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6 “Under the NCAA’s logic, colleges should make cheerleaders and football players share bathrooms, showers and locker rooms.”

8 A serendipitous series of events led to a nonprofit restaurant opening where The Square Rabbit used to be.

10 Sixty-four percent of North Carolina African American voters vote early, compared to 49 percent of whites.

12 In North Carolina, you don’t actually have to be a farmer to have a “bona fide” farm.

19 A new jazz festival aims to shake up tradition with a dose of Monterey Pop vibes.

25 The Civilians theater group goes full Debbie Downer in a play about death workers.

31 How is conjugating French verbs like falling in love? Lauren Collins knows.

39 For its season premiere, N.C. Opera steps up to the challenge of Wagner’s Das Rheingold.

DEPARTMENTS 5 Backtalk 6 Triangulator 8 News 18 Fall Arts Guide 35 Food 37 Music 40 What to Do This Week 43 Music Calendar 47 Arts/Film Calendar

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Last week, Governor McCrory went out and blamed Attorney General Roy Cooper and “the political left” for HB 2, saying that if Charlotte hadn’t passed a nondiscrimination ordinance in the first place, the legislature wouldn’t have responded. This … did not go over well with readers.

On Facebook, Jay Davis writes: “Pat McCrory is a gutless coward running away from his own record.” Adds Melissa Dittmer: “Mr. Coal Ash needs to put on his big-boy pants, though that would require extracting his head from Trump’s nether regions.” Thanks for that mental image, Melissa.

In Triangulator, we reported on a number of companies that publicly protested HB 2 but went on to write checks to PACs supporting the candidates who conceived it. Israel J. Pattison argues that this is business as usual: “No payments means no influence. If a company’s competitors are raking in that political influence they can’t be left behind. Discrimination hurts, but spurring the will of angry investors hurts worse.”

Commenter RowenHaighMahoney appreciates Byron Woods’s “honest and realistic assessment” of the first year of the Women’s Theatre Festival. “And I applaud the bravery and audacity of Ashley Popio and all of the WTF collaborators for putting on a festival knowing that it was never going to be perfect. I am so glad we did not wait. I am so glad we did not try to find the right time. I am so glad we went for it.”

“Succeed or fail, Popio and all the women and allies who made WTF happen deserve major kudos,” writes Jesse R. Gephart. “This has been long overdue and sorely needed in our theatrical community—and beyond.”

William Bowling, a self-described “retired white guy,” says that Eric Tullis’s feature on blackowned restaurants in Durham overlooked an important one. “I hope [Tullis] will print an ‘add-on’ paragraph about the wonderful, much larger, home-style cooking of Ms. Brown’s Roy’s Kountry Kitchen, five blocks from the Chicken Hut. Roy’s got about seventeen words in [Tullis’s] article, which leads me to believe Mr. Tullis did not eat at the restaurant.”

And, finally, a correction: in the aforementioned Triangulator piece looking at political donations and HB 2, we overlooked several donations made to Democratic PACs. Pfizer, PayPal, eBay, Microsoft, and Uber all donated to Democrats in addition to Republicans. The corrected version of the infographic can be found online at http://bit.ly/2ciiThL. l

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triangulator +CONGRATS, GOVERNOR-ELECT COOPER And just like that, the NCAA went and signed Pat McCrory’s political death warrant.

The governor—down seven and running behind Donald Trump in his home state, even with a budget surplus and a decent economy—has been desperately trying to frame HB 2, the anchor affixed to his ankle, as a common-sense measure blown all out of proportion by liberal politicians and out-of-state media elites. He put out a craven television ad insinuating that, without HB 2, little girls will be molested in bathrooms.

He blamed opponent (and luckiest man alive) Roy Cooper for all the businesses and sporting events and musicians pulling out of the state, and then blamed the businesses and sporting events and musicians themselves.

In short, he pointed his finger everywhere but where he should have pointed it: at himself.

On Monday night, as you’re no doubt aware, the NCAA announced that it was pulling the first and second rounds of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament from Greensboro, as well as six other playoff events from North Carolina, four of which were to be held in Cary. The economic losses will be in the millions. The damage to the state’s reputation will be immeasurable.

“This is not unexpected, and it’s very frustrating, because we could have fixed this when we were in session,” says state Representative Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford. “So I’m pretty frustrated and kind of angry that the leadership didn’t pursue a repeal, because we’re paying an economic detriment for this state-sanctioned discrimination.”

In a statement posted on Twitter, the NCAA put the lie to McCrory’s oft-stated contention that North Carolina’s antiLGBTQ law is no worse than anyone else’s anti-LGBTQ law: “The Board of Governors views North Carolina differently from states that have similar laws for three reasons: North Carolina laws invalidate any local law that treats sexual orientation as a protected class …. North 6 | 9.14.16 | INDYweek.com

Carolina has the only statewide law that makes it unlawful to use a restaurant different than the gender on one’s birth certificate, regardless of gender identity.

[And] North Carolina provides legal protections to government officials to refuse services to the LGBT community.”

Moreover, the NCAA pointed out, five states ban official travel to North Carolina—which could include coaches and student-athletes. The message was clear: as long as HB 2 exists, the NCAA will take its business elsewhere.

Cooper piled on, though he probably didn’t have to: “Hosting NCAA championship events has long been a point of pride for North Carolina,” a spokesman said in a statement. “These tournaments pump money into our economy and give our communities and fans a chance to showcase our incredible tradition of college sports. Now, our ability to host these events at the highest level has been eliminated because of Governor McCrory and HB 2. Enough.”

Duke University joined in: “We agree with the NCAA’s decision. Our position has been clear on this matter, which is that this legislation is discriminatory, troubling and embarrassing.”

The state Republican Party, in predictably mature fashion, lashed out at the NCAA: “I genuinely look forward to the NCAA merging all men’s and women’s teams together as singular, unified, unisex teams,” said spokeswoman Kami Mueller. “Under the NCAA’s logic, colleges should make cheerleaders and football players share bathrooms, showers and locker rooms.”

In fairness to Mueller, two hours earlier she’d tweeted out a picture of a glass of bourbon, on the rocks, with the message: “Monday nights are for @WoodfordReserve, work, and reading about our first liberty.”

Wonder how many Woodfords she put down before banging that out. Then again, considering who she works for, can you blame her?

Anyway, we’re officially calling it: McCrory’s toast.

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Malaki Spencer squeezes his fingers into his palm and throws a fist into the air, nodding his head as a young woman opens up about the struggles facing those, like her, who are trying to put themselves through college on a minimum wage salary.

“How are we supposed to live? Tell me,” Spencer says. “How are we supposed to better ourselves when we have to choose between school and food? So yeah. That’s why I showed up. All them people hatin’ on what we’re doing out here can’t answer that.”

The crowd that converged on the Capitol Monday for the Moral Day of Action protest was as diverse as the issues they showed up to shine a light on.

Cisgender heterosexuals stood shoulder to shoulder with members of the LGBTQ community to condemn HB 2. An elderly white man put his arm around a young black woman who was wearing a T-shirt that said: “STOP THE VIOLENCE. PUT GUNS AWAY.” “I told her that this killing has to stop,” Russell Jernigan said. “Back when I was a kid, we used to say, ‘It takes a village.’ Well, somehow, our villages got divided. And it’s leading to a lot of death. A lot of young death.”

There was no division Monday in Raleigh

—at least among this crowd. In fact, the unity that was on display stretched across state lines, as the Reverend William Barber’s latest Moral Monday rally saw similar demonstrations unfold on the grounds of state capitols in thirty-one states.

“What I like about this is that you’ve got a kid over there in a shirt that’s talking about raising the minimum wage to fifteen dollars, but he’s whooping and hollering for the gay folks and the women and the veterans,” said Sheila Anderson, who was taking a post-lunch walk when she saw the crowd. “And when they sing, they sing together. It was kind of beautiful. Did you hear it? It was something, wasn’t it? Felt like I was in church.”

Barber made sure of that. He lectured the “so-called religious right” about their indifference to the poor. He quoted the Bible and scoffed at their self-described evangelism.

And he vowed to continue to lead an urgent movement to improve the lives of the “disenfranchised” across the nation.

“The goal is to directly take over the theological practices and sometimes heresy of the so-called religious right,” Barber said. “This is work I hope to do until I leave this Earth.”

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+REPRIEVE OR SLOW BLEED? and losing the captive population could mean losing the entire species. “Under the current conditions, with only twenty-nine breeding pairs in captivity, the population is unable to sustain itself. That is unacceptable. This should be a priority.”

Not necessarily, wolf advocates argue.

According to conservation scientist Ron Sutherland, the government’s philosophy amounts to the abandonment of wild red wolf recovery in North Carolina and “shifts the emphasis” to captive wolves.

But, to Sutherland, the most concerning part is the government’s call to contain the existing wild wolf population on federal land in Dare County—the former recovery area spanned five counties— “which at most could support ten to fifteen wolves,” he says. “Any wolves that leave federal land will be captured and returned to captivity, or possibly just shot by landowners who would face no repercussions if the wolves were outside of the new restricted recovery area.”

So this is a victory for the wolf, albeit a short-term one. It’s certainly better than the alternative, which the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission—on behalf of wealthy landowners who believe the wolf to be a nuisance—had been pushing. But

just what will happen in the years to come is another issue—one Harrison says can be solved by a new administration.

“I blame it, in large part, on the McCrory administration,” she says. “But once we have a change, I think we can resolve the landowner conflict and any other issues that might come up.” triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Jeffrey C. Billman, Paul Blest, and Ken Fine.

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On the surface, it seemed like a victory—the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday that it was not abandoning the decades-old Red Wolf Recovery Program; the roughly forty red wolves living in eastern North Carolina could stay there.

But after the dust settled, advocates who have been fighting to protect the endangered species from extinction took a closer look at just what the so-called “clear path forward” for the animal entailed. As state Representative Pricey Harrison puts it, that path “sounds bad.”

Cindy Dohner, the USFWS’s southeast regional director, makes the government’s commitment to the species sound convincing. “We are committed to red wolf recovery. I am committed to red wolf recovery,” she says. “The steps we are outlining today represent the best opportunity for positive progress.”

The feds’ plan begins with—and seemingly focuses on—securing the captive population of two hundred-plus wolves living in zoos across the country.

“The most stunning data shows the captive population is not secure. We believed it was, but it is not. In fact, if we continue with the status quo, we will likely lose the captive population,” Dohner says—

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The NCAA pulls its championships from North Carolina over HB 2.

McCrory rejoices, having mixed up the NCAA with the NAACP.

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Governor McCrory blames Attorney General Roy Cooper and “the political left” for forcing him to pass HB 2.

In related news, the McCrory campaign rolls out a new slogan: “It’s all their fault.”

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In Asheville, Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton has run a ‘“hate-filled, negative campaign,” while a supporter strikes protesters and an elderly woman is knocked to the ground. In related news, the Trump campaign rolls out a new slogan: “I know you are, but what am I?”

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Campaigning for his wife, Bill Clinton picks up a sixer of Ponysaurus at the Durham Co-op. Days later, after a Raleigh fundraiser for Cooper, Joe Biden stops by Pelagic. Meanwhile, Pat McCrory slumps in the back of a dimly lit bar, clutching a half-empty bottle of Old Grand-Dad, quietly slurring the words to “Everybody Hurts.”

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Google Fiber goes live in Morrisville. In response, Time-Warner drops its Morrisville rate to $300 month and stops mailing customers random nail bombs.

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Over the Durham Rescue Mission’s objections, the Durham City Council awards Golden Belt a historic designation. Historic preservation jokes just write themselves.

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Recent reports of creepy clowns in the North Carolina woods appear to be a hoax. Dan Forest reported to be still at large.

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Jim Freeze stands inside the unfinished Carroll's Kitchen.

A West Point graduate leading a platoon of twenty-two young men finds himself in post-9/11 Iraq, seeking a solution to the violence unfolding around him. Jim Freeze has no idea that a meeting with a group of tribal elders will teach him a lesson he’ll someday put to use back home.

“So I went into these villages and said, ‘I’m here to help with security. What do you guys need?’ They said, ‘We need jobs. You know, these young men are engaging in violence because they don’t have work,’” he says.

Fast-forward five years. Freeze, after two tours in the Middle East, has left the army and is working for a company that helps veterans gain employment. He feels like he’s making a difference but still hasn’t found his true calling. Then, a year and a half ago, a chance conversation with a fellow member of Vintage Church lights a fire inside of him that will, this week, result in the opening of a Raleigh restaurant dedicated to removing women from desperate situations and helping them reclaim their lives.

Vicky Ismail, a fifty-nine-year-old restaurateur who sold her most recent Triangle project, The Cary Café, in 2013, began crafting the idea of Carroll’s Kitchen—the name derives from the church’s dining hall—after reading a magazine article about Jim Noble and his Charlotte restaurant, The King’s Kitchen, which employs at-risk youth, excons, and recovering addicts, and donates its profits to charities that feed the hungry. “My career is kind of done,” Ismail says. “I don’t need money and stuff like that. But I do still love to be in the kitchen. So I started thinking, ‘Why not do it for someone else, instead of just for profit?’”

But she needed a partner.

“She shared the dream with me,” Freeze says. “I had been, for a few years, going around thinking, ‘What does sustainable help look like?’ I mean, people generally want to do good and help people from tough circumstances, but what does that really mean? So when she threw that out there, like, ‘Hey, let’s open a restaurant and hire people coming from difficult

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circumstances,’ I’m like, ‘I want in.’”

He quit his job and got to work. And after a “serendipitous” series of events led them to the downtown Raleigh space vacated by The Square Rabbit—Freeze was introduced to an employee of LM Restaurants, which owned the then-vacant former home of The Square Rabbit, and told her that Carroll’s Kitchen needed a home; she, in turn, offered him the restaurant’s current location—he and Ismail were on their way.

They reached out to homeless shelters, the Raleigh Rescue Mission, and the Salvation Army. They sought out victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. These, they thought, would be the women who would roast the meat for locally sourced chicken salad sandwiches and craft homemade condiments

and jam. In return, they would earn an honest living—a few dollars more per hour than minimum wage—have a room to rent in a group home run in conjunction with the Raleighbased nonprofit Families Together, and learn skills that will help them in the future.

“You know, these women, they come from difficult situations. They need something to get back on their feet. A lot of businesses don’t want to take that risk,” Freeze says.

“Just being able to say, ‘They believe in me’ is a huge thing for these women.”

It’s not just their new bosses who believe in them. The community, through the business’s Kickstarter campaign, has shown its support, too—with $150,000, of which $50,000 came from Square 1 Bank.

“The six months that Vicky and I

were sitting around together dreaming about this, it got to a point where it was like, ‘OK. Who’s gonna do this?’ Well, I couldn’t not do it. I knew that at some point in my life, I would look back and regret not being a part of making this thing happen,” Freeze says.

Carroll’s Kitchen opens its doors September 15; what the future holds remains uncertain. Will the restaurant start a movement in Raleigh—and beyond? Will the women who work to ensure its success find their own victories in the years to come?

Ismail isn’t ready to rule anything out.

“Dream big,” she says. “You should never accomplish, in your lifetime, what you can dream. Otherwise, you’ve got pretty small dreams.” l kfine@indyweek.com.

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AFTER A FEDERAL COURT STRIKES DOWN THE STATE’S VOTER RESTRICTIONS, REPUBLICANS TRY LIKE HELL TO CIRCUMVENT THE DECISION

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Ever since a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down North Carolina’s voter ID law in July, Republican leaders have been trying to figure out how to game the decision to their electoral advantage. The law, after all, did much more than force people to show IDs to vote; it also eliminated same-day voter registration and cut early voting from seventeen days to ten.

Because of that decision—which a divided Supreme Court declined to overturn—county boards of elections had to sort out what to do with those extra seven days of early voting. The state Republicans openly asked those boards—all of which have two Republicans and one Democrat—to try to circumvent the Fourth Circuit’s ruling.

There was the damning Dallas Woodhouse email to Republican members of county boards of elections, in which the NCGOP executive director called for “party-line changes to early voting.” Then, Woodhouse’s cousin Eddie Woodhouse, a former Jesse Helms aide, was appointed to the Wake County Board of Elections and immediately tried to cut Sunday voting hours. And Garry Terry, the GOP’s First Congressional District chairman, implored the Vance County Board of Elections in an email obtained by The News & Observer to offer the least amount of early voting hours legally possible, and then only at one location—in other words, to make early voting as difficult as possible.

Many of the boards took Woodhouse’s advice: as the N&O reported earlier this month, twenty-three county boards voted

to reduce early voting hours from 2012, and nine that had Sunday voting in 2012 cut that out altogether.

Not coincidentally, Sunday voting—and early voting in general—is popular with African Americans. In 2012, according to data cited in the Fourth Circuit’s ruling, 64 percent of North Carolina African Americans voted early, compared to 49 percent of whites.

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But under state law, county election plans need unanimous approval from all three members in order to be final; thirty-three of the state’s one hundred counties weren’t able to reach a consensus, so the question was referred to the state Board of Elections.

