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Gov. McCrory spent more than $125,000 on travel last year. Find out where he went and what you paid for. By JANE PORTER, p. 8

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F E AT U R E S

A BETTER PLACE: No fortress, please: The effects of Durham Police headquarters on East Main Street

WHERE WE’LL BE: The best of the week in music,

DURHAM CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Durham police bungled a

MUSIC CALENDAR

traffic stop, judge rules

ARTS CALENDAR

RALEIGH DEVELOPMENT: Dodging a development bullet

FILM CALENDAR

CITIZEN: Improving and increasing our public places

TRIANGULATOR: GOP’s screwed up way to mark Earth

arts and film

McCrory’s travels

It took longer than the governor’s trips, but his office finally revealed (mostly) where his wanderlust has taken him and how much it has cost you By Jane Porter and Lisa Sorg

on Varsity Drive

Day, plus the Equal Rights Amendment

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Poetry in motion The winners of our annual poetry contest By Brian Howe

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FOOD: Chef John Eisensmith of Six Plates Wine Bar lets his Buddhism guide his kitchen practice

MUSIC REVIEWS: New releases from Yandrew and

MUSIC: The lead singer is dead, but there’s money to make

THEATER REVIEWS: The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls,

DANCE REVIEW: Swan Lake from Carolina Ballet

COMEDY: Where’s the critical love for Kevin Hart?

FILM REVIEW: Clouds of Sils Maria has super performances,

Awaz’e a welcome addition New Ethiopian restaurant in Cary has the special sauce By Emma Laperruque

Mandolin Orange

Basement taper Mac McCaughan goes solo under his own name (and he wishes you luck in spelling it)

Rent

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“We have reached a point in this nation where the EPA has approached the ridiculous.” —p. 11 “When things go wrong in a kitchen, chefs yell.” —p. 17 “It’s the sound of people who don’t really know what they’re doing ... .” —p. 22 ON THE COVER: Gov. McCrory, flying high

Poetry winners on p. 12

ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS WILLIAMS

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backtalk Dynamic Charter story needed more nuance

Your article “The dragon fights back,” (April 8) is mere yellow journalism. Why use the word “segregation,” coupled with a picture of a broken pencil with the words “CLASS STRUGGLE” written on it? Billy Ball implies that separate schools for developmentally disabled children compare to Jim Crow laws, but this simply isn’t the case. If you have a child (or have been a student yourself) in a North Carolina public school, you know that the one-size-fits-all mentality poses a challenge to even the brightest students. Vicki Smith makes a valid point when she argues that disabled students should be integrated into society as much as possible. But don’t parents and students deserve a choice? And what if separate schools are part of the process to eventual integration? Overall, I don’t like the picture Ball’s article paints, and

I don’t think it is productive to dramatize the struggles of a charter school for developmentally disabled people. The segregation situation isn’t what’s interesting or important here. What Ball should have talked about is how the N.C. School Board’s cursory judgments somehow mean more than parent and student testimonials. As an alternative newspaper with substantial clout in the Triangle, it would have been nice to see a less hegemonic viewpoint regarding Dynamic’s situation. C. Nicole Daussin, Apex

health care, retirement, education, religion, work places etc., this letter will continue to be written by many others. When we allow government to tell us our rights we lose sight of our responsibilities and turn our family responsibilities over to the government. If our President and all Congressional leaders are mocking a candidate and that candidate supports less government (starting with individual school choice and the elimination of U.S. Department of Education) and stresses personal responsibilities please remember Carol’s letter and take a long look at them. Terry Duff, Garner

Carol Adrian Younkin’s letter concerning her son was very sad (Back Talk, April 15). She links multiple problems to “they” failures, meaning government making decisions. She links “I” to success, meaning when she took charge her son had the best education. Unfortunately with pervasive, ineffective, inefficient and corrupt government in our

CORRECTION

April 22 edition

In the film review of Lambert & Stamp, Pete Townshend’s name was misspelled on second reference. In the story “Puppets for Pot,” Gary McConkey is the retired town manager of Knightdale, not Wake Forest.

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enemies, “parking lots, drug stores and star architects.” Main Street has two of the three. The community begged O’Brien/Atkins architecture to reconsider its parking plans, which calls for yet another surface lot and a 445-space garage that backs up to Ramseur. Modern thinking allows street-level retail to wrap around garages, which helps alleviate the visual blight and enlivens the space. But DPD has security requirements that could preclude this good idea. Whatever the design, it’s essential that DPD HQ avoids the Freelon firm’s architectural blunder that spoiled the Human Services Building. Despite a lovely entrance, the wall facing Main is an entire block long. For those of you who remember the sound of dial tones, this is the visual equivalent. St.

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From the corner, I can see my oasis, Old Havana Eats, but before I sit down to a plate of maduros, I first must cross four frantic lanes of Roxboro Street. Nourished, my mood buoyed, I head east, toward the site of the proposed new police station. It is only three blocks. It feels like 30. The disappointment—no, the disaster— that is East Main Street from downtown to Golden Belt demonstrates that even with the benefit of history and hindsight, city and county leaders make mistakes. This stretch of East Main was envisioned as a gateway to East Durham, a walkable connector between the central city and the historic arts and culture hub. Instead, we got no fewer than six creepy surface parking lots and a behemoth Human Services Complex that is inhumane in scale. Add in the Soviet architecture of Oldham Towers, a 45-year-old public housing complex for the elderly (because why would poor, old people want to live somewhere attractive?), and, well thank the transit gods for the free Bull City Connector, because this stretch of hell is best traveled by bus. Now that we know the new $62 million Durham Police Department headquarters will be built on 4.5 acres bordered by Main, Hood, Elizabeth and Ramseur, the city has an opportunity to right several wrongs. (At this point, there is no sense in wasting headspace on questioning the, ahem, wisdom of putting it on Main rather than a vacant 19-acre lot on Fayetteville Street.) But it is time to raise the pitchforks over the appearance of the DPD HQ and how it weaves into the urban fabric of the neighborhood. At a recent “community visioning” session, the public was rightfully concerned about how to address the archi-

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HE MOOD OF EAST MAIN STREET TURNS FROM MERRY TO MELANCHOLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE BLOCK. Ushered in by a procession of hushed lawyer’s offices, the 200 block is freighted with two hulking, vacant shells—the old judicial center and the former social services building.

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Several buildings are slated for demolition to make way for the new project. No one will miss the shabby hut of Not Just Wings (which has closed), but the 1923 Carpenter Auto Building, which now houses El Centro Hispano, must be saved. tectural, historic and social consequences It was listed on Preservation Durham’s 2013 of putting the Man on Main. Places in Peril, and, as Wendy Hillis, the “Don’t make this a fortress,” said one group’s executive director, pointed out, if resident. you want historical connectivity between “Let’s not have a bunker on Main Street,” American Tobacco Campus and Golden chimed in another. Belt, then save Carpenter Auto. “Don’t build a building that turns its back Another building bound for the wreckon its people,” added a third. ing ball is Bull City Ciderworks. It is among The book Walkable City by Jeff Speck the brave pioneers—including Ponysaurus, should be required reading for everyone in Supergraphic and Honey Girl Meadery— planning and government. In it, he writes the small business owners who, seeing that lively streetscapes have three primary an affordable opportunity in this urban frontier, had begun to create a vibrant hub of activity and commerce. Bull City Ciderworks is the only W. Morgan St. physical casualty of DPD HQ. A BETTER (Production is moving to East Durham, but the bar will remain open E. Chapel Hill St. through the summer.) However, W. Ma the cultural and economic disruption W. in St. Pa cannot be underestimated. While govrris hS t. ernment buildings close at 5 and go dark on the weekends, bars, stores and arts centers Holl keep the street alive well after nightfall. owa y St . “This area could have been the next Central Park,” said one resident of nearby Cleveland-Holloway. “You have to add DURHAM back the affordable commercial space that you’re destroying.” NC There is little of that left. With rents ris14 7E as ing in the central district, small businesses t-W es tE are getting squeezed out. At a downtown xp y charrette last month, City Economic Development Director Kevin Dick seemed fatalistic, even unapologetic about that sad turn of market force: “As property values increase, so will rents, and small businesses 600 BLOCK OF could be priced out.” EAST MAIN STREET Where will those businesses go when those areas become overpriced and consumed by more government buildings? Mineral Springs Road? Bahama? HAVE YOUR SAY The public can comment on the plan WHAT The public can comment on the site design and building of the new $62 million through May 1. Let’s hope, and if you’re one Durham Police headquarters to pray, then do that, too, that the city and WHAT iS AT STAKE There are concerns that the yet another institutional building on architects fully heed citizens’ concerns. East Main will make the street an even more unpleasant walking experience and will We hear a lot coming out of City Hall these heighten the disconnect between East Durham and downtown. Several businesses, days about the importance of urban fabric. including Bull City Ciderworks, Not Just Wings and El Centro Hispano will have to move Right now, East Main Street feels as combecause their buildings are slated for demolition. fortable as a suit made of sandpaper. p

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HOW Contact Trish Creta with the city‚ General Services Department: 919-560-4197, ext. 21258 or trish.creta@durhamnc.gov

Lisa Sorg is the INDY editor. Reach her at lsorg@indyweek.com and @lisasorg.

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Durham judge smacks down police search; man with heroin in car goes free BY JOHN H. TUCKER

EFFREY CASTILLO HAD BEEN SITTING INSIDE A DURHAM POLICE CRUISER FOR HALF AN HOUR, and he seemed nervous. He twiddled his thumbs and bit his nails. Last fall, a patrol officer had pulled over the 21-year-old New Yorker for speeding on Interstate 85. Castillo’s demeanor roused the suspicions of the DPD patrol officer, who decided to search Castillo’s car.

