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The feds tried to lock me up for life for reporting on inauguration protests.

This is a true story of conspiracy in Trump’s America.

BY AARON CANTÚ, P. 10 ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY, P. 9

NEW SOUTHERN PEAK BREWS AND ‘BOOCH, P. 15

THE BEST BAD MOVIES AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE, P. 32

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6 Durham is home to North Carolina’s oldest Muslim community.

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9 As they do whenever their own chicanery bites them in the butt, N.C. Republicans changed the rules in the middle of the game.

14 Food 17 Music 20 Arts & Culture

10 “For over a year, federal prosecutors and agents have perused my digital communications, tried to hack my cell phone, and possibly collected my social media records. I’m not being paranoid. This really happened.”

22 What to Do This Week 25 Music Calendar 28 Arts & Culture Calendar

14 Food trucks? How quaint. The now thing in mobile food is on Instagram, and its name is The Dankery.

15 The late-night pizza gap on Geer Street is finally being filled

by Hutchins Garage.

17 After taking a five-year break, Peter Holsapple realized he’d be happier making music again, but on his own terms.

20 As we see in The Amen Corner, James Baldwin knew the world of Harlem storefront churches firsthand.

Journalist Aaron Cantú was the 223rd person arrested in Washington, D.C. during Inauguration Day protests. PHOTO BY ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

On the cover ILLUSTRATION BY ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING REGARDING PROPOSED INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS AT THE SOUTHERN INTERSECTION OF FOX ROAD AND U.S. 401/LOUISBURG ROAD IN RALEIGH, WAKE COUNTY STIP Project No. W-5705Q The N.C. Department of Transportation is proposing to make improvements to the southern intersection of U.S. 401/Louisburg Road and Fox Road.

The open-house public meeting will be held at St Matthews Baptist Church located at 5410 Louisburg Road in Raleigh from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Tuesday, August 7, 2018. The purpose of this meeting is to provide interested citizens the opportunity to review a map of the project, ask questions and provide feedback.

Interested citizens may attend at any time between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Please note that there will not be a formal presentation. Maps of the proposed improvements will be displayed at the meeting and staff of NCDOT will be on hand to provide information and answer questions.

A map of the proposal is available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings/.

For additional information please contact NCDOT Regional Traffic Safety Engineer, John Grant, PE by phone at (919) 814-4952 or by email at jhgrant@ ncdot.gov. Comments will be accepted at the meeting or by mail or email following the meeting but should be submitted by August 21, 2018.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop.

Anyone requiring special services should contact NCDOT Senior Public Involvement Officer Diane Wilson by phone at (919) 707-6073 or by email at pdwilson1@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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Keep Dreaming The sudden and unexpected news that acclaimed chef Phoebe Lawless was shutting down The Lakewood and Baby Scratch brought renewed attention to a piece—a James Beard Award finalist—by former food editor Victoria Bouloubasis last year that looked at The Lakewood’s place in a gentrifying Durham neighborhood.

Commenter David Hewitt 1 congratulated Bouloubasis for “her role in torpedoing The Lakewood. I am so thankful for her role in protecting Durham from another gentrifying influence. Way to go, Victoria!

And if you wrecked the dream of a local chef, just the cost of keeping Durham ‘real’ as defined by an elitist group of Durham hipsters.”

“The end of the short life of The Lakewood restaurant in the Davis Baking Building has brought sadness to my heart,” writes That Cookie Man. “Phoebe Lawless is a woman of unique talents and rare qualities. The Lakewood was the next step in a neighborhood that had plans for other new restaurants and cafés on the way. I dined there several times and was always reminded of the warm and comforting sense of community that was the soul of Scratch, and Durham. A feeling that brought sincere friendship and comradery into my life as well as that of many others.

“What this author claims is a piece about gentrification does not actually focus on the constant influx of development and redevelopment of old and new neighborhoods, downtown government buildings, new apartments buildings and complexes, office buildings, ALOFT and many other hotels, the DPAC, the Durham Bulls’ ballpark, and the American Tobacco Campus. (Not to mention the Durham Freeway.) On behalf of Phoebe Lawless and those who have helped her: I am neither a history buff nor a census scholar; however, I do not endorse the exaggerated perspective and permissive speculation of these slanderous assumptions and misguiding implications of individual racially biased responsibility for gentrification in the Lakewood neighborhood.

“It is plain to see that this article is not actually about gentrification; it is clearly about Phoebe Lawless. The conflicted direction of ideals was nauseating, not because I know Phoebe, but because I lived in Durham for eight years, and Raleigh for

eight years, and everyone knows that everything is changing in all of the cities in which we live. Gentrification is not something that is within one person’s control; it is a

“I will fight you in the parking lot if you disagree.” part of our ever-evolving lives, as it always has been. Even I have now moved far from the center of any of these cities because I can’t afford the cost of living, but I will always respect and admire those who to try to find a way to make it work.”

Commenter TriangleTransplant says last week’s list of one hundred dishes you need to try missed one important thing: “Once again, a Triangle food article that totally fails to mention KoKyu Na’Mean! Flip (David Filippini) has created the best sandwiches in the Triangle/North Carolina/United States/the planet, and I will fight you in the parking lot if you disagree. Why never any love for this amazing chef and what he’s created?”

Silvia T. just returned to Chapel Hill from Europe and was excited to read our recent package of train-related features—until she wasn’t: “I came back so enthusiastic about trains, thinking, ‘Yes, now I will find out how to replicate the same here, finally be done with drives to the airport, security checks, delays, and getting stuck in unfamiliar places.’ Your contributors disabused me of any such notion. How sad! On my trip through Europe, the experience was everything you would ever want from transportation meant to serve customers and more.

“Why, oh why can we not, in this country, invest in public transportation that serves everyone and is decent and enjoyable? I have a hunch about the answer, but spare me the state socialism, high taxes, and lack of individual choice nonsense. All I want is nice, clean trains that get most of us where we want to be for a reasonable price. Keep dreaming!”

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Good Neighbors

AN EXHIBIT AT THE MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY CHRONICLES THE OLDEST MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN NORTH CAROLINA—AND HOW IT CHANGED THE BULL CITY BY SARAH WILLETS

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est Chapel Hill Street has changed significantly since ArRazzaq Islamic Center opened its doors in 1971.

Where the Islamic Center once operated a bakery and loaded up its food truck (the third in Durham, the story goes) stands The Cookery, an event space and culinary incubator. Ar-Razzaq’s fish market, mechanic shop, restaurant, and music venue are also gone from a stretch now home to a coffee shop, grocery store, and frozen yogurt place.

The history of Ar-Razzaq—the oldest Muslim community in North Carolina— is chronicled in Building Bridges Through Good Faith, an exhibit at the Museum of Durham History, on view through August 11.

It’s a story that hadn’t been compiled before but embodies Durham’s place in African-American history and its roots in entrepreneurship, activism, and tolerance.

“The members of Ar-Razzaq have lived their lives in a way to make Durham better, and so that bridges were built between Muslims and non-Muslims,” says Naomi Feaste, who, as a college student involved in the civil rights movement, joined ArRazzaq in its early days.

As co-curator of the exhibit, Feaste put out a call to the community to unearth the “history in their heads and their attics” that now covers two walls in the small museum.

The exhibit includes the arrival of Muslims in America, the founding of Muhammad’s Mosque #34—as Ar-Razzaq was known when it formed in the late 1950s as part of the Nation of Islam—and its influence on Durham and beyond.

“There wasn’t that kind of documentation of the Muslim community in Durham, and we really wanted to let people know they’ve been here for a long time and they continue to be great, contributing neighbors,” says museum executive director Patrick Mucklow.

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Benjamin (left) listens to recordings with his brother Isaac at The Museum of Durham History. struggling like other central neighborhoods from the closure of the city’s factories and the construction of the Durham Freeway.

So members began a community patrol (they pestered drug dealers until the dealers reported them to police for harassment, according to lore), a soup kitchen, and “clean-up squads” so thorough members say the city didn’t need to sweep the streets.

While those efforts have dissipated as the neighborhood changed, Ar-Razzaq still operates a weekend school, serves about one thousand kids through a summer feeding program, and delivers meals to seniors.

When the now-controversial Nation of Islam split in the mid-1970s, the mosque changed its name to Ar-Razzaq and transitioned to mainstream Al-Islam, which emphasizes religious study, community service, and racial tolerance.

“Many times when people think of AlIslam—at least today—the first thing that comes to mind is ‘foreign,’” says Imam Greg Rashad. “Yet here is a city where Al-Islam was started by African Americans. That’s a message we’re trying to teach the community—that at least here in Durham, the first Muslim community was started by African

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Americans, and with that came business growth, economic growth, and community growth.”

The area was bustling with businesses, eateries, and a cultural center that hosted jazz and other live music, all run by the ArRazzaq community.

To spur employment and healthy eating, the mosque joined the Nation of Islam’s fish program, which imported whiting from Peru for distribution across the country.

Men loaded their pickup trucks and raced to deliver it all before it defrosted (relics are featured in the exhibit). Members also

manufactured shea butter—memorialized in an obscure nineties rap song by Da Golden Rul included in the exhibit—with nuts brought from Africa via another Nation of Islam program.

Longtime member Roman Shareef, who drove a catering truck, recalls dishing out meals like navy bean pie (somewhere in between chess and sweet potato) and allbeef “Unity Frank” hot dogs—with French fries inside the bun—to the likes of Kool & the Gang, Chaka Khan, and Parliament Funkadelic when they visited Durham. Gil Scott-Heron and his band “bought everything I had on the truck,” he remembers.

Photos in the exhibit show author James Baldwin outside the mosque’s original Pettigrew Street location, attracted to a sign reading “Choose for yourself: Truth or hate,” and Malcolm X debating local civil rights leader Floyd McKissick Sr. Not pictured are visits by legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, who reportedly dined at Ar-Razzaq’s restaurant, Shabazz, and stayed with its founding family, waking them early with his trademark banter.

“Those are the kind of people that came through this community as a result of a lot of the work that was going on not just here in the Islamic community, but also as part of the whole social movement here in Durham,” Rashad says.

Ar-Razzaq also had the effect of spurring and strengthening Muslim communities across North Carolina. “Durham was like the hub,” Feaste explains. “People came here for classes. They came here for information to find out what going on nationally.”

As of 2010, there were about twenty-six thousand Muslims in the state, roughly half of whom live in the Triangle, according to the Association of Religion Data Archives.

Ar-Razzaq’s membership has changed in recent years. Once majority African American, Friday night services are attended by “people from all over the world,” says Rashad. Its role in the community has also shifted, although it has continued interfaith exchanges that have brought students business and congregations from other religions mmunity through its doors, and vice versa, for years.

“It’s important, especially taking the usinesses, temperature of the nation as it is right now, at hosted the fact that this exhibit demonstrates that by the Ar- communities like Ar-Razzaq have existed peacefully for decades in towns just like hy eating, Durham, large and small, across the U.S.,” of Islam’s says Mucklow. ting from swillets@indyweek.com country. and raced Admission to the museum is free. A closing ed (relics reception will be held August 10 from mbers also 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

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BY 2020, THE DURHAM HOUSING AUTHORITY WILL BEGIN REDEVELOPING ONE OF ITS DOWNTOWN PROPERTIES. IT JUST DOESN’T KNOW WHICH ONE.

BY SARAH WILLETS Fayette Place

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he city of Durham will pitch in just over $2 million to help the Durham Housing Authority plan for the redevelopment of about fifty acres of downtown property that DHA owns.

The housing authority plans to redevelop more than eighteen hundred public housing units in the coming years through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Rental Assistance Demonstration program, or RAD. Intended to address a more than $50 billion backlog of repairs in public housing communities nationwide, RAD allows housing authori8 | 8.1.18 | INDYweek.com

ties to borrow money and partner with private investors. In Durham, DHA hopes to use the program to fully rebuild aging buildings that need an estimated $19 million in basic repairs, plus more substantial fixes like failing roofs and plumbing.

