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6 Twelve hundred votes—out of thirty-five thousand cast—separated first and fourth place in last week’s Durham City Council election.

6 News 12 Food

8 In 1979, a North Carolina man threatened to beat a woman unless she took off her clothes. Then, he raped her. The state Supreme Court said this was legal.

14 Music 17 Arts & Culture 22 What to Do This Week

9 More people self-diagnose alpha-gal allergies than are correctly diagnosed by a physician.

25 Music Calendar 29 Arts & Culture Calendar

12 “You see people excited about Lao food and your culture. You gain so much pride in it.” 14 With VibeHouse 105, Kevin “Kaze” Thomas wants to cultivate the creative cross-pollination he found in Los Angeles. 15 On Revival, country-soul artist Rissi Palmer looks squarely at hard topics such as police brutality and miscarried pregnancies. 17 Frida Kahlo has become one of America’s favorite brands and fashion icons at the expense of her complex art and politics. NCMA’s exhibit isn’t helping. 20 Following her controversial set at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Michelle Wolf still isn’t interested in being polite.

Frida Kahlo’s “Self Portrait with Monkeys” is on view at NCMA (see page 17).

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backtalk Gracias, Steve With the contentious Durham elections now in the rearview, documentarian Rodrigo Dorfman—who caught hell for a fiery email he wrote defending city council member Javiera Caballero—pens a note of gratitude to Mayor Steve Schewel. “We woke up to the incredible electoral news of a lot of firsts,” Dorfman writes. “A Latina mayor in Tucson! A Working Families Party candidate winning a council seat in Philly! And in Durham, we elected, for the first time, a Latina candidate to the city council. When Steve won his mayoral race in 2017, he explicitly said that he wanted his [council] seat to go to a Latina. Why? Because he knew that Latinos needed political representation in a city where too many of them live in the shadows and have no voice. “But he also knew that, at that time, we did not have sufficient political power and privilege to access a seat by ourselves. We needed help to pull ourselves up. Just as we needed help to start a Latino Credit Union, immigrants have to seek alliances to survive. That is our reality. Many of us fought very hard to make sure that Javiera Caballero was chosen by the council to take Steve’s seat, and when she was chosen, Javiera was given the opportunity to be mentored by her colleagues Charlie Reece and Jillian Johnson and the rest of the council. Javiera worked twice as hard because as a woman and as a Latina candidate, as an immigrant and a mother of three, she had to carry the voices of thousands of her fellow immigrants who did not have a voice. That’s quite a burden. “Steve Schewel opened the door, and we pushed it wide open. This morning, there’s a little Latina girl in Durham who is looking up to her undocumented mother and saying, ‘Mami, one day, I’m going to be on the city council, and I’m going to help my community become a Durham para todos.’” Want to see your name in bold? Comment: indyweek.com Email: backtalk@indyweek.com Facebook: @IndependentWeekly Twitter: @indyweek

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What I See From Here

A SKYLINE VIEW OF DURHAM’S FUTURE BY ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS

ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS is the author of M Archive: After the End of the World, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. NEXT WEEK: CHIKA GUJARATHI, a Raleigh-based writer and author of the Hello Namaste! children’s books, whose work can be found on her blog The Antibland Chronicles.

fter struggling for months through multiple temporary living situations in Durham, my partner and I leased an apartment in a new building that didn’t exist last year. The rent is more than five times what I paid for my first apartment in Durham, and I’m not making five times as much as I made then. The other night, I woke up in a panic about how I’m going to make this work. From inside this high-rise building, I can, in fact, see the sky. I can see the sun break the horizon from my bedroom window. But is what I see from my window a new awakening for Durham or another form of slumber? Out of my window, I can see the steeple of the Hayti Heritage Center, once the historic St. Joseph’s Church, founded in the 1800s with power and inspiration from the Haitian Revolution, a sacred space to sustain the spiritual lives of Black people with their hearts set on freedom. I can see the shape of a veve in honor of the Haitian Vodoun deity Erzulie, who represents love, beauty, and prosperity, at the highest point of that beloved building, where I dance to live West African drums every Monday, look forward to the Hayti Film Festival each year, and where we opened our Black Feminist revival this past September. Are we, in Durham, thinking about Haiti’s freedom legacies right now? Haitian environmentalists have pointed out the connections between the fact that, in 1804, France forced Haiti to pay European slaveholders “reparations” for the money they lost from Black freedom. To pay those reparations, Haiti sold massive amounts of timber, leading to deforestation that has left the

country vulnerable to earthquakes, hurricanes, and erosion. Layers of silt that are clogging coral reefs, leading to the disappearance of marine life, would otherwise be swimming off the coasts of Haiti, a key part of the ecology and the people’s food systems. What are the long-term layered costs for us, in Durham, of the investments we are making right now? From here, I can see Highway 147 and how it cuts through what was once one of the most vibrant Black communities in the world. I can see a shard of Pettigrew Street, which once hosted renowned Black musicians and performers, a thoroughfare where Black businesses thrived. Do the people in these cars know they are driving through ghosts? I can see the Food World shopping center, and I wonder if the residents of the “Spirit of Hayti” housing development are shopping there. The parking lot is mostly empty except for a fleet of U-Haul trucks. I can also see the courthouse and the parking lot full of police cars on the roof of the so-called Justice Center. I cannot quite see the jail, where activists from Southerners on New Ground chained themselves earlier this year to protest money bail and insisted that Black mamas being held pre-trial should be released immediately—and that instead of a “risk assessment,” they should be offered a “needs assessment.” In other words, the question wasn’t whether people facing poverty-related charges were a flight risk, but whether they had the childcare and transportation and the time off work they’d need to show up in court. To prioritize need in a time of speculative capital is a radical stance. I applaud

District Attorney Satana Deberry for decreasing cash bail in Durham. The bravery of the activist community and the visionaries we’ve elected are part of the reason I’m committed to this place. And yet, while this was once a city with a cost of living that felt sustainable, as I watch birds migrating south out my window, I am becoming a new Durham flight risk. I feel like I am financially risking everything to stay here. From this expensive window, I see about four hundred air-conditioning compressors. In the age of global warming, there is a need to stay cool, and yet, we know the hydrofluorocarbons in these compressors are contributing to that global warming and must be phased out. And in the full face of the sun, with a view of so many newly built rooftops, I do not see one solar panel. I’m just sitting at my window, knowing that everything is connected and thinking about the presence of Black freedom and the jail next-door, about the environmental legacy of Haiti and debts that cannot be repaid. I am thinking about cost and need and risk as they narrate stories about what Durham does and doesn’t do and who can and cannot live here. And as the sun breaks through the horizon, my hope is that my fellow freedom dreamers do not sleep on the significance of the decisions we are making now. backtalk@indyweek.com INDY Voices—a rotating column featuring some of the Triangle’s most compelling writers—is made possible by contributions to the INDY Press Club. Visit KeepItINDY.com for more information. INDYweek.com | 11.13.19 | 5

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Fault Lines

DURHAM’S CLOSE, LOW-TURNOUT, BUT HISTORIC ELECTION ENDS WITH A BITTER PILL FOR SOME BLACK VOTERS BY THOMASI MCDONALD

urham politics is known for raucous city council meetings, contentious forums, and spirited social media threads, hallmarks of a proud and robust democracy. Until the polls open, that is. During the October primary for three at-large council seats, fewer than 9 percent of the city’s nearly 195,000 registered voters cast ballots. In last week’s general election, which also included an affordable housing bond and a mayoral election, about 18 percent of voters participated—better, but hardly good, especially for a heavily African American city at the forefront of civil rights efforts a half-century ago. For those unhappy with the city’s direction, that’s a bitter pill. Council incumbents Jillian Johnson, Charlie Reece, and Javiera Caballero, along with Mayor Steve Schewel, prevailed. They’d netted a series of major endorsements, including from the influential—and largely white—People’s Alliance PAC. But rapper and businessman Joshua Gunn, backed by the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, had fallen just short, only about four hundred votes behind Caballero, the third-place finisher, and just twelve hundred votes behind Johnson, who garnered the most support. Four hundred votes out of almost thirty-five thousand cast. Days before the election, clinical researcher Moya Hawkins, a Gunn supporter, told the INDY that the incumbents, who campaigned under the banner Bull City Together, had failed to listen to the community. “I hope now that Bull City Together has won the election, they will listen—not only to the people who voted for them but to those who did not vote for them,” Hawkins says. “Javiera Caballero won over Joshua by less than four hundred votes. She’s vulnerable, and she needs to pay attention to how she communicates with the Durham community.” 6 | 11.13.19 | INDYweek.com

Javiera Caballero, Jillian Johnson, and Charlie Reece Caballero made Durham history by becoming the first Latinx person elected to the city council. She’d previously been appointed to the board in 2018 to fill the seat vacated by Schewel when he became mayor, giving the Latinx community a voice it hadn’t had before. During the campaign, she faced attacks suggesting that she didn’t deserve the seat, including an evidence-free challenge to her citizenship by failed candidate Victoria Peterson that the state Board of Elections deemed “spurious” and dismissed. Gunn’s supporters saw him as a voice for the young black men who’ve been on both sides of the recent spike in gun violence and who’ve comprised more than 90 percent of this year’s homicide victims. In a widely shared Facebook post the day after the election, Durham pastor and journalist Carl Kenney argued that the incumbents’ “victory is celebrated as an affirmation from Durham’s most marginalized population. The numbers fail to validate this position. People aren’t happy with our incumbents.” The election, he wrote, wasn’t about the candidates, but “about power, agendas, and the force of white privilege in

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framing the terms of a progressive agenda.” He told the INDY that there’s a sentiment among black residents that the People’s Alliance is setting an agenda that’s disconnected from the interests of people of color. “I think they position themselves as the voice of black people,” he says, “and they use key black people to give the impression that they have the consensus of the black community.” What’s emerged, Kenney says, is a “clear battle” over who speaks for Durham’s black people—the PA or the Durham Committee. “The People’s Alliance has positioned themselves as having a pro-black ideology, and I challenge that,” Kenney says. Andrea Benjamin, who conducted exit polls during the 2015 and 2017 Durham elections while she was a UNC-Chapel Hill professor, says last week’s results reflect a “stark racial divide” among Durham voters. This isn’t new, says Benjamin, who now teaches at the University of Oklahoma and is completing a book on Durham politics. In 2017, more than 70 percent of white voters supported Schewel for mayor, while a similar percentage of black voters backed Farad Ali. Kenney says his concerns are part of an

ongoing conversation he’s been having with African American residents. “It’s problematic,” he says. “People are feeling like they are not tied to the issues we’re facing. They feel like their vote doesn’t make a difference.” Milo Pyne, the coordinator for the PA PAC, could not be reached for comment. Johnson told the INDY on Monday that she understands that some black voters don’t feel like the council is addressing their needs—especially given the thirty-four homicides Durham has seen this year—but she says no one has suggested a “specific action” the city should take. She points out that the police department has improved its response times and the city’s homicide clearance rate is above the national average. “I have heard the criticism,” Johnson says. “But I haven’t heard any reasoning behind the criticism. If someone would bring me specific programs and initiatives that would benefit the black community, I’m happy to listen.” There are two ways to effect change in Durham, Benjamin says: Run a campaign or form a coalition. If you want different results in 2021, start planning now. “It’s still a contest,” Benjamin says. “And the person with the most votes wins.” On Monday afternoon, Gunn conceded the election, though in doing so, he took a thinly veiled shot across the PA’s bow. “Before this election,” he said in a statement, “there was a sentiment that our votes no longer count. The PA’s voice had become so dominant that I was told, ‘The election doesn’t happen in November, it happens at the PA endorsement meeting.’ “We were one neighborhood away. One church congregation, one sorority away from restoring the voice of all people in Durham’s democracy. They hear us now, y’all. They see us. And we ain’t going nowhere.” tmcdonald@indyweek.com

