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6 If the legislature doesn’t repeal HB 2 soon, North Carolina won’t see another NCAA championship for at least five years.

8 “This is not just a Trump problem.

This is an American problem.”

10 How do we love thee, Raleigh and Cary? Let us count the ways.

16 A Valentine’s Day mixtape is a great way to shoot an auditory Cupid’s arrow straight to your lover’s heart—or just have fun.

21 The beguiling sounds that Mary Lattimore draws out of her harp feel unattached to any place or time.

24 Meet the African-American actor who stood up to Eugene O’Neill—and paid the price—in N. 25 John Darnielle’s new novel seems to introduce a new genre—found-footage fiction—but it’s a trick.

DEPARTMENTS 5 Backtalk 6 Triangulator 8 News 9 Democracy in Crisis 10 Features 18 Food 21 Music

Matt Moreau is a French citizen living in the United States on a visa. He attended the No Ban No Wall rally Saturday in Raleigh with his wife, a Mexican citizen, and their two children, who have multiple citizenship. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

22 Arts & Culture 26 What to Do This Week 28 Music Calendar 33 Arts & Culture Calendar

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Heroes & Snowflakes Commenter Mike Moore had some harsh words about our story last week on the refugees who had come to America ahead of President Trump’s ban [“Yearning to Breathe Free,” February 1]: “Ah, so all the snowflakes get their dose of ‘the feelz’ [sic] for the day. You see refugees. I see people who are running away from their own countries and people’s problems.

The heroes are the ones who stay and fight, not the quitters who run away.”

For reporting this story, Timothy Hagios labels us “Hypocrites! Where were you when the Nobel Peace Prize-winner [i.e., former president Barack Obama] invaded and dropped bombs on half the countries affected by the travel ban?”

Meanwhile, Charles Winkler of Raleigh disputes the notion that Trump is a fascist, because “true fascism requires an organizing political principle.

Trump’s organizing principle appears to be his own ego. Still, there are alarming indications of a tendency toward fascist-like autocratic rules and behavior, such as the legally questionable and amateurishly rolled out Muslim ban.”

Responding to our piece about Republicans possibly reconsidering redistricting reform [Triangulator, February 1], Lee Mortimer says that if they do so, it won’t be out of self-preservation. “Since taking over the legislature,” he writes, “Republicans have increased their margins from 68–52 (House) and 31–19 (Senate) in 2010 to 74–46 (House) and 35–15 (Senate) today. Democrats would have to bring Republicans down to minority status in both chambers to take control of post-2020 redistricting. Having Roy Cooper in the governor’s chair won’t slow GOP gerrymandering, because when the Democratic-run General Assembly passed a constitutional amendment giving the governor veto power, it specifically excluded redistricting plans. If Republicans agree to nonpartisan redistricting, it will be from a combination of losing redistricting cases in court and a fear of damaging their party’s ‘brand’ if they attempt [to secure]

another full decade of illegitimate and undeserved political power.”

Moving on from politics. In response to our interview with Bob Nocek [“Don’t Call It a Comeback,” January 25], the former CEO of the Carolina Theatre, Harmon Poole writes: “Time to say buh-bye to Bob Nocek. Perhaps he can make a new career in politics, because in the interview he exhibits many of the requirements for the job—denial, dissembling, avoidance, etc. What a scumbag.”

Commenter pdeblin is no more forgiving: “This interview really jolted me. I was not surprised to read about the economic foibles of the theater when they occurred, but the ego and arrogance of Nocek—all I can say is wow. As a marketing and PR professional, I was never awed by the theater’s marketing acumen—there were many empty seats at shows that should have sold more tickets.

“Nocek’s failure to admit responsibility for the theater’s fiscal meltdown also jolted me. He arrogantly says he was ‘responsible’ but did not do the accounting and was unaware of the situation. He was CEO of a small staff and didn’t know there were financial problems? He admits in the interview he is capable of keeping his own books for his new company, but didn’t have a clue about Carolina’s financial condition. I find it very difficult to believe that a CEO in a company that does less than $3 million in business would not be curious enough to know how the business is doing month to month, let alone every day. It wasn’t hard to see which shows made money and which shows lost. I’m sure the theater knows the break-even point for each show and must have known income and expenses every month. Why didn’t Nocek? He couldn’t just yell down the hall and ask, ‘How did we do with that show?’ It’s not like he was running Exxon.”

“So all the snowflakes get their dose of ‘the feelz’ for the day.”

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triangulator +DON’T DRINK THE WATER

THE OWASA CRISIS: A TIMELINE

THURSDAY

Angry residents took to social media to claim OWASA should have seen it coming, but the shutdown of a water plant because of a fluoride-heavy supply and a water pipe break created a perfect storm that disrupted water service for tens of thousands of Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents this weekend. This resulted in a borderline postapocalyptic scene in the area, as hundreds converged on grocery stores and gas stations to stock up on bottled water, and businesses, schools, and restaurants—even UNC—shut down and tankers brought millions of gallons of water into the areas hit hardest by the shortage. It’s over now, but for forty-eight hours, it seemed like no end was in sight.

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On January 27, Donald Trump signed the executive order heard ’round the world, causing pandemonium at airports nationwide and beyond. The deeply unpopular order—if polls are to be believed, which, according to the president, they are not—drove a stake through the heart of the American mythology on immigration, suspending refugee entry for 120 days, barring Syrian refugees indefinitely, and temporarily blocking visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries.

Throughout the country, split families worried anxiously about relatives stuck abroad.

At least for now, the future may not be quite so bleak. After a whirlwind week of protests and a dizzying back-and-forth between the administration and the courts, the saga culminated with a temporary hold on the ban— for the time being. On Sunday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the administration’s request to reinstate the ban after it was temporarily placed on hold by Seattle federal judge James Robart. The decision led to an all-too familiar Trump meltdown on Twitter, calling Robart (a George W. Bush appointee) a “so-called judge” whose decision was “ridiculous.”

With the ban at least temporarily on pause, there’s a window of opportunity for refugees hoping to make it to the United States, including in North Carolina. Scott Phillips, the director of the state office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, says the organization is slated

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+A NEW HOPE

3 p.m. For reasons as yet unknown, OWASA’s Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant begins pumping as much as six parts per million of fluoride into the water in the plant, more than eight times the target amount, which is used to prevent tooth decay.

Officials say this potentially dangerous level of fluoride never left the plant.

4 p.m. OWASA shuts down its Jones Ferry Road plant.

5 p.m. OWASA begins receiving emergency water supplies from Durham, Hillsborough, and Chatham County, and asks its customers to use water wisely.

9 a.m. OWASA officials ask residents to conserve water use, as the supply is limited due to the closure of the Jones Ferry Road plant.

10 a.m. An OWASA water line breaks, causing 1.5 million gallons (of OWASA’s total 8-million-gallon capacity) of water to leak. Coupled with the Jones Ferry Road plant shutdown, this brings water storage levels and water pressure to critical levels and results in potentially bacterialaden water flowing into Carrboro and Chapel Hill homes and businesses.

OWASA officials tell customers to refrain from drinking, cooking with, or flushing toilets that contain the water. A boil-water advisory is placed on OWASA customers.

11:30 a.m. The spill is stopped.

1 p.m. UNC cancels classes, public schools let their students out early, and businesses in the areas served by OWASA close early or don’t open at all.

Chapel Hill and Carrboro go into a state of emergency.

6 p.m. UNC is forced to postpone its Saturday basketball game against Notre Dame, and the contest is moved to Greensboro.

9 a.m. The broken pipe is repaired, but businesses remain closed, and the do-not-drink advisory continues as OWASA works to replenish the safewater supply and conduct tests on water samples across Carrboro and Chapel Hill.

10 a.m. Safe water is distributed at a handful of locations in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

2 p.m. Businesses are given the OK to reopen, and the do-not-drink advisory is lifted.

9 a.m. Additional tests conclude the supply is safe for use and consumption. OWASA customers are given the OK to use and consume their water again but are asked to do so sparingly.

1 p.m. UNC plays Notre Dame in Greensboro, and the Tar Heels win. After the game, head coach Roy Williams says he was not happy about the game being moved from the Smith Center and, in other business, trashes HB 2.

OWASA officials pledge an independent investigation to uncover the source of the problem.

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to resettle “multiple” families this week after having to put its activities on hold.

Last week, two families USCRI planned to resettle hailed from one of Trump’s seven banned countries, “so they were not going to be allowed to come in,” Phillips says.

Another family came from the Congo and was allowed to come to the country as long as they arrived before February 3.

For now, USCRI can move forward with its resettlements—although this time next week, there could be another twist in the saga. And while Phillips and others certainly have their eye on the order as it makes its way through the courts, they’re primarily focused on doing the work they’ve been doing for the past decade— work that has resulted in the resettlement of roughly three thousand families in the Tar Heel State.

“As we continue, we are watching what’s happening in the court system, but we are looking at the families that are arriving and doing what we can to make sure they get resettled with the same efficiency and success that we normally work with all of our clients,” Phillips says. “Because at the heart of what we do, we think about people.

We’re helping these people come.”

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Senate Democrats last week filed a bill to fully repeal HB 2, a move cosponsor Jeff Jackson called “obvious” and “the biggest economic development deal of the year.” If the claims made in a letter sent to the General Assembly by Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance executive director Scott Dupree are accurate, Jackson might just be right about the latter.

Dupree, citing “contacts at the NCAA,” says North Carolina is in danger of facing a five-year extension of the NCAA’s ban on holding championships in the state and that the “133 bids represent more than $250 million in potential economic impact.” The NCAA’s review and evaluation process, he adds, began in January, and the clock is ticking on the legislature to reverse HB 2; there are perhaps as few as ten days remaining before “all North Carolina bids will be pulled … and removed from consideration,” Dupree wrote A Public Policy Polling survey conducted in mid-January—after the failed attempt at

repeal during a bizarre special session held by the General Assembly just before thengovernor Pat McCrory left office—found that “HB 2 continues to be very unpopular, with only 32 percent of people supporting it.” PPP also found that nearly 60 percent of North Carolinians felt the law was hurting the state economically.

It turns out UNC’s men’s basketball coach Roy Williams is among those who think a repeal is overdue. At a postgame press conference Sunday, Williams lamented that he would not be coaching ACC Tournament games close to home because of “that stupid rule.” He added, “I just think it’s ridiculous and what it’s doing to the reputation of our state.”

Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin applauded the NCAA on Twitter Monday, tweeting, “Thank you @NCAA for standing strong against discrimination.

Past time GOP leaders showed same courage & repealed #HB2.”

Whether Republicans will take seriously the bill filed last week by Jackson and others remains to be seen. Last month, however, Senate leader Phil Berger said there probably wasn’t enough support to pass “outright repeal.” So the smart money’s on no. triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Ken Fine and Erica Hellerstein.

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Voices of the Movement

HOURS BEFORE A FEDERAL JUDGE HALTED TRUMP’S REFUGEE BAN SATURDAY, THOUSANDS GATHERED IN RALEIGH TO SAY THEY WON’T GIVE IN TO FEAR

BY THOMAS GOLDSMITH For a few hours on Saturday afternoon, Halifax Mall felt like Robeson County.

That is, the thousands who joined the “No Ban, No Wall, No Fear” rally in Raleigh— exact crowd numbers weren’t available, but more than thirty-five hundred people signed up on a Facebook page dedicated to the event—reflected the prismatic diversity that marks Robeson, in northeastern North Carolina. Just as in those parts, it was a bad bet, at the event behind the General Assembly building, to try to determine anyone’s ethnicity by skin color or by any other indicator.

Some behind-the-scenes disagreements prompted a few participants to drop out, but most were united on the day of the rally.

“No Ban” will be followed by what’s likely to be a larger event on Saturday, February 11, the Moral March on Raleigh, also known as HKonJ. Many people who spoke to the INDY said they’d been moved to action by their outrage over President Trump’s announced temporary ban on refugees and visitors from seven predominantly Muslim nations.

“It’s restricting the civil freedoms that I have,” said Mohamed Ricks, a twenty-seven-year-old Raleigh resident who holds two jobs and goes to school. Ricks has been a U.S. citizen since 2002 but still feels threatened because of his Somalian background.

“My being an actual citizen doesn’t have any hold anymore. I do have my passport.

But it’s harder to try to subscribe to the socalled American dream.”

Shortly after the rally ended, a federal judge in Washington state temporarily stayed the refugee ban; the Trump administration pledged to appeal (with Trump blasting the “so-called judge” on Twitter).

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Protesters gathered outside Halifax Mall Saturday. that’s against everything in our current situation.”

Cassandra Rowe, a twenty-nine-year-old from Durham, said Trump’s explicit comments about his ability to take advantage of women, recorded in a 2005 video, led her to link those words with global stances toward marginalized people.

“It got me personally,” said Rowe, who works with the N.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence. “An attack on one of us is an attack on us all.”

Also on Saturday, Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the state Republican Party, countered that Trump is working to fulfill his pledge to stop illegal immigration, a goal that Woodhouse argued most North Carolinians support, protests notwithstanding.

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“I think the constant protesting class do seem to forget that most people want to see our new president be successful,” Woodhouse said at a press event held in response to the rally.

That’s a contention the thousands who descended on Halifax Mall Saturday would dispute. A brisk, sunny day drew protesters not only of different backgrounds but also of nearly all ages and tenures in social justice causes.

“When you start attacking people’s rights and people’s lives, people out of fear have to become active,” said Carly Jones, a rally organizer.

Drums, chants, and signs delved into biblical language and American history as movement veterans tied modern events to currents that have long marked the nation’s

history. “This is not just a Trump problem, this is an American problem,” speaker Desmera Gatewood, of Durham, told the crowd.

Organizer Sijal Nasralla said speakers were chosen on the basis of their involvement in refugee issues or because they have been directly affected by current policies.

Among those addressing the crowd was Wildin Acosta, a Durham high school student who was detained by authorities last year, spent seven months at a private facility in Georgia, and was nearly deported [“Trapped in the Machine,” March 30, 2016]. “My hope is that we could have a change in the laws that we are dealing with today,” Acosta said through a translator, attributing to Trump increases in racism and antagonism toward refugees. “Before, we knew that this country used to belong to indigenous people.”

As crowds left the event, walking past the General Assembly building alone or in crowds, Khaled Fayed, twenty-five, was wheeling his young son toward his car.

“It’s crazy, especially if you look at the map, it’s very clear that he’s banning the entire region,” Fayed said of Trump’s immigration order. Fayed is an immigrant, an electrical engineer whose wife is a U.S. citizen; he’s applied for his green card. “And the way he implemented this is so inhumane.”

Although the federal order was halted Saturday night, the Justice Department will appeal, first to the Court of Appeals and then, perhaps, to the Supreme Court.

This means that a planned April visit by Fayed’s Egyptian in-laws is in flux and will likely remain that way for the near future.

“They already have their visas,” he said, expressing his frustration over the situation, especially given his attachment to his adopted country. “I really love this country and I love the values this country is based on. I have the American flag in the highest place in my home.” tgoldsmith@indyweek.com

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Church and Trump

HOW THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND EMBRACE THE LIBERTINE ADULTERER

BY BAYNARD WOODS

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n front of the illuminated columns of the Supreme Court building, the Reverend Patrick Mahoney and several other Christian activists were gathered together, waiting for Donald Trump to announce his pick for Supreme Court justice—a spot left vacant after Republicans refused to acknowledge Barack Obama’s nominee.

When Trump announced Colorado federal judge Neil Gorsuch, perhaps best known for his Hobby Lobby opinion, which allows closely held corporations to exempt themselves from some regulations on religious grounds, Mahoney and his small crowd rejoiced. Mahoney called on his followers to kneel down at the steps of the courthouse, declaring it would be “the first public prayer” for the new nominee.

Someone beat him to the punch. “God help us all!” a man yelled from the back of the growing crowd of protesters.

