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Vegan feminist Carol J. Adams wants to weaponize what you eat in the war against the evil empire

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7 Four Wake commissioners want the legislature to make the school board responsible for school taxes. Come December, two of them will be gone.

6 News

8 The Triangle dodged a bullet with Hurricane Florence. Not everyone was so lucky. Here’s how you can help.

9 Food 12 Music 24 Arts & Culture

9 “A barbecue ad will show a sexualized pig standing on two legs in a bikini ‘groaning for the bone,’ as one of them says, and wanting to be consumed.

It conflates human females and nonhuman females and what kind of consumption they want to experience.”

26 What to Do This Week 29 Music Calendar 32 Arts & Culture Calendar

10 Thanks to owner Al Bowers, eating at Al’s Burger Shack is like dining at home, even as the place makes national headlines.

12 The Hopscotch Music Festival has branched out into experimental music and made strides with rock and pop, but it hasn’t figured out how to connect them.

14 A key component of Will Oldham’s work is his balance of anachronistic language with modern imagery and perspectives to create songs that somehow stand outside of time.

24 In August, the fan-run Facebook group of the wildly popular true-crime podcast My Favorite Murder was archived as “MFM DF.” (The “DF” stands for “dumpster fire.”)

Carol J. Adams, vegan proselytizer (p. 9)

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Don’t Box Me In Last week, we wrote about Fuquay-Varina’s effort to expand its extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the Wake County residents who are worried that the new zoning restrictions will crimp their style. DR B argues that “this is a clear case of taxation without representation, which was one of the main reasons for the American Revolution and the founding of our country. Money-grubbing politicians want to annex areas outside of their jurisdiction in order to increase tax revenues. Who better to systematically rob than innocent and voiceless patriots who have no say in the matter? The world is going to hell in a handbasket. I take great solace in the fact that I will be dead soon.”

To which ct counters: “Give me a break.

North Carolina has allowed ETJs since 1959! The sky has not fallen. ETJ has been a prelude to annexation all along. ETJs don’t subject residents to one penny of incremental tax. In fact, ETJs protect cities by preventing developers from playing a nasty little game—developing a subdivision that’s knowingly not in compliance with zoning and then begging the city to annex it anyway. That’s right, the only annexations these days are upon request. The days of forced annexation are over. And even when there was forced annexation, many residents favored it because they were extended city services previously not available to them or that they had to pay just as much for.”

In this space last week, we ran a comment from Mike Paladin in which he argued that the anti-Silent Sam camp was falsely casting all of its opponents as racists. Nancy Tripoli responds: “Thanks but no thanks, Mike Paladin, for building a box for me. I have a choice: I can either condone the erection of the Silent Sam statue, or I can claim that everyone associated with that view is a vile racist. This assumes that, either way, I am ignorant and intolerant, either of the protesters or of the ladies who erected the statue. I don’t think I’ll sit in your box.

“The political choices that caused the South to secede, the motivations of the soldiers who fought, and the nostalgia of the early twentieth century that led to the statue are very different from one another. So different, in fact, that the statue cannot be said to honor the soldiers, but only the nostalgia of people who didn’t understand the situation.

“The war was instigated and fought to preserve the rights of white Southern landowners to free labor—i.e., slaves. There was no other way to maintain their genteel and gracious way of life. But the soldiers who fought, no matter whether they believed slavery to be just, fought because they and

“I take great solace in the fact that I will be dead soon.” their communities were under attack by foreigners. This confusion between the peaceful white Southerner and the institutions that allowed his way of life persisted when I lived near Atlanta in the 1950s. At a recent high school reunion, the all-white eightyyear-old class of 1956 graduates mourned the loss of their crime-free, carefree high school lives without recognizing the contribution of the black people who received their worn-out textbooks and whose parents cleaned their houses and kept their yards.

They lived off the spoils of segregation.

“Personally, I think that the statue’s presence on campus perpetuated a myth, and that myth negated the legacy of all the slaves who contributed to antebellum prosperity. It is a rare person of color in this country who is not descended from slaves. The statue was a constant reminder that their ancestors were not appreciated as people, but as property. Mike, can I want the statue gone without accusing anyone of hate? You bet I can.”

Edward Teach says he’s not sure what tearing down Silent Sam accomplished: “What the people tearing these statues down don’t realize is that they just gave the conservative right-wing media and politicians a huge gift. And in exchange, what they gained was—well, you tell me. I don’t actually know what policy goals it helped advance. I’m sure it made some people feel better about themselves, but it strikes me as a strategic blunder in a broader political sense.”

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Are Scooters Mopeds?

STATE LAW THINKS SO. THAT COULD PRESENT A PROBLEM IN DURHAM.

BY SARAH WILLETS

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fter motorized scooters dropped unannounced in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, Durham officials began preparing for the same inevitability. But their fix is presenting headaches of its own.

A proposed revision to a city ordinance defines motorized scooters as mopeds under North Carolina law. That subjects the scooters to a host of equipment requirements in order to be safely driven on roads, where Durham scooter users would be relegated.

The problem is, the electric scooters descending on American cities don’t generally have all of the requisite moped stuff— inflatable tires, lights for riding at night, a mirror, registration, and a license plate.

“We have a balance to strike in this between having the scooters operating and providing benefits to the, city and not,” says council member Charlie Reece, who ventured to Raleigh last week to give a Bird scooter a spin. (He reports that it was “scary and exciting in equal measure.”) “The balance we have to strike is that scooters will almost certainly come here at some point.

The danger is that, because of a quirk in state law, there are certain legal requirements that the statutes impose on the devices that they will not meet when they are deployed.”

According to Cody Charland, Bird’s Raleigh fleet manager, Bird scooters have inflatable tires and lights, but not mirrors

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or license plates—although Charland says he can’t speak to whether those features could be added. It’s also unclear whether the scooters meet the registration requirement.

But the company’s government affairs representatives don’t seem concerned about the moped part of the proposal. They didn’t bring it up in a recent email to the city council expressing support (with some reservations) for the ordinance or in remarks at Monday’s city council meeting.

The proposal would ask companies seeking permits to operate in the city to affirm that their devices meet the moped requirements outlined by state law. Actually making sure they do is a whole other problem.

As such, council members on Monday night delayed a vote on the ordinance until they could get input from the city’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee and the Durham Police Department, which could be put in the position of telling unsuspecting riders that the scooter they just rented doesn’t comply with the law. Under state statute, it’s a misdemeanor to drive an unregistered moped on a street or to allow a moped you own to be driven unregistered.

Moped riders also have to be at least sixteen and must wear helmets.

City attorney Patrick Baker says whether the term moped is in the ordinance or not, the classification is basically unavoidable.

Scooters are obviously not cars, ATVs, bikes, or electric-assisted bikes, as defined by state law. Personal-assisted mobility device, like Segways, would be a nice bucket to drop them in if that definition didn’t specify that they have two wheels not in tandem.

“Once you stick a motor on it, it’s got to be some sort of motorized vehicle,” Baker says.

“Through the process of elimination, you end up with: It must be a moped.”

What’s more, city code prohibits bikes (and vehicles) on sidewalks, and the council hasn’t expressed a desire to treat zippy fifteen-mile-per-hour scooters differently. So they have to go on roads, which means they have to have lights, a mirror, and inflatable tires—like mopeds.

In meetings about the scooters, council members also haven’t made pleas to outright ban the things—as cities from San Francisco to Miami have done—or let them exist “in a lawless state,” as Reece describes the current situation in Raleigh, where city staffers have been given two months to craft an ordinance regulating scooters that are already there. (Unlike Durham, Raleigh doesn’t have a dockless bike-share program whose regulations can be amended to cover scooters.)

The scooters offer an alternative to cars for short trips, particularly the last bit of a commute after exiting public transportation, and take up less space than bikes.

Companies round them up nightly to avoid the kind of clutter that has prompted complaints about Durham’s bike-share system.

Durham’s existing ordinance requires companies to make the shared transportation devices accessible to low-income areas.

The proposed revision adds a requirement to accommodate people without smartphones or credit cards.

Bird has some qualms about this last part because the service is built around an app.

Before their first ride, customers must snap a photo of any government ID showing they are at least eighteen. After each ride, they’re asked to take a picture proving they parked properly. (The company does discount fees for anyone enrolled in state or federal assistance programs.) Servando Esparza, Bird’s senior manager of government relations, also asked council members Monday night to revisit a $100 per-device fee, which he said is “one of the higher ones of all the cities we operate in.”

City officials have asked the DMV and the state Attorney General’s Office for guidance, but ultimately they think a change in state law is needed to define this new technology.

“That’s the challenge we’re having,” Baker says. “This is a case where the technology is out in front of the legislation.” swillets@indyweek.com

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Pass the Bucks

SOME WAKE COMMISSIONERS WANT TO MAKE THE SCHOOL BOARD RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHOOL FUNDING. IT’S NOT AS SIMPLE AS IT SOUNDS. BY LEIGH TAUSS

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nding the sometimes-acrimonious school-funding feud between the Wake County Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education could be as simple as empowering the school board to raise taxes, rather than forcing schools to rely on the county’s largesse every year.

Four current commissioners want the legislature to let them try. But as intuitive as it might sound—school board members are elected to oversee the school system, so why not make them determine school tax rates?—the effort faces an uncertain future.

Last week, commissioners included the taxing authority change on their 2019 wish list of legislative goals. However, the item was temporarily pulled from a work session agenda pending the adoption of the N.C. Association of County Commissioners’ goals for next year’s legislative session, according to assistant county manager Chris Dillon. The board will review the proposed change again in January—after at least two new commissioners are sworn in.

North Carolina is one of only three states where elected school boards depend on other local governments for funds, creating an uncomfortable dance between commissioners and school officials: The school system always needs more money. County officials want to tell voters they’re improving schools while also keeping taxes low.

In recent years, even with an all-Democratic Board of Commissioners avowedly committed to education funding, the resulting compromise hasn’t satisfied school advocates.

This year, Wake schools asked for $69 million in new funds but received just $45 million. In 2017–18, the school system requested $45 million and got $21 million.

Those fights led to successful campaigns to defeat Commissioners Erv Portman and John Burns in the Democratic primary in May. Barring upsets in November, former school board member Susan Evans and longtime schools advocate Vickie Adamson will assume their seats in December.

The proposed remedy for this recurring conflict: Let school systems raise their own taxes. The N.C. School Boards Association has been lobbying for this change since 2000.

“We haven’t had any great movement in that direction,” says Ed Dunlap, the NCSBA’s executive director. “I was extremely pleased to hear that the Wake County Board of Commissioners was interested in looking at that.”

Only, the incarnation of the Board of Commissioners that considers the idea in January might not be all that interested.

“I do not believe we will be taking that up in January,” board chairwoman Jessica Holmes told the INDY Monday. “I think I can speak confidently in that regard. It was a request by some individual commissioners to be considered. I was not one of them.”

This week, Burns, Matt Calabria, and Sig Hutchinson all said they’re open to the idea. Portman has previously told the INDY he is as well. For Hutchinson, it’s a way to hold school board members accountable.

Calabria thinks it might add consistency to the budget process. Burns calls it “good government” that will correct a mismatch in responsibilities.

“They would have to face the same voters on the same issues that I do,” he says.

But with Burns and Portman out, Holmes—a staff attorney with the N.C. Association of Educators—will have a bloc of staunchly pro-education allies in Evans, Adamson, and Greg Ford, a former principal. If they don’t think the change is needed, it’s dead in the water. (Evans and Adamson did not return phone calls by press time.)

Other than Mecklenburg County, which briefly considered a similar move following the failure of former state representative Rick Glazier’s 2007 bill to shift taxing authority to school boards, no other counties have taken up this initiative, says NCSBA government relations director Leanne Winner.

Citing a 2001 study from South Carolina, she argues that granting that authority could actually lower taxes.

“In the communities where the school board had become independent, taxes went up less than in those communities where the school board remained dependent.”

“Overall, in the communities where the school board had become independent, taxes went up less than in those communities where the school board remained dependent,” Winner says. “My theory is that the school board would go in and really scrub their budget and get rid of any programs that were not overly effective. That there was a real concerted effort in those communities, before they asked the taxpayers for more money, to make sure it’s as tight as it can be.”

Winner doesn’t envision the General Assembly granting all school boards taxing authority at once, but she thinks it could be feasible as a pilot program. And that’s where Wake could come in.

But, under the state constitution, launching even a pilot program would require not

just legislative approval but also a referendum, says former legislative staffer and general counsel Gerry Cohen. The earliest such a measure could appear on the ballot would be March 2020.

A referendum would be a “heavy hurdle,” Cohen says. And he wouldn’t vote for it.

“It seems to me a complete abdication of any sort of fiscal responsibility,” Cohen says. “Should we let the health board levy taxes? Should we let the Board of Elections levy taxes?”

School board chairwoman Monika Johnson-Hostler says she hopes any effort to change how schools are funded would be a collaboration between the school board and commissioners. But that conversation, she adds, has yet to happen. ltauss@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 9.19.18 | 7

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Contribute to the Food Bank of Eastern and Central North Carolina. For every $10 you give, the Food Bank can provide fifty meals. Make a financial donation online at FoodBankECNC.org or see the food bank’s website for drop-off locations in Raleigh and Durham. Nonperishable foods, hygiene products, and cleaning supplies are needed.

DonorsChoose.org has started a Hurricane Florence recovery fund to help teachers and schools affected by the storm. Donations will be used to restock damaged classrooms. Donate and report damaged schools at DonorsChoose.org/hurricane-florence.

A Little Help from My Friends YOU GOT LUCKY. HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP THE VICTIMS OF HURRICANE FLORENCE. BY LEIGH TAUSS AND SARAH WILLETS Preparing for Florence on Carolina Beach

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his weekend, Hurricane Florence delivered a crippling blow to parts of North Carolina, claiming at least twenty-five lives in this state alone, flooding neighborhoods, and shutting down roads.

All things considered, the Triangle—especially its northern end—got off easy, with just a good amount of rain and a stiff breeze to contend with. Eastern North Carolina, particularly near the coast, wasn’t so lucky.

The five-hundred-mile-wide storm was a category 1 hurricane when it made landfall at Wrightsville Beach early Friday, delivering strong winds and heavy rain. More than one million people were ordered to evacuate, and twenty thousand sought refuge in more than 150 state shelters. Nearly a half million remain without power, Duke Energy reported Monday. State and federal rescue personnel have already performed more than nine hundred water rescues, Governor Cooper told reporters.

The impacts of Hurricane Florence will be felt for days and weeks to come, as storm waters make their way back to rivers such as the Neuse and Cape Fear, which are expected to rise dozens of feet and crest higher than they did during Hurricane Matthew. Flooding has already caused the Sanford Dam to fail, collapsed a coal ash landfill near Wilmington, and could potentially threaten public health and the environment if floodwaters overtake a region 8 | 9.19.18 | INDYweek.com

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home to a high concentration of hog farms.

(At least one open-air lagoon has already been breached and three others have been inundated by floodwaters, the N.C. Pork Council said Monday.)

