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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH VOL. 33, NO. 52 6 New cops in Apex, which has one-tenth of Raleigh’s population, earn more than new Raleigh cops.

8 African-American students make up 24 percent of Wake schools’ population. But they account for more than 70 percent of school-based juvenile-court referrals.

14 Reopening without its big-name chef but inheriting all the hype, Standard Foods shines.

18 The members of Raleigh’s Suppressive Fire haven’t ever been to war, but their music sure has.

20 Local artists are hard to get to know; a new podcast called Don’t You Lie to Me aims to change that.

23 Patriots Day’s cinematic depiction of the Boston Marathon bombing sinks in a welter of Wahlberg.

25 An abuser’s past catches up to him in Blackbird, but justice proves elusive.

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backtalk The IQ of a Dog’s Butthole Last week, to welcome new governor Roy Cooper to Raleigh, we published a list of five things we’d like to see him do during his first term [“Roy Cooper vs. the World”], despite the handcuffs placed on him by the very Republican legislature. Paula A. Wolf writes that there were some “glaring oversights.”

“Women’s reproductive freedom has been trampled upon by the GOP since they got the majority in 2010,” Wolf points out. “Mandatory scripts for doctors; transvaginal ultrasound; medically unnecessary building requirements; taxpayer funding of medically inaccurate information by anti-choice ‘clinics’ and defunding Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy prevention programs, to name a few. Access to health care is blockaded by not expanding Medicaid.

“Public schools have been seriously underfunded while the GOP hands over more and more of our tax money to private and parochial schools that are not accountable for it. These schools are free to discriminate and teach their own flat-Earth version of science. They eliminated the nationally recognized and wildly successful Teaching Fellows Program.

“The GOP brags about how they cut taxes, but those cuts only benefit big business and the wealthy. In point of fact, the new tax on some services (e.g., auto repair) unevenly hurts the middle class and the poor. The GOP continues to draw ‘surgical and precise’ racist districts, falsely repeat the bogus claim of voter fraud, and put up obstacles designed to disenfranchise minority voters, seniors, and young people.”

John Quintero, meanwhile, says that “what is extraordinary about the list is its omission of any reference to the economic prospects of working North Carolinians. While North Carolina’s economy has improved since the worst part of the recession, that recovery has bypassed most North Carolinians, who, on any number of indicators, are worse off now than when the recession started. Moreover, current patterns, if left unaddressed, are unlikely to generate meaningful improvements in

employment opportunities, wages, household incomes, and living standards for a broad swath of North Carolinians.

“The omission of economic concerns also is extraordinary coming as it does on the heels of an election in which anger and despair over deteriorating economic prospects led many people to sit out the election or take a flyer on radical candidates. How, then, can economic issues not be considered anything other than essential to a meaningful progressive policy agenda here in North Carolina?”

“Power certainly did not devolve to the people under McCrory and the NCGOP,” writes cityfox. “The right wing was too busy undermining the U.S. and state Constitution. The General Assembly moved to enshrine itself forever without a public hearing or input. Roy Cooper must challenge Phil Berger and Tim Moore and the rest of the GOP cabal. They are kleptocrats who are supporting a boorish, uncouth autocrat who believes he can set policy with tweets.”

“Left-liberals learn absolutely nothing,” counters commenter JK 1. “1) The only meaningful priorities are the two LAST on your list, and 2) exactly where on this list is the material welfare of working people? This has really become a completely worthless rag.”

Thanks, JK! But Twilight Zone wins the week in terms of hating on us: “What the hell is wrong with you losers? This list is so wrong. You really want ‘immigrants and refugees’ here in our state? ‘Go on the offensive on LGBTQ rights’? What about the rights of every person who lives and works in this state?

LGBTQs have the same rights as every other North Carolinian and American. Why do they need special rights? They are not special.

“You are all a bunch of idiots with IQs of a dog’s butthole. Get a life or get the hell out of America.”

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triangulator +MIND THE GAP

Another day, another political battle in North Carolina.

Last week, Governor Cooper formally moved to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, which would lead to some five hundred thousand low-income residents gaining access to health care and might, as former Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin told the INDY last year, help tamp down further premium increases on the state’s (federally run) health insurance exchange. Next week, after a ten-day public comment period concludes, but just before the Obama administration heads for the exits, the state will submit a request to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which will no doubt approve it posthaste.

Viola! Working-class North Carolinians who had previously fallen into the coverage gap—too rich for Medicaid, too poor for Obamacare subsidies—will have health insurance, and most of the cost will be picked up by the federal government.

Of course, this presumes that Obamacare is still a thing six months from now. And it also presumes that Cooper’s unilateral action holds up against the inevitable lawsuit.

North Carolina Republicans’ antipathy toward Medicaid expansion is wellestablished. Soon after former governor Pat McCrory took office in 2013, the GOPrun legislature passed a law forbidding the state from running its own health insurance exchange—forcing it to rely on the feds— and prohibiting the governor from expanding Medicaid without the legislature’s approval.

But that’s just what Cooper did.

It’s an aggressive move for a newbie gov who won office by a scant ten thousand votes, and it’s already been met by equally aggressive resistance: “Just days into his term as governor,” Senate leader Phil Berger scoffed in a statement last week, “Roy Cooper already intends to violate his oath of office with a brazenly illegal attempt to force a massive, budget-busting Obamacare expansion on North Carolina taxpayers.”

The “massive, budget-busting” part of Berger’s condemnation seems a stretch.

Currently Medicaid covers about 1.8 million residents and costs about $14 billion a year. The feds pick up two-thirds of that tab.

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MEDICAID EXPANSION,

BY THE NUMBERS

$600 million: Amount per year Medicaid expansion will cost the state $21 billion: The federal govern-

ment’s contribution to N.C. Medicaid expansion through 2020

500,000: Estimated number of N.C. residents who will be covered 1.8 million: Number of N.C. residents currently enrolled in Medicaid

43,000: Number of jobs the Cone Health Foundation estimates expansion will add in N.C.

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GOP-led states like Ohio and Indiana—to another half-million people will cost about $6 billion a year; under the ACA, the feds will pay 95 percent of that amount until 2020 and 90 percent afterward. Without the expansion, those federal dollars would go somewhere else.

Which is why Cooper labeled the move “North Carolina common sense.” “We can receive between $3 billion and $4 billion to pay for care that hospitals and other providers now give away,” his statement read. “That will create jobs, bolster our hospitals, could save some rural hospitals and work toward more stable private insurance premiums.”

Also, according to a 2016 report from the N.C. Poverty Research Fund, as many as 1,145 fewer people will die each year because they lack access to health care.

And as much as conservatives harp on the “budget-busting” rhetoric, the data tells a different story: multiple studies have found that Medicaid expansion actually benefits state economies. A 2015 analysis by Deloitte Consulting and the University of Louisville’s Urban Studies Institute, for instance, found that Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion will add more than forty thousand jobs and inject $30 billion into the state’s GDP. A 2014 study from the Cone Health Foundation anticipated similar job gains in North Carolina.

In other words, it will pay for itself.

But the “brazenly illegal” part of Berger’s statement merits further examination. The 2013 law states, in plain English, that “the State will not expand the State’s Medicaid eligibility under the Medicaid expansion provided in the Affordable Care Act … unless directed to do so by the General Assembly.”

The General Assembly most certainly has not directed him to do so.

Last week, Cooper said the 2013 law “does not apply” to his plan because the law impeded his ability to “look out for the health of the people.” Just saying that, however, doesn’t make it so.

+COPS WANT CASH

At last week’s Raleigh City Council meeting, the city’s first responders renewed their calls for raises—and once again, Mayor Nancy McFarlane stressed the need to wait.

Raleigh Police Protective Association president Matt Cooper told the council that, in the past year, sixty-three sworn RPD officers—the police force has an authorized strength of eight hundred officers—had left the department, with about a quarter of them going to other law enforcement agencies, and half of those going to other agencies within the county.

“Lack of pay, along with the belief that the city will not cross over to compensate us in the future, is a main factor in why officers are deciding to leave the Raleigh Police Department,” Cooper said. The starting pay for city cops is $35,310, according to a WRAL analysis, lower than every other municipality in Wake County.

Tyler Pierce of Raleigh Firefighters United echoed Cooper’s sentiment: “The current pay system provides a very bleak outlook for those who want to make this profession a career in Raleigh. I know you can draft a budget that is both fiscally responsible to the citizens and provide fair pay to public safety employees.”

The starting salary for Raleigh firefighters is just $32,673. By comparison, Cary starts its firefighters at $35,984. Even in Apex, whose population is one-tenth that of Raleigh’s, firefighters start at $35,880 per year.

In June, council members, led by David Cox, nearly provided a one-time bonus to raise first responders’ starting pay to “market standard,” about $40,000 per year for police officers and $36,000 for firefighters.

That motion—which McFarlane opposed on the basis that “the decision is best made in the context of the entire organization”— failed 4–3.

She wanted to hold off until the city had completed its “pay study,” which will help the city determine how its employees’ pay compares to similar markets around the country.

The $150,000 study is scheduled to conclude by the end of the month. Even so, the council is nonetheless likely to have another fight on its hands, as Cooper noted that the study sought to merely bring city employees up to the fiftieth percentile of comparable markets—and no more.

“Fifty percent is not an acceptable level.

Fifty percent is only average,” Cooper said.

“This plan will not attract quality applicants, nor will it reward and retain the excellent officers we have.”

+UNEQUAL JUSTICE

Despite opposition from two members and an abstention from its chairman, the Durham Human Relations Commission voted to adopt (pending a few minor changes) its review of, and proposed path forward for, the Durham County Detention Facility and, more generally, a local justice system the

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Wildin Acosta spoke before the HRC last week. PHOTO BY ALEX HRC claims favors whites. The commission began its effort several months after twentynine-year-old Matthew McCain was found dead in his prison cell in January 2016.

Among the recommendations that will soon be sent to both the Durham City Council and County Board of Commissioners are calls to eliminate the cash bail system, halt cooperation with immigration officials, scale back video-only visitation measures approved by county commissioners in 2013, and create

DCSO officials weren’t the only ones who felt the report misrepresented the facts. HRC chairman Phil Seib said he was uncomfortable with what he perceived as the report accusing the Sheriff’s Office of “malice.” And commissioner Richard Ford was concerned that the HRC could “just be seen as a megahorn for certain social justice programs.”

But commissioner Ricky Hart, who is African American, drew the strongest reaction when he suggested that allegations of racial bias within the local justice system were overstated. “In the last forty-five days, how many homicides occurred in Durham?”

Hart asked. “Six. What was the race of those [involved]?” In other words, if blacks commit crimes at an outsize rate, there will be more blacks behind bars.

This prompted a swift rebuke from Southern Coalition for Social Justice attorney Dave Hall, who pointed out that if the cops patrolled rich, white neighborhoods with the same enthusiasm with which they patrol poor black ones, the data wouldn’t be so askew.

Hart and Ford would later vote against approving the report, and Seib abstained.

But thanks to the other members of the board, the HRC’s recommendations will, in the near future, reach local officials. triangulator@indyweek.com

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other things, provide oversight at the jail.

The Durham County Sheriff’s Office pushed back against the HRC’s claims that video-only visitation was adopted only to turn a profit. “The Sheriff’s Office has no plans to assess a fee for video visitation at the facility,” says spokeswoman Tamara Gibbs.

Gibbs adds, however, that officials are considering whether to offer “remote at-home visitation,” which would carry a charge.

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AFTER A COP THREW A HIGH SCHOOLER TO THE GROUND IN ROLESVILLE LAST WEEK, ACTIVISTS ARE ASKING IF N.C. SCHOOLS EVEN NEED SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS

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h shit!” cries a voice from nowhere as the shaky cell phone footage begins. A split second later, a young African-American girl in a pink shirt rises above her classmates before she’s thrown like a rag doll to the floor. She looks dazed, maybe momentarily unconscious. The police officer who threw her pulls her up by one arm and walks her out of the shot. It’s over in less than a minute.

Within hours, this footage of Rolesville police officer Ruben De Los Santos, who has been the school resource officer in Rolesville High for four years, and fifteen-year-old Jasmine Darwin made the rounds on social media last Tuesday. Jasmine and her family soon retained a lawyer, who told media outlets that Jasmine had a concussion. Following the incident—which was preceded by a fight between Jasmine’s sister and another student—De Los Santos was placed on paid administrative leave, and the Wake County Public Schools System said it would review its agreement with the county’s police departments to provide school resource officers, which is set to expire this year.

Last Tuesday’s incident wasn’t the first time a Wake County school has come under fire after actions taken by SROs. In 2013, for example, Enloe High School made national headlines when seven students and a parent were arrested by an SRO after a water balloon fight at the end of the school year, an incident characterized as a senior prank.

This and other high-profile incidents led to changes in the memorandum of understanding between Wake schools and local police departments. Whereas before, the role of SROs was ill-defined, now the agreement makes clear that disciplinary issues are the purview of school administrators. In addition, the school system instructed the agencies to report data on student referrals to the criminal justice system.