The officer’s suspicions were valid. The search uncovered a brick of heroin and a bag of cocaine stashed in a hidden compartment that had been fortified by sheet metal. Castillo was arrested and charged with several crimes, including heroin trafficking. But last Wednesday after a pre-trial hearing, Durham Judge Allen Baddour cited several problems with DPD’s treatment of Castillo. As a result, Baddour suppressed the drug evidence, essentially absolving Castillo and saving him from almost-certain prison time. The reason: The officer waited at least 37 minutes to search Castillo’s car, which violated his constitutional rights. After pulling over a motorist for a routine traffic violation, police must hew to the “mission” of the traffic stop; prolonging it more than necessary is unlawful, Baddour declared in his seven-page order. The Durham District Attorney’s Office swiftly filed a notice of appeal. Castillo essentially threaded a legal needle. He was arrested just five days before the DPD’s written-consent requirements went into effect. And then last Tuesday—the very day before Baddour issued his order—the U.S. Supreme Court published an opinion that greatly influenced the judge’s analysis. In Rodriguez vs. U.S., a Nebraska patrol officer took eight minutes to conduct a dog-sniff test after issuing a citation to a motorist. Although the search turned up methamphetamine, the eight-minute delay was unjustified after an ordinary traffic

stop, the Supreme Court justices ruled. In Durham, Baddour’s order is likely the first in the country to test the new precedent, which substantially limits officers’ search-and-seizure authority. Baddour ruled that the DPD officer “was not reasonably diligent in determining the facts (driving history, outstanding warrants, etc) necessary to determine what, if anything, to charge defendant with.”

oy Green, a veteran DPD drug interdiction officer, patrols the highways, looking for violations related to controlled substances, weapons or human trafficking. Green had pulled Castillo over for driving 72 mph in a 65 mph zone near the Durham-Orange County border. When Green approached Castillo’s car, several cues made him suspicious. Castillo’s hands were shaking. The car had

Seventeen minutes after pulling Castillo over, Green finally issuing him a warning. But the officer never told Castillo he was free to leave, and he never read him his Miranda rights. Instead, Green continued his query, asking Castillo if there was marijuana in his car. Castillo said no. Then, without being prompted, Castillo interjected, “You can search if you want to search.” Green interpreted that statement as a waiver of consent. He and backup officers entered Castillo’s car and began prying apart the console. They discovered a layer of vinyl plastic sealed with glue and screws to a piece of sheet metal. Underneath, they found the drugs. Sixty-nine minutes after he was pulled over, Castillo was arrested. Baddour ultimately ruled that Green’s casual small talk was not reasonably designed to assist in the traffic investigation. That determination, paired with last week’s Supreme Court decision,

Green noticed the faint odor of “possibly” marijuana ... New York tags, and there was a single key in the ignition. Asked where he was going, Castillo did not answer, and he dawdled in his other responses. His behavior, Green testified last week, was “very strange.” Green frisked Castillo, and then sat him down in the front seat of his cruiser. Here is where problems arose. For 37 minutes, Green alternated between conducting a background check and making small talk with the suspect; their friendly discussion was captured by Green’s in-car camera and audio recorder. Green asked Castillo if the term “Hispanic” was offensive to him, casually noted that he’d never visited New York, and commented about the prevalence of deer on North state highways. “Throughout the whole stop there was less than three minutes of questions related to traffic,” Castillo’s lawyer, Kerstin Sutton, argued in court last week. During the questioning, Green noticed the faint odor of “possibly” marijuana coming from Castillo’s clothes, the officer testified. When Green inquired about the smell, Castillo responded that he’d smoked pot three days earlier, and that he’d been around friends who smoked it.

pleased civil liberties advocates. “The idea of keeping someone on the side of the road for more than an hour before an arrest is made is unacceptable,” said Chris Brook, the legal director for the ACLU of North Carolina. Baddour also ruled that Castillo’s statement—“You can search if you want to search”—was vague, rendering Green’s search unlawful. That line of reasoning lends credence to a new Durham city law requiring patrol officers to obtain a motorist’s written consent before a warrantless search of his or her vehicle. The law was the result of a lobbying campaign by concerned citizens, including Durham Mayor Bill Bell, who took issue with racial disparities in Durham traffic stops. Had the written-consent policy been in effect at the time Castillo was pulled over, the search of his car might never have occurred. Castillo was released from jail after posting a reduced bond. The Court of Appeals is expected to rule on the District Attorney’s appeal later this year. p Staff writer John H. Tucker can be reached at jtucker@indyweek.com.

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N.C. State’s neighbors won a victory over a student-housing developer last week. It may be short-lived

OUTHWEST RALEIGH RESIDENTS LAST WEEK NARROWLY ESCAPED A MONSTER student-housing complex proposed for the land across the street from the leafy entrance to N.C. State’s Centennial Campus. But their victory at City Council will quite likely be short-lived. The location, after all, remains a developer’s dream, and the antiquated brick Carolyn Apartments that languish on the property today probably won’t be allowed to languish there tomorrow. The land is just too valuable. The proposal to rezone 2.9 acres of land at the corner of Varsity Drive and Avent Ferry Road fell just short; even though a 4-3 majority voted in favor of the project, it failed to garner the five votes needed to pass. One council member, Wayne Maiorano, abstained because an attorney from his law firm was representing the developer, Dallasbased Phoenix Property Group. Phoenix, which has built cookie-cutter undergraduate student housing in college towns across the country, wanted to erect a five-to-sevenstory, 200-plus-unit complex at the site, with a mix of two-, three- and four-bedroom units. The complex’s would-be neighbors weren’t having it. They said the design was too tall and too intense and too close to the street. They worried that it would create a parking crunch in an area where a spot is already hard to come by, given that the developer only wanted to provide 0.68 parking spaces per bedroom, well below the 0.75-per-bedroom ratio common to Raleigh student housing. And they argued that the design would permanently and adversely alter the neighborhood’s character. They found a sympathetic ear in Mayor Nancy McFarlane, one of the three no votes. “I appreciate the desire to use that urban form,” she said before the vote, “but this is not a building that interacts well with the neighborhood.”

BY JANE PORTER In many ways, the case is typical of the conflicts Council has seen of late: residents fighting to keep the suburban character of their neighborhoods, developers and some council members wanting to encourage high-density development in the urban core. In this case, the neighbors’ objection wasn’t to student housing per se, but rather the development’s scale. “They wanted to fit a bigger peg in the hole than was reasonable under the Comprehensive Plan and Unified Development Ordinance that we worked long and hard to get in place,” says Benson Kirkman, chairman of the West Citizens Advisory Council, which voted unanimously against the project last summer. (The UDO dictates how the vision in the Comprehensive Plan, the document that guides the city’s growth, will be achieved.) Councilmember Kay Crowder, whose district includes Avent Ferry Road, sided with neighbors, too, arguing that with N.C. State moving to cap its undergraduate program and promoting itself as an elite graduate-research institution, more undergrad housing isn’t really needed. Then again, she recognizes that the property will be developed sooner or later. It’s just a matter of finding “the right kind of project.” To that end, Crowder asked city staff to study the Avent Road Ferry corridor and create “a roadmap … that will give us clear picture of what’s needed on Avent Ferry and the best way to meet those needs.” So what should go in the nearly three acres if not undergraduate housing? Crowder favors housing aimed at graduate students and young professionals. A smaller housing complex that promotes walkability is consistent with the aims of the comp plan, she says. Joe Hartman, who lives down the street from this site, says he considers the area more suburban than urban, and thinks whatever goes there should reflect that. “It seems like most of the City Council and developers want things right up against the street, at seven stories high,” he says. “I think they’re going in wrong direction with that. You can have density without having canyons.”

Councilmember Russ Stephenson, who voted against the project, says that in that neighborhood, “green frontage”—meaning trees and landscaping between a building and the street—is preferable to “urban frontage,” which brings buildings right up to the sidewalk. Developers, however, have bristled at this idea. Lacy Reaves, the attorney for Phoenix, appeared before the CAC five times and City Council at least three times, without offering any significant accommodations to opponents. He maintained that the building design was not too tall for the neighborhood and argued that students rely less on cars now for transportation anyway. Reaves did not respond to the INDY’s request for comment. It’s worth pointing out that, although the project failed to pass City Council, it did

get four votes; had Maioriano not had to abstain, it’s likely the outcome would have been different. Councilmember Bonner Gaylord says he voted with the majority because he the city needs “denser, more sustainable development.” “Raleigh is growing so fast that we have to proactively address our growth to avoid the sprawl and congestion that plague growing cities,” Gaylord writes in an email. “Raleigh has become one of the best places in America to live and our success attracts growth, but if we don’t manage that growth wisely, we will lose the qualities that people like about Raleigh.” p Jane Porter is an INDY staff writer. Reach her at jporter@indyweek.com.

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What is Gov. McCrory hiding about his travel?

HEN STATE REPUBLICANS KVETCHED that they’ve waited 39 whole days for Attorney General Roy Cooper to fill their open records request, we were dumbfounded.

Consider this: It took 16 months—yes, months—of public shaming and, finally, legal intervention to get Gov. McCrory’s office to cough up just six months’ of travel records to the INDY. This stonewalling occurred even after we amended, narrowed and refiled the request to ostensibly make it easier to fill. This happened in light of McCrory’s campaign promise of a transparent, “ethical and accountable” government. Yet after 16 months, we still didn’t get everything we asked for. GOT TAXPAYER Despite our repeated requests, Josh Ellis, a former journalist and MONEY, WILL TRAVEL McCrory’s communications director, omitted several reasons for Governor’s public expenses the governor’s trips. Ellis, who earns $105,000 a year, routinely $65,063 ignored our emails and phone calls; he continues to do so in Security detail expenses defiance of the state’s open records laws, which stipulate that $53,553,47 requests be filled in a “reasonable amount of time.” The state GOP asked “What is Roy Cooper hiding?” We asked MEMBERSHIP HAS the same thing of McCrory—and after 480 days, we’re still ITS PRIVILEGES wondering. Republicans, you have only 441 more to go. Private money that paid for —Lisa Sorg and Jane Porter

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IN-STATE TRIPS, MARCH–NOVEMBER 2014 DATE DESTINATION 3/6 Mooresville

COST REASON $896 Mooresville School District career bridge

3/11 Asheville

$1,400 Sen. Nesbitt’s funeral

3/17 Asheville

$1,288 NC Independent Universities and Colleges

3/19 Concord

$1,008 Dan Ramirez funeral

DATE DESTINATION COST REASON 5/28 Greenville & Wilmington $1,120 DPS/EM/ECU 5th Annual hurricane preparedness conference, economic development meeting 6/6 Andrews 6/9 Pinehurst