Currently, DHA is renovating two of its neighborhoods, Morreene Road and Damar Court. Unlike those developments, other Durham public housing neighborhoods will be torn down and rebuilt as mixed-income and—in the case of valuable properties downtown—mixed-use communities.

Under former DHA CEO Dallas Parks, the housing authority planned to renovate all of its public housing properties, like what’s being done at Morreene Road and Damar Court, which was initiated prior to Park’s departure in 2016. There, residents have been moved into other apartments (most on-site but not all) while their own units are being redone. However, under CEO Anthony Scott, who was hired in June 2016, DHA plans to redevelop the rest of its public housing portfolio in phases with the aim of increasing the stock of affordable housing in Durham.

This is why DHA is focusing downtown first: to leverage developer fees and other revenues from those prime locations to support redevelopment at other sites.

The agency hasn’t decided which of its downtown sites will see work first, but it hopes to begin construction on one in early 2020.

Scott told the city council last week that the city won’t be expected to pay predevelopment costs for all the agency’s redevelopment plans. The $2.13 million grant also won’t cover pre-development activities at all of DHA’s downtown sites, just the first phase.

Asked what it would cost for the city to cover pre-development for all of those properties, Scott said he didn’t know. “We’re not sure the full extent of what the future development deals will look like,” he said.

Downtown, the housing authority owns J.J. Henderson, a senior housing tower; Oldham Towers, another senior housing building; the adjacent Liberty Street townhomes; Forest Hill Heights, in the Southside neighborhood; a vacant property south of N.C. 147 known as Fayette Place; and its headquarters on East Main Street.

All told, 577 DHA residents—including many kids and seniors—live in the downtown area, but there is the potential for much greater density.

Fayette Place (formerly known as the Fayetteville Street projects) consists of about twenty acres of unused land. Forest Hill Heights is barely populated, with fiftyfive apartments on fifteen acres. Linked together, Oldham Towers and Liberty Street would total twelve acres.

In surveys, three-quarters of DHA’s downtown residents said they want to return to a new unit downtown post-redevelopment (which they have a right to do under federal RAD regulations). But, as the INDY reported last year, many residents, particularly those downtown—with failed redevelopment efforts like urban renewal close in mind—are skeptical that the renovations will take place as planned and that they won’t be displaced.

As with most affordable housing projects, DHA needs low-income housing tax credits to make this happen, and it needs money to get its application together by the January deadline. The agency is hoping to secure an elusive 9 percent tax credit for a project downtown.

Two development partners have been selected to help decide which property would make the best contender for those tax credits. According to meeting minutes for the DHA board, if none of the downtown sites are ready for a tax-credit application (which Scott told board members was unlikely), the city and DHA could work together to seek tax credits for a property known as “Southside III,” adjacent to the city-backed mixed-income Southside apartments and homes. The site isn’t part of the DHA’s redevelopment plans, but the agency could locate units there, much like a future affordable development on Jackson Street where some units will be subsidized by DHA vouchers.

The money will go toward those predevelopment activities, including architecture and land planning, engineering, inspections, and environmental reports.

The grant agreement stipulates that that work be done in conjunction with the city, and that the city’s money be used to support units affordable to households earning at or below 60 percent of the area median income, which is about $48,000 for a family of four. Although the council didn’t vote on the grant Thursday (it’s expected to be approved at the council's August 6 meeting), the money has been budgeted for the fiscal year 2019 housing fund.

“If the Council does not approve the proposed Predevelopment Grant Agreement, DHA will not be able to expand its development capacity in order to more effectively advance a significant development portfolio,” a memo from deputy city manager Keith Chadwell reads. “The lack of capacity is likely to result in an inability to advance projects, which in turn could ultimately jeopardize the viability of future public housing redevelopment activities within Durham.”

The grant agreement stipulates that the money may also be used toward “other publicly owned sites downtown.” It’s the second time DHA has asked for money from the city to help with RAD plans, the first being about $1.4 million to cover shortfalls when work at Morreene Road and Damar Court got off track. According to the staff memo, DHA will be coming back to the city for more money (the amount is unspecified) to support the redevelopment of Laurel Oaks. swillets@indyweek.com

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ABSOLUTE POWER FLEXES ITS MUSCLES ON JONES STREET

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

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f I were cynical enough to look past the blasé evisceration of democratic norms in pursuit of raw political power that took place on Jones Street last week—and is coming up again this weekend, when the Republican-led General Assembly returns to indulge in its favorite hobby, overriding Governor Cooper’s vetoes—I’d probably appreciate, maybe even admire, the unabashed shamelessness of what transpired.

It was bad enough that Republican leaders called a special session with almost no public notice based on—wait for it—a tweet from a private citizen. It was worse that they did so to prevent North Carolinians from having even the foggiest idea about the six constitutional amendments they’ll be voting on this November. And worse still were the shenanigans they pulled to help the GOP candidate for state Supreme Court, who was the victim of unintended consequences of previous Republican efforts to entrench Republican rule.

To recap: In the waning days of this year’s short session, Republicans voted to put six constitutional amendments on the ballot, an effort to gin up their base amid a difficult electoral season. Of course, the legislature didn’t bother spelling out the details of what those amendments would do, instead entrusting the nitty-gritty of socalled implementing legislation to a special lame-duck legislative session held after the election. In other words, you’ll get to find out what you voted on after you voted on it.

Four of these amendments purport to fix problems that don’t actually exist: A voter ID amendment (again, you won’t get to know what kinds of identification are acceptable, or what exceptions will be allowed, until after the vote) targets the fever dream of widespread voter fraud. An amendment to cap the income tax rate at 7 percent imagines that a future legislature will jack up taxes on rich people. And until the short session, I hadn’t heard that crime victims or hunters or fishermen felt somehow shortchanged by existing state statutes.

The other two amendments are simply power grabs designed to neuter the governor, who in the legislature’s view should not be either a Democrat or more than a ceremonial figure. One redirects the governor’s power to appoint judicial vacancies to the legislature, while the other strips the governor of his role in making appointments to the elections board and other state boards.

Under a state law passed just two years ago, those amendments go to the Constitutional Amendments Publication Commission—comprising the secretary of state, attorney general, and legislative services officer—which is tasked with writing a “short caption” of each amendment for the ballot. The problem for the General Assembly is that two of the commission’s members—Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and Attorney General Josh Stein—are Democrats, and hence not to be trusted.

Compounding their anxiety, on July 20, Gerry Cohen, the widely respected former director of the legislature’s Bill Drafting Division who also happens to be a Democrat, tweeted a link to a memo he’d written suggesting captions for the six amendments. His captions were straightforward: “Voter shall provide photographic identification before voting in person.”

“Protect right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife.” “Transfer powers of the Governor to the General Assembly.”

But Republicans freaked out nonetheless. The next day, state Representative David Lewis, who chairs the powerful Rules Committee, demanded that the legislature convene in a special session to render the commission obsolete, claiming it was under pressure to write “politicized captions.” So last week, Republicans dutifully voted to make all of the captions on the ballot simply say, “Constitutional Amendment.”

And then, because they can’t help themselves, lawmakers tried to clean up another of their self-inflicted messes. Last year, after a Democrat named Mike Morgan sneaked his way onto the state Supreme

How to keep power: Change the rules.

Court—likely owing to his placement atop the 2016 ballot—the legislature made Supreme Court races partisan. (Legislators later tweaked the law to ensure that this year’s Democratic candidate will appear at the bottom of the ballot.) Then earlier this year, Republicans eliminated judicial primaries. This became a problem when a former Democrat named Chris Anglin signed up to run as a Republican in November, threatening the election of Republican incumbent Barbara Jackson and boosting Democratic challenger Anita Earls.

As they’ve so often done when their chicanery has bitten them in the butt, Republicans once again changed the rules of the game. A new law, passed along party lines, removes party labels from those who changed party affiliation less than ninety days before filing for office, and it would be applied retroactively. If his inevitable lawsuit fails, Anglin will appear on the ballot without party affiliation.

Cooper vetoed both bills. The General Assembly will be back Saturday to override those vetoes, as it’s done nearly a dozen times over the last eighteen months.

This is what unchecked, absolute power looks like, zealously and audaciously protecting its own. And the longer Republicans retain their supermajorities, the more this uncompromising style of politics—contemptuous of norms, dismissive of rules, consumed by the preservation of power, incapable of shame—will become entrenched in our state’s government.

No matter your partisan leanings, that’s not something to look forward to. jbillman@indyweek.com

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PEOPLE The feds tried to lock me up for life for reporting on inauguration protests. This is a true story of conspiracy in Trump’s America.

BY AARON CANTÚ ILLUSTRATION BY ANSON STEVENS-BOLLEN

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Editor’s note: In January 2017, Aaron Cantú spent a night in jail with hundreds of others detained during protests on Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C. His “criminal” actions consisted of walking, wearing black, and being a witness to history as a freelance journalist. A few months later, federal prosecutors charged him with eight felonies, including conspiracy to riot. After nearly eighteen months, the feds dropped the charges, and Cantú, now a staff writer for the Santa Fe Reporter, is finally able to publicly reflect on the ordeal.

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or over a year, federal prosecutors and agents have perused my digital communications, tried to hack my cell phone, and possibly collected my social media records.

I’m not being paranoid. This really happened. The feds invaded my life in pursuit of their own conspiracy theory about a raucous protest in Washington, D.C., that resulted in eight felony charges against hundreds of people, myself included.

The overwhelming sense of being watched has abated some since the charges were dropped in early July, but I’m sure officials within the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia—the local arm of the Trump Justice Department—will read every word of this essay with an eye toward anything they can use to prosecute me or the 186 people still living under a five-year statute of limitations.

A few weeks after my arrest on January 20, 2017—referred to as J20—I accepted some painful advice: Don’t criticize the Trump administration publicly. I’d hoped that my charges would get dropped before my eventual indictment in May. The inability to speak freely on social media and in the publications I wrote for drained my confidence; I still reflexively self-censor, often deleting tweets for no real reason.

Even writing this is hard. This pounding in my chest, this trembling hand and sour stomach and sweaty tunnel vision are what it feels like to have your freedom of speech curtailed by the state.

I went to D.C. to report on Trump’s inauguration, following a year of a bubbling antifascism movement pushing back against his campaign. I currently enjoy the haven of a newspaper willing to hire lawyers to bite back, but last January I was a freelancer using vacation days from my full-time job to go witness history. This was a completely uncharted assignment: How violent could this get? Would American jackboots try to stomp me in the streets?

In the end, it didn’t matter that I presented myself as a journalist on J20 or that I only carried a sandwich and a notebook: White

supremacists wound up messing with me for over a year, working with authorities to prosecute and harass me.

After eighteen months, the actual memories of the half-hour march leading to my arrest have mixed with dreams and nightmares of the day, as well as descriptions in multiple indictments, trial transcripts, and media reports. My mind’s eye remembers a dark funhouse of corporate buildings and unusually waifish, Jack Skellington-esque riot cops hemming me into a larger group. Everything looks gray and morose; it may have rained a bit. Police relentlessly deployed stingball grenades and pepper spray; the final tally was at least seventy grenades thrown at people blocks away from where Donald Trump was sworn in. Creaks and shatters created by objects smashing glass, including the insured windows of a Bank of America branch and a Starbucks, are more memorable than any destruction my eyes may have seen. Very, very loud police sirens, punctuated by grenade explosions and screaming, overwhelm everything else.

“The inappropriate and extensive use of less lethal munitions suggests the need for increased supervision of officers during mass demonstrations,” said a report from the Police Foundation, which evaluated the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department’s conduct at the inauguration protests.

Impossible to forget are the feelings throughout that march: the whole-body nerve rush when I first saw the huge mass of marching people extending at least a whole city block; the panic run as the sting-ball grenades burst near my feet; the euphoria of an ungovernable moment, however frightening and unpredictable, that disrupted the lawful monotony binding our unequal social system together; and the shock when I checked my phone from inside the mass arrest and saw that protests in D.C. had overtaken Trump’s inaugural speech as the top headline on CNN.com.

If protesters weren’t able to stop the actual inauguration, they still marred it in history.