This all set the stage for an eleven-hourplus marathon NCBOE meeting last Thursday, when the board reviewed early voting schedules for a third of the state’s counties, including Wake and Orange.

The state board, comprising three Republicans and two Democrats, could accept the county board’s Republican plan, the minority Democratic plan, or create its own. (Orange

County actually offered four plans—one created by each board member and a compromise. The state board went with the compromise, after adding a few tweaks.)

In Wake County, Eddie Woodhouse and fellow Republican Ellis Boyle voted in favor of a plan that would have opened just one early voting site countywide in the first ten days of early voting. Neither Republican showed up to the meeting on Thursday.

Democrat Mark Ezzell, who voted against the plan, did, bringing along a lawyer to make his case. In the end, he got his way: the state board approved a proposal that opened nine sites throughout the county for all seventeen days of early voting and added another eleven sites for the last ten days. (Early voting starts on October 20 and ends on November 5.)

Wake Democrats were happy with the decision.

“More Wake County voters will have the opportunity to cast their ballot at a time and place that is convenient to them,” says Wake County Democratic Party chairman Brian Fitzsimmons. “That’s a good thing, no matter how you spin it.”

Some other counties weren’t as lucky. In coastal New Hanover County—where, as WRAL noted, 44 percent of Sunday voters in the March primary were African American— the state board declined to offer Sunday voting. The same goes for Orange County.

In all likelihood, however, this won’t be the end of the battle; the Reverend William J. Barber II, the state leader of the NAACP, told reporters Friday that his group is considering litigation. l pblest@indyweek.com

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ARE RUSTIC WEDDING VENUES DESTROYING A WAY OF LIFE IN RURAL ORANGE COUNTY?

BY DAVID HUDNALL

Kara Brewer is, quite literally, surrounded by neighbors who want her gone.

She didn’t seem especially bothered by this fact the day I drove out to her property in Bingham Township, in southwestern Orange County. Brewer, thirty-seven, was

visible from Millikan Road, working inside a small garden encased in deer netting. She wore black leggings and a sporty turquoise tank top. She looked like she was on her way

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discussing the eventual honey yield on three beehives that sat twenty yards away. Brewer pointed across the path, at a cluster of saplings wrapped in white cylindrical guards.

“And those are the chestnut trees,” she said.

“We’re starting with forty, and plan to add another forty each spring until we get to three hundred or so. We’ll have a processing facility in the barn for them because we’re going to be making gluten-free flour from them. The flour comes from the chestnut itself.”

Brewer and her husband, Chris, live in a part of Chapel Hill that lies in Chatham County, near Jordan Lake. Through an LLC called Southeast Property Group, they purchased this land—twenty-two acres—in March 2015.

At the time, it was completely wooded. They kept in place the trees around the property’s exterior but hollowed out its guts.

On the day I visited, a man in a large Boosan excavator was carving out a second road into the property. Deeper inside, where several acres of trees had been felled, branches burned on a pile, part of the clearing process.

“That’s where the parking lot will be,” Brewer said. “Over there is where the flower beds will be; we’ll start with a half-acre of cut-flower production and keep adding until we have one and a half or two acres for production.

And then where we’re standing right now is where the barn will go.”

The barn, built in 1860, is being imported from upstate New York. Brewer says it will serve many purposes: refrigeration for the hand-cut flowers, storage for the chestnuts.

It will also host weddings.

“But that’s a small part of what we’re doing,” Brewer told me, a faint strain in her voice. “It’s not the whole picture.”

ing themselves in pastoralia to flout the law.

They’re interlopers, Chapel Hill carpetbaggers, gentrifying capitalists. They seek to commodify the rustic beauty of this farming community and threaten to destroy its centuries-old way of life.

The opposition has not been subtle. Starting at Highway 54, and all along Morrow Mill and Millikan roads, dozens of yard signs proclaim, “Real Farms Don’t Have DJs.” A huge canvas banner shouting, “Stop the Party Barn on Morrow Mill,” with a link to a website called stopthepartybarn.com, faces one entrance to the Brewer property. There is, in fact, no property adjacent to the Brewers’ land that has not posted signage critical of the Barn of Chapel Hill, the official name of the operation.

The grumbling began a year ago and has intensified as the dispute has wended its way through the labyrinth of county-level planning, permitting, and, now, appeals.

At its root is a larger knot that Orange and other counties in North Carolina are increasingly trying to untangle: Who’s a farmer, and who deserves the privileges afforded to farmers?

“It’s just a very small, quiet part of the county.

We’d like to keep it that way.”

To their new neighbors, the Brewers’ enterprise is not a working farm that will occasionally serve as a wedding venue. To them, it will be a loud, busy events space—and a cynical one at that. The Brewers, most of Bingham Township will tell you, are cloak-

There were four founding families along this stretch of Bingham Township, according to Chris Durham: the Tapps, the Smiths, the Thompsons, and the Pickards. Durham is a descendent of the Smiths. She’s a Bingham expat—she now lives about five miles away— but she grew up in a white farmhouse on the property next to the Brewers, and her daughter still lives off Millikan Road.

In early August, Durham gave me what amounted to a riding tour of her childhood.

When cars passed by—just three in ninety minutes—she waved from the steering wheel.

As we cruised past fields of soybeans and corn, Durham pointed out land and homes and ticked off the names of people, often her relatives, who currently own them, or who owned them forty years ago, or who owned them a hundred years ago. Once, she referred to a property owner who has lived on Morrow Mill Road for thirty years as “new.” Her INDYweek.com | 9.14.16 | 13

There is no property adjacent to the Brewers’ land that has not posted signage critical of the Barn of Chapel Hill.

Southern accent is more Georgia than Chapel Hill.

You could tie your shoes in the space between consonants.

We came upon the Brewer property and Durham slowed her GMC sports-utility vehicle.

Construction sounds— the roar of a chainsaw, the beeping of a backhoe— could be heard in the distance, out of sight.

“When I was little, there was a little pathway my mother and I would walk through, a teeny-tiny little path that led to her mother’s house, which was over on Morrow Mill Road,” Durham told me. She pointed at the road being built on the Brewers’ land.

“It went right through there, where they’re building this … thing.” She shook her head.

We took a left on Morrow Mill and pulled into the driveway of Thomas and Doris Ray. The Rays bought their house, directly across from the public entrance to the Brewer property, in 1962. Thomas wandered up from a garden in the back to say hello. He wore camouflage suspenders over a T-shirt from a bluegrass festival and khaki shorts. He had tan skin and piercing blue eyes; sunglasses rested on the bill of his Goodyear hat.

Thomas was unwilling to discuss the situation on the record, but a document filed to the Orange County Board of Adjustment in May, on behalf of the Rays and two other neighbors, articulates their concerns. The “real and proven special damages” they claim the Barn of Chapel Hill will cause include overflow parking, littering, and noise; the threat of trespassing and damage to animals on their farms; a decrease in property values; and the “loss of the quiet enjoyment of their properties.”

Situated as the Rays are, they could see as many as 150 cars come and go past their home on weekend nights. (The Barn of Chapel Hill plans to pave 150 parking spaces to accommodate as many as 250 guests.) The fact that the Brewers will not be residing at the home—and will thus not be around to handle issues that arise—is also a cause for unease.

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At an Orange County Board of Adjustment meeting last year, Doris Ray voiced her displeasure with the Brewers’ plan.

“When we first built [our home], the roads were all dirt, there were no telephones. So we have seen a lot of growth in this community.

But it’s all been with beautiful homes, horse pastures, dairy farmers around. It’s been very quiet. We never have a lot of noise, we never hear noise, very seldom. … Thomas and I have now retired, and we are close enough to the highway that when we sit in our living room or when we sit on our front porch in our rocking chairs we enjoy seeing the neighbors walking and jogging and riding their horses, waving at them. I’m afraid that this will not happen if the barn is built there.”

“It’s just a very small, quiet part of the county, and you can go out at night and listen to the crickets and the frogs and the whippoorwills and look at the starry night sky,” Durham told me, gesturing at the cornfields and the tall trees. “And I guess it would be fair to say we’d like to keep it that way.”

One of the harsh realities of rural Orange County today is that it’s difficult to buy land and make a profit farming it. The land is too costly, and the return on traditional crops— corn, soybeans—is not sufficient.

“The margins are too narrow,” says Earl

McKee, chairman of the Orange County Board of Commissioners and a farmer in his own right. “If you want to buy a hundred acres, and land is going at ten thousand dollars an acre, that’s a million dollars before you’ve planted a seed or bought your equipment. And one hundred acres is really too small for a real farming operation to come out very far ahead.”

Forty years ago, he adds, “I could net two or three thousand dollars an acre, so I could afford to pay a thousand dollars an acre for land. But if you’re netting less than a thousand dollars an acre, and you gotta make your land payments with that, and live off that—I mean, it doesn’t take an advanced accounting degree to figure out you can’t last long under those conditions.”

Certain vegetables and fruits—strawberries, for example—have a higher gross per acre, meaning you don’t need to buy nearly as much land to grow a lot of them. Even then, though, it’s tough to eke out a living.

Generally speaking, the best way for farmers to make the math work these days is to have come into possession of the farmland, whether through purchase or inheritance, decades ago, as McKee and the Rays and Durham and dozens of others have. It is a considerably more profitable enterprise, of course, to sell land to developers. But most farmers don’t want to be the one who sells off the family’s land; they want it to be their chil-

dren, or their children’s children, but definitely not them. They want to preserve their way of life.

So, what to do if crop prices and the weather aren’t cooperating?

Increasingly, the answer is agritourism: carve out a corn maze, hold a hayride, set up a petting zoo. Use what you’ve got, charge admission, and build a new revenue stream. Two years ago, Orange County even added a zoning provision called “Ag Support Enterprises” to encourage farmers to develop businesses on their farms.

“Bona fide farms”— operations recognized as farms by the state—have enjoyed an exemption from county zoning laws in North Carolina dating back to at least 1959. Practically speaking, this designation usually affords farmers the luxury of constructing structures on their property without having to deal with the bureaucratic rigmarole of local inspectors. In 2005, the state legislature added agritourism as a protected farm purpose, meaning, as the UNC School of Government’s Richard Ducker says, “Everything from managing the strawberry patch in your backyard to raising emus in a large pen to hosting a wedding in an historic barn may be exempt from county zoning.”

In 2011, the legislature went a step further, codifying how a property can become a bona fide farm. There are five criteria, and a farm must only meet one of them. Two of the five criteria—obtaining a forestry management plan and being issued a U.S. Department of Agriculture farm identification number— require very little, if any, independent verification that actual farming is performed on the property.

In other words, for the last five years, it has been extremely easy to get designated as a bona fide farm in North Carolina. The intention of the exemption was to make life easier for farmers. But this slackening of standards has also allowed nonfarmers to hop through the loophole.

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The first anybody in Bingham Township heard of the Brewers’ plan was in the summer of 2015. Residents who lived within five hundred feet of the Brewers’ property line received a certified letter stating that their new neighbors had applied for a special-use permit to build a forty-two-hundred-squarefoot events space.

“We couldn’t believe it,” says Ron Royster, who has lived on eighty acres of property owned by Clarene Rogers for over two decades. “We’re right on the other side of [the Brewers], with a layer of woods between us. Their plan would so drastically disrupt everyone’s life out here.”

(Rogers, who is eighty-eight and has resided off Morrow Mill Road since 1952, also opposes the Barn of Chapel Hill. “We don’t need a party barn out here,” she says, “and nobody asked for one.”)

Royster and other neighbors, as well as the nonprofit Preserve Rural Orange, mobilized in opposition. Last August, they first voiced their discontent at a neighborhood meeting required as part of the permitting process. In November, they packed a hearing in front of the Board of Adjustment.

The BOA unanimously rejected the Brewers’ application.

The Brewers could have appealed within thirty days.

They did not. Instead, they pulled out their trump card: the USDA farm ID number they’d been issued when they purchased the land— even though the land hadn’t been farmed in decades.

They declared that they did not need the BOA’s approval and moved along to the county’s planning department, where they applied for a building permit. The planning supervisor took a look at the USDA documentation and concluded that county zoning approval wasn’t required.

The Brewers’ plans, initially submitted in January, described the barn as a “farm event building” and called the project the “Brewer Wedding Venue.” A subsequent set of plans, submitted two months later, described it as a “barn for agricultural use” and called it the “Brewer Barn.” Text labeling an area “Bride’s

Room” was scrubbed from the second set of plans. Nothing structural about the plans changed, just the words used to describe them. After two rounds of mostly semantic revisions, the planning department approved the Barn of Chapel Hill.

In early August, the Rays and other neighbors appealed the planning department’s decision. The appeal is tentatively set to be heard in October by the BOA, the same group that unanimously denied the barn’s special-use permit. The appeal also requested that the county clarify the definition of “agritourism.”

This is the true crux of the issue, says Tony Blake, who represents Bingham Township on the Orange County Planning Board.

“What is the primary use of the barn, and does it meet the spirit of the law?” Blake says.

“The answer to that tells you everything you need to know about what’s going on here.”

Blake says his duties on the planning board prevent him from answering his own question. But incoming Orange County commissioner Mark Marcoplos doesn’t believe the Barn of Chapel Hill qualifies as agritourism.

“It defies common sense,” Marcoplos says.

“The law is designed to help farmers augment their income with another use of their farm. In this case, it’s being used by people who do not even have a farm established or a farm income to augment. They wanted to start an events business on a farm, so they decided to grow some flowers and call themselves a farm, and now they’re enjoying the benefits of agricultural policies intended for actual farmers. A sixth grader could see that this is putting the cart before the horse. It’s a totally flawed process.”

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“A sixth grader could see that this is putting the cart before the horse. It’s a totally flawed process.”

Tina Miller, county executive director of the USDA’s Orange-Durham County Farm Service Agency, says that, as a result of an uptick in questionable farm-number ID applications, her office recently tightened the rules for what merits a farm number.

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“Many applications were coming in that just had houses on the lots or storage on the lots—nothing farming related, but still seeking the farm ID number,” Miller says.

“So we got more specific about what we needed from applicants. They need to be either already be participating in a USDA farm program or they need to prove to us, with receipts, that they are actually growing something on their property.”

These changes occurred toward the end of 2015. But in January 2016, another farm ID number was issued to property owners who, like the Brewers, had not established a farm.

The Lavender Oaks Farm, formerly Lavender Oaks Estate, is a forty-five-acre plot six miles west of downtown Carrboro.

Wake County resident Karen Macdonald and her husband, Robert, bought the land and intend to retire there and start a fiveacre lavender farm, they told The Chapel Hill Herald earlier this year.

A man who worked on the property told the paper that the Macdonalds were planning to build “an event center between 8,000 and 10,000 square feet was going on the property.”

Macdonald declined to comment to the INDY on her plans.

“We are still in the b u i l d i n g /p l a n t i n g phase and it will be several months to a year before everything is completed,” she wrote in an email, adding that those interested in their progress should check out the proposed farm’s upcoming website, lavenderoaks.farm, for

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“information about our lavender fields, lavender products we’ll make on the farm, and other farm happenings.”

Laura Streitfeld, executive director of Preserve Rural Orange, sees in the Macdonalds’ actions an uncanny resemblance to the Brewers’ approach.

“Both are multimillion-dollar projects that propose to construct new, large event venues for weddings using recycled barn wood,” Streitfeld says. “In each case, after public questions about the primary use of these properties—both of which were undeveloped and wooded prior to their purchase—the owners changed their stated purpose from ‘wedding venues’ to ‘farms.’

Before ever establishing any kind of agricultural activity, both properties stated their intent to pursue agritourism on their land, then presented USDA farm numbers to the county as evidence of their farm status and

requested an agricultural exemption from zoning. And neither has experience as farmers, yet refer to their undeveloped properties as ‘family farms.’”

There are many other bucolic venues in rural Orange County that host rustic weddings: the Barn at Valhalla, Merry Hill, Snipes Farm Retreat, Rock Quarry Farm, and Rigmor House, to name a few.

David Owens, with the UNC School of Government, says that event spaces like these continue to crop up in rural areas of the state—and increasingly leave a trail of neighborly disputes.

“Wedding reception venues, commercial rodeos, and shooting ranges,” Owens says. “Those are the main three where you have landowners contending it’s agritourism, and the neighbors saying it’s not, and that it’s threatening their quality of life. Most of these disputes haven’t gotten past the county boards of adjustment. In some cases, the board of adjustment says the event space isn’t agritourism, and the landowners don’t appeal. In some cases, the board says it is agritourism, and the neighbors don’t appeal. So there’s no real judicial precedent. But there’s enough landowners wondering where the edge is here that, sooner or later, somebody’s going to take one of these to the court of appeals and get it litigated.”

There’s also the chance the legislature will clarify matters. More often than not, lawmakers side with farmers, but which side are the farmers on? They want to be free to do as they please on their own land. But they also want the county to step in when people like the Brewers do something they don’t like.

“If you buy twenty-five acres and say you’re going to raise tomatoes, that doesn’t mean I consider you a farmer,” McKee says.

“For me to consider you a farmer, you gotta plant the tomatoes and raise the tomatoes, and go sunrise to sunset, and last a couple of years. Then I’ll accept you as a farmer. That’s the prevailing view in the agricultural com-

munity out here. You don’t gain status just by having a farm number.