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Closing the Loopholes HOW ONE WOMAN’S STORY HELPED GET NORTH CAROLINA’S ARCHAIC CONSENT LAWS OFF THE BOOKS BY LEIGH TAUSS

n a warm Saturday night in May 2018, Leah McGuirk slipped through the crowd at Rooftop 210 in Charlotte to order her usual, a Patrón with water and lime, at the bar. McGuirk, then thirty-one, was working full-time as a nanny while attending community college, studying communications. She nursed her drink, her only one of the night, with a group of friends as bar-goers churned around them. About twenty minutes later, she says, she started to feel lightheaded, her vision fading in and out. Suddenly, everything went black. She hadn’t even finished her drink. Her friends, unsure of what was happening, braced her against a metal pole. She slid to the ground, dropping her drink and purse, and began convulsing as a friend cradled her to keep her from banging her head on the floor. Her companions dragged McGuirk outside, where she eventually regained consciousness atop a planter. A friend picked her up and brought her home. She didn’t get out of bed the next day; she was sick to her stomach and had a throbbing headache. “I felt the life force had been sucked out of me,” she recalls. Only later did she realize that she’d been drugged. She didn’t go to the hospital or get a blood panel to prove it. But it was the only explanation. McGuirk took to social media to tell her story and warn other Rooftop 210 patrons. Her Facebook post went viral. Messages trickled into her inbox from others who claimed to have been drugged—and some sexually assaulted—at Rooftop 210. When she attempted to file a police report two weeks later, she learned something equally as disturbing: Because she hadn’t been sexually assaulted, what happened to her wasn’t technically a crime in North Carolina. State law didn’t address the use of daterape drugs without sexual assault. The state 8 | 11.13.19 | INDYweek.com

“We wanted to get something substantive done and something major done.” did prohibit tampering with Halloween candy—banning the placement of controlled substances, poisonous chemicals, or razor blades in “any food or eatable substance”— but that didn’t apply to McGuirk’s situation. As it turned out, that wasn’t the only archaic loophole that remained open. North Carolina was also the only state in the U.S. that didn’t explicitly allow a person to revoke consent once sex has been initiated, the result of a 1979 North Carolina Supreme Court decision. By today’s standards, the case reads as cruel and even absurd. Beverly Hester agreed to go on a date with Donnie Leon Wray, who at some point asked her up to his room, where he demanded that she remove her clothes and threatened to beat her if she didn’t. Terrified, she did what he asked. He then raped her. Wray was found guilty of second-degree rape, but he appealed, and the court ruled that a woman was not protected by the state’s rape laws if at any point she had consented. That ruling—and the legislature’s failure to remedy it for forty years—has come under scrutiny in the wake of the #MeToo

movement, with calls to bring the state’s consent laws into the twenty-first century. Last week, Governor Cooper signed into law Senate Bill 199, which makes it illegal to spike a drink or take sexual advantage of a person who is incapacitated with drugs or alcohol and gives people the right to revoke consent during sex. In addition, the law strengthens protections for children who are abused by their caretakers. SB 199 passed unanimously in both the House and Senate. The bill was drafted by state representative Chaz Beasley, a Charlotte Democrat, who learned about the loopholes after being contacted by an investigative reporter writing about McGuirk’s situation. In a legislature viciously divided by party lines, Beasley says he took care to avoid the bill becoming a “political football.” Doing that meant finding people brave enough to share their stories, Beasley says. “It wasn’t about making the bill weaker,” he says. “It was about trying to find people who had similar experiences and stories and personal perspectives that would make the bill stronger.” Representative Jay Adams, a Catawba Republican who also sponsored the bill, knew someone who’d been drugged against their will. He helped rally Republicans behind it. “We wanted to get something substantive done and something major done, and that required us making sure we didn’t just want to pat ourselves on the back,” Beasley says. Trauma, McGuirk says, reverberates through time. It comes in waves. Now studying at UNC-Chapel Hill, she says she’s less carefree than she used to be. She still goes to bars on occasion, but she uses a coaster to cover her drink. To her knowledge, the person who drugged her has never been caught. “I’m sure that person’s still out there,” McGuirk says. ltauss@indyweek.com

THE TICK.

teve Troxler first noticed something was wrong on a Sunday morning. In February 2017, North Carolina’s longtime agriculture commissioner had just returned from a trade mission to Brazil, where he’d feasted on steak with local officials and businessmen. He awoke with a high fever and a rash, severe enough that he went to see his doctor Monday morning, who, in turn, sent him to an infectious disease specialist. Before going to Brazil, Troxler had received four vaccines, including a live vaccine, which his doctors at first thought could be the source of the trouble. After that, they ran a series of tests over several weeks, looking for signs of every mosquito-borne disease known to science. A few

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false positives came up, but nothing helpful. Through it all, doctors told Troxler he needed to keep his strength up, so he should eat lots of protein. He happily obliged, filling his diet with hamburgers, barbecue, and country ham. But he still felt terrible. Then, one morning, he skipped his morning protein and ate a sweet roll for breakfast; his symptoms subsided. He went to work and ate meatloaf for lunch. Within a few hours, the fever and rash came back. A lightbulb went off. In 2009 and again in 2014, Troxler had contracted Lyme disease, which put tick-borne illnesses on his radar. And he recalled another tick-borne illness that had been linked to an allergy to red meat. In Brazil and since he’d come back, he’d eaten

a lot of red meat—and the whole time, he’d been sick. “So I said, now, wait a minute, I think I got this thing figured out,” Troxler says. “I went back to the infectious disease doctor. I said, ‘How about testing me for the tick bite and red-meat allergy?’” His hunch proved correct. Troxler, whose department regulates the state’s $84 billion agriculture industry, has what’s known as an alpha-gal allergy, a reaction triggered by mammalian meat products such as beef and pork that, in severe instances, can cause fatal anaphylaxis. As of this spring, there were more than five thousand confirmed alpha-gal allergy cases in the U.S., but that’s likely just the tip of the iceberg. The allergy isn’t well-

known, even in the medical community. It’s only been discovered in the last twenty years, linked to ticks in the last dozen years, and the average time between when most patients first experience symptoms and when they are diagnosed is more than seven years. As an article in the journal Oxford Medical Case Reports noted last year, “The prevalence of this allergy is dramatically increasing.” It’s not just that researchers are becoming more aware of the allergy, either. There’s evidence it’s spreading, too. Tick-carrying deer populations are exploding around developed areas due to a decrease in hunting and the disappearance of natural predators. And, thanks to climate change, the Lone Star and other alpha-gal-spreading ticks— which have traditionally preferred warmer climates like the southeastern U.S.—are migrating further north than ever before. Troxler says that his allergy has been “nothing more than an inconvenience.” For others, however, it’s much more serious—and the answer isn’t always as simple as swearing off meat. The alpha-gal sugar that causes the allergy can show up unannounced in everything from deodorant to condoms, as well as life-saving medications and medical devices. A cure remains elusive, but a biotech firm in Virginia is taking a different tack: Instead of seeking to change a person’s response to the animal, it’s changing the animal. At a forum organized in Raleigh in August, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Revivicor’s initiative to genetically modify pigs that are free of the alpha-gal allergen had been accepted into its Veterinary Innovation Program, meaning the altered-and-cloned pigs would be ushered through the regulatory process on their way to the slaughterhouse and grocery store shelves. And this could all happen sooner than you think. If everything goes to plan, both meat and medical products with alpha-gal-free pigs could be on the market within a year.

f it weren’t for the alpha-gal allergy, domestic diva Martha Stewart might never have been convicted for insider trading in 2004. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, researchers conducting human trials on a cancer drug derived from mouse cells INDYweek.com | 11.13.19 | 9

found that some participants were developing serious allergic reactions. One patient collapsed and died. The manufacturer, ImClone, had to report these reactions to the FDA. Stewart’s broker got an early heads-up, informed her, and she dumped her stock in the company before the news broke. Stewart ended up serving five months in the federal pen. In 2002, Dr. Thomas Platt-Mills, the director of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, linked those reactions to the alpha-gal carbohydrate in mouse cells. A quick biology lesson: Within every cell are proteins responsible for most cellular functions. Attached to these proteins are sugars. Alpha-gal is one of these sugars, but it only appears among most non-primate mammals—i.e., not humans. It does, however, appear in mice, as well as the mammals that humans consume. Not long after Platt-Mills published his findings, Dr. Scott Commins, now a professor at the UNC School of Medicine, began his residency and then a fellowship at UVA. With Platt-Mills, he began seeing patients at the UVA allergy clinic who had suddenly developed a reaction to red meat after safely eating it their whole lives. Oddly, their reactions were delayed, usual-

T H E AV ERAG E TI M E BET W EEN W H EN MO ST PAT I ENTS F I R ST EXP ERI EN CE SYM P TOMS A ND W H EN TH EY’RE DI AG N OS ED I S S EV EN YEA R S. ly by several hours, and were most severe after they ingested fatty meat. (It takes the body about three hours to begin digesting animal fat.) This was unlike other food allergies, which occur instantaneously. They quickly understood that their patients had developed an allergy to meat, but they didn’t know how it was being spread. Geography held the answer. Platt-Mills and Commins went back to the cancer study. Patients from California didn’t react to the drug at all, but about a quarter of those from the Southeast did. From there, they figured out that a map of participants who’d had reactions to the drug correlated to places that had seen outbreaks of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a potentially deadly bacterial infection spread by ticks and most commonly reported in the rural Southeast. Then, a lab tech working on the alpha-gal puzzle developed a beef allergy after going hiking and receiving several tick bites. The

tech found an attached female Lone Star tick that left a “persistent itchy spot for several weeks.” That, Commins says, “provided a clue that perhaps ticks were part of the story.” The tech wasn’t alone. Multiple alpha-gal patients in the UVA clinic recounted irksome tick bites—especially from the Lone Star tick, the most common transmitter of the alpha-gal allergy in the U.S.—before they became symptomatic. Intuitively, this made sense. As with other tick-borne illnesses, a tick could carry an alpha-gal molecule from an animal it had bitten and then transmit it into a person’s body. The molecule could then trigger an immune system reaction to red meat: anything from hives and swelling of the face or tongue to abdominal pain, headaches, and lightheadedness. In the most extreme cases, this reaction could cause anaphylaxis—a potentially fatal reaction that restricts breathing.

