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AN ALLEGED PREDATOR. A SCHOOL LEADER ACCUSED OF A COVER-UP. A PRECEDENT-SETTING PROSECUTION. The INDY investigates what happened inside the Montessori School of Raleigh— and what it could mean for sexual-abuse cases everywhere.

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN AND COLE VILLENA, P. 10

AN OFFER WE CAN REFUSE, P. 6

PARKS AND PREPARATION, P. 8

THE DEATH OF JOHN WAYNE, P. 28

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK RALEIGH

VOL. 35, NO. 41

6 The Downtown Raleigh Alliance was set to make $200,000 a year off of a kiosk deal—until the city council put in limbo.

8 The price tag for Dix Park could exceed $300 million.

10 Nearly one in ten students reports being the target of school employee sexual misconduct between kindergarten and high school graduation.

19 German restaurant Guglhupf’s savory onion tart and white wine pairing is a remedy for Oktoberfest fatigue.

20 Nana’s Scott Howell goes from fancy to fast-casual with DeeLuxe Chicken.

23 Within a year of each other, Rachel and Corbie Hill both faced serious cancer diagnoses. Now, they need a little help.

28 Locally produced short-turned-feature Thunder Road pokes holes in the John Wayne ideal.

DEPARTMENTS 6 News 19 Food 23 Music 28 Arts & Culture 30 What to Do This Week 33 Music Calendar 36 Arts & Culture Calendar

Read our review of The Old Man & The Gun, starring Robert Redford, on p. 29.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED MAYNARD ROAD GRADE SEPARATION WAKE COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. P-5718 The N.C. Department of Transportation has rescheduled the public meeting for the proposed project to construct a grade separation of the N.E. Maynard Road rail crossing of the Norfolk Southern/N.C. Railroad Line and CSX Line to replace the atgrade crossing in Cary. The informal public meeting originally scheduled for Thursday, September 20, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, October 16, 2018 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Herbert C. Young Community Center, Meeting Room B located at 101 Wilkinson Avenue in Cary.

The purpose of this project is to eliminate rail-highway conflicts at the existing at-grade railroad crossing location on N.E. Maynard Road near its intersection with E. Chatham Street. The proposed project will improve vehicular mobility and safety at this location and the surrounding area.

The public may drop-in at any time during the meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and listen to comments regarding the project.

The opportunity to submit comments will also be provided at the meeting or via phone, email, or mail by October 31, 2018. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops. Please note that no formal presentation will be made.

Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/Pages/P-5718-2018-10-16.aspx.

For additional information, contact Matthew Potter, NCDOT Project Development Engineer at, 1553 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1553, 919-707-4738, or mwpotter@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Caitlyn Ridge, P.E., Environmental Analysis Unit Public Involvement Officer at ceridge1@ncdot.gov or 919-707-6091 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Las personas que no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes e la re unión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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An Offer We Can Refuse

A COMPANY WANTS TO PUT FREE WAYFINDING KIOSKS IN DOWNTOWN RALEIGH. THE CITY COUNCIL WON’T SAY YES. BY LEIGH TAUSS

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company has proposed a new electronic kiosk system for downtown Raleigh that would connect people to the closest restaurant, share real-time transportation information, and spread community alerts, and taxpayers wouldn’t have to pay for any of it.

Last week, the city council declined—at least for now.

Instead of allowing the legal department explore tweaking city code to allow the kiosks, the council opted to explore different wayfinding options, with some council members saying they were concerned about light pollution, data breaches, and that the kiosk’s advertisements could transform downtown into Las Vegas.

The council’s reaction was disappointing, says Downtown Raleigh Alliance president and CEO Kristopher Larson. The DRA has spent nearly two years working with kiosk vendor IKE Smart City on the project.

“It didn’t go as we hoped it would go, I think that’s clear,” Larson says. “There’s a lot of change that’s happening in this community, and change can be unsettling for folks.”

The DRA has been looking into establishing a wayfinding system downtown since 2015, with the goal of replacing the current static map system. After selecting IKE Smart City as a vendor, the DRA presented information on the kiosks to the council in July 2017. That November, council members unanimously voted to move forward, authorizing city staff to work with DRA and IKE on a plan to add fifteen kiosks downtown.

What changed? “We finally got to see what it really was, what saying yes really means,” says council member Kay Crowder. “Seeing something hypothetically is one thing, but when you get down to the elements of really what that means in order to accomplish it, I was slightly taken aback by what that means for our current sign ordinance.”

Headquartered in Ohio, IKE Smart City installs eight-foot-tall touchscreen kiosks pedestrians can use like a tablet to find businesses nearby, search job postings, look

up transportation options, take government surveys, and gain access to free Wi-Fi. Unlike content aggregated through online search engines, the kiosks display information based on proximity, promoting businesses that might not have the financial means to pay for search engine optimization.

The machines also collect pedestrian traffic data and monitor air quality. An emergency button to call 911 is optional.

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IKE covers the cost of installation and all ongoing maintenance fees in return for a cut of the revenue from the advertisements displayed as a screensaver when the kiosk is not in use. The DRA would receive about 15 percent of the ad revenue—about $200,000 a year, Larson estimates.

IKE is in the process of launching in fifteen markets throughout the country. In Denver, each of the company’s fifteen kiosk gets an average of 1,422 users a day.

The snag is that the city must update its strict sign ordinance to allow IKE’s advertisements, which city attorney Robin Tatum Currin says would need to apply to all signage in the district. While the city

could write the ordinance as narrowly as possible, Currin says the content in the ads can’t be regulated.

At a meeting last week, council member David Cox said he saw little difference between the kiosk and a billboard. Russ Stephenson was concerned the kiosks could become vulnerable to hacking, and wondered if a smartphone app could serve the same purpose. And Crowder put forth an extensive list of concerns, including light pollution and inundating downtown with ads.

“Though it is very cool and I like lots of aspects of it, what it does to our sign ordinance and the text change is alarming,” Crowder said. “I don't want to look like Las Vegas.”

The city has a smartphone app, Larson says, but hardly anyone uses it. When it launched in 2016, fourteen thousand people downloaded it. Last year there were eight thousand downloads, and this year the DRA only expects seven thousand.

“If you think about an analog from being in an airport or shopping mall, people don't download an app on their phone to figure out where they want to eat lunch, they use the wayfinding directory,” Larson says.

Council member Nicole Stewart, who said she tested the demo IKE installed at Union Station, pushed to explore IKE’s proposal further. “If we can do this, I don’t see the ad component being that onerous,” she said.

Her colleagues didn’t agree. They voted to direct the city staff to look into other wayfinding options and return with alternatives in two months, effectively leaving the IKE proposal in limbo.

While discouraged, Larson says the only thing really lost at this point is time and the potential revenue DRA could earn.

“It’s not as though the time is going to kill us, but we have businesses asking for this type of tool, we have families that come downtown and have no idea that there are great retailers that are kid-friendly within a block of there,” Larson says. ltauss@indyweek.com

NCDOT TO HOLD TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS REGARDING PROPOSED TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS TO U.S. 1 (CAPITAL BOULEVARD) FROM I-540 IN RALEIGH TO PURNELL ROAD/HARRIS ROAD IN WAKE FOREST WAKE COUNTY STIP PROJECT NO: U-5307 Two public meetings will be held to present information on State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) Project No. U-5307, which proposes to make improvements to U.S. 1 (Capital Boulevard) between I-540 in Raleigh and Purnell Road (S.R. 1909)/Harris Road (S.R. 1931) in Wake Forest. The meetings will take place on Tuesday, October 9 and Thursday, October 11 between 4 and 7 p.m. The same maps and information will be presented for review at both meetings.

Tuesday, October 9, 2018: 4-7 p.m.

Lifepoint Church 9500 Durant Road, Raleigh

Thursday, October 11, 2018: 4-7 p.m.

Renaissance Center 405 Brooks Street, Wake Forest

These meetings are being held in an effort to effectively involve the public in the project planning process and the important decisions that will be made regarding the proposed improvements.

The N.C. Department of Transportation is proposing to convert U.S. 1 (Capital Boulevard) to a controlled-access facility from I-540toPurnellRoad (S.R.1909)/Harris Road (S.R.1931). Controlled access means that access to U.S. 1 would be made by use of interchanges and that no direct driveway access would be allowed. The purposeoftheprojectisto improve traffic congestionand traveltimes andmaintain regional mobility and local connectivity.

Maps of the concepts and interchange options being considered for project U-5307 are available for viewing and downloading from the NCDOT public meetings website: www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/ Additional information is available and comments may be made directly by visiting NCDOT’s public engagement platform for this project: www.ncdot.publicinput.com/US-1-Capital-Boulevard.

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Every Wednesday.

An opportunity to discuss the project with NCDOT and Consultant team members, ask questions, and provide feedback will be available. Interested citizens may attend at any time between 4 and 7 p.m. as no formal presentation will be made. Attendees will also have the opportunity to submit written comments and questions until November 11, 2018.

For more information on project U-5307, please contact NCDOT Project Manager David Stark by email at dstark@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact: Ms. Diane Wilson at (919) 707-6073 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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All Things to All People

THERE’S STILL TIME TO TELL RALEIGH OFFICIALS WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE IN DIX PARK BY LEIGH TAUSS

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ooking over a scale model of the future Dorothea Dix Park at Union Station last week, people saw different things. Some envisioned a scenic retreat. Others said they were more drawn to the park’s amenities—athletic fields or concerts at the amphitheater and in on-site event halls.

And that’s the point: Downtown Raleigh’s much-heralded destination park is supposed to have something for everyone. Yet in trying to be all things to all people, the city will have to navigate a broad range of concerns, from transportation accessibility to how Dix will affect nearby housing affordability.

The city unveiled the park’s draft master plan last week as part of a community session to solicit public input on the park. The city purchased the 308-acre site of the former mental hospital for $52 million in 2015 and retained the firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates to design it. While there’s no hard price tag yet on the park’s development, the firm’s previous projects have cost about $1 million per acre, according to city planning supervisor Kate Pearce.

The plan divides the park into six distinct sections sewn together by a one-mile pedestrian loop. The first is the Downtown Gateway, a transitional area with playscapes and picnic areas. The second is The Valley, which will focus on large-scale events with a seven-thousand-person-capacity amphitheater. The third is called The Ridge, which will transform some of the site’s historic buildings into a hotel, event space, and visitor center. The fourth is The Creek, which will widen Rocky Branch Creek and provide access to natural habitats. Fifth, there’s The Grove, which will have recreation fields, botanical gardens, and a dog park. And finally, there’s The Meadow, a large field for residents to hang out, smell the flowers, and throw Frisbees.

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Tom Simon studies a scale model of the future Dorothea Dix Park.

Services, will be torn down. (The DHHS lease extends to 2025, Pearce says.)

Residents have the next couple weeks to provide feedback before a master plan is presented to the city council in February. If it’s approved, work could begin on some of the unleased parcels as early as 2021. Construction will happen in phases over the next two decades, “depending on resource ability,” Pearce says.

Resident Ruby Green says she’s excited about the project, but she has some concerns, including what would happen to DHHS services such as vocational rehab.

“Where are they going?” Green asked. A DHHS spokesman could not be reached for comment, but Pearce says the agency is actively exploring options for a new, consolidated campus somewhere else.

Jackie Turner, meanwhile, said she was impressed by the scope of the plans but worried that the park could price out residents currently living in surrounding neighborhoods. “[The city needs] to be more aggressive

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to mitigate the impacts of those who feel they may be displaced,” Turner said. “But the answer is not to do nothing. It’s a delicate balance.”

“Great urban parks do positively impact property values,” Pearce says. The city’s planning department is looking into what exactly that impact will be. Proactive measures could preserve affordable neighborhoods around the park, Pearce says, and she expects that an affordability study will be brought before the city council next month.

For Tom Simon, transportation planning will be key to avoid the park turning into a nightmare. Simon said he hoped plans would include multiple public transit options for accessing the park.

As detailed as the city’s presentation was, nothing is set in stone, Pearce says.

“If we’re mindful in ensuring this is equitable for all, then this can continue to be a great place to live for everyone,” Pearce says.

To learn more or submit feedback, visit dixpark.org. ltauss@indyweek.com

NCDOT TO CONDUCT PUBLIC MEETING OCTOBER 16 REGARDING PROPOSED WIDENING OF FALLS OF NEUSE ROAD BETWEEN I-540 AND DURANT ROAD IN RALEIGH, WAKE COUNTY STIP No. U-5826 The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold an open-house public meeting to present an updated design for the proposed widening of Falls of Neuse Road between I-540 and Durant Road in Raleigh, Wake County.

The meeting will be held on October 16th at Lifepointe Church located at 9500 Durant Rd in Raleigh from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Following the public meeting held in August 2017, citizen comments were reviewed and meetings were held with local officials. As a result, modifications were made to the public meeting maps.

Modified maps will be presented at this meeting. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments regarding the project.

Please note that no formal presentation will be made. All comments received will be taken into consideration as the project progresses.

As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT Public Meeting Website: www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/

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Anyone desiring additional information may contact Senior Project Engineer, John Braxton by phone (919) 707-6219 or email jwbraxton@ncdot.gov.

Comments should be submitted by November 1, 2018.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting.

Anyone requiring special services should contact Diane Wilson, NCDOT Senior Public Involvement Officer by phone (919) 707-6073 or by email pdwilson1@ncdot.gov as early as possible, so that these arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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MONSTER IN THE CLASSROOM

An alleged predator.

A school leader accused of a cover-up.

A precedent-setting prosecution.

The INDY investigates what happened inside the Montessori School of Raleigh—and what it could mean for sexual-abuse cases everywhere.

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Editor’s note: Throughout this story, the names of two sexual abuse survivors and their parents have been changed to protect their privacy and for clarity, including when they—or their pseudonyms or initials—appear in documents and police and court records.

PART I:

“PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES”

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aroline Eidson knew something was wrong.