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When his organization started working with Wake schools in 2009, says Jon Powell, director of Campbell Law School’s Juvenile Justice Project and Restorative Justice Clinic, which helps divert students from the court system, “It was kind of a double whammy, where the schools were long-term suspending [students] and officers were referring them to the court.”

That’s still happening. From July 2014 through June 2015, SROs made 850 refer-

rals to the court system, 48 percent of which were referred to adult court (in North Carolina, unlike every other state, sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds are automatically treated as adults). Twenty-three of these were Rolesville students; sixteen of them were sent to adult court. Of those twenty-three, nineteen were African American.

This is a common theme.

In 2014, a complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of

eight African-American students (seven of whom had a disability) saying that the WCPSS’s “over-reliance on unregulated school policing practices” leads to “routine violation of students’ educational and constitutional rights.”

After Tuesday’s incident, a coalition led by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, which had complained to the Department of Education in 2010 about disparities in suspensions and court referrals for AfricanAmerican students, sent another letter to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights reporting that, in the 2015–16 school year, AfricanAmerican students made up 24 percent of Wake students but 73 percent of schoolbased referrals to juvenile court.

“The WCPSS’ pattern and practice of discriminating on the basis of race in school discipline has already been well-established beyond a preponderance of the evidence,” the letter reads.

According to the WCPSS, there are sixty-four SROs in the county; the Rolesville Police Department and the Sheriff’s Office are two of eleven police forces, including those in Raleigh and Cary, enrolled in an agreement with the WCPSS to place officers in schools. Part of that agreement mandates a forty-hour SRO training course, as well as crisis-intervention training. But Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, an organization that trains SROs all over the country, says that North Carolina is one of the few states that doesn’t use the NASRO for its training.

“In the last fifteen months, there have been five high-profile instances similar to this case,” Canady says. “In every single one of those, the officer hasn’t taken our training, been a member, or attended a conference.”

Not a lot of data exists on SRO programs— a 2009 study on one Tennessee district found that schools with SROs had fewer assault and weapons arrests but also saw

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a “troubling” spike in arrests for disorderly conduct—but there are plenty of recommendations for potential reforms to make the system more equitable for minority students. Rukiya Dillahunt, a retired teacher and education justice advocate, says schools need more guidance counselors and social workers to help find the root cause of behavior problems. Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison thinks the WCPSS, the thirteenthlargest school district in the United States, should have its own police force.

Powell has another idea. “I really wish Wake would experiment with taking officers out of the school and evaluate the same kind of data with officers out of schools,” he says. “I think we might see a reduction in arrests and out-of-school suspensions.”

Those referrals, he points out, can lead to criminal records that ruin students’ lives.

But this solution begets new problems; namely, who’s going to deal with kids who get out of control?

“We always try to de-escalate it, but as far as getting into a physical alteration, we would never encourage teachers to put hands on students,” says Mark Jewell, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators. Jewell says that in “most school environments, there’s a positive relationship between SROs and students and teachers.”

He thinks the officers provide a net benefit to schools.

Harrison agrees. “With the atmosphere like it is, we probably need some officers in school, unfortunately,” he says.

But he notes that if school officials want to avoid damaging a student’s record permanently, they should think about whether or not an incident requires police involvement.

“Once you call us, once we start an investigation, what are we gonna do? It’s a matter of people understanding that if they call us, we gotta do our job.”

Even so, Powell says, he would prefer that administrators, rather than law enforcement, deal with fights, utilizing tools like in-school suspension rather than the legal system.

“We instituted this huge, all-encompassing policy as a response [to the Columbine High School massacre in 1999]. That’s usually not good policy,” Powell says. “A lot of kid behaviors have just turned into crime because we have law enforcement working in schools and they’re trained to arrest.” pblest@indyweek.com

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Autopsy results appear to contradict the Durham Police Department’s account of Frank Clark’s death

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he sun is shining, but it’s a cool November afternoon, 55 degrees, so he’s dressed in layers: a black insulated vest over a yellow thermal over a white T-shirt, jeans over shorts over boxer briefs. His closely shaved head is covered by a ball cap.

He has $26 and a pair of brass knuckles in his pocket. The pack of Newports tucked away in his jeans has been opened.

The condom next to it hasn’t.

His clothing conceals tattoos that cover his arms, hands, back, and torso: a masked figure holding a revolver, skulls, playing cards, a dollar sign, an anarchy symbol, a hand with an extended middle finger, guns, the words “PAIN” and “Fear What You Don’t Know.”

Beyond the ink, however, there isn’t much about the thirty-four-year-old that’s physically imposing. He stands only five feet nine and weighs just 149 pounds.

A smile would reveal that the middle six teeth along his bottom jaw are covered with a yellow metal grill. But it’s the small spade tattoo on his face that makes him unmistakable to those who know him. And in Durham’s McDougald Terrace, everyone knows Frank “Scooter Bug” Clark.

So, too, do the police officers assigned to many of the city’s low-income neighborhoods.

Durham Police Department Master Officer Charles Barkley and Officer Monte Southerland have a rapport with Clark,

gunshot. Southerland fell to the ground.

Barkley fired his weapon. Nowhere in the report police chief C.J. Davis released a week after the shooting does it say Clark fled.

“The autopsy report does not reveal anything that we did not generally already know and believe,” says Clark family attorney Dave Hall, a lawyer with the nonprofit Southern Coalition for Social Justice.

“Specifically, that Frank was shot from behind while fleeing the police.”

As the State Bureau of Investigation continues its probe, local residents grow more skeptical of the officers involved— and the DPD’s version of events—with each release of new information. On its own, Hall says, the autopsy should make Barkley the object of intense scrutiny.

But the autopsy also calls into question the veracity of the officers’ version of events, as recounted in that initial report (so far, the only document the city has

“I THINK THE SYSTEM IS DIRTY, IT’S CROOKED. ” that Barkley is the shooter and that he shot Clark in the back as he ran. Clark lies lifeless on the ground in front of Building 60, having succumbed to gunshot wounds to the back of his thigh and the top of his head.

According to the autopsy report released last week by the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the shot to the thigh shattered Clark’s femur, making it plausible that the wound forced him to fall toward the ground, leaving the top left of his head exposed to a second, fatal bullet, which the autopsy indicates was fired at a downward angle. While the autopsy could not determine which bullet was fired first, this theory aligns with descriptions of the shooting by several purported eyewitnesses, as well as a postmortem photograph of Clark reviewed by the INDY. The DPD, however, is pushing a different narrative. In its telling, Barkley, Southerland, and Officer Christopher Goss approached Clark and were having a conversation with him when Clark reached for his waistband. A struggle ensued. The officers heard what they believed to be a

released on the shooting). And it adds fuel to the argument, made by skeptics of the DPD’s story, that, while details about Clark’s past will continue to be dissected in newspaper stories, the officers’ records and past transgressions are wrongly being protected by City Hall and hidden from public view.

“If they didn’t have anything to hide, they would give the public anything that they wanted to know,” says Shelia Alston, a former police officer who accused the officers involved in Clark’s death of excessive force in 2014. “I think that the system is dirty, it’s crooked.”

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he DPD’s report suggests that Barkley, Southerland, and Goss, in their roles as members of the department’s Violent Incident Response Team, were circling McDougald Terrace on November 22 as part of a standard patrol. There is no mention of an incident they were responding to, no transcript of a 911 call, no indication of a resident seeking help. Instead, Southerland “saw a man near Building 60 and got out of his patrol car to speak with him,”

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residents say. Perhaps more important, Clark knows them. He’s familiar with what dozens of residents would later characterize as the officers’ mistreatment of the neighborhood’s impoverished AfricanAmerican citizens, particularly those, like Clark, with criminal records.

So when Barkley’s unmarked gray Dodge Charger slow-rolls around McDougald on November 22, the crowd gathered in between several of the Durham Housing Authority buildings scatters. Clark, who has painkillers and cocaine in his system—and who witnesses say has already fled from the car once, when it was on the other side of the block—is now confronted

by Barkley’s Charger, another unmarked car, and a DPD cruiser. He turns to flee once again.

Southerland gets out of his car first, then Barkley. Moments later, shots ring out. Some self-described witnesses say it was four shots, others five. But they agree

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the report states.

In the six weeks since the shooting, the DPD hasn’t elaborated. Spokesman Wil Glenn has declined to comment, citing an ongoing investigation; multiple requests to interview the officers involved have been denied.

The DPD’s report, however, takes note of the unanswered question about what prompted the cops to approach Clark that afternoon. “The investigations are ongoing and, as they develop, are expected to uncover details which have yet to be determined such as how the encounter evolved,” it says.

But why, if the police weren’t about to bust Clark for committing a crime, if they just wanted to chat, would Clark instigate a struggle? The DPD might point to, as its reports points out, the “loaded Smith & Wesson 9 mm handgun found lying on the ground next to Clark” or the “white rocklike substance wrapped in a plastic bag” that “fell out of Clark’s pants” while he was being treated by emergency medical personnel or even the plastic bag containing a “green leafy substance” that medical examiners found in the shorts under Clark’s jeans.

This raises yet another question: Why would Clark have stuffed marijuana under his outer layer of clothing but allowed the cocaine to be more accessible? “Yeah. That makes sense, right?” says a self-described friend of Clark who asked to remain anonymous. “Go to lengths to hide the misdemeanor and leave the felony just chillin’.”

It’s possible that Clark, who has been arrested on numerous narcotics charges, was going to sell the cocaine and thus needed it at the ready. Some McDougald residents, however, believe the cops planted it after the shooting.

And Hall, the attorney, isn’t sold on the notion that the gun found next to Clark was his or that it had been fired. At a press conference November 29, he demanded that law enforcement test the firearm for fingerprints and DNA and that gunshot residue tests be conducted on Clark’s hands. The autopsy made no note of residue on Clark’s corpse, and the DPD has released no information about whether a shell casing from the shot Barkley says he heard was ever found.

“Where is this mysterious gunshot?”

Hall asks.

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THE PATH OF THE BULLETS The autopsy could not determine which bullet struck Frank Clark first—the one that entered the back of his right thigh or the kill shot to the top left of his head.

One bullet struck Clark’s head, entering the skull and fragmenting into the brain tissue and neck.

This shot was fatal.

Another bullet entered the rear of Clark’s right thigh, shattering his femur and ending up just below the skin on the front side of the right leg.

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to why the DPD suspended Southerland in March 2016 and Barkley in 2014. In addition, files from an internal investigation into the actions taken against the Alston family by Barkley, Southerland, and Goss in 2014, when the three were accused of excessive force after intervening in a nonviolent family argument [“Disorderly Conduct,” December 14], could shed light into the mentality of men numerous Durham

residents have accused of less-than-professional behavior.

As a former cop, Alston says, “If I want to let people know the truth, I would say, ‘Yeah. Let me go on TV. Let me talk to everybody. I’ve got nothing to hide.’ So in this case, I think it’s a cover-up.”

Ian Mance, another SCSJ attorney, says the Alston incident—in which the officers allegedly threw Alston to the ground and

tased her son and fifteen-year-old grandson—should have been enough to ensure that they were taken off the streets.

“We have had many conversations with the city of Durham, specifically the Durham Police Department, about these very officers, and we stated in no uncertain terms a year and a half ago that we believed these officers represented a threat to this community,” Mance says.

But those records will likely remain under seal, as North Carolina is one of just eighteen states that exempt law enforcement records from public review, according to a 2010 National Association of Counties report.

However, most of those states, including North Carolina, allow for the release of such documents if, as city manager Tom Bonfield has put it, doing so is deemed “essential to maintaining public confidence in the administration of city services.”

Bonfield doesn’t think Clark’s shooting qualifies. In a statement issued hours after the autopsy report was released, Bonfield said that, based on a review by top city officials, “I have concluded at this time it is premature to request the City Council to authorize the release of further … information. It is important that the investigation continues to be conducted in a fair and impartial way for the benefit of the public as well as the police … involved.”

City council member Jillian Johnson disagrees. In an email sent to Bonfield at the end of November, she said she was “struggling to understand” why the officers involved in the Clark shooting were still employed by the DPD. “I understand there may be legal implications to reviewing prior employment actions, but frankly I’d rather settle some lawsuits [than] have another person killed by our police department.” (Johnson told the INDY Monday that she still believes the personnel files should be released.)

Bonfield’s standards for a “fair and impartial” process don’t apply to Clark.

His extensive criminal record, which dates back to at least 2002 and includes mostly drug charges (many of them dismissed), is fair game—and has been prominently noted by nearly every news media outlet that has covered the shooting, as were the drugs that were in his system when he died.

“They always want to make it seem like it’s the victim’s fault, not the officer’s fault,” Alston says. “If they’ve got nothing to hide, what’s the problem? kfine@indyweek.com

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Pay It Forward

YEARS AGO, DURHAM NONPROFITS HELPED MIRIAM VALLE FIND HER PATH. NOW, THE SCHEWEL AWARD WINNER IS HELPING OTHERS DO THE SAME

BY SAYAKA MATSUOKA

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iriam Valle’s childhood growing up in Durham isn’t something she looks back at fondly.