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ike Steve Troxler, Beth Carrison diagnosed herself with the alpha-gal allergy. Many patients do. According to a 2017 study in the Journal of Primary Care Community Health, which conducted interviews with twenty-eight patients at Commins’s allergy clinic at UNC, alpha-gal sufferers were correctly diagnosed by doctors less than 10 percent of the time, and more self-diagnosed than were accurately diagnosed by a physician. Researchers believe that 20–25 percent of southeastern U.S. residents carry the alpha-gal allergen, though only 1 percent of carriers are symptomatic. Scientists also think that many previously unexplained anaphylactic reactions may stem from alpha-gal allergies. Carrison, who co-founded the Pittsboro-based organization Tick-Borne Conditions United in 2018, says the information gap on the alpha-gal allergy within the medical community is more like a chasm. “I self-diagnosed for both [the alpha-gal allergy] and Lyme because I connected the dots and then brought the information to my physician,” Carrison says. “In both cases, he refused to test me.” So she found a new doctor who was willing to listen to her story and her recollection of being bitten by a Lone Star tick. He’d just come back from a conference where Platt-

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Mills had spoken, and he agreed to test her. The test confirmed her self-diagnosis; her symptoms appear about two hours after she ingests pork—or within minutes after she’s exposed to red meat particles in the air. Indeed, ingesting red meat isn’t the only way to trigger an alpha-gal reaction. For Annie Mae King, who owns Harper’s Grill in Bear Creek, a small community in Chatham County, even exposure to airborne meat particles can lead to nausea, vertigo, and fatigue. She’s no longer able to taste her restaurant’s food, cook, or even be in the kitchen. Her business is up for sale. Byproducts harvested from animals that carry the alpha-gal sugar can also cause reactions, and they’re found in all sorts of things. Glycerin made from beef fat can be used in tapioca pudding, shaving cream, and condoms. The musk in some perfumes comes from deer, and sheep-derived lanolin is used in some lipsticks and deodorants. Medical products aren’t immune, either. Gelatin capsules and gummy vitamins have components made from animal hooves. Vitamin D3 is derived from sheep. Heparin, pancreatic enzymes, and thyroid medications are made from pigs. Premarin, a hormone used by menopausal women, is produced from horses. These are but a few of the mammalian-based medications commonly found in medicine cabinets. And animal-derived materials are also found in medical implants. They’re used in polymers and the coatings of synthetic devices, bone substitutes, and collagen injections. Cows and, more commonly, pigs are sources for heart valves. For a heart-valve recipient who also has an undiagnosed alpha-gal allergy, this can lead to a life-threatening rejection until the valve is removed and replaced with a mechanical valve (which carries a greater clotting risk). At UVA, surgeons are familiar with alphagal because of Platt-Mills’s work; elsewhere, however, many patients aren’t tested for the allergy before heart-valve surgery. Rejections are often attributed to unknown causes, researchers say.

n August, Steve Solomon, the director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, came to Raleigh for a press conference with Dr. David Ayares, the CEO of a Blacksburg, Virginia-based biotech company called Revivicor. A spinoff of the British company that created Dolly the sheep, the world’s first cloned animal, in 2003, Revivicor has been developing what it calls GalSafe pigs—hogs that have been genetically modified to remove the alpha-gal sugar.

Solomon was there to announce that the FDA was conferring these pigs fast-track status through the regulatory process. “For consumers like Commissioner Troxler that have this allergic condition, this is a significant change,” Solomon said. Revivicor’s nondescript headquarters in a cookie-cutter office park in Blacksburg belies the whiz-bang nature of the work done inside. Even the lab where pigs are cloned looks more high school biology classroom than Star Trek. The company was founded to address the shortage of organs and tissues available for human implantation through xenotransplantation, or animal to human transplantation. The biggest challenge with this work is rejection—and alpha-gal is the largest provocateur of rejection response, says Ayares. The Revivicor team modified pig genes to essentially remove instructions that told the pigs to produce the alpha-gal sugar. They then used these manipulations to clone genetically engineered pigs. They’ve produced multiple generations since the original manipulations, with enough pigs to now have breeding herds that solely consist of GalSafe livestock. Final FDA approval hinges on showing that the engineered pigs are otherwise identical in every way to their unaltered relatives, from appearance to anatomy to the taste and aroma of the meat. After that, Revivicor will partner with a slaughterhouse as well as a harvester for medical products and a meatpacker and retailers. So far, the company appears to have encountered little resistance from anti-GMO groups. Perhaps that’s because of the nature of the modification—removing a trait rather than adding genes or creating or hybrid—or maybe it’s because its work, and the alphagal phenomenon generally, isn’t well-known. Either way, it’s a different reception than the first genetically modified food received. In 1989, AquaBounty first combined the Atlantic and Chinook salmon with the eellike ocean pout to create Aquadvantage, a fish that grows faster and can be brought to market quicker than typical salmon. The product went on sale in Canada in 2016, but its sale in the U.S. was held up in Congress as lawmakers battled over labeling. Recently cleared, AquaBounty could be in stores next year, though it remains controversial. Troxler doesn’t think Revivicor’s pigs will take nearly as long to reach the market—for food, drugs, or medical devices. And the commissioner, who’s had to go without meat much longer than he’d like, is impatient for progress. “The first piece of pork off the grill is mine,” he says. backtalk@indyweek.com

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LAO-LAO FOOD TRUCK POP-UP AT HEIRLOOM BREWSHOP 219 S. West St., Raleigh Nov. 13, 5–10 p.m. (or until sellout) @LaoLaoFoodTruck

True Lao

A BIDA MANDA VET IS PUTTING HER FAMILY’S HOME-COOKED LAO FOOD ON WHEELS BY LAYLA KHOURY-HANOLD

aleigh is having a Lao food moment. It started with Bida Manda, which opened downtown in 2012. Next year, Bida Manda’s owners, Vansana and Vanvisa Nolintha, will open another Lao restaurant, Luang Prabang, in The Dillon in the Warehouse District. The Dillon also houses the Lao-inflected Heirloom Brewshop, which was named to Bon Appétit’s “50 Best New Restaurants in America” list this year. And this week, Heirloom will host a pop-up event for Lao-Lao Food Truck, which launched on October 14. “It’s this awesome Lao food movement that we see across the country, where Lao people are embracing their culture first,” says Anousone Kettisack, Lao-Lao’s proprietor and a Bida Manda manager. She’s speaking for herself, as a first-generation American, but also for her parents, Phouthone Kettisack and Tanh Keovilay-Kettisack, who are the truck’s inspiration and cooks. Together, the Kettisacks want to bring Lao culture— and its unabashedly funky, spicy cuisine—to the Triangle. Phouthone and Tanh know firsthand the power of food to bring people together. They met over pho as teenagers. In 1980, in the aftermath of the Laotian Civil War, they left a refugee camp in Thailand for the U.S. They resettled in Raleigh with their infant daughter and welcomed a second daughter in 1982. They found comfort in sharing dishes from their homeland with the Lao community, and over the next decade, Phouthone supported his growing family by working in Chinese restaurants. In 1989, Anousone was born, and her parents bought a house in North Raleigh, where she grew up and they still live. After graduating with a degree in communications from East Carolina University in 2012, Anousone returned to Raleigh. Through the Lao community, she learned of a forthcoming Lao restaurant and began work as a host at Bida Manda in 2012 and a manager in 2015, a position she still holds. For Anousone Kettisack, working at Bida Manda has affirmed her identity. “You see people excited about Lao food and your culture. You gain so much pride in it,” she says. “For so long, you’re almost having to choose: ‘Should I be proud and be Lao or stay behind the scenes and adapt to American culture?’ Seeing that people can accept us for who we are and what we believe in—I can still be myself and be an American.” 12 | 11.13.19 | INDYweek.com

“Seeing that people can accept us for who we are and what we believe in—I can still be myself and be an American.”

Lao-Lao’s preview event at The Dillon on October 14 PHOTO BY MONICA JON

At first, Kettisack’s parents questioned her decision to work in restaurants. Eventually, though, they saw how much joy it brought her and threw their weight behind her efforts (the food truck, in fact, was Phouthone’s idea). Now, it’s a family business. “I went to Laos with my mom in May 2018, and it just reaffirmed to me how we do service the way we do [at Bida Manda]. Lao people are just like that,” Kettisack says. “It didn’t matter if we were eating street food or at a restaurant— it was the same type of calming, accommodating hospitality.”

This ethos makes the food truck’s name especially fitting. “When you say something is ‘Lao Lao,’ it means true Lao or authentic,” Kettisack says. The Lao-Lao Food Truck menu includes ingredients from Tanh’s lush home garden, which calls to mind Laos’s verdant landscape. There are cucumbers, long beans, and chilies, which are an elemental part of Lao cuisine. (Tanh has a saying that translates to “if it’s not spicy, it’s not good.”) Some of the ingredients are featured in the truck’s mixand-match “thum”-style salad plate. Thum means “smash and mix,” so your choice of base—say, green papaya, cucumber, or long beans—gets pounded in a mortar (khok) and pestle (saak) with a fermented fish sauce that’s dubbed “Lao Lao funky sauce,” then topped with pork belly, beef jerky, or chicken and served with sticky rice and pork rinds. “The idea behind the menu is to have people interact with Lao food in a way they haven’t before,” Kettisack says. She’s referring to this interactive approach to ordering, but she also encourages diners to eat the Lao way: Pinch a mound of sticky rice between your fingertips, squish it a little to mold the grains together, and then use it to scoop up a bite, perhaps first raking it through a spicy sauce. Kettisack’s sauce of choice is jeow som, which is made sour with lime juice and bolstered with minced garlic, fish sauce, Thai chilies, and cilantro. Lao-Lao has plans to add a weekly menu special, such as khao piak sen, a breakfast soup of handmade rice noodles cooked in chicken broth. Diners can choose a topping, such as cubes of boiled blood cake (made with pig’s blood), which has a tofu-like texture. “We’re taking how Lao people use hospitality on the road and showing people that warmth in a really quick way. A lot of people are yearning for that,” Anousone says. “You get that feeling of warmth and comfort, even if the food isn’t something you’re familiar with.” food@indyweek.com

