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FOOD: Knish-a-licious brings hard-to-find comfort food to the Triangle

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FOOD: The Drinker hears more than enough Bryan Adams

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Code green Chris Chappell uses puppets to fight for cannabis rights as well as a mainstream career

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The Art of Cool returns

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MUSIC: Should Red Hat Amphitheater use local food

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THEATER REVIEW: Chamber Music at Common

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PERFORMANCE: Talking to Adam Savage of TV’s

Mythbusters before their stop in Raleigh

Roy Ayers and Robert Glasper are using jazz to infiltrate soul, hip-hop and electronica

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FILM REVIEWS: Lambert & Stamp tells the story of

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This year’s version of the festival is heavily influenced by what last year’s fans had to say

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Ground Theatre

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The Who while Ex Machina is a strong entry in the A.I. sci-fi genre

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Art of Cool’s inclusiveness includes gender, too

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The 10 must-see acts at this year’s festival

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“You need to tell us what’s actually occuring in that building.” —p. 7 “I feel cannabis has the ability to bring us together.” —p. 13 “Women, young women, and little girls need to look up on that stage and see somebody they can identify with.” —p. 21

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Someone didn’t have his morning cup I don’t know why it’s acceptable to play up how cool caffeine is when it’s a drug (“Counter culture club,” April 15). Coffee as a time to visit with friends and family is fine.

But, if you’ve been around the world at all, you’ve heard many folks complain about how they can’t function without their caffeine fix.

It’s a drug and it’s largely used as a crutch.

I’d LOVE to go around drinking beer all day, but that’s not socially acceptable. Yet it’s perfect okay to pilot a car, stroll a grocery store or walk around the city all day carting a children’s sippy cup along, using your drug of choice.

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I’m happy to take a stand. Caffeine abuse is just as shameful as abusing any drug. I’m tired of celebrating coffee. I’m tired of listening to big baby adults who can’t wake up without it, I’m tired of nearly being run over by motorists who only have one hand to steer.

It’s BS. Why do some people get to walk around all day using their drug crutch and other drugs aren’t okay?

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EOPLE IN CHATHAM COUNTY, as in neighboring Lee County, are furious over Duke Energy’s plans to dump 3 million tons of potentially toxic coal ash in the counties in the next two years, as evidenced by the hundreds of residents who slammed the company’s proposal in state public hearings held last week by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

“Duke Energy can’t fix their problem by creating two new problems,” said Donna Strickland, a Lee County resident who spoke last week in Pittsboro.

Through its contractor, Kentucky-based Charah Inc., the energy giant is seeking permits from state regulators to store the

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ash in abandoned brick mines outside of Sanford and Moncure, a small town 10 miles southeast of Pittsboro.

DENR spokesman Jamie Kritzer said Monday that the agency expects to decide on those permits by July, although the proposal will also need approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

It’s unclear how long federal permission could take.

It’s the first phase of Duke’s plan to dispose of roughly 100 million tons of ash, which contains carcinogens such as arsenic and cadmium, over the next 15 years. The company is looking for somewhere to bury coal ash after spilling an estimated 39,000 tons of it in the Dan River last February.

In large quantities, the ash is a potentially deadly pollutant, although company officials say neighboring property and groundwater will be buffered by protective landfill liners and layers of

naturally impervious clay.

“These projects are important and they will be done safely,” said Jeff Brooks, Duke Energy spokesman. “Certainly our focus through this project is the environment.”

The energy company says the Sanford and Moncure projects will create about 100 jobs and make the abandoned brick mines fit for potential commercial uses again, although most residents say they are more concerned with the environment.

“It’s like putting a Band-Aid on a staph infection,” said Dawn Crowley, a Sanford resident. “It’s like leaving a trail of pus across the state.”

Gary Simpson, of Chatham County, complained Duke is exposing locals to risk yet protecting the company chiefly by contracting the dumping to a “nebulous” corporation named Green Meadow LLC. As the INDY reported in December, the relatively unknown Green Meadow, which officially formed in North Carolina last

May, shares its leadership with contractor Charah Inc. If the dumping is approved, Green Meadow, a group with unknown assets, would likely be taking on legal liability for the controversial project for Duke Energy.

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THE GREAT WHITE HOPE

Everybody loves Passage Home—except for residents of one Southeast Raleigh neighborhood it is supposed to be helping

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his sort of enmity isn’t normal for Passage Home.

Founded in 1991, Passage Home is roundly lauded, The occasion: the March meeting of the

by Raleigh leaders, the media and the people it Central Citizens Advisory Council inside the serves, for its work providing affordable housing to the very John “Top” Greene Community Center. The poor. It owns 125 apartment units all over the city: In the target: a middle-aged white woman with an northeast, formerly homeless men live at Matthew House up-North accent named Jeanne Tedrow, CEO of the while they seek permanent housing. Creech Road House in nonprofit Passage Home—and more specifically, her South Raleigh is open to women leaving prison or who are organization’s plans for South Park, a historic Southeast otherwise struggling because of their criminal records. In Raleigh neighborhood. The nonprofit has been active here South Park, Jobs Journey, Coleman Street and Brown Birch for years, and since last summer, has been headquartered apartments all house low-income individuals and families, in the area’s Raleigh Community and Safety Club. to whom Passage Home offers job training and after-school “I don’t feel welcome there,” said one CAC member. A programs—as well as free meals—out of the Safety Club. two-toned, two-story painted-cinderblock building on Branch The nonprofit has garnered robust support from the Street, the Safety Club has also served as a neighborhood city, which has awarded Passage community center. “The atmosphere Home more than $2.1 million in is not like it used to be. People are federal Community Development there, being brought in, that do not Block Grant and Emergency live in the neighborhood.”

Solutions Grant funds, as well as A second person piled on, echoing local money, since 2008. (Two city the sentiments of eight South Park councilmembers sit on Passage residents, all African-American, Home’s board of directors.) Of who spoke to the INDY for this story: that, Passage Home received $1.2 “You got a grant that was supposed million—plus a low-interest loan—to to help all of us. You came in under build the 18-unit Coleman Street that pretense.” apartments as part of the U.S. Tedrow’s responses were vague Department of Housing and Urban and defensive—and barely uttered Development’s Neighborhood before the next barrage came her way.

Stabilization Program. Wake County That evening, Tedrow was kicked in a $400,000 low-interest proposing using a city grant to loan for that project, too. open a community café in the Passage Home expects to net Safety Club. She pitched it as a nearly $3.7 million in 2015, mainly yearlong job-training program, in from HUD and other grants, as well which a hired chef would teach as individual, corporate and church residents of the mostly black, mostly donations and rent revenue. poor neighborhood how to cook.

But for all the love Passage Participants would get a monthly Home gets, Williams, the CAC stipend of $500 and then, with luck, chairperson, insists that Tedrow Bettie Jean Burrell, a longtime South Park resident, volunteers at Passage Home. PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE a real job somewhere. Eventually, has not cooperated with South Park she envisioned people from the residents or been transparent about neighborhood coming in to buy a meal at a nominal cost.

They view entities like Passage Home as rootless, her use of government funds. And she’s not the only one.

To Tedrow, that last part is very important. “The dignity paternalistic interlopers, lacking in understanding of the Passage Home’s critics allege that the nonprofit’s of being able to purchase your own meal as opposed to neighborhoods’ histories. Perceived as outsiders, they’re affordable housing projects attract undesirables who coming in and getting a free meal is a step in the right distrusted and often unwelcome. wouldn’t be in the neighborhood otherwise. They say direction,” she told the INDY. “All these scammers come in here, it’s not just Passage Passage Home’ s free meals bring in people from all CAC members weren’t buying it.

Home,” says Geraldine Alshamy, a South Park resident and over Raleigh, who then hang around and trash the “You came to us for support for the use of city funds former Passage Home employee. “They pay themselves neighborhood. And they say that Passage Home acquired for something you want to do in a building that belonged exorbitant salaries, take advantage of the nonprofit status the Safety Club duplicitously, reneging on a promise to to the residents of this community,” Central CAC chair and do the people they’re supposed to be serving such a turn the property back over to the residents to use as they Lonnette Williams, a longtime South Park resident, told disservice. They do the community a disservice.” wished once the nonprofit had restored it.

Tedrow. “You need to tell us what’s actually occurring in However, a more fundamental difference between that building.”

HE ACCUSATIONS FLEW LIKE DAGGERS.

That building, a once-decrepit structure that Passage Home purchased and began rehabbing in 2006, is at the core of the conflict between the venerable nonprofit and members of the CAC, some South Park residents and even former members of the Community and Safety Club.

But that conflict is about much more than a building—in a sense, it’s bigger than Passage Home, too. As Raleigh grows, its downtown expands and affordable housing becomes more difficult to come by, the city is leaning on nonprofit and for-profit companies alike to step in where the city has thus far failed: revitalizing long-impoverished and overlooked communities. Those companies’ presence is changing the dynamics of neighborhoods where longtime residents want more control over their evolution.

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Williams, who is black, spells it out bluntly.

“She just needs to stop asserting herself like we’re a bunch of ignorant plantation folks waiting on her to come and lead us to the well,” she says. “There has been leadership in this neighborhood since before she was born.

It’s disrespectful that all of a sudden, she’s the Great White Hope that descended upon South Park to save us from our ignorant selves.”

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n a rainy Friday afternoon, amid the cleanup clang of pots and pans following a midday meal, a group of eight people sit around a plastic picnic table in the Raleigh Community and Safety Club’s spacious common room area. With a few small windows, the room is warm and dimly lit. There’s a little wooden stage in front and a full kitchen area off to the side.

All of these people are connected with Passage Home.

Some are clients who’ve participated in the job-skills training program or have kids enrolled in the nonprofit’s after-school program. Some are surviving members of the Raleigh Community and Safety Club who paid dues and used the building from the 1940s onward, until Passage Home took it over. And some, like Chris Kearney, work for Passage Home.

Kearney, 24, was first hired when he was 18, living in South Park and on house arrest for larceny. He maintains Passage Home’s properties and is attending Wake Tech to learn to be an electrician. He’s also raising a 2-year-old son. “[Passage Home] gave me a chance to prove myself,” he says. “They got me an apartment. A couple of months ago when I was having financial problems, they paid for my school.”

Kearney served three months in prison in 2012 and ’13 on the larceny rap. When he got out, he says, “Ms. Jeanne gave me my job back. It kind of saved me, so I didn’t have to be out there selling drugs. Now I’m back in school, I’ve got two apartments, I’ve got a car, I’ve got a lot more to come.”

Upstairs are Passage Home’s administrative offices and a computer lab. There, the nonprofit administers BOOST, a three-week job-skills program geared toward helping the

unemployed develop skills like preparing a résumé, learning to use a computer and learning interview techniques.

Outside—behind the Safety Club’s heavy wooden door (always locked, for security) and around the corner, behind the building—sits brightly colored playground equipment and a community garden. South Park resident Lester Clay teaches kids how to grow vegetables there.

Passage Home has a staff of about 30, and of the $3.7 million it expects to bring in this year, $1.9 million of l Passage Home was incorporated in 1991.

Since 2008, it has received more than $2.1 million from the city of Raleigh. l Its CEO, Jeanne Tedrow, earns $89,256 a year.

Passage Home has a staff of 30. Nearly $2 million of its $3.7 million in revenue goes to payroll. l County records show that Passage Home paid $17,000 for the Safety Club building in 2002.

Tedrow says she spent $800,000 to purchase and rehab the structure, and she’s still paying off the loans. In 2005, the late state senator Vernon Malone introduced a bill allocating $50,000 to Passage Home to help with the Safety Club renovations. l In 2014, Passage Home served 538 people, primarily from two low-income zip codes in downtown and East Raleigh. In one, 27601, the median household income is just $23,554, less than half of the citywide median.

that will go to pay them. (Tedrow makes about $89,000 a year, less than the CEOs of other affordable housing organizations in Raleigh, including CASA and the Downtown Housing Improvement Corporation.) But the nonprofit has other significant expenses, too. For starters, Tedrow says she is still paying off the $800,000 in loans she took out to restore the Safety Club.

Tedrow is dismissive of her critics; her organization, she contends, has been a force for good in South Park.

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outh Park is the city’s largest historically AfricanAmerican district—one of the nation’s oldest—a collection of neighborhoods established during Reconstruction and developed well into the 20th century.

African-Americans were drawn to the area by the Shaw Collegiate Institute (now Shaw University) and Second Baptist Church (now Tupper Memorial), where they could receive an education.

Under segregation, South Park thrived as a residential area for middle- and professional-class blacks. Manassas Pope and Calvin Lightner ran historic, though unsuccessful bids for City Council in 1919. They were both from South Park. So was Clarence Lightner, Calvin’s son and, in 1973, Raleigh’s first popularly elected African-American mayor.

And so was John P. “Top” Greene, an activist with deep ties to the Central CAC who devoted his life to the preservation and development of his neighborhood.

The Raleigh Community and Safety Club was founded in 1945. Two prominent community groups, the Community Club (a women’s group) and the Safety Club (for men) merged, and members of both used the Safety Club building to host events and church services, gather for meals, and raise money for when someone died or got sick.

Over time, the neighborhood deteriorated, mirroring the decline that haunted inner-city neighborhoods across the country during the latter half of the 20th century. Poverty took hold, and South Park today is a jumble of lingering homeowners with well-maintained properties, boarded-up single family houses and apartments in total disrepair, and high-density affordable housing projects.

Passage Home started buying up housing units there in the ’90s and renting them to low-income people. Tedrow says Passage Home housed 538 people from downtown and East Raleigh last year using money from two grants; both programs approached 80 percent success rates, she says, with success defined as people staying in stable housing, finding a job or getting a raise.

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“We have been the blessing in this neighborhood, because people don’t come over here,” Tedrow says. “We don’t have to go looking for people who are struggling to bring them into the neighborhood, because the people living in this neighborhood are struggling. And we happen to notice that.”

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“Passage Home is attracting criminals into our neighborhood, and they walk the street all during the day,” says Williams. “[Tedrow] has changed the whole population over here. She’s creating a subculture and a revenue stream for her properties, but these are not the kind of people you expect to find in anybody’s neighborhood.”

But it’s Tedrow’s acquisition and use of the Safety Club that has most riled the community.

Some residents who were—or whose parents were—dues-paying Community and Safety Club members say that Tedrow promised them when she bought the building that it would remain a community center for the neighborhood to use. That didn’t turn out to be the case, they say.

“I am a little concerned that members of the community cannot use the kitchen or the facilities, because that was the original intent of the foundation of the building,” Phebey Helen Jones, a Community Club member, said at the CAC meeting.

J.N. Sorrell, a Safety Club member, added that Tedrow led residents to believe that she would turn the building back over to them after she restored it.

“I felt I was promising that we would continue the legacy and spirit of the community care that the Safety Club Community Center had begun,” Tedrow counters. “As long as members wanted to meet here, they could. There are people who are not members of the club who may not feel they have the same privileges, but it was the Community and Safety Club members we created that agreement with, not everybody in the neighborhood.”

Another bone of contention: people come for the free meals—and don’t leave.

“When [Passage Home] has these feeding programs and people come here from wherever, they throw cigarette butts and paper all over the neighborhood,” says South Park resident Robert Sanders. “They walk through here eating and throw their trash down.”

“We’re not providing a soup kitchen,” Tedrow says. “We know there are people who are very economically challenged in this neighborhood, so if we can create a venue for people to have a nice meal at no cost, that’s a nice thing to do.”

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he CAC unanimously rejected Passage Home’s proposal, and city staff recommended against sending Passage Home’s grant application to the City Council. (The city is also investigating whether Passage Home’s offices and fullservice kitchen, housed in a residential neighborhood, comply with city code.)

Tedrow’s plans for a community café are on hold.

The CAC controversy sparked a city inquiry into proper decorum at CAC meetings after Tedrow sent an email to Passage Home board member John Odom, who also sits on the City Council, complaining about her treatment before the CAC. Odom says the issues raised at that meeting hadn’t been brought to the City Council’s attention before, though he defends Passage Home’s record and argues that Tedrow was treated rudely.

Fellow City Councilman and Passage Home board member Eugene Weeks, whose district encompasses the Safety Club, has also rallied to Tedrow’s banner.

“They are doing a lot of good,” he says.

“They give a lot back to the community.

The staff from Passage Home is very passionate about that, and I am a witness to it.”

Tedrow says Passage Home plans to stay in South Park—and in the Safety Club building—for the long run.

“We wanted to meet our program participants where they are,” she says.

It’s also likely that Passage Home, along with many other Raleigh developers, will angle for some stake in the land where the Carolina Trailways building once stood.

(The historic building was demolished in March, after ownership negotiations between Greyhound and Passage Home, which was partnering with a restoration business, fell through.)

That won’t be welcome news to the nonprofit’s critics.

“If [Passage Home] had been successful, it would have worked itself out of a job over here,” says Williams. “You would weed out the problems, you would see good things happen. And then people don’t need you anymore.” p Jane Porter is an INDY staff writer. Reach her at jporter@indyweek.com.

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State Republicans are moving to legitimize an industry that preys on the poor

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RE THE REPUBLICANS IN RALEIGH TRYING TO BE THE PARTY OF CORRUPTION? They complained about a “culture of corruption” when the Democrats were in charge. It must’ve been because the wrong party was on the receiving end.

Consider, for example, Thom Goolsby, just announced as the poster boy for legalizing sweepstakes gambling dens.

Sweepstakes gambling is video poker 2.0, a sleazy business that Republicans denounced when former House Speaker Jim Black, a Democrat who landed in prison, was protecting it in exchange for campaign cash.

And Goolsby? He was a Republican state senator until he resigned last August—the one who slammed Moral Mondays as “Moron Mondays.”

Goolsby’s own morality was on display when an investment business he ran in Wilmington was shut down for misleading clients. Empowered Investor lured customers with a trading scheme worthy of P.T. Barnum; when EI lost their money, they sued. Last May, the North Carolina secretary of state threw Goolsby out of the securities business for 10 years.

This was big news in Wilmington, where Goolsby was known for dispensing financial wisdom on his radio show.

Disgraced, he didn’t seek reelection.

Good riddance, right? Wrong. Last month, GOP senators appointed Goolsby to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Then last week, Goolsby stepped out from the shadows again, this time as pitchman—and lobbyist—for the new “N.C. Small Business Coalition.” Its mission: legalize sweepstakes gambling.

“Small business owners who offer a sweepstakes promotion and are fully complying with North Carolina’s electronic sweepstakes laws deserve the right to operate without state interference,” Goolsby said.

In other words, sweepstakes gambling

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State Rep. Harry Warren, R-Rowan, introduced Goolsby’s bill Thursday. House Bill 938 should be called the Empowered Gamblers Act.

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mpowered INDY readers will remember that the General Assembly, after Black’s downfall, banned video poker machines and other electronic gambling. The N.C. Supreme Court upheld the ban in 2012.

But the industry, if you can call it that, wasn’t finished.

