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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH VOL. 33, NO. 38 8 The HB 2 compromise Republican lawmakers proposed wasn’t a compromise at all.

10 So far, HB 2 has cost North Carolina at least $160 million—in sports-related losses alone.

13 Try a monster ball: it’s juicy, protein-rich, covered in ants—and delicious.

15 Jim Obergefell never wanted to be the face of marriage equality. But he is.

22 “I had lost my sister to suicide. I would not lose my son.”

24 More than two thousand Spanish-speaking people in North Carolina are transgender.

27 The day of the Pulse massacre in Orlando, gun-permit requests jumped more than 100 percent.

33 The Bronzed Chorus’s Adam Joyce won’t let rheumatoid arthritis keep him down.

34 A veteran vocalist plays intimate Triangle shows because “that’s how people live.”

DEPARTMENTS 7 Backtalk 8 Triangulator 10 News 12 Food 14 The Pride Issue 33 Music 37 Arts & Culture 40 What to Do This Week 43 Music Calendar 48 Arts/Film Calendar

37 Broad City’s Hannibal Buress is already dreaming of retirement. .

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What Makes a Farm a Farm?

Last week, we wrote about a debate raging in rural Orange County about what constitutes a farm, and whether people should be allowed to erect events spaces on farmland [“Bought the Farm,” David Hudnall].

Commenter ProudlyAffiliated doesn’t see a problem with that: “So let me get this straight—neighbors expect the new owners to abide not by the law, but by whatever unwritten rules they feel will protect their cherished way of life. And they expect the government and the public to have sympathy for them because of their history and pedigree? The term ‘landed gentry’ comes to mind. Not too surprising. Welcome to the South, y’all. On the plus side, it sounds like most of these dinosaur neighbors will be dead in a few years. And they say entitlement and privilege is limited to millennial narcissists. Bless their hearts.”

But sbeeman isn’t buying it: “Agritourism in North Carolina was intended to help real farmers and their existing farms diversify and become more financially resilient by relaxing zoning regulations, not to allow commercial businesses to work around existing zoning laws by pretending to be farms.

Southeast Property Group bought some land that had not been farmed in years and was entirely wooded. The only way for the Brewers and Southeast Property Group to build their commercial wedding and event center on this property was to either obtain a special-use permit (which Orange County refused to grant them) or to meet one of the criteria to become a bona fide farm. Even though there was no farm—just woods—on the property, Southeast Property Group was able to obtain a Farm Service Agency number, thus meeting one of the criteria. At the time it received the number, the small flower bed, the chestnut saplings, and the rented beehives were not on the property. No farm, no barn storing equipment, nothing—just woods. If Southeast Property Group succeeds in building its event center, it will not be inviting people to visit their farm; it will be renting out their $735,000 ‘utility building’ (complete with chandeliers and a bride’s room) for ‘elegant farm weddings.’ Zoning laws exist for a reason.”

Commenter aLoHa 1 thinks this project could be a good thing: “Here we have one developer on one piece of land solving a growing demand for the next sector of the farm-to-table. In my mind, the property isn’t just going to be a nest of angry hornets who use the land as a resting place commuting and rushing about breaking speed limits through neighborhoods while on their cell phones.

It’s a destination where people will travel to cultivate the next generation and forming unions. The one thing that personally seemed gross to me is the article set a scene where the writer was graciously welcomed on the property by the owner who suspected no ill intent.”

In last week’s Triangulator, we ran a piece essentially declaring—after the NCAA bailed on North Carolina over HB 2—that the governor’s race was over.

Several readers echoed the sentiments of Tamara L. Bennett, who told us not to “count your proverbial chickens before they’re hatched. Don’t give Dems reason to think they can stay home. Nothing is assured in this insane election cycle.”

“I would love to think so,” adds Mark Wells, “but there are a lot of red counties out there full of people very concerned about the genitalia near them in the goddamned bathroom, economic outcomes be damned.” l

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Man, it’s been a week, huh?

First the NCAA pulled its championships from North Carolina over HB 2; then the ACC followed suit; then a smattering of Republican legislators began talking about amending or even repealing the law; then Governor McCrory—desperate to salvage his flagging re-election bid—and Republican leaders broached a “compromise” in which the state would repeal HB 2 if only Charlotte would repeal its antidiscrimination ordinance; then Charlotte promptly rejected the governor’s entreaties; and then Republicans slammed Charlotte’s mayor and Attorney General Roy Cooper for conspiring to deprive North Carolina of sporting events, because of course they did.

The undeniable, inescapable truth is that what McCrory et al. offered wasn’t in any way a compromise. Charlotte and the state’s other municipalities would have been effectively enjoined from protecting their LGBTQ citizens from discrimination. The legislature, meanwhile, would give up nothing, but would get to claim that it had moderated its position without, you know, actually moderating its position. That’s not how compromise works, fellas.

Of course, had it gone through, maybe the sports teams and businesses would have come back, and then maybe HB 2 wouldn’t be such a hot-button issue, and then maybe Republicans wouldn’t get pummeled at the polls over it in November.

Neat trick. No thanks.

On Monday morning, Charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts said her city council had no interest in revisiting its antidiscrimination ordinance: “We are not prepared to add this item to our agenda this evening,” she said in a statement. “However, we urge the state to take action as soon as possible and encourage continued dialogue with the broader community.”

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arguments and nonsensical, oftentimes offensive claims, they need to own it—consequences and all. Let’s have this battle out, once and for all. Let’s make November 8 a referendum on what we want our state to be: tolerant and inclusive, or hateful and divisive.

That’s the choice on our ballots. And that’s the referendum the state Republican leadership wants to weasel out of. We shouldn’t let them.

+NAME GAMES

In Chapel Hill, where progressive ideas are loudly championed, if not always acted upon, the name “the Bicycle Apartments” held real allure in 2013. Pitched by Trinitas Ventures, an Indiana-based developer, the project pro-

posed to convert the property at 602 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard into a brighter, new-urbanist dreamscape: off-campus living for UNC students, just blocks from the university and the cosmopolitan delights of downtown Chapel Hill.

Believing Trinitas sought to foster some kind of Amsterdam on the Piedmont, the town council approved a special-use permit for the Bicycle Apartments. Trinitas also requested, and was granted, a reduction in the number of parking units it was required to build—241 spots, down from 330. (More parking spaces, of course, mean more cost to developers.)

“We believe excessive parking is not necessary at this location, as this project lends itself to a pedestrian-oriented development,” Trinitas’s representatives said at

the time.

The planning department agreed. The millennials who would soon populate the Bicycle Apartments would have little use for anachronisms like parking spaces. They’d bike to school, walk to the coffee shops, Uber to the bars. What a world.

But almost immediately after the project was approved, Trinitas rebranded the Bicycle Apartments as LUX, a name less evocative of forward-thinking urban planning than a nightclub where Ashton Kutcher might have guzzled premium champagne in 2005.

Today, LUX offers its student residents free tanning, a resort-style pool and sundeck, and two private shuttles to and from UNC campus. There are plenty of places to lock your bike, but residents who seek to park their cars onsite are having a tougher

TL;DR: confirmed that, due to a shortage of available parking spaces, the apartment complex rents ninety additional spaces from its neighbors, including a salon and an auto shop. Even those don’t meet the demand; a lottery is held at the beginning of every school year to determine which of LUX’s six hundred residents get the luxury of paying roughly $100 for a parking spot.

Turns out, one of the reasons students move off campus is because they like to have easier access to their cars. And the kinds of students who can afford to live at LUX, where a one-bedroom runs over $1,000 a month, tend to bring their own cars with them to Chapel Hill.

LUX is the most flagrant example of this kind of bait-and-switch, but glamorous rebranding is happening all over Chapel Hill.

Throwing a number into the mix is a popular move. The old Timberlyne Apartments are now Eighty Six North. The Foxcroft has successfully transitioned into The Apartments at Midtown 501. The Charterwood Apartments? Snore. Try 1701 North, an Evolve® community, set on “redefining luxury in Chapel Hill.”

Then there’s the Village Plaza Apartments, the contentious, ninety-foot-high luxury apartment complex under construction on the site of a former movie theater in the Ephesus-Fordham district. It is lately referring to itself as The Alexan.

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“We partnered with [Dallas-based] Trammell Crow Residential on that project, and that’s their branding,” says Lee Perry of East West Partners. “But to be honest, I’m not sure how long that name’s going to be around, either.”

Why not?

“Well, it’s looking like the property could possibly be sold in the very near future, in which case the new owner would likely change the name,” Perry says.

If history is any indication, the price tag of the units may change as well. When the plans for the Village Plaza Apartments initially surfaced, one-bedrooms were projected to lease for $1,150. Two years later, they start at $1,500.

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On Monday, GoTriangle announced plans to consider adding a stop to the proposed Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit at N.C. Central—thus extending a bit farther east.

The DOLRT was expected to connect Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill (and their respective cities) with seventeen miles of rail. Now, after receiving comments during the environmental impact portion of the project—including complaints that the line wouldn’t sufficiently serve low-income black communities—GoTriangle is evaluating how it could connect a third university.

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In a release, GoTriangle said that “preliminary studies suggest an NCCU station could be the most used stop in Durham.”

While GoTriangle is looking to expand light-rail coverage, funding for the $1.6 billion project is still up in the air. In the last budget, the General Assembly removed a $500,000 state funding cap—which would have been fatal to the project—but replaced it with a provision limiting the state’s investment in any commuter or light rail to 10 percent of the total cost. The current plan calls for 25 percent of the project’s costs to come from local funds, 25 percent from state funds, and the remainder from the federal government. Without state funding, it’s unlikely the federal government will cough up its share of the dough. triangulator@indyweek.com

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Hillary Clinton makes her first postpneumonia campaign appearance in Greensboro. Trump will probably suggest that Secret Service agents withhold antibiotics “and see what happens to her.”

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Citing HB 2, the ACC, following the NCAA, pulls its championships out of North Carolina. But everyone knows by now that the pull-out method doesn’t work.

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The Charlotte Observer busts the McCrory campaign planting softball questions at a Q-and-A. The first question was the tip-off: “How did you get those rock-hard abs, Governor?”

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Governor McCrory pledges to get the gas moving again after fuel leak causes shortages across the Triangle. His advisors were spotted buying a pallet of beans at Costco.

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In a profile, Politico reports that Senator Richard Burr “doesn’t wear socks, except on certain Thursdays.” And tighty-whiteys every other Tuesday.

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Wake County changes the color of its fire hydrants from red to yellow. The National Association of Dogs issues a statement: “Who cares? We’re colorblind.”

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A Durham County jail official calls inmates’ complaints “overblown distorted lies.” He then extols the nutritional value of grubs found in prison food.

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So far this year, thirty-seven travelers at RDU have been discovered trying to fly with their guns. That’s even more dangerous than 3.5 ounces of shower gel!

This week’s report by Jeffrey C. Billman, Lauren Horsch, and David Hudnall.

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Reap the Whirlwind

HOW MUCH HAS HB 2 COST US, ANYWAY? (AS MUCH AS $395 MILLION—AND COUNTING.)

BY LAUREN HORSCH

The special session convened in March to pass House Bill 2 cost North Carolina taxpayers about $42,000.

Since then, the state has lost millions upon millions of dollars, as corporations and event organizers have decided to pull out of the Tar Heel State in protest, culminating in announcements last week that the NCAA and the ACC were moving their championship games out of North Carolina.

“Fairness is about more than the opportunity to participate in college sports, or even compete for championships,” NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a statement on September 12.

“We believe in providing a safe and respectful environment at our events and are committed to providing the best experience possible for college athletes, fans and everyone taking part in our championships.”

The NCAA went on to explain its decision by noting that North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ law is different from those of other states.

Beyond the singularly controversial bathroom issue, the NCAA pointed out, North Carolina also blocks local governments from passing antidiscrimination laws and allows some government officials to refuse services to LGBTQ people.

Two days after that, the ACC followed suit. Losing the ACC baseball tournament will cost Durham at least $5 million, according to the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau. The 2016 tournament netted the city another $186,000 in local sales-tax revenue, which is now gone, too. That loss, says Durham County commissioner Wendy Jacobs, is “so devastating for Durham”—and the damage extends beyond just one event. It could also hurt the county’s ability to land future 10 | 9.21.16 | INDYweek.com

events, such as the Junior Olympics, which book two, three, or four years in advance.

Other North Carolina municipalities are hurting as well. The biggest loss so far came on July 22, when the NBA announced that it would move the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte. With that decision, about $100 million went down the toilet. Charlotte was also slated to host the ACC football championship in December—another $30 million gone.

Cary, which was set to hold four NCAA championships in late May and into early June, will lose an estimated $2 million, according to town officials. Greenville is also set to lose about $150,000 now that the NCAA has taken the women’s golf championship out of state.

Bill 2 remains in effect. Everyone speaks of bringing jobs to North Carolina, but if this hemorrhage continues we will soon be losing real jobs that are already in place.”

“We’re all kind of just tired and beat up,” Fourrier tells the INDY. “We want to get back to the good work that we’ve been doing.”

Already the state has suffered at least $160 million in sportsrelated losses. Probably more, since not every location has released numbers—like New London, which was set to host the ACC men’s golf tournament.

But it’s not just sports events fleeing the state. Soon after HB 2 passed, PayPal withdrew its plans to locate a global operations center in Charlotte. The facility itself was set to cost $3.6 million, but the payroll was estimated to be $20 million annually. Deutsche Bank, meanwhile, had plans to bring 250 new jobs to Cary. But because of HB 2, it decided to hold ILLUSTRATION BY STEVE OLIVA off on that expansion.

And then there are the losses from canceled conventions and concerts by the likes of Pearl Jam and Bruce Greensboro is taking a bigger hit. In a SepSpringsteen. The Greater Raleigh Conventember 16 email to legislators, Henri Fourtion and Visitors Bureau reported in July rier, the president and chief executive officer that sixteen groups had canceled gatherings of the Greensboro Area Convention and Visidue to the legislation, to the tune of about tors Bureau, said Greensboro will forfeit $16 $5.6 million. million after losing three NCAA championThe total economic damage, according to ships and another $7.5 million with the ACC an analysis published by Facing South last women’s basketball and men’s and women’s week, amounts to $230 million. Wired came diving championships pulling out. up with an even more eye-popping estimate: That’s on top of the estimated $6 million $395 million. loss Greensboro has taken since March, after Given the ongoing stalemate—the legislasix convention-type meetings—including ture signaled that, if Charlotte repealed its those of religious and government groups— antidiscrimination ordinance, it would repeal canceled. (Fourrier declined to specify which HB 2, a move Charlotte quickly rejected— organizations bailed.) those losses will only continue to mount. l In the email, Fourrier said he was “afraid lhorsch@indyweek.com. that this pattern is not over as long as House

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Rum Runners

TWO STEPS SOUTH

FAIR GAME CREATES THE FIRST AGRICOLE IN THE SOUTH

BY JILL WARREN LUCAS

Chris Jude (right) and Rose Dyer, with Fair Game Beverage Company, label and mark bottles of their Carolina Agricole Rum. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

For many of us, rum is not our first choice for a sophisticated drink. It was, perhaps, the first hard liquor of college, swilled not long after the taillights of your parents’ car faded from view. Mixed with warm Coke and tossed back with the false bravado of the uninitiated, it delivered a swift, stomachchurning buzz that, for me, demanded an Alka-Seltzer chaser.

For you, maybe it was the vacation delight of finding a bar within stumbling distance of your hotel with a wall of spigots that spewed an array of frozen daiquiris in rainbow colors. Oh, they were so refreshing after a turn on the dance floor, so sweet and fruity. But the night-of brain freeze and morning-after hangover from cheap rum was enough to make you swear you’d never touch the stuff again.

And yet, here we are with a very special, very rare rum produced in our own backyard.

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Thank goodness we’re grownups now and can appreciate the difference between bad booze and Fair Game Beverage Company’s newly introduced rum agricole. A true small-batch product (the numbered 375-milliliter bottles stop at 887), the elegant distillation converts freshly pressed cane-sugar juice into a spirit so refined that you can savor it unadorned.

“It’s pretty special stuff,” agrees Michael Maller, bar manager at Vin Rouge, Mateo, and Mothers and Sons in Durham.

Maller, who was among the first in the Triangle to get his hands on a bottle, confesses that he drained the first one quickly, offering tastes to colleagues and experimenting with cocktails. From a second bottle, he takes a sip of the amber-hued liquor, aerating and swishing it to capture every umami-rich nuance.

“Rum agricoles typically are made in the Caribbean, but this was made in Pitts-

boro,” he adds, shaking his head in amazement. “I find it a very inspiring ingredient.”

Fair Game’s distiller, Chris Jude, was hoping for just such a response when he embraced the challenge of making a uniquely Southern rum agricole. He’d already achieved success with an amber rum made from organic raw sugar and with No’Lasses, a rum-like spirit derived from local sorghum syrup.

This time, Jude drew inspiration from the liquor first made by French Caribbean distillers during a shipping embargo in the late 1800s. Unable to export sugar cane, growers forged a friendly alliance with cognac makers willing to experiment with the juice of freshly pressed stalks. The enticingly complex result, usually marketed as rhum agricole, is epitomized today by Clément of Martinique.

“The juice would ferment quickly in the heat, creating these really fresh, wild yeast

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flavors,” Jude says. “It imparts a kind of briny, maritime edge that people have come to associate with the islands.”

But, as Jude has ably demonstrated, rum agricole is not exclusive to the island experience. Several times in November 2014, he drove his pickup truck about ninety miles south, just across the state line into South Carolina, to purchase field-pressed cane juice from a grower. He carried it back in thousand-liter tanks, with the sun providing a natural start in the fermentation process. Unlike many commercial rums, which age just a few months, Fair Game stores its rum agricole in bourbon barrels for twenty months. The result is more floral and herbal than molasses-based rum, which sometimes reeks of vanilla or caramel.

“It makes me think of fresh-cut grass and a bit of funk—in a good way,” says Maller.

“There is funk that is off-putting and funk that is accessible. Here, it’s very appealing.”

Maller offers a sip of rum agricole straight up, then a comparison swirled in ice. “Amazing, right?” He takes in the aroma, which has bloomed with the quick chill. “A rum and Coke would not be the fairest thing to do with something so special.”

Instead, Maller created a delicious cocktail that will be served next week during the TerraVita Food & Drink Festival.

Called the Two Steps South, it’s a smooth nod to both Jude’s short commute to South Carolina and a splash of Fair Game’s sherry-style Two-Step aperitif wine.

“We’ll make it here, too, if someone asks for it,” Maller says of Vin Rouge. “But I’m already thinking about fall and how it will taste with cranberries or ginger.” l Twitter: @jwlucasnc

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Bug Bites

EVEN WITH INSECT MEATBALLS, PHO NOMENAL DUMPLING REIGNS SUPREME

BY BLANCHE BROWN

What’s juicy, protein-rich, and covered in ants? It may be your new favorite, sustainable snack. “Monster balls” are a blend of pork, super worms, mealworms, and crickets seasoned with ginger and scallions. Raleigh’s Pho Nomenal Dumpling food truck came up with the winning recipe for this year’s Bug Fest at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science last Saturday.