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RALEIGH NIGHT MARKET Nov. 14, 5:30–10:30 p.m. City Market, 215 Wolfe St., Raleigh raleighnightmarket.com, free November is one of those months where the urge to walk around with a hot beverage suddenly becomes irrepressible. Enter the last Raleigh night market of 2019, which will feature a host of musicians (Hyde County Ramblers, Bearded Whiskey, David D’Angelo, and The Red Vibes), and more than a hundred food and retail vendors. SUPPER Nov. 14, 6–9 p.m. Artspace, 201 E. Davie St., Raleigh 919-821-2787, artspacenc.org, $50 All fall, Artspace has been examining different parts of Southern identity with the exhibits Dirty South and Heirloom. At this family-style dinner—which includes a meal prepared by local chefs and two drink tickets—guests can eat and celebrate the end of the season. Following dinner, artists David Eichenberger, Maria Frati, and Renzo Ortega will create screen-printed designs. DRINK + DRAW Nov. 14, 6–8 p.m. Lantern Restaurant, 423 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, 919-969-8846 lanternrestaurant.com, free Two local Wallaces—Emily, author of the recently published roadside food manual Road Sides, and Daniel, director of the creative writing program at UNC-Chapel Hill and the author of Big Fish—come together for a light evening of drinking and drawing. The coloring books on hand will feature one-ofa-kind depictions of “lesser-known roadside attractions.” Snacks are provided, and Lantern’s cash bar will be close by. —Sarah Edwards

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CHAPEL HILL HIP-HOP AMBASSADOR KEVIN “KAZE” THOMAS EXTENDS HIS VIBEHOUSE BRAND TO DURHAM BY ERIC TULLIS

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his is it, man. We’re actually down here,” says Kevin “Kaze” Thomas, almost in disbelief. The veteran Triangle rapper is standing in the second-story front room of VibeHouse 105, his new performance space and recording studio in downtown Durham. The floor-to-ceiling windows look out onto Main Street, where, in recent years, African-American and Latinx business owners, activists, and artists have strived to reenergize the entrepreneurial and cultural spirit of Durham’s historic Black Wall Street. Located at 105 West Main Street, VibeHouse 105 is the sister space of VibeHouse 405, which Thomas opened in Chapel Hill in February 2018, and which is now temporarily closed for renovation. But the inspiration came five years earlier, while he was living in Los Angeles for a few months. For two decades, Thomas had been a staple of North Carolina hip-hop, respected equally as a rigorous, stage-ready emcee and the de facto hip-hop ambassador of Chapel Hill. He built a local open-mic scene where rappers and beatmakers from all over the state—including an up-and-coming J. Cole—found a consistent place to show their talents. In 2015, his mini hip-hop festival in Chapel Hill, Hillmatic, was the culmination of these efforts. “That was a good run for me, but I wanted to transcend and not look like I was content with being local,” Thomas says. “[VibeHouse] was a step toward showing my whole repertoire.” While he was in LA, Thomas noticed that the music industry had begun to take as much interest in “creatives” and “influencers” as it did in entertainers. It appeared that artists-turned-podcasters such as Joe Budden; brand gurus such as Spotify’s “RapCaviar” playlist gatekeeper, Tuma Basa; and Louis Vuitton director Virgil Abloh were on track to have as much cultural cachet as the hottest rappers. “If I’m going to be back here, how can I create that energy I just left, where I go out and bump into photographers, producers, show promoters, and web designers who all work with each other?” Thomas remembers wondering. “I didn’t see that collaboration of community [in the Triangle]. I saw how fragmented the music scene was.” Upon his return, Thomas decided that instead of just rapping, he would try to curate an environment that would foster the collaborative creative culture he witnessed in LA. With an initial investment from Al Bowers, the owner of Al’s Burger Shack, Thomas and his then-business partner, Wendy Mann, installed VibeHouse next to a tattoo parlor on the second floor of 14 | 11.13.19 | INDYweek.com

Kevin “Kaze” Thomas opened VibeHouse 105 in downtown Durham this year. 405 West Franklin Street. It quickly became a bustling recording studio utilized by local musicians such as Ethan Taylor and Defacto Thezpian; a 2nd Friday ArtWalk destination featuring works by Gemynii, Jen Tidrow, and Anthony Patterson; and a mentoring workshop space for young “creative rebels.” “A lot of people asked me why I didn’t start off in a better-suited place like Durham,” Thomas says. “But with Chapel Hill being such a big place in my heart, as an incubator for me, it needed an ecosystem more. There were at least

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a couple of things in Durham for young artists to be a part of. There was nothing in Chapel Hill.” Still, after a year spent establishing VibeHouse, it was time to make a move on the Bull City. “I realized that the energy and the beat of the 919 was taking place in Durham,” he says. “I didn’t want to miss that boat. I didn’t want to miss that renaissance.” When VibeHouse 405 opened, Thomas and Durham entertainer Karim “Bishop Omega” Jarrett had begun the second season of Intelligently Ratchet, a jaunty, barber-

“You can gentrify the buildings and the blocks, but people are coming because the culture is present.” shop-talk style Facebook Live show featuring a range of local guests, from Durham Mayor Steve Schewel to musicians such as Phonte and Rome Jeter. The show expanded the Durham network that Thomas needed to jump into the city’s creative community. In May 2019, after VibeHouse 405’s neighboring tattoo parlor had moved out, Thomas and his new business partner, Stephen Kay, were approached by Michael Levy, the CEO of Bluedoor, a Chapel Hillbased digital-health agency that had recently moved in downstairs. Levy had acquired the adjacent space and wanted to renovate the entire floor. But instead of shutting down VibeHouse for several months during renovations, Levy suggested that Thomas and Kay temporarily move their operation to his own second-story property in downtown Durham. According to Thomas, Levy thought that there was great value in teaming up with a community-forward studio and art space like VibeHouse, which could complement Bluedoor’s mission of “nurturing relationships” while also helping to provide some of their multimedia and marketing needs. “It fit perfect,” Thomas says of the walkup space, which is conveniently located on the Bull City’s main urban footpath. He and Kay decided that, although they would return to Chapel Hill after renovations were complete, they also wanted to remain in Durham. Levy agreed. “What you have with me and Kaze is a real and serendipitous relationship between two like-minded individuals,” Levy says. “Vibe-

music House and Bluedoor share the same vision on how creating dedicated space for culture and art can promote change and awareness across health care and education as well.” VibeHouse’s new Durham residence is the latest highlight in the nexus of minority-operated creative and entrepreneurial spaces downtown. It joins Beyu Caffe, Skewers Bar & Grill, Kompleks Creative, NorthStar Church of the Arts, Blackspace, Knox St. Studios, and North Carolina Mutual’s Provident1898 coworking space in a sort of contemporary Green Book of cultural symbiosis. VibeHouse 105, which recently hosted a listening party for Durham rapper O.A.C.E. of Spades, picks up where the now-closed RUNAWAY store left off, curating a diverse brand of urban cool. The space’s “Live at the Loft” music series has showcased acts like D’Shawn & Soul and Ally J. It’s also an electric environment for priming emerging talent; poet and educator Dasan Ahanu recently used it for a spoken-word cypher for Durham Public School students. “I’ve come to understand the legacy of Black Wall Street, and I very much wanted people to see a Black-owned creative space on both Franklin Street and Main Street. And I’ve shown up like this,” Thomas says, grabbing the bill of his VibeHouse-logoed baseball cap and pointing out the rest of his streetwear to emphasize a kind of unflinching Black representation. “But with this brand, it was important for me to broaden things,” he continues. “So you see a white girl playing the banjo. You see rock-type bands as well as hip-hop and R&B artists. You see singer-songwriters. I wanted it to extend outside of, ‘Oh, it’s Kaze, so it must be a rap studio.’ That was the obvious association.” Still, the rapper association comes with racial and social stigmata, and Thomas says he’s had to deal with neighbors in both spaces who tried to get him kicked out. But he’s got other things on his mind than a few petty complaints. To hearken back to the name of his past record label, Sound of the Culture, his ear will stay to the streets and away from the cynics. “You can gentrify the buildings and the blocks, but people are coming because the culture is present,” he says. “The art and the people make Durham.” music@indyweek.com

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RISSI PALMER: REVIVAL 

Self-released; October 22 AN EVENING OF SOUL & SONG WITH RISSI PALMER AND THE SALLIE B. HOWARD VOCAL ENSEMBLE Monday, Nov. 18, 6:30 p.m., $20–$30 C. Grace, Raleigh Rissi Palmer’s new album, Revival, seamlessly blends nuances of country, R&B, jazz, and gospel. After building much of her success in Nashville, Palmer added just the right amount of soul to her signature countrified sound by recording Revival at Deep Sound Studio in Durham with a host of local artists and musicians, including the renowned trumpet player Al Strong. Palmer leads the album with powerful protest anthem “Seeds,” which challenges racism, police brutality, and mass incarceration. It’s followed directly by the rousing “Breathe In, Breathe Out.” Both songs move beyond calling out problems as Palmer outlines the emotional burden and labor propelled by hatred and bias. At its core, Revival is eight tracks of pure inspiration for navigating love, racial tensions, self-acceptance, and, above all, perseverance. Palmer’s vulnerability is the album’s core strength: On “You Were Here,” she sings about an experience with a miscarriage and the grief that followed: “You were gone before I had a chance to prepare for your arrival / It was over, it was final / People say that it’s for the best and I’ll get over all the sorrow / But I’ll never let you go.” Miscarriage remains a culturally taboo topic, and the first few lines strikingly depict the hidden challenges that many women face in that situation, including other people’s discomfort with grief. On “Little Black Girl, Little Black Boy,” which features Brian Owens, Palmer’s direct, unapologetic approach shows up again. In a world where people of color are disproportionately targeted, it’s a timely love letter to Black children around the world. The album ends with its title track, a gospel-esque song that serves as an apt synopsis of the album. Palmer, with her powerhouse vocals, asks, “How did we get so confused … we’re lost without you, whole wide worth is starving for the truth.” On this album, Palmer succeeds at feeding fans a timely dose of it. —Kyesha Jennings

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TRIANGLE JEWISH CHORALE

Sunday, Nov. 17, 3 p.m., free Levin Jewish Community Center, Durham levinjcc.org

Sunday, Dec. 8, 4:30 p.m., free Beth Meyer Synagogue, Raleigh bethmeyer.org

Hallelujah Chorus

JEWISH MUSIC IS FOR EVERYONE IN THE DEMOCRATIC, INCLUSIVE TRIANGLE JEWISH CHORALE BY ANNA CASSELL

his Sunday and the next, the Triangle Jewish Chorale is holding two fall concerts. The shows mark a milestone: the group’s “Twenty-Fifth-Anniversary Gayla.” The name pays homage to Gayla Halbrecht, who founded the group in 1994. “The decorations and the refreshments are going to be fabulous,” TJC Board Secretary Judith Ruderman says before a rehearsal at Durham’s Levin Jewish Community Center. It sounds like something my aunt Sara Lee would say. As it turns out, Ruderman knows her. “Are you one of the Jewish Cassells from Greensboro?” she asks, shaking my hand. The TJC, which is made up of fifty-one singers, is a democratic organization. Many members hold titles. Singer Xavier Richert, for instance, has served as chorale librarian. Although he isn’t Jewish, Richert says that he has always had a “tender heart for the Jewish culture.” TJC members are quick to celebrate the fact that at least a dozen of the group’s singers are not Jewish, including the chorale’s president, Marie Hammond, and her husband, Sam. This enthusiastic openness is what appealed to Richert. He loves music, but in joining the chorale, he was looking for connection, too. “I wanted to join a club that would have me as a member,” he says, inverting the old Groucho Marx joke. Richert, who is originally from France, has spent much of his time in Durham thinking about the meaning of community. When he first moved to the area, he threw himself into activities: a game group, a cinema club, a French conversation group. In TJC, he found his warm welcome. Recently, Richert won the Green Card lottery and, three weeks ago, became a U.S. citizen. The whole chorale celebrated at practice, singing “God Bless America” and cutting a cake with an American flag on it. 16 | 11.13.19 | INDYweek.com

