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6 U.S. District Court Judge Thomas D. Schroeder says the state has offered “no evidence whatsoever” to support HB 2’s bathroom provision.

8 Pnly about forty red wolves are left in the world, and they’re all in North Carolina.

10 A homeless shelter wants to expand. A neighborhood’s proposed historic designation would get in the way.

14 Dozens of black-owned restaurants served Durham’s Hayti district before “urban renewal,” but times have changed.

19 Mugwort, juniper, lavender, sage: it’s all about botanicals in Gin Club at Bittersweet.

21 Cary’s new Sound Factory splits the difference between DIY grit and professional clubs.

22 We’re in a golden age of sci-fi and fantasy fiction with Middle Eastern influences.

23 Paperhand Puppet Intervention shows us the monster in the mirror in The Beautiful Beast.

DEPARTMENTS 5 Backtalk 6 Triangulator 8 News 19 Food 21 Music 22 Arts & Culture 24 What to Do This Week 27 Music Calendar

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There was lots of chatter this week about our Outdoors Guide story on urban bicyclist Paco Marshall [“On the Road Again,” August 24]—or, rather, not so much about the story itself but, instead, the picture that accompanied it, which showed Marshall riding sans helmet.

“I was shocked to see that your article on bicycling safely in the Triangle featured a photograph of your chosen safety expert—without a helmet,” writes Judy Martell. “What a poor message this sends to everyone, when you had a great opportunity to influence so many. In addition, this ‘safety expert’ didn’t even mention helmets in his advice for equipment purchases. It’s the number one most important piece of equipment riders can purchase for safety.”

The [subject] of your article—with no helmet—has no credibility with me, nor do the INDY editors,” adds Marguerite Dingman. “In this day of concussion awareness, it is irresponsible to print an article like this without advocating the use of helmets. Pavement is hard. Life is unpredictable. Put on a helmet! That is the voice of my experience.”

One more, from John Wendell: “Loved your article in this week’s INDY. My son looked over my shoulder as I read and said, ‘Dad, where is his helmet? You always tell me to wear mine.’ We can’t talk about biking safety without emulating bike safety ourselves. Please consider the impact a photo makes it speakers more than a thousand words.”

Jason Jones, meanwhile, says he appreciated both our Outdoors Guide and our brief look at whether Umstead State Park will be threatened by the airport’s expansion.

“Can I add in an extra pet peeve?” he writes. “All of the neighborhoods bordering Umstead have NIMBY’d their way into banning any and all parking near entrances. So now one has to either drive an extra five miles for ‘lot parking’ or sneak around like a lawbreaker. Come on, people, it’s nature! Don’t live there if you don’t want hikers, walkers, and runners coming through.” (For clarification: there is parking inside the park.)

Tito Craige says protecting Umstead from development should be a top priority. “As a lifelong North Carolinian, I am upset that [the airport authority’s] Vision 2040 proposes to reduce the size of the best urban park in the state and one of the best in the United States. Walkers, runners, bikers, and hikers are disturbed by the shortsighted plan.

The proposed quarry will destroy a beautiful part of the park and the development will remove a critical buffer. To me, this park is a place to find who you are, apart from the manic pace of the Triangle. Just this morning, I saw people of all ages in the park. They did not have to contend with the noise of a quarry or new industrial buildings. The last thing we should do is reduce the size of the park and put a noose of businesses around it. Development of Umstead Park is what we need to stop. Now. Before it is too late.”

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triangulator On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas D. Schroeder granted the ACLU’s request for a preliminary injunction against a part of House Bill 2, heading off any potential enforcement of the law’s bathroom provision until we get a ruling following the November trial. Here are five excerpts from the decision that demonstrate Schroeder’s intense skepticism of the state’s defense. ● “While there are no reported cases [of peeping, indecent exposure, and trespass violations] involving transgender users, at the preliminary injunction hearing Governor McCrory, Senator [Phil] Berger, and Representative [Tim] Moore indicated their assumption that this was so because transgender users have traditionally been excluded (or excluded themselves) from facilities that correspond with their gender identity. The evidence in the current record, however, suggests the opposite.” ● [On the state’s lack of preparation for the trial, compared with an affidavit the ACLU submitted from an expert who helped develop a protocol for transgender students in California.] “Defendants have not offered any evidence whatsoever on these points, despite having four months between the filing of this lawsuit and the hearing on this motion to do so. Indeed, the court does not even have a legislative record supporting the law to consider.” ● “The individual transgender Plaintiffs have clearly shown that they will suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief. … In their response to Plaintiffs’ motion, Defendants suggest that the individual transgender Plaintiffs’ claims of irreparable harm are speculative and exaggerated, but Defendants have not presented any evidence to contradict Plaintiffs’ evidence.” ● “The current record indicates that many public agencies have become increasingly open to accommodating the interests of transgender individuals as society has evolved over time. This practice of case-by-case accommodation, while developing, appears to have gained acceptance in many places across North Carolina over the last few years. And the preliminary record contains uncontested evidence that these practices allowed the individual transgender Plaintiffs to use bathrooms and other facilities consistent with their gender identity for an extended period of time without causing any known infringement on the privacy rights of others.” ● “In fact, rather than protect privacy, it appears at least equally likely that denying an injunction will create privacy problems, as it would require the individual transgender Plaintiffs, who outwardly appear as the sex with which they identify, to enter facilities designated for the opposite sex (e.g., requiring stereotypically-masculine appearing transgender individuals to use women’s bathrooms), thus prompting unnecessary alarm and suspicion.”

Worth noting: even if this part of HB 2 is struck down once and for all, and even though HB 2’s ban on workplace discrimination lawsuits has been repealed (with caveats, of course), the rest—including the provision preempting local governments’ living-wage and antidiscrimination laws—will remain intact. ●

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Beginning last Thursday, visitors to the lobby of the N.C. Department of Administration might have noticed some changes to the scenery. Specifically, Pat McCrory’s face plastered all over it.

Previously, movie posters for films shot in North Carolina, such as Hunger Games, had adorned the walls; now, a poster showing McCrory standing in front of a podium that reads “Teacher Pay to $50K” is framed between two nature portraits. The other side of the lobby shows off two more poster boards: one of McCrory hugging a woman in front of a “Teacher Pay to $50K” sign, another showing him at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

For comparison, the N.C. Department of Justice has no pictures of Roy Cooper in its lobby. In the attorney general’s office, the only

picture of Cooper is his official portrait, along with portraits of the other forty-seven attorney generals in North Carolina’s history.

McCrory wouldn’t be the first North Carolina elected official to use his office to boost his personal brand. In 2005, Commissioner of Labor Cherie Berry ordered that every elevator in the state must have a placard with her picture on it—hence, the nickname “Elevator Queen.”

Not surprisingly, McCrory’s poster switch has generated criticism from state Democrats, who argue that the governor is blurring the lines between his office and his campaign.

It’s not the first time, either; back in June, the state Democratic Party requested McCrory’s travel records, accusing him of using his state-owned plane to fly to fundraisers.

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TL;DR: Department of Administration on Monday, N.C. Democratic Party executive director Kimberly Reynolds said McCrory had gone “full Donald Trump.”

“Once again, Governor McCrory is using taxpayer money to campaign for re-election,” Reynolds said. “McCrory’s propaganda campaign posters look like they were created by Donald Trump himself, prominently featuring McCrory himself and a misleading message.”

There’s a good reason why McCrory might want to avoid boasting about North Carolina’s film industry. As the Raleigh Agenda noted, in 2014, McCrory and the General Assembly let expire a tax credit for the film industry. There were consequences to that decision: Wilmington Regional Film Commission director Johnny Griffin told the INDY last year that, in 2014, film productions brought in $170 million to the local economy; in 2015, they brought in just $90 million.

So instead of using the Department of Administration to remind people of his failures, McCrory has repurposed it to boast about his accomplishments.

(Or, rather, “accomplishments”: the 50K figure is particularly misleading, as it factors in supplements counties give teachers to make up for inadequate state funding.) Talk about killing two birds with one stone. l

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Wildin David Guillen Acosta strolled up to C.C.B. Plaza on Monday afternoon with a nervous swagger. While many of his peers were finishing their first day back at Riverside High School, he was here to face the cameras—and the community that fought so hard to stave off his deportation. He met those who arrived early with a handshake and a steady, “Hello, my name is David.”

The nineteen-year-old was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on January 28; he was detained for the next six months before ICE, under mounting political pressure, released him on a $10,000 bond.

But Acosta’s journey didn’t start there. It began two years earlier, he told the media and fifty gathered supporters Monday night, in his native Honduras, which was rife with gang violence. One day he was in a park, he said, where he tried to talk to another young man about God. That man threatened his life.

Two days later, the man sent him an ominous text; Acosta wasn’t sure how he’d gotten his number. It was then that he made plans to follow his parents—who’d left years earlier, placing him in the care of his older brother— to the United States.

He fled the country to escape violence— one of countless thousands of young people who’ve left Central America in recent years

THE INDY ’S QUALITY-OF-LIFE METER for the same reason. But, after he missed an immigration court hearing in the U.S.—owing to what he described as a miscommunication—a federal judge issued a deportation order in March 2015. Ten months later, he was detained by federal officials and shipped off to a private prison in Georgia, even though he had no criminal record.

In March, Acosta was scheduled for deportation. But then the Board of Immigration Appeals granted him an eleventh-hour stay.

Four long months later, stretches of which he reportedly spent in solitary confinement, he finally got the news: the BIA would reopen his case. His supporters immediately mounted a campaign to secure his release from immigration jail. Earlier this month, an immigration judge freed him (after his supporters raised his bond money).

Since his release, Acosta has applied for asylum. He’d also hoped to go back to Riverside High and complete the three credits he needs to graduate. But he’d been told he couldn’t enroll until January. Not so, Natalie Beyer, the vice chairwoman of the Durham Public Schools Board of Education, told him Monday evening. He could enroll the very next day.

A smile crept across his face. “Thank you,” he said through a translator. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart.” l triangulator@indyweek.com

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A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction against the bathroom provision of HB 2. We’re one step closer to flushing this thing for good.

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Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest says that “transgenderism” could be “a feeling just for a day.” Being an asshole, however, appears to be a chronic condition.

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Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara, a North Carolina native, visits Briggs Hardware in Raleigh, where she talks about why Trump would be good for small businesses.

She asks for an invoice after getting three hundred sets of keys made; Briggs expects to go out of business in a month.

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The N.C. Department of Administration replaces posters of North Carolina-made movies with pictures of Governor McCrory.

“Who put up all these Shrek posters?” wonder passersby.

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With McCrory down in the polls, the Police Benevolent Association backs the governor’s re-election bid. That makes sense, as police officers are trained to run toward disaster.

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After a National Labor Relations Board decision allows teacher and research assistants to organize, Duke grad students hope to have a union election in the spring.

But knowing grad students, it’s more likely they’ll get around to it sometime in the second Trump administration.

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The N.C. State Fair’s new sky ride, which will transport people from one end of the midway to the other at a leisurely two miles per hour, is being assembled at the fairgrounds. Oakwood residents will probably still complain it’s going too fast.

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Twenty-four North Carolina counties, including Wake and Orange, have yet to figure out an early voting plan. But the fashionably late voting plan is moving full speed ahead.

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Silence of the Wolves

IS THE ENDANGERED RED WOLF ABOUT TO GO EXTINCT TO APPEASE WEALTHY NORTH CAROLINA LANDOWNERS?

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Biologists believed there was only one way to save the species: captive breeding and an “experimental release” in a somewhat controlled environment. So when the first litter of pups was born at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington, in 1977, they were fitted with tracking collars and released in Bull Island, South Carolina. A year later, the thriving wolves were recaptured and placed back in captivity; the program was deemed a success. But finding a permanent home would take time.

Then, in 1984, it happened. Prudential Insurance Company donated a mass of land that would become the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in eastern North Carolina— and, after scientists judged this preyrich land conducive to repopulation, the new home of the only known red wolves in the world.

Fast-forward more than three decades, and these creatures are still at risk. Wheeler says the reasons aren’t much different from those that brought the species to the brink of extinction more than a halfcentury ago.

“The red wolf did not go away naturally,” she says. “It went away because of hunting and development.”

Illegal shootings and the destruction of the wolves’ habitat have played a role, but there’s another problem: the wolves have a tendency to breed with coyotes. Because the resulting pups do not fall under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, they can be killed legally. The problem then becomes prosecuting those who shoot a red wolf because they couldn’t tell the difference. Add to that the fact that, if a red wolf is breeding with a coyote, it is not breeding with another red wolf.

Wheeler says she’s astonished that the feds

D-Guilford, says a “balanced picture has not been portrayed.” Red wolves, she says, are only in danger because the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission folded under “political pressure.”

The wildlife commission deferred all questions to the USFWS—which, in turn, did not respond to multiple interview requests—but it’s made clear that it has little interest in preserving the red wolf. According to a source in the National Parks Service, in 2015, the USFWS stopped releasing captive red wolves into the wild and eliminated its full-time red wolf coordinator position. The coyote sterilization program, which was designed to prevent hybridization, slowed to a crawl. The commission even issued a lethal control permit to a landowner, entitling him to shoot red wolves on his property, the source says. A breeding female was killed as a result, despite federal requirements that the government first attempt to remove the wolf from the property. Last year, the Red Wolf Coalition filed a lawsuit against the USFWS over that permit.

“It is highly disappointing. I don’t think they’ve embraced the program the way they should have,” Harrison says. “I hope we have a change of leadership.”

But Harrison knows that, with a decision on the fate of the red wolf expected sometime in September, no such change would do the animals any good. She’s encouraging residents to contact their representatives post haste.

“Folks can’t be complacent, and there is quite a coalition working all over the country to save these red wolves,” she says. “They were almost extinct and brought back from the brink. The fact that we’re willing to abandon that success story is just shocking.” l kfine@indyweek.com PHOTO COURTESY OF THE U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE

Somewhere in the eastern North Carolina wilderness, concealed by a canopy of oaks and pines, a pack of collared predators roams.

The animals have no idea that, in as soon as a few days, they could receive what amounts to a death sentence from the very organization that fitted them, when they were newly born pups in their mothers’ dens, with the devices they wear around their necks—that they could very well be the last red wolves to ever inhabit the planet. Unlike the humans fighting for their survival, the wolves aren’t burdened with that reality.