It wasn’t just that Nick Smith had boundary issues, or that his middle-school students at the Montessori School of Raleigh viewed him less like an authority figure and more like a friend. (“He seemed like one of us,” one recalls.)

It wasn’t even Smith’s peculiar closeness with some adolescent girls—and one ninth grader in particular—or that his unnerving behavior during a school trip had led another girl to complain to her father.

In isolation, perhaps, each of these things could be explained. But to Eidson, MSR’s middle school language-arts director, the totality suggested something more disquieting. So a few weeks before the 2012–13 school year began, she took her concerns to her new boss.

Nancy Errichetti, who’d become head of school just a month earlier, was evidently troubled by what Eidson told her.

On August 7, 2012, according to an email exchange obtained by the INDY, she told Eidson that she’d “had time to reflect on what you shared with me and also to seek advice from our school attorney. … I am also virtually certain I will not allow [Smith] to attend the overnight in two weeks”—a reference to one of several chaperoned trips MSR students take throughout the year.

Errichetti asked Eidson to put in writing what she’d seen and heard. On August 13, Eidson did, cataloging a series of anecdotes from the previous two years. In October 2010, she wrote, during an overnight trip to a farm, “Nick was in one of the girls’ rooms … late into the night (about 11:00) for a ‘gossip session.’” In March 2011, during an overnight trip to Chapel Hill, Smith—the only chaperone—played a game of “Would You Rather?” with a group of teenage girls in their hotel room. One of the girls’ fathers told the INDY that Smith entered the room, where three boys were on one bed and three girls were on the other, told the boys to leave,

turned on an R-rated movie, and asked the girls if they’d rather kiss a particular male MSR student or a female student.

After the father relayed the incident to the school’s Board of Trustees, Smith was informally reprimanded: “Nick told me that [then-head of school Meg Thomas] told him that he needed to be careful in his interactions with the girls but that she was not going to put the parent’s written concern in his file,” Eidson wrote to Errichetti.

Then came, in hindsight, the most consequential revelation: In January 2012, Eidson wrote, she observed Smith and a ninth grader, Stephanie Johnson (not her real name), “working alone in the math room for several weeks. … Starting about the middle of the year, they started to go up to the Pottery Shack alone during [study hall].” The Pottery Shack is a metal outbuilding on MSR’s sprawling, secluded Brier Creek secondaryschool campus used for arts and crafts.

That spring, Eidson continued, “I observed Nick and Stephanie going to and/ or returning from the Pottery Shack on 2 occasions after school. … As well, I observed several times when Nick and Stephanie spent recess together, walking alone up and down the road leading to the [middle school].” In addition, she wrote, during a trip to Charleston, South Carolina, a teacher witnessed Smith and Stephanie “on the beach alone playing with one another’s hands.” (Eidson, who left MSR in 2013, declined to comment for this story.)

The day after Eidson’s email, Errichetti admonished Smith, a thirty-one-year-old N.C. State graduate who’d taught math at MSR since 2006. He was forced to sign a “behavioral plan” that included such “directives for professional conduct” as: “You should never socialize or interact with students in a way that you would socialize or interact with adults”; “You are not to be alone with any student on school property or on school trips”; and “You are not to enter a ‘girls’ [sic] hotel room on school trips.”

“Failure to abide by the directives in this plan … will result in a first warning as outlined by the Employee Handbook,” the plan concluded.

A few weeks later, Eidson informed Errichetti that, on a trip in early August, Smith had gone to the girls’ floor of a hotel to wake them up. “While what he did is certainly not as egregious as some of his previous behavior,” Eidson wrote in an email, “there really is no reason that he needs to approach the girls’ rooms at all when there are female chaperones who can do it instead.” This prompted Eidson to ask, “Is it your expectation that Nick will not go on trips at this point? He is making plans … to go to the beach for an intersession trip in

October and has offered to go on any and all trips that arise. My previous understanding was that you did not want him to go on trips.

Is this still the case?”

“My conversation with Nick was explicit and thorough,” Errichetti replied. “Given our understanding at the time, there was no need for me to excuse him from trips.

Unless I get some real clarity about this recent choice, this may change.”

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t didn’t change.

Nicholas Conlon Smith continued teaching at MSR—and chaperoning trips— until November 7, 2017, when he was arrested on more than twenty charges of statutory rape and child pornography stemming from a sexual relationship Raleigh police say he had with Stephanie in 2011 and 2012. Smith is currently in the Wake County jail on a bond of more than $3 million and faces decades behind bars.

In January, Stephanie, her younger sister Kristen (also not her real name), and their parents filed a lawsuit against Smith, Errichetti, and MSR, alleging not only that Smith had abused Stephanie on the school’s watch but that he’d later molested Kristen as well. (In March, a grand jury indicted Smith on separate charges of grabbing Kristen’s breasts and buttocks and attempting to kiss her.) The lawsuit claims the school “willfully failed to take appropriate actions that would have prevented the egregious sexual molestation of [Smith’s] young female students, including but not necessarily limited to Stephanie and Kristen.”

MSR stood by its head of school. When the INDY reported on the lawsuit in early May, the Board of Trustees said in a statement that it “supports our school’s leadership and will vigorously defend our school’s actions.” Errichetti remained on the job, collecting a salary of about $200,000, according to court documents, up from the nearly $158,000 tax records show her making a few years earlier.

If that’s where the story ended, this might be just another teacher-sex scandal with the not-so-uncommon twist of a school accused of failing to intervene. But it’s not.

On May 15, a Wake County grand jury took the unprecedented step of indicting Errichetti on charges of aiding and abetting Smith in taking indecent liberties with a child and of contributing to the delinquency and neglect of a minor. In recent years, a handful of school administrators around the country have been prosecuted on misdemeanor charges of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse, but this was different: The aiding-and-abetting count is a felony that carries the possibility of more than three years in prison.

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By all accounts, no charges like these have ever been brought in North Carolina—perhaps, even, anywhere in the United States. Wake County assistant district attorney Melanie Shekita, a veteran sex crimes prosecutor, told the INDY she’s “unfamiliar with any similar cases.” Advocates and experts say they aren’t either.

Making the charges stick won’t be easy, legal experts say. The indictment accuses Errichetti of not just failing to report Smith—which would be rare enough, as only one such case was brought in North Carolina in 2017—but with “unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously” facilitating his abuse. To convict her, says Jeff Welty, director of the N.C. Judicial College at the UNC School of Government, Shekita must convince jurors that Errichetti either knew about sexual abuse and declined to act or that she ignored obvious “red flags” and was “playing ostrich.”

The charges are “never gonna fly,” says Steve Saad, a former Wake County prosecutor turned criminal defense lawyer.

“Never gonna fly.”

Errichetti’s indictment didn’t happen in a vacuum. Over the last year, the #MeToo movement has brought to the foreground a parade of powerful men who used their privilege to abuse women. Perhaps more germane, high-profile sex-abuse scandals involving the Catholic church and Penn State, Michigan State, and Ohio State universities—as well as more everyday incidents of educator misconduct—have exposed officials who protected predators instead of stopping them.

“Every case we see, somebody knew something,” says Carmen Durso, a Boston attorney whose firm specializes in representing sexual abuse survivors. In response, he says, prosecutors have been taking a more aggressive posture toward administrators, signaling that “they’re gonna be charged if they sit back and let things happen.” To date, however, they’ve been “a little reluctant to send them to jail,” instead opting to “give them a record and get them the hell out of education.”

But in Wake County, the District Attorney’s Office is taking a harder line, targeting Errichetti as if she were Smith’s accomplice.

“That’s where we’d like to see all prosecutors going with these cases,” says Terri Miller, president of the organization Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct and Exploitation. “Because when they do fail to make these reports, it is deliberate child endangerment.”

Through her attorney, Errichetti declined an interview request. But since her arrest, MSR has insisted that, while Errichetti

tried to address Smith’s boundary issues, the head of school wasn’t aware of allegations of sexual abuse and shouldn’t be held responsible for the teacher’s actions.

If anything, her defenders argue, Errichetti isn’t the villain, but rather a victim of an overzealous prosecutor.

For the last five months, the INDY has probed these dueling narratives, as well as the turmoil that has engulfed MSR, drawing on dozens of interviews, court and police records, and internal emails and documents not yet made public. The first comprehensive look at what happened at MSR, this investigation reveals that, in 2016, Errichetti was told not only about Smith’s boundary issues, but also that he’d touched Kristen Johnson’s thigh and grabbed her hips. Despite that, and despite Eidson’s warning four years earlier, Errichetti did not report Smith to the authorities, nor did she fire him.

Whether this inaction rises to the level of criminal conduct is a complicated question.

What is clear, however, is that if Stephanie Johnson hadn’t broken her silence, Nick Smith might still be in an MSR classroom today.

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or five years after she matriculated out of MSR, Stephanie said nothing to her parents or siblings, let alone the cops. But last fall, when Stephanie was a junior in college, Kristen confided in her that Smith had fondled her, according to police records.

After that, things moved quickly.

Stephanie disclosed her and her sister’s relationships with Smith to a college counselor. The counselor called Child Protective Services, which called the Raleigh Police Department on September 28, 2017. By October 9, a detective was assigned to the case. On November 7, with the sisters’ statements in hand, police had Smith in handcuffs.

Taken together, police records and documents from the Johnsons’ lawsuit paint a vivid and at times graphic picture of the abuse the sisters say occurred at MSR between the fall of 2011, when Stephanie entered ninth grade (the final year of Montessori middle school), and the spring of 2016, when Kristen abruptly exited the school. According to these documents, Smith began flirting with and “grooming” Stephanie for sexual abuse in 2009, when she was twelve and in seventh grade.

Soon after Stephanie started ninth grade, Smith kissed her in the Pottery Shack. Not long after, he began raping her, police say. According to a probable cause affidavit, “These acts took place on a regular basis” throughout the school year.

Smith and Stephanie “sent and received

sexually explicit photos to one another,” which Smith saved onto his computer in a password-protected file to hide from his then-wife, according to the affidavit.

(They divorced in 2014.) Smith told Stephanie that he “loved her,” the lawsuit says, and assured her they had a normal “boyfriend-girlfriend” relationship.

Stephanie was one of just eight students in her ninth-grade class that year—three girls and five boys. Like the rest, she called her teachers by their first names, but she called Smith “Senior,” perhaps because there was once another Nick on MSR’s staff. That nickname had an unintentional irony: Despite a receding hairline, Senior looked youthful, almost boyish. He was friendly and easygoing, popular among most teachers and students.

When Stephanie left MSR, their relationship ended, the records say, though they chatted online until three months before Smith’s arrest. According to the lawsuit, “As Stephanie grew older, [Smith] stated to Stephanie that he would take his own life if she ever told anyone about their relationship.”

After Kristen started seventh grade at MSR in 2014, police and court records say, Smith began to repeat the grooming pattern. Kristen later told police that, on several occasions during her eighth-grade year, Smith touched her hips, thighs, and breasts, including once when he groped her breast at a Harris Teeter. More rebellious and less deferential to authority than her older sister—and also forewarned about Smith by an older stepsister who’d also gone to MSR—Kristen fought off her teacher’s advances. In March 2016, Smith attempted to friend Kristen on Snapchat.

Kristen blocked him, and Smith got angry.

Two months later, Kristen’s parents found out and complained to Errichetti— both about the social media overture and “that Nick Smith has been touching Kristen and pursuing a personal relationship with her,” according to documents the INDY has obtained.

Errichetti, the lawsuit says, told the Johnsons that “she did not believe what she was being told, and she refused to take any action with respect to their complaints.”

It’s not fully accurate that Errichetti took no action, just that she didn’t do so right away. About three weeks later, on June 2, 2016, she had Smith sign a second behavioral plan, virtually identical to the one he’d signed in 2012, including directives not to be alone with students and to avoid girls’ hotel rooms. The only difference: a warning that a third offense could lead to termination.

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he dates of Smith’s two behavioral plans—August 14, 2012, and June 2, 2016—form the bookends of Errichetti’s indictment, between which she “did aid and abet Nicholas Smith, to take or attempt to take immoral, improper, or indecent liberties with Kristen. … Specifically, the defendant had previously [sic] knowledge of inappropriate behavior toward other students in whose care he was entrusted as a school teacher, the defendant, as head master [sic] was in a position to act and failed to do so, which resulted in Kristen being sexually abused.”

This raises two questions, the first straightforward, an issue of fact: What exactly did Errichetti know? The second is a matter of interpretation, ambiguous even in state law: At what point would Errichetti have known enough that not going to the cops was aiding and abetting him— the legal equivalent to driving a getaway car after a robbery?

A teacher sending an unwanted Snapchat request might be inappropriate, but it’s not criminal. Neither, for that matter, is engaging teenagers in a game of “Would You Rather?” Smith holding hands with Stephanie would arouse suspicion, but even that isn’t explicitly sexual behavior.

That’s the school’s position—that Errichetti didn’t know enough to have committed a crime. In an email to faculty the day after her arrest, the Board of Trustees said it had “no information or evidence that Nancy was aware of any sexual assault.

When presented with concerns about Nick Smith’s professional boundaries, Nancy took those concerns very seriously.” During a forum with teachers a day after that, a board member added, “We have absolutely no data whatsoever, no behavioral plans, no anything that suggests that Nancy had any awareness of any inappropriate sexual behavior whatsoever. The charge against her stems from concerns related to Nick Smith’s professional boundaries that were shared with her [during] her first month of school,” a reference to Eidson’s email.

This distinction is important.

“The prosecution’s case against her is going to rise and fall on what she knew,” says Doriane Lambelet Coleman, a Duke law professor. Specifically, she says, it’s going to rise and fall on whether Errichetti knew not only that Smith was behaving improperly, but whether she knew that he had engaged in “sexual touching”—in other words, touching the genitals, buttocks, breasts, or kissing.

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Kristen, she added, “also apparently stated that you have done similar things to” another female student, who was on the Europe trip.

“Therefore, I want you to exercise particular caution in your dealings with [her].”