Her father was an abusive alcoholic, she says, and her mother was unable to protect her family. Valle says she was molested twice by family friends. She fell into depths of despair that led her to self-harm and eventually try to take her own life.

“I was so ready to die,” says Valle. “I wrote a letter to my parents saying sorry, and I told God I was ready to go.”

But Valle survived her suicide attempt. And then she found a reason to live: at thirteen, she became pregnant with her fifteen-year-old boyfriend’s child, whom she named Jenny. This sudden, life-changing development propelled Valle to leave her home in search of a better life.

She lived with her boyfriend’s family in Burlington and Durham until she was sixteen. After that came complicated custody battles and a fight to stay in school as a young, single mother.

Valle remembers feeling lost and discouraged, but she says she was saved by folks within the local nonprofit community who put her on the right path by helping her get her GED and providing her with work.

Fifteen years later, Valle herself has worked her way through the Durham nonprofit sector and has been named the winner of the 2016 Schewel Award, which each year honors a Triangle resident under the age of thirty-five who does tremendous work for a local nonprofit.

Actually, Valle doesn’t just work for one nonprofit; she works for four.

After she had her daughter, Valle was assigned a social worker and a tutor to help her through school. She began taking classes at the Durham Literacy Center, where she met Lucy Haagen, who would soon become one of the several mentors in Valle’s life.

“She encouraged me to keep going when I wanted to quit,” says Valle. “She told me to go to college.”

Valle and Haagen forged a close relationship, and Valle eventually began working for Haagen part-time, helping Haagen with a number of odd jobs and businesses that Haagen ran, including selling books online and making scarves. In the years that followed, Valle passed her exams and finally got her GED in 2005 after passing her math exam. Soon afterward, Haagen recommended Valle for an internship at Durham Congregations in Action, a faith-based nonprofit committed to bridging the gaps between different communities, which led Valle to take training courses at the nonprofit Year of Opportunity for Durham Teens, to prepare her for the position. The latter nonprofit, which later merged with another organization to become Partners for Youth Opportunity, is where Valle got her start in the nonprofit world.

“It’s where I learned all of the skills needed to make it, like public speaking, professional dress, and time management,” says Valle.

Valle still works at both DCIA and PYO, where she crunches numbers as an accountant and serves as liaison to the Hispanic community. Valle also works at two other Durham nonprofits: Rebound, 2016 Alternatives for Youth, an organization that helps suspended students reconnect with their schools, and the Coalition for Peace and Justice, which advocates for peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Valle, now twenty-nine, says she works about sixty hours per week, dividing her time as a part-time employee at all four organizations, all while raising her fifteen-year-old daughter. And despite the hard work and long hours, Valle says she feels at home in Durham’s nonprofit community, because it was the place that accepted her in her time of need.

“They formed who I am now,” says Valle. “I hold nonprofit communities close to my heart, because at one point I was a student that needed help and guidance, and they were there for me.”

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By giving her time and energy, Valle says she’s able to pay back the community that helped her succeed. She used to feel bad about receiving help—noting the college fund that was set up for her daughter and the times when friends helped take care of Jenny while Valle went through school—but then a mentor told her that the way to pay everyone back was to do the same for others.

Eventually, Valle hopes to start her own nonprofit that will help girls facing similar obstacles to the ones she confronted fifteen years ago.

“I want to give them the opportunities and experiences to succeed like they did for me,” says Valle. “I want to show them that there is a different lifestyle, that they have a choice.”

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indyfood The Gold Standard AFTER MUCH HYPE AND THE EXIT OF A SPLASHY CHEF, IS RALEIGH’S REOPENED STANDARD FOODS WORTH THE WAIT? STORY BY EMMA LAPERRUQUE

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Sommelier Tristan Pennell, executive chef Eric Montagne, and chef de cuisine Will Cisa take a break after a dinner shift.

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haven’t been to Standard Foods in almost a year. Since, that is, the first time I reviewed it. But let’s catch up before we eat.

The restaurant opened in September 2015 after much hype and many delays. Five months, one James Beard nomination, and many corned beef tongue sandwiches later, its starry chef, Scott Crawford, announced he was jumping ship—and Standard Foods started to sink, fast. In June, it closed “for at least six weeks” to regroup. But as the summer came and went, it looked unlikely that the restaurant would ever reopen. And then, in October, it did.

So if you can take Crawford out of Standard Foods, what does he take with him? (Presumably, you can’t take him out of his new restaurant, Crawford and Son, a mere threeminute walk from Standard Foods. But, we’ll see.) Unsurprisingly, he snagged some kitchen crew—chef de cuisine Bret Edlund and pastry chef Krystle Swenson—and, unsubtly, some menu items: apple soup with brown butter, rosemary, and peanuts. And all that hype.

What he couldn’t take with him was the concept. This restaurant-meets-grocery storemeets-butcher counter—an upscale interpretation of a neighborhood corner store—is grand, innovative, and, most of all, collaborative. Imagine, for instance, that corned beef tongue. The farmer raising cows, the butcher brining beef, the baker benching bread, the line cook assembling sandwiches, you taking a bite.

In retrospect, I can only wonder: Was the original Standard Foods really about the farmers and producers and butchers and bakers and cooks and you and me, as it claimed? Or was it about Crawford and Crawford and Crawford?

Was that the iceberg that sunk the ship?

We’ll never know, of course. The ready-forpress story bobs above water, while the rest of the cold, hard truth hides deep below. And I hate diving. There are other questions I’d rather swim after instead. First and foremost: Now that Standard Foods is finally back, is it better?

Enter the restaurant’s new chef, Eric Montagne. Less fanfare, ample promise. Raised in North Carolina, Montagne notably served as executive chef at Boiler Room Oyster Bar in Kinston, the second venture from Vivian Howard, famous for her PBS show, A Chef’s Life. He was previously slated to open a wine-focused restaurant on Glenwood South with Fred Dexheimer, the only certified master sommelier in the Carolinas (there are 230 in the world), and John Holmes, the developer behind Standard

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A selection of craft cocktails Foods. This summer, the trio decided to redirect their efforts into saving Standard Foods.

This strikes me as exactly what was supposed to happen all along.

When it comes to décor, imagine Apple unveiling the newest iPhone. You buy into the buildup, sell your old faithful on eBay, only to end up searching frantically for the updates. The changes are subtle; the chairs might be different (new leather cushions, perhaps?), and what about those creamcolored curtains overlooking Raleigh City Farm? The cherry Le Creuset dishware remains in use, as does a chalkboard wall mural. Mostly, Standard Foods looks just like it did pre-crash. Which is good. It was beautiful to begin with.

What did get a dramatic makeover was the menu. The restaurant’s debut menu was broken into various, similar-sounding sections, like snacks, small plates, and sides. The difference between them all? Even the staff wasn’t sure.

Now it is crisper and cleaner, with fewer categories and no kitschy names. There are small plates—lots of them—entrées, larger shareable entrées, and sides. Like many modern, trendy menus, this one puts us in a bit of a pickle: Should we split a bunch of small plates? Each get our own entrée? And what about that spoonbread? Fortunately, at Standard Foods, this pondering is the good

Fresh raw oysters from Harkers Island, North Carolina, emphasize the restaurant’s focus on sustainable and local food. kind of pickle, crunchy and sour and a little bit sweet. As I sip my gin martini—icy coupe, buttery olive—I relish my indecisiveness.

Flounder crudo? Persimmon salad? Thirtythree-ounce T-bone?

I settle on chicken liver pâté. It arrives blush pink and freckled with crunchy salt, thick-sliced in a slab. The absence of a rusticchic mason jar feels as refreshing as the complementary bubbly poured for my friend’s almost-birthday (a shameless, albeit genuine, diversion). And the pâté? Smoother and richer than butter, accompanied by opencrumbed toast and Dijon to spread around.

Other standout dishes are similarly classic. The half-chicken has crisp, charred skin and juicy meat, which, in true Judy Rodgers style, drips dreamily onto a bed of toast.

Alongside, a miniature gravy boat asks to be poured anywhere or everywhere.

The spoonbread—part of a recurring feature that supports local non-GMO corn

farmers and millers—is textbook, fluttering between cornbread and custard, honey and salt.

The dessert menu’s playfully named “cheese plate” is really a traditional tarte tatin, something like the French answer to American apple pie, only with Gouda ice cream. While the tart’s caramel treads confidently into dark, delightfully bitter territory, the Gouda ice cream is a lot shyer than I’d hoped for.

Some fall short of their name, like Jeb Bush or Rob Kardashian. The pickled shrimp with mustard seeds and Castelvetrano olives were good but hardly pickled. The beef tartare with fermented mushrooms and pickled turnips (the tiniest and cutest in all the land) promised punch and delivered a handshake.

And the whole fried bass—though thrilling in presentation, with the fish propped upright, as if about to swim off the plate—downright lies. The server said it was inspired by Nash-

ville hot chicken, but the only hot part about it was the temperature.

In an early interview with the Raleigh Agenda, Montagne hinted at his intention to stretch the menu’s scope: “My food isn’t identifiably Southern,” he said. “We’re turning Standard into more globally inspired cuisine.”

Be on the lookout for the dishes that travel to Italy. There they are gleeful, like red-winedrunk tourists eating gelato in the sun. There are butterbeans with fatty, salty Bolognese.

Grilled oysters with Boxcarr pecorino and butter, brightened by lemon. And funghi fritti—fried mushrooms—tossed in an umamiladen gold rice vinaigrette, spangled with sesame seeds, nasturtiums, and slivers of raw cremini. It was somewhere between those fried and fresh mushrooms that I found the answer I had been probing for: Standard Foods is better than before.

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On a Roll

HOW SARA LEE’S BREAD BECAME VIVIAN HOWARD’S BUTTER

BY SHIRLETTE AMMONS

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fter four seasons as host of A Chef’s Life, the PBS documentary series exploring Southern cuisine and its traditions that she cocreated, Vivian Howard is no stranger to risk taking. She knew that adding a food truck to her eight-week East Coast book tour for Deep Run Roots might complicate things, but her sense of adventure outweighed any uncertainty.

As a producer of the show, it’s my job to pump our social media loyalists with insight as to Vivian’s whereabouts. I joined Vivian and the gang for six of the tour’s final twelve stops. A couple of things I learned: like a truck’s broken belt, Tom Thumb nachos don’t fix themselves, and Vivian’s band of country-come-to-town ragamuffins is essential to what makes her book-andfood-truck tour tick.

The truck’s serpentine belt snapped three times on tour. Of course it did.

“The truck itself is a bit of a wild card,” food truck manager Casey Atwater admits. “It’s a 1997 Sara Lee bread truck designed to ‘haul buns’ over short distances. We have it loaded with kitchen equipment and food and we’re traveling much greater distances. This takes a toll.

Sometimes mechanical issues throw us a real curveball.”

The first time the belt cracked under pressure was on October 27, three weeks into the tour and twenty minutes into a drive from Savannah as the team headed home for a cherished night off. It took Casey about three hours of tinkering to get the upfitted former bread truck back on the road.

“With a stop almost every day of the tour, a lot of preplanning has to be done,” he adds.

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“Where will we park it at night? Where will we park for the event? Where will we park before the event and prep if we’re not permitted to go straight there?” In Arlington, a Giant grocery-store parking lot doubled as a prep station and a quiet-enough venue for a Facebook live chat with Vivian, which attracted over 17,000 views.

Even more random than a wonky truck racing through twenty-eight cities in two months is the crew that stumbled into the whole thing.

In September, Vivian posted a signup sheet at Chef and the Farmer, her ten-year-old farm-to-table restaurant in Kinston, inviting staff members to join her on the road.

Krista Hernandez, who grew up on the West Coast with a Mexican dad and an English-Irish-Welsh mom, took her up on the offer. Krista relocated to eastern North Carolina from Anaheim, California, in May 2016 with her boyfriend, Aldo, a North Carolina native. Though she was reluctant to give up her pastry chef job at what she calls “a lively California brasserie” in Los Angeles, she decided to give Carolina a go. Under the tutelage of Chef and the Farmer’s longtime pastry chef Kim Adams, she settled onto a new path, two time zones away from the grandmother who stoked her early interest in baking.

Kinston native Madison Mauck returned home to find a spot on Vivian’s food truck before she even had the chance to hear about it. With a fresh degree in studio art and historic preservation from the College of Charleston, she found the town’s facelift invigorating. “I was looking for ways to

ferent. “The ability to connect with people and earn their trust is universal,” he says.

The team arrives in Bethesda as a caravan. Vivian takes an Uber from Arlington and I drive my rental car. Following behind the food truck is a satellite car whose primary purpose is to wait for the truck to break down on the road. We search for a place to dock and prep, maneuvering the truck through narrow city streets to a reserved parking spot in front of the Williams Sonoma on Bethesda Row. Bacon-wrapped pickled watermelon rinds are the appetizer and shrimp stew the main course, followed by chewy pecan pie for dessert. The crew begins to whip everything up as the line forms. Fans walk up and try to purchase a copy of Deep Run Roots and a ticket, to no avail; the store manager realizes he’s underestimated the turnout. He directs the crowd to the Barnes & Noble a few blocks away, but one woman returns empty-handed—they’re sold out, too.