$952 US Open press conference $896 Medicaid outreach event and Wilmington Star editorial board

3/21 Morganton

$952 Morganton Main Street tour

7/2 Wilmington

3/24 Statesville

$840 Statesville Chamber of Commerce Governors Cabinet meeting

7/3 Concord

3/27 Concord

$1,001 MetLife grand opening

3/28 Asheville

$2,296 Civitas Institute conference

4/8 Hickory

$896 Business leaders lunch and economic development announcement

$1,456 DoD WNC training mission

7/4 Oak Island & Asheville 7/14 Beaufort 7/22 Raleigh (from Concord)

$728 Hurricane press conference, economic development lunch $1,680 NC Fourth of July parade and festival $1,288 Business leadership roundtable, Morehead City all-star game $784 Economic development announcement

4/23 Charlotte, Greensboro & Asheville

$1,960 Press conference w/ Medal of Honor nominee, economic policy announcement, Moogfest

7/23 Raleigh (from Concord)

$896 Burial service for Dr. Jim Fulghum

7/29 Albemarle & New Bern

$828 NC Sheriff’s Association annual meeting

4/27 Washington & Eden

$2,016 Tour of storm damage in Beaufort, Chowan, Perquimans counties

7/30 Franklin, Raleigh & Charlotte $840 Meetings w/ state employees, Charlotte Premium Outlets grand opening

5/6 New Bern

$896 Pepsi Co. shareholders annual dinner

7/31 Raleigh (from Concord)

$1,925 National Tourism Day, Energy Inc. conference

8/7 Raleigh (from Concord)

5/22 Concord

$1,155 NC Heroes luncheon

8/8 Jacksonville

5/26 Asheville, Lexington & Wilmington

$2,425 Thomasville Memorial Day parade, Battleship NC 49th Annual Memorial Day observance

5/8 Manteo

$896 Budget discussion $952 ReVenture Eco Friendly Business Park grand unveiling $1,120 Camp LeJeune Tour, Jacksonville business, Rocky Mount leaders roundtable discussion

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COST REASON $1,189 Economic development announcement

9/2 Lumberton & Wilson

$1,344 Economic development announcement

9/4 Charlotte, Siler City & Rocky Mount 9/6 Morganton 9/12 Asheville 9/15 Raleigh (from Concord)

$280 NC Community Colleges leadership seminar $896 Bernhardt Furniture Company employee family day $1,232 UNC BOG meeting $840 Economic development meeting/dinner

9/16 Wilmington & Cherry Point $1,232 Military Affairs Commission 9/17 Wilmington, Greenville, $2,408 NCDOT statewide press rollout Asheville & Winston-Salem 9/20 Greensboro, Greenville, $1,394 ECU v. UNC Football game, First Tee of the Triangle Washington 10th anniversary 9/24 Raleigh (from Concord) 9/25 Greensboro 9/26 Raleigh (from Concord) 10/3 Erwin, Greenville and Winston Salem 10/6 Raleigh (from Concord) 10/18 Kinston

$952 OLLP presentation to Brad Adcock & celebration of Novartis Holly Springs facility $1,456 NCWorks flyaround $392 EPD luncheon, Justice Bob Hunter’s swearing-in ceremony $1,792 NC Manufacturing Day $840 Council of State meeting $1,848 Electrolux 25th anniversary

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Tampa, Fla.

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Washington, D.C U.S. Naval Academy Lunch

4/11-13 4/25

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Augusta, Ga.

Not provided, but the Master’s golf tournament was held in Augusta at this time

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Maine GOP convention

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Nashville, Tenn.

National Governors’ Association

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Aspen, Colo.

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GOP Governors’ Association PHRma Policy Panel

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Wichita, Kan.

Economic development w. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker

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GOP Governors’ Corporate Policy Summit

$2,269/$550 Not provided

$0/$1,260

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Two hours, two wheels and one glorious human cinema on a gorgeous spring day BY BOB GEARY

’M DEPRESSED THINKING ABOUT THE DECLINING LABOR ECONOMY IN THE UNITED STATES. Outsourcing! Robots! Enough! I need to ride my bicycle.

Yes, that’s better. Two hours riding my bicycle in Raleigh on a brilliant spring afternoon has me in a proper mood to write about the public realm as an antidote to what ails us. First of all, the public realm is an economic balm, because it’s free. I rode my bike up Hillsborough Street and across the N.C. State campus to the Rocky Branch Greenway, from which (after a bit of sidewalk riding) I connected to the Reedy Creek Greenway, which traverses the Meredith College campus and is quite spectacular this time of year. It leads to

the N.C. Museum of Art, with its jewel of a park and walking trails. All free. I saw a mom running, pushing her twins in a stroller. Saw a guy flying a kite. And a group of girls spinning their hula hoops while a tyke paused on his tricycle to watch, and his mom watched him. Human cinema. Free. Quite a few senior citizens were out walking, talking. Lovers strolled. Students hustled. This was Monday afternoon. If our elected officials won’t address the problem of wealth inequality directly—and they haven’t—it occurs to me that there’s another way to offset the imbalance: increase the supply of free public goods—of parks, of sidewalks, of nice places to be—that everyone can enjoy regardless of means. Connect them to public transit that is,

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if not free, then inexpensive, and obviates the need to own a car. No, I haven’t forgotten about schools, libraries and other free indoor spaces that improve our minds. But just now, it’s spring and the air is cool. Besides, we spend way too much time in our private cocoons staring at computer screens and dispatching robots to do what we used to call work. It’s unhealthy. And it’s depressing, a point brought home to me by Sara Merz, the executive director of Advocates for Health in Action, a Wake County group that calls itself “aha.” Aha, because active living—walking, riding a bike, working in a garden—is good for your health.

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ha, too, because active living makes people happier. Walking and making eye contact with others ramps up our oxytocin—a hormone associated with feelings of wellness and safety. “This fits with our experience of feeling wound up and then taking a walk outside and the world being right again,” Merz told me. AHA started at WakeMed seven years ago after a community health assessment found obesity to be a growing epidemic. Working through partner organizations, the group has two objectives: promote healthy eating practices and advocate “built environments” that “promote active living.” In the first vein, it works with schools and other agencies to champion local foods and community gardens. In the second, it tries to help local governments integrate better “placemaking” practices into their planning and development decisions. Merz, a Minnesota transplant, took the helm 16 months ago, leading a two-person staff plus volunteers. She’s proven to be a high-energy missionary, helping AHA win in the urban stewardship category at the city of Raleigh’s Environmental Awards ceremony last week. Obesity is still winning, Merz acknowledges. Individual behavior is highly resistant to change. But it does change in response to changes in public

policy and the built environment of neighborhoods and communities.

f we want healthy, happy people around us, we’ll need to create more places for folks to walk to, ride a bike to, and to walk, ride and enjoy themselves in. We have some, but not nearly enough. We have some big opportunities coming up: l MOORE SQUARE. Having dodged some big, bad plans of yesteryear to mess up this historic place, Raleigh this week hosts two meetings at City Market (April 29, 2-4 p.m., and April 30, 6-8 p.m.) to consider a gentler fix-up. Missing: how to create appealing bike and walking trails to and from the square. l BUS TRANSIT. May 11, 6 p.m. at the Raleigh Convention Center kicks off the latest series of meetings on Wake County’s evolving bus and rail transit plan. Next: creating bus stops in desirable locations that people can reach on foot or bicycle— without risking their lives. l WAREHOUSE DISTRICT. Raleigh’s arts district is a hub for walkers, riders and a new Amtrak station. Will it remain so if high-rise development displaces the old brick fabric? l DIX PARK. How about, to get things started, community gardens alongside the Farmers Market? With bike trails, of course. After I spoke with Merz, I read the 2015 World Happiness Report, issued by the United Nations. It measures how nations stack up on economic and health measures and “life satisfaction”—are people happy? Six of the top eight nations are Scandinavian social democracies, where incomes are relatively equal and, yes, more people ride bikes to work than cars. The United States ranks 15th. Wrote Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, an editor: “Economic development is important. … But what is perhaps most important is our lives as ‘social animals,’ to use Aristotle’s famous phrase.” Or as H.G. Wells said: “When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.” p Bob Geary is an INDY columnist. Reach him at rjgeary@mac.com.

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Also: Abortion rights take a hit, Dix gets the green light and Glenwood slows down BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN AND JANE PORTER

OW DID YOU CELEBRATE EARTH DAY LAST WEEK? Did you pray to Gaia like a good hippie? Strip naked and hug a tree? Trade in that coal-rolling behemoth for a shiny new Chevy Volt? If you’re like state Sens. Chad Barefoot or Ralph Hise, you spent the day bitching about the EPA and its 300 pages of dumb regulations that do dumb things like keep the air clean.

“We have reached a point in this nation where the EPA HAS APPROACHED THE RIDICULOUS,” said Hise, whose district stretches from South Carolina to Tennessee in the western part of the state. “We have a federal government that wakes up and decides ‘we need to control that.”’ The “ridiculous,” in this case, is an update to an EPA rule regulating the emissions of wood-burning stoves and heaters—something the EPA’S JACKBOOTED THUGS have done since 1988 by requiring manufacturers to verify that their heaters emit only so many air pollutants, because they believe breathing is good. And so the brave souls of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources crafted Senate Bill 303 to combat this DREADED TYRANNY. In short, the bill prevents the state from enforcing any EPA emissions regulation pertaining to wood heaters adopted after May 1, 2014, which, to hear the state’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources tell it, isn’t all that big of a deal anyway, all the BRAYING ABOUT BIG GOVERNMENT aside. “This bill is actually pretty benign,” DENR assistant secretary TOM REEDER told the committee. Just because the state isn’t enforcing the EPA’s rules doesn’t mean the feds won’t. Besides, he continued, “We have the CLEANEST AIR QUALITY in North Carolina that we’ve had in 20 years.” “Thanks to Obama!” interjected Sen.