“But that ain’t what the state says,” he adds. “The state says, You’ve got a farm number, you’re a farmer. And the state law is the final word. So my view, and the agricultural community’s view, is exactly that: our view. It don’t carry any weight in the eyes of the law.”

“If you buy twenty-five acres and say you’re going to raise tomatoes, that doesn’t mean I consider you a farmer.”

Out on her new dirt road off Millikan, Brewer told me she understood the neighbors’ concerns.

They have “every right” to put up their signs, she said. “I encourage them to come talk to me.”

Have they? She shook her head no.

Brewer said she based the plans for the Barn of Chapel Hill on Orange County’s own farmland protection plan.

“They want to keep usable land in production, which is what I’m doing,” she said. “They want to encourage innovative new ways— like ag tourism—to make money on farms, which I’m doing. And they want to entice younger farmers to come in as older farmers age out, which we are.” She rattled off all the farm-related activities—specialty-cut flowers, honey, chestnuts, educational programs, floral workshops—she is pursuing, or intends to pursue, and described how they will complement the wedding venue once it’s up and running next year.

She sounded determined—a little shaky, but determined. If Brewer hadn’t planned on being much of a farmer when she bought the place, perhaps the “party barn” conflict had nudged her in that direction.

Who knows? Maybe in five years, somebody like Earl McKee might drive down Millikan Road, spot the blooming chestnut trees swaying in the breeze, and view the Barn of Chapel Hill as a real farm—or, at least, as real a farm as can be built in Orange County anymore. l dhudnall@indyweek.com

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While most of the music will run outdoors at SPECTRE, The Shed will become an artist market for bands to sell merchandise. The club will also host an after-party featuring Raleigh’s Away MSG and Oak City Slums.

Stark says he and Gilmore wanted to maintain a “scrappy, DIY” feel that honored The Shed’s East Durham home, removed from the main footprint of downtown. They also wanted to push beyond common, if misinformed, ideas of what jazz is.

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Stark and Gilmore haven’t yet decided if Varipop is something they want to continue in years to come. For now, they’re focused on getting through the first iteration and seeing where they land.

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The festival will take place in the courtBefore Moogfest and the Art of Cool yard of The Shed’s neighbor, SPECTRE Arts, Festival made their marks on Durham, which has a stage. You’ll see the sweet electhe city had Troika Music Festival, a relatronic-leaning pop of Beauty World, hiptively small but solid operation presented hop from the young beatmaker Trandle, and by locals, for locals. Its roster, too, focused dogged rock from Lonnie Walker. almost exclusively on bands from North CarErnest Turner, who hosts a weekly jazz olina. The annual throwdown ended its run jam at The Shed, appears in a new electric in 2010, but this year a new daylong festitrio, while Durham institution D-Town Brass val, Varipop, seems poised to revive Troika’s broad-minded, regionally focused spirit.

Shara Nova The brains behind the operation are Daniel Stark and James Gilmore. Both are musicians, and Stark also runs The Shed, a cozy, jazz-oriented club in Golden Belt. Gilmore often assists in booking shows.

The two started thinking about the festival that would become Varipop after working with Moogfest on an event last December, which helped them get their heads around the idea of booking something bigger than a one-off show. Still, the result is more like a community block party than a corporate operation.

“It’s not a big idea thing like Moogfest, it’s not a commercial thing. It’s really good music, beer, and food, in the backyard of an art gallery that we think is really cool,” Gilmore says.

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REFRAMING FOOD Tuesday, Oct. 11–Saturday, Oct. 22 | The Carrack Modern Art, Durham | www.thecarrack.org

Not Your Average Foodies

YOUNG ACTIVISTS FILL THE CARRACK WITH INTIMATE PORTRAITS OF FOOD JUSTICE

BY VICTORIA BOULOUBASIS

In images, our food is often celebrated one-dimensionally.

Food photographs tend to show a glamorized version of the “dirty work” behind the scenes: a chef in a moment of glory, wiping sweat off his forehead with the back of one hand while holding a charred piece of meat over an open flame with the other. A smiling farmer in overalls plucking ruby-red tomatoes off a vine, the jeweled rewards of her hard work. Her summer bounty, and ours.

Twenty-year-old Terrence Smith has photos like this, too. In one, his hands are wristdeep in buckets of dark soil crawling with thick, slinky worms. The compost is so rich that Smith calls it—and his vermicomposting business, which he started at age sixteen—Super Dirt. But some of the photos Smith will show at The Carrack Modern Art next month are the sort that a fancy food magazine would leave on the cutting-room floor.

The exhibit, Reframing Food, runs for two weeks next month, with an opening reception on October 15 and a closing reception on October 21. It showcases photography by members of the Food Youth Initiative, a network of four groups across the state working toward food justice in their communities. Their work intimately portrays a powerful personal perspective uncommon in the mainstream food world.

“In our sort of ageist society, the youth are geniuses,” says Bevelyn Ukah, who coordinates FYI through the Center for Environmental Farming Systems at N.C. State.

“These youth in particular represent the vast

shot—not that there is anyexperiences within the food thing wrong with them. But system.” we want to be more intenFYI includes ethnic Karen tional about how we create refugee youth from Burma images and what purpose at Transplanting Traditions they might serve.”

Community Farm in ChaSmith says that Growingpel Hill; the Lenoir County Change members think a lot migrant farmworker youth about the symbolism of their of Poder Juvenil Campesiwork. “The prison once was a no (Rural Youth Power); the tool of justice,” he says. “Now young beekeepers of Conetoe we’re using it to correct the Family Life Center in Edgeflaws of the system.” combe County; and GrowAs the FYI youth at once ingChange, a group of young live and document their men in Scotland County own lives, they are findwho have all experienced the ing commonalities in their juvenile justice system. differences.

Smith joined Growing“You get to meet people Change at sixteen. The group with other ideas that make is currently working on con- GrowingChange will convert a prison into a garden. PHOTO BY EZEKIEL JONES you think about stuff a whole verting a former prison, the Durham-based photographer Peter Everother way,” says Smith, notdilapidated Scotland Correcsoll has spent several years leading photoing he never thought he’d meet and become tional Institution, into a community garden. friends with a migrant farmworker or a refu“There ain’t a whole lot going on in Gibgraphy workshops with youth groups. Their gee from another country. “FYI lets you know son,” Smith says of his tiny hometown, popuwork explores nuanced storytelling along what people are doing outside of your city, lation 540. He is now the oldest and a mentor with basic techniques, from catching the your county, your area.” within what he calls a newfound brothermost delicious light to waiting for the action “As much as the photos tell you that the hood. “Gardening is a tool of therapy with shot. Above all, it expresses the youths' desire youth are aware and awake, they also show troubled youth in general, and our [prison] to use their photography as advocacy. you possibility and potential,” says Eversoll. project will have a positive effect on their “We’ve talked about how photographs bear “This prison will be flipped, this garden will lives.” witness to history and have played a key role be bountiful, these youth will move onward For the exhibit, Smith and his cohort chose in social change over the last 150 years,” says and upward, children will be playing in fields to take photographs of the prison they are Eversoll. “Think Lewis Hine and child labor, instead of working in them. They give us converting. It’s not the glossy picture of the Emmett Till and civil rights, to more recent the possibilities for change, in their terms, food world we’re used to, but it does reflect events around police brutality and internathrough their eyes.” l the path of these young men, with food as tional conflicts. The primary thing is to get their solution to a better future. folks thinking beyond the selfie and the snapvbouloubasis@indyweek.com

TWO MORE FAB FOOD FÊTES THIS FALL Terra Vita Food & Drink Festival and the Carolina Food Summit (Sept. 28–Oct. 1, various venues, Chapel Hill, www.terravitafest.com/www. carolinafoodsummit.com) While local foodie culture can be a bit noisy, there are spaces where we can escape to listen for sustenance. Colleen Minton started Terra Vita 22 | 9.14.16 | INDYweek.com

in 2010 to infuse the idea of sustainability with Carolina terroir. The event has quickly grown into a full-fledged festival where participants hop around town, from lavish dinners to after-parties hosted by celebrity chefs. And, beyond the glitz, this year’s sustainable classroom series partners with the inaugural

Carolina Food Summit, a symposium on everything from organic agriculture to racial and gendered politics in food.

Tickets vary in price; a two-day Carolina Food Summit pass costs $125 but is also available at a need-based discounted rate. —Victoria Bouloubasis

N.C. Barbecue Revival (Oct. 28–30, Green Button Farm, 9623 North Roxboro Road, Bahama, www.ncbbqrevival.com) Get sanctified in wood fire and smoke at the inaugural N.C. Barbecue Revival, a three-day celebration of the beloved whole-hog tradition. Hosted on the grounds of Green Button Farm by the guys who

brought you the restaurant Picnic, this event gathers the highest order of the barbecue brotherhood to preside over the pits: Sam Jones of Skylight Inn and Sam Jones BBQ, Elliott Moss of Buxton Hall Barbecue, Bryan Furman of B’s Cracklin Barbecue, Wyatt Dickson of Picnic, Tyson Ho of Arrogant Swine, and John Lewis of

Lewis Barbecue. Rub hoggreased elbows with barbecue luminaries, learn the art of whole-hog butchery, and dine on Carolina’s finest swine all weekend long. Meal and event tickets range from $25 to $250.

—Keia Mastrianni

ART&: AN EXPERIMENT IN ART & COMMUNITY Through January 8 | The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill | www.ackland.org

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WITH ITS ART& PROJECT, THE ACKLAND MAKES THE MUSEUM A PLACE TO LIVE of that Venn diagram of campus and local communities.”

Lathrop had heard a desire expressed by visitors and donors for a hangout area in the museum; she noticed that every time a bench moved in the building, a student with a laptop would be flopped on it ten minutes later. Without an auditorium or theater, she was always shoehorning audiences into awkward spaces.

Why not see both problems as the same opportunity?

“We had been doing all our programming in an ad hoc setup throughout the galleries,” Lathrop says. “Talks with a folding projector screen and music that you had to see while

NINE MORE ART HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FALL

A director of engagement: ten years ago hardly any art museum had one. Now, in some form, they all do. In an era of branding, you must fully commit to maintaining connections with your visitors and donors. The bottom line is that you’ve got to move product.

For an art museum, the product is an experience, and not an intuitively engaging one. Art doesn’t leap off the walls and grab you like Game of Thrones does. So museums build programming for all sorts of audiences; they print kid guides with scavenger hunts for their exhibitions, host artist talks and film screenings—whatever they think will get people in the door and give them a positive art experience.

This fall the Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill is banding all of those public programs together as the community-building experiment ART&, which runs into early January. A section of former gallery space now provides a free pop-up coffee bar (ten a.m. and two p.m. daily), a lounge, and a programming space. The Ackland has commissioned area artists Derek Toomes, Heather Gordon, and Stacy Lynn Waddell to create site-specific murals on one wall. And the museum extends its hours to nine p.m. during ART&, on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and second Fridays. It’s a bold, brilliant move, and it seems to be working.

“We’re trying to experiment with what a museum can be, putting front and center the idea that museums are a community hub,” says public programs manager Allison Portnow Lathrop, the Ackland’s equivalent to a director of engagement. “We’re very lucky to be straight in the middle Scent of the Pine, You Know How I Feel (Sept.

10–Dec. 4, North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, www.ncmuseumofhistory. org) This exhibit shows how depictions of the mountain, Piedmont, and coastal regions of North Carolina have changed over two centuries in the hands of seventy-three painters: Impressionists, realists, folk artists, futurists, postmodernists, and more.

—David Klein Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation (Sept. 17–June 2017, 21c Museum Hotel, Durham, www.21cmuseumhotels. com/durham) Works by internationally known artists such as Ebony G. Patterson and Nick Cave show how election-season issues

manifest in clothing and portraiture.

Many local artists are included, like Beverly McIver, Stacy Lynn Waddell, and André Leon Gray. —Chris Vitiello

"Untitled#24" by Aspen Hochhalter is on view at FRANK Gallery as part of the Click! Triangle Photography Festival PHOTO COURTESY OF CLICK

The Small Museum of Folk Art Grand Opening (Sept. 25, 4–8 p.m., Small Museum of Folk Art, Pittsboro, www. smallmuseumfolkart.org) In its opening party, a new museum unveils the folk art collection of retired UNC professor Jim Massey, which includes hundreds of pieces by the likes of Vollis Simpson and Jimmy Lee Sudduth. —Brian Howe Click! Triangle Photography Festival (Oct. 1–30, various venues, Triangle-wide, www.

clicktrianglephoto.org) This free, monthlong photography extravaganza spreads more than seventy exhibits and community events in a wide variety of Triangle museums and galleries; its keynotes are photomontage pioneer Jerry Uelsmann and South African activist Zanele Muholi.

—Brian Howe Rolling Sculpture: Art Deco Cars from the 1930s and ’40s (Oct. 1–Jan. 15, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, www.

ncartmuseum.org) Automotive design meets Art Deco in masterful machines. The elegant, undulating curves on fancifully named vintage cars—Silver Arrow, Stout Scarab, Thunderbolt—beg to be caressed, but remember: no touching. —David Klein Thomas Sayre: White Gold (Oct. 7–Jan. 22, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, www.whitegoldcam. org) Thomas Sayre explores cotton’s Southern legacy in mural panels and cast-

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peering around columns. So at the practical level, it’s definitely been called for.”

ART& occupies two small rooms right off the main lobby, as well as one large gallery. Neither of the rooms has enough wall space to hang work effectively; one feels like a hallway, and the other is a tight alcove often used for video projections. Lathrop decided to utilize that architecture instead of fighting it.

The walls of the hallway gallery have been painted with chalkboard paint and surfaced with magnetic board, so visitors can respond to weekly questions posed by the museum staff.

The alcove gallery dispenses the coffee. The larger gallery is a swing space—a lounge with seating and work areas that can easily be converted into a little theater or auditorium.

Photographer Burk Uzzle recently gave an artist talk in ART& to a capacity crowd. Zinesboro turned the lounge into a zine-making workshop, and The Carrborators turned it into a club. The Ackland Film Forum is projecting its fall series there, “Politics of Place,” on most Thursday nights.

Just as significantly, students have discovered ART& to be a good spot to get some reading done, and some faculty prefer it to their offices for informal meetings. Free coffee from local roasters like Gray Squirrel Coffee Co. helps.

“If we want the community to be there, making the Ackland their own space, then we need them to help build it,” Lathrop says. “It’s by and for the community as much as we can make it.” l Twitter: @ChrisVitiello concrete sculptures commissioned for CAM. Known for his largescale earthworks, Sayre is a founding principal at the architecture firm Clearscapes, which designed the museum.

—Chris Vitiello Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation (Oct. 29–April 9, City of Raleigh Museum, Raleigh, www.cityofraleighmuseum. org) Piercing pop-culture stereotypes, this traveling Smithsonian show of artifacts, photos, and interactive exhibits explores three hundred years of Indian people’s contributions to the nation, as railroad builders, farmers, civil rights advocates, entrepreneurs, and, finally, Americans. —Brian Howe

NCMA Park Celebration (Sunday, Nov. 6, 1–7 p.m., North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, www.ncartmuseum. org) See how all the unsightly construction on NCMA’s campus has paid off in this public opening of its new outdoor spaces, with art workshops, music, food trucks, and an early look at Amanda Parer’s huge, incandescent rabbits, which will only stay at Museum Park for ten days. —Brian Howe The Mobile: Composition in Motion (Nov. 9–19, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, www. thecarrack.org) Gaze up at mobiles juried from an open call for submissions while rubbing elbows with the artists who made them in this kid-friendly show.

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THE CIVILIANS: THE UNDERTAKING Thursday, Sept. 29–Saturday, Oct. 1, $10–$28 | Sheafer Lab Theater, Durham | www.dukeperformances.duke.edu

Don’t Fear the Reaper THE CIVILIANS FACE DEATH WITH CRIME-SCENE CLEANERS, E.R. NURSES, AND VAMPIRES

BY BYRON WOODS

It’s a good thing director Steve Cosson isn't easily dissuaded. “It was the hardest show to sell,” he says of a 2013 workshop production of Be the Death of Me, a precursor to The Civilians’ new production, The Undertaking. To create it, members of the investigative theater company spoke with one hundred New Yorkers whose life experiences, professions, or proclivities bring them in contact with death: crime-scene cleaners, E.R. nurses, suicide-attempt survivors, zombie-flick screenwriters, vampires. Then, more than thirty actors fanned out through a historic church in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, to interactively perform transcripts of their interviews in an episode of the company’s cabaret series, Let Me Ascertain You. “Nobody really wants to be reminded that we get sick, we get old, we die; it’s a bit of a Debbie Downer thing to say,” Cosson says. “We had a hard time selling tickets.”

Still, three years later, the group is poised to premiere The Undertaking at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, traveling to Durham via Duke Performances afterward.

Since 2001, The Civilians have sought out new ways of collaborating with ordinary people and theater professionals—including Duke Theater Studies professor Neal Bell and playwright Anne Washburn, whose Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play was produced at Manbites Dog Theater last season—in an effort to engage larger social and political concerns. The process has involved documentary and cultural anthropology techniques, like interviews and historical research, pioneered by a previous generation of artists including Anna Deavere Smith and Moises Kaufman’s Tectonic Theater Project.