Here are some ways you can help those affected by the storm:

Company, the Durham Co-Op, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, Zog’s Pool Hall, RENA Center, and Steel String Brewery. Visit anothergulf.com/a-just-florence-recovery for more information, and search “A Just Florence Recovery/Operation Air Drop” on Facebook for the latest updates.

Donate to the N.C. Disaster Relief Fund, which is operated by the state, at governor.nc.gov. Contributions will help with the “immediate unmet needs of Hurricane Florence victims.” You can also text “Florence” to 20222.

Donate to United Way’s Hurricane Florence Recovery Fund at unitedway.org/ recovery/hurricane-florence; all donations will be distributed to local United Way chapters in affected areas. Or find a local United Way chapter and donate directly, like United Way of Coastal Carolina, which serves Carteret, Craven, Jones, and Pamlico Counties; United Way Cape Fear Area, which serves Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, and Pender Counties; or United Way of Robeson County.

The Durham Solidarity Center, Southern Vision Alliance, Blueprint NC, Environmental Justice Network, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, and other groups have started an effort called A Just Florence Recovery to collect and deliver supplies directly to affected areas. Canned food, tarps and ropes, hygiene items, overthe-counter medicines, cots and air mattresses, cleaning supplies, and plastic bags are needed. The coalition is working with Operation Air Drop to fly out of RDU and airlift supplies to inaccessible areas.

Supplies can be dropped off at TAC Air Building (1725 East International Drive, Morrisville). Volunteers are needed there to pack and sort donations. Other dropoff sites are located at the Durham Fruit

Donate online at secure.actblue.com/ donate/eastnc to the Eastern North Carolina Hurricane Recovery Fund. Donations will benefit on-the-ground organizations in Eastern North Carolina, including Alphalife Enrichment Center, Asociacion de Mexicanos en Carolina de Norte, Genesis 457 CDC, Kinston Teens INC, Integrity CDC, Men and Women United for Youth and Families, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, and the N.C. Association of Community Development Corporations.

Donate, at NCField.org/donate, to the NC FIELD Farmworker Emergency Fund to help farmworker families in crisis.

Diaper Bank of North Carolina is collecting diapers, wipes, and cash donations. The organization says it is working with state emergency services to provide disaster relief kits with baby necessities, feminine hygiene products, and adult incontinence supplies. You can donate online at NCDiaperBank.org, drop off diapers at 1311 East Club Boulevard in Durham, or sign up to pack relief kits by emailing info@ncdiaperbank.org. The Durham Mayor’s Council for Women has also organized a drive to benefit the Diaper Bank. Through Friday, donations can be dropped off at Ponysaurus, Cocoa Cinnamon Lakewood, and Club Boulevard Elementary School.

Core Sound Water Fowl Museum and Heritage Center is raising money to help families in the Carteret County Public Schools system recover after Florence.

More information at CoreSound.com/ hurricane-relief.

The North Carolina Disaster Legal Services effort, which provides disasterrelated legal resources, is organized by the North Carolina Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division. Donate at NCBarFoundation.org/donate to support its work.

The Islamic Association of Raleigh and Triangle Muslim Aid are hosting a supply drive Saturday from 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. at the Islamic Association, 808 Atwater Street, Raleigh. More information at RaleighMasjid.org.

Find more nonprofits assisting with Hurricane Florence aid, along with financial and accountability information, through Charity Navigator (charitynavigator.org). backtalk@indyweek.com

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CAROL J. ADAMS

3 p.m. Fri., Sept. 21 Withers Hall, Room 232A, N.C. State 101 Lampe Drive, Raleigh

Resistance Feast

VEGAN FEMINISM THEORIST CAROL J. ADAMS WANTS TO WEAPONIZE WHAT YOU EAT IN THE WAR AGAINST REACTIONARY POLITICS

BY LEIGH TAUSS

the so-called Muslim ban, and the resurgence of the affirmation of white power are all tied up with this phenomenon that has put this failed businessman and narcissist in the presidency, but it’s not only that.

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Why is the kitchen your chosen battlefield?

No matter what else we’re doing, we have to eat. Think about the [Occupy] protest against Wall Street. I read about a pizza place offering to send pizza to the protesters, but all that pizza had cheese on it, and the dairy industry is not just a cruel industry in terms of cows and calves separated from their moms, but it’s a huge contribution to environmental degradation, and dairy has achieved its role in nutritional recommendation because of racist nutritional policies. So the pizza that people are eating, if it’s not a vegan pizza, is implicated in the very things we’re trying to protest.

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n Friday, self-described vegan feminist theorist Carol J. Adams will give the inaugural Tom Regan Lecture at N.C. State, both honoring Regan—a professor of animal ethics at State for thirty-four years before his death in February 2017—and discussing her new book with Virginia Messina, Protest Kitchen, a sort of vegan survival guide for the Trump presidency. Adams previously wrote The Sexual Politics of Meat, dubbed “a bible of the vegan community” by The New York Times.

So what do Trump-era toxic masculinity and #MeToo feminism have to do with animal rights? Everything, Adams says—and she argues that we perform these socially constructed narratives of gender hierarchy every day in the kitchen.

The INDY spoke with Adams about Protest Kitchen and how mindful dietary choices can help fuel you physically and philosophically for the revolution.

INDY: You begin Protest Kitchen by saying, “We live in an unsettled time in politics.”

What about the political climate inspired this book?

Carol J. Adams: The appearance of truly repellent and regressive attitudes and politics in the United States and Great Britain and Western Europe. The resurgence of right-wing politicians who now are making decisions at a national level.

In other words, Donald Trump.

The first title of the book was The AntiTrump Diet, but it was pointed out to us that we weren’t just talking about the United States, and even if Trump were impeached, the problem remains with [Vice President Mike] Pence and the Republican-dominated Congress, so to have a title that was too narrow would imply there was only one problem here. But certainly the election of Donald Trump, all the horrific politics from

You describe meat consumption and its reproductive requirements as inherently misogynistic. Can you explain how the lines between animal oppression and female oppression blur?

Without the ongoing control of female reproduction, there would be no meat for people to eat. So female animals as reproductively available is a trope that is constantly referred to. If you look at animal agricultural magazines, you are going to find ads like, “What would she be doing if she weren’t pregnant?” And it’s that same kind of attitude that we’re seeing reappear about women. Last year, a state representative [from Oklahoma] referred to pregnant women as “hosts.” That’s language right out of animal agriculture. So animal agriculture doesn’t just breed the babies, it is feeding misogyny and benefiting from misogyny.

A barbecue ad will show a sexualized pig standing on two legs in a bikini “groaning for the bone,” as one of them says, and wanting

to be consumed. It conflates human females and nonhuman females and what kind of consumption they want to experience.

And that leads you into rape culture.

What I realized about all of these images—I’ve been studying these images for more than thirty years—is that they are like the anti-#MeToo movement: “Don’t worry about me. I want you to look at me like that. Come on, big boy, please take me.”

You have this whole narrative about human females, #MeToo, “Stop, my body is mine,” and you’ve got on the other side of the species line all of these female animals being presented as, “Yes, please take me. Please kill me. Please eat me.” It’s part of rape culture because even the myths are the same.

Myths that focus on how the rapists experience the rape. It’s not the victim’s point of view that matters, but the rapist’s. We have that same view with meat. It’s not how the cow is experiencing this, it’s the consumer.

On a lighter note: What’s your favorite recipe in Protest Kitchen?

I have to go for comfort food. I think my tofu feta is in there, and that is a wonderful thing.

It can go on toast. I eat it from the jar after I make it. You can crumble it onto a Greek salad. You can use it on ravioli and lasagna.

We want people to play with their food.

We don’t have to be serious about food. Food is a joy. We need joy in our lives, so one of the things we did at the end was to create this resistance feast, and thanks to that, we encourage people to play with their food and have these resistance meals: Stop the Wall Taco Salad Bowl, Trumped Up Vegan Cutlets a L’Orange, an Impeach Cobbler, and a Drain the Swamp Kitchen Cabinet Compote. We’re trying to say, we know there are some complex ideas here, but don’t be discouraged. You can create these feasts. You can share them. ltauss@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 9.19.18 | 9

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AL’S BURGER SHACK

516 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill 919-904-7659, www.alsburgershack.com

You Can Call Me Al

NOW THAT HIS BURGERS ARE NATIONALLY FAMOUS, AL BOWERS LOOKS BACK ON THE SHACK THAT ALMOST WASN’T BY MICHAEL VENUTOLO-MANTOVANI

Al Bowers PHOTO BY ALEX CATERSON/THE SPLINTER GROUP

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horn honk, a smile, a wave, and a shout.

That’s how my hour-long interview with Al Bowers is interrupted on no less than six occasions. And if it’s not pleasantries exchanged with the myriad locals who know and love the gregarious owner of Al’s Burger Shack, it’s his staff begging our pardon, popping in and out of conversation with their boss as they prepare for the day’s work. A check needs signing, a stereo speaker fixing, a small window pane with a crack requires his attention.

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“Sorry, brother,” Bowers says to me with each passing hiccup, picking up exactly where he left off pre-interruption.

It’s a scorching hot August morning as we sit beneath the tall wooden structure adjacent to the little white brick building where Bowers first opened Al’s Burger Shack in September of 2013. Since then, Al’s Burger Shack, known simply as “Al’s” to locals, has become a Chapel Hill institution.

With lines that regularly stretch out the front door, down the two-step staircase, and along the West Franklin Street sidewalk,

students, locals, and visitors have known for years what review aggregator TripAdvisor announced this past July: Al’s Burger Shack slings the best burger in America, specifically its sloppy, delicious, chili-slawand-onion-piled fan favorite, the Bobo Chili Cheeseburger.

“Every day is Friday,” Bowers says, when asked what kind of impact the honor has had on business.

“You never expect anything close to this,” he continues. “You never dream of anything like this. It’s crazy. You’re blown away.”

To those in the know, the devotion to Al’s goes beyond the fact that Bowers and his team make the best burger in America. As anyone who has been greeted by Bowers’s booming voice can attest, to dine at Al’s is like dining at home, even if the place is making national headlines.

“I think people in the hospitality business just have that thing in common,” Bowers says.

“We just want to make sure you’re happy.”

And to those in the want-to-know?

“People are coming from all over,” Bowers says, noting how in the wake of the TripAdvisor designation, Al’s is seeing an influx of customers from all over the country.

But before the out-the-door lines, before the burger stand in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan Memorial Stadium and the Al’s food truck (both of which, sadly, are no more), before the second Al’s Burger Shack location in Southern Village, before the America’s Best Burger crown, Al’s wasn’t going to be a burger shack.

In fact, Al’s wasn’t going to be anything at all.

In Spring of 2013, after spending several years managing Merritt’s Grill—another landmark Chapel Hill eatery—Bowers, who was raised in Greensboro and settled in Chapel Hill when he enrolled at UNC-Chapel Hill in the mid-eighties, approached his bosses about buying into the now-famous local business.

“They weren’t interested, which I understood. But I gave my thirty-days’ notice right there,” Bowers says.

With two kids, one of whom was starting college that fall, the pressure was on Bowers to figure something out fast. He leaned on his experience in real estate, where he’d made his living before getting into the restaurant business at the onset of the Great Recession.

Discovering that chocolatier The Chocolate Door was about to vacate its West Franklin Street site, Bowers, his wife Melody, and their friend and initial investor Joe Nanney jumped on the location.

“I called up the landlord, met him down there, walked inside, and a week later we had a lease,” he says. “I had no clue what I was gonna do.”

Initially, Bowers planned to open a humble breakfast shop, operating solely out of a curbside window. But he was pushed to think bigger by Melody and Nanney.

“They wanted something that could be open and selling all day,” Bowers says.

“Except Sunday, of course. And they asked, ‘Well, what else do you like?’”

Bowers’s gut response was his love of hamburgers.

“Seven months later, Al’s opened,” he says.

“It was Melody’s idea,” Bowers continues, crediting his wife with the inspiration to open on September 18, 2013, National Cheeseburger Day. “I wanted to open the first week of September when the students were back in full swing. But she said we should wait.”

Just as he does with Melody, Bowers is quick to give credit to others in his orbit. He lauds his wife for her support, intellect, and the recipe for Al’s Burger Shack’s famous rosemary fries. He mentions his friends and former investors—without whom he may never have opened his burger shack in the first place—with a deep and abiding love.

He sings praises most vocally and often of his staff, in whom he finds inspiration to keep pushing.

“When [one of my staff ] says to me, ‘I moved out of my parents’ house’ or ‘I just bought a car’ or ‘I qualified for a house,’” Bowers says. “And it’s because you opened a hamburger joint? Man, that’s powerful.”

Bowers mentions that, while his pay scale may be a bit higher than the food-service-sector average, he is more than happy to inflate the Burger Shack’s bottom line if it means his employees are paid a living wage.

The recognition that the money he pays his staff tends to stay in his community while simultaneously serving a bigger purpose is a microcosm of Bowers’s outlook.

For Bowers, focusing on the good of his local environs and its denizens, whether through their bellies or in their wallets, is more important than aiming to make the best cheeseburger in America.

“We just strive to make the best burger on Franklin and Graham,” Bowers says with a laugh, noting that he and his staff aim to control what they can control. “It’s the four-walls theory. We control what happens inside these four walls…”

He’s about to conclude his thought when we are interrupted once more as a truck drives by, honking and waving at the genial figurehead of West Franklin Street. food@indyweek.com

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Schmear Campaign

BIG DOM’S BAGEL SHOP BRINGS BAGELS, B’DONUTS, AND BISCUITS TO DOWNTOWN CARY

BY SHARON KURTZMAN

BIG DOM’S BAGEL SHOP 203 East Chatham Street, Cary www.bigdomsbagelshop.com

Vibe: The aroma of rising dough mingling with everything bagel seasoning greets you as you step inside the cozy shop. The storefront is small but has an open feel with white walls, an angled ordering counter, and a blondewood counter lining the windowed walls; a perfect spot to people watch while you nosh and sip. Friendly and efficient counter staff keep the order line moving, and kitchen staff quickly deliver bags of baked goods and drinks. You can either grab-and-go, eat at the counter, or nab a bench in the outside garden or a seat under the covered patio.

Menu: The menu is spelled out on an oldschool letter board and features biscuits, b’donuts, and hand-rolled bagels. Bagel flavors include the usual suspects such as plain, sesame, everything, asiago, cinnamon sugar, as well as the gluten-free GFY (Gluten Friendly Yo). Extras are all schmearable and include cream cheese, butter, jam, avocado, and nut butters. There’s also a lineup of sandwiches including a bacon, egg, and cheese; a BLT; and the Italian deli-inspired prosciutto, mortadella, and hot soppressata combo. Big Dom’s teases menu specials on social media, including flavored schmears such as blueberry, cannoli, and spicy pickle.

Drinks include hot and iced coffee from Wake Forest’s Black & White Coffee Roasters and specialty teas.