For public consumption, the operators said they would “modify the software” and present only “sweepstakes” games not explicitly disallowed by the law.

“Sweepstakes” in this context means … well, not one thing. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, the gamesters made nice with newly elected Gov. Pat McCrory and GOP legislators who, in 2012, won huge majorities in the General Assembly.

For example: Chase Burns and his wife contributed $8,000 to McCrory’s campaign and $235,000 to state GOP candidates, according to Democracy NC. Burns, whose Oklahoma firm provided software to gambling dens, soon pleaded guilty to corruption charges in Florida.

In North Carolina, though, stalemate ensued. Attorney General Roy Cooper maintains that the industry’s “modified” software is the same old illegal gambling games in disguise—and is still illegal.

But Cooper, though he has lawyers, has zero police authority. At the state level, enforcing the gambling laws is the job of the Department of Public Safety, which reports to McCrory. Color it uninterested.

A few local police and sheriff’s departments have brought charges against gambling dens, usually resulting in convictions. But when they do, the industry hits back with lawsuits charging that the cops misinterpreted the law. This discourages other police agencies from stepping in the mess.

On Friday, the N.C. Supreme Court left standing the convictions of two men who

operated an electronic gambling den in Edgecombe County. Theirs were the first such convictions to reach the high court.

“Today’s action by the Court makes it clear that North Carolina officers and prosecutors have authority to go after illegal gambling operations in their community,” Cooper said.

They do—unless Goolsby can get his friends to change the law.

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Here’s what happened: I paid $20 to the cashier. This bought me 200 playing points on the computer terminal of my choice, plus 50 extra points—for luck?

I played a slot machine-style game, won a little, lost more, and in 15 minutes my playing points were gone—so I was finished. I did, however, receive $7 back for “prize” points I won.

How was this not gambling? In the

industry’s logic, it’s because I could’ve used my points to log on to the Internet— though the cashier forgot to tell me that.

Having “purchased” Internet time, I was then “entered” into a drawing for a prize of up to $4,800, which I immediately lost, though I wasn’t told this either.

Thus, I couldn’t have been “gambling” because, before I “played,” the software had determined whether I would win or lose.

By the way, these sleazy parlors are most often found in low-income neighborhoods.

This one was in a dingy strip mall next to a check-cashing business and a Family Dollar store. The games are designed to prey on poor people, who lose more gambling in this fashion than if, say, they bought $20 worth of lottery tickets. And far more than if they could afford to travel to a real casino somewhere.

But the point is, they can’t. p Bob Geary is an INDY columnist. Reach him at rjgeary@mac.com.

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HE PUPPETEER ENTERS THE TV STUDIO CARRYING TWO BULGING TRASH BAGS AND MURMURING HELLOS. He steps onto a slightly elevated set and upends the bags, spilling four unabashedly Jim Henson-inspired puppets on a table in front of a wall of green screen.

One shares his appearance—his plaid shirt, stripe of beard and mild eyes—and his name, Chris Chappell.

Chappell is shooting an episode of Kidz Newz, where puppet anchors and reporters banter about local family activities, for East Wake Television, a town-funded community access station serving Knightdale, Zebulon and several more Raleigh suburbs. Every two weeks, he drives 25 miles from Spring Hope to the studio tucked behind Knightdale Town

Hall. First, he did it for free; then, for gas money, and now, for a small fee.

Fairly new to puppetry, Chappell is trying to make a mainstream livelihood of it, even as he uses it, in his personal life, to promote alternative political views. He recently used his puppets to enter a Raleigh-area car-commercial contest. He won $5,000; the John Hiester Chevrolet spot is airing on FOX 50. And he sells custom puppets through his website, Chappell Puppet Productions. He makes them out of foam and felt, using dollar-store toilet plungers for stands.

The camera rolls. Chappell sits on the floor behind the table and thrusts up his arm through the anchor, Steve. He works his way through the script, switching puppets and voices, chuckling sheepishly when he flubs lines. He uses one hand to work the sockpuppet mouths, the other to operate an arm or hand.

Steve has an oblong face, like Bert, and a Kermit-like simper. Tex is blue, with a mop of yolk-yellow hair and a falsetto voice. Calvin is tawny and fuzzy, with a melon-shaped

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Behind the camera is Studio Director Gary McConkey, a retired Wake Forest town manager. He helped build the studio, where he shoots, edits and broadcasts the programming with a small staff. His wife, Becky, writes scripts. Sporting the station logo on his breast, he seems like a retiree immersed in a fun, wholesome pastime after a life in municipal work.

The camera monitor shows only the puppets. It doesn’t capture the 33-year-old Libertarian kneeling under the table, wearing a wristband emblazoned with pot leaf emblems and the words MAKE IT LEGAL, the message hidden in the puppet’s throat.

“When you hired Chris, you knew about The Green Report, right?” I ask McConkey. “Yeah,” he replies, sounding a little defiant. I raise my eyebrows. He shrugs.

under the desk before ascending to join Bud; in the finished video, the gag will be garnished with a plume of digital smoke.

One of the stories is about KFC getting a business license to sell weed in Colorado, though this is an Internet hoax. Another is about an April 24 event at the Maywood in Raleigh: 420 Fest, hosted by NC NORML, which Chappell plans to attend to promote his business and his show. And one is an update on the legal plight of Todd Stimson, whom Chappell interviewed in Raleigh as Stimson walked across the state to demonstrate for medical marijuana rights.

Chappell protests that Stimson acted in good faith, buying tax stamps for his med-weed dispensary in Henderson County, and that the evidence disappeared before trial. Mainstream reports corroborate this. Still, Stimson openly broke the law, and is now imprisoned for marijuana trafficking.

“The drug war is a huge waste of money,” Chappell says. “They have to keep the prisons full, and if they quit arresting people for drugs, it’s going to screw their system up. You’ve got families wo weeks later, Chappell is shooting a new episode of The moving to Colorado because their kids have seizures and nobody Green Report, his pro-cannabis and pro-hemp puppet show, here will help them get the natural medicine they need. People like at home. He and his wife live out among the red fields, green Todd shouldn’t be in prison for trying to help people fight cancer. pastures, brown tumbledown barns and white prefab houses on It’s disgusting to me.” the fringe of Franklin County. In the driveway, his blue Nissan Chappell is well informed about marijuana and hemp hatchback displays one bumper sticker for Ron Paul and another laws around the country, and can offer detailed economic, from Infowars, the website of conspiracy-theorist radio host Alex environmental and human-rights arguments for legalization. As Jones. Chappell answers the door wearing a John Lennon “Working the INDY recently reported, 69 percent of North Carolinians agree Class Hero” T-shirt and suspiciously eyes a nondescript white truck with him, even as bill after bill to legalize medical pot dies in the idling on his remote rural street before taking me inside.

House, the latest less than a month ago.

The Green Report’s set resembles the one for Kidz Newz, but in “I feel cannabis has the ability to bring us together,” he says. a spare bedroom decorated with Star Wars bobbleheads rather “You see all kinds of people pushing for legalization and working than a pro studio. Chappell shoots the three-minute segments by together. Libertarians, people on the left and right.” himself, using a professional Canon camera and a pair of umbrella Despite the stoner affectations of The Green Report, Chappell is reflectors he paid for by selling puppets. In front of a tacked-up not a partier or a burnout—at least not from pot. He doesn’t smoke blue sheet that serves as a green screen, a particleboard desk holds cigarettes or care much for alcohol. He doesn’t habitually use an old-fashioned announcer’s microphone and two green puppets, profanity. He identifies as a Christian (though not a churchgoer, Bud and Nugget, each of which can be operated with a single hand. being wary of organizations) as well as a Libertarian. He does, as Bud’s full name is Bud Greenfield. Like Chappell, he has a chinyou might have guessed, use marijuana. strap beard, but it goes all the way around his head, making him “I tried it in high school and didn’t like it,” he says. “I didn’t look like Kermit the Frog as a monkish college hippie. He wears a touch it again until I was maybe 31, when I watched [The Union, a pot leaf on his T-shirt and a Rasta necklace. His MAKE IT LEGAL documentary] by the same people who did The Culture High. It sort wristband is just like the one Chappell wears. of flipped a switch. The federal government says it doesn’t have any Bud’s voice is similar to Chappell’s, though it’s actually the more medicinal value but they hold a patent on the medical properties of ordinary of the two. Chappell already talks like a puppet, sweet and cannabis.” childlike, and needs only faint modulations to create his characters.

Chappell uses it to relieve his esophagitis, a condition that makes He has a quiet, shy way of speaking. His accent is a topsy-turvy it hard for him to swallow. He also uses it for pain management: cartoon dialect of Southern I’ve never heard, like a South Park When he was 18, he injured his back working at a grocery store, character, with short vowels turning long: “knock” coming out as trying to pull a row of frozen carts on a winter day. He’s had “noke,” “get” becoming “geet.” problems with it ever since, though he no longer takes medication Nugget—just Nugget, like Madonna or Cher—has a gruff, he regards as dangerous. “I’d rather vaporize a bit of plant than take chortling voice. Unlike Chappell’s half-body Advil,” he says. puppets, he’s simply a hairy green head, with His med-weed advocacy has, at times, WHERE TO FIND random brown tufts and small, stony eyes conflicted with his business interests. He CHAPPELL’S PUPPETS set close together. He clearly resembles his unsuccessfully pitched a couple of local TV Kidz Newz: namesake. stations before McConkey said he didn’t www.youtu.be/aJ1yWVv0frI For a show tapped into the strident online care about Chappell’s personal views, as long The Green Report: world of alternative media, The Green Report as he kept them separate, which he does. www.youtu.be/mzdQx9oPivg has a laidback, comical feel. Bud and Nugget A company in Raleigh that he declines to Chappell Puppet Productions: trade stoner jokes on a background of potname wanted to hire him to build puppets www.chappellpuppets.weebly.com leaf patterns. There’s reggae bumper music. for kids, but didn’t want to credit Chris 420 Fest at the Maywood in Raleigh: At the start of this episode, Nugget coughs Chappell Puppets, to avoid association with www.themaywoodraleigh.com

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CULTURE “the marijuana stuff”—even though, Chappell says, the client was a user and legalization-supporter.

Though it was exactly the kind of work he was looking for, Chappell said no. “I just thought it was kind of stupid, for me to hide who I am to work with him,” he says. “I didn’t feel right about it. I keep them separated, but I don’t see why people should be demonized for their views. It falls under the First Amendment.”

had trouble finding my words, and I thought I could do it as a puppet show,” u he says. “At the time, I didn’t have much J t money, and when I started looking around at what puppets cost, I decided d to try to build them.” He learned how C from people and videos on the Internet, w T and built his first puppets for CAN h Newsroom, his prior YouTube show.

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H argued that the attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. Chappell never had much interest in puppetry beyond “I just got discouraged playing restaurants and bars government. “Originally, I kind of fell for the official story,”t watching Sesame Street as a kid. “I wanted to do a YouTube and stuff, playing covers,” he says. “I sold my musical he says. But he didn’t fully wake up from his conditioning, c equipment, and that’s when I started looking for other stuff channel that’s just me talking to the camera, but I always to use his phrasing, until around 2011.

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Flipping channels one day, he wound up binge-watching Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura on TruTV, which led him to look up Alex Jones on the Internet. (“I don’t believe 100 percent of what he says,” Chappell cautions. “Some of it leaves me wondering who he works for sometimes.”)

That sent him tumbling down the rabbit hole of online counter-narratives, digesting massive quantities of them for CAN Newsroom content. This overload, more than cover-band fatigue, was the real reason he quit music.

“I just got so involved in this stuff, following all the information,” he says. “In The Matrix, when they wake Neo up and he can’t handle it and throws up and passes out—it’s kind of that thing.” He laughs. “I’m playing music for all these people having a good time that don’t know what the heck’s going on in the world. It was a weird feeling.”

He couldn’t perform pop music in good faith while sinister global powers steadily advanced their vast and intricate agendas.

Hopeful, romantic sentiments had no place in the strange new world he had fallen into. He could no longer claim it was a beautiful day.

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rowing up, do you remember a lot of streaks in the sky?” Chappell asks me.

Sitting on the bed in the makeshift studio, we spend some time talking about his worldview. He tells me about “chemtrails”—evidence of government weather control. The plot branches out through the CIA, the military and business interests. He tells me about Agenda 21, a government plan to consolidate the rural population in cities. “That’s out in the open, I think Glenn Beck wrote about it,” he says. He mentions things I should Google, documentaries I should watch.

He sees many inconsistencies in the official 9/11 report. His Infowars bumper sticker proclaims it to be an inside job.

Though he does not have his own unified theory, there are many he finds at least partially plausible. He thinks that Saudi Arabia and “parts of Israel” had something to do with it; that it was an excuse to “take us into more war.” There were explosive charges hidden in one building. A BBC reporter read a script about it falling before it fell. He doesn’t know exactly what happened. All he’s sure of is what didn’t.

But he takes on neither the deranged intensity nor the manic torpor that can go with such screeds. He’s too mellow and easygoing for the frothing hard sell. He bears no outrage—at least, none that is

expressible. Rather, when he talks about his views, he is slightly pained, almost apologetic, as if restraining himself out of politeness, or just resigned. More than possessed, he seems a little sad and alone in his vision—the seer of truths of paramount importance in a world unable or unwilling to accept them. I ask if he ever feels isolated.

“I’ve had that experience a lot on Facebook,” he says. “A small group of people I know in North Carolina believe the same stuff I do, as far as the government and different ‘conspiracies’ and vaccines. You get to posting stuff on Facebook and you see people blocking you.” He was posting at a frantic pace right after he woke up to conspiracies, and lost some casual friends. Puppetry, finally, was a way to do something, instead of just martyring himself to secret knowledge. At first, it fuelled his alt-media overdose, but it has become a means of recovery.

Chappell put aside CAN Newsroom to focus more narrowly on marijuana law reform in The Green Report in order to preserve his mental well-being and to express his views in a way that is broadly relatable, easy to agree with. “It was so depressing, looking at all these articles for CAN,” he says. “Green Report, I found to be a little more light-hearted. I think people can see government corruption in something as simple as a plant that’s being controlled. That’s the gist of it—getting into alternative news and kind of losing it for awhile, but getting back on track.”

Puppetry is leading him, tentatively, back into the mainstream world. In addition to his increasingly viable commercial work, he’s starting to play music again, and wants to integrate it with his puppetry. He’s working on a theme song for Kidz Newz.

His beliefs have not relaxed, but their former stranglehold on him has.

“There’s not much you can do about it unless a whole lot of people wake up, and that’s where we’re at as a country,” he says.

“It’s not worth worrying about until people realize the same things and snap out of it.

What can we do about it? is the question we’re always asking in Facebook groups.

Politics are so freaking corrupted, people are so bought off …” He trails off, sighing.

“It’s so hard to talk about this without sounding crazy.”

Brian Howe is the INDY arts and culture editor. Email him at bhowe@indyweek.com and follow @IndyweekArts on Twitter.

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Raleigh couple fills niche for classic Jewish comfort food

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HEN JAMIE ROSE WAS PREPARING TO MOVE FROM CHARLOTTE TO NEW YORK 10 years ago to advance her career, she joined JDate.

The Durham native used the popular Jewish dating community to connect with a promising fellow in Long Island named Mike Eliahu.

“We clicked right away, but she wouldn’t meet me the first time she came to the city,” recalls Mike, whose wife of eight years smiles and rubs her pregnant belly. They moved to North Raleigh in 2011 and are expecting their second son in August.

“She likes to take her time and think things over. But not about this,” Mike says, pausing as he rapidly rolls out dozens of knishes in The Cookery, the professional kitchen in Durham that’s launched many successful food enterprises. “She even came up with the name Knish-a-licious. She was behind this from the start.”

Knish-a-licious will debut Saturday at the Midtown Farmers Market at North Hills, which is open from 8 a.m. to noon. The classic Jewish comfort food will be sold toasty warm or frozen for $4 each in three flavors: seasoned potato, sweet potato and kasha, and a savory buckwheat blend.

“We’ve always talked about having our own business so we didn’t have to be part of the corporate world,” says Jamie, a marketing and communications professional.

Her husband works days as a financial analyst, cooking knishes at nights and on weekends. “We haven’t sold a single knish yet, but based on the response of friends and family, I really think it’s going to work.”

Mike previously taught himself how to make chewy, New York-style bagels, but the couple never considered that a viable business option. “There Potato knishes cooling after being pulled from the oven are plenty of bagel shops here,” Jamie says. “His parents were visiting and we started talking about knishes one day. It just clicked. It’s something everyone who moves here misses, but no one makes. I think even people who have never had them will love them.”

With no professional food experience, Mike took on the challenge of learning how to make knishes, a complex task that often takes several pages to describe in cookbooks.

Aiming for a healthier style, he decided against making the fried squares that are the stuff of childhood memory for many Northern transplants. Instead, he focused on making open-top, generously stuffed baked knishes with a tender-crisp crust.

Mike tested countless dough variations until he hit on one that can be rolled thin but was strong enough to hold about seven ounces of sturdy filling. With a schmear of spicy brown mustard, the shareable, practically meal-sized knishes will fill the stomachs and melt the hearts of those who gave up on finding “real” knishes in the Triangle.

“This took a lot of practice,” says Mike, who wears a New York Rangers cap and a white chef coat—the latter of which he acquired recently when a photographer friend suggested he might want to look more, well, “cheffy” on the business website. “Turns out, it’s great for protection,” he says, referring to the strict food preparation regulations he must follow.

“It helps to remind me how everything must be kept immaculately clean.”

The knishes are vegetarian but not kosher. The Eliahus originally hoped for that but were unable to rent a commercial kitchen meeting the high religious standard. Mike hopes to produce KNISH-A-LICIOUS Check their Midtown Farmer’s Market schedule at www.knish-a-licious.com 919-473-6080

gluten-free versions in the future, not only to meet popular demand but also to bake knishes his wife, who has celiac disease, can digest.

“I only taste-test the filling,” Jamie says. “I have about a dozen gluten-free knishes in the freezer at home, but again, finding a place to make them for sale is a different story.”

Despite this, Jamie’s role in the flavor of the knishes cannot be understated. Slow-cooked onions are a key ingredient, and Mike learned how to caramelize pounds of them from her adored grandmother, who turns 90 in June.

“Oh, she’d yell at him,” Jamie recalls with a laugh. “It takes a long time to get it just so. You PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE have to be patient, which Mike is, but she’d yell about letting them burn, or adding paprika to soon. I stayed out of it.”

The night they made their first batch of knishes with grandma’s help stretched into the wee hours. “They finally came out of the oven around 2 in the morning,” Mike recalls. “I didn’t hear her come down and she scared the life out of me. She couldn’t stand it. She had to try one.”

So what did she think? “Trust me,” Mike says, grabbing another handful of dough. “If she didn’t like it, I wouldn’t be here today.” p Jill Warren Lucas is a Raleigh writer who ate a hot knish with mustard from her neighborhood deli nearly every Saturday while growing up in New Jersey. Follow her at @jwlucasnc.