The Triangle Jewish Chorale PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS TJC also tries to keep other barriers to friends say, ‘Oh, here comes our entertainentry low; it offers a scholarship to encour- ment for the day.’” Halbrecht’s relationship with music goes age younger singers to join. (The current recipient is Jordan Taylor, a UNC-Chap- back to her mother, who played violin in the el Hill sophomore.) The group, Ruderman Vermont Symphony. The music enthralled says, is the “only group around [North Car- Halbrecht, who would often accompany her olina] that sings Jewishly inspired music in mother to rehearsals. As an adult, Halbrecht joined a choir “as a a non-liturgical setting.” For that reason, if aspiring members can sing in key and show hobby,” which then turned into performancup to practice, TJC will almost certainly es at Carnegie Hall and a tour in Europe; she’s sung Handel’s Messiah so many times accept them. “It’s important to keep this kind of that she knows it by heart. (She’s also been music out there in the public, alive,” Rud- a biochemist, a shop owner, and an interierman says. “We may not be the best cho- or decorator.) The genesis of TJC lies with rale around, but we are totally committed her mother, who asked her one day why she didn’t sing more from the Jewish canon. to our cause.” The upcoming concerts will feature a ret- Halbrecht took the words to heart and, a few rospective of some of the TJC’s all-time years later, founded the chorale. Twenty-five years later, the group has favorite choral pieces. They also serve as a exceeded anyone’s expectations. It has reminder of how far the chorale has come. “We started with ten people,” says grown in membership and quality; it has a Gayla Halbrecht, the founder and honor- board of directors and hires professional ee, sitting in the Levin JCC lobby. About conductors. It has commissioned local comthirty-five other members are already posers and performed as far away as Argenstretching and doing lip trills, but Hal- tina, where its beloved current conductor, brecht assures me she doesn’t mind skip- Lorena Guillén, is from. The program for the upcoming concerts ping this part of rehearsal. “I don’t need to warm up,” she says. “I consists of twelve former repertoire favorhave been singing all day—I just do. I play ites. Three songs will be directed by the golf, and I sing on the golf course. My former conductors who originally led them.

“I wanted to join a club that would have me as a member.” Guillén will, of course, lead the rest. The music covers a wide range of styles. “From the vast array of Jewish music available—thousands of years of history— we have lots of choices,” chorale member Bernie Most says. The definition of “Jewish music” is wide open to interpretation, too: “If the composer’s father was Jewish, or if he had a neighbor who was Jewish, that counts.” Among the selections are Yiddish show tunes and labor union songs; gentle Hebrew and Spanish hymns; a selection from Nabucco, Verdi’s opera about the plight of Jewish slaves under Nebuchadnezzar; the African-American spiritual “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel,” and two different versions of “Hallelujah,” one of which is backed by a Middle Eastern drum. The rehearsal I visit happens to end on just such a “Hallelujah.” Members filter out slowly, laughing with each other. While one singer is showing me her sheet music, we’re all interrupted by Richert. “Excuse me!” he calls out. He’s holding an object over his head—a tin-foil-wrapped apple pie another member made for him. “I’m going home to eat my American pie! Thank you, everybody!” music@indyweek.com

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FRIDA KAHLO, DIEGO RIVERA, AND MEXICAN MODERNISM

Through Jan. 19 Lecture by Gannit Ankori: Thursday, Nov. 14, 7 p.m., $8–$10 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh | ncartmuseum.org

The Cult of Kahlo

THE MEXICAN COMMUNIST PAINTER HAS BECOME ONE OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE BRANDS. BUT WHERE IS THE ICONOCLAST BENEATH THE IMAGE? BY LAURA JARAMILLO

lmost seventy years after her death, Frida Kahlo, the Mexican communist painter, is one of America’s favorite brands. Her intense unibrowed face, her folkloric traditional clothing, and her tragic biography are all objects of cult worship. The exhibit Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism, currently on view at the North Carolina Museum of Art, underscores the sad fate of Kahlo’s legacy as an iconoclastic proto-feminist painter whose image has come to overshadow her politically confrontational, albeit deeply personal, self-portraiture. Drawn from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection, the exhibit purports to contextualize Kahlo and her husband, Rivera, by placing their works alongside paintings or photographs by their Mexican modernist peers. Consisting of a small number of paintings by Kahlo and Rivera; paintings and photographs by the likes of David Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, and Manuel Álvarez Bravo; and an immense trove of photographs of Kahlo herself, the exhibit capitulates— even panders—to the image cult of Kahlo. Some of the works by other Mexican modernists are genuinely wonderful, such as Rufino Tamayo’s 1948 “Portrait of Cantinflas,” which portrays the famous Mexican comedian as a slightly sad, evil clown figure in a post-Cubist style. Other highlights include a self-portrait by David Alfaro Siqueiros and the geometric abstractions in oil of Gunther Gerzso, which capture Mexican modernism’s hybridization of indigenous architecture with modern art’s formal reductions. Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s gelatin silver prints of cone-shaped cacti and rolled-up mattresses also start to build a story about the Mexican movement’s exper- “Self Portrait with Monkeys” by Frida Kahlo PHOTO COURTESY OF NCMA imentation with abstraction as a practice of reducing ver- the exhibit, embody its overly aestheticized take on Kahlo nacular objects to elemental forms. and Mexican modernism. But overall, the exhibit does not provide sufficient Murray’s portraits are some of the most famous photoinfrastructure for novice viewers to learn about the graphs of Kahlo, capturing the almost-psychedelic tumeric intellectual and political underpinnings of Mexico in the and teal hues she favored, her rouged cheeks, and her red lipfirst half of the twentieth century. The sheer amount of stick. In full color, they seem to bring Kahlo closer to us, elimspace dedicated to photographic portraits of Kahlo by the inating the antique distance of black and white photography. likes of Gisèle Freund, Nickolas Muray, and Guillermo But I’m not sure we need to bring Kahlo closer without Dávila risks erasing her as a thinker and painter while the requisite historical and aesthetic context. If they were upholding her as fashion icon. These photos range from placed alongside more of Kahlo’s paintings, perhaps these the glamorous to literal death portraits. Hungarian fash- photos would have told a different story—one about how ion and advertising photographer Nickolas Muray’s vivid the personal aesthetics depicted in her canvas designs were color prints of Kahlo, which take up most of one room in connected to her engagement with indigeneity.

Instead, Kahlo’s use of traditional Tehuana dress becomes another trinket to move plastic-flower crowns in the museum’s gift shop. When Kahlo’s actual works do appear, their strangeness and beauty shines. Her small canvas “The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl” (1949) shows her thinking and painting through indigenous comsovisions. Meanwhile, “Collage with Two Flies” (1953) shows the artist’s Surrealist humor: She drew a unibrow on an anitique lithograph of a reclined Victorian lady and surrounded her with flies, perhaps commenting on the almost-predatory fascination with Kahlo’s biography that emerged during her lifetime. There are very few Rivera pieces on view, but they say more about the complexity of his and Kahlo’s relationship than the exhibit’s external narration does. There’s an illuminating contrast between Rivera’s painting of the glamorous blonde Eastern European emigree Natasha Gelman—who, wearing an immaculate white dress, is draped across a settee and flanked by calla lilies—and Kahlo’s close-up portrait of the same person, tight-lipped and stern. The paintings show two politically committed intellectuals, one willing to flatter a glamorous female patron, the other not afraid to show a capitalist simply as someone who holds the purse strings. A supplementary exhibit, Luces y Sombras: Images of Mexico, features stunning pictures by key Mexican photographers of the twentieth century, including Graciela Iturbide and Manuel Carrillo. It’s a rare treat to see so many of Iturbide’s gritty but visually exquisite photos in one place. Comprising about forty prints, Luces y Sombra captures Mexico’s natural and built landscape in all its spiny toughness and particular grace, providing much-needed context to the main exhibit. But overall, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism is a bit too thin to give the viewer a sense of Kahlo and Rivera’s works, let alone of a monumental cultural project that spanned literature, architecture, and politics. The paintings on view are very much worth seeing, and they disclose glimmers of the Mexican cultural history promised by the exhibit’s title. But the festishistic worship of Kahlo’s physical appearance raises worrying questions about the artist’s legacy in the United States. arts@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 11.13.19 | 17

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MICHELLE WOLF

Thursday, Nov. 14–Saturday, Nov. 16, $25–$35 Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh www.goodnightscomedy.com

Stand-Up for Your Rights

WHETHER SHE’S SCANDALIZING THE WHITE HOUSE OR WORKING THE COMEDY CLUBS, MICHELLE WOLF TRUSTS THE POWER OF BEING IMPOLITE BY ASHLEY MELZER

ecause Michelle Wolf is not a Maybelline salesperson, she never thought she’d get famous for any kind of “smoky eye.” She is a comedian, though, and while hosting the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, her joke about White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’s makeup was perfectly cutting: “She burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like, maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.” Even for an event organized to roast an assembly of political and media figures, Wolf’s performance was unflinching. It vaulted the Daily Show with Trevor Noah contributor into a heated spotlight; the White Correspondents’ Association released a statement criticizing her. Wolf responded to the disavowal by tweeting, “The @whca are cowards. The media is complicit. And I couldn’t be prouder.” The performance rankled the WHCA so much that in 2019, it skipped a comedian host altogether. (Alexan- Michelle Wolf PHOTO COURTESY OF CRAIG BLANKENHORN/HBO der Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow took a turn, instead.) Raleigh is brand new. My theory is, once you tape a special, Other performers might have ducked away from the dan- you have to scramble as much as possible to get new stuff, gers of that kind of attention, but Wolf has kept up a tre- because once it premieres on TV, you’re not allowed to use mendous pace. In 2018, she also worked as a staff writer and it anymore. I’m actually in a nice little groove right now, and I was featured correspondent on Late Night with Seth Meyers; created and produced her short-lived talk show, The Break able to come up with a new hour pretty quickly. I’m not with Michelle Wolf, on Netflix; and ran an ultramarathon at saying all of it’s great. It definitely needs work. But that’s why you go on the road, and hopefully, the audience feels the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. This year, Wolf’s been getting back to stand-up, touring like they’re part of it, too. A lot of these jokes, it might be new material and taping a new special, Joke Show, which the first time I ever say them out loud. It’s funny to me, but Netflix will release on December 10. (Wolf’s first special, I don’t know if it’s funny to everyone else. I literally need Nice Lady, was released by HBO in 2017.) We caught up you to laugh or not. with her ahead of her upcoming stand at Goodnights ComWhat has 2019 been like for you? edy Club to learn more about the power of being impolite. 2019 has been almost entirely stand-up. It’s the first time I’ve ever gotten to just do stand-up. It’s my favorite thing INDY: So, you just taped your second special? MICHELLE WOLF: I did. I taped in August, and it’s com- to do, and it’s been great. I have this whole thing where ing out in December, so everything that I’m going to do in I like to do a hundred shows before I tape my special. I 20 | 11.13.19 | INDYweek.com