The day after the announcement, Trump encouraged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to “go nuclear” and lower the number of senators required to end a filibuster and confirm a justice from sixty to a simple majority. Democrats are already counseling each other to save their political capital for the next fight, instead of forcing Republicans to use their political capital instead.

But Trump seems to know the evangelicals will fight—according to Pew, 81 percent

diss the current ratings of his former NBC show, The Apprentice, and its new host, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Still, nobody at the breakfast seemed to care, because Trump also promised to “get rid of and totally destroy” the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits tax-exempt nonprofits, like churches, from participating in political campaigns.

Falwell said the elimination of this amendment—the Johnson was LBJ—would “create a huge revolution for conservative Christians and for free speech.” It would free churches to further support Trump so that he could further support them.

Such collaboration between church and state is not uncommon for authoritarian strongmen. The “Punk Prayer” that landed members of the Russian activist group Pussy Riot in prison was an attack on the close relationship between Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church.

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The thrice-married, adulterous Trump wasn’t an intuitive choice for the religious right, which has spent the past several decades attacking politicians’ morality.

Trump’s louche opportunism is one reason that many on the religious right backed the otherwise universally reviled Ted Cruz, proving perhaps that, as, uh, One Corinthians puts it, God, or at least his followers, “chose things despised by the world.” But eventually they got behind Trump, even if it meant admitting their concerns with morality were actually nothing more than Machiavellian hypocrisy. Trump would repay them by appointing, in Mahoney’s words, “the justice who would help overturn Roe v. Wade.”

“This is the reason why so many went out, passed out literature, held signs, made phone calls,” Mahoney said. “We knew the critical importance of this moment, and so we gather here tonight and we feel the first thing to do is to pray. We are going to ask God to lead and direct Judge Gorsuch. We are going to ask that his confirmation hearing run smoothly.”

The Democrats are the worst opposition party imaginable, so God probably won’t have to work too hard.

In a final scene from last week’s apocalypse, anonymous sources told Reuters Thursday that the administration wanted to rechristen the Countering Violent Extremism program “Countering Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Radical Islamic Extremism.” Along with the name change, the program “would no longer target groups such as white supremacists who have also carried out bombings and shootings in the United States.”

That would mean Dylann Roof, who sat and prayed with nine African Americans before he murdered them in their church, would not be considered a dangerous extremist. For nationalists, the message is clear: It is not only about Christianity. It is about whiteness and ethnic nationalism.

Not everyone is blind to this. On the night of Gorsuch’s nomination, at the Supreme Court building, Mahoney and his associates knelt and ostentatiously prayed the second public prayer over Trump’s appointee.

“So father, we commit him to you and we are thankful,” Mahoney said.

The growing crowd around him drowned out his words, chanting, “Black lives matter.”

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of white evangelicals voted for Trump, more than for George W. Bush—and he is rewarding them handsomely. On the same day he announced his Supreme Court nominee, Trump named Jerry Falwell Jr. the head of a task force on higher education. He described Falwell as “one of the most respected religious leaders in our nation.”

Falwell’s Liberty University may be slightly more rigorous than Trump University, but the announcement signals a shift from teaching the fundamentals of critical thinking toward teaching a fundamentalism that is critical of thinking. Liberty’s Center for Creation Studies aims to “research, promote, and communicate a robust young-Earth creationist view of Earth history” based on “sound Biblical interpretation.” l l l

Two days after his court announcement, the tension between Trump’s vanity and his commitment to enacting religious policy reached its apotheosis when he spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast.

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1. BECAUSE WE BRING THE WORLD TO NORTH CAROLINA

We love the landscape, and some of the culture, of rural North Carolina. But there’s a reason we live here in the Triangle rather than out among those bucolic fields: we also love the rest of the world, and the Triangle, aside from places like Charlotte and Asheville, is the main portal through which the world comes in and out of our state. The arts are key in this exchange: Full Frame brings international documentarians to Durham and gives local filmmakers a point of pride to sell to the rest of the world. The American Dance Festival does the same thing for the dance community. Hopscotch and Moogfest keep us in the rotation in the national music scene.

Duke Performances and Carolina Performing Arts frequenly put us on world-class tour schedules that include venues like the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Carnegie Hall. (How many midsize markets do you think get two weeks of Philip Glass?) Top it off with the high concentration of universities here, which draw people from around the globe, and it’s plain to see what’s so great about the Triangle: the Southern comforts of home in a rich, improving dialogue with the big, wide world. —Brian Howe

2. BECAUSE OUR ACTIVISTS ARE LOUD AND PROUD

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here’s a lot that’s screwed up about the world right now. No getting around that. Our president, after all, is basically a YouTube comment in corporeal form. And there’s plenty amiss about this state, too.

No getting around that, either. For example, HB 2 is still a thing. But that’s not what we want to talk about now. This week, with Valentine’s Day nigh, we wanted to compose a love letter to this place we call home, a list of reasons we wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. So pour yourself a brandy, have a seat by the fire, and enjoy. —Jeffrey C. Billman Contributors: Jeffrey C. Billman, Victoria Bouloubasis, Ken Fine, Thomas Goldsmith, Erica Hellerstein Brian Howe, Allison Hussey, David Klein, Chris Vitiello, Sarah Willets, and Byron Woods

Last March, responding to the nonexistent threat of cross-dressing creeps hanging out in the women’s restroom to assault little girls (or something), the legislature passed, and then-governor Pat McCrory signed, the infamous HB 2, a law that overrode local antidiscrimination ordinances and barred transgender individuals from using public restrooms that conform to their gender identity. It was an act of cruelty that embarrassed North Carolina on the national stage, costing the state hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity. But we didn’t just sit back and take it. That law gave rise to a wave of activism—including dozens, sometimes hundreds of protesters who, every Wednesday, gathered in front of the Executive Mansion to blow air horns at the governor—that built off the Moral Monday movement, which itself was a response to reactionary measures taken by the newly unified Republican government in 2013.

The best part? Even though fellow Republican Donald Trump won North Carolina with relative ease in November, McCrory lost. —Jeffrey C. Billman

3. BECAUSE WE GET THREE CITIES (ACTUALLY MORE) IN ONE

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is the big city waiting to break out—think Austin Jr.—but still beholden to small-town charms. Durham is more like Little Oakland, grittier and more aggressively progressive in its politics, but arguably the cultural hub of the region. Chapel Hill is the kind of college town you’d find in bucolic New England, but quaint and Southern in its own right (adjacent Carrboro is its grungy little sister). Even the Cary-Morrisville-Apex axis, about as suburban as suburban gets, has its own virtues, if you know where to look (see, for example, number 9).

These are all very different places, but that’s one of the unique pleasures of living here.

Within a thirty-minute drive of wherever you are lies several distinct microcultures, each with its own tempos and peculiarities to explore. Not many metros in the country can offer that. —JCB

4. BECAUSE OUR RESTAURANTS ARE MAKING NATIONAL NOISE

Our food scene is no secret—not to us and not to the countless admirers (tourists, restaurant critics, television producers) from afar. Restaurant culture is a draw here, and we’re lucky enough to eat it up every day if we choose. Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and their environs offer you anything: our comfort food is diverse and beautiful, rooted in both historic tradition and a new South. We know how to do downhome (whether it’s collard greens, tamales, or dosas), and we can get deliciously bougie, too. (With stand-out places like Chapel Hill’s Lantern, Hillsborough’s Panciuto, and Raleigh’s Poole’s Diner, it’s a comforting sort of classy.) —Victoria Bouloubasis

5. BECAUSE OUR DRAMATIC ARTISTS KNOW THEATER IS POLITICS

In the fifth century BCE, the theater was already giving citizens of ancient Greece a place to gather and deliberate their culture’s most intractable problems. What happens when duties to faith, family, and country conflict? See Antigone. How much hubris is appropriate for elected officials? Ask Oedipus Rex. So as inauguration day approached this year, it was gratifying to see regional theater rise up in response. Jospeh Megel and Dreaming America reprised their staged reading of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here, a political drama in which a democratically elected president ushers in a fascist takeover of the United States.

Elsewhere, artists and citizens gathered at dusk at Raleigh’s Sonorous Road and Chapel Hill's PlayMakers Rep to join the nationwide Ghostlight Project, pledging to keep a light on for all people regardless of race, class, religion, immigration status, gender idenity, or country of origin. And

BECAUSE IF YOU GO FIVE MILES IN ANY DIRECTION YOU CAN SEE A COW. —DAVID KLEIN

three women contemplated a makeover of our constitutional government when Bare Theatre staged a political farce, The Taming, to benefit the ACLU. These weren’t isolated gestures: this week, Sonorous Road probes the separation of church and state in The God Game, while UNC’s Process Series hosts a festival of social-justice-themed spoken word. Why do I love regional theater?

Because it’s thoughtful, resilient, and responsive to the challenges and needs of our time.

It’s looking out for neighbors down the block and around the globe. And it’s not afraid to speak and act on their behalf. —Byron Woods

6. BECAUSE OUR VISUAL ARTISTS ARE COLLABORATIVE, NOT COMPETITIVE

My pickup truck just moved to Philadelphia.

Well, not mine per se. For years, whenever I’ve needed to haul a sheet of plywood or a curb-found piano, I knew I could borrow my friend’s truck at a moment’s notice. But she just moved to Philly. We all have friends like this in the Triangle arts community. It’s like a message-in-a-bottle system but sped way up.

If you need some device, service, or expertise to make your work, just mention it in public and someone will say, “I just saw one of those at the Scrap Exchange” or “My friend just got one, let me text her real quick.” Around here, we aren’t out for domination—we share our stuff, spaces, and time. Because this isn’t an infinite city like New York or Los Angeles, where the arts infrastructure is well established, we’ve had to be resourceful and cooperative, which fosters community. We don’t go home at five. We make dinner and work together. We sit in someone’s yard around a fire pit at 1:11 a.m., talking art. When friends

from New York or the Bay Area visit, they’re jealous of this.

I value our arts institutions and organizations, and I love so much of the work made by artists here. But most of all I love the artists themselves and their uncommon generosity of spirit. Speaking of which, anyone want to loan me their truck? —Chris Vitiello

7. BECAUSE WE BOUNCE BACK

In the development roundelay of recentyears, we’ve lost some valuable institutions, from Nice Price Books and Chapel Hill Comics (see p. 22) to Deep Dish Theater Company and Common Ground Theatre. But the picture looks a lot rosier when you consider the much greater number of institutions that faced such challenges and bounced back because they filled a genunine desire or need in their community. The Carrack Modern Art fled construction on Parrish Street, only to vitalize a new district near Golden Belt, in Alicia Lange’s new Torus Building.

Adam Cave Fine Art and Lee Hansley gallery similarly turned lemons into lemonade in Raleigh. Unexposed Microcinema recently ended its valorous yearlong experiment in providing a fixed venue for experimental film, but rather than folding, the invaluable series will continue in a freer fashion. Horse & Buggy Press, also squeezed out of downtown Durham, will continue its two-decade story on Broad Street next month. Rather than shuttering when it needed to move, the venerable Quail Ridge Books landed itself a fine new spot in Raleigh, while Kelly McChesney heroically sacrificed her own Flanders Gallery to keep a crucial Raleigh art node, Lump, alive. And new players are cropping up all the time, from the Center for the Arts in Pittsboro to the upcoming Core@ INDYweek.com | 2.8.17 | 11

LOVE TRIANGLE Carolina, from Ward Theatre to the Women’s Theatre Festival. In short, rumors of our art scene’s development-driven demise have been greatly exaggerated; our artists are too resourceful and too necessary for that. —BH

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that’s part of the beauty of our little slice of America. There’s so much going on that the Triangle is largely indifferent to the fact that those two men were the stars of the 2006 Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes. Which might be something else you didn’t know: the state of North Carolina has claimed a Stanley Cup. As in hockey.

Raleigh is certainly not like Detroit, where if you ask residents to start naming Red Wings, people can recite the entire roster. It’s not Canada, where one of your first post-birth outfits is a baby-size hockey uniform. Maybe it’s the weather that triggers our indifference, or the fact that the Hurricanes—formerly the Hartford Whalers—only moved here in 1997. But whatever it is, with a few exceptions, you just don’t care. The Hurricanes have the lowest attendance in the NHL. It probably doesn’t help that the Hurricanes are, as of this writing, in the midst of a mediocre season, third from the cellar of the Eastern Conference’s Metropolitan Division.

—Ken Fine

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11. BECAUSE UNC STARTED

THE COLLEGE BASKETBALL TV LOVE-FEST WHEN IT BEAT KANSAS IN 1957

According to hoops scribe Art Chansky, Greensboro businessman C.D. Chesley kicked off no-sound broadcasts—viewers listened to the radio for play-by-play—on five television stations across North Carolina even before the climactic NCAA championship between the Frank McGuire-led Tar Heels and the Jayhawks, powered by legendary, skyscraping center Wilt Chamberlain. But when fans saw Carolina defeat Kansas in triple overtime on March 23, 1957, to complete a 32–0 season, it was the end of any Saturday afternoons spent shelling peas and studying up for Sunday school. Add the infamous 1961 UNC-Duke fistfight game to the attraction, and TV and Atlantic Coast Conference hoops—Dean Smith, Coach K, Michael Jordan, Jimmy V—became a staple of life in the Triangle, and far beyond.

—Thomas Goldsmith

12. BECAUSE THE STUFF YOU LOVE ALL STARTED HERE

Here is an abbreviated list of the internationally acclaimed artists who have Triangle ties: Elizabeth Cotten. Superchunk.

Merge Records. Yep Roc Records. Ben Folds Five. Squirrel Nut Zippers. Southern Culture on the Skids. Daniel Wallace. David Sedaris. Amy Sedaris. Evan Rachel Wood.

Whiskeytown. Tift Merritt. Petey Pablo. Lee Smith. Corrosion of Conformity. Zach Galifianakis. Nnenna Freelon. Blind Boy Fuller.

Timothy Tyson. 9th Wonder. Phonte. The Carolina Chocolate Drops. James Taylor.

Future Islands. Archers of Loaf. —AH

13. BECAUSE ONE OF THE HIGHEST U.S. CONCENTRATIONS OF MID-MOD HOMES IS HERE

According to the nonprofit North Carolina Modernist Homes, our state has the third largest inventory of the inventive, eye-catching houses known to fans as mid-mod, many of them in the Triangle. Partly because of the presence of the architects and designers at the N.C. State design school, such as George Matsumoto, James Fitzgibbon, Henry Kamphoefner, Duncan Stuart, and G. Milton Small, a drive down a West Raleigh side street like Runnymede can bring the visual reward of a simple, mind-altering treasure of a home. —TG

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BECAUSE YOU CAN DRINK WITH YOUR DOG

If they don’t serve food, there’s a good chance your neighborhood bar will let you bring Fido along for your evening’s libations, like Fullsteam in Durham (pictured here). And if you love your dog (as all decent human beings do) and if you love beer (as all decent human beings do), well, what more could you want from life? —JCB

14. BECAUSE DUKE GAVE YOU TIM COOK AND CHARLIE ROSE (SORRY U LOVE ABOUT RICHARD NIXON)

Duke is a polarizing place. Its basketball the inter-team is lauded by some but hated by just have Tri-about everyone else. Similarly, its student perchunk.body is lauded by the left and condemned Ben Foldsby the right. Even the school’s alumni add hern Cul-fuel to the fire. You might see a friend wearce. Daviding an Apple Watch and strike up the “you hel Wood.know, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, went to Duke” Pablo. Leedeal. Or maybe you see a cousin post about Zach Gali-a Charlie Rose interview and note that the oy Fuller.acclaimed TV news personality was a Blue onte. TheDevil. But if you’re being transparent, you es Taylor.might also say sorry every now and then.