Bugs may seem like a departure from Pho Nomenal’s typical menu standards of dumplings, pho, and a blend of Taiwanese and Southern comfort (see their corn dog bahn mi and Cheerwine bulgogi sloppy joe). But the team is not unfamiliar with quirky scenarios that require quick and inventive cooking. Sophia Woo and Sunny Lin (along with sometime accomplice Becca Ruffin) faced similar challenges in the 2015 season of the Food Network’s Great American Food Truck Race. As winners they walked away with $50,000 and bragging rights as best food truck in the country.

They garnish the “naked dumplings” with a sweet glaze of hoisin, blackberries, and ants.

I happily would have eaten several. But Café Insecta was packed for the entire festival with a steady stream of invertebrate enthusiasts. I dared not deprive any of them.

Chefs from all over the Triangle peddled their bug-infested dishes in creative ways.

Chez Moi Bakery served worm and grasshopper-topped brownies. Rocky Top Hospitality folded mealworms into Rice Krispies Treats, while Buku mixed crickets into ice cream.

Mac-Ur-Roni added crickets to a barbecue mac-and-cheese.

All the buggy bites went down delectably, but Pho Nomenal’s meatballs stood out both in taste and successful incorporation. Coowners Woo and Lin boiled the insects before roasting them. Woo reflected that the worms had a nutty flavor, while the crickets reminded her of mushrooms. Questions like, “If I defrost these, are they going to start moving?” inevitably arose among the chefs.

While they waited to taste, festivalgoers heard about the ecological relevance and

At Bug Fest, Kyrah Artis tries out Pho Nomenal Dumpling’s “monster ball” made with pork, crickets, and worms. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER cultural importance of entomophagy, or bug-eating.

Eating bugs may be a novelty to most Americans, but eighty percent of the world’s nations incorporate insects into their diets.

“Entomophagy is actually really significant from a cultural, environmental, and health perspective,” says Bradley Allf, the museum’s educational events specialist.

“Insects are generally abundant, easy to harvest, and yield lots of nutrients and protein.

Most of the meat eaten in our culture is really just mammal muscle. But when you eat a whole grasshopper or cricket you are eating skin, digestive tissue, appendages—the whole grubworm enchilada, so to speak!”

Allf also stresses the environmental benefits of eating bugs. “Consider that a pound of crickets has about as much protein as a pound of beef,” he says. “Yet a pound of crickets requires just a tenth of a gallon of water to produce, while a pound of cow requires three thousand gallons.”

At the end of Saturday’s festivities, Pho Nomenal won a plaque of a 3-D-printed ant for best

bug dish. Woo noted that, “Doing something like this pushes us to think about food again.

We get to interact with a different crowd.”

Only two years into business and only a year out from its reality show win, the Pho Nomenal team, who met at the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics, maintains strong ties to the area even as projects expand. “We love this community. Its amazing that, honestly, a quarter-life crisis of mine turned into all of this,” Woo says. The truck itself was initially funded via Kickstarter and still has the names of funders incorporated into its artwork.

We lucky Triangle locals can regularly access Pho Nomenal’s menu. One way Woo and Lin are looking to satisfy the faraway cry for their cuisine? Wholesale frozen dumplings. The long-term dream, however, is a stable spot on the map. “A restaurant would further expand our goal of bringing interesting food to people in a fun, nonintimidating way,” says Woo. Bugs may or may not be included. l Twitter: @blancheybee

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it’s kind of amazing to consider how far we’ve come, how fast—how, two decades ago, gay sex was illegal in many states, gays weren’t allowed in the military and were generally dismissed as perverts, the gay-rights debate was framed not in terms of civil rights but “special rights,” and marriage equality was but a pipe dream.

It was just two years and three months ago that the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and fifteen months ago that the court made marriage equality the law of the land. But this last year demonstrated that there’s still work to be done. So-called “religious freedom” laws—essentially, laws that legitimize discrimination against LGBTQ folks, so long as it’s under the auspices of religious conviction—have become all the rage among social conservatives. In many places around the country—and in all of North Carolina—gays and lesbians can still be fired simply for being gay or lesbian. Gays, specifically Latino gays, were massacred by a gunman in Orlando in June. And, earlier this year, North Carolina’s legislature rammed through HB 2, which set its sights squarely on the transgender community.

And so, with Pride upon us, we wanted to take broader a look at both the victories and the challenges facing the LGBTQ community. Inside you’ll find a revealing Q-and-A with Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the gay marriage case; explorations of what it means to be trans in the HB 2 era and where the LGBTQ community is going after Pulse; and a look into the urgent politics of the moment.

The arc of the moral universe has bent toward justice, no denying that. But progress requires perpetual diligence. And as much of a celebration as Pride is and should be, we should never lose sight of that. —Jeffrey C. Billman

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ive years ago, Jim Obergefell couldn’t have imagined how his life would unfurl, how his very name would become synonymous with a cornerstone event in civil rights history, no less than Mildred and Richard Loving or Oliver Brown or Edith Windsor. Back then, he was a realtor and an IT consultant living in Cincinnati, happily in love with his partner of nearly two decades, John Arthur.

Then, one day in 2011, John had trouble walking—dropped foot, it was called. They soon learned that it was a harbinger of the worst possible diagnosis: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, the unforgiving disease that most famously claimed Lou Gehrig. For two years, John deteriorated; Jim stayed by his side, faithful to the last, desperately trying not to think of the inevitability that lay ahead.

On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act; while John and Jim still couldn’t marry in their native Ohio, the federal government would recognize a marriage performed elsewhere. And so, as John neared his end, they decided to tie the knot. John was bedridden, so they chartered a medical plane to fly him to Maryland, where they married on a tarmac. John died three months later.

The fight that went to the Supreme Court in 2015 wasn’t about their nuptials; rather, it was about whether Ohio had to list Jim as John’s husband on John’s death certificate. Along the way, other gay couples joined the case, broadening its scope to the bigger question of whether it was constitutional to deny same-sex couples marriage rights.

Jim Obergefell, however, remained the lead plaintiff. The case was styled Obergefell v. Hodges.

On June 26, 2015—two years to the day after DOMA went down—the court struck down all bans on same-sex marriage. The name Obergefell will forever be linked to that landmark decision.

Jim has gone on to become an LGBTQ

activist. Earlier this year, he and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Debbie Cenziper published the book Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality. This Friday, Obergefell will be at Cat’s Cradle, part of a benefit for Equality NC, where he’ll be interviewed by journalist and Hillsborough resident Steven Petrow.

The INDY caught up with Obergefell earlier this month to talk about his book, his legacy, and the next frontier in the struggle for equality.

INDY: I wanted to start by saying the book was wonderful. It’s a compelling story and a very personal narrative that sheds light on the human circumstances behind what is a pretty well-known case. The first question I really have for you is, your name, by virtue of being the lead plaintiff, is forever synonymous with the gay rights movement—just like Stonewall, for instance.

What does that mean to you?

Jim Obergefell: Honestly, for me, it comes down to, you know … it makes me, it honestly makes me feel uncomfortable when people tell me, “You’re a hero, you’re famous, you’re a celebrity.” I don’t feel that way. For me, it just comes down to the fact that I fought for the man I love, fought for my husband, and I fought alongside so many other plaintiffs doing the same thing, and, for me, it’s just humbling and an honor to be part of this movement toward greater equality for the LBGTQ community. So, it just makes me laugh when I think about law students having to learn how to pronounce and spell Obergefell. That makes me chuckle.

I honestly have to remind myself sometimes when I hear or see Obergefell v. Hodges that it’s talking about me. It just doesn’t feel real, but it really all comes down to the fact that I love my husband and we wanted to fight for what was right. And it’s an honor to be part of that.

The book was at its most effective when you’re telling your story growing up and John Arthur’s story growing up and how you guys met, and conveying a human element to a Supreme Court case that is now being studied in law schools. For folks who haven’t read your book, what do you want people to know about John?

John was this incredibly witty, generous man. He could charm people from the get-go, and he was incredibly good at making people feel comfortable and valuable.

I always just think of how we used to meet people and, just going into a store, John would strike up a conversation with a person looking in the store and we’d leave that store later and we’d suddenly have a new friend.

And we could go back to that store a year later and John would strike up a conversation with that same employee, remembering what they had talked about.

He just had this incredible ability to build relationships and to connect with people.

That was his greatest talent.

Your story with John is really sweet. You guys had seen each other out socially, but you became a couple after a New Year’s Eve party. Could you tell me a little bit about that?

Yeah, we actually met twice before. I was out with one of my friends who happened to be one of John’s friends and fraternity brothers, and we ran into John twice in a row at the same bar over the span of a few months.

Nothing really happened.

But then, when I was back in Cincinnati for the holidays, that mutual friend was now one of John’s housemates, and John was throwing a New Year’s Eve party. A mutual friend invited me. And I went to the party and after that I never left.

That was “third time’s the charm” for us.

Love at third sight.

He sounds magnetic.

Absolutely. That’s a perfect word for it. He was magnetic. He just had this charming, witty, sarcastic, incredible personality, and people liked to be around him.

After the DOMA decision in 2013, you got married in Maryland. Your husband had been diagnosed with ALS. The case was about how you would be listed on his death certificate. I knew that because I’d read the case history, but there are these personal implications to going to court and saying, “My husband is going to die.

I want to be listed on this document correctly.” And that being one of the major genesis events for the marriage-equality decision. It’s really, I don’t know … I guess heartbreaking would be the best word. I can’t imagine what that was like.

You’re right. I mean, we got married because we could. Because the federal government finally acknowledged us and said we existed.

And when we got married in Maryland, you know—we knew Ohio had this constitutional amendment. We knew Ohio wouldn’t recognize our marriage.

But I think that, in so many ways, you know things, but until you’re actually put in a situation where what that means becomes real, you don’t quite get it, and that’s how it was for us.

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One of the things the book reinforced for me was that, for both you and John, how difficult it was to be a gay youth, even a generation ago. That’s not a long time in the course of history. Even if you had a supportive relative or supportive parent, or at least a parent who wasn’t antagonistic toward you after you came out, there were so many things that were stacked against you. Even your home city was passing ordinances in the nineties to essentially eradicate what they were calling “special rights” for gays.

Yeah, that was a painful time to live in Cincinnati, I have to tell you. To know that your fellow citizens voted to, you know, allow you to be discriminated against. That’s a pretty painful thing.

Let me ask you: Do you think that things have improved as dramatically as I perceive them to?

In Cincinnati? Or in general.

In Cincinnati, but also in general.

There’s been, you know, I, I don’t think even the term “sea change” is an exaggeration. It’s been pretty amazing to see the change in attitudes and acceptance over the past couple of decades. I mean, really, it’s been stunning.

One of the things that’s struck me is that it’s hard to remember that that Supreme Court decision only came out, what, fourteen months ago? And it feels like …

I know! … it’s just embedded in society and it always has been. And there are still pockets of religious resistance and some muted objections from conservative politicians, but as a whole, society seems to have said, “OK, this is the way things are now, no big deal.” This was a fight that a lot of folks thought would take decades and decades to win, and now it’s over.

John and I never thought we would marry. I mean, we never thought we would have that ability, and look where we are now.

One of my best friends’ partner died about four years ago. They weren’t allowed to marry at the time; they lived in Florida. And he spent the next two years of his life fighting in probate against his partner’s family who, quite frankly, didn’t want to admit that

“Surround yourself with people who love you, respect you, and treat you the same as anyone else.” their son was gay, much less that he’d been with someone for eleven years.

What a horrible situation.

I’ve heard so many stories like that. Even a few years ago there were people who found it offensive that you would even want to be listed on John’s death certificate. I just don’t know if that’s the case anymore.

I’m sure there are some out there, you’re right. You know, I go back to, in the run-up to the Supreme Court case and ruling, poll after poll after poll showed more than sixty percent of Americans were in favor of marriage equality. So, you know, it doesn’t surprise me that it feels like that. Everyone’s like, “OK! Good! Marriage! It’s done.” It’s still rather stunning it happened so quickly—or, relatively quickly.

In North Carolina, trans issues have taken center stage. Why do you think that is? I have a sense that some people needed to find a new target after they lost the marriage issue.

That’s exactly what I think. They realized, you know, “Well, we lost marriage.” They realize that they have been losing and continue to lose even more and more just in general, in terms of the acceptance and attitudes toward the LGB part of our community.

You know, more and more cities are passing antidiscrimination policies. States are.

And they realized they were losing. And it scares them. And they have now, they decided to then target the most vulnerable community. Absolutely, I’m right there with you.

I think that’s what’s causing it.

What would you say to trans kids, who are watching themselves become the targets of this sort of government animosity? Having been in Cincinnati, when you were singled out and targeted, what would you say to them?

I would say, “Surround yourself with people who love you, respect you, and treat you the same as anyone else.” That’s what John and I did. You know, what we went through when this law was passed and, you know, there were people in Cincinnati who would

love nothing more than to deny us all rights.

Our circle of friends, our family, loved us without reservation. And that’s how we were able to deal with that. Because we were surrounded by people who just treated us like we were a married couple. So, for me, that’s what worked.

I know that isn’t always easy to do, though.

But they need to find that friend and find that family member or group of people who love and support them no matter what. And I want them also to know that I’m on their side. The LGB part of our community, we are on their side, and we are fighting for them.

We are speaking out about their needs, their rights, the danger that they’re in.

We’re fighting for them because we’re experiencing gains in the overall community, but we know just how much danger they’re in and how fragile their world is. So we have their back.

I mean, I know that won’t necessarily always solve things or make every experience easier, but we’re here, and we’re fighting for them, and we won’t stop.

One of the things that HB 2 did, in addition to the bathroom issue, is that it preempted any local nondiscrimination ordinances.

North Carolina is one of the states where you can get married on Sunday and get fired for being gay on Monday. So I wanted to ask you: What are the next steps for the gay rights movement, having secured marriage equality?

I think the fight for us now is to work toward getting nondiscrimination policies at the local level, state, and the federal level. You know, if we could get the Equality Act to pass and update the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, that one accomplishment would have the most wide-ranging impact.

So, when I think of where we need to go and what we need to continue working for and fighting toward, that’s, that’s what I see.

You come across in the book as being a fairly low-key guy who never sought out attention. Now you’re a spokesman for the cause, whether you want to be or not.

I know. I know. Um, you know, this isn’t

something I ever wanted. I absolutely never wanted to be someone people would recognize and stop on the street. But it happened. And it happens across the country. It happens on a regular basis. And, you know, when I’m with people, and they see it happen, oftentimes one of the first things they ask is, “Does that bother you? Do you hate that? Do you wish it would stop?” You know, I don’t mind it one bit, because people stop me because they want to tell me a story. They want to share with me what that decision or what John’s and my fight and the fight of the other plaintiffs meant to them or someone they love. They want to show me pictures.

They want to shake my hand or give me a hug. So, every time it happens, it’s a gift. It’s a thank-you for being willing to fight and being willing to, to fight for John, fight for marriage, fight for people across the country.

So, yeah, I never ever wanted to be in a position like that, but I did it because I loved John. I’m more than happy to give up some of my anonymity to lead a different life, because I know what I was part of has had such a great, positive impact on people across the country.

That’s how society changes. Change occurs when people can relate and develop empathy for groups they may not have been familiar with. And I don’t think there’s any way you can read your book, or learn about your history with John, and not feel some sort of empathy.

I agree, and I’ve said that almost from the start. You know, it also surprises people when I say, over the entire two years from beginning of our, you know, from the time we got married until the Supreme Court decision, almost two years, I got four pieces of mail that were less than supportive. That’s it.

And people seem surprised by that, but I realized, almost from the start, that our story—everyone loves someone. Everyone loses someone they love. So it was this universal experience that every person can relate to, and I think that helps. It helps change people’s minds. Not everyone knows someone in the LGBTQ community. And when people come out and tell their story and help people understand that we’re not this scary thing that you might think we are, that we’re no different from anyone else, that’s how minds change. l jbillman@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 9.21.16 | 17

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EQUALITY NC GEARS UP FOR THE FIGHT AHEAD

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battle was won, but the war raged on— at least in North Carolina. Members of Equality NC, one of the oldest LGBTQ advocacy organizations in the state, will tell you that long before the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage on June 26, 2015, they knew that a favorable verdict was only the beginning.

And when, a few weeks before the ruling, Senate Bill 2—legislation that allowed state magistrates to refuse to marry same-sex couples on religious grounds—became law, they knew that the fight for equality would endure long after the crowd that celebrated outside the high court’s stomping grounds dissipated.

“We’re still fighting that battle,” says Crystal Richardson, Equality NC’s director of advocacy. The fight continues with Ansley v.

Warren, a lawsuit arguing that Senate Bill 2 is unconstitutional.

They’ve been at it ever since.

Tierra Ragland, the group’s organizing specialist, is focused on outreach and religious freedom laws—an effort that led her to make contact with religious leaders to urge them to speak out against the legislation during interfaith forums. But not everyone embraced the concept.

“We tried, in the beginning, to engage with some of the religious right and religious fundamentalists, but it’s very hard to get them to talk to us, to have a dialogue,” Ragland says.

And when, in 2015, Charlotte failed to expand its nondiscrimination ordinance— which sought to prevent people from denying public services based on sexual orientation, but failed to include protections on the grounds of gender identity—another battle commenced.

Equality NC ended up standing on the front lines, trying, via a grassroots campaign, to rally voters in Charlotte to side with those who supported more inclusive legislation.

“We were really pushing out to the [voters in the city of Charlotte] who our pro-equality leaders are, why it’s important to make sure you vote,” Richardson says. Equality NC helped with voter registration and worked with local groups like MeckPac and the Human Rights Campaign to support TurnOUT Charlotte, an effort to elect and re-elect city council members who would have a proLGBTQ mandate.

Their persistence paid off. Public pressure and the timely retirement of several officials left vacancies that would ultimately be filled by representatives who in February passed a new ordinance that included protections for everyone.

“They were very brave and courageous to really take a stand,” Richardson says.

After all, Governor McCrory and other state Republicans had publicly vowed to take action if Charlotte approved the ordinance.

They found that bravery doesn’t always lead to the end of war. And instead of celebrating yet another victory for the LGBTQ community, members of groups like Equality NC again dug in—bracing themselves for yet another fight.

To its credit, Equality NC was there when the legislature held the special session to pass HB 2—the law that has, in the months since McCrory put his signature on it, cost

the state millions and sullied North Carolina’s reputation.

And this November, the group plans again to man the front lines—to get out the vote and take the state back from those who they say have made it a laughingstock across the nation.

“Now is what’s so critical,” Richardson says. “Kinda like where we were in that TurnOUT Charlotte moment where we’re like, ‘OK, we lost, and now it’s time to really educate the community about who are our pro-equality candidates.’”

So they’ll knock on doors and dial phone numbers until their fingers hurt. They’ll call on their friends and like-minded organizations to join in the effort until the last vote is cast this November.

The time is now, they say. This war, at least the legislative side of it, must end. And they hope the residents of the state they love will help them deliver the decisive blow—a victory for Roy Cooper and a changing of the guard in the statehouse.