With uncanny timing, The Civilians were documenting the sudden rise of evangelical Christianity in Colorado Springs just as a sex-and-drugs scandal brought down conservative religious leader Ted Haggard in 2006. The Beautiful City, a music theater

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work, chronicled those events. The group probed the present-day vagaries of the pornography industry in California’s San Fernando Valley in 2015’s Pretty Filthy, and other projects have focused on lost objects, gentrification in Brooklyn, and climate change in Canada and Panama.

“I want audiences to go beyond themselves and engage with people in the stories they may not have experienced in their own lives,” Cosson says. “But I want them to do so with their critical minds present.”

Cosson placed himself directly in The Undertaking, seeking out subjects originally interviewed by other company members for personal conversations. “With such a vast subject, it made sense to me to pull it into my own particular relationship with death,” he says. “I felt compelled to let myself into the play, how I struggle with these questions and how they play out in my life.”

Dan Domingues plays Cosson onstage, in dialogue with Jessica Mitrani, a filmmaker and visual and performance artist portrayed

by Irene Sofia Lucio. The pair goes on a modern-day quest into the underworld through conversations with dozens of other characters. Neurologists at New York University, Jungian psychotherapists, and shamans contemplate, induce, and explore the fraught but transformative phenomenon of ego death, while passages from Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus play across the walls of Marsha Ginsberg’s set.

“When the fear of death is provoked, you can turn toward it or run away from it,” Cosson says. “If we walk toward something that scares us, that we might otherwise bury away, it’s actually a path toward living a fuller life, a path toward becoming less afraid.” l Twitter: @ByronWoods

NINETEEN MORE SURE THINGS ONSTAGE THIS FALL Hannibal Buress (Sept.

23, 8 p.m., Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh, www. dukeenergycenterraleigh. com) The nice guy with a bad attitude (or vice versa?) from Broad City, The Eric Andre Show, and several uproarious Netflix specials brings his distinctive style of laconic, biting comedy to Raleigh. —Brian Howe

his new duet with local dance maven Justin Tornow and a guest appearance by Black Irish Hip Hop Contemporary Dance.

—Byron Woods

The Trump Card (Oct. 2–Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m., Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, www. manbitesdogtheater.org) Carl Martin, who has played memorable rough-edged Mothers and Sons (Sept. characters in the past, is the 23–Oct. 9, Raleigh Little perfect candidate to take Theatre, Raleigh, www. on Mike Daisey’s pugilistic raleighlittletheatre.org) Timothy but nuanced portrayal of Locklear directs veteran actor the Republican presidential Rebecca Johnston’s return to candidate. —Byron Woods the regional stage in Terrence McNally’s wrenching family zoe | juniper: Clear & Sweet drama, where a mother (Oct. 5–6, 7:30 p.m., UNC’s confronts her guilt over her gay Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, son’s death. —Byron Woods www.carolinaperformingarts. org) Dance, photography, Gaspard & Dancers (Sept. sculptural video and 29–30, 8 p.m., Reynolds performance, singers seated Industries Theater, Durham, throughout the audience— www.tickets.duke.edu) The raw that’s the kind of immersive vibrancy of Basquiat infuses multimedia experience the premiere of Haitian-born Seattle’s Zoe Scofield and choreographer Gaspard Louis’s Juniper Shuey deploy in this homage, Portrait, along with Carolina Performing Arts

co-commission springing from the Southern tradition of sacred choral music.

—Chris Vitiello Nikki Glaser (Oct. 6–8, Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh, www. goodnightscomedy.com) The star of Comedy Central’s Not Safe with Nikki Glaser seems poised to become the next Amy Schumer, in whose movie Trainwreck Glaser appeared.

This three-night stand at Goodnights might be your last chance to see her in an intimate venue. —Zack Smith Skylight (Oct. 6–23, Murphey School Auditorium, Raleigh, www.burningcoal.org) In a rare stage appearance, Burning Coal artistic director Jerome Davis stars in David Hare’s autopsy of English society in the late nineties, as two estranged lovers meet in a London flat to see what remains between them.

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EverScape (Oct. 6–23, Sonorous Road Theatre, Raleigh, www.baretheatre.org) Local playwright Allan Maule’s thought-provoking cyber-drama about a group of online gamers competing for a job dissolves the line between virtual and reality; it was the toast of last year’s New York International Fringe Festival. —Byron Woods

for centuries. In the 2008 adaptation by Carolina Ballet artistic director Robert Weiss, Cervantes’s classic comes to life with visual panache and elegant Spanish music.

—David Klein

Tommy Noonan/Compagnie Marie Lenfant: Fake It Till You Make It (Oct. 15–16, Living Arts Collective, Durham, www.

Kathleen Madigan (Oct. 7, 8 culturemill.org): Through p.m., Carolina Theatre, Durham, Culture Mill, choreographer www.carolinatheatre.org) A and dancer Tommy Noonan comedy veteran most recently regularly adds compelling seen as a regular on The Nightly international artists to the mix Show with Larry Wilmore, of local dance. In DIDA’s 2016– Kathleen Madigan shows 17 season opener, France’s the Carolina why Lewis Black Marie Lenfant and Noonan called her the funniest comic in split an evening of solos.

America. —Zack Smith —Michaela Dwyer Don Quixote (Oct. 13–30, Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh, www.carolinaballet.com) The ingenious gentleman and his companion have provided rich material for ballets

he’s been speaking truth to power for long enough to have his oratory down to a fine, unvarnished art. —David Klein Neil deGrasse Tyson (Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m., Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham, www. dpacnc.com) The country’s most famous astrophysicist, Cosmos host, science pundit, and social-media battler of science-deniers brings his star stuff back to DPAC for another galactic lecture. —Brian Howe

Fun Home (Oct. 25–30, Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham, www.dpacnc.com) We probably won’t get Hamilton until about 3000 A.D., but we do get this other recent, beloved Broadway hit, adapted Henry Rollins (Oct. 16, 7 p.m., from Alison Bechdel’s brilliant Carolina Theatre, Durham, www. comics memoir of sexuality, carolinatheatre.org) It takes a death, and family, so we can’t big voice to cut through all the complain. —Brian Howe shouting this election year.

Henry Rollins has one, and

Sussan Deyhim: The House Is Black (Oct. 28, 8 p.m., UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, www.carolinaperformingarts. org) The Iranian American performance artist and composer Sussan Deyhim blends projections, archival footage, and a score of Persian and Western music in a visionary multimedia tribute to Forough Farrokhzad, the Iranian feminist poet and filmmaker.

—Brian Howe

Trisha Brown Dance Company: In Plain Site (Oct. 28–30, Sarah P. Duke Gardens/Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, www.dukeperformances.org) Postmodern dance pioneer Trisha Brown took her dancers into the streets (and onto the sides of buildings and New York rooftops). Since her retirement, her company has restaged her works in unique places in the “In Plain Site” series, which brings two iconic

pieces to two iconic Duke locations. —Michaela Dwyer nora chipaumire: portrait of myself as my father (Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m., UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, www.carolinaperformingarts. org) In a boxing ring, the fierce choreographer nora chipaumire, who has written pieces for Urban Bush Women, does battle with the forces that have historically taken, used, killed, and erased the black male body. —Byron Woods The Other Mozart (Nov. 11–12, NCSU’s Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre, Raleigh, live.arts.ncsu. edu) Like her brother, Mozart’s sister, nicknamed Nannerl, was a child prodigy, but because she was a girl, she faced a different fate. Playwright/actor Sylvia Milo introduces us to the family’s other musical genius.

—Byron Woods The May Queen (Nov. 22– Dec. 11, UNC’s Paul Green Theatre, Chapel Hill, www. playmakersrep.org) PlayMakers artistic director Vivienne Benesch helms a work she commissioned during her years in New York. A former high school prom queen returns to her hometown in something less than triumph in this dark comedy about unfinished business. —Byron Woods

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LAUREN COLLINS'S LINGUISTIC LOVE STORY BY BRIAN HOWE After growing up in Wilmington, North Carolina, Lauren Collins went on to become one of The New Yorker’s best staff writers.

Readers of the magazine recently enjoyed an excerpt from her delightful new book, When in French, which is part memoir and part study of linguistics. Collins moved to Geneva, Switzerland, to marry a French man, and the book explores her process of falling in love in a new language with characteristic insight, humor, and surefooted metaphors. As Collins prepares to revisit her home state on tour this fall, we spoke with her about the impetus for a reporter to turn personal and the indelible influence of North Carolina on her writing.

ded in the things I was writing about. I was following my nose, which was leading me to stories about language, culture, and collisions between them—how they make people see the world differently. By the time I accepted the fact that this was the book I could and would write, it was already a foregone conclusion.

INDY: Since this book grew out of a life experience you had, not an initial reporting decision, was there a certain moment when you realized you were writing about it?

LAUREN COLLINS: I looked at what I’d been doing for the last couple of years and it was like a trail of breadcrumbs leading up to the fact that I was finally going to have to write about this thing I’d been walling off as a private enterprise—falling in love with a French man and learning French. For a long time, I kind of thought, no, that’s my personal life.

My professional life is about British politics or Danish television, any of the European subjects I was covering. But I had all this memoir, in a sense, already embed-

How did you know where to end the story?

I was really happy when I struck upon this conceit for the structure of the book, more or less aligned with French verb tenses. It felt like felicity that by morning I was conjugating French verbs and by afternoon writing this book. I would go to my office and say, OK, how do I organize this? Wait a minute, this part is about my childhood—that’s a repeated action in the past; that should be the imperfect chapter. And these parts where I’m really getting into linguistics, asking, would I be a different person in another language? That should be the conditional.

Did you have a background in linguistics?

Not at all; it would have been a lot easier if I had! I wished I could teleport back to college and sign up for Linguistics 101. Certainly, for a very long time, both in a professional capacity and in what I think is cool in life, I’ve been really interested in language.

I had all kinds of different inspirations, but I’m a huge reader of memoirs, and you could also say I wanted this to be a travelogue, in a way—a book about French as a country. Certainly displacement was at the heart of it.

Has your relationship with French continued to change since you finished the book?

In Geneva, I could have gotten by easily using English all the time, so it was really a labor of love. It was for my husband and this family I had joined. Now, living in Paris, it’s almost an inversion—French is the language of daily life, and then I go home and speak English.

You vividly describe that super subjective process of learning, and thinking in, a new language. Was it hard to capture this abstract stuff about words using words?

No, finding the right metaphors for what was happening came really easily. Because this experience was so vivid to me, so fresh, so consuming, it didn’t seem abstract at all.

I was living, breathing, thinking, dreaming, and writing language acquisition.

Did you have the classic American abroad memoir in mind while writing this book?

I had really the any-person abroad memoir in mind. One that’s really great is Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation, about an immigrant to rather than from America. Another I loved was Alice Kaplan’s French Lessons.

Do you think anything distinctly North Carolinian persists in your writing?

Yes, I’m going to have a Talk of the Town story on Monday, in fact, about North Carolina filmmaker Christopher Everett’s new documentary, Wilmington on Fire. It’s about—it’s long been called a race riot, but really, it was probably a coup d’état—in Wilmington in 1898. I saw the film and was foaming at the mouth to write about it. It was just a question of when I would next be home. I was on vacation in Wilmington in August and made sure to sneak in a half-day’s work interviewing Christopher. It’s something I never would have known about had I not stayed plugged into North Carolina, which I do, and I’m really happy to have that one in the magazine. l bhowe@indyweek.com

NINE MORE REPUTABLE READINGS THIS FALL Jeffrey Brown (Sept. 23, 6 p.m., Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, www.flyleafbooks.com/Sept.

24, 2 p.m., Quail Ridge Books, www.quailridgebooks.com) The alternative cartoonist known for Star Wars riffs creates two new characters for kids in the Scholastic graphic novel series Lucy and Andy Neanderthal. Older readers should check out his hilarious, heartbreaking Awkward and Clumsy ... but keep it away from the little ones. —Zack Smith

Geraldine Brooks (Oct. 9, 2 p.m., McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro, www.fearrington.com) Last year, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March published The Secret Chord, a superlative novel about the biblical King David. Brooks strikes a fine balance between history and Emma Donaghue (Oct. 7, 7 p.m., myth, portraying her subject’s Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, www. human complexity while quailridgebooks.com) Last time armoring him in reverently Donaghue visited the Triangle, gleaming prose. —Brian Howe she’d just published her novel Room, which she helped turn Jodi Picoult (Oct. 14, 1 p.m., Jim Obergefell (Sept. 23, 7 into an Academy AwardThe Garden Terrace, Pittsboro, p.m., Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, winning movie last year. Now www.fearrington.com/Oct. www.flyleafbooks.com) The she’s back with The Wonder, 14, 7 p.m., Meredith College's author of the memoir Love Wins which deals with some of the Jones Auditorium, www. chronicles the landmark legal same themes of children and quailridgebooks.com) Tapping case that took him and his dying adults. —Zack Smith nearly every hot-button issue husband to the Supreme Court in an ultimately successful fight for same-sex marriage equality. With celebrated advice columnist Steven Petrow along for discussion, this benefit for Equality NC promises to be lively and life-affirming. —David Klein

rending society today, Picoult’s Small Great Things plays out in a legal battle between an African-American nurse and white supremacists, adapting themes from To Kill a Mockingbird to our troubled times. —David Klein

is terrific at readings, deadpan yet sincere. —Zack Smith

Life brings her new Southern cookbook, Deep Run Roots— and, notably, a food truck—to Joseph Donahue and Andrew the Regulator for this signing Mossin (Oct. 22, 8 p.m., The Shed, and tasting. —Brian Howe Durham, www.shedjazz.com) In a highlight of the poetry season, Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Nov. the Little Corner Reading Series 3, 7 p.m., The Regulator pairs Duke’s Joseph Donahue, Bookshop, Durham, www.

Jonathan Lethem (Oct. 18, 7 who summons metaphysical regulatorbookshop.com) One p.m., Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, lyrics in his acclaimed, ongoing of the best poetry books from www.flyleafbooks.com) The Terra Lucida, with Temple Durham we’re likely to see this genre-melding MacArthur University professor Andrew fall is Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Fellow behind Motherless Mossin. —Brian Howe Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Brooklyn and The Fortress Fugitivity, which merges art and of Solitude returns with A Vivian Howard (Oct. activism in sharp yet sensuous Gambler’s Anatomy, a novel 30, 1 p.m., The Regulator prose poems. The book will be about an “international Bookshop, Durham, www. freshly out on Duke University backgammon hustler” who’s regulatorbookshop.com) The Press at the time of this psychic (maybe) and has a star of the award-winning PBS reading. —Brian Howe brain tumor (definitely). Lethem documentary series A Chef’s INDYweek.com | 9.14.16 | 31

has become an anticipated movie event, particularly with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role, with costars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, and Tilda Swinton (!). —Neil Morris Hacksaw Ridge (Nov. 4) This World War II biopic of U.S. Army medic and conscientious objector Desmond Doss is Mel Gibson’s first directorial effort in a decade—it received a ten-minute standing ovation at last week’s Venice Film Festival. —Neil Morris

TWENTY FINE FALL FILMS BOTH BIG & SMALL American Honey (Sept. 30) British director Andrea Arnold’s hotly anticipated road movie stars Shia LaBeouf as the leader of a ragtag crew of teenagers crossing North America to sell magazine subscriptions.

Arnold’s finely honed visual sensibility gorgeously captures the grit and heart of youth. —Laura Jaramillo The Birth of a Nation (Oct. 7) Appropriating the title of D.W. Griffith’s racially compromised classic, this highly anticipated period drama, based on the life of Nat Turner, swept audience and jury awards at Sundance.

—Neil Morris The Girl on the Train (Oct. 7) Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson costar in this Hitchcockian thriller from director Tate Taylor, an adaptation of Paula Hawkins’s novel by former Duke professor Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary). —Neil Morris Under the Shadow (Oct. 7) First-time writer/director Babak Anvari channels his memories of the Iran-Iraq war into the nightmarish tale of a mother and daughter trapped in their apartment by falling 32 | 9.14.16 | INDYweek.com

American Honey PHOTO COURTESY OF A24 FILMS bombs, and further terrorized by a demonic spirit that symbolizes the fate of women under the new fundamentalist regime. —Ryan Vu Tower (Oct. 12) This acclaimed documentary uses archival footage and rotoscope animations to chronicle the 1966 University of Texas sniper murders, America’s first school shooting massacre.

—Glenn McDonald The Accountant (Oct. 14) Gavin O’Connor, director of the underrated Warrior, directs Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, and Jeffrey Tambor in a thriller about a number cruncher for criminal organizations who learns too much. —Neil Morris Aquarius (Oct. 14) This Brazilian drama about a retiree (Sonia Braga, in a star turn) who resolves to stay in the apartment where she grew up, only to be harassed by a real estate developer, has met with critical acclaim the world over. —Laura Jaramillo

Certain Women (Oct. 14) Kelly Reichardt brings together an all-star cast of generation-defining actresses—Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, and Michelle Williams—in interlocking stories about love, class, and work, rendered with the moral complexity that makes Reichardt one of the best American filmmakers today.