When the first six of more than two hundred defendants went to trial last November, prosecutors used expressions of excitement, wonder, or awe during the march as evidence of a conspiracy to riot.

“I’m fucking blissed out,” photojournalist and acquitted defendant Alexei Wood announced in a livestream that day. The feds later tried to use it against him. In an identical indictment filed against all defendants, prosecutors also used shouted phrases like “Fuck it up,” “Fuck capitalism,” and “Whose streets? Our streets!” to transform an adrenal impulse into a criminal agreement among coconspirators.

Smoke from a burning limousine on Inauguration Day. PHOTO BY MOBILUS IN MOBILI/PUBLIC DOMAIN

The thought that I might be seriously screwed first occurred to me inside the police wagon transporting us to be processed. I sat cramped and bound along with nine other people in one of a halfmile’s worth of law enforcement vehicles flashing various hues of light, as if carrying high-priority enemies of the state. I knew then we weren’t going to get off with a simple citation. I didn’t expect, however, that I would be charged with eight felonies for the act of attending and reporting on a confrontational protest, or that I would be facing a potential eighty years in prison.

Months later I not only considered my own future, but the far-reaching political implications of these cases: Why did the U.S. Attorney’s Office find it appropriate to hang virtual life sentences over the heads of 214 people after an indiscriminate mass arrest? How could they have so shamelessly gleaned evidence from far-right groups like Project Veritas, a discredited organization known for making deceptive gotcha videos, as well as the paramilitary group the Oath Keepers, and still felt they had a legitimate case? And where was the motivation— the conspiracy—to pursue these charges coming from?

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ass arrests at protests have happened plenty of times across the country, including in D.C. in 2002 when hundreds at a World Bank protest were arrested. What appeared new in the J20 case was the attempt to color protesters’ actions as part of a pre-planned conspiracy between strangers to cause mayhem.

By wrapping up distinct actions like allegedly breaking windows, chanting, and lighting fireworks at a protest into a single conspiracy, they became one threatening, anti-social act against society, apparently menacing enough to warrant decades in prison. The motive to bust a conspiracy also explains the Justice Department’s initial demand last summer to review 1.3 million IP addresses of people who visited DisruptJ20.org, a website used to organize loosely affiliated protests that took place at the inauguration. Despite an outcry from the media and civil rights groups, the court eventually granted much of the prosecutors’ request, yet they could find no actual conspiracy.

This data-vacuuming extended to the cell phones that all arrestees were carrying that day. The Metropolitan Police Department used technology from an Israeli security firm to extract information from all confiscated

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phones that weren’t sufficiently encrypted. After one anonymous defendant’s phone was raided, the defendant received an eightthousand-page dossier containing years of personal data, including “intimate emails to and from my friends and lovers through more than a decade, [late] night political debates over chat apps that helped shape my values and convictions,” and more.

To my knowledge, the feds were never able to crack into my phone thanks to strong encryption—though they made clear that they were specifically interested in me, declaring in one motion from last October that they were undertaking “additional efforts” to get my data. But I was sufficiently terrified by other fishing expeditions, including subpoenas issued to Apple, Facebook, and possibly Twitter for communications between and among codefendants. I never received a notice from any of these companies that my accounts had been subpoenaed—apparently, they do not have to notify you or can be gagged from doing so— but others did, and I still treat my online presence as if it’s bugged.

All this reaching by the prosecution turned out to be for naught. Although assistant U.S. attorney Rizwan Qureshi mumbled to an unbelieving D.C. jury at the second and only other trial of defendants that there had been a conspiracy to “destroy your city,” it was never proven. That trial this May ended in acquittals and mistrials, after the first resulted in acquittals last December. The pair of failures set the stage for the collapse of the case in its entirety, letting the few dozen remaining defendants go free.

The second trial took place at the D.C. Superior Court where, in another room, a chief judge determined that assistant U.S. attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff had intentionally misled the court about the existence of nearly seventy videos recorded by Project Veritas operatives at protest planning meetings ahead of the inauguration.

The operatives handed over the surreptitiously recorded videos to a D.C. detective, Greggory Pemberton, who would spend an entire year investigating the J20 case.

Defense counsel later discovered personal tweets sent out by Pemberton indicating his sympathies with the racist pro-Trump digital underbelly, and used them to undermine his testimony at trial.

According to a recent filing from former defendants, the withheld videos “cut against the theory that the … meeting was an exclusive, secretive meeting to plan unlawful conduct.” The sixties-era stereotype of violent leftists whispering clandestine plans was part of the narrative prosecutors tried to create, and they went as far as lying in open court to preserve it.

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his isn’t the first time that authorities in D.C. have hunted for clues of a conspiracy post-riot. After the city’s black residents rose up following the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, the feds wanted to know who, if anybody, had orchestrated the chaos, and whether similar uprisings in more than one hundred cities had been part of a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow the white American system.

Stokely Carmichael, then the leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, emerged as a primary suspect.

Shortly after King’s murder, Carmichael told a radio host from Havana, Cuba, that it was “crystal clear [that] the United States of America must fall in order for humanity to live, and we are going to give our lives for that cause.” But no conspiracy indictment was ever filed against Carmichael, or anybody else. The fact that conspiracy charges were filed for so many in the J20 case illustrates how much prosecutorial aggression has advanced over the last half-century.

Some in radical circles have called attention to the white privilege of the J20 defendants, arguing that by virtue of their whiteness (or, for the minority of nonwhite defendants, their proximity to that pool of privilege), defendants had access to platforms, sympathy, support networks, and resources that most low-income and nonwhite defendants lack, and that these advantages were hugely responsible for our success. I mostly agree.

It is also true that the entire legal premise underpinning the felony charges filed against each of us was steeped in the U.S.’s

centuries-long defense of white supremacy.

The anti-rioting statute under which we were charged, which calls for a maximum sentence of ten years, was passed in 1967 by Congress in the wake of black urban uprisings in that decade. Prosecutors used it against black D.C. residents the following year.

But the connection goes deeper.

The unifying legal theory of our prosecution was that we engaged in a conspiracy, and were, therefore, each equally liable for all property destruction or injury that occurred that day. This theory of liability stems from a mid-twentieth-century Supreme Court decision in a moonshining and tax evasion case, but conspiracy law’s modern origins extend to the founding of this country and beyond as a legal weapon of colonialism and counterinsurgency, primarily against black revolt.

At the end of the 1600s, as the population of enslaved Africans in America grew, “the more encompassing category of ‘whiteness’ ascended,” writes Gerald Horne in Counter-Revolution of 1776, in which Horne argues that the Anglo-Saxon settlers’ war for independence entrenched slavery. By 1680, one colonial legislature had drafted a bill “to prevent Negroes’ insurrection,” and this was followed by a torrent of similar anti-conspiracy legislation in the colonies over the next several decades in response to planned and executed rebellions.

Elite settlers threatened by the growing population of Africans saw the creation of pan-European solidarity in the colonies as necessary to gird against constant revolts.

Key to the eventual supremacy of the

YES, COLLUSION

Tracing a conspiracy between the far-right and the J20 prosecutors

BY AARON CANTÚ

Months before D.C. police mass arrested people at Donald Trump’s inauguration, farright and white supremacist personalities were already coordinating a clampdown on anti-inauguration protests. Evidence suggests that these parties, which included a top adviser and personal friend of Trump, worked closely with law enforcement to facilitate an unprecedented prosecution of protesters, journalists, and others over the next eighteen months. Assembled here is a timeline of this collusion between the far-right and state forces against the J20 defendants, based on public statements and media reports.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016: Donald John Trump is elected president.

NOVEMBER 11: The Oath Keepers, a farright paramilitary organization, begin to infiltrate anti-Trump protest meetings in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and possibly elsewhere.

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hy did the U.S. Attorney’s Office find it appropriate to hang life sentences over the heads of 214 people after an indiscriminate mass arrest?”

DECEMBER 12: Alt-right media personality Jack Posobiec emails Trump presidential adviser Roger Stone a report after spying on inauguration protest planning meetings.

DECEMBER 21: Stone appears on InfoWars to discuss protest meetings.

JANUARY 8, 2017: Operatives from Project Veritas make secret recordings at a D.C. inauguration protest planning meeting. D.C. police are also present.

JANUARY 11: Oath Keepers turn over some of their recordings from inauguration protest planning meetings to D.C. police.

JANUARY 14: A meeting about logistics at inauguration protests takes place in New York City. Project Veritas operative Allison Maas is present and records part of the meeting.

BEFORE JANUARY 20: Project Veritas meets with D.C. Metropolitan Police, the FBI, and the Secret Service before Inauguration Day to discuss protests.

JANUARY 20: About 240 people are arrested during protests at Trump’s inauguration and jailed for nearly thirty-six hours.

FEBRUARY 4: White nationalist Richard Spencer threatens on Twitter to dox all Inauguration Day arrestees after receiving their personal information from D.C. police.

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its structural inequality. This extreme and concentrated power is its own kind of conspiracy, one that allows the state to persecute others it considers illegal. There isn’t enough room here to chronicle the ways conspiracy law has been used since the seventeenth century to criminalize associations of nonwhite people, laborers, immigrants, protesters, revolutionaries, and others, or to consider nuanced exceptions, such as mafia prosecutions that rope police and politicians into criminal rackets.

But fundamentally, the difference between a legitimate and illegitimate conspiracy comes down to power.

I Dozens of J20 defendants and their supporters pack into D.C. Superior Court for a preliminary hearing on June 9, 2017. PHOTO BY GEORGE JOSEPH concept of whiteness, Horne writes, was that it not be interrogated too hard, lest “the loose threads of class hierarchy that this racial category otherwise obscured” unravel and ruin the entire colonial project.

This gets to the heart of the matter: In order for the colonies to overcome endless conspiracies to revolt by people they kidnapped, enslaved, exploited, and colonized, its ruling elite had to create their own conspiracy—the institutionalization of “whiteness”—in defense of its power.

The Bill of Rights would later implicitly enshrine the three points of power in the new nation, including whiteness, property

FEBRUARY 21: The U.S. Attorney’s Office indicts 214 people for felony rioting at the inauguration. The charge carries a ten-year maximum sentence.

APRIL 27: The U.S. Attorney’s Office returns a superseding indictment, which includes felony rioting, conspiracy, and destruction charges, for all defendants except Aaron Cantú.

ownership (wealth), and cis-hetero maleness, consolidating ruling-class power through the law. Writing for the Harvard Law Review nearly a century ago, Francis B. Sayre wrote that American courts often use conspiracy law as a cudgel, “especially during times of reaction, to punish, as criminal, associations for which the time being are unpopular or stir up prejudices of the social class in which the judges have for the most part been bred.”

It’s more than just prejudice: Today the U.S. elite reaffirms its power through law, war, trade, and politics daily, in a coordinated effort to preserve the status quo in all

MAY 30: Cantú is indicted for the same felonies as the rest of the J20 defendants.

JULY 27: Assistant U.S. attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff tells a judge all defendants are equally liable for damage that occurred at the protests.

AUGUST 22: The U.S. Department of Justice backs off its request for 1.3 million IP addresses of those who visited an anti-Trump protest website.

NOVEMBER 15: The first six J20 defendants go to trial, including photojournalist Alexei Wood.

t’s ironic that some top Trump cronies involved in the J20 conspiracy prosecution are themselves caught up in their own high-profile conspiracy cases, though not necessarily as defendants.

For example, Roger Stone, the long-ago Nixon “ratfucker” and more recently a top campaign adviser to his friend Trump, sent far-right spies to inauguration protesters’ planning meetings as far back as December 2016. Stone was referenced in a July indictment against a dozen Russian intelligence military officials as a “senior member of [Trump’s] campaign” in direct contact with Russian hackers targeting the 2016 presidential election.

Another is Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the top official overseeing the J20 conspiracy prosecution. In March 2016, Sessions was beckoned in an email sent to Trump campaign official Rick Dearborn from Republican activist Paul Erikson,

NOVEMBER– DECEMBER: U.S. prosecutors use video obtained from Project Veritas and the Oath Keepers as evidence at the first J20 trial.