“That is our number one outcome,” Ragland says. “For the overall organization, it is to unseat Governor McCrory and seat Roy Cooper, because he is a pro-equality candidate that we feel would be better on LGBT issues. As a whole organization, yes, that’s our goal.” ● backtalk@indyweek.com

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on top of the world. I am finally being me and people are accepting it. But let’s be honest. If they really knew what was under all this—I mean, this is still North Carolina. I’m ready—I have been ready for a long time—but I don’t think this place is ready yet.” ● ● ●

There was a time when Sunday mornings meant the world to a little boy coming to terms with his true identity.

Grace remembers the smell of the handmade biscuits her mother would stack in a towel-lined basket next to a bowl of apple butter, and how her father, who worked the land for a living, always seemed at peace as he read a newspaper by the fireplace.

“If you had taken a snapshot of breakfast time, there was something so America about all of it,” Grace says.

“Back then, I’m sure my parents thought they were living the dream, you know?”

But one particular Sunday, everything changed when that wide-eyed little boy ran his fingers over the dresses hanging in his mother’s closet, as he had every weekend for as long as he could remember.

“My mother always took a bath before church, and I developed this ritual of touching her dresses when I knew she wouldn’t be there to catch me. They were so beautiful,” Grace says. “One day she caught me doing it, and I told her I wanted a dress of my own, and she laughed at me. I was pretty crushed. But I didn’t let her see me cry.”

That was the first time Grace felt the need to hide something from her parents. She’s been hiding ever since.

“Sundays as a kid weren’t the same after that. And as I grew older and realized that who I am—what I am—is something I should embrace, Sunday just became this reminder that if the religious right had its way, I’d be in an institution or something,” she says. “If my body would let me, I’d sleep that whole fucking day away.

That’s part of what kills me about this HB 2 fiasco. The government has given more parents the OK to make their kids feel afraid and ashamed to be who they are.

It’s pretty heartbreaking because I’ve been there, and,

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he finds it curious but fitting—how the light that sneaks through the shutters guarding her bedroom windows creeps across the dresses and blouses hanging inside a closet without a door, as the sun sets behind her newly purchased house on a tract of land “in the middle of nowhere” between Raleigh and Durham.

For Grace Young, seeing the colors come to life as the sunlight hits the fabric is cathartic—and symbolic of her reluctant, ongoing journey out of the shadows.

“My other closet, William’s closet, is in the guest room,” she says. “It’s the most depressing room in the house, doesn’t even have a window. I didn’t really plan it that way, but fuck if it isn’t perfect, right?”

When you sit across a table from her, or walk through the rooms she has meticulously furnished with rustic farmhouse décor, you would never know Grace was born William—that the long, vibrant hair pouring out from under a trendy trucker hat isn’t hers, and that she hasn’t yet undergone the many surgeries she feels she needs to complete her transition.

“Go ahead and say it,” she prods. “You can’t believe I don’t already have boobs. Let’s just say I bought these ladies online. Isn’t that crazy? They look great, right?”

Truth be told, everything about Grace is beautiful.

Her hip-hugging designer jeans sit perfectly atop a pair of stilettos. She wears makeup but doesn’t overdo it. You can tell she’s carefully crafted her look, but that she’s done so with a certain ease.

“I try to go for the Katie Holmes vibe,” she says. “You know, without the whole Scientology drama.”

Grace snickers, and then quickly points out that even the way she laughs is feminine. “There is nothing about me that doesn’t scream ‘I’m a woman,’ right? Well, except for the whole I-was-born-with-apenis thing.”

Perhaps that’s why, on the rare occasion when she feels comfortable going out on the town as a woman, she is bombarded with free drinks, subtle phone number slips, and compliments from women who have no idea she wears a suit and tie to the office—or that only a handful of people know who she really is.

“There is no way to put into words how depressing that can be,” Grace says. “A part of you feels like you’re

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let me tell you, it sucks to know that your father suspects you’re not quite the little boy he dreamed you would be.” l l l

There was no home for Grace in the North Carolina town she grew up in, not really. Sure, she had a bed to sleep in at night and home-cooked meals on the table, but as early as six or seven years old, she felt alone.

She remembers the day her father forbade her to play with her mother’s extensive doll collection, supposedly because they were antiques.

“I could already read between the lines,” Grace says.

“Antiques was code for girly. If we had a football, I’m sure that, right then and there, he would’ve forced it into my hands. That was a really hard night.” So she locked her true identity away and remained William, a “scrawny, sensitive, awkward” kid who was a target for bullies.

“I caught a lot of shit because I didn’t care about sports or girls or going to dances,” Grace says. “But I constructed this image of being so incredibly quiet and shy so people wouldn’t suspect anything beyond, ‘This kid is weird.’”

While she remains convinced that her parents thought she was gay, she finds it hard to believe her classmates felt the same way.

“Where I come from, especially back then, you get your ass kicked for being gay,” she says.

“And I never got my ass kicked.”

It wasn’t all bad. Grace found that a limited social life came with advantages, none more important than an ability to immerse herself in her schoolwork.

“I kicked ass on the SATs,” she says. “And if it weren’t for that, I would have never gotten into Duke.”

Grace takes a deep breath and looks down at her right index finger.

“I remember the day my acceptance letter came. I was so anxious that I sliced the hell out of this finger on the envelope. It stung so bad,” she says. “To this day, I have never cried as hard as I did when I found out I got in. My parents probably thought I was crazy, but I remember feeling like this huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders.”

Grace thought of Duke as a fairly progressive place and hoped she would meet others like her—or least, others tolerant of those like her.

“Honestly, it wasn’t perfect, but it allowed me to meet the few close friends who really know what I’m all about,” she says. “Thanks to Duke, I actually have some people who I can invite to dinner at my house and not worry that they’ll see my bedroom and freak.”

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Grace lights a cigarette before talking about HB 2. She blows a few smoke rings and looks down at the burning cherry, as if entranced by the glow.

“Sorry. I want to make sure I address this thing without getting too angry,” she says. “I find that people actually listen when you’re logical. And I’ll admit, I need to focus a little bit so I don’t start ranting and raving.”

Many North Carolinians remember March 24 as the day after Governor McCrory signed HB 2, the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act—a measure that, among other things, banned individuals from using bathrooms in public buildings that do not correspond to their biological sex.

But Grace will forever liken it to the day her father told her she couldn’t play with dolls, or that Sunday

before quickly finishing a tall glass of merlot and taking a long draw off the Camel in her hand. “Let’s take a walk.”

She starts down a narrow hallway, stilettos pinging against the white oak flooring she had installed, and stops in front of the guest room door, letting out a candid sigh before inviting me to enter.

“You asked me what it was like to be closeted. Well, here’s William’s room,” she says. “This about sums it up.”

This is the only place in Grace’s house with a carpet.

From the linen on the bed to the general lack of furniture, it’s clearly been neglected. There are dress shirts and pants hanging in the closets and a handful of ties strewn on the bed—a far cry from what she characterizes as the “obsessive organization” of her bedroom.

“I come in here to do two things: get dressed for work and get undressed as soon as I get home,” she says. “If I do decide to complete my transition in North Carolina, I have plans for this room.

I’ll leave it at that.”

As we make our way to the front door, Grace feels compelled to make one more case against the type of discrimination that has been so prominent recently, from HB 2 to the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. But before she vents, she notes that somewhere, in a small North Carolina town, a little boy waits, anticipating the moment when his mother is too preoccupied to catch him running his fingers along the dresses she will choose from before church on Sunday morning.

“I guarantee you that there are kids out there who are like I was,” Grace says. “Will their experience be exactly the same as mine? No. But they are out there. And they are probably a little confused and a little scared.”

She would ask you to forget, for a moment, the millions of dollars North Carolina’s discriminatory bathroom law has cost the state—to ignore the fact that the 2017 NBA All-Star Game will no longer be held in Charlotte and that artists from Bruce Springsteen to Ringo Starr have opted out of performing here.

“All that stuff sucks, but I kind of wish that we were focusing more on the human element than money,” Grace says. “I mean, if keeping that stuff in the news helps us get rid of McCrory and the Republicans responsible for all of this, I’m all for it, but this is hurting people in ways that go far beyond missing your favorite band. That is really what I hope sharing my story will remind your readers. We, as a community, have a chance to pull people out of a personal hell and start a much-needed healing process. For the life of me, I just don’t understand this almost sadistic desire to inflict unnecessary pain on a group of people who are just trying to live their fucking lives.” l kfine@indyweek.com

“There is nothing about me that doesn’t scream ‘I’m a woman,’ right? Well, except for the whole I-was-born-with-a-penis thing.” morning when her mother laughed at her for requesting a dress of her own.

“I was taking a smoke break at work and my boss comes outside,” Grace begins. “He decides, for some reason, that it’s OK to start talking shit about gays and trans people. He’s praising McCrory for keeping kids safe—you know, all that bullshit—and I can’t get defensive because I’m so conditioned to be guarded. It’s like I feel like I can’t speak my mind because somebody might start putting the pieces together.”

In a rare display of emotion, a tear rolls down her face.

“Wow. That’s embarrassing. I’m so sorry,” she says.

“Sometimes, I just feel hopeless—like I have no courage. But if this comes out, it would kill my parents.

People just don’t understand what a struggle this is.

And I’m not asking for sympathy, but most days I’m just lost. How am I supposed to find myself in a state where it goes viral every time a business owner stands with people like me? Acceptance is the fucking anomaly.” l l l

Just before we conclude our interview, Grace lights another cigarette and pours herself some wine.

“Want to see something really depressing?” she asks,

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His Mother’s Son

HER LITTLE GIRL BECAME A BOY, AND SHE BECAME AN ACTIVIST

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ifteen years ago, I gave birth to a beautiful blue-eyed, blonde-haired little girl and, like many proud mothers, started envisioning what her life might be like: dance lessons, cheerleading, proms, and, of course, her wedding.

But as early as when she was five—when I bought her a six-foot-tall princess bed she rarely slept in—I started to realize that she was different. She never played with dolls or wore dresses. She was all about “boy toys” and clothing and sports that most people would think their sons, not their daughters, would be interested in. At eight, she was the only girl on her flag football team and on several occasions was named “player of the game.”

I didn’t think much of it. At the time, I believed that she was simply an absolutely amazing tomboy. But within a few years, that all changed.

After her tenth birthday, she suffered from terrible anxiety, stomach issues, and headaches. And one night when she was twelve, after she hit puberty and immediately became paralyzed in my closet, our world was turned upside down. I remember her yelling, “I can’t feel my legs,” and how my fiancé picked her up and rushed her to the hospital—how after exhaustive testing she was diagnosed with conversion disorder, a condition that is a result of intense emotional trauma and leaves you with no feeling in your arms and legs.

It was clear then that she had been carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. So we took the doctors’ advice and had her speak with a therapist. It was there she revealed that she felt like she was trapped in the wrong body—something she came to terms with the night she officially hit puberty.

She was terrified, maybe because at that age, knowing that she identified as a boy was too much to handle. The psychologist told her that she had gender dysphoria, a condition that resulted in the emotional duress that led to her paralysis, and recommended she see a gender therapist.

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And that’s how we found Kimbel Sergeant, a woman who, from the moment she met my daughter, changed her life. She answered her door wearing a wide, welcoming smile and asked my daughter, “How are you doing, young man?” For the first time in a very long while, my daughter—my son—smiled. You see, that is the day that my daughter became my transgender son.

To be absolutely certain, he said that he would live as a male for a year and that, if he still felt the same way, he would start taking testosterone. That was the longest year we have endured as a family. It started at WakeMed’s rehabilitation center, where, for five months, he fought to get the feeling back in his legs. Sometimes, when he was relaxed or sleeping, he could move them, but he would lose feeling again when he discussed his gender dysphoria.

At the end of those five months, I’d had enough of losing sleep over my son and made up my mind that he was going to get out of that wheelchair because he needed to know that he is in control of his life and that, for him to get better, he had to want it bad enough. So we discussed, very openly, his fears. And we talked and talked and talked until I taught him how to meditate and visualize himself walking. In time, it worked.

But walking again was only the first step.

He also wanted to start fresh at a new school, so before the school year began, I sent out letters to every member of the Wake County school board. It wasn’t long before the principal at Sanderson High School reached out.

He assured me that this would be a supportive setting for my son and even said he would not be the only transgender student there. So, my son enrolled and was loved by all.

After seven more months living as a young man, he was finally able to get his first shot of testosterone. He was so happy that day that he cried. He was more confident at school and worked hard to become a straight-A student. He even used the boys’ bathroom because he was, in the school’s eyes, a boy.

My son did not like the feeling of being at the center of such a controversy.

So when he heard, a year ago, that some of the transgender youth he was mentoring were not being accepted by their parents and felt alone, he was upset. Then, three months later, HB 2 happened. My son did not like the feeling of all of a sudden being at the center of such a controversy aimed at schoolchildren.

And after the bill was signed into law, he saw, firsthand, what happens when discrimination is made legal. He received two phone calls from suicidal friends.

The weight of their emotional well-being, on top of being worried about his trans friends trying to come out to their parents, was just too much for him to handle on his own. He asked his dad to take him to our local mental health facility.

While he was in the hospital, I couldn’t sleep. I stayed up many nights reading heartbreaking stories about Blake Brockington and Leelah Alcorn, two transgender teens

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who had committed suicide,.

Blake was a beautiful young AfricanAmerican male from Charlotte. He had just graduated high school and was the first transgender student to become homecoming king. He was involved in his local LGBTQ community center and mentored other trans youth. But the discrimination that he suffered was too much for him to handle, and he chose to take his own life.

Leelah was a beautiful transgender girl who had just come out to her parents. They were very much against their child’s new lifestyle, and they took action. They called in ministers to pray for her. She was forced to undergo conversion therapy, which is no longer allowed for minors, thanks to President Obama signing “Leelah’s Law.” Leelah left her home after writing a note that she set to post a few hours later—after her suicide. Because Leelah was forced to

avoid her friends, had her phone taken away, and also lost her computer privileges, she wrote the letter, walked down the highway, and stepped in front of an eighteen-wheeler.

When she died, her parents spoke on local news and professed their love for their son and used her male name.

A part of me gets that. It took me a long time to call my daughter my son, and even longer to call my son by his male name. I cried for weeks. I couldn’t sleep, so I prayed: “Use me, Lord. Someone needs to stop this.”

I had lost my sister, Amanda, to suicide. I would not lose my son.

Three weeks later, I saw that Equality NC was holding a town hall event here in Raleigh to discuss the negative effects of HB 2. I noted on Facebook that I would be attending, with no idea what to expect. I was scared, because this was a forum about a man who broke my son’s heart—our governor— and the bill he signed without understanding the emotional torture it would inflict on our transgender children. I read on to see the meeting was in a church—so at least, I thought, God would be near.

A few days later, I got dressed. I went alone and sat at the back of the church, quietly listening to how HB 2 had affected our state by costing businesses millions in dollars. But right before the question-and-answer segment was about to end, I began to quietly cry, because no one was talking about the children. Nobody had talked about Leelah.

No one mentioned Blake. And, most important to me, no one knew about my son. Out of nowhere, I heard my deceased dad say, “Hope, stand up!”

I stood and tried to be brave. I talked about the struggles trans teens go through, but as I began to tell my son’s story, I began to cry again. Earlier, upcoming town hall meetings had been mentioned. I asked, “Even though I am scared and I’m shaking to death, when is the big town hall? When do I have to share my son’s story?”

After the event, people came up to hug me

and told me how they were very proud of my courage. Two of the women who approached me had transgender children. And I did not realize it at the time, but a man who was there that evening took a video of my speech and uploaded it to YouTube. After that, I was asked to be a speaker at the Capitol rather than just an attendee.

I was grateful to share my son’s story, to talk about Leelah, and tell local trans teens in Raleigh that if they ever felt alone and needed a place to go, that on Morgan Street there is a home called the Wrenn House that takes in homeless trans youth. After the rally, I was asked to be a speaker at the General Assembly building and gave a speech that went viral and was seen by Loretta Lynch. I cried as I heard her discuss the nightmare of trans discrimination that is going on in our state.

But through it all, from that moment at the church when I stood to speak to my interview on CNN, it was never about me. All over North Carolina, every member of the trans society and their allies have been stepping up to demand their voices be heard. We scream, we cry, but most important, we support one another.

My son and his friends are very proud of me, but I remind him every day that I would never have the courage to take on such an important cause if it wasn’t for God giving me strength and for him giving me such a beautiful, selfless son who needs to have the rights that everyone else is entitled to. My son is my whole world.

So tonight, as I write this, I know a few things for sure. I know that somehow, within the nightmare that is HB 2, an open dialogue about acceptance has begun. I know that Blake and Leelah are smiling down from heaven, because Leelah’s plea to “fix society” is getting done. And last but not least, my beautiful son, Kai—a name that means “strength”—his friends, and every transgender child know that slowly but surely, change is coming. I promise. l backtalk@indyweek.com

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n the apartment she shares with her boyfriend of seven years, Evelyn Martinez has adorned the living room with whimsical stuffed animal toys. Some rest on the coffee table, while smaller ones perch on armrests and electronic devices. Martinez sits on a couch where a slouchy green frog looks over her shoulder. She lifts an orange plastic pill bottle and points to the label marked in clear type: “MARTINEZ, EVELYN.” “This is the only thing that has my real name on it,” she says, relaxing her shoulders back against the couch. The frog flops forward as she moves, cocking to the side, as if smiling.

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came out to anyone while living there, but her effeminate demeanor made her a target among her peers. She was continuously assaulted, both verbally and physically.

“You come here for a better life, even if you know it’ll be hard,” she says. “But more than anything, you come here to be accepted. I saw the United States as more liberal, more open.”

The facts about the transgender Latinx community in the South are difficult to determine. At Wake Forest University, a team of researchers who work with the Latinx population estimate that more than two thousand Spanish-speaking people in the state are transgender.

Cristina Morales, an LGBTQ advocate at the Durham nonprofit El Centro Hispano, says that about thirty transgender Latina women in the Triangle are part of the group

Entre Nosotras (between us). Though just a sliver of the public LGBTQ sphere, Entre Nosotras is helping to bring light to a new Southern community that has been hidden from view.

Morales arrived in North Carolina twenty years ago. She says she led a double life in Mexico City, raised among a family of semiprofessional boxers, all men. In her young adulthood as a male, they tried to “fix” her by toughening her up.

Meeting Morales in her office at El Centro Hispano, one does not detect an ounce of meekness in her demeanor. She’s a straight shooter. One of the first questions I ask her, admittedly couched in activist rhetoric, is whether she feels that a safe space exists for transgender Latinx in the community. She responds with a loud, sarcastic laugh.

“What? That doesn’t exist,” she says.

“You’re not even safe in your own home.”

In her office, a canary yellow wall clashes with fluorescent lighting, casting a bright glare on all the little details. A clear plastic container sits on top of a tall filing cabinet, packed with colored condoms that the nonprofit gives away at events and workshops.

On the wall above it is a piece of handpainted artwork. The background is a celestial blue marked with forty-nine twinkling stars in white paint. In the center, a red heart is wrapped with a ribbon that reads, “We Lost 49 Lives.” The date, “6/12/2016,” is written in the middle, commemorating the Pulse shooting in Orlando. The most telling detail is a monarch butterfly perched atop the heart. Representing the right to cross any border, it has become a symbol of migration for immigrants and allies. This monarch is painted in rainbow stripes.