So when, in the coming days or weeks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rules on the future of the Red Wolf Recovery Program— a nearly thirty-year-old effort to prevent the extinction of one of the world’s most endangered species, of which there are only about forty left, all in North Carolina—the animals the decision will affect will, quite simply, either live or die. But for those who have dedicated decades to the wolves’ preservation and repopulation, a ruling against the red wolf would set a “dangerous precedent”—one that, in their view, appeases a “vocal handful” of “wealthy, influential” landowners in the eastern part of the state.

“Right now, there is a lot of talk about the red wolf, but I’m sure there are other animals within the endangered species program that are sitting back, watching and worrying,” says Kim Wheeler, executive director of the Red Wolf Coalition, an advocacy group. “They are thinking, ‘This could happen to me.’”

The red wolf was officially listed as an endangered species in 1967, but protections for the species weren’t granted until the Endangered Species Act became federal law six years later. It would take nearly another decade for biologists to trace the last red wolves to natural safe havens—a virtually human-free habitat along the Gulf Coast in western Louisiana and eastern Texas. But there were only seventeen of them left.

would even consider letting the wolves simply disappear. “I know Fish and Wildlife can solve these problems,” she said. “They need to not walk away from this commitment.”

So why would they? Wolf advocates contend that the USFWS is simply rubberstamping misinformation being peddled by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission on behalf of a small number of landowners—for instance, Wheeler says, suggestions that the wolves could attack children and have decimated the deer population.

Those arguments were then made in Raleigh, prompting an unsuccessful legislative effort last year to ask the feds to abandon the program. House Bill 1144 requested that the USFWS declare the red wolf extinct in the wild and remove the wolves from state lands; it never made it to the floor for a vote.

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DeDreana Freeman has been an active voice for establishing a local historic district in Golden Belt.

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The Last Little Village WHY IS THE DURHAM RESCUE MISSION FIGHTING SO HARD AGAINST GOLDEN BELT’S HISTORIC DESIGNATION?

BY LAUREN HORSCH

he ghosts of Durham’s industrial age are alive and well in Golden Belt.

The land where houses stand today was once where mill workers spent their precious leisure hours, just blocks from the busy textile mill that employed them. Golden Belt, which lies about a mile east of City Hall and is the last intact mill village in the city, isn’t like the city’s other historic neighborhoods.

There are no sprawling front porches or pronounced entryways; it’s decidedly working class, and it’s been this way for over a century,

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since the mill was built in 1901.

The residents within Golden Belt’s nearly forty acres live and breathe this history. And for DeDreana Freeman, who moved to Golden Belt in 2007, that history serves as a connection to the whole of Durham.

Her four-bedroom home is similar to almost every other house in Golden Belt, singlefamily structures built in the early twentieth century to accommodate workers at Golden Belt Manufacturing Company.

On a recent Friday evening, Freeman’s three kids were out front in the small yard riding bicycles, while her husband, Antoine,

grilled burgers and hot dogs on the front porch.

Inside, she was hosting a community potluck, something residents have done frequently since 2008. Neighbors came and went, but for the dozen or so who stuck around well into the night, this wasn’t just another neighborhood gathering. It was a strategy session.

Since 2010, the residents of Golden Belt have been lobbying the city to designate their neighborhood a local historic district, a tool often used to prevent unwanted new development or stabilize neighborhoods in transition. That’s what Golden Belt is—in transition—a place once riven with drugs

and prostitution that today displays markers of progress: owner-occupants instead of renters, houses and yards kept up, crime declining, the sort of up-and-coming neighborhood developers eye like hawks.

Other former mill villages in Durham have fallen prey to real estate pressures. In the eighties, the now-burgeoning Old West Durham saw 450 mill houses razed to make way for the Durham Freeway and part of Duke University’s campus. So far, Golden Belt has been spared. But given its proximity to downtown, that’s likely to change.

A historic designation, the neighbors say,

This house, at the northwest corner of Morning Glory and North Holman, marks the southeast corner of the area the Durham Rescue Mission wants removed from the proposed historic district. RIGHT A Bikram Yoga client makes her way to class in the Golden Belt Manufacturing building. PHOT0S BY ALEX BOERNER will ensure that new construction respects the neighborhood’s history and architectural style. All they need is for the city to sign off when the proposed district comes before the city council on September 6.

But one Bull City institution is not on board: the Durham Rescue Mission, which for the last several months has been aggressively lobbying the city to exempt twenty properties it owns from the historic district.

The Rescue Mission argues that the designation would preempt its plans to build a community center on those lots.

Since April, when the Historic Preservation Commission first approved the proposed boundaries, emails from Rescue Mission supporters have poured into council members’ inboxes: “I am writing to ask you to support the Durham Rescue Mission in its efforts to build a civic center in North East Central Durham. You can do so by excluding the Durham Rescue Mission’s property on the East Side of Highway 55 from the proposed Local Historic District for the Golden Belt Neighborhood,” reads one.

But doing so, preservationists contend, would undermine the entire purpose of the district. “Our historic districts are something that help us retain the patterns or our history, and that context is really important,” says Lisa Miller, the point person for historic preservation in the Durham City-County Planning Department. “So when you start carving out portions of a district, at first it doesn’t have a significant impact, [but] whittling it down makes it more difficult to hold on to that sort of context.” l l l

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In 1985, Golden Belt was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Today, it’s one of about twenty Durham locations with that distinction.) Property owners who live within a National Register district are eligible for federal tax credits and rehabilitation grants.

A local historic district is a different animal.

It’s a zoning designation through the planning department that denotes the area’s significance in history, architecture, or culture.

Being on the National Register is a prerequisite for North Carolina communities to become historic districts. The tax credits from that designation often lead to renovations, which in turn boost property values. Property owners then want to protect the invest-

ment they’ve made. That’s where the local historic district comes in. The local designation guards against mass teardowns and stops developers from building big houses that don’t mesh with the neighborhood aesthetic.

“A lot of times, people start seeking out historic district overlays [when] there is a lot of change happening; either with renovations to properties that aren’t respectful of their historic character, or a lot of teardowns, and taking down much smaller structures and building larger structures,” Miller says. “That kind of instability is something that often instigates the desire for a neighborhood to have a historic district.”

The Rescue Mission, which is headquartered a few blocks from Golden Belt, isn’t

opposed to the district in principle; it just wants its lots exempted. The mission’s rationale is twofold: the underway widening of Alston Avenue will essentially cut off the mission’s properties from the rest of the neighborhood, it argues; and, besides, the lots there are either vacant or have nonhistoric structures.

The neighbors counter that this district is important not just for Golden Belt but for the entire city—mill history, after all, is Durham history. They point out that the proposed boundaries, which mimic those of the National Register, are based on historical maps from the thirties, when the neighborhood was at its apex. The Rescue Mission’s ambitions, they say, shouldn’t get in the way.

As resident Mel Norton puts it: “We wanted some small assurances that, as they continue to expand, that they take their neighborhood context into account. Because, whether they like it or not, they’re here.” l l l

The Rescue Mission was established in 1974, a decade before Golden Belt garnered its National Register designation. While advertised as a homeless shelter, the mission primarily serves clients who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. It receives no government funds, instead relying on donations from philanthropists. Its counselors are volunteers, and shelter residents have to pitch in with chores for forty hours a week.

Over the last forty-two years, its charitable work has helped thousands of down-on-theirluck men and women by providing a roof over their heads and access to vital services.

But for all the good the mission has done, it hasn’t always gotten along with its neighbors.

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other Golden Belt residents in 2008. Their efforts focused on two long-simmering issues that still resonate in the neighborhood today: opposition to the widening of Alston Avenue (work began this month on the project to create a four-lane divided highway that will, the city hopes, reduce congestion and improve safety); and the Rescue Mission’s plan to build a new campus. “[The] first two things our neighborhood got around, besides getting to know each other, were these two sort of David-andGoliath battles,” says Norton.

Residents started the legwork for the historic district back in 2010, in response to the mission’s plan to build the community center and a large dormitory facility for its clients.

This isn’t a NIMBY issue, they say. They’re not opposed to the mission’s presence or even its expansion. They just don’t want it to disrupt their neighborhood.

“I respect these [Rescue Mission clients] and their journey,” Norton told city council members in a recent email. “I have helped find them jobs and watched their kids. However, despite my support and respect for DRM residents, I do not give the DRM, as an institution, a pass to ignore the fact that they are embedded in a neighborhood, one that happens to be a rare embodiment of Durham’s rich historic industrial era.”

In the summer of 2011, concerns about the mission’s plans brought the residents and the nonprofit together for a charrette. But that meeting quickly turned into what Norton calls a “nightmare.” Freeman says she left in tears after being told by a woman with the Rescue Mission that she was a “bad mother” for moving her children into a high-crime neighborhood.

John Martin, a longtime Durham resident who helped renovate a home in Golden Belt before moving to Old North Durham, was also there.

“The Rescue Mission brought a lot of their people who didn’t know anything about it, they just had talking points. It was awful.

There was nothing that came out of it,” Martin says. “I was sitting at table with a guy who kept calling it ‘Green Belt.’”

Ever since, the relationship between the neighborhood and the Rescue Mission has continued to erode.

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that we need to protect our neighborhood, and the Rescue Mission is not an ally.”

Rescue Mission cofounders Ernie and Gail Mills declined multiple interview requests for this story. l l l

For now, the mission’s plans seem to be on hold. The site plans for the dormitory were last revised in 2015 and haven’t seen any recent movement among local governing boards. But the mission nonetheless seems intent on preserving its options.

It summarized its case in an August 16 email to supporters: “Folks, empty lots are not historic! The Durham Rescue Mission has long-range plans to build a community center, but this will be impossible if our properties are included in the local historic district.”

To neighbors, that’s too simplistic. Those lots are primed for development, they say.

They just want to ensure that whatever goes there fits, and the historic district will give them that leverage.

If the local district is approved, it would become the eighth in the city and the third east of Roxboro Street. The majority are on the west side of the city, often in more affluent neighborhoods like Watts-Hillandale and Trinity Heights.

Golden Belt differs from those because of its modest housing stock, which could eventually be used for much-needed affordable housing. Establishing a local district in Golden Belt would protect those houses from turning into more high-priced condominiums.

And, according to Miller, a historic designation wouldn’t necessarily prohibit the mission from expanding or even foreclose on bigger buildings.

“There’s definitely been statements from folks saying that historic districts would make something impossible to build,” she says. “And I’m not going to argue that a historic district is going to impact what you can build and how you can build it. But so far I haven’t heard of anything that’s not possible to build. There are lots of historic districts across North Carolina, across the United States, where large developments have been built that are appropriate and compatible with their surroundings. There are certainly ways to make that work.”

It’s happened before in Durham. In September 2015, the Historic Preservation

Commission voted 7–2 to sign off on the Greystone Apartments in the Morehead Hills historic district.

If the Rescue Mission is included in the Golden Belt district, it would have to go through the same process of applying for a certificate of appropriateness and making its case before the commission. That might be difficult, but it wouldn’t be unattainable. And the process would give Golden Belt residents a chance to make their voices heard.

After six years—after gathering signatures

and lobbying lawmakers and navigating the minefields of city bureaucracy—the residents say they’re ready for this to finally be over. On Tuesday, they hope, it will be.

“It’s taken a while,” Norton says. “I wasn’t sure it was ever going to happen. You know, I think it’s actually more valuable now than it was five years ago. We’re starting to see this trend of teardown flips in a lot of the central city.” l lhorsch@indyweek.com

GOLDEN OLDIE The Golden Belt Manufacturing Company began in 1887 as part of the Bull Durham Tobacco Factory, producing cloth bags for tobacco. After several moves in the late 1800s, industrialist Julian Carr secured land on East Main Street in 1901 for the Golden Belt plant, across from the Durham Hosiery Mill No. 1, which Carr also owned. In 1901, the first mill houses were built. Over the next several decades, the company shifted its production to paper, packaging, and labeling for cigarettes, while still producing textiles.

In 1954, the mill village became a neighborhood of privately owned homes, after Golden Belt Manufacturing offered up the houses to the occupants at 10 percent under the appraised value.

By the 1960s, Golden Belt was in the plastics business. The factory produced cigarette packing into the 1990s. In 1996, however, it shuttered, and Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation donated the facility to the Durham Housing Authority. When Golden Belt Manufacturing shut down, the area lost its economic anchor.

But even before then—since the 1940s, in fact—the neighborhood had an unsavory reputation. By the eighties, the neighborhood had a high percentage of renters. Drugs and prostitution took hold, and by the 2000s, Golden Belt was a shell of its former self.

But people saw potential. In 2006, Scientific Properties bought the southern portion of the neighborhood for $2.6 million and redeveloped it. (The northern part is owned

by Julio Cordoba, who operates the Cordoba Center for the Arts.) In the last decade, Habitat for Humanity has built about a dozen homes for low-income individuals in the neighborhood. Today, residents say, Golden Belt is showing signs of rebirth.

“It’s a close-knit community,” says Juanita Smith, one of four women who qualified for Habitat for Humanity houses on Franklin Street. “I just like it because it gives it that historic feel, that you’re connected to the city, the history of the city of Durham.” —Lauren Horsch

Juanita Smith, right, shows off her half-marathon medals to her neighbors Mel Norton, left, and Antoine Freeman. RIGHT Smith and Norton on the porch of Smith's house in Golden Belt. PHOTOS BY ALEX BOERNER

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Golden Belt in the late 1950s COURTESY OF OPEN DURHAM, A PROJECT OF PRESERVATION DURHAM

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Blackout The Donut Shop served the black public and college students at 336 East Pettigrew Street before urban renewal cut through Hayti’s historic corridor. PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDRE’ D. VANN

WHERE DID DURHAM’S AFRICAN-AMERICANOWNED RESTAURANTS GO?

BY ERIC TULLIS The idea of sitting in a funeral home and having a lively conversation about food nostalgia isn’t terribly far-fetched—especially in a historic district like Durham’s Hayti, where the life and death of black prosperity is obvious from simply walking through the area.

John Clarence “Skeepie” Scarborough III, owner of the longstanding Scarborough & Hargett Funeral Home Inc., is Hayti’s go-to oral historian. He and I are sitting at a large table inside the funeral home’s meeting room. A bronze, life-size statue of Martin Luther King Jr. presides over us like a giant lost chess piece. In one hand, King holds a Holy Bible. His other hand is pointing toward somewhere unknown.

Somewhere to eat, maybe?