AH Duke did, after all, give the world one of the most hated basketball players in the history GHEST of the sport (sorry, Christian Laettner), and now Grayson Allen (not so sorry), not to mention Richard Nixon, who until last month was h CarolinaAmerica’s most notorious president, as well the thirdthe current notorious president’s adviser, ye-catch-Stephen Miller (who once claimed that Maya mod, manyAngelou suffered from “racial paranoia”), and use of theJew-hating, Nazi-saluting alt-right honcho signers atRichard Spencer. —KF as George n, Henry15. BECAUSE RALEIGH WAS d G. Mil-LITERALLY FOUNDED ON BOOZE leigh side In 1788, the General Assembly declared the visualthat the state’s “unalterable seat of governreasure ofment” must be located no further than ten miles from Isaac Hunter’s Tavern, a watering hole where many politicos of the day liked to knock back a few. And so, Raleigh was born.

(Yes, that’s a simplified retelling of history.

Roll with it.) —JCB

16. BECAUSE RALEIGH RECLAIMED ITS DOWNTOWN BY RIPPING OUT ITS MAIN-STREET MALL

Raleigh started tearing up Fayetteville Street in August 1975, spending seven years and $2.8 million to try to lure businesses to a downtown scene that had been bustling until Cameron Village and the malls stole customers in the fifties and sixties. Good idea? No—unequivocally, absolutely not.

Over the next three decades, the downtown “mall” fell into somnolence and disuse. In the mid-2000s, city parents, led by then-mayor Charles Meeker (disclosure: the brother of the INDY’s co-owner, Charles Meeker) to reopen Fayetteville Street once again—and once again, the good times began to roll. —TG

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17. SEE PHOTO 18. BECAUSE OF THE STATE’S PROGRESSIVE HISTORY

In the age of HB 2, it can be hard to imagine that North Carolina once held a reputation as the South’s most progressive state.

True, our record is far from spotless, from the state’s long-standing eugenics program to the legislature’s 2013 assault on voter rights. But amid the many blemishes on its history, North Carolina has also strived to advance public health, education, economic opportunity, and civil rights.

Some examples: The Triangle is home to the country’s first state art museum, state symphony, and public university (this last one is disputed, but we’re claiming it anyway). In the early 1900s, legislators invested heavily in education, creating a boom of

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LOVE TRIANGLE new public schools. At the same time, Black Wall Street became a center for AfricanAmerican-owned businesses in Durham.

In 1937, North Carolina became the first state to incorporate birth control into its health programs. At the height of the civil rights movement, Governor Terry Sanford pushed for desegregation. Research Triangle Park harnessed the brainpower of the Triangle’s universities to boost North Carolina’s per capita income. More recently, North Carolinians—from Moral Monday protesters to the Air Horn Orchestra—have shown they aren’t going let Tar Heel progressivism die without a fight.

—Sarah Willets

19. BECAUSE SNCC WAS BORN

ON THE SHAW CAMPUS

North Carolina, though planted in the segregated South, made a home for some notable developments in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Months after the historic Greensboro sit-ins of February 1960, some two hundred students gathered on the downtown Raleigh campus of Shaw University to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Veteran organizer Ella Baker spearheaded the movement, but students took the lead as SNCC helped drive the national struggle through the Freedom Rides, Deep South registration efforts, and the 1963 March on Washington. SNCC chairman John Lewis, later a U.S. representative from Georgia and still a national voice of conscience, gave a heatgenerating speech at the march alongside the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. —TG

20. BECAUSE WHEN IT SNOWS, THE

WHOLE DAMN PLACE SHUTS DOWN

With the now viral “snowpocalypse” photo showing a tableau of weather-related havoc of almost Breughel-like complexity on a Raleigh highway, the school closings fueled by the mere rumor of a flake, not to mention the constant stream of anti-South commentary from Northerners and others who assure us that they know what a cold, snowy winter is, and this ain’t it—one can easily lose sight of the wonderful other side of our ill-preparedness. That is, when it snows down here—really snows—the world shuts down. Why is that good? When this happens, we are forced to confront a world newly muffled, of muted light, where mere comings and goings we normally take for granted become fraught affairs that force you to choose what is truly important in your life. You think about necessities: food, water, flashlights if the power goes 14 | 2.8.17 | INDYweek.com

out. Maybe you do something you never do anymore, like break out a board game, or do something completely frivolous, like alphabetize your record collection. You can spend the day sledding down the middle of the street because you know damn well there are no cars about. And soup never tastes better than on a snow day. —DK

21. BECAUSE OUR TECH START-UPS ARE CHANGING THE WORLD

Last week, revelers (including a woman on stilts) celebrated the grand opening of the long-awaited Google Fiber space on Glenwood South. The tech giant is one of a burgeoning number of companies putting the Triangle on the (geo)map. Thanks to its forward-thinking research community, Raleigh-Durham has become a hot spot for tech companies and start-ups. Some even call it “The Silicon Valley of the South.”

Veterans of the Bay Area might scoff. But the Triangle’s synergy has paved the way for a thriving start-up culture. Durham, recently named a top city to found a startup, is home to The American Underground, a start-up incubator with the goal of diversifying the famously homogenous industry.

So far, it seems to be working: 29 percent of its businesses are led by women, and 22 percent by minorities—well above the national averages. Raleigh, meanwhile, currently boasts at least 635 start-ups, with more than 300 in the technology sector alone. —Erica Hellerstein

22. BECAUSE WE’LL GIVE YOU POLIO TO SHRINK YOUR BRAIN TUMOR

The next time you’re hung over, you can thank pharmacists Germain Bernard and Commodore Council, both of Durham, for a quick fix: BC Headache Powder. Invented in 1906, the magic substance is just one of the Triangle’s many contributions to the world of medicine. Thanks in large part to Research Triangle Park, the University of North Carolina, and Duke University, seventeen Nobel Prize winners have North Carolina ties, and major research-drivers like Glaxo, Merck, and Bayer have set up shop here. Triangle researchers have pioneered treatments for HIV and cancer and are illuminating the unknowns of autism and Alzheimer’s.

Among the madder science to come out of the Triangle: UNC researchers found a way to turn heart failure patients’ scar tissue into heart muscle and use light to precisely activate medicine stored in blood cells. Duke researchers earned acclaim for using polio to shrink a brain tumor and developed the first lab-grown muscle to contract and respond

just like human muscle. The only downside to all this innovation? The blow to your selfesteem when you realize your best invention involved tater tots and nacho cheese. —SW

23. BECAUSE WE SAY

LOCAL AND WE MEAN IT

North Carolina has a centuries-long agricultural history, and now that means that we can reap the benefits of locally sourced foods and goods easier than ever before. You can get milk from Hillsborough’s Maple View Farm in local groceries, and in most places in the Triangle you can keep chickens and enjoy eggs from your own backyard. Small local restaurants are able to get many of their ingredients from local farms and suppliers, and even a regional fast-food chain like Biscuitville sources most of its ingredients, including its flour, from within state lines. Outside of the food world, the state has a similarly significant history in the world of textiles— look to Raleigh Denim, the high-end retail operation that gets its cotton and even its zippers in the state. —AH

24. BECAUSE OUR FARMERS MARKETS STAY FRESH

North Carolina’s growing season is generous, allowing for nearly thirty farmers markets throughout the Triangle, each with a distinct neighborhood vibe. With that, of course, comes a bounty of gluttonous proportions with food grown or crafted in our own backyards. Nationally recognized cheeses, pickles, and chocolate, more types of kale than you know what to toss or juice with, and the most delicious (and humanely raised) meats. Plus, the essence of community can be distilled in a place like a farmers market, where hardworking people are selling what nourishes you.

So honor your farmers on Saturday mornings (or Wednesday evenings): they’ve got a tough gig feeding all of us. —VB

25. BECAUSE WE HAVE

LOTS OF STUFF FOR KIDS

Want to know why the Triangle is a hit with parents? It’s not because of the solid schools or the abundance of healthy food options (although those are certainly perks). Believe it or not, the Triangle is special because it keeps us sane. We breeders know that the choice of venue at which to spend our Saturday is critical, that a weekend can be made or broken with a wrong decision. Little Johnny had fun, but his sister hated it. Little Cindy was into it, but Little Johnny is bored. That sort of deal. But

the Triangle has both an incredible quantity and quality of family-friendly entertainment destinations. And the majority of them are affordable and educational— and even offer things that are fun for us old people. From Raleigh’s Pullen Park (really cool train, old-school carousel, and freakin’ paddle boats) and Marbles Kids Museum (puppets, crafts, a surfing simulation, and LEGOs!) to Durham’s Museum of Life and Science (butterflies, bugs, live animals, dinosaurs, and a wicked playground) to Chapel Hill’s Morehead Planetarium (stars, a rose garden, and a giant, awesome sundial), this area has the goods. —KF

26. BECAUSE WE’VE PRODUCED A BOATLOAD OF TOP-SHELF NOVELISTS

Just Needham Broughton, the old Raleigh high school that newcomers soon tire of hearing about, produced Anne Tyler, the Nobel-winning author of The Accidental Tourist and many more; Reynolds Price, noted author of A Long and Happy Life and a long-tenured Duke professor; and Armistead Maupin, author of the popular, remade-for-TV Tales of the City series.

That’s not even mentioning such extended-Triangle notables as Lee Smith, Jill McCorkle, Allan Gurganus, and the ghost of Thomas Wolfe. —TG

27. BECAUSE WE CAN

STILL DEFINE OURSELVES

We have our old traditions, sure, from barbecue to basketball, but the Triangle, with its doors flung wide open for innovators, start-ups, young families, and recent college graduates, is still very much finding its identity. It’s a true melting pot of cultures and ideologies—and, most important, it embraces those differences. We can be activists one day and organic farmers the next. We fight back against exclusion and wrap our arms around those whom others view as potential disruptions to the status quo. Our local chefs, authors, filmmakers, artists, and musicians create by building on relationships that could only be forged in a place that isn’t bound by the way things have always been or that is wary of new faces. And that might just be what we love the most about this slice of North Carolina: we push each other to be better, more forward-thinking, and progressive. As apartment buildings go up and crumbling neighborhoods are restored, we should remain committed to protecting that identity—to be an example of a new South that is not tied to old stereotypes. —KF backtalk@indyweek.com

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SONGS OF MIXED -UP

HEARTS

NEED SOME UNEXPECTED CUTS FOR A VALENTINE’S MIX, OR JUST WANT A GOOD CRY? HERE’S WHERE TO START

BY ALLISON HUSSEY

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aking a mixtape (or CD, or Spotify playlist—whatever) is one of the great contemporary romantic clichés, and for good reason. You can employ a mix to send a covert message to your crush, share something special with someone who’s special to you, or even just throw one together to flex your music knowledge. Or, for your own good reasons, maybe you’re not in the mood for the upcoming Valentine’s Day festivities. Either way, we’ve got you covered with some off-the-beaten-path selections to help you make the most of your music for the occasion.

SWEET & SAPPY

There are, of course, plenty of blockbuster love songs that you could dispatch to your sweetheart, but why be so impersonal?

Great though they may be, “Let’s Get It On,” “I Will Always Love You,” and most of Prince’s hits are rookie material.

If you and your person share nerdy affinities, look to Outkast’s “Dracula’s Wedding” or The Wyrms’ “I Only Date Wizards.” Both offer fantasy-heavy looks at love—Outkast’s André 3000 does it with squeaky synths and lines like “You’re all I’ve ever wanted, but I’m terrified of you,” while the local Wyrms bewitch you with fuzzy, chugging guitar riffs and rippling vocals. More literally, Ludacris’s “What’s

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Your Fantasy” is a filthy litmus test as to how good your date’s sense of humor is.

To slow it down a little, consider Janelle Monáe’s “PrimeTime,” a smooth R&B duet with Miguel. On a more jazz-inclined tip, Dizzy Gillespie’s “Something in Your Smile” is essential, with a gorgeous, warm horn section that blooms around Gillespie’s voice, or Ella Fitzgerald’s version of George Gershwin’s “Isn’t It a Pity,” in which she wonders why it took so long to find her love.

In the realms of pop and rock, songs like The Shoe Ins’ “I Pledge Allegiance to Your Body” and Blake Mills’s “Hey Lover” are clever, slightly breathless odes to affection. Both share an anxious but excited

undercurrent about romantic prospects.

Mills delights in the idea of looking toward the future with a woman, having kids and making the first letters of their first names match; The Shoe Ins, on the other hand, promise electrifying, patriotic-themed devotion. Deerhoof’s “There’s That Grin” is coy and quirky, while Lady Lamb’s “Heretic,” like Father John Misty’s “Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)” celebrates shared passions, such as a mutual affinity for conspiracy theories or simply hating all the same stuff.

If you’re really trying to lay it on thick and want to add some unadulterated sweetness to the mix, Paramore’s “Still Into You” is so saccharine (and fun) that you can almost feel the enamel melting off your teeth in real time. Kristen Andreassen’s folksy “Crayola Doesn’t Make a Color for Your Eyes” is also super-sweet as Andreassen works her way through a long list of colors to try to perfectly replicate the shade of a loved one’s eyes. In general, it’s a good idea not to trust anyone who doesn’t appreciate the pure, glimmering joy of Abba, so consider throwing “Take a Chance on Me” in there to test the waters.

Lastly, if you don’t need words to express your affection, Akira Kosemura’s “Her” is a brief but stunning little piano tune—gender be damned, as Kosemura balances open space within the piece to beautiful ends.

some music that doesn’t feel like salt on a wound. Whether you’ve been single a day or a decade—or hell, even happily partnered for a long time—you can’t deny the power of a great sad song. Of these, it’s impossible to beat Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” Take the time to lie in the floor and commiserate with Raitt’s beautifully heartbroken ballad that’s unmatched in its raw vulnerability. Chase it with Gillian Welch’s “Dark Turn of Mind.” The wry twist with which Welch closes the song might just help lift your spirits.

If you’re still a bit down and out, look to Matthew E. White’s wounded “Will You Love Me.” There, White croons about the burden of loneliness in a manner that’s modest but sincere. But if your mood is more down and done, see Adia Victoria’s biting “Out of Love” or The Tender Fruit’s “The Truth Is.” Joan Shelley’s tender “Stay on My Shore” is a meek plea for a lover not to leave, while Angel Olsen’s “Hi-Five” is a little more defiant, with lines like “Are you lonely too? High five, so am I.” And hear me out on this one: The Beach

IN GENERAL, IT'S A GOOD IDEA NOT TO TRUST ANYONE WHO DOESN'T APPRECIATE THE PURE, GLIMMERING JOY OF ABBA.

Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” is one of the best sadsack songs ever written. Its cheery, upbeat arrangement obscures the fact that the song has no optimistic aspirations.

“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” is about yearning for things from someone who will never give them to you, and that’s not really so nice at all. Future Islands’ “Tin Man” is a bit less of a contradiction, but its pulsing beats and dancey synths can also distract you from the lyrics, wherein Sam Herring compares himself to the loveless character from The Wizard of Oz. Perhaps you’ve come around from feeling blue to being outright angry. For that, the first half of Beyoncé’s Lemonade could suffice, but if you need more, Ben Folds Five’s “Song for the Dumped” is unsubtle in its subject matter. And, of course, you also can’t go wrong with the Mountain Goats’ “No Children,” an irresistible anthem about mutually assured destruction. Flatbush Zombies’ “Bliss” is a touch nihilistic, but it can be cathartic to shout along with the song’s one hundred thirty-three instances of the word “fuck.” ahussey@indyweek.com

SAD & SOUR

So maybe you’re not feeling lovey-dovey and would instead prefer to self-indulge with

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BY BENJAMIN FILIPPO regular. H in Durha Owner Pattie Brown hands an order to customer Kiera Allen during Friday lunch rush. At left is Brown’s grandson, Max Jeffers. comes fr Roy’s Kountry Kitchen is named for Pattie’s husband, Leroy Brown, who has retired from the business. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER to be at R any given about all sparks up the road.