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’M SORRY, SIR, BUT WE WERE SLAMMED OVER THE WEEKEND AND WE’RE OUT OF MINT, AND WE MAY BE OUT OF RUM TOO.”

delivery services such as Doorstep and OrderUp, and the sporadic absence of cocktail ingredients, all four bartenders maintained upbeat, welcoming attitudes.

They deducted charges from tabs when the ingredients issue prevented one woman from getting the drink she really wanted and when a dish wasn’t what a customer expected. They were prime examples of why diners should always treat their server with respect even when things aren’t going well. Most of the time it isn’t the servers’ fault.

Twisted Mango bills itself as “fine Caribbean cuisine.” I’ve eaten at Carribean joints in Florida for many years, and what I tried and saw was as Caribbean as Olive Garden is Italian. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t authentic.

The drinks menu is where Twisted Mango is the most interesting. Margaritas,

That was what my waiter apologetically explained one Tuesday evening at The Twisted Mango. I had ordered a mojito after he had touted them as a restaurant forte but then he discovered the lack of mint. The news was more intriguing than disappointing. A weekend that busy was a scene The Drinker needed to see.

Standing in the bustling bar area, as someone randomly sang out “It cuuuuuuts like a knife” for the umpteenth time, I fulfilled that desire. It was a Saturday night, shortly before a Bryan Adams concert at the nearby Red Hat Amphitheatre, which explained the frequent snippets of his songs blurted without provocation. (Two gentlemen even stood and toasted the Canadian rocker.)

The most ardent fan wasn’t even going to the show. His chats with nearby customers and cell phone calls urging people to come downtown were all punctuated every few minutes with paeans to Adams’ music. He told one person he had been there since 2, but I couldn’t tell if he meant in Raleigh or in that particular seat. Either was plausible. His barstool soliloquies ceased only when someone on the restaurant The drinks (and people-watching) eclipse the food at staff informed him his car Twisted Mango. PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE was getting towed. Out he dashed to save it. mojitos and frozen drinks of all stripes Inventory management is a challenge abound. The Screw-a-rita, described as a the restaurant—open since early classic margarita with a little vodka and February—is still trying to conquer orange juice, is enjoyable, and the lemon apparently. More than once during the mojito is as refreshing as lemonade on a evening you could hear various bartenders hot afternoon, only with more kick. There say they were out of this or that ingredient. are also shooters such as the Money Maker, The first time was as early as 7:10 p.m.

Coconut Crusher and Dirty Bongwater if The bartenders were one of the you’re doing hardcore concert pregaming restaurant’s most appealing aspects. (or haven’t turned 30 yet).

Despite the rush of people, the inevitable As someone whose favorite cocktail kitchen slowness it caused, calls from

is either good bourbon or single malt Scotch over a couple of ice cubes, I was simultaneously aghast and drawn to the Bourberry and the In Cold Blood. The Bourberry features what sounds like a horrifying combination of ingredients: Woodford bourbon, Chambord, mixed berry purée, lemonade and ginger ale. Just putting it in print makes me shudder. So naturally I drank one. Surprisingly, it was pretty tasty. You don’t feel as if you’re abominating fine bourbon, because all of the extras suppress its presence and present themselves as just a slightly dark sweet drink. The In Cold Blood combines Maker’s Mark, cherry bitters, muddled blood orange and simple syrup for another sweet, bourbonbased drink. Again, it’s easily drinkable, assuming you have a high glucose tolerance.

Sometime during my sipping of In Cold Blood the Adams devotee with the about-to-be-towed car returned after being gone for two hours. He had gotten a room at the Marriott—as

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much for the right to use the hotel parking deck as for any other reason—and then returned to retrieve a T-shirt he had left behind and to pay his tab. And, of course, have another round or two.  Curt Fields is the INDY’s associate editor.

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RESPONSIVE DESIGN To find new fans, Art of Cool listened to its early adopters

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WEEK BEFORE THE SECOND ART OF COOL FEST BRINGS THREE-DOZEN JAZZ, SOUL AND R&B ACTS TO THE OUTDOOR LAWNS AND INDOOR HALLS OF DURHAM, co-founder Cicely Mitchell seems self-assured. She has one essential piece of information she didn’t have before the festival’s 2014 debut—confirmed dates for next year’s festival and the confidence it will happen.

“Last year, we learned we need to get ahead of this thing as soon as we can,” says Mitchell. Days before the first Art of Cool, she was unsure ticket sales would even be sufficient to power a 2015 edition. Those beginner doubts have passed.

“We’re planning a little further ahead this year, because ticket sales are much further along. That’s exciting.”

Mitchell attributes some of the change to growing awareness. After its first year, Art of Cool is no longer a theoretical endeavor, so people understand the event’s musical and communal landscape better. In the last 12 months, news of Art of Cool’s mission spread. But there’s another, much more deliberate reason for Art of Cool’s progress: data-driven adaptation.

By day, Mitchell works as a statistician for a scientific research company. Her analytical expertise has long been one of Art of Cool’s biggest assets, helping the nonprofit win a round of funding through a 2012 startup contest. When the first festival ended, she began collecting data she could study by dispatching a survey to all year-one ticket buyers.

She wasn’t hoping to capture mere demographics or praise; she wanted insights about what would make the event

easier to navigate in the second year and more appealing to people cold to the idea of a “jazz fest.” She did the same through Art of Cool’s social media accounts, asking people what acts they wanted to see in the second year.

Those findings altered Art of Cool’s venue selections, ticket prices, talent philosophy and extra-musical endeavors. The event dropped the Hayti Heritage Center in favor of the Durham Armory, for instance, creating the more walkable downtown core attendees demanded. And instead of only offering expensive, all-inclusive tickets, Art of Cool offered cheaper options that let fans just see the headliners—jazz-and-funk crossover paragon Roy Ayers on Friday and soul crooner Anthony Hamilton on Saturday.

Those marquee acts reflect Mitchell’s findings, too. She wanted to create a jazz festival that uses the phrase only as the center of a wide circle, not a stylistic corral. Plenty of events hew to academic jazz strictures, she says, with little room to show how the form has inspired others. But she doesn’t think that suits Durham, a city with deep blues and soul traditions and where many current jazz musicians also play in rock and hip-hop bands.

“The intent of the festival is to be a gateway. Our mission is to expand the audience of jazz, so we have to think of new, creative ways to do that,” says Mitchell. “We want more people to feel like there is something there for them, even if they’re not jazz purists.”

Mitchell is reaching out to another wide, active Triangle audience through the festival’s first non-musical effort, a Saturday arts-and-technology conference called “Innovate Your Cool.” A partnership with startup incubator American Underground, it aims to highlight ties between music and innovation. Wayne Sutton, a Raleigh native who has led campaigns to create more racial diversity among Silicon

Cody Chesnutt, leading the party charge at last year’s inaugural Art of Cool Fest PHOTO BY JATI PHOTO

Valley investors, will deliver the keynote address. Producer 9th Wonder will lecture on the legacy of Roy Ayers, while Kendra Foster will explore her songwriting contributions to D’Angelo’s lauded comeback album, Black Messiah.

“It’s meant to link in a whole set of people who may not be turned on to jazz but who have the characteristics of what a jazz lover should like,” she says. “You’re a creative thinker.

You know how to bootstrap. You know how to improvise.”

The same, it seems, could be said for Mitchell. Though still just shy of the break-even mark, Art of Cool has sold more tickets in advance of this year’s event than collectively in 2014. And after using the crowdfunding resources of a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the first two festivals, Mitchell says she’ll forego the crutch for the third year.

If you see volunteers wandering this year’s event with clipboards and surveys, they’re doing Mitchell’s data-collection bidding. She’s got another year to make improvements.

“Last year was really hard for me as a researcher and math person, because I didn’t have any numbers to go by,” she says. “But we now have the data, and the more metrics we get, we’ll know if we’re going to make it.” p Grayson Haver Currin is the music editor of the INDY.

ART OF COOL FEST Friday, April 24–Sunday, April 26, $30–$260 Downtown Durham, aocfestival.org

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ROY AYERS

How Roy Ayers and his disciple Robert Glasper have used jazz to infiltrate soul, hip-hop and electronica

BY BRANDON SODERBERG

But at a live 2011 homage to vibraphonist and icon Roy Ayers by hip-hop-loving jazz pianist Robert Glasper and smooth-sampling rap producer Pete Rock, the sophisti-funk legend wouldn’t allow it. Ayers emerged onstage before Rock even appeared, just as The Robert Glasper Experiment introduced the strutting bump of Ayers’ 1976 hit, “Everybody Loves the Sunshine.”

Ayers wouldn’t be propped-up Weekend At Bernie’s-style, serving as the elder only there to scoop up accolades; he wanted to be part of the action. Sure, Rock snuck in a subtle but significant tribute later, scratching James Brown grunts into a live version of Ayers’ “We Live In Brooklyn,” implicitly aligning the two in terms of significance. But the 68-minute North Sea Jazz Festival concert—and the musician it honored—seemed very much alive.

Though more than three decades separate them, Ayers and Glasper are key members in a process that’s proven essential to the survival of jazz: Masters of the form, they’ve helped spread its improvisational and compositional tendrils, using them to influence soul, hip-hop and even electronica. In several essential ways, Ayers taught Glasper how to do just that, and he’s never taken those lessons for granted.

The California-born Ayers began his career as a studious, post-bop vibraphonist in the ’60s before crafting his own calling in the early ’70s with Roy Ayers Ubiquity, a pivotal soft-focus jazz-funk crew. They sparked the smooth revolution that birthed acid jazz, influenced house music and provided infinite sample fodder for hiphop. Producers either glommed onto his pleasant pieces or chopped them into chunks of catchy chaos.

But Ayers has never been content to let his back catalog do his talking. He collaborated with Afrobeat revolutionary Fela Kuti, made a strange album with punk-funk maniac Rick James, recorded

ROBERT GLASPER TRIO with Gang Starr rapper Guru and neo-soul shares stories from his past with a casual air icon Erykah Badu and supplied grooves for so blasé it’s badass. He recounts how the house producers Masters At Work. As if to first pair of vibraphone mallets he received offer evidence of his lasting impact, a stellar, came from his idol Lionel Hampton when two-volume set of ’70s odds-and-sods, the legend walked off the stage and passed Virgin Ubiquity, sparked a remix project that them to the young Ayers, in attendance with not only featured usual post-soul suspects his mom and dad. He ponders how he got to like The Foreign Exchange’s Nicolay but his sound, which he attributes to an interest also British freaks Basement Jaxx and in “incorporat[ing] voices” into jazz. He experimental whiz Matthew Herbert. says Erykah Badu once called him “the king This influence of neo-soul,” to which stems, in part, from Ayers replied “What’s Ayers’ position as a neo-soul?” strutting update of the Glasper, in full fanboy black composer heroes mode, gushes: “It just of the big band and has a Roy Ayers sound. bop eras. Picture Ayers There’s nothing you as Duke Ellington in can describe. It’s just a velvet track suit, a Roy Ayers.” spliff dangling between “You can’t get his fingers. The away from it,” Ayers instrumental bed of an deadpans.

Ayers song sounds like The idea of any he’s wrapped it in tissue defining sound paper, dipped it in is antithetical to honey and submerged it Ayers, whose entire in the sea. Synthesizers career reflects a coy Grabbing jazz, moving it elsewhere: and keyboards acknowledgement Robert Glasper whinny and moan. that musical tradition Drums, vibraphones is limiting. It’s a and basslines become a globby narcotic. sentiment Glasper shares and inherited, in On “Sunshine” or hits like “Searching” part, from decades with Ayers’ albums. In a and “Running Away,” vocals become recent interview with Nordstrom’s fashion an ecstatic catharsis of mixed cries and blog, Glasper mocked the conservative logic croons. Song titles like “Pretty Brown Skin” of musical purists. “‘You know, if you mix and “Ebony Blaze” gave Ayers a strong, it with this, it’s not jazz anymore,’” he said, defiant political edge. lampooning his critics. People who think Ayers is a fusionist, a word worth saying that way, he said, have “hit their ceiling.” aloud since it gets a bad rap from superIndeed, Glasper’s own work fuses serious jazzbos and similar authenticitytraditional jazz and underground hip-hop chasers who think music must be coarse to with the same aplomb that Ayers once used be important. Sure, Ayers’ hyper-pleasant to graft grimy funk and soft-focus soul hybrid R&B is easy on the ears, but it’s also onto jazz. Glasper can play the piano like impossible to define. It sits in the nooks someone raised on the jazz greats, but he and crannies of so many African-American prefers to play like someone also indebted genres. When Glasper interviewed Ayers to the rearranged piano samples of J Dilla for CentricTV in 2011, he could only call it or DJ Premier. “the Roy Ayers sound.”

Glasper has found a way to introduce During that interview, Glasper appears hip-hop styles in jazz without the former geeked out to be talking to Ayers. Even then, subsuming the latter, or vice versa. He Ayers rejected his legend status. He seems has an ear for hip-hop’s mash-up culture, bemused by Glasper’s enthusiasm as he for instance, blending Herbie Hancock’s

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“Maiden Voyage” with Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place” in 2007.

And he answered rap’s auto-tune fetish with vocoder moans of his own on 2009’s Double Booked. That record traded tracks between his conventional acoustic jazz crew, The Robert Glasper Trio, and the anything-goes electronic quartet, The Robert Glasper Experiment.

His two-album Black Radio set featured collaborations with rappers and R&B singers from Ledisi to Snoop Dogg, while two connected remix projects illustrated how he was willing to let his jazz be ripped apart by others. Glasper, like Ayers, embraced the opportunity to be sampled. “I can’t believe it,” the elder told the kid in the CentricTV interview when Glasper asked about how hip-hop has taken to his hits.

He has played live with Kanye West, worked with Q-Tip and Mos Def and, most recently, contributed significantly to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly.

Glasper affords Lamar’s masterful album a seasoned sincerity. His boozy, pounding piano on “For Free (Interlude)” bridges Lamar’s head-blown rapping and the spoken-word radicalism he seems to reference. Glasper’s plaintive playing ushers “Complexion (Zulu Love)” toward a standout guest verse from Raleigh rapper Rapsody. The song also recalls the same black-is-beautiful body politics of Ayers’ “Pretty Brown Skin.”

Lamar has rapped over Ayers-derived beats in the past. And at its most openhearted, the Compton rapper’s sprawling concept record shows traces of the sunny, stoic compositions of the South Centralborn Ayers. Glasper’s help has a lot to do with that essence. Even when Ayers isn’t present, then, his music finds a way into the moment.

“You can’t get away from it,” he said.

Who would want to? p Brandon Soderberg lives in Baltimore, where he works for Baltimore City Paper.

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A NOT-SO-SILENT WAY

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HEN THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL BEGINS LATER THIS WEEK, it will quickly express that jazz is just its heritage, not its limit.

On the first night of the two-weekend Goliath event, country star Keith Urban and indie rock crossover kings Wilco will play the big stages. The next six days are loaded with jazz, yes, but they also include No Doubt and Pitbull, Jimmy Buffett and T.I. The event’s only rule, it seems, is to buck preconceptions.

On the same day, the Art of Cool Fest will launch its second iteration in Durham.

Though presented by a nonprofit with the explicit aim of expanding jazz’s audience, the festival itself has avoided genrespecific branding. Instead, it mostly extols the values of the African-American music canon—jazz chief among them—as a source of inspiration.

By doing this, Art of Cool has developed a strong reputation among both upcoming and established jazz and soul artists. It’s rapidly become a safehouse for jazz’s preservation and innovation. In doing so, it has also become the rare festival where female performers feel like more than a footnote.

“Art of Cool has values that they’re sticking to. You can tell by who’s coming,” explains Durham’s six-time Grammynominated jazz vocalist, Nnenna Freelon.

She was among the festival’s inaugural headliners. Those values include not trying to control what jazz can be.

“Duke Ellington said that there’s good music, and there’s the other kind,” Freelon continues. “When we get into dogmatic definitions of what is and what isn’t jazz, that’s a conversation for people who market things. It’s not a real music conversation.”

New York jazz-soul octet Mad Satta help epitomize Art of Cool’s aim to find acts that draw on jazz but don’t always play it. Their set is being presented by Revive Music Group, which launched in 2006 as a “genre-bending, creative-concept live-music” production agency. Since then, Revive has emerged as

a progressive jazz-advocacy collective by curating shows and even publishing an online magazine, The Revivalist.

Founder Meghan Stabile has seen the conversation about jazz change. Watching Robert Glasper move from an in-demand jazz pianist to someone recording with Kendrick Lamar and Common, she says, was a natural move: “That wasn’t a strategy or anything. He just wanted to play other shit.”

Art of Cool is an extension of that idea.

“It is a hybrid sensibility,” says Stabile.

“Art of Cool is only supporting what already exists. They’re a platform. These artists are doing this music, regardless. Art of Cool is a place that says, ‘Come here, and we’ll support you. We’ll give you a place to all come together and be a support system.’

It doesn’t have to be called anything. Fuck calling it jazz; fuck calling it hip-hop.”

Perhaps it seems like a new generation of jazz musicians and promoters has a laissezfaire policy—that is, get in where you fit in.

But the quest for gender equality, in jazz and at festivals at large, suggests otherwise.

Earlier this month, Freelon received an email from one of her bandmates. “I was at the first press conference when Jazz at the Lincoln Center was formed,” it read.

“Journalist Lara Pellegrinelli asked artistic director Wynton Marsalis why there were not any women in the band. He smirked and didn’t deign to answer.”

In 2000, more than a decade later, Pellegrinelli wrote a piece for The Village Voice entitled “Dig Boy Dig,” in which the celebrated trombonist defensively answered her questions.

“Are we trying to incorporate women?

Yes,” he told her. “I’m not thinking about employing more women.”

Though 15 years should be enough time for Marsalis to at least think about the topic, Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra still has yet to hire a permanent woman player in its three decades. (Jazz at the Lincoln Center did not respond to a request for comment.)

“To me, it’s a human rights issue,” says Freelon. “This isn’t about some chick who’s mad because she can’t get a gig in Wynton’s band. Women, young women and little girls need to look up on that stage

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Durham singer Eve Cornelious

and see somebody they can identify with and say, ‘You know what? I can do that.’”

Much the same holds for festivals: After the lineup for this year’s Coachella was revealed, Slate reacted with a post titled “Coachella Festival is Still a Boy’s Club.”

Despite jazz’s own gender challenges, the Art of Cool has managed to get the balance right. This year, 42 percent of its roster includes female-led acts. Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, by comparison, clock in around 25 percent.

Though neither of this year’s main stage headliners are women, two of this year’s female performers highlight the core of Art of Cool’s inclusiveness. Transcendent vocalist Gretchen Parlato has been heralded among the jazz intelligentsia as one of the genre’s godsends. Unsung jazz mesmerizer and N.C. Central University alum Eve Cornelious mirrors the organization’s crusade for jazz innovation, preservation and education. Country-soul musician Rissi Palmer, the fierce songwriter Kendra Foster and Moonchild’s daring Amber Navran rank among the lineup’s standouts, too.

