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5 The Trump administration threatened to pull funding from a Middle East Studies program because it emphasized “the positive aspects of Islam.”

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7 Nuestra Gente asked Rodrigo Dorfman to apologize for a confrontation at a People’s Alliance meeting.

Instead, he fired off an incendiary email.

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

13 In 1981, the North Carolina Human Rights Fund sued the White Pages for not allowing a bookstore to use the words “gay” and “lesbian” in an ad.

37 Arts & Culture Calendar

20 In a survey, 70 percent of homeless transgender respondents who had stayed in shelters said they’d been mistreated.

25 Many assumed the new owners of Art of Cool were Durham newcomers, but they have deep roots in the Bull City.

27 “Nobody ever complained about, like, breast pumps being out in the front lounge,” says Wide Open Bluegrass artist Sara Watkins.

Bluegrass supergroup I’m With Her plays at Wide Open Bluegrass this weekend (see page 27). PHOTO COURTESY OF ROUNDER RECORDS

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Lenin Would Be Proud!

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n our endorsements, we called for the ouster of the Raleigh City Council’s neighborhood-protection bloc—David Cox, Stef Mendell, Kay Crowder, and Russ Stephenson.

Some people got very mad at us!

Christopher thinks that, by arguing for density, we’re basically commies: “In the end, it’s more about a bunch of outsiders with no vested interest in an issue trying to tell current neighborhood residents what is in their best interest, with so much hubris. Could it be that maybe, just maybe, the property owners and folks living in a neighborhood might know what is best for it? But that has never stopped a ‘progressive’ from trying to appropriate that which belongs to somebody else for their own out of jealousy. Next, they will be advocating eminent domain to build twenty-story communal housing because, by god, it is their right to tell you that instead of a single-family home in town, you should have to live in a luxury eight-story condo building! Lenin would be proud, comrade!”

That’s not exactly how zoning works … Anyway, over to you, Randall Kent Stagner: “The INDY is full of political BS nowadays. Raleigh may not be hip enough for you, but it’s a nice place to call home.

In case anyone forgot, Raleigh isn’t just downtown, and what works there is not a model for where most of its citizens live. Russ Stephenson knows this.

David Cox knows this. Stef Mendell knows this. And Kay Crowder knows this. Why doesn’t the INDY?” “The ‘neighborhood advocate’ councilors hold supposed ‘quality of life’ and petty ‘neighborhood character’ issues—due to very modest shifts in the status quo like sidewalk construction, bike lanes, ADUs, or (the horrors) duplexes—as the paramount concerns of the council, and will spend endless hours nitpicking just to leave their stamp on a project,” counters orulz. “But Raleigh is a city, not just a collection of neighborhoods, and we face problems infinitely larger than this. These issues include: climate change, housing affordability, racial and economic equity, and the safety of cyclists and pedestrians. These endorsements acknowledge that truth. Thank you, INDY, for getting it right.”

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Scumbag Politics A REPUBLIC, GOVERNED BY HUMAN MEMES

BY T. GREG DOUCETTE

T. GREG DOUCETTE is a local criminal defense attorney, justice reform advocate, and host of the podcast #Fsck ’Em All. Follow him on Twitter @greg_doucette.

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t 8:37 a.m. on September 11, 2001, the FAA notified NORAD that Flight 11 had been hijacked by terrorists and was heading toward 1 World Trade.

Eighteen years later—down to the minute—Republicans in the North Carolina House commemorated the occasion by calling a surprise vote to override Governor Cooper’s veto of the state budget as fifty of their colleagues were absent. The reason for all those absences? The same House leadership that called the surprise vote had also informed the public, including at least one reporter, that there would be no votes that morning.

The media coverage was swift, but inaccurate in one minor respect: Several reports incorrectly claimed that the missing House Democrats were at a 9/11 memorial. That mistake triggered the traditional screeching we’ve all come to expect in our politics, with Representative David Lewis— the same General Assembly-critter who sent text messages stating there wouldn’t be any votes—whining on Twitter about “a false narrative” from the “Fake News Media.”

Representative Jon Hardister, meanwhile, crowed about a fact-check and claimed that “[r]eports that Democrats were at a Sept. 11 ceremony … are completely false.”

Hardister conveniently sidestepped the fact that non-voting sessions of the General Assembly are routine and that his buddy Lewis had lied about what was planned. Whether that lie was told to the Democratic leadership or “just” to the reporter (and the public at large) is a distinction without

a difference. It’s the sort of scumbag dissembling fit for a Clinton, coming from politicians in a party that touts its affection for “family values.”

But not to be outdone, the broader Republican apparatus kicked in to also remind everyone that Democrats used similar scumbag tactics to enact the state lottery back in 2005.

So what?

Any kid justifying being a scumbag today because someone else was a scumbag fourteen (!) years ago— when George W. Bush was only halfway through his tenure, and I still had a full head of hair—would merit one of those “if all your friends jumped off a bridge” admonitions from even the most-inept parent.

And yet, somehow, that really is how our politics works now. Take federal judges as just one of many examples: Democrats complain that Mitch McConnell used the nuclear option to confirm Justice Gorsuch; Republicans respond that Harry Reid “went nuclear” first with Obama’s judicial nominees; Democrats retort that Harry Reid had to go nuclear because Republicans blocked Obama’s appointments; Republicans reply they blocked Obama’s appointments because Democrats blocked Bush’s nomination of Miguel Estrada first. And on, and on.

Then there’s the Scumbag in Chief himself, whose entire administration can be summed up as unbridled corruption and emotive grunting wrapped in a frequent “Democrats did it first.”

Just last week Trump’s Department of Education threatened to pull fund-

ing from a joint Middle East Studies program run by UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke if changes were not made within twenty-four days because—and this is a direct quote from the Federal Register—“there is a considerable emphasis placed on understanding the positive aspects of Islam.”

I didn’t know it was possible to All Lives Matter a university curriculum, but here we are.

Conservatives have long complained that politics is downstream from culture. That, since we now have a society that (supposedly) places no value on integrity and finds no use for shame, we can’t be surprised when our elected officials end up being shameless scumbags who lack integrity.

Given the state of our politicians, that seems like pseudo-intellectual excuse-making. I’m more partial to a different maritime metaphor: The fish rots from the head. Bad leaders damage an organization, and bad politicians damage the body politic.

At some point, these people need to realize they are, allegedly, adults.

They are entrusted with tax money and power to lord over the rest of us, that they themselves sought out, and that carries an obligation to not be a scumbag regardless of what someone else somewhere else once upon a time might have done. backtalk@indyweek.com INDY Voices—a rotating column featuring some of the Triangle’s most compelling writers—is made possible by contributions to the INDY Press Club. Visit KeepItINDY.com for more information.

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A PUBLIC APOLOGY FROM CAPTAIN NEILL’S SEAFOOD, INC. For periods of time, beginning on an unknown date, but at least as early as January 1, 2012 and continuing through June 16, 2015, Captain Neill’s Seafood Company was unable to entirely satisfy customer demand for domestically harvested crab, which caused the company to purchase foreign crab meat that was repackaged by employees and sold to customers as domestically harvested crab.

Under a Plea Agreement with the United States (through the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina and the Environmental Crimes Section of the United States Department of Justice), Captain Neill’s Seafood, Inc. pleaded guilty to one violation of the Lacey Act for false labeling. This violation included purchasing foreign crab meat and unlawfully repackaging the foreign crab meat into containers labeled “Product of USA,” which was then sold to customers as domestically harvested crab meat. As part of this Plea Agreement, the company has agreed to: • • • •

Pay a criminal fine that shall be directed to the Magnuson-Stevens Conservation andManagement Act Fund; Pay restitution to the recipients of the mislabeled crabmeat purchased by customers; Pay a special assessment of $400.00; Develop and implement a compliance program to be monitored by a compliance officerand ensure compliance with federal, state, and local environmental laws and specificallyinclude a quality control system to ensure the proper labeling of all products and asystem of random sampling; • Agree to comply with all federal, state, and local laws, including those laws andregulations for which primary enforcement has been delegated to state authorities, andconduct its operations in accordance with the environmental laws of the United Statesand notify the United States of any such violations of those laws committed by itsagents or employees; • Be placed on a period of probation for five years; and • Be voluntarily debarred from any federal contracts during the term of probation.

We are accountable for repackaging and falsely labeling crab meat as product of the United States and take responsibility for the violation. We apologize to those who have been affected including our community, our employees, and our consumers. We hope to continue to serve you as a locally owned and operated domestic crab purchasing, picking, and packing company as we have been for more than 30 years. With your continued loyalty and support, we will strive to be a better company than we were before.

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AN INCENDIARY EMAIL ATTACKED DURHAM’S BLACK POLITICAL ACTIVISTS AND SET THE CITY’S PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY ON EDGE BY THOMASI MCDONALD

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oon after Rodrigo Dorfman hit send, all hell broke loose.

The documentary filmmaker, whose family fled Chile in exile when he was six, says the three-page email, which he fired off to fellow Latinx activists on August 30, was never meant for public consumption. But it didn’t take long for it to make its way through Durham’s political circles, bringing to the surface tensions between some black and brown progressives ahead of next month’s city elections.

Dorfman’s email followed a heated exchange a week earlier, at the August 21 People’s Alliance PAC meeting. There, more than two hundred PA members voted to endorse the three incumbents running for at-large city council seats: Charlie Reece, Jillian Johnson, and Javiera Caballero.

Before the vote, Nia Wilson, an African American activist who runs the nonprofit SpiritHouse, urged the influential PA to back rapper and businessman Joshua Gunn, a fourth-generation Durham native “who comes from a legacy of slavery and black people whose blood is in this soil,” as Wilson put it.

Dorfman was worried that if the PA backed Gunn, it wouldn’t support Caballero, the first Latinx person to serve on the council. (Caballero, appointed in January 2018 to fill the remainder of Steve Schewel’s term after Schewel became mayor, is seeking election for the first time.) But he took specific umbrage to Wilson’s words.

According to Wilson, he told the audience: “Brown people built Durham, and [my] blood is in this soil, too.” Dorfman recalls it differently. He says his actual words were, “Brown people helped to build Durham, too.”

Either way, the meeting devolved. Another black woman, whom Wilson identifies as Michelle Cotton Laws, a past president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro chapter of the NAACP, confronted Dorfman, warning him not to “lift up your candidates on the backs

“Black people feel like they are not being heard.

That’s a problem.” of our ancestors,” Wilson says. (The INDY was unable to reach Cotton Laws.) A sheriff’s deputy stepped in to separate them.

On August 28, Nuestra Gente de PA, an action team that formed last year with the help of the PA’s PAC, asked Dorfman to apologize. He says he wasn’t sure what he was supposed to apologize for. Instead, he dispatched the email to Nuestra Gente’s listserv, which has about twenty members.