—Laura Jaramillo American Pastoral (Oct. 21) Ewan McGregor makes his directorial debut adapting Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel of rage, regret, and sixties cultural spasms.

—Glenn McDonald The Handmaiden (Oct. 21) Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) shifts Sarah Waters’s neoGothic novel, Fingersmith, from Victorian London to Korea under Japanese occupation, and then amps up the lesbian eroticism and melodramatic doublecrossings to delirious excess.

—Ryan Vu

King Cobra (Oct. 21) However you feel about alterna-bro James Franco, Gus Van Sant protégé Justin Kelly’s second feature is exciting. This lurid true-crime noir details the underage Sean Lockhart’s entry into the gay porn scene, where his contract becomes the site of a war between producer Bryan Kocis (Christian Slater) and rivals Joseph Kerekes (Franco) and Harlow Cuadra. Last year, Kelly and Franco’s take on gay-turned-Christian activist Michael Glatze in I Am Michael was critically applauded but underseen; their equally well researched foray into a troubling episode in queer history shouldn’t be missed.

But will we? Bombard your arthouse with emails now.

—Ryan Vu

Moonlight (Oct. 21) Homosexuality and masculinity in a poor black community are writer-director Barry Jenkins’s themes in this haunting character study of an African American man over three periods of his life.

—Neil Morris Gimme Danger (Oct. 28) Jim Jarmusch’s take on The Stooges boasts archival footage showcasing Iggy Pop’s theatrical genius but also makes room for a personal, behind-thescenes vision of the band that’s “more an essay than a document.” —Ryan Vu Silence (November) Martin Scorsese’s return to 35 mm film promises epic drama in the picturesque Japanese countryside, as two Jesuit priests travel to Japan during the purge of Western influences that occurred under the Tokugawa shogunate. —Laura Jaramillo Doctor Strange (Nov. 4) Every Marvel Studios release

Loving (Nov. 4) UNC School of the Arts alum Jeff Nichols directs the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, whose marriage led to the Supreme Court ruling that overturned U.S. anti-miscegenation laws.

The film is based in part on the documentary The Loving Story by Full Frame founder Nancy Buirski.

—Glenn McDonald Arrival (Nov. 11) Lots of positive buzz surrounds this alien-encounter film from director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners).

—Neil Morris Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Nov. 11) This Iraq War drama has piqued the interest of critics because director Ang Lee touts it as the first feature film shot at 120 frames per second, setting the stage for a visually arresting experience.

—Neil Morris Elle (Nov. 11) This artsploitation rape-revenge thriller is a return to form for arch provocateur Paul Verhoeven and features another multilayered performance by Isabelle Huppert. —Ryan Vu

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HALGO DELI BRINGS ALL THE POLISH TREATS FROM NEW JERSEY TO NORTH CAROLINA

BY MATTHEW POINDEXTER

“We’re old-school. We don’t advertise.”

Zbigniew “Ziggy” Gorzkowski says this while standing behind a counter full of house-baked desserts at Halgo European Deli & Groceries. He offers the statement as an explanation for why he and his wife, co-owner Halina, don’t bother with the hassle of marketing. Yet it also accurately sums up the ethos of this Durham establishment. At Halgo, Halina and Ziggy Gorzkowski quietly deliver traditional Polish food to those who know how to find them.

Finding Halgo usually happens in one of three ways. According to the Gorzkowskis, a quarter of the shop’s regular customers are, like them, immigrants from Poland or other Central or Eastern European states, who arrive through word-of-mouth referrals.

The next seventy percent are either United States natives who grew up in Northeastern or Midwestern cities with large Polish communities, or military vets formerly stationed in Poland who found the shop by searching for paczki online.

The last five percent represents people like me, who spotted the word pierogi on the side of a small green building while leaving the south branch of the Durham County Library and stumbled into a hidden gem. The shop is located in what looks like a repurposed single-family home. Shrouded by trees, its tiny red-and-white sign is easy for drivers to miss as they head west on Highway 54.

For those sharp-eyed enough to notice it and then turn into Halgo’s six-car parking lot, a world of choices awaits inside.

Halgo’s shelves are laden with Polish and Ukrainian groceries of all kinds; cookies, dried mushrooms, soup mixes, and imported soft drinks line the walls. During one visit, I asked about the five different jars of mustard for sale.

“If you want spicy, this is what you need,” Halina says, handing me a red-capped jar of Pulaski stone-ground mustard, adorned with the visage of Casimir Pulaski, a Polish national and a hero of the Revolutionary War. She’s right: the mustard has exactly

piled high on one of Halina’s deli enough horseradish kick and sandwiches. texture.

What makes Halgo’s selection The real stars at Halgo reside distinct is the range of Polish in the shop’s two freezer chests sausages in the case. Kielbasa and deli case. One freezer holds are most familiar, but don’t overloaves of rye and a wide range of look kabanos—long, thin smoked desserts. A highlight: makowiec, sausage in a crisp, smoky casa long pastry roll filled with a ing. The pork and veal version thick poppy seed paste, which, is infinitely snackable, espewhen sliced, reveals black-andcially with a spread of Pulaski white spirals and the smell of mustard. Equally wonderful are honey and orange zest. Those the myśliwska, or “hunter’s sausame notes accent the nutty, sage,” which trades smokiness earthy richness of the poppy for lighter notes of black pepper seeds with each bite. and juniper, and the dark, garThe second freezer is devotlicky weselna, called “wedding ed to pierogi and borscht. The sausage” for its traditional conGorzkowskis stock more than a sumption at celebrations. dozen varieties of pierogi, from Halina complements Halgo’s savory standards like beef, dry goods and sausages with cheese, spinach, and sauerher own products, like a slawkraut-mushroom to blueberry like vegetable salad, apple cake, and plum. Taking a pack home and walnut cookies. The wildto cook is one option, but smart looking house-made chrusciki, shoppers call ahead and ask twisted ribbons of flash-fried Halina to prepare them herself. dough dusted with powdered This way, you arrive at the store sugar, are crunchy and sweet. and are greeted by a takeout Halgo has no seats, inside or box filled with perfectly tender out, and the Gorzkowskis have dumplings tossed with butter no plans to add any. They’re old and sauteed onions. You can school. And it’s working. even call ahead for a pickup The Gorzkowskis recentkielbasa-and-sauerkraut on a Fresh off his first vacation in nine years, Zbigniew “Ziggy” Gorzkowski ly took their first vacation in roll. settles back into Halgo Deli. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER nine years. Halina visited famWhen it opened in 2007, ily in Poland and Ziggy simply Halgo—Ziggy’s portmanteau picked up some key skills and made crucial relaxed. They didn’t update the of Halina’s name—was a secconnections. Halina routinely moonlighted single-page Halgo website to say they would ond career. After emigrating from Poland to in restaurants, and her husband still drives be gone. Anyone who needed to know would New Jersey in the early 1980s, Ziggy drove his refrigerated truck to Jersey once or twice have already seen the small notice posted a limousine. But the 9/11 attacks hurt his a month to pick up fresh stock from five behind the cash register. business, which was already suffering due favored warehouses. He returns with sausagOn their first day back, a steady stream of to changing tastes, like a new preference for es, pierogi, and an assortment of packaged regulars passed through. After paying, one luxury SUVs over town cars. Ziggy retired, goods for the store. man jokingly admonished the couple in a and when Halina’s employer moved overZiggy’s trips make Halgo’s wide selection thick accent, saying it had been awful living seas, the couple sought lower property taxes of meats and cheeses possible. Polish ham, without real Polish food available. Having and the opportunity to start their business in smoked bacon, and cheese like radamer, podeaten at Halgo, I agree. l North Carolina. laski, and smoked zamoyski are great when In New Jersey, the Gorzkowskis had Twitter: @mattpoin INDYweek.com | 9.14.16 | 35

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Friday, September 16 & Saturday, September 17, 8 p.m., $15–$65 The Pinhook, Durham www.thepinhook.com

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DURHAM’S NEW BEATS & BARS FESTIVAL BRINGS HIP-HOP BACK TO MAIN STREET

BY ERIC TULLIS

These days, the ever-changing landscape of the Triangle’s music festival scene is like a game of whack-a-mole—when one festival sinks, or when one of its directors steps down, newer and uncertain forces crop up instantly.

But when this weekend’s Beats & Bars hip-hop festival surfaces in Durham for the first time, don’t approach it with too much surprise.

Over the last four years, Crystal Taylor, the festival’s codirector and the founder of the hip-hop advocacy organization Underground Collective, has had her share of practice. She’s promoted a trifecta of Durham hip-hop showcases that includes Yo! NC Raps, UGC beat battles, and free-form open mic nights. Now, Taylor and her business partner, Donald Salmon Jr., have assembled an uncompromising two-day lineup of underdog Carolina rhymers, beat junkies, and culture crusaders. But unlike last year’s DURM Hip Hop Summit, which was sullied into inactivity by its fruitless collaboration with the local urban mainstream radio station K97.5-FM, Beats & Bars’ only brand fidelity is to itself.

As Taylor and Salmon sit in matching rocking chairs underneath the American Tobacco Campus Lucky Strike tower, they’re restless but hopeful as they discuss their latest effort and what it might hold for Durham.

INDY: The Underground Collective has built up a reliable and respected Durham hip-hop movement over the past four years, but when did the two of you begin to entertain the idea of a full-blown hiphop festival?

CRYSTAL TAYLOR: In February. It was as simple as me calling him one morning and asking him to meet me at Cocoa Cinnamon so that we could rap about something. It was a bunch of, “What if this and what if that?” I started doing the beat battles four years ago, then, two years later, I segued into the Yo! NC Raps showcase. I realized that I had two different audiences: people who wanted to hear a beat battle and people who wanted to see performances. I just looked up one day

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and realized that I know a lot of people who deserve some sort of platform to feel appreciated and celebrated, like a festival would do. Nothing else was happening this year, so why not?

Were you worried about the comparisons to the DURM Hip Hop Summit?

CT: No, because Beats & Bars isn’t just shows.

It’s a conference that makes sure that people are educated. I wanted there to be a distinct difference.

DONALD SALMON JR.: Also, nothing has to be done in spite of someone else’s work.

Were you ever interested in chasing an influential banner sponsor like American Underground, or a big urban media sponsor like K97.5?

CT: It’s my first year. From a festival perspective, I’m a baby. We went after everything we needed. But I graciously let go of some of those bigger things. There were more than enough solicitations. I want it to be where I do enough work—with my marrow—to say that we did this and it was a good thing. Right now, what’s best for the festival is to cultivate relationships that are actually good for underground hip-hop music. That means [Beats & Bars sponsor] WXDU 88.7FM and college radio. When you think about WXDU, you think about all of the beautiful things that have happened in that station.

Was there an attempt to book a festival headliner with broader name recognition, from outside of North Carolina?

CT: It’s expected. I don’t ever think I want to jump to the point where I’m booking the most convenient person. I’m looking further down the street from that. J.K. The Reaper and Well$ look nice in their seats.

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CT: I’m making a bet by listening to their music. Beats & Bars needs to be the place where you can say that you saw these people.

Other Triangle music festivals seem a bit apprehensive to make hip-hop their focal point. Do you think there’s a stigma attached to having a majority hip-hop festival in the Triangle?

CT: You have to think about the shift that occurred in hip-hop. The music changed from what we know and appreciate as hiphop. Sometimes people in the music community label any and everything as hip and just go along with it. We’re able to pick out authentic hip-hop. So, in some cases there’s a shadow casted over what hip-hop might sound like. When I invite people out to shows, a lot of times the first question they ask is, “Does it sound like that stuff on the radio?” They don’t want that. So then, you have to reassure people, “Nah, it’s heavy lyrics and good beats. It’s what you know hiphop to be, not what someone programmed you to believe what it is.” They want to know what they’re getting themselves into.

How does a hip-hop festival mesh with the new cultural fabric of Durham?

CT: Durham will always be Black Wall Street to me. It will always be a hub of art and culture for African-American people. Also, I really stand by this idea that the sound of hiphop has changed so much that people don’t really understand what hip-hop is supposed to sound like. I can’t really attribute anything to gentrification, because we have a diverse lineup as well. For some, the programming of a hip-hop festival in Durham makes them think about what hip-hop really is. But no matter what, hip-hop will always live here just based on what this city was built on. I love to say that Durham is black, but it’s hard, especially for a person like me who has a residency [at The Pinhook] on Main Street.

If you look around, Main Street struggles to look black anymore. l Twitter: @erictullis

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N.C. OPERA: DAS RHEINGOLD

Friday, September 16 & Sunday, September 18, $25–$99 Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh www.ncopera.org

Put a Ring on It

N.C. OPERA AMBITIOUSLY OPENS ITS SEASON WITH WAGNER’S FORMIDABLE DAS RHEINGOLD

BY JOANNA HELMS

Nearly a hundred fifty years after his death, German composer Richard Wagner remains an intimidating force in Western music. His operas are notoriously difficult to stage: he intended for them to represent his grandiose vision of opera as a total work of art that would equally emphasize music, text, movement, and visual elements. Even today, his compositions overwhelm like few others in the Western opera repertoire with their massive performing forces, mythical subjects, and challenging vocal and orchestral parts.

But in Raleigh, North Carolina Opera has decided it’s up to the challenge. The company is presenting a full-length performance of Das Rheingold, the first installment in Wagner’s massive four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, as its season opener this weekend. If all goes well, it stands to be a mighty feat for a minor metropolis.

Staging Wagner’s works is a logistical challenge increased by pressure to live up to the history around his performances. In his time, Wagner exerted artistic control over everything from the operas’ texts, which he wrote himself, to set design and the performance space—he famously had a theater built to his acoustic specifications in Bayreuth, Germany, to house a recurring, multi-night festival presenting only his own music. His ambition has attracted generations of musicians and composers since his death, though his works celebrating Germanic legend (along with his widely known anti-Semitic statements and political writings) fueled popular approval of the Nazis in the 1930s. His legacy is intimidating in every sense.

Any group that wants to perform or present his work must tread carefully and deliberately.

Das Rheingold is a big leap for the six-yearold NCO. The performance won’t be fully staged, but will still make for an imposing sight.

The eighty-three-piece orchestra won’t fit in the pit of any performance space in the Triangle, so the orchestra will instead be onstage in Meymandi Concert Hall. Singers will be in costume, with stage direction, acting, and

“We’re a hundred forty years past the premiere of Das Rheingold, and it’s the first time it’s been performed between Washington, D.C., and New Orleans,” Myers says.

Performing in a smaller market is different for the Rheingold players themselves.

Mezzo-soprano Michaela Martens, who will sing the role of Fricka, is an experienced Wagnerian—she’s sung Ortud in Lohengrin

the state. Mitchko, on the other hand, speaks of the concert performances and associated community outreach events as a kind of test run for both company and audience. He points to positive responses as a reason for moving ahead with the full performance.

“We’ve been building up the audience’s appreciation of Wagner’s music, and we think that this is the right time to do this,” Mitchko says. He also mentions other signs of community interest, such as the recently formed Triangle Wagner Society.

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props to move the action along. NCO has taken this approach before with its performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka in 2014, but Rheingold will also be accompanied by a projection by video designer Katy Tucker. She’s worked on a number of past Wagner productions, including a full Ring cycle at Washington National Opera. In all, artistic director Timothy Myers estimates the performance involves about a hundred-fifty performers and crew members, a strikingly large number considering the lack of scenery and larger stage props.

Der Ring des Nibelungen typically runs for fifteen to sixteen hours, spread over four nights; its length and complexity has contributed greatly to Wagner’s legacy of difficulty. Das Rheingold is the shortest of the cycle, clocking in under three hours, including intermission. It’s a natural choice for an opera company attempting its first foray into Wagner’s work: its relative brevity means less rehearsal time and a less costly production. Listeners also get a bit of a break, as Rheingold is comparable in length to many works that the NCO has put on in recent years. But the lighter production doesn’t make it any less significant a milestone for a young regional opera company. Having performed excerpts from Wagner’s operas, including full-acts from his Die Walküre and Tristan und Isolde in 2013 and 2014, the NCO has been working up to this achievement. Performing a full-length opera is another big step forward. The Rheingold production stands to be an impressive feat on its own, but as one of the few times that one of Wagner’s operas will be performed unabridged in the Southeast, it’s especially notable.

and has been involved in Metropolitan Opera productions of Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung, among others.

“I’ve performed in Chicago, at the Met, and in Europe, but the chance to get to bring this to a smaller community is really special,” she says.

Still, she’s quick to say that no one should assume that the performance will be anything less than stellar. She’s worked with several of the production’s other singers before, including Alfred Walker (Wotan) and MaryAnn McCormick (Erda) at the Met, as well as with Myers.

“Musically, I know it’s going to be excellent,” she says. “Even though it’s small, the talent is really good.”