Restaurant, are not deemed up-and-coming At eleven o’clock on a weekday mornhere,” he s Leroy learned how to cook while in the James by marketers. Blue Coffee Cafe remains in ing, downtown Durham is abuzz with the Army, and for years he dreamed of open- rant’s lon real-estate limbo, unable to find an affordsounds of a rapidly expanding cityscape. ing up “a little place.” The former occupant radiates p able new home in Durham; MS Designs Cranes whirr, trucks buckle under the of the space, a sandwich shop called B&G’s, ous place Embroidery closed after nearly two decades weight of concrete and steel, and sparks fly, was a “little different,” according to Leroy’s Kitchen last fall. as a wave of growth sweeps across a boomdaughter Cheryl, referring to the store’s worked at When asked why she wakes up at dawn, and-bust tobacco town that might just be a practice of selling alcohol without a liquor ed, as peo six days a week, to feed familiar faces, Roy’s real city now. license. But the sandwiches were so good country f proprietor Pattie Brown smiles and replies, Just a mile down the road, at a strip mall that folks looked the other way.

“We didn’t have a choice.” Leroy Brown, her along Fayetteville Street, a contrasting tabSouthern When the nook became available, Pattie constantl husband and the restaurant’s namesake, leau takes shape as a long line of regulars snatched it up. Since then, the family has The fried has been out of the kitchen for about eight forms outside Roy’s Kountry Kitchen. Since taken over the adjacent space to create the soulless c years for health reasons. He relinquished 1990, Roy’s has served homemade, nostal“Julian Room,” available for parties, meet- the Caroli his kitchen role to Pattie, who has graciously gia-inducing country and soul food, feeding ings, and graduation ceremonies for the ing experi run Roy’s ever since. She never thinks about the Hayti community where years of postNCCU Eagles and Hillside High. changing the name. freeway urban renewal had taken its toll.

“As lon Many of the regulars who come to Roy’s will be a Walking in with the eleven-on-the-dot As Durham rapidly expands, many of the nearly every day are older single men, for employm regulars, one is hit with a wave of laughter, city’s entrepreneurs are excluded from that whom the Browns, and other customers, are the Brown the sound of clanking spoons, and joyful growth, especially the women and people of truly like family. Cheryl and her mom even to people salutations. Roy’s is usually full of regulars, color who demonstrated magnificent resilphone them or ask others to go by their homes ated, but and much of the rotating staff is made up of ience through downturns in the 1990s and to check on them when they haven’t been with open Brown family members, but the casual cusearly 2000s, and again in 2008. Their busiaround in a few days, just to make sure they often leav tomer can still feel right at home in a welnesses, like Chicken Hut, Art Sign Compaare OK. coming atmosphere, away from the flying ny, Signature Kutz Barbershop, and George’s and few i

Eleven on the Dot

DURHAM SPOTS LIKE ROY’S KOUNTRY KITCHEN ARE THE STEADY, ENDURING SOUL OF A WANTONLY CHANGING CITY

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ing stable employment at a place like Roy’s is Rich meatloaf, sweet and luscious stewed obvious in James’s words and face. tomatoes, and rutabaga redolent of the earth Lex, another regular, recalls his early conserenade you with a sense of belonging as versations with Leroy, many of which came you make your way down the casual meatdown to: “Roy, I’ve known you a good long and-three cafeteria line. Other specialties while, but where you are, you don’t have any are less traditional. “This is the Obama, you white customers.” Leroy always emphaticalwant one?” Cheryl asks, holding up a Styroly replies that he has plenty of white customfoam cup of a purple drink made with lemers. But Lex always rebuts with his favorite onade, sweet tea, and fruit punch. “I thought quip: “First seven times I came in here, I was that was the Arnold Palmer,” asks longtime the only salt in the pepper family!” Cheryl customer Mr. OJ (short for Oscar Williams). smirks at Lex’s story and teases him for tryHe’s a six-day-a-week regular, including the ing to get extra cornbread.

Saturday mornings that Roy’s is open for Cheryl’s twenty-six-year-old son, Kyle made-to-order breakfast. “Nope, this is the Jeffers, recently started an Instagram Obama,” Cheryl replies firmly, her pride for our first black president coming through in her quick retort.

Everyone chuckles at the exchange. Maybe the extrasweet drink speaks to the hope of the great leader and what his presidency meant to black communities in Durham.

Bill Fields, former athletic director at North Carolina Central University, is another regular. He doesn’t even live in Durham anymore, but he comes from Winston-Salem to be at Roy’s every week. “At any given time I know that just about all my friends will be Branden Graham exits Roy’s with lunch. here,” he says.

PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER James Smith, the restaurant’s longtime dishwasher, account for Roy’s, aiming to capture a wider radiates positivity and hope. “It’s a marvelaudience, especially now that more NCCU ous place, a family place,” he says. “Roy’s students and staff, and residents in the Kitchen is one of the best places I ever adjacent Southside district, are becomworked at or ever ate at. It should be expanding regulars themselves. She’s driven by ed, as people come from all over. Good ol’ her community’s real needs: in addition to country food.” The menu, a laundry list of managing Roy’s, she also runs a small pre-K Southern comfort and soul dishes, changes program that her mother started in 1972 constantly based on seasonality and interest. in their home nearby, which my daughThe fried cornbread, often missing from the ters attend. People like Cheryl and places soulless corporate Southern chains dotting like Roy’s are exactly what make Durham the Carolina landscape, is a singularly pleascool. They are real, they are honest, they ing experience. are home. I suggest you try Roy’s. You, too, “As long as there’s a Roy’s Kitchen, there might just become a regular. will be a James Smith,” James says. His employment at Roy’s is another reason why Benjamin Filippo is executive director of the Brown family enterprise means so much Preservation Durham and a Ph.D. candidate to people. James was formerly incarcerin American studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, ated, but the Browns welcomed him back where he examines the independent entreprewith open arms. The criminal justice system neur’s value in American cities. often leaves people like James with big debts food@indyweek.com and few if any resources. The relief of havINDYweek.com | 2.8.17 | 19

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BAR BRUNELLO

117 East Main Street, Durham www.barbrunello.com

Orange Is the New Red BAR BRUNELLO, WITH ITS UNUSUAL ORANGE WINES AND INVITING VIBE, DOES THE WINE BAR CONCEPT WITH UNPRETENTIOUS DURHAM STYLE

BY KIM LAN GROUT

Much like Bar Lusconi, formerly in the same spot, Bar Brunello is deliberately free of frills.

Save for a few square feet of white subway tile framed by dark grout, à la the cover of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, the space is bare and no longer than it is wide. This is Durham’s newest wine bar.

There’s no exterior signage, but a beautiful marble bar and the enormous wine rack behind it pull me in like a tractor beam.

Behind the bar, Esteban Brunello wears a T-shirt of his own design, showing a clenched fist gripping a wine bottle with the word “socialize” underneath. Though we’ve never met, he calls out a warm, familial “Come in, come in!”—arms open, smile wide.

This welcoming vibe is central to Esteban’s business model. “One of my most vivid memories as a kid is lots of family, a plate of food for everybody, and so much happiness.

I want to re-create that. I’m Argentinean!”

Esteban says, as if the connection is obvious. Deep in beer country, where the craft cocktail is getting more attention, the Triangle has room for a greater wine culture. Bar Brunello nails it with Durham style: homegrown, approachable, genuine, delicious, fun.

It’s a refreshing take on the stereotypical pretentious, expensive wine lounge.

I belly up to the bar and watch as both new and return customers file in. Telling one from the other is easy. Just as I was, the new customers are taken aback by Esteban’s delighted greeting. In a place where Southern hospitality reigns supreme, it’s unusual to be out-kinded by someone else.

“He’s authentic,” says Cara Brunello, Esteban’s wife and a Virginia native. Though it becomes obvious that Esteban takes his wines very seriously, Cara clarifies that he doesn’t apply the same sensibility to himself.

“He wants to have fun. He wants people to exist in the moment. We have an unofficial ‘thumbs down, glasses up’ rule. And he really walks that talk.”

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Esteban Brunello toasts with orange wine at Bar Brunello, a downtown Durham bar he owns with his wife, Cara. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER not take reservations. “This is not the place to adhere to a schedule,” Esteban tells me.

“This is the place to enjoy time and to have an experience with the one you’re with. We are constantly attached to deadlines, to our devices, to duties. When do people relax?

When do they live?”

Indeed, Bar Brunello serves up a fullon wine experience that is still financially accessible. Prices vary, ranging from six to sixteen dollars a glass, with bottles starting at thirty-four. A glass of cider costs from five to fifteen dollars. No matter the price, quality remains consistent.

I start with the driest cider I’ve ever had— complex, earthy flavors rich with oxidized apple and caramel with a funky Camembert twist. With such intense flavors, the cider is still a palate cleanser, as is the Bolivian sparkling wine, Le Vigne d’Alice, I try

next. The 85 percent clear prosecco has its own story, and, of course, Esteban tells it well, not unlike a historian, from growth to harvest all the way to the glass. We then move to an easy-drinking but still complex pilsner with a hint of orange, proving that he even takes his beer seriously.

The wines are exceptional, especially when paired with Esteban’s excitement, sweetened with his flair for romance. He says things like, “If Riesling was your wife, Scheurebe would be your lover.” He then guides me to a smoky, elegantly spicy Shiraz from India and a delicious malbec that, uniquely, has no woody oak notes, as it’s made in stainless steel. And it’s just eight dollars a glass.

“I tasted twenty-six malbecs before choosing the one that I put on the menu,” Esteban says. “When I do choose something at that

price point, quality has to be outstanding.”

Next, Esteban’s pride and utter joy: the orange wines. A refreshing, welcome hybrid of bold, full-bodied reds and light, fruity, fragrant whites, orange wines are made with grapes and macerated orange peels but do not exude an overpowering citrus or orange taste. Acknowledging the wine’s growing global popularity, Esteban plans to have the largest orange wine collection in the world right here in the Triangle by mid-March, with more than forty different vintages and producers, beating upscale Fera at Claridge’s in London and its more than thirty orange wines.

Esteban finally sets a few glasses of wine in front of me that he has decanted since my arrival. The first is earthy and nutty Vitovska, the most common varietal, made in Georgian qvevri, or terra-cotta pots, in an oldworld technique that’s been practiced for more than 8,000 years. Another orange wine, the Cardedu Vermentino di Sardegna, has flavors that Esteban helps me place as volcanic rock soil. It’s also salty like sea air and a little smoky. In another I taste apricot, and I swoon. A gray varietal pinot grigio is ambercolored with notes of white strawberries and a melon finish. The orange wines don’t disappoint.

Then there’s the food: decadent double cream Gorgonzola from Milan, pheasant pâté and locally made fig jam, pillowy burrata and prosciutto, salty, citrusy boquerónes (those perfect Spanish anchovies), chicken liver mousse, and cured meats. While the regulations of getting the cured-meat portion of the business up and running have been daunting and tedious, the Brunellos have high hopes it will soon take off. Luckily for Triangle folks, they decided not to hold back the wines while they wait to finish the cured-meat process. The limited menu is still delicious, well thought-out, and most of all, welcoming. food@indyweek.com

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MARY LATTIMORE

Sunday, Feb. 12, 8 p.m., $10–$12 Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro www.catscradle.com

Harp to Handle

MARY LATTIMORE’S SPELLBINDING SOLO WORK PROVIDES INTIMATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF-REFLECTION

BY ALLISON HUSSEY rippling resonance of its lower timbres. The opening glissandos of “Jimmy V” yield to sparse, glimmering notes, and the overall piece is so gorgeous that it’s almost hard to believe that a college basketball coach inspired the song. “Jaxine Drive” shimmers in soft focus, while listening to the sublime thirteen minutes of “Ferris Wheel, January” feels like being cast adrift on a cloud floating through space. If that sounds farout, it’s because At the Dam is that way, too, as though it has no connection to any particular time, place, or even plane of existence.

Lattimore wrote At the Dam as she trav-

eled solo around California and Texas, funded by a 2014 Pew Fellowship grant.

Aligning with the circumstances of its creation, At the Dam is best suited for solitary, reflective occasions: late-night drives, aimless walks, too-early mornings when you haven’t quite cleared the sleep from your eyes. With her harp, Lattimore crafts an otherworldly sphere in which she rewards quiet contemplation with unbridled beauty, where the returns of her efforts never diminish. When the noise of everyday life becomes too much to take, Lattimore’s Dam is an ideal shelter for seclusion. ahussey@indyweek.com

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Quickly, how many harpists can you name?

Was your first thought Joanna Newsom?

Perhaps you landed on Alice Coltrane or Zeena Parkins, two brilliantly talented women whose boundary-pushing work never earned them mainstream acclaim.

The roster of well-known harpists is a short one, but there’s another who should be on your list: Mary Lattimore.

Lattimore was born and raised in western North Carolina, but she's spent much of the last several years as a Philadelphia fixture. To put a finer point on her work, one might call her an experimental harpist. As she plucks and glides, Lattimore pushes all forty-seven strings of her unwieldy instrument into uncharted territory, warping its heavenly sounds through various effects and knocking on her harp’s wood frame with her knuckles and a heavy ring. Her music is spacious, strange, and comforting—even if you’re not sure where Lattimore’s taking you, she gently lulls you into

trusting her lead.

Like Parkins, Lattimore has an expansive knack for collaboration. She’s joined the likes of Thurston Moore, Steve Gunn, and Kurt Vile on recordings and in live performances. When she teams up with producer and synth wizard Jeff Ziegler, the two deliver dense, heady concoctions. At the Three Lobed Recordings/WXDU Hopscotch day party last year, she took to the stage with singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Meg Baird, and later this spring, she’ll premiere a project with Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan.

It’s true that Lattimore makes for a mighty team player, but on her own she issues albums that are utterly transfixing.

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Up, Up and Away

A SUPERHERO GLUT AND FRANKLIN STREET PRESSURES KAYO A FOUR-DECADE CHAPEL HILL INSTITUTION

BY ZACK SMITH

ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS

Andrew Neal was at a Run the Jewels show at the Ritz when he heard that Chapel Hill Comics was closing. “I pulled out my phone to look at the time and saw that I had received a ton of texts and Facebook messages—people who had shopped at the store, fellow comic retailers,” Neal says.

Neal, who owned the Franklin Street shop with the blue awning and red walls from 2003 to 2014, had heard the news from the store’s current owner, Ryan Kulikowski, a few days before. Neal says he felt bad for the shop’s employees and longtime customers. “The store has been around since about 1978,” he says. “There were people who shopped there, down to the last day I ran the store, who had been shopping there since before I owned it.”

Indeed, while it may have changed names, locations, and inventories over the years, Chapel Hill Comics was a Triangle institution. Its closure, set for the end of March, marks the loss of another local business on Franklin Street as chains such as Target move in.

Financial matters were the main cause of the decision to close, says Kulikowski, who cites declining sales and a changing business environment. “I saw other businesses on Franklin Street were having the same problems we were,” he says. “Parking has always been a problem, and construction on Rosemary Street has really slowed things down.

They’re about to close off part of Franklin for construction on University Square, so that’s not going to improve anything.”

Chapel Hill Comics started life almost four decades ago as the Foundation Bookshop, tucked beside a Rosemary Street parking deck. When it changed owners, it became Second Foundation and spun off a comic shop in Raleigh, Foundation’s Edge, which the Second Foundation owner sold in 1994.

“It wasn’t particularly easy to find,” notes Rick McGee, the owner of Foundation’s Edge, who worked at the original shop from 1981 to 1987. “Also, it flooded more than once.”

But the location still attracted talent on both sides of the counter; authors such as Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell, and the late Karl Edward Wagner came through its doors, while employees included future comics writer John Ney Rieber and Kevin J. Maroney, the current editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction.

The shop became Chapel Hill Comics after Neal bought it and sold off its sci-

fi book inventory. (I still have a slipcased George R.R. Martin first edition I got at 75 percent off.) Within a few years, the store moved to Franklin Street, later expanding into a larger, and final, space beside what used to be Ham’s restaurant.