“A public apology,” he wrote, “would be to apologize to a dangerous, toxic nationalist/ nativist argument.”

In an extended rant, Dorfman lashed out at what he described as shortcomings in Durham’s black political community.

He charged black activists with being antiLGBTQ. He called Gunn a “black capitalist beholden to the chamber of commerce and the interests of big-time developers.” He described Pierce Freelon, who ran for mayor in 2017 and is currently seeking a state senate seat, as “an artist, with no clear useful ideology” for the “black capitalist community.”

He said that council member DeDreanna Freeman, who did not support Caballero’s appointment in 2018, is “failing miserably at being a positive force for the council.” He accused support-

ers of another black council candidate, Jackie Wagstaff, of being “homophobic,” “anti-immigrant,” and he said they were incapable of showing “nuance” or “compassion, just anger and hate.” He also questioned their intelligence based on “the way they spoke.”

He argued that African American activists were targeting Caballero and accused “elements” of the black community of being against “any” Latinx representation on the council. He said that, because African Americans comprise four of the council’s seven seats, they have “a greater representational percentage” than their overall population in Durham. (About 40 percent of the city’s population is black, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.) Dorfman also questioned black activists’ willingness “to make allegiances, build bridges, come together, and learn how to govern.”

Most provocatively, he accused Wilson of appropriating the “blood and soil” rhetoric of white nationalists.

“Is anyone reading this willing to step up and defend Mama Nia, who used a white nationalist slogan to argue that we should vote for Joshua because his ancestors have blood in the soil?” Dorfman wrote.

He added: “So why did Mama Nia read a manifesto that comes straight from the White Nationalist and Fascist playbook?

Blood and Soil. Now, I AM NOT SAYING that Mama Nia is a fascist, right? I am merely pointing out that when Mama Nia talked about the Blood and Soil and the ancestors, she should have known better. That’s what they were chanting in Charlottesville!”

The email didn’t stay confined to Nuestra Gente’s listserv long. When it leaked, it sparked anger among black political leaders.

“I am totally unconvinced that [Dorfman] does not understand the difference between the chant of ‘blood and soil’ by white nationalists and the lament of ‘blood in soil’ by the descendants of lynching victims,” council member Mark-Anthony Middleton told the INDY in an email. Middleton is not up for re-election but is supporting Gunn. “The allusion to the ‘way we speak’ and being incapable of ‘nuance’ are stinging darts that black folk are intimately familiar with and fully understand what is being conveyed.”

“His attempt to pit two marginalized communities against one another as a part of a political agenda is disgusting,” Gunn says. (Dorfman told the INDY he regrets what he said about Gunn: “I shouldn’t have said that, because who he is, it’s because of his own ingenuity and hard work.”)

On September 15, Reece—a friend of both Dorfman and Wilson—posted a lengthy response on Facebook, saying that Dorfman had “unfairly conflate[d] language evoking the generational sacrifices of black Durhamites (‘blood in the soil’) with the language used by white supremacists to demonize and terrorize immigrants (‘blood and soil’). … I absolutely do not believe her words were xenophobic or nationalist; rather, in my view, Nia was expressing the appeal of a candidate with strong historical family connections to this special place.”

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Reece continued: “The reason that this part of the email is so toxic is that it explicitly pits our black and brown communities against each other during this election in a completely unnecessary way. … I am sorry my friend Rodrigo Dorfman wrote this email. I am sorry because it caused my friend Nia Wilson pain, because it drew other friends needlessly into this situation and recklessly caused them pain, and because it contains sentiments that are deeply problematic and anti-black. And I’m sorry because this email created the kind of controversy that does little to help us better understand each other.”

Three days later, on September 18, Nuestra Gente voted to eject Dorfman from the group.

“We want to be clear that Nuestra Gente explicitly rejects the anti-black sentiments and falsehoods expressed in the endorsement meeting and in his email to our group,” Nuestra Gente officials wrote on the PA’s Facebook page. “What Rodrigo Dorfman said in his statement at the People’s Alliance meeting and what he wrote in his email does not reflect any official position of Nuestra Gente.”

Wilson says her differences with Dorfman—whom she thought of as a “dear, dear friend” before the PA meeting—date to the 2017 election, when she supported Freelon for mayor and then voiced concerns about what she saw as a lack of transparency surrounding Caballero’s appointment to the council.

Both Freelon and Gunn, she points out, are African American men under forty— another marginalized group. Wilson says that, in backing Gunn, she didn’t intend to go after Caballero but to support candidates whom she believes will best serve the entire community.

“Black people feel like they are not being heard,” she says. “That’s a problem.”

In an email suggesting that Durham’s black people might be heard too much— and Latinx people not enough, with black people to blame—Dorfman furthered a divide between two marginalized communities that already struggle with language and cultural barriers. And this division furthers systemic white supremacy, Middleton points out, as whites have maintained power by pitting minority groups against one another.

The struggle for black justice requires African Americans not to alienate to any group of people, Middleton says, “including our Latino brothers and sisters.”

“Unity between Durham’s black and brown communities should be as naturally occurring as breathing,” he says. tmcdonald@indyweek.com

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PRIDE

Out, Proud, Undaunted The history (and future) of Equality NC—the oldest statewide LGBTQ rights organization in the country—in the words of those who’ve lived it

By Jordan Wilkie

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ack when members of the LGBTQ community were called homosexuals in the press, were arrested outside gay bars and parks and charged with “crimes against nature,” when the AIDS crisis was just turning away from panic and anger, when the whole LGBTQ community was assumed to be pedophilic and deranged, a group of homosexuals in North Carolina decided to stand up and give a very public damn.

Forty years later, Equality NC is the nation’s oldest statewide LGBTQ rights organization.

In its earliest days, it was called the North Carolina Human Rights Fund, and it provided legal assistance to people and for cases shunned by the ACLU. In the mid-eighties, the focus shifted to education about LGBTQ issues across the state. In 1990, another group of LGBTQ activists organized a political organization called the NC Pride PAC, which endorsed local and state politicians who agreed to be educated on the community’s issues and publicly support their needs.

The groups joined together in the late nineties under the banner Equality NC. Equality NC is larger, more active, and has more allies today than ever. The organization is also being run, for the first time, by a person of color. Executive director Kendra Johnson is leading Equality NC to be more inclusive to rural communities, to people of color, and to people with less access to wealth and education.

Ahead of this year’s Pride: Durham, NC festival—and before and after Equality NC’s fortieth anniversary gala, held earlier this month at The Cookery in Durham—the INDY spoke with founders of the North Carolina Human Rights Fund, NC Pride PAC, and two executive directors of Equality NC about the group’s history and work to improve the lives of the state’s LGBTQ residents, their families, and allies, through legal defense, politics, medical rights, medication access, and education—and what comes next.

Equality NC executive director Kendra Johnson These interviews have been edited for clarity and concision.

SUBJECTS John Boddie, co-founder of the North Carolina Human Rights Fund and a retired lawyer Kendra Johnson, executive director Equality NC, May 2018–present Mike Nelson, co-founder of Pride PAC, first openly gay mayor in North Carolina Ian Palmquist, former executive director, Equality NC 2003–11 Jesse White, co-founder of Pride PAC, first openly gay chairman of a federal agency

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PART 1: THE NCHRF, 1979–91

Boddie: Most of the legal cases in the first five years were crime-against-nature cases.

Usually men who were caught up in one of these busts that the police would have periodically. Several of them were arrested just outside [co-founder] Art Sperry’s bar. The police would not go inside the bar, but they would hang around outside and quote-unquote “get them to solicit,” which, of course, meant that the police were really doing the soliciting. The ACLU started taking up cases in the 1990s that they should have taken up in 1979.

[Co-founder] John Voorhees was the president of the Wake County chapter of the North Carolina chapter of the ACLU. John was very upset. He thought the state ACLU was very homophobic and was pretty much fed up with them and wanted to have another organization, which became the Human Rights Fund.

An early success story Boddie: To me, the most interesting case that we took was on behalf of White Rabbit Books. In 1981, John Neal founded White Rabbit Books and wanted to say in his Yellow Pages ad that it sold gay and lesbian books.

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Bell South said you can’t use the words “gay” or “lesbian” in the Yellow Pages. I filed a complaint with the North Carolina Utilities Commission, and shortly after they accepted jurisdiction of the case, Bell South changed their policy to allow people to buy advertising using the words “gay” or “lesbian.” Back before the internet, if you weren’t in the Yellow Pages, you might as well not exist.

Repealing the crimesagainst-nature law Boddie: In the early eighties, there was a proposal before the General Assembly to have a comprehensive revision of the criminal code. One of the things in that proposed revision was to remove the crime against nature [law]. On September 27, 1984, all of this blew up. On that day, two hundred or so screaming fundamentalists showed up at what was supposed to be a routine meeting that had always been very sedate. It had always been me and three or four other people in the audience. Suddenly, that day, it was this huge crowd of people thumping the Bible. The upshot of all this is that it created such controversy that the whole criminal code revision collapsed. All this work that everybody had done for five years or more just totally collapsed as a result of

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It was kinda hard to get elected officials to talk to us in the beginning.

You were putting your political life at risk. this brouhaha over the crime-against-nature law. Parts of it did get passed later, but this beautiful criminal code revision just collapsed, and we’re still stuck with all these old statutes that essentially haven’t been changed since the eighteenth century.

Early conflict with the lesbian community Boddie: Back in 1976, [at the Southeastern Conference for Lesbians and Gay Men] in Chapel Hill, there were a lot of lesbians there. I later learned that a lot of lesbians that were there were very put off by the sexual displays by the gay men. Gay men wearing chaps with their ass hanging out,

out on the UNC campus. The women were not happy about that. For that and all kinds of other reasons, if a woman in 1979 wanted to work with a gay men’s group, as it would have been perceived, she would have been shunned by the lesbian community. It was very hard in that era, and that really didn’t change until the AIDS crisis when, by the mid-eighties, when all the gay men were dying, lesbians came around at that point.

I will say that a lot of men were not exactly sympathetic toward women’s issues.

Early political activity through the NCHRF Boddie: Art Sperry had a background in

political advertising. In 1980, he came up with this whole ad campaign called Gay Vote ’80 and sent it out of the offices of the North Carolina Human Rights Fund to gay newspapers all over the United States for display, basically designed to get the politically inactive gay community involved in elections.

The Jesse Helms-James Hunt election [for U.S. Senate] in 1984 was, personally, very devastating, I guess you would say.

[Helms won.] It was almost like the election of Trump in 2016. It had the same impact on me where I felt like, what’s the point?

PART 2: NC PRIDE PAC, 1991–99

Mike Nelson: [The 1990 Harvey Gant-

Jesse Helms election] really galvanized the community. [Helms won again.] After it was over, I sat down with some other folks and said, “Hey, we need to keep this energy going.”