Hand-rolled bagels from Big Dom’s Bagel Shop PHOTO BY ZACH FAULISI

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agels, donuts, and biscuits are a carb lover’s trifecta, and Big Dom’s Bagel Shop, which opened in downtown Cary in late August, is a one-stop shop for expertly executed takes on these bakery staples. And it’s no wonder—the shop is owned

by Amber and Zach Faulisi, the folks behind popular Cary pizza joint Pizzeria Faulisi, who have earned a loyal following for their pies and signature dough crafted with a blend of Italian- and North Carolina–milled flours.

Big Dom’s, named after the Faulisi’s son, specializes in Montreal-style bagels, which

are smaller and denser than New York bagels and have a slightly sweet taste, since they’re made from a malted dough and boiled in water sweetened with brown sugar (honey water is used in Montreal). The Faulisis add their own touch by baking bagels with a schmear of Crisco to help crisp the bottom, producing a bagel with a satisfying crunchy exterior and a sublimely chewy interior. B’donuts, a baked cake donut made with loads of browned butter, and biscuits crafted with a blend of three flours, round out the menu.

What to order: I came to North Carolina by way of New Jersey, so the bagel bar is set high. I’m pleased to report that Big Dom’s Bagel Shop’s hand-rolled bagels possess an ideal crispy-chewy texture; toasting is optional, and unnecessary when bagels are served fresh from the oven. Plain bagels best showcase the Montreal-style’s signature delicate sweetness, but everything bagels are my go-to, and at Big Dom’s, the tops are amply scattered with the onion-garlic-sesame-andpoppy-seed seasoning. I paired my everything bagel with cream cheese and a cup of full-bodied, nutty iced coffee, which was so good as-is, it didn’t need cream or sugar.

Price point: Bagels, biscuits, and b’donuts are $2 each; the GFY bagel is $3. A dozen bagels or biscuits is $18. Sandwiches are $7-8.

Perfect for: A grab-and-go breakfast or lunch; a weekend carb-fest; an office bagel party. food@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 9.19.18 | 11

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Blurry Vision

AS HOPSCOTCH STRIVES TO DIVERSIFY, IS THE FESTIVAL LOSING ITS CENTER?

BY BRIAN HOWE

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began the climactic night of Hopscotch with a decision to make: Boulevards at Red Hat Amphitheater versus Speedy Ortiz at City Plaza. I like the local synthfunkster and the visiting alt-rockers equally well, and I might have had to flip a coin if not for the Bulleit whiskey stand in City Plaza, where you could get four free shots—OK, half shots, but still—for the price of showing your I.D. and maybe selling your soul in a promotional snapshot with a spokesmodel in a cocktail dress. When domestic beers are going for $10, that’s a scale-tipper.

Speedy’s spiky nineties-indie throwbacks were a perfect aperitif for the Actual Nineties Rock of alt legend Liz Phair, who would take the stage next. Her singing as punchy and pitchy as ever, her strumming as slashing and sure, Phair generously returned a fervent mouth-along audience to its glory days.

Her concert was part of a slate of nostalgia bookings (MC50, a Prince-less Revolution, Nile Rodgers & Chic) that starkly highlighted a focus on spectacularly checking demographic boxes at the expense of creating a cohesive, cumulative overall experience.

The savvy Speedy-Phair pairing stood out among more desultory bookings and combinations. Of course, a music festival should be eclectic and diverse. But if it’s to be more than a massive branding exercise, it should also tell a coherent, compelling story about what matters in music or culture right now, teaching listeners through narrative and association, not dartboardbombardment. If the concept is basically “What if a rock festival, but Miguel,” then what results is a strangely inert, inorganic cultural space—one in which a surprising number of core attendees have never heard of the headliner that indisputably gave the weekend’s greatest set to one of the festival’s smallest mainstage crowds, Nile Rodgers & Chic.

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Nile Rodgers PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA hits by anyone from Sister Sledge and Diana Ross to Duran Duran and Daft Punk. We heard them all.

Rodgers’s funk is still immaculately silvered and feathered, and the sixtyfive-year-old guitarist was backed by a hardworking drummer, two spectacular singers (it’s a good thing Red Hat is already roofless, as Kimberly Davis would have torn it off ), a strutty bassist flinging notes around the neck wherever he wanted, two sidestepping horn players, and a keyboardist who

teared up when Rodgers told the cancerrecovery story he must have heard a hundred times before.

I love bloopity electronic noises and people playing windchimes through pedals, but that was a goddamn band right there, and it slightly ruined me for other music that night.

Plus, everybody learned something. (Rodgers produced “Like a Virgin,” who knew?) If Hopscotch slacked on telling a story about music and its meaning this year, Chic picked it right up and made it dance.

Out of journalistic interest, I pried myself away and went back to City Plaza to catch a bit of MC5—excuse me, “MC50.” This is too bizarre for a segue, so I’ll just blurt it out: Who remembers the baffling thing uttered

by Wayne Kramer, the founding guitarist reanimating the corpse of the Detroit protopunk band’s Kick Out the Jams, a canonical classic I’m not sure anyone who wasn’t young in 1968 still listens to? I wish I had the exact quote, but between songs near the start of the set, Kramer definitely told the crowd

that he saw “a lot of white faces” but that they had “soulful hearts.” He continued to develop this line of thought, but my mind was reeling so fast I didn’t register what he said next, though I had the impression it continued to be nuts. Some audience members got very alert and still, as if a trap were about to spring, while some side-eyed each other as if they knew they’d be offended by what he was saying if only they could grasp out what it was or why he was saying it.

It’s possible Kramer was archly commenting on his audience’s homogeneity somehow, but it didn’t land that way, and satire hardly fits in the band’s earnest, messian-

effervescent digitized soul, at once earthy and otherworldly, implied a sort of postmodern (even posthuman) Stevie Wonder; his ethereal runs and stark live backing extended into virtual space with live electronic processing.

One of the most memorable moments of Saturday night—even though it took a couple of tries after some tech troubles— was when Sumney entreated the crowd to group-harmonize on a bass note as if he were Pauline Oliveros, weaving us into the composition in a way that felt authentic and augmenting, as if the giant electronic bass were rolling out of my throat.

“The risk of the somethingfor-everyone approach is that none but the most eclectic, historically steeped music nerds can get the most out of it.” ic wheelhouse. (Besides, dude, what did you expect? You’re playing a half-centuryold white-counterculture touchstone. In Raleigh. Against Chic.) It seemed like he was using “soulful” as a flattering euphemism, trying to paint a middle-aged white audience with a cool black brush. But surely not even someone representing the band that founded the White Panther Party would say that out loud, into a microphone, on a stage, in 2018. Right? Anyway, it was super, super weird. Someone help me out here.

I’m not saying that Hopscotch having a white stage and a black stage on Saturday night was racist, but it indicates something it knows about its audience, something it is not rising to challenge. After Chic, the lineup went almost completely pale again for hours, until Vic Mensa at 12:30, which, in the nightmarish sonic hellscape that is The Basement—the concrete hangar below the Raleigh Convention Center—sounded like three different Bomb Squad productions playing at once inside a giant aluminum trashcan. Hopscotch, I say this as a friend, enough with The Basement!

Perhaps a more carefully curated presentation would have made the transcendent Moses Sumney an oasis in this nocturnal desert, rather than planting him before dusk and before Chic, and then leaving pop fans adrift in a world of Mind Over Mirrors and Gang Gang Dance later. Sumney’s cool,

If I’m being hard on a festival at which I had a good time, it’s because Hopscotch is established and popular enough to withstand it, and as it moves toward the center, it risks losing its unique local identity. In its early days, it catered to rock fans and focused on bookings that weren’t often seen in the area or at other festivals. But many bands this year had been to Hopscotch before or tour in the region regularly. Hopscotch has been successful in branching out into experimental music, and has made strides with rock and pop, but it has not yet figured out how to connect them so that they talk to one another and their audiences cross over.

The risk of the something-for-everyone approach is that none but the most eclectic, historically steeped music nerds can get the most out of it. Many people will buy a ticket for the big show they want to see or buy a wristband and wander around without any clear path through the metal and experimental bands for long stretches.

A festival can be inclusive without abdicating the need to tell a story beyond, “Here are some popular or renowned acts we were able to schedule at this time.” It was enough to make Hopscotch worthwhile, if not especially exciting this year (though our plea regarding The Basement also applies to The Flaming Lips). The question is whether it will continue to be in the future. bhowe@indyweek.com

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Prince Charming

WILL OLDHAM—SONGWRITER, ACTOR, STORYTELLER, POET—UNFOLDS HIS BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY CATALOG AT DUKE

BY JIM ALLEN

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he only reality that matters is the one that’s being built as you listen, second by second, to this song,” says singer-songwriter Will Oldham, describing the creative space he shares with his audience. Under the banners of Bonnie Prince Billy, Palace Brothers, and other permutations of the Palace moniker, Oldham has blurred the lines between folk, country, and underground experimentalism since the early nineties, earning a reputation as a true American original.

While Oldham has never been a road dog, keeping his performance schedule to a minimum over the years, he’s been a prolific recording artist, cutting some twenty-five albums since 1993 and an even greater number of EPs and one-off singles.

The mercurial but unfailing vision fueling all those songs is one that has soaked up centuries of American folklore and found a way to funnel it through a contemporary sensibility. Through his work, Oldham simultaneously achieves a sui generis sort of otherworldliness and an accessible, naturalistic quality. Though he demurs the distinction, just about every artist you can think of under the indie-folk banner owes a debt to Oldham.

This week, Oldham gives admirers a peek behind the curtain. In a Duke University residency featuring a unique concert and a pair of lectures touching on his techniques for writing, performing, and recording, he’ll have an unprecedented opportunity to lay every aspect of his artistry out on the table for inspection, leaving himself open to learning from the experience and sharing what he discovers with his audience.

Oldham’s earliest songwriting impetus came as a Louisville, Kentucky, kid attending summer camp in Southern Indiana—the only Kentuckian in the bunch of Midwesterners. He says that at the time, he was listening to the likes of Volcano Suns, Minutemen, and Big Black. But around the campfire, he found that his fellow campers were more interested in acts like Neil Young 14 | 9.19.18 | INDYweek.com

Will Oldham PHOTO COURTESY OF DUKE PERFORMANCES and the Grateful Dead, and especially fellow Hoosier John Cougar Mellencamp.

“All these campers bonded with songs like ‘Casey Jones’ and ‘Small Town,’ or Neil Young’s ‘Cortez the Killer.’ They were specific songs that seemed to help this group of people identify themselves,” Oldham says. “When I see what a song does to other people, I think, ‘Oh that’s really what you want to do, is make a song that people have a shared experience with, it should be about something as collective as possible.’”

By the time Oldham started recording his own songs under the Palace Brothers name in 1992, traditional folk music had become a part of the artistic equation too.

His sideline in acting, which has encompassed numerous film and theater roles over the years, led to an epiphany.

“My theatrical ambitions had been to figure out how to leave my life and enter the life of characters; that’s what I thought an actor did. And similarly then, I thought, ‘I’m not gonna be able to do that in acting; maybe I can do it with music,’” he says.

He realized he needed to find albums and artists where “there’s no makeup or construction that needs to happen before the song starts playing,” which he found in folk music and field recordings.

“I just thought, ‘I want to create music that exists and record it, rather than build it to be recorded,’” he says.

Oldham accordingly folded folk influences into his songwriting, often crafting melodies that sound like they could have been written in a bygone era if not for some eccentric lyrical touches. A key component of Oldham’s work is the way he balances anachronistic language with modern imagery and perspectives to create songs that somehow stand outside of time, from his first single, The Palace Brothers’ “Ohio River Boat Song,” a tune that could have fallen off of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, to 1999’s “I See a Darkness,” a foreboding tune timelesssounding enough for Johnny Cash himself, who covered it on 2000’s American III: Solitary Man.

“I remember first hearing [bluesmen] Bukka White or Washington Phillips and just thinking it was the most effective and contemporary and pertinent music I had heard in a long time. These are recordings that were made in the twenties and thirties, I think,” Oldham says. His visceral connection to those vintage recordings gave him a touchstone for balancing old and new ideas without sounding anachronistic.

“I’m not trying to recall the past with anything,” says Oldham of his occasional antiquarian lyrical tendencies. “It’s more like, ‘Well, I want to build a house that takes some technology from a certain era because those houses are still standing.

Not because those houses look cooler, necessarily, but because those houses are still standing. That’s the technology that I may trust more than technology that’s being utilized in the modern construction of a house.’”

The construction of Oldham’s records began in a resolutely DIY arena. He recorded his first full-length Palace Brothers record, 1993’s There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You, on an eighttrack cassette recorder in whatever spaces they could—that meant houses rather than stately recording studios.

“There’s a lot of wonderful records that mean the world to me that are recorded in recording studios, but I was sort of liking the idea that if you choose a [non-studio] space and record in it, by opening up the microphones and pushing record, you’re bringing in something from the space,” Oldham says. “You’re not listening to a sterile, universal space like a recording studio or a dentist’s office, you’re listening to a space that no record has ever been recorded in before.”

This idea dovetails neatly with Oldham’s desire to create songs that exist outside the recording studio. Over the years, both Oldham’s recording techniques and his initially unschooled singing underwent a significant amount of refinement. He recorded in Nashville with country session musicians for 2004’s Bonnie “Prince” Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music, collaborated with post-rock heroes Tortoise on the 2006 covers album The Brave and the Bold, and made many more expansive excursions, from the Nico Muhly-orchestrated The Letting Go to the ambient trance-folk of Epic Jammers & Fortunate Little Ditties.

Oldham’s approach to songwriting is in a constant state of evolution too. Though he’s often written in character, self-reflection has crept in.

“In the past, I think I would have always said that I was not building songs based on

my inner life,” he says. “As years have gone on ... I start to realize there’s so much that I was fooling myself about in terms of what I was allowing into the songs that pulled directly from or paralleled my verifiable existence.”

And surprisingly for someone widely regarded as a sophisticated song poet, even the very function of lyrics is up for grabs in Oldham’s writing.

“Most of the big, great Rolling Stones songs that I love, I don’t really understand what they’re saying. And those songs are monsters,” he says. “Do I want to make music that’s like what you would call ‘Rolling Stones music,’ which ultimately is not lyric-based music, versus something like Richard Thompson, which is lyricbased music—you understand every word that’s sung and you understand how the words fit together from beginning to end?”

All the facets of Oldham’s perspective on record making, song building, and live performance will come under the artist’s own microscope at his Duke residency.

On September 26, he’ll deliver his Making Songs lecture at Sound Pure studio, letting attendees in on his songwriting secrets.

The next night, his Recording & Performing Songs discussion will occur at the same spot. And on the 28th, in Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium, a truly special concert will occur. Louisville jazzman Jacob Duncan crafted new arrangements for a batch of songs from all across Oldham’s career, for a lineup including sax, clarinet, tuba, trombone, violin, cello, and double bass.

“They require that I relearn songs that I’ve been playing for almost thirty years,” explains Oldham enthusiastically. “Not just, ‘Oh here’s a retrospective set.’ It’s not like that at all. This is new, fresh to me.”