Joel Ford, D-Mecklenburg, which earned him the SIDE-EYE from basically every Republican in the room. “Let’s try to be cordial over here,” someone retorted. And with that, the bill cleared the committee on a voice vote without dissent. The Senate overwhelmingly passed it the next day. It now heads to the House, where Republicans in the Committee on the Environment continued the EARTH WEEK FESTIVITIES by moving to gut the State Environmental Policy Act, a law that since 1971 has required a state assessment of publicly funded projects’ environmental impacts.

proposed in Congress in 1923 but still considered controversial for reasons that surpass understanding—would guarantee women all the same rights as PENISHAVING AMERICANS. The amendment was ratified by 35 states as of its 1982 deadline, three short of the required 38. Backers say that if just three more states approve the ERA, and if Congress passes a bill to accept those belated ratifications, the ERA will be enshrined in the Constitution, hooray! HB 166 may have 32 co-sponsors, but that doesn’t mean the dude-dominated Republican majority will give it the time of day. Instead they’ve focused on telling

“We have reached a point in this nation where the EPA has approached the ridiculous.” –State Sen. Ralph Hise HB 795 would change SEPA so that only projects with $20 million or more in public funds or that affect 20 acres or more of public lands would need an environmental impact study. What precipitated this change? Why, SPECIAL INTERESTS, of course. “The Chamber wants it. Industry wants it. Developers want it,” says Dustin Chicurel-Bayard, communications director for the N.C. Sierra Club. “This is developers looking to take taxpayers’ money without having an assessment of the environmental impact their project will have.”

ere’s another GREAT MOMENT IN LEGISLATING on Jones Street. Last Tuesday, hundreds of women descended upon the Legislature for something called WOMEN’S ADVOCACY DAY, at which there was a press conference where women state reps talked up House Bill 166, which would ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. A quick civics lesson: The ERA—first

women what to do with their UTERUSES, which is much more important. The premise behind HB 465, which passed the House last week, is that women get abortions on a whim, and maybe if they just have a nice, long think, they’ll make better decisions. Thus, the not-at-all patronizing bill would extend the mandatory waiting period from 24 hours to 72, during which time the little ladies can mull over their doctors’ STATE-MANDATED LECTURE on abortion alternatives. HB 465 easily passed the House last week. The ERA bill hasn’t gotten so much as a committee hearing, because priorities.

ood news: The state Senate (finally) backed down on its threat to overrule the city of Raleigh’s deal to buy DOROTHEA DIX PARK. The agreement, negotiated by Mayor Nancy McFarlane and Gov. Pat McCrory, the property would free up the city to build a much-hyped destination park. The state, meanwhile, would lease 109 of

the 308 acres back from the city for the Department of Health and Human Services’ offices, and proceeds from the $52 MILLION SALE would go toward state mental-health programs. The deal must still be approved by the N.C. COUNCIL OF STATE, a 10-member body headed by McCrory. It’s expected to vote on the Dix purchase May 5. With Democrats controlling a majority of that council, and with Senate Republicans no longer whining about how we need to pawn this property off on the highest bidder to do God knows what, passage seems like a foregone conclusion. After that, the city’s going to have to conjure the $52 million. That likely means a PROPERTY TAX INCREASE. The city will have to figure it out by year’s end.

re you among the POOR BASTARDS who’ve gotten an ill-deserved $20 ticket for parking on Glenwood South, where the signs are confusing as hell and the rules are stupid and weird? You’re in luck. Since Glenwood is the worst downtown district for businesses— seriously, 32 have closed since 2011—the city is doing its part to make it SUCK LESS for business owners and the pedestrians who frequent Glenwood South’s shops, bars and restaurants. Last week, the City Council voted to allow parking at all times along Glenwood Avenue and Tucker Street. (Previously, parking wasn’t allowed during peak commuting times.)The city hopes the change will SLOW DOWN TRAFFIC and make the street safer for pedestrians, who will then spend more money. City staffers warned that the change will make driving on Glenwood South— already a FUCKING NIGHTMARE—worse. But the city wants to emphasize walkability in its urban core, so drivers will just have to slow down and wait it out. p Jeffrey Billman is the INDY’s Raleigh news editor. Jane Porter is a staff writer. Reach them at jbillman@indyweek.com or jporter@indyweek.com.

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SIX PLATES WINE BAR

Chef John Eisensmith’s Zen and the art of Six Plates maintenance BY JILL WARREN LUCAS

OMPETITIVE COOKING SHOWS CELEBRATE AN IMAGE of the maniacal master chef, a person so driven by the need to be rich and famous that little else matters. Screaming at staff and other bad behavior is portrayed as the right of these veritable kings of the kitchen.

Not everyone is like that, of course. On his PBS series Avec Eric—and even as the guest of renowned bad boy Anthony Bourdain—Chef Eric Ripert demonstrates a Zen-like calm befitting of both his Buddhist beliefs and his earned acclaim for Le Bernardin, his flagship restaurant in New York City. Chef John Eisensmith aspires to a similar state of enlightened balance at Six Plates Wine Bar, where he’s been mindfully shaping the menu and building a staff since March 2010. He credits his Buddhism as much as his culinary training for the Durham restaurant’s success in delivering an evolving menu of seasonal courses with creative wine pairings. “I try to walk the middle path,” Eisensmith says, referring to the trail to liberation ascribed to Buddha. “Degrading someone is not the way to get them to do their best. We stay calm in the kitchen. I hope that shows in our food.” Eisensmith recalls receiving harsh coaching when he was working his way up. “When things go wrong in a kitchen, chefs yell,” he says, adding that the screaming image of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey is more common than people might imagine. “Excuse my kitchen language,’” he adds, “but I’ve been told things like, ‘Get your head out of your fucking ass!’ You answer, ‘Yes, chef,’ put your head down and work even harder.” Eisensmith admits he lost his cool once and yelled at a cook in his service. But he regretted it immediately, apologizing openly and again privately. “When you are completely out of control, you have a tendency to recreate things you’ve seen before, which is what I did,” he says. “But the fact is, if they’re falling behind, then I

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“When you walk away from a great meal, you don’t just feel that the food was great. You feel that life is better.” —Chef John Eisensmith didn’t do enough to get them prepared. “What I should have done then, and what I try to do now, is to find positive ways to support people,” he adds. “Offering help and reminding people that they have the strong skills helps everyone get back on track.” Eisensmith’s ability to let go of stress in the kitchen has freed his mind to focus on the harmony of each ingredient’s role on the plate. A recent shared meal of items from the eatery’s updated menu—which always features six seasonal dishes with suggested wine pairings, plus a handful of

“classics” demanded by regulars— matched layered, complex flavors with eye-pleasing presentations. Eisensmith’s positive energy is echoed by his staff. They’re all on board with the chef’s position that being motivated by doing the right thing is the way to achieve personal and professional success. “The most amazing part about John is his investment in the people in his kitchen,” says owner Matt Beason, who convinced Eisensmith to come to Durham from Nantucket, Massachusetts, to take the Six

Plates job. The two are business partners here and at the casual Mattie B’s Public House. “As great as John’s food is, his attitude towards people and life are that much better. It’s what makes him so good at what he does.” Eisensmith deflects such praise, saying he views the restaurants as an extension of his home. “I want people to relax and enjoy themselves,” says Eisensmith, who uses a stock pot and colander that belonged to his grandfather in the Six Plates kitchen. “When you walk away from a great meal, you don’t just feel that the food was great. You feel that life is better.” Eisensmith says the reason Six Plates recently overhauled its menu was to improve diners’ experiences. They dropped the term “small plates,” which had been used to describe the generous, tapas-like courses. “There was a misperception that you could not have a ‘full meal’ here, or that we are ‘too fancy’ for an everyday meal,” he says. “We’re trying to do fine dining that’s accessible to people.” Most courses cost between $9 and $12. Current options include the standout crispy calamari with peanut aioli and spicy Thai cabbage slaw ($10) and grilled sirloin with roasted cauliflower puree, broccolini, horseradish whipped cream and roasted red pepper cream puff ($12). Indulge in the must-have starter of chicken liver mousse with crostini ($7) and try to save room for desserts. Consider a baby carrot cake with raspberry cream cheese, toasted orange meringue and butterscotch ($6) and housemade chocolate truffles in such flavors as blackberry lavender and pink peppercorn with sea salt ($2 each). Eisensmith describes such choices “refined comfort food with a wow factor.” With his round belly and serene smile, perhaps even Buddha would agree. p Jill Warren Lucas is a Raleigh writer who blogs at Eating My Words. Follow her on Twitter: @jwlucasnc.

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No fork, no problem at Awaz’e BY EMMA LAPERRUQUE

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Liken this Ethiopian greeting to the American, “What’s up?” or “How’s your day going?” Injera—sour, spongy and more hole-filled than Swiss cheese—is the crepe-doppelganger, trademark bread of Ethiopia. It’s a great multitasker. During mealtime, injera acts as accompaniment, plate and utensil. At Awaz’e, the new Ethiopian restaurant in Cary, I was greeted differently. First, the server asked if my partner and I had dined at the restaurant before (no). Then, if we had ever eaten Ethiopian before (yes). It’s a fair question. Even in our meltingpot country and food-crazy culture, Ethiopian cuisine is still up-and-coming in America. In 2001, The New York Times published a dining piece entitled, “At Long Last, New York is Ready for Ethiopia.” More than a decade later, I can’t help but wonder: Is North Carolina? While larger U.S. metropolises, such as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., have thriving Ethiopian communities (and eateries), I can count the number of Ethiopian restaurants in the Triangle on one hand. So if you live around here and do want to eat injera today—well, here’s looking at you, Awaz’e. Fortunately, the young restaurant serves flavorful fare and a lot of promise. When prompted about injera, our server not only shared that Awaz’e makes its bread from scratch, but explained the recipe, too. The dough—traditionally made from the grain teff—is mixed, then left overnight to ferment and develop flavor. The soft, elastic bread blanketed every plate, and there was even more alongside. Which

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The Awaz’e tibs (cubes of lean beef, sautéed in the special Awaz’e sauce) is served with traditional injera.