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A woman from Entre Nosotras, which Morales started in order to unify the transgender Latinx community, created the artwork. The group meets at least once a month for workshops with health care providers and lawyers, as well as for social and emotional support.

“I feel very proud,” Morales says. “It’s very difficult, here in the South, to be accepted, to even apply for political asylum.” She established residency in San Francisco for a couple of years in order to be granted asylum in California, where both legal fees and medical treatment have historically been much cheaper.

For uninsured immigrants, the majority of whom lack legal status, a medical transition hasn’t always been so simple—or safe.

Medical care for transgender immigrants is a recent phenomenon in the South. Both Morales and Martinez were buying hormone therapy on the black market, using painful injections without the proper consultation or treatment for risky side effects.

Piedmont Health Services formalized a program for hormone therapy for transgender patients in 2013. Of its ten North Carolina locations, four are in Alamance County, three in Orange, two in Chatham, and one in Caswell. It offers sliding-scale services for the uninsured, which, in 2015, made up 43 percent of its patients.

Rupal Yu, a doctor at the Carrboro Community Health Clinic, says that for transgender patients, the clinic uses an informed-consent

model. This means that a diagnosis of gender dysphoria is not legally required for care, as it is in some places. Yu speaks fluent Spanish and provides general health care for anyone, not just the transgender community.

Yu says that for transgender patients, “continuing the journey with someone requires building a longstanding relationship.”

“Cristina has taught me so much and has opened my eyes for resources,” Yu says.

“Particularly being able to apply for political asylum for gender discrimination, which is amazing. The beautiful thing about this privilege is to walk along people’s journeys, to see they’ve gotten so much healthier. Less depression, more sense of wholeness.”

Since 2014, Yu and her colleagues have incorporated teaching models for medical students who conduct rotations at their clinic to learn more about transgender care.

“There’s a massive training gap. None of this is covered in medical school,” she says.

“So people are clueless. They say the wrong things. Patients have terrible experiences and they don’t come back. Or people get medicine [illegally] and that’s not good. But the tide is definitely turning, even in North Carolina.

“Since we’ve been able to legitimize people’s medication regimes, it’s been empowering for me as a provider that we can get this medicine officially from our pharmacy,” she adds. “But the medical transition is a very small piece. The social, cultural transition is much more of a bigger issue.”

Entre Nosotras recently hosted a Miss Hispanidad Gay 2016 competition at the Hayti Heritage Center. Most of the contestants were transgender Latinas; the others were men in drag. Martinez participated as a

contestant. She says the pageant was the first time she felt relaxed in such a large crowd.

“When they dolled me up and I put on my gown, I felt, like, wow! I’m usually very shy, but it turned into a beautiful experience for me,” she says. “I personally felt very, very much like a woman. The other contestants wore padding or things to make them look curvy. And I didn’t have to. I initially felt small in front of them, but also proud that what I had was all natural.”

Martinez will attend her first Pride march this year, and she’s already working on her costume with her Entre Nosotras cohort.

Her boyfriend will also be attending, his first public outing as an activist.

“I want the public to see that transgender people can be and look as feminine or masculine as we want,” she says. l vbouloubasis@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 9.21.16 | 25

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A vigil in downtown Orlando, following the Pulse shooting that claimed forty-nine lives on June 12.

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A GAY ORLANDO JOURNALIST RECONCILES WITH THE GRIEF OF PULSE

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t was a little more than three months ago that I woke to the deafening noise around 5 a.m. on a Sunday morning. I wasn’t supposed to look at my phone, my husband, Tony, said as he gathered his wares and made his way to work at a real job where you actually don’t stare at your phone. My phone screamed at me. I mean, as a journalist, I basically am a phone, so I found the nearest mirror, looked into it, and cried.

That’s what happens sometimes. That’s what happened on June 12.

But this, of course, is not about me. This is about forty-nine people who died; about fifty-three people who were wounded (the last of whom was released from the hospital in early September). It’s also about power, societal structures, government, and, indeed, grieving.

Orlando, my home, is a different city now.

What seemed like a cultural uptick was instantly deflated by one man, one man I won’t name here, but you know him. He’s the man who shot more than three hundred bullets and ruined families and crushed the local businesses to the tune of $6.5 million and turned Orlando into the Circus World it closed decades ago. (Circus World was the theme park where Elton John got married on a roller coaster, but who cares?)

I have a lot of feelings about how the

media covered the Pulse tragedy, largely because I was right there in the Florida heat, in that circus, on that closed-off street, and I was right there on a lot of giant flatscreen televisions pulling Sunday morning faces, because that’s all I had. For every Ari Shapiro, there’s a comb-over tragedy from a major network, and he just wants to go home. As Tony poignantly asked on social media: What would happen when the dust cleared? Who are we now? Where are we now? (Thanks, David Bowie).

We are in a world where mass shootings— any shootings—bring spikes in gun sales and just a few more laugh lines to the National Rifle Association’s president Wayne LaPierre’s bloodied face. On the day of the shooting, gun permit requests jumped more than 100 percent—just like they did after Newtown, just like they did after San Bernardino.

“As House Democrats called for tougher gun laws, an Orlando gun store owner rolled his eyes,” a local TV network reported. You know who else’s eyes were rolling? First, those poor forty-nine people who took the brunt of an AR-15-style weapon (sales are huge now!) and no longer had control of their eyes; second, the fifty-three people who have been coping in seemingly insurmountable ways; third, those of us with a heart.

For anyone who disagrees, for anyone who

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wants to dismiss the Pulse massacre as anything other than a crime of hate against the LGBTQ community, the Latin community, there’s a big eye-roll for you here, too. It’s coming from me, somebody who is here, who is still dealing with this tragedy on a daily basis.

Over the past three months, I have seen so much kindness in the faces of strangers as they peer over the rotting flowers and dripping poster board at Pulse’s makeshift memorial. I have watched as Hillary Clinton cried, carrying a bouquet of white flowers through that memorial, and as her husband, Bill, clandestinely did the same. It wasn’t about media attention. It was the gulf that exists in all of us; it was our latest national tragedy. It still hurts.

It also hurts that it’s being exploited by NRA sucklings like Florida governor Rick Scott and Senator Marco Rubio in manners that even I can’t wrap my head around.

Because if you saw those crying faces in person—Barbara Poma, owner of Pulse; Christine Leionen, mother of a victim; and the list goes on for longer than your heart could take—then you would know that this is a turning point in America, and that, indeed, it’s a tipping point in gay America.

Just as the political tides try to switch narratives and war-wash the Pulse massacre as

something with ISIS on top, just then, just now, is when we need to own up to what happened on June 12. Our culture—our entire culture—has run into a cloud. It was only one year ago that many of us were questioning whether the gay political movement had any resonance anymore. Were we all just eating wedding cake and having expensive weddings (because, you know, we’re all wealthy)?

Everybody’s cute and everybody’s happy?

Most of us knew better, but we watched, we waited—and then, boom.

Orlando will survive the Pulse massacre, the hate crime that needs to be called as much. Orlando has some really amazing people in it—some great journalists, too—all of whom want the best for this community.

Orlando, however, is wounded.

A few weeks ago, I personally received an eight-foot banner from the people of Newtown signed by hundreds. I wept. Oh, how I wept. But Newtown is still on the map. And, even with our distractions and amusements being sullied by an unimaginable, horrific event—an event that reminds us that we need to be vigilant even in these allegedly accepting times—so are we. And we will keep going. The wounds will keep healing.

The news will keep coming. And we will not roll our eyes at it. ● backtalk@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 9.21.16 | 27

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FRIDAY SEPT 23

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DURHAM

9pm 6th annual Karaoke Grammy Awards w $600 Cash & Prizes, The Bar, 711 Rigsbee Ave. 10pm Pre pride at PinHook Club, 117 West Main St.

RALEIGH 8pm RuPaul’s DragRace Allstar Viewing Party, Legends Nightclub 330 W. Hargett St. 11pm Purina Chow w Andrea Carlisle, Thundora Thighs and more at Flex Bar, 2 S. West St.

CHAPEL HILL 8pm Pre Pride Desserts and Coffee, Sugarland, Franklin St. Chapel Hill

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6pm Pride Crawl on Ninth Street with Coffee and Desserts at Madhatter’s, 1802 West Main St 6pm Pride Crawl Dinner Specials at Blu Seafood, 2002 Hillsborough Rd 6pm Pride Dinner Specials for Pride Crawl At Blue Corn Café, 716 9th St. 7pm Pre Pride Outdoor Dinner at Alivia’s, 900 W. Main St. 7pm Pre Pride Outdoor Dinner at JUJU, 737 9th St 7pm Pre Pride Crawl Dining at Dos Perros, 200 N Mangum St, 7pm Pride Happy Hour - building community one cocktail at a time West End Wine Bar, 601 West Main St. 381-4228

10pm - 2am The Black and White Dance Party - Free Food,Cash Prizes, The Bar, 711 Rigsbee Ave. 10pm - 2am Pre Pride Dance Party w DJs Gemynii & Sammy, Arcana Bar & Lounge, 331 W. Main St. 10pm - 2am Pre Pride Party PinHook Club Dance Party, 117 West Main St.

RALEIGH 6pm - 11pm Harrington St. Block Party w Stars Raja Gemini, Jai Rodriguez at Legends 330 W. Hargett St. 10pm Famous Comedian Bruce Vilanch and TV’s Carson Kressley on the stage at Legends 330 W. Hargett St. 10pm GoGo-Thon - 8 Of NC Hottest GoGo Boys, Flex Bar, 2 S. West St 10pm Pre Pride Party - at Fifteen,

317 W. Morgan St. 11pm - 1am $25Thousand Dollars giveaway in Prizes for 25th Anniversary Party, Legends 330 W. Hargett St.

CHAPEL HILL 5pm - 8:30pm Pre Pride Coffee and Desserts at Cafe Driade, 1215 East Franklin St in Chapel Hill

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8-9am Vendor setup at Festival grounds 8:30am NC Pride 5k Run and Walk (www.sportoften.com/ event/24290/nc-pride-5k-run)

10am - 5pm Festival grounds opens with vendors & displays 11am Ecumenical Church Service at the Gazebo 11:15am Parade Float line up 11:15am Marching Units group leader sign in 11:20am National Anthem for Opening Ceremony NOON Pride Rally w Speakers & Dignitaries, Parade Marshall NC State Rep. Chris Sgro, Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus & Common Woman Chorus 12:30pm PARADE LINE UP TO MARCH 1pm Parade Begins - Official Reviewing Stand at Madhatter’s Cafe at the corner of Main & Broad St. 1pm Viewing Party: JUJU balcony party with special Rainbow Cuvee Wine food and music, 737 9th St. 1pm - 4pm Viewing Party: The Scarlet Rooster (to watch parade), 721 Broad St. 1pm - 4pm Viewing Party: High Strung Guitars (to watch parade), 1805 W Markham Ave 1pm - 2pm Viewing Party and Parade Water Giveaway: Cozy, 770 9th St.

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Love Wins

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, CYCLING, AND A COMING-OUT STORY

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once joked that our love story was so magical, not even Nicholas Sparks could have written it. That’s even more true today.

I met Vicki in 2011 on my first day as a graduate student assistant at UNC Campus Health, where she worked as a security guard.

I wasn’t ready to come out to my conservative Christian family, so I quietly admired her from a distance, until February 2014, when I finally had the guts to ask her out. And, at thirty-two years old, I fell in love for the very first time.

It's fitting that our first date was on Valentine’s Day. We were that couple: the one that makes people gag because they can’t keep their hands off each other.

Vicki was the most generous person I’d ever met. She paid the grocery bill for the person behind her in line and brought big pots of homemade chili to work for people who had to stay late. She stashed sweet notes everywhere, so that I would never forget how much she

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loved me. Recently, I found a note in my toiletry bag that read, “You are my endless love.”

But our love wasn’t all romance and magic.

We were a same-sex interracial that couple, which was hard work.

Having just come out, I struggled to navigate the subtle slights of homophobia—like the time Vicki introduced me as her “partner” at a conference, and a man looked us up and down and said, “Nice. Can I watch?” Or all the times I heard the Bible quoted like a slap in the face. Or when loved ones said they wouldn’t come to our wedding because “it’s wrong.”

As a white woman in a relationship with a black woman, I watched racism hurt the person I loved most. There was the time she was a finalist for a job, and they gave it to the white guy with less experience. It felt like every time we went out to eat, the server brought me the bill or took my order first. I had to face my own internalized racism, too, and learn to apologize for thoughtless things I said and did without wallowing in my own guilt or regret.

The sweetest triumphs are not the easy ones. I had glimpsed the road ahead of us, and it was graveled and tarred with hard work. To find someone who’s worth the work. Worth the pain. It’s the hardest thing to find.

And it’s the hardest thing to lose.

On December 18, I woke up to a phone call from Vicki’s supervisor: “Vicki collapsed; we called an ambulance and they took her to UNC hospital.”

I remember not panicking. I’d spent so much of our relationship worrying about her.

She suffered from relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, a neurological disease that damages nerve cells. But Vicki was a model MS patient. She was young. She took her meds like clockwork. She was an avid cyclist and remained relentlessly optimistic.

When I saw Vicki in the ER, wide-eyed and gurney-tied, my knees buckled and I fell to the floor. The nurse explained that she’d had a cardiac arrest, that her coworker found her unconscious. The EMTs restarted her heart, but she was in a coma.

As I stroked her lifeless hand in the ICU, I reflected on the past week. The sunset walk we had taken Sunday evening, talking about our plans to start a family. Wednesday evening, as we filled out life insurance paperwork, when I encouraged her to find love again if I should die. She laughed: “If you die, I’m crawling into that bed and I’m going with you, just like in The Notebook.”

The doctors never found a reason why her heart stopped, but on New Year’s Eve, they told us she had zero chance of recovery. On New Year's Day, we made the decision to withdraw care. She died two weeks later.

She was my first love. My heart, my light, my joy. I had no idea how I’d go on without her.

Vicki had always loved biking. Riding in the Bike MS Tour to Tanglewood in Clemmons, North Carolina, was something she looked forward to every year. She registered for the 2016 ride months before her death, so even though I had barely been on a bike since I was a kid, I knew I had to ride for her.

Training for this ride saved my life.

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BY NATALIE RICH

I ride because it connects me to Vicki and to something she loved. Because every time I push myself, my heart fills with gratitude at what my body can do, and I’m humbled knowing that she did everything I’m doing now, with the fatigue and muscle spasms and pain of MS. I ride to exorcise my anger at all the people who called Vicki my “friend” and told me that loving her was a sin. At all the barriers I’ve scaled in settling her estate because we weren’t married. At all the opportunities she deserved and didn’t get.

I ride to assuage the pain of never having the wedding we wanted or the child we dreamed of raising. Of never growing old together. Of never again feeling her long, skinny fingers interlace mine. I ride because it helps me see light in the world again, as friends cheer me on and donate money to the cause, as my church family prays for me and wipes my tears, as strangers help me reach my goal.

I ride because, sometimes, it’s the only thing that keeps me from sliding down the slippery slope of despair. I do it for her, to honor her life, her legacy, and our love.

I didn’t crawl into that hospice bed and go with her like the husband in The Notebook, but I know our love is endless, just like she wrote in the note I found stuffed in my toiletry bag months after her death. She will always be my first love, a love that inspired me to take up cycling and push myself beyond what I thought I could do, a love that brought me out of the closet after years of living in shame. A love so magical, so poignant, not even Nicholas Sparks could have written it. No matter what happens now, I know that Vicki will always be with me.

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Bronzed Mettle

AFTER A BOUT WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, A GREENSBORO GUITARIST RENEWS HIS MUSICAL MISSION

BY CORBIE HILL

Adam Joyce developed a pain in his foot when he was thirty-one.

OK, he thought, maybe it’s just wear and tear.

He works with his hands, after all, at Skram Furniture Company in Burlington. Maybe aches and pains come with the territory.

But then the pain moved into his other foot, and then up into both ankles. And then up again, into both knees. Joyce went to see a doctor, who identified the source as rheumatoid arthritis. “I don’t know what that is,” Joyce admitted. But he learned quickly about the autoimmune disease that was causing symmetrical pain in his legs and working its way up. He learned that it can ruin your joints, rendering your hands useless and causing severe pain. He knew his furniture-making career and his time playing guitar in the Greensboro instrumental duo The Bronzed Chorus could easily be over. The future seemed bleak.

“I’ve considered a life of sitting in a fucking wheelchair for the rest of my years, of being angry. Luckily that didn’t happen, because it can,” Joyce says. He was terrified. “This disease—thirty years ago, twenty years ago, even—it would be over for sure. There would be no music for me anymore.”

Joyce was in incredible pain and could hardly walk. If the medications his doctor had him on didn’t catch, he knew his body would just decay. But they did work, and the musician got back on his feet with fierce optimism and a will to live. He went back to work making furniture, got married, and announced in a March 2015 Facebook post that The Bronzed Chorus had a new record on the way, its first full-length since 2009. Now it’s ready, titled Summering, and the band will perform the record in its entirety at The Pour House to celebrate its official Friday release.

Three years have passed since Joyce felt the first symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, and he knows how close he came to complete debilitation. As a result, he approaches his music—and indeed, his whole life—with the drive of a man making the most of a second chance.

“Now that I’m a living and walking geneti-

cally modified organism, I can still play music,” he jokes. “Thank you, science!”

Rheumatoid arthritis runs in Joyce’s family, but it rarely strikes someone so young. Joyce’s paternal grandfather got it after he got cancer, Joyce says, while his great-grandfather had it when he was eighty. Joyce had never really seen rheumatoid arthritis in action, and he definitely didn’t consider the possibility when he got sick.

The disease causes your immune system to destroy the body’s joints, Joyce explains: your body thinks you have an injury or joint damage, and sends cells to repair parts of your body that have nothing wrong with them. That erodes the joints themselves and cause significant pain and swelling. When rheumatoid arthritis hit, Joyce dropped down to a shadow of his burly self.

“That’s another thing that happens with getting sick like that. You lose a ton of weight. I was down to a hundred sixty-nine [pounds],” he says. “Now I’m drinking beer and getting it back.”

The other thing Joyce did after he recovered was go public about his condition. In the same Facebook statement that announced the new record, Joyce shared the news of his illness and admitted to going through a powerful depression after the diagnosis.

“When I got sick I felt like I was alone, completely and totally alone, which I kind of was,” Joyce says. “It was devastating because of how it affected your hands. I couldn’t really play. I didn’t really know anybody else that was going through the same thing.”

He didn’t want others suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, or any disease, to feel as isolated as he did. And if he could help anyone in a similar situation retain even a bit of optimism, he wanted to do that.

Thus, Summering became an affirmation of life. Its seasonal title directly follows the

The Bronzed Chorus's Hunter Allen and Adam Joyce, who have indeed seen some shit.

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band’s previous LP, 2009’s I’m the Spring— written well before the guitarist’s health issues. Joyce didn’t have his excellent job at Skram yet. He was unemployed, making money off playing with The Bronzed Chorus and working side jobs. There are natural similarities, but these records could very well have been made by different bands.