By the time we begin packing up, two hours have passed, Vivian has signed more than two hundred books, posed for as many photos, and listened gracefully to her fans’ emotional accounts of how she has inspired, encouraged, and reminded them of their best food and family memories. As I stand beside her, collecting camera phones and snapping photos, I can hear the sincere trembling in their voices.

Afterward, I gather the gifts—homemade cinnamon buns, preserves, and cookies— before whisking Vivian out the back door to my rented Kia and driving us off to the hotel. The crew ambles in, Casey having found sweet sleeping quarters for the truck in the hotel’s back alley. As we slump at the reception desk waiting to check in, a man in a suit behind us in line asks, “Are y’all a rock band?” We glance at one another with exhausted eyes and giggle. I can’t remember if anyone answered. food@indyweek.com

The Deep Run Roots tour hit twenty-eight cities in two months. COURTESY OF VIVIANHOWARD.COM participate in the community,” the youngest truck staffer says of her dreams to become a city planner. Madison had never worked in the restaurant, but in becoming an essential member of the food truck troupe, she came to maintain order and revel in a little chaos.

The team served dishes made famous on A Chef’s Life, such as eastern North Carolina-style fish stew and Scarlett’s chicken and rice. Some, like Tom Thumb nachos, are adaptations of recipes in Deep Run Roots, Vivian’s cookbook with stories from her hometown. Others, like Vivian’s banana rolls—a honky-tonk take on sushi—were created on the fly.

“Sometimes it feels like I’m in a circus,” Madison says with a chuckle, “but everybody we meet is in a place of joy. Vivian’s vision has touched so many people, and it’s awesome.”

Somewhere between Virginia Beach and

Bethesda, Maryland, Casey hears a familiar vibration that escalates to a rumble. The banging is coming from the frayed belt slapping against the truck’s engine—again. He pulls over to lift the giant hood. I imagine he mumbles a few unprintable phrases before a woman pulls up with her friend and asks if he needs help. As Casey and this new helper are unraveling the ruptured serpentine belt, the woman says she’s a fan of the show. Turns out, she owns an oyster company and, once the belt is replaced, she sends Casey on his way with a peck of fresh oysters, hoping Vivian will crack open a few.

Three years ago, Casey left behind a successful banking career and showed up at Chef and the Farmer in search of a change.

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Party’s Over

WITH INTENSE WAR IMAGERY, RALEIGH’S SUPPRESSIVE FIRE BRINGS BRUTALITY BACK TO LOCAL METAL

BY BRYAN C. REED

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he garage of Joseph Valhal’s home in southeast Durham is insulated with extra layers of Sheetrock and wallpapered with gig posters and flags. Between amps and a PA system, boxes of merchandise emblazoned with his band’s logo await the next show. And on an unseasonably warm December afternoon, the space is populated by the four members of Suppressive Fire: guitarist Valhal, singer and guitarist Aaron Schmidt, bassist William Saenz, and drummer Josh Bleeks.

Suppressive Fire has always worn its influences proudly. Its members cite European thrash icons Sodom and Kreator, proto-deathmetal legends Death, and grindcore-turnedmelodic-death-metal greats Carcass, among others. They freely mine the crypts of oldschool death metal for lurching, grimy riffs and burst into peals of scathing black metal.

Merging melody and muscle to forge memorable passages in frantic maelstroms, the band’s ultimate musical allegiance is clear.

“We’re playing thrash metal, but it’s very Teutonic thrash metal,” Valhal says. “It’s older German style, more aggressive, and there’s no fucking partying and bullshit here. No pizza thrash.”

As the group plays through a brisk set, Schmidt faces the far wall, screaming at the space between a classic car calendar and a banner with artwork from Sodom’s 2016 album, Decision Day. Valhal bounces back and forth between his pedals and Bleeks’s drum kit. As the guitarists transition from tight riffing to swap solos, their individual styles become evident: Valhal favors short, squealing bursts of dissonance, à la Reign in Blood, while Schmidt’s solos are more melodic and expansive. Behind them, Bleeks grimaces as he wails on his kit. Saenz is comparatively calm, keeping mostly in harmonic lockstep with the guitarists, which makes his abrupt counterpoints feel even more significant.

On this occasion, Suppressive Fire is working through a set for the new year. The

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group tweaks three new songs it hasn't yet played on stage and blitzes through a batch of older tunes. And even in a low-key rehearsal between short, uncharacteristic lulls in activity, the band’s power and precision is apparent. Even in the garage, Suppressive Fire plays like pros.

“We take it seriously,” Schmidt says. “It’s great to have fun, but we’re also working at this.”

Ambition has been a defining characteristic from the band’s inception. After a strong 2014 demo and a 2015 covers split with South Carolina’s Axattack, Suppressive Fire—then a trio of Valhal, Schmidt, and drummer Brandon Smith—issued its fulllength debut, Bedlam, on January 14, 2016.

One day short of a year later, the four-piece Suppressive Fire will issue its blistering follow-up, Nature of War. “These guys have the strongest work ethic I’ve seen in any band, ever,” says Saenz, who joined the band in July of last year. “For the better part of ten years, that was something that was really hard for me to find.”

That ambition is a product of passion. The band members, who range in age from twenty-four to thirty-five, and half of whom are married, all hold day jobs and other responsibilities. As much as they’d love to reach a level of success that would allow full-time touring and recording, Valhal calls the band a “hobby job.” The band might be a hobby for now, but it originated from a place of serious intention as Valhal sought to revitalize a deficient metal scene.

“There’s a reason why metal has a bad name over the two-thousands,” he says.

“All the fucking nu-metal shit and then the Pantera wannabe bands, all the Dimebags out there—there was a void of a good, aggressive thrash metal band, and I think we’re doing what we can to put our best quality, what we’re passionate about, out there.”

Led by Valhal, the band homed in on a sound—“I like writing the most aggressive

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Suppressive Fire PHOTO BY HOLLY SCHMIDT riffs possible,” Valhal says—and a thematic muse. From the band name to the images that adorn its releases and inhabit its lyrics, Suppressive Fire delights in stories of war. War has been a perennial inspiration for metal bands of all stripes, enough that “war metal” is, at this point, its own subgenre. From Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper” to Slayer cuts like “Angel of Death” and “War Ensemble,” the high drama, grotesque violence, and existential threat of battle have long provided a ready complement to the music’s balance of disciplined technical precision and raw power.

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racing the roots of Suppressive Fire’s interest in combat reveals more about their listening and viewing habits than any direct ties to the military. Schmidt was raised in a military family on the U.S. Army’s Kwajalein Atoll base in the Marshall Islands, but he’s part of the first generation of his family not to serve in the armed forces.

“I came from that and don’t care,” he says.

“I’m sure it had some impact, but maybe not consciously.”

Saenz and Bleeks hold no connection to the armed forces, either. The band’s fascination with war is purely academic, and mostly Valhal’s. Though the guitarist grew up in a family of auto mechanics and works in scientific research, he’s drawn to war history in books and documentaries.

“It’s lots of fun, violent imagery,” Schmidt says. “The war stuff is more [Valhal], the more bleak, dystopic violence is me.”

When the two merge, as on Nature of War’s title track, Suppressive Fire finds its sweet spot. The song and the album’s grisly blackand-white cover were inspired by an actual incident on the eastern front during World War I, in which attacks by starving wolves caused German and Russian soldiers to call a cease-fire to fend off the hungry predators.

“The wolves formed kind of a super pack and started raiding trenches and killing soldiers, eating people,” Valhal says. “With that

concept in mind, [the song] writes itself after that.”

Sung from the wolves’ perspective, “Nature of War” lasts a dynamic five minutes and renders the human conflict irrelevant. Schmidt growls, “Pain of starvation/Propels us on/ We’ve no alliance/No country or god/We must eradicate/The human infestation/And smash all of their delusions/Of global domination.” On “Earthripper,” where the focus shifts from war to human overpopulation, the frenetic assault and bleak imagery are similarly brutal. Suppressive Fire’s attention to dystopian fantasies and war’s horrors mirrors acts like Cattle Decapitation, Voivod, and Slayer, which have used similarly brutal allegories in their own songs.

“I’m big on science and big on history,” Valhal says of his songwriting inspirations. “I hated music until I was in my teenage years and discovered Sabbath and all those bands. I think it’s just an academic interest.”

Valhal says that last year, when writing

Bedlam, the band was still figuring out how to write and play. But with this latest effort, its chemistry has coalesced and the members’ compositional ambitions are more fully realized.

“The music’s a bit more involved,” Valhal says. “We have a riff filter on now, so we don’t have as much repetition.”

With Nature of War, Suppressive Fire has broadened its musical scope, filling space with a second guitar and stretching songs to accommodate bigger and bolder ideas. The nearly nine-minute “Dreaded Bastards” is a gruesome retelling of the classic World War II film The Dirty Dozen, with its sprinting thrash riffs broken by ominous melodic passages, chaotic solos, and a tumultuous low end that shifts seamlessly in time and tempo.

Without straying from the lineage that first inspired the band, Nature of War finds Suppressive Fire expanding upon its template and perpetuating the momentum of a wellreceived debut and a full year of touring the Eastern Seaboard to support it. With a pair of ten-day tours already scheduled for the first half of the year, that momentum seems unlikely to diminish. Through previous tours, Suppressive Fire has cultivated a network of supporters in cities like Richmond, Virginia, Columbia, South Carolina, and Atlanta, while seeking opportunities for inroads to the Northeast and Midwest. The band’s aggressive set tends to spur strong responses from audiences, which doesn’t hurt.

“I would be happy just hanging out by myself in my bedroom playing guitar,” Schmidt says. “But it’s super fun seeing mosh pits and catching a microphone in the teeth because someone slammed into it.”

For the moment, the band is just enjoying the work of making music together. In rehearsal, the focus is on getting the details perfect before taking the set to an audience, but fun is clearly part of the equation.

“Putting this album out in a year was pretty crazy,” Valhal says. “Having new band members and doing that was ambitious as fuck.

I think we’ll probably play more shows and tour more before we get to the next writing process,” he adds.

In the garage, with most of the hard work of crafting and releasing Nature of War complete, Suppressive Fire gets to prepare itself to enjoy the aftermath.

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othing is more mysterious to the uninitiated than the local art world, with its obscure names and rarified codes. Who made these pictures, and why? By what arrangement did they get on these walls, and what are they supposed to do there? Don’t You Lie to Me, a new podcast, aims to demystify this milieu, from the creative to the administrative level, by coloring in personalities around the names. Its creators, Warren Hicks and Jeff Bell, are uniquely suited to the task. Both are artists with accessible voices and deep local connections who have shown and worked behind the scenes in institutions across the state.

BY BRIAN HOWE The podcast (www.DontYouLieToMe. com) is a product of Hicks and Bell’s longtime friendship, starting with its name. “If you tell Jeff something good has happened to you, he’ll say, ‘Don’t you lie to me, Warren!’”

Hicks explains in his studio at Golden Belt, where he's gathered with Bell over glasses of rye from one of many half-full bottles left behind by Third Friday revelers.

While Bell is primarily a sculptor, Hicks works in many media, and his studio is full of whimsical bric-a-brac. A lot of stuffed animals have met terrible fates, from crucifixion to disembowelment, displaying the dark, spiky, but ultimately good-natured humor

that Hicks, as producer and occasional interjecting sidekick, brings to the program.

Meanwhile, Bell serves as the affable teddybear host, asking earnest, chatty, unscripted questions about artists' backgrounds and processes. The resulting dialogues are franker and less self-conscious than what you often hear at artist talks.

“The problem with artist talks is you show up and there’s maybe ten people,” Hicks says.

“This is a portable artist talk, in a sense, that you can listen to on the way to work.”

Don’t You Lie to Me isn’t about the art world talking to itself. The tone, while ardent about art, is loose, funny, familiar, and self-

deprecating, much like its creators’ rapport.

“I’m not hyper-theoretical,” Bell says, chuckling. “I still look at artwork as a person who makes artwork. The materials, why you’re doing it. But the way [the podcast] is structured, the inserts, all those things are really Warren’s voice, so it’s a good combination of both of us.”

Hicks, who grew up in Oklahoma and then lived in Miami, moved to Chapel Hill in 2000.

After years of working in the music industry—retail, distribution, and music-biography publishing—he felt burned out. So he went to Jerry’s Artarama in Raleigh and reinvented himself as a painter, going on to procure his Golden Belt studio and show in many local exhibits. He also started working in art installation, handling and placing pieces for exhibits, which he still does on a freelance basis. His background in home recording prepared him to produce the podcast, including creating its jaunty theme song and the background music for its parody ads.

Bell grew up in Goldsboro and then got undergraduate degrees in studio art and art history at UNC-Wilmington. He moved to Durham to become a registrar at the old Duke University Museum of Art, staying through the transition to the Nasher.

After earning a graduate degree in studio art at UNC-Greensboro and working on contract installation jobs, which is how he met Hicks, Bell held a couple of positions at CAM Raleigh before taking his current job as museum manager at 21c Museum Hotel when it opened two years ago.