We didn’t have a statewide LGBTQ group in North Carolina—[there were] only a handful in the country at that point—and I started the conversation with folks about what to do and how we should organize to carry the energy forward. And that led to the creation of what we called the Pride PAC.

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They had to support the abolition of the crimes-against-nature law, and they had to support what we call a sensible AIDS policy.

The big issue there was ensuring the anonymity of HIV testing because it was a huge stigma, and your confidentiality was not assured. It was not the most radical agenda, but it was really important stuff to the gay community that we worked on.

It was pretty basic stuff, but it was in some ways revolutionary. North Carolina, even though back then it was more progressive than the rest of the South, is still Bible-Belt country. Homophobia was still rampant. To create an organization that was actually getting involved in the political system was something that had never happened before.

Educating politicians Nelson: It was kinda hard to get elected officials to talk to us in the beginning. Even if they were open-minded, their constituents were so close-minded that the political risk was enormous. You were putting your political life at risk. People thought we were mentally deranged pedophiles. You name a stereotype, and it was commonly held, and it was believed by a very large portion of the North Carolina population.

All of that sounds so easy now, looking back with thirty years’ perspective. But it was really hard starting those conversations and just getting in the door because people were just so uncomfortable with it.

The gay community had been a whipping boy for the far right and in the Helms-Gant campaign. Even before that, six years earlier, when Governor Hunt ran against Jesse Helms [for U.S. Senate in 1984], gay issues were part of that campaign. There’s a lot of history of progressive elected officials being really afraid to touch the issue because it was politically so very difficult back then.

The contributions over the last twenty-five, thirty years were really to start those conversations, because we really had to start somewhere. That takes a lot of hard work, and it was a lot of baby steps.

White: A lot of what’s happening today, in

which we’re being very successful, traces back to some of that early organizing, where we may not have been chalking successes in those early years, I think we were laying the groundwork for a lot of good successes in the future.

Even though we might consider it a huge success if we had ten or twelve endorsees get elected, you still have the rest of those

people sitting there to get past. It was and still is a tough battle.

PART 3: THROUGH THE AUGHTS, 1999–2011

Nelson: In 2002 or 2003, we finally had a really high-level member of the state senate who was prepared to introduce and use the strength of his position to advance an LGBT nondiscrimination bill. However, he didn’t want to include transgender because he didn’t get that—remember, this was like seventeen years ago, he just didn’t get it— so the one step forward was finally getting somebody to do the right thing, but he didn’t go as far as we wanted. It caused some pretty strong disagreements in Equality NC about what to do to handle that situation.

He felt a little betrayed because we weren’t as appreciative of the work he was putting into it and the risk he was taking because he was from a very conservative eastern North Carolina district. [The bill didn’t pass, and North Carolina still does not prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people.]

Ian Palmquist: Back then, the two big issues we were working on the most were trying to pass a hate-crimes bill—which still has not happened—and trying to repeal the sodomy law. We really felt like, although the sodomy law was not enforced that frequently, it was really difficult to make the case on nondiscrimination when legislators in our opposition could basically say, “Well, you’re all felons, so of course it’s reasonable to discriminate against you.” [The U.S. Supreme Court overturned state sodomy bans in 2003, but North Carolina’s law is still on the books.]

We were really just trying to do basic education to try to get legislators to meet LGBT people. In those very earliest years, there were still legislators who would say things like, “I don’t have gay people in my district,” which sounds ridiculous now.

One of the things that was really hard through a lot of my time [at Equality NC] was every week or two, even though we’re not a legal services organization, I’d get a call from somebody who had been fired or somebody who lost an apartment, and often had to be the person who told those folks that what happened to them was legal in North Carolina.

The fight for marriage equality Palmquist: I remember actually when the decision came down in Massachusetts legalizing marriage there [in 2003]. I was at a meeting of all the Southern equality organizations, and we all had this moment of, “That’s totally amazing,” and then, like, “Oh, shit, we’re fucked in the South for the next ten years.” We had been working on incremental things. Equality NC, at that point, felt

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like we potentially had a path to nondiscrimination for state employees in the next year or two, and when marriage hit as an issue, we knew that suddenly we were going to be playing defense in this region for a long time.

Ultimately, I think marriage was a really powerful issue that moved the public not just on marriage but on acceptance generally, but it created a really tough time in the South. We saw hate crimes go up, we saw just waves of these anti-LGBT constitutional amendments, many of which passed in that first year or two [across the South].

We were able to hold that back here [until 2012], but killing the amendment was as far as Democratic leadership [which controlled the General Assembly until 2011] was willing to go for us at that point. Once the terms had shifted to marriage, even something that in theory had overwhelming public support like nondiscrimination for state employees was off the table.

There’s a narrative now that these whiteled movement organizations really wanted to move marriage. At that time, I think most movement organizations were super nervous about bringing up marriage. It seemed kind of crazy to even think about trying to advance marriage when we didn’t have, and still don’t have, any employment protections

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We’re moving from a single-issue organization to a social justice organization. at the federal level, for example. Employment protections, decriminalizing sodomy, some of those things were still really critical, particularly for more marginalized folks.

But both because the level of energy from the community and the interest from the media, once marriage came along, it was impossible to get attention on these other issues.

PART 4: EQUALITY NC, PRESENT AND FUTURE

When she became executive director—two years after HB 2 was passed and one year after its partial repeal—Kendra Johnson went on a listening tour to learn what the community needed from Equality NC.

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to be better partners to affinity groups. Also, people didn’t know what we did, so we needed to tell our story a little bit better. Folks wanted to know how to plug into the work.

We needed to be a convener, we needed to be a better resource for the community, and we needed to lift up the voices of all folks in the LGBTQ community, moving away from just white and cis folks, to take on issues like immigration, reproductive justice, criminalization, domestic violence, and a whole host of other things, to work more intersectionally in general.

My experience is that we have allies everywhere, and when people have the right information in their hands and the support to implement it, they will. They’ll stand up and they’ll make those changes.

One of the single biggest factors in folks having more regard and respect for the

The future Johnson: Pie-in-the-sky is us working for comprehensive nondiscrimination legislation in the state and in the nation.

We’re moving from a single-issue organization to a social justice organization.

The reality is that LGBTQ people are not just white and cisgender. They are not just wealthy, and they are not just of a certain color, class, or creed. We’re part of every community. We would fail as an organization if we didn’t stand up for LGBTQ immigrants who we know are being stopped at the border and are many times being sent back to certain death. We would fail if we didn’t contemplate that trans and gender-nonconforming kids and black and brown kids are being pushed out of schools and onto the streets and into the criminal legal system.

If you’ve seen our messaging, it’s changed.

It’s not just about main LGBTQ issues. It’s about immigrant rights. It’s about reproductive justice. It’s about mothers fighting for better gun laws. It’s about looking at how we work with criminal justice systems, because those things impact a part of our community. backtalk@indyweek.com

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lot is happening across the Triangle this Pride weekend. There’s no way we can spotlight everything here (a testament to this area’s expansive LGBTQ community), but we wanted to spotlight five diverse, fun, queer happenings you should make sure to check out. Happy Pride, y’all!

Queer AF Pride Dance Party Suggested $5 donation, Sep. 27, 10 p.m.–2 a.m.

Durham Fruit & Produce Company 305 South Dillard Street, Durham

Start Pride off by getting sweaty with queers from across all across the Triangle. DJ Femi the Femme, DJ Queen Plz, and DJ VSPRTN will spin all night. All door proceeds benefit the LGBTQ Center of Durham.

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Pride: Durham NC

Free, Sep. 28, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. (day), 5 p.m. (night) Duke East Campus (day) | Durham Central Park (night) 1304 Campus Drive | 501 Foster Street, Durham

The weekend’s main event, Pride: Durham NC is a day-and-night celebration of community, family, pride, and activism. The daytime festivities run from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the area around Duke’s east campus; the parade starts at 11:00 a.m., and the main stage opens at 1:00 p.m. Daytime acts include Gemynii As DJ, Loamlands, and drag performers.

When the sun goes down, the party shifts to DCP, where you can catch performances by SWSH, Sateen, PlayPlay, Le1f, and Shea Diamond. Hosted by Candis Cox—this is major!

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Free, Sep. 28, 4 p.m.–10 p.m.

Downtown Raleigh, near Legends Nightclub Complex 330 West Hargett Street, Raleigh

A Pride tradition in Raleigh, NC Pride at Night is a community-oriented festival experience near Legends. This year’s headliner is social media star and YouTube personality Todrick Hall.

Q&L Night: The Glitterous Ball

Free, Sep. 29, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Ruby Deluxe 415 South Salisbury Street, Raleigh

Raleigh’s favorite Sparkle Dungeon is closing out Pride weekend with a dance party centered on lesbians and the larger queer community. DJ Jenilla Ice will spin major throwback bangers to keep your spirits high as you reminisce about your weekend.

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PRIDE

Shelter in Place The LGBTQ Center of Durham wants to help homeless queer young adults find more than just somewhere to spend the night

By Lucas Hubbard

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t some point in their lives, 30 percent of transgender people will experience homelessness, according to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. This is a heightened problem for young adults, who might turn eighteen in an economically unstable environment, age out of foster care, or get booted from their homes after coming out to their family.

Regardless of the circumstances, they often have few safe places to turn: 70 percent of the survey’s homeless respondents who had stayed in shelters reported experiencing mistreatment, including harassment, sexual and physical abuse, and ejection.

“Before having a formal name for it, our community has had to take in folks and create family as a way to fill some gaps,” says Helena Cragg, program director of the LGBTQ Center of Durham. She saw sympathetic Facebook threads and watched residents try to make space for homeless queer youth, but she didn’t know whether these makeshift solutions were making an impact. The Center received requests to host young people in need, but it lacked the capacity to take them all in.

“It felt like it was time for us to move into that gap we felt in the community,” Cragg says.

In June, the Center launched the Host Home Program, which seeks to assist individuals between eighteen and twenty-four years old who are suffering from housing instability, with a focus on people who are of color and/or LGBTQ. (The latter constitutes roughly 40 percent of homeless youth nationwide.) The model pairs those with immediate short-term housing needs with vetted hosts.

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Case manager Amber Esters works with a young adult at the LGBTQ Center of Durham. PHOTO BY JADE WILSON spoken at churches, Durham County Department of Health meetings, and Durham Bulls games on Pride Night. They’ve also advertised at Bull City Roller Derby bouts and begun to discuss partnership opportunities with the League of Upper Extremity Wrestling Women of Durham, a women’s arm-wrestling league that raises funds for organizations supporting the city’s women, femmes, and non-binary residents.

All hosts must go through a background check and a home visit before approval.

But the actual process of marching hosts to those in need often starts with a letter written to prospective tenants that outlines the host’s life story. The Center ensures, through preliminary boundary-setting and a two-week trial period, that the host won’t be re-traumatized by hosting someone navigating issues they’ve previously dealt with.