think I ended up doing almost a hundred and thirty in four different countries and a bunch of different states. And I like to go everywhere when I do stand-up, too. I think some people think that you should either live in New York or LA or stay on the coast, but wherever they’ll have me, I’ll go. What ’s on your mind right now that you find yourself writing comedy about? It seems like a lot of my things right now are starting with, like, “I like the progress we’ve made, but ...” You know? “I want women to be ahead, but …” It’s a lot of me just talking through some of the issues we’re having with moving forward. It’s also about how people like to define things in black and white. I’m having a great time exploring the gray area. Something people are commenting about in comedy is how things are happening at a pace and in ways that, if we wrote them, they would be like, “That’s not real.” One of my favorite things—I mean, it’s not my favorite thing that it’s happening, because I don’t like anything that’s happening—but it’s the way that people will be like, “You have to show this thing,” and the administration is like, “Actually, that’s not a law. People were just kind of doing it to be nice.” We were just being polite back then. Right? So much for gentlemen’s agreements. Politeness is something that you have a fearlessness for calling out. Oh, yeah. I was talking to someone the other day, and they were like, “You don’t seem to care if people get mad at you.” I really don’t. One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that not everyone’s going to like you, so you might as well just get comfortable with that and say what you want to say. You can try to be as nice as you want. Someone will find something wrong with what you said or did, so you might as well just stop being polite. arts@indyweek.com

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15–SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17

CARRBORO FILM FESTIVAL

The Carrboro Film Festival is back with a fresh focus on Southern cinema, touting a lineup consisting exclusively of Southern films for the first time in its history. Kicking it all off is The River and the Wall, an adventure documentary that examines the environmental effects of a potential border wall while following five friends’ twelvehundred-mile trek to the Gulf of Mexico. After this opening doc comes a smorgasbord of strange and wonderful Southern situations: laugh ‘til you cry at humor shorts touching on everything from lizard-worshipping cults to dysfunctional funerals; have your heartstrings tugged by Pageant Material, a Cinderella tale centering on an Atlanta teen-drag pageant; or get spooked by the Southland’s unknown horrors with Driven, Blick, and Mombie. —Rachel Rockwell THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO Various times, free–$40, www.carrborofilm.org

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20

FRUIT BATS

“A lot of art is self-comfort,” Eric D. Johnson recently said in an interview, describing his most recent album, 2019’s Gold Past Life. The record was released under the name of his longtime songwriting vehicle, Fruit Bats, and influenced obliquely by still-new experiences. The death of Johnson’s friend and producer Richard Swift hit hard, and he wrote several songs while in the thrall of the Mr. Rogers documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? On Gold Past Life, Johnson’s sweet falsetto leads songs full of ‘70s AM radio sonics (a sound he favors as much as Swift did) and lyrics that describe nostalgia, aging, and searching. Since starting Fruit Bats in Chicago in the late ‘90s, Johnson has moonlighted in groups like Califone, The Shins, and Vetiver, but he is most at home turning these shimmers of his inner life into song. Joyero (the project of Wye Oak’s Andy Stack) opens. —Josephine McRobbie MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 8 p.m., $17, www.motorcomusic.com

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16

SARAH CAHILL: THE FUTURE IS FEMALE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 & THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21

Acclaimed pianist Sarah Cahill doesn’t mess around when it comes to celebrating women. In a solo performance with a marathon runtime of five hours, Cahill honors more than two dozen female composers from around the globe. Three hundred minutes of music dissolve in a rippling, stirring chain of works composed between the seventeenth century and the present; Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s 1707 Keyboard Suite in D Minor is just as at home in the first hour as Theresa Wong’s 2019 She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees is in the fifth. As if a five-hour piano performance devoted to works by women weren’t rare enough, Cahill also transforms venues into immersive participatory spaces. In CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio, audience members can wander, enter, and exit at will and bring their own snacks (but no alcohol), molding the hours of music into an environment that inspires their own feminist and listening practices. —Rachel Rockwell

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It’s hardly the first time that choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan has put an indelible stamp on the classical canon. In 2003, his visceral, gender-bending Giselle plunged the nineteenth-century French ballet into a family marred by sexual abuse in a small and merciless Irish village. A 2009 take on The Rite of Spring juxtaposed rape, radical vengeance, and the rural blood sport of harecoursing in the Irish countryside. In Loch na hEala, the Olivier Award-nominated dancemaker takes the Irish myth of the Children of Lir, a Swan Lake precursor, and threads harrowing contemporary narratives through it. In this controversial fusion, a corrupt Catholic priest sexually abuses the oldest of a group of four sisters and uses his power to silence the rest. The work also references the tragic death in 2000 of John Carthy, which prompted reform in how Irish police treat the mentally ill. There’ll be plenty to talk about when Durham Independent Dance Artists hosts an aftershow conversation over drinks on November 20 at the Carolina Inn. —Byron Woods

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What would happen if J.S. Bach and John Coltrane were to cross paths in the musical afterlife? Would they have anything to talk about? Would they understand each other’s music? Such is the premise of Imani Winds horn player Jeff Scott’s Passion for Bach and Coltrane, which attempts to find the common ground between the Goldberg Variations and A Love Supreme, with help from Imani Winds, the Harlem Quartet, and a jazz piano trio. A.B. Spellman’s poetry anchors this oratorio of sorts, mixing beatnik cool with curlicue descriptions that sound like they’re from the very insides of jazz itself. Around that, Scott has the ensembles crossfade between free-bop blowing sessions and the barely controlled strictures of Baroque counterpoint. Over time, the two worlds slowly converge, though it seems that Coltrane may end up getting the most of the conversation. Imani Winds will be at NorthStar Church of the Arts the next day at 11 a.m. for a deep dive into the work’s ideas and influences. —Dan Ruccia DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, DURHAM 8 p.m., $25, www.dukeperformances.duke.edu

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There’s a fine line between sincerity and taking yourself too seriously and yet, Chastity Belt almost entirely avoids crossing that line. While the indierock group from Walla Walla, Washington made a name for themselves with the humorous, upbeat grunge of songs like “Cool Slut” and “Joke,” they’ve spent the past few years honing their craft into something more subdued. Their eponymous fourth record, which was released in September and was co-produced by Jay Som’s Melina Duterte showcases an airy, downtempo demeanor, matched with the maturing lyricism of lead singer Julia Shapiro. Even a song like “Pissed Pants,” which, based on the title alone, should be hilarious, is instead a tender rumination on the drawbacks of introspection. The Philadelphia-based band Strange Ranger—which released its second album, Remember the Rockets, on the N.C.-based label Tiny Engines, in July—opens for the quintet. The band mixes the nostalgic sounds of acts like Built to Spill and The Cure with slights hints of electronic influences. —Sam Haw MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 9 p.m., $15–$17, motorcomusic.com

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MOTORCO MUSIC HALL

THE FRUIT Autumn Rainey Quartet; $15. 7 p.m.

The local fervor behind Bull City emcee and National Poetry Slam Champion G Yamazawa’s beloved 2017 rap anthem “North Cack” lasted a cool Bull City minute—long enough to make it a watershed moment for N.C. hip hop but transient enough to propel its creator into curating greater projects where community also took the forefront (i.e., the acapella event that he hosted at the Hayti Heritage Center in July). This time, he’s inviting the Triangle community to his Birthday Bash concert, which is also doubling as the video shoot for a new single from his upcoming Good Writtens project. Selectors Gemynii and DJ Paradime will help set the communal tone with diverse dance sets. —Eric Tullis [$15, 9 P.M.]

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SAT, NOV 16 ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE Ultimate ‘90s Video Dance Party; $13. 8 p.m. ARCANA The Arcana Jazz Cafe, The Mac McLaughlin Group; 9 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL 8-Track Minds; $8. 9 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE Gaelic Storm; $26-$29. 8 p.m.

THE PINHOOK D. Shawn and Soul, Wake Moody, Janelle Symone; $8. 8:30 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Stars Hollow; $5. 9 p.m.

TUE, NOV 19 CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Anna Tivel, Maya de Vitry; $10-$12. 8 p.m. FLETCHER OPERA THEATER Lydia Salett Dudley; $38$53. 7 p.m. KINGS Your Big Fat Mouth; $5 suggested. 7:30 p.m.

Titus Andronicus plays at the Pinhook on Tuesday, November 17. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PINH0OK THE CARY THEATER Annual Turkey Day Benefit Jam; 8 p.m. THE CAVE TAVERN Je Suis France, Pioneer The Eel, Rock N’ Roll Hi-Fives; 9 p.m. CURRENT ARTSPACE + STUDIO Sarah Cahill: The Future is Female; $27. 5 p.m. DUKE CAMPUS: BALDWIN AUDITORIUM Imani Winds& Harlem Quartet; $25. 8 p.m. DUKE COFFEEHOUSE Patois Counselors, Blood, Personality Cult; $5. 8:30 p.m. DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Kansas; $45+. 7:30 p.m. KINGS Lettuce After Party; $8-$10. 11 59 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE Sullivan King; $15-$20. 9 p.m. LOCAL 506 The Second After, Alone I Walk, Some Antics; $10-$15. 7 p.m. THE MAYWOOD Carrion Vael, Nuclear Desolation, Sleep torture; $8. 9 p.m. MOTORCO MUSIC HALL Gravy Boys, Mad Crush; $5-$25. 2:30 p.m.

NCSU CAMPUS: STEWART THEATRE Canadian Brass; $40-45. 8 p.m. NIGHTLIGHT Knurr and Spell, Weird God, Distant Future; 9 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Eric Summer; 3 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Tennessee Jed; 5 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Ona, Mo Lowda, Humble; $8-$12. 9 p.m. THE RITZ Lettuce; $29. 9 p.m. SHARP NINE GALLERY Dexter Moses Quartet; $15. 8 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Lazaris Pit; $5. 9 p.m. THE STATION Gurley Flynns, Infielde; 8 p.m. WAKE FOREST LISTENING ROOM Oak City Spring Band; 7 p.m. THE WICKED WITCH Queer Kink Play Party; $10. 9 p.m.

SUN, NOV 17 BLUE NOTE GRILL Lisa R& The Lucky Stars; 5 p.m. Carolina Theatre The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Beyond Opera; $30. 3 p.m.

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Cultivating a truly distinct sound, Crumb hypnotizes listeners with ultra-chill grooves marked by jazzy and psychedelic embellishments as lead singer Lila Ramani’s soothing voice coaxes her anxious reflections out of the haze. Divino Niño brings warm psych-pop jangles bolstered by breezy melodies and bright, upbeat arrangements while Shormey shows her love of the seventies via Technicolor dance tunes with touches of disco and funk. —Spencer Griffith [$20, 8 P.M.] KINGS MC Chris; $20-$25. 8 p.m. The Kraken Sick Ride; 8 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE Afton Music Showcase; $12. 6:30 p.m. MOTORCO MUSIC HALL With Confidence, Seaway, Between You and Me, Doll Skin; $16-$20. 6:30 p.m.