“Nobody told you about Minnie?” asks Scarborough. He’s referring to Minnie Hester’s House, one of Durham’s notorious women-run liquor houses that also doubled as a late-night kitchen. “Chitterlings, collard greens—that kind of stuff,” he explains. “At one o’clock in the morning, that was the only place to get food. James Brown was in town one night. I went to hear him. When he got ready to leave, he told a good friend of his from Durham, ‘OK, Bill, now run me over to Minnie’s.’ She served whatever you wanted till three o’clock.”

Scarborough knows about comfort.

His stories come from his life’s work providing for his community during times of grief, when consolation and empathy are most important. So, when it comes to comfort food, especially that of the dozens of black-owned restaurants that used to serve it in pre-urban-renewal Hayti, Scarborough remembers every detail.

He also remembers how all those great eating establishments succumbed to systemic erasure, similar to what his funeral home is fighting against today. Sometimes, a legacy like Ms. Hester’s isn’t enough.

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“We didn’t even think about going downtown,” Scarborough tells me, “because we knew that we would have problems. But we didn’t have to. Black businesses thrived in anything that we did. We only crossed the train tracks when we had to go pay our bills.” l l l

Today, the Durham Freeway runs parallel to those tracks. Crossing them for a meal probably means paying a big bill at a nice restaurant.

Scarborough speaks of Hayti’s heyday, when most of the black-owned restaurants were centralized and clustered together over a one-to-two-mile radius. Despite segregation’s exclusionary “separate but equal” clause, black business owners in Hayti—including black restaurateurs—leveraged it to their advantage. In the Jim Crow South, blacks and whites shopped together

at department stores, but most cafes, lunch counters, and restaurants were fully segregated. Hayti’s black restaurant owners served a self-sufficient community that showed no signs of abandoning its beloved eating institutions. But with the end of Jim Crow and the introduction of integration, that’s exactly what black patrons did—they exercised their right to eat in white-owned restaurants.

“You have to look at it as pre-desegregation and post-desegregation,” explains Andre’ D. Vann, N.C. Central’s coordinator of university archives and co-author of Durham’s Hayti, a book documenting the area’s rich history. “Based on segregation, AfricanAmerican institutions were able to flourish, create, develop, and stay intact within the midst of their communities. I don’t want to overgeneralize, but after the sit-ins and laws started occurring in the 1960s, you started seeing the desegregation of public institu-

tions. Some African-American institutions still flourished, but many were moved by the wayside because African Americans no longer only had to go to those African-American institutions. It was a double-edged sword.

Then, some raised the question of whether or not many of the white business owners saw Hayti as a deterrent to their growth.”

That’s not the case today. A sub sandwich in downtown Durham will run you almost twenty bucks. The people who can afford that kind of lunch probably don’t live in Hayti.

The Scarborough funeral home has been in business for more than 144 years. After urban renewal forced the family to move its business from East Pettigrew Street, it remained at its largest location, on the corner of Dillard Street and Roxboro Road, until 2010. A section of that site is now the Durham County Courthouse. Before that, it was one of many black-owned businesses that

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occupied East Pettigrew’s bustling row of black commerce.

Today, the home is located in historic Hayti on Old Fayetteville Street, in an uncharitably smaller and less attractive building that it shares with another once-thriving black-owned institution: The Carolina Times newspaper.

As the story of Durham’s great downtown divide goes, construction for the Durham Freeway began in 1963, uprooting the black commercial district through the Fayetteville and East Pettigrew corridor of Hayti.

At least 106 black businesses existed adjacent to the bustling downtown landscape of the segregation-era South (read: white), and they thrived. At the same time, the deleterious federal policies of urban renewal, which spanned across the country from the mid1950s to the 1970s, debuted in Durham.

As a quick-fix concession, the Durham Redevelopment Commission allotted a trifling $100,000 to erect two steel buildings intended to house some of those businesses that otherwise would have had nowhere to go. That’s where Scarborough’s family business landed. From the outside, the weathered metallic roof on the funeral home and newspaper office caps its rectangular whitepainted brick-facade structure and gives it the appearance of a repurposed storage bunker. But it was actually built in the mid-1960s in what was pejoratively referred to by Hayti residents as “Tin City.”

“It wasn’t anything positive,” says Vann. “It was a metal structure only meant, at first, to be temporary. ‘Tin City’ was African Americans’ way of trying to speak against this wishful idea that they would have a place after urban renewal came through and that urban renewal would be great for the community, which it wasn’t.”

Scarborough fondly recalls The Green Candle, a once-popular black-owned restaurant that was also forced to relocate from East Pettigrew to Tin City before moving one final time to the neighboring Phoenix Square shopping center. But in its original location, The Green Candle served as both a delicious and fancy dining experience away from home for N.C. Central students. Its owner, the late and storied Azona Allen, ran a strict (yet oftentimes slow) kitchen. She had very little tolerance for how some of the AfricanAmerican businessmen would come in and

try to get served ahead of the line. The rule: once she ran out of food, you were out of luck. James Brown tried to eat there once, too, sauntering in late after a show. Allen had already stopped serving, and she didn’t even try to scrape together a plate for him.

“As my grandmother would say, ‘She didn’t take any tea for the fever,’” remembers Vann.

Vann was one of the few people who “Old Lady Allen” let into her inner circle. “I respected her system and process,” he says.

“The reputation was that she was this mean, nasty lady. Folks liked her food, but they didn’t like her. She was tough. She had to be tough. You used to see her with a cart, walking from Phoenix Square to the Winn-Dixie in Heritage Square to get fresh stuff to cook.

She toted a big wad of money. I knew she did.

But nobody messed with her.”

One might say that Allen had plenty of reason to be disagreeable and, in some ways, unforgiving. Urban renewal had just displaced more than 500 black families and destroyed more than 120 black-owned businesses under the pretense that Hayti would be redeveloped. Maybe, in her mind, everyone was to blame, from the black voters duped into overwhelmingly supporting the project, to the white purveyors of a program that essentially ghettoized and constrained what was once a booming, self-dependent black economy.

In cities like Chicago and Atlanta, an annual “Black Restaurant Week” and other communitysourced movements have sparked conversations about the trendiness of food and the small number of black-owned establishments (and even chefs) contributing to it.

Restaurants are integral pieces of social history. We believe this is an important conversation to have today, especially as the Triangle continues to explode with culinary gems. So, with the help of Jen Lawrence of jenoni.com, Linda Convissor, the Orange County Economic Development Commission, and Dan Stafford of Raleigh’s Minority Business Development Agency, we put together our own list of black-owned restaurants, which you can find in full online. For now, here are the most delicious picks in Durham, Orange, and Wake counties. —Victoria Bouloubasis

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CHICKEN HUT 3019 Fayetteville Road, Durham, www.chickenhutnc.weebly.com Peggy Tapp runs the Hut with her son, Clay, and her sisters, Jo Ann Johnson and Ruth Dash. You can walk in with a ten-dollar bill and walk out with a small mountain of fried chicken (a secret family recipe going sixty-five years strong), slow-cooked turnip greens, mac-n-cheese, a slice of pie, and a drink— with a few bills to spare.

AL’S BURGER SHACK 516 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, www.alsburgershack.com Roasted garlic, pimento cheese, bacon, fresh jalapeño—you can get almost anything you want on Al’s thick burgers, cooked pink and juicy. Even crinkle fries get the five-star treatment with a sprinkle of fresh rosemary and sea salt.

VEGAN FLAVA CAFE 4125 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, www.veganflavacafe.com An accidental vegan chef, Yah-I Ausar Tarafi Amen works magic at his casual restaurant, serving innovative cuisine from scratch.

SALTBOX SEAFOOD JOINT 608 North Mangum Street, Durham, www.saltboxseafoodjoint.com Go for the fresh catch of the morning—from flounder to fish collars—the hush honeys, and the “good tea.” Stay for that sun-kissed glow.

Peggy Tapp runs Chicken Hut, a family business. PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

QUEEN OF SHEBA 1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, www.queenofshebachapelhill.com Ethiopian food isn’t ubiquitous in the South.

Frieshgenet Dabei’s cozy restaurant offers a beautiful change of pace, with homemade delicacies to share. Call ahead and check if the honey wine is available.

MAMA DIP’S KITCHEN 408 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, www.mamadips.com In 1985, New York Times restaurant critic Craig Claiborne raved about Mildred “Mama Dip” Council’s chitterlings and blackeyed peas.

This legendary restaurant that helped elevate Southern cuisine deserves a visit.

WAKE COUNTY LARRY’S SOUTHERN KITCHEN 4205 Fayetteville Road, Raleigh, www.larryssouthernkitchen.weebly.com Let the neon lights lure you to one of the largest country buffets in the state. Bonus: the restaurant is an official pokèstop. Pokèmon and pigs feet.

FITZGERALD’S SEAFOOD 3400 New Birch Drive, Raleigh, www.fitzgeraldseafood.com Calabash-style shrimp, all the soul food staples, and Carolina ’cue make this one a true crowd-pleaser.

LEE’S KITCHEN 4638 Capital Boulevard and 1110 North Raleigh Boulevard, Raleigh, www.leeskitchenjamaican.com Two chefs serve Jamaican and Southern soul food right. Pair the curried goat with mac-ncheese and you won’t be sorry.

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Zuri Hester jokes with a customer at Nzinga’s Breakfast Cafe, her restaurant.

BELOW A typical plate at Chicken Hut PHOTOS BY ALEX BOERNER

Two years ago, the Durham Business & Professional Chain—the city’s oldest African-American business advocacy chain— compiled a near-comprehensive list of black-owned restaurants, taverns, inns, and hotels that existed between the early forties and the early seventies. It included wellknown Hayti eateries such as The Donut Shop, Biltmore Hotel & Grill, College Inn, Elvira’s Blue Dine-et, and Papa Jack’s Congo Grill, just to name a few. Of the twenty-eight listed, only one has survived: The Chicken Box (now Chicken Hut).

Peggy Tapp was just a teenager in 1957, when she began working for her future husband, Claiborne Tapp Jr., as a car hopper at The Chicken Box’s original Durham location, at NC-55 and Riddle Road. Eventually, Tapp moved his restaurant to Hayti after one too many winters of the snow and ice, which discouraged his customers from making the trip out to his place. In 1966, urban renewal forced him out of his Hayti location on South Roxboro Street (then Pine Street) and led him to the restaurant’s current location on Fayetteville Street, a few blocks south of N.C. Central.

Chicken Hut is the longest-running blackowned restaurant in Durham. Tapp attributes its longevity to its no-frills setting.

“Chicken Hut is like more of a family restaurant,” she says. “People come to sit, eat, and talk. I’m just so used to the old school.”

These days, Chicken Hut relies on both its longtime customers and new customers that her son—and heir apparent to Chicken Hut’s legacy—Claiborne “Clay” Tapp III, has rallied.

“My son has been very instrumental in bringing in the younger generation,” Tapp says. “Before his daddy died, he promised him that he would try to continue this restaurant.

It was his daddy’s life. He made sure that he helped the community. We give more than we get back because our prices are so cheap.

He’s always reminding me that we have to move to the next level in order to keep up with the times.”

Chicken Hut still caters big orders for local clients like IBM and N.C. Central. For now, that’s what Tapp considers “next level.” And she is supportive of any growth that the black business community can have in downtown.

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down there for. We just have to get engaged in what’s going on.”

The INDY reached out to Durham’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development for a list of black-owned restaurants, like the one created in the 1970s. Today, no such official list exists. (See page 15 for our own list of the Triangle’s black-owned restaurants.) l l l

One short drive through present-day Hayti proves black-owned dining choices are waning in highly concentrated black communities. Between the Phoenix Crossing and Phoenix Square shopping centers, there are eight black-owned barbershops and salons, but only one black-owned restaurant. And while there isn’t necessarily an anchor tenant in either shopping center, Nzinga’s Breakfast Cafe in Phoenix Crossing is the newest mainstay in Hayti’s legacy.

Nzinga’s owner, Zuri Hester, returned to Durham, her hometown, after graduating from the Johnson & Wales culinary arts and food service management program in 2014.

She eventually opened her restaurant in the shopping center, co-owned by her father, Larry Hester, and his wife, Denise. She based her decision on a few factors: the lack of breakfast restaurants near downtown; the difficulty of a black entrepreneur like herself, without

any capital, to be approved for a business loan; and her emotional connection to Hayti.

“I feel more of a sense of community here.

I know the whole person,” says the twentyseven-year-old Hester. “I’m not just asking [customers] for their money. Downtown’s redevelopment is a good thing, but for the lower-income or working-class person, it’s kind of hard to be excited about new restaurants that you can’t even afford. Where do the people in my community—who I know, who I went to school with—where do they eat?”

For the most part, those people still eat at places like Nzinga’s, Chicken Hut, and another Fayetteville Street diner, Roy’s Country Kitchen, where you can scarf down a “working man’s plate” for $5. Everyone else, it seems, eats at black-owned restaurants in other pockets of Durham—downtown or further out on NC-55 at Backyard BBQ Pit. Otherwise, black folks are abandoning their own food institutions for nouveau and trendier options. The trend is reminiscent of what happened during integration, now during the city’s new era of downtown revitalization.

There are several reasons this is so. For one, many black-owned restaurants are at a competitive disadvantage because of limited hours of operation. Another is food trends: even as Southern food—or the food stereotypically associated with the South— becomes more popular across the board, a new generation of African Americans is increasingly adopting healthier eating habits and abandoning what is traditionally served in black-owned restaurants. Lastly, the black middle-class flight to the suburbs removes hyperlocal support from historically black communities.

“After the owner establishes all of that wonderful synergy and has that next generation there, what happens to the business if some-

thing happens to the owner?” Vann asks. “I’m not saying that that’s what happened in Durham, but [the lack of black-owned restaurants in Hayti] could likely be the result.”

Dillard’s Bar-B-Q, a popular black-owned restaurant, closed its doors in 2011 after more than seventy years. Wilma Dillard took over in 1997, after her father, Samuel, passed away.

Like Chicken Hut, the restaurant managed to survive Hayti district’s post-urban-renewal ruin partly because of its distance—a little over a mile—from the area, which still shows signs of decay.

“Everything has a season, and you can’t stop a moving train on a dime,” says Dillard.

We’re sitting at Beyù Caffè, which has garnered much public support as a black-owned business downtown. Beyù’s owner, Dorian Bolden, is seated at a table directly behind me, and in Dillard’s line of vision. I point him out to her. She’s never met him, but she acknowledges that he’s done great things for the black community in Durham by “keeping an underlying mission of culture” in his restaurant. As we talk, she periodically glances over at Bolden, possibly judging him against the pedigree of black restaurateurs before him. It never occurs to me that I should introduce them to each other.