Though Hicks and Bell have statewide ambitions for Don’t You Lie to Me's coverage, it began with their friends—quite naturally for an endeavor that started almost on a whim. The first person they interviewed was Chapel Hill’s Carrie Alter, who shed light on her youth as the only female member of two graffiti crews as it relates to her modern paintings, among other topics. That interview, in January 2016, inspired Hicks and Bell to make a go of the podcast. It helped that Alter’s husband, Matt McMichaels, had a home studio he would donate to record it.

The first episode, a sampler of four interviews, went up in August, followed by the full interview with Alter.

Subsequent episodes featured Durham stalwart Heather Gordon, best known for turning personal data into a kind of mathematical visual origami; Stacey L. Kirby, timed

"I'm not hypertheoretical.

I still look at artwork as a person who makes artwork." with her big win at the international ArtPrize festival; and Brandon Cordrey, director of Raleigh nonprofit Visual Art Exchange, which fiscally sponsors Don’t You Lie to Me. A new episode featuring Beverly McIver just went up, and VAE director of initiatives Rachel Herrick, whose pepper-spray paintings were featured in the INDY last year, is on deck next.

“Beverly has a great sense of humor and we can be abusive to each other, so it’s fun,” Hicks says. “So far most of our guests have been close friends and they abuse me quite a bit, and I have no microphone to defend myself. Like Rachel Herrick—she’s brutal.”

“They’re brutal to each other,” Bell clarifies, “but in this case Rachel had the microphone.”

Jennifer Dasal, an associate contemporary curator at NCMA, also has an art podcast, Art Curious, but its focus on mysteries in art history is very different from Don’t You Lie to Me’s human portraiture. Dasal will also be a guest on an upcoming episode, alongside Nasher exhibition designer Brad Johnson, a pairing that represents the podcast’s ambition to illuminate all levels of the art world.

“When you go see art on the wall, there’s so many people involved in making that happen, and we want to explore every aspect of it,” Hicks says. “I learned so much of it installing at museums.”

“It’s somewhat unique that we are artists who work in museums, so we know the other side of it,” Bell adds. “Often you’d be surprised how little one understands the other. People in museums can be removed and forget what artists are dealing with, and the same is true

on the other side.”

The format of the show is still developing, but it will remain interview-based, with drop-in segments such as a recent rundown of current exhibits by INDY contributor Chris Vitiello. So far, episodes have been downloaded more than fifteen hundred times. Hicks and Bell plan to start a Kickstarter soon to fund the purchase of their own recording equipment to set up in a space under the Carrack so they can record more interviews on a more flexible schedule, rather than doing several at a time when McMichaels’s studio happens to be free. Then they'll be able to cross-promote more adroitly with North Carolina museums and galleries, gradually building a statewide online database of artists and venues—not just in the Triangle but also in Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Asheville.

Still, this prospective online arts hub will be built, grain by grain, from the voices of artists, who are afforded more breathing room and social warmth than usual. This human touch can give anyone, regardless of background or knowledge base, a way into the art world. Hicks and Bell both know why that’s important from personal experience.

“My mother-in-law, who doesn’t listen to podcasts, has listened to it, and was later super into meeting Heather [Gordon] and Carrie [Alter], and she doesn’t really care about art," Bell says. "That was cool."

“My family doesn’t understand me being an artist; they never took us to museums,” Hicks adds. “I was nineteen or twenty before I went to one. I grew up in a really small town, so I wasn’t exposed. The podcast seems to humanize the artists, because I think the general public sees art as an elitist enterprise. But if you can pique their curiosity enough, they get it.”

“I’m always interested in where people come from,” concludes Bell, who gives public tours at 21c to groups ranging from art lovers to people who've just wandered in. “It could be Warren talking about drawing when he was little, something anybody can make an association with. If you can connect that to what Heather does, maybe not as accessiblefeeling, people realize it’s not that removed.

They think they’re not allowed to be interested, but if you explain a little, they get into it.”

Don't You Lie to Me has the potential to open that door for a whole new audience. bhowe@indyweek.com

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powerful video game company CEO is raped by a masked man, then does everything she can to identify the rapist—except call the police. In Paul Verhoeven’s ELLE, the elaborate plot underlying this attention-grabbing premise is revealed step by step, focusing on Michèle’s (Isabelle Huppert) increasingly drastic deviations from the professional, social, and domestic routines in which she wields power over men, as the memory of the rape slowly consumes her.

Billed in the U.S. as an “erotic thriller,” Elle changes genre by the scene: the deadpan family comedy of Michèle’s ill-fated Christmas party morphs into a slasher movie when the rapist returns to stalk her through her apartment. The film then becomes a corporate thriller when Michèle begins to suspect, and plot against, a disgruntled employee. But Elle’s sharpest twists and turns are reflexive.

As a suspense film, it’s as much about who Michèle is and how she relates to people as it is about the identity of her stalker.

The humanity of Huppert’s performance tempers the film’s excesses. She has made a career out of playing women who effortlessly embody irreconcilable qualities: domineering and vulnerable (The Piano Teacher) or monstrous and innocent (Violette). She does it again here, taking a character whose motivations are sometimes inscrutable, other times overly determined by her dark family history, and turning her into a magnetic, if not quite believable, screen presence.

As for Elle’s equally subversive director, U.S. audiences might expect something with more machine guns, or at least more T&A, from the man behind Total Recall and Basic Instinct. But the work Verhoeven produces on the other side of the Atlantic, such as The Fourth Man and Black Book, tends to be rooted more in history and psychology than Hollywood genres. After a string of expensive failures beginning with Showgirls, Ver-

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hoeven is unlikely to return to American film anytime soon. But regardless of whether he’s working in Europe or Hollywood, his signature talent (and liability) is a precise sense of where the boundary of good taste lies along with an eagerness to cross it.

Though Elle is his first French film, Verhoeven displays evident comfort with the context of his source material, Philippe Djian’s yet-to-be-translated novel, Oh.... Indeed, Elle bears a surface resemblance to recent French thrillers like Demonlover and Love Crime, which also revel in the eroticized machinations of powerful female executives (while borrowing a page or two from Arnaud Desplechin’s witty family dramedies).

But a final few outlandish twists distance Elle from the softcore thrills of corporate backstabbing or rape-revenge fantasies, forcing us to question everything we took for

granted about the relationship between victim and victimizer without offering any easy moral critique. Careening from light comedy to horror and back again, it's an unusually complete cinematic experience for viewers with the fortitude to handle it. —Ryan Vu

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Wahlberg apologized for that comment, but his delusions of heroism still infect PATRIOTS DAY, director Peter Berg’s otherwise earnest and affecting chronicle of the

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2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the subsequent manhunt for the perpetrators. Wahlberg coproduces the film, his third with Berg following Lone Survivor and last year’s Deepwater Horizon.

Beginning on the morning of the bombing, Berg methodically re-creates the fourday siege that gutted and gripped Boston and its surrounding suburbs. His keen procedural instincts follow investigators under the charge of Boston police commissioner Ed Davis (John Goodman) and FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers (Kevin Bacon) as they painstakingly sort through the gruesome aftermath and ultimately pursue Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Alex Wolff and Themo Melikidze), the radicalized brothers who committed the grisly crimes.

Berg’s sweeping approach leaves little time for nuance, outside of scenes like the taut interrogation of Katherine Russell, the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The exacting reenactment of the shootout between police and the Tsarnaevs in Watertown is staged like something out of the O.K. Corral, with police sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese (J.K. Simmons) as Wyatt Earp.

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plays Tommy Saunders, a BPD cop designed by the filmmakers (including Wahlberg, presumably) as a composite character. “Tahhmy,” who comes equipped with his own family, backstory, and Masshole tendencies, is part of the security detail at the finish line and, as depicted, the first first-responder to recognize it as a coordinating bombing.

He harangues higher-ups to release photos of the suspects. He talks state and federal tech heads through which businesses along the bomb site are equipped with video surveillance, since the investigators apparently don’t have Google Maps or eyesight.

He debriefs hijacking victim Dun Meng four days after the bombing and figures out how to track the Tsarnaevs. And he lands in Watertown around the time police apprehend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to prattle on about the power of love over evil.

By the time Saunders pops up in the Fenway Park dugout to shake hands with David Ortiz before the Red Sox slugger’s “Boston Strong” speech, it’s a fiction too far. During a climax in which real-life victims, law enforcement officers, and political leaders speak on screen, I half expected Tommy Saunders to appear.

Alas, he’s only a figment of Wahlberg’s inflated imagination. —Neil Morris arts@indyweek.com

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Unhappy Returns

PLAYWRIGHT DAVID HARROWER LIVES UP TO HIS NAME WITH BLACKBIRD, A CHALLENGING PORTRAIT OF ABUSE

BY BYRON WOODS

ty-seven-year-old Una demands a different, more personal form of justice than the one the courts dispensed. As she openly mocks Ray’s narrative of redemption after prison, she cat-and-mouses him, physically at times, across North’s drab break-room of a set, dangling the threat of exposure to his colleagues and the woman in his life. Una emphatically asserts that, because she never moved away from the town where she met Ray, she’s also served fifteen years for his crime.

“I was talked about, pointed at, stared at,” she says. “I lost all my friends ... I had to keep my name.” But as Ray’s narrative fills in the

Katie Barrett and John Honeycutt in Blackbird If you’ve ever abused another human, playwright David Harrower has an uncomfortable reminder for you in his taut two-person drama, Blackbird, which South Stream Productions is currently performing at Raleigh’s Sonorous Road Theatre. Somewhere, someone remembers everything you ever did to them. They have the rest of their lives to act, at a time and place of their choosing, on that information.

For her part, Una has chosen, at the end of a workday, to confront Ray, a middle-aged, low-level manager who is dealing with the hassles of a late order at some nondescript dental manufacturing plant. The two have more than a bit of a history between them.

Una was twelve when she developed a dangerous crush on Ray: flirting, leaving notes on his windshield, constantly putting herself in his path. Ray was forty when, three

blanks of their disastrous relationship, she watches the monolithic monster who ruined her life crumble into something broken and infinitely smaller.

Harrower’s text and this production will not sit well with those who demand that sexual abusers remain forever demonized.

Nor will it comfort those determined to deny victims any possibility of agency in their own abuse. But as a document of two deeply damaged people, both of whom are trying to pick up and mend the pieces of their own lives, Blackbird presents a garland of thorny questions with no easy answers.

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months later, he abducted and had sex with her.

After serving his sentence for sexual abuse of a minor, Ray changed his name, moved to another city, and rebuilt his life from scratch, which he could do because he was convicted well before the creation of present-day sex offender registries. Fifteen years later, Una tracks him down, and this gripping one-scene play records their conversation.

Under Brook North’s discerning direction, with Dana Marks’s assistance as an acting coach, Katie Barrett and John Honeycutt negotiate the tripwires of Una and Ray’s potentially explosive meeting. In so doing, these four stage artists carefully confront us with the playwright’s controversial take on a longtime social taboo.

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BIG THIEF

It might not have topped any music publications’ year-end lists, but Masterpiece was still one of the best indie rock records of 2016. Led by Adrienne Lenker, the Texas quartet covers significant emotional ground on its compact thirty-sevenminute debut. The title track is stunning in its evenkeeled charm, driven by guitar riffs that crash like waves against the beach, while “Real Love” is a harrowing song about abuse, with stark, angular guitar solos that raise the hair on the back of your neck. Even in lighter moments, such as the airy, cascading “Velvet Ring,” Lenker and company pack power into every note. Sam Evian, the dreamy new pop-rock project of Celestial Shore’s Sam Owens, opens. —Allison Hussey CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, CARRBORO 9 p.m., $10–$12, www.catscradle.com

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11– SATURDAY, JANUARY 14

THE GREAT COVER UP

For nearly two decades, The Great Cover Up has been a Raleigh staple where musicians from all over the Triangle team up to tackle the songs of other artists.

Formerly a three-night affair, Cover Up offers an extra evening of fun this year, all in the name of supporting local nonprofits. Past cover bands have paid tribute to the likes of Elton John, David Bowie, The Who, and dozens of others, with approaches ranging from greatest-hits sets to full-album re-creations. As always, who’s covering who remains a secret until the bands hit the stage. But no matter which night you show up, you’re guaranteed a game of musical roulette that’s well worth your dollars. —Allison Hussey KINGS, RALEIGH 8:30 p.m., $10, www.kingsraleigh.com

STAGE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11–SUNDAY, JANUARY 15

DE PROFUNDIS

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us ... It is always twilight in one’s cell, as it is always twilight in one’s heart.

And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.” In De Profundis, Oscar Wilde documented the facts of his two year’s of incarceration and hard labor in Reading Gaol for the crime of homosexuality, candidly noting the physical, psychological, and spiritual effects of his isolation and punishment. Nicole Villamil stars in Brian Mertes and Jim Findlay’s dramatic new stage adaptation, the spring season opener for PlayMakers’ second-stage series. —Byron Woods UNC’S KENAN THEATRE, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m. Weds.–Sun./2 p.m. Sun., $15–$53, www.playmakersrep.org

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It took some time for Virginia Woolf’s delectable 1928 novel, Orlando, to become as polymorphous as its title character, a charming young Elizabethan nobleman who changes identities, continents, affections, and genders over five fantastic centuries.