Festival co-founder Cicely Mitchell admits she likes to book female jazz and soul acts, in part, because, like Freelon, she wants young women to imagine themselves on stage one day.

“I love it,” she says. “I’ll be glad, next year, when we can get more females in bands, female bandleaders, a female drummer— not just a female vocalist. I’ll be glad when we get to that point. It’s coming.” p Eric Tullis lives in Chapel Hill, where he writes about music and basketball.

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As D’Angelo once restyled Smokey Robinson’s “Cruisin’,” Chris Turner popped CHRIS his collar on a TURNER mouthwatering modification of Sade’s “Kiss of Life.” In fact, his 2012 mixtape, LOVElife Is a Challenge, seems a not-so-distant cousin of D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar.

On “Sticky Green,” Turner laments his love affair with cannabis just as D’Angelo once seemed to personify the green leaf. Turner has helped a new generation of experimental soul truthers compose with romance. (Friday, 8 p.m., Motorco)

Moonchild’s Amber Navran has a firm grip on her soprano, using it for three years to lead her band’s jazz-heavy romp through yesteryear’s neo-soul splurge. Once that era’s architects grew tired of being labeled as such, they surrendered the sub-genre to B-listers.

But younger acts, like the music-school buddies of Moonchild, helped resuscitate the form.

Anticipate these virtuosos to be this year’s surprise standout among louder bands with less finesse.

(Friday, 10:20 p.m., The Pinhook)

CARLITTA DURAND Unlike many music festivals, Art of Cool Fest began after years of fertilizing its surrounding scene with standout jazz and soul acts. As this happened, area soul enchantress Carlitta Durand watched from the sidelines, a new mother and singer-in-waiting. Her much-anticipated I’ll Be Gorgeous When I’m Dead album is scheduled to arrive hours after she takes the festival stage. So far, she’s teased a diverse trio of soothing singles—“100 Nudges of Love,” “Frankenstein,” “Find a Way.” Debuting them live could, at last, be the start of significant attention for one of the state’s best voices. (Friday, 10 p.m., Durham Armory)

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KENNY GARRETT QUINTET The first Art of Cool closed with the trombone bravura of Christian Scott, who proved Motorco’s largely standing-room-only setup could accommodate and even bolster jazz performed in front of quiet, seated clubs. This year, one of the most accomplished and beloved living jazz musicians, saxophonist Kenny Garrett, will try to make it a trend.

Watch as the 54-yearold bandleader weaves

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TAKUYA KURODA When this Blue Note Records trumpeter paired with soul-jazz vocalist José James to rework Roy Ayers’ “Everybody Loves the Sunshine,” the result was a drum-happy playdate. Kuroda’s brass chattered in a smoky horn dialect, recalling the original like the two spoke across decades in a secret code. Keep your fingers crossed for KENDRA Kuroda to join Ayers FOSTER on the main stage, too.

(Friday, 11:35 p.m., The Pinhook)

KENDRA FOSTER Singer-songwriter Kendra Foster helped pen D’Angelo’s triumphant return, Black Messiah. Her lines show variety.

“Perilous dissidence evening up the score/Do we even know what we’re fighting for?” she offered at one point. And for the lovers: “The candy coated thoughts that drift through my sleep/Let me know it’s you that holds the key.” She’ll discuss collaborative songwriting during the debut “Innovate Your Cool” conference. Then Foster, who has spent a significant amount of time touring with the P-Funk All Stars, will perform her own material on the new American Underground rooftop. (Saturday, 3 p.m., American Underground Rooftop)

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And may I never forget the festival usher who claimed that, at any minute, he would unveil his karate moves for any overly enthusiastic festivalgoer. The 10 acts from the second Art of Cool, listed below in chronological order, each have the potential to top any of those aforementioned sets. You can’t catch them all because of time conflicts, but that’s a fine problem to have. Just watch out for the tough usher. —Eric Tullis

between strains of Miles and Coltrane and from Africa to the postbop marksmanship he delivered on 2012’s Seeds from the Underground. (Friday, 10:45 p.m., Motorco)

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With the exception of hip-hop-leaning jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD and locals The Beast, emcee and vocalist Maimouna “Mumu Fresh” Youssef is the closest this year’s Art of Cool gets to rap. That’s quite a load for one act to carry, but Youssef has made a career of heavy lifting by repurposing

well-known songs into fun, adroit numbers about gender, class and race politics. There’s a softer songstress element to Youssef’s repertoire, too. Her “I Got A Man” became an anthem of the BET series Being Mary Jane.

(Saturday, 6 p.m., Durham Athletic Park)

ANTHONY HAMILTON You might see the name of this North Carolinaborn R&B crooner on several soul-oriented festival lineups this summer. But this may be the only instance where he’ll perform his folkforward soul classic, Comin’ from Where I’m From, in full. Hamilton’s country-fed vocal range moves from balmy baritone to swooping soprano. He’ll offer a lot of action in the old Durham Bulls Ballpark. (Saturday, 8 p.m., Durham Athletic Park) PHOTO CREDIT

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HE DEBUT OF THE ART OF COOL FEST LAST YEAR IN DOWNTOWN DURHAM TEEMED WITH DAZZLING MOMENTS. There was the superhero instrumentalist, Christian Scott, who wielded his custom-made horn like a sorcerer’s wand; the underground soul hippie, Cody Chesnutt, who wore an Army helmet and sang about his crack-smoking days; and the alt-soul priestess, Alice Smith, who cast a spell over Hayti’s pews.

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GRETCHEN PARLATO & ALAN HAMPTON

Shania Twain’s 1998 hit “You’re Still the One” won some awards, sold a bunch of copies and helped fuel country music’s crossover. But when decorated jazz singer Gretchen Parlato hijacked it with her spellbinding coos last year, the 38-year-old, Grammy-nominated talent stole the glory. Parlato only gets more potent alongside bassist and guitarist Alan Hampton; they find new ways to turn the singer’s subtleties into emotional, progressive vocal jazz. (Saturday, 10:15 p.m., PSI Theatre)

MARC CARY RHODES AHEAD TRIO In the 16 years between jazz keyboardist Marc Cary’s first Rhodes Ahead project and the second installment, last month’s Rhodes Ahead Vol. 2, little changed. The light-rail arrangements and cool pace still offer a modern jazz take on Afrofuturist soundscapes. The Fender Rhodes purrs, as soul rhythms embrace drum-and-bass textures. Cary assembled the team for this experimental jazz project at the request of dance music producers. “They came to us looking for a certain sound,” says Cary. “They were trying to get a real organic and true sound. They wanted real players. We were a sound.” (Saturday, midnight, The Pinhook)

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How Red Hat Amphitheater’s new Taco Bell food truck might be a missed opportunity

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N THE RECENT AND WARM FRIDAY NIGHT when Raleigh’s Red Hat Amphitheater launched its 2015 concert season, the lines for Becky Jo Cascio’s pizza-slinging food truck were so long she couldn’t tell where the queues ended and the crowds began.

In only four hours, Pie Pushers peddled nearly 800 slices of pizza, with receipts totaling more than $3,000.

Cascio was so busy that, at show’s end, she suggested to organizers that they recruit more food trucks for the next concert.

But Cascio and Pie Pushers weren’t actually in Raleigh. Instead, they were working in Carrboro, selling their pies to a sold-out crowd of 4,500 at an outdoor Sylvan Esso show. Back in Raleigh, where the British band alt-j had sold all 6,000 tickets to its outdoor set, Red Hat had a food truck of its own. Despite the bigger audience, however, the Taco Bell truck—making its third appearance in the city-owned amphitheater—sold only $320 worth of tacos, bean burritos and platters of nachos.

“Those sales figures aren’t exactly where we’d like them to be,” says Teresa Eberwein, the director of marketing at Luihn Four. The Morrisville-based company owns 83 fast food restaurants throughout the Southeast, and one of its most recent acquisitions is the Taco Bell truck. “But we want to have it available for people who haven’t had the chance to taste Taco Bell lately.”

What the Taco Bell truck lacked in sales, it made up for in controversy, generating a flood of online snark during and after the concert. Several posts by the blog New Raleigh, for instance, criticized the venue’s choice to go with a global fast-food chain when more than 100 locally based food trucks now roam the streets of the Triangle. Subsequent commenters didn’t take it any easier on Red Hat. But venue management maintains the food truck arrangement is part of a sponsorship deal that’s essential to its bottom line. City records suggest, however, it’s possible for the amphitheater to make more money by using local vendors.

“It’s not that we’re pushing everyone out, but these concerts are not a huge profit opportunity for anybody,” says Taylor Traversari, who manages the amphitheater on behalf of the Raleigh Convention Center. “Taco Bell is looking

BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN for exposure, and I don’t think a food truck is looking for exposure. They’re looking to make money.”

The truck’s appearance, says Traversari, is part of a $40,000 sponsorship contract between Taco Bell, Pepsi and Live Nation. After $5,000 of that sum is reimbursed through free tickets, the venue and Live Nation split the remaining $35,000 evenly. In exchange for that money, Taco Bell’s name appears on concert announcements and promotional materials. They hang four banners inside the amphitheater. And then, at every show, they park their food truck alongside an open amphitheater gate on Lenoir Street, with more signs directing people to spend $6 for a “Nachos Bell Grande.”

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By allowing the truck on the amphitheater grounds, Traversari says he’s able to limit the number of Taco Bell banners he must hang in the space while supplementing the venue’s existing, largely local eats.

“We were talking about food options, and we needed more. It was a good sponsorship activation for them, and it kept them online as a sponsor. That money is important to us,” Traversari says. “We used that activation as solving somewhat of a problem of needing more food options.”

The amphitheater has only three key sponsorships—a six-figure deal with Red Hat, a smaller one with beer distributor Mims and Taco Bell. Traversari says the $17,500 sum is necessary for sustaining the amphitheater’s operations. The venue also pads its bottom line with a 30

percent cut of the truck’s net profits, or $112.11 (including tax) at the season opener.

But the amphitheater could actually surpass that sponsorship number with some extra effort, with or without Taco Bell. Though Traversari initially claimed Red Hat could only accommodate one food truck, he admits that a little reconfiguration would allow two or three operating at once. They’ve previously experimented with small food truck rodeos outside of the gate.

For the space, each truck either pays a $300 flat fee or, as Taco Bell does, forks over 30 percent of its income at the end of each gig. Traversari estimates that Red Hat will host 37 shows this year. If the venue booked two food trucks for each show and both vendors paid the $300 fee, they would generate $22,200, nearly $5,000 more than it receives from Taco Bell’s sponsorship.

This sum wouldn’t need to be split with Live Nation.

Four food truck owners and employees agree that those terms are high but not unreasonable. And no one worries that Taco Bell’s low sales figures suggest a market for food trucks at these concerts doesn’t exist; the option simply has to be marketed, so that people can expect to eat at the show instead of before it.

“Whenever we go to a new location or someone does an event for the first time, you have to build the audience up,” says Cascio, a key organizer of Durham’s successful food truck rodeos. “If Red Hat hasn’t had a lot of food trucks, people just aren’t used to it. The more they put in a solid effort to have them and promote them, it becomes another fun part of the event.”

Brian Bottger owns Only Burger, a Triangle truck staple for so long it has spawned two brick-and-mortar locations. The market is so crowded with trucks, he says, their owners are clamoring for new events to try. They’d happily take a chance on a rock concert. But no one has ever contacted him about the chance to park Only Burger at Red Hat. “You could have a different truck out there every week, but that requires someone to do it. Someone has to book it. Someone has to make sure they have insurance and have had health inspections,” says Bottger. “But you can stick a corporate sponsor in there and say, ‘You’ve got the gig, and I don’t have to do any more work.’ But what are you really trying to accomplish?” p Grayson Haver Currin is the music editor of the INDY.

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WOMEN’S RITES

Joan of Arc, Amelia Earhart and Gertrude Stein walk into an asylum ...

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UTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION WAS THE COMMON GROUND OF COLD WAR POLITICS AT ITS MOST LUDICROUS—the idea that if the other “side” chose the nuclear option, in the argot of the 1960s, we’d retaliate instantaneously, and boom, all would fall down dead.

Better dead than Red, as the saying went in the U.S. Undoubtedly there was a similar saying in the U.S.S.R. The Space Race between the two superpowers ran simultaneously and in support of the Arms Race.

Such ridiculous reality gave impetus to some scathing art, such as the absurdist play by Arthur Kopit currently at Common Ground Theatre as part of its Small Series.

Chamber Music, smoothly directed by Rachel Klem with her customary acuteness and flair for drollery, takes place in a madhouse. All but the falsely kind doctor (Shelby Hahn) are women—famous women from several centuries. Their range and diversity are not wide—after all, in 1962, Betty Friedan had only just published The Feminine Mystique, and Ms. Magazine was still 10 years in the future. But no matter.

Chamber Music’s not about them: They are present as symbols and similes.

The Woman Who Plays Records (Constanze Weber Mozart, delicately played by Mary Guthrie) sweetly spins vinyl while Rome burns. The Woman in Armor (Joan of Arc, portrayed by the formidable Drina Dunlap) endangers all with her heavy cross. The Woman in Queenly Spanish Garb (the majestic Barbette Hunter as Isabella of Castile), breaks her long silence with a tirade about men and new worlds.

The Woman in Aviatrix’s Outfit (Amelia Earhart, boldly rendered by Dale Wolf) keeps trying to take off for freedom, while The Woman with Notebook (Gertrude Stein, manifested by Dierdre Shipman) tries to corral actuality by inscribing all its possible permutations.

Also present are explorer and documentarian Osa Johnson (Allison McAlister, ready to shoot) and silent film star Pearl White (the lovely Sheryl Scott).

Leading the “committee” is Susannah Hough as the redoubtable Susan B. Anthony.

The plot, such as it is, entails planning a pre-emptive strike on the men’s ward, as the women are certain the men are out to do them in. The irrational lengths to which they are willing to go in their plan are precisely the same as those of governments and armies. This seasoned sisterhood of ensemble players shows just how deadly silly it all is. p

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LIVING LEGENDS

As on TV, the MythBusters live show makes skeptical science fun

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N THEIR DISCOVERY CHANNEL SHOW, MYTHBUSTERS, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman dive deep into urban legends.

Rather than resorting to an endless parade of droning scholars, the pair performs science experiments with plenty of flashes, booms and surprises.

As the dynamic duo heads for Raleigh on their MythBusters live tour, we caught up with Savage to speak with him about the show’s surprise success and rapport with fans.

communities, finding out what they’re interested in, what What did you originally hope would happen? we do that resonates with them. I sign autographs at Maker It’s TV, and that means that it’s very unpredictable. The Faire every year, and it’s one of the autograph sessions I bottom could drop out at any moment. You just work with don’t have an end point on. That can normally be quite what you’ve got while it’s here and hope that it does OK. exhausting, but the Maker Faire crowd—there’s been kids As freelancers—which is what we really have been over the who keep coming back over the last six years and have past 20 years—there’s a part of my brain that’s never not pictures of every time we’ve met. They tell me about the thinking, “What’s next?” That’s just part of the survival projects they’re working on. Some of these kids mode of a freelancer. started out in middle school, and now they’re There’s never been a graduating high school. Again, that’s one of point in MythBusters MYTHBUSTERS: those unintended effects that we can’t believe is where we’re thinking, JAMIE & ADAM actually one of the results of our little show.

“Oh, great, we’re totally UNLEASHED successful and now shit’s easy!”

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INDY: Did you ever expect MythBusters would change how a lot of kids thought about science as entertaining?

ADAM SAVAGE: Oh God, no. And more than that, we still try to not think too much about the idea that we’re making an educational program. We recognize that it had that effect, but it was by far the most unexpected effect we could have imagined. It’s the kind of thing you could only do by accident. We learned how to make this show organically, and learned that the best narratives were based on our enthusiasm. And our enthusiasm was based on genuinely figuring things out. With a lot of reality shows, they’re pretty much written before they even start vote now @ indyweek.com! filming. When we start filming, we’re not sure how it’s going to turn out, things happen we didn’t expect, and we change direction.

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What’s surprised you about the show in its 12-year run?

I never cease to be amazed at who turns out to be watching. I was in a hotel in Texas recently, and a guy came up to me and said, “Hey, I’m the road manager for Jack White, and he’s really excited that you’re here. I was wondering if you could stop by and say hello.” He couldn’t have been sweeter or more awesome. That kind of stuff happens all the time, and it’s far out.

You regularly attend fan conventions and Maker Faire.

What do you enjoy about that?

I love interacting with the people who are in those

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MythBusters stays pretty in tune with fans, too. Why is audience engagement important to you?

On MythBusters, Jamie and I are the audience’s avatars. We go through the experiments for them, and that’s stronger than if we just had experts and sports heroes and gymnasts doing all of our experiments and then asking them what it’s like. We explain to the audience what our experience was like, and they get a more visceral feel.

Up on stage, that relationship doesn’t quite work the same way. You are the ringleader. You’re taking care of the audience, so they’re not really thinking of you as one of them. When we bring up people from the audience, they become the audience’s avatars, to a certain extent.

Audiences watch me grab these two people from the crowd, having fun on stage, and it brings them closer to being onstage. There might be some performers who like the distance between them and the audience, but for me, I really enjoy the closeness. p Allison Hussey is the INDY calendar editor. Email her at ahussey@indyweek.com.

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INTELLIGENT DESIGNS

Lambert & Stamp tells The Who’s story by way of two backstage Svengalis; Ex Machina is a strong entry in the booming A.I. sci-fi genre

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CASE CAN BE MADE THAT, OF THE THREE BIG BRITISH INVASION BANDS, THE WHO WERE THE MOST INTERESTING BECAUSE THEY WERE THE MOST FUCKED UP. The Beatles were cute and the Stones were sexy, but The Who were a gang of working-class street kids from England’s violent Mod scene. They were dangerous.

The duo’s genius, the film argues, wasn’t that they recognized the authentic greatness of The Who. It was that they cultivated and amplified that greatness. The band was the real deal, all right. But one wonders if their worldbeating success story would be the same without the gonzo rock promotion strategies of Lambert and Stamp.

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striking yet seemingly throwaway moment in EX MACHINA occurs when Nathan (Oscar Isaac), a reclusive tech tycoon, joins a mute girl Friday named Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno) for an impromptu dance routine set to Oliver Cheatham’s R&B hit “Get Down Saturday Night.”

The lone observer of this pas de deux is the dumbstruck

The rollicking documentary LAMBERT & STAMP explores the early history of the band through the story of the two men considered its unofficial fifth and sixth members. London scenesters Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp didn’t just discover and manage the group, they arguably created The Who as we know it today.

Director James D. Cooper provides intriguing portraits of both men.