Often, the most effective host is someone who knows the struggles a young person might be facing—and who can appreciate the value of a guiding hand at a precarious point.

“It may be that [if ] someone is sober, they’re the perfect host for someone who’s trying to find their way to sobriety,” says Cragg. “It may be that someone who’s done sex work is the only person who isn’t corny enough to have a real conversation with them about that.”

Funding for the program comes from the state’s Department of Health and Human Services Division of Mental Health—which makes sense, given that, according to a 2012 survey, half of LGBTQ homeless youth have worse overall physical and mental health than their homeless peers.

All HHP participants regularly interact with therapists, and the program brings in

three mental health providers to meet with them at either the Center or their host home.

“We were realizing we couldn’t just send young, vulnerable queer youth of color in particular to any mental health provider, especially knowing the high levels of trauma they were bringing in,” Buchanan says. They stress the importance of finding health professionals who can “mirror” their clients’ realities and understand their stories.

Buchanan mostly interacts with the hosts.

Amber Esters, the HHP case manager, works with the young adults directly, driving them to appointments, assisting them with goal plans, making connections with providers, and ensuring that they’re in a good place.

During the program’s pilot phase over the next three years, the aim is to create avenues for volunteers to contribute beyond hosting, from making birthday cakes for the participants to teaching classes to offering workshops for résumés and polishing college applications.

That growth will be crucial as national threats begin to encroach. In May, the Trump administration proposed a rule that would roll back protections for homeless transgender people and allow shelters to deny individuals access on the basis of religious beliefs. (That change is under review.)

The HHP provides a counterweight, an effort to break the cycle of those who need assistance but are least likely to seek it.

Of the ten people the Center has worked with thus far, all are queer, half are transgender, and all but one are people of color.

“It is both surprising and not surprising that one hundred percent of the youth have been exactly the two populations that we most want to support,” Cragg says. “But that feels important because there’s so little data about these communities locally. It feels empowering to be able to name something that we’ve known is truly in existence.” backtalk@indyweek.com If you’re interested in becoming a host, email hosthome@lgbtqcenterofdurham.org.

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Friday, Sep. 27–Sunday, Sep. 29, $75–$300 Various venues, Durham www.aocfestival.com

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ART OF COOL FESTIVAL’S NEW OWNERS HAVE DEEPER DURHAM ROOTS AND BIGGER DURHAM DREAMS THAN YOU MIGHT THINK BY ERIC TULLIS

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moment of reconciliation took place at last year’s Art of Cool Festival, when the festival’s new co-owner, Sulaiman Mausi, stepped onto the Durham Bulls Athletic Park stage and apologized for a Groupon ticketing snafu that created entry difficulties for many patrons. For those who had attended the homegrown, jazz-forward festival over the previous four years, it was a bumpy introduction to the new Art of Cool after cofounders Cicely Mitchell and Al Strong sold it to Sulaiman and Lesleigh Mausi.

Still, it was a success, with world-class headliners such as Maxwell, Erykah Badu, and Nas, complemented by the surprise reunion of hometown hip-hop group Little Brother, which cast a redemptive light on a festival under scrutiny during a changing of the guard.

At the time, little was known by the average Art of Cool fan about Sulaiman and Lesleigh Mausi, a married couple with a deep-rooted relationship to Durham and a proven record as show-runners with their event-production company, The DOME Group. At face value, they were ambitious Bull City transplants from Detroit who were looking to capitalize on a burgeoning black arts-and-music scene. But behind the scenes, the groundwork for their acquisition of the festival had been laid over years.

From the early 1930s to the mid-1950s, before urban renewal devastated Durham’s black-owned business community, Sulaiman’s great grandfather owned and managed both the Garrett’s Biltmore and Garrett Parker pharmacies in the city’s storied Black Wall Street district. Later on, his grandfather, Nathan Garrett, became the first black licensed CPA in North Carolina.

Sulaiman carried this entrepreneurial legacy with him as a student at North Carolina Central University, where he began promoting parties and club events—a passion he had developed growing up in Detroit, watching his mother, Shahida Mausi, thrive as an event coordinator for the city.

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You don’t need us to tell you about Run-DMC, Whodini, Jill Scott, 9th Wonder, and Marcus Anderson, but here’s a few great Art of Cool sets that might fly under your radar.

BLACK VIOLIN Sep. 27, 7:50 p.m., Durham Bulls Athletic Park This unconventional hip-hop duo from Florida consists of Wil Baptiste, who plays the viola, and Kev Marcus, who plays the violin. They’ve been slowly bubbling up for a while with their fusion of classical string compositions and hip-hop beats—a perfect way to kick off night one of the festival.

Art of Cool Festival owners Sulaiman and Lesleigh Mausi After the couple married in 1999, they started a family in Durham, where Lesleigh worked as an educator at Githens Middle School and was later recognized as Durham Public Schools’ Assistant Principal of the Year, during her tenure at Jordan High School.

For Lesleigh, a trained pianist and former church minister of music, AOC’s “stArt of Cool” youth education program and techbased Innovate Your Cool component resonated with her as an educator.

While living in Durham for sixteen years, the Mausi family has returned to Detroit every summer, where Lesleigh and Sulaiman program entertainment for the city’s riverfront venue, Chene Park Amphitheatre, which was renamed Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre after the singer passed away last year. It was the Mausi family who organized the Queen of Soul’s tribute concert there. A month later, they were back in Durham on the Art of Cool Festival stage as its new owners.

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n 2008, the Mausis made their first impression on Durham’s then-tepid music scene by booking smooth jazz saxophonist Najee for a concert at The Car-

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olina Theatre. At the time, the prospect of a major music festival in the Triangle—especially a major jazz-and-soul music festival in Durham—seemed unthinkable. The first Hopscotch was still a year away; there was no such thing as the Art of Cool Festival; and Moogfest was still in Asheville.

But shortly after the Mausis booked their first show at The Carolina, a larger downtown venue sprang up: the 2,700-seat Durham Performing Arts Center. Eventually, The DOME Group was recruited to run the venue’s urban programming, presenting big-name acts such as Mary J. Blige, Anthony Hamilton, Big Sean, and Al Green.

“What we saw was a niche in Durham that had not been catered to,” Sulaiman says.

“We were out here really just priming the pumps for the market to get used to a nightlife, which wasn’t present in Durham prior to 2009,” Lesleigh adds. “We opened the market up to some live entertainment and energy in the evening for people to come downtown and enjoy great music at an affordable price.”

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ARI LENNOX Sep. 27, 8:45 p.m., Durham Bulls Athletic Park At Raleigh’s first Dreamville Festival in April, Ari Lennox was an obscure up-and-comer, but her show-stealing performance had attendees revering her as the new standard of modern R&B. She brings a level of frankness and honesty to her music that’s similar to Erykah Badu, and her ability to connect with live audiences guarantees her a long-term seat in the spotlight.

LVITTO Sep. 28, 7:15 p.m., The Pinhook Kicking off Saturday evening, The Pinhook is hosting some of Durham’s best independent hip-hop artists, and LVitto is sure to get the vibe started off right. His new album, Soon, is an impressive display of his ability to bring the local hip-hop scene together to make great music, with appearances from Jooselord, Lord Fess (formerly known as Professor Toon), Ethan Taylor, and more.

G YAMAZAWA Sep. 28, 8 p.m., The Pinhook G Yamazawa is the pride of Durham hip-hop, and he doesn’t get to perform locally as much as he used to, so any chance to catch G play to his hometown crowd is something that should never be missed. His hit single “North Cack” introduced the world to “Carolina barbecue sauce with the slaw,” and when he drops that in an intimate venue like The Pinhook, there’s a real chance that the roof will fall off.

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like newcomers to many when the festival changed hands; they certainly didn’t have the face recognition of Mitchell (who declined to comment for this story), who constantly put boots on the ground to finesse a bond between the festival and the city. Was this a cash grab or a real interest in advancing Art of Cool and its values?

“I’ve heard some of those critiques, and I have no idea where that could possibly be coming from,” Sulaiman says. “I built my company for people to focus on the music, not on me personally. We have been employing people in this community for a decade.

We have an endowment at NCCU, and we’ve always had interns from NCCU and

Durham Public Schools. Is someone making a positive impact or not?”

One notable difference between this year’s festival and prior ones is the reduction of jazz. The Mausis say that this is something that they would like to improve on, but that it’s often the case that people who claim to love genres such as jazz don’t necessarily translate into ticket buyers.

“Not only are we expanding AOC, but we’re talking about a bare-minimum $3 million impact,” Sulaiman says. “If jazz isn’t selling, or hip-hop isn’t selling, you better put some country-western up there. ... For it to grow, it had to go into bigger rooms. That way, you have the sell-

able capacity to bring in bigger names to support the costs of bringing in newer and up-and-coming acts.”

The Mausis moved the festival from the spring to the fall, and they moved its main stage to DBAP, where there is room for up to ten thousand festivalgoers.

It’s an ideal space to accommodate this year’s headliners, R&B superstar Jill Scott and legacy hip-hop acts Run-DMC, Whodini, and Big Daddy Kane. Nevertheless, you can’t deny that Art of Cool’s jazz-advancing mission has shifted, with jazz acts like Marcus Anderson outnumbered by hip-hop and R&B artists and DJs, and without much by way of more adventur-

ous, risky jazz artists to balance out the big-name Anderson.

But maybe the five-year span in which Art of Cool was an incubator for jazz and soul adventurers was part of a phase of jazz blending with hip-hop (remember when Robert Glasper was everywhere?) that is no longer trending in the music industry. The Mausis might have to follow that trend to sustain the festival, rather than saturating it with obscurity.

“I’ve always seen Art of Cool Festival and its mission as something to broaden jazz-inspired music,” Sulaiman says. “That word ‘inspired’ means that we can take it anywhere. It’s limitless to me.” music@indyweek.com

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WORLD OF BLUEGRASS

World of Bluegrass conference: Through Saturday, Sep. 28, $100–$140 Wide Open Bluegrass festival: Friday, Sep. 27 & Saturday, Sep. 28, free Various venues, Raleigh www.worldofbluegrass.org

She’s All That

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ara Watkins grew up in the bluegrass world: the fiddler, singer, and songwriter began her career with the band Nickel Creek at the tender age of eight. Those formative years included plenty of time at International Bluegrass Music Association conferences in Kentucky.

“We were this pack of kids, and we would play air hockey and eat cookies and jam and stalk around our favorite bluegrass musicians in the halls,” she remembers.

Thirty song-stuffed years later, she’s now part of a rootsy power trio with singer-songwriters Aoife O’Donovan and Sarah Jarosz, who join forces as I’m With Her. The three combine their overlapping expertise in the worlds of folk, bluegrass, and Americana-adjacent music; Aoife O’Donovan, Sara Watkins, and Sarah Jarosz of I’m With Her their debut album, 2018’s See You PHOTO COURTESY OF ROUNDER RECORDS Around, showcases their tremendous vocal harmonies in of like a first date, where you just kind of run into someone songs that are poignant and playful. (Their name pre-dated and you’re like, “That was really fun, right? We should do Hillary Clinton’s campaign slogan by more than a year, by that more.” the way.)