The impending arrival of the book Songs of Love and Horror: Collected Lyrics of Will Oldham, due to be published by W.W. Norton in early October, coincides perfectly with the residency.

“It felt like a good time to do it with this lyric book coming out,” affirms Oldham.

“I wanted to re-explore older songs, because that’s what the book is doing, to try to parallel that in some way, but kind of drastically.”

The frequently spotlight-shunning Oldham relishes the opportunity for a oneof-a-kind interaction with his audience.

“We’re inviting people into a small space that is ostensibly a professional music space,” he says, “Something will transpire there, and stories will be told and information and emotion ideally relayed that couldn’t be reproduced or experienced in any other way. And that’s very appealing.” music@indyweek.com

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FLUTRONIX

Friday, Sep. 21, 8 p.m., $37 UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill www.carolinaperformingarts.org

Winds of Change

ART-POP DUO FLUTRONIX LOOKS FOR LIBERATION IN A UNC RESIDENCY

BY JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE

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athalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull, the two women who make up the flute-and-electronicmusic duo Flutronix, have always fostered an omnivorous, voracious interest in listening. The Juilliard-educated Joachim grew up playing the flute, but also in the listening booths at Tower Records. There, she spent her allowance on everything from Underworld to Beethoven, depending on what struck her interest that week.

This two-pronged approach to a musical education was one part disciplined and exhaustive, one part free and eclectic. In Flutronix, those approaches manifest in hypnotic and virtuosic recordings that hop between R&B, jazz, classical, and electronic influences with ease.

This summer, Joachim and Loggins-Hull retreated to Wisconsin to begin a new kind of sound exploration, scrolling through and listening to recordings from the Southern Oral History Program’s (SOHP) Soundcloud archive. The duo had recently kicked off a two-year residency commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts and involving a broad swath of campus and community collaborators including the SOHP and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center.

Throughout the residency and culminating commissioned performance, titled Discourse, the native New Yorkers will use this substantive set of historical resources to illuminate universal concepts as interpreted by their singular musical sound.

Discourse is a project that Loggins-Hull and Joachim had longed to find a temporal and spatial home for. During their first visit to Chapel Hill, the duo connected with their friend, the artist and activist Toshi Reagon, who was a visiting lecturer and artist at UNC-Chapel Hill working on a powerful opera adaption of Octavia Butler’s science fiction masterpiece, Parable of the Sower.

“It was really moving to see how strongly the community came together to experience and participate in the show,” says Joachim.

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titled “Freedom School” will include clips of The Parable of the Sower performance, Blue in his own voice as well as Joachim singalong with experiencing the Jackson Center’s ing his words, over music they hope is equal historical audio tour, which uses communiparts rebellious, tender, proud, and sorrowty voices to describe the changing footprint ful. Joachim says she and Loggins-Hull saw of Black Chapel Hill, left the duo inspired. it as a challenge They were ready to investigate to begin their the emotional own work and and structurto engage with al touchstones both historical that make a and current tensong an anthem sions within the and to then crelocal communiate their own. ty, using art as This detour an explanatory wasn’t necesand interpretive sarily planned, framework. but this is part “I really do of what makes feel that artthe Discourse ists have a way experiment of tapping into exciting for the what is in peoduo. ple’s hearts and “You also on their minds have to trust and discovering the process of ways for that to what the project be processed,” shows you that says Joachim. it wants to be,” “It is something says Joachim. people strugTrust in the gle with: how process (and the to process what evolving nature we’re living Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull of creativity while we’re liv- PHOTO BY ERIN PATRICE O’BRIEN and experience) has also allowed Joachim ing it.” and Loggins-Hull to navigate their own On Friday, Flutronix will share the first decade-long artistic partnership. While both piece of Discourse, which takes as its text in New York, they could walk over to each a 2010 SOHP interview with Civil Rights other’s houses and work at all hours of the activist and former Student Nonviolent day and night. With Joachim now residing Coordinating Committee (SNCC) memin Chicago, where her ensemble Eighth ber Willie Blue. Joachim says that Blue’s Blackbird and the associated Blackbird story gave testimony not only to his work Creative Lab is based, Flutronix uses periods but how he faced “the dangers of engaging in of intentional focus such as the Wisconsin democracy.” retreat to create and tend to creative work.

Loggins-Hull and Joachim spent time lisJoachim says that choosing to commit to tening deeply to Blue’s story of attending Flutronix has pushed both her and LogginsSNCC’s Freedom School political organizer Hull in a positive direction boot camps. The final piece of Discourse, also

“So often you run into young artists who say ‘oh yeah, we tried to do this thing for a few months but it didn’t really work out,’” she says. “Allison and I, really from the first moment that we met, were committed to this mission that has now built into a business. We’ve continued to make that commitment to each other over time, and when you deeply commit to a project, you see results.”

With strong collaborations and supportive spaces, artists can push themselves out of their comfort zones to create brave new works. Flutronix often repeats this sentiment of liberation to young artists during K-12 educational programs and master classes. During their residency at UNC-Chapel Hill, they will be embedded artists in a course covering the topics of music and politics.

They spend time in these spaces because they know their presence as black women, classically-trained artists, genre-dissolving experimenters, and socially-conscious creators, is important, and that its impact is real. As Joachim says, if she had seen a group like Flutronix when she was in elementary school, it would have changed her conceptions of her own capabilities much earlier in her life.

“It was a very, very, very long time before I saw anyone that looked like me [performing].

And it’s still a very rare occasion,” she says.

Part of the Flutronix mission is also to showcase how an instrument that has spent much of its history associated with the classical canon and associated implications of stodginess can lend itself and its conventions to a rich musical landscape.

“I don’t want to get too deep into nerddom, but Allison and I have definitely attended many a flute convention,” Joachim says with a laugh. “Usually Flutronix is the only thing of its kind happening in that kind of setting. We really do embrace our traditional side, but love all these other styles, and we’re not inhibited at all by the idea of piecing it into what we want to create.” music@indyweek.com

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BY ALLISON HUSSEY

t’s increasingly rare that a band takes much time between albums anymore.

The punishing late-capitalist inertia of the music industry and the internet generally means that musicians stay locked in a semiannual cycle of recording, releasing, touring, and doing press, ostensibly until they either quit or die. But that’s not the case for Mountain Man, the trio of Molly Sarlé, Amelia Meath, and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, which now loosely calls Durham home.

After eight years, Mountain Man is not only stronger than ever, but they achieve it through songs that are striking in their softness.

On Magic Ship, Mountain Man is essentially doing the same thing it was on 2010’s Born in the Harbor: three women sing in close harmony with each other, mostly unaccompanied but for occasional acoustic guitar.

Magic Ship is sharper and clearer than its predecessor, with Sauser-Monnig, Sarlé, and Meath boasting more confident vocal presences as individuals and as a group.

Most of Magic Ship’s songs concern themselves with nearly invisible truths of inner and outer lives. They range from the literal, like the spiders weaving their webs in “AGT,” to the metaphysical, as on their stirring rendition of the traditional tune “Bright Morning Stars.”

Throughout the record, finely attuned listening yields the greatest rewards.

The singers unite in ringing harmony, but individually, their voices are equally

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vocal contributions on a couple of tracks.

At the conclusion of “Whale Song,” you can even hear a whispered exchange between two of the singers: “That was nice.” “Yeah.”

In fact, the only song that ever approaches being loud is “Moon.”

Sarlé’s soaring lead vocals slice through sturdy acoustic guitar strums, and the trio’s refrain of “Die, die, die” feels more like experiencing a haunting than listening to music.

Magic Ship’s central tenets also include comfort and tenderness, manifested in songs like “Underwear” and “Slow Wake Up Sunday Morning.” The former begins with Meath’s plea for “a chill pair of underwear,” while the downy edges of the latter make the song live up to its title. “Guilt” feels like a lost missive from Mister Rogers, serving as a gentle reminder that such angst is universal. “It can just be something that happened that way that makes you who you are today/And it hurts, but that’s all right,” Meath offers in closing. It’s not a prescriptive resolution, but it’s soothing nonetheless.

Magic Ship is a marvel of intimacy, manifested in the trio’s musical chemistry as well as its close focus on its subject matter. When the women affirm the simple comfort of well-worn clothes or assuage the anxieties of everyday human calamity, they offer a momentary break from whatever looming chaos tomorrow might bring. And that feels pretty magical. ahussey@indyweek.com

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NORTH DURHAM

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orth Durham is mostly residential, a relatively quiet section of town that hasn’t yet been flushed with hip entrepreneurs or rising startup stars. You won’t find crackerbox condos; rather, north Durham’s neighborhoods are dominated by seventy-year-old little family homes with sweet green yards. With the area’s lower end situated near I-85 and U.S. 70, it’s easy to hit the road to Chapel Hill and Raleigh both, and it’s not far from downtown Durham, either. It sometimes looks scrappy on the outside, but north Durham is home to some of the city’s best food— especially if you’re not inclined toward the $40-a-head dinners that you’re likely to encounter downtown.

EAT

ALPACA PERUVIAN CHARCOAL CHICKEN

302 DAVIDSON AVENUE; 919-220-9028; ALPACACHICKEN.COM Formerly known as Mami Nora’s, this Peruvian joint offers some of the best chicken in the Triangle. You can get a quarter, half, or whole chicken, plus sides, for reasonable prices, making it a good stop for a quick pick-me-up or dinner for the whole family. Order the tostones and ask for the yellow sauce to dip them in.

GOLDEN KRUST

3600 NORTH DUKE STREET; 919-283-4639; GOLDENKRUSTBAKERY.COM A strip mall might not be the first place you look for Jamaican food, but that’s where you’ll find Golden Krust. You’ll get plenty of goat, beef, and chicken dishes, and don’t miss the oxtail.

KOUMI

3550 NORTH ROXBORO STREET; 919-381-5753; KOUMIJAPANESERESTAURANT. EAT24HOUR.COM Looking for Asian food on the quick?

Koumi specializes in Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese cuisine, which you can enjoy in the restaurant itself or pick up at the drivethru window.

PANADERIA PAHUATLAN

2000-U AVONDALE DRIVE; 919-2200020 There’s a wide variety of cakes and breads at this Mexican bakery, but the real magic lies in the corn tortillas, the best in the area, served hot and cheap (ten for $1!) and ready for use on taco night.

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GOCCIOLINA

3314 GUESS ROAD, DURHAM; 919-973-4089; GOCCIOLINA.COM

Gocciolina, located in an unassuming strip mall on Guess Road, only seats about forty-five people (another ten can squeeze into the bar) and usually fills up quickly. There’s a good reason for that: it’s widely considered the best Italian restaurant in Durham. The fish is fresh (they’ll tell you when it was caught) and the pasta dishes are incredible. Gocciolina offers terrific small plates, and the entire menu is designed to encourage sharing. Order several dishes and pass them around. The seasonal menu changes frequently, so always check the specials board.

3217 NORTH ROXBORO STREET; 919-841-3469; PELICANSSNOBALLS.COM Pelican’s has several locations in the Triangle, all offering tasty and super-cheap frozen treats. Snoballs are close cousins of snow cones, though Pelican’s menu board is awash in a dizzying array of flavors. The only downside: it’s closed from October to March.

RANDY’S PIZZA

1720 GUESS ROAD; 919-286-7272; RANDYS-PIZZA.COM Randy’s offers respectable New York-style pizza that’s better than any of the big-name chains. Pick one up for dinner—and if you’re really hungry, grab an enormous thirty-inch pie (call ahead first, though).

RESTAURANTE GUANAJATO DURHAM 2103 NORTH ROXBORO STREET; 919-973-3475

Cheap, good, authentic, and plentiful— Guanajato has earned a reputation in North Durham for its excellent tacos, enchiladas, fajitas, and burritos. There are plenty of meats on offer—barbacoa de Borrego (lamb), chorizo, tripe, birria de chivo (goat), higado encebollado (liver and onions), and so on.

SAIGON GRILL

2929 NORTH ROXBORO STREET; 919-399-9800 Saigon Grill sits along North Roxboro Street’s gamut of low-key great eats and is one of the prime spots for pho in Durham. Even in the sweltering summer, it’s hard to resist a bowl of Saigon Grill’s steaming hot soup.

SILVER SPOON

5230 NORTH ROXBORO ROAD; 919-479-7172 The charming little Silver Spoon offers hearty breakfasts all day, as well as lunch and dinner menus that cover everything from standard diner sandwiches to Italian and Southern cooking.

SUPER TAQUERIA

2842 NORTH ROXBORO STREET; 919-220-9884 This casual spot, housed in a yellow building on Roxboro, more than lives up to its name.

Drop by for the best burrito in Durham—and that’s only part of the extensive menu, not to mention the vast salsa bar. If possible, bring a Spanish speaker with you; it will make ordering a little easier.

DRINK

ESMERALDA’S CAFÉ

1058 WEST CLUB BOULEVARD; 919-864-8007 Esmeralda’s Café, tucked into a corner of Northgate Mall, offers a small menu of coffee and espresso drinks and teas, as well as a few snacks.

SACRED GROUNDS COFFEEHOUSE

2700 NORTH ROXBORO STREET; 919-477-1584; SACREDGROUNDSCOFFEEHOUSE.ORG A ministry of the St. Paul United Methodist Church, Sacred Grounds offers coffee, games, desserts, and concerts. It’s all by donation, so pay what you want.

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WEST DURHAM

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ead west of downtown and you’ll find a completely different vibe—an area more focused on the residential and anchored by the houses and the lush greenery that surrounds them. Still, the sprawling neighborhoods give way to some of the city’s most beloved eateries and shopping destinations. While it’s quieter and more relaxed than other sections of Durham, the area that encompasses the up-and-coming Lakewood and runs west toward Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard offers a different pace of life.

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SHOP

COMPARE FOODS

2000 AVONDALE DRIVE; 919-220-9638; COMPARESUPERMARKETS.COM Durham has a few Compare Foods stores, but the Avondale Drive location is the best and biggest. There’s a bakery as well as a massive produce section that offers greens at low prices. (Also: hard-to-find sour oranges.) The store has a lot of stuff, much of it Hispanic- and Caribbean-focused.

KING’S RED & WHITE

305 EAST CLUB BOULEVARD; 919-220-2192 King’s is a long-running small family grocery that has one of the best butcher counters in Durham. Its selections are almost entirely North Carolina-specific, and its friendly, warm staff will charm you to no end.

LA SUPERIOR

3325 NORTH ROXBORO STREET; 919-220-9884 La Superior is another Hispanic grocery, though it’s much smaller than the nearby Compare. Still, its meat counter offers excellent cuts, and you can’t beat the housemade tortillas—two bucks snags you a bag of fresh chips as big as your head. Enjoy breakfast, lunch, or dinner in the store’s restaurant, too.

NORTHGATE MALL

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years since Southpoint opened, but it still offers standards like Journeys, Foot Locker, and GameStop. The mall also hosts a weekly Saturday farmers market.