DECEMBER 21: The first six J20 defendants to go to trial are acquitted on all charges.

JANUARY 19, 2018: Prosecutors drop charges against 129 defendants. Charges remain against Cantú and 58 others, alleged as part of a “core group.”

MAY 16: The second group of J20 defendants goes to trial, with prosecutors using near identical arguments as the first trial.

who wanted to arrange a meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin. A criminal complaint unsealed in July claims Erikson was manipulated by a Russian operative named Maria Butina to gain access to top Republicans.

In another twist, the J20 defendants may have been saved by prosecutors out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office turning their attention to Butina’s conspiracy prosecution.

To this day, neither Sessions nor any prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. have spoken publicly about J20.

While prosecutors don’t often comment publicly on their cases, this could have been the perfect chance for this Justice Department to trumpet its law-and-order bona fides, which makes its silence striking.

Instead, prosecutors showed their ass in court, just as the authoritarian Trump presidency—in everything from the Russia meddling case to the overt embrace of white supremacy to the attacks on the press—is showing the country’s ass to the world right now.

The power structures animating U.S. life are themselves the result of long-running conspiracies, and, to update Horne’s analysis, the American project is being intensely interrogated in this moment. History shows that when a state’s ability to present itself as a stable force for social order wanes, illegal conspiracies begin to sprout.

That’s not what happened at the J20 protests, but it would be ahistorical to think it wouldn’t happen somewhere else—or that a journalist wouldn’t be there to cover it. backtalk@indyweek.com

MAY 31: A D.C. court sanctions prosecutors for misrepresenting the existence of more than seventy additional Project Veritas videos.

JULY 6: Prosecutors drop all charges against all remaining defendants.

JUNE 11: The trial for the second group of defendants ends in acquittals and mistrials.

JULY 10: Alt-right media personality Mike Cernovich encourages his Twitter followers to support the Unmasking Antifa Act, which punishes wearing masks at raucous protests by up to fifteen years in prison.

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Munchies in Motion

TROMPING TO FOOD TRUCKS IS SO 2016. THE NOW THING IN MOBILE FOOD IS ON INSTAGRAM, AND ITS NAME IS THE DANKERY. BY LENA GELLER

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n 2010, when Ian Burris was in ninth grade at Riverside High School, he started selling homemade cold-cut sandwiches to classmates in gym. The next summer, he launched a lawn-mowing business. Then he opened ShrimpandPasta’s Boutique, an Instagram-based clothing store where he resold customized jerseys and limited-edition sneakers he ordered online.

His next venture landed him on probation for marijuana possession in 2016. He was living in Wilmington after dropping out of Cape Fear Community College. But instead of losing his initiative, Burris moved back to Durham and opened late-night fooddelivery business ShrimpandPasta’s Dankery, its name winking at his prior enterprise. From 9:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. each day, Burris cooks his munchie-friendly food in his new food truck, takes orders through Instagram DMs, and deploys delivery drivers to Durham doors.

The Dankery’s menu is structured around the $7 “dank tray,” which comes with chicken or vegan tenders, wings, or a shrimp burger, with a side of fries (homestyle, garlic parm, or bacon queso). Customers can choose from eighteen different flavors to add to their entrée, ranging from Buffalo-blue-cheese sauce to lemon-pepper dry rub. “[In Wilmington], I had given up on college soccer and was living with friends,” Burris says. “I would make them food all the time because I love cooking. Eventually word spread, and people that I didn’t live with started hitting me up for food as well.”

Though Burris had left the weed business behind, he still had entrepreneurial energy to burn. He got the Dankery started in his parents’ garage with two fryers he bought at Bed Bath & Beyond. He marketed himself on Instagram with the handle @ shrimpandpastasdankery, posting menus and food photos. His network of high school friends, paired with his established Instagram presence, allowed him to quickly gain a loyal customer base.

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“I learned about the Dankery because I went to high school with Ian. I ordered his food once and haven’t stopped,” Mollie McCullough says. “My friend and I always plan nights to order it, and we place orders as early as possible, so we’re first in line.

It’s almost a ritual.” McCullough’s favorite Dankery item used to be the bacon-queso fries, but now that she’s a vegetarian, she opts for the soy tenders, which she finds just as satisfying.

Word about the Dankery spread around Duke and N.C. Central University’s campuses, providing Burris with a massive clientele of hungry college kids. Though his customers are usually young people craving tasty fried fare after most restaurants have closed, he says that the demographic widens every day.

Burris, now twenty-one, bought a food truck in December 2017, and he has hired a handful of employees. He doesn’t use the truck for deliveries; he just wanted his own cooking space and pick-up spot. He says he fulfills sixty to seventy orders a night, and he foresees a brick-and-mortar location in the future.

Burris learned how to cook from his parents, but when it comes to running a business—cleaning, budgeting, managing other people—he’s self-taught. He always hated having authority figures talk down to him, so he endeavors to treat his employees as equals.

“If I don’t want someone scolding me, I don’t think my employees would like that either. Even when I’m frustrated, I try to talk to everybody calmly, so we don’t start panicking on the truck,” Burris says.

In hindsight, Burris is glad he had to move back to Durham, and he takes pride in being a Durham business owner.

“I can’t think of a better place to run the Dankery,” he says. “More people here are getting hip every day. All my clientele are really dope people. Durham is my city. I’m happy to see it grow. I feel like it’s been evolving with me, growing up as I have.”

Ian Burris PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA One of his chefs, Stacy Silver—a model, rapper, and tailor—shares with Burris both a love of the Bull City and a certain bravado.

“I have big dreams in life, and I’m going to see those dreams come true, but no matter what, I will never resign from the Dankery,” Silver says. “Even if I have five-hundred mil in the bank, I’m from Durham, so I’m going to come back sooner or later, and when I do, I will be on the truck.”

Burris utilizes Instagram stories to promote his product and offer words of wisdom. A typical story might start with a photo of Frank’s RedHot seasoning with the caption, “Ask about hot fries,” then transition to a series of videos in which Burris preaches business lessons he has learned.

“Don’t be afraid to push your limits, it’s key to growth,” one reads. “A true hustler earns his customers’ business every single day. Always re’d up. Every tray I sell determines if I’ll sell another [100 emoji],” says another. The story finishes with a close-up pan over a dank tray, set to Outkast’s “So Fresh, So Clean.”

In addition to advising followers on business, Burris advocates pursuing what you love at a young age, even if it means veering from the traditional path of higher education.

“Being in school had me at my lowest point.

I wasn’t good at it, and that made me feel like I wasn’t good at life,” he says. “I would feel bad about myself and completely miss all of my dope qualities because I was fucking up in pre-cal, when really my genius isn’t in the classroom, it’s in the business world.”

Family and friends were skeptical when he first dropped out of college, but Burris stood his ground. He says he can always go back to school. Once the Dankery reaches the point when he doesn’t need to be in the kitchen every night, he wants to start a business camp for Durham youth.

“I was never in a class where I was spoken to about potentially running my own business, so I had to go figure that out on my own,” Burris says. “A lot of kids grow up thinking that they’re not going to be shit because no one’s telling them that there’s a whole other world. I hope I can be that person.” food@indyweek.com

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Pie by Night

FINALLY, LATE-NIGHT PIZZA COMES TO WEST GEER COURTESY OF HUTCHINS GARAGE

BY MEG NESTEROV

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urham’s West Geer Street is known for successful building conversions, especially when it comes to dining and drinking establishments. The Pit’s whole-hog barbecue is cooked in a former 7UP bottling plant, Geer Street Garden and Cocoa Cinnamon transformed old gas stations into reliable neighborhood standbys for comfort food and caffeinated beverages, respectively, and Motorco’s Parts & Labor honors its earlier incarnation as a car dealership with its name while slinging globally inspired street food from poutine to tacos.

The latest addition to the neighborhood is Hutchins Garage, which the Bull McCabe’s Irish Pub team opened earlier this month, naming it after the previous tenant, an automotive-supply shop and showroom that was a decades-long neighborhood fixture.

The block’s lunch and dinner options have long offered variety, and while it wasn’t without late-night food options, per se—Fullsteam Brewery started serving small plates last year, and late-night revelers can always get a chili dog or Frito pie at Accordion Club—the line-up was clearly missing another staple: pizza. Hutchins Garage, helmed by Pizzeria Toro alum and chef Michael Morrone, answers the call with New York-style pies until midnight on weeknights, 2:00 a.m.

Friday and Saturday, and 10:00 p.m. Sunday.

Vibe: As you’d expect from a garage-turnedrestaurant, the design is straight-up hipster industrial, from the exposed brick walls and vintage submarine phone to the cheeky Instagram-ready neon “Pizza Made Me Do It” sign and ironic Schwinn exercise bike by the door. Some of the original garage elements remain, such as automotive signage and a mechanic’s tool chest, but the elegant lighting and European tiles keep it from looking like a theme restaurant. When the weather cooperates, the large bay doors can be opened to create patio seating and an airy vibe. Service is a bit confusing, as it is neither fast food nor sit-down: Order at the large counter under the HOT sign or at the bar, and pies will be delivered to your table.

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KÖLSCH SOUTHERN PEAK BREWERY This is a textbook example of Kölsch, a German style fermented with ale yeast but finished with lagering. Its trademark strawyellow color is reinforced here with notes of toasted straw. Though fairly one-dimensional, it’s a fine, light-drinking summer beer. You can line these up along the bar and down them all afternoon if you want.

It’s a brew that stays out of its own way.

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Hutchins Garage PHOTO BY MEG NESTEROV Menu: Crisp, thin-crust pizzas anchor the menu; the Margherita is topped with a San Marzano tomato-based sauce and fresh and aged cheeses, but can be customized with toppings such as pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, roasted garlic, or extra cheese.

Specialty pies include Eggplant alla Norma layered with fried eggplant, or a broccoli rabe and fennel sausage pie scattered with Gaeta olives (cured Italian black olives).

Sandwiches focus on classics such as eggplant or chicken Parmesan. There are salads too, but you’re better off skipping standard romaine in favor of farmers market-inspired takes, such as a recent special crafted with peaches and golden beets. Wash it all down with on-tap offerings including craft suds from Asheville’s Burial Beer Co., pineapple cider from Austin Eastsiders, or Prosecco.

DANDELION KOMBUCHA What to order: You can’t go wrong with the thin-crust pies, but if you prefer crust with a little more heft, opt for the Grandma’s Pizza. It’s similar to traditional square Sicilian slices, and at Hutchins Garage, the kitchen nails the ratio of chewy crust to bubbly cheese. Keep an eye out for specials such as fried arancini stuffed with spinach and cauliflower.

SOUTHERN PEAK BREWERY Refreshing and crisp, more sweet than tart, this tasty kombucha is also good for you: Dandelion is lauded for its liver-detoxifying properties, and Southern Peak ferments it with lime and local raw honey, the latter of which has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. Consider this your reset button between Southern Peak beers.

Price range: The Margherita is $12 and the Grandma’s Pizza is $17; additional toppings are $2–$3 each. Pints are $4.50–$7.50 and wines by the glass are $6–$10.

Perfect for: Pre- or post-Motorco show nosh; Sunday fun-day with kids; late-afternoon lunch with beer. food@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.1.18 | 15

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Put Me In, Coach

ENDURING SIDEMAN PETER HOLSAPPLE SUITS UP FOR GAME DAY, HIS FIRST SOLO RECORD IN TWENTY YEARS

BY JIM ALLEN

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’m not pop-star material anymore,” allows Peter Holsapple, “But I sure can write a song, and I enjoy it more than ever.” Holsapple has been known not only as a singer-songwriter with Winston-Salem émigrés The dB’s and New Orleans-via-Los Angeles outfit Continental Drifters, but also as an auxiliary member of R.E.M. and Hootie & The Blowfish. But now, he’s finally following up his 1997 solo debut Out of the Way with a new album, Game Day. And he’s done it for the best of reasons: He simply had to.