Errichetti’s response to Kristen’s allegations appears to run counter to the protocol outlined in MSR’s 2015–16 Employee Handbook, which says that when the head of school is told of suspected abuse, she must report it to authorities. “The Head of School,” the handbook says, “is not to act as a screener of reports, but as a liaison or channel.”

But Errichetti didn’t alert social services or the police. And because MSR failed to protect Kristen, the Johnsons’ lawsuit says, she “was forced to leave the school.”

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aiding-and-abetting charge is rooted in the idea that Errichetti’s failure to act in 2012 enabled Smith to abuse Kristen years later. But there is evidence that, in May 2016, Errichetti was told that Smith had inappropriately touched Kristen.

In a May 6 letter to Errichetti, which the INDY has obtained, the Johnsons lodged a formal complaint against Smith. If his behavior continued unabated, they wrote, they’d have to withdraw Kristen from the school. “As a result of Mr. Smith’s unprofessional behavior,” they added, “Kristen has experienced considerable distress this semester. This has included tears, worry, anxiety, anger, embarrassment, stomach aches, and confusion.”

They explained that they’d found text messages between Kristen and one of her siblings in which Kristen described Smith’s conduct. “In addition to what Kristen describes in the text messages,” they wrote, “she reports that Mr. Smith has called her away from classwork to ask about how she feels about him, and why she doesn’t like him. She states that she feels like ‘his eyes undress me’ and is ‘creeped out by him.’ …

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trying to have unwanted non-academic conversations with her.”

The Johnsons also sent Errichetti transcripts of Kristen’s recollections of her conversations with Smith. In April, they wrote, Smith pulled Kristen out of a humanities class and ordered her to sit on a swing; she refused, saying she’d rather stand, and pointed out that the entire class could see them.

“You’re being disrespectful to me,” Smith told her, according to the parents’ account. “I feel like you’re doing this on purpose. You don’t treat me like the other teachers. … Every time you look at me, you give me a death stare. I know you’re deliberately making me uncomfortable by the way you are treating me.”

Later in the conversation, Kristen told Smith point-blank why she didn’t like him: “Don’t act like you haven’t done this before. My sisters warned me about you.”

“Which one?” Smith asked.

“My sister,” Kristen said. A source familiar with the Johnsons’ version of events says Kristen was referring to her stepsister, who is younger than Stephanie but older than her and also went to MSR. The stepsister is not part of the family’s lawsuit, and Smith has not been accused of abusing her.

“I get it now what they meant,” Kristen continued. “… I feel violated and uncomfortable. I don’t feel good at school. I just want to finish and get out of here.”

“Am I the reason that you hate this school?” Smith asked.

“Yes. You are a big part of it, and other stuff, too.”

Once again, Errichetti was alarmed. At 10:33 p.m. on May 9, 2016, Errichetti fired off an email to Smith, who’d recently left to chaperone a middle-school trip to Europe.

“The Johnsons,” she wrote, “delivered a package to me today containing a letter and other information outlining allegations against you with regard to their daughter … including inappropriate touching and conversations, and a recent attempt by you to engage with her on Snapchat.”

Errichetti continued: “I will conduct a full investigation upon your return. In the meantime, I expect you to comport yourself as the highest level professional in carrying out your duties as an MSR teacher on this trip. You need to exercise impeccable judgment, make sure you are never alone with any student and that you do not enter any student hotel rooms for any reason. If you are engaging in social media with any students, you need to immediately cease those activities.”

ven before Nancy Errichetti’s arrest, MSR was racked by turmoil.

Afterward, things only got worse.

By the end of the school year, MSR had lost at least one-fifth of its seventy-eight faculty members. More departed over the summer. Six faculty members, including outspoken Errichetti critics, were let go. Some remaining teachers worried they’d be fired for speaking out, too. Some parents pulled their kids amid the tumult.

The tension boiled over to the point that school officials were worried MSR would collapse entirely. In late May, after a meeting between Board of Trustees and faculty, a teacher sent an email to MSR’s staff: “The board members would like for us to present a unified front for the parents. This would help reduce the risk of further family departures and help make certain that the school is able to open in the fall.”

In interviews over the summer, several members of the MSR community wondered the same thing: Why was the board so determined to stick with Errichetti, when many schools would have dropped her at the first hint of scandal?

For months, the INDY sought answers to this and other questions, requesting interviews with board members either directly or through the school’s spokespeople. In late August, after these efforts proved fruitless, the INDY submitted eighteen detailed questions to MSR’s Board of Trustees. In late September, the school responded with a four-sentence statement attributed to chairman Joe Lee that concluded, “At this time, we do not believe it is appropriate,

helpful, or productive to comment on these matters outside of the legal process.” (In August, the school’s lawyers also filed a motion to prevent Robby Jessup, the Johnsons’ attorney, from sharing the contents of depositions with the media.)

Among those unanswered questions is why Errichetti, now fifty-five, was hired to helm the school in the first place. On paper, she wasn’t an obvious choice. She’d never run a school before—let alone one with four hundred students that charges up to $19,390 in tuition—and had a limited background in Montessori culture.

A decade and a half before she was appointed head of school, Errichetti was a New York City lawyer married to Goldman Sachs vice president Evan Misshula.

When she decided to get pregnant with the first of their three children, she left her law firm and started a consulting business for Big Apple parents, according to a 1998 book she co-authored called Who Knew Raising Kids in New York Could Be This Easy? Soon after, Misshula started his own hedge fund, and in 2002 they exchanged their Park Avenue apartment for a five-bedroom house in Greenwich, Connecticut.

By 2004, however, the hedge fund had gone belly up, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents, and Errichetti had moved with their three kids to California, where she took a fundraising job at a private school in Los Angeles, according to court records and her LinkedIn page. Then, in 2006, Misshula pleaded guilty to mail fraud as part of a scheme to defraud investors of more than half a million dollars. He was sentenced to twentyone months in federal prison, and in 2007, Errichetti filed for legal separation. The next year, she was granted a divorce.

In 2010, Errichetti moved to Raleigh, where her older sister lived, and accepted a position as MSR’s director of development and alumni relations. Within two years, she was appointed head of school. While some members of the MSR community were skeptical of her inexperience, others welcomed Errichetti’s energy and drive.

At first, says Janie Jackson, former director of MSR’s Children’s House, Errichetti seemed open to listening and learning from the school’s faculty. But that didn’t last long, her critics say. “I think ultimately, what Nancy’s agenda was, was to be a rock star that made the circuit nationally about, ‘Look what this woman did,’” says Jackson.

It wasn’t so much what she did, her detractors say, but how she did it: “She was harsh; she was brash; she was demoralizing all of the people who she felt were going to get in her way,” a former teacher says.

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MONTESSORI METHOD There are more than four thousand accredited Montessori schools in the United States, and they’ve educated everyone from Jeff Bezos to Stephen Curry to Beyoncé.

The Montessori method, developed

by Italian educator Maria Montessori in the early twentieth century, emphasizes child-directed education. The most distinctive component is the use of multi-age classrooms. The Montessori program is built around three-year cycles, in which students remain in the same classroom for three consecutive years, with older kids matriculating out of that cycle and younger kids coming in. Learning alongside children of varying ages mimics the outside world, where students will “work and socialize with people of all ages and dispositions,” the American Montessori Society explains on its website.

Another unique feature is a lack of graded work. “The Montessori approach nurtures the motivation that comes from within, kindling the child’s natural desire to learn,” the AMS says.

“A self-motivated learner also learns to be self-sufficient, without needing reinforcement from outside.”

Students complete classwork at their own pace, with teachers and administrators guiding them.

“Montessori teachers guide rather than instruct,” the AMS says, “linking each student with activities that meet his interests, needs, and developmental level. The classroom is designed to allow movement and collaboration, as it also promotes concentration and a sense of order.”

This sort of pedagogy engenders more informal relationships between teachers and their students.

“One of the unique things about MSR was the close relationships students had with the teachers,” says a former student who was in middle school with Stephanie Johnson and had Nick Smith for a teacher. “At the time, Smith’s relationships with all his students, not just [Stephanie], didn’t seem weird. But having experienced plenty more studentteacher relationships in high school and college, I can now see how his relationships with all his students were actually a little weird.” —Cole Villena INDYweek.com | 10.10.18 | 15

Some faculty members began to view her as a micromanager who brooked no dissent. “Her tenure was tumultuous,” says a teacher who left several years ago. “Tyrant sounds like the right word. Staff morale was very rocky.”

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f course, these denunciations—sometimes from people with axes to grind— only tell one side of the story. Indeed, the board thought highly enough of Errichetti not only to keep her around but to give her at least two significant raises in six years, according to tax records and court documents.

Errichetti notched several significant accomplishments at MSR. She oversaw the completion of a high school, which now features an international baccalaureate program, making MSR one of only three independent schools in the state to offer students the opportunity to earn an IB diploma. She supervised the construction of a new upper school building and led a successful capital campaign to fund it. During her tenure, the school also built a new high school gym, administrative offices, a new fine arts center, and broke ground on a soccer field. And earlier this year, the American Montessori Association reaccredited MSR with what the school describes as “overwhelmingly positive feedback.”

Some of the tension between Errichetti and the school’s faculty could be ascribed to cultural differences. Montessori schools tend to have less structured and more freewheeling environments than traditional schools, with an emphasis on independent exploration, collaboration, and critical thinking (see sidebar, page 15). Errichetti, the Manhattan lawyer, wanted to get things done. It’s not difficult to imagine how those approaches could clash.

But it would be wrong to dismiss Errichetti’s critics as a small contingent of malcontents. Meetings the board held with parents and faculty after Errichetti’s arrest made clear the head of school had few allies among them. In recordings of these meetings provided to the INDY, parents and teachers grilled board members about their unflinching defense of Errichetti, the lack of trust within the school, and the fact that several popular teachers were shown the door without a good explanation—or, at least, an explanation that didn’t smack of petty grievance.

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“That’s where we’d like to see prosecutors go in all these cases.

Because when they fail to make these reports, it is deliberate child endangerment.” board president, while a sixth approached board members with questions about the school’s leadership structure, sources say.

By April 30, 2018—what one former teacher calls “Massacre Monday”—Errichetti had dispatched all but one of the six.

Four saw their contracts not renewed for 2018–19, while another was fired during the 2017–18 school year.

In June and in August, two teachers whose contracts weren’t renewed sued for wrongful termination. Both were among the group that approached the board, but they don’t claim that’s why Errichetti fired them. Instead, they say it’s because they cooperated with the police investigation into Nick Smith.

The first lawsuit, filed by Janie Jackson, lays out a timeline in support of her case: On April 19, Jackson was given her student roster and class assignment for the upcoming year, an indication that the school planned to keep her around. On April 24, as part of the discovery process in the Johnson lawsuit, the school received a summary of Jackson’s interview with the Raleigh police from November—“the first time Defendants became aware of Plaintiff cooperating with police.” (In that interview, the lawsuit says, Jackson told police about an end-of-year party in 2015 in which a retiring teacher regaled the audience with a story about Smith getting drunk with students. Errichetti responded by putting her fingers in her ears and saying, “Stop, I don’t want to hear this.”)

On April 30, the lawsuit says, Jackson was summoned to a meeting with

Errichetti and told her services would no longer be needed. Errichetti “refused to tell [Jackson] why her employment was being terminated, beyond saying that she no longer fit the ‘culture’ of the school” where she had taught for nine years.

The second lawsuit, filed by a physical education teacher who had been at MSR for seventeen years, tells a similar story.

Chris Keown’s lawsuit says he spoke to police in November, the school found out in April, and he was let go a week later without being given a “substantive reason.”

In his lawsuit, Keown claims he “personally witnessed [Errichetti] orally discouraging faculty and staff at [MSR] from cooperating or speaking with the Raleigh Police Department,” and “personally witnessed [Errichetti] orally telling faculty and staff at [MSR] to come to her with any information they thought was relevant to the police investigation as opposed to going to the police.”

The school denies both teachers’ claims.

In a statement to the INDY in June, Joe Lee said Jackson’s lawsuit “wrongly attempts to tie her employment status to a tragic and unrelated event in our school’s history. The decision not to renew this teacher’s contract had absolutely nothing to do with her cooperation with the police.”

And in an email to MSR families in September, the board said Keown was “given specific reasons about why his contract was not renewed, and those reasons were based entirely on his job performance and productivity.”

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“BRIGHT FUTURE”

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y any measure, Nancy Errichetti had a horrible year.

Last September, she suffered the sudden death of her oldest daughter, a junior at UNC-Wilmington.

Two months later, Nick Smith was arrested. Two months after that, the Johnsons sued Errichetti. Two months after that, an anonymous letter circulated among MSR families accusing Errichetti and the school’s leaders of “holding the faculty in a state of fear” and creating a “culture of lies” that led to a school that “is broken beyond anything imaginable.”

And then, two months after that, Errichetti was arrested. The salacious story was picked up by the Associated Press. Her mugshot—watery eyes, disheveled, dyed-blonde hair betraying dark roots, a normally composed woman struggling to keep it together—was plastered all over the local news.

It’s hard not to feel sympathy for her. In fact, says Anna Salter, a psychologist and expert on child predators, “It’s very dangerous to demonize these people.”

Salter says it’s not surprising that school officials weren’t more proactive. After all, Smith was well-liked. “The most successful predators are those that are likable,” she says. “There seems to be a human tendency

when she was told about Smith’s handholding with Stephanie Johnson. In 2016, when told that Smith had touched Kristen Johnson inappropriately, she should have contacted the authorities—or, at minimum, fired him.

That she didn’t probably helps the Johnsons’ lawsuit, Saad says. “That’s where the failure to act becomes a liability. But criminally? I don’t see it. They’re never gonna prove it.”

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Nancy Errichetti (left) and Nicholas Conlon Smith (right) to trust people that we like [and] to distrust people that we don’t like. So the best possible cover for a sex offender is to be a likable person who is trusted and respected by other teachers in the school and the administration.”