“We could never be a Beyù. That’s not who we were,” she says. “My assignment was to bring closure to Dillard’s. We had a sixty-year season on that site. Dillard’s was important enough for us to give it a proper send-off, to let it rest.”

Soon, the site of the now-closed Dillard’s will become a BP gas station and Family Fare convenience store. It’s not quite the lush lunch spot that once stood there, and it is definitely farther away from downtown. Indeed, sometimes legacy isn’t enough. l Twitter: @erictullis

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“Well,” says one woman, “I can clearly taste the mugwort!”

She sits with a group gathered in a corner booth at Bittersweet. They all break into laughter. I follow suit, but only because I want to blend. There are six members at tonight’s gin club meeting in downtown Raleigh. They wear matching T-shirts—“Gin: Because Everyone Needs a Hobby”—and pass around small dishes of dried juniper berries and microplaned nutmeg.

The year-old club now staggers its meetings at Bittersweet—different groups convene on different dates— since dozens of people started showing up for each one. While the club used to be organized via email thread, it’s matured into a partnership with Taste Carolina, which allows new members to sign up online at www.tastecarolina.net. This particular crew, a mix of couples and friends, has been together since the start. And it shows.

“We’re at a bar and we ask, ‘What kind of tonic do you have?’ And then, we think, ‘Oh my god! We’re those people!”

The group loses it—again. I finally realize that there are jokes, and then there are gin club jokes. Before you can appreciate the latter you’ve got to drink a lot of gin. Or know a lot about gin. Let’s just say I’m working on both.

Take gin’s botanicals, the endless ingredients that distillers pick to distinguish their products. The Monkey 47 brand, for instance, includes as many as its namesake quantity, ranging from coriander to lavender to sage.

The club members excitedly give me the lowdown: Cassia, they explain, is just a fancy word for cinnamon. Angelica would make for a great pork dry rub, don’t you think? (Totally, I nod.) And mugwort? Well, mugwort just sounds silly.

Lewis Norton sits at the far end of the bar, nursing a half-full cup of coffee. “When Bittersweet opened, we knew we wanted to focus on gin,” he says. He has been with Bittersweet since the very beginning, when Kim

Lewis Norton pours gin at Bittersweet’s gin club in downtown Raleigh. PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN Hammer opened the pastry-meets-cocktail concept in 2014. As manager of the business’s drink program, Norton has a hand in everything from the bar design to the cocktail menu. Also, the gin club.

“It’s a very versatile spirit,” he says, “because it has a very loose definition.”

Indeed, the only prerequisite for gin is juniper. Compare this to other liquors, like bourbon—a whisky produced in the States, made from at least fifty-one percent corn, aged in oak barrels for a minimum of two years—and you start to understand what Norton means by loose. This is why he’s so fascinated: fewer rules, more innovation.

“You basically can do anything you want.

Barrel-age it, smoke it, make it really sweet, make it really dry, have fifty botanicals, or one.” He smiles. “It’s crazy.”

Unlike other spirits, which are rooted in a particular grain or fruit, gin can start with

just about anything, from barley to sugarcane. Not to mention the production turnaround. Whereas a bourbon distillery might take a decade to develop a sellable product, gin can be created in a matter of weeks.

It’s this combination of creativity and convenience that has distillers—and drinkers— inspired. In this area alone, no less than four gin-distinguished distilleries have opened within the last six years: Southern Artisan Spirits, Mother Earth, Sutler’s, and Durham Distillery.

“We’re seeing a gin renaissance,” Norton says.

Gin, it turns out, wasn’t always so trendy.

Since it originated in the 1600s, it’s been called “bathtub gin,” “lady’s delight,” and “mother’s ruin,” to name a few. “Bathtub” because gin prospered during Prohibition, when novice distillers made the spirit at home and tried to mask poor quality with loads of sugar and

botanicals. The debut of London dry, the most popular style to this day, came later.

Bittersweet has almost thirty varieties of gin on its shelf, and, according to Norton, the stock is only growing. Of course, such was the allure of starting a gin club: an excuse to buy more gin, to explore the blossoming market. If nothing else, Norton is thirsty, both to share his knowledge and to gain more.

Norton distributes two glasses to each club member. One has a shot of Citadelle, a gin from France with nineteen botanicals, the other, a shot of Botanist, a gin from Scotland with thirty-one. Such is the start of every meeting: an informational handout, two shots, and a guessing game.

The members sip and stare and nod, eyes stuck on the glasses and one another. Finally, they all decide: This one is Citadelle. That one is Botanist. A consensus emerges, so I go the other way, with more confidence than I should have. They were right. (“Everybody got it!” Norton hoots.)

For each meeting, Norton selects two gins. While he presents, we drink, and then we drink some more. We delve into maps of Scotland and France, lists of botanicals, actual botanicals, distiller gossip, production techniques. Customarily, Norton tracks down gins that relate in some way so he can then unpack what distinguishes them.

To conclude each meeting, he offers an original cocktail. Members get to pick which gin they think complements the recipe best.

This week, the concoction features apple juice and sherry, served up. When Norton starts taking orders, everyone swiftly picks Botanist—“I could definitely see Botanist in a martini!” So I agree. It comes in a chilled glass, amber liquid with an apple curl. I sip and stare and nod. Yes, I think, Botanist is just right with the sherry. I can really taste the mugwort. l Twitter: @EmmaLaperruque INDYweek.com | 8.31.16 | 19

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Scrappy Medium

SOUND FACTORY

107 Edinburgh Drive S, Ste. 157, Cary www.facebook.com/thesoundfactorync

SOUND FACTORY STRIVES TO SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOUSE SHOWS AND NIGHTCLUBS BY ALLISON HUSSEY The phrase “DIY” has very specific connotations, and none of them apply to Cary’s affluent MacGregor Downs.

But across Edinburgh Drive from the neighborhood’s lush entrance, in the unassuming MacGregor Village shopping center, is Sound Factory. The venue is just a few weeks old, but if all goes according to plan, it will combine the best aspects of the underdog spirit of house shows and the professional execution of nightclubs.

Anthony Williams, who grew up in Raleigh, books and manages Sound Factory, which falls under the umbrella of Bass Music Enterprises, a store in the same shopping center that sells PA equipment and offers live sound services. Williams started working for the shop’s owner, Steve Bass, as a teenager, and Bass brought him on to run the venue that the two had long discussed.

Williams, who has played in bands since high school, was frustrated not only by unstable and insufficient house show offerings in the area, but also age restrictions at regular venues. He found a kindred spirit in Bass. Nothing in Raleigh fit what they wanted in terms of rent or mission, and Williams knew that plenty of folks in the Triangle will drive to Saxapahaw, or even Greensboro, for a weeknight show. So why not Cary?

“We had always talked about getting an all-ages, DIY-type venue going on,” Williams says. “I was telling [Bass], ‘Just find any building—it doesn’t matter what it looks like, how big. Find a building and we’ll make something happen.’”

Before Sound Factory could open its doors, the space needed a lot of work. Its most recent tenant, a Medlin Davis dry-cleaner, left two years ago. It took Williams and Bass

more than six months to clean up the space, from getting the bathrooms in respectable shape to removing two floor-to-ceiling vents that had been part of the dry-cleaning operation’s infrastructure.

Now the venue is clean and sparse, its gray walls almost entirely unadorned. Heavy curtains hang on the walls of the main room to absorb sound and prevent echo, slightly muting the cavernous space. The soundboard sits in a raised nook at the back of the room, and there’s also video equipment. Williams says he’s gotten feedback about the room being “a little too much for punk,” but that’s a mind-set he’s quick to dismiss.

“I’m tired of going to a house show and the only thing that’s miked is the vocals, and the amps are cranked so loud I can’t hear the drums,” he says. “I want to have a space where you can at least use the bathroom, and you don’t feel like you’re going to die of heat exhaustion.”

Sound Factory also differs from most clubs in its lack of alcohol sales. Where many clubs make significant money from their bars, Sound Factory is able to pad itself through its

Blackball, with Anthony Williams on drums, performs at Sound Factory.

PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

Bass Music connection, though Williams hopes that the venue can eventually become selfsufficient. And, he points out, there’s a bar a few doors down— if you really want a drink, it’s easy to slip over to Hot Shots Billiards & Sports Bar between sets. He’s doubling down on a mission to create a welcoming space for younger people who are excited about music, but who aren’t old enough to get into most clubs.

It’s a struggle Williams knows personally. Not quite twentytwo, he isn’t far removed from the hassle of being denied entry to shows for being underage.

When he was sixteen, he says, local punk heroes Double Negative tapped his band for an opening slot at a Raleigh club, but because Williams and his bandmates were all under eighteen, the club wouldn’t put them on the bill. It was a major disappointment that Williams doesn’t want to inflict on someone else.

“Kids under the age of twenty-one, under the age of eighteen—not only do I want them to be coming to shows, I also want them to be playing in bands. It’s all about passing the torch,” Williams says, adding that he wanted to create an outlet for high school kids who, like him, weren’t interested in school-spirited athletics or social engagements.

Sound Factory’s first few offerings have been punk- and hardcore-oriented bills stocked with bands like Firing Squad and Iron Cages, mostly through the convenience of Williams’s own connections. But he wants to broaden his booking to include other musical styles, and even to expand into stand-up comedy and independent movie nights. The vision is ambitious, but if the endgame is passing the torch, Sound Factory has already sparked a respectable little flame. l ahussey@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.31.16 | 21

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SABAA TAHIR IN CONVERSATION WITH RENÉE AHDIEH Tuesday, September 6, 7 p.m., free Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh www.quailridgebooks.com

Golden Age

SABAA TAHIR AND RENÉE AHDIEH PLY YA FANTASY WITH MIDDLE EASTERN LORE

BY SAMUEL MONTGOMERY-BLINN

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The roots of Arabian science fiction run as deep as those of the golden age of Islamic science and mathematics, which gave us algebra, algorithms, and names for the numeral zero and the star Aldebaran. Ibn al-Nafis wrote the theological sci-fi text Theologus Autodidactus in the thirteenth century, when the stillcoalescing stories of One Thousand and One Nights already contained robots, underwater adventures, and journeys through the cosmos.

In the modern Western worlds of science fiction and fantasy, we’re well steeped in a “lite” version of Arabic, Islamic, and Moorish influences—the desert landscapes of Star Wars and Dune, for example. The mainstream English speculative-fiction canon has also nodded to these influences, as in Guy Gavriel Kay’s The Lions of Al-Rassan (1995), Catherine Asaro’s The Veiled Web (1999), and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt (2002).

But these strains have grown even richer and more prominent lately in adult fantasy literature. The best such works published since 2011 include Howard Andrew Jones’s The Desert of Souls, Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon, Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Jinni, Salman Rushdie’s Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, and G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen.

On the heels of Wilson’s reimagining of Marvel Comics character Ms. Marvel as a Muslim-American teenager named Kamala Khan, it appears that young-adult fantasy with a Middle Eastern context is also poised for a golden age of its own. Among its leaders are authors Sabaa Tahir and Renée Ahdieh, who will be in conversation at Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books on Tuesday night.

Tahir, a former Washington Post editor now based in San Francisco, garnered acclaim with her 2015 debut novel, An Ember in the Ashes. An immediate New York Times best-seller, it was optioned—a year before its publication—by Paramount Pictures. Tahir's complex epic fantasy encompasses a vast world of empire, slavery, family, and magic,

replete with sharply rendered characters and plenty of high-stakes action. After an opening chapter depicting a raid on the multigenerational home of seventeen-year-old Laia, a member of the oppressed Scholars, the book ranges from catacombs beneath the city to imperial military training grounds to a desert where Bedouin-like tribespeople eke out an existence while contending with rumors of jinn, efrits, and ghuls.

Tahir’s world is not a pleasant one; its characters live under the constant threat of imprisonment, enslavement, rape, torture, and death. They also face moral choices— when to fight, when to run, when to rebel— that can change the course of a centuries-old empire. The newly released A Torch Against the Night, the second entry in a planned fourbook series, picks up at breakneck speed where An Ember in the Ashes left off, and the stakes are even higher than personal or even familial survival. l l l

Ahdieh, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, is a Charlotte-based author. In 2015 she published her debut novel, The Wrath & the Dawn, and it too made the New York Times best-seller list. (I also included it in my INDY roundup of 2015's best books from North Carolina.) It takes direct inspiration from One Thousand and One Nights, but its stories have little in common with the tales of Scheherazade. In Ahdieh’s retelling, sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, although she is well aware that each of his previous brides—including her own best friend—has not lived to see the dawn after their wedding night. Determined that no one else should share such a fate, Shahrzad makes a vow of vengeance for the murder of her friend.

Like her namesake, Shahrzad spins stories that leave Khalid wanting more as she bides her time and looks for a moment of opportu-

nity. But things get more complicated when she begins to suspect that she may be falling in love with this “mad boy-king” and that she must uncover the secret behind the murders in order to break the cycle of death, once and for all.

Ahdieh and Tahir share a longtime friendship, appearances in each other’s acknowledgments, and a publisher: Penguin Random House, the parent company of both Razorbill and G.P. Putnam’s Sons. But they share something more subtle as well: Both of them left the first books in their respective series largely unresolved. Ahdieh's The Rose & the Dagger, published earlier this year, continues from The Wrath & the Dawn, carrying the duology through to a beautiful conclusion.

Next up is Flame in the Mist, the first installment of a new duology that its publisher describes as “a mash-up of Disney's Mulan and the fantasy action movie 47 Ronin." May 2017 can scarcely come soon enough. l sam@bullspec.com

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THE BEAUTIFUL BEAST HHHH Through Sept. 5 (Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill) Sept. 9–11 (North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh) www.paperhand.org

Monster in the Mirror

ORE ECOLOGICAL WARNINGS AND POLITICAL COURAGE IN PAPERHAND’S THE BEAUTIFUL BEAST

BY BYRON WOODS

The unvarnished, unaccompanied vocals in The Beautiful Beast’s mid-show chorus seem lifted from the Sacred Harp spiritual tradition of the nineteenth century, but the haunting lyrics admonish us about modern-day maladies such as climate change and big oil. It isn’t the first time that Paperhand Puppet Intervention has employed folk-art forms to speak (or sing) truth to power. The moment exemplifies the artfulness and political courage clearly on display throughout the company’s seventeenth annual summer pageant under the stars, which is about to close at Chapel Hill’s Forest Theatre before moving on to the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Carolina Theatre of Greensboro.