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NEPTUNES Parlour Poinsettia; $8. 9 p.m. THE PINHOOK Swoll, Xylem; $10. 8 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Ravary; 1 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Elijah Melanson; 5 p.m. POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL Zach Dunham; 7 p.m. THE RITZ Gryffin; $25+. 8 p.m. SLIM’S DOWNTOWN Dim Delights; $7. 8 p.m. THE STATION Pete Pawsey, Jodi Lee; 7:30 p.m. WAKE FOREST LISTENING ROOM Darby Wilcox, Ticko, Wake Moody; 1 p.m.

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KINGS Floating Action, Lonnie Walker; $10. 9 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE 94.7 QDR Secret Show; 5 item donation to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern, NC. 7:30 p.m.

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Ashlyn Browning: Recalibrate Paintings. Thru Nov 30. Artspace, Raleigh. .

BREATHING WITHOUT A BODY The INDY has been making ominous noises about the dearth of visual-art spaces in Chapel Hill for a minute, so we’re chuffed to clue you in to a new one—even if it’s semi-secret and in a private residence. (OK, especially if it’s semi-secret, because we love that sort of thing.) BASEMENT Art Space is a “provisional” (meaning who knows how long it will last) “artist-run” (meaning it forgoes institutional backing and boundaries) “project space” (meaning its exhibits are more community-oriented than commercial) founded and curated by Chieko Murasugi, Jonh Blanco, John DeKemper, and several other notable area artists. Its debut exhibit, which has an opening reception on Saturday, November 16 and runs through January 5, is Breathing Without a Body, a group show featuring mixed-media sculptor Stephen Hayes, former Carrack director Saba Taj, and collaborations by Max Symuleski and Sinan Goknur. To learn the location, join the email list at basementartspace.com, and follow @basementartspace on Instagram for a sneak peek. —Brian Howe

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OPENING John Beerman: The Shape of Light Paintings. Reception: November 16, 5-7 p.m. Nov 16-Jan 25. Craven Allen Gallery Durham cravenallengallery.com Stephen Costello: Places Sculpture. Reception: November 16, 5-7 p.m. Nov 16-Jan 25. Craven Allen Gallery Durham cravenallengallery.com Artist Talk: Daniel Shea, Walter Benn Michaels Thu, Nov 14. 7 p.m. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham.

ONGOING 100+ Years of Earth and Fire: A Retrospective of Four Women Working in Clay Pottery. Reception Nov 15, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Thru Dec 7. Durham Art Guild, Durham. durhamartguild.org. Lety Alvarez, Pepe Caudillo, Allison Coleman Paintings. Thru Jan 25. Artspace, Raleigh. Anarchism and the Political Art of Les Temps Nouveaux, 18951914 Prints and graphics. Thru Dec 15. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now Contemporary Indigenous art. Thru Jan 12. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

“queerXscape” by Max Symuleski and Sinan Gokur PHOTO COURTESY OF BASEMENT ART SPACE

The Art of Giving painting, sculpture, photography, glass art, jewelry, turned wood, pottery & fiber art. Reception: Nov. 29 6-9pm. Thru Dec 31. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. HillsboroughGallery.com. The Art of Resistance Thru Dec 13. UNC’s FedEx Global Education Center, Chapel Hill. Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures With guest curator Hannah Star Rogers. Additional work on view at NCMA. Thru Mar 15. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu. John James Audubon: The Birds of America Ornithological engravings. Thru Dec 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Scott Avett: INVISIBLE Paintings and prints. Thru Sun, Feb 2. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Megan Bostic: Undeveloped Memories Mixed media. Thru Dec 7. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh. Wim Botha: Still Life with Discontent Mixed media. Thru Dec 1. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. ncartmuseum.org.

Conner Calhoun: Whispers from Wizard Mountain Drawings, paintings, and sculpture. Thru Dec 13. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org. Kennedi Carter: Godchild Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com/durham. A Certain Uncertainty; from the Cassilhaus Collection Thru Nov 24. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. preservationchapelhill.org. Chatham Attitude Longitude and Latitude: 2019 Chatham Artists Guild Studio Tour Mixed Media. Reception: Nov 22, 6 p.m. Fri, Nov 1. Thru Nov 30. 6 PM The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org. Cosmic Rhythm Vibrations Art inspired by music and rhythm. Thru Mar 1. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. Dirty South Jasmine Best, Laura Little, Aaron McIntosh, Renzo Ortega. Thru Nov 30. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. Encantada | Enchanted Thru Dec 20. Duke Campus: John Hope Franklin Center, Durham. Fantastic Fauna-Chimeric Creatures Thru Jan 26. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu. Coulter Fussell & Antonia Perez: Heirloom Quilts and mixed media. Thru Dec 28. Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org. Hal Goodtree & Students: Photos. Thru Dec 15. Through This Lens, Durham. Harriet Hoover, Vanessa Murray, Rusty Shackleford Thru Jan 5. Oneoneone, Chapel Hill. oneoneone.gallery Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism Paintings. Thru Jan 19. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. INDYweek.com | 11.13.19 | 29

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Georges Le Chevallier: Shibui Paintings Paintings. Thru Nov 23. VAE, Raleigh. Maria Martinez-Cañas: Rebus + Diversions Mixed media. Thru Jan 12. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. Chris McGuire: With The Land Photography. Thru Nov 23. United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County, Raleigh.

Joseph Rafferty: Lost Photos. Reception: Nov 15, 6-9 p.m. Thru Dec 2. Durham Art Guild, Durham

Laura Lacambra Shubert: New Works Paintings. Thru Dec 29. Gallery C, Raleigh. galleryc.net.

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

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Thru Dec 21. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, an Power Plant Gallery, Durham. powerplantgallery.com.

New Orleans Second Line Parades Photos. Thru Dec 31. Love House and Hutchins Forum, Chapel Hill. southerncultures.org. NOURISH Thru Dec 2. 5 Points Gallery, Durham. 5pointsgallery.com. Now It’s Dark Prints. Thru Nov 15. 10 a.m. Holy Mountain Printing, Durham. holymountainprinting.com. Nuevo Espíritu de Durham: New Spirit of Durham Personal stories and images. Fri, Sep 13. Thru Jan 5. Museum of Durham History , Durham. cityofraleighmuseum.org. Fahamu Pecou: DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance Thru Nov 21. UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. stonecenter.unc.edu. Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com/durham. QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women’s Voices Through Quilts Thru Mar 8. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. ncmuseumofhistory.org. Fahamu Pecou: DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance Thru Nov 21. UNC Campus: Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. stonecenter.unc.edu. 30 | 11.13.19 | INDYweek.com

FUTBOLERA: WRITING SOCCER “Stick to sports,” the faux-apolitical dictum that tainted ESPN and asphyxiated the sports website Deadspin, is dangerous. A myopic focus on scorelines, plus a willful ignorance of social contexts, portends unchecked corruption, racism, and inequities in athletics. Moreover, it risks enveloping sports’ artistic coverage, with no one set to lose more than soccer fans. From Eduardo Galeano to Nick Hornby, the beautiful game has inspired some of the last century’s most passionate prose. Soccer sparks wonder and rumination—it’s unsurprising that Nabokov and Camus were goalkeepers—and also outrage: The U.S. Women’s national team is suing for equal pay, while fans throughout the world lob racial slurs at players with impunity. “Futbolera: Writing Soccer,” a discussion featuring visiting authors and scholars Brenda Elsey and Grant Farred as well as Duke’s Laurent Dubois and North Carolina Central University’s Joshua Nadel, will explore the sprawling canvas the game provides to explain modernity. The conversation might start with sports; it shouldn’t linger. —Lucas Hubbard

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

Momentum @ Hamilton Hill 2D and 3D art. Reception: Nov 16, 5-8 p.m. Thru Dec 31. Hamilton Hill, Durham.

Mystical Logical Mixed media. Thru Dec 13. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org.

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Lynn Saville: Photos. Thru Dec 15. Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com.

Sydney Steen: Fault Lines Vignettes. Thru Oct 25. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com. Dawn Surratt & Lori Vrba: (en)compass Mixed media. Thru Dec 20. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com.

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Yuko Nogami Taylor: Majestic Incognito - Sanctuary Paintings. Thru Dec 2. 5 Points Gallery, Durham. 5pointsgallery.com. Teens, Inspired: Home Poems, mixed media. Thru Jan 3. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. Cheryl Thurber: Documenting Gravel Springs, Mississippi, in the 1970s Photos. Thru Mar 31. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. ¡Viva Viclas!: The Art of the Lowrider Motorcycle Guest curator Denise Sandoval. Thru Feb 9. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org. What in the World Is a Grain Mummy? Egyptology and art. Thru Jan 8. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

READINGS & SIGNINGS Anne Byrne, Sheri Castle Skillet Love: From Steak to Cake, More Than 150 recipes in One Cast Iron Pan (Byrne). Sat, Nov 16, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com. Jaki Shelton Green, Andrew Taylor-Troutman Poetry reading. Tue, Nov 19, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com. Iris Gottlieb Seeing Gender. Sat, Nov 16, 5 p.m. NorthStar Church of the Arts, City of Durham. northstardurham.com. JP Gritton Wyoming. Tue, Nov 19, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. Bernard Herman A South You Never Ate. Wed, Nov 20, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Laura Kaomie, Eliza Knight, Heather Webb Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution. Sun, Nov 17, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

Christopher McDougall Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero. Thu, Nov 14, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Christopher Kimball Milk Street: The New Rules. Wed, Nov 20, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Emily Roberson Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters. Thu, Nov 14, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Charles C. Chad Ludington, Matthew Morse Booker Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates. Sat, Nov 16, 4 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

Jon Sealy The Edge of America. Sat, Nov 16, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Mesha Maren, M. Randal O’Wain Sugar Run (Maren). Meander Belt: Family Loss and Coming of Age in the Working Class South (O’Wain). Sat, Nov 16, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne Holding on to Nothing. Fri, Nov 15, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. Charlie Thompson, Randall Kenan Going Over Home: A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land (Thompson). Tue, Nov 19, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com.

