its own “rocky soul” sound, with an emphasis on the rock.

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WED, AUG 10 I Prevail SECRETLY Michigan rock band POP I Prevail threatens to expose the pure-pop undercurrents in much of what’s generally dubbed post-hardcore. Its Linkin Park dynamics and none-toosubtle electronic textures shade the obligatory growls and blast beats with undeniable Top 40 smarts. It’s not ironic that the band’s breakout was a cover of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space.” The White Noise, My Enemies & I and Bad Seed Rising open. —BCR [LINCOLN THEATRE, $15/7 P.M.]

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Shopping PUNCHY Why Choose, the POWER second full-length record from London’s Shopping, is a clutch of punchy, direct punk tunes. Where some outfits play fast and loose, Shopping drives straight to the point with sharp and simple arrangements. The band’s tightly wound tunes are bouncy, wonderful little fits with hooks that stick with you for days.

Gauche and the Triangle’s new Truthers open. —AH [THE PINHOOK, $10/9 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY CARY ARTS CENTER: Philharmonic Association; Aug 10, 6 & 7:45 p.m. • NIGHTLIGHT: Justice Yeldham, Housefire, Clang Quartet, Actualia; 9 p.m., $8. See box, page 27.

• POUR HOUSE: Drunk on the Regs, Sexy Neighbors; 9 p.m., $5. • THE STATION: KC Masterpeace, DJ Meesh; 9 p.m. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Shaquim Muldrow; 8 p.m.

KINDA Via Athens, Georgia, FAR OUT Baltimore’s Outer Spaces exemplify something of both of those cities’ sounds. The band boasts a vaguely art-damaged jangle perched someplace

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African American Quilt Circle: Block-quilting, original designs, and fiber art by local artists in Durham’s African American Quilt Circle. Aug 9-Sep 4.

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Aisha Sanders: Geometric air plant displays. Fri, Aug 5, 6 pm. Retro Modern Furnishings, Raleigh. www. retromodernfurnishings.com.

All That Glitters: Golden-hued artwork by Gordon Jameson, Sheila Stillman, and Samantha Henneke and Bruce Gholson of Bulldog Pottery. Aug 9-Sep 4. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

SPECIAL Bonnie Brooks: Life EVENT of an Artist: Paintings made over several decades. Aug 7-31. Reception: Aug 7, 1-4 p.m. Sertoma Arts Center, Raleigh. parks.raleighnc.gov.

Carolina on My Mind: Wildlife paintings. Aug 5-31. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

SPECIAL Dear, Deer: Oil EVENT paintings by Trish Klenow. Aug 5-Sep 9.

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History and Mistory: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: Selections from the NCMA’s permanent collection of Old Master British paintings and sculpture from 1580 to 1850. Aug 6-Mar 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. See p. 24.

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Sunset: Sunrise: Works on paper by intergenerational artists including Victoria Turner Powers. Aug 3-Sep 1. The Carter Building Galleries & Art Studios, Raleigh. thecarterbuilding.com.

Under the Microscope: Oil paintings by Rosalynn Villaescusa. Aug 5-28. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

ONGOING LAST 20 Years of Horse & CHANCE Buggy Press and Friends: In this must-read retrospective, the past twenty years are an open book. That’s how long Dave Wofford has been letterpress printing paper pleasures at Horse & Buggy Press. Wofford collaborates with writers and artists to produce beautiful, minutely tailored books in small runs, their content ranging from abstract photojournalism to translations of Rilke. You can read them all in this exhibit, which also includes dozens of framed artworks.

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NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Kimberly Alvis, JJ Jiang: Paintings. Thru Aug 24.

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The Art of the Bike: Bicyclethemed art exhibit. Thru Oct 23. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www.co.orange.nc.us/ library/carrboro.

Avant-Gardens: Mixed collage work by Lauren Worth. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Bibelot: Beadwork by Janine LeBlanc. Thru Aug 13. PageWalker Arts & History Center, Cary. friendsofpagewalker.org.

Phil Blank: Works on paper.

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Liz Bradford: Oil paintings.

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Jarrett Burch: Paintings. Thru Aug 31. Culture Hair Studio, Durham.

Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock.