The attractive setting and the emphasis on offbeat small-press materials both comics-related and not—everything from zines to McSweeney’s anthologies and reprints of old Little Golden books—drew a number of prominent cartoonists for signings, including Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley and Prophet’s Brandon Graham; it was a finalist

for the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award in 2008. But times change. When Neal decided to retire from retail in 2014, he sold the business to Kulikowski, who’d been working as a teacher overseas and wanted to get into comics. “Everything I read about Franklin Street sounded great—this historic area full of cool independent businesses,” he says.

Kulikoswki ascribes some of the store’s struggles to his lack of experience (“I maybe spent too much money trying to put my own stamp on the store,” he says), combined with the rising costs of operating on Franklin. A number of new comic shops had opened in

Raleigh and Cary, too.

“You have a much more crowded market in the Triangle now,” McGee says. “For the longest time, there were only about five shops, but now there are at least nine or ten. For decades the South was the red-headed stepchild of comics distribution, but there has been huge growth.”

Finally, an overwhelming number of new titles and “event” books, where superhero titles were either relaunched or crossed over with stories in numerous other titles, put a strain on fans’ wallets and drove some away.

“It used to be I could order a ton of a new Marvel #1 and people would go for it, no matter who the character was or the team behind it,” Kulikowski says. “But when you have event after event—they’re not like the movies, these contained stories. They’re these sprawling cosmic battles that go on and on. How do you introduce a new customer to that?” He adds that, with most issues retailing at four dollars and Diamond Comics Distributors’s nonreturn policy, the cost of unsold books quickly adds up.

Neal can sympathize, as the challenge of turning a profit was one of the reasons he stepped away from the business. “The amount of things coming out is astounding,” he says. “There are so many books coming out with something good in them, but everyone has a limited budget, be they readers or retailers. It’s a hard market, and I had to change the way we stocked things every few years.”

Neal says sales fluctuated during his own time at Chapel Hill Comics. “My best-selling book each year sold a little less than the year before," he says. "We were selling more overall every year, but the more there is to carry, the less room there is for each book to sell.”

There are still plenty of comics shops in the Triangle, many of them part of Ultimate Comics’ local empire, but hardly any with a history as long as Chapel Hill Comics.

Kulikowski says he’s refocusing on a side job he’s maintained for income—and on making sure that the store goes out “on a high note, to celebrate the history rather than the loss.”

He notes, with some irony, that he’ll actually have time to read some comics again: “I’ll probably start going through the big pile of trades I’ve brought home over the last few months and start trying to make a dent in that,” he says. arts@indyweek.com

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Speak No Evil

ADRIENNE EARLE PENDER’S N REVIVES THE ACTOR WHO SAID NO TO EUGENE O’NEILL AND RACIST LANGUAGE, AND WHO PAID THE PRICE

BY BYRON WOODS Adrienne Earle Pender knows why actor Charles Sidney Gilpin isn’t celebrated alongside Paul Robeson, James Baldwin, and other early pioneers of black theater in America. Alcoholism, she admits, was part of the problem; so was an artist’s ego that sometimes sabotaged his relationships with loved ones and colleagues.

But the main reason Gilpin remains a footnote is because he stood up to playwright Eugene O’Neill, refusing to repeat the ethnic slur that laced O’Neill’s 1920 drama, The Emperor Jones. Pender, a Raleigh-based playwright, probes the ethics of Gilpin and O’Neill’s tragic intersection in her new play, N. Its world premiere opens this week at Theatre in the Park.

In 1920, Gilpin was one of a handful of professional black actors struggling to find work in New York. Though minstrelsy, once Broadway’s most popular form of entertainment, was fading, blackface remained the industry standard for black characters in live theater. Prior to the work of black playwrights during the Harlem Renaissance, the only roles for black actors on Broadway were as servants and slaves. Indeed, Gilpin was cast as the lead in the premiere of The Emperor Jones only because O’Neill had seen him portray a slave in the stage biography Abraham Lincoln.

By many standards, Jones was a groundbreaking work. O’Neill’s first box-office success, it played for six months on Broadway, relocating twice to bigger theaters before embarking on a two-year American tour. In a thinly veiled critique of the U.S. invasion of Haiti in 1915, the bombastic, profane, and corrupt title character effectively obliterated the familiar, comic black stereotypes that had been the norm up to then.

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belie his race.” When the work was staged in Harlem, Langston Hughes recalled that the audience “howled with laughter.”

Ultimately, Gilpin’s clandestine dramaturgy caught up with him, and O’Neill fired him at the end of the American tour.

Paul Robeson replaced him for the first New York revival and the play's London production— a fateful move that launched the actor to stardom.

Meanwhile, Gilpin’s career went into free fall. O’Neill was the only prominent playwright of the time writing roles for black actors; after Jones, he wrote the drama All God’s Chillun Got Wings in 1924. “Other than those two plays, there weren’t any other opportunities for a negro actor to appear in anything of quality,” Pender says. “Gilpin had absolutely nowhere to go.”

Hazel Edmond, Byron Jennings II, and Ira David Wood IV in N PHOTO BY CATHERINE DAVIS PHOTOGRAPHY This development also conceals a mystery. Pender notes O’Neill to remove the slurs from the text. tures his desperate decline and fall. that by the mid-1920s, O’Neill was already When that failed, Gilpin took them out on In 1920, casting a black actor as a black a known commodity. “He was notorious; his own intiative, in several years of perleading character cemented the work as he didn’t forgive people,” she says. “If you formances, subbing in terms such as "black a cause célèbre, and glowing reviews procrossed him once, you were done.” boy" and "negro.". pelled Gilpin to the cultural forefront of his But after firing Gilpin, O’Neill subse“Charles must have said it at least day. “He was considered a leading figure in quently allowed him to direct and star in through the rehearsal process,” Pender black America in the 1920s,” Pender says. a second revival, in 1926, in New York. says. “I can’t imagine O’Neill would have let “He did go to the White House and meet Pender has ideas about why he did, which him even open for the first time if he wasn’t.

President Harding. He did win a medal she probes in her script.

But as soon as O’Neill wasn’t in the room, from the NAACP, and he did help start “To the very end of his life,” Pender says, what I’ve found suggests that Gilpin always several negro theater groups as he toured “O’Neill said the only actor who ever realchanged it.” around the country.” ly got Brutus Jones was Charles. I think Gilpin’s dissatisfaction and drinking But a problem was brewing during the O’Neill saw something of himself, and worsened over time, exacerbated by the initial New York run of The Emperor Jones something of his family, in Charles.” conspicuously cooler reception from black and its subsequent tour: the ethnic slur Audiences can enter that fractious newspapers and audiences of the time. A Jones uses to describe the native black relationship when actors Hazel Edmond, 1921 review in Negro World concluded, inhabitants of his island. A black actor had Byron Jennings II, and Ira David Wood IV “We imagine if Mr. Gilpin is an intellito say that word thirty-two times in each take on this historical theatrical argument gent and loyal Negro, his heart must ache show. For Gilpin, each performance was starting this week. and rebel within him as he is forced to harder than the last. He repeatedly asked arts@indyweek.com

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JOHN DARNIELLE: UNIVERSAL HARVESTER Monday, Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m., $10 Motorco Music Hall, Durham www.motorcomusic.com

Wednesday, Feb. 15, 7 p.m., free Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh www.quailridgebooks.com

Read Tape

IN UNIVERSAL HARVESTER, FOUND-FOOTAGE FICTION SLOWLY SHATTERS INTO SOMETHING EVEN STRANGER

BY BRIAN HOWE You can get through John Darnielle’s second novel in the time it takes a house wren to set up shop inside a gourd, which is about half a day. (This factoid is brought to you by one of the many agrarian or industrial asides that seal up Darnielle’s sparely thatched narrative.) But if you do, you’ll understand about as much as a wren would, too.

Universal Harvester is one kind of book wearing several disguises. It’s a mystery whose momentum doesn’t obey the laws of narrative physics, ricocheting sideways into deepening shadow. Still, it has a strange propulsion, and while it evades the crisp, satisfying clicks of traditional suspense fiction, Darnielle resolves his fugue with a groaning song all his own—one that is in some ways frustrating but also quite memorable.

Long before he was long-listed for a National Book Award for his 2014 debut novel, Wolf in White Van, Darnielle was renowned as the singer-songwriter of The Mountain Goats, and it’s tempting to look for parallels between his music and his fiction.

You can find them, say, in visions of rural isolation and religious cults. But Darnielle the novelist certainly doesn’t fall into the musician’s trap of connecting everything too neatly; if anything, he tends toward opacity and disintegration.

Universal Harvester is set at the end of the 1990s, when corporate chains were finishing off small-town video rental stores like the one where Jeremy works, in an Iowa town where the farmhouses all have “clean dishtowels embroidered with roosters or the sun smartly draped over the handle of the stove” and “days roll on like hills too low to give names to[.]” His mother’s death in a car accident several years prior has bound him into a quiet, companionable kinship of grief with his father; they watch movies while Jeremy contemplates a future in industrial agriculture. But his inert life is disrupted when customers start seeing weird bits of film spliced into rental tapes like She’s All That—cryptic snippets, shot in a dark shed, in which a

John Darnielle

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hooded figure is apparently being subjected to captivity, maybe even torture.

As Jeremy and his boss begin to find more of these disturbing scenes, we think we know what kind of story we’re in, and it’s an odd one. Found-footage horror has thoroughly infested cinema, so why wouldn't it metastasize into a work of fiction set in the groundzero-era of The Blair Witch Project? For a while, Universal Harvester seems like it’s basically the movie V/H/S as a Stephen King novella, peppered with a lot of deceptively extraneous exposition about family histories.

But, as you already know if you read Darnielle’s Tumblr, this feint toward literary torture porn isn’t what it seems: “I had this idea to tell a horror story that would also function as a cartography of grief set within that world I’d lived in for a long spell,” he wrote.

(Though Darnielle now lives in Durham, he has also lived in the Midwest, working on a grain elevator.) Though Jeremy and his boss do get sucked into unraveling the mystery of the tapes, it doesn’t lead them anyplace you'd even remotely guess.

As a mystery, Universal Harvester exploits four gaps in the reader’s knowledge: who the narrator is, why he or she keeps alluding to the existence of other versions of this story, where these spooky tapes are coming from, and what’s going on in them. If you expect them all to snap together with the climactic revelation of something hiding in plain sight, don’t. The first, third, and fourth mysteries resolve in a way that is surprising but can’t be called a twist: the solution is ambiguous, and somewhat arduous to construct psychologically. The metafictional tease of the

second hardly follows through at all, leaving the reader to decide what to make of it. After the reveal, some of the video clips wind up making sense and some don’t, and life is just like that sometimes. Cloaked in light horror, it’s really a book about families navigating absences—about two mothers taken by God, one in death and one in life, and about how land and commerce shape people in big, empty places that can turn into cages of air.

Darnielle writes in an unvarying register, somewhere between postmodern blankness and Midwestern simplicity. His minimal quotient of affect and style sharply sculpts certain observations and rhetorical flourishes. Jeremy’s father is one of those men “whose need to retain their composure often surpassed their desire to be healed,” while the Video Hut where Jeremy works exists in a “once-inviolate stillness, its perennial motionless static present, a thing already passing into legend.”

On that note, it seems significant that two of the main timelines—the end of the nineties and the end of aughts—were marked by waves of filmic obsolescence: the former of family video stores, the latter of analog film equipment. Both are alluded to in Universal Harvester. The abstract feeling of film, a degrading yet infinitely editable bulwark against total loss, is threaded through Darnielle’s human insights, which relate to how we want to keep things most as they disappear, how we long to edit our own stories.

But since the characters lack idiosyncrasies, it’s the mystery that tugs us on toward the book's uncertain, elusive conclusion. The novel demands not so much rereading as archaeology, combing back through it to find the details that fix the narrow crosshatching of narratives into a meaning. Certainly the initial, implicit promise of a sharp payoff is a red herring. Perhaps it’s a story that doesn’t quite coalesce because it’s about stories that never had the chance to—or maybe I'm just missing something. See what you think. bhowe@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 2.8.17 | 25

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CHRIS ROCK: TOTAL BLACKOUT TOUR

If comedy is tragedy plus time, that would at least partially account for Chris Rock. A Southern kid who found himself living in a tough NYC neighborhood and bused to a white school where he was routinely terrorized, Rock eventually channeled some of his rage, as well as memories of his preacher grandfather’s fiery oratory, into his own monologues. He launched himself into the ranks of the greats with a couple of HBO specials; film roles, Emmys, Grammys, and Oscar-hosting gigs followed. Rock has turned out to be far more diverse than one would have suspected from his three-year turn on SNL, and as much as he excelled as Marty the giraffe in Madagascar, onstage, doing his act, is still the best place to appreciate Chris Rock.

Seeing him prowl the DPAC floorboards, summoning his signature incredulity at the sheer craziness of it all, might be just the catharsis you need. —David Klein DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DURHAM 8 p.m., $50–$125, www.dpacnc.com

Ronald Lockett: “Rebirth” (1987, wire, nails, and paint on Masonite) PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ACKLAND

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SPOKEN WORD/ SPOKEN JUSTICE

When he was planning this year’s Process Series, artistic director Joseph Megel couldn’t possibly have predicted how much we’d need a festival devoted to unconventional political resistance in performance this February. In Spoken Word/Spoken Justice: A Festival of Spoken Word Performance, Mohammad Moussa’s multimedia work “Shattered Glass” reflects upon the lives and shooting deaths of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill on the anniversary of their killing. Intersectionality figures into Jaclyn Gilstrap and CJ Suitt’s “Sitting in the Intersection,” a fusion of poetry, audio, music, and storytelling that probes the feminine in us all. Jamila Reddy’s solo show, “yes, and,” explores the politics of pleasure as a way of healing and reclaiming colonized bodies and minds. And Kane Smego’s biographical narrative verse in “Temples of Lung and Air” recounts his experiences using hip-hop as a means of community building in Zimbabwe, Abu Dhabi, Alaska, and here in the Triangle.

—Byron Woods UNC’S SWAIN HALL, CHAPEL HILL 5 p.m. Fri./2 p.m. Sat. & Sun., $5 suggested donation, www.processseries.unc.edu

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JPHONO1: BE THE GOOD

John Harrison, aka Jphono1, makes beguiling music out of the gauzy brushstrokes of his voice and a latticework of hypnotic acoustic guitar patterns. Last year’s Time in the Chevron, his third LP, was a sublime collection of acoustic psych with more soulful curiosity than trippy obtuseness. In his screen printing and mixed-media art, Harrison creates an apt visual complement for his bright, off-kilter acoustic excursions. Single images sit in sharp relief against backgrounds of colorful, Escherlike tessellations: a cool fifties chair, bare branches against a rippling sky, an Ibanez Turbo Tube Screamer guitar pedal. The patterns—starbursts, vines, op art—will be familiar to anyone who’s ever dabbled in psychedelics, or even just scrunched their eyes shut tight. After the opening reception of his exhibit, Be the Good, at the ArtsCenter, Harrison plays a nine-o’clock set as Jphono1 just up the block at The Cave. The exhibit runs through the end of February. —David Klein THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO 6–8 p.m., free, www.artscenterlive.org THE CAVE, CHAPEL HILL 9 p.m., $5, www.caverntavern.com

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11

VIRTUES OF LOVING HER: A CABARET SHOWCASE

Historically, cabaret has been critical of regimes, dispensing dissent and subversion with a raised glass and a sly wink. In recent decades, it has sold off some of its substance for spectacle as burlesque has become commonplace—even presidential. But perhaps cabaret’s time has come around again as a kind of tonic for the Sturm und Drang of street protests and anxious letter-writing campaigns. We could all use a damn drink and a show. The Triangle chapter of the Human Rights Campaign will deliver that and more in Virtues of Loving HER, a cocktail reception and cabaret organized by singer Nekeyeta Newkirk and featuring a to-die-for lineup. The proceeds go to the HRC, America’s largest civil rights organization working on LGBTQ equality. “Performers have volunteered their time and talents to come together to tell the story of the many virtues of being in love with a woman,” says Newkirk, promising an “emotional roller coaster” of ballads, show tunes, and pop. The performers include Culture Mill’s Murielle Elizéon, poet Danielle “Blaize” Cortez, and singers, dancers, and musicians Loni Price, Germona Harper, Heather Rogers, Destiny Diamond, and Morgan Flowerchild Jones, all emceed by The Queen of Hearts. —Chris Vitiello 21C MUSEUM HOTEL, DURHAM 6:30–10:30 p.m., $20–$60, www.21cmuseumhotels.com/durham

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FEVER WITHIN: THE ART OF RONALD LOCKETT

Self-taught artists also teach one another, and, starting in the 1980s, Alabama produced a remarkable crop of African-American ones who entered the canon as it tortuously grew less homogenous. Scavenger sculptor Lonnie Holley, who came to Kings in Raleigh as a musician last Friday, has had a major retrospective at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Assemblage master Thornton Dial has been collected by MOMA, the Whitney, the Met, and the Smithsonian. Less well known but primed for reconsideration is Dial’s cousin, Ronald Lockett (1965–1998), who explored the panoramic violence and racial strife of the twentieth century in richly textured, starkly totemic paintings on discarded materials, wrought with wire and nails, twigs and leaves.