TROSA THRIFT STORE

3500 NORTH ROXBORO STREET; 919-220-6119; TROSATHRIFTSTORE.ORG If you love a good bargain, you’ll dig the massive TROSA Thrift Store. It operates for a good cause, too: the nonprofit TROSA organization is a residential program that helps recovering substance abusers, and the thrift store is one of its several outreach operations.

You’ll find just about every item you could want, for seriously low prices. It’s hard not to leave feeling like you’ve made out like a bandit.

PLAY

SKY ZONE TRAMPOLINE PARK 1720 GUESS ROAD, #90; 919-425-0800; SKYZONE.COM/DURHAM Whether you’re a kid or an adult, there’s no denying the fun of jumping around on a trampoline. For a few bucks, you can bounce your brains out at Sky Zone. It’s good exercise that’ll leave you breathless—just be sure not to break any bones.

WEST POINT ON THE ENO

5101 NORTH ROXBORO STREET; 919-471-1623; DURHAMNC.GOV/2768/ WEST-POINT-ON-THE-ENO For a free, easy getaway, you can’t do much better than this. Mosey around ample green grounds or take a dip in the Eno River. The spot hosts the Festival for the Eno each July, but it’s a worthwhile place to hang out year-round.

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BEER STUDY/STARPOINT BREWING

2501 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, #9; 984-219-7538; BEERSTUDY.COM

Last year, Beer Study—long a Chapel Hill staple—teamed up with Starpoint Brewing to open its dog-friendly Durham location (complete with a house pug).

You’ll find a quality rotating selection on draft, and there’s a pretty good bottle collection as well, not to mention an arcade room in the back. But what makes Beer Study really special is that it’s within walking distance of several excellent restaurants: NanaTaco, The Boot, and The Original Q-Shack among them. So go with a group of friends (including your four-legged buddy), grab a table, and then order to-go from wherever you want. If they’re not too busy, The Boot will even deliver your meal next door.

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BARLEY LABS

4015 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, 919-432-4597, BARLEYLABS.COM Barley Labs dog-friendly taproom & gift shop in Durham features 16 rotating taps of craft beer and cider, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages. Weekly specials include $3 select drafts on Tuesdays, 1/2 price glasses of wine on Wednesdays, and $2 off flights on Thursdays. Learn more at www.barleylabs.com.

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1929 CHAPEL HILL ROAD; 919-403-2527; FACEBOOK.COM/TAQUERIALATINO Tucked away in Lakewood, Azteca offers the standard American-Mexican dishes with a creative spin on some. Start with the cheese dip and cap off the meal with the flamebroiled carne asada.

2013 CHAPEL HILL ROAD; COCOACINNAMON.COM Like the others, this third location from Cocoa Cinnamon—every Durhamite’s favorite coffee shop—offers single-origin coffee, tea, and drinking chocolate. Unlike the first two, this Cocoa Cinnamon goes out of its way to be mindful of the Lakewood neighborhood’s Hispanic heritage. And that includes churros, sold hot and fresh all day.

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THE BOOT

2501 UNIVERSITY DRIVE; 919-294-8383; THEBOOTDURHAM.COM Sure, it’s an Italian restaurant—pizzas, spaghetti and meatballs, eggplant parm— but The Boot also has a killer selection of (almost) all Italian wines, most available by both the glass and bottle. And the Sambuca Sazerac—rye, Sambuca, bitters—is A-plus.

SHOP

DURHAM CO-OP MARKET

1111 WEST CHAPEL HILL STREET; 919-973-1707; DURHAM.COOP The Co-op fills Durham’s need for a community-owned market that serves locally produced food. Stop by to pick up ingredients for your dinner and, while you’re there, grab a coffee or a pastry to tide you over.

EARLY BIRD DONUTS

2816 ERWIN ROAD; 984-888-0417; FACEBOOK.COM/EBDONUTS/ This new, locally owned donut shop, located near Duke’s west campus, makes biscuits, donuts, and croissant breakfast sandwiches from scratch. The salted caramel donut is terrific.

FOSTER’S MARKET

2694 DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL BOULEVARD; 919-489-3944; FOSTERSMARKET.COM Want to spend a relaxing Saturday brunching and catching up with friends? Foster’s is pretty much perfect for that. There’s a wide variety of sandwiches, casseroles, muffins, milkshakes, and breakfast dishes.

GRUB DURHAM

1200 WEST CHAPEL HILL STREET; 984-888-0417; GRUBDURHAM.COM With its wide-ranging menu and rooftop patio—perfect for a fall morning—Grub may soon be your new favorite Sunday brunch spot. For the veg-head and/or health nut in your group, the Wonder Woman Eats Her Veggies—a breakfast sandwich with egg whites, roasted red pepper sauce, spinach, peppers, caramelized onions, and mushrooms—will hit the spot. Meat-eaters should consider the West End Grit Bowl, with a sunny-side-up egg and turkey sausage.

GUGLHUPF BAKERY, CAFE AND RESTAURANT

2706 DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL BOULEVARD; 919-401-2600; GUGLHUPF.COM This beloved cafe serves traditional German food and pastries. They do breakfast, lunch, and, on the weekends, a top-class brunch.

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Check out the shiitake mushroom omelet, and during the lunch hour, get the schnitzel, a pan-fried breaded pork cutlet, or the potato leek tart.

NANATACO

2512 UNIVERSITY DRIVE; 919-489-8226; NANATACO.COM Fresh, cheap, and tasty, NanaTaco is something of a better local alternative to Chipotle. Fast-casual tacos and burritos come in huge portions, and the chips and queso is among the best around.

THE ORIGINAL Q SHACK

2510 UNIVERSITY DRIVE; 919-402-4227; THEQSHACKORIGINAL.COM If you love barbecue—since you’re here, it’s pretty much mandatory—make Q Shack a stop on your pulled pork and brisket tour. There’s also great smoked turkey and excellent sides, including the mac and cheese and the creamed spinach. Throw in a jalapeno deviled egg and wash it down with a cold beer.

THE REFECTORY CAFE

2726 DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL BOULEVARD; 919-908-6798; THEREFECTORYCAFE.COM First established on Duke University’s campus, this “green” restaurant offers

breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a weekend brunch, so there’s plenty of opportunities to get your fix of locally sourced, diverse food.

SALADELIA CAFE

4201 UNIVERSITY DRIVE; 919-489-5776; SALADELIA.COM Specializing in fast Mediterranean food, Saladelia features sandwiches, salads, soups, a full coffee bar, and organic smoothies and juices. Grab a quiche or the vegetarian lasagna.

THAI CAFE

2501 UNIVERSITY DRIVE; 919-493-9794; THAICAFENC.COM Thai Cafe has authentic, traditional Thai noodle and rice dishes, as well as stir-fry and an array of soups. Be sure to order a glass of Thai iced coffee to pair with your meal.

TWISTED NOODLES

4201 UNIVERSITY DRIVE; 919-489-9888; TWISTEDNOODLES.COM This no-frills Thai restaurant doesn’t need any gimmicks. Featuring dishes to please the carnivore, vegan, and gluten-free alike, Twisted Noodles prides itself on cooking fresh and healthy.

2050 CHAPEL HILL ROAD; 919-688-6960; SCRAPEXCHANGE.ORG The Triangle’s very own reuse supercenter, The Scrap Exchange has anything and everything for your crafting needs. The Scrap Exchange recently unveiled plans for the Reuse Arts District within its Lakewood Shopping Center. In the long term, the district will offer galleries, a sculpture park, and affordable housing. In the short term, it will feature a huge thrift store.

WINE AUTHORITIES

2501 UNIVERSITY DRIVE; 919-489-2884; WINEAUTHORITIES.COM True to its name, Wine Authorities is a legitimate authority on wines. It’s not just about drinking here; it’s about the product and the customer and making sure the wine matches the drinker.

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FOREST HILLS PARK

1639 UNIVERSITY DRIVE; 919-560-4355; DURHAMNC.GOV/2728/FOREST-HILLSPARK This city-run park has something for everyone—picnic shelters, grills, greenways, a playground, and a tennis court. Bring the kids to burn off energy on a summer day, or bring your friends out for a small grill-out.

Plus, it’s a great location to play Ultimate Frisbee.

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outh Durham sometimes feels like a different universe than the rest of Durham. It’s the suburbs, but that doesn’t mean it lacks pride. In fact, quite the opposite. Yes, you’ll find plenty of the big-name corporate stores and chain restaurants your parents eat at, but you’ll also find a first-rate farmers market and tons of local flair. You’re still in the Bull City.

You just have a cul-de-sac.

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If you can’t find the beer you want here—a rare phenomenon, considering that between this bottle shop and its sister on Ninth Street, they carry more than sixteen hundred beers—don’t worry. They’ll find you something similar or help you special-order it. Sam’s isn’t your ordinary beer shop; it offers kegs, wine, mead, cider, and cigars, and you can drink while you shop. They have twenty-eight taps on hand for your drinking pleasure and a gorgeous outdoor upstairs patio that’s perfect for meeting up with friends after work.

EAT

BULL & BEAN

3710 SHANNON ROAD; 919-237-2398; BULLSTREETDURHAM.COM A bakery, cafe, and wine retailer, Bull Street also offers sandwiches, specialty groceries, and an excellent weekend brunch.

MATTIE B’S PUBLIC HOUSE 1125 WEST N.C. HIGHWAY 54; 919-401-8600; MATTIEBS.COM

Mattie B’s has a musical flair to it: the apps are “preludes,” pizzas are “Billboard’s top hits,” entrées are “Mattie B’s favorite songs,” and sides are “backup dancers.” But don’t let the titles stop you from popping in to try one of the burgers— the Mattie Melt is a good place to start.

MEDITERRASIAN BISTRO 105 WEST N.C. HIGHWAY 54, #225; 919-484-0505; MEDITERRASIANBISTRO.COM

With a fully stocked buffet and regular menu, there are plenty of ways to try this restaurant’s fusion of Greek and Lebanese dishes.

NAMU

5420 DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL BOULEVARD; 919-251-9794; FACEBOOK.COM/NAMUDURHAM-713409472154505/ A collaboration between the Bulkogi Korean BBQ and Bo’s Kitchen food trucks, Namu is part casual Korean restaurant, part coffee bar.

PULCINELLA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT

4711 HOPE VALLEY ROAD, #1E; 919-490-1172; PULCINELLASITALIANRESTAURANT.COM While classic Italian dishes are this restaurant’s strong point, stop by for the lunch specials. Two slices and a drink for $6? We’re game.

RISE BISCUITS AND DONUTS

8200 RENAISSANCE PARKWAY; 919-248-2992; RISEBISCUITSDONUTS.COM Stop by the store that started it all and order the decadent Creme Brulee donut.

SHIKI SUSHI

207 N.C. HIGHWAY 54; 919-484-4108; SHIKITASU.COM If you’re craving sushi but your dinner partner isn’t, Shiki’s Asian fusion also offers Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, and Chinese cuisine.

TOWN HALL BURGER AND BEER

7830 N.C. HIGHWAY 751, #100; 919-973-0506; TOWNHALLBURGERANDBEER.COM This is more than just a burger joint; it’s a burger joint where you can grab classics like a patty melt but also get a burger topped with mac and cheese.

YAMAZUSHI JAPANESE

4711 HOPE VALLEY ROAD, #6A; 919-493-7748; YAMAZUSHIRESTAURANT.COM Traditional Japanese cuisine is the highlight of this dinner-only restaurant. Make reservations for its Kaiseki—a multicourse dinner served ceremonially.

DRINK

BARREL CULTURE BREWING AND BLENDING 4913 SOUTH ALSTON AVENUE; FACEBOOK.COM/BARRELCULTURE/ This just-opened brewery is unlike any other in the Triangle. It exclusively brews oakbarrel-fermented artisanal wild ales, and the expertise and dedication comes through in every sip.

GROWLER GRLZ

4810 HOPE VALLEY ROAD, #110; 919-973-2755; GROWLERGRLZ.COM Y’all, there are forty-two taps here. Stop in for a pint of some hard-to-find beers (including ones that rarely leave the brewery they’re made in), and then take home a growler for later enjoyment.

SHOP BULL CITY RUNNING COMPANY

202 WEST N.C. HIGHWAY 54, #109; 919-265-3904; BULLCITYRUNNING.COM Your local source for all things running—not just shoes. This is a one-stop shop where you can get a new pair of running shorts and stock up on nutritional needs.

THE STREETS AT SOUTHPOINT

6910 FAYETTEVILLE ROAD; 919-572-8808; STREETSATSOUTHPOINT.COM Southpoint has most of the stores any mall does, but you can also walk outside and be invited to the “Streets.” Venture down Renaissance Parkway a bit to continue your strip-mall adventures.

PLAY AMERICAN TOBACCO TRAIL

TRIANGLETRAILS.ORG/AMERICANTOBACCO-TRAIL This trail runs from the DBAP downtown through the heart of south Durham. Whether you’re using it to run or bike or just as a way to get to and from work, the ATT has twenty-two miles of mostly tree-lined and -shaded pavement.

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4711 HOPE VALLEY ROAD, #5A; 919-973-3950; JOEVANGOGH.COM Artisanal coffee makers Joe Van Gogh opened up a new location in south Durham, thus saving denizens of South Durham an unfortunate trip to Starbucks.

4711 HOPE VALLEY ROAD; 919-973-2755; WEST94THSTPUB.COM Whether you’re settling in to catch a game or getting weird on a Friday with karaoke, West 94th is perfect for your shenanigans.

4704 FAYETTEVILLE ROAD; DURHAMNC. GOV/2760/SOLITE-PARK Come in the morning for the pump track and come back in the afternoon with the kids for the playground.

3400 THIRD FORK ROAD; DURHAMNC. GOV/2761/SOUTHERN-BOUNDARIES-PARK With baseball and softball fields, not to mention basketball and tennis courts, Southern Boundaries is an excellent summer hangout.

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Getting Away with Murder

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hen Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff started their dishy true crime/comedy podcast My Favorite Murder in January 2016, they didn’t expect it to blow up. As their iTunes ranking and Facebook group numbers climbed, they continually thanked their fans—“Murderinos,” they call themselves—for creating a community with shared interests in true crime, social justice, and feminism. They seem to understand toxic masculinity and the disparity in media coverage of white crime victims and those of color. They get together to raise money for charities like End the Backlog, which is dedicated to processing untested rape kits, and Victim Support UK, which provides resources for those impacted by crime.

But swirling under these noble causes is an extreme vein of white privilege, one that Hardstark and Kilgariff have done nothing to rein in—and have, in fact, done everything to support. This issue came to a head in August 2018, when the podcast’s main Facebook fan group—more than 235,000 people moderated by unpaid volunteers—was shut down and archived, earning the nickname the “MFM DF,” or My Favorite Murder Dumpster Fire.

Several incidents precipitated Kilgariff and Hardstark’s decision to close the group.