was good, because I couldn’t get enough. And dangerous, because injera seems light and airy, but it will fill you up. Fast. When you tear a piece to scoop up your beef tibs, make it small. Awaz’e also prepares its own ayib, or fresh buttermilk cheese—crumbly like feta but milder in flavor. “Back at home,” our server said with a smile, “we make it the same way.” For unapologetically bold dishes—doro wat, a chicken leg and hardboiled egg, bathing in a crimson-colored berbere sauce—ßayib serves as a soothing companion. It’s worth noting what berbere is: an essential Ethiopian spice blend. If you don’t like it, you won’t like Awaz’e. The mixture includes a too-long-to-list combination of ingredients (red pepper, fenugreek and cardamom, to name a few). Their berbere sauce is so well done, when all that’s left is

soaked, soggy injera, you’ll devour that too. Another popular dish, their signature awaz’e tibs, stands out for the same reason: sauce. This beef entrée (on the menu, there are many) features awaz’e sauce, which is made from berbere (see what I mean?), the Ethiopian wine tej and garlic. The dish arrives tableside on a still-sizzling skillet, a move I haven’t seen since I last ordered fajitas at Chili’s sometime in the ’90s. With prominent notes of paprika and cayenne, the sauce straddles the fine line between intense spice and complex flavor. As expected with a budding operation, some aspects of Awaz’e still crave finetuning. The z’kitfo—beef sautéed with jalapeño, onion and, supposedly, “seasoned butter”—was dry, a sin I suspect Americans will be quick to notice. Moreover, the small space includes no actual wall between dining room and kitchen, which

means you can hear the sizzle of a hot pan, but also what I suspect is the ding-dingding of a microwave (surely a tool in many fine restaurants, but not one that guests necessarily like knowing about). Based upon the inconsistent temperatures on the vegetarian sampler, I imagine the appliance was used to reheat the various vegetable dishes—and not used long enough. The sampler, like the menu, is subject to change as the restaurant ages, but my pick of the group was misir wot, which is lentils stewed in berbere, my new favorite sauce. In fact, the more I write about it, the more I think they should start bottling it. (You heard it here first.) But, until they do, I’ll be glad to go back to Awaz’e to get my fix. p Emma Laperruque is a freelance writer. She writes about food at www.dourmet.com.

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THE BASEMENT TAPER

MAC MCCAUGHAN

The restless urges of Mac McCaughan’s first album under his own name

Late on a Tuesday afternoon, just off of UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus, we’ve descended the stairs of the midcentury home the Superchunk and Merge Records co-founder shares with his family of four. His basement’s home-recording studio is crowded with equipment and ephemera—synthesizers stuffed into corners, framed posters perched on the floor, racks of recording gear pushed against walls. Cablecovered rugs, errant road cases and a full drumkit form an obstacle course. McCaughan pushes some of the clutter aside, plunks a second chair between amplifiers and presses play on Non-Believers, the first album he’s ever released under his own name. These 10 songs were recorded almost entirely in this small basement studio— sometimes at night after his children, Oona and Arthur, were asleep, and sometimes in the morning after they were at school but before he commuted to Merge’s Durham office. And he performed nearly all of the parts himself, from the florid, fractured synthesizers that introduce intoxicating opener “Your Hologram” to the plangent guitars of the romping “Box Batteries.” As the record spins, McCaughan tends to highlight his weaknesses—how he can’t play drums like Superchunk’s Jon Wurster, how he can’t sing like Cocteau

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Mixing up the medicine: Mac McCaughan in his Chapel Hill home studio PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE

fter three decades of making music, Superchunk and Merge Records co-founder Mac McCaughan has at last released his first record under his own name, Non-Believers. McCaughan taps into a deep personal well for these 10 tracks, his writing full of wistful reflections. The “’82 Honda getting all its tapes stolen” during “Your Hologram,” the rows of duplex houses with trimmed hedges during “Lost Again,” the black dog that waits by the mailbox during “Our Way Free”: NonBelievers is too rife with frayed, specific details to be incidental. McCaughan has long dabbled with synthesizers, whether using them to add textural filigree to Superchunk records or as the minimal backbones of tunes by Portastatic, his retired solo guise. But synths are the tonal foundation of these tunes, amplifying McCaughan’s nostalgia by rooting it in period-authentic tones. Non-Believers finds McCaughan exploring his fascination with the moment in the early ’80s when punk turned inward and mutated into post-punk and new wave. McCaughan was a teenager then, so it’s fitting that this album sometimes feels like an autobiographical mixtape. As a songwriter, McCaughan canvases the range of emotions of the period he ponders, retroactively channeling youthful feelings into hard-won wisdom. “I’m kinda looking for you/I’m kinda looking for me,” he shrugs during “Lost Again,” a tune that balances adolescent romance with an innocent search for self-identity. The sepiatoned synth and hissing drum machine add haze, making the song seem less like a dream and more a fragment of a memory on an infinite loop. Much like a teenager, though, he rebounds with invincibility. “We’ve got box batteries,” he chirps on the chorus of “Box Batteries,” as if the thing that powers his boombox is the only object that matters. A peppy riff and hi-hat beat reinforce the sentiment. McCaughan’s songs have always blurred his personal and professional lives, and Non-Believers reaches across several decades to make that clear. The exultant chorus of “Only Do”—“There is no try/There is only do”—serves as both teenage-riot rallying cry and the motto of a DIY ethos. This rich record offers a glimpse into a time when both sides started to crystallize. — Patrick Wall

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Malcolm Dalglish is a hammer dulcimer player, singer and folk composer. A marvelous blend of rhyme, rhythm and song, Malcolm Dalglish’s family show combines story ballads and physical humor with the mesmerizing sounds of hammer dulcimer and virtuoso spoon and bones playing.

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Twin Elizabeth Fraser, how he’s still struggling to make some of these new songs work live. “When you’re trying to do it yourself and combine a guitar you’re playing with a drum machine,” he explains of recording, “sometimes it sounds like they’re not living in the same room—not in a good way.” But Non-Believers works wonderfully because it feels so intimate and close, its lyrics lined with references to the outsider obsessions and frustrations of his teenage years and its music built with the same guitars and synthesizers of his early rock ’n’ roll love. He delivers distant memories of adolescence with renewable zeal, suggesting the medium might have changed from cassettes to MP3s but the reasons to connect through music haven’t. While listening to Non-Believers twice, McCaughan explained the process and purpose of working alone. To read his thoughts on each album track, visit www.indyweek.com. INDY: Is it strange, at last, to have an album with your name on it? MAC MCCAUGHAN: Portastatic had a real purpose and existed in parallel with Superchunk. If I wanted to do anything besides Superchunk, I had to have something different. I made up a band name for it, because it’s cooler to have a name that’s not your own name; there’s no denying that. But I didn’t want to come up with another band name now. I am in Superchunk. I can play by myself. But the idea of starting a new band with new people is exhausting. I don’t love the idea of having my name on a T-shirt or record cover, but it does simplify things—other than the fact that no one can still spell my name. Non-Believers is actually a bit of a restart, right? You had another batch of songs started when these emerged. I probably had half a record. I didn’t get too far into it. I’ve spent time writing and recording demos for other projects that didn’t pan out, and I don’t like wasting that time. But I started working on “Your Hologram,” which made me rethink the whole thing. It provides a framework for the rest of the album, and I said, “I have this song. I like this song. Maybe I don’t have half an album?” What was really driving “Your Hologram” was the keyboard. It’s pretty similar to how I would have made a Portatstatic record a long time ago—just

grabbing a machine and messing around with it until something interesting happens. Once you have that sound, you can’t just put any drums or guitar sound with it; other stuff has to be shaped to fit. I work best if I have rules of some kind, or restrictions or guidelines, as opposed to, “Yeah, you can do anything. You’re making your own record in your home studio.” It makes it more fun to figure out solutions. I didn’t want it to be haphazard. Other than compilations, I think of albums as albums—not that everything should sound the same, but it should be coherent and go together in some way. There are certainly some radically different songs on this record, but I feel like they travel in the same world. Did any instrument become off-limits for you once that decision was made? I don’t think there was anything I thought of as being off-limits, but if there was an acoustic guitar, it had to really fit in to the rest of what was happening. There are acoustic guitars on some songs, but it’s not the first thing you hear. Likewise, I didn’t want to go full on and try to recreate something from 1982. It’s more referencing a time period. It’s funny how you’re playing a keyboard or a guitar with a certain chorus pedal and think, “This sounds exactly like that Cure record.” When you actually hear that Cure record, it doesn’t sound anything like it. In your mind, that’s your version. It’s really hard to ape something. To spend the time to achieve that, you don’t actually end up with something interesting. Why is that period so interesting for you more than 30 years later? That was a transitional period in a lot of ways—musically, politically and for me being 15 years old in 1982, that’s a transitional time in anyone’s life. What’s good to me about a lot of art is the awkwardness. Whenever there is a transition, there is bound to be awkwardness, because it doesn’t happen perfectly smoothly. That’s what drove both sides of Non-Believers, the music and the lyrics. It’s a pretty fertile thing. Thinking about that period in the early ’80s and records I really like now (and some I didn’t like then because I was resistant to synthesizers or whatever): It’s the sound of people who don’t really know what they’re doing, but they’re excited about this new thing they can use. No one has had any time to master it yet. When people have it mastered and

every studio has the same digital reverb and the same keyboard that the producer knows how to use perfectly, then it’s boring. But in the moment when people are still figuring it out and mixing it with other stuff like guitars and drum machines that they also don’t know how to use that well, you get something really interesting. What technology riddled you here? Even stuff I’ve had for 25 years I don’t understand, especially synthesizers. You can turn them on one day and they sound one way, and then the next day, it’s “How did I get that sound again?” My old Moog kept breaking, but I’m even worse at using the new one than the old one. It’s much harder to get sound out of it. There are too many options. I am not good at following menus—keyboards or computers or anything where you’re having to go through menus you can’t see. And there’s that white Casio that’s at the beginning of “Mystery Flu.” Half the sounds work and half of them don’t. I like that about it. So much of Non-Believers is about your old days and friends discovering music and exploring new freedom. A lot of those relationships have moved online for kids. How does that impact that kind of culture? There is something really powerful about sharing something you only know about from talking to other people. Maybe you feel like a certain band is your favorite band and your friend’s favorite band, but nobody else knows about them. In every town, there’s someone whose favorite band that is. That still exists, but it may not be as easy to see. I feel like there certainly still is this powerful connection that can’t just be formed by people going to a message board or blogging about their favorite band. I feel like there’s a desire for that in people. A human connection still exists. p Grayson Haver Currin is the music editor of the INDY.