Myers and NCO general director Eric Mitchko both view the production as part of a longer-term vision for the NCO’s relationship to its Triangle audience. Myers says the institution is committed to presenting unique artistic experiences that are otherwise unavailable in

As NCO continues to move forward, the institution may still be trying to find its voice in the area of programming. In the past few seasons, the offerings have been mixed, with opera standards by Verdi, Mozart, and Puccini scattered in with more recent works, like last season’s Approaching Ali and the upcoming Hercules vs. Vampires. But the company is still fresh and expanding in scope every season.

What’s more, it exists in a cultural landscape in which opera companies and other classical music ensembles feel pressure to try to please everyone, resulting in a mix of donor-friendly old favorites along with innovative programming that conforms to contemporary tastes regarding length, format, and subject material. It remains to be seen what impact this production will have on the future trajectory of the company, but in the meantime, it makes for one intense kickoff. l Twitter: @quietx3 INDYweek.com | 9.14.16 | 39

09.14–09.21 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

AN EVENING WITH MARTIN & LANGSTON Martin Luther King Jr. and Langston Hughes were more than contemporaries.

They met and exchanged correspondence; King called Hughes’s “Poem for a Man,” about civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph, “another weapon of the pen to our struggle.” Last year, in his book Origins of the Dream, N.C. State professor W. Jason Miller documented the fundamental influence of Hughes’s imagery of dreams— deferred, shattered, and true—on King’s rhetoric, culminating in the famous “I Have a Dream” speech. In this two-man show at NC State LIVE, famed screen actor Danny Glover plays the Harlem Renaissance poet and Felix Justice reanimates the words of King. Arrive early for Miller’s preshow talk in Talley Student Union’s Coastal Ballroom at 7 p.m. —Byron Woods NSCU’S STEWART THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $9–$40, live.arts.ncsu.edu

Danny Glover

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

ZO! A first-rate show like this is usually presented within Art of Cool Project’s monthly Caramel City music series, but this one stands on its own—and rightly so, especially given all of the space that Detroit-bred producer, instrumentalist, Foreign Exchange associate, and soul stylist Lorenzo “ZO!” Ferguson commands. He has a keen ear for compositions and a knack for deftly condensing the grandest emotions into sweet slices of sound in the finest Motown tradition. This is especially apparent on songs such as the Muhsinah-assisted “Packing for Chicago,” from this year’s Skybreak. Ferguson’s most lethal rub is when he goes full Foreign Exchange and lets the chords coach the song. He pulls off this play with almost any vocalist, but when he and Carmen Rodgers perform together, as on “Wishing You Well” and other collaborations, their chemistry proves to be the essential element of their sophisticated soul. —Eric Tullis THE POUR HOUSE, RALEIGH 9 p.m., $10–$15, www.thepourhousemusichall.com

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

DIDA SEASON 3 LAUNCH + DANCE PARTY In October, Durham Independent Dance Artists begins a third season of genre-bending modern and postmodern dance in unusual places. The slate is filled out with returning champeens (Tommy Noonan, Renay Aumiller, Justin Tornow) and fresh faces (Porter Witsell, Rabble & Twine). At this launch party, you’ll have a good three hours to socialize with them and quaff some of Arcana’s herby specialty cocktails before DJ Fifi Hi-Fi spins up the dance party at ten. The evening also features short dance performances by DIDA alum Ginger Wagg, whose AndAlwaysWhy broke in the new Carrack Modern Art space in June, and Matthew Young of the Department of Improvised Dance, whose collaboration with D-Town Brass at 21c Museum Hotel in April looks likely to be a highlight of the DIDA season. —Brian Howe ARCANA, DURHAM 7 p.m., $5, www.didaseason.com 40 | 9.14.16 | INDYweek.com

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SPARKcon, the artist- and volunteer-run arts festival produced by Visual Art Exchange, returns to Raleigh for its eleventh year. The free fest fills venues and outdoor spaces, mostly downtown, with an almost bewilderingly eclectic mix of concerts, art, readings, theater, dance, film screenings, and more. Since it’s curated by open committee, don’t expect an overarching theme or sensibility—just plunge into the madness and see what you discover, or cherry-pick the events that match your interests. Some highlights this year include Daniel Johnston’s earthy installation of large pots (Sept. 15, 5:30 p.m., The Mahler Fine Art), a screening of Christopher Everett’s documentary Wilmington on Fire (Sept. 15, 8:15 p.m., The Cary Theater), So & So Series readings by award-winning N.C. State writer-in-residence Eduardo Corral and Criminal podcast creator Lauren Spohrer (Sept. 16, 8 p.m., Slim’s), and the Wear What You Are fashion show (Sept. 16, 8 p.m., CAM Raleigh). —Brian Howe

When this annual Durham community arts festival started in 1974, Nixon was in office and Peter Max was in vogue. The art world has changed drastically since then, but the event has remained a strong presence and is still the longest-running juried art show in the state. Last year, 140 painters, sculptors, jewelers, designers, mixed-media artists, and craftspeople from near and far participated in the event, which provides an array of entertainment options ranging from musical and dance performances to a slew of interactive art and music activities for young people. Performances will take place on six dedicated stages; the main musical stage in CCB Plaza, for example, boasts a lineup of Triangle favorites, including the First Baptist Children’s Choir, Durham Community Chorale, N.C. Jazz Ensemble, and the Bulltown Strutters. You’ll find an abundance of food and drink from local vendors, along with a beer garden.

And it’s pet-friendly, so ferrets are welcome (as long as they behave). —David Klein

VARIOUS VENUES, DOWNTOWN RALEIGH Various times, free, www.sparkcon.com

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, DURHAM Various times, $5 suggested donation, www.centerfest.durhamarts.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

WILLIAM TYLER Across a handful of LPs, fingerpicking guitar phenom William Tyler has more or less kept to himself. On his 2008 release as The Paper Hats, Deseret Canyon, and 2010’s Behold the Spirit, Tyler spun intricate guitar yarns with no accompaniment. But for 2013’s Impossible Truth, he adorned his playing with occasional halos of pedal steel and horns.

On Modern Country, released in June, he chases those expanded instrumental ends even further. The result is a gorgeous, rich record in which diverse textures highlight Tyler’s detailed playing rather than smothering it. It’s his most concrete and, perhaps, his most focused album yet. Though he most often performs solo, Tyler arrives in Saxapahaw with a full band in tow, all the better to bring Modern Country’s subtle colors to life. —Allison Hussey HAW RIVER BALLROOM, SAXAPAHAW 8 p.m., $15, www.hawriverballroom.com

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BEATS & BARS HIP-HOP FESTIVAL AT THE PINHOOK (P. 37), BATHROOM HUMOR: NATIONAL CARTOONISTS TAKE ON HB2 AT HORSE & BUGGY PRESS (P. 47), BEYOND SACRED: VOICES OF MUSLIM IDENTITY AT FLETCHER OPERA THEATER (P. 50), ROBERT OLEN BUTLER AT THE REGULATOR BOOKSHOP/QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS (P. 52), NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX AT THE PINHOOK (P. 45), DAS RHEINGOLD AT MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL (P. 39), LA MER AT FLETCHER OPERA THEATER (P. 49), OKKERVIL RIVER AT CAT’S CRADLE (P. 43)

William Tyler

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WE 10/19 BEATS ANTIQUE

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TH 10/20 WILLIE WATSON & AOIFE O’DONOVAN**($22/$25; SEATED SHOW)

FR 10/21 THE ORB ($17/$20) SA 10/22 TODD SNIDER W/ ROREY CARROLL ($24/$27; SEATED SHOW) 10/23 BEER & HYMNS PRESENTS: ORANGE COUNTY JUSTICE UNITED FUNDRAISER ($10)

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CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Seth Walker; 8 p.m., $10–$12.

• THE CAVE: White Cascade, Bloody Knives; 9 p.m., $5. • COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK: Heart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Cheap Trick; 6:30 p.m., $10–$165. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: ZZ Top, Gov’t Mule; 7 p.m., $45–$55. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Jacob Wick, Frank Meadows; 10 p.m., $8. • POUR HOUSE: The Magic Beans; 9 p.m., $5.

THU, SEP 15 David Massengill POETIC Though David FOLKIE Massengill has made his home in New York City for a number of decades, the Bristol, Tennessee-bred troubadour’s decidedly Southern slant on things has always been crucial to his earthy but poetic songcraft. The Southern Folklife Collection honors the entry of his materials into its archives with a live performance at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Wilson Special Collections Library. Catch the quick-witted, dulcimer-toting singer-songwriter in all his homespun glory, spinning yarns and weaving bewitching images. —JA [UNC’S WILSON LIBRARY, FREE/6 P.M.]

Oh, Sleeper GODLY If you’re planning on GUYS heading out to see a bunch of metalcore maniacs like Oh, Sleeper screaming their lungs raw and cranking out knucklebusting riffs and piledriver rhythms like the apocalypse is nigh, then the maniacs in question might as well be a bunch of God-fearing Christian boys from Fort Worth. —JA [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $13–$15/7:30 P.M.]

Stop Light Observations NO Retro-minded SURPRISE Charleston sextet Stop Light Observations doesn’t stray far from the traditional Southern bar-rock template. The band’s swampy, frat-friendly roots rock is constantly cranked high, propelled by down-and-dirty acoustic blues stomps, ragged roadhouse rock, and country flourishes. There’s undeniable appeal to the straightforward, sure, but this stuff’s as flat as day-old Pabst. —PW [LOCAL 506, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Tomboi DANCE While its heavily ROCK Auto-Tuned backing vocals could wear a bit thin, Florida’s Tomboi slushes up hooky warm-weather pop-rock and DFA-style electronica, equal parts Sleater-Kinney and Hercules and Love Affair, into a lovable mix.

Occasionally, the trio throws in a kitschy cover, with Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody” a recent favorite. Anyone looking to dance on a Thursday night might consider this a swell place to start.

—DS [THE PINHOOK, $7/9 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY CAT’S CRADLE: Mike Farris; 8 p.m., $20–$25. • THE CAVE: Wahyas, Melissa Swingle Duo, DJ JHJR;

9 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: Josh Brannon Band; 9 p.m., $5. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: The Lumineers; 7 p.m., $39.50–$49.50. • MOTORCO: Windhand, Demon Eye; 9 p.m., $12–$15. • POUR HOUSE: Amigo, Blue Cactus, Delta Son; 9:30 p.m., free. • SHAKORI HILLS: Hoppin’ John Old-Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers’ Convention; $15–$20. • THE STATION: Band and the Beat, Moyamoya; 8:30 p.m., $6.

FRI, SEP 16 Bary Center MINIMAL Mark Williams has TECHNO been making playful, angular zoner techno for years as Bary Center, but his music is hardly a frigid exercise in technicality. Early tapes like Veiled Void on outsider-friendly labels like Crash Symbols were abstract and abstruse, yet they reveled in pared-down rhythms and thick atmospheric pads that gave every track a grand sense of space and texture, like mini-worlds to explore and define. No Stars, 2016’s LP on MJMJ, doubles down on the formula, heavy on the ether but with beats glinting out through the haze. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/10 P.M.]

Cedric Burnside HILL LEGACY

Grammy-nominated Cedric Burnside is

all about his granddaddy R.L.’s business, but he’s made a few changes. The hill country drone is still intact, but the surroundings are a bit smoother, thanks to Trenton Ayres’s guitar.

Burnside’s smooth, mellow vocals and funk accents help make the music more accessible to a younger generation, but he can still whomp the fire out of classics like “Killing Floor.” —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $10/9 P.M.]

David J GOTH Toward the end of LEGEND their tenure in Bauhaus, bass player David J and guitarist Daniel Ash stepped to the forefront and, on a folk-tinged numbers, began to sound like Love and Rockets, the band they would form a few years later with drummer Kevin Haskins. It was a far less dire affair, and their mix of psych and synth-pop brought a few hits and left its mark on alt-rock.

Tonight he’s solo acoustic. —DK [NEPTUNES, $25/8 P.M.]

Erie Choir, Lud OLD Erie Choir and Lud SCHOOL are venerable Triangle indie rock institutions.

Erie Choir’s ranks have shifted around frontman Eric Roehrig and his sauntering pop songs, which touch on the spark and snap of Elvis Costello and the crunchy jangle of Archers of Loaf. Lud has

Some two and a half millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus quipped that no man ever steps in the same river twice. Enough time passes, he mused, and it’s not the same river, and more to the point, it’s not the same man, either. Okkervil River’s Will Sheff can relate.

In 2013, the scruffy folk act released The Silver Gymnasium, a seemingly autobiographical concept album about nostalgia and innocence and youth, set in the eighties in Sheff’s hometown of Meriden, New Hampshire. The record was Okkervil River’s first since jumping from Jagjaguwar to ATO, ostensibly in a bid for a wider audience. Conceptually and lyrically, it’s one of the band’s finer records, but musically it’s perhaps the weakest, buffing away most of the band’s charming eccentricities. It received fair to middling reviews.

Then, Sheff’s life more or less fell apart. He lost his grandfather, who was his idol; Sheff spent the better part of two years by his bedside in a hospice. Familiar faces in the music industry disappeared. Sheff’s backing band began splitting, and by the time he was ready to make a new record, the entire lineup had turned over. When Sheff retreated alone to a cabin in the Catskills to clear his head, songs started coming to him quickly.

“Eventually, I realized I was writing a death story for a part of my life that had, buried inside of it, a path I could follow that might let me go somewhere new,” Sheff wrote for ATO. That path led to Away, the new Okkervil River record released last week that opens with a track titled “Okkervil River R.I.P.” It’s a requiem for the previous incarnations of his band (“They had some great songs,” Sheff sings, “Must have been a great time so long ago”), but the song references several deaths—Sheff’s grandfather, three members of the R&B group The Force MDs, singer Judee Sill—in its plaintive, deliberate ramble.

But Away isn’t an album about death. It’s about finding new life. Here, after working through his personal tumult, Sheff sounds less strained, less disquieted than he has on past albums. His singing is softer and sweeter, his surrounding instrumentation—guest players include Marissa Nadler, members of the excellent new music ensemble yMusic, and former Okkervil River member Jonathan Meiburg— sounds more subdued and spacious, stuffed with ideas and vertiginous embellishment. It is the sound of the purge that accompanies rebirth.

Sheff wrote that Away is him “taking my life back to zero and starting to add it all back up again.” If he is, and Okkervil River is changed for it—well, he can’t step twice in the same river, can he? —Patrick Wall CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO 9 p.m., $18–$20, www.catscradle.com INDYweek.com | 9.14.16 | 43

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Boney James BRASS One imagines it MAN must be tough for Boney James, one of the few saxophonists in the world who can fill up a nearly six thousandseat arena, to be lumped in with lite jazzers like Kenny G. Before he became a big name, he played alongside the Isley Brothers and in Morris Day’s band. But last year’s jazz-chart-topping futuresoul sounds smooth as satin sheets, so Boney will have to live with it.

—DK [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $30–$50/7 P.M.]

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Well, Raleigh’s Piece of Time identifies as an Iron Maiden tribute band—which, in its case, means an incredible devotion to re-creating the sound (if not the sights) of Bruce Dickinson and company circa 1983. And yes, they nail the solos in “The Trooper.” —PW [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $10/8 P.M.]

ScHoolboy Q WEST IN The personalities SHOW that comprise the L.A.-based TDE label have long invited easy compartmentalization, each artist fitting rather neatly into a preexisting niche.

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That’s Ab-Soul. The next-generation embodiment of West Coast gangsta rap? That’s Jay Rock. But ScHoolboy Q doesn’t quite fit in anywhere. Still, in a short few years, Q has parlayed his position as TDE’s least categorizable role player into his status as the imprint’s only bona fide superstar aside from Kendrick Lamar. His stellar album Blank Face is a sign that he’s comfortable leading the way. With Joey Badass. —RC [THE RITZ, $38/8 P.M.]

Shelles U.S. Stuart Edwards GOTHIC leads Shelles, a seasoned rock band that rumbles a bit like Crazy Horse and augments righteous guitar crunch with peals of violin. The band delivers minor-key dirges and rockers shot through with glints of feedback and possessed of a dark majesty. In the opening slot, Lacy Jags offers enticing garage-psych.

—DK [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10/9 P.M.]

Al Strong & Friends COOL Five years ago, TRUMPET trumpeter Al Strong and statistician-by-day Cicely Mitchell decided to start up a jazz advocacy nonprofit, The Art of Cool Project, and pump live jazz music in every lounge, bar, club, hotel lobby, park, and any other space that would have them.

Strong, in the meantime, has kept sharpening his skills as one of the Triangle’s best horn players, so this is a great opportunity to check out his chops. —ET [NORTHGATE MALL, FREE/6:30 P.M.]

Liz Vice GOOD The Portland, HABIT Oregon-based gospel singer Liz Vice has struggled with debilitating health issues that could have made anyone choose to sing the blues.

Instead, she sings songs of faith in a voice that demonstrates vocal mastery as well as a knowledge of and reverence for musical forebears like Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Mavis Staples. She’s smooth and soulful, but she doesn’t water down the message.

These are God songs, and gospel fans have responded with rapture.

With Dark Water Rising. —DK [MOTORCO, $10–$12/8 P.M] ALSO ON FRIDAY CAT’S CRADLE: Who’s Bad; 10 p.m., $18–$20. • DEEP SOUTH: Magnolia Still, Oscar; 6 p.m. • KINGS: MusicSPARK; 11 p.m., free.