Summering is a much thicker, brighter beast than its predecessor. “Rodeo Rodeo” starts off with heavily affected guitar, which drummer Hunter Allen interrupts with stuttering percussion before propelling it into an overclocked, chaotic bliss-out. “Decollage” and “It Snows Here Forever” skew bittersweet and gently apocalyptic. Joyce has been through a massive, life-changing experience, and such pensive moments are both expected and welcome. Summering closes with pure confidence, though, on “Widdely Wah (‘Til the Break of Dawn.” In two and a half minutes, the song moves from a sort of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots mid-tempo cadence into propulsive double time and, finally, a euphoric close.

I’m all right, Joyce seems to say.

“It’s taken five years to make that record because it’s taken me five years to get the stuff that I have and write the songs and deal with all the other shit in life,” Joyce says. “I feel like now we’re ready to write more and put out more stuff quicker than we have before.”

The Bronzed Chorus is also back to refreshingly pedestrian rock band concerns. Right now, for instance, they’re trying to line up a reliable practice space and streamline their gear setup. They’re thinking like a rock band again, too. The plan is to tour thirty days in support of Summering before heading to Europe for three weeks next April for the band’s first overseas dates. In between the two, they’d like to work on a seven-inch on which Joyce, for the first time, plays more keys than guitar. He’s deeply enamored with a little thirtytwo-key Alesis keyboard, and he wants to see what it can do. Yet hitting the road again simply feels right.

“For me and Hunter, touring always makes music happen again. We haven’t done a thirty-day thing in years,” Joyce says. “That time we spend together, the madness and craziness of being on the road and shit, so many songs come from that.”

It’s taken years to get back to this point, but at least The Bronzed Chorus was able to do so. Joyce’s illness might not have responded to the treatments. To have finished Summering, and know that it’s real, is a catharsis to him. Still, he gets a weird feeling sometimes, knowing how close he came to disaster.

“It’s hard to explain. When I look at that record and I hear it, it’s like a ghost or something,” he says. “In an alternate universe, it would never have existed.” l Twitter: @afraidofthebear INDYweek.com | 9.21.16 | 33

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FOR THIRTY YEARS, CULT HERO SYD STRAW HAS STOOD STRONG ON THE CUSP OF FAME

BY DAVID KLEIN

Syd Straw is sitting in her truck outside her home in the tiny town of Weston, Vermont. Born in Hollywood with the performing bug, the singer says she yearned for the country life at a mere six months, and that her parents obliged her with regular visits to Weston.

“I was an influential baby,” she says.

That influential baby grew up to be an adult who’s spent her life singing with many influential people. After moving to New York at nineteen, she’s graced more than three hundred albums with folks like Wilco, Emmylou Harris, Michael Stipe, Vic Chesnutt, Rickie Lee Jones, and Dave Alvin. In July, she and Los Lobos performed for an audience of thirteen thousand. But next week she’ll play a pair of shows at the Cave and Slim’s, two of the Triangle’s most proudly cramped venues that have a combined capacity of less than two hundred.

It might look like a comedown, but the lowkey spaces are in sync with the modest ambitions of Straw’s tour. The dates she’ll play will pay her way down to an Americana festival in Nashville, for which she’ll receive an honorarium she calls “a laughable pittance.”

“I thought we should play some shows,” she says. “I have no idea if anybody’s around that remembers me, or cares. I really don’t know.”

There’s no apparent anger, hurt, or selfpity in this admission. Plenty of people remember and care for her. She’s made three solo LPs in nineteen years. Mostly she’s kept busy adding her signature vocals—sweetly husky, Southern-tinged, yearning—to the work of others. Playing that backup role is an unheralded enterprise, and it surely hasn’t been an easy path to tread.

“It’s a challenge,” she admits. “So that’s why I’m happy I can just do a little tour, kick up some musical dust, make a ruckus, and then try to finish some records so I have something to sell—because that’s how people live.”

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she drove two hours to a studio to record one song. The session expanded to two more, but Straw abruptly ended it when told her vocal could be Auto-Tuned later.

“It’s a macho thing for me. I don’t wanna be fuckin’ Auto-Tuned,” she says. “There are plenty of people who really can’t sing. As long as those people are trying to make records, Auto-Tuning will have a valid place in the process—but just not on my sessions.”

Some similar music-biz frustration has cropped up in her songs. Her most recent LP, 2008’s Pink Velour, ended with the lacerating “Actress,” a catalog of indignities built around the refrain, “I’m having that kind of career.” It would be folly to think that some of those indignities weren’t ones she’s personally endured.

“You know what the miracle is? That anything ever gets made,” Straw says. “Lots of good things get started; not that many things really see the light of day.” l l l

Straw’s first break was singing backup for Pat Benatar, then Van Dyke Parks. It was

with the latter that she caught the eye of Anton Fier, the hot-tempered original drummer for The Feelies and The Lounge Lizards.

His band, The Golden Palominos, updated the retro concept of a supergroup with an aggressively eclectic lineup of cameos, from John Lydon to Cream’s Jack Bruce to Funkadelic’s Bernie Worrell. Straw, the group’s one constant vocalist, stood out on 1985’s Visions of Excess and its follow-up, 1986’s Blast of Silence (Axed My Baby for a Nickel).

Too weird and arty for mass fame, The Golden Palominos earned a devoted cult following—one of several such associations for Straw, who sang “Que Sera Sera” over the opening credits of the hit film Heathers in 1988. She did some of her finest backup vocal work with the late Grant McLennan, cofounder of Australian indie pop legends the Go-Betweens, and had a recurring role on The Adventures of Pete and Pete, which earned popularity in the nineties through quirky storytelling and cameos by people like LL Cool J, Iggy Pop, and Steve Buscemi.

Straw’s role as Miss Fingerwood, an algebra teacher obsessed with the number two, is close to her heart. She’d love to reprise Miss

Fingerwood, and has even had meetings with the show’s cowriter, Will McRobb, but apparently Nickelodeon, the network that originally broadcast the show, wants to do nothing with it.

“It’s kind of like having a really good record that the label doesn’t want to put out again,” she says.

Straw knows that scenario well. Her 1989 debut, Surprise, a slick set abetted by an allstar cast and featuring a gutsy duet with Michael Stipe, has long been out of print. It drew critical praise but weak sales. Straw didn’t make another record for seven years, and when she did, it was a looser, humbler affair, devoid of big names.

It seems she has often been on the cusp of things. The Golden Palominos for example, have received posthumous praise as originators of a now-monster genre.

“So many people have come up to me over the years and said, ‘You invented Americana,’” says Straw. “I don’t feel like I or the Golden Palominos did. We have to reach back to Woody Guthrie to see who invented it.”

Still, she’d love to reunite the group—as the Silver Palominos—and several from that iteration of the shape-shifting outfit are already on board. As for Anton Fier?

“I’m thinking of hiring him to play drums,” she says.

These days, Straw divides her time between New York, Los Angeles, and Vermont, but she often encounters old friends in familiar settings. Even on short grocery runs, she encounters her contemporary, Natalie Merchant. But even that recognition stings a little.

“I think OK, maybe I’ll go and get milk and a couple oranges and some bread, but it’s almost like they see me coming and they cue up the 10,000 Maniacs loop,” she says.

“I like them, and I like her, and I know her and everything. But it’s like, would it hurt you to just play me once in a supermarket?” l dklein@indyweek.com

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PROJECT ORFEO

Sunday, September 25, 4 p.m., $10 (students free) Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium, Durham www.music.duke.edu

Novel Concept

INSPIRED BY A WORK OF FICTION, SCOTT LINDROTH EXPERIMENTS WITH MUSICAL FORM IN PROJECT ORFEO

BY DAN RUCCIA

It’s not surprising that Duke University composition professor Scott Lindroth would rave about Orfeo by Richard Powers. The novel tells the story of Peter Els, a composer who comes of age during the experimental music scene of 1960s and 1970s. Powers’s writing is rich and elegant, full of remarkable descriptions of pieces such as Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Els is a fascinating character, and the book embodies the music of the twentieth century in a way few others have managed.

Lindroth’s raving about the book to musicians Jonathan Bagg and Laura Gilbert led Gilbert to reveal that she had grown up with Powers. That conversation from 2014 resulted in an unexpected collaboration, combining a performance of the Messiaen piece with Powers himself reading excerpts from Orfeo alongside a new work by Lindroth, Cadences, which was inspired by the book.

Powers’s mellifluous recitations weave the performance together, providing an engrossing counterpoint to the music.

The INDY caught up with Lindroth about Orfeo, the music of clouds, and embracing the past.

INDY: One of the astounding things about Orfeo is how Powers conveys the grain of the 1960s experimental music scene.

SCOTT LINDROTH: I just love the way he captures the thrill, excitement, and daringness of it, the idea of possibility. You weren’t necessarily as concerned about outcomes as you were about exploration. Powers didn’t make it seem like you had to jettison other things in order to do this, which is how it sometimes plays out in a more mainstream description. It was more about, “We want to be part of this.” He writes about it so persuasively, even with a technical knowledge that gives it a depth and substance. Music isn’t just an effect; it seems like it actually drives the story forward, which is remarkable. I can’t think of another book that attempts that.

What do you find most interesting about the book?

His speculations about what a music of the future might be are really exciting, that it could somehow derive from natural and physical phenomena.

There are beautiful passages about twigs skittering down a roof, water splashing, and clouds drifting. There’s music embedded in there, and it’s not just the sounds; it’s the ways we represent those phenomena. There’s gesture and nuance, rhythm and pattern in there that’s not obvious but could be made into music. It suggests an agenda for creative exploration with unknown outcomes, just as the experimental music scene did in the 1960s where it was more about breaking out of societal norms and inventing a new world for ourselves.

How did you approach Cadences and responding to Orfeo?

I thought about trying to work with data-driven music, but I find that it’s hard to bring a faithful representation of data into alignment with the narrative and emotional arc that I need in a piece of music. In some ways, the information carrier in Powers’s book is the text itself, and I thought, is there a way that I can translate that into music in a concrete way? So I recorded myself reading passages from the book, transcribed them as speech rhythms, and manipulated them the way that any composer manipulates material: embellishment, permutation, et cetera. It gave me a very different palette of musical material than anything I’ve done in my past work.

The other thing I found really inspiring about the book is that the composer, Peter

combine your older and newer approaches to composition?

Like many composers, my background is much more in more familiar kinds of music. I was really into jazz; the rich harmonies, the rhythmic interplay, and the improvisation really drove me. I didn’t really learn about classical music until I got to music school.

And even though I’m a generation down the road from Els, the excitement of exploring the new music was very much in the air. I threw myself into that world with ardor. In my twenties, I was into using number patterns, arbitrary strings of numbers, and other things that had nothing to do with music to write pieces as kind of a fun speculation. I wasn’t worried about coherence or anything like that. It was a provocation: Can I find music in any of those hidden patterns? Some pieces worked, some didn’t, but the exploration was really exciting.

As you get older, your interests change.

I began reengaging with Cool and composed: more familiar kinds of music, Scott Lindroth especially after I got to Duke.

PHOTO BY LES TODD, That has been part of my work for DUKE UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY quite a while. At the same time, I still like to do those speculative experiments, but they were more frequently used in collaborations with media artists rather than in my concert Els, never disavows any part of his creative music. This piece was a way to bring them life. He owns all of it. I really love that, that all together, investing the same amount of he thinks music is a site in which all of these energy in the speech rhythms as other more things are available all the time. That was familiar things in music—harmony, tonality, really liberating to me. It provoked me to et cetera—to try to make it seem like they’re engage with things I haven’t done in a long all cut from the same cloth. I feel like I broke time, as well as things that I’ve been doing new ground as a result. It winds up setting an more recently, and to try to put them all in agenda for what I’d love to keep on doing for the same piece. pieces to come. l Twitter: @danruccia I’m curious about that autobiographical element of the piece. How did you INDYweek.com | 9.21.16 | 35

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AFTER BROAD CITY AND THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW, COMEDIAN HANNIBAL BURESS MOVES TO THE BIG ROOM

BY ALLISON HUSSEY

When Hannibal Buress stopped in Raleigh almost two years ago, he took the stage of the cozy six-hundred-seat Fletcher Opera Theater. But since then, the thirty-three-yearold comedian has risen to national recognition on Adult Swim’s absurdist late-night talk show, The Eric Andre Show, and on Comedy Central’s Broad City, where he plays Lincoln Rice, the sweet, grounded boyfriend of the outrageous Ilana. Buress’s stand-up career has enjoyed a complementary boom. He’s put in plenty of work sharpening his sly, laconic humor, and when he returns to the Duke Energy Center on Friday night, he’ll be in the 2,277-capacity Memorial Auditorium instead of Fletcher. We recently spoke to Buress about his growth spurt as a comedian—and his early retirement plan.

INDY: It seems like touring as a comedian and acting would each be enough to keep you really busy—how do you balance doing both?

HANNIBAL BURESS: Acting is not a constant thing for me as much as stand-up. Acting kind of pops up. I’ll do something or someone will offer something I like, or I do something on Broad City, but that’s just ten days out of the year. It makes it look like I’m super busy on a lot of stuff, but it’s not as timeconsuming as it looks.

Broad City has gotten pretty huge. What are your thoughts on how big it’s gotten?

Yeah, it’s crazy to see it grow. They brought me on board when it was a web shoot, and to see it go from a small web series with three or four people on the crew to a hit on Comedy Central—people go crazy for them when they see [Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson] out and about. It’s been dope to see that, and see characters that people are fond of and connect to.

How does your approach writing stand-up differ from how you’ve written for TV? Well, for one, I haven’t written much for TV. But the thing with stand-up is you can always try whatever. I could think of something today, or read the paper right now and come up with a couple of ideas and then try them later tonight at my show. But for TV, you’ve got to think of other people’s voices, and you have to have it kind of polished already, and it has to ultimately be in its best form before you get it to the actors.

With comedy, you can start out with an idea or a premise and try to figure it out from there. It’s more personal to me.

You can write stand-up without putting pen to paper. I have some stories that have been staples of my act that I never wrote down word by word, because it started out as me telling

a story and holding it from there.

But when you write for television, you have to actually write that shit. You can’t just say, “You guys say this, and you say this, and then you say this.” With stand-up, I don’t have to show nobody, outside of a late-night spot when you go to Colbert and you have to tell them what you’ve said. Besides that, when you’re doing a gig, you never have to get approval and say, “This is what my set is going to be.” I’m doing the Chicago Theatre tonight, and there’s usually three thousand-something people there, and I don’t have to turn it in to anybody.

I’m just going to do a good job at stand-up.

This year has been a rough one for everybody in general.

How do keep your head up and write comedy when so much of the world seems not funny anymore?

[Sarcastically] I’m kind of desensitized to all the horrors that the world has to offer, so I can keep my head down and focus on my ego-fulfilling goals and keep my eye on the prize.

You try to just have fun. The world has always had fuckedup things going on. You can look at any year and say, “Man,

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that was a rough year,” if you really do the stats. There’s no year where you are like, “That was fun, that was really nice and everything was peaceful.” There’s going to be war, there’s going to be people dying, and there’s going to be horrible things happening constantly. Do your best; if you have the resources to help in some way, then do. You try to ultimately just focus and do what you can.

What do you see happening for yourself in the next five years?

I want to buy a bunch of real estate and work a lot in stand-up and set myself up to be retired by forty from entertainment.

Like a soft retirement, when I don’t have to do it for money anymore. That’s what the next five years is for me: just trying to make moves and get opportunities that set me up to be financially secure at forty to just relax. l ahussey@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 9.21.16 | 37

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A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY Through Saturday, October 1 Manbites Dog Theater, Durham www.manbitesdogtheater.org

The Interrupters

DETROIT ’67

WALT DISNEY DECONSTRUCTED AT MANBITES DOG—PLUS, DETROIT '67 AT PLAYMAKERS

Through Sunday, October 2 PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill www.playmakersrep.org

Theater is not a democracy; there has always been something more than a little autocratic about the art form. That’s not only true of theatrical production itself, a process historically riddled with imperious directors and actors. It actually starts with the texts.

Scripts share a key trait with novels, short stories, and even screenplays, like the fictional one at the center of A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY, the season opener at Manbites Dog Theater, a coproduction with StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance. In each genre, writers completely control our access to their meta-worlds, determining exactly what we can see, hear, and know in every moment.

Reading or enacting scripts involves ceding some fundamental authority; temporarily, we’re not engaged in our own story, but the stories of another.

So we're on familiar enough terrain when Derrick Ivey steps from the shadows in an immaculate sixties sharkskin business suit by costume designer Victoria Ralston and confidently asserts, “I’m Walt Disney. This is a screenplay I wrote. It’s about me.”

But what will be unfamiliar for most theater audiences is what happens before and after: stage and camera directions read aloud, not by some neutral narrator but the central character himself, as he underlines his command of all we’re allowed to experience.

Paradoxically, Disney asserts that authority as he relates the tales of his own loss of control—of his family, his health, his entertainment empire, and his ambitious, if not megalomaniacal, plans to design and build a city of tomorrow in Florida.

Playwright Lucas Hnath based the work on less than flattering accounts of Disney as a man whose ruthlessly self-serving artifice pervaded every aspect of his artistic, business, and family life. In Hnath’s world, when a nature documentary involving lemmings fails to result in the intended cascade of suicidal animals, Disney insists on engineering one of his own. When he’s

Imagine that: Derrick Ivey as Walt Disney at Manbites Dog Theater

BY BYRON WOODS

PHOTO BY ALAN DEHMER

later accused of animal cruelty, he blames his nephew, who was a figurehead producer. Elsewhere, Disney justifies bullying his brother, Roy, the financial genius who funds his grandiose dreams (and a human doormat, as portrayed in a hangdog performance

by Elisabeth Lewis Corley), and turns him into the fall guy when someone’s reputation must be besmirched: “You say your name means what my name means, that your name is worth what my name is worth?”

Walt enforces control throughout, silencing dissent with a directorial command of “Cut!” and rarely letting Roy get more than a word in edgewise. Their dialogue boils down to a continuous series of interruptions, with each choosing the single word or phrase that best undercuts the other. In one characteristic exchange, Walt optimistically offers up Disneyland as the basis of a new project: Roy: It’s a— Walt: Perfect— Roy: Nice enough place.

Since such ongoing verbal sabotage begins to wear on the characters and the audience,

it’s understandable that Hnath specifically called for the lines to “flow seamlessly from one to the next” in his script. But director Joseph Megel deliberately chooses to do otherwise, and the conversational gears constantly grind between the two brothers, Walt’s daughter (Lakeisha Coffey), and his son-in-law, Ron (David Berberian).

Megel wants us to feel every pothole and sense every manipulation for two reasons: It’s an antidote to the smooth, steady theatrical theme-park rides this region routinely produces, and it probes the fine line between artist and fascist. The bottom line is that professionally crafted aesthetic visions that depict a one-sided view of history shouldn’t always be trusted—particularly in an election year. l l l

You can’t see the footage of burned and bombed-out buildings onstage in PlayMakers Rep’s production of DETROIT ’67. But you know director Lisa Rothe and set designer Lee Savage clearly have. Playwright Dom-

inique Morisseau’s 2013 script places her characters in the modest cinderblock basement of a middle-class family on the west side of Detroit in a tilting place and time: one block east of 12th Street, the site of the July riots that marked the height of the long hot summer of 1967.