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he familiar and stepwise model of the music industry has, to date, worked wonders for the Carrboro duo Mandolin Orange—so much so that their fourth album, the new Such Jubilee, should be the one to push them to bona fide back-porch prominence. In 2010, acoustic multi-instrumentalists Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin emerged with their simple and self-released debut, Quiet Little Room. Full of private, tender songs, the set spurred local interest that soon began to stretch past Carolina borders. The next year, Mandolin Orange followed that entrée with the two-disc Haste Make/Hard Hearted Stranger, an impressive effort split between simple twopiece recordings and elegant arrangements by a full folk-rock band. The ambition—and the group’s expanding audience, no doubt—lured the attention of Yep Roc Records, the imprint that delivered the group’s deserving breakthrough, the halcyon and heartfelt This Side of Jordan, in 2013. For the last two years, Mandolin Orange have played major festivals, toured internationally, mingled with heroes and sold out gratifying homecoming shows. The slow-rise, acoustic inverse of the area’s meteoric electro pair Sylvan Esso, they’ve become one of the state’s most ascendant acts, poised at the precipice of real popularity. Now, then, might be the time for Mandolin Orange to go for something grand, to wash their musical intimacy with orchestral extravagance or finesse their folk songs with complicated productions. Instead, Frantz and Marlin retreated to the western North Carolina studio Echo Mountain with only an audio engineer and occasional collaborator Josh Oliver. They quickly cut the modest, almost-minimal 10-song set Such Jubilee, adding to their familiar mix of fiddle, guitar, mandolin and simpatico harmonies only in subtle touches. It’s a pleasant and endearing listen, with songs that catch the first time around and sentiments that pull you into their private world. The road shows, too, as they’re better players and singers than they’ve ever been.

On the other hand, Such Jubilee feels mostly like a lateral move for Mandolin Orange. It reaffirms their reputation as an act loaded with promise but delivers little else than a bit more of what they’ve already offered. Could that same steady climb be to blame? Such Jubilee is a record about desiring the familiar, a transmission from tired travelers unpacking their bags for a spell. Over the easy trot of “Settled Down,” Marlin and Frantz play the parts of former bachelor and bachelorette, giving up on the lust of youth for the love of partnership. “Daylight” concerns the emotional and physical benefits of finding that sort of relationship, while opener “Old Times and Companions” casts sad eyes to memories of and hopes for friends back home. Even the plaintive country number “Rounder” finds its wild-eyed, forever-doomed outlaw wishing he could return to his place of innocence. “At the end of this lonely road,” Marlin and Frantz sing together, “those deeds you’ve done, they say you’ll never go home.” Even when they’re writing outside of their experiences, Frantz and Marlin yearn for something simpler. The music confirms these feelings, rarely stepping outside of a mid-tempo shuffle and only once breaking the four-minute mark. Though as patient and stately as a vintage Chet Atkins line, Oliver’s electric guitar solo during “Settled Down” feels as jarring as a small earthquake. That’s just how staid and centered Frantz and Marlin remain during Such Jubilee. According to modern music industry protocol, touring is the musician’s way to financial solvency. If someone downloads or streams your record for free, at least you stand the chance to make a fan who later buys a concert ticket. To some extent, that model has become the lifestyle edict of Mandolin Orange, and you have to wonder if it hasn’t aged them prematurely, worn down their sense of youthful adventure. This band is only six years old and in the second record of a deal that could introduce them to a massive audience. But they sound self-satisfied here, content to carry on with what’s familiar and comfortable. Off the road, Mandolin Orange are nesting, both in and out of the studio.

There are, mind you, brilliant glimpses of something more on Such Jubilee. The Wurlitzer twinkle of the wonderful, Frantzled “From Now On” suggests a touch of tropicália before it eventually settles for genteel lockstep. And “Blue Ruin” might be the best-written and most thoughtful song about the Sandy Hook shooting, as it uses the Christmas holiday that came just two weeks later to implicate the failure of our supposed shared humanity. Marlin’s words and voice smolder with a quiet rage, and you want the music behind him to do the same—or do anything, really, besides drift along like this is just another song in another session. —Grayson Haver Currin Mandolin Orange plays Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10–$29.

YANDREW CROSSING STREAMS (self-released)

n the vast open space between jazz and classical music, it can be tough to speak with specificity. You either describe the music in terms more poetic than informative, or you namedrop the influences you detect: Cecil Taylor or Charles Mingus maybe, perhaps John Zorn or Uri Caine. But on their debut LP, Crossing Streams, the improvisational duo Yandrew— drummer Dan “Yan” Westerlund of Bowerbirds and Canine Heart Sounds and cellist Drew Anagnost of Lost In The Trees—stake out a small, clear territory within that wide musical realm. They do it by finding and finessing a formula. For each of these nine instrumentals, Westerlund and Anagnost deploy the same basic plan: Open with a groove, let it play until it’s about to lose energy, move into a

second groove. Most pieces change focus near the halfway mark, just as the opening passage starts to become too repetitive. The variation comes in different musical textures and in which instrumentalist is leading the way. Given this template, “Thorzuul” may be the quintessential Yandrew tune. Anagnost’s cello establishes a bright field of sound, and Westerlund’s drums cavort in it. Westerlund then hands the lead to Anagnost, who quickens the tempo and drapes his cello in fuzz. This new edge makes his bowing sound like power chords, as if he were using sheet metal instead of horsehair. While Westerlund deploys an impressive variety of drum sounds, Anagnost rarely dazzles with chops. Instead, he shows virtuosity in the alien sounds he gets from a familiar instrument. In “Badiddily-Do,” his octaves are round and hypnotic. For “Hers,” the cello sounds like it’s stuffed with silt. The doubletracked cello of the title number even sounds like a wind instrument, something an eastern mystic might use. Westerlund elicits ritualistic creaks and screeches from his cymbals as the piece gathers a raga-like momentum. The last section blossoms into a wonderful, gamelan-like din. The closer, “Wendy,” at last breaks the pattern with Yandrew’s most songlike arc. Anagnost opens with a happy, arpeggiated dance that builds into a romp and mosh. The discord never obscures the sweetness of the affectionate, sincere dedication. It ends with the sort of familiar murmur one’s partner might make as they’re falling asleep—a suggestion of the surprising intimacy and accessibility of this admittedly outsider music. —Chris Vitiello Yandrew plays Friday, May 1, at The Shed in Durham. Skylar Gudasz opens. The 9 p.m. show costs $5.

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DEATH MEDDLE

Is there any solution for bands that continue without their lead singer? BY JEFF KLINGMAN

HEN O-TOWN COMES to North Carolina this week, they will move without their Angel.

A few years ago, the marginal boy-band from the early ’00s became yet another reunited grown-man band. But they did so without Ashley Parker Angel, the group’s most popular, visible and hunky member and the only one to achieve even modest chart success as a solo artist. Fitting O-Town’s roots as the by-product of a reality show competition, Angel had subsequent success as an actor, too, scoring both B-movie and Broadway roles. His amicable decline of a spot on the reunion circuit proved he is the one who doesn’t need this gimmick, and yet another act is left to revive itself without its public face. Bands sometimes handle the loss of a lead singer well. For a group like Van Halen, defined by and named for a guitarist, hiring a new singer split their career into distinct eras without completely violating the core concept. Genesis may have lost some cred when drummer Phil Collins replaced Peter Gabriel as singer, but at least Collins’ more commercial sound generated stacks of cash. And there are Black Sabbath partisans who prefer Ronnie James Dio to Ozzy Osbourne. But more often than not, these substitutions are profoundly bad. Without the definitive leader, surviving or otherwise willing members deliver adulterated versions of once-beloved acts, like Creedence Clearwater Revisited. There’s a supermarket-brand feeling to such replacements, the disappointment of going to the store for Dr. Pepper only to come home with “Professor Soda.” Not even death’s final curtain can entirely rule out an encore. Deeply doofy nü-ska band Sublime carries on under the contractually arbitrated “Sublime with Rome,” its “Santeria” now belted out by a bro even less likable than the late Bradley Nowell. The Doors soldiered on through various incarnations without their legendary Lizard King, but with no Jim

Morrison, they never made a note of music that added anything to their legacy. Compared to a generationdefining sex shaman, signing up the dude from The Cult just didn’t work. For an institution as perennially lame as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it’s shocking how well they interpreted such lessons for last year’s Nirvana induction. Assuming no man could live up to Kurt Cobain’s myth, they recruited four formidable women—Kim Gordon, Lorde, Joan Jett, St. Vincent’s Annie Clark—to honor the leader without inviting direct comparison. The high star wattage prevented disappointment, and the specialevent feeling precluded desperation. The absence of a subsequent tour with that set-up let it serve as a loving, limited homage, not a continuing payday. By being rare and exceptional, the night delivered what all post-death band revivals should desire: not the feeling of simulacrum, but of spectacle. New Order was once another fine example of artists successfully moving on from tragedy. Losing a frontman like Joy Division’s Ian Curtis would obliterate most acts, and Curtis’ suicide was a trauma the band couldn’t withstand. But New Order’s Movement, the 1981 album by the band’s

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renamed survivors, continued proudly in Joy Division’s stylistic spotlight despite understandably dimmed results. The subsequently brighter, bouncier synth-pop of hits like “Blue Monday” allowed New Order to build its own sound. Instead of dwelling in the past, they forged a new future. But the last decade of New Order’s existence has resembled a continual victory lap in which the vehicle has started to fall apart. The squabbles of the group’s founding members have produced two different touring units, each staking claim to the same legacy. Guitarist Bernard Sumner and drummer Stephen Morris continue on as “New Order,” while bassist Peter Hook tours the same old material with The Light. He’ll lead that unit through Joy Division’s two classic studio albums Unknown Pleasures and Closer at Cat’s Cradle this week. Sumner and Morris have criticized Hook

for the move, but they still trot out the old Joy Division classics as concert encores, too. Just how many elements can you remove from a project before it becomes comically threadbare, not just a shabby version of the original entity but something else entirely? The medium-sized theaters The Light sell out suggest Hook has yet to reach the market’s terminal point. Perhaps the most appropriate option for any partial band hoping to soldier on is also the most ghoulish. Ever since Coachella produced a posthumous holographic version of Tupac Shakur to join Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Eminem in 2012, the idea of conjuring a three-dimensional facsimile of a long-dead performer has become a running joke. No band has used the expensive technique as an ongoing feature of a tour. Acts like The Light or New Order, performing Joy Division songs while huge screens flash pictures of Ian Curtis, come perilously close. But going all the way seems an unusually honest and perfect solution for incomplete but still active bands looking to proceed. If these bands are forever cursed with the ghosts of their own past, why not portray them as literal ghosts that demand space— shimmering there, unreal and timeless and sad? Seeing aged band members share the stage with an apparition of the youth and beauty they themselves once held would be horribly poignant. Nostalgia will likely continue to be a leading engine of the music industry. Grappling explicitly with the whiff of grave robbery given off by the desire to live out cherished memories seems a fair service fee. p Jeff Klingman lives in Brooklyn and writes about music and pop culture. Find him at @jeff_klingman.