Ahead of the band’s Friday night show at Red Hat Amphi- You and Aoife both toured through your pregnancies theater—a part of the IBMA festival, Wide Open Bluegrass, and now bring your young children on tour. Why was that takes over Raleigh this weekend—Watkins caught us it important to you to bring them along, rather than up on her supergroup’s inner workings and bringing babies choosing to take a break? on the road.

It’s been incredible to be able to bring the kids out. Our little girls are similar ages, we were able to take out a nanny INDY: You’ve all known each other for a long time—what on the tour bus, and we were able to share childcare and made you finally decide to formalize as a band? treat them like siblings. Aoife and I were able to be a team SARA WATKINS: It was this workshop at a festival. We in this respect and be there for each other. Motherhood found ourselves in a list of people who were songwriters can be incredibly isolating in the best of circumstancwho were doing a vocal workshop. There was an invitation es, and the fact that we had each other was invaluable. It for anyone to get together and sing through a song or two. couldn’t have been a more ideal situation. We both feel The three of us ended up being the only ones who showed incredibly lucky to have had that experience. We wanted up. When we were running through a few songs that we to tour because this is what we do. had in common or that we knew we could easily pick up, it Jarosz was on board from the minute we mentioned the was a really sweet, special thing. Later that night, we got to possibility of it, and our crew was incredibly supportive. do a little twenty-minute late-night set. To me, it was kind CONTINUED ON P. 28

SMOKIN’ GRASS: SEVEN CAN’T-MISS WORLD OF BLUEGRASS SETS

BY SPENCER GRIFFITH SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND Sep. 25, 10 p.m., Kings Thanks to her stellar songwriting, Becky Buller has won IBMA’s Fiddle Player of the Year award and two Grammys.

Fellow fiddler Laurie Lewis is a veteran of folk and bluegrass circles, while Irene Kelley’s tunes have been recorded by Loretta Lynn, Alan Jackson, and Ricky Skaggs.

THE DAN TYMINSKI BAND Sep. 26, midnight, Lincoln Theatre Best known for lending his burly voice to Avicii’s “Hey Brother” and “Man of Constant Sorrow” from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Tyminski leads his own band on traditionally minded grass.

THE DEAD SOUTH Sep. 26, 4:20 p.m., Raleigh Convention Center The moody tunes of this Juno-winning Canadian outfit— which also plays twice Wednesday night—conjure old Western vibes, reminiscent of a grittier Mumford and Sons.

MOLLY TUTTLE Sep. 27, 7:15 p.m., Red Hat Amphitheater Worthy of headlining this whole festival, Tuttle’s refreshing combination of captivating songwriting, breathtaking vocals, and guitar wizardry have justly earned her nominations in each of those categories for this year’s IBMA awards.

I’M WITH HER Sep. 27, 8:25 p.m., Red Hat As a trio, Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan’s gorgeous harmonies, wistful songwriting, and sharp musicianship are rivaled only by their charming banter, onstage chemistry, and cover choices.

DANNY PAISLEY & SOUTHERN GRASS Sep. 28, 8 p.m., Davie Street Stage Simply one of the finest traditional bands around, Paisley and company’s no-frills approach puts the focus squarely on the emotive power of Danny Paisley’s high lonesome pipes.

THE DEL MCCOURY BAND WITH FRIENDS Sep. 28, 8:30 p.m., Red Hat Star-studded jams can be meandering messes, but McCoury—perhaps the greatest showman in bluegrass—is surely up to the task of weaving together guests including Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Sierra Hull, Phish’s Jon Fishman, and pop-country star Dierks Bentley.

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Nobody ever complained about, like, breast pumps being out in the front lounge and diapers being everywhere.

It was an incredible environment, and we were so lucky to have the support that we did to do it. More and more musicians are bringing their kids out on the road, and there’s a good community of resources for people to tap into.

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How do you feel like what you’ve done with I’m With Her has challenged you as a musician?

This is definitely the most cowriting I’ve ever done. I’m much more open to and excited about that kind of collaboration with other musicians. I was talking with my brother and a friend the other day about how being a musician is seventy to seventy-five percent psychology. You’re working with people, and you’re working with yourself.

A lot of it is your skills and what you can execute, but so much of it is just how you process life and how you process people.

That’s something you can really get a lot better at, always. Jarosz has a very Zen way of processing things, and Aoife has an incredible way of dealing with logistics and problem solving and is very efficient. Those are two things that I can definitely get better at, all the time. I think that that kind of stuff definitely comes into play with every creative project.

You’ve had such a long relationship with bluegrass music. How has your relationship with it changed over the years?

I don’t think it’s changed all that much.

I grew up listening to probably seventy percent bluegrass. When something takes up that much space in your picture, in your view, you’re so enveloped in it. It’s such a beautiful way to grow up—going to bluegrass festivals, going to IBMAs. We were able to go to IBMA last year, and it was my first time back in a long time. It was incredibly touching and heartwarming to see so many familiar faces and friends and people who hold this near-and-dear place in my heart. It was really beautiful to me, to get to dip my toes back into this community that’s been flourishing for so long while I’ve been not really putting out bluegrass records, per se. It was a special thing for each of us— Jarosz, Aoife, and I—and we’re really excited to get to come back.

BAND AID: FIVE SWEET SETS TO CATCH AT THE CARRBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL

BY SAM HAW

CARRBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL

Saturday, Sep. 28 & Sunday, Sep. 29, free Various venues, Carrboro www.carrboromusicfestival.com

The Town of Carrboro’s twenty-second-annual local-band blowout is expansive, with 185 acts spread across twenty-seven stages. Kickoff events on Saturday include a singer-songwriter showcase at the Carrboro Town Commons as well as a free show with Ellis Dyson & the Shambles and Noah Adams & the Louisiana Natives at Cat’s Cradle. These are some of the noteworthy sets taking place on Sunday: ERIE CHOIR 1 p.m., Fitch Lumber Company What initially started as the solo project of Sorry About Dresden’s Eric Roehrig has since transformed into a full-fledged indie outfit. The self-described dad-rock group released the excellent Old Rigs in 2017 after a decade-long hiatus.

RAVARY 4 p.m., The Station Justin Ellis has spent the better part of his music career backing a variety of indie-rock groups—Happy Abandon, Easter Island, and Al Riggs’s live band. His solo project, Ravary, showcases both his chops as a multi-instrumentalist and his signature booming voice.

THA MATERIALS 6 p.m., 2nd Wind Durham act Tha Materials fuse old-school hip-hop flows with jazzy instrumentation.

Boasting three vocalists—Juteria Eaves, Raney Hayes, and Cameron Tripp—as well as a tight live band, Tha Materials consistently offer an electrifying performance.

XOXOK 8 p.m., 2nd Wind As XOXOK, Keenan Jenkins uses his theatrical voice and reverb-soaked guitar to craft atmospheric soul. Whereas his debut EP, Worthy, contains ambitious production, his strippeddown live show is a raw, intimate experience.

FLASH CAR 10 p.m., The Station Morgan Friedman’s songwriting lies somewhere between the eccentric pop of Harry Nilsson and the catchy psych-rock of modern acts like Dungen and Tame Impala. On its debut album, Wardrobe, last year, Missy Thangs produced four of the eight tracks. music@indyweek.com

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Wednesday, Sep. 25–Saturday, Sep. 28 Various venues, Carrboro/Saxapahaw www.paperhand.org

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n a darkened room, a woman croons a dark song, a capella: “A man hangs from the Tyburn Tree / His deathbed made of rope / And strong nails kill his hopes of ever climbing down.” As she kneels, the shadow puppets she manipulates enact a stark story from the history of capital punishment; it unspools slowly across the surface of an overhead projector and is cast upon a nearby wall.

Baltimore puppeteer and performance artist Rae Red’s Shadow Ballads is one of the mainstage productions in the region’s second Radicackalacky Puppet Convergence, a four-day festival of puppetry and social activism featuring artists and companies from across the South.

Paperhand Puppet Intervention, a longtime advocate for puppetry as a vehicle for social change, produced the first such gathering thirteen years ago. The new incarnation features two evenings of performances and a high-spirited late-night cabaret at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro and daytime seminars and workshops in clowning, juggling, and puppet construction at Paperhand’s Saxapahaw studios, all before the final weekend of We Are Here, Paperhand’s current show.

Paperhand cofounder Donovan Zimmerman sees social activism through performance as part of a puppetry renaissance: “There are so many examples, from The Lion King and The Dark Crystal to the Super Bowl and Olympics, of how puppetry has made its way into the mainstream,” he says.

For festival co-coordinator Emily McHugh, a Paperhand studio artist from Olympia, Washington, innovative performances using centuries-old techniques “invite us to join our communities and engage in collective storytelling about what’s going on socially, politically, and culturally. Puppetry has the potential to open us up to each other in ways not normally accessible.”

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A puppet from Edwin Salas’s performance of Frijolito and the Orange Monster PHOTO COURTESY OF PAPERHAND PUPPET INTERVENTION

Award-winning artists from Louisiana, South Carolina, and Virginia will explore issues including immigration, racism, and gun control. They’ll also probe the need for laughter, hope, and self-care in divisive times, in comedy and texts ranging from feminist retellings of stories from the Torah and New Testament to the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Whether subtle or overt, Rae Red considers all art political. “You can’t create art in the world now without thinking about how the world is affecting our experience,” she says. Her work tries to count-

er the “super-specific” focus in modern news by “zooming out a little bit to get the broader picture.”

Red notes that in obsessing on the minutiae of the daily news feed, “we’re missing the actual experiences, what actually matters, like our access to water, or that one in twenty-five people on death row are innocent. These things tend to get swept or lost in the name-calling.” Her intimate performance and those of her colleagues let us reconnect and reconsider the social elements they examine. arts@indyweek.com

The unsinkable Molly Ivins—journalist, crusader, freethinker—served the American public for decades by simply speaking her fast and funny mind.

A native Texan and the daughter of an oil tycoon, Ivins bucked both geography and genealogy to become a leading voice of the liberal left for more than fifty years. At the height of her popularity, her syndicated column ran in more than four hundred newspapers, and her books became bestsellers.

Ivins’s mighty spirit and barbed-wire humor is on full display in Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins, a wonderfully kinetic documentary from director Janice Engel. The film takes a traditional approach, mixing archival clips with talking-head interviews, but with a velocity and verve that complements its subject. The images are bold, the music is loud, the clips are weird, and the editing is highly caffeinated.

Raise Hell follows Ivins from teenage bookworm to formidable journalist to veteran chronicler of our nation. Her insights had the weighty thump of simple truths.