There’s also institutional loyalty to contend with, she says: “It’s not usually because the person who is defending the alleged perpetrator is an evil person. It is usually because they respond to social psychology forces. They don’t want to look bad. They don’t want the school to look bad. They don’t want the hard work they’ve done to be undone. They can’t believe [the accusation]: ‘He’s such a nice guy. Maybe he was a little careless, but he wouldn’t do anything really bad.’”

The end result, Salter says, is that “it’s very rare for an institution to hear a report of inappropriate behavior and step back and treat that person objectively.”

This is a pernicious problem. According to Charol Shakeshaft, a professor of educational leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University and an expert on educator sexual abuse, nearly one in ten students report being the target of school employee sexual misconduct—ranging from harassment to inappropriate jokes to rape—between kindergarten and high school graduation.

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Shakeshaft served on a task force commissioned by the National Association of Independent Schools (of which MSR is a member) and The Association of Boarding Schools, which released a report in March with recommendations for preventing abuse in schools. While better awareness has led to a decrease in the rate of child abuse and an increase in the percentage of incidents being reported, the report says, “some schools have responded to incidents of educator sexual misconduct in ways that have further harmed survivors and failed to protect future students from abuse.”

The key, the report says, is effective leadership. “Schools must not confuse institutional integrity with institutional reputation,” it says. “The truest measure of institutional strength is the integrity with which a school lives out its mission and values. In preventing and responding to educator sexual misconduct, a school may find its integrity put to the test. Thus, strong leadership is needed … to prevent educator sexual misconduct, to address allegations when they arise, and, to the extent possible, to ameliorate the effects of that abuse when it does occur.”

Perhaps for that reason, law enforcement is taking a closer look at school leaders. “It is starting to happen,” Shakeshaft says. “The police and prosecutors are starting to bring charges.”

But these charges tend to be misdemeanors—enough for community service or probation, but not jail time. For example, in a breakthrough 2012 case, a principal in San Jose, California, was given two years’ probation and community service after an eight-year-old student told her about a teacher’s sexual abuse and she failed to report it. Last year in Massachusetts, the former director of a daycare was sentenced to three years’ probation and a $1,000 fine after being charged with reckless endangerment for failing to act on information that an intern was inappropriately touching children. In January, a Rhode Island elementary school principal was found guilty of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse and was given a one-year suspended sentence and community service.

The case against Errichetti is at once an extension of this trend and something more, though it’s not clear what, if anything, sets this case apart. Prosecutor Melanie Shekita declined to discuss the charges and why she’s seeking a felony conviction, beyond saying that she presented facts to a grand jury and the grand jury indicted Errichetti. It’s possible the DA’s Office wants to use the felony charge as leverage, says Steve Saad, the former prosecutor turned defense attorney.

Shakeshaft says Errichetti should have conducted a thorough investigation in 2012,

espite the tribulations, the Montessori School of Raleigh did open this fall. In mid-July, the Board of Trustees told parents in an email, “We have been impressed with the quality and quantity of the applications received for our open positions—there is a deep pool of talented individuals excited about becoming part of the MSR community. … Our school has a long, rich history and a bright future ahead.”

That bright future might soon include a date with a Wake County jury. A trial date in the Johnsons’ lawsuit is tentatively set for January, according to court documents. No matter what happens in court, though, even the school’s harshest critics say they don’t want it run out of existence. They just want new leadership.

On August 8, they got their wish. The Board of Trustees announced that it had hired a new interim head of school, Jeannie Norris, whose previous experience includes sixteen years leading a private school in Massachusetts.

“The Montessori School of Raleigh is focusing on our future and fulfilling our mission of educating children,” Joe Lee told the INDY in a written statement. “Under the new leadership of an outstanding interim head of school, we are continuing to rebuild trust in the larger community and strengthen the values that have defined the Montessori School of Raleigh for the last forty-four years.”

While MSR tries to move forward, Errichetti is still on the school’s payroll. Though she’s on administrative leave and has stepped away from school operations, Errichetti continues to collect her $200,000-a-year salary.

In the eleven months since Nick Smith’s arrest, no other students appear to have accused him of abuse. MSR says it has seen no evidence of any additional victims, either.

But that doesn’t mean they’re not out there, says Anna Salter. “The fact that this man is accused of molesting two kids—even two kids from the same family—suggests that this was not an isolated instance.” jbillman@indyweek.com Additional reporting by Chloe Lessard.

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neighborhood vibe, keeping the fine-dining schnitzel and chicken with potato dumphen Durham’s Guglhupf debuted quality but with more flexibility. The new lings. For the biergarten menu, Alworth and its new biergarten menu last brotzeit (literally “bread time”) menu is Pfau considered diners looking to satisfy month, the unexpected hit was available from mid-afternoon until late, with increasingly restricted dietary preferenca sprouted lentil and quinoa salad with broca variety of meats and cheeses paired with es and health concerns without sacrificing coli and smoked carrot puree. Light enough house-made pâtés, spreads, and pickled fish, taste and innovation, hence the variety of to eat on these humid dog days of late sumas well as bratwurst and knackwurst. This vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options. mer and early fall, the körner salat is still satisfying and hearty enough to pair with a draft beer from the newly installed bar. It’s also one of several vegan dishes on the menu, a surprise for diners expecting meatheavy Bavarian fare.

Guglhupf has challenged our perceptions of German cuisine for twenty years. Claudia Kemmet-Cooper opened it as a bakery and cafe in 1998, featuring many specialties from her home country, such as the eponymous Bundt-shaped guglhupf cake and seeded-rye vollkorn loaves. In 2009, Guglhupf expanded its menu to include dinner service, adding a level of fine dining to the restaurant’s light lunches and popular weekend brunch and helping to define it as more than a bakery.

“Dinner is an identity on a plate,” says Kemmet-Cooper, who grew up cooking for her parents and sisters at a time when it was taken for granted that meals were pre- An array of dishes from Guglhupf’s new menu PHOTO BY PASCAL MONMOINE pared from scratch with ingrediapproach lends itself to stopping in for a Though Germany has more than two ents grown in her grandparents’ garden. drink at the custom-built, steel-and-wood thousand different registered breads, and On the heels of Guglhupf’s twentieth bar, perhaps pairing something from the one could dine happily on bread alone at anniversary and the launch of its new bar brotzeit menu with one of the twelve beers Guglhupf, a smooth chickpea panisse dotand biergarten menu, Kemmet-Cooper on tap (a mix of German and local suds) or ted with wild mushrooms and black garlic remains committed to her scratch-made lingering for a casual meal on the patio. puree stands up well without the grain. The philosophy and German roots. But it also Americans’ stereotypical view of German maultaschen ravioli, which is traditionally means that Guglhupf’s identity is also food is particularly evident around this time made with meat as Kemmet-Cooper recalls evolving with the times—now, as always, it of year, when Oktoberfest-themed parties making with her grandmother, is given a continues to challenge diners’ perceptions abound, and lederhosen come out. The typilighter update with cheese-wheel pumpof what German food is. cal Gothic-font menu likely features pretzels kin in a savory-sweet, caramelized onion Executive chef David Alworth and chef and sausages, washed down with massive consommé. de cuisine Justin Pfau, who were part of the steins of beer, heavy and filling enough to Kemmet-Cooper also wanted her original kitchen team, first worked on honormake you want to loosen your dirndl. But a restaurant to have more of an approachable, ing and elevating classic German dishes like

softer side of the Teutonic autumnal tradition involves a fluffy onion tart and some fresh, young wine.

Around early fall in Germany, federweisser wine is found at many markets and vineyards; it’s the first wine of the harvest and only around for a short time, like the annual French Beaujolais nouveau. It’s known for its slight sparkling quality and easy drinkability, like a Portuguese vinho verde.

“Federweisser was the first thing I got drunk on as a teenager,” says Kemmet-Cooper, noting that its lower alcohol content makes it a popular “starter” wine.

The usual accompaniment to federweisser is a savory tart similar to quiche called zwiebelkuchen, filled with onions and bacon and served in slices. At Guglhupf, it’s made with sweet onions and speck bacon, though Alworth may also offer a vegetarian version made with seasonal mushrooms.

Though most federweisser doesn’t make it out of Germany (or sometimes even the vineyard), Patrick Hattaway, who manages Guglhupf’s beverage program, has a couple of pairings for the onion tart. One is the crisp and minerally Strub “Im Taubennest” Riesling, the other is the von Winning Sauvignon Blanc, an ideal fall white. Though Sauvignon Blanc is commonly associated with New Zealand and California, this one is produced in Pfalz, Germany’s warmest wine-producing region, and displays a similar character to that of Sancerre. Hattaway describes it as, “oaked, round, and warm like a spiced pear.”

Both recommended wines are from southwestern Germany, not far from where Kemmet-Cooper hails from in Heilbronn in the Swabian region, which also happens to be known for maultaschen and lentils. food@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.10.18 | 19

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y favorite takeout food has always been fried chicken, but growing up in New Jersey, the Colonel was my only option. Decades later, fried chicken is still my favorite, but happily, my Southern zip code gives me way more choice. Though it just opened in mid-September, DeeLuxe Chicken, the new Durham fast-casual concept from lauded restaurateur Scott Howell, has already topped my fried chicken hit list.

Howell, an eight-time James Beard Award semifinalist who recently closed his fine-dining eatery Nana’s, has teamed up with Rise Biscuits Donuts’ Rick Robinson. The pair met almost thirty years ago while working at Magnolia Grill and always planned to open a restaurant together. The duo’s dream has materialized as a casual eatery specializing in fried chicken and seafood, located on Broad Street next door to Watts Grocery.

are fried seafood baskets, too, filled with shrimp, oysters, or catfish, each served with Texas toast and one side. Salads and sandwiches round out the menu, both of which include vegetarian-friendly grilled portobello options. Sides, called sidekicks, range from classics such as potato salad and baked beans to unique offerings like spicy Asian

your heart’s content. If you go the salad route, get the avocado- and hardboiled egg-topped “Our House” salad and add fried oysters.

I could eat oysters every day of the week and DeeLuxe Chicken’s twice on Sunday; these bivalves are plump and juicy, and lightly breaded and fried. Sidekick standouts include spicy Asian cucumbers, Velveeta

Vibe: A din of chatter greets me when I enter, lending a friendly energy befitting a joint serving Southern comfort food. The interior has an industrial-retro feel, with a silver-metal bar counter and globe lamps. DeeLuxe mirrors Howell’s NanaTaco fast- DeeLuxe Chicken on Broad Street PHOTO BY ALEX CATERSON/THE SPLINTER GROUP casual vibe, where diners order and pay at the counter. Friendly mac ‘n’ cheese, and crinkle-cut fries. End the cucumbers or chili-spiced sweet potato fries. staff keeps the dozen-or-so-deep line movmeal with a soft-serve chocolate or vanilla The bar menu includes eight North Carolina ing, and floor staff quickly delivers food and ice cream cone. beers on tap, wine, and bubbly, because good replenishes the sauce bar. Inside tabletops fried chicken is a celebration on a plate. range in size from two- to eight-tops and Price: Basket entrees range from $7.75 to $16. could easily come together to fit, say, a softSalads, from $6 to $8. Sandwiches average What to order: The fried chicken lives up to ball team’s post-game dinner or a moms’ around $7.50. its moniker; this bird is golden, crunchy, and night out. tender, and pairs well with any of the sauces, Perfect for: A quick dine-in or takeout meal depending on your preference, such as sweet Menu: “Mighty Fine” fried chicken headwith family or friends, a casual date night, a Scooter’s Lexington dip, kicky Alabama lines the large, well-lit menu on the wall solo comfort-food pitstop. white sauce, or spicy-herbalicious Peruvian behind the counter; you can opt for a quarfood@indyweek.com green sauce. Sample a bunch and dunk to ter bird of either light or dark meat. There 20 | 10.10.18 | INDYweek.com

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THE HILLS ARE ALIVE Sunday, Oct. 14, 3 p.m., $10 The Station, Carrboro www.stationcarrboro.com

Double Trouble

TWO CANCER DIAGNOSES COULDN’T STOP CORBIE AND RACHEL HILL. BUT NOW, THEY NEED SOME HELP BOUNCING BACK. BY JOSEPHINE MCROBBIE

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ast summer, Corbie Hill noticed an odd bump on his neck.

“I figured it was just one of those indignities that comes with being in your thirties, and I didn’t think twice about it,” says the journalist and musician.

He and his wife Rachel, who works as an occupational therapist, were busy with everyday life. They had two young daughters to care for—Sara, who’s now eight, and Lucy, who’s six—and they were working on planning a summer beach trip. But when Corbie noticed another lump on his jaw, he went to his doctor, who ordered a blood test.

The next day, August 12, was a Saturday, and Corbie ignored a call from a blocked number while reading a Batman comic.

Within a few minutes, Rachel got a call herself. It was Corbie’s doctor, relaying the news that his white-blood-cell count was extremely high. After depositing their daughters with Rachel’s parents nearby, Corbie and Rachel spent next several days in the hospital with a rotating cast of specialists.

Thus began a harrowing year for the Pittsboro-based Hills, one that would come to include two cancer diagnoses and a relentless stream of medical bills. The Hills are alive, but they need some help—and this weekend, the local music community is stepping up to make that happen.

Corbie remembers that first hospital stay as “hellacious.” He was diagnosed with lymphoma, then leukemia, before doctors honed in on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL). The cancer typically strikes those over age seventy—at age thirty-five, Corbie’s age group didn’t even show up on statistical models, he says. The disease doesn’t respond to chemotherapy, and until about nine years ago, was considered terminal. It is now controllable by medication, though it is something Corbie will have to manage for the rest of his life.

“Given the choice of incurable and terminal, I’ll take incurable,” he says.

Rachel and Corbie met in 2001 while they were attending college at UNC-Asheville,

and they bonded over The Simpsons, according to Corbie. Though they’re both cerebral and kind-natured, Rachel’s calm demeanor counterpoints Corbie’s more effusive personality. The pair has structured their lives around being able to spend quality time with their children. They both work hard, but with Rachel employed in the school system, they have spaciousness in the summers. Corbie’s work as editor in chief for

mammogram with her doctor. She was diagnosed with 1B early-stage breast cancer.