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LOSE YOURSELF

The art of erasure at Manbites and NRACT BY BYRON WOODS

NE OF OUR DEEPEST UNDERLYING FEARS IS THE FEAR OF ERASURE. We feel it in the chill we experience when considering the desaparecidos: the luckless inhabitants of Spain and Latin America who, in the ’70s and ’80s, were made to disappear because of political affiliations or beliefs not shared by the powers that be.

That fear is also voiced by the dyevushki—a quartet of struggling young women in contemporary Russia—in playwright Meg Miroshnik’s streetwise, comical and cautionary drama THE FAIRYTALE LIVES OF RUSSIAN GIRLS at Manbites Dog Theater. When central character Annie learns that her neighbor, Masha, is unwittingly enduring her own slow erasure by living with an abusive boyfriend, Annie vows that she won’t let her vanish “like you were never here.” As Miroshnik’s meditation on legacy and identity unfolds, we gradually realize that most of the women we encounter are metaphorically or literally in similar straits. Stark economics, an inadequate education—and a messy tryst with a rich Russian oligarch—all threaten to remove Katya, a sharp-minded math whiz, from the lives of those she loves and prevent her from becoming her best self. Nastasia’s reliance on an untrustworthy man rewrites a fundamental part of her identity and leaves her future in doubt. But some of the most enigmatic questions of erasure and identity here lie with Annie, a first-generation American whose Jewish parents were allowed to leave Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. By the time we meet, that migration has already caused a number of individual sea-changes. Her mom, Olga, is no longer a mathematician, but a California hairdresser. Tellingly, Annie informs us that she’s forsaken her birth name, Anya, for her current one—after the famous orphan. She’s already lost her Russian accent and is losing her native tongue.

These and other erasures prompt Olga to send Annie, alone, to spend a summer in her Russian hometown. But this hero’s quest in the making takes on added dimensions as the women are forced to confront and edit the narratives they’re living. Folk and fairy tales lose little of their power when they go urban. Masha’s abusive relationship in an apartment on the outskirts of Moscow is patterned too closely for coincidence on a Russian variant of the Red Riding Hood story. Katya’s dilemma is framed by an Alexander Afanasyev folk tale whose heroine shares her name, and Nastasia’s tale is too suprising to spoil here. But when Annie’s encounter with her not-aunt Yaroslava begins to echo harrowing stories of Baba Yaga, she finds expert advice from fellow survivors-inprogress, all deconstructing the charming— and potentially fatal—narratives that our cultures program into us as children. This crew realizes the encrypted survival strategies dramaturge Dierdre Shipman comments on in the playbill: Even fairy tales involve bribes. And, at some point in every folk tale, the clever hero knows that action must be taken. Under Jules Odendahl-James’ insightful, surefooted direction, a talented ensemble delves deeply into the layers of this literary Matryoshka doll. Stage veteran Carly Prentis Jones fully conveys the charming monstrosity of Yaroslava. Jessica Flemming, Mikaela Saccoccio and Jeanine Frost convincingly flesh out Masha, Katya and Nastasia. We believe Faye Goodwin as a naïve Annie who must come of age in a hurry. Laurel Ullman, as usual, finds the keys to unlock compelling characters, including mother Olga, a customs officer and a wicked witch of another stripe. If words can imprison, as Miroshnik notes, they can also, ultimately, liberate. Odendahl-James and her team pursue figures of speech that remain entirely too literalized: a bear of a boyfriend, a witch of an old lady—and a culture justifiably afraid of certain sociopolitical questions, whose past can seem intent on devouring its future. Post-Soviet Russia isn’t the only place we encounter such figures at present.

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orth Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre has been pulling itself up by its own artistic bootstraps over the past couple of seasons, taking on projects that once were well above the weight class of a modest community theater. I’m pleased to note that transformation continues with its current production of RENT, whose popularity has resulted in a week-long extension of this production. Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer-winning 1994 script documents cultural flux among a struggling group of downtown New York creatives in the 1980s. It’s never easy making it as an artist in the Big Apple, but that decade posed unique—and lifethreatening—challenges. Gentrification was already making living conditions precarious for the poor. Then came the outbreak of HIV/AIDS in 1981. Under Shane Dittmar’s music direction, a 15-actor ensemble was rock-solid on the moving solo and choral sequences. The only musical misstep was the canned accompaniment for “Today for You.” On the acting side, strong work from Dusty Thomas as Mark, the filmmaker who is fated to document the triumphs and dissolution of his community; Waylin Owsley as an angelic Angel; and Destiny McNeill as Mimi formed the emotional core. But despite his golden voice, Robert Lang never found the darkness and anger in Roger, the HIV-positive guitarist seeking one blaze of glory in song before he dies. The company found true poignancy in “Support Group” and “Will I,” while Lang and McNeill tugged at our emotions

in “Without You” and “Goodbye Love.” Andrea Twiss and Tyanna West squared off for a convincing relationship ultimatum, “Take Me Or Leave Me.” Dempsey Bond and Nekeyeta Newkirk ably anchored the famous “Seasons of Love,” after the ensemble energized the title song and the anarchic anthem “La Vie Boheme.” Director David Henderson’s expeditious staging faltered only in a relatively flat rendition of “What You Own.” In all, this production’s achievements were well worth the rent—the price of the ticket and the time we spent. p Byron Woods is the INDY’s theater columnist. Twitter: @ByronWoods.

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BARRE AND FEATHER

Carolina Ballet’s streamlined Swan Lake celebrates its 10th anniversary BY KARISHMA B. DESAI

OW DOES THE REST OF THE STORY GO AGAIN?” a young audience member asked during intermission at Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium. Her mother recapped: The prince will be tricked into declaring his love for the wrong girl, who looks identical to his love but has a clearly different personality. “So the moral of the story is to not judge a book by its cover,” the mother said. “Fall in love based off someone’s personality, not looks.”

A revered masterpiece, Swan Lake is regarded as the epitome of classical ballet. Often performed by large companies, it has been innovatively adapted by the smaller Carolina Ballet. Its production, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, is based on a children’s storybook version by Lisbeth Zwerger, which accounts for its happy ending. After the Raleigh date we saw, the production finishes its current run at DPAC this weekend. A prince’s mother plans to hold a ball where he must select his future wife. When swans catch his attention by his backyard lake, he pursues them with hunting on his mind. Instead, he spots a beautiful maiden and a sorcerer. He finds out that the maiden and her friends are cursed to turn into swans during the day. The spell will be broken if a man truly loves her. The prince declares that he does, and they part ways. At the ball, he can only think of the Swan Princess, even though he is surrounded by other attractive female suitors. The dancers playing them excelled technically in their solos; group choreography during the ball effectively incorporated social dancing in mesmerizing formations. Suddenly, the sorcerer and his daughter appear at the ball. She looks identical to the demure Swan Princess, but is dressed in black. Ignoring the Black Swan’s vain demeanor, the prince embraces her. The Swan Princess sees his betrayal and flees,

Carolina Ballet celebrates the 10th anniversary of its streamlined Swan Lake

with the prince following her. A wellorchestrated scrim effect illuminates a window panel in the backdrop to showcase the heartbroken Swan Princess. In a scene where the sorcerer causes the lake to overflow, trying to drown the lovebirds, the waves are depicted simply, with three long strips of fabric spanning the back, center and front of the stage, rippled by assistants holding the ends offstage. Instead, the sorcerer is swept away, while the prince and Swan Princess escape to live happily ever after. Oliver Beres, who plays the sorcerer, convincingly acted like he was inundated by the waves. The second act proved to be the more emotionally engaging. The prince’s pas de deux with the Swan Princess and the Black

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Swan contrasted ethereal love against the power of seduction. And Lilyan Vigo brought swan-like grace to the role of the Princess, especially during a set of attitude devant (leg bent in front) turns with flapping arms. Near the end of the first act, the sorcerer tossed her up in the air, and she impressively twisted twice before the prince caught her. Richard Krusch was a standout as the prince, and stunned me as he alternated between tours en l’air (turns in the air) and triple pirouettes. Carolina Ballet’s Swan Lake mainly adheres to the traditional storyline, albeit in a condensed format. If only because of the humanistic desire to see good triumph over evil, the adapted ending was more pleasing to me than the bittersweet original

one. Though even the youngest viewers know this story, its message remains evergreen: Appearances can be deceiving; love can be blinding. p Karishma B. Desai studies and writes about classical dance. Find her on Twitter @kbdesai311.

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THE HART IS A LONELY BROTHER

Kevin Hart is one of comedy’s biggest stars––so where’s the critical love? BY CRAIG D. LINDSEY

EVIN HART SHOULD’VE GOTTEN A SOLO COVER FROM ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY A LONG TIME AGO.