“We keep pretending that the political spectrum runs from right to left,” Ivins says. “It doesn’t. It runs from top to bottom.” Ivins could be funny, she could be cruel, and heaven knows that she could drink. But she always told the truth.

Raise Hell does its raising all over the place, actually. It will raise your ire concerning the war for and on journalism in America. It will raise your hope a little to admire Ivins’s triumphs of courage and candor.

But the film is most powerful in that it raises the spirit of the woman herself.

Ivins’s voice and presence suffuse the entire affair, and that’s the real trick of this successful biographical documentary.

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Martha Graham Dance Company: CURRENT Takeover

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When The New York Times, in an article on the residency that informs the Martha Graham Dance Company’s CURRENT takeover, mentioned that “Google—through Google Arts and Culture—is on a mission to find new ways of braiding technology with culture,” it couldn’t help but to have a faintly sinister ring, like the opening page of a twenty-first-century Kafka novel. (At least the phrase “Google Arts and Culture” is merely dispiriting, as opposed to the mad screaming horror of “Facebook Dating.”) But the results of the iconic modern dance company’s two weeks spent playing around in virtual reality and motioncapture technology sound pretty freaking cool. In the company’s immersive CURRENT experience, you’ll see Graham’s 1930 classic Lamentation with projected archival imagery mapped onto living dancers, among other new ways to encounter well-worn standards. Graham broke aesthetic ground in dance almost a century ago, but since technology has replaced aesthetics as the driving force of artistic progress, it’s only right that Graham’s company is probing that frontier now.

—Brian Howe

PHOTO BY RAMSAY DE GIVE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES/COURTESY OF CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS

For whatever reason, the string octet—usually four violins, two violas, two cellos—has been the domain of young composers. The best-known works for the ensemble, three of which are on display at this concert, were written by teenagers. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his two-movement work at eighteen, taking full advantage of the abundance by piling lines on top of each other and saturating the sonic field with reckless, discordant glee. Felix Mendelssohn’s famous octet, written when he was only sixteen, feels, at times, like a violin concerto, with occasional digressions and interjections from the rest of the band. And George Enescu’s octet, which he composed over a year and a half when he was around age nineteen, is practically symphonic in scope and density. He wrote of it, “An engineer launching his first suspension bridge over a river, could not feel more anxiety than I felt when I set out to darken my paper.” —Dan Ruccia BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, DURHAM 8 p.m., $25, www.dukeperformances.duke.edu

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY: CURRENT TAKEOVER

CURRENT ARTSPACE + STUDIO, CHAPEL HILL Various times, $14, www.carolinaperformingarts.org

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ERIC AND ANDRE: LEGALIZE EVERYTHING TOUR

We’re not 100 percent sure which Eric Andre you’ll get in his “Legalize Everything” standup tour. It’s almost certain you won’t get the family-friendly one who voiced one of the hyenas in the live-action The Lion King over the summer. It’s also unlikely that you’ll get anything as extreme as the fictionalized version of himself that hosts Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show; a sweaty, bellicose mock-talk-show host whose awkward interviews almost always result in his smashing his cardboard desk to pieces. Presumably, there will also be less nudity. In his acting and comedy, Andre veers wildly from playing the straight man to playing the wild man, with the common element being chaos—whether he’s causing it or reacting to it. He’s also usually damn funny, so no matter which Andre you get at The Carolina, you can go through the doors expecting to laugh hard. —Zack Smith THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $35+, www.carolinatheatre.org

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13

THE ROOMMATE

When an introverted homebody, puttering around a big, empty house in Iowa City after “retiring” from a loveless marriage, takes in a vegan lesbian who is an ex-potter, ex-slam poet and not-soex-chain smoker from the Bronx, worlds collide in Jen Silverman’s dark domestic comedy. Though Sharon and Robyn are two women in their mid-fifties—a rarity for leading roles on stage— it’s clear they’ve been living in different, discontinuous decades.

When Sharon invites her new roomie to her reading group meeting, Robyn demurs: “Isn’t that kind of for old people?” Nonplussed, Sharon replies: “We are old people.” Things escalate when Robyn makes Sharon’s resurrection her next pet project.

“You are actually younger than most U.S. presidents,” Robyn says. “You are young enough that, if you were a president, you would be a young president … So just stop mummifying yourself.”

But can a resurrection be too successful? We find out when Marshall Botvinick directs Julie Oliver and Madeleine Pabis in this Bulldog Ensemble Theater season-opener. —Byron Woods DURHAM FRUIT & PRODUCE COMPANY, DURHAM Various times, $10–$20, www.bulldogdurham.org

Leslie Jamison PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

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LESLIE JAMISON

“If this book began as an exploration of longing, then it ended up becoming an exploration of dwelling,” writes Leslie Jamison of her new essay collection, Make It Scream, Make It Burn. Jamison, also the author of New York Times bestseller The Empathy Exams, is an essayist of rigorous intellect and deeply felt observations. In the new collection, Jamison’s prose, which spans narrative journalism and personal essay, is lucid and unsettling. Subjects include 52 Blue, otherwise known as “the loneliest whale in the world;” Jamison’s experience becoming a stepmother; and an entire musuem dedicated to the aftermath of breakups. “It was a kind of longing that did not imply absence. It was a longing that belonged,” she writes in this month’s The Atlantic. Sentences like these, both intimate and expansive, distinguish Jamison’s craft and curiosities.

—Coco Wilder FLYLEAF BOOKS, CHAPEL HILL 7 p.m., free, www.flyleafbooks.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO? ANTHROPOCENE AT 21C MUSEUM HOTEL (P. 40), ART OF COOL FESTIVAL IN DOWNTOWN DURHAM (P. 25), BLOOD AT THE ROOT AT RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE (P. 39), COMPOSITION 21 AT THE NASHER (P. 37), JOSH RITTER AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE (P. 33), NOIR AT THE BAR AT YONDER (P. 38), RADICACKALACKY PUPPET CONVERGENCE AT VARIOUS VENUES (P. 29), WORLD OF BLUEGRASS IN DOWNTOWN RALEIGH (P. 27)

5th Saturday, October 5th there’s only one place to be – the North Carolina Rural Heritage Center in Laurinburg for the Scotland County Highland Games. Watch athletes compete in events such as the caber and hammer throw, and what would the games be without piping, drumming, dancing and Tartan glory. Beer, wine, and food, and craft vendors will be on site. We will also have a special evening concert featuring Highland Echoes.

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JOSH RITTER & THE ROYAL CITY BAND Josh Ritter gives the impression of a Midwestern preacher and makes reverent earworms that are very, very good. Since his first release, a selftitled album in 1999, his discography has moved at the steady clip of an album nearly every other year. Perhaps it’s that consistency that has kept him from the fanfare he deserves. It’s easy to take his sincere roots rock for granted, despite the level of craft that’s evident throughout his oeuvre— especially in older songs like “Kathleen,” “Temptation of Adam,” and “Come and Find Me”—but his latest album has all that good stuff, too. Fever Breaks, which was produced by Jason Isbell and released earlier this year, leans more intently into gritty, bluesy Southern rock than Ritter’s previous heartlands fare, but it shares the same plaintive yearning. —Sarah Edwards THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $38, www.carolinatheatre.org

WED, SEP 25 THE ARTSCENTER Holly Bowling; $20-$23. 8 p.m.

THE CAVE Upward Dogs; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle with The Verona Quartet; $20. 8 p.m.

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE Johnny Folsom 4; $5. 5:45 p.m.

LOCAL 506 Secrets, 13:7; $13-$16. 6:30 p.m.

NC MUSEUM OF ART Rhiannon Giddens, Francesco Turrisi; $35-$45. 7:30 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT 919Noise Showcase; $7. 8:30 p.m.

UNC’S PERSON RECITAL HALL Jessie Martin & John O’Brien; 7:30 p.m.

THU, SEP 26 THE ARTSCENTER PopUp Chorus: Elton John; 7 p.m.

CAROLINA THEATRE Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band, Amanda Shires; $37.50. 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE The Motet, Mellow Swells; $20-$23.

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CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Palm Palm, Secret American; $10. 8:30 p.m.

THE CAVE Hooverville; 9 p.m.

KABOOM ART GALLERY Moryo, pulses., With Sails Ahead, Fathom Farewell, The Old Laws; $10. 8 p.m.

MOTORCO River Whyless, Lowland Hum; $15-$18. 9 p.m.

NEPTUNES PARLOUR Bat House; $8-$10. 10 p.m.

THE PINHOOK No One Mind, Wilder Maker, SE Ward; $10. 8 p.m.

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SUN, SEP 29 CAROLINA THEATRE The Righteous Brothers; $50-$80. 8 p.m.

CARRBORO Carrboro Music Festival; free. 2:30 p.m.

CHATHAM BEVERAGE DISTRICT The Chatham Experience: Chatham Rabbits, Tommy Edwards and The Bluegrass Experience, Diali Cissokho; donations. 4 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE Noah Kahan, JP Saxe; $20-$89. 8 p.m.

MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM Marisela; 7 p.m.

MOTORCO The Regrettes; $15. 8 p.m.

THE PINHOOK Matt Heckler, Outlaw Ritual; $12. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Patrick Sweany, Surf Cavalier; $12-$15. 8 p.m.

SERTOMA AMPHITHEATRE The Triangle Brass Band: Brass at the Movies; free. 5 p.m.

SLIM’S Moon Type, Toss; $5. 9 p.m.

MON, SEP 30

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Jonah Tolchin; $12-$14. 8 p.m.

KINGS Sir Babygirl, Nyssa; $10-$12. 8 p.m.

LOCAL 506 Regional Justice Center, Spine, Devil’s Den, Tired of Everything; $12. 9 p.m.

Alicia Olatuja performs at UNC’s Hill Hall on Wednesday, October 2. PHOTO BY DENEKA PENISTON RED HAT AMPHITHEATER Dropkick Murphys, Clutch, Hatebreed, Amigo the Devil; $30+. 6:30 p.m.

RHYTHMS LIVE Sinbad, Memphis Red & the Funk Nasty Band, Chip Shearin; $39. 8 p.m.

KINGS The Big Ol’ Nasty Getdown, April B & the Cool; $20. 9:30 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Birdtalker; 7:30 p.m.

SLIM’S Clear Spots, Karbuncle, Will Saint Creek; $5. 9 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD Basilica, Summoned, Abstractionist, Attracting The Fall; $8. 8:30 p.m.

UNC’S HILL HALL The Mark Tonelli Quartet; 7:30 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT Bull Town Rascals; $10. 6:30 p.m.

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THE PINHOOK Sequoyah Murray, Just Jess; $10. 8 p.m.

BLUE NOTE GRILL Chicken Shack; $8. 9 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE RIDE, The Spirit of the Beehive; $30-$33. 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Leslie Stevens, Michael McArthur; $10-$12. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Fireside Collective, Twisted Pine, Gravy Boys; $12. 8 p.m.

SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS RALEIGH Apparitions of Myself, Smoke From All the Friction; 6 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY Mark Tonelli Quartet; $20. 8 p.m.

THE CAVE Jonah Tolchin; 9 p.m.

SLIM’S The Wormholes, Augurs, Megachrome; $5. 9 p.m.

DOWNTOWN DURHAM Art of Cool Festival; full schedule online.

THE STATION Serene Green; 8 p.m.

UNC’S HILL HALL Justin John Moniz; 8 p.m.

SAT, SEP 28 ARCANA PlayPlay, VSPRTN; $7. 9 p.m.

BLUE NOTE GRILL Handsome Al & the Lookers, Emma Davis; $8.

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CAT’S CRADLE Abbey Road LIVE!; $15-$18. 8:30 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Carrboro Music Festival Kickoff: Ellis Dyson & the Shambles, Noah Adams & the Louisiana Natives; free. 8 p.m.

THE CAVE Cold Cream, Weird God; 9 p.m.

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Escher String Quartet & Dover Quartet; $25. 8 p.m.

HAW RIVER BALLROOM Caique Vidal & Batuque, The Shoaldiggers; free. 6 p.m.

HOLLY SPRINGS CULTURAL CENTER Big Bang Boom; $10-$15. 2 p.m.

KINGS Old Habits; $18-$25. 10 p.m.

THE KRAKEN Jimmie Ray Swagger, Doug Prescott Band, Rico Houston; 9 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE Star Kitchen; $17. 9:30 p.m.

LOCAL 506 Derek Webb; 8 p.m.

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MOTORCO Generationals, Neighbor Lady; $15-$17. 8 p.m.

THE NIGHT RIDER propersleep, Basement Life, Cor de Lux; $5. 8 p.m.

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MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM Gary Allan; 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Tan & Sober Gentlemen, Onyx Club Boys, Into The Fog; free. 5 p.m.

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SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS RALEIGH Eyeball, 80 lb. Test; 7 p.m.

Regina Carter [$30-$35, 8 P.M.]

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Carrie Underwood [$42, 7 P.M.] Before co-hosting the CMA Awards with Dolly and Reba in November, Carrie Underwood makes a stop in the Triangle.

Her latest album, 2018’s Cry Pretty, finds the country megastar experimenting with R&B while venturing further into country-pop territory than ever before. Of course, Underwood also has a huge catalog of hits—a blend of power ballads and arena-sized anthems—to revisit, as well.

Maddie & Tae and Runaway June open. —Spencer Griffith

BILL BURTON Carrie Underwood makes a stop at PNC Arena on Monday, September 30.

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TUE, OCT 1 CAT’S CRADLE Mt. Joy, SUSTO; $20+. 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM That 1 Guy; $15. 8 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD Deterioration, Zipper, Junt, 2ThumbzDown; $5. 8 p.m.

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On tour to support a new record, indie-folk group The Head and The Heart is in some ways unrecognizable from when it started. This year’s Living Mirage was made without two of the band’s original members, including cofrontman Josiah Johnson. Selfdescribed “midtempo king” and defacto leader Jonathan Russell

took this new configuration as opportunity to push the group out of its comfort zone, employing pop songwriters to contribute to the group’s tunes. The result is a polished, synth-riddled album that is still centered in folksy vocal harmonies and instrumentation.

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WED, OCT 2 THE CAVE Pocket Vinyl; 9 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM B Boys, Family Vision; $10$12. 8:30 p.m.

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE Lorraine Jordan & Friends; $5. 5:45 p.m.

THE PINHOOK Condado, Chris Larkin, Exit Mice; $7. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE RDGLDGRN, Treehouse!; $14-$16. 9 p.m.

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Alicia Olatuja [$37, 7:30 P.M.] On Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women, the singer, composer, and arranger Alicia Olatuja turns her attention to a canon of sensitive and cerebral women songwriters that range from Sade and Kate Bush to Tracy Chapman. Operating with the same musical precision that earned her a featured solo with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir at President Obama’s Inauguration, Olatuja’s tributes conjure sensuality, grit, and grace.

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OPENING Black Out Loud: Representations and Resilience Art and conversation. Wed, Sep 25.

Love House and Hutchins Forum, Chapel Hill. blackoutloudunc.org.

Jayne Bomberg: A Unique Journey in Visual Art Sep 27-Oct 20. Reception: Sep 27, 6-9 p.m. Skylight Gallery, Hillsborough. skylightgallerync.wordpress.com.

Cary Gallery of Artists: Art N Learning Sep 27-Oct 23.

Reception: Sep 27, 6-8 p.m.

Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org.

Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations Art inspired by music and rhythm. Sep 28-Mar 1. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Elissa Farrow Savos Mixed media. Oct 1-30. Gallery C, Raleigh. galleryc.net

ONGOING 5 Points Gallery Grand Opening Exhibit Group show. Thru Oct 1. 5 Points Gallery, Durham.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

COMPOSITION 21

During two separate performances on Saturday, twenty-one female and nonbinary local musicians will stand atop amplifiers, organized into one of three bands performing on the Nasher lawn. This may sound like the beginning of a math word problem, but it’s also the set-up for Composition 21, an immersive musical experience that forms a “sculptural composition” from each sound. The event was organized by the Brooklyn-based installation and performance artist Naama Tsabar, whose work uses feminist theory to explore the relationships between audiences and performers. Composition 21 has been performed on New York City’s High Line and at Art Basel Miami Beach, among other places; this Durham performance includes local musicians H.C. McEntire, Reese McHenry, and Kym Register, among others. The event also celebrates the opening of a new sculpture garden which connects the Nasher Museum to the Rubenstein Arts Center. —Sarah Edwards

THE NASHER MUSEUM OF ART, DURHAM 2 p.m. & 4 p.m., free, www.nasher.duke.edu

Naama Tsabar is a part of Composition 21 at the Nasher Museum of Art

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Andrew Kozlowski: Dark Days Prints and more.

Thru Oct 26. Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

Katherine Armacost, Nikki Blair, Natalie Boorman, Peg Gignoux, Linda Prager & Carol Retsch-Bogart Group show. Thru Oct 5. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill.

Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now Contemporary Indigenous art.

Thru Jan 12. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

The Art of Resistance Thru Dec 13. UNC’s FedEx Global Education Center, Chapel Hill.

The Atomic Photographers Guild: Nuclear Visions Photography. Thru Oct 31.

UNC’s Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Bill Brown, Jerstin Crosby, Sabine Gruffat, George Jenne, Lindsay Metivier, Alyssa Miserendino, Travis Phillips, Rachele Riley, Derek Toomes, Louis Watts: Another Potato Chip Weekend Group show. Thru Oct 13. Oneoneone, Chapel Hill. oneoneone.gallery Maria Martinez-Cañas: Rebus + Diversions Mixed media. Thru Jan 12. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

Kennedi Carter: Godchild Thru Jan 31.

21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

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Celebrating Nature Group show.

Watercolor, colored pencil, graphite, and pen & ink. Thru Oct 27. NC Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill. conTEXT: A Calligraphic Journey Thru Nov 7. NCSU’s The Crafts Center, Raleigh. crafts.arts.ncsu.edu.

Harriet Hoover, Vanessa Murray, Rusty Shackleford Thru Jan 5. Oneoneone, Chapel Hill. oneoneone.gallery John James Audubon: The Birds of America Ornithological engravings. Thru Dec 31.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Jim Kellough: Vine Paintings Thru Oct 10. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamarts.org.

More Outsider Art in the Visitors Center Folk art. Group show. Thru Nov 29. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. mikesarttruck.com.

New Orleans Second Line Parades Photos. Thru Dec 31. Love House and Hutchins Forum, Chapel Hill. southerncultures.org.

José Manuel Cruz: COLORICAN Various media.

Thru Oct 11. NCCU Art Museum, Durham.

Noah Saterstrom: Faces Paintings. Thru Sep 29. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com.

José Manuel Cruz: Urban Cultural Footprints Thru Oct 31. Triangle Cultural Art Gallery, Raleigh. triangleculturalart.com.

Frank Myers: Strolling Through Durham Photos. Thru Sep 30. 5 Points Gallery, Durham.

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Empirical Evidence Group show. Thru Sep 30. Carrboro Town Hall, Carrboro. secondfridayartwalk. squarespace.com.

Vanessa Murray: Transmutations Paint and experimental media. Thru Sep 28. Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

Raymond Goodman: Burlap Photography. Thru Oct 3. Smelt Art Gallery, Pittsboro.

Ode to the Rainbow: Serigraphs by Joseph Albers (1888-1976) Thru Sep 28.

Gallery C, Raleigh.

Fantastic Fauna-Chimeric Creatures Thru Jan 26. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Larry Favorite, Marcy Lansman, Eric Saunders: Altered Surfaces Thru Oct 20. Reception: Sep 27, 6-9 p.m. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough.

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Feels Warm, Like Things Burning Group show. Thru Oct 26. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org.

Fahamu Pecou: DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance Thru Nov 21. UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. stonecenter.unc.edu.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

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QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women’s Voices Through Quilts Thru Mar 8. NC Museum of History, Raleigh.

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John Rosenthal: Other Than Itself Photos. Thru Oct 12.

Through This Lens, Durham.

She Who Tells a Story Thru Dec 1. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org.

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NOIR AT THE BAR

Nicole Simpkins: Giving What Takes Drawing and printmaking. Thru Sep 28.

Artspace, Raleigh.

The line between crime fiction and horror fiction is thin—after all, crime stories are often horrible, and what do they do if not produce ghosts? So we’re counting the return of Noir at the Bar as an early spooky treat for the Halloween season. The event, which brings together independent crime authors to read from and sell their contraband, originated in St. Louis and was replicated in other cities across the country. Our local crime boss is a shadowy fellow, last known alias Eryk Pruitt, who’s actually not very shadowy—instead, he’s a noted independent crime author, filmmaker, and erstwhile INDY contributor. At Yonder: Southern Cocktails and Local Brew, the newish bar he co-owns in Hillsborough, Pruitt convenes a devilish gallery of writers, including James Maxey (Bitterwood), Suzanne Adair (Deadly Occupation), and Shawn Cosby (My Darkest Prayer), and cultivates a convivial, perhaps raucous vibe. Tip your bartender. Or else?

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Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Thru Dec 21. Power Plant Gallery, Durham. powerplantgallery.com.

Southern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off Interactive sculptures. Thru Oct 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Damian Stamer: Unseen Watercolors and works on paper. Thru Nov 2. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com.

Leigh Suggs: No One Ever Makes a Promise in a Dream Thru Nov 3. Oneoneone, Chapel Hill. oneoneone.gallery

YONDER, HILLSBOROUGH 6:30–9:30 p.m., free www.facebook.com/YonderBarNC

Cheryl Thurber: Documenting Gravel Springs, Mississippi, in the 1970s Photos. Thru Mar 31. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill.