• LINCOLN THEATRE: Whitey Morgan, Cody Jinks, Tony Martinez; 9 p.m., $25–$125. • THE MAYWOOD: Behind The Wheel, Echo The Aftermath, Splintered Reality; 9 p.m., $8. • THE PINHOOK: Beats and Bars Hip Hop Festival; 8 p.m. See page 37. • POUR HOUSE: The Shakedown; 9 p.m., $12– $15. • SHAKORI HILLS: Hoppin’ John Old-Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers’ Convention; $15–$20.

SAT, SEP 17 Ciompi Quartet with Julianne Baird ALMOST Joseph Haydn’s BAROQUE music points both forward and backward, helping to birth the modern symphony and string quartet while also venerating and tinkering with certain aspects of the music that came before. This program uses his thirty-ninth string quartet and its closing fugue as a springboard into the Baroque. Soprano Julianne Baird joins the quartet to sing three rarely performed operatic works by Vivaldi and a pair of arias from Bach cantatas.

—DR [DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, $10–$25/8 P.M.]

Cute Is What We Aim For SWING & Pop-punk outfit A MISS Cute Is What We Aim For is taking its 2006 album, The Same Old Blood Rush With a New Touch, out for a tenth-anniversary celebration tour, but why?

The band was signed to Fall Out Boy-friendly label Fueled by Ramen in its heyday, but was arguably the bottom of the roster’s barrel even then. The Same Old Blood Rush hits all of pop-punk’s low points: slut shaming, self-aggrandizing, pseudo-intellectual lyrical twists, mediocre hooks, vocals that are

Lois DeloatchGomes Duo JAZZ Vocalist Lois DEPTH Deloatch-Gomes has a vibrant, lush contralto that balances well between the playful and the lyrical. She’s equally adept at spirituals, the blues, standards, and her own varied compositions.

For these shows, she and pianist Jonathan Markow will perform a cycle called Songs of Love and Peace. —DR [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $15/8 & 10 P.M.]

Isabelle’s Gift VETERAN Haunting South ROCK Carolina’s hard rock scene for a quarter century, Isabelle’s Gift plays like a Deep South Mötley Crüe, fusing big, brash hooks and a debauched attitude with crunchy Southern rock licks. The band hasn’t shifted its approach much over the years, but it has seen a rise in like-minded acts from Red Fang to Valient Thorr exploring similar territory.

—BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $8/9:30 P.M.]

Ska Spark SKANKY Ska Spark is an PANKY all-night skank-athon starring six bands: Sound System Seven, Corporate Fandango, The Tim Smith Band, Madd Hatters, Vanilla Envelope, and The North Americans. Ska’s outdated, but not so outdated that it’s come back around into fashion, so these acts seem to be making a valiant effort to keep it up. —PW [POUR HOUSE, FREE/6 P.M.]

Southern Culture on the Skids RAW Chapel Hill’s own ROOTS Southern Culture on the Skids has been plying its trade for more than three decades, serving up just about the greasiest, grittiest blend of alt-country, psychobilly, blues, and

pure punk attitude. By this point, its idiosyncratic brand of rough-edged roots rock has pretty much evolved into its own genre.

In other words, if you want what they do, they’re basically the only ones who out there doing it. The band headlines Carrboro Elementary’s Back to School Bash with Michael Rank, Mary Johnson Rockers, and Dave Hedeman opening. —JA [CAT’S CRADLE, $10/NOON]

started to sing like the Andrews Sisters. Ricky Skaggs encouraged the girls to sing, but they already had an eclectic musical education from absorbing the music of Bob Wills, Sons of the Pioneers, Django Reinhardt, and Benny Goodman. The Quebes have built a wonderful career by being innovative with their influences.

—GB [NORTH HILLS AMPHITHEATER, FREE/2 P.M.]

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• THE CAVE: Mo Troper, Layaway; 9 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: Crave, Ken Q; 8:30 p.m., $10. • HAW RIVER BALLROOM: William Tyler; 8 p.m., $15. See page 41. • LINCOLN THEATRE: LANco; 8 p.m., $5–$10.

• THE PINHOOK: Beats and Bars Hip Hop Festival; 8 p.m. See page 37. • SHAKORI HILLS: Hoppin’ John Old-Time & Bluegrass Fiddlers’ Convention; $15–$20. • SLIM’S: Suppressive Fire, Enthean, Datura, Chateau; 8 p.m., $7. • SOUND FACTORY: Funeral Chic, WVRM, Joy; 9 p.m., $8. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Blue Dogs, Dead 27s; 9 p.m., $10–$15. • THE STATION: Hectorina, JPhono1; 8 p.m., $5.

SUN, SEP 18 Albert Cummings BLUES Albert Cummings ROCK serves up rock-inflected, post-Stevie Ray Vaughan blues, having previously worked with SRV’s own rhythm section. This New England native is the kind of bluesman who leaves the subtleties for somebody else, and sounds just right in a small, sweaty bar when you’ve got a plentiful supply of cheap domestic beer on hand.

—JA [MOTORCO, $20–$25/8 P.M.]

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somehow mumbled and whiny, and uninspired riffs. Save your money for Taking Back Sunday in a few weeks instead. —AH [LOCAL 506, $20/9 P.M.]

BLUES The ultimate goal for CALL this gig is to make the thirty-third annual Blues Challenge in Memphis. This first round is an open call for solo acts, duos, and bands. The only restrictions are that 51 percent of the group has to be legal North Carolina residents and members of the Triangle Blues Society as of September 1. This blues battle

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NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY & THE HOWLING HEX Neil Hagerty is an indie rock iconoclast. As a teenager, playing with Jon Spencer in the raw and scrappy Pussy Galore, he infused classic rock riffs with the band’s noisy punk foundation, even convincing the group to record a reverent, if damaged cover of the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street. But Hagerty’s greatest early-career success came with Royal Trux, the band he founded in 1987 with his then-partner, Jennifer Herrema. By the time Royal Trux broke up in 2001, Hagerty and Herrema had steered the band from blown-out psych-rock experiments and riff-rock deconstruction into a major-label outfit that churned groove-driven rock with punk intensity.

Despite his unconventional and occasionally confrontational bucking of alt-rock trends, Hagerty’s bands attracted a cult following that stuck with him as he went solo as The Howling Hex. In Hagerty’s post-Trux career, he’s further explored thick riffs that pulse through unconventional tones and sharp rhythms. Hagerty’s latest, Denver, is an ode to his adopted hometown, full of stringy Velvet Underground riffs and staccato percussion that would be at home in the Talking Heads’ catalog.

Hagerty’s playful mutation of rock’s basic idioms makes Denver feel at once familiar and totally alien.

On “Random Friends,” Hagerty unspools a cascading riff that clashes with a dense bass throb and his gruff sing-speak refrains. It’s an easy complement to nouveau post-punk acts like Parquet Courts. “Mountain” rides an insistent backbeat—a distant cousin to the Knack’s slick new wave— while Hagerty slathers grungy guitar licks across the song’s pop veneer. At the chorus, Hagerty and his band belt lackadaisically, “Long enough is comin’ real soon/Waiting for respect/Not wrong/Not right.”

It’s easy to read that refrain as a bitter summation of a career lived at the fringes of a fickle indie rock scene. But the Howling Hex sounds as confident on Denver as it ever has. Taking cues from the ranchera and norteño sounds popular in Colorado, Hagerty and his band sound invigorated as they branch out from their blues-based bedrock. But these expansions haven’t changed the character of the band. “We take a very narrow rhythmic thing, then stretch it out to see what happens,” Hagerty told Colorado’s Westword. “That’s the style of music we play: stoned-out jams played over a norteño beat.”

Whatever the beat he’s marching to these days, Hagerty makes jams that are consistently offkilter, showing a novel approach to familiar sounds, with enviable nonchalance. —Bryan C. Reed THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 9 p.m., $10, www.thepinhook.com

should offer an interesting, eclectic array. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $8–$10/2 P.M.]

The Wild Reeds TRIPLE The stellar POWER three-part harmonies of singer-songwriters Kinsey Lee, Mackenzie Howe, and Sharon Silva drive The Wild Reeds’ dynamic twang rock, which the Los Angeles quintet typically matches with welcome electric muscle rather than gentle acoustic strums. —SG [LOCAL 506, $8–$10/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Wyatt Easterling, Nancy Beaudette; 8 p.m., $12. • COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK: Brad Paisley, Tyler Farr, Maddie & Tae; 7:30 p.m., $20–$60. • DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Bonnie Thron, David Heid, Deborah Hollis; 3 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: Zo!, Carmen Rodgers; 9 p.m., $10–$15. See page 41. • SLIM’S: Lung, Wayleaves, Campdogzz; 8 p.m., $5.

MON, SEP 19 Terry Bozzio PROG Music business PRINCE warhorse and prodigiously accomplished drummer Terry Bozzio is probably best known for the twenty-six albums he recorded with Frank Zappa throughout the seventies and eighties, but his odyssey has led him to session work with acts as diverse as Robbie Robertson, Herbie Hancock, and Richard Marx. In concert, he bears full-on miracles of percussive delight, all behind the sort of sprawling kit that might briefly cause Neil Peart to reconsider his bona fides. —TB [POUR HOUSE, $12–$20/8 P.M.]

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On last year’s Hippielovepunk, his songs hit harder than ever. —DK [MOTORCO, $13–$15/8 P.M.]

Holenbeck possesses the chops and charisma to transcend emo’s petulance. —EB [THE PINHOOK, $7/7 P.M.]

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LINCOLN THEATRE: Raleigh Day; 7:30 p.m., $10–$20.

NOISY On “4th of July, INDIE Philadelphia [SANDY],” the centerpiece of Pretty Years, the new record from his noisy indie rock outfit Cymbals Eat Guitars, Joseph D’Agostino sings about snapping out of a funk following a near-death experience. Well, sort of: “Swore I’d be present and grateful for every second,” he yawps before conceding, “Later the feeling faded/I couldn’t help it.”

D’Agostino and Cymbals Eat Guitars revel in those kinds of contradictions on Pretty Years, balancing dyspeptic indie rock with bright, sunny synths and E Street sax. —PW [KINGS, $10/9 P.M.]

The Dread Crew of Oddwood PIRATE The only thing worse METAL? than a concept record, usually, is a concept band.

But The Dread Crew of Oddwood makes its shtick work. The San Diego sextet plays its piratethemed, metal-influenced folk-punk on decidedly nonrock instruments, riffing and shredding on the accordion, mandolin, bouzouki, tin whistle, toy piano, ukulele, acoustic guitar, and bull fiddle. Somehow, the band’s grandiose tales of bloody battles, drunken debauchery and, uh, zombies and time travel don’t come off the least bit goofy.

—PW [THE MAYWOOD, $10/8:30 P.M.]

Heartscape Landbreak YOUNG This gifted if ROCK embryonic four-piece has a stranglehold on its canonical indie influences, rendering original versions of Modest Mouse’s anxiety dreams, Bright Eyes’ weepers, and Death Cab’s candied pop apologies with a careful student’s dexterity. Still there’s more here than pure imitation. Frontman Taylor 46 | 9.14.16 | INDYweek.com

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TUE, SEP 20 Raleigh Beer Week Kickoff Party: Austero REGULAR The four-piece ROCK Raleigh-based riff monsters Austero recall fellow master groove merchants, ranging from Blue Oyster Cult to The Black Crowes to Tom Petty. Amid a sea of astounding musicianship, the material occasionally threatens to emigrate into thematic bro-speak, but the feeling throughout remains thoroughly ragged but right. —TB [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9 P.M.]

Caustic Casanova POWER Washington, D.C.’s OF PUNK Caustic Casanova may be America’s biggest untapped source of renewable energy, a wound-up ball of nerves shouting sharp, politically charged refrains over aggressive guitar riffs that slash through shifting rhythmic foundations. The trio suggests sludgy and psychedelic stoner fuzz dosed with amphetamines. —SG [THE CAVE, $5/10 P.M.]

The Cult OK KOOL- From their AID beginnings almost forty years back, Ian Astbury and the Cult have always represented an utterly unselfconscious version of rock ‘n’ roll, pitched ambiguously between the charmingly populist and the ludicrously portentous. Love or hate them, there is an inescapable nostalgia to hits like the proto-grunge “She Sells Sanctuary” or the late hair-metal “Fire Woman.” Expect full showmanship without any embarrassment or apologies.

—TB [THE RITZ, $35–$45/8 P.M.]

ALSO ON TUESDAY THE CARRACK: Bivins/Robinson Duo; 8 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE: Okkervil River, Landlady; 9 p.m., $18–$20. See box, page 43. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Arc Iris, Tinkerer; 8 p.m., $10–$12. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Sevendust, Crobot; 8 p.m. • THE MAYWOOD: Chant; 8:30 p.m., $8–$10.

WED, SEP 21 Goblin Cock SERIOUS Pinback impresario JOKE Rob Crow’s goofball metal project Goblin Cock returns from an eight-year slumber with the new LP, Necronomidonkeykonimicon. Despite the Gwar-worthy stage names (e.g., Crow is “Lord Phallus”) and novelty song titles, the band’s fusion of lumbering doom and psych-pop reveals big hooks in the midst of surging guitars. The lead single, “Something Haunted,” kicks off with a stoner rock riff that suggests Sleep before leaning into a pillowy wash of effects that feels more like My Bloody Valentine.

—BCR [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Amos Lee FOLK If you’re jonesing for ROCK modern-day singer-songwriters with an old-school folk-rock feel, Amos Lee just might be your guy. Mixing a healthy dose of soul influence into his organic sound, he comes across like he grew up bathing in a sonic stream of Van Morrison, The Band, and Bill Withers. He even managed to sneak his way to the top of the album charts a few years ago, but the brush with stardom doesn’t seem like it’s gone to his head. —JA [DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, $40–$60/8 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: The Johnny Folsom 4; 5:45 p.m., $5. • LOCAL 506: Old Salt Union; 8 p.m., $8–$10.

• THE PINHOOK: Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex; 9 p.m., $10. See box, page 45. • POUR HOUSE: Eleanor Tallie; 9 p.m., $10–$12.

art OPENING

Bestiary and Bohemian Earth: Work by Zoe Litaker and Jameela F. Davis. Fri, Sep 16, 6 p.m. Mercury Studio, Durham.

SPECIAL Jarrett Burch: EVENT Paintings.

Reception: Sep 16, 6-8 p.m.

Culture Hair Studio, Durham.

SPECIAL Dissection of Color: EVENT Paintings by Sara McCreary. Sep 16-Oct 15.

Reception: Sep 16, 6-9 p.m.

The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www.scrapexchange.org.

SPECIAL Dress Up, Speak Up: EVENT Costume and Confrontation: Mixed media group show. Reception with Beverly McIver: Sep 17, 6-8 p.m. 21c Museum Hotel. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham.

SPECIAL Finding Each Other EVENT in History: Stories from LGBTQ+ Durham: Personal narratives. Sep 16-Jan 15.

Reception: Sep 16, 6-8 p.m.

Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

SPECIAL Kim Herold: Mixed EVENT media work. Sep 17-Nov 30. Reception: Sep 17, 7-9 p.m. Looking Glass Cafe, Carrboro. lookingglasscafe.us.

SPECIAL Daniel Johnston: EVENT Pottery installation.

Sep 15-Oct 20. Reception: Sep 15, 5:30 p.m. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. www. themahlerfineart.com.

SPECIAL Liz Leventhal: EVENT Paintings. Thu, Sep 15, 6-8 pm. Reception: Sep 15, 6-8 p.m. Umstead Hotel & Spa, Cary. www.theumstead.com.

SPECIAL Local Landscapes, EVENT Local Color: Paintings by Sally L. Sutton. Sep 15-Oct 15. Reception: Sep 17, 7-9 p.m. Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www. tyndallgalleries.com.

SPECIAL Photo-Manipulation: EVENT The First One Hundred Years: Photography.

Sep 16-Oct 15. Reception: Sep 16, 6-9 p.m. Through This Lens, Durham. www.throughthislens. com.

SPECIAL Selections from EVENT Uelsmann Untitled: Photographs by Jerry Uelsmann.

09.14–09.21 Sep 16-Oct 15. Reception: Sep 16, 6-9 p.m. Through This Lens, Durham. www.throughthislens. com.

SPECIAL Split Personalities: EVENT Work by Bob Rankin, Rebecca Patman, and Brenon Day. Sep 17-Oct 31.

Reception: Sep 17, 3-5 p.m.

Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

SPECIAL Studio Touya: The EVENT Pottery of Hitomi and Takuro Shibata: Pottery. Sep 16-Oct 30. Reception: Sep 16, 6-8 p.m. Tiny Gallery at the Ackland Museum Store, Chapel Hill.

THIS CAMPAIGN IS YUUUGE!: Cartoonists Tackle the 2016 Presidential Race: Collection of 2016 election cartoons.

Sep 21-Dec 2. Duke Campus: Rubenstein Hall, Durham. sanford.duke.edu.