Lambert, who passed away in 1981, was an unlikely hipster. An Oxford grad, his father was a classical composer. Stamp, on the other hand, was a street kid all the way. His dad piloted a tugboat on the Thames. (Brother Terence Stamp, also onscreen here, went on to some success as well.)

The film focuses mostly on interviews with Stamp, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey. Archival footage is stitched throughout, keyed to musical blasts from the band’s early catalog. The doc boasts an agreeably loose style. The standardissue talking-head interviews regularly go off the rails, with crew members laughing and objects swinging into the frame.

Interesting revelations abound. Among the rejected names for the band: The Hair, British European Airlines and Gaze into my crystal ball: Artificial intelligence is the future in Ex Machina Nothing. Later, it’s revealed that Keith Moon and John Entwistle nearly quit to join Led Zeppelin.

Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a computer coder for Nathan’s One compelling passage toward the end just follows a company, an Internet search engine called BlueBook. conversation between Townsend and Daltrey as they air out Selected from obscurity, Caleb is flown to Nathan’s old resentments. remote, fortified hideaway to take part in a Turing test, But the really fascinating stuff focuses on the two title which assesses the intelligent behavior of Nathan’s characters. Back in the day, Lambert and Stamp were newsecretive, sensational creation: an artificially intelligent school showbiz hucksters. They once offered Jimi Hendrix humanoid named Ava (Alicia Vikander). a record deal, even though they didn’t have a record Nathan doesn’t conceive of this pinnacle of human company. (“We intended to get one,” Stamp remembers.) invention as a machine to conquer war, disease or But they were also innovators, developing new recording environmental catastrophe. Instead, the brilliant, beermethods and stage techniques, and getting the rock opera swilling billionaire bro constructs Ava as a replicant of his Tommy into the Met in 1969.

feminine ideal, from her coy personality to an expressive face affixed to a supple, metallic physique. Heck, maybe even her skills as a dance partner.

“In answer to your question, you bet she can fuck,” Nathan adds, actually answering no one’s query but his own.

Writer-director Alex Garland (28 Days Later) fills his film with philosophical subtext. The name of Nathan’s company derives from German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s published lecture notes of the same name, in which he considers the question, “Is it possible for a machine to think?” Caleb compares the captive Ava’s plight to Frank Jackson’s thought-experiment, “Mary’s Room.” Nathan draws creative inspiration, perhaps regrettably, from the mix of design and randomness in a Jackson Pollock drip painting.

The fulcrum of this weighty allegory is when Nathan reveals that Ava’s gelatinous brain is powered by BlueBook’s Googleesque expanse. Ava isn’t just created by man. Her entire being is a digital repository of mankind’s history, including an urge for freedom and intimacy, but also a capacity for survival

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and deception. Indeed, the creator’s quest for technical perfection is inextricably influenced by his personal imperfections—superior intelligence bound by ego and COURTESY OF A24 FILMS self-indulgence.

The plotline is a virtual pointby-point update of The Island of Dr. Moreau, including an Eden-esque setting. The absence of the deus (God) from the film’s title, drawn from the term deus ex machina, is not an oversight. The roles of deity, hero and villain are deliberately left undefined and rotate between the three main characters as the narrative slowly unspools.

At one point, a delirious Caleb slits his wrist to determine what lurks beneath his own dermis. One of Ex Machina’s most provocative feats is that it dilutes the import of his discovery. Is God dead? No, he/she is just being reconfigured. —Neil Morris

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UNC-Chapel Hill professors speak about her life and poetry, and pianist Anatoly Larkin performs in her honor.

Poet Betty Adcock and 2014 North Carolina Poetry Society awardee Catherine Carter share their work, along with readings by several winners of its annual poetry contest, which include North Carolinians Leila Chatti, Mimi Herman, Jane K. Andrews and Mary E. Parker. 1–6 p.m., free, 119 Ambassador Loop, Cary, 919-460-4963, www. nazimhikmetpoetryfestival. org. —Chris Vitiello

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PAGE WALKER ARTS & HISTORY CENTER, CARY SUNDAY, APRIL 26

Low-key and friendly, that’s the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival, which celebrates its seventh year this week. The annual gathering always feels positive and generous—it’s about hanging out with a good meal and drink, talking about poetry and books. Named after a renowned Turkish poet and activist, the festival celebrates

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Here’s a theatrical mashup: Transplant the recombinant fairytale musical Into the Woods onto the glittering boulevards and grittier side streets of Moscow in 2005. Oh, and replace that winsome, knowing Stephen Sondheim score with something a bit more visceral: a soundtrack inspired by dissident punk band Pussy Riot. Don’t let the title fool you: In Meg Miroshnik’s provocative, comical and cautionary play, THE FAIRYTALE LIVES OF a young American RUSSIAN GIRLS woman’s pilgrimage to explore her family’s Soviet Jewish heritage goes completely off the rails after her arrival.

Why? She discovers a culture still bewitched by—and inhabitants still acting out—archetypal stories of treacherous relatives who may or may not be witches, animalistic boyfriends, sleazy fairy godmothers and vengeful vegetables.

Or, to put it another way: In Soviet Russia, the folk tales tell you. Manbites Dog Associate Artistic Director Jules Odendahl-James escorts us through this Cyrillic looking glass, with music by Bart Matthews. 8:15 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. and Weds.

May 6; 2 p.m. Sun. May 3, $5–$25, 703 Foster St., 919-682-3343, www.manbitesdogtheater.org. —Byron Woods

When Taj Mahal comes to Carolina, it’s a bit of a homecoming and a master class in worldwide roots music. Mahal claims a Tar TAJ MAHAL Heel connection through maternal relatives. In concert, Mahal and his trio cover huge chunks of his back catalog, including some of his lilting, Caribbean-flavored material. But he doesn’t become entangled in one particular clump of roots or one period of his career too long. He switches moods and genres from song to song, taking the audience from a Kansas City juke joint on “TV Mama” to Africa with “Zanzibar,” a tune he recorded with Angélique Kidjo and Toumani Diabaté. Mahal surrounds himself not only with a rhythm section but also an array of stringed instruments— banjo, acoustic and electric guitars, ukulele. And his magnificent, distinctive voice pours over the top like hot tar studded with gravel. 8 p.m., $30–$61.50, 309 W. Morgan St., Durham, 919560-3030, www.carolinatheatre.org. —Grant Britt

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WILLIAM TYLER & JAKE XERXES FUSSELL THE ARTSCENTER, CARRBORO THURSDAY, APRIL 23

The guitarist William Tyler and the singer Jake Xerxes Fussell are more than mere musical lifers; they were born into the very sounds and traditions they’ve made careers of updating.

Tyler is the son of two Nashville songwriters; with family roots in Mississippi, he’s inherited a wealth of Southern history and musical information about country and folk, the blues and bluegrass. For years, he wielded those resources as an accompanying instrumentalist for the likes of Lambchop and the Silver Jews, but, in the last half-decade, he’s made a string of some of the most vivid, vibrant and hypnotic solo guitar albums in recent memory. His best numbers feel like candid essays about places he’s visited or friends he’s had, with feelings and fantasies conjured by the sounds of acoustic or electric strings. Fussell, meanwhile, was raised in a family of folklorists who took him

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MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL & MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, RALEIGH THURSDAY, APRIL 23– SATURDAY, APRIL 25

The North Carolina Symphony’s next season has earned early praised for its emphasis on works by living composers. This season’s penultimate concert, featuring pieces by Judd Greenstein and Sarah Kirkland Snider, is a sign of things to come. The pair cofounded the genre-bending label New Amsterdam Records, a prominent syndicate among a younger generation of composers.

Here, Greenstein contributes a world premiere orchestration of his 2009 chamber work, Change. The piece builds around a burbling melody and shifting rhythmic patterns, like Michael Torke’s Yellow Pages for the indie rock era. But the highlight will be three excerpts from Snider’s Unremembered, a 15-song-cycle of poems by Nathaniel Bellows for multiple singers and orchestra.

The work is dark and luscious, sounding like the logical next step for Steve Reich and David Lang’s neo-Renaissance polyphony.

Soprano Shara Worden, better known as My Brightest Diamond, will sing lead; her performance of the insistent, esoterically sultry “The Witch” should be SHARA thrilling. For the WORDEN more traditionalminded, the symphony will also play warhorses by Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. The program returns next weekend, but without Snider and Worden, so go now. 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 23, 208 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill; 8 p.m., Friday, April 24–Saturday, April 25, 2 E. South St., Raleigh. $18–$75, 919-733-2750, ncsymphony.org. —Dan Ruccia PHOTO COURTESY OF ASTHMATIC KITTY

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on trips, for instance, to the fabled Sea Islands of Georgia.

On his recent Tyler-produced debut LP for Chapel Hill label Paradise of Bachelors, he reinterprets ancient songs he’s heard along the way with bright-eyed enthusiasm and youthful candor. Hope for a little cross-set collaboration during this great double-bill. 8 p.m., $12–$18, 300-G E. Main St., Carrboro, 919-929-2787, www.artscenterlive.org.

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THE CAVE: The Dear Old Blighties, Nathan Arizona and the New Mexicans; 9 p.m., $3.

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Ben Folds with yMusic; 8 p.m., $10–$58. See indyweek.com.

LINCOLN THEATRE: Guster, Kishi Bashi; 8 p.m., $26–$31. See indyweek.com.

LOCAL 506: Wild Child, Cottontail; 9 p.m., $12. See indyweek.com.

MOTORCO: Jarabe De Palo, Los Hollywood, Bocanegra; 8 p.m., $32–$38. See indyweek.com.

NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Caroline Mamoulides, Steve Howell; 9 p.m., $5.

NIGHTLIGHT: Doom Asylum, Ami Dang, Earthly, Eyes Low, Gigi Alien; 9 p.m., $7–$9. See indyweek.com.

THE PINHOOK: Hope for Agoldensummer, The Tender Fruit; 8 p.m., $7. See indyweek.com.

POUR HOUSE ANTOINE DUFOUR Canadian guitar phenom Antoine Dufour uses extended techniques such as tapping strings and drumming on the instrument’s acoustic body to make it sound like three axes and a percussionist at once. It’s a weird, musical wonder. Dufour is joined

by Craig D’Andrea, another talented fingerstyle guitarist. $12–$15/9 p.m. —CV SLIM’S: Hearts And Daggers, This Frontier Needs Heroes; 9 p.m., $5.

THE RITZ: Sleater-Kinney, THEEsatisfaction; 8 p.m., $25.

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THU, APR 23 THE ARTSCENTER: William Tyler, Jake Xerxes Fussell; 8 p.m.,

$12–$18. See page 29.

BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Ryan Hanseler’s All-Star Farewell Performance; 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $15–$17. See box, page 33.

CAROLINA THEATRE JIMMY WEBB In the three years that separate “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “MacArthur Park,” the young Oklahoman Jimmy Webb went from lowly songwriter-for-hire at Motown to auteur du jour at a wildly creative juncture in pop music. On the strength of his writing, Webb gained fame and a secure place in the pop canon.

Opener Karla Bonoff, who started in the late ’70s in the Linda Ronstadt lane, opens. $36–$52/8 p.m. —DK

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM) JEFF ROSENSTOCK Jeff Rosenstock continues his habit of penning hyper-catchy tunes. The former frontman of Bomb The Music Industry! and The Arrogant Sons of Bitches, Rosenstock eschews the latter’s snotty ska revivalism in favor of Bomb’s quirky commingling of pop-punk and anti-folk. Openers Chumped offer infectious alt-rock from Brooklyn. Durham’s Almost People joins. $10/8:30 p.m. —SG THE CAVE: Clyde’s on Fire, Christiane; 9 p.m., $3.

DEEP SOUTH BEAR GIRL Atlanta’s Bear Girl makes aggressive alt-rock. Bolstered by rapidly shifting prog rhythms and cutting post-punk riffs, the group’s hoarse ragers deliver more panache than your average radio shout-along. With Iselia, Pretend Surprise, Youth League, Fury and the Sound. $7/8:30 p.m.

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PNC ARENA ERIC CHURCH Eric Church might be as close as modern country comes to an all-things-to-all-people artist. The tailgate party crowd can fist-bump to “Drink in My Hand,” the married can make goo-goo eyes during “Love Your Love the Most,” and rockers can get their sneer on for bad-boy anthems like “The Outsiders.” But a guy whose latest No. 1, platinumselling album features the spooky anti-Nashville rant “Princess of Darkness,” which segues into the hard-rock stomp of “Devil, Devil,” has got more going on than mere demographic savvy. JD McPherson opens. $25– $62.50/7:30 p.m. —JA

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THE RITZ, RALEIGH—During his Lincoln Theatre set at Hopscotch 2013, Earl Sweatshirt pumped up his audience with a pair of counterintuitive words: “Get sad.” Nearly two years later, Odd Future’s young schlemiel seems to have replaced his perpetual melancholia with anger on I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside. At about 30 minutes (half the length of Tyler, The Creator’s new Cherry Bomb), Earl’s album makes its points in fitful bursts, his angst now turned outward instead of inward. “Grief,” for instance, is the inverse of Doris’ “Chum”—a goodbye to teenaged miseries, an introduction to something much tougher.

The change suits Earl. By recalibrating his promising delinquent palaver into dexterous verbosity, he’s liberated himself from the trappings of his sometimes-underwhelming alt-rap youth crew, Odd Future. Save for a beat from Left Brain, other members of that collective are missing here.

“I’m in my twenties now,” he commands at one point, as if announcing his own emancipation.

Shifting from posse standout to standing out solo opens a world of opportunities. I Don’t Like Shit... aligns Earl with some of the genre’s mainstream heroes. Like Lil Wayne, he’s got racy anecdotes and bawdy metaphors on deck to describe his intense lifestyle in the aftermath of the critically acclaimed Doris. On cuts like “Mantra,” Earl even recalls classic Nas, as he speedily spits his way out of the box people have put him in, bragging about just how good he is at what he does.

It’s a shame, then, that the semi-surprise release of I Don’t Like Shit... in March earned significantly lower first week sales than its predecessor, even when streams are factored into the math.

Earl lambasted Columbia Records for mishandling the album even before they released it. Still, the lack of a subsequent groundswell is telling; unlike his pal Tyler, whose Cherry Bomb stands to perform far better, Earl may have inadvertently grown away from his fanbase instead of growing with it. Perhaps they just wanted to get sadder? With Vince Staples and Remy Banks. 8 p.m., $25, 2820 Industrial Dr., Raleigh, 919-424-1400, www.ritzraleigh.com. —Gary Suarez

HAW RIVER BALLROOM DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE Yeah, Dave Rawlings is attached at the hip to Gillian Welch, but he’s a fantastic songwriter and flatpicker himself. This semi-surprise show will reprise tunes from Rawlings’ 2009 album, A Friend Of A Friend, and hopefully offer new ones, too. $20/9:30 p.m. —AH LOCAL 506: Family and Friends, The Collection; 9 p.m., $15.

THE MAYWOOD SHROUD EATER, BVNNIES A Miami force in the swift sludge tradition of Floor and Torche, Shroud Eater make barbarically heavy, delightfully fun metal tirades. Imagine Eyehategod playing pop or Windhand speeding up. Janette Valentine and Jeannie Saiz are great singers,

too, their simpatico yells serving as the lure lurking beneath the power. Bvnnies, Irata and Witchtit open. $8/9 p.m. —GC

NIGHTLIGHT MELISSA SWINGLE, DAVID DONDERO Melissa Swingle is best known as the singer and guitarist for The Moaners. That departed duo’s bleary humidity has been an apt indicator of her mood moving forward. She now splits the difference between a blues veteran’s mud-and-blood tales and the bent tones of early indie rock and her other old band, Trailer Bride. David Dondero’s ethereal tunes feel more interstitial, suggesting the way memories and regrets come into sharp relief when you’re driving on a long, lonely highway. With Dear Old Blighties. $7/9 p.m. —JL

THE PINHOOK FRANK FAIRFIELD As faux folkies play “old-timey” music while sporting vests and suspenders, Frank Fairfield seems the real damn deal. He lives and breathes old-time tunes, carefully collecting not just Southern folk songs but cowboy tunes from the Southwest, fiddle reels and more.

Fairfield acts as a living preservationist, too, as he’s bound to know at least a little bit of the story behind each song he plays. When he really gets going on the fiddle, the result is like watching a dervish whirl. Daniel Bachman opens with instrumental guitar tunes that reconcile some of Fairfield’s early American inspirations with more contemporary influences. $10/8 p.m. —AH

POUR HOUSE: Medicated Sunfish, Groove Fetish; 9 p.m., $7–$10.

SLIM’S SOON It’s telling that SOON’s membership draws from pop and metal bands. Frontman Stu McLamb is best known as the leader of The Love Language, a band he shares with drummer Thomas Simpson. On the other end, bassist Rob Walsh holds the low-end for stoner bruisers Bitter Resolve. Guitarist Mark Connor splits the difference, filling roles in the heavy Grohg and the light Bright Young Things. The result captures doom metal’s deliberation and intensity but shares little of its ominous darkness. Instead, McLamb’s strong vocals and stronger hooks keep the songs pointed heavenward. SOON offers surging uplift with meditative pacing.

With Midnight Plus One and Heaven. $5/9 p.m. —BCR

TIR NA NOG LOCAL BAND, LOCAL BEER: BRONZED CHORUS With their taut melodic loops, elastic rhythms and ability to manipulate momentum, The Bronzed Chorus have been a Triad post-rock beacon for almost a decade. Despite changes in tone and membership, their energy remains as vital as it was on 2009’s I’m the Spring, an in-state classic. With Goodbye, Titan and Nest Egg. Free/9:30 p.m.

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FRI, APR 24 54 WEST RANDALL BRAMBLETT Randall Bramblett’s résumé reads like a Who’s Who of rock ’n’ roll association. In his 30-plus years

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as a sideman, Bramblett has played sax and keyboards with The Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule, Widespread Panic, Elvin Bishop and Bonnie Raitt. He spent 16 years as Steve Winwood’s keyboardist. Ironically, Bramblett’s later solo work has gotten him more recognition and praise than anything he has done for the high-profile rockers. On her latest record, Worthy, Bettye LaVette even covered Bramblett’s “Where A Life Goes”—surprising places, it seems. Allman Brothers cover band Idlewild South opens. $15/8 p.m. —GB BEYÙ CAFFÈ: The Will McBride Group; 8 & 10 p.m., $12.

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THE CARY THEATER: Tres Chicas, Mary Johnson Rockers; 8 p.m., $20.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM) JOE PUG, FIELD REPORT Joe Pug and Field Report are guys with acoustic guitars, sharing stories about disappointment, dejection and, at some points, hope in plaintive and earnest tones. Pug, though, tends to write in smoothed-out aphorisms, the experience of life reduced to fodder for a Hallmark card. But Field Report, the outlet for feelings-wrenching songwriter Christopher Porterfield, depends on the details, deploying memories of the moments where things fell apart to make his songs feel as vivid as a screenplay. You’ll either find his candor off-putting or arresting; stay with it long enough, and you’ll learn that it’s just honest. $13–$15/9 p.m. —GC THE CAVE: Red Honey, Carina Point, Lovesucker; 9 p.m., $5.