Holsapple first turned heads as co-frontman for the eighties new wave/ power-pop cult heroes The dB’s. In the nineties, he joined then-wife Susan Cowsill, The Bangles’ Vicki Peterson, and others in the stealth supergroup Continental Drifters.

At various points, he’s reunited with fellow dB’s singer-songwriter Chris Stamey in a duo and with a full band. But Game Day is strictly Holsapple’s show—the multiinstrumentalist sang, played, produced, engineered, and mixed virtually the whole album by himself at home.

“I enjoy playing with other musicians and singers,” Holsapple explains, “but I also feel strongly that I have the best ideas for my songs.” He played all the parts mostly out of expediency, he says, rather than endure the rigamarole of setting up time at a studio, or teaching someone else parts he’d written.

But Game Day doesn’t have a hermetic feel at all. Quite the opposite, it bears a homey, organic, DIY charm. Whether Holsapple’s hammering a guitar, blowing a reedy harmonica, or plunking on a piano, there’s a scrappy, intimate quality that’s immediately inviting and endearing. It’s the sound of a

man doing what he loves, a theme Holsapple acknowledges. He took about five years off from music and took an administrative role at the Durham Performing Arts Center. He realized that he’d be happier making music again, but on his own terms.

“My feeling was, if I don’t do this just for the love of it and the need to do it, then I’m gonna be grossly disappointed for whatever time I have left. So why not just enjoy it?

Why not just do it?” Holsapple says. “I think about friends who’ve passed away whom I would love to hear records by today, and I won’t be able to do that, so I feel a little bit of compunction simply by being on this side of the sod.”

Some Game Day songs are edgy rockers that sound like they could have come off a classic dB’s album, like the offbeat thumper “She Handed Him a Pencil,” which Holsapple describes as “trying to imagine myself or someone like me in a number of unwinnable situations.” But others underline the evolution of his songwriting, like the moody, minor-key “Not Right Now,” whose inventive melodic and harmonic turns originated with an unexpected association.

“The first couple of demos of that song were labeled ‘F. Mac,’ as in Fleetwood,” Holsapple says. “I sort of thought it was more a Stevie Nicks knockoff, almost.”

Holsapple pays tribute to a key part of his past with the song “Continental Drifters,” a wistful salute to his time with that band.

He colors the tender (but never mawkish) ballad with gentle mandolin and rolling organ, evoking the softer side of Mott the Hoople—a comparison that might not be too far off the mark considering his love of sixties- and seventies-era Britrock. Susan

Peter Holsapple PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER Cowsill’s harmonies provide the perfect finishing touch.

“Who better to do it?” asks Holsapple. “She lived it with me. So I was really grateful to have her talents on there; she’s one of my very favorite singers ever.”

Amid the appealingly oblong alt-rockers and reflective, folk-rock-tinged tunes, Holsapple finds time to honor his influences with a blaring, stomping cover of onetime Hendrix drummer Buddy Miles’s 1970

psychedelic blues-rocker “Them Changes.” Ever the dutiful record geek, he makes sure to co-credit Michael Kamen of sixties band The New York Rock & Roll Ensemble, whose “Sing Lady Sing” was notoriously plagiarized for Miles’s song. You can take the boy out of the early-seventies garage, but you can’t take the early-seventies garage out of the boy, and thank goodness for that. music@indyweek.com

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FROM ELEPHANT MICAH’S SOUND-COLLAGE MEDITATIONS TO VSPRTN’S BUMP-AND-GRIND GROOVES, THESE BANDS ARE ON FIRE ANNE-CLAIRE I STILL LOOK FOR YOU SELF-RELEASED 1/2

Though it’s been a long wait between albums for Anne-Claire Niver, it seems I Still Look For You is as much of an emotional release for Niver as it is artistic. Much of her second LP features Niver dealing with loss and the stages of grief, particularly after the unexpected death of her grandmother, who appears in a voicemail recording on one track.

As dour as that may sound, Niver infuses hope in the airy lead single “Give it Up,” which she describes as both the record’s thesis and a personal mantra. “Use my grief as some sort of map,” she tells herself before repeating the album’s title, giving way to a warm saxophone solo that evokes her own wistfulness. Featuring a three-piece horn section, “Loyalty” is the most immediately infectious tune, a jaunty reflection on romance where Niver performs incredible vocal acrobatics around the melody.

to move on/I am afraid of losing something that’s already gone,” she confesses on the climactic closer “Second Time,” which features flourishes from a stately string section.

Equally expressive as a lyricist, Niver complements her personal compositions with lush, dreamy layers of meticulously arranged, expertly executed instrumental contributions from a host of familiar Triangle talent. Ryan Johnson, David Dollar, Charles Cleaver, Daniel Faust, and producer Alex Bingham form the core band, with guest contributions from the likes of Libby Rodenbough, Chessa Rich, and Molly McGinn.

Using soulful vocal performances to bridge classic pop sensibilities with jazz, the elegant I Still Look For You makes its mark as one of the area’s most unique and original offerings while offering cross-generational appeal with its genre-blurring approach. —Spencer Griffith

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While Niver’s vocal gifts are immediately obvious, navigating such revealing territory demands holding up both ends of the singer-songwriter title, and she proves up to the task. “I’m not afraid of loving/I’m not afraid 18 | 8.1.18 | INDYweek.com

There’s a lot going on in Elephant Micah’s new album, Genericana. Time itself seems to be singer/songwriter/guitarist/band mastermind Joe O’Connell’s subject. The album feels as though it operates on multiple time scales simultaneously, like a hall of mirrors, continually folding back in on itself in surprising ways. Its songs bifurcate and split around the midway point of the album, pairing off in unstable, evershifting ways.

Sounds, lyrics, and themes pop up, transmogrified, across all six songs like the woozy almost-memories of dream: A bassline that feels like the heartbeat of a rambling blues riff in “Fire A” reemerges three songs later as the centerpiece of an ominous dub on “Fire B.” Or a guitar tone

that bares its distorted teeth in its first appearance in “Life A” gets domesticated into a buzzing drone on “Surf B.”

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In his lyrics, O’Connell tries on different personas, with surreal and self-referential musings about what would happen if he were, say, a hunter, a Quaker, or a guard (he would, respectively, catch and release a goose, “simplify this song,” and “reinvent this dance”). At moments, he comments directly on the song in real time, marking a particularly satisfying drone saying “I’d magnetize this tone” or the end of a song with “I’d listen to silence.” His voice has never sounded more like Will Oldham’s, albeit with fewer crags and burrs.

The most surprising element, though, is the revenant of Arthur Russell, whose experimental pop layerings seem to inform everything that happens on Genericana.

O’Connell plays with Russell-adjacent worlds of echo in “Surf A,” and lopsided saxophone lines, synthesizer drones, and woozy tabla beats in “Fire B.” O’Connell has said that Genericana is about “exploring sound for sound’s sake,” and it shows.

The results are a beautiful and intriguing sonic departure from the purer folk of past Elephant Micah albums. —Dan Ruccia

As frontman for The Old Ceremony, a role he’s filled for well over a decade, Django Haskins has effectively established himself as a thoughtful songwriter with a knack for pop-rock traditions. Side gigs in Au Pair (with The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris) and the touring ensemble behind Big Star’s Third only reinforce those classicist bona fides, adding a touch of Americana and power-pop into the mix.

But with Shadowlawn, his first solo album in seventeen years, Haskins opts for a looser, rangier approach that lends a sense of offthe-cuff intimacy that rarely shows in his more polished and fully arranged outfits.

A sparse banjo plinks along album opener, “Blink,” as Haskins croons wistfully, “Blink and you’ll miss it/A car trip, a jump rope, a slide/Washed in the hours/Afloat on an amnesia tide.” Fittingly, the spare frontporch meander winds its way into a haze of multi-tracked vocals, Haskins singing in harmony with himself. “The Quarry” goes even deeper into dream-pop territory,

building from a wash of airy synths into a moody sort of goth exotica.

But even as Haskins veers back toward his more straightforward comfort zones— as on the jaunty piano ballad “Our Old Enemy The Moon,” or the folksy rollick of “Green Grass of Elsewhere”—Shadowlawn feels like an experiment, a chance for Haskins to stretch his songwriting chops and explore new stylistic angles. As much as he may let his muse roam, Haskins’s warm tenor lends a uniformly cozy sound to his songs’ explorations.

Throughout the album, Haskins proves not only his versatility but his consistency as a singer and songwriter in these varied settings. Fans of any of Haskins’s more tenured bands are likely to enjoy repeat visits to Shadowlawn. —Bryan C. Reed

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Overdub obsessive and genre dilettante Stuart McLamb is the primary member of The Love Language, and all records under this name are unquestionably filtered through his many devotions, whims, and personal circumstances.

late-aughts aesthetic isn’t especially fresh, and some moments land better than others.

Baby Grand is what McLamb called a “Frankenstein record” of additional tracks and edits built on the frame of those original demos, a notable point that contradicts the lush and polished sound of the album. Paradoxically, the moments that feel the most authentic, true, and heartfelt are the songs that have the most sheen and superficial glam. All falsetto vocals, analog synths, and funky bass, single “Juiceboxx” is charming, while the lyrics of “Shared Spaces” have enough moody grit to anchor the song’s fluttery electro-pop.

Less compelling is the cringingly earnest acoustic strumming of ballad “Southern Doldrums” and the exuberant opener, “Frames,” wherein tinkling keyboards explode on top of pumping drums on top of McLamb’s overwrought wailing. Baby Grand as a whole mimics the feelings of a cross-country move or a life-shaking break-up. It’s shifty and malleable; it’s a little emotionally unstable; it tries on new personalities with varying levels of success.

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A dude whose narrative seems to be “always in crisis”, McLamb moved to Los Angeles in 2017 to shake off a period of lackluster creative energy in Raleigh, and The Love Language’s fourth album, Baby Grand, was recorded during a layover period in Virginia. The record skitters from the bursting-at-the-seams rapture of Phoenix, to the broody bluster of The Walkmen, leaving behind the sixties pop and tambourine-tinged tunes of earlier albums. This

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As beefy, boozy guitars wind and tangle on the opening “Reckless,” Spider Bags frontman Dan McGee offers a declaration that fairly well sums up the spirit of the irrepressible Orange County garage rockers. “I wasn’t born to this world/To drive a truck,” he cries, steely passion giving way to sneering venom, “Or to hold a truth/Or to give a fuck.”

For more than a decade, Spider Bags have excelled with such collisions of biting disillusion and zany abandon, answering life’s parade of indignities with a howl and a wink.

And Someday Everything Will Be Fine, the band’s first album in four years (save a 2017 LP backing up local singer Reese McHenry), showcases this essential strength better than any record before it.

Where 2014’s Frozen Letter stretched from the taut propulsion of 2012’s Shake My Head in a way that often felt either too belabored or too slight, the new album strikes a more winning balance between purposeful and carefree.

The group advertises its trademark pounding intensity on “Cop Dream/Black Eye

(True Story)” and “Tonight, I Walk on the Water,” but it mostly allows its guitars and rhythms room to protract and groove, flitting from booming psychedelics (“Burning Sand”) to blistering country-punk (“Ninety Day Dog”).

McGee acts as a steady compass amid Someday’s delirious vacillations. On “Oxcart Blues,” the guitars sparkle and the rhythm section jitters with syncopation, buoying the singer as he struggles with self-doubt. The terrific heartbroken travelogue “My Heart Is a Flame in Reverse” ebbs and flows with a punch-drunk sway, ratcheting intensity each time McGee hits a big revelation: “They learned that to live is to suffer and smile/ And to succeed at anything you must fail for a long while.”

On the closing track, a cover of Charlie Rich’s 1977 country original, piano, strings, and soothing guest vocals from Jana Misener and Krista Wroten-Combest conjure images of a feral version of The Band. The middle-aged McGee pledges to continue the titular declaration of “Rollin’ with the Flow”—“While guys my age are raising kids/ I’m raising hell just like I did.” Better than just rolling along, Spider Bags keep getting better. —Jordan Lawrence (Disclosure: Spider Bags bassist Steve Oliva is the INDY’s art director.)