But after Sally Potter’s bold 1992 film adaptation provided a breakout role for Tilda Swinton at the Sundance Film Festival, playwright Sarah Ruhl adapted what has been called “the longest love letter in the history of English letters” for the stage in 1998. In it, an endlessly inquisitive and open individual actually has the time to taste of—and learn from—the whole of human experience. This Delta Boys production includes actors Emily Anderson, Skylar Gudasz, Rajeev Rajendran, Caitlin Wells, and Dale Wolf.

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BY THE A native of Graham, BOOK South Carolina, Daniel Ayers is a purist devotee to the clawhammer banjo style and traditional song structure. His recent LP, Fundamental Folk, bears a literal title, as Ayers intends it to be a primer on the music he loves for a generation of young people lacking basic familiarity with it.

—DK [THE STATION, $6–$8/8 P.M.]

Brothers Osborne FRESH John and T.J. COUNTRY Osborne solidified their place in the refreshing new wave of country artists with the release of their debut album, Pawn Shop, early last year. The Maryland-born duo took home the Country Music Association award for Vocal Duo of the Year back in November and is nominated for the Best Country Duo/Group Performance award at this year’s Grammys. With their laid-back approach to songwriting, these brothers are a welcome addition to the spate of mainstream country. With LANco. —DEM [THE RITZ, $15–$25/8 P.M.] .

Pure Disgust BADDER Minor Threat’s Ian BRAINS MacKaye drew inspiration for “Guilty of Being White,” one of the seminal

hardcore band’s best songs, from his experience in mostly black D.C. schools. In “Pipeline,” from his band Pure Disgust’s 2016 firebomb, Chained, Rob Watson writes of being black at those same schools: “School to prison/ Raised to fail/How do you escape?” D.C. hardcore has long championed the personal as political; with Chained, a barreling bruiser aimed squarely at racial inequality, Pure Disgust sounds like the infuriated voice of a new civil rights movement. Mad Existence, Schiavi, and Holder’s Scar open. —PW [NIGHTLIGHT, $8/9:30 P.M.]

The Infamous Stringdusters NOT TOO Since releasing their HEAVY debut album Fork in the Road a decade ago, Virginia’s Infamous Stringdusters have proven themselves as a steadfast pillar of contemporary bluegrass.

The band’s forward-looking, progressive interpretation of tradition is as refreshing as it is reliable. “Gravity,” the lead single from the Dusters’ new Laws of Gravity, is dense at times, but bright and beautiful fiddle licks offer the tune a wonderful lift.

—AH [LINCOLN THEATRE, $20/9 P.M.]

Local Band Local Beer: Wild Fur PULLING Wild Fur, a ROOTS collaboration between Durham’s Nick Jaeger and Wylie Hunter, embodies the cross-pollinating ethos of the Triangle. The members are busy with a number of other bands, so the project provides an outlet to make shimmering stately rock that calls to mind Tom Petty and My Morning Jacket. Wilmington’s Onward, Soldiers, makers of alternately tender and visceral Americana, are a seasoned live act and veterans of large stages and One Tree Hill. With The Grand Shell Game. —DK [POUR HOUSE, $5/9:30 P.M.]

ALSO ON THURSDAY 2ND WIND: 2 fer; 7:30-9p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Matt Phillips, Barrett Brooks; 7p.m. • CARRBORO CENTURY CENTER: Lynn Blakey; noon. • DEEP SOUTH: Wayleaves, Custom 10, Toynbee; 8:30 p.m., $5. • DUKE’S NELSON MUSIC ROOM: Eric Pritchard, William Conable, Jane Hawkins; 7p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Going Back Band; 6p.m. • LORRAINE’S COFFEE HOUSE & MUSIC: Al’s Spiritual Food for the Soul; 7:30p.m.

• NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Drag Sounds, Boytoy; 10 p.m., $5. • PROOF: Thom Crumpton; 10p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Zach Noble; 10p.m.

FRI, JAN 13 Legendary Norman Connors & the Starship Orchestra QUIET Norman Connors STORM may lack the name recognition of kindred spirits like George Benson and Roy Ayers, bur Connors has similarly straddled jazz, R&B, and easy listening as a composer, arranger, producer, and performer. While still in his teens, the Philadelphiaborn drumming prodigy had played with several jazz icons.

Transitioning to R&B in the seventies, he produced a couple of hits on his own, most notably “You Are My Starship,” the aural equivalent of pink satin sheets.

—DK [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $28–$32/7 & 9:30 P.M.]

Mike Doughty COUGH IT Long-suffering, once UP hard-living, erstwhile Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty has lived a survivor’s life, overcoming the toxic animosity and crippling addictions that brought an end to his former band. Now that he’s embarking on a fully realized second act as a singer-songwriter, the borderline stream-of-consciousness poetry of his best Soul Coughing and solo work is buttressed by a versatile band capable of accommodating

his hip-hop-to-ragtime range.

Wheatus opens. —EB [CAT’S CRADLE, $18/8 P.M.]

Headfirst for Halos EMO All minor-key HALOS melancholy and hard-rock guy rage, this Durham-based four-piece self-describes as punk, but Headfirst for Halos’ prog influence is strong. Regardless, the band layers its high-energy depictions of upper-middle-class decadence with just enough intelligence and hooks to make its portentousness bearable. The Second After, Rescue Dawn, and Mourning After open. —EB [LOCAL 506, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

Aaron Lewis OUTSIDE Those who tuned IN out the saga of onetime Staind frontman Aaron Lewis after middle school might be surprised to learn he pulled a Darius Rucker. Yep, for the most part, he’s jettisoned the Cookie Monster screams and suburban ennui of his past for strident, patriotic country songs like “Northern Redneck” and “Granddaddy’s Gun.” It isn’t Hank Williams, though Lewis is a far more nuanced live vocalist in 2016 then the rest of the class of ’01 can claim. Midland and Travis Martin open. —DS [THE RITZ, $27/9:30 P.M.]

Red Dog JAM CITY If you’ve ever read the phrase “stanky riffs” and felt bliss, this show has your number. Red Dog is your standard kitchen-sink jam band, with funk, electronica, and jazz elements stewed together into an extended torrent of bouncy sounds. Meatbox blends hard rock with funk. With Ghoston Road.

—DS [THE MAYWOOD, $8/9:30 P.M.]

Samson’s Birthday Bash B-DAY Beefs with HANG up-and-comers and a distaste for boom-bap hasn’t stopped Samson from being one of the best-known and most respected names in Raleigh’s underground hip-hop scene. On his latest album, M.I.L.F., the rapper showcases his allegiance to no-frills gritty rap. Danny Blaze and several others join him at this

celebratory birthday show. —CM [DEEP SOUTH, $5/7 P.M.]

Kaitlyn Raitz & Ben Plotnick IT TAKES The austere alchemy TWO of the fiddle and the cello is front and center in the spare songs of this Nashville pair.

Drawing upon string-band, bluegrass, folk, and Appalachian traditions, Kaitlyn Raitz and Ben Plotnick don’t aim to soothe in their mournful instrumental pieces and songs about burial. With Swift Creek. —DK [THE STATION, $8–$10/8:30 P.M.]

S.E. Ward WARD On Leaving, the EP WARBLES she released in August of last year, singer-songwriter S.E. Ward offers three tender, understated tunes that make for a strong debut. Opener “Windless Plain” gently ambles across its six minutes, and all of the tracks are buoyed by soothing, rippling guitar. If you dug Julien Baker in 2016, keep your eye on Ward for 2017. With Shelles.

—AH [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

Robin and Linda Williams OLD These days, just SCHOOL about everybody and their brother gets labeled “Americana,” often merely on the basis of not shaving for a few days and wearing a flannel shirt with a fedora. But the tradition-minded blend of country, folk, gospel, and bluegrass that husband-and-wife duo Robin and Linda Williams have been putting out since the seventies is the genuine article, an authentic, organic, all-American sound. Banjo and acoustic guitar and a couple of voices entwined in harmony is all the Williamses need to make their point with what they call their “new old-time country” style. —JA [THE ARTSCENTER, $22/8 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY 618 BISTRO: Randy Reed; 7-9:30p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Bill Lyerly; 9 p.m., $10. Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. • C GRACE: Jim Ferris Trio; 9p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): The Backsliders, 6 String Drag; 9 p.m., $10. • THE CAVE: 49/Short; 9 p.m., $5. • DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Branford Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo; 8 p.m., $10–$56. See box, page 29. • IRREGARDLESS:

Joey Calderazzo and Branford Marsalis PHOTO COURTESY OF DUKE PERFORMANCES FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 & SATURDAY, JANUARY 14

BRANFORD MARSALIS & JOEY CALDERAZZO Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and pianist Joey Calderazzo have been musical friends and colleagues since the late eighties. Marsalis showed up on Calderazzo’s first album as a bandleader, 1991’s In the Door, while Calderazzo joined Marsalis’s quartet in 1998, and they’ve played together in various combinations ever since. Marsalis should need no introduction at this point. He’s loaned his prominent saxophone sound to everyone from combos with his brother Wynton to Sting, Steve Coleman, and Public Enemy.

Calderazzo’s profile may be lower, but that isn’t a reflection of the quality of his mesmerizing playing. They also both happen to be Durham residents, where they serve as central figures for North Carolina Central’s phenomenal jazz program.

This weekend’s two-night stand at Duke Performances marks a rare dual appearance from the two, a chance to hear their musical conversations untrammeled by a larger ensemble. Their 2011 duo album, Songs of Mirth and Melancholy, offers an extended glimpse of that conversation. Recorded at the Hayti Heritage Center, the album sees the pair delighting in downtempo tunes that reside somewhere between jazz balladry and classical art songs. The few speedier numbers are engaging fun that feel otherworldly at times; the meat of the recording arrives when Calderazzo and Marsalis slow things down.

Marsalis often leads the way, his soprano sax blending the slightly acrid tone of the English horn with the squeal of a clarinet and, of course, the bright metal of the saxophone itself. And when things get either too “classical” or “jazz” sounding, he throws in some other element in unexpected ways. His take on Wayne Shorter’s “Face on the Barroom Floor,” for example, is both sweeter and more pointillistic than the Weather Report original. Calderazzo is an equal partner, weaving in and out of melodies in inventive ways and reconfiguring harmonies to cast an idea in a totally new light. When Marsalis goes way out, Calderazzo responds by pushing himself just as far in a complementary direction.

On a song like “Hope,” that means a quasi-Baroque piano solo gives way to keening wails of the saxophone.

Marsalis emphasizes that he doesn’t think about a script or an obvious, linear teleology within this duo. It’s unclear whether or not that’s a larger mission statement for Marsalis, but in this context it allows him and Calderazzo to respond to each other and to wherever the sound goes.

Maybe it will sound like what’s on their records, or perhaps it could spiral off into uncharted territory. In either case, it’s worth tuning in. —Dan Ruccia DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, DURHAM 8 p.m., $10–$56, www.dukeperformances.duke.edu INDYweek.com | 1.11.17 | 29

Stephen Anderson Duo; 6:30p.m.

• LINCOLN THEATRE: ZOSO, The Whom; 8:30 p.m., $14–$25. • LORRAINE’S COFFEE HOUSE & MUSIC: Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road; 7:30p.m. • THE PINHOOK: The UGC Beat Battle; 9 p.m., $10. • POUR HOUSE: Jason Adamo Band, Julie McKnight, Jake Dean; 9 p.m., $8–$9. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ DNLTMS; 10p.m. • SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Ed Stephenson and the Paco Band; 7:30p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Thomas Linger Trio; 8 p.m., $10–$15.

SAT, JAN 14 The Antique Hearts SLEEVE- Raleigh quartet The WORN Antique Hearts releases its debut EP, Heartbreaks and Hangovers, tonight. As its title suggests, the record chronicles whiskey-fueled romances via atmospheric alt-country ballads, rowdy roots-rock barn-burners, and bucolic back-porch twang.

While it vacillates lyrically between brash boasts and heartbroken laments, tender harmonies tie the five-track collection together. Old Quarter doles out despondent cosmic country while Kate Rhudy previews lonesome-sounding, sharply worded Appalachian folk from a forthcoming debut LP. —SG [DEEP SOUTH, $5–$7/9 P.M.]

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 14

Art of Noise

MKR

The emergence of UNC-Chapel Hill junior MK Rodenbough as a performing musician and songwriter seems like it was destined to happen eventually, given her family’s musical background.

“My mom set up each of my three older siblings and me with lessons on various instruments at a young age,” Rodenbough remembers, acknowledging that she and her fiddle-playing sister, Mipso’s Libby Rodenbough, latched on to their lessons the strongest. Thanks to a fondness for experimentation, MK dabbled in multiple instruments rather than focusing on just one.

“I never really got to the point where I was amazing at one thing, but I like to think learning different musical perspectives helps me now as a songwriter,” she says.