Two themes echo through the four sections of the production. ated whenThe first two sequences, “The be fallingBook of Beasts” and “The Song d that sheof Humbaba,” ask what a true e murdersbeast or monster is, and how it once andactually differs from what we are. In the first, a colorful, imagime friend-native bestiary comes to life at a acknowl-slumber party. As three children n Randompore over an oversize picture th Razor-book, the eerie green tentacles of hey sharethe strange-looking Grool sneak h of themout from beneath the bed—until ive seriesthe kids look down and the reticent creature Rose & thequickly withdraws. continues After they coax him out from under the rrying thebed, other fanciful monsters join the crew. onclusion.The red, reptilian Zangamash slithers out rst install-to lick each child’s face, before the Wumpapublisherflump, with a simian countenance amid a y's Mulanblobby cascade of thousands of plastic gronin." Maycery-store bags, enters the dance.

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Creature feature: Paperhand Puppet Intervention's The Beautiful Beast PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

most frightening ones, step onstage: three middle-aged-men puppets with gray heads and black-and-white suits. The narrator identifies these terrifying creatures as politicians who do dreadful things in the name of the state: “They’ll frack your backyard, redistrict your vote ... And make it a crime to be who you are.”

In “The Song of Humbaba,” a brisk adaptation of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the ancient king of Uruk—a regal, sumptuously cos-

tumed puppet with dreadlocks and a beard— meets repeated challenges from the gods for his hubris. But they usually seem to work out in his favor. His battles with the rough, horned Endiku, half-man, half-beast, result in their lifelong friendship.

Gilgamesh’s subsequent quest against Humbaba, the guardian of the cedar forest (represented in a remarkable multi-person bunraku puppet), raises the question of which of them is truly more civilized or more

monstrous. The proud king’s conquest of a being that posed no threat ends in a Pyrrhic victory. The deforestation of Humbaba’s sacred grove to build houses for his subjects leads to disastrous changes in the region’s ecosystem.

Such ecological concerns form the evening’s second theme, which is traced through the show’s final sections. Using Spanish folktales of La Loba, the bone woman, as a lens, codirectors Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger examine recent findings involving trophic cascades—the systemic consequences when a single species is removed from or introduced to an ecosystem—in Yellowstone National Park. As a woman narrates the tale of her uncanny encounter with La Loba, shadow puppets show the environmental healing invoked as wolves are resurrected and restored to their natural habitat. Jennifer Curtis’s score incorporates influences from Latino culture, the ancient Middle East, and Appalachia. Her nine-piece band fills the night with atmospheric and kinetic music.

In the end, this sometimes gentle, sometimes pointed tale of environmental and political hazard and redemption reminds us that if we want to find real beasts and monsters, we merely have to look in any mirror. l Twitter: @ByronWoods INDYweek.com | 8.31.16 | 23

Silvia Paz: “Checkmate”

PHOTO COURTESY OF GALLERY C

08.31–09.07

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

SILVIA PAZ: REMEMBRANCES

The Peruvian artist Silvia Paz incorporates imagery from the depths of her subconscious into her striking, luminous oil paintings. Though her work is marked by realistic rendering, something in the light, perspective, and especially the iconography transmits the visceral sense that we are in a dreamworld. Drawing inspiration from both classical and modern art movements, Paz juxtaposes the ordinary and the fantastical in a way that calls to mind Surrealists such as Magritte, while her spooky landscapes have a de Chirico flavor. Even so, Paz’s work, which she has honed over years of extensive private study, reflects a distinct, and distinctly Peruvian, worldview. Dream big this Friday at the opening reception of her Gallery C show, which is on view through September. —David Klein GALLERY C, RALEIGH 6–9 p.m., free, www.galleryc.net

+ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

BULL CITY RUMBLE

That massive bass you’ll feel throbbing through Durham this weekend like some newfangled Sunn 0))) tribute band will in fact derive from the revving of the twelfth annual Bull City Rumble, a celebration of motorcycle history and culture by the people who love it the most. This year’s focus is café racers, lean, no-frills, built for speed—you know, like we all once were—and a bevy of scooters from foreign lands. In the evening, the focus shifts to music and burlesque: The wry Americana of Raleigh’s Hearts and Daggers, highenergy rock from Greensboro’s The Low Counts, and the fierce rockabilly of Little Lesley & the Bloodshots will alternate with four performers skilled in an art that originally implied a mockery (“Satire is the right hand of burlesque,” quoth Voltaire) and evolved its ribald connotations in the early twentieth century. Daytime festivities, including a vintage show, are free, but if you want to dance, you’ll have to pay the band(s). —David Klein THE SOCIAL GAMES AND BREWS, DURHAM 1–5 p.m, free/5 p.m.–midnight, $12, www.bullcityrumble12.com 24 | 8.31.16 | INDYweek.com

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

ORANGE COUNTY SOCIAL CLUB CUSTOMER APPRECIATION PARTY

Carrboro’s Orange County Social Club sits in a prime spot on Main Street: It’s too far from UNC’s campus to attract an undergrad crowd, and its glowing interior and cozy back patio make for a warm, welcoming outpost. For its annual customer appreciation party, OCSC has put together an excellent, if staunchly varied, bill of locals to help celebrate. In the first slot is Wild Fur, delivering bleary-eyed rock before Teardrop Canyon slides through with slick, eighties-inspired tracks. Sitting in the middle is Scanners, a newer project that involves Last Year’s Men’s and Natural Causes’ Ben Carr and Ian Rose. MAKE brings the party to a roaring finish with its massive and magnificent walls of sound. OCSC marks its fifteenth anniversary this year, but if you’re not already a regular, this is a good opportunity to start.

—Allison Hussey

BILL FERRIS: THE SOUTH IN COLOR

Raised in Mississippi and now a Chapel Hill resident, Bill Ferris is perhaps the most important living scholar of the South. He’s dedicated his life to folklore, documenting and preserving the oft-forgotten threads of culture that form the colorful fabric of a regional identity. His latest public work is The South in Color, a gorgeous collection of Ferris’s photography. Each of the book’s sections tell different stories: “The Farm” documents Ferris’s rural home in Mississippi, while “Handmade Color” covers folk art ranging from quilts to sculpture to hand-painted signs. There’s beautiful portraiture and scenery aplenty, all of which defies the common (if often inaccurate) povertyobsessed portrayals of the South. Ferris should have many wonderful stories to share about his subjects, and he’s joined at the Nasher by Tom Rankin, the director of Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies and author of the book’s foreword. —Allison Hussey NASHER MUSEUM OF ART, DURHAM 7 p.m., free, www.nasher.duke.edu

ORANGE COUNTY SOCIAL CLUB, CARRBORO 4 p.m., free, www.facebook.com/ocsc.carrboro

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

DRIQUE LONDON, CHELSEA SHAG, BAND & THE BEAT

Rappers seem to have a penchant for boasting about totally unsubstantiated cross-genre pollination in their music, claiming it’s much more than just hip-hop. Occasionally, rappers like Drique London actually make good on that claim. His appearance at Kings pairs him with Atlanta poprocker Chelsea Shag and Raleigh husband-wife, electro-synth duo Band & the Beat, which on its face sounds like a far cry from the average rap show. While Drique has made a name for himself in North Carolina with no-nonsense, lyrical boombap cuts like “Reggie Game 5,” Tracy and James Tritten’s synth-laden melodies as Band & the Beat are more akin to the soundtrack of Netflix smashhit Stranger Things. Throw on an acoustic guitarbacked singer like Shag, and for this one night, a hip-hop show lives up to the promise of being more than just that. —Ryan Cocca KINGS, RALEIGH 9 p.m., $6–$8, www.kingsraleigh.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

Drique London

PHOTO BY VICTOR MATOS

DAVE BARRY AT THE DURHAM ARMORY (P. 35), THE BEAUTIFUL BEAST AT FOREST THEATRE (P. 23), CINEMA SOLORIENS AT KINGS (P. 27), MACCOUNTANT AT COMMON GROUND THEATRE (P. 34), NIGHTSOUND ANNIVERSARY PARTY AT CAT’S CRADLE AND THE STATION (P. 29), SABAA TAHIR AT QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS (P. 22), THE SMYTH BROTHERS AT UNEXPOSED MICROCINEMA (P. 35) INDYweek.com | 8.31.16 | 25

SA 10/22 TODD SNIDER W/ ROREY CARROLL ($24/$27; SEATED SHOW) 10/23 BEER & HYMNS PRESENTS: A REFORMATION DAY FUNDRAISER 10/25: ROONEY W/ROYAL TEETH, SWIMMING WITH BEARS ($16/$18)

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WE 10/26 HATEBREED, DEVILDRIVER, DEVIL YOU KNOW ($25/$28)

HORSE LORDS

WE 8/31

HOTLINE / THE DINWIDDIES

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LIVE AT NEPTUNES EYES UP HERE COMEDY

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CINEMA SOLORIENS FT MARSHALL ALLEN OF SUN RA ARKESTRA (6:00) DRIQUE LONDON

FR 9/2 SA 9/3 SU 9/4

CHELSEA SHAG / BAND & THE BEAT (8:30) FR 9/2 SA 9/3

ELLIS DYSON & THE SHAMBLES

TU 9/6

DRISKILL / KATE RHUDY

WE 9/7

HECTORINA

TH 9/8

SHAMROCK B-BOY BATTLE

MO 9/5 LIVE AT NEPTUNES

ATOMIC RHYTHM ALL STARS

FR 9/9

TU 9/6 LIVE AT NEPTUNES BLOODWORTH COMBO

HOPSCOTCH MUSIC FESTIVAL HOPSCOTCH MUSIC FESTIVAL SA 9/10 HOPSCOTCH MUSIC FESTIVAL TH 9/8 FR 9/9

JACOB WICK • DAVID J (BAUHAUS/LOVE & ROCKETS) CYMBALS EAT GUITARS • VIBEKILLERS ST. VITUS • MERCHANDISE

BLUEBERRY / SOCCER TEES FREE SHOW!!

THE POUR HOUSE & THE ART OF COOL PRESENT:

JEFF BRADSHAW THE SOUTHERN BELLES SLOPPY SECONDS + ANTISEEN KIFF / DRUNK IN A DUMPSTER

SAGES / SECOND HUSBAND SU 9/4

EMILY JANE WHITE LOCAL BAND LOCAL BEER NAKED NAPS

SA 9/10

WILLI CARLISLE LORD DYING / BLACK FAST

CHILD BITE / JOEL GRIND / GORBASH PRIMITIVE WAYS DAY PARTY FEATURING: BEDOWYN, SQUALL, UNMAKER, CHATEAU, SAVAGIST, MINIGUNS, ABACUS, BASURA, RBT HOPSCOTCH MUSIC FESTIVAL THE SNAILS W/ PALM, SNEAKS, WING DAM MIR’S EMPIRE DAY PARTY FEATURING: DENIRO FARRAR, WELL$, NANCE, ACE HENDERSON, MOSCA FLUX, LAZARUS, CYPHER UNIVERSITY, SHAME, CA 12P HOPSCOTCH MUSIC FESTIVAL YOB W/ COBALT, OCCULTIST, MAKE YOUNGER BROTHER PRODUCTIONS DAY PARTY FEATURING: ZACK MEXICO, NO EYES, GRAY YOUNG, ECHO COURTS, SEABREEZE DINER AND MANY MORE HOPSCOTCH MUSIC FESTIVAL

STOOGES BRASS BAND

W/ RAINBOW KITTEN SURPRISE, DYNAMITE BROTHERS, HOTLINE 9:00 PM

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TH 9/1 THE MELVINS

W/ HELMS ALEE ($20/$22)

FR 9/2 ECLIPSE (THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE) AND ABACAB (THE MUSIC OF GENESIS) ($10) SU 9/4 OF MONTREAL W/ RUBY THE RABBITFOOT ($17) TU9/6CRYSTAL CASTLES**($20/$23) WE 9/7 RON POPE W/ MELODIME AND TRUETT ($17/$20) FR 9/9 ABBEY ROAD LIVE ($12/$15)

FR 10/28 IAN HUNTER AND THE RANT BAND ($25/$28) SA 10/29 DANNY BROWN W/ ZELOOPER Z ($22/$25&VIPAVAIL) SU 10/30 NF ($18/$21) TU 11/1 THE MOTET ($16/$19) WE 11/2 SNAKEHIPS W/LAKIM ($17/$20) FR 11/5 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE LD W/ ACTRESS so out SU 11/6 STAND AGAINST HB2 NOON -MIDNIGHT CONCERT!

SA9/10TORY LANEZ W/KRANIUM ANDVEECEE($30)

TH 11/10 MEWITHOUTYOU W/ YONI WOLF (OF WHY?)