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Violin doesn't have much prestige in club music. The string-heavy chillout lounge and electronic compilations one commonly hears as restaurant muzak have made the

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instrument a questionable inclusion in modern dance, the sort of beat music often left to Lindsey Stirling and the Burning Man end of electronic festivals.

But recently, a handful of adventurous artists, like recent Stones Throw signee Sudan Archives and Durham’s own VSPRTN, have worked to give the instrument a fair shake among tastemakers. On NaTuReSs_Hal0: The Vortex, VSPRTN has teamed up with Reginald Patterson, a local violinist and Ph.D. graduate from Duke, for an intriguing selection of lush, string-heavy house cuts.

In interviews, Patterson has cited eclectic influences like the French violinist Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the so-called “Black Mozart,” and his sense of curiosity and historicism shines in his evocative playing style.

That said, this experimental combo of old and new styles has and will always be an impossibly tricky thing to pull off without a few steps into cheese. When it works, it works. On the triumphant “Noman,” the looping production and violin locks into a sweet, seamless 4/4 club pocket, neither element too fussy for the other. The same is true for “Mutha Eartha,” a contemplative number that smashes together pointed spoken word, slow violin, and electronic horns.

VSPRTN has a keen ear for turning unexpected samples into undeniable floorfillers, and the track is a fine showcase of the deejay’s talents. While enjoyable, other, less cohesive numbers like “Move Along” scan as an attempt to graft house music on an abrasive violin stem. Even if only some of NaTuReSs_Hal0: The Vortex feels fully dancefloor-ready, the whole project carries enough variety and undeniable charm to thrive. —David Ford Smith

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Powered by music director Cameron Morgan’s offstage keyboards and an authoritative choir on stage, the live gospel music accompanying Agape Theatre Project’s production of James Baldwin’s rarely staged 1954 drama is robust and soul-stirring, a tribute to black church traditions in America. Still, by evening’s end, I was reminded of a line from another vintage spiritual: “Everybody talking about Heaven ain’t going to Heaven.”

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Baldwin knew the world of Harlem storefront churches firsthand, both from his preaching stepfather, whom he described in 1969 as “righteous in the pulpit and a monster in the house,” and from his own experiences as a boy preacher at age fourteen. The Amen Corner only sharpens the criticisms of the church that Baldwin began in his 1953 debut novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain.

When sanctimonious Sister Moore (a convincing Jacquie Deas-Brown) brays from the pulpit how glad she is that God has kept her humble, we hear the first note of the self-righteous pageant to come. It highlights Baldwin’s sharp analysis and director Terra Hodges’s discernment when boorish Brother and Sister Boxer (a properly strident J. Mardrice Henderson and a strong India Williams) first amuse and then infuriate us as they criticize their supposed inferiors. The results are ultimately tragic when 20 | 8.1.18 | INDYweek.com

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the church’s charismatic leader, Sister Margaret (Rhonda Hatton), passes similar sentence on her congregants, her son (Wallace Morgan), and her one-time husband, Luke (a sinewy Thomasi McDonald).

From her first sermon, Margaret’s faith is obviously centered more on judgment than mercy. When she declares movies, drinking,

jazz, and even comic strips in the daily papers as morally unacceptable, her narrow, brittle barricades leave little space left to breathe for those around her. In Hatton’s moving performance, we learn of the deepset loss and fear that drives her to first take refuge in a set of scriptures, and then build a dictatorship that pushes people away.

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Through Sunday, Aug. 5 The Artscenter, Chapel Hill www.womenstheatrefestival.com The best historical plays excavate the why: the real reasons that events develop and unfold. By comparison, These Shining Lives contents itself instead with the who and what.

During the 1920s, some four thousand women inadvertently ingested radium on a daily basis in factory jobs painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint. Though the firm’s owners and scientists knew the element was highly radioactive, and used lead shielding when they handled it, the women were never told of the danger. Instead, they were encouraged to use their lips to reform the tips of their brushes between paint applications to save time. The corporations also covered up evidence of the damage the prolonged exposure had on the women’s health and fought such revelations in court as the women died of radiation poisoning. The damning facts ultimately resulted in the creation of industrial safety regulations in the following decades.

There’s more than a touch of metaphysical poetry in Melanie Marnich’s script, as central character Catherine (a believable Lydia Nethercutt) observes, “There is a God. And he’s made of time.” Still, Marnich never proves the opening thesis that the story is “not a tragedy, though it ends like one.” And when it focuses solely on the injured women, we never meet the rest of the true protagonists in this tale: the ones who knew that radium was deadly and still kept unprotected, uninformed women painting with it for years to follow.

In a thin script, the women’s character traits are faits accompli, without development or backstory. Though Maggie Lea and Dannibeth Farnum find grounding for their characters, director Jorie Slodki gets only amateurish overacting from Nick Iammatteo and Ryan Madanick in the male roles. It’s a definite come-down from the professional-grade performances in other Women’s Theatre Festival productions this year. —Byron Woods

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Through Sunday, Aug. 5 The Fruit, Durham www.womenstheatrefestival.com Danai Gurira wrote her Obie-winning drama Eclipsed after a Wall Street Journal photograph compelled her to travel to Liberia in search of women whose lives had been changed by the country’s fourteen-year civil war. She interviewed more than thirty, including Black Diamond, the rebelforces colonel whose photograph sparked Gurira’s journey.

In this superior Women’s Theatre Festival production, the intimacy director Michele Okoh achieves with an impressive quintet of actors conveys something that, to the American mind, seems nearly impossible: the palpable sense of family three strangers construct after being kidnapped by soldiers to be “wives,” a euphemism for sexual slavery to the commanding officer.

The wartime environment is so coercive and dehumanizing that the women never use their real names, referring to one another instead by their pecking order in the C.O’s favor. As Number One, Zora Umeadi evinces a stern but motherly air, while Daphne Trevathan captures the childish vanity of pregnant Number Three. Though they try at first to hide a bright fifteen-year-old newcomer called The Girl (an energetic Amani Mckenzie), she soon becomes the fourth.

The Girl’s arrival changes things. The only wife who can read and write, she entertains One and Three with stories of movies and news of the changing culture outside the camp. When she draws the unwanted attention of the missing Number Two (Diatra Langford), who’s taken up arms to fight in the cause (and protect herself from further sexual assaults), The Girl must choose between the way of war or the path proposed by peace activist Rita (an assured Me-Me Cowans-Taylor).

The Girl becoming a soldier challenges Mckenzie’s bandwidth as an actor, but the rest of her performance is compelling. Though the symbolism of the struggle for The Girl’s soul gets a bit on the nose in the production’s awkward last moment, what comes before draws us near to these women as they work out how to survive in an all but unimaginable situation. —Byron Woods INDYweek.com | 8.1.18 | 21

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 3

ONEIDA

Oneida was all set to take the stage at Kings in March until its near-acrobatic drummer, John Colpitts, aka Kid Millions, was in a serious car accident in Los Angeles. After a few months of rest and recovery, the band is back in Raleigh in support of this spring’s Romance. There, the polymath ensemble continues its charge toward thrilling, frenetic rock music, drawing from krautrock and beyond to deliver another high-quality slab of hypnotic jams. Romance ranges from fidgety, brief numbers like “All in Due Time” to sprawling tracks like “Shepherd’s Axe,” a noisy, eighteen-minute squall that functions as the album’s closing missive. “You’re going to believe in this love, I’m going to set you free,” says Bobby Matador amid the jittery drive of “Cockfight.” You can believe he and his bandmates will follow through on that promise. Asheville’s Nest Egg and Raleigh’s Demon Eye open. —Allison Hussey KINGS, RALEIGH $10, 9 p.m., www.kingsraleigh.com

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3–SUNDAY, AUGUST 19

BURN THIS

Groups of friends are like little solar systems, circling about one another according to interpersonal laws of gravitation that can be transparent or obscure. Lanford Wilson’s influential drama, Burn This, focuses on a small clique of artists somewhere in New York City in the late eighties. Anna’s in the midst of a none-too-certain transition from dancer to choreographer. Larry, her roommate, is a bright, sharp drama queen who works in advertising. Burton is Anna’s boyfriend, a jaded, big-name screenwriter brooding over a project that might be just outside his wheelhouse. And someone’s missing: Robbie, Anna’s longtime friend and professional dance partner, who has just drowned while on vacation with his partner, Dominic. Now we’re about to learn just how fragile all those remaining orbits are, since Robbie’s death is sending his enigmatic, tough-guy brother, Pale, on a collision course with them all. Tony Lea directs a cast including Danielle Koppel, Dan Wilson, Jonathan King, and Manbites Dog Theater veteran David Ring, who makes a long-awaited return to the regional stage. —Byron Woods SONOROUS ROAD THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat./3 p.m. Sun., $16–$20, www.sonorousroadrep.org

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If you’ve seen Alexandra Sauser-Monnig perform solo in the Triangle, then you’ve likely been captivated by her delicate, haunting takes on Jean Ritchie tunes and other traditional numbers. But Fantasy Boyfriend, the two-song single she released as ASM on July 24, shows off an exciting new side to the singersongwriter. Instead of sparse folk ballads, Sauser-Monnig delivers warm, fuzzy pop that feels tailor-made for the thick heat of late summer. A light beat patters gently under acoustic guitar strums and a breezy chorus on “Gem,” while “Grasses” floats along with hypnotic harmonies. Together, the songs recall the exuberant glow of the sun in the final hours before it dips below the horizon.

Fantasy Boyfriend leaves a lot to the imagination as to what Sauser-Monnig might do next, so consider this gig an opportunity to investigate further. —Allison Hussey CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, CARRBORO $10–$12, 8 p.m., www.catscradle.com

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IN THE HEART OF THE FIRE

Anyone who’s ever been to camp knows that fire and stories are intertwined. Anthropologists say that spooky tales—and ancient folkways and traditions—have been conveyed by firelight for millennia. This year, Paperhand Puppet Intervention cofounders Jan Burger and Donovan Zimmerman have been pondering some unconsidered similarities in both. Like fire, stories can illuminate and warm us. When not critically viewed, both are also capable of great destruction. In Paperhand’s nineteenth annual pageant, a cadre of designers, artisans, performers, and musicians take five different looks at the dualities of fire and stories. Fantastical puppet creatures, from a multistory firebird to little baby sparks, populate choreographer Tommy Noonan’s midshow fire pageant. Cantastoria, an Italian form of storytelling, turns the tale of a good fire into “a giant graphic novel with singing,” Zimmerman says. And a group of tricksters who graced the world with stolen myths and flame ponder the dichotomy and legacy of their greatest gifts. —Byron Woods FOREST THEATRE, CHAPEL HILL | NCMA, RALEIGH Aug. 3–Sep. 3/Sep. 14–23 (Forest Theatre), Sep. 7–9 (NCMA), $8–$15, www.paperhand.org

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

THE AMEN CORNER AT NCCU THEATRE (P. 20), ANNE-CLAIRE AT CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM (P. 18), SANDRA CISNEROS AT HUNT LIBRARY (P. 32), DAVID CROSS AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE (P. 30), ECLIPSED AT THE FRUIT (P. 21), DJANGO HASKINS AT THE PINHOOK (P. 18), TAMA HOCHBAUM AT CAM RALEIGH (P. 28), PETER HOLSAPPLE AT CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM (P. 17), SPIDER BAGS AT CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM (P. 19), THESE SHINING LIVES AT THE ARTSCENTER (P. 21), THE VISITOR AT ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE (P. 32)

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CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Spider Bags, Drag Sounds; 9 p.m., $10–$12. See page 19.

OAK AND DAGGER PUBLIC HOUSE: Sleepy Tom; 8 p.m.

THE PINHOOK:

Nathan Bowles, Rosali [$10/8 P.M.]

This is a doozy of a double bill. Durhamite Nathan Bowles has been mining the experimental edges of folk and old-time sounds for years now, crafting hypnotic, looping tunes with his clawhammer banjo.

Meanwhile, Philadelphia’s Rosali Middleman just released Trouble Anyway, an album of glittering, introspective songs that are the logical next step from Kurt Vile’s constant hitmaking. —Dan Ruccia POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: No One Mind, Salt Palace, PROMM; 8 p.m., $5.