SPECIAL Within - Without: EVENT Sculpture by Jeff Bell. Sep 16-Oct 7. Reception: Sep 16, 6-9 p.m. SPECTRE Arts, Durham. www.spectrearts.org.

ONGOING Judy Abrahams, Shib Sankar Basu, Robert Hoppin, Ann Howe, Sherri Leeder, Dona McNeill, Derek Unger: Thru Sep 27. Cary Gallery of Artists. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

Against the Wall: Paintings by Katherine Armacost. Thru Oct 9. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Along These Lines: Constance Pappalardo. Thru Oct 16. Durham Convention Center, Durham. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.

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

LAST Avant-Gardens: CHANCE Mixed collage work

by Lauren Worth. Thru Sep 19.

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

Bathroom Humor: National Cartoonists Take on HB2: Visual commentary on NC House Bill 2. Thru Sep 25. Bull City Arts Collaborative: Upfront Gallery,

Durham. www.bullcityarts.org.

Liz Bradford: Oil paintings.

Thru Sep 30. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock. Thru Sep 25.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe By the Sea: Robert Harrison.

Thru Oct 8. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www.eruuf.org.

Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection: Whereas many glassblowers content themselves with bongs and lampshades, Dale Chihuly has taken the form into the upper echelons of fine art with his sculptural fantasias.

This private collection of Chihuly’s works focuses on vessels inspired by Venetian art deco vases from the 1920s and ’30s, almost fifty of which are arrayed around the centerpiece of the Laguna Murano Chandelier, a tour de force made of more than 1,500 pieces. Thru Oct 15. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham. —Brian Howe Claude Howell: Master Painter; Carson Tredgett: Master Printer: Collaborative show.

Thru Sep 29. Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh. www. leehansleygallery.com.

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

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

Come Out and Play: Outdoor sculpture group show.

Thru Sep 24. JimGin Farm, Pittsboro. www.carrboro.com/ comeoutandplay.

Continuum: Work by Martha Clippinger, Joy Drury Cox, Susan Harbage Page, Tom Spleth, and Hillary Waters. Thru Oct 1. Light Art + Design, Chapel Hill. www. lightartdesign.com.

Copy That: Neon art by Nate Sheaffer. Thru Oct 2. Pleiades

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BATHROOM HUMOR: NATIONAL CARTOONISTS TAKE ON HB2 The Political Cartoon & Satire Festival, a co-production of Duke University and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, doesn’t officially begin until Sept. 22, but already, signs of risible political resistance in pictures and captions are ink-staining Durham. Horse & Buggy Press opens its corral on Third Friday with a reception for this exhibit, curated by the INDY’s ace editorial cartoonist, V.C. Rogers, which roves over the ways in which cartoonists around the nation have reacted to the notorious “bathroom bill” (hint: they don’t like it). With overlapping receptions for Rogers’s solo show at Horse & Buggy and four-decade News & Observer fixture Dwane Powell’s Power Plant Gallery retrospective, it’s a good night to get some newsprint on your hands. —Brian Howe HORSE & BUGGY PRESS, DURHAM 6–9 p.m., free, www.horseandbuggypress.com

Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Do You Have a Moment?: It’s a question that might send you scurrying when posed by someone clutching a clipboard on the street. It’s also the title of Jody Servon’s new show, which comes to life only when you respond to its prompts.

Servon developed the exhibit during her summer residency at Artspace. The centerpiece is “Our Top 100,” in which visitors write down a song title and a recollection it sparks. The notes are posted on the wall, and each song is added to the playlist

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streaming in the gallery. The result is a collective memory mixtape for Raleigh. Thru Sep 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. —Brian Howe Dreaming in Color: Paintings by Lolette Guthrie, textile art by Alice Levinson, and blown glass

by Pringle Teetor. Thru Sep 25.

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

LAST Durham by CHANCE Ghostbike: In one of his mixed-media collages, Jeremy Kerman shows us a familiar downtown vantage through fresh eyes. Using bright colors, blocky

shapes, and skewed perspectives remindful of a child’s drawing, he depicts the collision of old and new Durham, as historic brick jumbles with shiny ELF vehicles in front of the Organic Transit building. A“Ghost Bike” parking sign pays a tribute to a friend of the artist’s in particular, and to all the people being erased, literally or figuratively, from Durham.

Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery. com. —Brian Howe SPECIAL Dwane Powell: The EVENT Art of Politics 40 Years of Editorial Cartoons & Then Some: Dwane Powell

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retrospective. Thru Oct 8.

Reception: Sep 16, 5-8 p.m.

Power Plant Gallery, Durham.

Equine Abstractions: Paintings

by Laura Hughes. Thru Sep 24. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org.

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

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september 22-24 dUke University friday 9/23 “night of the simpson s” page auditorium, 7:30pm: Writers, directors & producers from the simpsons, live on stage. tickets.duke.edu free & open to the public: thurs 9/22: Cartoons & Cop s Cartoonists on race & police bru talit

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Sam Ezell: Folk art paintings.

Thru Sep 26. Whitted Human Services Center, Hillsborough.

Flowers of France and Italy: Paintings by Sonia Kane. Thru Sep 24. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

A Garden is a Dream Space: Paperworks and textiles by Ann Marie Kennedy. Thru Sep 25. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com.

History and Mistory: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: This free exhibit is the first time in four decades that NCMA has curated an exhibit from its British holdings—and if you simply don’t care about pictures of random aristocrats in ruffs, the show also includes portraits by famous names like Anthony van Dyck and William Beechey. Thru Mar 19, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Hometown (Inherited): Photographic and mixed media work by Moriah LeFebvre. Thru Oct 2. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

SPECIAL How I Learned to EVENT Draw: Cartoons from Five Decades: V.C. Rogers retrospective. Thru Sep 30.

Reception: Sep 16, 6-9 p.m.

Bull City Arts Collaborative: Upfront Gallery, Durham. www. bullcityarts.org..

Blaine Janas: Metal flower arrangements and animal sculptures. Thru Sep 30. United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County. www.unitedarts.org.

Landscapes: Matter and Spirit: Work by Michael Brown, Jacob Cooley, Julyan Davis, Larry Gray, Jennifer Miller, Marlise

Newman, and Chad Smith.

Thru Sep 25. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery. net.

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

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

Luminous Creatures: Digital images by JP Trostle. Thru Jan 6, 2017. Atomic Fern, Durham. www.atomicfern.com.

Matins to Verspers: Paintings

by Ruth Ananda. Thru Oct 2.

Vespertine, Carrboro.

George McKim: Thru Sep 24.

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

LAST Muhammad Ali CHANCE Memorable Images: Ringside photos from Zaire and Manila by Sonia Katchian. Thru Sep 15. Vegan Flava Cafe, Durham. veganflavacafe.com.

Natural Lines: Furniture by Jim Oleson. Thru Oct 9. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com.

NC to NYC: Work by Jim Hallenbeck. Thru Oct 1. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com.

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

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

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

On Today: Charcoal drawings by Louis Watts. Thru Oct 1. Lump, Raleigh. www.teamlump.org.

Oppressive Architecture: Photographs by Gesche Würfel.

Thru Dec 4. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org.

Paintings, Photographs, Friendship: Works by Clyde Edgerton and John Rosenthal.

Thru Oct 9. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Josue Pellot: Sculpture. Thru Sep 27. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc. edu.

Processes of Illumination: Work

by Kevin Peddicord, Ashley Lowe, and Stephen Cefalo. Thru Sep 22. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www.litmusgallery.com.

Remembrances: The Peruvian artist Silvia Paz incorporates imagery from the depths of her subconscious into her striking, luminous oil paintings.

Though her work is marked by realistic rendering, something in the light, perspective, and especially the iconography transmits the visceral sense of being in a dreamworld. Paz juxtaposes the ordinary and the fantastical in a way that calls to mind Surrealists such as Magritte, while her spooky landscapes have a de Chirico flavor. Thru Sep 30. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

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

Rorschach: Photographs by Titus Brook Heagins. Thru Oct 29. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Sea Life: Sculpture by Renee Levity, Brenda Holmes, and Nate Sheaffer. Thru Sep 25.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

LAST Seeing Beyond the CHANCE Structures: Portraits of the Landscape: Paintings by Adam Bellefeuil, Rachel Campbell, and Caitlin Cary.

Thru Sep 16. Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Raleigh. www. raleighnc.gov/arts.

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art: Exploration of southern identity through contemporary art. Thru Jan 8, 2017. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

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Synesthesia: LED artwork by Lile Stephens. Thru Oct 2.

Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www. flandersartgallery.com.

SPECIAL Trio: Ceramic work EVENT by Phillip Haralam, Evelyn Ward, and Doug Dotson.

Thru Sep 17. Reception: Sep 16, 6-9 p.m. Claymakers, Durham. www.claymakers.com.

Up Close and Personal: The Beauty of Tiny Insects: Photographs by Stan Lewis. Thru Oct 2. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences.org.

Joan Vandermeer: Travel paintings. Thru Sep 30.

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

William Noland: Dream Rooms: Long video takes examining technology and intimacy. Thru Feb 5, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

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OPENING Almost, Maine: Play. $18$24. Thu, Sep 15–Sun, Sep 18.

Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www.theatreinthepark.com.

Bill Burr: $45-$93. Thu, Sep 15–Sat, Sep 17. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre. org.

ETM: Double Down: Dorrance Dance. $10-$49. Wed, Sep 14, 7:30 p.m. & Thu, Sep 15, 7:30 p.m. UNC Campus: Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. www. carolinaperformingarts.org.

Michael Harrison, Ben Jones: Stand-up comedy. $13-$15. Fri, Sep 16, 8 p.m. The Cary Theater.

King Kountry Wayne: $25.

Wed, Sep 21, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

A Public Reading of An Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney: Play. Sep 16-Oct 1. Manbites Dog Theater, Durham. www. manbitesdogtheater.org.

Tony Rock: Stand-up comedy. $15. Thu, Sep

Siren Songs of Love, an AllFemale Broadway Musical Revue: Musical. $15. Thu, Sep 15–Sat, Sep 17. Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh. www.burningcoal.org.

Dusty Slay, Hannah Hogan: Stand-up comedy. $7-$10. Thu, Sep 15, 8 p.m. DSI Comedy Theater, Chapel Hill. www. dsicomedytheater.com.

ONGOING Kinky Boots: $35-$95. Thru Sep 18. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc. com.

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FRI/SAT, SEP 23-24, 2016 | 8PM MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, RALEIGH

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Blockbuster Film Scores FRI/SAT, OCT 14-15, 2016 | 8PM

MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, RALEIGH

Featuring music from Pirates of the Caribbean, Fiddler on the Roof, Harry Potter, and more.

The Planets: LIVE!

FRI/SAT, NOV 18-19, 2016 | 8PM

The Symphony and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences join forces to bring Holst’s The Planets to life on the big screen!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2

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Just as the French Impressionist painters sought to depict the play of light itself, their contemporary, Claude Debussy, sought to evoke the sea in one of his most revered and lasting creations, La Mer. The composer, known as the father musical impressionism, intended the three-part work to stir up primal responses rather than intellectual ones. The music now serves as the basis for Carolina Ballet’s latest collaboration with choreographer-inresidence Zalman Raffael. Alternately conjuring the churning of ocean depths and a vast calm, Debussy’s “symphonic sketches” should provide a propulsive springboard for Raffael, a young New York-trained dancer whose choreography for last year’s The Planets was a highlight of the company’s season. —David Klein FLETCHER OPERA THEATER, RALEIGH Various times, $30–$89, www.carolinaballet.com

A Star Trek Spectacular FRI, JAN 20, 2017 | 8PM SAT, JAN 21, 2017 | 3PM & 8PM

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Weekend Sponsor: Celito Communications, Inc.

Jonathan Frakes hosts this extraterrestrial journey through the music of classic Sci-Fi TV and movies.

Jason Alexander FRI/SAT, MAR 17-18, 2017 | 8PM

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Weekend Sponsor: Merrill Lynch

The Tony Award-winning singer, comedian, and dancer—best known for his role on “Seinfeld”— performs a variety of Broadway hits.

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DIDA Season 3 Launch + Dance Party: With DJ Fifi Hi-Fi. $5. Sat, Sep 17, 7 p.m. Arcana, Durham. www.arcanadurham. com. See p. 40.

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Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity: Play by Ping Chong + Company. $20. Sun, Sep 18, 7:30 p.m. UNC Campus: Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. www.carolinaperformingarts. org.

Das Rheingold: North Carolina Opera. $25-$90. Fri, Sep 16 & Sun, Sep 18. Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

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Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1

15–Sun, Sep 18. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

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Spirit and Transformation: Paintings. Thru Oct 20. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www. eruuf.org.

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North Carolina Master Chorale April 22 Concert Sponsor: Smith Anderson

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Lungs: $15-$18. Thru Sep 24.

Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh. www.sonorousroad. com.  Maccountant: Thru Sep 17. Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www.cgtheatre.com.

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Comedyspark Improv Show: Sat, Sep 17, 5 p.m.. Kings, Raleigh. www.kingsbarcade. com.

food 2-Year Anniversary Party: With food trucks and live music. Sat, Sep 17, 2 p.m. The Glass Jug, Durham.

Beers for Beagles III: Triangle Beagle Rescue of North Carolina

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benefit. Sun, Sep 18, 2 p.m.

LoneRider Brewing Company, Raleigh.

Chapel Hill Downtown Pop Up Farmers’ Market: Thursdays, 3:30 p.m.; Thru Oct 27. The Plaza at 140 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill.

Curds & Crafts: An Artisanal Cheese and Craft Beer Festival: $35. Sun, Sep 18, 1 p.m.

The Cloth Mill at Eno River, Hillsborough.

DURHAM ROOTS Farmers’ Market: Saturdays, 8 am; Thru Nov 19. Mary Mudd, Durham.

Eastern Triangle Farm Tour: Various locations. $30. Sat, Sep 17, 1 p.m. & Sun, Sep 18, 1 p.m. www.carolinafarmstewards. org/etft.

Maple View Farm Family Fun Day: Music, games, ice cream, and more. Sun, Sep 18, 1 p.m. Maple View Ice

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BEYOND SACRED: VOICES OF MUSLIM IDENTITY In this compelling work of documentary theater

by Ping Chong + Company, the five people you see onstage are more than the production’s original cast. Tiffany Yasmin Abdelghani, Ferdous Dehqan, Kadin Herring, Amir Khafagy, and Maha Syed are young Muslim New Yorkers relating their own real-life experiences. All were children at the time of the 9/11 attacks and, aside from Dehqan, who came to the United States in 2013, all remember how differently they were treated afterward. The stories are their own, a chronicle of diversity and stigma, in a dramatic work The New York Times called “an exercise in empathy, not polemics: a lesson in human understanding, drawn from real lives.” —Byron Woods UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., $20, www.carolinaperformingarts.org

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Cream, Hillsborough. www. mapleviewfarm.com.

Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market: Wednesdays, 10 a.m.

Raleigh City Plaza, Raleigh.

Underground: Bourbon Heritage Month: Fri, Sep 16, 7 p.m. Counting House, Durham.

Wine Class with Chris Tyrrell: Wed, Sep 21, 6 p.m. The Fearrington Granary, Pittsboro. www.fearrington.com.

OPENING The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years—This living-Beatles-approved doc is exactly what it sounds like.

Unrated.

Blair Witch—The original found-footage horror franchise returns to claim its birthright. Rated R.

 ½ The Sea of Trees—Gus Van Sant turns Japanese culture into a backdrop for American angst. Rated PG-13.  ½ The Secret Life of Pets—This charming, beautifully crafted family movie falls apart in the final act. Rated PG.

Bridget Jones’s Baby—Renée Wine Tasting at Mandolin: Zellweger returns to the  Suicide Squad—The plot Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Mandolin, Bridget Jones rom-com is throwaway thin, but this Raleigh. www.mandolinraleigh. franchise. Rated R. team of antiheroes brings To advertise or feature a pet for adoption, com. much-needed levity and please contact A L S Orgierisch@indyweek.com P L A Y I N G breadth to the DC Extended Wines of Southwest France: The INDY uses a five-star rating The Fearrington Granary, Universe. Rated PG-13. scale. Read our reviews of these Pittsboro. www.fearrington.com. films at www.indyweek.com.

screen SPECIAL SHOWINGS American Shift: Wed, Sep 14, 7 p.m. NCSU Campus: DH Hill Library, Raleigh. www.lib.ncsu. edu.

A/V Geeks: The End Times: 16mm films. $5. Tue, Sep 20, 7:30 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www. kingsbarcade.com.

Dames: Fri, Sep 16, 8 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

Digimon Adventure tri-Chapter 1: Reunion: Thu, Sep 15, 7 p.m.

Regal North Hills Stadium 14, Raleigh and Crossroads 20, Cary.

ET: The Extra-Terrestrial: Thu, Sep 15, 6:30 p.m.

Garner Performing Arts Center, Garner. www. garnerperformingartscenter. com.

A Hologram for the King: Sat, Sep 17, 2:30 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

The House on Coco Road: Fri, Sep 16, 7 p.m. Full Frame Theater, Durham.

The Jungle Book (2016): Fri, Sep 16, 8 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum. org.

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