The room remains a gallery of childhood moments, with fingerpaint handprints on the wall and a picture Lank (Myles Bullock) once drew of his big sister, Chelle (an austere Rachel Christopher), on the corner fridge. Now grown up, they plan to make this room an after-hours club for money to keep Chelle’s son in college. But before two harrowing acts occur, the space repeatedly serves as a bunker against encroaching hostilities.

Before they take place, family friends Bunny (a bubbly Tangela Large) and Sly (Charlie Hudson III) help decorate and upgrade the self-styled speakeasy, inaugurating a high-grade technical shift for the sound systems of the time—from scratchy 45s to eight-track tapes. But when Sly and Lank rescue a beaten white woman (Katy Castaldi), that act of kindness ultimately places them all in jeopardy.

Lank dreams of opening a legitimate club and complains of having to conceal his basement bar from the police, “like the only way I can be somethin’ is underground.” But his dreams of love and commercial ambition are checked by his pessimistic sister, Chelle, who fears, with good reason, the corruption and chaos just outside their door.

Ultimately, the cornered pair must either confront their fears or accept the sequestered room. Morisseau reminds us that explosions provide propulsion, among other things—including, occasionally, an exit that was not there before. Well worth seeing. l Twitter: @ByronWoods INDYweek.com | 9.21.16 | 39

09.21–09.28 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9

“For God so loved the world,” Mark says, as he starts to quote John 3:16. “Ironic, huh?

Because this is where we learned to hate ourselves.” The character in Del Shores’s semiautobiographical play is talking about a homophobic Baptist church in Dallas, where he and three other gay teenagers are struggling to come of age in the eighties. In this sometimes funny, sometimes somber remembrance, Shores segues between the adolescence of his characters and who they wind up being after grappling with the conflicts between their developing personalities, their sexuality, and their faith.

Brent Blakesley stars at Theatre in the Park. — Byron Woods

In the fifteen years since Katharine Gerard’s adult son, Andre, died from AIDS, she has never reconciled with his sexual orientation, the way she treated him before his death, or his partner, Cal. Now she’s standing in Cal’s doorway, shortly before Christmas, with her dead son’s diary in her hand. Cal has moved on with his life: married, with a six-year-old son. Katharine hasn’t, and her husband’s recent death has only sharpened the existential crisis she’s facing. What does she want from Cal? And how far is she willing to go to get it? Rebecca Johnston and Brian Westbrook star in this wrenching family drama. —Byron Woods

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MOTHERS AND SONS

RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat./3 p.m. Sun., $15–$24, www.raleighlittletheatre.org

Mothers and Sons

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

MOTORCO’S SIXTH-ANNIVERSARY PARTY As Durham began to boom again, a shiny new club bloomed at the corner of Geer and Rigsbee, in a space that formerly housed an auto dealership. With a capacity of about 500, it filled a niche in the area’s rooms, which were more likely to hold 300 or 800 people than anything in between. Motorco celebrates its sixth anniversary with a free, all-ages party featuring some of the venue’s longtime favorites. Bless Your Heart, the relatively new trio of Aslan Freeman, Alec Shahzad, and Griffen Wade, adds live instrumentation to pop-song mashups, while the Chit Nasty Band consistently delivers dance-friendly jams. In the middle is Shirlette Ammons, one of the region’s strongest forces in hip-hop and soul. It all should make for a raucous night out. — Allison Hussey MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 9 p.m., free, www.motorcomusic.com 40 | 9.21.16 | INDYweek.com

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

N.C. SYMPHONY: RACHMANINOFF’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 At the close of its 2015–16 season in May, the North Carolina Symphony realized that it, too, was unable to avoid the impact of HB 2 on its programming. Guest performer Noah Bendix-Balgley spoke about the bill from the stage, and a couple of weeks later, renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman canceled his scheduled appearance in protest, leaving the institution in the lurch. This week, though, the symphony opens its new season on a more positive—and Russianthemed—note, with two works by Stravinsky and one each by Rachmaninoff and Mikhail Glinka comprising the program. The symphony plays it again in Raleigh at Meymandi Concert Hall on Friday and Saturday. —Allison Hussey UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., $18–$76, www.ncsymphony.org

CARTOON & SATIRE FESTIVAL

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Cartoon by Steve Brodner for the L.A. Times

THE BRONZED CHORUS AT THE POUR HOUSE (P. 33), HANNIBAL BURESS AT MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM (P. 37), DETROIT ’67 AT PLAYMAKERS (P. 39), ESCAPE TO FREEDOM AT MORDECAI HISTORIC PARK (P. 51), PROJECT ORFEO AT BALDWIN AUDITORIUM (P. 35), A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY AT MANBITES DOG THEATER (P. 39), CHRIS STAMEY AT UNC (P. 43), SYD STRAW AT SLIM’S/ THE CAVE (P. 34), GLORIA STEINEM AT THE FEARRINGTON BARN (P. 50), VIOLENT FEMMES AT NCMA (P. 48), COLSON WHITEHEAD AT THE DURHAM ARMORY (P. 49)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22–SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

POLITICAL CARTOON & SATIRE FESTIVAL At least this year’s agonizing political season has yielded a few dividends, like this three-day event dedicated to a pair of arts that derive their edge from righteous anger at the status quo. Held under the auspices of Duke and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, the fest offers an intriguing slate to celebrate the poking of fun and the raking of muck in its many guises. [Disclosure: INDY cartoonist V.C. Rogers is one of the organizers of the festival.] That paragon of satire, The Simpsons, gets its own evening featuring some of the show’s writers and producers. People who provide verification services for satirical news outlets like The Daily Show and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will be on hand to discuss the fickle nature of fact. And there are panels—lots of panels, but the good kind, where, for example, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists weigh in on how to draw Trump and other touchy subjects. As for cartooning, you can watch an expert do it or you can try your hand in a student workshop. You may not earn critical praise, but then again, to quote Alexander Pope, praise undeserved is satire in disguise. —David Klein DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM Various times, free, www.polis.sanford.duke.edu INDYweek.com | 9.21.16 | 41

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WE 11/2 SNAKEHIPS W/LAKIM ($17/$20) TH 11/3 LADY PARTS JUSTICE LEAGUE PRESENTS:“YOU SHOULD SMILE MORE AND OTHER MANSPIRATIONAL OBSERVATIONS” STARRING: LIZZ WINSTEAD, HELEN HONG, JOYELLE JOHNSON, BUZZ OFF, LUCILLE ($15/$20) FR 11/4 PORTUGAL. THE MAN ($25/$28) SA 11/5 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE W/ ACTRESS

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THU, SEP 22 Air Crash Detectives WATCH If you grew up with THE SKY The Clash and listen to Rascal Flatts, Cary’s Air Crash Detectives ask, by way of band bio, who would you rather go see?

Ostensibly, the answer is Air Crash Detectives. There’s a good bit of country twang in the quintet’s affable tunes, for sure, but the band picked the wrong British ensemble for comparison—its sweeping, swooping choruses are closer to millennial Brit-pop acts like Snow Patrol and Coldplay. The band releases its third LP, Thoughts From the Drunken Vault, tonight. —PW [MOTORCO, $15/8 P.M.]

Built to Spill BUILT TO One could argue ROCK that no American band of the past thirty years has wrung out more raging, beautiful, and original guitar rock than Built to Spill, whose late-millennium classics Keep It Like a Secret and Perfect From Now On are easy best-of-the-nineties contenders.

The band’s creative pace has slowed somewhat in recent years, but Doug Martsch and crew remain a formidable live presence, equally likely to dazzle with nimble art rock or destroy with Crazy Horse menace. —EB [CAT’S CRADLE, $20–$25/8 P.M.]

The Vibekillers RALEIGH Raleigh’s own ROCKERS Vibekillers have

been around long enough (a decade and a half by this point) to pare away anything unnecessary from their sound and focus on the raw rock ’n’ roll verities: two guitars, bass, and drums, and a singer who sounds like he just might leave his spleen on the stage before it’s all over. They like to call themselves “the world’s best worst band,” but don’t you believe it. —JA [KINGS, $6-$8/9 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Banda Magda, Tea Cup Gin; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • THE CAVE: Oh the Humanity, Sibannac, Progress; 9 p.m., $5. • CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH: Ray Cashman; 5:30 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Perpetual Groove; 9 p.m., $20. • LOCAL 506: Alanna Royale, Parallel Lives; 9 p.m., $8. • POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: The Bronzed Chorus, Sumner James, The Grand Shell Game; 9:30 p.m. See page 33. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Battle of the Broker Bands; 5 p.m., $15.

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FRI, SEP 23 The Beard HEAVY Led by former HAZE Confessor guitarist Shawn McCoy, Asheville outfit The Beard is a marked departure from the more frenetic and progressive stuff Confessor crafted. The Beard slows down to a lumbering stoner rock groove and layers sheets of psychedelic guitar and drifting vocals for a result that bridges heavy riffing and contemplative pacing.

Despite its on-the-nose title, “Fourtwenty” finds the band in a dragging Sleep-style groove, pushing bleary smears of vocals through a driving doom riff.

Tonight also marks the debut of Raleigh prog-metallers Elusory.

Spiral Down opens. —BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $8/9:30 P.M.]

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CHRIS STAMEY’S OCCASIONAL SHIVERS When I spoke with Chris Stamey last year about his latest record, the songwriter-producer seemed unconsciously to allude to his next major project.

“I’ve always really valued a song that has a tight connection between the lyric and the music,” he said, and though he was describing his LP, Euphoria, he could just as well have been describing the Great American Songbook, whose contents comprise an unmatched marriage of those elements.

Standards written in the Jazz Age by Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and few dozen other revered figures were the popular music of the day until rock ‘n’ roll came along. The ghosts of these ditties course through Stamey’s new song cycle, Occasional Shivers, which is set to premiere at UNC’s Kenan Music Building on Thursday.

It may look like a sharp left turn from the mostly pop- and Americana-pegged music Stamey is known for writing and producing, yet Stamey, who helped establish North Carolina’s power pop legacy with the dB’s in the early eighties, has actually played some jazz, and even studied atonal avant-garde music as a student at UNC. More to the point, he’s a restless writer obsessed with the inner workings of song construction. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that he’s come around to addressing the classic works that undergird the modern conception of song. Also not surprising is that Stamey has strayed from the safe and reverent path, instead weaving together the musical language of American standards with his beloved sixties-era rock.

To animate the project—he calls it a musical entertainment— Stamey turned to some of his frequent collaborators, including vocalists Django Haskins of the Old Ceremony and Skylar Gudasz, whose wonderful debut record Stamey recently produced. He’s also assembled a six-piece jazz combo and a string quartet. The work makes use of a narrator (WUNC’s Eric Hodge), and it aims to evoke the romance and frivolity of a bygone era, when songs like “Summertime” and “Blue Skies” were so familiar to the average American that they constituted a shared experience. Stamey is a perfectionist who writes his own orchestrations and studies production techniques with an unstinting eye, so you can expect great things from Occasional Shivers. —David Klein UNC’S KENAN MUSIC BUILDING, CHAPEL HILL 8 p.m., $5–$15, www.catscradle.com

Tonight, for this gig with The Rosewood Bluff, the tough, tearful, and twangy outfit that’s followed in the footsteps of his classic country commandos, Two Dollar Pistols. Charlotte’s Amigo seems to have been plucked from some desert several hundred miles further southwest, where the sun melts stacks of honky-tonk and rock ’n’ roll LPs together with hooky earworms showcasing a classic pop and doo-wop influence. —SG [THE STATION, $5/8:30 P.M.]

Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials GUT “The blues just ain’t BUCKET being beat by a whip, or working in cotton fields all day—it’s a part of life and living,” says guitarist Lil’ Ed Williams. The nephew of J.B. Hutto, Lil’ Ed and his band the Blues Imperials play fiery Chicago blues inspired by Hutto, influenced by Elmore James and Albert King. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $12–$15/9 P.M.]

Natural Causes SYNTHY Carrboro trio SPAZZ Natural Causes headlines a slate of off-kilter acts with needling synth-punk reminiscent of The Screamers or TV Ghost. The band’s collision of throbbing synth, jerky guitar, and sharp staccato drumming divines sneering hooks from an abrasive backing. Natural Causes shows are appropriately captivating and confrontational. Atlanta’s NAG boasts a similarly anxious energy in its wiry riffs and blown-out hooks. Savannah’s Cray Bags feel comparatively upbeat, with bouncy garage-rock riffs providing a bedrock for hooky exclamations.

Savannah’s Toxic Shock opens with a brash, lo-fi blast of sub-minute-long songs. —BCR [THE CAVE, $7/9 P.M.]

Aaron Neville DIVINE A half-century ago, TENOR Aaron Neville’s “Tell It Like It Is” introduced most of America to a voice one writer likened to that of “a battered angel.” Neville rose to a new level

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Grace Potter GLAM For over a decade, ROCK Grace Potter has climbed the ranks of the rock world with her band, The Nocturnals. Driven by her powerhouse vocals and at times overwrought showmanship, the group’s output is rooted in feel-good rock riffs and soulful flair. Last year, Potter broke away from The Nocturnals (but retained a few of the band’s members) to release her first proper solo album, Midnight. Full of sex and glitz, this tour’s “magical midnight road show” is a glittery explosion of in-your-face pop jams. —DEM [LINCOLN THEATRE, $25–$75/7 P.M.]

Profligate HARD Noah Anthony’s JAMS shredding industrial dance project, Profligate, returns to Nightlight as a duo for this night of unhinged, all-American fun.

The “industrial” descriptor is applied delicately here, as Anthony has a preternatural knack for crafting spectral, abrasive feedback tones that scan as both mechanical and organic.

A bit of pop always shines through this extreme dissonance, like light through ice. Come early and check out Secret Boyfriend.

—DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/10 P.M.]

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Squirrel Nut Zippers NOT TOO This year marked HOT the twentieth anniversary of Hot, the second record by former Carrboro outfit Squirrel Nut Zippers. The raucous, hot jazz-influenced band caught a tiger by the tail with its hit single “Hell.” This tour, though, lacks the magic of the band’s early days.

The only original members are drummer Chris Phillips and frontman Jimbo Mathus; Tom Maxwell, who wrote “Hell,” won’t be there, nor will Katharine Whalen, whose voice gave the Zippers so much of their signature sound. You can try to enjoy the nineties nostalgia, but this trip down memory lane looks dim.

—AH [CAROLINA THEATRE, $20–$65/8 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY THE CARY THEATER: Celebration of NC Songwriters; 8 p.m., $20. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: Wheeler Walker Jr.; 8 p.m., $16. • DEEP SOUTH: ElecTric LadyLand; 8:30 p.m., $6. • HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER: Sing For Your Supper; 9 p.m., $16–$20. • KINGS: Take the Fall; 9 p.m., $7. • LINCOLN THEATRE: The Iller Whales; 11 p.m. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: NC Symphony; 8 p.m., $15–$80. See page 41. • MOTORCO: Bless Your Heart, Shirlette Ammons, Chit Nasty; 9 p.m., free. See page 40. • POUR HOUSE: Larry Keel Experience; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Lenora Helm; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SLIM’S: 1970s Film Stock, Al Riggs,; 8 p.m., $5. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Dr. Bacon, Chit Nasty Band; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • UNC’S KENAN REHEARSAL HALL: Chris Stamey’s Occasional Shivers; 8 p.m., $15. See box, page 43.

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one of the top forty country acts of 2015, but these boys got nothing in common with Nashville. Whether Bakersfieldin’ it up Buck Owens style on “Louise” or spewing out an unholy mix of rockabilly, honky-tonk, and western swing on “Less Honkin’ More Tonkin,” from the band’s eponymous 2015 debut, the New Orleans-based Deslondes straddle the line between old-school country, hillbilly, and rock with a loose-limbed Nawlins strut burbling just under the surface. —GB [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, $14–$16/8 P.M.]

Dover Quartet RISING The young Dover STARS Quartet dives headfirst into two opposite pillars of the classical canon: Mozart’s endlessly lyrical Quartet K.589 and Beethoven’s gnarled Grosse Fuge (played alongside the opus 130 quartet to which it was originally attached). In between, David Ludwig’s recent Pale Blue Dot theatrically explores the outer space travels of Voyager I. —DR [DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, $10–$38/8 P.M.]

Enter the Realm HEAVEN Gospel music seems BOUND to mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people these days. Earlier this year, when Kanye West described his upcoming The Life Of Pablo LP as a gospel album, few would have imagined the lyric, “If I fuck this model, and she has bleach on her asshole, and I get bleach on my T-shirt, I’m gone feel like an asshole” would qualify as “gospel.” Tasha Page-Lockhart, D’Morea Johnson, and Latice Crawford, all talented and accomplished veterans in the actual genre, present something a bit more, um, traditional. —RC [CAROLINA THEATRE, $20–$35/7:30 P.M.]

Glass Animals ACTUAL It seems that nearly HUMANS every person British electropop outfit Glass Animals has met over the course of the last couple of years appears on the pastel pastiche How to Be a

Human Being, the quartet’s high-concept new album. Within the vast textures of the record’s lush, animated arrangements—I swear there are samples from Mario Paint in there—lie vignettes inspired by the tall tales and true stories of strangers the Oxford band met on the road. —PW [THE RITZ, $31/8 P.M.]

Hippie Sabotage DESTROY Hippie Sabotage, HIPPIES sadly, is neither a punk band nor a jam-heavy tribute to the Beastie Boys. The Sacramento-based Saurer brothers tread in bad-vibes EDM and hip-hop remixes that dissipate into hazy ambient clouds before contracting and collapsing into wobbly dubstep drops. It probably won’t really harsh any mellows, though.

—PW [CAT’S CRADLE, $17–$65/8 P.M.]

Legends of Southern Hip-Hop DIRTY It’s hard to imagine a SOUTH touring show that has ever featured as many collective arrest warrants as the Legends of Southern Hip-Hop does, with Juvenile, Mystikal, Trick Daddy and others in tow. It’s also hard to imagine a more accurate use of the word “legends,” in this case describing some of the most defining hip-hop voices of an era.

Fans should be in for a night of nostalgia and revelry in Raleigh, provided the performers remain free men until Saturday night.

—RC [MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM, $50–$60/8 P.M.]

Live & Local Bluegrass IBMA Get ready for ’grass PREVIEW with this two-day mini-festival just off Hillsborough Street, gathering more than a dozen North Carolina-based performers—many of whom will be scattered across downtown at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass next week. Highlights include the sharp songwriting of Swift Creek, fleet instrumental workouts from Counterclockwise String Band, spirited old-time from The

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Holland Brothers, guitar picking greatness from Nixon, Blevins & Gage, and sizzling six-piece supergroup Sideline, featuring folks from IIIrd Tyme Out, The Cherryholmes, and others. —SG [STEPHENSON AMPHITHEATRE, FREE/2:30 P.M.]

Morbids BLUE Two bands don’t RIDGES make a trend, necessarily, but this show suggests a surge of sharp post-punk in western North Carolina. Asheville’s Morbids summon a psych-garage haze from tangles of stringy riffs, while Boone’s Konvoi goes darker and more frenetic with jagged, uptempo bruisers descended from Thee Oh Sees. —BCR [KINGS, $7/9 P.M.]