THE WICKED WITCH: Precious Child, Lazaris Pit, 80lb Test, Debt Stalker; 9 p.m., $10.

The jonDoe Jazz, soul, and hip-hop: The three have always been interrelated, but, in Durham, they seem to be increasingly fused in a vibrant, tight-knit music community. This young quintet is the latest Durham group to collapse those distinctions, easily flowing from neo-soul ballads to tightly wound raps to scorching rockers.

Singer Myk’l Hanna is versatile and powerful, and the rest of the group easily matches his intensity.

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

THE BULLPEN:

Dom Flemons [FREE/8:30 P.M.]

Having adopted the title of “American Songster,” Dom Flemons has spent his post-Carolina Chocolate Drops years interpreting a wide range of folk songs.

On March’s Black Cowboys, Flemons challenges the historical whitewashing of the Wild West through fresh iterations of songs and poetry that tell the stories of cowboys of color. His Friday night gig at The Bullpen, where a portion of beer sales benefits the Music Maker Relief Foundation, is a rare opportunity to witness Flemons in action in an intimate setting.

—Allison Hussey CAROLINA THEATRE:

Mary Chapin Carpenter [$50–$75/8 P.M.]

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classic tunes from across Mary Chapin Carpenter’s three-decade career, now is a good time to play catch-up with the singer-songwriter in a live setting. Revisiting her highlights on record will likely lead to a set list strong on old favorites. But that said, with a songwriter as untiringly creative as this country-folk vet, the unfamiliar tunes will be just as worthy of your attention. —Jim Allen CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): School of Rock Allstars; 6 p.m., $10.

THE CAVE: Billy Sugarfix and the Early Girls, Mystery Ranch; 9 p.m., $5 Suggested donation.

DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: Al Strong & The Fresh Five; 6 p.m., free.

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As Real Dad, Nolan Smock produces music that fittingly sounds like something your dad might’ve gotten down to in the eighties—in the best way possible. His songs are simultaneously upbeat and subdued, emitting disco energy and giving the listener a sense of triumph. Real Dad’s latest single, “Only Human,” is romantic and existential: “We don’t know when it’s over, but it’s not a race to the end,” Smock sings. “Stick with me while you can; you can have what’s mine. It’s not worth anything, but it means something to me.” With Moon Ruin and Case Sensitive.

—Lena Geller

[$10/8 P.M.] Raleigh’s Eyeball doesn’t play space rock. It plays deep space rock, guitars pinging like distant satellite signals, and keyboards whooshing like quasars, and vocals drowned in layers of effects as though bathing in interstellar plasma.

And like deep space, Eyeball’s protracted tunes go on forever (or at least seem to). With Sportsmanship and Sibilant Sounds. —Patrick Wall

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This unique collaboration between mandolin master Tony Williamson, Senegalese kora virtuoso Diali Cissokho, and Berklee-trained guitarist John Westmoreland bridges musical cultures, though it’s not the first time this trio has worked together. Cissokho appeared on the recent solo debut of his Kaira Ba bandmate Westmoreland, while North Carolina Heritage Award recipient Williamson has shared the stage with Kaira Ba and guested on the band’s latest LP. Expect cuts from each of their albums along with West African traditional songs.

—Spencer Griffith CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Anne-Claire, Peter Holsapple Combo, Chessa Rich; 8 p.m., $8–$10.

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THE CAVE: Krista Shows; 9 p.m., $5 Suggested donation.

DURTY BULL BREWING COMPANY: The River Otters; 4 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT:

Patrick Gallagher [$7/10 P.M.]

Even in the loose interzone of genre that is improvised noise and synth music, Patrick Gallagher’s music feels particularly unbound by presets or genre, a true science experiment. Gallagher has an idiosyncratic way with raw sound, which shows in his expressive music, seemingly wrought out of sizzling wires and concrete block smashes, gorgeous and monstrous at once. Prepared guitar, effects, and a whole lot of fascinating contortions will make you wonder what the hell his recorded project files look like.

—David Ford Smith THE MAYWOOD:

Medium Well in Hell IV [$20/4 P.M.]

A few decades after the crest of its second wave, black metal has splintered and spidered into myriad stylistic divisions, and the resulting friction between corpse-painted

purists and modernists has sparked arguments about what the aurally punishing music should be. But the Medium Well in Hell festival celebrates the endemic dichotomy. Among its nine acts are bands that certainly don’t play black metal straight.

There’s the thrashing black ’n’ roll of Boston’s Lord Almighty, the dank Southern sludge of Atlanta’s Withered, the atmospheric black metal of North Carolinian’s Arghast.

But there’s plenty of room for tradition, too, primarily from the Tar Heels: Asheville’s Shadow of the Destroyer, Raleigh’s Mo’ynoq and Wilmington’s Paagtheaan genuflect at the altar of the true kvlt. —Patrick Wall POUR HOUSE: Hearts & Daggers; 1 p.m., $5. Ellis Dyson & The Shambles, Folk Soul Revival, Jump Mountain; 8 p.m., $12.

SAXAPAHAW RIVER AMPHITHEATER: Saturdays in Saxapahaw: Rattles & Shakes; 6 p.m., donations.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Curtis Taylor Quartet featuring Shana Tucker; 8 p.m., $10–$20.

THE STATION: Shakedown Street: Greatful Dead Tribute; 7 p.m., $7.

SUN, AUG 5 CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM:

Joan of Arc [$12/8 P.M.]

On 1984, the twenty-second release in twenty-three years for Chicago enfants terrible Joan of Arc, the band removes nominal frontman (and sole consistent member) Tim Kinsella from center stage.

The change allows vocalist Melina Ausikaitis to handle all the singing, and Ausikaitis’s idiosyncratic sing-song guides the band through perhaps its most genteel and unabashedly pretty batch of songs. It’s an odd left turn from the group’s typical chaotic scrambling of emo, folk, and free jazz, but Joan of Arc is built on odd left turns, and its insistence on teasing and thrashing indie rock’s boundaries makes it a continuously critical band.

Curt Castle opens.

—Patrick Wall DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3.

LOCAL 506:

Many Rooms [$12/7:30 P.M.]

Brianna Hunt, the woman behind the Columbus-based solo project Many Rooms, affectionately describes her music as “calm ambient sad girl shit.” Hunt’s songs have a vulnerable, blissful, floaty sound. Her voice is a tranquil whisper, and her lyrics are appropriately whimsical. In “Danielle,” she croons, “And when the moon sits in the sky, she sings a monster lullaby.”

Angelo de Augustine opens.

—Lena Geller MOTORCO: School of Rock Cary; noon, $5–$7.

THE PINHOOK:

Ten String Symphony [$10/8 P.M.]

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Scrambling violin, twangy banjo, and punchy harmonies come together to create the trademark sound of barebones, bluegrass-folk band Ten String Symphony. Though their music has an old-timey feeling, their lyrics are progressive; the songs on their new album, Generation Frustration, cast opinions on today’s political climate, addressing racism, poverty, and environmental issues. Charlie Brown opens.

—Lena Geller

table I am sitting,” Grannis sings about the experience in “California,” “I know nothing but the meaning of the ones that I am missing.” Imaginary Future opens. —Lena Geller

POUR HOUSE: Stephen’s Pharmacy, The Feeds; 1 p.m., $5. Lil Ugly Mane, Nickelus F, Lord Fess, De( )t, DJ Shitwreck; 8 p.m., $25.

POUR HOUSE: Tony Harris Cancer Benefit: Travis Larson Band; 7 p.m., $12.

THE CAVE: Cavebirds Salon Hosted

by Rebecca Newton and Wyatt Easterling; 8 p.m., $5 Suggested donation.

MOTORCO: Flash Chorus; 7 p.m., $7–$10.

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

RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m.

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Kina Grannis [$23–$25/8 P.M.]

Kina Grannis’s warm, melodious voice could easily soothe you to sleep, but if you take a second to pay attention to the lyrics, you’ll be transfixed by the depth and, often, darkness of her music. Grannis takes times of emotional strife and transforms them into beautiful, heart-wrenching works of art.

She wrote two of the songs on June’s In the Waiting, after a mishap with her visa resulted in a one-hundred-day detainment in an Indonesian hotel during a tour. “At the

Amanda Shires [$22–$25/7:30 P.M.]

Amanda Shires has established herself as a talented country and folk artist, but on her new album, To the Sunset, she leans into glossy, shimmering arrangements that recall glam pop. There’s still plenty of twang and bite in Shires’ songs, as on the gorgeous “Charms” and the delightfully sharp “Eve’s Daughter.” Shires shines like never before amid To the Sunset’s glittery arrangements, making it one of this year’s unmissable albums.

Cory Branan opens.

—Allison Hussey

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Millie McGuire Listening Party; 8 p.m., free.

THE CAVE: Swear Tapes, The Lifters; 9 p.m., $5 Suggested donation.

POUR HOUSE: Resinated, with See Water; 8 p.m., $10.

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER:

Rise Against [$24–$65/8 P.M.]

Rife with anthemic hooks and gang vocal chants, Rise Against’s passionate pop-punk and unapologetic political leanings are built for a call to arms. Indeed, last year’s Wolves was “about creating a space that’s dangerous for injustice,” according to frontman Tim McIlrath. Too often, though, he pulls punches with vague sentiments rather than landing a knockout blow, as he does on “Welcome to the Breakdown” with its spittlefilled fury. Meanwhile, the fury of “Racists” proves opener Anti-Flag is as direct as ever.

AFI joins. —Spencer Griffith

WED, AUG 8 CAROLINA THEATRE:

Gordon Lightfoot [$50–$75/8 P.M.]

Oaky-voiced balladeer Gordon Lightfoot has been delivering his tuneful, storyteller’s slant on folk-pop since the midsixties, racking up loads of

hits along the way. As he approaches octogenarian status, his signature brawny tones may be a bit reedier, but the Canadian troubadour still has gravitas for days. And though it’s been many years since his last album, he sports a back catalog his peers and disciples alike would kill for.

—Jim Allen CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): ASM; 8 p.m., $10–$12.

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

THE PINHOOK: Tanajah; 9 p.m., $10.

POUR HOUSE: Dissin’ Terry, Ghost of Saturday Nite; 8 p.m., $5.

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: O.A.R., Matt Nathanson; 6:30 p.m.

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Zigtebra, Girl Werewolf, Slowglow [$5/9 P.M.]

This bill covers all of the bases with its mixture of punk and synthpop food groups. Raleigh staples Slowglow team up with Chicago bedroom duo Zigtebra for a night of soft, shimmering pad synths, amniotic vocals, and SP-404 sample flourishes.

Girl Werewolf cuts in with noise rock, sludgy and abrasive enough to drop you back down through the atmosphere to the ground.

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OPENING SPECIAL EVENT #unfriendmeifyoustill supporthim: PNC Pop-In Artist in Residence Jeana Eve Klein.

Aug 3-Sep 1. Reception: Fri, Aug 3, 6-10 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

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TAMA HOCHBAUM: OVER/TIME: IMAGING LANDSCAPE Most of us are obsessed with time, which continually streams by no matter how still we sit. But in her CAM Raleigh exhibit, which continues through August 19 after this First Friday reception, local artist Tama Hochbaum finds striking, sensitive ways to capture time’s voluminous flow in flat frames. Shooting pictures and video with her phone since a hand injury made her heavy camera hard to hold, Hochbaum, working on panels and grids, bends natural stillness into motion and wrestles wild movement into stasis. Erasures, digital layering, and spatial arrays recast everyday vantages on the natural world into sculptural meditations on permanence and transience. It’s a walk in the woods through someone else’s eyes, underlining how differently we see the same things, experiencing them as eternal or fleeting according to our perspective and mood. You can also learn more about Hochbaum’s elaborate processes and elusive themes in an artist talk at the gallery at 11:00 a.m. on August 4; find the time. —Brian Howe

CAM RALEIGH, RALEIGH | 6–9 p.m., free, www.camraleigh.org

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2018 NC Japan Summer Festival: Music, dance, culture, and food from Japan. Bon odori, martial arts demos, community market, musical performances, tea ceremony, and more. $5-$6.