LECTURES, ETC. Jaki Shelton Green: A Year of Reading James Baldwin Discussing Going to Meet The Man. Sun, Nov 17, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. Periodic Tables Presented by Duke Science & Society. $5. Tue, Nov 19, 7 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. motorcomusic.com.

stage OPENING A Doll’s House, Part 2 Play reading. Sun, Nov 17, 7 p.m. Monkey Bottom Collaborative, Durham. themonkeybottom. blogspot.com. Affion Crockett Comedy. Fri: 7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m.; Sat: 6:30 p.m. & 9 p.m.; Sun: 7 p.m. $22+. Nov 15-17. Raleigh Improv, Raleigh. Lewis Black Comedy. $40$60. Fri, Nov 15, 8 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com. Comedy In A Cave Wed, Nov 20, 7 p.m. The Cave Tavern, Chapel Hill. caverntavern.com. Deadpan Comics Society Comedy. $5. Thu, Nov 14, 9:30 p.m. The People’s Improv Theater (PIT), Chapel Hill. thepit-chapelhill.com. Disney Junior Holiday Party Musical. $35+. Thu, Nov 14, 6 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

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Eyes Up Here Comedy Showcase Comedy. Thu, Nov 14, 8:30 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham. thepinhook.com. Franklin Street Comedy Festival Comedy. Full schedule online. $10-$50. Nov 20-Nov 25. The People’s Improv Theater (PIT), Chapel Hill. thepit-chapelhill.com.

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Lee Hardin, Chris Ruppe Comedy. $15. Fri, Nov 15, 8 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com.

PJ Masks: Save The Day Live! Musical. $29+. Tue, Nov 19, 6 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

The Gutfeld Monologues Live Comedy. $40. Sun, Nov 17, 7 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

House of Coxx Drag show and amateur competition. $10. Sat, Nov 16, 8 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham. thepinhook.com.

Ragtime Musical. Mon-Sat: 7:30 p.m.; Sun: 2 p.m. Nov 20-Dec 16, Center for Dramatic Art, Chapel Hill.

Venus Fly Trap Comedy. $10. Sun, Nov 17, 6:30 p.m. The Wicked Witch, Raleigh. wickedwitchraleigh.com.

My First Film Multimedia performance. Sat, Nov 16, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center - Film Theater, Durham.

Simon Says Select scenes from Neil Simon. Wed, Nov 20, 7:30 p.m. Durham Arts Council, Durham. durhamarts.org.

Outfluenced: An Evening of Queer Storytelling Storytelling. $10. Sat, Nov 16, 6:30 p.m. The People’s Improv Theater (PIT), Chapel Hill. thepit-chapelhill.com.

Teac Damsa: Loch na hEala Ballet.$27. Wed, Nov 20, 7:30 p.m. UNC Campus: Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. carolinaperformingarts.org.

Michelle Wolf Comedy. Thu: 8 p.m.; Fri & Sat: 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. $25$35. Nov 14-16. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

ONGOING Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years Play. Tues-Fri: 7:30 p.m.; Sat & Sun: 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $31+. Thru Nov 17, Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. The Trojan Women Play. $15. Chapel Hill showtimes: Nov 16, 8 p.m. Durham showtimes: Nov 15, 22, & 23: 8 p.m. Sun: 3:30 p.m. Thru Nov 23. Chapel Hill Friends Meeting House, Chapel Hill. chapelhillfriends.org. Durham Friends Meeting House, Durham. durhammonthlymtg. home.mindspring.com.

It’s difficult to mistake Alonzo King’s choreography for that of another dancemaker. The creator of some of the most refined contemporary movement to date, King locates the line between tradition and modernism, then treads that line masterfully with a mix of classical ballet’s strength and precision and the organic, emotional movement of contemporary styles. It’s been nearly ten years since King’s San Francisco-based company, LINES Ballet, visited Duke Performances. Next week, the company returns with a double bill featuring 2018’s Common Ground and LINES classic Handel. Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, Common Ground is an exploratory, lyrical lesson in shifting musicalities. By contrast, Handel is a focused movement study; crafted in 2005, the piece capably decodes the form and function of motion. Don’t miss November 16’s performance appetizer: At 6:30 p.m., dance scholar and veteran LINES chronicler Jill Nunes Jensen will explore King’s balletic reinvention with a free talk. —Rachel Rockwell

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screen SPECIAL SHOWINGS Anime-zing: Mind Game $8. Sun, Nov 17, 11 a.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com.

PBS Kids: Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum $5. Sat, Nov 16, 9:55 a.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com.

Black and Blue—A rookie cop captures a murder by corrupt cops, in this timely thriller. Rated R.

Rough Cuts Review Tue, Nov 19, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com.

Countdown—Apps may kill us all, and in this horror film, they do (the app in question is a countdown clock that predicts your time of death; not surprisingly, it may also be a killing mahine). Rated PG-13.

Apollo 13 $5. Mon, Nov 18, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com.

Stop Making Sense $13. Sun, Nov 17, 2 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com.

Before Sunrise $6. Wed, Nov 20, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com.

Victimas del Pecado (Victims of Sin) $7. Sun, Nov 17, 2 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Dark Waters Followed by livestream Q&A. $13. Thu, Nov 14, 8 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com.

You Only Die Twice Mon, Nov 18, 7:30 p.m. Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. thechelseatheater.com.

Eyes Wide Shut Fri, Nov 15, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater, Durham.

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The F13th Fan Film Mixtape $1. Fri, Nov 15, 10 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com.

Charlie’s Angels—Producer and director Elizabeth Banks helms a new generation of the angels. Rated PG-13.

Galaxy Quest $13. Tue, Nov 19, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com.

Ford v. Ferrari—Matt Damon and Christian Bale star in a biographical sports drama about a legendary race. Rated PG-13.

Interview with the Vampire $20. Wed, Nov 20, 2 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com. Joe Versus the Volcano $5. Wed, Nov 20, 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com. Kayak to Klemtu Sun, Nov 17, 3 p.m. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. Made in the Shade $6. Thu, Nov 14, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com. Mulholland Drive Thu, Nov 14, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater, Durham. Music and Lyrics $7. Wed, Nov 20, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. Navajo Talking Picture Wed, Nov 20, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center - Film Theater, Durham. Night and the City, The Blue Dahlia $10. Fri, Nov 15, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. Night of the Demon $5. Tue, Nov 19, 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com. North by Northwest $5. Mon, Nov 18, 7 p.m. Rialto Theatre, Raleigh. newsite. ambassadorcinemas.com. 32 | 11.13.19 | INDYweek.com

The Good Liar—Sparks fly between an elderly couple who meet on a dating website. One of them, though, is a con artist. Rated R. The Warrior of Queen Jhansi— Based on the true story of Jhansi, a feminist icon who led a revolt against the British Empire in India in 1857. Rated R.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Unstarred films have not been reviewed by our writers. Downton Abbey—King George V and Queen Mary pay a visit to the abbey and cause a flurry of activity in this spin-off of the television series. Rated PG. Ad Astra—A tortured but calm Brad Pitt traverses the solar system in search of his lost father. Rated PG-13. The Addams Family —In this star-studded new Addams installation, the macabre clan face-off with a reality television show host. Rated PG.  After the Wedding— Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams outshine the script, in this gender-flipped remake of the 2006 Danish drama. Rated PG-13. —Glenn McDonald

Doctor Sleep—Stephen King sequel to The Shining. Rated R. Downton Abbey—King George V and Queen Mary pay a visit to the abbey and cause a flurry of activity in this spin-off of the television series. Rated PG. The Gemini Man—Will Smith always seems to be being hunted by mutants and/or clones; in this horror flick, the clone killer is his younger self. Rated PG-13. Harriet—Kasi Lemmons stars in this biographical film about the heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Rated PG-13. Hustlers—The true story of strippers drugging and stealing from Wall Street stock traders is the stuff think pieces are made of. Rated R. IT Chapter Two—The mixed reviews for the second part of Stephen King’s killer-clown opus mainly agree that it’s just not that scary. Rated R. Jexi—A man’s life is ruined by his phone when an AI program goes haywire. Rated R. Jojo Rabbit—This black comedy is about a German boy who discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic. Rated PG-13. Joker—At first, the buzz around this star vehicle for Batman’s greatest villain was all about Joaquin Phoenix’s intense turn in a role Heath Ledger made famous. But as more details of the plot have emerged, there’s been a justified backlash about what sounds like an antihero myth for violent incels. Rated R. Judy—Renee Zellweger, in a role that will likely make her an Oscar frontrunner, plays Judy Garland during the last few years of her life. Rated PG-13. Last Christmas—Halloween is over, so of course it’s time for a Christmas rom-rom. In this rendition; an unlucky department store elf falls in love. Rated PG-13.

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DURHAM: A SELF-PORTRAIT 150 More than a decade ago, the documentary Durham: A Self-Portrait premiered at The Carolina Theatre. The film documented notable events in Durham’s history, including the industry through lines of tobacco and textiles, the signifigance of Black Wall Street, and the famous “secret” interracial basketball game that took place in 1944 between teams from Duke and NCCU. In the years since the film was made, much has changed, including a wave of downtown revitilization and a surge in population, changes that have ushered in new problems of inequity and gentrification. Marking the end of Durham’s 150th anniversary year of commemorative events, the screening of this updated film—which was produced by Southern Documentary Fund cofounder and filmmaker Steven Channing— includes an updated “Back to the Future” epilogue which brings audiences up to speed on the possibilities and challenges the city faces. A portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit the Museum of Durham History. —Sarah Edwards

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Still from Durham: A Self-Portrait at 150 PHOTO COURTESY OF THE FILMMAKERS The Lighthouse—Birds caw, fog looms, and waves crash in this hallucinatory horror film about two lightkeepers trapped in a remote lighthouse. A campy art house flick that will leave you paranoid about both seagulls and other people. Rated R. —Sarah Edwards Lucy in the Sky—This Noah Hawley film gives an existential touch to the story of disgraced astronaut Lisa Nowak (see: every tabloid story in 2007). Rated R. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil— Angelina Jolie was perhaps born to do many things, but surely playing one of Disney’s greatest villianesses is one of them. Rated PG. Midway—This WWII flick about Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Battle of Midway stars a fleet of hunks. Rated PG-13.

Motherless Brooklyn—Edward Norton plays a loner private detective with Tourette’s syndrome in this adaptation of the Jonathan Lethem novel. Rated PG.  Once Upon a Time In Hollywood—Quentin Tarantino portrays the late-sixties Hollywood film industry and vaguely mumbles something about the Manson family in this tedious, irrelevant exercise in bland nostalgia for a bygone era of unaccountable hypermasculinity. Rated R. —Marta Núñez Pouzols ½ Pain and Glory—In this auto-fictional exercise, the director Pedro Almodóvar is honest about his life but guarded about his psyche. Rated R. —Marta Núñez  The Peanut Butter Falcon—This heartwarming Tom-and-Huck tale features a breakout performance by Zack Gottsagen, who has Down syndrome, and a soulful Shia LaBeouf. Rated PG-13. —GM

Playing with Fire—Family comedy about a crew of firefighters who are tasked with babysitting. Rated PG. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark—The classic anthology of ghoulish tales gets mined for incidents in this horror throwback. Rated PG-13. Terminator: Dark Fate—It’s like nothing after Terminator 2: Judgement Day ever happened as James Cameron returns to the fold of the classic sci-fi franchise. Rated R. Where’s My Roy Cohn?–This documentary about Donald Trump’s mentor and fixer exposes the seamy roots of the American political machine. Rated PG-13. Zombieland: Double Tap—A heartland sequel to the 2009 cult classic. Rated R.

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