Rachel carried neither of the genetic mutation markers for breast cancer susceptibility, but elected to utilize the genetic information she did have and decided to undergo a double mastectomy to decrease the likelihood of recurrence. While she is still recovering from the surgery, Rachel’s possibility of recurrence now falls at about twelve percent.

Rachel and Corbie Hill PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA the magazine OutreachNC and as a freelance writer for outlets like No Depression means that his schedule accommodates picking the girls up from school every day. This flexibility and ability to work from home was even more cherished when, about eleven months later, Rachel received her own cancer diagnosis.

“I have a strong family history of breast cancer, so I knew it was something that I needed to be aware of, that it was maybe even a likelihood,” Rachel says.

This summer, she found an area she was concerned about and scheduled a

“There are more differences than similarities between the treatment of the two.

His was more of an emotional struggle and shock,” says Rachel when I ask them about how they managed this past year. “It was our first cancer!” Corbie laughs. Even so, Rachel’s surgical procedure meant that there were days and weeks where Corbie had heavier care responsibilities; the weight of their shared emotional stress began to stack up.

At first, the pair’s bills were manageable, and they credited their state health insurance with cushioning the blow. But once bills

for Rachel’s tests and doctor’s visits started coming in, the pair began to get seriously worried.

“In terms of cancer care, you shouldn’t also be in total terror of going bankrupt. You should be able to spend this time with your loved ones,” Corbie says. “I was working at home, freelancing for two outlets, and helping Rachel recuperate after surgery.

The days were just so exhausting. And I’m also thinking, ‘How are we going to afford survival?’”

In addition to being a music writer (which included work for INDY Week for several years), Corbie is a musician, and had played several solo shows under the name Land Is with Mebane folk-rock group Stray Owls.

The band’s frontman, Matt French, is behind this weekend’s kid-friendly benefit to help the Hills get back on their feet.

The roster features several acts that Corbie has covered and played with over the years, including Blue Cactus, Gray Young, and Al Riggs. As well as helping assuage their medical bills, French notes that the show is also a statement of support.

“They’re brave people and good folks. It’s just to let them know that we have their back,” he says. “I’ll be forty next month, and I have two kids. It wasn’t a stretch to put myself in their shoes.”

Additionally, in lieu of a GoFundMe, anyone can contribute via the Bandcamp page for Corbie’s group Alpha Cop. This felt moderately more private for Corbie and Rachel, two people who are used to supporting others and being behind the scenes.

“I feel really self-conscious,” says Corbie.

“One reason I like being a professional writer is even though my byline is on the story, the story isn’t about me.”

Regardless, he and Rachel are appreciative of and humbled by the support from the community they’ve been a part of for so long.

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SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO 50TH ANNIVERSARY Monday, Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m., $40–$70 Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham www.dpacnc.com

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FIFTY YEARS AFTER ITS DERIDED DEBUT, THE BYRDS’ SWEETHEART OF THE RODEO ENDURES AS PARAMOUNT ENTRY IN THE COUNTRY CANON

BY JOHN BOHANNON

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n 1968, the United States was at a boiling point: Public outrage over the war in Vietnam had reached its peak, Richard Nixon was elected president, and the Civil Rights Movement was reeling from the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. It was also the year of the Summer of Love, the same year that Johnny Cash took the stage at Folsom Prison, Led Zeppelin made its debut, and The Beatles went to India. Meanwhile, The Byrds, who had become American icons in the folk and early rock ’n’ roll movement were at a boiling point themselves.

Having fired half the band (including David Crosby) after issuing The Notorious Byrd Brothers in January of 1968, The Byrds’ lead songwriters, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, were scrambling to regroup and figure out their next move. Months of trial and error led them to discover the enigmatic country cult-hero Gram Parsons, who would eventually become what many consider to be the father of psychedelic-tinged “cosmic” American music. Parsons joined the band for a single album that would ultimately spark decades of admirers and imitators: Sweetheart of the Rodeo.

The record is a marriage of the deep passion for country music’s past and folkrock’s future. The band imbued the rigidity of traditional country music with a more freeflowing sound inspired by the psychedelic sixties, for a blend dubbed “cosmic country.”

But The Byrds’ embrace of the music of the American South wouldn’t last long. In 1970, the collective—which by then was operating as the Flying Burrito Brothers— fired Parsons, their cosmic sweetheart, just three years before he passed away at the ripe age of twenty-six. But what business did a group of longhaired Californians have in making a record celebrating the music of the American South in the first place?

“I think what happened was because we were folkies and Chris Hillman was from a bluegrass background; what emerged was

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a combination of folk and rock, then country music and bluegrass,” McGuinn says.

“All four of those genres were blended into Sweetheart of the Rodeo, but it didn't go over because of political tensions in the country.”

Though the record was a commercial flop, it spawned a plethora of Southern outcast disciples looking for their place within the music they loved so dearly: pure country.

The fiftieth anniversary of The Byrds’ landmark LP is about much more than

celebrating the life of critical darling Gram Parsons, who often gets most the credit on this recording. It’s about celebrating a band that persevered and decided to get back to basics to make a record that, half a century later, has had arguably more influence than any other Byrds recording. Sweetheart of the Rodeo has become a cornerstone in what is now called a wide range of names, from Americana to country rock. But to a band that was reveling in the sounds of The

Louvin Brothers, George Jones, and Porter Wagoner, they were just making a country record the only way they knew how. The purists, however, didn’t take too kindly to what they came up with.

Angeles home while he was out for a birthday dinner.

“He had to move out of the house for six months,” McGuinn says. “We wanted to do something that would cheer Chris up.”

“We thought they’d like it! We got booed at the Grand Ole Opry with [Gram] Parsons. We were interlopers, a bunch of hippies invading Nashville. It was sad, because we loved the music so much, and we were so sincere about getting it right.”

“We thought they’d like it!” McGuinn says, still surprised at the record’s initial reception so many years later. “Lloyd Green [pedal steel guitarist on Sweetheart] remembers we got booed at the Grande Ole Opry with Parsons. We were interlopers, a bunch of hippies invading Nashville. It was sad, because we loved the music so much, and we were so sincere about getting it right.”

McGuinn still vividly recalls visiting a country radio station in the San Fernando Valley that had a long hallway with a bulletin board at the end. As he approached the bulletin board, he could see that Sweetheart was tacked to it. His delight over thinking the station was playing the record dissipated quickly.

“I got a little closer and it said, ‘DO NOT PLAY. THIS IS NOT COUNTRY MUSIC,’” he says. But McGuinn and company have had the last laugh as their masterpiece has withstood the years. “It’s come full circle.

Obviously, it was an inspiration to a lot of people after it came out. We were just the pioneers with the arrow in our back.”

Fifty years later, and it feels like the country is embroiled in a similar period of cultural and political tumult. And once again, McGuinn and Hillman find themselves together at the helm of Sweetheart of the Rodeo with new circumstances of personal toil. A year ago, the pair lost their close friend Tom Petty, who produced Hillman’s 2017 solo LP, Bidin’ My Time. A few months later, California wildfires hit Hillman’s Los

But they couldn’t have done it with just the two of them. They decided to enlist their friend Marty Stuart, the country music veteran who also currently owns Clarence White’s B-bender Telecaster guitar. Gene Parsons (no relation to Gram) built the instrument for White to simulate the sound of a pedal steel guitar, and its tone is a definitive element of Sweetheart’s distinct sound.

McGuinn met Stuart nearly twenty years ago on the set for a Dolly Parton movie that was never released.

“Marty was a master of ceremonies, and when Dolly was doing something else, Marty and I went down by the creek and played some songs from Sweetheart, ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’ and ‘You Ain’t Going Nowhere,’” McGuinn says. “Marty had his B-bender and could play all of Clarence’s licks, and we’ve been friends ever since.”

Prior to this tour, the band had never performed Sweetheart in its entirety, and it’s been important to McGuinn to revive it with the pomp it deserves. The record will live on as a cult classic, an emblem of creative liberation from a genre that had been marked by rigid conservatism. For those that didn’t grow up in the golden age of country music, it’s a gateway to that era and an important time capsule. Regardless of The Byrds’ original intention to capture the heart of the purists, Sweetheart of the Rodeo will forever be seen as a record made by outsiders, for outsiders—and that’s its greatest appeal all these years later. music@indyweek.com

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forever. I highly recommend that everyone try to build their own house. Avoiding a mortgage is the first step to being an adult anarchist.

What motivates you to move from these sort of classical arrangements to this electro-pop sound? What does a new genre make possible in your music?

Writing classical arrangements is hard.

Holding down an arpeggiated button on a Juno 60 is easy. All I wanted to do was to sing at the top of my lungs. I’d play a lil bass run and Drummer Pete [Lewis] would play a beat. The songs would just come. It was like instant coffee—tastes like crap but certainly slaps you in the face. Then, Guitar Player Joah [Tunnell] would come over, and I’d say, “Can you sing this high harmony?” Joah would sing it and I’d be like, “Dude that’s a high part… Can you sing a higher part?” No matter how high the part, Joah could hit the notes. Fucking incredible, man. Anything is possible.

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ARI PICKER MAKES A FULL-THROTTLE LEAP INTO FLASHY ELECTROPOP WITH DANTE HIGH BY KATIE JANE FERNELIUS Dante High PHOTO BY BRIAN LIVINGSTON

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ri Picker wants to make the musical equivalent of instant coffee. This may come as a surprise to those who followed his former projects, like Lost in the Trees, which is more like the musical equivalent of a rare and delicate jasmine tea. While Lost in the Trees was known for its folksy introspection and choral arrangements, Picker’s current band, the eighties-inflected electropop Dante High, deals in the visceral. One gets the sense that their lyrics are meant to be sung along to, not analyzed.

The transition may come as a surprise to some, but Picker has been building to this point for years. In 2015, a few months after Lost in the Trees’ farewell show, Picker demurred about the touring life of a musician, saying, “I don’t know where I sit anymore, but all I know is I can’t tour anymore. I’ve lost my mind.” He joked, “Maybe I’ll be a carpenter.”

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graduate in Pittsboro, his hometown, where he has moved back and started working in construction. Over email, we talked about how the “dirty jobs” and remembrance of a “romanticized version of [his] youth” inspired the formation of Dante High, the ease of holding down an arpeggiated button on a Juno 60, and the new genre of his music he calls “parking lot soul.”

INDY: It seems like every time someone writes about you, it’s about how your current project is nothing like your last project. After the ornate and intimate A Church That Fits Our Needs, you composed Lion and the Lamb, a Rilke-inspired concert performance. How would you describe the transition from working in Lost in the Trees to Dante High?

ARI PICKER: It all started when I moved back to my hometown, Pittsboro, and started working in construction. I spent a lot of time doing dirty jobs like tearing out old

attics, throwing asbestos into trash bags, and rewiring crawl spaces. We’d listen to the Misfits all day, lots of Huey Lewis, and this new age album called Deep Breakfast.

At night, I’d drive the truck down country roads and think about growing up in this small town, the bonfires in the woods, breaking into abandoned trailer parks, all the ghost stories, the car crashes, the girls, the funerals. When I got back into the studio, all that just kinda bled together and formed this idea of Dante High. Some sort of romanticized version of my youth and the kids of Pittsboro.

What drove you to work in construction, as opposed to other jobs you could work in Pittsboro?

I had to build something that actually physically existed. You can spend just as much time making a record as you can building a house. But at the end of the process the record vanishes. A house is there

How do you make a piece of music? Can you walk me through how you write a song like “Parking Lot Soul”?

I don’t think I really have any control over what music I make. I just show up in a certain mood and pick ideas out of the void.

Honestly, I can’t remember writing “Parking Lot Soul.” But I do remember listening to it after it was done and thinking, “Man, this is something else!” An energy came out that I had never experienced before.

That song spawned the rest of the songs off the album. If you ask me what genre of music we play, it’d be called Parking Lot Soul.

How has your approach to music changed from Lost in the Trees to Dante High?

It’s a complete 180. I put no thought into Dante High, it’s all instinct. It’s like being blindfolded and shoved into the trunk of a stranger’s car. You’re in the dark, reaching out for someone’s hand, but you don’t know whose hand you’re going to get. It’s terrifying, but equally exhilarating. We’ve got two rules with this band. It’s gotta be hyper romantic, and it must avoid 88-90 BPM. That tempo is crap, you can’t slow dance to it, you can’t fast dance to it. It must be avoided. music@indyweek.com

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SUNDANCE-WINNING SHORT TURNED FEATURE FILM THUNDER ROAD AIRS OUT THE ILLS OF THE JOHN WAYNE IDEAL

BY NEIL MORRIS

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hunder Road, a short film centering on a police officer’s decidedly madcap eulogy at his mother’s funeral, won a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance two years ago.

Now, writer, director, and star Jim Cummings has expanded the short into a feature film: a dark comedy and character study of Jim Arnaud, an earnest but deeply flawed man struggling with grief and fatherhood.

Arnaud seems to sabotage every aspect of his life: his shared custody of a rebellious preteen daughter, his job as a cop, and his would-be friendships. The film skewers cultural expectations of masculinity— the unreasonable, unwieldy, and destructive John Wayne ideal.

Jim Cummings as Jim Arnaud PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FILMMAKERS Thunder Road is already earning plaudits at SXSW and elsewhere on the festival circuit. The funeral scene remains its fulcrum, although the titular Bruce Springsteen hit has been conspicuously excised.

The film was produced by Ben Wiessner, a thirty-two-year-old Raleigh native and curHe doesn’t have this tool that he needs, and thing or an artistic thing. I’m in LA a couple rent Durham resident. He and Cummings that’s vulnerability—even though he shows of months a year, but then I get to come met at Emerson College in Boston, where it in all of these inappropriate ways, he can’t back, and I have a backyard. I have an ability Wiessner went to study poetry. Eventufigure out how to do it in a relationship. to really settle down and think about what’s ally, they formed a filmmaking company Going through my own mother’s death was important. And the stories I want to tell with the lofty goal to “make movies with very much that loose and careening kind of are from the South as well. Thunder Road my friends,” as Wiessner puts it. He and feeling. is a super Southern film, and I feel like we Cummings are hosting an early screening have enough films from New York and LA of Thunder Road, followed by a Q and A, at In the original short, the song “Thunder already.