During its final week, a member shared a racist story that was approved by moderators and allowed to be posted. At the same time, official My Favorite Murder merchandise featuring tepees (wildly inappropriate, considering the disproportionate rate at which indigenous women all over the world are murdered) were discovered to still be on sale after MFM had promised to take them offline in late July. People of color and American Indians spent countless hours trying to explain why pointing out racism mattered. White fans, angry that their entertainment—murder—had been sullied with real-life problems begged people to get over it and move on. Admins started 24 | 9.19.18 | INDYweek.com

Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark PHOTO COURTESY OF MYFAVORITEMURDER.COM blocking people speaking up about racism in the group. Hardstark liked inflammatory comments from people on Instagram, called others “dummies,” blocked them, and deleted negative comments.

Hardstark and Kilgariff have always claimed to be actively learning feminists, and, as Bitch Media pointed out in an otherwise critical 2017 report, they used to respond well to criticism—for instance, updating their usage of “prostitute” to “sex worker” after being called out early on. But in the last six months, the hosts seem to have stopped taking criticism to heart. They’ve become defensive. Kilgariff and Hardstark use their own mental health struggles with

addiction, depression, and anxiety as a free pass to speculate on the mental health of others. They remind listeners that they are college dropouts and cannot be counted on to get facts right.

Despite complaints, Kilgariff has persisted in calling any establishment of homeless people a “hobo camp.” She admitted in August to using a European pronunciation of an Australian mountain instead of the aboriginal name because it was easier to pronounce. And Hardstark let everyone know that the police don’t mean to coerce confessions—they just do, a particularly upsetting line to hear at a time when this issue is so charged. Add to this the fact that My Favorite

Murder covers white victims at a highly disproportionate rate, and some fans had finally had enough, leaving the Facebook group, unsubscribing from the podcast, and publicly vowing to never listen again.

Other fans, though, remain out of control.

They leave the podcast’s catchphrase, “Stay Sexy, Don’t Get Murdered,” often abbreviated “SSDGM,” tagged all over cities and under many true-crime articles online, in full view of survivors and others affected by crimes.

Last April, one fan allegedly snuck into a private press conference about the Golden State Killer in California for bragging rights.

These fans have been implored by others to be more respectful; they harass people

“Despite complaints, Kilgariff has persisted in calling any establishment of homeless people a ‘hobo camp.’” asking for respect by calling them triggered snowflakes and telling them to get over it.

Kilgariff and Hardstark have done little to address this. The two episodes released after the archiving of the Facebook group said nothing about it. When they did address it in a late-August episode, they claimed the group was shut down because of one problematic Facebook post, calling it “the beginning and the end of it,” never noting how deep the

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problems were or what they were going to do to make them better. Hardstark apologized for liking inflammatory comments and said the podcast would donate $10,000 to the First Nations Development Institute, a post which garnered hundreds of “you didn’t do anything wrong” comments from white women eager to get back to listening to the worst moments of people’s lives.

The issues within the My Favorite Murder fandom reflect larger issues in society, a head-in-the-sand unwillingness to have hard conversations about white privilege. With the explosion in popularity of My Favorite Murder—more than two hundred episodes, a strong Patreon following, an exclusive paid fan club, a book deal, the launch for their own podcast network, and international tours, including the one bringing them to DPAC on September 20—Hardstark and Kilgariff wield more responsibility and influence than they did when they began trading their favorite crime stories at a party. The hosts need to dedicate themselves to equal coverage of all victims and model respect and responsibility for their fans, running the podcast like the business that it now is.

They’ve long encouraged women to “fuck politeness” in self-preservation, but maybe they’ve taken that maxim too far. arts@indyweek.com

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SITES RELAUNCH Friday, Sep. 21, 8–10 p.m., free Accordion Club, Durham www.sitesinthecity.com

For six years, Stephanie Leathers’s SITES project—known as Sunday SITES until it expanded into other days—has given Durham some of its most consistently compelling site-specific, improvisational, durational performance art in unusual public spaces.

The series’ first turning point came in 2016, when Leathers mounted a DIDA show in the empty shell of Fishmongers before it became Saint James Seafood, shifting SITES from something you’d stumble across or see on Instagram to a destination performance series and opening it to a greater variety of artists.

With a re-launch party at Accordion Club this Friday evening, SITES celebrates a second turning point. Its upcoming season finds Leathers bringing on new curators to expand the series into Chapel Hill and Raleigh, each of which provides its own unique urban issues and opportunities for performers to inhabit and explore.

The revamped SITES is timed with each city’s art walk: Raleigh’s on the first Friday of each month, Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s on the second, and Durham’s on the third (see the schedule on our website). Leathers’s background in dance and photography has made them the foundation in Durham, but with different affinities, the new curators should open the series even wider. Raleigh facilitator Autumn Mist Belk is a dance artist with an interest in film, while Chapel Hill-Carrboro facilitators Killian Manning and Heather Tatreau bring visual-art-world connections.

Development was Leathers’s impetus to found SITES, and while its issues are acute in Durham, they certainly aren’t exclusive to it. “I’m from here, so moving back, it was this total blast of change I wanted to call attention to: gentrification, people being forced out of their neighborhoods,” she says. “I’ve not exhausted Durham, but it’s time for other cities to feel a connection to this project, because [these issues] don’t only exist here.” —Brian Howe INDYweek.com | 9.19.18 | 25

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

GROOVE IN THE GARDEN

Hurricane Florence’s unwelcome visit last week meant the cancellation of several outdoor weekend events, from CenterFest and the first-ever Brazilian Day Festival in Durham to SPARKCon and J. Cole’s highly anticipated Dreamville Festival in Raleigh. Fortunately, the clouds have cleared for this year’s Groove in the Garden, a day-long festival in Raleigh Little Theatre’s lovely outdoor amphitheater. While previous years’ lineups have featured a wide variety of bands, this year’s iteration focuses on female and nonbinary performers.

A mélange of country and folk stylings make up a majority of the bill: fierce and fearless Lydia Loveless, tender-hearted Blue Cactus, high-gloss New Reveille, soaring Loamlands, bright-eyed Kate Rhudy, and slightly psychedelic Kamara Thomas. You’ll also find cutting hip-hop from ZenSoFly, snarling and ferocious punk from Pie Face Girls, and Janis Joplinadjacent rock from Emily Musolino and Reese McHenry. The gig also features a rare appearance from Tres Chicas, the alt-country-leaning trio of Caitlin Cary, Lynn Blakey, and Tonya Lamm. Even between sets, there’s plenty to love, with the inimitable DJ Luxe Posh on the decks. —Allison Hussey RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE’S STEPHENSON AMPHITHEATER AND ROSE GARDEN, RALEIGH 2:15 p.m., $10–$65, www.raleighlittletheatre.org

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20–SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

MEN ON BOATS

Chemistry can be a tricky thing on a camping trip. You start out with so much optimism, energy, and good fellowship. Then a sudden downpour surprises you before you can set up camp, and mosquitoes establish permanent residency in your tent. You’re soaked to the bone, and the rations are cold when your tentmate first utters the phrase “night terrors.”

Happily, he only snores the first night. Still, at breakfast, you notice no one’s making jokes about The Blair Witch Project or Deliverance anymore. Playwright Jacklyn Backhaus uses a cast of women to underline the fact that those daring explorers who risked life and limb to map the Grand Canyon were just a bunch white men on boats, getting on each other’s nerves over a month-long camping trip and traversing territory previous Americans knew quite well but had sense enough to avoid. Rachel Klem directs this N.C. State University Theatre season opener. —Byron Woods NCSU’S TITMUS THEATRE, RALEIGH Various times, $21–$23, www.theatre.arts.ncsu.edu

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

FRANK WARREN

Look, because he’s famous and all, we’d be remiss not to mention that Bill Maher’s doing stand-up at DPAC this week. But anyone whose PR calls them an “equal opportunity offender,” that old get-out-of-consequence-free card, gets the gas face from us. If you’re really dying to hear a white guy talk about stuff this week, we’d recommend this appearance

by Frank Warren instead. Warren created the PostSecret project, gathering a million secrets over the past thirteen years, submitted on anonymous postcards, and putting them on a website, in books, and in art galleries for all to see. The result is a referendum on what we regard as hidden in an increasingly transparent society, and an emotional outlet for users who need to speak without being seen. Warren discusses the project in this TED-style talk courtesy of NC State LIVE. —Brian Howe NCSU’S STEWART THEATRE, RALEIGH 7 p.m., $30, www.live.arts.ncsu.edu

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The Sanskrit term “samāra” has a broad range of meanings, and many of them make sense in the context of this 2012 dance work. Skill? For sure: The movements, poses, and gestures of Indian Odissi dance and Kandyan dance from Sri Lanka are nothing if not meticulous. Bringing together? Obviously: Samhāra took years of contemplation and nine months of collaboration to make common ground on the same stage for both. Extinction? Since both dance forms were repressed under British colonial rule, the world had nearly lost them toward the end of the last century. Desperation drove practitioners to teach Kandyan dance, traditionally performed by men, to women, while an avatar of Odissi dance established a dance village—the literal meaning of Nrityagram—in 1990 to preserve that form. In Samhāra, five women embody both Odissi’s feminine identifiers in classical Indian culture and the contrasting masculine cultural markers in Kandyan dance with live musicians from both traditions. —Byron Woods

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In art and in life, it’s important to know where you come from before you decide on where you think you’re going. That’s never been a problem for John Howie, Jr., who’s spent much of his career tipping his hat toward classic country crooners and outlaws alike. On his new album, Not Tonight (which he celebrates with this Friday night release show), Howie offers a fresh crop of mournful country tunes, outlining his heartache with weepy pedal steel and twangy guitars. Songs like “She’ll Lose My Heart (I’ll Lose My Mind)” and “Back When I Cared” are proper lowdown ballads.

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CAT’S CRADLE: FIDLAR, Dilly Dally, NOBRO; 8 p.m., $22-$25.

HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 8:30 p.m..

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

LINCOLN THEATRE: Raleigh Day: Loso Corleone, DJ Ty Pack; 9 p.m., $10-$20.

MOTORCO: Rebirth Brass Band, Aztec Sun; 8 p.m., $20-$40.

POUR HOUSE: Supersuckers, The Backsliders; 7 p.m., $15.

THE WICKED WITCH: Crunk Witch, Sidewalk Furniture, Sith Clan; 8 p.m., $10.

THU, SEP 20 2ND WIND: 2 fer; 7:30-9 p.m..

BLUE NOTE GRILL: Carolina Lightnin’; 7-9 p.m., free.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM:

Sam Evian [$12–$14/8 P.M.]

On his second record as Sam Evian, You, Forever, Sam Owens delivers a fuzzy crop of easygoing rock tunes that sway like a summer breeze. Opener “IDGAF” is a delightfully weightless number that basks in being free from the burden of giving a shit, while tunes like “Next To You” and the title track are tender odes to intimacy and affection.

As we slip into fall, bask in Owens’s goldn rays. Katie Von Schleicher opens.

—Allison Hussey DUKE’S NELSON MUSIC ROOM: Duke New Music Ensemble: Hypercube; 8 p.m., free.

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE:

Old Crow Medicine Show [$35–$40/7 P.M.]

Try not to get thrown when Old Crow Medicine Show travels down its new dubstep

The Rock*A*Teens headline Kings in Raleigh Friday night. direction … ah, just kidding!

Don’t worry, faithful fans, on their new album, Volunteers, OCMS still serve up the same good-time blend of folk, country, and bluegrass that’s made them Americana darlings all these years, with their banjos, fiddles, and harmonicas respectively plucking, sawing, and tooting away. And if you ask real nice, maybe they’ll throw in “Wagon Wheel” for you (kidding again, they’re definitely gonna play their bread-and-butter North Carolina hit). Dawes opens.

—Jim Allen

LORRAINE’S COFFEE HOUSE: Greg Blake; 7:30 p.m., $5.

LOVE HOUSE AND HUTCHINS FORUM: Music on the Porch: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 5:30 p.m., free.

MOTORCO:

Old 97’s

[$20–$35/8 P.M.] It’s hard to believe they’ve been around for twenty-five years, but sure enough, these alt-country originators are celebrating a quarter-century as a band on their current tour. But all of the miles in the rearview mirror of Rhett Miller and his cohorts haven’t dampened their spirits a

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bit. If anything, their experiences have both deepened and toughened their sound, as you’ve probably already heard on their most recent record, Graveyard Whistling. Reese McHenry opens. —Jim Allen POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: Arson Daily, Little Bird, Dead Bedrooms; 8 p.m., $3-$5.

THE WICKED WITCH: Slow Code, Girl Werewolf, Seven Letter, Atomic Buzz; 8 p.m., $10.

FRI, SEP 21 BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free.

CAT’S CRADLE: Car Seat Headrest, Naked Giants; 8 p.m., sold out.

GARNER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: Red Molly; 8 p.m., $24.

KINGS:

The Rock*A*Teens [$12–$14/8 P.M.]

These Atlanta-based indie rockers first emerged back in the mid-nineties, and their nuanced but organic sound gained them enough admirers and momentum to keep them going into the early aughts. But over the last few years, their small-but-hardy fanbase has found reason to rejoice, as The

Rock*A*Teens have rejoined the land of the living. You never can tell what tomorrow will bring, though, so come on out and catch them while you’ve got the chance. Spider Bags open. —Jim Allen LORRAINE’S COFFEE HOUSE: Brad Hudson; 7:30 p.m., $8.

THE MAYWOOD: D.R.I., Kaustik, Few Good Things; 8:30 p.m., $15–$17.

MOTORCO: Palisades, Dayseeker, Savage Hands; 7 p.m., $13-$15.

POUR HOUSE: Young Dubliners, Born Again Heathens; 8 p.m., $20.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Zen Poets; 8 p.m., $10-$20.

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UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: Flutronix; 8 p.m., $37. See page 16.

SAT, SEP 22 THE ARTSCENTER:

Leo Kottke [$38/8 P.M.]

Starting out in the late sixties, Leo Kottke was one of the original acoustic guitar heroes of the John Fahey school of ragged fingerpicking. But in addition to his six-string skills, Kottke boasts some serious songwriting chops and a quirky but engrossing vocal style to his credit. It’s been a big batch of years since he’s made a new album, but he’s got so much great material to choose from that you won’t worry a bit about that.

—Jim Allen CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM:

Howard Ivans [$10/9 P.M.]

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toward glossy, groovy R&B. A song like “Pillows” lives up to its title with its thick, cumulonimbus-like instrumentation. The show is also a benefit for the Carolina Cavalry, which is helping those affected by Hurricane Florence in eastern North Carolina put their lives back together. Sun Studies, the new project from Schooner’s Reid Johnson, opens, and so does Beauty World.

—Allison Hussey DURTY BULL BREWING COMPANY: Laura Thurston; 4 p.m..

LORRAINE’S COFFEE HOUSE: Don Shortslef; 7:30 p.m., $5.

MOTORCO:

Bombadil

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TUE, SEP 25 CAROLINA THEATRE:

Toad the Wet Sprocket [$45/7 P.M.]