TU 9/13 BLIND GUARDIAN

FR 11/11 YEASAYER W/ LYDIA AINSWORTH ($20)

FR 9/16 THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE TO POP MUSIC'S ROYAL DYNASTY: MICHAEL JACKSON AND PRINCE ($18/$20)

SA 11/12 GUIDED BY VOICES W/ SURFER BLOOD ($26.50)

W/ GRAVEDIGGER ($29 - $60 FOR VIP)

9/17 (NOON) CARRBORO ELEMENTARY BACK TO SCHOOL ROCK BASH FEAT. SCOTS, MARY JOHNSON ROCKERS,& MORE ($10) SA9/17COSMIC CHARLIE -- HI ENERGY GRATEFUL DEAD FROM ATHENS, GA ($12/$15)

TU 9/20 OKKERVIL RIVER W/LANDLADY ($18/$20) TH 9/22 BUILT TO SPILL W/ HOP ALONG, ALEX G($20/$25) FR 9/23 LOVE WINS BOOK DISCUSSION TO BENEFIT EQUALITY NC

SA 9/24 HIPPIE SABOTAGE ($17/$20) SU 9/25 CARRBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL (FREE SHOW/ 8 ACTS) TU 9/27 DENZEL CURRY W/BOOGIE ($17/$19) WE 9/28: THE DANDY WARHOLS W/ SAVOY MOTEL ($24/$27) TH 9/29 JUDAH & THE LION W/ THE LONELY BISCUITS

FR 9/30 KISHI BASHI** ($18/$20) SA 10/1 TOWN MOUNTAIN**($12/$15) MO 10/3 NADA SURF W/ AMBER ARCADES($17/$20) WE10/5ELEPHANT REVIVAL W/BEN SOLLEE ($15/$17) TH 10/6 TAKING BACK SUNDAY W/YOU BLEW IT, MAMMOTH INDIGO($35) FR 10/7 THE DEAR HUNTER W/ EISLEY, GAVIN CASTLETON ($18/$20) SA 10/8 WXYC 90S DANCE SU 10/9 LANY W/ TRANSVIOLET ($15)

TU 10/11: THE MOWGLI'S W/ COLONY HOUSE, DREAMERS ($17/$19) WE 10/12 DIARRHEA PLANET

W/ WESTERN MEDICATION** ($12/$15)

TH 10/13 DANCE GAVIN DANCE W/ THE CONTORTIONIST, HAIL THE SUN & MORE ($18/$20) FR10/14:BALANCE & COMPOSURE W/ FOXING, MERCURY GIRLS

SA 10/15: BRETT DENNEN W/ LILY & MADELEINE ($22/$25) MO 10/17 SOILWORK W/ UNEARTH, BATTLECROSS, WOVENWAR, DARKNESS DIVIDED ($20/$23)

TU 10/18 LUCERO

W/CORY BRANAN ($20/$23)

WE 10/19 BEATS ANTIQUE W/ TOO MANY ZOO'S, THRIFTWORKS ($26/$29) TH 10/20 WILLIE WATSON & AOIFE O’DONOVAN**($22/$25) FR 10/21 THE ORB ($17/$20)

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• IRREGARDLESS: Nixon, Blevins & Gage; 6:30 p.m. • KINGS: Horse Lords, Hotline & the Dinwiddies; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Grass Cats; 5:45 p.m., $5. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Sizzla and The Fire House Band; 9 p.m., $30–$45. • NIGHTLIGHT: August 919Noise Showcase; 8:30 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Emily Jane White; 9 p.m., $10. •SLIM’S: Softaware, Slimyoungman; 9 p.m., $5.

• WAVERLY PLACE: The Embers; 6 p.m., free.

THU, SEP 1 Bone Thugs-NHarmony DYS-FUN- The only thing that CTION has remained a constant since Bone Thugs-NHarmony first announced an ambitious set of end-of-career plans in 2014 — involving a singlecopy, million dollar album (yes, a carbon copy of the Wu-Tang idea) and a dramatic world tour—is the group’s failure to follow through on any of its big plans. The final album is now officially shelved, and recent releases sound trapped in an early-2000s time void. Nostalgia is one hell of a drug. —RC [THE RITZ, $25/8:30 P.M.]

Nathan Bowles BANJO People who claim to STORM hate the banjo have never heard Nathan Bowles play it. On his new Whole & Cloven, out Friday via Paradise of Bachelors, Bowles delivers a handful of percussive, beguiling tunes that demonstrate the instrument’s timbres beyond just clang and twang. “Gadarene Fugue” and the piano tune “Chiaroscuro” are beautifully detailed flurries, while “I Miss My Dog” stretches to eleven minutes with a slow-burn start that ramps up into a flourishing finish. Bowles’s magic doesn’t begin until after the Cinema Soloriens show finishes upstairs at Kings (see box, this page), so consider making your

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night a fine doubleheader. Gullible Boys open. —AH [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $8/10 P.M.]

and Soccer Tees. —PW [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9:30 P.M.]

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YOUNG/ In case your musical OLD SOUL knowledge doesn’t extend to TV competitions, you might not be familiar with Sawyer Fredericks, who won last year’s edition of The Voice at the ripe age of sixteen. He sings like an old soul, or at least an old pro, and he looks like a lost Hanson brother. In the intimate confines of the Cat’s Cradle Back Room, the sheer wow factor might be something you tell your grandkids about. Amy Vachal opens. —DK [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $20–$25/8 P.M.]

MARSHALL ALLEN AND JAMES HARRAR

Friends and Neighbors NORDIC I’m not entirely sure JOURNEY how the Triangle became a regular stop for Scandinavian free jazz musicians, but I certainly can’t complain.

Friends and Neighbors is a hard-charging Norwegian quintet that takes its inspiration from the late-sixties-era Ornette Coleman band, and Coleman’s melodic free jazz undergirds the ensemble’s sound. Friends and Neighbors is wild and polyvalent, mixing sweet melodies with strangely tasteful sonic outbursts. It’s that tension that makes its sound so enticing.

—DR [THE SHED, $10/8 P.M.]

Local Band Local Beer: Naked Naps NAKED IS Naked Naps’ OK economical indie rock is built on alternate tunings, hyperactive drumming, and obliquely confessional lyrics, with Catie Yerkes’s volleying guitar riffs pairing perfectly with Chris Grubbs’s nimble rhythms. As such, the Raleigh duo bears more than a passing resemblance to nineties underground heroes Cap’n Jazz and its progeny. Naked Naps’ songs seem difficult at the outset, but Yerkes’s yawped insecurities and anxious self-examinations are intriguing and entrancing. With Blueberry

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

CINEMA SOLORIENS WITH MARSHALL ALLEN Saxophonist Marshall Allen is a cosmic treasure. He started playing with jazz titan Sun Ra in 1958 and devoted his entire career to Ra’s music. He’s been leading the Sun Ra Arkestra for over twenty years now, channeling Ra’s wonderfully chaotic musical spirit: the space chords, the sideways Fletcher Henderson covers, the ecstatic improvisation, and the jazz from the future. Now ninety-two years old, Allen still tours regularly, both with the Arkestra and on his own, and still lives in Sun Ra’s house in Philadelphia.

Thirty-five years of playing with and learning from Sun Ra had a profound effect on Allen’s musical voice. He talks about channeling the sounds of earth and space as ways of gesturing toward the impossible and channeling the spirit. “When you go where you’re not used to hearing, it frightens you,” Allen has said. “If you’re used to hearing all kinds of sounds in the universe, you can decipher it and it doesn’t shock you. You understand that everything is here, but you don’t hear it all and you don’t know it all.”

That openness to the impossible imbues everything Allen does. When he plays the alto sax, flute, or the EWI (Electric Wind Instrument), he unleashes an explosion of energy that would electrify a man a quarter his age. His elbows jut out at odd angles. His right hand contorts into a claw, jabbing or strumming the bottom of his horn. His fingers flail across the keys willynilly. He can play a mean tune when he wants, but more often he goes wherever the spirit takes him. And it can take him to some fantastical places.

For this performance, Allen joins James Harrar for a project called Cinema Soloriens.

The two have been working together for two decades, creating live soundtracks to Harrar’s experimental films. Allen and Harrar (on tenor sax) are almost always joined by local musicians from their current location, but for this tour, Harrar has recruited bassist Maxwell Boecker and percussionist Kenneth Murray from Atlanta. Their sound varies from fiery free jazz to psychedelic soundscapes, from opium dreams to demolished jazz standards. It’s all responsive, unexpected, and very much alive. Together, they follow Ra’s spirit, delighting in the unexpected turns the music takes. Would that we could all be so adventurous and articulate when we’re ninety-two. —Dan Ruccia KINGS, RALEIGH 6:30 p.m., $15–$17, www.kingsraleigh.com

NEW For more than thirty TRICKS years, The Melvins have cemented their status as alt-rock icons and enduring cult favorites. From the band’s early days hobnobbing with (and inspiring) grunge royalty, including Nirvana, to its role in influencing the sound of sludge metal to its more freewheeling and collaborative later output, Melvins principals guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover have formed a reliable linchpin and cycled through a long list of collaborators. This year, the band released Three Men and a Baby, a collaborative LP with bassist Mike Kinka, and Basses Loaded, which features Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and Red Kross’s Steven McDonald, who has taken over Melvins bass duties on the road.

Seattle’s Helms Alee opens, supporting its heavy and adventurous new album, Stillicide.

—BCR [CAT’S CRADLE, $20–$22/9 P.M.]

Thayer Sarrano SOUTH Ever watched a PSYCH Southern sunset crawl below the horizon while Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You” blasts as loud as your iPhone will allow? If so, you need the sensual, ethereal, Southern gothic atmospheres of Athens, Georgia’s Thayer Serrano in your life. Firmly planted in the dreamier end of folk rock, her eerie tunes soundtrack swampy ennui and lovelorn emotional states with uncommon tenderness. With The Affectionates. —DS [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

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Oak City 7. Captain & the Keels revive yacht rock with a selection of super smooth covers that’s heavy on the likes of Steely Dan, Toto, and Chicago, while Lowderstill’s fusion originals nod toward the more indulgent rock bands of that era. —SG [RALEIGH CITY PLAZA, FREE/5 P.M.]

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BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Michael Jones Trio; 7 p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Nash Street Ramblers; 7-9 p.m. • DEEP SOUTH: Jon Sebastian; 10:30 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: Half Past Six; 6:30 p.m. • KINGS: Drique London, Chelsea Shag, Band & The Beat; 8 p.m., $6–$8. See page 25. • LOCAL 506: Emily Jane White; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • MOSAIC WINE LOUNGE: Femme Fatal All Female DJ Night: DJ Vouis Luitton and Guests; 10 p.m., free. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd, 10 p.m.

TUE 7/12 DANNY SCHMIDT / REBECCA NEWTON with WES COLLINS THU 7/14 Storymakers: Durham, Community Listening Event SAT 7/16 PINKERTON RAID / ST. ANTHONY & THE MYSTERY TRAIN JUNFresh 29Water @ Tour 8:00 PM, $12/$15 CardiganWED Presents Featuring SUN JUL 17 PROFESSOR TOON / AUSTIN ROYAL / NYCK NEWZ @ 8:00 PM ALLIETHE CAPORAGBIRDS / KRONOZ $12/$15 MON 9/5 Labor Day Shrimp Boil and Oktoberfest Kickoff (starts at 3pm) SAT 9/3

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NO Not so long ago, the TORIES hard-hitting Athens, Georgia, trio The Whigs looked like a good bet to achieve something like Kings Of Leon-level arena rock fame. The band’s brush with the stratosphere never materialized, but it soldiers on the better for it, evolving into purveyors of an appealing brand of intelligent, Southern-inflected dude rock of the sort that bands like Dash Rip Rock and Jason & the Scorchers perfected a generation ago. —TB [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $12/9 P.M.]

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FRI, SEP 2 Elijah Balbed + The JoGo Project GO-GO From the early JAZZIT nineties to the early aughts, the Triangle was a second home for go-go music, which was mainly brought down here by the many Washington, D.C., and Maryland-based students who attended the historically black N.C. Central, Shaw, and St. Augustine universities. Recently, however, go-go has lost some of its steam, coinciding with the passing of the genre’s godfather, Chuck Brown. Saxophonist Elijah

Balbed’s rescue mission of fusing go-go with more established genres may be just what the overseeing Brown would have wanted. —ET [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $10/8 & 10 P.M.]

Jeff Bradshaw ’BONE They call Jeff MASTER Bradshaw the ambrassador. Growing up amid brass and gospel bands, this early admirer of the J.B.’s Fred Wesley discovered the funky capabilities of the trombone early on. He’s parlayed his attraction to the instrument into a lively career both as a sideman with the likes of Michael Jackson and an accomplished solo artist. —DK [POUR HOUSE, $15–$20/9 P.M.]

Luke Bryan BRO There may not be a COUNTRY bigger name in country music right now than Luke Bryan. At the forefront of the bro-country charge that has dominated the airwaves, Bryan has won the Country Music Awards title of entertainer of the year for the past two years. With that notorious grin plastered upon his face, each show finds this superstar plowing through his signature dance moves and playing up the charm, making for a performance that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch open. —DEM [COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK, $33–$85/7 P.M.]

Bynum Front Porch Tenth Anniversary PRESERVE A decade ago, the PICKING tiny Chatham County hamlet of Bynum banded together to save its historic but unprofitable general store, transforming it into a community center that hosts the popular Front Porch Music series each summer. Tonight, the Bynum Pickers play a celebration and donation-based fundraiser to carry on the Front Porch nonprofit.

—SG [BYNUM FRONT PORCH, FREE/7 P.M.]

Chrome Pony NOT TOO A Nashville-based SHINY psych-pop four-piece with an amiably intense take on the four-chordsand-a-cloud-of-dust scuzz rock model, Chrome Pony has built a strong following on the basis of a sterling and energetic live act. It boasts a batch of catchy tunes that typically don’t overtax the intellect, with representative titles like “Rope Dope,” “Fun Girls,” “Good Times,” and “Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah.” The Vagabond Union and Buffalo Rodeo open.

—EB [LOCAL 506, $7–$10/9 P.M.]

Kick Lyme’s Ass! LYME For the past three AWAY years, members of Raleigh singer-songwriter Brian Skilton’s family has been affected by chronic Lyme disease—a tick-borne illness that, when not treated immediately, attacks the joints, heart, and central nervous system. This benefit raises funds to offset the medical costs accrued (and still incoming) by the Skilton family with performances by McCullers Crossroads, Kyle Turner, and Skilton himself, who treads in rustic Americana.

Plus Ryan Dunson of Rookie of the Year. —PW [DEEP SOUTH, $6/8 P.M.]

Lauren Mitchell LADY’S Lauren Mitchell’s BLUES musical background is fairly conventional: singing in church, a big voice, early recognition, learning lots of different genres, a chance musical encounter (via a karaoke contest) that led her to the blues. Her voice is indeed big and malleable, and her blues swings hard. With Mel Melton. —DR [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $10/9 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY ARCANA: Super Secret Dance Party; 9 p.m., $5. • BERKELEY CAFÉ: Chris Smith, Marc Smith; 8 p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. • CAT’S CRADLE: Eclipse, Abacab; 8 p.m., $10. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Messenger Down, Headfirst for Halos, Drop the Girl, The Second After; 7 p.m., $10–$12. • IRREGARDLESS: Ariel Pocock,

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—DK [KINGS, $8/8 P.M.]

Chrisette Michele LOVE Love Jones The TONES Musical is the upcoming stage adaptation of the classic 1997 black romance movie of the same name. It’s the next best thing to a sequel of the film, but a stage play could turn out to be a disaster, especially when the R&B artists involved—Musiq Soulchild, Dave Hollister, MC Lyte, and Marsha Ambrosius—don’t have the necessary acting chops.