Raleigh’s Alamo Drafthouse Thursday eveRoad” was featured prominently. But it ning, the day before it begins an exclusive isn’t played in the feature film. Why? One thought I had while watching Thunder run at Alamos nationwide until October 19, We shot it both ways for the opening eulogy Road is that Jim Cummings took this kerwhen it opens at other theaters. scene, which is basically a redoing of the nel of a character from the short film in the short film. We shot it with the song playdirection of a funhouse, middle-American INDY: Why do you call the Triangle home? ing, and we shot it with the CD player never version of Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver, BEN WIESSNER: I spent a few years working. You could just tell immediately minus the racism. between New York, San Francisco, and Los that the [version without the song] was just That’s interesting. I think the character, for Angeles, but I came back to Durham four so much more desperate and embarrassus, is really this person that we narrowly years ago. I just really loved the area and ing. In a short film, you need that moment missed being. We have so many moments what was happening, in terms of creativity of catharsis and relief. But for a feature, in our own lives where we’re going through and support for the arts and for anyone who you can’t have that come eight minutes into something, and we lack this understandis making an effort. There seemed to be real your film. ing and empathy and an ability to open up. backing, whether it was an entrepreneurial

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What was the collaborative process in deciding how to develop this Jim Arnaud character?

We knew from the start what we wanted to show, in terms of [Arnaud’s] toxic masculinity, the issues he would be having with his job, and his inability to cope with the world around him. We were originally thinking that the funeral scene would have to be at the end of the film. But it was when the film became about him being a father instead of a son that the story really unlocked.

Jim Arnaud has been described as an uber-narcissist, that everything revolves around his perceptions and how they affect him. The film’s opening sets you up to want to view Jim as a sympathetic figure, but he’s not totally that, is he?

He’s a very unreliable narrator. For us, it’s closer to a novel that Kafka would have written.

How so?

In that period of European modernism, you would carve out a lot of the other parts and focus in on one driving journey. You’d have an unreliable narrator, and you’d focus on what was happening to that person and you couldn’t necessarily tell what was real versus their perception.

You describe the film as Southern, but I’ve heard it described as being about middle America.

I don’t think it’s strictly Southern or middle American. For us, it’s a Southern film because we’ve got Dillard’s jokes. But it’s more about the way we raise men. We raise them to be John Wayne, and they always fail at it. That’s what we want to talk about, kind of poking fun at it but really empathizing with it at the same time. arts@indyweek.com

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THE OLD MAN & THE GUN 

Opening Friday, Oct. 12 Word around Hollywood is that Robert Redford’s new movie, The Old Man & The Gun, will be his last—as an actor, anyway. If so, it’s a pretty sweet way to go out. By playing the real-life seventysomething bank robber Forrest Tucker, Redford brings his charming outlaw persona full circle, closing the circuit on his most famous roles in The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This is Redford’s best movie in a decade, easy, and it’s a role that’s tailored for him down to the atomic level. Tucker is a gentleman bandit, leader of the self-styled “Over the Hill Gang,” with buddies-in-crime Tom Waits and—inevitably, somehow—Danny “I’m getting too old for this shit” Glover. Tucker robs banks, but he does so with such easy affability that his victims are left with a vague feeling of admiration.

Sissy Spacek plays lonely farmwidow Jewel, who also falls under Tucker’s charismatic spell. But Jewel is no dummy, and the veteran actors cultivate a subtle, lovely dynamic. It’s a pleasure just to watch these two talk in a diner.

On the other side of the law, Casey Affleck plays Texas cop John Hunt, who is obliged to hunt down Tucker. Affleck, as usual, is the most interesting thing in the movie, and he matches Redford beat for charismatic beat (with an eighties cop mustache, no less).

Director David Lowery (A Ghost Story) makes an interesting visual choice by filming everything in the faded and gritty Super 16 format. This simple technique works quiet miracles, blunting the glare of Redford’s polished movie-star sheen. The temptation to glamorize Redford must have been powerful, if this is indeed his last movie. But Lowery chooses to serve the story over the star, and it makes all the difference.

If for no other reason, Old Man is worth chasing down just to experience a Tom Waits monologue about Christmas, guns, and stepfathers. There’s a whole other movie in that story. Can someone follow up, please?

—Glenn McDonald

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IN THE HEIGHTS

We got more than a glimpse of the future of musical theater when the touring production of In the Heights played here seven years ago. Before composer and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda made theatrical history with Hamilton (which arrives at DPAC next month), he concocted the same combination of intricate verbal rhymes and polyrhythms in a mélange of slam poetry and rap over a driving soundtrack of hip-hop, rock, and soul in this show— presented this month by NC Theatre—and playwright Quiara Hudes’s subject matter was equally historic. For the first time, a Broadway musical depicted the dreams and fears of everyday people in the tight-knit Dominican community of Washington Heights. As central character Usnavi plays verbal pinball, commenting on the passing scene from his corner bodega, his neighbors contemplate the tensions between their ties to conflicting cultures, their pasts, their community, and their futures. —Byron Woods MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM, RALEIGH Various times, $25–$90, www. nctheatre.com

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11

SERPENTWITHFEET

The musician Josiah Wise, who records under the name serpentwithfeet, loves drama. The word applies, in one sense, to his staging as a performer (he collects and sometimes carries around dolls), but speaks in a larger sense to the kind of gravitas in which his music deals.

He treats topics like queerness, semiotics, and love with baroque reverence, and his resulting music is transportive—Björk has described his music as “moist,” one of the few convincing applications of that word in recent memory. Wise, who is classically trained and grew up singing in the church choir of a Pentecostal megachurch, followed up 2016’s four ethers EP with a full-length album, titled soil, this summer. While his neo-soul sound has drawn comparisons to performers like Moses Sumney and Anohni, his songs are less the spare ballad than they are many-chambered experiments with intense vibrato build-ups. In soil’s “whisper,” that climaxes in a controlled incantation as he sings “I love you from the space beneath my feet/and beneath that, and beneath that.” He makes it easy to love him back. Lee Mo opens. —Sarah Edwards KINGS, RALEIGH 9 p.m., $12–$14, www.kingsraleigh.com

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Journalism isn’t the only first draft of history; brave playwrights have taken on that mantle as well. In the 1990s, Anna Deavere Smith’s documentary dramas placed incidents of racial crisis in New York and Los Angeles on stage. In the 2000s, The Laramie Project recorded a Colorado town’s struggle to deal with lethal homophobia, and The Exonerated presented the words of death-row inmates who were later proven innocent. But British playwright David Hare’s sweeping 2004 drama was much more ambitious. Stuff Happens is a kinetic, transcontinental chronicle of the events leading up to the American invasion of Iraq, one that places central leaders on stage, speaking in their own words: Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, Rice, Blair, Annan, and a laconic George W. Bush. We watch the early hubris of those intent upon invasion shift when a subsequent power vacuum leaves the conquered country in chaos. Since he was writing as events unfolded, Hare’s portraits here are sharp. The Iraqi War ended in May 2003; Stuff Happens premiered the following September. —Byron Woods

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13–SUNDAY, JANUARY 20

THE BEYOND: GEORGIA O’KEEFFE AND CONTEMPORARY ART

It’s here: the most important and widely appealing museum exhibit of the fall season. Art historians know Georgia O’Keeffe as a titan of twentieth-century painting and a pioneer of American modernism. The larger public knows her as the visionary behind instantly recognizable images of oversize blossoms, colorful desert dreams, and nocturnal New York skyscrapers, their realism trembling on the edge of abstraction. O’Keeffe’s way of seeing is irreducible to kitsch despite the best efforts of manufacturers of postcards, wall calendars, and coffee-table tomes; her images retain the power to move and awe. In this major exhibit, some of her most significant paintings and sculptures are placed in dialogue with contemporary artists who followed her. The show is ticketed with Candida Höfer in Mexico, which features twenty-five large-scale photographic interiors of grand libraries, convents, theaters, churches, and museums in Mexico. —Brian Howe NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH Various times, free–$18, www.ncartmuseum.org

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CAVE

Cave’s bedrock is Krautrock’s motorik—the steady, moderate, 4/4-time ostinato pioneered by Can and Neu!, and deployed to great psychedelic effect by Stereolab. (The term means “motor skill” in its native German.) Upon this driving engine, the Chicago quintet patches together alluring and invigorating sonic collages, pastiching funk, Afrobeat, Latin rock, and soul-jazz into transcendent jams that aren’t just kraut-y but kosmische. Allways, which is out on Drag City on October 19, continues Cave’s trend toward retroflection, winnowing what were once lengthy, spiraling free-form freakouts into singular, deceptively intricate waves of groove.

Consider “San’Yago,” the album’s lead track. It leans less on powerful psych payload and much, much more on restraint, building its subtle hypnoticism through rigorous focus, pinpoint precision, and locked-in group playing. The band’s groove is exultant and animative, imbued with infinite layers of nuance. Wild Actions and Corroder open. —Patrick Wall DUKE COFFEEHOUSE, DURHAM 9 p.m., $5, www.dukecoffeehouse.org INDYweek.com | 10.10.18 | 31

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backing band of Ali Farka Touré, the Malian musician whose combination of traditional music from West Africa and the American South helped usher in a new understanding of “world music.” These days, Kelly continues that tradition through his own distinct, colorful blend of American and African music. Fiddlin’ Al and Will McCanless open.

—Allison Hussey

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Local Band Local Beer: Mechabull [$3–$5/9 P.M.]

MechaBull’s throwback metal clearly worships at the altars of Maiden and Megadeth as the quintet always finds excuses to shred, whether by pairing it with soaring vocals on triumphant gallops or with unrelenting, thrashy speed and aggression. Formerly known as The Manimals, Raleigh trio Atomic Buzz takes the warped sensibilities of The Toadies or Faith No More and infects them with stoner metal riffage and shifting rhythms.

Coastal Pines adds even more off-kilter alt-rock.

—Spencer Griffith THE RIGSBEE BUILDING: Callie Ryan, Knives of Spain; 8 p.m.

FRI, OCT 12 ARCANA:

Brice Randall Bickford Rio Mira performs at The ArtsCenter on Saturday night.

WED, OCT 10

THU, OCT 11

CAT’S CRADLE: Minus the Bear, Caspian; 8 p.m.

THE ARTSCENTER: Lulo Reinhardt and Daniel Stelter; 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: The Basic Unit; 8 p.m., $5 Suggested donation.

BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Jay Renee; 9 p.m.

THE KRAKEN: Jonathan Byrd & Friends; 7-10 p.m., free.

Buika

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NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Brandon Seabrook Trio; 10 p.m.

THE PINHOOK: Active Bird Community; 9 p.m.

UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique; 7:30 p.m.

CAROLINA THEATRE: [$10–$55/8 P.M.] There’s a glut of outstanding musicians from all over the globe in town this week, beginning with Buika’s Thursday stop in Durham.

The flamenco singer, who was born in Equatorial Guinea and raised on the Spanish island of Mallorca, has a luxurious, smoky voice that’s earned her worldwide accolades. Her

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songs are soft and rapturous— if you need a semi-divine intervention to escape the world at large, Buika makes for a beautiful tonic.

—Allison Hussey CAT’S CRADLE: Knocked Loose; 7 p.m.

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Ghost Trees [$8/9 P.M.]

Hailing from Charlotte, Ghost Trees is the duo of drummer Seth Nanaa and saxophonist Brent Bagwell. The two have been playing together for almost twenty years, first in the trio The Eastern Seaboard, and now as a duo.

Their free jazz is splattery and full-throated. Bagwell is a screamer, whose jagged lines are often punctuated by guttural vocal exhortations.

And Nanaa’s drumming is full of textural fills and piles of resonant cymbal splashes.

With James Gilmore and Jil Christensen. —Dan Ruccia MOTORCO:

Murder By Death [$20–$25/9 P.M.]

Carson McCullers never played gnarled cello in a goth-folk band, but the breadth of Southern-flavored emotional detail that powers her best work also churns inside cult

Kentucky indie rock stalwarts Murder By Death. Early pioneers to the indie-rock/folk hybrid style that would soon rocket into the mainstream via labels like Saddle Creek, they still toss out admirable records in the vein to this day. In fact, the group crowdfunded over $300,000 to release their new record, The Other Shore, earlier this year. Former Avail frontman Tim Barry opens.

—David Ford Smith MOTORCO:

Though Brice Randall Bickford teams up with Partario Flynn to offer fresh arrangements of new originals tonight, it’s unlikely he’ll stray far from the gently loping folk and cosmic country of last year’s gorgeous Paro. Whether with Nola, The Tender Fruit, or under her own name, Christy Jean Smith wields one of the area’s most distinctive and captivating voices on haunting, plaintive songs. Rachel Kiel crafts charming, ultra-melodic tunes that find fertile new territory in the well-mined field of rootsy jangle pop. —Spencer Griffith

Mamadou Kelly

BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Carmen Rodgers & Nicholas Ryan Gant; 7 p.m.

Malian guitarist Mamadou Kelly once played in the

CAT’S CRADLE: Neil Diamond Allstars, Lester Coalbanks & the Seven Sorrows; 8 p.m.

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THE CAVE: The Eyebrows, Mad Crush; 9 p.m.

modernity and Glass’s baroqueness (especially in the synth-free accompaniment provided by Les Violons du Roy). —Dan Ruccia

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DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: Jazz in the Park; 6 p.m.

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This concert is the culmination of a multi-year collaboration between the North Carolina Symphony, composer William Brittelle, and the Cherokee Chamber Singers from Cherokee High School in a new piece called Si Otsedoha (We’re Still Here). Brittelle worked with students to devise a text primarily in the Cherokee language that reflects their sense of Cherokee identity.