You may remember Toad the Wet Sprocket from a series inoffensive singles on the alt-rock airwaves back in the nineties—“Walk on the Ocean,” “Something’s Always Wrong,” and “Fall Down.”

Or you might not, because those songs are strikingly generic, almost as if they were designed as background music for wandering around a mall.

Leigh Nash opens. —Jim Allen DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER:

Sarah McLachlan [$69–$99/8 P.M.]

Howard Ivans stops in Carrboro on Saturday. with radiant harmonies and buoyant melodies.

Through folksy storytelling, Wilmington’s Chris Frisina paints melancholic scenes of small-town living and life on the road with skilled, subtle verse. —Spencer Griffith THE PINHOOK:

Jim Lauderdale [$15/8 P.M.]

Prolific roots singersongwriter Jim Lauderdale has long dabbled across the Americana spectrum. Time Flies, his latest LP, spans most of the permutations he’s attempted over the years, his casual, weathered pipes tying together takes on traditional country, twangy rock, and tear-jerking honky tonk.

Mipso’s Libby Rodenbough takes on a starring role with her solo set. —Spencer Griffith POUR HOUSE: Southern Culture on the Skids, The Magnolia Collective; 8 p.m., $20.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: For the Love of Big Band with vocalist Lenora Helm Hammonds; 8 p.m., $10-$20.

STEEL STRING BREWERY: Hal Engler Quartet; 5 p.m..

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SUN, SEP 23 LINCOLN THEATRE:

WEST END WINE BARDURHAM: Eric Meyer, Noah Sager & Friends; 4-6 p.m., free.

Jump, Little Children

MON, SEP 24

During Jump, Little Children’s first run, the Charleston quintet, which met and formed at the North Carolina School of the Arts, earned a fervent following in the Carolinas and beyond by blending old styles—Delta blues, Irish folk—into their alternative acoustic rock. Their mélange had its moments: Magazine, twenty years after its release, remains an underappreciated gem in the bowels of Atlantic’s catalog. If only their postreunion material—see the milquetoast “Hand on My Heartache”—were half as interesting. Michael Flynn opens. —Patrick Wall

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

[$25/8 P.M.]

POUR HOUSE: Radar’s Clowns of Sedation, Indiobravo; 1 p.m., $5. The Remarks, Chris Larkin, Strongman, Company; 8 p.m., $10.

SILENT DAYZE STUDIO: Exploring Rhythms of Africa &The Americas; 2 p.m., $30.

ST. MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: Rebecca Troxler & David Arcus; 3 p.m., $10.

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

The sincerity and sweetness of Sarah McLachlan’s music and related outputs (Lilith Fair and that damn tearjerker of an SPCA commercial) landed her in a certain soft-andcrunchy category of nineties songwriters. An invisible and shifting line separates the corny from the classic, and McLachlan sometimes seems to have ended up not having the ironclad critical acclaim as some of her contemporaries.

It’s a bit of a shame, as her performances and voice remain absolutely unmistakable— sensual, mysterious, and surefooted. —Josephine McRobbie MOTORCO

POUR HOUSE: Unaka Prong, Goodnight TX, Sid Kingsley; 8 p.m., $10.

Pete Yorn

THE RITZ:

Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Pete Yorn debuted back in 2001 with the critically acclaimed Musicforthemorningafter, a collection of folk-rock songs that actually kind of rocked.

Yorn promptly fell into a bit of a funk, releasing a series

All Time Low [$30/8 P.M.]

All Time Low isn’t the all-time low of the Warped Tour generation, but the Baltimore pop-punk outfit isn’t exactly the head of Fueled By Ramen’s class, either. On 2017’s Last Young Renegade, All Time Low broke from the pop-punk playbook for prime-time pop-rock. It’s a substantial makeover, but their newfound sleek refinement doesn’t mask the fact that much of Renegade is a tedious, selfserious slog. It may well be their own all-time low. With Gnash. —Patrick Wall RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m..

[$30–$45/8 P.M.]

of forgettable midtempo strummer-type records in the mid-aughts, but benefited from a career boost from his collaboration with Scarlett Johansson (2009’s Break Up).

The duo recently revisited its musical partnership and released a new EP, Apart, a higher-production affair that puts Yorn and Johansson’s goofy chemistry on full display.

—Howard Hardee POUR HOUSE: IBMA Bluegrass Ramble; 6 p.m., $25-$75.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: NCJRO; 8 p.m., $10-$20.

WED, SEP 26 BLUE NOTE GRILL: Blue Wednesday; 8 p.m..

CAROLINA THEATRE:

Squirrel Nut Zippers [$25–$45/8 P.M.]

We’re still a few weeks away from Halloween, but beware of zombie bands in Durham.

In the late nineties, Squirrel Nut Zippers were at the top of the pile of local musicians who found a national spotlight.

These days, frontman Jimbo Mathus and drummer Chris Phillips are the only original members of the group and have reanimated the band with a new cast of players. The group still slings jazzy, New Orleans-inspired rock tunes.

But the elements that gave the band its crackling spark on albums like 1996’s Hot and 1998’s Perennial Favorites—Ken Mosher’s sax harmonies, Tom Maxwell’s spooky songwriting, Katharine Whalen’s inimitable singing voice—have all disappeared. Take the nostalgia trip if you feel so moved, but those old hits now feel a little hollow. With Onyx Club Boys. —Allison Hussey CAT’S CRADLE: The Growlers, Surfbort, DONZII; 8 p.m., $25-$30.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Low Cut Connie, Ruby Boots; 8:30 p.m., $15.

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

THE MAYWOOD: Voarm, Bastard Tongue, Night Quill; 8:30 p.m., $10.

MOTORCO:

Andrew WK [$20–$24/8 P.M.]

“Life is great—let’s party!” has served as Andrew WK’s basic mantra throughout his career, which appropriately launched with the 2001 single “Party Hard.” He’s since displayed an unwavering devotion to playing loud and simple, yet operatic music— think Queen’s “We Will Rock You”—that buries itself in one’s mind like a Cheap Trick hook. He’s touring to support You’re Not Alone, his first album in nine years. It opens with a triumphant, horsesprancing, horns-blaring intro titled “The Power of Partying.”

Sounds about right.

—Howard Hardee POUR HOUSE: IBMA Bluegrass Ramble; 6 p.m., $25-$75.

SLIM’S:

No Raza [$7/9 P.M.]

Unless you speak fluent Spanish, you likely won’t understand any of the words to the songs of Colombian death metal outfit No Raza. If you do, you likely still won’t understand many of the words, delivered in halting grunts over machine-gun blast beats and grinding palm-muted power chords.

No matter the language, No Raza’s message is clear: Misanthropy rules the day, and the band’s pummel is on par with that of any of their English-speaking brethren.

—Patrick Wall

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Rachel Campbell and Rosalie Midyette: Paintings and sculpture. Reception in tandem with Horse & Buggy Press (and Friends). Sat, Sep 22, 5-7 p.m.

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

Thirtieth Annual Sculpture in the Garden: Outdoor sculpture show. Thru Dec 9. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill. www.ncbg.unc.edu.

Family and Friends Sunday: Happy Birthday, Ackland!: Sixtieth birthday party for the Ackland. Sun, Sep 23, 2-5 p.m.

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

Family Tree: Handcrafted art by Jeannette Brossart. Fri, Sep 21, 6-9 p.m. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. scrapexchange.org.

Sarah Graham: Plus eleven other local artists. Sat, Sep 22 & Sun, Sep 23, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 123 Art Studios, Pittsboro.

La Fiesta del Pueblo: Outdoor celebration of Latino art and culture. Sun, Sep 23, noon-6 p.m. Fayetteville Street, Raleigh.

Raleigh Night Market: Locally made goods, music and entertainment. Thu, Sep 20, 6-11 p.m. City Market Raleigh, Raleigh. citymarketraleigh.com.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19–SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17

VISIONARY APONTE: ART & BLACK FREEDOM

In Havana in 1812, José Antonio Aponte was accused of conspiring to incite a rebellion against slavery on the sugar plantations of Cuba. Authorities found a book in his house filled with paintings, drawings, collages, engravings, and words portraying a visionary historical and religious panorama—not to mention clues as to how a rebellion could be organized. Our only record of this book is Aponte’s description of it during his trial (available at the website of the Digital Aponte project, from which this exhibit springs). Afterward, he was hanged in public, his severed head placed in a cage at a main thoroughfare, and the book disappeared. In the generations since, Aponte’s name has been used as an insult by rulers and as a rallying cry by the ruled. For nine weeks following Friday’s opening reception, Power Plant Gallery explores the history and summons back the legendary book through visual art, conversations, screenings, performances, residencies, and workshops. —Brian Howe

POWER PLANT GALLERY, DURHAM 6–9 p.m. Fri., free, sites.duke.edu/visionaryaponte

José Bedia: “Jubilo de Aponte” PHOTO COURTESY OF POWER PLANT GALLERY

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RedBall Chapel Hill: Sculptural installation that changes location daily. Sep 20-26, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org.

Third Friday Muse Cocktail Quest Party With Durham Distillery: Launch of The Carrack’s Muse Cocktail Quest.

Durham Distillery cocktails, costumes, art, music, tarot readings. Fri, Sep 21, 6-9 p.m.

The Rigsbee, Durham.

Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom: Opening reception.

Wed, Sep 19, 6-9 p.m.

Power Plant Gallery, Durham.

Visionary Aponte: Lunchtime Artist Tour: Lunchtime tour with artists, co-curators Ada Ferrer and Édouard Duval-Carrié, and Duke collaborator Laurent Dubois. Thu, Sep 20, noon.

Power Plant Gallery, Durham.

Works of Heart: Art auction. $25. Sun, Sep 23, 5-8 p.m.

CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

Achromatopsia Panacea: The color blue teems with different emotional registers.

In author Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, for example, it embodies a seductive fluidity bound up in anxiety and loss. And in William Paul Thomas’s new exhibit, a steely blue edges into subjects’ faces—a reference to cyanosis, the discoloration that results from oxygen deprivation, a metaphor for the disenfranchisement of African Americans under white supremacy. Thomas’s work is primarily portraiture, and his oil paintings of men are squared so closely on their faces that you can almost feel their breath. This urgent intimacy is furthered by the fact that most of his subjects are friends or community members. His portraits are literally disembodied, but the effect is one of full embodiment: that which is seen, recognized, and carefully evoked. Thru Sep 30. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpreservation. com. —Sarah Edwards SPECIAL Alternative Images: EVENT Pleiades artists in conjunction with the Click!

Photography Festival. Thru Nov 5. Reception: Fri, Sep 21, 6-9 p.m. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com.

The Art of Travel: Pastel Paintings from the Estate of Elsie Dinsmore Popkin: Paintings by Elsie Dinsmore Popkin. Thru Oct 17. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

LAST Arte de la CHANCE Borinqueña: Comics creator and Marvel Entertainment writer Edgardo Miranda Rodriguez. Thru Sep 21. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Cameron Village Underground Photography Exhibit: This is going to sound crazy, but did you know there used to be an underground mall under

Cameron Village, and that it housed nightclubs that both incubated local rock and hosted legendary touring acts as diverse as R.E.M., Barry Manilow, Jimmy Buffet, and Chuck Mangione? In the late seventies and early eighties, before it was shut down because of concerns about safety, The Village Subway— aka the Raleigh Underground— roiled with nightclubs such as The Frog and Nightgown and The Pier, where Sonic Youth recorded the cover of “I Wanna Be Your Dog” that appears on Confusion Is Sex. This rich history, mostly lost beyond some hazily remembered blogs, is the subject of a new exhibit at The City of Raleigh Museum, which runs through January after a sold-out, wait-listed reception with photographer Chris Seward.

His dynamic black-andwhite photos from the scene capture now-famous names and local, proto-indie-rock bands such as The Fabulous Knobs and Arrogance in their primes. More than two hundred photos are featured in the exhibit, along with flyers, videos, and other artifacts. Thru Jan 31.

Raleigh City Museum, Raleigh. cityofraleighmuseum.org.

—Brian Howe LAST Celebration of CHANCE Colored Pencil: Featuring local members of the Colored Pencil Society of America. Thru Sep 25. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

LAST ColorFull: Paintings CHANCE by Chris Graebner and Lolette Guthrie, blown glass by Pringle Teetor.

Thru Sep 23. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Convergence: Austin Cathey, Shelly Hehenberger, and Luna Lee Ray. Thru Sep 30. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

LAST Expressions of Life: CHANCE Jenny Jones B, Amy Gardner Dean, and Hello Pottery. Thru Sep 20. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. litmusgallery.com.

Fall Corridor Exhibition: Artspace members Jason Bryant, Ryan Fox, Trish Klenow, Frank Kreacic, and Susie Silver.

Thru Oct 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Fast Fashion Fiasco: The High Price of Cheap: Joyce Watkins King. Thru Oct 2. Meredith College: Gaddy-Hamrick Art Center, Raleigh. meredith.edu.

Food of the Gods: New York photographer Lydia McCarthy.

Thru Oct 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

LAST Hotel Theory: CHANCE Around the time he stepped away from his twentyyear tenure as founding director of Raleigh gallery Lump, Bill Thelen struck out for an artist residency in a hotel in Oaxaca. He brought two books with him, Huysmans’s decadent Against Nature and Wayne Koestenbaum’s Hotel Theory, an experimental philosophy of hotel life. The result is Thelen’s own Hotel Theory. Consisting of drawings, collages, wall paintings, and a new fiber piece, the exhibit tracks an artist “immersed in the colors and textures of the Oaxacan landscape and facing middle age” as he observes the lines of history, place, and personal identity from a rented room, a space (like middle age) that, in its nowhere-ness, offers fresh vantages. Thru Sep 21. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Brian Howe Janks Archive: Research Triangle: Jerstin Crosby, Ben Kinsley, and Jessica Langley.

Thru Oct 6. Lump, Raleigh. www.lumpprojects.org.

Journey: New Paintings and Assemblages: Lisa Creed. Thru Sep 27. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com.

Kindred Lines: Brenon Day and Ophelia Staton. Thru Oct 15. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

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

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

Mothers, Daughters, and the Writer’s Life: Writing and photography by Elizabeth Matheson and Barbara Tyroler.

Thru Nov 23. Block Gallery, Raleigh.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective: 21c Museum Hotel unveils a packed portraiture exhibition

food & drink Bites of Bull City’s Celebratory Social: Four-year-anniversary party for Bites of Bull City blog.

Fri, Sep 21, 5 p.m. The Wine Feed, Durham.

Rachel Campbell’s painting can be seen in her exhibit with Rosalie Midyette at Craven Allen Gallery during a reception from 5–7 on September 22.

featuring work by forty contemporary artists, many of whom pay striking homage to classical portraiture in recasting their own images and experiences. Anthony Goicolea, a photographer interested in digital manipulation and themes of duality and the reclamation of self, nods to John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” with “Portrait in Negative of a Boy with Harmonica as Madame Gautreau.” Miguel Ángel Rojas’s series depicting a young, injured Colombian soldier in repose gracefully gestures toward Michelangelo’s “David.” The exhibition also includes works

by Titus Kaphar, Ori Gersht, and Zanele Muholi. Thru Mar 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Sarah Edwards Chelsea Raflo and Summer Rezeli: Regional Emerging Artist Residency exhibit. Thru Sep 29.

Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

Reflections of Elegance: Kenneth Paul Block & the Masters of Fashion Illustration: Original works by fashion illustrator Kenneth Paul Block. Thru Oct 20. Alamance Arts Council, Graham. artsalamance.com.

Robin Frohardt’s Plastic Bag Store: Count the number of

plastic bags it takes to make your lunch. There’s one around the bread and a second, brittle one inside. Why do the tomatoes always cling inside the green produce bag? The lettuce is in a Ziploc in the fridge, next to the last two wrapped slices of deli turkey. The sandwich goes in a sandwich bag; the chips go in another. Even if you reuse the grocery bag to take your lunch to work, it still went through eight plastic bags. Because they’re not biodegradable, they’re now a permanent part of our ecosystem. After researching the environmental impact of plastic bags, the visual artist, director, and puppet-maker Robin Frohardt is transforming Current into a convenience store where all of the products on the shelves—down to the fake sushi and chicken drumsticks—are made from local discarded plastic, creating what Frohardt calls “an endless cacophony of packaging.” Access to the exhibit is free, while ticketed nighttime performances use puppetry and interactive sets to weave a story about the future cultural impact of our eternal wrappings. $27.

Thru Sep 23. Current ArtSpace + Studio, Chapel Hill. www. carolinaperformingarts.org.

—Byron Woods

Seems Like Home: Raleigh landmarks and landscapes.

Thru Sep 29. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com.

Strange New World: Large-scale paintings by Jennifer Davis. Thru Oct 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

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

Zimbabwe Artist Project: The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist features original paintings and fabric art, mostly by female artists, who live in Weya, a town in Zimbabwe’s Makoni North district. The Zimbabwe Artist Project celebrates and supports the talent of these women—whose income from agriculture can be unreliable, and who often support whole households—by buying art from them directly to exhibit and resell in the U.S. Textiles are integral to Zimbabwe’s culture, and tapestry is a medium of meticulous visual storytelling. The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist, Chapel Hill.

—Sarah Edwards

Edible Campus: UNC’s Harvest Moon Celebration: Stories, songs, and spoken word by Vimala Rajendran (Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe), Spring Council (Mama Dip’s), Cecilia Polanco (So Good Pupusas), and others. Mon, Sep 24, 6 p.m.

UNC Campus: Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. ncbg.unc.edu.

Eleventh Annual Pepper Festival: Fifty chefs and brewers compete to create N.C.-pepper-themed dishes and beers. $5-$25. Sun, Sep 23, 3-6 p.m. The Great Meadow, Briar Chapel, Chapel Hill.

Feeling French!: French wine tasting festival. Thu, Sep 20, 6:30-8 p.m. The Wine Feed, Raleigh. thewinefeed.com.

Fourth Annual Hops for Hope: Local companies and twentyfive local breweries create their own beer and raise money for Children’s Flight of Hope. $25.

Sat, Sep 22, 2-6 p.m. Raleigh Beer Garden, Raleigh.

Jeddah’s Tea: Three-Day PopUp Teashop: Handcrafted iced tea blends from across the globe along with small bites from LOAF Bakery. Sep 20-22, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham. www.thepinhook.com.

Octoberfest 8: Familyfriendly street party on East Parrish Street. Sat, Sep 22, 3-10 p.m. Bull City Burger & Brewery, Durham. www. bullcityburgerandbrewery.com.

Omakase Dinners: With Satoshi Katakura. $65. Thru Sep 20, 5-9 p.m. Dashi, Durham.

Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding Dinner Theater: Interactive dinner theater including four-course meal by Irregardless Cafe & Catering. $88. Sat, Sep 22, 6 p.m. & Sat, Sep 29, 6 p.m.

The Glenwood Club, Raleigh. glenwoodclub.com.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

ASTRAL COSMICA: THE JOURNEY OF OPHIOCUS What lies beyond the realm of hubris? And who would be fearless or foolish enough to explore? Consider the ambitious Ophiocus, who aspired to nothing less than immortality among the constellations of the sky. When Earth-based feats of fortitude alone did not impress our planetary and celestial hosts, Ophiocus launched a direct attack upon their number, claiming it was homage to the Zodiac. When he grabs the Sun and gets burned—and remains undeterred from his goal—you kind of get the picture that this isn’t going to end well for him. Addled Muse Fire Theater, whose imaginative Purgatoire filled Central Park in April of last year with live music, aerial dance, acrobatics, and fire-breathing cirque artists, returns with an anime twist on a tale that teaches two clear lessons: Consent is always mandatory when touching a heavenly body, and immortality can be a blessing or a curse.

—Byron Woods

DURHAM CENTRAL PARK, DURHAM 8:30 p.m., $15–$25, addledmuse.com

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OPENING Applied Dance + Inspired Math: Black Box Dance Theatre and N.C. State mathematics professor Tye Lidman. $10-$18.

Sat, Sep 22, 7:30 p.m. & Sun, Sep 23, 2 p.m. NCSU Campus: Stewart Theatre, Raleigh.

Astral Cosmica: The Journey of Ophiochus: Addled Muse Fire Theater. $20-$25. Sat, Sep 22, 6 p.m. Durham Central Park, Durham. durhamcentralpark.org.

Frederick Douglass, An Interpretation: Play by Ira Knight. $25. Sat, Sep 22, 8 p.m.

Full Frame Theater, Durham.

Good Joke/Bad Joke Bingo: Stand-up comedy game show featuring Shawn Wickens. $12.

Wed, Sep 26, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Man’s Guide to Writing Love Letters: Play by Ira Knight. $25.

Sat, Sep 22, 8 p.m. Full Frame Theater, Durham.

Men on Boats: Play by Jaclyn Backhaus. $21-$23. Thu, Sep 20-Sun, Sep 30. NCSU Campus: Titmus Theatre, Raleigh.

Night of Laughter: Comedian, author, and former co-host of the Yolanda Adams Morning Show Marcus D. Wiley. $20-$25. Sat, Sep 22, 6 p.m.

Life International, Durham. lifeinternational.us.

Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and Chitrasena Dance Company: Samhara: Dance. $25. Sat, Sep 22, 8 p.m. & Sun, Sep 23, 3 p.m. Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham.

Peter Pan: Pittsboro Youth Theater. $10. Sat, Sep 22, 4 & 7 p.m. Sweet Bee Theater & Center for the Arts, Pittsboro.

Transactors Improv: “Space Force!” $10-$15. Sat, Sep 22, 8 p.m. Monkey Bottom Collaborative, Durham. themonkeybottom. blogspot.com.

Urban Dictionary Spelling Bee: Fri, Sep 21, 10 p.m. Durty Bull Brewing Company, Durham.

ONGOING 100% Comedy: Local comedians. $5. Third Fridays, 8 p.m. The Cotton Company, Wake Forest. thecottoncompany.net.

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

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark: A lacerating critique of racial representation in motion pictures set in a 1930s screwball comedy? If Pulitzerwinning playwright Lynn Nottage’s wicked 2011 satire stopped there, it would still be an unlikely achievement. But By the Way, Meet Vera Stark follows the title character over seventy years between 1933, when she’s a headstrong actor looking for a break in a Hollywood where African Americans are only cast in insulting, stereotypical roles, and 2003, when self-serving scholars are looking back at her career. Nottage is funny, even as she dips her pen in acid to lampoon a smarmy talk-show debacle and narcissistic academics. Tina Morris-Anderson directs and plays the title role. $15-$22.

North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. www.nract.org.

—Byron Woods Crimes of the Heart: Presented

by Forest Moon Theater. $13$15. Fri, Sep 21-Sun, Sep 23.

Wake Forest Renaissance Center, Wake Forest. wakeforestnc/renaissancecentre.aspx.

The Dangling Loafer: Comedy. $5. Fri, Sep 21, 8 & 9 p.m.

Kings, Raleigh. www.kingsraleigh.com.

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

Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m.

ComedyWorx, Raleigh. www.comedyworx.com.  In the Heart of the Fire: Even the smallest amount of fire has power; the light from a single candle can be seen from more than a mile and a half away. Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s nineteenth annual large-scale summer pageant is a broad-ranging view of different aspects of this elemental engine of transformation. The sequences scripted by cofounders Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger include a socially conscious examination of flame’s fundamental dichotomy of creation and destruction, and a colorful, choreographed congress of supernatural fire-based creatures. Dance maker Tommy Noonan builds from an initial quartet of small, dancing flames wearing vivid yellow, orange, and red costumes, gradually joined by two smiling fire demons that

fling sparks from fingers tipped with yellow tendrils of flame.

These are joined by a firebird, fire monkeys from Chinese astrology, and the eight puppeteers required to animate a breathtaking, two-story-tall, fire-breathing dragon, which leers down upon the front rows before venturing into them during its serpentine dance. $8-$15. Thru Sep 23. UNC Campus: Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. www.paperhand.org.

—Byron Woods Improv at the Varsity: Standup, sketch, and improv comedy. $6. Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.

Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. improvatthevarsity.com.

Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood: The times are dark. A greedy autocrat has taken power, instituting taxes that favor the wealthy while slowly starving the working class. Indeed, twelfth-century England was no paradise for the non-nobility, as Richard Lionheart waged a disastrous crusade abroad and his corrupt brother John milked the monarchy and his countrymen for all they were worth. Such times call for a hero, and legend still has it that one came forth: Robin of Loxley, friend to the powerless, partisan to the absent king, and sworn enemy of the usurper on the throne and his henchman, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Ken Ludwig takes a lighter look at the fabled British champion in his swashbuckling 2017 comedy. Guest artist Joshua David Robinson plays the title character. Christine Mirzayan is Maid Marian. Ray Dooley and Jeffrey Blair Cornell are the heavies. Red Clay Rambler Jack Herrick contributes an original score. $15+. Various times.

PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org.

—Byron Woods The Six Pack Standup Show: Monthly comedy showcase.

Featuring Tank Smith, Reid Pegram, Brett Williams, Benjamin Malone, Byron Johnson, and Aaron Ransom. $5. Wed, Sep 26, 8 p.m. North Street Beer Station, Raleigh. northstreetbeerstation.com.

The Sunday Show: Stand-up

by Brian Deans with Tareq Salameh, Caroline Smith, Lucas Gumbrecht, Jody Oakley, Bry Burguesa. Sun, Sep 23, 8 p.m.

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FRIDAY MUSIC MOJO: STOP MAKING SENSE SPECIAL SHOWINGS Image Control: The Visible Spectrum: Tue, Sep 25, 7 p.m.

Rubenstin Arts Center - Film Theater, Durham.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20–SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

BLACKBURN FESTIVAL: THE MACKEY SESSIONS

Point Break: Ackland Film Forum. $7. Tue, Sep 25, 7 p.m.

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

As a poet, novelist, editor, and critic, Duke creative writing professor and Academy of American Poets chancellor Nathaniel Mackey has built a leading national reputation with his potent triangulation of modernist metaphysics, African mythology, and African-American music. The National Book Award– winner has created a poetics deep and rich enough to become a site for others to explore, as the Duke English department recognizes in this three-day festival centered on myth and music in Mackey’s work. On Thursday at 6:00 p.m., on the mezzanine at The Durham Hotel, distinguished poets Fred Moten and Ed Roberson give an opening-night reading. Friday features two daytime workshops at The Durham, followed at 8:00 p.m. by a keynote reading by Mackey with musical accompaniment at The Ruby. The festivities conclude back at The Durham at noon on Saturday with another music-reading event and a farewell brunch. —Brian Howe

Saturday Fright Night: The Shining: Screening. $10. Wed, Sep 19, 9:30 p.m. Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. www.thechelseatheater.com.

The Ultimate Willy Wonka Party: Screening followed

by Q and A with two of the original child stars. $20. Thu, Sep 20, 7, 7:30 & 8 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

Wanda: New 4K Restoration.

Thu, Sep 20, 7 p.m. Rubenstin Arts Center - Film Theater, Durham.

THE DURHAM HOTEL | THE RUBY, DURHAM Various times, free, www.english.duke.edu

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READINGS & SIGNINGS James Benn: With Solemn Graves. Sat, Sep 22, 11 a.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Will Oldham: “Lecture One: Making Songs.” $10-$25. Wed, Sep 26, 7 p.m. SoundPure, Durham. www.SoundPure.com.

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Ruth Phillips: Lectures in the History of Art series. Wed, Sep 26, 6 p.m. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Tiffany Chung: Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Tue, Sep 25, 5:30 p.m. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

RedBall Artist Talk: Kurt Perschke. Tue, Sep 25, 4 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

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Warbler Migration in the Triangle: Bird photographer Mary Parker Sonis. Mon, Sep 24, 7:30 p.m. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, Chapel Hill. www.binkleychurch.org.

Frank Warren: Featuring the creator of community mail-art project PostSecret. $30. Thu, Sep 20, 7 p.m. NCSU Campus: Stewart Theatre, Raleigh.

Fahrenheit 11/9—Michael Moore steals some fire from his most famous film and turns it on Trump’s election. Rated R. The House with a Clock in Its Walls—Torture-porn-meister Eli Roth (Hostel) has made a children’s film. That is all.

Rated PG. Life Itself—Dan Fogelman’s rom-dram entwines several generations of couples in New York and Spain. Rated R.

The Chelsea Theater in Chapel Hill is trying out two new themed weekend series, Friday Music Mojo and Saturday Fright Night. The latter series trots out a reliable horror staple this week with The Shining, but we’d be keener to see Stop Making Sense on the big screen, if only because we see it there less frequently. Jonathan Demme’s formtranscending 1984 concert film has a brilliant build, as the other Talking Heads gradually join David Byrne on stage in Hollywood and his suit gradually grows to an absurd size. The film’s influence on the incoming generation of music-video auteurs, from Michel Gondry to Spike Jonze, couldn’t be more evident; Pauline Kael said Demme’s vision of a visionary band was close to perfection.

—Brian Howe

THE CHELSEA THEATER, CHAPEL HILL 9:30 p.m., $10, www.thechelseatheater.org

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

The tone is so agreeable you hardly notice the rickety script. Rated PG-13. ½ Christopher Robin— After you get used to them being 3-D plush toys, Winnie the Pooh and friends charm, but Christopher Robin is the least interesting thing in this movie. Rated PG.  Crazy Rich Asians— This Asian-American-led rom-com is an undeniable cultural milestone, but put that aside and it’s uttery standard fare. Rated PG-13.

½ Eighth Grade—A brilliant first act and a more staid second split the difference in internet star Bo Burnham’s film about young life online. Rated R. ½ Incredibles 2—Dialing up socially progressive themes fourteen years after the original, Pixar’s sequel is fun, funny, and timely but not quite transcendent.

Rated PG. ½ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom—Murky morals, jump scares, and diminishing returns of digital dinos weigh on this once-mighty franchise.

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