Despite only recently stepping out as a performer, Rodenbough says she started writing her own music as early as age nine or ten. She quickly fell in love with the craft. “Coming up with musical ideas and fitting them together like a puzzle has been one of my favorite things to do ever since,” she says.

Rodenbough had been performing in the UNC Symphony and with various jazz combos before launching MKR last year, using the time since her high school graduation to consider the type of music she wanted to make for herself.

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guitar, Tom Glorio on bass, and Stephanie Tepper on drums and harmonies to flesh her tunes out into full band versions for this show. With only a couple of tracks posted on SoundCloud in demo form—Rodenbough describes them as her softest songs—there’s only a taste of her songwriting available for public consumption outside of live performances.

Even so, the tunes are a tantalizing tease for the single Rodenbough plans to release this spring. On both, Rodenbough bares her emotions while pairing simple guitar figures to arresting vocals. “And for no good reason, I chose to be blue/I should have gone out, I know, done something new” she muses during “Them, Not Me,” an introspective rumination on spending a night alone.

Since departing both Morning Brigade and Virgins Family Band, Raleigh’s Gabriel David has struck out on a solo career, meshing R&B and blue-eyed soul originals as the frontman of his own outfit while still serving as an occasional sideman for a slew of fellow locals. UNC student quartet Dissimilar South adds breezy folk jangles in which gentle acoustic strings are graced by sweet harmonies and a touch of pop.—Spencer Griffith LOCAL 506, CHAPEL HILL 9 p.m., $8, www.local506.com

HIP-HOP The holiday season is more or less over, but that isn’t stopping The Art of Cool Project and Solkitchen from offering a “Holiday Edition” of its Art of Noise hip-hop series.

Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Mad Skillz is a hip-hop renaissance man as a master deejay, respected rapper, and sought-after producer. He’s joined by DJ Lonnie B. —CM [MOTORCO, $10–$15/9 P.M.]

Freeze Your Balls Off Scooter Rally Dance Party ROOM TO This yearly VROOM celebration thrown by the Incriminators Scooter Club brings together lovers of vintage motor scooters and their friends for chilly rides and rug cutting. In early January, the weather usually accommodates the central claim of the party name, although with global warming, who knows? At

least with deejays Midnight Cowboy, DJ Lord Thomas, and others, the beats will be chill.

—DK [THE PINHOOK, $5/8 P.M.]

Kooley High KOOLEY Raleigh’s hip-hop IS HIGH scene is a tough nut to crack when it comes to attracting large crowds, but Kooley High has been making it look easy for a decade. Even with the absence of Rapsody, the crew continues to release exceptional music, as with last year’s Heights and Heights.Rx. P.A.T. Junior and Brassious Monk open. —CM [POUR HOUSE, $12–$15/10 P.M.]

Pre-Mardi Gras Party STEELY Get out your finest STRUT umbrella to twirl and your best hankie to wave as you second-line to the Bull Town Strutters as it leads the Blue Note Grill’s pre-Mardi Gras party. Then get ready to fly away with a heavenly helping of sacred steel worship courtesy of the Allen Boys, North Carolina’s only touring sacred steel band. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $10/8 P.M.]

Waka Flocka Flame FLAME A single night is ON never enough for a Waka Flocka Flame party, so the ebullient Atlanta rapper triumphantly returns to Carrboro for a two-night stand of debauchery. Don’t expect a coherent show with a clear set list or transitions or anything that suggests order. Instead, expect a party with scream-singing, moshing, and, potentially, a human formation known as the “pyramid of moisture.” The first night is already sold out, so hop on tickets fast. With Well$.—DS [CAT’S CRADLE, $22–$25/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Legendary Norman Connors & The Starship Orchestra; 7 & 9:30 p.m., $28–$32. See Jan. 13 listing. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Urban Soil, Groove Fetish; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Branford Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo; 8 p.m., $10–$56. See box, page 29. • IRREGARDLESS: Glen Ingram; 11:30 am. George Knott Trio; 6p.m.

La Fiesta Latin Jazz Quintet; 9p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: ZOSO, Mojo Rising; 8:30 p.m., $14–$25. • LITTLE LAKE HILL: Chris Rosser; 8 p.m., $15.

• LOCAL 506: MKR, Gabriel David, Dissimilar South; 9 p.m., $8. See box,

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page 30. • LORRAINE’S COFFEE HOUSE & MUSIC: Donnie Fowler; 7:30p.m. • THE MAYWOOD: Suppressive Fire, Deathcrown, Dreaded, Noctomb; 8:30 p.m., $8. See page 18.

• RUBY DELUXE: DJ PlayPlay; 10p.m. • SLIM’S: Roar the Engines, Maldora; 9 p.m., $5. • THE STATION: hip-hop Jazz Saturdays; 2 p.m., free. • THE a tough nut SHED JAZZ CLUB: LevelUP Artist s to Showcase; 8p.m. • UNC’S HILL s, but Kooley HALL: Men’s Choral Invitational; 5:30 it look easy p.m., $5. • UNC FRIDAY CENTER: h the The Honeycutters; 8 p.m., $10–$12 • he crew UNVINED: Angela Bingham; 7:30ceptional 10:30p.m. r’s Heights unior and

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path. —DR [CAROLINA THEATRE, $30/3 P.M.]

John the Revelator REVEL South CarolinaIN IT based singer-songwriter Jake Garrett plays a noirish, swampy version of roots music pitched halfway between the crossroads hellscapes of Robert Johnson and the commodity-certifiable new-blues of the Black Keys.

While his tough-minded songcraft occasionally suffers from fussy production, the merit shines through. The Dapper Conspiracy opens. —EB [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

Koffin Kats PSYCHO If you’d ever BILLY wondered what the Misfits would sound like if they were a psychobilly band or what The Rev. Horton Heat would sound like if he focused more on the punk and less on the -abilly, here’s your answer. —PW [THE MAYWOOD, $10/8:30 P.M.]

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Sound System Seven; 7 p.m., $7. • DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3. • DUKE GARDENS: Mallarmé Chamber Players: Wild Woodwinds; 1 p.m., $5–$10. • IRREGARDLESS: Larry Hutcherson; 10 am. Steely O’ James and Irish Lassie; 6p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Cloud 91; 8:30 p.m., $10. • PAGE-WALKER ARTS & HISTORY CENTER: Celtic Moods and Melodies; 4p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Durty Dub, The Landing, Gabriel David; 9 p.m., $7. • POUR HOUSE: Mike Dillon Band, Zack Mexico; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • WEST END WINE BAR-DURHAM: Eric Meyer, Noah Sager & Friends; 4-6 p.m., free.

MON, JAN 16 THE CAVE: Michael Daughtry Band; 9 p.m., $5. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Dr. Eugene Chadbourne 2017 IWW Series: Many Friends; Jan 16, 8:30 p.m., $8. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10p.m. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5.

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Craft Gallery, Durham. www. zolacraftgallery.com.

2-Dimensional Art Show: Group show. Jan 17-Mar 22. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www. co.orange.nc.us/library/carrboro.

SPECIAL Art Happy Hour: EVENT Cut. It. Out with David Eichenberger: $25–$35.

Thu, Jan 12, 7 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

SPECIAL Dede Corvinus: EVENT Second Friday Artwalk. Fri, Jan 13, 6 p.m.

Womancraft Fine Handcrafted Gifts, Carrboro. www. womancraftgifts.com.

SPECIAL Soundings: Group EVENT audio show. Jan 13-Feb 18. Reception: Jan 13, 5-8 p.m. Power Plant Gallery, Durham. See box, p. 33.

SPECIAL This Land Is Your EVENT Land: Vaughn Bell.

Jan 17-Feb 8. Reception: Jan 18, 6-8 p.m./Workshop with the artist: 2-5 p.m. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Anywhere but here: Group show.

Thru Jan 20. Lump, Raleigh. www.teamlump.org.

Together: Group show.

Jan 12-Mar 5. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

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ONGOING 311 Gallery Annual Small Works Winter Arts Show: Mixed media. Thru Jan 28. 311 Gallery, Raleigh.

Three Old Coots: Art at Its Roots: Pottery, drawings, and paintings by Bobby Kadis, Steve Wainwright, and Abie Harris. Thru Jan 31. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

Ruth Ananda: Painting. Thru Jan 31. Bean & Barrel, Chapel Hill. www.beanandbarrel.com.

— Painting. Thru Jan 31. Zola

Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation: By examining the history of Indian immigrants as they assimilated into the U.S. and their contributions to American life—musical, political, culinary, scholarly, sporting, and cultural—this traveling Smithsonian exhibit reframes what it means to be an Indian American. Thru Apr 2. City of Raleigh Museum, Raleigh. —David Klein “We Can Do It!”: Group show.

Thru Jan 31. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www.localcoloraleigh. com.

Jarrett Burch: Paintings. Thru Feb 16. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www.eruuf.org.

Cascading Color: Elizabeth Kellerman. Thru Apr 16. Durham Convention Center. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.

Cecilia Guitarte, Susan Luster: Painting and ceramics. Thru Jan 25. Cary Gallery of Artists. www. carygalleryofartists.org.

LAST Chinese Lantern CHANCE Festival: This holiday spectacular returns to Koka Booth Amphitheatre to celebrate the Chinese New Year. More than twenty LED displays illuminate the woods surrounding Symphony Lake, including a fiery dragon, a pair of intricate swans, and a forest of trees with Santa and Frosty in the middle. The festival also hosts cultural performances and sells artisan crafts. $10-$15. Thru Jan 15. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. www.boothamphitheatre. com. —Erica Johnson

Collections: Leah Sobsey. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham.

Color Across Asia: Thru May 13, 2018. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org.

LAST Constants and CHANCE Unknowns: Mixed media by Randy McNamara.

Thru Jan 13. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org.

Consummation: St. George.

Thru Jan 21. Naomi Studio and Gallery, Durham. www.

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Corridor Exhibitions: Carrie Alter, Paula Baumann, Andie Freeman, Celia Gray, Judy Keene, and Don Mertz. Thru Mar 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Caroline Coven: Thru Jan 24.

HagerSmith Design Gallery, Raleigh. www.hagersmith.com.

Cuba Now: Photography by Elizabeth Matheson. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com.

Gordon Dean: Site-specific installation. Thru Feb 5.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Discover Your Governors: Thru Aug 6. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation: In this visually dazzling, politically charged exhibit, artists of international renown and local legends alike unravel clothing, costume, and ornament into identity politics, especially those pertaining to race. Through September. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels. com/durham. —Chris Vitiello

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Durham Voices from UNC School of Communications and Media: FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Flora and Fauna: Mixed media.

Thru May 14. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www. ackland.org.

Favorite Things: Thru Jan 28.

Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www.tippingpaintgallery.com.

LAST Finding Each Other CHANCE in History: Stories from LGBTQ+ Durham: Personal narratives. Thru Jan 15. Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

The Great Outdoors: Robert Thurston. Thru Jan 29. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

Flag Post: Derek Chan. Thru Jan 19. SPECTRE Arts, Durham. www.spectrearts.org.

Guin Down the Coast: Photography. Thru Feb 27. Bond Park Community Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

#Greenspaces: Paintings

by Judy Crane and Wendy Musser. Thru Feb 27. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: This is the first time in decades that NCMA has curated an exhibit from its British holdings of Old Master painting and sculpture. Thru Mar 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe LAST Inventing History: CHANCE Cherished Memories of Good Times That Never Happened: Drawings by Richard Chandler Hoff. Thru Jan 13.

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

FRIDAY, JANUARY 13

SOUNDINGS: PROTEST/ POLITICS/DISSENT You’d be forgiven for taking a break from the post-election news for your sanity’s sake. But there’s no better way to tune back in than with the opening reception of Power Plant Gallery’s Soundings, a sound exhibit that features digital audio works by more than twenty artists through Feb. 18. This politically charged exhibit covers front-page themes including climate change, migration, and incarceration, and includes a programmed schedule of special listening times for specific artists throughout its run. You’ll hear the album We Lost Half the Forest and the Rest Will Burn This Summer by Postcommodity, a collective based in the Southwest, before its inclusion in this year’s Whitney Biennial.

And French Afro-futurist Kapwani Kiwanga’s “Tongue” unpacks the loss and transformation of cross-cultural transmission. North Carolinabased artists Kirsten Stolle and Hong-Ân Truong are also included, as well as Duke experimental and documentary arts MFA alumni Jonna McKone and Mendal Polish, who guest-curates a Third Friday event on “the body and queer listening.” —Chris Vitiello

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Jake and Charlie: Folk Art

by Jake McCord and Charlie Lucas: Mixed media. Thru Jan 26. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. www. historichillsborough.org.

Jessina Leonard: Photography.

Thru Feb 28. Bull City Arts Collaborative: Upfront Gallery, Durham. www.bullcityarts.org.

Lost & Found: Paintings by Charles Williams. Thru Jan 21. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

My Favorite Things: Group show.

Thru Feb 4. Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh. leehansleygallery.com.

Natural Forces: Paintings and drawings. Thru Feb 5. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com.

Nature on Canvas: Brian Moyer.