Brittelle’s music unfolds in grand, colorful swatches of misremembered pop and Broadway tunes, minimalist grooves, and hip-hop beats.

Now if only the symphony would pair this exciting new work with something more original than the same tired Copland and Gershwin always used to signal “Americanness.”

—Dan Ruccia

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THE KRAKEN: WCOM Benefit: Too Much Fun, Stan Lewis, Rod Abernethy, The Dark Ways, Karen Novy; 7 p.m.

[$18–$77/8 P.M.]

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Listening to Nnamdi Ogbonnaya rap is like watching a fan spin: dizzying. Ogbonnaya has described himself as “having a Muppet-like energy” when he talks, and that energy seeps into his music where he trills bars without seeming to ever inhale. Coming from the Chicago scene by way of Ohio, from Ohio by way of California, from California by way of his parents’ immigration from Nigeria, his sound is as eclectic as his influences: Christian rock, Afrobeat, and even screamo.

—Katie Jane Fernelius

N.C. Symphony with the Cherokee Chamber Singers

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The sound of a countertenor is magical, floating, gilded, and luminous, in the same range as a mezzo soprano but with the peculiar timbre of the male falsetto. And Durham native Anthony Roth Costanzo is one of the best around, bringing a distinctive charisma, emotional richness, and performative fearlessness to the countertenor’s peculiar repertoire, which is predominantly Baroque and contemporary opera. His new album, ARC, brings together arias and songs by George Friedrich Handel and Philip Glass. His flexible voice makes a convincing case for Handel’s

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THE PINHOOK:

Pile

[$10–$12/8 P.M.] Boston claims two of indie rock’s most seminal bands— The Pixies and Mission of Burma—and the Hub continues to churn out as many critical young acts as it does Dunkin’ Donuts. Chief among those new acts is Pile, the eleven-year-old cultfavorite indie rock band with a penchant for sarcastic swings and slouching rhythms that are occasionally offset by fits of hardcore mania. Last year’s Hairshirt of Purpose was the quartet’s great leap forward: it’s stark but warm, slogging through Jesus Lizard grime and Beatles brilliance in equal measure. —Patrick Wall

Seabreeze Diner celebrate their new record in Carrboro Saturday night.

MOTORCO:

Neguinho da Beija-Flor

[$20–$40/9 P.M.] Neguinho de Beija-Flor is a champion samba singer from Brazil who has been interpreting samba for well over four decades. His name is practically synonymous with samba for a whole generation of Brazilians. Known for his cheeky irreverence and humor in his lyrics, he’s been a band ambassador and leader in Carnaval for many years. His stop in Motorco, which is part of his second-ever tour of the United States, is a great shortcut to experiencing Carnaval without the cost of flights. — Katie Jane Fernelius POUR HOUSE: Maj Deeka, The Get Right Band; 9 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Gabe Dansereau Trio; 8 p.m.

ST PHILIP’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: Michelle Malone; 7 p.m.

UNC’S PERSON HALL: Edson Scheid; 8 p.m.

SAT, OCT 13 THE ARTSCENTER:

Rio Mira [$28/8 P.M.]

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Colombia and Ecuador near the Pacific Ocean, Rio Mira brings to life the region’s distinctive, marimba-centric music. The tradition, which has been recognized by UNESCO, originated with enslaved people who escaped and found haven in the region starting in the 1500s. Their songs feature many recognizable Latin rhythms or West African interlocking melodies transfigured by the woody, sonorous tone of the marimba and accompanied by piles of hand percussion.

—Dan Ruccia

haze, while The Affectionates takes shambling, eclectic indie rock on wild rides. Blueberry adds dream synth-pop ditties.

—Spencer Griffith

POUR HOUSE: Mike Dillon Band, Cycles; 8 p.m.

THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF CHAPEL HILL UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST: Emma’s Revolution; 7 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE: Gaelic Storm; 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Eddie Reyes’ Emo Night, Earther; 8 p.m.

BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Dee Lucas; 7 p.m.

As you might expect from the mini-festival’s name, the bands performing at the Thrash or Be Thrashed Bash play thrash, a fast, abrasive, and technically demanding style of music birthed in the early eighties by splicing the bracing tempos and fuck-you attitude of hardcore onto established metal tropes. And many of the acts here—Raleigh’s Outliar, Gross Reality, and Blatant Disarray—play classic thrash pretty straight. But there’s room for some of thrash’s sub-subgenre spinoffs, too: Charlotte’s Black Ritual pairs thrash with Southern metal swagger, while fellow Queen City denizens Lädyhel lean toward groove metal.

—Patrick Wall

CAT’S CRADLE: Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba, Shana Tucker; 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM:

Seabreeze Diner [$8–$10/9 P.M.]

While Seabreeze Diner filled its first EP with instantly infectious, retro-leaning power-pop jangles, its dynamic debut full-length— celebrated tonight—features the spirited quartet growing its ambitions with more daring arrangements while retaining its youthful energy and dual guitars that bounce off and twist around one another. Echo Courts’ tunes are rich with hooks and harmonies that emerge from the psychedelic

DEEP SOUTH: Andypalooza: Angels on Acid, Venus Invictus, Eyeball; 8 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD:

Thrash or Be Thrashed Bash [$10/6:30 P.M.]

SUN, OCT 14

CHAPEL OF THE CROSS: Baroque & Beyond; 3 p.m.

KINGS:

Valley Maker [$8/10 P.M.]

The Seattle-based singersongwriter Austin Crane, known onstage as Valley Maker, was first introduced to the world when he released his self-titled debut on Bandcamp in 2015. It was a heady first album—it was, in fact, Crane’s master’s thesis—and he seems to be following suit with his forthcoming album, Rhododendron, which features lyrical themes rooted in the physical world and production work from Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bundick and Trevor Spencer (who’s worked with Father John Misty and Fleet Foxes).

—Howard Hardee LINCOLN THEATRE: Air Crash Detectives; 6 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Into The Fog, Simone Finally, Nathan Kornegay; 1 p.m. Bass Physics X Eliot Lipp, Michna; 8 p.m.

ST. MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: Chatham Rabbits; 4 p.m.

MON, OCT 15 CAT’S CRADLE:

Bob Moses [$24–$27/9 P.M.]

This Grammy-nominated Canadian electronic duo fuses visceral techno and guitar playing with airy, highly emotional singing.

Comparing singer Tom Howie to Coldplay’s Chris Martin is pretty much unavoidable, as the two share that delicate, not-quite-falsetto style often associated with fall, heartbreak, and lattes. Critical listeners likely notice that the similarities don’t end there, that Bob Moses has the same affinity for melancholy piano— and takes as few risks—as Coldplay. And, yeah, that would be entirely accurate.

—Howard Hardee THE CAVE: Illegal Drugs, Vincas; 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Sun-Dried Vibes, The Ries Brothers, Oogee Wawa 7 p.m.

TUE, OCT 16 CAT’S CRADLE: Wild Nothing, Men I Trust; 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: The Ned, The Time Framed, Chrome-Plated Apostles; 9 P.m.

CURRENT ARTSPACE + STUDIO: Pedja Muzijevic and UNC Chamber Singers; 7 p.m.

DUKE CHAPEL:

Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir [$10–$45/8 P.M.]

The training program around the Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir includes roughly nine hundred children, making it the largest such organization in the Czech Republic. Only forty-five of them will be singing here, performing a century-spanning program of sacred music: Victoria and Mendelssohn, Bernstein and Pärt, as well as a few Czech composers.

—Dan Ruccia POUR HOUSE: Bobby V; 8 p.m.

RUBY DELUXE:

Space Cubs [$5/9 P.M.]

Like Röyksopp in a Hot Topic phase, the crystalline electronica of Charlotte-viaBuffalo journeyers Space Cubs can function as a gauze for any situation. Their neon-gel melodies are often smeared and noisy, and have more than enough dirty IDM production flotsam to interest any nerdy headphone warrior. On the other hand, they also pack enough pastel party-time oomph for any late-night dancefloor. With Sl0wgl0w and Sunset Palette.

—David Ford Smith

WED, OCT 17 THE CAVE: The Dreamhouses, Indoor Cats; 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: The Trongone Band, Pearlsnap Phrophets; 8 p.m.

SLIM’S:

Noctomb [$5/9 P.M.]

Let’s parse the name of Raleigh blackened-sludge trio Notcomb, shall we? Noct-, as in night, as in darkness, as in blackness, implying filthy, crusty black metal.

-tomb, as in, uh, a tomb, as in death and thick, stony heaviness, implying furiously misanthropic doom.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11

VERNON PRATT: ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF SIXTEEN The Gregg is revealing a never-beforeseen posthumous exhibit by the inimitable Durham art teacher, jazz musician, and mathematical abstractionist Vernon Pratt (1940– 2000), whose white granite block sculpture you’ve likely sat on in the Durham Arts Council courtyard. In All the Possibilities of Sixteen, 256 panels of jazzy geometric abstraction compose a massive piece, more than one hundred feet wide and eighteen feet high, assembled in its entirety here for the first time. Gregg director Roger Manley calls it Pratt’s magnum opus, and to celebrate it, he also commissioned an original composition by Rich Holly, further amplifying Pratt’s unique sweet spot between music and math. The exhibit runs through February 10 after this opening reception, which features an introduction by Scott Laird of the N.C. School of Science and Math. —Brian Howe

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More than two hundred photos are featured in the exhibit, along with flyers, videos, and other artifacts. Thru Jan 31.

Raleigh City Museum, Raleigh. cityofraleighmuseum.org.

—Brian Howe City and Townscapes: From Home to Far Away: Sean Bailey, William Hill, James Keul, Armen Knox, Xavier Knox, David Knox, Faye Oldham, Jackie Rimmler, Jerry Smith, Jailton Suzart, Nancy Walker, Jan Wilson, and Barbara Younger. Thru Oct 21 Margaret Lane Gallery, Hillsborough. margaretlanegallery.com.

OPENING SPECIAL Anne Berry: April Is EVENT the Cruelest Month: Photographs. Mon, Oct 1-Wed, Oct 31. Reception: Wed, Oct 17, 5:30-8 p.m. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com.

Carrboro Town Hall Group Exhibition reception: Lloyd Childers, Shannon Fitzgerald, Linda Starr, Lyudmila Tomova, and Ely Urbanski. Fri, Oct 12, 6-9 p.m. Carrboro Town Hall, Carrboro townofcarrboro.org.

Tamika Galanis: One Hurricane Season reception: Artist talk. Thu, Oct 11 6-8 p.m.

Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. documentarystudies.duke.edu.

Nerys Levy and Michele Maynard: Paintings. Tue, Oct 9-Sat, Dec 8. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. frankisart.com.

Merle Merlin: It’s a Wild World After All: Illustrations, prints, linocuts, oil pastels, and paintings. Sat, Oct 13, 7-9 p.m.

Shadowbox Studio, Durham.

Photo Books Pop-Up: Photo books from the Sloane Art Library Collection. Fri, Oct 12 6-8 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org.

SPECIAL Tom Rankin and EVENT Holden Richards: View Camera: Photography. Part of the Click! Photography Festival.Thu, Oct 4-Wed, Oct 31.

Reception: Wed, Oct 17, 5-8 p.m. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com.

Sudie Rakusin: Mysticale: Tue, Oct 16-Wed, Oct 31. Bull City Art & Frame Co, Durham. bullcityartandframecompany. com.

Rough to Refined: Gemstone finishing demonstration. Sat, Oct 13-Sun, Oct 14, noon-5 p.m.

CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. www.camraleigh.org.

Semiotics of Cruising: William E. Jones, Robert Blanchon, Dean Sameshima, and others.

Fri, Oct 12-Sat, Nov 17. Lump, Raleigh. www.lumpprojects.org.

Steven Silverleaf: Reading Works of Art reception: Figurative paintings and drawings. Fri, Oct 12 6-9 p.m.

Carrboro Century Center, Carrboro. townofcarrboro.org.

Trace message from under quarry stone: Tarik Garrett, Doris Guo, Sarah Viviana Valdez, and Jack Crowley. Fri, Oct 12-Sat, Nov 17. Lump, Raleigh. www.lumpprojects.org.

ONGOING

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

Alternative Images: Pleiades artists in conjunction with the Click! Photography Festival.

Thru Nov 5. Pleiades Gallery, Durham.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

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

A Colorful Bounty: Three featured artists. Thru Oct 23.

Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

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

His dynamic black-and-white photos from the scene capture

Food of the Gods: New York photographer Lydia McCarthy.

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

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

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

I Be Person I No Be Number: Part of the Click! Photography Festival. Thru Oct 26. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

LAST Kindred Lines: CHANCE Brenon Day and Ophelia Staton. Thru Oct 15.

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

Meditations: Fiber art by Alice Levinson. Thru Nov 15. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

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

Thru Nov 23. Block Gallery, Raleigh.

Origins: Photography by Monika Merva. Part of the Click! Photography Festival.

Thru Nov 1. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

A Palette of Rust and Dreams: Photography by Karen Healy.

Part of the Click! Photography Festival. Thru Nov 1. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective: 21c Museum Hotel unveils a packed portraiture exhibition featuring work by forty contemporary artists, many of whom pay striking homage to classical portraiture in recasting their own images and experiences. Anthony Goicolea, a photographer interested in digital manipulation and themes of duality and the reclamation of self, nods to John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” with “Portrait in Negative of a Boy with Harmonica as Madame Gautreau.” Miguel Ángel Rojas’s series depicting a young, injured Colombian soldier in repose gracefully gestures toward Michelangelo’s “David.” The exhibition also includes works by Titus Kaphar, Ori Gersht, and Zanele Muholi.

Thru Mar 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels. com/durham. —Sarah Edwards Re-Collections: Photography.

Thru Oct 31. Chatham Hill

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Winery, Cary. www.chathamhillwine.com.

Reflections of Elegance: Kenneth Paul Block & the Masters of Fashion Illustration: Original works by fashion illustrator Kenneth Paul Block. Thru Oct 20.

Alamance Arts Council, Graham. artsalamance.com.