Among the cast is Chrisette Michele, who will likely be the most tuned-up of the bunch, with a new record in hand (Milestone) and having recently come off another stage play run (Married But Single). In the meantime, she commands a tough stage of her own with hits like “Epiphany,” “If I Have My Way,” and “Be OK” before Love Jones stops in Durham on October 18. —ET [THE RITZ, $37/8 P.M.]

O.T. Genasis RADIO The best thing about RAP O.T. Genasis is if you listen to rap radio, you already know his two biggest songs, “(I’m in Love with the) CoCo” and “Cut It.” The worst thing about O.T. Genasis is that, until now, you probably had no idea that O.T. Genasis made “(I’m in Love with the) CoCo” and “Cut It.” Maybe you’ll here his next big single here before it hits. —DM [LINCOLN THEATRE, $40–$55/8 P.M.]

Professor Toon LOCAL No, you don’t have HIP-HOP to bring a pen, but Professor Toon’s January album, Take Notes, is an arresting mix of astute social commentary and new-school rap styles that’s worth your attention. The local rapper is also American Underground’s “Rapper-In-Residence,” whatever that means, so here’s a chance to see him outside of the start-up farm. Austin Royal, Nyck Newz, 30 | 8.31.16 | INDYweek.com

Allie Capo, and Kronoz open.

Of Montreal

[MOTORCO, $10–$12/8:30 P.M.]

WEARY Nearly a decade ago, WEIRDOS eccentric art rockers Of Montreal released Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer, a magnificently eccentric indie pop masterwork. In the years since, the band’s records have been a series of underwhelming, diminished returns; despite that, the band’s live shows continue to be big-time spectacles. Ruby the Rabbitfoot opens. —AH [CAT’S CRADLE, $17/9 P.M.]

—DM

The Southern Belles JAM Richmond’s GROOVE Southern Belles have gained a dedicated following on the road with their amalgamation of psychedelic honky-tonk rock. The band’s vocals are nothing to write home about, but its songs twist and turn with funky solos at every corner for a sound that conjures jam-band kingpins like moe. If jammy grooves are your thing, throw on your tie-dye and get to dancing. —DEM [POUR HOUSE, $5–$7/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Will McBride Trio; 8 & 10 p.m., $8. • CAT’S CRADLE: Nightsound Studios 15 Year Celebration; 8 p.m., $10–$15. See box, page 29.

• COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK: Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch; 7 p.m., $30–$85. See Sep 3 listing. • DEEP SOUTH: The Best Damn Rap Show Period; 10 p.m., $5. • IRREGARDLESS: Stevan Jackson; 11 a.m. Workbook; 6 p.m. Noah Powell Quintet; 9 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Jermania; 10 p.m. • THE STATION: Nightsound Studios 15 Year Celebration; 5 p.m. See box, page 29. First Saturday Dance Party; 10 p.m. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Dr. Brian Taylor; 8 p.m., $12.

• TRIANGLE YOGA: Samadhi; 7 p.m., $10.

SUN, SEP 4 Bridesmaid RIFF Columbus, Ohio, RUMBLE foursome Bridesmaid arrives in Raleigh on the heels of its latest album, International House of Mancakes.

The instro-sludge outfit’s double-bass, double-drums lineup lends itself well to a fuming rumble, but gives its low riffs little melodic relief. Chapel Hill’s Bitter Resolve opens with a more dynamic approach to its heavy psych-rock. —BCR [SLIM’S, $5/8 P.M.]

Shamrock B-Boy Battle DANCE If you’re looking to TO WIN immerse yourself in lively and unfamiliar territory this weekend—and assuming you’re not already a giant break-dancing fanatic—look no further than the Shamrock B-Boy Battle at Kings, where the vibrant subculture of regional b-boys and b-girls will be on full display. All competitors pay a five-dollar entry fee in addition to the ticket at the door, vying for a $250 grand prize at the end of the night. Micky Slicks, SPCLGST, and Nicky Bags hold down the music. —RC [KINGS, $5/10 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY ARCANA: Claire Cronin, John Davis. • DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3. • DUKE’S EAST CAMPUS QUAD: Duke Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert; 6 p.m. • GROWLER GRLZ: Martin Eagle, Ben Palmer; 3 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Gene O’Neill; 10 a.m. Charlie Craichy; 6 p.m. • LOCAL 506: Pink Mexico, Phononova, Joy On Fire; 9 p.m., $7. • POUR HOUSE: Sloppy Seconds, Antiseen, Kiff, Drunk in a Dumpster; 8:30 p.m., $12–$15. • STEEL STRING BREWERY: Nate Vallejo, Kiah Wells; 4 p.m.

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

MON, SEP 5 NEPTUNES PARLOUR: AtomicRhythm All Stars; 9 p.m., $5. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5.

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decade ago, art rockers The Ataris Hissing GAME Former pop-punk royer, a prince Kris Roe’s c indie pop OVER ars since, band The Ataris has fallen largely e been a silent since the turn of the millennium, mostly releasing ng, spite that, demos and odds-and-sods ontinue to collections. The Ataris’ cumber. Ruby the some June EP, October in This Railroad Earth, is new in name H only; most of its songs date back .M.] to Roe’s pre-Ataris days in the early nineties. Mineral Girls and Boy Almost People open. —PW [LOCAL 506, $13–$15/8:30 P.M.]

ooking to yourself in Crystal Castles rritory this How did Crystal ing you’re XEROX GOTH Castles go from ak-dancing er than the being the most beloved band in e at Kings, indiedom to an empty, soulless culture of husk of its former self? Jettisoning girls will be singer Alice Glass didn’t help, petitors pay especially when producer Ethan n addition Kath characterized her as a leech r, vying for and hired gun in interviews after he end of Glass’s departure. He brought in a SPCLGST, new singer for the current own the incarnation of Crystal Castles to emulate everything toxic and frightening and iconic about Glass’s persona, and the results are uninspiring. Jamming out at home to “Alice Practice” should John be much more satisfying than the : Live & group’s glorified karaoke shtick.

DUKE’S —DS [CAT’S CRADLE, AD: Duke $20–$23/8 P.M.] Concert; RLZ: 3 p.m. • Japanese Breakfast ne O’Neill; 10 Gentle Philly indie . • LOCAL LO-FI pop slingers Little nova, Joy On QUEEN HOUSE: Big League wrote a number of Kiff, Drunk strong Cranberries-influenced $12–$15. • tunes, even if the band’s EWERY: of-the-moment emo-revival sound wasn’t particularly p.m. earth-shattering. So it’s been a BARNoah Sager & pleasant surprise to see guitarist Michelle Zauner’s spare, haunting solo project, Japanese Breakfast, get so much shine in recent months. Her tight, heartbreaking lo-fi constructions weave highly UR: personal tales that value p.m., $5. • emotional punch over everything. rd Redbyrd; Zauner stays musically AZZ adventurous, unafraid to subtly hed with slip into sultry disco or blown-out shoegazer zones. Porches

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—DS [THE PINHOOK, $13–$15/9 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY IRREGARDLESS: William D. Burton; 6:30 p.m. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Bloodworth Combo; 9 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Willie Carlisle; 9 p.m., $5. • QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS: Sabah Tahir, Renee Ahdieh; 7 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: Whothefolklohr; 11 p.m.

WED, SEP 7 Cyanotype HARD Durham’s STUFF Cyanotype is one of a handful of local experimental collectives that specializes in boundary-pushing experiments in improvisation. Though the ensemble’s members have been playing together for quite a while around the Triangle, Cyanotype celebrates the release of its first official release, Two Silent Schnauzers, at Arcana. The title nods to Dan Lilley, the Raleigh engineer who recorded the album just a few months before passing away in February. The album’s pieces scrape and squeak, yip and wail, to odd and occasionally unsettling ends. Cyanotype requires close listening, but lean in, and you’ll be fascinated by every detail. (Disclosure: Cyanotype’s Dan Ruccia is a regular INDY contributor.) —AH [ARCANA, $5/8:30 P.M.]

Sean Hayes EARTHY This New SOUL York-based singer-songwriter grew up in North Carolina, and his lived-in music has an appealing grit that speaks to Southern blues and folk traditions. He sings with natural authority, and he’s joined here by Tim Carr and Charley Crockett.

—DK [MOTORCO, $15–$20/8 P.M.]

Lord Dying HAIL THE Lord Dying sounds RIFF exactly what you’d expect a band called Lord Dying to sound like. The Portland, Oregon, trio delivers glorious

blasts of punishing metal with doomy furor, bending growling riffs to jackhammering grooves.

Songs leap from mid-tempo trudges to prog-metal gallops, which should delight fans of Leviathan-era Mastodon. Black Fast, Child Bite, Joel Grind, and Gorbash open. —PW [POUR HOUSE, $12–$15/8 P.M.]

Ron Pope INDIE Ron Pope POPE exemplifies the modern indie music model, one that eschews record-label and management involvement and prizes DIY outreach, heavy touring, and a sense of union among musicians. Pope’s soulful heartland rock has won him a devoted fan base. Whether he can become a star without the star-making machinery is anyone’s guess, but give him points for ambition. With Melodime and Truett. —DK [CAT’S CRADLE, $17–$20/8 P.M]

Swift Creek STRONG Swift Creek is one of SONGS many modern acoustic string bands weaving together bluegrass, folk, and country with soothing three-part harmonies. Kevin Brown’s songwriting, though, is nothing if not ambitious. His tune about a long drive home manages to touch on seemingly incongruous topics like the unfortunate ubiquity of Applebee’s and the sovereignty of God while also sliding in a reference to the Eagles.

With Nixon, Blevins & Gage.

—SG [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $5/5:30 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 8:30 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Mysti Mayhem; 6:30 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: City Mouse; 7 p.m., free.

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Against the Wall: Paintings by Katherine Armacost. Sep 6-Oct 9. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

A Garden is a Dream Space: Paperworks and textiles

by Ann Marie Kennedy.

Sep 4-25. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com.

Into the Woods: Betty Fetvedt, Chris Boerner, and Steve Driggers. Roundabout Art Collective, Raleigh. www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

Natural Lines: Furniture by Jim Oleson. Sep 6-Oct 9. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com.

NC to NYC: Work by Jim Hallenbeck. Sep 2-Oct 1. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com.

Paintings, Photographs, Friendship: Works by Clyde Edgerton and John Rosenthal.

Sep 6-Oct 9. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart. com.

SPECIAL Josue Pellot: EVENT Sculpture. Sep 1-27.

Reception: Sep 1, 6-8 p.m.

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

SPECIAL Processes of EVENT Illumination: Kevin Peddicord, Ashley Lowe, and Stephen Cefalo. Sep 2-22.

Reception: Sep 2, 6-9 p.m.

Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www. litmusgallery.com.

SPECIAL Remembrances: EVENT Paintings by Silvia Paz. Sep 1-30. Reception: Sep 2, 6-9 p.m. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net. See p. 24.

SPECIAL Rorschach: EVENT Photographs by Titus Brook Heagins. Sep 2-Oct 29. Reception: Sep 2, 6-10 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

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08.31–09.07 SPECIAL Selma to EVENT Montgomery: A March for the Right to Vote: Photographs by Spider Martin.

Sep 3-Mar 5. Reception: Sep 2, 5-9 p.m. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art: Exploration of southern identity through contemporary art. Sep 1-Jan 8. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

SPECIAL Synesthesia: LED art EVENT by Lile Stephens.

Sep 2-Oct 2. Reception: Sep 2, 6-9 p.m. Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www.flandersartgallery. com. See box, this page.

SPECIAL Up Close and EVENT Personal: The Beauty of Tiny Insects: Photos

by Stan Lewis. Sep 2-Oct 2.

Reception: Sep 3, 2-4 p.m.

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

William Noland: Dream Rooms: Long video takes examining technology and intimacy. Sep 3-Feb 5. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist: In Altered Land, Stamer and Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. scenes. Stamer paints a barn with black-and-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Thru Sep 11.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe

ONGOING

Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock. Thru Sep 25.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe

Judy Abrahams, Shib Sankar Basu, Robert Hoppin, Ann Howe, Sherri Leeder, Dona McNeill, Derek Unger: Thru Sep 27. Cary Gallery of Artists. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

LAST African American CHANCE Quilt Circle: Blockquilting, original designs, and fiber art. Thru Sep 4. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com.

LAST All That Glitters: CHANCE Golden-hued artwork by Gordon Jameson, Sheila Stillman, and Samantha Henneke and Bruce Gholson of Bulldog Pottery. Thru Sep 4.

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

The Art of the Bike: Bicyclethemed art exhibit. Thru Oct 23. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www.co.orange.nc.us/ library/carrboro.

Avant-Gardens: Mixed collage work by Lauren Worth. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Bathroom Humor: National Cartoonists Take on HB2: Visual commentary on NC House Bill 2. Thru Sep 25.

Horse & Buggy Press, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com.

Liz Bradford: Oil paintings.

Thru Sep 30. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

By the Sea: Robert Harrison.

Thru Oct 8. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www.eruuf.org.

Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection: Whereas many glassblowers content themselves with bongs and lampshades, Dale Chihuly has taken the form into the upper echelons of fine art with his sculptural fantasias. This

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eyes. Using bright colors, blocky shapes, and skewed perspectives remindful of a child’s drawing, he depicts the collision of old and new Durham, as historic brick jumbles with shiny ELF vehicles in front of the Organic Transit building. A“Ghost Bike” parking sign pays a tribute to a friend of the artist’s in particular, and to all the people being erased, literally or figuratively, from Durham.

“Road Closed Ahead,” reads another sign; the question Kerman quietly asks is “for whom?”

Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery. com. —Brian Howe

It’s a two-for-one at this First Friday opening reception at Lump, which shares a Blount Street space with Flanders Gallery. Lump’s twenty-first season begins with Louis Watts’s exhibit On Today, running through the month of September. It features very many charcoal drawings of a single form, as Watts seeks the moments of serendipity and grace that can emerge from the diligent application of tedium and routine. As an alternate title, we might suggest “Sixty-Four Ways of Looking at a Rectangle (Shout-out to Kazimir Malevich).”

Meanwhile, over in Flanders, bathe in Lile Stephens’s Synesthesia. It’s an homage to minimalist master Steve Reich in light-emitting diodes, the phases of which you can also listen to through headphones. See (and hear) the light until October. —Brian Howe LUMP, RALEIGH 6–9 p.m., free, www.teamlump.org private collection of Chihuly’s works is currently on tour. The collection focuses on Chihuly vessels inspired by Venetian art deco vases from the 1920s and ’30s, almost fifty of which are in the exhibit, arrayed around the centerpiece of the Laguna Murano Chandelier, a tour de force made of more than 1,500 pieces. Thru Oct 15. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham. —Brian Howe The Colors of Summer: Peg Bachenheimer. Thru Sep 17.