He made some four hundred works before his death from complications of HIV/AIDS at age thirty-two. See fifty of them during the Second Friday art walk celebration of Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett, the first solo exhibition of his work. It came to the Ackland (which hosted a memorable exhibit of Dial drawings in 2012) following runs at the American Folk Art Museum in New York and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.

—Brian Howe ACKLAND ART MUSEUM, CHAPEL HILL 5–9 p.m., free, www.ackland.org

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THE TENDER FRUIT

It’s been a long while since we last heard from Christy Smith, the woman responsible for The Tender Fruit, who’s taken some time away from the stage to focus on family life. This weekend, though, she’s stepping out for intimate afternoon affair at Rebus Works, a multipurpose arts space in Raleigh. Smith is a gifted songwriter with a knack for penning tunes that are as gorgeous as they are heartbreaking. Her first album, 2010’s Flotsam & Krill, was a gentle, mostly acoustic collection. But for 2014’s The Darkness Comes, Smith upped her own ante by adding gnarled electric guitar and full-band arrangements, which lend additional weight to her already mighty writing. Smith is one of the area’s strongest talents, and this one-off from her is a rare treat indeed. Durham’s charming Beauty World opens. —Allison Hussey REBUS WORKS, RALEIGH | 3 p.m., $8–$10, www.rebusworks.us

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SA 1/14 OUT) SU 1/15 506: (TIX Gost, REMAIN) • LOCAL Roseclouds; WAKA 9 p.m., $10–$12.FLOCKA • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Free Improvised Music FLAME Series; 8:30 p.m., $5–$10. • POUR HOUSE: Upstate Rubdown; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • THE RITZ: Excision, Cookie Monsta, Barely Alive; 8:30 p.m., $25–$135. • SLIM’S: Inaeona, Beerwolf; 8 p.m., $8.

THU, FEB 9 Echonest SHRED Echonest is the solo HEAD project of Warren Sharp, who also plays guitar in Raleigh’s Stammerings. In Stammerings, Warren’s playing stays fairly conventional as he works within the idiom of hooky pop-rock, but under the Echonest moniker he displays a more technical and experimental side of the eight-string guitar. Sharp blends disparate genres like jazz and metal with virtuosity to surprisingly strong ends. —NR [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

Edwin McCain South Carolinian troubadour Edwin McCain has carved out an enduring career for himself in the crowded field of grizzled, husky-voiced singer-songwriters purveying easy-going folk-rock. A romantic streak a mile wide is required to be taken in by these love songs, but with 27 million Spotify plays for his 1997 hit “I’ll Be,” McCain’s popularity is holding strong. With Aussie guitar ace Joe Robinson. —DK [MOTORCO, $25–$28/7:45 P.M.]

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The Kruger Brothers with the Kontras Quartet MANY If you’ve attended STRINGS any of the IBMA

festivities. you’ve likely encountered the Kruger Brothers, a trio led by brothers Uwe and Jens on guitar and banjo, with bassist Joel Landsberg. The group focuses on roots and folk styles, and when they team up with the Kontras Quartet, the Krugers deliver gorgeous pieces of music that chase the expansive influences and colorful threads of American roots music.Their forthcoming Roan Mountain Suite, due later this spring, celebrates the beauty and history of the North Carolina peak.

—AH [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, $34–$45/8 P.M.]

Local Band Local Beer: Heartracer SYNTH The history of pop SIBS music is rife with siblings who hate each other.

That’s not the case with Chris and Chip Cosby, Richmond, Virginia, brothers who pursued separate music careers before joining forces to make infectious electro dance jams. They even look cool playing a keytar. Animalweapon and Foxture open. —DK [POUR HOUSE, $3–$5/9:30 P.M.]

Nick Schnebelen HARD After fourteen years BLUES in the band Trampled Under Foot with his siblings Danielle and Kris, Nick Shnebelen now fronts his own group. These days, you can find him playing a National steel guitar backed by a Bo Diddley-esque beat on “Bad Woman Blues,” tearing off barb-wire licks like Michael Burks with his flying V on “Bad Disposition.” —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $8/8 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY THE CAVE: Opin; 9 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: The Forgotten Man, Ben Sparaco, Farmer Shatterheart, Daniel Nickels; 8 p.m., $5–$7. • DUKE’S NELSON MUSIC ROOM: Deviant Septet; 8 p.m., $10–$24. See box, page 32. • THE STATION: Onyx Club Boys; 9 p.m., free. • UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet; 7:30 p.m. See box, page 29.

FRI, FEB 10 Airpark RETURN 2 Going “back to the FORM basics” is a familiar stage in the life cycles of rock bands, but breaking up to do it is less common. Airpark is the project of Michael and Ben Ford, a reincarnation of their former folk-rock band, The Apache Relay.

With Airpark, the Ford brothers shed the strings, keys, and multilayered vocals of their past in favor of a groovier, stripped-down sound reminiscent of Spoon’s early records. —NR [LOCAL 506, $6–$8/9 P.M.]

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir VOCAL Somehow, Estonia GLOW has one of the richest contemporary music scenes on the planet. Arvo Pärt is probably the best-known emissary, for his blending of neo-Renaissance polyphony with minimalism. But he’s certainly not alone, and this choir is a perfect group to introduce us to that luminous world. Alongside a handful of works by Pärt, this concert will feature fellow Estonian Veljo Tormis’s nicely disquieting “Curse Upon Iron,” and rarely performed choral works by Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. —DR [DUKE CHAPEL, $10–$42/8 P.M.]

Honey Magpie ELEGANT The Triangle’s FOLK Honey Magpie plans to wrap recording on its debut album next month after running a successful crowdfunding campaign last fall, Though the band has a fondness for covering Carole King and Bob Dylan classics, its originals find a trio of songwriters setting earthy lyricism to lush folk arrangements, with guitar, piano, cello, and violin gracefully wrapped around plaintive lead vocals and sweet three-part harmonies. Asheville

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PHILIP GLASS AND KRONOS QUARTET: DRACULA You can’t help but hear it as a heartbeat. The Kronos Quartet has an uncanny ability to realize Philip Glass’s compositions, and his soundtrack for the 1931 film Dracula might provide the ultimate example. If Glass’s fundamental compositional unit is the pulse, and a string instrument’s fundamental unit is the bow stroke, then the vampire’s essential need for blood from a beating heart is a perfect match.

We’ve seen a lot of vampire movies over the years, but the two most enduring ones are Nosferatu (1922) and the aforementioned Dracula. The former is a jarring, expressionist masterpiece in which Count Orlok is exclusively predatory. But Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula adds a seductive mode—he must attract his prey before he feeds on it. That Dracula transforms his victims into vampires constitutes a kind of acceptance of that seduction. It’s notable that Orlok’s victims simply died after his meal. Orlok’s need was merely physical, while Dracula’s approaches the metaphysical.

Kronos gets this point of differentiation with regard to Glass. When you hear another quartet play Glass, you can almost feel the players reading the sheet music, the bow occasionally becoming a saw in their hands. Kronos’s take on Glass alternates between big

contradictory impulses such as Dracula’s, and conveys all attendant ecstasy and anxiety.

We live at a time when zombies have more or less replaced vampires in our collective consciousness.

Both are undead, but the vampire expresses modes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century desire, the almost romantic impulse to survive off the essence of life itself: blood. The zombie better matches contemporary fears of virtuality and automation, in which we aspire to be mindless machines more than living creatures.

The concept isn’t just metaphorical—imagine your life without your phone and your laptop, if you dare.

But no matter how much of my memory and thinking functions relatet to to my devices, I still have a heart pounding in my chest, driving blood through my veins.

I can survive without my phone if I have to, but if my heart stops then I die in minutes. Kronos finds this desperation in Dracula with each back-and-forth of the bow. Glass will never score a zombie movie—but maybe Steve Reich will. —Chris Vitiello UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., $10–$59 www.carolinaperformingarts.org

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Horizontal Hold HOLD The two key TIGHT waypoints referenced in Horizontal Hold’s name—to one of the precisionsynchronization mechanisms on an analog television and to a song by the cult English experimental rock band This Heat—are telling.

The former points to the Durham quartet’s finely tuned, synth-andguitar-led weirdo pop, which recalls the post-punk of an era when people actually had analog televisions. The latter speaks to Horizontal Hold’s willingness—its daring, even—to follow no muse but its own. Jphono1 and The Good Graces open. —PW [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

Fundraiser for Hiroshi Arakawa BANJO As Hiroshi Arakawa BENEFIT continues his months-long recovery from a serious car accident in November, the local banjo community continues to support the young Japanese native and former Raleigh resident, who had been studying bluegrass and business at East Tennessee University.

Rescheduled after last month’s ice storm, this benefit keeps the same stellar bill: the time-warped old-time theatrics of Curtis Eller, countrified and hard-driving bluegrass from Massive Grass, and the newgrass-meets-traditionalism dichotomy of Hank, Pattie & The Current. —SG [KINGS, $10/9 P.M.]

Philip Glass & Laurie Anderson GREAT A titan of 1970s MINDS performance art who crossed over into pop (her 1981 song “O Superman” taught legions what a vocoder is), experimental composer, musician, and singer Laurie Anderson joins Philip Glass, who came from the same downtown New York swirl of genre-smashing artists, for an evening of poetry and reflection centered on Glass’s Sufi song cycle for Robert Wilson’s opera Monsters of Grace. —BH [UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, $10–$49/8 P.M.]

N.C. Symphony: Scheherazade WEIRD Sandwiched TWITTER between two late-nineteenth-century Russians—Rimsky-Korsakov’s orientalist masterpiece Scheherazade and Tchaikovsky’s played-to-death uber-romance, Romeo and Juliet—is a new work by the young American composer Timo Andres. Everything Happens So Much derives its title from a post by the wonderfully weird Horse_ebooks Twitter account, and the piece explores the open-ended possibilities suggested by that gnomic phrase.

Its main theme skips around arpeggios, its development brash and muscular with flecks of Bernstein poking through the cracks. —DR [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, $18–$66/8 P.M.]

The Pinkerton Raid HOPE On the new Tolerance SONGS Ends, Love Begins, the new release by this Durham indie folk-rock outfit, Jesse De Conto drew inspiration from work as a crime reporter, specifically the moments of tedium that pulled him toward a deeper contemplation of lives in peril. With the Old Ceremony and Onward, Soldiers.

—DK [MOTORCO, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

The Roman Spring HOME The Roman Spring GROWN arose from a well of North Carolina pride. Fronted by Raleigh singer-songwriter Alex Lawhon and featuring members from area bands such as Cravin’ Melon, Dillon Fence, and Parklife, the quintet slings pop-spangled Americana in the vein of Ryan Adams or Father John Misty, by way of the college rock endemic to the Triangle. They take the stage at The Pinhook ahead of a new EP due later this year. Arrow Beach opens. —ZC [THE PINHOOK, $7/9 P.M.]

Surplus Dads Showcase UNC This label showcase TALENTS of Chapel Hill-area tune purveyors Surplus Dads features the nineties post-hardcore-indebted Enenra. Sounding a bit like Cloud Nothings, the band is presumably named after the mythlogical bonfire-dwelling Japanese smoke monster—that, or the Mortal Kombat character.

One can only guess. Jumba and Cro-Mags h RDU rapper P3 complete the bill. sial few yea —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $5/8 P.M.] Founding m Flanagan, w almost two Scott Tixier arrested in 2 to stab the b NO French violinist Scott FIDDLIN’ Tixier is the latest in onstage—a the band’s m the long, sparse tradition of jazz involved in p violinists, the heir of Stéphane aside, they’r Grappeli and Jean Luc Ponty. The ferocious liv violin opens different avenues for Ice, Society soloing than more traditional Substance. horns; its strings offer different [LOCAL 506 restrictions and opportunities. Tixier’s sound is lithe and propulsive, skittering inventively around both Lucy Ka the tunes and his fingerboard. His recent album, which these shows COUNTRY + FOLK are celebrating, mixes originals with tunes by Django Reinhardt career, Lucy behind to pu and Erroll Garner. —DR [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $28–$30/7 & 9 P.M.] psychology. to call to her returned he ALSO ON FRIDAY offering a w ARCANA: Ladies of the 80s: country and Movie Soundtrack Edition; 10 p.m., original son $5. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Kaplansky’s Groovynators; 9 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE: Rainbow Kitten Surprise, refreshing a Caamp; 8:30 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE [THE ARTSC

(BACK ROOM): No One Mind, Sunnyslopes, Konvoi; 9 p.m., $7. • OC45 DEEP SOUTH: Sound System Seven, The Oatmeal Conspiracy; 9 PUNK AS p.m., $5. • LINCOLN THEATRE: HECK Nantucket’s Heartbreakers Ball, Driver, band OC45 The Commune; 8 p.m., $15–$25. • THE of its bio, “b MAYWOOD: Jasin O’Neil Todd, Trista gonna fuck Mabry; 8:30 p.m., $12–$15. • POUR OC45’s har HOUSE: Sun Dried Vibes, Tropidelic; world punk, 9 p.m., $7–$10. • THE RITZ: Appetite difference b for Destruction; 8 p.m., $10. • SHARP West Coast NINE GALLERY: JUA, Andrea State pugna Claburn; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SLIM’S: music to wr Medium Heat, Love Udder, Crazy Bull; doesn’t acco 9 p.m., $5. • UNC’S HILL HALL: Hill’s Sibann Brooks de-Wetter Smith, Lindsay Leach- crust-ska, p Sparks, Suzanne Polak; 7:30 p.m., free. Saturday Ni Things. —P [THE MAYW

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SHARP WORLD A free performance BITE BEAT from Mike Babyak garage rock has got to be the deal of the and swells, b century. Listening to him bounce resilience. O his way through a mix of Afro-pop, Naomi Punk reggae, and juju styles with his trio early-aught Triple Fret is always a treat, but West Coast with the addition of Bebecca and Ty Sega Newton and Nancy Middleton out the punks o front it’s a not-to- be-missed remained st occasion. —GB and the grou [THE KRAKEN, FREE/8 P.M.] carries a mo

than the loo early days. W —NR [THE DRAMA A totem of the Lower $10–$12/9 P KINGS East Side New York hardcore scene in the eighties, the

Cro-Mags

Cro-Mags have had a controversial few years, to put it mildly.

Founding member Harley Flanagan, who exited the band almost two decades ago, was arrested in 2012 after attempting to stab the band’s current bassist onstage—and it’s not the first time the band’s members have been involved in public brawls. Drama aside, they’re still an anarchic, ferocious live force. With Fire & Ice, Society Sucker, Red Vision, Substance. —DS [LOCAL 506, $18–$20/9 P.M.]