Thru Jan 23. Herbert C Young Community Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

SPECIAL Nightscapes: EVENT Paintings by Charles Williams. Thru Jan 21. Artist talk: Thu, Jan 12, 7 p.m.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

SPECIAL Oceans and Moods: EVENT Drawings and paintings by Lyudmila Tomova.

Thru Feb 26. Reception: Jan 15, 1 p.m. The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist, Chapel Hill.

Passing Through: American Landscapes: Photography. Thru Jan 31. Crook’s Corner, Chapel Hill. www.crookscorner.com.

Planting Hope: Drawings. Thru Feb 5. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Plein Air Painter’s Group Showcase: Thru Jan 28.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

SPECIAL Post Mégantic: EVENT Photography by Michel Huneault. Thru Feb 18.

Reception: Jan 12, 6-8 p.m.

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

LAST JJ Raia: Photography.

CHANCE Thru Jan 14.

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

POWER PLANT GALLERY, DURHAM 5–8 p.m., free, www.powerplantgallery.com

Re-Surface: Regional Emerging Artists-in-Residence: Conner Calhoun and Kelly S. Murray.

Thru Jan 28. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

SPECIAL Resolutions 2017: EVENT Group show. Thru Jan 22. Reception: Jan 13, 6-9 p.m. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Stacy Bloom Rexrode: This resorceful artist puts a sharp feminist critique into her sculptural assemblages, beautiful and awful at once.

Dense proliferations of household and craft items associated with “women’s work” express overconsumption and the tidal pullback of valuation.

Rexrode’s construction prompts an open-mouthed “How’d she do that?” But it’s her rigor that will haunt you. Thru Jan 30. www. preservationchapelhill.org. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www.chapelhillpreservation.com.

—Chris Vitiello Rolling Sculpture: Art Deco Cars from the 1930s and ’40s: These ostentatious cars are the obscene baubles of the interwar

industrialists whose progeny are today’s rogue traders, junk bond kings, and profiteering Wells Fargo executives. But the cars offer a nuanced look at how design aesthetics responded to the production line and consumer culture with a mix of fantasy and faith. Thru Jan 15.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.—Chris Vitiello Selections from the Photography Collection: Thru Jan 22. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher. duke.edu.

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

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

Super Shitty Art Show: Group show. Thru Jan 20. Mercury Studio, Durham.

LAST Dawn Surratt: CHANCE Photography. Thru Jan 14. Through This Lens, Durham. www.throughthislens. com.

Textiles in Tiers: Trudy Thomson, Sandy Milroy, and Rose Warner. Thru May 25. National

Humanities Center, Durham. www.nationalhumanitiescenter. org.

Allison Tierney: Thru Mar 25.

HQ Raleigh, Raleigh.

LAST Traces: Drawings, CHANCE photography, and sculptural objects by Angela Eastman and Sonja Hinrichsen.

Thru Jan 14. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Transits and Migrations: A Summer in Berlin: Student photography. Thru Apr 15.

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

Unpacking the Past, Designing the Future: The Scrap Exchange and Lakewood in Partnership: Stories and artifacts. Thru Feb 11.

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

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

food FOOD EVENTS Amaro Wine Class: $40. Thu, Jan 12, 6 p.m. The Fearrington Granary, Pittsboro. www. fearrington.com.

CurEat Restaurant App Launch Party: Free. Fri, Jan 13, 5 p.m.

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RUBBER PEACOCK: A SEX-POSITIVE CABARET If you caught Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern’s first Rubber Peacock last January, a glam rock bacchanal of a fundraiser for the LGBTQ Center of Durham, you’re probably asking yourself how they could possibly top the spectacle of Dale Wolf channeling Iggy Pop and artistic director Jaybird O’Berski’s cosmic take on David Bowie’s Starman incarnation. This time, Maxine Eloi and Mara Thomas play sex-positive change agents determined to detonate the gender stereotypes that still plague us. Since it’s a cabaret, they’ll get some help along the way from George Michael, Prince, P.J. Harvey, and Joan Jett, and a cast including Madeleine Pabis, Germain Choffart, Dana Marks, and Jessica Flemming. —Byron Woods MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 8 p.m., $15–$18, www.motorcomusic.com

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Rubber Peacock: See box, this page.

African American Theater Preview Event: Dramatic readings, songs and commentaries from local playwrights. Sun, Jan 15, 6:30 p.m. www.africanamericanarts. org. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org.

Season 8: The Queens: Drag performance. $20–$150. Tue, Jan 17, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre. org.

De Profundis: Play. $15–$48.

Jan 11-15. PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill. www. playmakersrep.org. See p. 26.

Luenell: Stand-up comedy. $21. Jan 12-15. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Meredith College Dance Faculty Concert: Dance. $5–$10. Fri, Jan 13, 7:30 p.m. & Sat, Jan 14, 7:30 p.m. Meredith College: Jones Auditorium, Raleigh. www.meredith.edu.

Shamrock Breakdance Competition: $5–$10. Sun, Jan 15, 10 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www. kingsbarcade.com.

The Whipping Man: $15–$24.

Jan 13-29. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org.

ONGOING Anything Goes Late Show: free. Saturdays, 10:30 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.  Blackbird: Ray and Una should have never gotten

together. She was twelve and in the throes of a crush. He was forty-one. After Ray abducted and sexually abused her, he went to prison, served his sentence, and then restarted his life with a new name in a different town. Now, fifteen years later, Una has tracked him down at his new job to take care of some unfinished business. David Harrower’s harrowing drama won a 2007 Olivier Award for best new play in Britain before Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill starred in its 2016 Broadway revival. John Honeycutt and Katie Barrett star in this South Stream production; Brook North directs. $14–$18. Thru Jan 22.

Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh. www.sonorousroad.com.

—Byron Woods Bulltown Comedy Series: Free. Third Tuesdays, 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/ BulltownComedySeries.

Fullsteam, Durham. www. fullsteam.ag.

The Harry Show: Ages 18+.

Improv host leads late-night revelers through potentially risque games, with audience volunteers brought onstage to join in. $10. Fridays, 10 p.m. & Saturdays, 10 p.m.

ComedyWorx Theatre, Raleigh. comedyworx.com.

Under The Bridge Comedy Night Open Mic: Second Thursdays. London Bridge Pub, Raleigh. thelondonbridgepub. com.

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MOVIE MAKERS FIFTEENTH-ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION & SCREENING Most kids watch a movie and come away entertained; others feel a burning desire to make one of their own. The latter have propelled Movie Makers, which celebrates fifteen years as a resource for Triangle kids with movies on their minds. This Durham-based film-making school for young people began as Melissa Lozoff’s creative project after a twenty-year acting and entertainment career. She started with just two classes, in an era when the ability to film something was not a simple iPhone app away. The school’s offerings and participants have grown considerably since then. Still, the nitty-gritty work of cinema—story, character, blocking out scenes, costumes, sets, lighting, and props—remains the focus, with the kids involved every step of the way. And the curriculum doesn’t pander: silent movies, film noir, and medieval fantasy have all been the focus of recent Movie Makers projects for children, some still in their single digits. One constant is the showing of the kids’ work at the Varsity Theatre in Chapel Hill. Tonight’s showing, complete with door prizes and red carpet, features the latest works from each of the school’s three age groups, whose titles indicate their worldview nicely: the youngest give us “The Warlock Stone” while the oldest serve up “The Relationship.” Art imitates life at any age. —David Klein THE VARSITY THEATRE, CHAPEL HILL 2:30 p.m., free, www.movie-makers.net

SPECIAL SHOWINGS AV Geeks: “So You’re Thinking of Moving to Canada?”: $5.

Tue, Jan 17, 8 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www.kingsbarcade. com.

Desert Maverick: Fri, Jan 13, 7:30 p.m. James B. Hunt Jr. Library, Raleigh.

Gaslight: Fri, Jan 13, 8 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Thu, Jan 12, 8:30 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham. www. thepinhook.com.

Pseudo Cowboy: Wed, Jan 18, 8 p.m. Deep South the Bar, Raleigh. www.

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River of Grass: Thu, Jan 12, 7 p.m. Shadowbox Studio, Durham. www. shadowboxstudio.org.

A Roll for Peter: Fri, Jan 13, 8 p.m. UNEXPOSED, Durham. durhamunexposed.tumblr.com.

OPENING 20th Century Women—Mike Mills’s dramedy is based on his childhood in California in 1979. Rated R. The Bye Bye Man—Candyman for millennials? Rated PG-13. ½ Elle—Reviewed on p.

23. Rated R.

Live by Night—Ben Affleck wrote, directed, and stars in this Prohibition-era crime drama. Rated R. Monster Trucks—In this animated kids’ film, the title is literal. Rated PG  Patriots Day—Reviewed on p. 23. Rated R. Silence—Martin Scorsese’s historical epic follows Jesuits to Japan in the seventeenth century. Rated R.

A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  A Monster Calls—This visually dazzling animated fable is alternately honest and manipulative in dealing with a child’s suffering, but its messily-ever-after view is refreshing. Rated PG-13.  Arrival—Denis Villeneuve’s thoughtful aliens-to-Earth film, one of the year’s best, is less about first contact than first communication. Rated PG-13.  Doctor Strange— Marvel’s magic master’s feisty cape almost steals his movie.

Rated PG-13.  ½ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them—A Rowling-penned, promising start to a new Harry Potter franchise. Rated PG-13.  ½ Hidden Figures—

This true story of three black women triumphing over racism and sexism in the 1960s space race has a TV-movie softness but powerfully portrays bigotry and courage. Rated PG.

HH½ Jackie—Natalie Portman’s exceptional impersonation of Jackie Kennedy is cramped by a film that locks her in a tragic orbit. Rated R.  La La Land—Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash followup reunites Gosling and Stone for a breezy jazz musical with Technicolor charm. Rated PG-13.  ½ Manchester by the Sea—Casey Affleck’s brilliantly restrained performance as a traumatized handyman returning home after his brother’s death powers Kenneth Lonergan’s quotidian tragedy. Rated R.

HH½ Passengers—This glossy interstellar vehicle for provocative moral entanglements ultimately implodes from the pressure of its star-driven, crowdpleasing mission. Rated PG-13.  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story—This war flick set in the Star Wars universe takes place just before the first film. Rated PG-13.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14

YIDDISH STORIES WITH ELLEN CASSEDY AND SHEVA ZUCKER Though words like klutz and schlep are firmly ensconced in the English vernacular, speakers of the Yiddish language have greatly diminished since the Holocaust, and are now mostly confined to the Hasidic community. So the recent translation from Yiddish of stories by Blume Lempel, who came to the U.S. from what is now Ukraine at the outbreak of World War II and published stories in Yiddish up through the 1990s, offers an opportunity to reconsider a language whose greatest literary exponent, Isaac Bashevis Singer, employed liberal doses of magical realism. And mystical, mythical happenings do find their way into this collection, Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories, but these tales exist on an earthly plane that magic can’t redeem. One story is set in an abortion clinic; another plumbs the incest theme of the title.

At this reading, you’ll get a chance to hear Lempel’s words in their original language as well as in English via one of the book’s translators, Ellen Cassedy, and Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker.

—David Klein THE REGULATOR BOOKSHOP, DURHAM 7 p.m., free, www.regulatorbookshop.com

READINGS & SIGNINGS Ellen Cassedy, Sheva Zucker: Bilingual reading of Blume Lempel’s Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories.

Sat, Jan 14, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Caren Cooper: Citizen Science: How Ordinary People are Changing the Face of Discovery.

Thu, Jan 12, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Susan Rivers: The Second Mrs. Hockaday. Wed, Jan 11, 7 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com. — Sat, Jan 14, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www. mcintyresbooks.com.

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Ingrid Thoft: Duplicity. Sat, Jan 14, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www. mcintyresbooks.com.

Kendra Leonard: Lecture Series in Musicology: “On Hidden Narratives.” Fri, Jan 13, 4 p.m. Duke Campus: Biddle Music Building, Durham. music. duke.edu.

Jon Thompson: Strange Country. Sun, Jan 15, 2 p.m.

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

Branford Marsalis and Wayne Winborne in Conversation: Wed, Jan 11, 6 p.m. The Shed Jazz Club, Durham.

Luther Hodges, Jr.: Bank Notes: An Inside Look at the Launching of North Carolina’s Banking Ascendancy and a Commentary on the Current New World of Banking. Fri, Jan 13, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

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indy classifieds employment Living Kitchen will be hosting open interviews for all FOH and BOH positions from 1pm-5pm M-F January 11-13th and January 16th-20th at our newest location, 201 S. Elliot Rd in Chapel Hill (adjacent to Whole Foods). We are a 100% plant-based and organic restaurant looking to build a warm, friendly and excited team in anticipation of our early February opening. Please drop by to learn more. We look forward to meeting you.

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This the 11th day of January, 2017.

THE LINEBERRY LAW FIRM, P.C. _______________________ ______________ CHAS. M. LINEBERRY, JR. Attorney at Law N.C. State Bar No. 13018 3602 Wrightsville Avenue Wilmington, North Carolina 28403 Telephone: (910) 798-0600 Facsimile: (910) 798-0401 Attorney for Plaintiff

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