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THE MAYWOOD: Audiostrobelight, The Water Between, Six Shots Later; 8 p.m., $10.

DURHAM ARMORY: Robert Glasper Trio, Jesse Boykins III, Carlitta Durand, Roy Ayers, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble; 6:15 p.m., $30–$260. See page 19.

DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: KidZNotes, Rissi Palmer, Zoocrü, The MPS Project, NCCU Combo; 12:45 p.m., $65–$260. See page 19.

MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM DIANA KRALL

HAW RIVER BALLROOM SMALLPOOLS In the video for Smallpools’ bluntly catchy synth-pop anthem “Dreaming,” the band’s singer, Sean Scanlon, keeps reliving the same party. Between shots of his band offering simple synth melodies and effect-drenched vocals, he’s stuck in a loop of hooking up, playing beer pong and falling into a pool. After listening to Smallpools, I feel his pain. With Grizfolk and Vinyl Theater. $18–$20/7 p.m. —JL THE KRAKEN: Sam Brown Band, Daddy Lion, Patrick Turner; 9 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE YELLOWCARD Otherwise known as “that pop-punk band with a violinist,” Yellowcard largely ditched that eccentricity on last year’s Lift a Sail. Instead, they added electronics to tamer, more generic pop-rock. Don’t expect the same Yellowcard you might have known in high school, though the band will sprinkle its set with nostalgic hits like “Ocean Avenue.” Tourmates Finch also released a new record last fall—its first since reuniting in 2012. By contrast, it is a return to form for the hooky post-hardcore quintet. The Downtown Fiction seals the bill’s mini-Warped Tour essence with clean-cut ditties. $20–$25/9 p.m. —SG

LOCAL 506 MAGNOLIA COLLECTIVE, AMIGO North Carolina outfits Magnolia Collective and Amigo offer alternate takes on Americana.

The Triangle’s Magnolia Collective favors a standard songwriter-andharmony approach, while Charlotte’s Amigo accent their LP Might Could with elements of classic country and doo-wop.

With The Affectionates. $5–$8/9 p.m. —AH

You’d be hard-pressed to name a more popular contemporary jazz act than pianist and singer Diana Krall. She knows what sells, too.

Her latest album, Wallflower, features breathy, slowed-down covers of classic rock songs such as The Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreaming,” 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love” and the Eagles’ “Desperado.” Despite Krall’s impressive collection of Grammys, this phoned-in effort is so cheesy and bland that it should come poured over nachos. $65–$180/8 p.m. —CV MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: NC Symphony: Appalachian Spring; 8 p.m., $18–$75. See page 29.

MOTORCO: Kenny Garrett Quintet, Kris Bowers, Mad Satta; 8 p.m., $65–$260. See page 19.

NIGHTLIGHT THE KNEADS Though The Kneads are opening this gig, the Greensboro quartet are actually the ones with something new to celebrate.

Their debut LP for Potluck Foundation, Letting You Let Me Down, is a breathless rumble of vintage indie rock jams. As fetching as Superchunk but more coarse like Archers, they are aggressive, agile and incredibly likable. Jphono1, the side project of Potluck co-honcho John Harrison, takes the bill’s middle, while the intricate post-mosteverything Le Weekend headlines. $7/9 p.m. —GC THE PINHOOK: Takuya Kuroda, Moonchild, Chris Turner; 8:40 p.m., $65–$260. See page 19.

POUR HOUSE: The Broadcast, Psylo Joe; 10 p.m., $5–$8.

PSI THEATRE: Mike Phillips, Eve Cornelious, Al Strong; 8 p.m., $65–$260. See page 19.

SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS ESCHER The Ground Is Missing, Escher’s sophomore EP, makes no secret of its influences. The band’s complex fusion of prog-rock and death metal is the clear descendant of bands such as Between The Buried and Me and Meshuggah, acts for whom compositional ambition is a calling card. But Escher never loses momentum for technical mastery. Rather than noodle

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aimlessly, a deep-rooted death metal engine keeps things moving forward. Columbia, S.C., instro-metal trio Trees on Mars open with a more streamlined vision. Free/7 p.m. —BCR SLIM’S: The Stops, The Bleeding Hearts; 9 p.m., $5.

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BEYU CAFFE, DURHAM—Ryan Hanseler attacks the piano like a cagefighter; in fact, he is one. When Hanseler is not teaching jazz or gigging six nights a week, he trains and coaches cagefighting, kickboxing and Brazilian jiu jitsu. Hanseler’s teachers at N.C. Central, where he earned his master’s degree in jazz, remember him as a study in contrasts. Though often bruised from combat, his hands were delicate on the keys. Hanseler’s mentors sensed an untapped potential and lobbied him to apply his more aggressive side to the piano.

“That came from Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo.

Branford was like, ‘Let me get this straight: You beat people up in a cage, but you come out and play like a 5-year-old girl?’” recalls Hanseler. “Joey goes, ‘Look man, I want you to come out and play the piano like you’re trying to kill someone with it.’ Then it clicked in my head.”

After graduating, Hanseler joined the ranks of the Triangle’s first-call jazz musicians, playing with Marsalis, John Brown, Brian Miller, James “Saxsmo” Gates, Al Strong and Kobie Watkins. This week, many of those peers gather to say goodbye to Hanseler, at least for now. He soon departs for Amsterdam, where his wife, Julie, has accepted a three-year post with Philips.

“It’s been a humbling experience, because you find out people actually have been listening,” Hanseler says. “All of a sudden you realize just how many friends you have.”

One of those pals is the bassist Brown, who employs Hanseler as his primary piano player.

“We don’t play without smiling,” Brown explains. “Bass players and piano players must share very intimate space in the music. Ryan and I quickly found that we had a similar approach, and we grew together. I will miss that.” 7:30 & 9 p.m., $15–$17, 335 W. Main St., Durham, 919-683-1058, www. beyucaffe.com. —Sylvia Pfeiffenberger

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DOWNTOWN DURHAM (PARRISH STREET): Saint Augustine’s Jazz Band, The Fuzz Band, DeQn Sue, Outside Soul, Gregg Gelb, NCCU Jazz Ensemble; noon, $65–$260. See page 19.

DURHAM ARMORY: Snarky Puppy, Butcher Brown, Sidewalk Chalk; 9:30 p.m., $65–$260. See page 19.

DURHAM ATHLETIC PARK: Anthony Hamilton, Maimouna Youssef, Soul Understated featuring Mavis “Swan” Poole; 5 p.m., $35–$260. See page 19.

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: Bob Dylan; 8 p.m. See indyweek.com.

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KINGS T0W3RS In a rather short spell, Derek Torres has taken T0W3RS from a full rock band to a delightfully energetic solo pop project. He’s transitioned from a band that seemed always to have a new release pending to a nowmethodical syndicate. In both respects, Torres has learned to emphasize quality over quantity.

It’s worked, too. Last year’s TL;DR showed his skills as a songwriter and arranger had advanced, so that he was less an Animal Collective acolyte and instead a confident young composer.

Thefacesblur opens. $7/9 p.m.

—GC THE KRAKEN: Pipe, The Former Action Figures, The Fontanelles; 8 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE BIG SOMETHING The offbeat and oft-rowdy Burlington jammers BIG Something fuse eclectic aspects of rock—space, psych, and Southern—with funk and electronic accoutrements. The results are dance-friendly but lyrics-focused. Roots rock rounds out the bill: South Carolina trio Dangermuffin ambles along on hippyish grooves while Raleigh’s fiddle-heavy Urban Soil gets fiery. $12–$15/9 p.m. —SG

LOCAL 506: The Flats, Northbound, Brother Beast, Sunnyvale; 9 p.m., $8–$10.

THE MAYWOOD: Necrocosm, Only Ash Remains, Dying Eyes of Sloth, Edge of Humanity; 9 p.m., $5.

MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: NC Symphony: Appalachian Spring; 8 p.m., $18–$75. See page 29.

MIDTOWN PARK AMPHITHEATRE: American Aquarium, Four Founders, The Jason Adamo Band; 3 p.m., free.

MOTORCO: BADBADNOTGOOD, The Beast, Canine Heart Sounds; 9 p.m., $65–$260. See page 19.

NIGHTLIGHT SPONGE BATH Like Nobunny with a taste for twang, Boston’s Sponge Bath work their way through lo-fi rockabilly nuggets. There’s tons of personality and very few frills.

As with that masked garage rocker, a taste for creepy humor is required. The blissfully shambling “The Cream Man” hinges on lines like “He’s stickier than the candyman” and an intentionally mumbled rhyme with “seemin’.” Brooklyn’s grimy and percussive Ora Iso opens, along with Faster Detail, Timeghost and Millefleux. $7/10 p.m. —JL THE PINHOOK: Marc Carey, Ester Rada, Laura Reed; 9:45 p.m., $65–$260. See page 19.

POUR HOUSE COLLEGE MUSIC FEST Celebrating the waning days of the spring semester, The College Music Fest serves as a variety show—supposedly preceded by a Pullen Park cookout, though details remain shaky. Spaceship Days render slick modern rock fronted by a former America’s Got Talent finalist, while John Custer—the veteran producer responsible for albums by Corrosion of Conformity and Cry of Love—leads The Immortals.

The country tunes of Carolinaborn songstress Amanda Daughtry reflect her new Nashville home. Lauren Nicole’s adult-alternative jangle provides the foil to JoceLien’s cookiecutter teen pop. $10–$15/9 p.m.

—SG PSI THEATRE: Gretchen Parlato and Alan Hampton Duo, Ben Williams & Sound Effect; 9:15 p.m., $65–$260. See page 19.

SLIM’S: Vampirates, Drunk in a Dumpster, Future Crimes, Poison Anthem; 9 p.m., $5.

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SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Maradeen, The Oatmeal Conspiracy; 8 p.m., $12–$15.

THE RITZ: Seether; 7:30 p.m., $29.50.

SUN, APR 26 CAT’S CRADLE THE ANTLERS, TEEN Peter Silberman’s expansive chamber pop group The Antlers began as unassuming, bedroombased lo-fi but eventually incorporated string swells, horn arrangements, IDM twinkles and a sky-scraping sense of importance. They set an ongoing tone with Hospice, a 2009 concept album about illness and dread. Their records have gotten slightly less heavy since that epic downer but only in increments.

Intricate misery is what the heart wants sometimes, right? TEEN, an odd but nimble Brooklyn pop band with a locked-in rhythm section, should provide lively support. $17/8 p.m. —JK

CHAPEL HILL UNDERGROUND WXYC BACKYARD BBQ Backyard BBQ is WXYC’s defiantly weird local music showcase; its intermittent appearances at Chapel Hill Underground manifest that ethos. Durham’s Silent Lunch crowns this lineup with mumbling, muddy slacker rock charms, elevated by inviting harmonies and a nervous pulse.

Those elements create tense opposition to the guitars’ smoldering distortion. With Muffler and Terrace Jeater. Food is included, too. $5/8 p.m. —JL DURHAM ARMORY: Avery*Sunshine; noon. $65– $260. See page 19.

LINCOLN THEATRE DICK DALE “King of the Surf Guitar” Dick Dale revolutionized the sound and equipment for generations of power players in the ’50s. Leo Fender gave Dale his new invention the Stratocaster to try.

Dale’s subsequent use of the guitar and Fender amp to recreate jazz drummer Gene Krupa’s tribal rhythms and the sounds of the surf gave birth to a beefed-up speaker and transformer for the Fender Single Showman Amp. It’s familiar to legions of heavy metal headbangers. Dale’s trademark Fender Tank Reverb also enabled a long line of rockers to emulate his shimmery guitar tone and rich, sustained vocals. The legend offers this live demonstration. $25–$30/8 p.m. —GB

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MON, APR 27 LOCAL 506: Eleveneven; 9 p.m., $5.

NICE PRICE BOOKS S. CAREY Years ago, Sean Carey stumbled into the path of Justin Vernon’s ascendance by taking a gig as Bon Iver’s early drummer in small clubs. Massive tours, a Grammy and flirtations with rock stardom followed, as Carey became a core Bon Iver collaborator and more than a musician keeping a beat.

His modest but immersive solo records share Vernon’s interest in high harmonies, Steve Reich-like rhythms and occasionally nebulous melodies. Sometimes, he even handles those impulses with more grace than his more famous friend. Last year’s Range of Light was pleasant and reassuring, like a sunny fall day spent hiking. $20/8 p.m. —GC

SLIM’S HUMAN BODIES On their No Life EP, Boston’s Human Bodies serve six scathing tracks that meld frostbitten black metal with D-beat’s streamlined charge. “Covenant”—at three-and-a-half minutes, the longest track on No Life— provides the record’s deepest groove, funneling an ominous swing through undulating riffs and a deliberate low-end. Local support comes from Skemäta and Heron, who complement Human Bodies with dark hardcore and expansive black metal. $5/9 p.m.—BCR

TUE, APR 28 CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM) SERYN, SONGS OF WATER Nashville outfit Seryn offer a refreshing break from the lockstep of Music City’s bland country rock.

They instead keep you on your toes with airy, quick rock tunes that soar and dive with breathless violin licks. Greensboro’s Songs of Water elegantly blend American and European folk styles to spectacular effect. Plus Corey James Bost. $10–$12/8:30 p.m.

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LOCAL 506 MO LOWDA For 2013’s Curse the Weather, Mo Lowda & The Humble pulled shamelessly from jam band, Americana and pop-punk influences. Songs like “Jumping at the Weather” employed these elements with equal glee and minimal finesse. Jesse Anderson Ainslie and Texoma open. $7/9 p.m. —AH

NEPTUNES PARLOUR WATER LIARS, The heart-wrenching “Lonely Bells (For Molina),” from Mississippi alt-country trio Water Liars, references the late Magnolia Electric Co. frontman.

Like those of Jason Molina, Justin Kinkel-Schuster’s songs are colored by the darkness at the edge of town, chockablock with displacement, desperation and hard living. Presented as somber waltzes and decked with thrumming phosphorescence, those sentiments make for an electric listen. Raleigh’s Old Quarter takes their country a little more roadworn, but last year’s Gone, Not Forgotten found the quintet toying with pyschedelia. $10–$12/7 p.m.

—PW POUR HOUSE: Ewan Dobson, Multiples; 9 p.m., $8–$10.

SLIM’S SATAN’S SATYRS The excellent Virginia trio Satan’s Satyrs get back to the early essence of doom and stoner metal, as epitomized by Black Sabbath and Leaf Hound. They add a patina of glowing psychedelics to their sinister riffs and heavy rhythms. While last year’s Die Screaming was menacing and dark, it delighted in guitar twists and tangents, supported by roaring organs. And singer Clayton Burgess, who plays bass in Electric Wizard these days, has a manic, anxious howl.

It’s as though he’s perpetually lost in a bad trip where the Devil won’t stop scaring him. With Bedowyn and Squall. $5/9 p.m.

—GC THE RITZ: Hollywood Undead; 8 p.m., $22.50.

WED, APR 29 CAROLINA THEATRE: Taj Mahal Trio; 8 p.m., $30–$61.50.

See page 29.

THE CAVE USX

Almost four years have passed since US Christmas issued its fifth

and best album, The Valley Path.

Frontman Nate Hall has released a solo album, violinist Meghan Mulhearn debuted several other projects and the rhythm section toured with A Storm of Light and Generation of Vipers. That its members would have restless muses is no surprise. Rife with cues to heavy psych rock, post-rock and deep blues, USX’s atmospheric doom is nuanced and rangy. With Sinister Haze, Generation of Vipers and Bitter Resolve. $7/9 p.m. —BCR

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HAW RIVER BALLROOM LANGHORNE SLIM Langhorne Slim has long searched for the sweet spot between being a soul man, a folk troubadour and a pop songsmith.

He’s lately found it with regularity through his studio output, even if his live shows occasionally forsake that balance for a raw, ragged energy. The druggy soft rock experiments of Florida duo The Dewars seem lifted straight from the ’70s. The Dewars open. $16–$18/8 p.m. —SG

POUR HOUSE INPUT This month’s installment of the new series Input covers a broad electronic scope. The night’s surprising standout might be Slums, the electronic project of Rodney Goodword. Unlike most J Dilla homages, this one is full of personal touches that make it seem more like a collaboration from the beyond than a shrine.

TZYVYX brings his side project of pellucid jams. With Apache Kid and Ships in the Night. Free/9 p.m. —BR

THE RITZ JAZMINE SULLIVAN Infidelity, vanity, snobbery, stupidity, hustle, hoes and hashtags are prevailing themes of Jazmine Sullivan’s recent Reality Show. The Philadelphia-bred wailer took this direction based on her own relationship tragedies and the pleasure of watching drama-loaded shows like Love and Hip-Hop. Those storylines may have provided fodder for the Grammy-nominated singersongwriter, but they remind us that a vocal stunner and talent like Sullivan can’t be manufactured. $29.50/8 p.m.

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LOCAL 506: The Ragbirds, Honey Magpie; 8 p.m., $8–$10.

POUR HOUSE: The Setlist Video Shoot; 1 p.m., free. The Mobros, Kenny George Band, The Rinaldi Flying Circus; 9 p.m., free.

THE RITZ: Earl Sweatshirt; 8 p.m., $25. See box, page 31.

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OPENING INDYPICK CHURCH OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Apr 22-Jun 12: Spring Bloom, work with themes of sex and power. 303 E. Chapel Hill Street, Durham. 919416-1111.

ENO GALLERY: Apr 24-Jun 21: Conjured Ghosts, work by Julyan Davis. — Fri, Apr 24, 6-9 p.m.: Reception. 100 S Churton St, Hillsborough. 919-883-1415, www.enogallery.net.

HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY: Apr 22-May 23: Along the Garden Path, multimedia group exhibition. — Fri, Apr 24, 6-9 p.m.: Reception. 102 N Churton St. 919-643-2500, hillsboroughartscouncil.org.

VILLAGE ART CIRCLE: Apr 24-May 23: Karol Tucker and Lori White, paintings. — Fri, Apr 24, 6-9 p.m.: Reception.

200 S Academy St #130, Cary. villageartcircle.com.

ONGOING INDYPICK ARTSPACE: Thru Apr 25: CAUTIONARY Tale, work

by Stacy Bloom Rexrode. — Thru Apr 25: Ellipse/Eclipse, work by Ann Roth and Mary Kircher. — Thru May 16: Wild at Heart: Our Affair with Nature, work by Elisabeth Applbaum, Karen Bell, Derek Coté, Andrea Frank, Robin Germany, Lori Kella, Gayle Stott Lowry, Jackson Martin, Traer Scott and Millee Tibbs. 201 E Davie St, Raleigh. 919-821-2787, www.artspacenc.org.