The New Schematics DYNAMIC The New SchematDREAMS ics make melodramatic, melodic pop-rock with lines like “The funny thing about faith/it’s hard as hell to fake,” that would likely land alongside the rest of the lauded lyrics covering Deep South’s blood red walls, had they come from a better known band. As it stands, the Nashville outfit is a fitting follow-up to Ben Rector’s Red Hat gig, a more compelling chaser than the main course itself. —SG [DEEP SOUTH, $10/9 P.M.]

Purple Schoolbus ALL Purple Schoolbus ABOARD first formed in 1992 in Greenville, North Carolina, but the band veered hard from the prevailing grunge zeitgeist. Its limber, loosey-goosey rock puts a Southern-fried crust on sixties and seventies San Francisco hippie pop and Phishy jam excursions.

This show is billed as the tail end of a three-show reunion tour, but the group’s been semi-active since at least 2010. —PW [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $12–$15/8 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY LOCAL 506: VanLadyLove, Youma; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: NC Symphony; 8 p.m., $15–$80. See page 41. • POUR

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• SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Space Jesus, Huglife Music; 9 p.m., $15–$20.

SUN, SEP 25 Carrboro Music Festival CARRBO- In a single day, the ROO nineteenth-annual Carrboro Music Festival will present more than a hundred eighty acts on twenty-five stages concentrated in just a few blocks of downtown. There’s surely plenty of under-the-radar finds buried among the monstrous and varied lineup, but a cross section of notable locals turns up Pipe, Dexter Romweber, LUD, Big Fat Gap, Colossus, Matt Phillips, Boom Unit Brass Band, Grand Shell Game, Michael Rank, and Happy Abandon, to name but a few. Those who want to keep it simple can stick to Weaver Street Market or The Station, which offer strong slates loaded with diverse strains of rock. —SG [VARIOUS VENUES, FREE/1 P.M.]

Crying CHIP EMO The sprightly chiptune sounds that colored 2014’s Get Olde LP from Purchase, New York, outfit Crying injected a bit of fresh blood into the burgeoning East Coast DIY/emo scene, a zone that can occasionally feel overrun with Pavement worship and shoegaze pivots. Where some acts employ eight-bit, or in the case of Crying’s upcoming album, eighties pop synths as a gimmick, Crying succeeds because the band understands that songwriting is key. Vocalist Elaiza Santos writes poignant, biting songs, and the electronic bits serve as subtle elements of texture, rather than offering another excuse for cheap, boring nostalgia. —DS [THE PINHOOK, $8–$10/7:30 P.M.]

Robbie Fulks first earned attention as the resident wiseguy of the nineties alt-country onslaught. But behind those sharply satirical tunes was a top-shelf songwriter with a deep knowledge of country history and a willingness to push the envelope. But just because Fulks has established himself as a more “serious” songwriter over the years doesn’t mean his shows aren’t still a blast. We are, after all, talking about a guy who’s been known to cover “Dancing Queen.”

—JA [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, $18–$20/8 P.M]

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VIOLENT FEMMES A curiously enduring artifact of punk rock’s initial stateside tremors, Milwaukee’s Violent Femmes never possessed the critical cachet or long-running influence of outsider peers like the Meat Puppets or X. Still, they’re far better known to today’s listening public on the indelible strength of hit singles “Gone Daddy Gone,” “Add It Up,” “Kiss Off,” and “Blister in the Sun.” Great songs by any measure, these minted classics have occasionally threatened to obscure the full breadth of the band’s other many lasting achievements, which include nine studio albums, as many drummers as Spinal Tap, and a contentious lawsuit between founding members over a Wendy’s commercial.

The endearingly oddball Femmes emerged fully formed on their classic self titled 1983 album, channeling the Modern Lovers’ jangle-nerved suburban ennui through the highly idiosyncratic worldview of Gordon Gano, the band’s singer and principal songwriter. The Femmes were minimalist in an era in which American indie was set to embark in an arms race of feedback-drenched volume. The three-piece group borrowed the Velvet Underground’s pared-down snare-and-brushes sound and evinced throwback impulses that could occasionally make them sound like punk rock’s one and only foray into skiffle.

While the Femmes never quite topped the ready-made mastery of their debut, the band released a series of good to great records throughout the eighties, tackling everything from political hypocrisy to spiritual striving. All the while, this work established Gano as a kind of poet laureate of marginalized suburban anxiety, boasting a forensic acuity.

Having reunited in 2013 following a long and frequently contentious hiatus, the band has been reformed long enough to deliver its first album in fifteen years. January’s We Can Do Anything is a solid if slightly perfunctory release that neither meaningfully advances nor significantly diminishes the band’s legacy. Like so many acts of their era and ilk, the Femmes have enjoyed considerable success on the road in recent years, riding a wave of Gen-X nostalgia, which finds their legions of once-awkward teen admirers now flush with enough cash to drop a cool thirty bucks on a Wednesday night stroll down memory lane. For this most arch of great bands, the irony of the Femmes’ evolution from the disaffected beacon of youthful disenfranchisement into sing-along comfort food for settled suburbanites must strike the band as rich indeed. Certainly, it would make a great Gordon Gano song. —Timothy Bracy N.C. MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $27–$45, www.ncartmuseum.org

Billy Hart Quartet DARK Drummer Billy Hart JAZZ has played with just about everyone over his fifty-year career. His current working group—pianist Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus, saxophonist Mark Turner, and bassist Ben Street—makes music as complicated and moody as anything in his career. Hart provides the fluid grooves around which the rest of the group unfurls delicate tendrils and tight, inventive interplay. As always, Iverson stands out for his sensitive touch and virtuosic flair. —DR [21C MUSEUM HOTEL, $10–$34/5 & 7:30 P.M.]

Il Divo NEOOne might be CLASSIC tempted to call Il Divo the Beatles of classical crossover, but as they were assembled by talent mogul Simon Cowell, that makes them the Monkees of the genre. And as with The Monkees, it doesn’t matter what the critics say. The people have spoken, and the quartet’s popularity reigns. —DK [DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, $55–$150/7:30 P.M.]

Aston Marton & Friends HELLA Aston Martin and HIP-HOP his Noise Touches Generations crew have an eclectic sound that makes them Raleigh’s signature new age/indigo hip-hop collective. In frequent collabora-

tion with Raleigh rapper Steezie, Aston makes beats that utilize heavily tuned 808 kicks layered with interesting samples, recalling D-Jaysremm. Though Aston Martin’s beats separate him from the crowd of local rappers who prefer a more soulful feel, he still has work to do to establish himself as a strong local entity.

—CM [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $5/8 P.M.]

Beaver Nelson SURVIThis Austin-based VOR singer-songwriter got off to a blessed start when he was touted in Rolling Stone as a teenage prodigy, but he came back to earth after being sidelined by record-company woes. His soaring tenor charms, and his songwriting has only sharpened over the years. —DK [SLIM’S, RALEIGH, $10/7:30 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY CAT’S CRADLE: Carrboro Music Festival: The Spectacles, Spiralfire, Butter, Bruteus, Zephyranthes, Stranger Spirits, Hardworker; 2:30 p.m., free.

• CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Carrboro Music Festival: Secretary, Docking, Sunshine Faces, Coy; 2 p.m., free. • COMPIEGNE PARK: Live and Local Bluegrass: Garrett Newton Band, Moore Brothers Band, Salt and Light; noon. • DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Project Orfeo; 5 p.m., $10. See page 35. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Black Uhuru, Onesty, Crucial Fiya; 8:30 p.m., $20. • LOCAL 506: Dee-1, Searcy; 8:30 p.m., $10–$15. • MOTORCO: Rob Abernethy, Robert Kirkland; 2 p.m., $6–$8. • POUR HOUSE: School of Rock: Summer of Love, 70’s Metal; 1 p.m., $5. Jay Aston, Trevor Tanner; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • THE STATION: Carrboro Music Festival: Blue Cactus, Michael Rank; 1 p.m., free.

MON, SEP 26 The Sword NEW On its fifth album, TRICKS last year’s High Country, Austin, Texas, doom crew The Sword flipped the script.

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Goblin-esque prog. High Country is still a decidedly retro hard rock record, but the more freewheeling approach suits the band. Its revival sounds much more lively.

—BCR [LINCOLN THEATRE, $16/8 P.M.] ALSO ON MONDAY NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Atomic Rhythm All Stars; 8 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Coast 2 Coast Interactive Showcase; 9:30 p.m., $10. • SLIM’S: Syd Straw; 8 p.m., $15. See page 34.

ALSO ON TUESDAY THE ARCHITECT BAR & SOCIAL HOUSE: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: Annie Lou, Kaia Kater; 7 p.m. • THE CAVE: Syd Straw; 8 p.m., $15. See page 34. • KINGS: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: Run Boy Run, Carolina Belle; 7 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: Moonstruck Mash; 6 p.m., $10. • POUR HOUSE: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: High Plains Jamboree, Jenni Lyn; 7 p.m., $25–$75.

• RALEIGH CONVENTION CENTER: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass; 7 p.m. • SLIM’S: Old Codger; 8 p.m., $5. • VINTAGE CHURCH: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: The Loose Strings Band, The Honey Dewdrops; 7 p.m.

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BIG, LOUD There’s no question BARS that Denzel Curry can rap. The hard-edged Carol City, Florida, native packs bar after bar into every song, with sonic output that ranges from Andre 3000 to a demonic, hip-hop-ified version of death metal (for good measure, the name of this tour is “Black Metal Terrorist”). One constant throughout is high volume—Curry’s set was undoubtedly one of the loudest at Moogfest in May. If you value your long-term hearing, invest in some good earplugs. —RC [CAT’S CRADLE, $17–$19/8 P.M.]

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The Dandy Warhols DANDY Fashion-damaged, DUDES proudly degenerate avatars of nineties excess, Portland’s Dandy Warhols have always felt like a talented band in the throes of a careerist identity crisis. Gifted and evidently self-fascinated frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor has never known a rock cliché he doesn’t love, nor one that he could actually make his own. Nevertheless, there is something undeniable to the band. The wheelhouse kick of its garage and glam highlights make for an inarguable serotonin rush. —EB [CAT’S CRADLE, $24-$27/7:30 P.M.]

AMBIENT Over the last DUDES half-decade, Tycho has come into its own as a project, outrunning most accusations of Boards of Canada swaggerjackery To advertise that plagued it earlyor on.feature Yes, a pet for adoption, Kid Congo Powers please contact rgierisch@indyweek.com bandleader Scott Hansen still reps ROCK Brian Tristan, aka Kid meditative, slightly eerie analog BLOCK Congo Powers, has a synths, and the music could pretty respectable résumé. He comfortably soundtrack one of was previously a member of Nick those slow-pan Netflix nature Cave’s Bad Seeds, The Gun Club, documentaries you watch zooted and The Cramps—enough to at four in the morning. But on retire without strumming another 2014’s Awake, Tycho explored note. He’s still kicking, though, and elegant, ambitious post-rock of his band’s international spin on the sort that Tortoise was stirring classic rock tropes is inspired and around in the mid-nineties. unlike any of those aforemenHeathered Pearls throws down tioned projects. If you fetishize crisp ambient techno before skronky rock ’n’ roll weirdness, them, and Made of Oak, aka Nick consider this your Tuesday Sanborn of Sylvan Esso, warms ministry. —DS things up first. —DS [KINGS, $12–$14/10 P.M.] [THE RITZ, $25/8 P.M.]

Post Malone INTERNET More than two FAULT hundred million YouTube views later, Post Malone’s “White Iverson” feels like another inflection point for the internet music era: a white boy with cornrows, a mangy beard, and an outrageous white outfit in the desert, rapping about Allen Iverson. Malone could not have been dreamt up in a boardroom.

Now, with new track “Deja Vu,” he’s betting there’s plenty of room in the Afro-Caribbean sing-rap landscape. —RC [THE RITZ, $42/8 P.M.]

The Toasters GET The Toasters, TOASTED third-wave ska veterans, wear their thirty-plus years with pride, hewing diligently to their roots while communing with younger fans to preserve and advance the tradition. As former proprietor of the legendary Moon Records, Toasters frontman Robert “Bucket” Hingley exemplified all of the best and most nettlesome aspects of running a principled business. As a band, The Toasters possess no such concerns, combining traditional skank with dexterously applied rations of Miles-era-bop and R&B. —EB [LOCAL 506, $10-$12/8:00 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY THE ARCHITECT BAR & SOCIAL HOUSE: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: Zoe & Cloyd, 10 String Symphony, Missy Raines & The New Hip; 7 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Ruth B; 7:30 p.m., $10–$12. • KINGS: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: Hannah Shira Naiman, Valerie Smith and Liberty Pike; 7 p.m. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Garrett Newton Band; 5:45 p.m., $5. • LINCOLN THEATRE: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: The Lil’ Smokies, Molly Tuttle Band, Town Mountain; 7 p.m., $10. • NC MUSEUM OF ART: Violent Femmes; 8 p.m., $27–$45. See box, page 45. • POUR HOUSE: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: Trout Steak Revival, Old Salt Reunion, Hackensaw Boys; 7 p.m., $25–$75. • RALEIGH CONVENTION CENTER: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: Various Artists; 7 p.m. • VINTAGE CHURCH: IBMA’s Wide Open Bluegrass: The Andrew Collins Trio, Steep Ravine; 7 p.m.

TUE 7/5 Crank It Loud: NOTHING / CULTURE ABUSE WAILIN STORMS / HUNDREDFTFACES FRI

7/8 SolKitchen & The Art of Cool Project: The Art of Noise #Durham

MON 7/11 Regulator Bookstore presents HEATHER HAVRILESKY: Ask Polly Live TUE 7/12 DANNY SCHMIDT / REBECCA NEWTON with WES COLLINS THU 7/14 Storymakers: Durham, Community Listening Event WE 9/21

PINKERTON ANTHONY & THE MYSTERY TRAIN THUSAT 9/22 7/16 CATIE KING BANDRAID / AIR/ ST. CRASH DETECTIVES

WED JUN 29 @ 8:00 PM, $12/$15 SUN JUL 17 CD Release Party

@ 8:00 PM SAT 9/24 Durham Pride Celebration & Motorco Sixth THE RAGBIRDS

SAT 9/24 RICHIE RAMONE THE RAGBIRDS Anniversary Party with BLESS YOUR HEART /

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DURHAM SHIRLETTE AMMONSPRIDE / CHIT NASTYCELEBRATION & w/ POISONANNIVERSARY ANTHEM MOTORCO SIXTH PARTY RICHARD BACCHUS & THE LUCKIEST GIRLS

Starting at Noon: ON/ THE PATIO FRI 7/1 LOOK COOKOUT HOMEWARD THE MIDATLANTIC MON 7/18 MAIL HORSE (Grilled THE Churrasco Sliders & Grilled Portobello Sliders) TUE 7/5 Crank It Loud: NOTHING / CULTURE ABUSE Starting at 9pm: Free Show!

FRI JUL 22WAILIN STORMS / HUNDREDFTFACES BLESS YOUR HEART / SHIRLETTE AMMONS / CHIT NASTY @ 8:00 PMJOHN COWAN SUN$25/$30 A Special Afternoon Show&withThe RODArt ABERNETHY AND FRI9/25 7/8 SolKitchen of Cool Project: ROBERT The ArtKIRKLAND of Noise #Durham MON 9/26 Flash Chorus MON 7/11 Regulator Bookstore presents “Cheap Thrills” - Sia / “Under The Bridge” - Red Hot Chili Peppers HEATHER HAVRILESKY: Ask Polly Live THU 9/29 Music Documentary Night: DANNY SAYS SAT Rock 7/12 DANNY SCHMIDT NEWTON with WES COLLINS FRITUE 9/30 7/23 The Girls Art Of CoolShowcase & Sol/ REBECCA Kitchen present

JOHN COWAN w/ DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE

S D R I B G A R E TH THE Storymakers: ART OF NOISE: The Best ofCommunity 90’s Hip Hop & R&B Event TUE 7/26 Motorco Comedy Night: THU 7/14 Durham, Listening SUN 10/2 RUSSIAN / HELMS ANDYCIRCLES WOODHULL / ALEE ADAM COHEN SAT10/3 7/16 PINKERTON RAID / ST. ANTHONY & THE MYSTERY TRAIN MON Cat’s Cradle presents BAND OF SKULLS /op MOTHERS Ma tt er s -P FRI 7/29 YOUNG BULL Album Release el er s"Show tr av WED 10/5 GANGSTAGRASS / KAMARA THOMAS & THE NIGHT SUN DRIVERSJUL 17 tis tic e ar w/ ALIX AFF / DURTY DUB on su mm at @ 8:00 PM "CTHU 10/6 Cat’sTHE RAGBIRDS Cradle presents BLITZEN TRAPPER - $12/$15 SUN JUL17 SONGBOOK: A Night Of Stories Songs with KacyMILL, & Clayton COMING SOON: JULIETTE LEWIS, YARN,& JARED & THE FRIHAL 10/7KETCHUM, SISTER SPARROW THE DIRTY BIRDS / LIZ VICE,& WINDHAND, Doors: 7pmNRBQ,

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SMOOTH CODY CANADA & THE SMITH DEPARTED, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, BAND OF SKULLS, Show: 8pmHOUND SATSISTER 10/8 Fifth SPARROW & THE DIRTY BIRDS, KING, Annual Durham Oktoberfest withNCLITTLE GERMAN BAND $12 ADV 723 RIGSBEE AVE - DURHAM, - MOTORCOMUSIC.COM DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER, RECORD COMPANY, ADRIAN LEGG, COMING SOON: LA SANTA CECILIA, BRONZE RADIOTHE RETURN, PETE ROCK, THE SUMMER SET, KING, $15 DAY OF 7/18 MAIL THE THEMON STEEL WHEELS, UNWRITTEN LAW,HORSE WALKER LUKENS, DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER, BRASSENTER BAND, BRIGHTEST DIAMOND, BONOFF, THEREBIRTH RECORD COMPANY, THEMY HAGGIS, REBIRTH BRASS BAND, TWOKARLA TONGUES, TRASH TALK,!

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ELLIS DYSON & THE SHAMBLES 9TH WONDER & ART OF COOL PRESENT CARAMEL CITY FEATURING: ZACH LARMER ELECTRIC BAND / KHRYSIS SCHOOL OF ROCK PRESENTS: SUMMER OF LOVE SCHOOL OF ROCK PRESENTS:

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JOHN DEE HOLEMAN & TAD WALTERS BNG RADIO SHOW DUKE STREET DOGS LIL ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS THE BACKBEAT RISSI PALMER OPEN BLUES JAM

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IBMA BLUEGRASS RAMBLE: MIPSO,

MISSY RAINES & THE NEW HIP & 10 STRING SYMPHONY, JOE WALSH, CHRIS JONES & THE NIGHT DRIVERS, AMYTHYST KIAH, GIRI & UMA PETERS AND KAIA KATER, HIGH PLAINS JAMBOREE, JENNI LYN, CARDBOARD FOX 9/28

IBMA BLUEGRASS RAMBLE: SPECIAL CONSENSUS, SWIFT CREEK, THE LIL’ SMOKIES, TROUT STEAK REVIVAL W/ OLD SALT UNION, HACKENSAW BOYS

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IBMA BLUEGRASS RAMBLE: FIRESIDE COLLECTIVE, DWIGHT HAWKINS

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BLUEGRASS RAMBLE 6 STRING DRAG W/MALDORA LAYZIE BONE (OF BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY) $10 advance / $12 day of W/MO THUGS, JUSTUS, RICO SWAIN, SHAME

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Old Salt Union / Honey Magpie Alanna Royale / Parallel Lives Funny How? Presents: Joe Perrow

Aaron Cobb / John Eisenhardt / Sam Mazany Maddie Wiener / Eric Megert VanLadyLove / Youma Dee-1 / Searcy

Monday Night Open Mic The Toasters

Corporate Fandango / Sound System Seven Ages and Ages / Cereus Bright

Jordan Esker & The Hundred Percent Dragmatic / Raid the Quarry

COMING SOON: Set It Off, PUP, The Legendary Pink Dots, Yuna, Matt Wertz, Clipping.