Lucy Kaplansky COUNTRY On the cusp of a + FOLK successful music career, Lucy Kaplansky left it all behind to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology. But music continued to call to her, and she has since returned her gentle folk efforts, offering a well-measured blend of country and folk. Whether singing original songs or covers, Kaplansky’s delicate voice is refreshing and honest. —EGB [THE ARTSCENTER, $21/8 P.M.]

OC45 PUNK AS “We might not make HECK history,” Boston punk band OC45 concedes at the end of its bio, “but we’re definitely gonna fuck some shit up.” Indeed, OC45’s hard-drinking, fuck-theworld punk, which splits the difference between golden-era West Coast pop-punk and Bay State pugnaciousness, is good music to wreck shit to, even if that doesn’t accomplish much. Chapel Hill’s Sibannäc opens with crust-ska, plus The Ghost of Saturday Nite and Few Good Things. —PW [THE MAYWOOD, $8/8:30 P.M.]

Naomi Punk SHARP The demand for BITE fuzzy, snarling garage rock rises and falls, sways and swells, but time has proven its resilience. Olympia, Washington’s Naomi Punk continues to ride the early-aughts wave that brought West Coast bands like Wavves and Ty Segall to the limelight. But the punks of Naomi Punk have not remained stylistically stagnant, and the group’s latest live material carries a more angular, precise bite than the loose garage rocking of its early days. With PC Worship.

—NR [THE PINHOOK, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Sportsmanship POST Is freaky Raleigh-area PUNX post-punk your thing? By all means then, take a spin through the energetic, acidic post-punk blasts of Sportsmanship. Their sound bounces around a bit, usually hovering between conventional rock balladry and squelchy noise. At their best, they sound like Mekons in their more psychedelic moods. Blanca, Hungry Girl, and The Grand Shell Game open. —DS [SLIM’S, $5/8 P.M.]

Stop Light Observations SONIC Inconsistency within SHIFTS a band’s catalog might be immensely frustrating or, depending on whom you ask, strangely captivating; either way, the word captures the essence of Stop Light Observations.

Oscillating between jammy alt-rock songs like “Smilers of the Night” and bluesy, over-the-top anthems like “Aquarius Apocalyptic,” these dudes from Charleston, South Carolina, like to try on a variety of musical hats. Although lines like, “Tell me where to go/ Climb the corporate ladder…” aren’t particularly hard-hitting or novel, the lyrics—which mostly address themes of middle-class malaise and American materialism—unify their eclectic sonic palette. With the Remarks. —NR [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt FOUR Tetzlaff and Vogt are DUETS both incredible violin and piano players, respectively, able to do everything from Bach to the present with equal insight and power. This recital features four violin sonatas in which composers are essentially being themselves.

Beethoven’s seventh violin sonata is boisterous and winking with flashes of darkness. Bartók’s second violin sonata is a dissonant gypsy grappling with the Rite of Spring. Mozart’s violin sonata in F is a galloping confection. And Schubert’s “Rondo Brillant” is lyrical and brooding. —DR [DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, $10–$42/8 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Baron Tymas; 7 & 9 p.m., $12. • CAT’S CRADLE: Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Caamp;

8:30 p.m. • CLAYTON CENTER: Susan Werner; 8 p.m., $20. • DEEP SOUTH: State Of Sleep, Clever Measures, Magnolia; 8:30 p.m., $7.

• HALLE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: Lenore Raphael; 7:30 p.m., $12–$15. • IRREGARDLESS: Stevan Jackson; 11:30 a.m. Gen Palmer, Andrew Berinson; 6 p.m. Carolyn Mitchell; 9 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Better Off Dead, Moon Water; 9 p.m., $8. • LORRAINE’S COFFEE HOUSE & MUSIC: Swift Creek; 7:30 p.m.

• MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: NC Symphony: Scheherazade; 8 p.m., $23–$76. See Feb. 10 listing. • MOTORCO: I Use to Love H.E.R.: Anti-Valentine’s Day Party; 9 p.m., $10–$15. • POUR HOUSE: Urban Soil, Rebekah Todd and the Odyssey; 9 p.m., $10. • THE RITZ: LoCash, Ryan Follesee; 8 p.m., $10–$25. • THE STATION: The 8:59s, Lud; 7:30 p.m., $6. Club PlayPlay; 10 p.m. Jazz Saturdays; 2 p.m., free.

SUN, FEB 12 Sarah Mae Chilton SWEET & Classically trained in SUNNY guitar, piano, and voice, Sarah Mae Chilton infuses her upbeat, saccharine pop with experiments in jazz and electronic instrumentation. While songs like “We Are a Miracle” demonstrate a shift away from pop tendencies, Chilton’s voice remains a strong centerpiece. With Fredi Sholtz and Sarah Cheung. —EGB [LOCAL 506, $7/9 P.M.]

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JW-Jones ODES TO Canadian bluesman KINGS J W-Jones’s guitar playing pays fealty to blues Kings Albert, Freddie, and B.B., throwing in with some jazzier influences including former Little Charlie and the Nightcats guitarist Charlie Baty as well as T-Bone Walker. But Jones has no trouble getting down, twangin’ like Jimmy Vaughan with some swamp boogie offerings.

—GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $8/7 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Mary Lattimore; 8 p.m., $10–$12. See page 21. • IRREGARDLESS: Larry Hutcherson; 10 a.m. The Ringtones, Kenny Bland; 6 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Afton Music Showcase; 6:30 p.m. AirCrash Detectives; 7:15 p.m., $15. • NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY: Flor y Canto; 3 p.m. • POUR HOUSE: Head for the Hills, Counterclockwise String Band; 9 p.m., $10–$15. • QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS: Tommy Edwards;

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2 p.m. • REBUS WORKS: Beauty World, The Tender Fruit; 3 p.m., $8–$10.

See page 27. • THE RITZ: Alter Bridge, Nonpoint, Weapons of Anew; 8 p.m., $28. • ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: UNC’s Consort of Viols Recital; 3 p.m., $10.

MON, FEB 13 Kyle Craft CRAFTS- Kyle Craft’s long, MANSHIP unkempt hair, black suit, and polka dot button-up call to mind Bob Dylan circa 1965—a comparison that Craft would likely welcome, given his past expressions of affinity for the master. Kyle Craft is no mere mimic, however. He may dress the part of the folk heroes of yesteryear, and his instrumentation definitely pays homage to them (Hammond organs, tambourines, strumming steel-strings), but his glam-inflected voice distinguishes him from folk-rockers past and present.

—NR [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/8:30 P.M.]

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9

DEVIANT SEPTET Last year, during the first year of a twoyear residency at Duke, the Deviant Septet gave a vivacious performance of its signature piece: Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat. The work calls for an odd ensemble—violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, and percussion—that Stravinsky hoped would take off. How wrong he was. For much of the past century, L’Histoire was pretty much the only piece for that particular instrumentation. Instead, the classical music world built itself around the Pierrot Ensemble (violin, cello, flute, clarinet, piano, and percussion), built loosely around the instrumentation of Arnold Schoenberg’s 1912 song cycle Pierrot Lunaire (that group, plus a narrator instead of percussion). So, of course, the members of Deviant Septet decided to arrange Pierrot for themselves and soprano Mellissa Hughes, and this concert is the world premiere of that arrangement.

Of all the works that Schoenberg wrote, none have had a larger influence than Pierrot Lunaire. Gurre-Lieder may be larger, Verklärte Nacht more emotive, and his second string quartet more ecstatic, but nothing has stood taller than Pierrot.

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Noise Nomads two songs quite sound the same. It will be interesting to see how the Deviants navigate those twists and turns.

Pierrot is written in a free atonal style, meaning that all twelve pitches can wander wherever they want without reference to any home key or chord. In the 1920s, Schoenberg would codify and systematize his approach to atonal music, attempting to give each pitch equal value. Here, he has no such concern, so the musical material is free-flowing and, well, odd. A piccolo babbles, a clarinet squalls, eerie chorales drift by in the strings, and the piano outlines vaguely dissonant chords.

Adding to the weirdness of Pierrot Lunaire is the fact that the narrator doesn’t sing in a conventional sense.

Instead, the narrator uses a technique called Sprechstimme—literally “speechvoice.” Rhythms and pitches are strictly notated, but he instructs the singer to “immediately abandon [a pitch] by falling or rising. The goal is certainly not at all a realistic, natural speech. On the contrary, the difference between ordinary speech and speech that collaborates in a musical form must be made plain. But it should not call singing to mind, either.” The effect is uncanny, perfect for the vague blasphemies within the poems.—Dan Ruccia DUKE’S NELSON MUSIC ROOM, DURHAM 8 p.m., $10–$24, www.dukeperformances.duke.edu

NOISE Miami’s International BUFFET Noise Conference attracts some of the best regional experimental talent every year, and this night provides a Chapel Hill waystop for a few acts heading back north. Noise Nomads, Diabolical Fiend, Suicide Magnets, Poacher, and CHS are all scheduled, and sets will be limited to fifteen minutes to allow for maximum rippage. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $10/10 P.M.]

Universal Sigh PSYCH On its album Atoms SAXES and Void, a band named Universal Sigh offers a song titled “If Time Allows.” As one might infer, Universal Sigh deals with some grandiose themes, with a big-league sound to match. Atoms and Void boasts four-part brass arrangements, songs with shifting themes, and a level of harmonic detail not found in your average rock band out of Athens, Georgia. —NR [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

The Wood Brothers FOLKSY Part folk, part rock, FAMILY plus a taste of blues and gospel, The Wood Brothers deliver foot-tapping-worthy Americana on their latest LP, Paradise. An additional project of bassist Chris Wood (of jazz-funk outfit Medeski Martin & Wood), this trio’s talented harmonizing gracefully weaves the album together. Touches of funk remain on tracks like “Touch of Your Hand” and “Never and Always,” while opener “Singin’ to Strangers” is a solid rock number. T Sisters open. —EGB [CAROLINA THEATRE, $25–$69/8 P.M.] ALSO ON MONDAY EDENTON STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Aurora Musicalis; 7 p.m. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5.

• UNC’S PERSON RECITAL HALL: Tony Arnold, Jacob Greenberg; 4 p.m.

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ALSO ON TUESDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Ernest Turner; 6 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: Foscoe Philharmonic; 6:30 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: The Werks, Electric Soul Pandemic; 9 p.m., $12. • POUR HOUSE: Durty Dub, Ages of Sages, Trike; 9 p.m., $5. • THE STATION: Sunny Day Real Estate Tribute, Elliot Sith; 8 p.m., $6.

WED, FEB 15 Dustbowl Revival NEW OLD The Dustbowl TIMES Revival’s latest release, “Busted,” one of two new songs on its upcoming record, is big and funky. The eight-piece (and sometimes larger) brass and string ensemble delves deeper into soulful sounds, with singer Liz Beebe’s bold vocals front and center. While the band claims traditional folk roots, its latest LP is a fun departure from the old-timey tendencies. Be ready to swing, dance, and groove. —EGB [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

Acid Chaperone

The Love Hangover

V-DAY Let’s not mince BLAST words: this is a fantastic Valentine’s day lineup.

Between the soulful sampledelia of Away Message, the sweeping psych-rock sojourns of Acid Chaperone, the political punk of Pie Face Girls, and the deep sound-worlds of De_Plata, there isn’t a filler moment to be had.

Show up, drink with your beloved, and demonstrate how good your taste in shows is. —DS [SLIM’S, $7/9 P.M.]

MORE The Love Hangover LOVE is a beloved local tradition that finds musical duos convening each year on the day after Valentine’s Day. Among others, this year’s iteration features See Gulls’ Sarah Fuller with GNØER’s Scott Phillips and Catherine Edgerton singing and strumming with Charles Latham, plus The Small Ponds’ Matt Douglas and Caitlin Cary reuniting for this special one-off. —AH [KINGS, $8/8 P.M.]

Mickey Avalon SLEAZE California rapper HOP Mickey Avalon rose to national infamy in the latter aughts, thanks to songs like “Jane Fonda,” a crass list of sexual conquests as a tribute to the beloved actress, activist, and fitness guru. A decade later, Avalon remains debauched as ever, particularly onstage—when he’s not gyrating his hips or performing “staples” like “My Dick,” he’s up in the faces of everyone in the front row–especially the girls screaming his name in the hopes of earning a kiss from the forty-one-year-old, who frequently obliges. You’ve been warned. —ZC [LOCAL 506, $20–$25/9 P.M.]

ALSO ON WEDNESDAY THE CAVE: The Paul Swest, Reflex Arc, Patrick Gallagher; 9 p.m., $5. • LOCAL 506: Shaggy 2 Dope, Violent Jay; 7 p.m., $25. • THE MAYWOOD: Eve to Adam, Message from Sylvia, Faith & Scars, Strength Betrayed; 7:30 p.m., $13–$15. • POUR HOUSE: Shwizz, John Ginty; 9 p.m., $6–$8. • SLIM’S: Dim Delights, Mimi Oz, Sam Barron; 9 p.m., $5. • THE BULLPEN: Harvey Dalton Arnold; Feb 15, 7 p.m. • UNC’S KENAN REHEARSAL HALL: UNC Jazz Combos; 4 p.m., free.

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SPECIAL Nuestras Historias, EVENT Nuestros Sueños/ Our Stories, Our Dreams: Documenting the experiences ival of Latino farmworkers in the Carolinas. Feb 11-May 7, 1-5 p.m. bowl Reception: Feb 11, 1-4 p.m. atest of two new Historic Oak View County Park, record, is Raleigh. www.wakegov.com/ parks/oakview. t-piece ) brass and SPECIAL Be The Good: EVENT Screenprints and deeper h singer Liz mixed media by JPhono1. Feb nt and 10-24. Reception: Feb 10, 6-8 claims p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. latest LP is www.artscenterlive.org. See p. e old-timey 26. swing, SPECIAL Howard Murry GB EVENT Rediscovered: OOM, Watercolor paintings. Feb 12-Mar 25. Reception: Feb 12, 2-5 p.m. Lee Hansley Gallery, gover Raleigh. www.leehansleygallery. com. See box, this page.

Hangover Yes You: Multimedia work by ed local Becky Brown. Feb 10-24. UNC sical duos Campus: Hanes Art Center, n the day Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Among ion features ONGOING with and 2-Dimensional Art Show: ging and Group show. Thru Mar 22. s Latham, Carrboro Branch Library.

Matt www.co.orange.nc.us/library/ ry reuniting carrboro.

—AH About Place: Greg McLemore and Barbara Campbell Thomas.

Thru Feb 25. Artspace, Raleigh.

DAY www.artspacenc.org. est, Reflex Ansel Adams: Masterworks: m., $5. • Dope, Violent An artist is not always the best MAYWOOD: person to assess his or her own m Sylvia, Faith work, but in the case of Ansel ; 7:30 p.m., Adams, the great photographer SE: Shwizz, of the American West, the king • SLIM’S: of the coffee-table book, we’re m Barron; 9 willing to make an exception.

EN: Harvey Adams called this grouping m. • UNC’S “the Museum Set,” the ultimate expression of his legacy.

L HALL: Unlike many great artists, who free. experience a golden age in youth, Adams, who worked as a photographer for five decades, was so devoted to the refinement of his technique that his final work might accurately be called his ultimate creations.

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HOWARD MURRY REDISCOVERED This exhibition features the work of Charlotte native Howard Murry, who lived and painted in the resort town of Valle Crucis in the Watauga Valley near Boone, and whose work has not been shown in twenty-five years. Murry was interested in the ways and means of living in rural North Carolina, from traditional farming methods to religious practices, and his watercolor landscapes depict a slightly idealized past, free of utility lines and automobiles, taking subtle modernist liberties with his subjects. The exhibition consists of forty watercolors from a collection that the artist’s grandson has owned since Murry’s death in 1968.