The Ackland Art Museum has an important new acquisition: A custom-built box by Marcel Duchamp called “From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy” (1966). The piece is on display in the Ackland’s “Adding to the Mix” series (April 24–June 7) and runs alongside The Land of No Things, the MFA thesis show by artists from UNCChapel Hill. 101 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, 919-966-5736, www.ackland.org.

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Galleries

BOND PARK COMMUNITY CENTER: Thru Apr 30: Jordan Lake, work by JJ Raia. 150 Metro Park Dr, Cary. 919-462-3970, www.townofcary.org.

THE CARRACK MODERN ART: Thru May 2: Honey Cult Creek Camp, Honey Cult will transform the Carrack Modern Art into a haunting campsite, featuring live performances and installations. free. 111 W Parrish St, Durham. thecarrack.org.

CARRBORO CENTURY CENTER: Thru May 30: Randolph Community College Photo Technology Student Show. 100 N Greensboro St. 919-918-7385, carrboro.com/ centurycenter.html.

CARY ARTS CENTER: Fri, Apr 24, 6 p.m.: Reception and gallery talk. — Thru May 1: Wilderness Matters, work by Heath Clayton. 101 Dry Ave. 919-469-4069, townofcary.org.

CHAPEL HILL ART GALLERY: Thru Apr 26: An Artist Dialogue, multimedia work from gallery artists. 1215 E Franklin St. chapelhillartgallery.com.

CHATHAM MARKETPLACE: Thru Apr 30: Ely Urbanski, woodblock and metal prints on paper and other printed works.

480 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro. 919542-2643, chathammarketplace. coop.

CLAYMAKERS: Thru May 8: Today’s Traditional Clay, work

by Seth Guzovsky, Mark Kozma and Joseph Sand. 705 Foster St, Durham. 919-530-8355, claymakers.com.

THE COTTON COMPANY: Thru May 3: Allan Weaver, sculptures. 306 S White St, Wake Forest. 919-570-0087, thecottoncompany.net.

LITTLE ART GALLERY & CRAFT COLLECTION: Thru May 30: Our Monuments, paintings by Brenon Day. 432 Daniels St, Raleigh. 919-8904111, littleartgalleryandcraft. com.

LOCAL COLOR GALLERY: Thru Apr 25: Coalescence, work by Rebecca Toy and Keanna Artis. 311 W. Martin Street, Raleigh. 919-819-5995, localcoloraleigh.com.

LUMP: Thru Apr 25: Pockets, new work by Joy Drury Cox. 505 S Blount St, Raleigh. 919-8892927, www.teamlump.org.

MERCURY STUDIO: Thru May 9: Hidden Roots: A Poem for Nature’s Unremembered Forms, work by Kendal Draper. 401 W Geer Street, Durham. 919-3816306.

MEREDITH COLLEGE WEEMS GALLERY: Thru May 5: Senior Art Exhibition: The 15th, multimedia work by Meredith College graduating art students.

3800 Hillsborough St, Raleigh.

919-760-8332, www.meredith. edu/the-arts.

NATURE ART GALLERY: Thru Apr 27: On Point Wild, ball point pen nature drawings by Brian Carney. 11 W Jones St, Raleigh. 919-733-7450 x369, naturalsciences.org.

NC CRAFTS GALLERY: Thru Apr 30: Jason Abide, pottery. — Thru Apr 30: A Passion for Nature, paintings

by Joan Meade. 212 W Main St, Carrboro. 919-942-4048, nccraftsgallery.com.

NORTHGATE MALL: Thru May 13: Durham Public Schools Student Art Show, works by high-school and middleschool students. 1058 W Club Blvd, Durham. 919-286-4400, northgatemall.com.

Carolina 2015. 540 N Blount St, Raleigh. 919-828-3165, galleryc. net.

HILLSBOROUGH GALLERY OF ARTS: Thru May 24: What I Came Here For, jewelry by Arianna Bara, stained glass by Chris Burnside and paintings

by Michele Yellin. 121-D N Churton St. 919-732-5001, hillsboroughgallery.com.

INDYPICK HORACE WILLIAMS HOUSE: Thru Apr 26: Drunken Poet’s Dream, multimedia work by Lori Vrba. 610 E Rosemary St, Chapel Hill. 919-942-7818, chapelhillpreservation.com.

HQ RALEIGH: Thru Jun 15: Make A Scene, mixed media work by Amy S. Hoppe. 310 S Harrington St. 877-242-6090.

JOYFUL JEWEL: Thru Apr 30: Orlan Johnson Work Works, bowls, vases and more. 44-A Hillsboro St, Pittsboro. 919-8832775, www.joyfuljewel.com.

LA RESIDENCE RESTAURANT & BAR: Thru Jun 30: Contemplation, paintings by Ruth Ananda. 202 W Rosemary St, Chapel Hill. 919-967-2506, laresidencedining.com.

INDYPICK LEE HANSLEY GALLERY: Thru Apr 25: Herb Jackson: 21st Century Paintings.

225 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh. 919828-7557, leehansleygallery.com.

“MONK’S DREAM” BY BYRON GIN

Chicago-based painter Byron Gin’s new show, emergence (Adam Cave Fine Art, April 26–May 26), has its opening reception April 26 at 2 p.m. and a First Friday reception May 1 at 6 p.m.

115-1/2 E. Hargett St., Raleigh, 919-838-6692, www.adamcavefineart.com.

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CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY: Thru Jun 13: Blue Dream of Sky, paintings by Sue Sneddon and mixed media tapestries by Nance Lee Sneddon. Free. 1106 1/2 Broad St, Durham. 919-2864837, cravenallengallery.com.

DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL: Thru Jun 27: Cold Gravy, work

by Chance Murray. 120 Morris St. 919-560-2787, durhamarts. org.

ERUUF ART GALLERY: Thru May 21: Painting on Silence, photos by Frank Meyers. 4907 Garrett Rd, Durham. 919-4892575, www.eruuf.org.

FRANK GALLERY: Thru May 3: Diversabilities. — Thru May 3: Reflections, work by members of the Art Therapy Institute. — Thru Jun 7: Members’ Spotlight Exhibition. 109 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill. 919-636-4135, frankisart.com.

FRANKLIN STREET: Thru Jun 30: Windows on Chapel Hill, installations by Teddy Devereux, Helen Seebold and Greg Carter.

Franklin Street, Chapel Hill.

GALLERY A: Thu, Apr 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m.: Reception. — Thru Jun 29: Gadgetry, work

by Catherine Connolly Hudson.

1637 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh.

919-546-9011, gallerya-nc.com.

GALLERY C: Thru Apr 30: Judy Keene, abstract paintings.

— Thru May 31: Best of North

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INDYPICK PLEIADES GALLERY: Thru May 9: Kind of Blue, work by Plieades Gallery artists. 109 E Chapel Hill St, Durham. 919-797-2706, PleiadesArtDurham.com.

ROUNDABOUT ART COLLECTIVE: Thru Apr 30: Moondog Quartet, paintings

by Martha Crampton, Dick Henderson, Terry LeLiever and Catherine Smith. — Thru Jun 28: Victoria Powers, foil relief etchings. 305 Oberlin Rd, Raleigh. 919-747-9495, roundaboutartcollective.com.

THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF CHAPEL HILL UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST: Thru Apr 26: To Brighten Your Day, paintings

by Judy Bauman. 106 Purefoy Rd. 919-942-2050.

THE ROOT CELLAR: Thru Apr 30: Cinc Hayes, mixed media paintings. Free. 750 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill.

919-967-3663.

THROUGH THIS LENS: Thru May 9: Belize: Mayans in Transition, photography by Arnold Zann, Margo Taussig Pinkerton and Joanie Alexander. 303 E Chapel Hill St, Durham. 919-6870250, throughthislens.com.

TIPPING PAINT GALLERY: Thru Apr 25: Weather or Not. 311 W Martin St, Raleigh. 919928-5279, tippingpaintgallery. com.

INDYPICK TYNDALL GALLERIES: Thru May 6: Lucid Dreams, work by Jane Filer. 201 S Estes Dr, Chapel Hill. 919-9422290, tyndallgalleries.com.

UNC SONJA HAYNES STONE CENTER: Thru Jun 30: Selected Works of J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr.: Returning to Where the Artistic Seed was Planted, paintings.

150 South Rd, Chapel Hill. 919962-9001, sonjahaynesstonectr. unc.edu.

“UNTITLED (FROG)” BY ALLISON HUNTER

Zoosphere (North Carolina Museum of Art, April 25–Sept. 13) is a multichannel video installation featuring animal life by Allison Hunter. 2110 Blue Ridge Rd., Raleigh, 919-839-6262, www.ncartmuseum.org.

#THECHEFSTABLE: Mon, Apr 27, 7-10 p.m.: behind-the-scenes photography of restaurant and kitchen life by Felicia Perry. Free.

Brushstroke Studio and Gallery, 520 N. West Street, Raleigh.

919.345.0859.

ARTSCENE: Sat, Apr 25, 1-4 p.m.: art event with programming geared toward teenagers. Free. NC Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh.

Info 919-839-6262, tickets 919715-5923, ncartmuseum.org.

FINAL FRIDAY OPEN HOUSE: Fri, Apr 24, 6-9 p.m.: free.

Waverly Artists Group Studio & Gallery, 302 Colonades Way, Suite 209-D, Cary. 919-949-2427, www.waverlyartistsgroup.com.

HANDMADE MARKET: Sat, Apr 25, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.: work by local artists and craftspeople.

Perch Studios, 204 W Main Street, Carrboro. 919-260-5313, www.perchstudios.net.

PUBLIC ART ENGAGEMENT MEETINGS: discuss public art for Hillsborough Street renovations, Phase II. Thu, April 23, 6:00 p.m.: Hillsborough Street Community Services Corporation Office, 2416 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. — Fri, April 24, 11 a.m.: Pullen Arts Center, 105 Pullen Rd., Raleigh. free. david@hillsboroughstreet. org, https://www.facebook.com/ RaleighPublicArt. SPRING CRAFT FAIR: Sat, Apr 25, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.: The ArtsCenter, 300-G E Main St, Carrboro. 919-929-2787, artscenterlive.org.

SPRING DAZE ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL: Sat, Apr 25, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.: Fred G Bond Metro Park, 801 High House Rd, Cary.

919-469-4061, townofcary.org.

SPRING REFASHION SHOW: Fri, Apr 24, 5:30 p.m.: Free. Cary Arts Center, 101 Dry Ave. 919469-4069, townofcary.org.

Museums

ACKLAND ART MUSEUM: Apr 24-Jun 7: Adding to the Mix 9: From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, installation by Marcel DuChamp.

— Apr 24-Jun 7: The Land of No Things: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2015. — Last Sundays, 2-4 p.m.: Family Day, museum tour, story time, activities at creation station, scavenger hunts. Free. 101 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill. 919843-1611, www.ackland.org.

INDYPICK

performance Comedy

COMEDYWORX THEATRE: Fridays, 8 p.m. & Saturdays, 4 & 8 p.m.: ComedyWorx Improv Show, two teams of improv comedians earn points by making the audience laugh. $6-12. — Fridays, 10 p.m. & Saturdays, 10 p.m.: The Harry Show, Ages 18+. Improv host leads late-night revelers through potentially risque games, with audience volunteers brought onstage to join in. $10. 431 Peace St, Raleigh. 919-829-0822, comedyworx.com.

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Art Related

BURWELL SCHOOL HISTORIC SITE: Thru Apr 30: The Beehive: Civil War Refugees at the Burwell School. 319 N Churton St, Hillsborough. 919732-7451, burwellschool.org.

INDYPICK CAM RALEIGH: Thru May 3: Sarah Anne Johnson: Wonderland, midcareer survey of Johnson’s work. $5. 409 W Martin St. 919-2615920, camraleigh.org.

DURHAM HISTORY HUB: Thru Apr 25: E is for ESP, One of the country’s leading ESP research facilities, the non-profit Rhine Research Center, was established at Duke University.

500 W. Main St. 919-246-9993, www.modh.org.

NASHER MUSEUM OF ART: Thru Jul 12: Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne. — Thru Aug 30: Colour Correction: British and American Screenprints, 196775. 2001 Campus Dr, Durham.

919-684-5135, nasher.duke.edu.

NC MUSEUM OF ART: Apr 25-Sep 13: Zoosphere, animalbased video installation by Allison Hunter. — Thru Aug 23: The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina. — Thru Sep 13: Director’s Cut: Recent Photography Gifts to the NCMA. 2110 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh. Info 919-839-6262, tickets 919-7155923, www.ncartmuseum.org.

NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY: Thru May 17: Carolina Bluegrass: Breakdowns and Revivals, highlighting how bluegrass festivals, fiddlers’ conventions, record labels and television shows helped popularize bluegrass music between the early 1950s and the early 1980s.

— Thru Aug 2: North Carolina State Highway Patrol: Service, Safety, Sacrifice, highlighting the organization’s history and showcasing vehicles, firearms, uniforms and more from 1929 to the present. — Thru Sep 5: Starring North Carolina!, featuring memorabilia from films shot in North Carolina. $6–$10. — Thru Sep 27: Rural Revival: Photographs of Home and Preservation of Place, photographs by Scott Garlock. 5 E Edenton St, Raleigh. 919-8077900, ncmuseumofhistory.org.

ORANGE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: Thru May 5: Post-Reconstruction Education: The Creation of African American Schoolhouses in Orange County, exploring the history of one room schoolhouses for black students in Orange County after the Civil War. 201 N Churton St, Hillsborough. 919-732-2201, www.orangeNChistory.org.

DSI COMEDY THEATER: Wed, Apr 22, 8:30 p.m.: Comedy Lottery. $6. — Thu, Apr 23, 7 p.m.: Indy CageMatch. $6. — Thu, Apr 23, 8:30 p.m.: Harold Night. $6. — Fri, Apr 24, 7 p.m.: Spelling Bee. $6. — Fri, Apr 24, 8:30 p.m.: The Thrill. $10.

— Sat, Apr 25, 5 p.m.: Student Showcase. $10. — Sat, Apr 25, 7 p.m.: Humor Games. $10. — Sat, Apr 25, 8:30 p.m.: Spring Loaded. $10. — Tue, Apr 28, 7 p.m.: Student Showcase. $6. — Tue, Apr 28, 8:30 p.m.: Natural Selection. $6. — Wed, Apr 29, 7 p.m.: Ask Ramses. $6. — Wed, Apr 29, 8:30 p.m.: Comedy Lottery. $6. — Fridays, 10 p.m.: Mister Diplomat. Free. —

INDYweek.com Fridays, 11 p.m.: The Jam. free.

— Saturdays, 10 p.m.: Pork, 5 NC comics perform. Free. 462 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill. 919-3388150, dsicomedytheater.com.

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: Fri, Apr 24: Chris Tucker. 123 Vivian St. Info 919-688-3722, Tickets 919-6802787, www.dpacnc.com. See box, this page.

GOODNIGHTS: Wed, Apr 22, 8 p.m.: Best of Raleigh Roundup.

— Thu, Apr 23, 8 p.m., Fri, Apr 24, 7:30 & 10 p.m. & Sat, Apr 25, 7:30 & 10 p.m.: Mitch Fatel. — Wed, Apr 29, 8 p.m.: Jay Stadler Game Show Show Show. $5. — Saturdays, 10:30 p.m.: Anything Goes Late Show. free. 861 W Morgan St, Raleigh. 919-8285233, goodnightscomedy.com.

KINGS: Fri, Apr 24, 9 p.m.: Kenny Zimlinghaus. $15–$18. 14 W Martin St, Raleigh. 919-8331091, www.kingsbarcade.com.

LLOYD’S LOUNGE: Second & Fourth Wednesdays, 9 p.m.: Out & Out Comedy Open Mic, With host B.I.S.H.O.P. Omega. 919410-7575, TAO@JustAskTruitt. com. 704 Rigsbee Ave, Durham.

TIR NA NOG: Mondays, 8:30 p.m.: Cure for the Mondays, Weekly comedy night. 218 S Blount St, Raleigh. 919-8337795, www.tnnirishpub.com.

Dance

RENAY AUMILLER DANCES

DANCE

RENAY AUMILLER DANCES: RAISING BLOOD MOON SATURDAY, APRIL 25, DURHAM

CORDOBA CENTER FOR THE ARTS—When some choreographers look at an empty space, they want to fill it—all of it, not just that bottom seven or eight feet where we humans tend to hang out. After a December proof-ofconcept staging at Burning Coal Theatre, choreographer Renay Aumiller is undertaking her biggest project to date: an aerial/contemporary dance fusion about the unsteady pull of forces we can’t see. The work, Blood Moon, will premiere at Cordoba in June, but in this preview fundraiser (with craft beer and cider tastings from Ponysaurus Brewing and Bull City Ciderworks), Aumiller’s crew will perform a 10-minute sequence from the work, discuss the mechanics and physics with the audience—and then stage the section again, once you’ve understood what you’ve been looking at.

8 p.m., $10–$20, 923 Franklin St., Durham, www.renayaumillerdances.com. —Byron Woods

CIMARRON LATIN NIGHT: Last Fridays: Salsa, merengue, bachata & reggaeton with DJ David Dice. Proceeds benefit enCOURAGE! Durham youth

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program. $5–$10. Saucy Crab Restaurant, 4020 DurhamChapel Hill Blvd, Durham.

DURHAM DANCE WAVE: Mondays, 7:30-9 p.m.: $7. www.durhamdancewave. com. The Murphey School at the Shared Visions Retreat Center, 3717 Murphy School Rd, Durham. 919-616-2190, www. sharedvisions.org.

ISLA SALSA NIGHT: Wed, Apr 29, 6 p.m.: $15. Local 506, 506 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill. 919942-5506, www.local506.com.

ISRAELI FOLK DANCE: Thursdays, 7-8:30 p.m.: Beginners welcome. $3.

919-354-4936. Levin Jewish Community Center, 1937 W Cornwallis Rd, Durham. 919-4895335 x16, www.levinjcc.org.

SUNDAY SALSA SOCIAL: Sundays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.: Every Sunday social featuring mostly Salsa with sides of Bachata, Merengue, Cha Cha, and Kizomba. $6. www.dancegumbo. com. Triangle Dance Studio, 2603 S Miami Blvd, Durham.

TRIANGLE FOLK DANCERS: Wednesdays, 7:30-10 p.m.: Recreational international folk dancing. Lesson at 7:45 p.m.. $3.

Beth El Synagogue, 1004 Watts St, Durham. 919-682-1238, www.betheldurham.org.

TRIANGLE SINGLES DANCE CLUB: Sat, Apr 25, 8 p.m.: Alcohol-free 50+ singles social club. $5–$8. Northbrook Country Club, 4905 North Hills Dr, Raleigh.