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Duke-AAEC Political Cartoon and Satire Festival: Panel discussions, live performances, workshops, and more. Thu, Sep 22–Sat, Sep 24. Various locations on Duke University campus. bit.ly/DukeSatireFest.

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Flowers + Water + Color: Work

by Capel States. Sep 23-Nov 6. Durham Arts Council. www. durhamarts.org.

Kiffin Rockwell: A North Carolinian Flies for France: Fri, Sep 23, 6 pm. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

SPECIAL Reverie: Work by EVENT Kathy Cousart and Gina Strumpf. Sep 22-Oct 20.

Reception: Sep 22, 6-8 p.m.

ArtSource Fine Art, Raleigh. www.artsource-raleigh.com.

The Jemima Code: Photographs

by Toni Tipton-Martin. Sep 22-Nov 5. Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

THIS CAMPAIGN IS YUUUGE!: Cartoonists Tackle the 2016 Presidential Race: Collection of 2016 election cartoons. Sep 21-Dec 2. Duke’s Rubenstein Hall, Durham. sanford.duke.edu.

Wonders of Space and Time: Astrophotography: Photographs

by Tim Christensen. Sep 23-Nov 6. Durham Arts Council. www. durhamarts.org.

ONGOING LAST Judy Abrahams, CHANCE 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.

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09.21–09.28 Durham Convention Center. 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 Bathroom Humor: CHANCE 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. www. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

LAST Burk Uzzle: CHANCE 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: Dale Chihuly has taken blown glass into the upper echelons of fine art. 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 Come Out and Play: CHANCE 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 Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Dissection of Color: Paintings

by Sara McCreary. Thru Oct 15.

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

LAST Do You Have a CHANCE Moment?: Jody Servon’s show comes to life only when you respond to its prompts. 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 in the gallery. The result is a collective memory mixtape for Raleigh. Thru Sep 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. — Brian Howe LAST Dreaming in Color: CHANCE 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.

Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation: Mixed media group show. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham.

Dwane Powell: The Art of Politics 40 Years of Editorial Cartoons & Then Some: Dwane Powell retrospective. Thru Oct 8. Power Plant Gallery, Durham.

Finding Each Other in History: Stories from LGBTQ+ Durham: Personal narratives.

Thru Jan 15, 2017. Durham History Hub, Durham. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

LAST Flowers of France CHANCE and Italy: Paintings

by Sonia Kane. Thru Sep 24.

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

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

Kim Herold: Mixed media work. Thru Nov 30. Looking Glass Cafe, Carrboro. lookingglasscafe.us.

History and Mistory: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: This is the first time in decades that NCMA has curated an exhibit from its British holdings. 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.

How I Learned to Draw: Cartoons from Five Decades: V.C. Rogers retrospective.

Thru Sep 30. Bull City Arts Collaborative: Upfront Gallery, Durham. www.bullcityarts.org.

Daniel Johnston: Pottery installation. Thru Oct 20. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. www. themahlerfineart.com.

LAST Landscapes: Matter CHANCE and Spirit: Work by Michael Brown, Jacob Cooley, Julyan Davis, Larry Gray, Jennifer Miller, Marlise Newman, Chad Smith. Thru Sep 25. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. enogallery.net.

Levitas: Work by Thomas Konneker, Bruce Mitchell, and Zoe Sasson. Thru Nov 13. Arcana, Durham. www. arcanadurham.com.

Local Landscapes, Local Color: Paintings by Sally L. Sutton. Thru Oct 15. Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www.tyndallgalleries.com.

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.

LAST George McKim: CHANCE Thru Sep 24.

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

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 LAST Erin Oliver: SiteCHANCE 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. See story at indyweek.com.

LAST Josue Pellot: CHANCE Sculpture. Thru Sep 27. UNC’s Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Permutations, Progressions + Possibilities: The Art of Vernon Pratt: Thru Nov 28. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Photo-Manipulation: The First One Hundred Years: Photography. Thru Oct 15.

Through This Lens, Durham. www.throughthislens.com.

Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective: Photographs of North Carolina.

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

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

Scent of the Pine, You Know How I Feel: North Carolina Art from the Jonathan P. Alcott Collection: Artwork by Thomas Hart Benton, Minnie Evans, Mary Anne Keel Jenkins, James Augustus McLean, and more.

Thru Dec 4. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

LAST Sea Life: Sculpture CHANCE by Renee Levity, Brenda Holmes, and Nate Sheaffer. Thru Sep 25. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

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Selections from the Photography Collection: Thru Jan 22, 2017.

Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Selections from Uelsmann Untitled: Photographs by Jerry Uelsmann. Thru Oct 15.

Through This Lens, Durham. www.throughthislens.com.

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Selma to Montgomery: A March for the Right to Vote: Photographs by Spider Martin.

Thru Mar 5, 2017. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art: This is less a simple exhibition than a speculative and critical archive of Southern identity. Slavery, the Civil War, racism, and their complex inheritances?

Much of the work explores and interrogates that. Connections to place so deep that land and body become the same thing? Many artists unravel the warp and weft of that.

The dissonance of the past’s intrusion into the present? Most of the exhibition shimmers with that temporal disorientation.

This is powerful artwork by supremely capable artists, and the intensity of their proximity is life-changing. The exhibit has an overall gravity on par with a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Thru Jan 8, 2017. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. —Chris Vitiello Spirit and Transformation: Paintings. Thru Oct 20. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www. eruuf.org.

Split Personalities: Work by Bob Rankin, Rebecca Patman, and Brenon Day. Thru Oct 31. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. www. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

Studio Touya: The Pottery of Hitomi and Takuro Shibata: Pottery. Thru Oct 30. Tiny Gallery at the Ackland Museum Store, Chapel Hill.

Summer: Paintings by Patrick Hitesman. Ongoing. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www. joyfuljewel.com.

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

Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www. flandersartgallery.com.

The Ties That Bind: Work by Precious Lovell. Thru Jan 8, 2017. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org.

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.

Within - Without: Sculpture by Jeff Bell. Thru Oct 7. SPECTRE Arts, Durham. www.spectrearts. org.

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COLSON WHITEHEAD: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Having already tackled metaphysical elevator inspection and the zombie apocalypse, Guggenheim- and MacArthur Fellowship-winning author Colson Whitehead can write the hell out of anything. In his new novel, The Underground Railroad, he takes us to the hell of slavery in the antebellum South. In its opening chapters, Whitehead’s wild ride presents the brutality and banality of slavery through the eyes of Cora, a third-generation slave on a Georgia cotton plantation.

Finally pressed beyond endurance when a merely cruel owner is replaced by his truly evil brother, she and a fellow slave make their way to a spur of the Underground Railroad, presented here, with aweinspiring realism, as a literal underground railroad tunnel, stretching from Georgia to ... somewhere? Somewhen? For when Cora and Caesar emerge into daylight and behold a South Carolina skyscraper, we know we have well and truly gone into the realm of speculative fiction.

—Samuel Montgomery-Blinn THE DURHAM ARMORY, DURHAM 7 p.m., $10–$27, www.regulatorbookshop.com

READINGS & SIGNINGS Bill Ferris: Discussing new photography collection The South in Color. Sat, Sep 24, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks. com; Tue, Sep 27, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Robert Hicks: The Orphan Mother. Tue, Sep 27, 7 p.m.

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

Love Wins Benefit for Equality NC: Jim Obergefell and Steven Petrow in Conversation: $32.

Fri, Sep 23, 7 p.m. Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro. www.catscradle.com.

Alexander Maksik: Shelter in Place. Thu, Sep 22, 7 p.m.

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

Erika Marks, Marybeth Whalen, Kim Wright: Three NC authors share new fiction work. Wed, Sep 21, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Meet the Authors: Lesbian Romance Panel: Karin Kallmaker, D. Jackson Leigh, KG MacGregor, Ann McMan, VK Powell, Rebecca Swartz. Sun, Sep 25, 1 p.m. LGBT Center of Raleigh, Raleigh. www. lgbtcenterofraleigh.com.

Ruth Moose: Wedding Bell Blues. Free. Sat, Sep 24, 11 a.m.

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NC Poetry Reading: Joe Mills, John York, and Scott Owens.

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Fri, Sep 23, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Brad Weiss: Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork.

Fri, Sep 23, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Colson Whitehead: New novel The Underground Railroad. Thu, Sep 22, 7 p.m. Durham Armory, Durham.

Brenda Loy Wilson: Mama Moves to Ossipee and Transitions.

Sun, Sep 25, 2 p.m. The Red Door New and Used Books and Art, Saxapahaw.

Tivka Wolf: Ask Me About Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles. Sat, Sep 24, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

LITERARY R E L AT E D Banned Books Week Public Reception: Fri, Sep 23, 7:30 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill.

Bill Ferris: The Storied South: Exhibit opening and talk.

Thu, Sep 22, 6 p.m. National Humanities Center, Durham. www.nationalhumanitiescenter. org.

Storytelling Festival: Sat, Sep 24, 11 a.m. Historic Oak View County Park, Raleigh. www. wakegov.com/parks/oakview.

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GLORIA STEINEM/PRIVATE VIOLENCE A harrowing fact: the most dangerous place in America for a woman is her own home. Private Violence reminds viewers that this is a reality—and demands that it stop. The documentary explores the roots of domestic violence and its repercussions through the lens of survivors, including Kit Gruelle. She’ll introduce the local screening on behalf of Durham-based director Cynthia Hill. The event also enjoys a visit from the inimitable feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who will discuss why she signed on as the film’s executive producer and the role such work plays in changing our legal and societal landscape for the better. Expect a sharp, poignant conversation with both women after the film.

—Victoria Bouloubasis THE FEARRINGTON BARN, PITTSBORO 11 a.m., free, www.fearrington.com

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The Crowd Roars: Fri, Sep 23, 8 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum. org.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: Thu, Sep 22, 6:30 p.m.

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

Manhattan Short Film Festival: Fri, Sep 23, 8 p.m. & Sat, Sep 24, 8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org.

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise: Thu, Sep 22, 7 p.m. Franklin Humanities Institute Garage, Durham. fhi.duke.edu.

Michael Bublé-Tour Stop 148: Also screening at North Hills Stadium 14, Crossroads Stadium 20, and Silverspot Cinema.

Tue, Sep 27, 7 p.m. Brier Creek Stadium 14, Raleigh.

Private Violence: With talk by Gloria Steinem. Sun, Sep 25, 11 a.m. Fearrington Barn, Pittsboro. www.fearrington.com.

Rocaterrania, Atomic Retro Customs: The Electric Guitars of Matt Nowicki: Film Shorts in the Park series. Thu, Sep 22, 7:30 p.m. Pullen Park, Raleigh. parks. raleighnc.gov.

Valor: Fri, Sep 23, 6:30 p.m. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

and Eric Megert. $10. Fri, Sep 23, 9 p.m. Local 506, Chapel Hill. www.local506.com.

OPENING Author: The JT Leroy Story— This documentary tells the real story behind a famous, fraudulent memoir. Rated R. The Hollars—In John Krasinski’s comedy-drama, a struggling graphic novelist returns home when his mother is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Funny stuff!

Rated PG-13.

The Magnificent Seven—A star-studded remake of John Sturges’s classic 1960 Western. Rated PG-13.

Mia Madre—Italian auteur Nanni Moretti crafts a tale of the tension between directors and their stars. Rated R. Storks—This cartoon from the people behind The Lego Movie stars Andy Samburg as a babydelivering stork. Who works for Amazon, like a drone. Or something? Rated PG.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23–SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

OLYMPIC PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE The dominant image most Americans have from the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin is that of Jesse Owens, stunning the world with his speed and grace and implicitly calling out the lie of racial superiority in Hitler’s Germany. Virtually untold, however, is the story of the seventeen other African-American men and women who took part in that charged nexus of political theater and international sports. Olympic Pride, American Prejudice, directed by Deborah Riley Draper, excavates the stories of these mostly unheralded athletes who represented their country on the world stage in a hostile environment and then returned to a hostile environment in their homeland. This award-winning documentary provides vital, poignant detail to the Owens-focused image that has formed the public understanding of the eleventh Olympiad, and the athletes’ stories embody the human spirit at its best and bravest.

Showings on the coasts and in Berlin have garnered ecstatic praise, and the doc could be headed for an Oscar nomination. See it here before you read about it later. —David Klein SILVERSPOT CINEMA, CHAPEL HILL 2 p.m. Fri. & Sat./5 p.m. Sun., $8–$11, www.silverspot.net

 ½ Bad Moms—It’s The Change-Up and The Hangover for women. You’re welcome?

Rated PG-13.  Ben-Hur—Wow, who thought the director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter needed a crack at BenHur? Rated PG-13.  ½ Bridget Jones’s Baby— Renée Zellweger’s loveable comic character, now in her forties and pregnant, deserved a better comeback. Rated R.  Don’t Think Twice— Mike Birbiglia’s comedy is a insider’s look at the tension between improv and mainstream comedy. Rated R.  ½ Florence Foster Jenkins—Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant carry their tunes, but this biopic of an opera singer who couldn’t sing never finds its melody. Rated PG-13.  Hell or High Water— Two texas antiheroes try to make the best of their bad hand in this bleak but brilliant neo-Western. Rated R.

 Jason Bourne—Matt Damon’s amnesiac assassin returns in an efficient, effective genre exercise with a disposable plot. Rated PG-13.

Steve Byrne: Stand-up comedy. $20. Thu, Sep 22–Sat, Sep 24. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

 The Light Between Oceans—This period romance delivers some Old Hollywood magic. Rated PG-13.

Comedy Overload: $5. Thu, Sep 22, 7:30 p.m. Deep South the Bar, Raleigh. www.

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 ½ The Secret Life of Pets—This charming, beautifully crafted family movie falls apart in the final act. Rated PG.

King Kountry Wayne: $25.

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

 Suicide Squad—The plot is throwaway thin, but this team of antiheroes brings much-needed levity and breadth to the DC Extended Universe. Rated PG-13.

stage OPENING Hannibal Buress: Comedy.

Fri, Sep 23, 8 p.m. Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

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LOVE/SICK: Play. $12-$20.

Thurs, Sept. 22–Sun, Oct. 2.

NCSU Campus: Thompson Hall, Raleigh.

Mothers and Sons: Play. Fri, Sep 23-Sun, Oct 9. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org.

One Noble Journey: Play by Mike Wiley. Thu, Sep 22, 7:30 p.m. Hayti Heritage Center, Durham. www.hayti.org.

Peppa Pig’s Big Splash: $29$187. Tue, Sep 27. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com.

Jon Perrow: Comedy featuring Aaron Cobb, John Eisenhardt, Sam Mazany, Maddie Wiener,

Southern Baptist Sissies: Play. $18-$24. Thu, Sep 22,–Sun, Sep 25, 3 p.m. theatreinthepark. com/calendar/event/60.

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

Transactors Improv: The Wizard of Odds: $10-$15.

Fri, Sep 23, 8 p.m. Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www. cgtheatre.com.

ONGOING Arsenic and Old Lace: Play. $13$18. Thru Sep 25. Forest Moon Theater, Wake Forest.

Detroit ‘67: Play. $15-$52. Thru Oct 2. UNC Campus: Paul Green Theatre, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org. See review, p. 39.

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Soul Heaven: Musical. $20-$25. Sat, Sep 24, 8 p.m. Garner Performing Arts Center, Garner. www. garnerperformingartscenter. com.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23– SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

ESCAPE TO FREEDOM

Enslaved black people once farmed the cotton fields that covered more than seven square miles of the Mordecai estate, the largest plantation in Wake County. They also worked in the home and cared for the family and the horses. The three surviving slave narratives from the period are unanimous; the plantation’s laborers were not treated well. In this interactive environmental theater production from MOJOAA Performing Arts, audience members walk the grounds of Mordecai Historic Park, experiencing local plantation life through the eyes of its servants. Then they try to find a way to escape. —Byron Woods MORDECAI HISTORIC PARK, RALEIGH 6, 7:30 & 9 p.m., $15, www.mojoaa.org

 ½ Lungs: Play. $15-$18.

Thru Sep 24. Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh. www. sonorousroad.com. Read Byron Woods’s review at www.indyweek. com.

La Mer: Ballet. $32-$73.

Thru Oct 2. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

A Public Reading of An Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney: Play. Thru Oct 1. Manbites Dog Theater, Durham. www. manbitesdogtheater.org. See review, p. 39.

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FOOD EVENTS Ashley Christensen Dinner and Book Signing: $95. Thu, Sep 22, 7 p.m. Counting House, Durham.

Chapel Hill Downtown Pop Up Farmers’ Market: Thursdays, 3:30 p.m.; Thru Oct 27. The

Plaza at 140 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill.

Crafty’s Three Year Anniversary: Sat, Sep 24, 2 p.m.

Crafty Beer Shop, Raleigh.

DURHAM ROOTS Farmers’ Market: Saturdays, 8 am; Thru Nov 19. Northgate Mall, Durham. www.northgatemall. com.

Harvest Festival 2016: Free.

Sat, Sep 24, 2 p.m. St Gregorios Indian Orthodox Church, Raleigh.

Pie in the Face: $2-$7. Wed, Sep 21, 6 p.m. Leslie-Alford-Mims House, Holly Springs.

PRIDE Brunch: Sun, Sep 25, 10 am. Counting House, Durham.

Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market: Wednesdays, 10 am.

Raleigh City Plaza, Raleigh.

Steel String Brewery Beer Dinner: Three-course dinner. $48. Thu, Sep 22. The Durham Hotel, Durham. thedurham. com/.

TerraVita Food and Drink Festival: Dinners and educational activities at various locations in Chapel Hill. Sep 28-Oct 1. terravitafest.com.

Fred Thompson, Jenny Brulé: Discussing Bacon and Learn to Cook 25 Southern Classics 3 Ways. Wed, Sep 28, 7 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

Triangle Oktoberfest: $15$25. Fri, Sep 23, 6 p.m. & Sat, Sep 24, 1 p.m. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. www. boothamphitheatre.com.

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

Wine Tasting at Mandolin: Exploring Terroir with Pinot Noir: Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

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F O O D R E L AT E D Carolina Food Summit: Wed, Sep 28 & Thu, Sep 29. Rock Quarry Farm, Chapel Hill.

Legal Sips with Mavis Gragg: Community conversation about the law and drinking. Tue, Sep 27, 7 p.m. Beyù Caffè, Durham. www.beyucaffe.com.

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