Free Wine Tasting: Vino Italiano: Fri, Oct 12, 5-7 p.m.

Bottle Rev Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill. www.bottlerev.com

Strange New World: Largescale paintings by Jennifer Davis. Thru Oct 27.

Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Farmhouse Cider & Wine Tasting: Sat, Oct 13, 2-6 p.m.

Botanist & Barrel, Cedar Grove. www.botanistandbarrel.com

Trilogy: Paintings by Marcy Lansman, textiles by Alice Levinson, turned wood by Michael Salemi. Thru Oct 21. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. hillsboroughgallery.com.

LAST Visualizing Micro CHANCE Environments: Paintings by Orr Ambrose inspired by cosmology, physics, and microbiology. Thru Oct 11.

Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamconventioncenter.com.

Ruby C. Williams: Farm Fresh Folk Art: Paintings.

Thru Nov 2. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. historichillsborough.org

Ciders, Adoptable Dogs & Make Your Own Caramel Apple Bar: With Austin East Ciders and Second Chance Pet Adoptions. Sat, Oct 13, 2-6 p.m.

Barley Labs, Durham. www.barleylabs.com

This Holden Richards photo and others are on display in View Camera, his show with Tom Rankin at Horse & Buggy Press (and Friends).

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OPENING African American Dance Ensemble Fall Fundraiser: Fri, Oct 12, 7 p.m. Hayti Heritage Center, Durham. www.hayti.org.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28

SKELETON CREW

Durham’s blue-collar workers—and their children and grandchildren—know that a factory closing isn’t pretty. So do people from mill and tobacco towns across the state. Hard labor, shared skills, and craftsmanship once forged strong extended families that were torn to shreds when demand dwindled or corporations found cheaper help in poorer places. So some of us already know playwright Dominique Morisseau’s story, just not this way. It’s the wrong time to be in the automobile industry: in Detroit, at the dawn of 2008’s great recession. Stamping plants are closing left and right, and workers at the surviving ones are getting desperate. Unemployment, theft, and violent crime are spiking; management is tightening the screws, firing the expendable and those who don’t toe the line. Now, push is coming to shove for a tough, female union rep, the supervisor who got his first job from her, and two younger folks on the factory line. The crash is coming; brace for impact. —Byron Woods

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A Doll’s House Remodeled: Play presented by the Justice Theatre Project. Fri, Oct 12-Sun, Oct 28. Umstead Park United Church of Christ, Raleigh. www. upucc.org.

In the Blood: Play. Wed, Oct 17-Sun Oct 21. NCSU Campus: Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre, Raleigh. theatre.arts. ncsu.edu In the Heights: Musical. $25. Tue, Oct 16-Sun Oct 21.

Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

El Merolico: A Reworking of Cervantes’s Comic Interludes: Free performance. Wed, Oct 17, 7 p.m. Meredith College: Jones Chapel, Raleigh. www. iamquixote.com.

The Sugar Shack Experience: Immersive tribute to Durham artist Ernie Barnes. Live performances by J. Ivy and

SLIPPAGE. Dance party.

Thu, Oct 11, 6-10 p.m. Durham Armory, Durham.

comedy. $6. Saturdays, 9:30 p.m. Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. improvatthevarsity.com.

The Talk: One-man play by Sonny Kelly. Thu, Oct 11, 7 p.m.

Smith Middle School, Chapel Hill. www.comm.unc.edu.

½ It Is Done: Review forthcoming at indyweek. com. Thru Oct 21. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www. theatreinthepark.com

ONGOING

Anything Goes Late Show: Saturdays, 10:30 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com ½ Curve of Departure: Newcomer Bulldog Ensemble Theater displays the same values that made Manbites Dog Theater great in its debut production about a fractured family. Thru Oct 14. Durham Fruit Company, Durham. www. bulldogdurham.org.

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

Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m.

ComedyWorx, Raleigh. www.comedyworx.com.

Improv at the Varsity: Stand-up, sketch, and improv

The Six Pack Standup Show: Monthly comedy showcase.

Wed, Oct 17, 7 p.m.

North Street Beer Station, Raleigh. www.facebook.com/ sixpackstandupshow  The Revolutionists: At a time when a would-be American monarch incited his faithful mob by mocking a rape victim for confronting her attacker, it provides no comfort that the timeliest show by far on local stages is a play about women during the Reign of Terror. $15-$25. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www.raleighlittletheatre.org.

—Byron Woods Skeleton Crew: Play by Dominique Morisseau. $15$57. Oct 10-28. PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill. www.playmakersrep.org.

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JESSICA HOPPER In her 2015 book The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, esteemed music journalist Jessica Hopper delivered a long-overdue entry in a canon of that’s been dominated by men for as long as it’s existed. But her new book, Night Moves, is a different kind of animal: an elegant, loosely constructed memoir of her time in Chicago in the mid-aughts. It’s a peek into the intimate inner life of a writer whose work has helped PHOTO BY DAVID SAMPSON shape a generation of music critics, but you don’t have to be a diehard music nerd to appreciate Hopper’s observations. Her writing is gentle and fluid, and you feel as though you’re riding alongside her as she narrates her bike journeys across Chicago. Following this Thursday evening discussion in Durham with Merge Records’ Mac McCaughan, Hopper reads again on Friday at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill with Lydia Loveless. —Allison Hussey

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READINGS & SIGNINGS

Oct 11, 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Dorothy & Ray Park Alumni Center, Raleigh. go.ncsu.edu/iwc.

Cackalacky Noir: Eryk Pruitt and J.D. Rhoades with Katy Munger.

Tue, Oct 16, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com

2018 Innovative Women’s Conference: Fri, Oct 12, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. NCSU Campus: McKimmon Center, Raleigh go.ncsu.edu/iwc.

Nancy Corson Carter: Memoir The Never-Quite-Ending-War: A WWII Daughter’s Stories. Sun Oct 14, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com

In Conversation: Anthony Roth Costanzo & Bradley Rogers: Discussion. Fri, Oct 12 noon. The Pinhook, Durham.

Jo Watson Hackl: Novel Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe.

Sat, Oct 13, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

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

Día de los Muertos: Art Panel Discussion: Pepe Caudillo, Peter Marin, Cornelio Campos, and Leticia Alavarez. Sat, Oct 13 11 a.m. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Marilyn Shannon: In Just One Afternoon: Listening into the Heart of Twins. Thu, Oct 11, 6 p.m.

American Institute of Health and Fitness Conference Center, Raleigh.

Faculty Bookwatch: Panel on David Morgan’s “Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment.” Thu, Oct 11, 5 p.m. Franklin Humanities Institute, Durham. fhi.duke.edu.

West End Poetry Festival: Four days of free readings, a workshop, and a panel. Wed, Oct 17-Sat, Oct 20. Carrboro Town Commons, Carrboro. westendpoetryfestival.org.

Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Joel Sternfeld: Photography lecture., Thu, Oct 11, 5 p.m., 7 p.m., UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu

LECTURES ETC. 2018 Innovative Women’s Conference: Conversations with the She Suite: Discussion and networking night. Thu,

Remembering Mussolini: Fascism, Representation, and Memory in Post-War Italy: Thu, Oct 11, 4 p.m. National Humanities Center, Durham. nationalhumanitiescenter.org

SPECIAL SHOWINGS Dumpster Dive Cinema: Tue, Oct 16, 9 p.m. The Station, Carrboro. stationcarrboro.com The Exorcist (Director’s Cut): Screening. Sat, Oct 13, 9 p.m.

Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. www.thechelseatheater.com Lady Gaga Video Dance Party: Fri Oct 12, 8 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. www.drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Mists: Charles Ives for Jazz Orchestra: $10-$20. Sat, Oct 13, 8 p.m. UNC Campus: Hill Hall, Chapel Hill. music.unc.edu The Most Unknown: Documentary. Thu, Oct 11, 7 p.m. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences.org.

The Providers: Full Frame Road Show Fall Series. Thu, Oct 11, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. www.fullframefest.org.

Thunder Road: Screening and Q and A. Thu, Oct 11, 7 p.m.

Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. www.drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Wilmington on Fire: Documentary followed by Q and A with the director. Thu, Oct 11, 6 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org

OPENING Bad Times at the El Royale— Seven strangers with dark secrets meet in a seedy hotel in Drew Goddard’s neo-noir.

Rated R. Colette—Keira Knightley plays French novelist Colette.

Rated R. First Man—Damien Chazelle directs Ryan Gosling as famed astronaut Neil Armstrong.

Rated PG-13.

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween—Kids battle monsters in a comedy adventure based on R.L. Stine’s world of frights. Rated PG.  The Old Man & the Gun—Reviewed on p. 28.

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Former N.C. State film student Robert Greene is poised to make an impact with his newest film, Bisbee ‘17. Part documentary, part musical, part Western—it’s a lot of things—it tells the story of a labor strike that took place in 1917 in the border town of Bisbee, Arizona, against the copper company Phelps Dodge. As a result, thirteen hundred citizens were dragged away by strikebreakers and dumped in the desert. Greene’s film takes the form of a historical reenactment, with modern-day Bisbee citizens both telling the audience the story and recreating moments of it, while also acknowledging the cameras. In other words, it’s a film, a filmwithin-a-film, and a commentary on filmmaking, among many other things. Bisbee ’17 has received great reviews, currently sporting a 95 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The filmmaker will be in attendance for a Q and A after this 8:00 p.m. screening, which follows a free screening for N.C. State students and staff and a colloquium that morning; visit the film’s Facebook page for all the details. —Zack Smith

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

The tone is so agreeable you hardly notice the rickety script. Rated PG-13. ½ Christopher Robin—After you get used to them being 3-D plush toys, Winnie the Pooh and friends charm, but Christopher Robin is the least interesting thing in this movie. Rated PG.

 Crazy Rich Asians— This Asian-American-led rom-com is an undeniable cultural milestone, but put that aside and it’s uttery standard fare. Rated PG-13. ½ Incredibles 2—Dialing up socially progressive themes fourteen years after the original, Pixar’s sequel is fun, funny, and timely but not quite transcendent.

Rated PG. ½ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom—Murky morals, jump scares, and diminishing returns of digital dinos

weigh on this once-mighty franchise. Rated PG-13. ½ Mission: Impossible – Fallout—This Tom Cruise vehicle isn’t a good action film; it’s a great one, rivaling genre exemplars and drawing upon the previous entries in franchise.

Rated PG-13. ½ A Star Is Born— Neither modern classic nor mega-bomb, this CooperGaga remake is best when it’s allowed to be what it wants to be: a tender country-western love story.

Rated R.

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ARIES(March Aries (March21-April 21-April19) 19) Dear Ram: this week may feel a little tight, a little slower than you prefer. The New Moon is in Libra, your opposite sign, putting you face to face with others, bringing your relationships into focus, helping you redefine love. Receive and reflect without trying to change anything, let honesty be your guide.

TAURUS Taurus (April (April 20-May 20-May 20) 20) Dear Bull: the New Moon will ask you to take care of your body, health, and your day to day.

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GEMINI(May Gemini (May21-June 21-June20) 20) Dear Twins: pause when you find pleasure, when you celebrate, when you create. This is a particularly inspired time for you and the New Moon wants you to harness it. Write down your symphonies, pen your poems, fill your canvas with color.

CANCER Cancer (June (June 21-July 21-July 22) 22) Dear Crab: home is where the heart is and this New Moon will usher you there. Though you may be combing through days gone by, try not to get lost in the past. Create the harmony you need at home, connect with your roots, and you will see what can be cleared away to make room.

LEO(July Leo (July23-August 23-August22) 22) Dear Lion: sort through what has been waiting for you to give it your full attention. Sometimes it is hardest to listen to the truths of what we need. To find balance between your head and heart under the New Moon, create playful daily rituals that engage you. Make an altar, spritz lavender in your room, tackle each project with love.

VIRGO Virgo (August (August 23-September 23-September 22) 22) Dear Virgin: although you are known for your graceful service to others, the New Moon solicits you to reserve that energy for yourself. There will always be a new project to undertake, another element to perfect. For now, take a breather, reorient your compass, and enjoy the fruits of your labors.

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LIBRA(September Libra (September23-October 23-October22) 22) Dear Scales: this is your season and your Moon. Use the energy of the week ahead to set intentions which best serve you, your vision for the years ahead. Use this momentum to renew your sense of purpose. Being true to oneself is the greatest act of courage.

SCORPIO Scorpio (October (October 23-November 23-November 21)21) Dear Scorpio: use the New Moon to release what throws you off course. The past may feel all too near these days, let yourself reflect but don’t dwell. You are on the verge of a great transformation and it is natural to consider all that led to this moment. Meditation or creative expression can help you find alignment with your inner world and keep your waters flowing.

SAGITTARIUS Sagittarius (November (November 22-December 22-December 21) 21) Dear Archer: the New Moon requests that you reach past your own edges, explore beyond your comfort zone, and connect to those around you. It is the perfect time to let your social charms guide the way. Take a risk, there are intriguing doors to open and surprises in store.

CAPRICORN Capricorn (December (December 22-January 22-January 19)19) Dear Seagoat: it is time to join forces with hope and let your work breathe. The New Moon reminds you that a spoonful of sugar gets you through a long labor and having a balanced perspective will offer you great insight. Time is on your side, re-infuse your work with light.

AQUARIUS Aquarius (January (January 20-February 20-February 18)18) Dear DearWater WaterBearer: Bearer:give giveyour yourdreams dreamsaaspace spaceto tosimply simplybe. be.Though Thoughititmay mayfeel feeltempting temptingto toburst burst your own bubble, this New Moon asks you to entertain the impossible, to let your mind run free, to expose the ways you’ve been holding yourself back. Be flexible, allow for change, find faith in the unknown.

PISCES(February Pisces (February19-March 19-March20) 20) Dear Fish: look at the collaborations in your life. Do they support you, meet you half-way? Do they allow for your expansion? If the answer is no, then use this time to evaluate where you put your energy. This New Moon wants you to seek reciprocity and refuse to settle for less.

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