After this reception, it runs through March 25 at Lee Hansley Gallery’s new location at 1053 East Whitaker Mill Road in Raleigh. —David Klein

A Valle Crucis watercolor landscape by Howard Murry

taken in locations like Glacier National Park, Yosemite, and Monument Valley, speak to Adams’s monumental purity of vision. And while his images have become familiar from wall calendars and screensavers, they remain awe-inspiring when you see them up close. Thru May 7.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —David Klein Artspace Long Pose Figure Study Exhibition: Thru Feb 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation: By examining the history of Indian immigrants as they

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assimilated and contributed to American life—musical, political, culinary, scholarly, sporting, and cultural—this traveling Smithsonian exhibit reframes what it means to be an Indian American. Thru Apr 2.

City of Raleigh Museum, Raleigh.

—David Klein Black History: Artists’ Perspectives: Mixed media. Thru Feb 28. Hayti Heritage Center, Durham. www.hayti.org.

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

Cascading Color: Elizabeth Kellerman. Thru Apr 16. Durham Convention Center, Durham.

www.durhamconventioncenter. com.

A Celebration of 100 Years of Solitude: Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the story of the rise and fall of the fictional Colombian town of Macondo, is built on a grand pattern of Latin American myth and history, intermeshed with an intimate one of seven generations of a family, and both wound by Márquez into shapes of fated repetition and doom. This exhibit by the Artist Studio Project, including twelve artists’ responses to the novel, was curated by Rafael A. Osuba, who put on a similar

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tribute to Don Quixote last year.

The featured artists include Luis Ardila, Cornelio Campos, Ernesto Hernández, Saba Taj, and Antoine Williams. Thru March 10. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

—Brian Howe Collecting Carolina: 100 Years of Jugtown Pottery: Pottery.

Thru May 29. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

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

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

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

Darning Memory: Fabric works

by Leatha Koefler, Mary Starke, and Ely Urbanski. Thru Mar 24.

Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Raleigh. www.raleighnc.gov/arts.

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

Durham Cinematheque Residency: Work by Tom Whiteside and Anna Kipervaser.

Feb 13-15. Lump, Raleigh. www. teamlump.org.

SPECIAL Fever Within: The EVENT Art of Ronald Lockett: Paintings and assemblages. Thru Apr 9.

Reception: Feb 10, 5-9 p.m.

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org. See p. 26.

Flora and Fauna: Mixed media.

Thru May 14. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www. ackland.org. #Greenspaces: Paintings

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

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

History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: This is the first time in decades that NCMA has curated an exhibit from its British holdings of Old Master painting and sculpture. Thru Mar 19. NC Museum of Art, 34 | 2.8.17 | INDYweek.com

Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

—Brian Howe Josh Hockensmith and Mark Iwinski: Mixed media. Thru Mar 27. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com.

In Light of Nature: Nathalie Worthington. Thru Feb 26.

Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences.org.

Location Known: Gail Biederman, Chad Erpelding, and Travis Head. Thru Mar 11. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Magic Realist: Paintings. Thru Feb 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Memory & Imagination: Folk art. Thru Feb 23. Orange County Main Library, Hillsborough. www.co.orange.nc.us/library.

Moor and Moon: Mary Walker.

Thru Mar 10. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org.

Next Chapter: Paintings by Lori D. White. Thru Feb 22.

Village Art Circle, Cary. www. villageartcircle.com.

Now & Again: Mixed media group exhibition. Thru Feb 19. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Oceans and Moods: Drawings and paintings by Lyudmila Tomova. Thru Feb 26. The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist, Chapel Hill.

Oil Paintings of Carolina Vistas: Wyn Easton. Thru Feb 28. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft. com.

Orange County Artists Guild Members Exhibit: Group show.

Jan. 19-March 21. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www. co.orange.nc.us/library/carrboro.

Pick 2: Group show. Thru Feb 25.

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

Post Mégantic: Photography

by Michel Huneault. Thru Feb 18. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

Potters’ Penguin Project: As tenacious creatures that mate for life, valiantly protect their young, and are perpetually dressed for a party, penguins are easy to romanticize. But there’s nothing whimsical about the plight of the Adélie penguin

colonies in East Antarctica, where an iceberg loosened by climate change is blocking access to the sea for the colony there and has decimated its ranks to the point of near extinction. To highlight the dire impact of global warming, the Potters’ Penguin Project unveils a colony of its own—nearly two thousand handmade clay penguins by more than four hundred participants. Thru Feb 11. Claymakers, Durham. www. claymakers.com.—David Klein Reclusive Flora: Vincent Whitehurst. Thru Feb 28.

Cameron Village Regional Library, Raleigh. www.wakegov. com/libraries.

LAST Regard: An CHANCE Exhibition of Reciprocal Portraits: When artists look at their own work, it’s like looking in a mirror. But what might their peering faces look like from the back of the glass? That notional space is given intriguing form in an exhibit that divides artists into fifteen pairs—including David Eichenberger and Shaun Richards, Caitlin Cary and Skillet Gilmore, and exhibit curators Sherry di Filippo and Janet Link—and charges them with creating “reciprocal portraits.”

They do so through drawing, painting, video, photography, and mixed media, trapped on either side of the glass, saying, this is you, and this is you. Thru Feb 12. Meredith College: Weems Gallery, Raleigh. www.meredith. edu/the-arts. —Brian Howe Selma to Montgomery: A March for the Right to Vote: Photographs by Spider Martin.

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

Sense of Scene: Group show.

Thru Mar 11. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org.

Soundings: Protest|Politics|Dissent: You’d be forgiven for taking a break from the post-election news for your sanity’s sake. But there’s no better way to tune back in than with Soundings, a sound exhibit that features digital audio works by more than twenty artists. This politically charged exhibit covers front-page themes including climate change, migration, and incarceration, and includes a programmed schedule of special listening times for specific artists throughout its run. You’ll hear the album

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ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS While you’re watching the various comical chain reactions of flying food, slamming doors, odd bits of furniture, and identities concealed and confirmed in One Man, Two Guvnors, try to remember one thing.

Playwright Richard Bean’s 2011 adaptation of Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni’s eighteenth-century commedia dell’arte farce features a number of unbroken series of causes One Man, Two Guvnors PHOTO BY CURTIS BROWN PHOTOGRAPHY and effects. They’re the theatrical equivalent of a Rube Goldberg machine in which every moment must be carefully crafted and rehearsed to directly trigger the next, and the next. Is that difficult? Why do you think they say, “Dying’s easy; comedy is hard?” Comedy Lab’s Rod Rich directs a talented cast including Jesse R. Gephart, Kirsten Ehlert, and Scott Nagel in this avidly awaited local premiere.—Byron Woods RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat./ 3 p.m. Sun., $15–$27, www.raleighlittletheatre.org

We Lost Half the Forest and the Rest Will Burn This Summer by Postcommodity, a collective based in the Southwest, before its inclusion in this year’s Whitney Biennial. And French Afro-futurist Kapwani Kiwanga’s “Tongue” unpacks the loss and transformation of crosscultural transmission. North Carolina-based artists Kirsten Stolle and Hong-Ân Truong are also included, as well as Duke experimental and documentary arts MFA alumni Jonna McKone and Mendal Polish. Thru Feb 18. Power Plant Gallery, Durham.

—Chris Vitiello Textiles in Tiers: Trudy Thomson, Sandy Milroy, and Rose Warner. Thru May 25. National Humanities Center, Durham. www.

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The Weight We Leave Behind: Photography by Jessina Leonard.

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

LAST This Land Is Your CHANCE Land: Vaughn Bell.

Thru Feb 8. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Allison Tierney: Thru Mar 25.

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Together: Group show. Thru Mar 5. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.PleiadesArtDurham.com.

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

Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham.

Seasons of the Sea: Sustainable NC seafood dinner with Locals Seafood, supporting NC Catch. Guest chef Justin Burdett. $65.

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LAST Unpacking the Past, CHANCE Designing the Future: The Scrap Exchange and Lakewood in Partnership: Stories and artifacts. Thru Feb 11. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www. scrapexchange.org.

Michael Weitzman: Photography. Thru Feb 28.

Duke University Hospital- Art & Health Galleries, Durham.

Wood Forms in Ironwood & Turquoise: Larry Favorite.

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THE NIGHT ALIVE Conor McPherson’s eerie dramas, including The Weir and The Seafarer, catalog the uncanny ghosts that still haunt the cities and countryside of modern-day Ireland. So when he described his 2013 work, The Night Alive, to the L.A. Times as a grown-up nativity play, theatergoers took notice. “I see it in those very simple terms,” he said, “with all the motifs about giving shelter to someone who needs shelter and featuring three wise men, none of them very wise here.” To say the least: Tommy’s a fuck-up in his fifties, subsisting with his slow friend Doc on a string of odd jobs, permanently crash-landed in a squalid room in his uncle Maurice’s house in Dublin. Tommy has befriended Aimee, a sex worker on the run from an abusive boyfriend. What can come from such a union, in such a humble place? With McPherson, expect the unexpected. Susannah Hough directs a quintet in this Honest Pint Theatre production, including company founder David Henderson, Samantha Corey, and John Allore. —Byron Woods NORTH RALEIGH ARTS AND CREATIVE THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat./3 p.m. Sun., $12–$17, www.honestpinttheatre.org

Brigid, the Legend Begins: Musical. $7-$15. Feb 12-18.

EK Powe Elementary School, Durham. powe.dpsnc.net.

Center Stage Comedy Tour: $54-$78. Fri, Feb 10, 8 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh. com.

My Funny Valentine Comedy Show: $20. Sat, Feb 11, 8 p.m. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

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Harland Williams: Standup comedy. $17. Feb 9-12.

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Chris Rock: Comedy. $50$125. Feb 13-15. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com.

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Zuccotti Park: Musical. $10$22. Feb 10-26. Umstead Park United Church of Christ, Raleigh. www.upucc.org.

Saturday Night Fever: Musical. $18-$85.

Feb 14-19. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh. com.

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Spoken Word/Spoken Justice: A Festival of Spoken Word Performance: Kane Smego, Mohammad Moussa, Jaclyn Gilstrap, CJ Suitt, and Jamila Reddy. Feb 10–12. UNC Campus: Swain Hall, Chapel Hill. See p. 26.

Martin Luther King, An Interpretation: Play. $10. Thru Jun 24. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

The God Game: $8-$18.

Thru Feb 18. Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh. www. sonorousroad.com.

The Secret Garden: Thru Feb 18. NCSU Campus: Stewart Theatre, Raleigh.

Uhh Yeah Dude: Comedy. $25. Sat, Feb 11, 7 & 9:30 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www. kingsraleigh.com.

Valentine’s Day 2017: Comedy. $20. Tue, Feb 14, 7:30 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

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SPECIAL SHOWINGS Accattone: Wed, Feb 15, 7:30-10 p.m. Shadowbox Studio, Durham. www. shadowboxstudio.org.

Decoder: Thu, Feb 9, 7 p.m.

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Home Movie Day: Sat, Feb 11, 2 p.m. Southwest Regional Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org.

Much Ado About Nothing: Fri, Feb 10, 8 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

OPENING Fifty Shades Darker—Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey take a stab at a “normal” relationship in this sequel to the pop-erotica phenomenon Fifty Shades of Gray. Rated R. John Wick: Chapter 2—Keanu Reeves’s ex-hitman is drawn back into the game against a guild of deadly assassins.

Rated R. The Lego Batman Movie—This animated Lego take should lighten up the Dark Knight with plenty of self-aware jokes for kids and adults. Rated PG. Oscar Nominated Shorts—See this year’s crop of live action and animated shorts. Unrated.

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A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  20th Century Women— The slippery concept of family is the heart of Mike Mills’s loopy, lovely autobiography.

Gorgeous shots and a strong screenplay surround Annette Bening’s compelling performance in an eccentric ode to coming of age in 1979.

Rated R.  A Dog’s Purpose—Josh Gad voices a reincarnating dog in this maudlin, improbable family movie. Rated PG.  The Comedian—Robert De Niro gives us too much insult, not enough comic. Rated R. ½ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them—A Rowling-penned, promising start to a new Harry Potter franchise. Rated PG-13. ½ Hidden Figures— This true story of three black women triumphing over racism and sexism in the 1960s space race has a TV-movie softness but powerfully portrays bigotry and courage. Rated PG.  La La Land—Damien Chazelle reunites Gosling and Stone for a breezy jazz musical with Technicolor charm. Rated PG-13.

HH½ Passengers—This glossy interstellar vehicle for provocative moral entanglements ultimately implodes from the pressure of its star-driven, crowdpleasing mission. Rated PG-13.  Patriots Day— Mark Wahlberg’s ego singlehandedly avenges the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Rated R.  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story—This war flick set in the Star Wars universe takes place just before the first film, and works great as a stand-alone. Rated PG-13. ½ Silence—Scorsese offers a masterful, reverent tale of seventeenth-century Jesuits traveling to Japan.

Rated R.  The Space Between Us—Men are from Mars and women are typecast in this garishly inauthentic interplanetary romance and YA weepie. Rated PG-13.  Split—M. Night Shyamalan sticks a killer twist in this tense tale of a kidnapper with multiple personalities (James McAvoy)—but the biggest shocker of all is that the movie’s pretty good. Rated PG-13.

Six years ago, Kevin Wilson received rave reviews from the likes of Time magazine for his debut novel, The Family Fang, a darkly humorous tale that focused on two children making sense of their strange childhood as participants in their parents’ performance art. Wilson based the book on his own experience of being raised by parents who willfully isolated their children from the outside world. Wilson’s new novel is also concerned with family, but not the kind you’re born into. Central is the plight of Isabelle, a pregnant woman in desperate straits who finds safe harbor with the experimental Infinite Family Project. Funded by a rich weirdo and run by an odd but alluring psychiatrist named Preston Grind, the enterprise is devoted to creating the perfect little world of the book’s title, via some creative tweaking of the typical familial structure. But if you’ve read about utopias, you’ll know that they rarely turn out as planned. —David Klein THE REGULATOR BOOKSHOP, DURHAM 7 p.m., free, www.regulatorbookshop.com

READINGS & SIGNINGS John Darnielle: Universal Harvester. Mon, Feb 13, 7:30 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. — Wed, Feb 15, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. See review, p. 25.

Amy Laura Hall: Writing Home, With Love: Politics for Neighbors and Naysayers.

Sun, Feb 12, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Alex Hart, Ricky Garn: Sat, Feb 11, 7 p.m. Johnny’s Gone Fishing, Carrboro. carrboro. com/jgf.

Lisa McCann: The Unwanteds Quest: Dragon Captives. Fri, Feb 10, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks. com.

S.L. Price: Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town. Sat, Feb 11, 4 p.m. Quail Ridge Books,

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Karen Pullen: Cold Heart (A Stella Lavender Mystery).

Sat, Feb 11, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www. mcintyresbooks.com.

Jason Rekulak: The Impossible Fortress. Thu, Feb 9, 7 p.m.

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Tim Tyson: The Blood of Emmett Till. Sat, Feb 11, 11 am.

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LITERARY R E L AT E D Celebrating the Stars of Romance Fiction: Thu, Feb 9, 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Cary. www.barnesandnoble.com.

Emma Dillon: “Sound History and the Comedy of Absence: Perspectives from the Middle Ages.” Fri, Feb 10, 4:15 p.m.

UNC Campus: Person Recital Hall, Chapel Hill.

Linda Dougherty: Discussing Ansel Adams: Masterworks.

Mon, Feb 13, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

In the Wings: Twelfth Night: Excerpts from play. Mon, Feb 13, 7 p.m. South Regional Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org.

Racism In the Justice System Discussion: Bessie Elmore, William Elmore, and Emanuel Kearney. Thu, Feb 9, 7 p.m. Emerson Waldorf School, Chapel Hill. www. emersonwaldorf.org.

Jeffrey Shandler: “Yiddish Performances by Holocaust Survivors.” Mon, Feb 13, 7 p.m.

UNC Friday Center, Chapel Hill. www.fridaycenter.unc.edu.

Talking Music: Talib Kweli and 9th Wonder in conversation: Wed, Feb 15, noon. Duke’s Forum for Scholars and Publics, Durham.

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