Thru Sep 25. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

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Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection: Whereas many glassblowers

content themselves with bongs and lampshades, Dale Chihuly has taken the form into the upper echelons of fine art with his sculptural fantasias. This private collection of Chihuly’s works is currently on tour. The collection focuses on Chihuly vessels inspired by Venetian art deco vases from the 1920s and ’30s, almost fifty of which are in the exhibit, arrayed around the centerpiece of the Laguna Murano Chandelier, a tour de force made of more than 1,500 pieces. Thru Oct 15. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham. —Brian Howe Davis Choun: Thru Sep 24. HQ Raleigh, Raleigh.

Colorful Language: Thru Aug 21. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughgallery.com.

The Colors of Summer: Peg Bachenheimer. Thru Sep 17.

Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com.

Corruption of the Innocents: Controversies about Children’s Popular Literature: Thru Aug 15.

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LAST Creative Recovery: CHANCE Mixed media by Grayson Bowen. Thru Aug 7.

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Departures and Arrivals: Paintings by Gayle Stott Lowry. Thru Sep 3. Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www. tyndallgalleries.com.

Durham and the Rise of the Baseball Card: An exploration of Durham’s role in popularizing the baseball card. Thru Sep 5.

Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

Durham by Ghostbike: In one of his mixed-media collages, Jeremy Kerman shows us a familiar downtown vantage through fresh eyes. Using bright colors, blocky shapes, and skewed perspectives remindful of a child’s drawing, he depicts the collision of old and new Durham, as historic brick jumbles with shiny ELF vehicles in front of the Organic Transit

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JODY SERVON/ANDREW HLADKY “Do you have a moment?” It’s a question that might send you scurrying when posed by someone clutching a clipboard on the street. It’s also the title of Jody Servon’s new show, which comes to life only when you respond to its prompts. Servon, based in western North Carolina, developed the exhibit during her summer residency at Artspace. The centerpiece is “Our Top 100,” in which visitors write down a song title and a recollection it sparks. The notes are posted on the wall, and each song is added to the playlist streaming in the gallery. The result is a collective memory mixtape for Raleigh.

The crowdsourced study in remembrance, which runs through Sept.

27, also includes handwritten dreams of lottery winnings and photos of memento mori. The upshot is an invitation to break free from isolating routines; maybe the next time a bright-eyed kid in an ACLU shirt flags you down on your lunch break, you’ll stop. Servon shares a First Friday opening reception with another new exhibit, this one by English artist Andrew Hladky (through Sept. 10), and they resonate together in a subtle way. While Servon deals with memory’s surface, Hladky’s dark, igneous enigmas—painted found objects that bulge from canvases—are like chunks of bedrock excavated from the subconscious. It’s art as pure artifact, contrasting Servon’s brightly lit social experiments. —Brian Howe ARTSPACE, RALEIGH 6–9 p.m., free, www.artspacenc.org

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building. A“Ghost Bike” parking sign pays a tribute to a friend of the artist’s in particular, and to all the people being erased, literally or figuratively, from Durham.

“Road Closed Ahead,” reads another sign; the question Kerman quietly asks is “for whom?”

Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery. com. —Brian Howe

Ingrid Erikson, Tonia Gebhart, Caroline Hohenrath, Anna Podris, and Tim Saguinsin: Thru Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

LAST FRANK Summer CHANCE Invitational: Janet Cooling, Drew Deane, Laura Hughes, Jenny Eggleston, Mary Kircher, and Jim Lee. Thru Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Garden’s Bounty: Paintings by Elda Hiser, jewelry by Monica Hunter, and ceramics by Susan Luster. Thru Aug 20. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www. carygalleryofartists.org.

Kyle Highsmith: Oil paintings of coastal and local imagery.

Thru Aug 31. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

Hometown (Inherited): Photographic and mixed media work by Moriah LeFebvre. Thru Oct 2. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

SPECIAL Hu.man.kind: Ely EVENT Urbanski’s monoprints on fabric depict donated clothing, and at this exhibit, you can donate an item and record a video about it to keep the project going. The outcome is an artistic X-ray of a stranger, inviting us to consider art as a composite of ingredients, each with its own story and sentiment. Donations and recordings will be accepted at on August 4, 9, 10, and 12, and the opening reception is at 6 p.m. Friday, August 5. Thru Aug 13. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. www.thecarrack.org. — Abigail Hoile

In the Footsteps Of...: Group photography show. Thru Sep 9. Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex. www.thehalle.org.

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L Jamal Walton: Solo comic exhibit. Thru Aug 31. Holly Springs Cultural Center, Holly Springs. www.hollyspringsnc.us.

Christin Kleinstreuer: Abstract paintings. Thru Sep 24. more. kitchen & bar, Raleigh. www. jmrkitchens.com.

Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Made Especially for You by Willie Kay: Dresses by the Raleigh designer. Thru Sep 5.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

George McKim: Thru Sep 24.

Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com.

LAST Muhammad Ali’s CHANCE Most Memorable Images: Photographic portraits of the late boxer by Sonia Katchian. Thru Aug 6. Vegan Flava Cafe, Durham. www. veganflavacafe.com.

LAST Nature on Canvas: CHANCE Brian Moyer. Thru Aug 31. Reception: Fri, Aug 5, 6-8 p.m. Bond Park Senior Center, Cary.

The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello Erin Oliver: Site-specific installation. Thru Sep 24.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Printocracy: Work by North Carolina printmakers. Thru Sep 16. Cary Town Hall, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

Resilience: The Divine Power of Black & White: Artwork by Julie Niskanen Skolozynski. Thru Sep 18. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

Save-the-Earth: Assemblages

by Ann Brownlee Hobgood.

Thru Aug 20. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org.

The Sky is Falling: Jenn Hales.

Thru Aug 13. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

Something Human: Sculpture by Julia Gartrell. Thru Aug 13. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www. scrapexchange.org.

Space of Otherness: Paintings

by Quoctrung Nguyen. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

LAST Transcending CHANCE Nature: Thru Aug 5. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www. litmusgallery.com.

LAST Truth to Power 4: CHANCE Pleiades’s annual juried show in response to issues of social justice arrives at a moment of particular urgency. In the aftermath of HB 2, the Orlando massacre, the police-shooting deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, and the retaliatory shootings of officers, these N.C. artists, selected by Center for Documentary Studies director Wesley Hogan, bring messages of resistance, grief, and the will to change. Thru Aug 7. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com. — Brian Howe Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm: Ken Abbott’s color photographs of family farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Thru Sep 10. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

Jina Valentine: Drawings and mixed media work. Thru Aug 28. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com.

Joan Vandermeer: Travel paintings. Thru Sep 30.

Mad Hatter Bakeshop & Cafe, Durham. www. madhatterbakeshop.com.

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The Beautiful Beast: Paperhand Puppet Intervention. Aug 5-Sep 5. UNC Campus: Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. ncbg.unc.edu. See story, p. 21.

Boozy Poetry Night: Local poets read their work. Second Mondays, 8:30 p.m. The Stag’s Head, Raleigh.

Cary’s Exceptional Young Talent: Philharmonic Association and International Ballet Academy. Sat, Aug 6, 2 p.m. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

Rick Bylina: Mystery novel Kill All Cats. Sun, Aug 7, 4 p.m.

Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www. joyfuljewel.com.

William “Endlesswill” Davis: Spoken word poetry in celebration of new collection Broken Perception.

Tue, Aug 9, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Comedian Double D: Smitty’s First Friday Comedy Show. $10.

Fri, Aug 5, 9 p.m. TJ’s Night Life, Raleigh. www.tjsnightlife.com.

Comedy Roulette: Featuring Zo Myers, Brent Blakeney, Mike Mello, Reid Pegram, and Jennie Stencel. $5. Wed, Aug 10, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Michael R. Hassler: Reading from new essay collection My Race Problem, with others. Fri, Aug 5, 7 p.m. So & So Books, Raleigh.

Anna Marie Jehorek: Reading from debut novel The Cottage on Lough Key, with wine tasting.

Sat, Aug 6, 6:30 p.m. Chatham Hill Winery, Cary. www. chathamhillwine.com.

Lachlan Patterson: Standup comedy. $15. Thu., Aug. 4, 8 p.m. and Aug. 5-6, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Danny Johnson: The Last Road Home, coming-of-age novel about race relations in NC. Thu, Aug 4, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

The Mads Are Back: Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff, stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000. $22–$59. Fri, Aug 5, 8 p.m.

Carolina Theatre, Durham. www. carolinatheatre.org. See p. 35.

Adam O’Fallon Price: Novel The Grand Tour. Tue, Aug 9, 7 p.m.

Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com. See story, p. 23.

Of Women and Wolves: Devised theater inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s Women Who Run with the Wolves. $10–$15. Aug 4-6, 8 p.m. Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www.cgtheatre.com.

The Roaring Girl: Play presented by little independent theatre. $10–$15. Sat, Aug 6–Sat, Aug 20. Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh. www.burningcoal.org.

ONGOING Henry VI: Play. $17. Thru Aug 7.

Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www.raleighlittletheatre.org.

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Terry Roberts: Novel That Bright Land. Wed, Aug 10, 7 p.m.

Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 5–SUNDAY, AUGUST 7

FAILURE: A LOVE STORY

At first, sisters Gertrude, Nelly, and Jenny June Fail live quite cozily above their deceased emigrant parents’ clock shop in Chicago. The year is 1928, and the Great Depression is just around the corner.

Not to worry, though: All three will die, in relatively short order, before it arrives. If that doesn’t sound like the stuff of comedy, you shouldn’t underestimate playwright Philip Dawkins, whose The Homosexuals played Manbites Dog Theater in 2013. He’s crafted a surprisingly upbeat, existential meditation on human relationships and temporality, set to songs from the 1920s and original music.

One Song Productions, an independent troupe of talented high-school students, closes its fifteenth year with this toe-tapping tutorial for a happy death. —Byron Woods THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO 7:30 p.m. Fri. & Sat./3 p.m. Sun., $7–$10, www.artscenterlive.org

LITERARY R E L AT E D Meet the Photographer: Leah Sobsey: Speaking about Collections: Birds, Bones and Butterflies. Sat, Aug 6, 3 p.m.

Durham Main Library, Durham. www.durhamcountylibrary.org.

A Night With The Neugents: Original Stories Based on Extraordinary Photography: Writers speak about NC photographs by David M. Spear.

With musical guests Big Fat

Gap. $15. Wed, Aug 10, 7:30 p.m. & Thu, Aug 11, 7:30 p.m.

The Rickhouse, Durham. www. rickhousedurham.com.

Ernest Turner: “History of Jazz Piano.” $5-$10. Tue, Aug 9, 7 p.m. Sharp Nine Gallery, Durham. www. durhamjazzworkshop.org.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 5

THE MADS ARE BACK: TRACE BEAULIEU AND FRANK CONNIFF Mystery Science Theater 3000, now a borderline cottage industry, has come a long way since its days as a no-budget local TV show built around the universal experience of making fun of bad films. The Internet ensures that its cheesy-movie insults live on (and that you can look up the most obscure references), and lord knows cheesy movies are a seemingly unending resource. Since it went off the air in 1999, episodes of the show have continued to circulate on DVD (and other, less legal forms), and its cast of cinematic back talkers has gone on to new movie-mocking comedy outlets such as Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic. But now Netflix is planning to revive the original MST3K, with Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt as the mad scientists tormenting our new hero and his found-object robots. In the meantime, you can catch the best-known “Mads,” Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff, on a movieriffing tour of their own. Why has the snark proven so enduring? Perhaps it’s less about tearing down the art of others than elevating it through observation, reminding moviegoers that we are never truly alone in the dark. That, and it’s just fun to mock cheesy movies. —Zack Smith THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $22–$32, www.carolinatheatre.org

and fun as other recent DC movies have been grim and stolid. Rated PG-13.

A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  ½ Bad Moms—It’s The Change-Up and The Hangover for women. You’re welcome?

Rated PG-13.  The BFG—Roald Dahl’s Big Friendly Giant gets a shiny but underwhelming Spielberg adaptation. Rated PG.  ½ Captain America: Civil War—As in Batman v Superman, superheroes turn on each other, but the action is served with a Marvel smirk instead of a D.C. frown. Rated PG-13.

 The Conjuring 2—This supernatural thriller checks off fifty years’ worth of horror movie tropes. Rated R.  Ghostbusters—Haters aside, the casting isn’t the problem here: The limp script is. Rated PG-13.  Hunt for the Wilderpeople—In this quirky hit from New Zealand, a wayward boy and his grouchy foster uncle deliberately get lost in the bush, triggering a national search. Rated PG.  Jason Bourne—Matt Damon’s amnesiac assassin returns in an efficient, effective genre exercise with a disposable plot. Rated PG-13.  The Jungle Book— Disney’s animated classic gets a well-done, CGI-heavy

update. Rated PG.  ½ Lights Out—A viral no-budget short about a monster that appears only in the dark becomes a surprisingly effective horror feature with a sensitivity to subtext. Rated PG-13.  ½ The Secret Life of Pets—This charming, beautifully crafted family movie falls apart in the final act. Rated PG.  ½ Wiener-Dog— Misanthropy master Todd Solondz doesn’t rise to the narrative complexity of Happiness but compensates with dry, merciless wit.

Rated R.

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