Allison Tierney: A Matter of Form Paintings. Thru Sep 30. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.

Nicole Uzzell: Landscraping Mixed media and sculpture. Thru Sep 30.

Meredith College: GaddyHamrick Art Center, Raleigh. meredith.edu.

Jan-Ru Wan: You thought you are the center of the universe Found objects. Thru Oct 5. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh. vaeraleigh.org.

What in the World Is a Grain Mummy? Egyptology and art.

Thru Jan 8. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Wojtek Wojdynski: Symbiosis Photos. Thru Oct 12.

Through This Lens, Durham.

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Writer Erik Arneson reading at Noir at the Bar PHOTO BY ERYK PRUITT

READINGS & SIGNINGS Christina Proenza-Coles American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. Wed, Sep 25, 7 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

María DeGuzmán Understanding John Rechy.

Mon, Sep 30, 7 p.m.

Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Stella Fosse Aphrodite’s Pen: The Power of Writing Erotica After Midlife. Wed, Oct 2, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Mardy Grothe Deconstructing Trump. Mon, Sep 30, 7 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Karla Holloway A Death in Harlem. Sun, Sep 29, 2 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Craig Johnson Novel Land of Wolves. Sat, Sep 28, 11 a.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com. — Ticketed event. Fri, Sep 27, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Dan Kois How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together. Wed, Sep 25, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

William Krueger Novel This Tender Land. Wed, Sep 25, 6:30 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks. com.

Leslie Jamison Memoir, Make it Scream, Make it Burn. Thu, Sep 26, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Mary M. Lane Hitler’s Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich. Thu, Sep 26, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Orin Pilkey Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America’s Shores. Thu, Sep 26, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com.

Mab Segrest Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South. Sat, Sep 28, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks. com.

LECTURES, ETC.

Marilyn Shannon Listening into the Hearts of Millennials.

Fri, Sep 27, 5:30 p.m. Cocoon Gallery, Apex.

Storytelling Festival Sat, Sep 28, 11 a.m. Historic Oak View County Park, Raleigh. wakegov.com.

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages. Sat, Sep 28, 6 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Not Fusion Ruby Fridays. Fri, Sep 27, noon. Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham. artscenter. duke.edu.

stage Katie Hughes Comedy. $10. Thu, Sep 26, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Martha Graham Dance Company CURRENT Takeover Dance. $14. Sep 27-29. Sep 27: 5 p.m & 7 p.m. Sep 28: 3 & 7 p.m. Sep 29: 1 p.m. & 5 p.m. Current ArtSpace + Studio, Chapel Hill. carolinaperformingarts.org.

Mr. Fankles’ Dirty Funnies Burlesque. $13-$25.

Sat, Sep 28, 9:30 p.m.

The Maywood, Raleigh. themaywoodraleigh.com.

Paperhand Puppet Intervention: Radicackalacky Puppetry festival. Full schedule online.

Sep 25-28. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. paperhand.org.

Paperhand Puppet Intervention: We Are Here Puppetry. $20 suggested. Sep 27-29. UNC’s Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. paperhand.org.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13

BLOOD AT THE ROOT

The ghastly sight of public lynchings prompted teacher and songwriter Abel Meeropol to write “Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root” in the famous Billie Holliday song. In September 2006, after three high school students in Jena, Louisiana hung nooses from a tree that white kids reportedly had claimed as a gathering space, racial tensions in the town of three thousand escalated. A series of subsequent events led to the arrest of six African-American students for attempted murder, following the beating of a white high school student. The “Jena Six” case became the subject of international protests that the charges were motivated by race.

Dominique Morriseau’s 2017 drama depicts the conflict from the points of view of students, including a girl from a mixed-race family, the African-American editor of the student newspaper, and the sister of one of the accused. Guest director Lormarev Jones heads the Raleigh Little Theatre production. —Byron Woods

RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday & 3 p.m. Sunday, $14-$27, www.raleighlittletheatre.org

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Rubies Carolina Ballet. Sep 28-29. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. carolinaballet.com.

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Inherit the Wind Justice Theater Project. Thru Sep 29.

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The Metromaniacs Honest Pint Theatre. Play. Regional premiere. Thru Sep 29. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. nract.org.

Native Son Play. $15+.

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Lilith Flair Drag. $5. Wed, Sep 25, 9 p.m. Ruby Deluxe, Raleigh. rubydeluxeraleigh.com.

ONGOING Aladdin Musical. $30+. Oct 2-26. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

Eric Andre Comedy. $35$50. Wed, Oct 2, 8 p.m.

Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

Blood at the Root Raleigh Little Theatre. Play. $23-$27. Sep 27-Oct 13.

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Ryan Conner & Ashley Brooke Roberts Comedy. Fri, Sep 27, 8 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com.

Cameron Esposito Comedy. Sep 27-29. Fri: 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Sat: 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. Sun: 7 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Stand Up Science: Shane Mauss $18-$25. Fri, Sep 27, 6:30 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. kingsraleigh.com.

This is Our Youth The LAB! Theatre. Play. Sep 28-30.

UNC’s Center for Dramatic Art, Chapel Hill.

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Joe Zimmerman Comedy. $15.

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The Headless Woman Fri, Sep 27, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham.

Home is Distant Shores Full schedule online. Oct 2-16.

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How to Steal a Million $7. Wed, Oct 2, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

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Roger Waters: Us + Them Wed, Oct 2, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

The Shining $5. Tue, Oct 1, 7:30 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

Soul City & Change Comes Knocking Tue, Oct 1, 7 p.m.

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This Taco Truck Kills Fascists Q&A with director Rodrigo Dorfman to follow. Thu, Sep 26, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham.

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OPENING Abominable—A yeti must be reunited with his family in this computer-animated adventure.

Rated PG. Aquarela—Victor Kossakovsky’s documentary about the unruly beauty of water is set to a Finnish heavymetal score. Rated PG. Judy—Renee Zellweger, in a role that will likely make her an Oscar frontrunner, plays Judy Garland during the last few years of her life. Rated PG-13.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Unstarred films have not been reviewed by our writers.

Ad Astra—A tortured but calm Brad Pitt traverses the solar system in search of his lost father. Rated PG-13.  After the Wedding— Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams outshine the script, in this gender-flipped remake of the 2006 Danish drama. Rated PG-13. —Glenn McDonald ½ Angel Has Fallen— Secret Service agent Mike Banning is framed for an assassination attempt on POTUS. It’s not as wretched as London Has Fallen, and Nick Nolte as a conspiracy theorist is almost worth it.

Rated R.—Neil Morris The Angry Birds Movie 2— Jason Sudekis leads a surprisingly decent film about an iPhone game. Rated PG. Brittany Runs a Marathon— This comedy mines body image for laughs but does so with uplift rather than cringes, as a woman makes positive changes in her life by running a marathon. Rated R.

David Crosby: Remember my Name—The Byrds singer gets his due in a doc about his tumultuous road to rehabilitation and beyond.

Rated R. Downton Abbey—King George V and Queen Mary pay a visit to the abbey and cause a flurry of activity in this spin-off of the television series. Rated PG.  Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw—The testosterone-driven repartee between Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham is the only reason to endure this cartoonish, logically and temporally challenged CGI fest. Rated PG-13. —NM  The Farewell— A family travels to China to say goodbye to the family matriarch, who is dying of cancer. The twist? They feel that it’s more benevolent to not tell her she’s dying.

Rated PG. —Sarah Edwards The Goldfinch—Jezebel put it best: “Everyone already hates The Goldfinch,” which makes a pretentious muck of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-winning novel of art and grief. Rated R. ½ Good Boys—In this Superbad for tweens, a trio of sixth-grade BFFs have misadventures as they try to find the cool-kids party. The profuse profanity is cut by the kids’ infectious charm. Rated R. —NM Hustlers—The true story of strippers drugging and stealing from Wall Street stock traders is the stuff think pieces are made of. Rated R. IT Chapter Two—The mixed reviews for the second part of Stephen King’s killer-clown opus mainly agree that it’s just not that scary. Rated R. ½ The Lion King— Jon Favreau’s photorealistic palette is the boon and bane of Disney’s “live-action” computer rendering of an animated classic. Rated PG. —NM  Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of my Voice—This rock-doc uses Ronstadt’s vocal range as a stand-in for everything the Queen of Rock has represented: adaptability, doggedness, moral clarity.

Unrated. —SE

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

ANTHROPOCENE

For the past two decades, stratigraphers have been debating a fraught question: Have humans so fundamentally altered the earth at we’ve pushed it into a new geological epoch? (“No shit,” you may be thinking, but the earth’s timekeepers seem to move a bit more slowly.) This proprosed epoch—the anthropocene—is also the name of a sweeping, multidisciplinary new documentary by Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky, and Jennifer Baichwal that roves from the lithium evaporation ponds in the Atacama desert to terrestial machines in Germany, examining the impact of human greed. While documentary work focusing on climate concerns are (thankfully) becoming much more common, this one carefully focuses its lens on a semiotic definition that can change the world. It probably already has. —Sarah Edwards

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Anthropocene PHOTO COURTESY OF MONGREL MEDIA  Once Upon a Time In Hollywood—Quentin Tarantino portrays the late-sixties Hollywood film industry and vaguely mumbles something about the Manson family in this tedious, irrelevant exercise in bland nostalgia for a bygone era of unaccountable hypermasculinity. Rated R. — MNP  The Peanut Butter Falcon—This heartwarming Tom-and-Huck tale features a breakout performance by Zack Gottsagen, who has Down syndrome, and a soulful Shia LaBeouf. Rated PG-13. —GM

 Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins— Reviewed on page 29. Unrated.

Rambo: Last Blood—The Vietnam War was a long time ago now, but wily veteran Rambo is still out here, this time waging one-man war on a drug cartel. Rated R. Ready or Not—A new bride is drawn into a brutal game of hide-and-seek with her husband’s wealthy family in this class-ragey, horrorcomedy-thriller. Rated R.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark—The classic anthology of ghoulish tales gets mined for incidents in this horror throwback. Rated PG-13. ½ Spider-Man: Far from Home—It’s a bedrock truism that a superhero story is only as good as its villain, and Mysterio’s motivations are entirely and conspicuously dumb. Rated PG-13. —GM  Toy Story 4—A spork’s severe ontological distress ballasts a half-daring, halfpredictable extension of a beloved animated franchise.

Rated G. —NM

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Niskor - Wednesday, Oct. 9, 4-5pm. Followed by potluck break-the-fast All services at Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4907 Garrett Road, Durham Open to all. For more information: kolhaskalah.org or email khaskalah@gmail.com

FREE CLOGGING LESSONS!! WITH THE APPLE CHILL CLOGGERS

Mondays: September 30, October 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2019, 7:00-7:45pm Location: Street Scene Teen Center (under the old post office) 179 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill Contact: dance@applechillcloggers.org

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