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

Come Out and Play: Outdoor sculpture group show.

Thru Sep 24. JimGin Farm, Pittsboro. www.carrboro.com/ comeoutandplay.

Continuum: Work by Martha Clippinger, Joy Drury Cox, Susan Harbage Page, Tom Spleth, and Hillary Waters. Thru Oct 1. Light Art + Design, Chapel Hill. www. lightartdesign.com.

Dear, Deer: Oil paintings by Trish Klenow. Thru Sep 9. Halle

Cultural Arts Center, Apex. www.thehalle.org.

LAST Departures and CHANCE Arrivals: Raleigh’s Gayle Stott Lowry is a painter of landscapes and architecture whose pictorial realism glimmers with hints of abstraction. Her new exhibit showcases work from travels in England, where her mind turned to the plight of refugees while researching her ancestors’ journey to the U.S. The context gives the work a lonesome patina—a misty valley, more than a view to behold, becomes a challenge to traverse.

Thru Sep 3. Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www.tyndallgalleries. com. —Brian Howe Do You Have a Moment?: It’s a question that might send you scurrying when posed by someone clutching a clipboard on the street. It’s also the title of Jody Servon’s new show, which comes to life only when you respond to its prompts.

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Equine Abstractions: Paintings

by Laura Hughes. Thru Sep 24. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org.

at Artspace. The centerpiece is “Our Top 100,” in which visitors write down a song title and a recollection it sparks.

The notes are posted on the wall, and each song is added to the playlist streaming in the gallery. The result is a collective memory mixtape for Raleigh, and an invitation to break free from isolating routines. Thru Sep 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. —Brian Howe Dreaming in Color: Paintings by Lolette Guthrie, textile art by Alice Levinson, and blown glass

by Pringle Teetor. Thru Sep 25.

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

Durham and the Rise of the Baseball Card: An exploration of Durham’s role in popularizing the baseball card. Thru Sep 5.

Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

Durham by Ghostbike: In one of his mixed-media collages, Jeremy Kerman shows us a familiar downtown vantage through fresh

Ingrid Erikson, Tonia Gebhart, Caroline Hohenrath, Anna Podris, and Tim Saguinsin: Thru Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Sam Ezell: Folk art paintings.

Thru Sep 26. Whitted Human Services Center, Hillsborough.

Flowers of France and Italy: Paintings by Sonia Kane. Thru Sep 24. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

History and Mistory: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: This free exhibit is the first time in four decades that NCMA has curated an exhibit from its British holdings—and if you simply don’t care about pictures of random aristocrats in ruffs, the show also includes portraits by famous names like Anthony van Dyck and William Beechey. Thru Mar 19, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Hometown (Inherited): Photographic and mixed media work by Moriah LeFebvre. Thru Oct 2. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

In the Footsteps Of...: Group photography show. Thru Sep 9. Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex. www.thehalle.org.

Its Some Kynd of Thing It Aint Us but Yet Its In Us: English artist Andrew Hladky’s dark, igneous enigmas—painted found objects that bulge from

canvases—are like chunks of bedrock excavated from the subconscious. It’s art as pure artifact, contrasting the brightly lit social experiments of Jody Servon, which are also currently at Artspace. Thru Sep 5. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. —Brian Howe Blaine Janas: Metal flower arrangements and animal sculptures. Thru Sep 30. United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County. www.unitedarts.org.

Landscapes: Matter and Spirit: Michael Brown, Jacob Cooley, Julyan Davis, Larry Gray, Jennifer Miller, Marlise Newman, Chad Smith. Thru Sep 25. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery.net.

Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

LAST Made Especially for CHANCE You by Willie Kay: Dresses by the Raleigh designer.

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

Muhammad Ali Memorable Images: Ringside photos from Zaire and Manila by Sonia Katchian. Thru Sep 15. Vegan Flava Cafe, Durham. www. veganflavacafe.com.

Natural Abstractions: Photographs by Michael Rosenberg. Thru Sep 10.

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

The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello Out of Context: Mixed-media work by Kathryn DeMarco, Linwood Hart, and Libby O’Daniel. Thru Sep 10. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www. scrapexchange.org.

Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective: Photographs of North Carolina.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Printocracy: Work by N.C. printmakers. Thru Sep 16. Cary Town Hall. www.townofcary.org.

Resilience: The Divine Power of Black & White: Artwork by Julie Niskanen Skolozynski. Thru Sep 18. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

LAST Ribbons of Color: CHANCE Layers of Wax: Encaustic paintings by Carol Retch-Bogart. Thru Sep 4. The Qi Garden, Hillsborough. www. the-qi-garden.com.

Sea Life: Sculpture by Renee Leverty, Brenda Holmes, and Nate Sheaffer. Thru Sep 25.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

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Seeing Beyond the Structures: Portraits of the Landscape: Paintings by Adam Bellefeuil, Rachel Campbell, and Caitlin Cary. Thru Sep 16. Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Raleigh. www.raleighnc.gov/arts.

Southern Discomfort: The Art of Dixie: Work concerning the American South. Thru Sep 13.

Gallery C, Raleigh. galleryc.net.

Space of Otherness: The painter Quoctrung Nguyen swirls his experience as a migrant into elegant abstractions in this new exhibit. Works like “Utopia III” and “Heterotopia” suggest overlapping prints from the coats of fantastic animals, with textures furred, mottled, and fluid drawn into chaotic harmonies. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org. —Brian Howe LAST Sunset: Sunrise: CHANCE Works on paper by intergenerational artists, including Victoria Turner Powers. Thru Sep 1. The Carter Building Galleries & Art Studios, Raleigh. www.thecarterbuilding. com.

Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm: Ken Abbott’s photos of a family farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Thru Sep 10. Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

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Tone Bell: Stand-up comedy. $15. Wed, Aug 31, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Comedy @ The Station: Stand-up comedy hosted by Brian Burns. $5. Thu, Sep 1, 9 p.m. The Station, Carrboro. stationcarrboro.com.

Eyes Up Here Comedy Showcase: Stand-up comedy. $8. Wed, Aug 31, 8:30 p.m.

Neptunes Parlour, Raleigh. www.neptunesparlour.com.

Horrible People: Comedy

storytelling. $5. Wed, Sep 7, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Arnez J: Stand-up comedy. $30. Thu, Sep 1-Sun, Sep 4. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Labor Day Weekend’s Laffapalooza: Comedy. $30$65. Fri, Sep 2, 7:45 p.m.

Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. www.dukeenergycenterraleigh. com.

Mettlesome Comedy: Standup comedy: Golden Age, The Racket. $5. Fri, Sep 2, 8 & 10 p.m. The Shed Jazz Club, Durham.

Music and the Mirror: Play. $15. Fri, Sep 2, 8 p.m. & Sat,

Sep 3, 3 p.m. Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh. www. sonorousroad.com.

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PROMPTS: Imperative: Multidisciplinary performances. $5. Sat, Sep 3, 7 p.m. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. www.thecarrack.org.

Shamrock B-Boy Battle: $5-$10. Sun, Sep 4, 10 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www. kingsbarcade.com.

Smitty’s First Friday Comedy Show: Stand-up comedy by Laughin Lenny. $10. Fri, Sep 2, 9 p.m. TJ’s Night Life, Raleigh. www.tjsnightlife.com.

The Water Circus: Cirque Italia. $10-$50. First Monday, FridaySundays, 7:30 p.m.; Thru Sep 5.

Villa Latina Plaza, Raleigh.

ONGOING The Beautiful Beast: Paperhand Puppet Intervention. Thru Sep 5.

UNC Campus: Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. ncbg.unc.edu. See review, p. 23.

Creature: Play. $17. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 3 p.m. Continues through Sept.

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

Memphis: Musical. $22$26. Thru Sep 4. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org.

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The Martian: Fri, Sep 2, 8:30 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

NC Comicon: The Movie: $5.

Wed, Aug 31, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www. carolinatheatre.org.

The Princess Bride: Sat, Sep 3, 8:30 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

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Selma: Fri, Sep 2, 6 p.m. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

OPENING The Light Between Oceans— This period romance starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander is based on the novel of the same name. Rated PG-13.

Morgan—A lab-grown superhuman goes bad in this ensemble sci-fi flick. Rated R. Southside With You—This is a romantic drama about the young Obamas. Rated PG-13.

Rob Zombie’s 31: Thu, Sep 1, 7 p.m. Regal North Hills Stadium 14, Raleigh and Crossroads 20, Cary.

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A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  ½ Bad Moms—It’s The Change-Up and The Hangover for women. You’re welcome?

Rated PG-13.  Ben Hur—Better storytelling is crippled by lackluster cinematography in Timur Bekmambetov’s update on this epic. Rated PG-13.  ½ Florence Foster Jenkins—Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant carry their tunes, but this biopic of an opera singer who couldn’t sing never finds its melody. Rated PG-13.  Ghostbusters—Haters aside, the casting isn’t the problem here: The limp script is. Rated PG-13.  Hell or High Water— Two texas antiheroes try to make the best of their bad hand in this bleak but brilliant neo-Western.Rated R.  Jason Bourne—Matt Damon’s amnesiac assassin returns in an efficient, effective genre exercise with a disposable plot. Rated PG-13.  The Jungle Book— Disney’s animated classic gets a well-done, CGI-heavy

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THE SMYTH BROTHERS: WE USED TO MAKE MOVIES ONCE Brendan and Jeremy Smyth have brought experimental film to Durham in a big way with their microcinema series, Unexposed, which offers weekly programming in a dedicated space near Golden Belt. The Smyths may have been focusing their efforts as of late on highlighting the works of other filmmakers, but they’re no slouches when it comes to creation, with several award-winning experimental 16mm documentaries under their collective belt. This three-night screening of their works features two half-hour-long docs, Por Dinero (which deals with an undocumented Mexican worker, his indigenous family, and an obsolete language) and Rice for Sale (a wordless meditation on Bali’s declining rice trade), and the three-minute apocalyptic fantasia News From the Sun, which the brothers created for Moogfest in 2016. —Brian Howe UNEXPOSED MICROCINEMA, DURHAM 8 p.m., $5, www.unexposedmicrocinema.com

update. Rated PG.  ½ Lights Out—A viral no-budget short about a monster that appears only in the dark becomes a surprisingly effective horror feature with a sensitivity to subtext. Rated PG-13.  ½ The Secret Life of Pets—This charming, beautifully crafted family movie falls apart in the final act. Rated PG.  Suicide Squad—The plot is throwaway thin, but this team of antiheroes brings much-needed levity and breadth to the DC Extended Universe. Rated PG-13.

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Chapel Hill Downtown Pop Up Farmers’ Market: Thursdays, 3:30 p.m.; Thru Oct 27. The Plaza at 140 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill.

Chuy’s Green Chile Festival: Thru Sep 4. Chuy’s Mexican Restaurant, Raleigh and Cary. www.chuys.com.

Homebrew for Hunger: Sampling of beers from local homebrewers and craft breweries. Proceeds benefit PORCH. $30. Sun, Sep 4, 1 p.m. Fifth Season Gardening,

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Labor Day Food Truck Rodeo: With live music by Counterclockwise String Band.

Sun, Sep 4, 12 p.m. Durham Central Park, Durham. www. durhamcentralpark.org.

Labor Day Shrimp Boil and Oktoberfest Kick-Off: Mon, Sep 5, 12 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www. motorcomusic.com.

Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market: Wednesdays, 10 a.m.

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Trucks, Beats & Brews: Food trucks, craft beer tents, and music by DJ Shahzad. Wed, Aug 31, 5 p.m. Durham Bulls Athletic Park, Durham. www.durhambulls.com.

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Bill Ferris: Discussing new photography collection The South in Color with Tom Rankin.

Thu, Sep 1, 5:30 p.m. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

READINGS & SIGNINGS Mac Barnett, Adam Rex: Discussing How This Book Was Made. Sun, Sep 4, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Dave Barry: Humor writer’s new book, Best. State. Ever: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland. Wed, Sep 7, 7 p.m.

Durham Armory, Durham.

Max Brallier: Children’s author.

Tue, Sep 6, 4 p.m. Chatham Community Library, Pittsboro. www.chathamlibraries.org.

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DAVE BARRY: BEST. STATE. EVER. Florida has long been the country’s undisputed bastion of crazy. As Twitter’s hilarious “Florida Man” proves with daily tweets of real news items (“Florida Man Attacks Fellow Bus Rider Over Stinky Yawn”), Floridians consistently commit the kind of colorfully violent, self-destructive, or downright inexplicable acts that people in other states seemingly never dream of doing. Numerous authors, notably Carl Hiaasen, Charles Willeford, and Harry Crews, have made a meal out of the madness that seems endemic to the Sunshine State, and now Dave Barry, the Pulitzer-winning satirist and long-time Miami resident, joins the fun. Resisting the temptation to focus on the state’s rich assortment of grotesques, Barry’s Best. State. Ever. is as celebratory as its title implies. Sure, the bugs are enormous and lunacy is in the air, but Barry’s Florida is no mere punch line. In fact, this author of best-selling novels, nonfiction collections, and YA titles argues compellingly and hilariously that the punching bag where he makes his home deserves a reappraisal. —David Klein

Bruce Frazer, Carol Glasgow: Discussing Extreme Forgiveness: WWII German Pilot Sinks American Destroyer But Finds Forgiveness. Tue, Sep 6, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

Robin Kirk: Debut poetry collection Peculiar Motion.

Thu, Sep 1, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

LITERARY R E L AT E D Be Connected: Village of Wisdom: Education inititiave.

Tue, Sept 6, 7 p.m. Beyú Caffe, Durham. www.beyucaffe.com.

Islamophobia in the Triangle Community: Panel discussion.

Wed, Sep 7, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Piedmont String Band Music: The African American Connection: Music historian Bob Carlin. Wed, Aug 31, 6 p.m. Chatham Community Library, Pittsboro. www. chathamlibraries.org.

Sacrificial Poets Touchstone Open Mic: Tue, Sep 6, 6:30 p.m.

Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com.

THE DURHAM ARMORY, DURHAM 7 p.m., $10 (ticket only)/$27 (book & two tickets), www.regulatorbookshop.com

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