Sat, Aug 4, 1-7 p.m. Exposition Center, Raleigh. ncstatefair.org.

SPECIAL August Summer: EVENT Acrylic works by Margo White. Aug 3-31.

Reception: Fri, Aug 3, 6-9:30 p.m. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www.localcoloraleigh.com.

SPECIAL Expressions of Life: EVENT Jenny Jones B, Amy Gardner Dean, and Hello Pottery. Aug 3-Sep 20.

Reception: Fri, Aug 3, 6-9 p.m.

Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www.litmusgallery.com.

SPECIAL Dana Lynn Harper: EVENT Summer artist-inresidence exhibition. Aug 3-25 Reception: Fri, Aug 3, 6-10 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Paintings from Haiti: Paintings.

Aug 1-31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

Ripptowne Photography Grand Opening: Tour the studio, meet the photographer, models, makeup artists. Food, drinks, music, and raffles. Fri, Aug 3, 8 p.m.-midnight. Ripptowne Photography, Durham. www.ripptowne.com.

Waxing Poetic: Encaustic paintings by Marcia Streithorst.

Aug 1-Sep 1. Bull City Art & Frame Co, Durham. bullcityartandframecompany. com.

SPECIAL The World Around EVENT Us in Watercolor: MAC (Marie Anne Crock). Aug 6-31. Reception: Mon, Aug 6, 3-5 p.m. Jerry M. Passmore Center, Hillsborough. orangecountync.gov.

Common Ground: Paintings by Linda Carmel and Michele Yellin, jewelry by Nell Chandler, and pottery by Evelyn Ward. Thru Aug 26. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

ONGOING

Confectional: Jonh Blanco and John DeKemper. Thru Aug 3. Performances: Thu, Aug 2, 7 & 9 p.m. UNC-CH: John & June Allcott Gallery, Chapel Hill. johnandjuneallcottgallery. blogspot.com.

The Art of a Scientist: Art and science exhibit. Sat, Aug 4, 5-7 p.m. Rubenstein Art Center Gallery 235, Durham.

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

Cameron Village Underground Photography Exhibit: This is going to sound crazy, but did you know there used to be an underground mall under Cameron Village, and that it housed nightclubs that both incubated local rock and hosted legendary touring acts as diverse as R.E.M., Barry Manilow, Jimmy Buffet, and Chuck Mangione?

In the late seventies and early eighties, before it was shut down because of concerns about safety, The Village Subway—aka the Raleigh Underground— roiled with nightclubs such as The Frog and Nightgown and The Pier, where Sonic Youth recorded the cover of “I Wanna Be Your Dog” that appears on Confusion Is Sex. This rich history, mostly lost beyond some hazily remembered blogs, is the subject of a new exhibit at The City of Raleigh Museum, which runs through January after a soldout, wait-listed reception with photographer Chris Seward.

His dynamic black-and-white photos from the scene capture now-famous names and local, proto-indie-rock bands such as The Fabulous Knobs and Arrogance in their primes. More than two hundred photos are featured in the exhibit, along with flyers, videos, and other artifacts.

Thru Jan 31. Raleigh City Museum, Raleigh. cityofraleighmuseum.org.

—Brian Howe

Existential Distress: Drawings

by Jessica Burke. Thru Sep 16.

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

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

LAST Anne GregoryCHANCE Bepler and Dare Coulter: Mixed media and ceramic installations. Thru Aug 4. Claymakers, Durham. www.claymakers.com.

LAST HEATWAVE: Works CHANCE inspired by summer heat. Thru Aug 5. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com.

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

The result is Thelen’s own Hotel Theory. Consisting of drawings, collages, wall paintings, and a new fiber piece, the exhibit tracks an artist “immersed in the colors and textures of the Oaxacan landscape and facing middle

age” as he observes the lines of history, place, and personal identity from a rented room, a space (like middle age) that, in its nowhere-ness, offers fresh vantages. Thru Sep 21.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Brian Howe LAST June Exhibit: CHANCE Woodworker Keith Allen, painter Carroll Lassiter, ceramicist Linda Prager, and photographer John Rosenthal.

Thru Aug 5. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

LAST Let’s Use Lots of CHANCE Color: Paintings by Joan Vandermeer.

Wednesdays. Thru Aug 1.

Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau, Chapel Hill.

Louisiana Trail Riders: Jeremiah Ariaz’s photographs of AfricanAmerican trail-riding clubs in Louisiana. Thru Sep 22.

Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

M.E.: Mixed media by Susie Silver. Thru Sep 16. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Ode to Matisse: Oil paintings

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

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

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

Pittsboro First Sundays: Artists and craftpersons exhibit their work downtown.

First Sundays, noon4 p.m. www.facebook.com/ PittsboroFirstSunday.

Raleigh Makers Market: First Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2p.m.

Benelux Cafe, Raleigh. www.beneluxcafe.com. raleighmakersmarket.com.

Rise of the Phoenix – El Ascenso de la Fénix: Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo, Felicity Palma, Yuko Nogami Taylor.

Thru Aug 4. Duke Campus: Fredric Jameson Gallery (Friedl Building), Durham.

Ronan Peterson, Peg Bachenheimer, and Paul Hrusosvsky: Though it’s full of abstract forms, what could be more concrete than nature?

This quiet paradox beats at the heart of the new triple show at Durham’s Craven Allen Gallery, which runs through September 8 after this opening reception. But the three formally diverse exhibits become one in the resonances of their titles and themes. In Layered, FRANK Gallery member artist Peg Bachenheimer shows her imaginative landscapes and abstractions in encaustic wax. In Fecundity, Ronan Kyle Peterson displays wheel-thrown red earthenware that embraces a “comic-book interpretation of ... the perpetual organic comedy of growth and decay.” And in Embellished, former Craven Allen director Paul Hrusovsky comes home with a clutch of new paintings, complicated with stencils and silk screens, which portray organic shapes in what the artist calls “a cacophony of excessive adornment.” Thru Sep 8. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com.

—Brian Howe

Searching for Serenity: Photography by j.j. raia and silver jewelry Monica R. Hunter.

Thru Aug 28. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

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

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

Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpreservation.com.

—Brian Howe

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

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

The SuperNatural: We’ve lost sight of the seams, once considered inviolable, between nature, technology, and commerce. The SuperNatural explores how we see and shape the contours of our planet as the physical refuse of the industrial age shades into the digital refuse of the present. The show includes a generative digital video by Tabor Robak, a virtual reality installation by Jakob Kudsk Steensen, and photos by Lars Jan, among many others.

Brooklyn artist Chris Doyle created “Dreams of Infinite Luster,” a digital animation.

In it, “All the elements are rendered in gold, the color of lucre—the product, engine, and goal of capitalism.” Is a luxury hotel an odd site for post-capitalist critique?

Sure. But, as we’ve said, what seams? Thru Aug 18.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Brian Howe

LAST Tandem CHANCE Transitions: Portals and Hues: Painter Darius Quarles and guest ceramic artist Linda Marcuson. Thru Aug 5.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Temporal Cartography: Interactive exhibit by Tom Dawson and JP Trostle. Thru Aug 11. Durham Art Guild, Durham. durhamartguild.org.

There Are Robots on Every Corner: Raleigh artist Mike Slobot’s robot sculptures and paintings. Thru Aug 4. PageWalker Arts & History Center, Cary. friendsofpagewalker.org.

Three Quilts: Fiber art by Martha Clippinger. Thru Aug 12. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Visualizing Micro Environments: Paintings by Orr Ambrose inspired by cosmology, physics, and microbiology. Thru Oct 11. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamconventioncenter.com.

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Darci Lynne: Thirteen-yearold ventriloquist, singer, and puppeteer. $25-$50. Sun, Aug 5, 6 p.m. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. www.boothamphitheatre.com.

Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Ridinghood: Children’s theater presented by Aggregate. $10-$12. Thru Aug 11. Church on Morgan, Raleigh.

In the Heart of the Fire: See p. 23. $10-$15. UNC Campus: Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. ncbg.unc.edu.

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The Three Billy Goats Gruff: The Musical: Children’s theater presented by Aggregate. $10-$12.

Thru Aug 4. Church on Morgan, Raleigh.

 Eclipsed: Reviewed on p. 21. $17-$20. Various times. The Fruit, Durham.

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

Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m.

ComedyWorx, Raleigh. www.comedyworx.com.

ONGOING

Improv at the Varsity: Stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy. $6. Saturdays, 9:30 p.m. Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. improvatthevarsity.com.

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

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

 These Shining Lives: Reviewed on p. 21. $17.

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The Fugitive: Fist City screening. $6. Mon, Aug 6, 7:30 p.m.

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Kung Fu Panda: Kids Camp screening. $1-$5. Mon, Aug 6 & Tue, Aug 7, 11 a.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 2

SANDRA CISNEROS Today, the experience of Latinx immigrants makes headline news, and more often than not, the stories are heartbreaking. From injustices on the U.S./Mexico border to discrimination and harassment throughout the country, it seems never-ending. Back in 1984, however, the Latinx experience wasn’t something you heard about.

Writer Sandra Cisneros changed all of that. It was that year that her novel A House On Mango Street showed how the story of a first-generation Mexican-American girl could inspire and transcend a community. To the world, Cisneros is hailed for her novels, memoirs, and poetry, which have garnered her countless accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship and several honorary doctorates. But to us, she will forever be a feminist pioneer who told our story to the masses and motivated us to share our own. N.C. State University will host a reading by Cisneros, followed by a discussion on working-class immigrants in the U.S. —Araceli Cruz

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Botanist & Barrel, Cedar Grove. botanistandbarrel.com.

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

Meatballs: Weird Wednesday screening. $6. Wed, Aug 1, 7:45 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Night Screams: Video Vortex screening. $6. Sun, Aug 5, 7:45 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Spring Breakers: Rowdy Screening. $13. Sat, Aug 4, 6:15 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song: New 4K Restoration. $9.

Thu, Aug 2, 7:15 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Talladega Nights Movie Party: Screening. $13. Thu, Aug 2, 6:45 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

The Prince of Egypt: Kids Camp screening. $1-$5. Wed, Aug 1, 11 a.m. & Thu, Aug 2, 11 a.m.

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Ultimate ‘90S: Hip-Hop Edition Video Dance Party: Nineties rap videos. $13. Fri, Aug 3, 8:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

OPENING Christopher Robin—An adult Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) reconnects with Winne the Pooh in a live action/CGI Disney film.

Rated PG. The Darkest Minds—A group of superpowered teenagers are on the run from the government in this YA-novel adaptation. Rated PG-13.

Eighth Grade—YouTube star Bo Burnham captures growing up on social media in his directorial debut. Rated R. The Spy Who Dumped Me—Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon have a European misadventure thanks to a spy ex in this comedy. Rated R.

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The rarest beast of cinema, the film so bad it’s good, exists on a level so utterly its own that it mutates not only storytelling but also how we perceive existence.

At least, that’s one way to explain the appeal of The Visitor, a 1979 sci-fi/horror mishmash that plays as if most of the top films and pop-culture touchstones of the seventies had been put in a blender. The plot, such as it is, involves John Huston—yes, the legendary film director—as an intergalactic agent of Yahweh, sent to bother a girl (Paige Conner) who is a descendant of the deadly Zatten (say it out loud, with a long A). The rest is extremely difficult to summarize, but it plays like The Omen plus The Exorcist plus Close Encounters plus Rosemary’s Baby plus The Birds plus a cop drama, with cameos by Sam Peckinpah, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the video game Pong. If the screening’s passed by the time you read this, fear not—Alamo has plenty more best-worst movies coming up soon, including genre exemplar Troll II. It’s a good time to be weird. —Zack Smith

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

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

Rated R.

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

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

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

Rated PG.

½ Solo: A Star Wars Story—If Rogue One was a war picture set in the Star Wars universe, then Solo is a space western, and a pretty good one, too.

Rated PG-13.

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