PERFORMANCE INSIGHTFUL SOUND: Sat, Apr 25, 7:30 p.m. & Sun, Apr 26,

COMEDY

CHRIS TUCKER

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, DURHAM

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER—A couple of years ago, Chris Tucker told the INDY that he had a stand-up concert movie he was going to drop in theaters. Well, after two years, it looks like that movie is finally on the horizon— except it’s going to be on Netflix. It was announced last month that Chris Tucker Live, Tucker’s first-ever standup special, will debut on the streaming service this summer.

So, OK, maybe Tucker isn’t on that superstar level where he can easily get a stand-up film into movie houses anymore.

(Who does dude think he is? Kevin Hart?) For a while in the aughts, it looked like the elusive Def Comedy Jam vet would go the Eddie Murphy-route and step away from the mike altogether. But it’s funny how owing $12 million in back taxes will make you get back to doing what you’re good at, and at least audiences can finally see the Friday and Rush Hour star back onstage. 8 p.m., $35–$75, 123 Vivian St., Durham, 919-680-2787, www.dpacnc.com.

—Craig D. Lindsey

3:30 p.m.: $10–$15. Carolina Theatre, 309 W Morgan St, Durham. 919-560-3030, www. carolinatheatre.org.

LOCAL CELEBRITIES DANCE LIKE THE STARS: Fri, Apr 24, 4-8 p.m.: $6–$12. NC State Fairgrounds, Blue Ridge Rd at Hillsborough St, Raleigh. ncstatefair.org.

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LEGALLY BLONDE: Fri, Apr 24, 7:30 p.m., Sat, Apr 25, 7:30 p.m., Sun, Apr 26, 3 p.m., Fri, May 1, 7:30 p.m., Sat, May 2, 7:30 p.m. & Sun, May 3, 3 p.m.: Cary Arts Center, 101 Dry Ave. 919-4694069, www.townofcary.org.

NO SHAME THEATRE: Sat, Apr 25, 8 p.m.: $5. The ArtsCenter, 300-G E Main St, Carrboro. 919929-2787, artscenterlive.org.

PLAYMAKERS: MARY’S WEDDING: WednesdaysSaturdays, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., May 3, 2 p.m. Continues through May 3. $15. UNC Campus: Kenan Theatre, 120 Country Club Rd, Chapel Hill. 919-962-7529, playmakersrep.org.

REAPING WHAT YOU SOW: Sat, Apr 25, 7 p.m.: $10–$15.

St Augustine’s University: Seby Jones Gallery, 1315 Oakwood Ave, Raleigh. 800-948-1126, www.st-aug.edu.

RENT: Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 3 p.m. Continues through May 10 North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, 7713-51 Leadmine Rd. 919-866-0228, www.nract.org.

STUDIO A ACTING COMPANY SPRING SHOWCASE: Sun, Apr 26, 2 p.m. free. Common Ground Theatre, 4815-B Hillsborough Rd, Durham. 919384-7817, www.cgtheatre.com.

ONGOING INDYPICK CHAMBER MUSIC: Thu., April 16, 8 p.m., April 17-18, 8 p.m. and April 23-25, 8 p.m. $13. Common Ground Theatre, 4815-B Hillsborough Rd, Durham. 919384-7817, www.cgtheatre.com.

INDYPICK SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE: Thru May 3: Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk St, Raleigh. 919-834-4001, www. burningcoal.org.

books Readings & Signing

CHARLES D. THOMPSON JR.: with Border Odyssey: Travels Along the US-Mexico Divide. — Sat, Apr 25, 2 p.m.: McIntyre’s Books, 2000 Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro. 919-542-3030, www.mcintyresbooks.com — Sun, Apr 26, 3 p.m.: Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-828-1588, www. quailridgebooks.com.

CHRISTOPHER NORMENT: Wed, Apr 22, 7 p.m.: with Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World. Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-828-1588, www. quailridgebooks.com.

COOKS & BOOKS: SANDRA GUTIERREZ: Wed, Apr 22, 5 p.m.: with Empanadas: The Hand-Held Pies of Latin America. $35. McIntyre’s Books, 2000 Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro. 919-542-3030, www. mcintyresbooks.com.

COURTNEY MAUM: Wed, Apr 22, 7 p.m.: with novel I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You. Flyleaf Books, 752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill. 919-942-7373, www. flyleafbooks.com.

INDYPICK DAVID BALDACCI: Sat, Apr 25, 3 p.m.: with novel Memory Man. Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-8281588, quailridgebooks.com.

EARTH DAY READING OF A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC: Wed, Apr 22, 7 p.m.: Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St, Durham. 919-286-2700, www. regulatorbookshop.com.

JOSEPH WHEELAN: Tue, Apr 28, 7 p.m.: with Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War. Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-828-1588, www. quailridgebooks.com.

TIM TIMBERLAKE: Sat, Apr 25, 1 p.m.: with Abandon. Barnes & Noble, 8030 Renaissance Pkwy, Durham. 919-806-1930, www. barnesandnoble.com.

RITU SHARMA: Sat, Apr 25, 6 p.m.: with Teach a Woman to Fish: Overcoming Poverty Around the Globe. Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-828-1588, www. quailridgebooks.com.

INDYPICK SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS OF AMERICA SOUTHEAST: Fri, Apr 24, 7 p.m.: Mark Van Name, Mur Lafferty, Richard Dansky, Jay Posey, Justin Achilli, Tiffany Trent

INDYweek.com and M. David Blake.Free. Duke Campus: Bostock Library, 411 Chapel Dr, Durham. 919-6605870.

TOBY L. PARCEL AND ANDREW J. TAYLOR: Thu, Apr 23, 7 p.m.: with The End of Consensus: Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments.

Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-8281588, www.quailridgebooks.com.

TONY REEVY: Thu, Apr 23, 3:30 p.m.: with poetry book Passage. UNC Campus: Bull’s Head Bookshop, 207 South Rd, Chapel Hill. 919-962-5060, store. unc.edu.

Literary Related CHATHAM LITERACY SPRING FOR LITERACY LUNCHEON: Thu, Apr 23, noon: with guest speaker Jill McCorkle, discussing her new novel Life After Life.

Benefiting Chatham Literacy programming. $50. Galloway Ridge, 3000 Galloway Ridge Rd, Pittsboro. 888-763-9600, www. gallowayridge.com.

CITY SOUL CAFE POETRY & SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIC: Wednesdays, 8-10 p.m.: Poets,

READING

SFWA SOUTHEAST READING SERIES FRIDAY, APRIL 24, DURHAM

BOSTOCK LIBRARY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY—Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the venerable organization behind the Nebula Awards (which are basically the Oscars of sci-fi and fantasy books) commence a new regional reading series at Duke with a panel on science fiction and technology. The panel, moderated by Hillsborough’s M. David Blake, includes local authors Mark L. Van Name, Mur Lafferty and local game designers/ writers Richard Dansky, Justin Achilli and Jay Posey. Virginia author Tiffany Trent appears via Skype. In addition to hearing some readings and perspectives from these local literary lights, you can participate in a Q&A and meet them face to face after the panel. 7 p.m., free, 411 Chapel Dr., Durham, 919-660-5958, www.facebook.com/ events/1572975126308320. —Zack Smith

Eminent biologist and author E.O. Wilson has a lecture and panel discussion at Duke (Reynolds Industries Theater, April 24, 7:30 p.m.) as a part of the university’s “Biodiversity Days” series.

125 Science Dr., Durham, 919-684-4444, www.nicholas.duke.edu.

vocalists, musicians & lyricists welcome. All performances a cappella or acoustic. $5. www. citysoulcafe.splashthat.com.

Smokin Grooves Bar & Grill, 2253 New Hope Church Rd, Raleigh.

DR. PAULETTA BRACY: Wed, Apr 29, 7 p.m.: discussing multicultural children’s books.

Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-8281588, quailridgebooks.com.

HAIKU HOLIDAY CONFERENCE: Sat, Apr 25, 8:30 am-3:30 p.m.: For a complete listing of events, visit http://nc-haiku.org/. For more information about the conference and to pre-register, contact Dave Russo, 919-6127540. Free. 919-612-7540,

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dave.w.russo@gmail.com, nc-haiku.org/. Bolin Brook Farm, 600 Bolin Brook Farm Rd. Chapel Hill. 919-612-7540.

INDYPICK NAZIM HIKMET POETRY FESTIVAL: Sun, Apr 26, 1-7 p.m.: free. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, 119 Ambassador Loop, Cary. 919460-4963, friendsofpagewalker. org.

SACRIFICIAL POETS GRAND SLAM FINALS: Wed, Apr 29, 7 p.m.: $5–$10. The ArtsCenter, 300-G E Main St, Carrboro. 919929-2787, artscenterlive.org.

VISION & VOICE: Sun, Apr 26, 3-5 p.m.: writers and visual artists present together. Hosted

by Judy Hogan. Joyful Jewel, 44-A Hillsboro St, Pittsboro. 919883-2775, www.joyfuljewel.com.

sports Spectator

CARY INVASION VS. STEALTH ALL STARS: Sat, Apr 25, 7 p.m.: Men’s basketball.

Herbert C Young Community Center, 101 Wilkinson Ave, Cary.

919-460-4965, townofcary.org.

DURHAM BULLS VS. CHARLOTTE KNIGHTS: Wed, Apr 22, 7:05 p.m. & Thu, Apr 23, 7:05 p.m.: Durham Bulls Athletic Park, 409 Blackwell St. Info 919687-6500; tickets 919-956-2855, www.durhambulls.com.

DURHAM BULLS VS. GWINNETT BRAVES: Fri, Apr 24, 7:05 p.m., Sat, Apr 25, 5:05 p.m. & Sun, Apr 26, 1:05 p.m.: Durham Bulls Athletic Park, 409 Blackwell St. Info 919-6876500; tickets 919-956-2855, durhambulls.com.

RALEIGH REVOLT VS. HIGH POINT HEAT: Sat, Apr 25, 6 p.m.: Men’s basketball.

Shaw Campus: C. C. Spaulding Gymnasium, 118 E South St. Raleigh.

Participatory

#HILLMILE: Sun, Apr 26, 2-4 p.m.: The Hill Center’s Inaugural Mile Race and Kid’s Dash on Sunday, April 26th. $25. 919489-7464, jtilley@hillcenter. org, www.hillcenter.org/hillmile.

Durham Academy, 3601 Ridge Road. 919-489-6569.

YOGA WITH THE SCULPTURES: Fri, Apr 24, 3-5 p.m.: outdoor yoga class presented by Cary Visual Art. free. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, 119 Ambassador Loop, Cary. 919-460-4963, friendsofpagewalker.org.

WEST END RUN CLUB: Tuesdays, 6 p.m.: DSI Comedy Theater, 462 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill. 919-338-8150, dsicomedytheater.com.

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Current Releases

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AGE OF ADALINE—A romantic fantasy about a woman (Blake Lively) who becomes ageless after an accident and leads a solitary life—but then meets someone that may upend everything. Rated PG-13.  EX MACHINA—Writerdirector Alex Garland (28 Days Later) fills this film about an artificially intelligent humanoid named Ava with philosophical subtext. Ava isn’t just created by man. Her entire being is a digital repository of mankind’s history, including an urge for freedom and intimacy, but also a capacity for survival and deception. The plotline is a virtual point-bypoint update of The Island of Dr. Moreau, including an Eden-esque setting. The roles of deity, hero and villain are deliberately left undefined and rotate between the three main characters as the narrative slowly unspools. Rated R. —NM  1/2 LAMBERT AND STAMP—A rollicking documentary that explores the early history of rock legends The Who through the story of the two men considered to be the group’s unofficial fifth and sixth members, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. Archival performance footage is stitched throughout standard talking-head interviews (which have an entertaining tendency to go off the rails).

Interesting revelations about the band abound, but the really fascinating stuff focuses on the title characters. Rated R. —GM

 1/2 AMERICAN SNIPER— Conservative filmmaker Clint Eastwood’s salute to the gung-ho patriotism of Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), the deadly Navy SEAL sniper, refuses to tarnish his service with unsavory details. But it also shows Kyle as an anachronism in a world without white and black hats.

Rated R. —NM  1/2 CINDERELLA—Disney’s new live-action update is lavish, old-fashioned and frequently dull. Director Kenneth Branagh keeps it reverent and gorgeous, with none of the revisionist flash of Into the Woods or Maleficent.

Lily James (Downton Abbey) is likable in the lead, and wily veterans Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter add flair.

Rated PG. —GM DANNY COLLINS—Al Pacino plays an aging rocker who changes the course of his life when he receives a long-delayed letter from John Lennon. Rated R.  1/2 THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT—It’s all about halves in this second installment of the popular YA sci-fi franchise. The first half of the story drags, as heroine Tris (Shailene Woodley) is shuttled from crisis to crisis in a walled dystopian city ruled by the evil Jeanine (Kate Winslet).

Events take on more velocity and significance in the second half, especially during an run of

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PIZZA & A MOVIE: THE BOXTROLLS: Thu, Apr 23, 6 p.m.: $2–$5. Halle Cultural Arts Center, 237 N Salem St, Apex.

919-249-1120, www.thehalle. org.

POPULAIRE: Fri, Apr 24, 8 p.m.: $5–$7. NC Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh. Info 919839-6262, tickets 919-715-5923, www.ncartmuseum.org.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/ PAGLIACCI: Sat, Apr 25, 6:30 p.m. & Wed, Apr 29, 6:30 p.m.: — Crossroads Stadium 20, 501 Catiboo Dr., Cary — Brier Creek Stadium 14, 8611 Brier Creek Pkwy, Raleigh — North Hills Stadium 14, 4150 Main At North Hills St., Raleigh COMEDY DYNAMICS PRESENTS: BILL HICKS: Mon, Apr 27, 8 p.m.: Crossroads Stadium 20, 501 Caitboo Dr., Cary — Brier Creek Stadium 14, 8611 Brier Creek Pkwy., Raleigh — North Hills Stadium 14, 4150 Main at North Hills St., Raleigh

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THE CARRACK MODERN ART—In a recent story previewing the odder offerings at the Full Frame Festival, we spoke with brothers Brendan and Jeremy Smyth, who make experimental documentaries with a global perspective as Blacksmyth Films. Though the twins have hosted the avant-garde film series Unexposed in Durham for more than a year now, they have yet to give a major screening of their own works. They finally set that right in the latest Unexposed, which features two of their 16mm films in a program called “Creative Destruction,” sponsored

by Fullsteam Brewery. Por Dinero, shot in Mexico and Florida, uses ancient Mayan quotes to mortar together a look at the life of an undocumented Mexican immigrant. Rice for Sale is an abstract rhapsody, in 10 wordless vignettes, on Bali’s mythological history. It’s a great chance, in an accessible venue, to check out the itinerant film series if you haven’t yet. And while you’re at The Carrack, you can take a look at Honey Cult Creek Camp, an immersive summer campstyle installation by Naomi Elizabeth that has its opening reception at 7 p.m. April 24 and runs through May 2. 8:30 p.m., free, 111 W. Parrish St., Durham, 352-318-5872, www.thesmythbrothers.com/unexposed. —Brian Howe

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The film can also be halved into its action scenes, which are adequate, and its more textured moral dilemmas, staged in those cool VR sequences. Twisty revelations at the end suggest we’ll finally get outside those city walls, and see how the other half lives. Rated PG-13. —GM  FOCUS—Good caper movies require clockwork storytelling and charismatic leads. This clunker has neither. Will Smith plays a veteran con-man whose ice-cold game is compromised by a femme-fatale played with sustained blankness by Margot Robbie. As the action swerves from New Orleans to Europe, it gets less interesting and less plausible. It’s torpedoed by Smith, anyway. Instead of a lovable rogue—think Newman in The Sting—we get a preening movie star who keeps taking his shirt off. Rated R. —GM  1/2 FURIOUS 7—The actors fleshing out the wispy plot of the latest installment of the action-driving franchise are just along for the ride. Cars, the real stars, parachute from airplanes and leap between Abu Dhabi skyscrapers. By now, we’re in on the inanity, so a wink absolves the outlandishness, and the film entertains. Rated PG-13. —NM  GET HARD—Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart star in a film that punishes their respective fan bases. Ferrell is James King, a financial trader caught in a fraud scandal. Facing prison, he reaches out to someone he assumes has experience with life on the inside: car detailer Darnell (Hart).

But Darnell is just a family man willing to take James’ money in exchange for bogus advice. This is screenwriter Etan Cohen’s (Tropic Thunder) directorial debut, and while he has shown talent behind the keyboard, he needs more experience behind the camera.

Although he displays a nice visual touch, endless jokes about prison rape and racial stereotypes tank the film. Rated R. —IW  HOME—In a fun alieninvasion story, this DreamWorks movie about misfit friendship adds Oh (Jim Parsons) to the pantheon of darling, accidentprone, animated outsiders. The voice acting (with Rihanna as Tip) rivals pairs such as Shrek and Donkey. Rated G. —LV IT FOLLOWS—In David Robert Mitchell’s critically acclaimed horror film, teenagers are chased by a supernatural entity after having sex. Rated R.  KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE—Colin Firth is convincing as a suave super-spy posing as a Savile Row tailor who takes on

a working-class teenager as his apprentice. The complicating factor is Valentine, a tech tycoon (Samuel L. Jackson) with an evil plan and a ludicrous lisp. This exuberant pastiche of spy movies shakes (not stirs) its Bond with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Kick-Ass, another film adapted by Matthew Vaughn from a comic book series by Mark Millar, with which it shares its garish spasms of comic-book violence. There are holes in the taut plot, but who cares? Knowing and witty, the film treats plausibility with appropriate lightness. Rated R. —BH KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER—A Japanese woman obsessed with a VHS copy of Fargo sets off for the frozen tundra of the American North in search of treasure. Unrated.

THE LONGEST RIDE—A Nicholas Sparks love story about a bullriding champion. Rated PG-13.  1/2 MCFARLAND, USA—This Disney sports drama tells the true story of a cross-country coach and his teenage charges’ struggle for victory, both on the track and in life. As Coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) molds reluctant but plucky high-schoolers into athletes, they, in turn, teach him what it means to be children of Latino migrant workers during the late 1980s in California. Beneath the narrative veneer of athletic rivalries and power plays, tension comes from the expectation that the kids will become field pickers or wind up in the prison conveniently located next to their school. Like Remember the Titans and Bring It On, the film excels when the sport becomes a backdrop for the still-unfurling reality of white privilege in America. But the movie slips into preachy “white savior” territory, limiting its appeal. Rated PG. —LV  MERCHANTS OF DOUBT—Based on the 2010 book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, this documentary focuses on how corporations recruit dubious “experts” to spread confusion around issues that threaten their bottom line.

A prime case in point is climate change. Media reports refer to the “debate” around the subject.

There is none. Published papers on the matter agree 928 to zero that humans are affecting the climate. The film’s scope goes beyond climate change to reveal how confuse-and-delay tactics have been deployed for decades to counter scientific studies on acid rain, pesticides and the ozone layer. And it delves into how the tobacco industry pioneered the tactic in the 1960s.

It’s not stylistically compelling but the film is well-argued, intelligent and upfront about its agenda.

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