The 35-year-old Philadelphia native is one of the most popular, successful comedy superstars out there. His list of accomplishments this year alone is impressive: He starred in two of the most money-making recent comedies, The Wedding Ringer and Get Hard. He hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time. He presented at the Oscars. He emceed the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber. And he was in Time’s annual 100 Most Influential People issue, with Chris Rock contributing the accompanying essay. Now he’s selling out arenas on his “What Now? Tour,” which makes a stop at Raleigh’s PNC Arena on Friday. And yet there is a sense that Hart doesn’t receive the same acclaim, esteem or media attention as comedians like Louis C.K. and Amy Schumer, both of whom have rated Entertainment Weekly cover stories. They are seen as brilliant comic minds, whereas Hart is dismissed as that funny short guy you see all over the place. In a recent Daily Beast piece titled “Who Thinks Kevin Hart Is Funny?” writer Stereo Williams pondered why Hart doesn’t get respect. “Hart’s success shouldn’t be slighted,” Williams wrote. “He’s worked hard to get where he is. But it doesn’t feel like he’s where a comedian of his stature should be.” One is almost compelled to yell the dreaded R-word about this. After all, Hart also has a TV show, Real Husbands of Hollywood, which actually pulls in big ratings whenever a new season airs. But since it’s on BET—Black Entertainment Television, for those who don’t know— people other than black folk might assume it’s geared only toward black audiences (it’s not, by the way); that it’s not as white people-friendly or buzz-worthy as, say, Louie or Inside Amy Schumer. Raleigh comedian (and AfricanAmerican) Thomas Dixson isn’t ready to pull the race card just yet. He feels that Hart is a comedian for all audiences, and his positive, populist swagger may turn off

tastemakers who like their comedians progressive, thought-provoking and a little pissed-off. (That would certainly explain why biracial comedy duo Key & Peele gets so much mainstream love.) “I think Kevin Hart is kind of like Drake and Louis C.K. is like Kendrick Lamar,” says Dixson. “Hart is way more popular, but Louis C.K. does the kind of work that warrants the kind of attention he gets.” But it’s not like Hart is seeking that sort of attention anyway. After all, he originally built his own brand and fan base through social media, extensive stand-up touring and YouTube videos. So he is very aware that if you go straight to the people and give them what they want, you don’t need to wait for the media or the industry to call you the Next Big Thing. Saul Austerlitz, journalist and author of Another Fine Lonely at the Mess: A History of American Film Comedy, thinks this may explain why the media won’t hop on the Hart-train. “I think that, particularly for AfricanAmerican performers, there does seem to be this track of creating your own brand and finding your own audience, and achieving incredible success without the awareness or the assistance of the mainstream media,” he says, citing Tyler Perry and Katt Williams as other examples of self-made black stars. “And I think that what happens, in part, is that the people in the media feel like, ‘Oh, someone like Tyler Perry or Kevin Hart has become really famous without my being aware of it.’ And therefore, that success is somehow less significant, because it didn’t involve media attention.” Hart continues to work hard for the laughs. Next year, he’ll star in Central Intelligence, a buddy action-comedy with Dwayne “The

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HEADY IN THE CLOUDS

A complex study of the tug-of-war between an older movie star and her younger assistant BY CRAIG D. LINDSEY

S WE DIVE HEADFIRST INTO THE NOISY SUMMER-MOVIE SEASON WITH THE MAY 1 OPENING OF AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, leave it to heady, naturalistic French director Olivier Assayas to counter the carnage with Clouds of Sils Maria, possibly the season’s—even the year’s—most stunning, complex film. While the title refers to the scenic Swiss locale where most of the movie takes place, there is a Maria here, an aging actress played with complicated cool by Juliette Binoche. Maria spends every moment aware of her dwindling cinematic shelf-life (she has fled a lucrative role in X-Men movies), trying to be both a valuable commodity and a human being. Before attending a tribute for the man who launched her career by casting her as a manipulative young lesbian seductress in his play, she learns of his suicide. With his widow’s blessing, she retreats to his Sils Maria home and prepares to take on the older role—the vulnerable middleaged woman who is smitten with the girl— in a London revival of the play. With her is loyal assistant Valentine (Kristen Stewart),

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who hips her to the scandalous doings of the bratty young star (Chloë Grace Moretz, gamely playing an amalgam of dizzy starlets—including Stewart) who will occupy the role that made her famous. Clouds is a riveting character study of Binoche’s proud but fading movie star and Stewart’s wise-beyond-her-years underling.

Binoche, radiant with cropped hair and no makeup, and Stewart, displaying the sort of independent wit and intelligence she couldn’t while pining for heartthrob monsters, are an endlessly fascinating pair, whether they’re just gabbing or locked in a passive-aggressive tug-of-war. Running lines from the play, almost saying things they

want to say to each other, but can’t, they create a tricky, thorny bond that’s also a microcosm for civilization’s eternal battles: youth versus experience, beauty versus wisdom and the past versus the future. Ever the deceptive neo-realist, Assayas rounds out a superficially simple, visually resplendent story with a third-act twist that leaves you wondering if one character’s struggles are more internal than she lets on. But the movie speaks multitudes the more you think about it. Like most of Assayas’ films, Clouds shows us how difficult it is to retain some semblance of who we are, where we’ve been and what we’ve accomplished when others are more concerned with what the hell is going to happen tomorrow. Time and tide, as the saying goes, wait for no woman. p Craig Lindsey writes about film, comedy and more for the INDY and others. Find him on Twitter @unclecrizzle.

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

song, Sturgill Simpson rocketed to similar roots-music fame on the strength of his sophomore LP, last May’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. Old Crow’s Grammy-winning 2014 record, Remedy, bounces between the Nashville-based outfit’s customary breakneck string-band numbers and polished ballads. Metamodern Sounds, though, is a marvel of contemporary country songwriting, at once a throwback to outlaws like Waylon and a transformation of the genre through slightly psychedelic textures and wry lyricism. Simpson may not have a sing-along smash like the headliners (which will surely resonate in Koka Booth’s land of the pines), but he has already crafted a singular sound that rivals the best of modern Americana. 7:30 p.m., $35–$40, 8003 Regency Parkway, Cary, 919-462-2025, www.boothamphitheatre.com. —Spencer Griffith

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Sometimes it takes a knife to cut free—but you absolutely have to measure twice. Hansel Schmidt was a teenage transvestite in East Berlin, wired on gummibärchen and ’70s Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and David Bowie. Desperate for freedom, he underwent gender reassignment surgery and changed his name to Hedwig so a U.S. Army sergeant could marry him over the Berlin Wall. The surgery botched, Hedwig escaped to the West—six months before East Germany fell in 1989. Now, in America, after being abandoned by a husband and a gifted but opportunistic young songwriter named Tommy, Hedwig has set a lacerated life and a shredded identity to music. Tonight, it goes live before an unsuspecting audience. Buckle in when director Jesse R. Gephart and actors Chris Maxwell and Lydia Kinton update this combination punk, drag and glam-rock confessional, whose characters ultimately transcend easy definitions of gender. As Ziggy Stardust once said, “It ain’t easy.” 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat.; 3 p.m. Sun.; midnight May 16 (LGBT Center benefit), $13–$24, 301 Pogue St., 919821-3111, www.raleighlittletheatre.org. —Byron Woods

Maybe you want to recapture your faded glory days of high school, or maybe you want to re-do them because you were a dork. Regardless, the Carrboro Prom can help you out. Don your fancy duds, pick out a matching corsage and enjoy the evening with your main squeeze, or take a pack of friends to pile into the photobooth. There won’t be alcohol, but it’s still 21 and up only—after all, the youngsters have real proms to go to. 9 p.m., $10–$12, 100 N. Greensboro St., 919-918-7392, www.universe.com/carrboroprom. —Allison Hussey

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, CARY | SATURDAY, MAY 2 In a fraction of the near-decade it took “Wagon Wheel” to grow from a cut off of Old Crow Medicine Show’s 2001 EP, Troubles Up and Down The Road, into the band’s signature

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and welcome renaissance. Opener Torres, meanwhile, is NewYork-via-Nashville songwriter Mackenzie Scott, whose excellent new Sprinter makes for her second consecutive great LP. This one’s both harder and softer, with grunge outbursts sometimes ceding to shoegaze-like drifts. 9 p.m., $25–$27, 1711 Saxapahaw Bethlehem Church Road, Saxapahaw, 336-525-2314, www. hawriverballroom. —Grayson Haver Currin

MUSIC | JON MUELLER

NEPTUNES, RALEIGH | SATURDAY, MAY 2

Jon Mueller is one of music’s most versatile drummers. Pounding on the kick and cracking at the snare, he has served as the engine behind the rock-scrambling bands Pele, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Volcano Choir (essentially a collaboration between that last act and Bon Iver). As an improviser, he’s created long-form, stamina-demanding pieces that turn simple beats into pulsing,

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MUSIC | JENNY LEWIS, TORRES

HAW RIVER BALLROOM, SAXAPAHAW | MONDAY, MAY 4

A few years ago, Jenny Lewis and her band, Rilo Kiley, began to turn into a punchline for a passing era of indie rock. They had come of age and climbed onto big stages during the subgenre’s transitional period, as acts like Death Cab for Cutie and Iron & Wine crossed from fringes to widespread attention. But Rilo Kiley faltered, releasing a tepid album, then a bad album and ultimately breaking up. Aside from some guest spots, Lewis largely disappeared as she struggled through the woes of the band split, her father’s death and an endless battle with insomnia. But The Voyager, her first solo album in six years, wears the survival scars well. Its 10 songs are funny but faulty, confessional but canny, intimate but empathetic. Bound together by bright hooks and some of the most nuanced singing of her career, it’s a wonderful

tantric drones. And as a bandleader, he built Death Blues, a cathartic and communal collective that treated symphonic forms, gospel choirs and string arrangements as methods for going loud and triumphant. For this solo tour, he will create an immersive, meditative soundworld using a hand drum and wordless vocals that he loops and mutates in real-time. Don’t be surprised if the set rattles your perception; Mueller’s ecstatic explorations have a tendency to do that. With Polyorchard. 7:30 p.m., $10, 14 W. Martin St., Raleigh, 919-833-1091, www.kingsbarcade.com. —Grayson Haver Currin

THEATER | MARY’S WEDDING

PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY, CHAPEL HILL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29–SUNDAY, MAY 3

When a romantic drama winds up criticizing romanticism, there’s a switchback in the works. That’s the case with Stephen Massicotte’s 2002 two-hander, whose regional premiere was at Burning Coal in 2012. Mary, a upper-class émigré from England, and Charley, a stable boy outside a rural Canadian town, while away idyllic afternoons reading Tennyson to each other. But the year is 1917, and Charley’s way with horses will place him in the midst of the last recorded cavalry charge in modern warfare, in Germany’s Moreuil Wood. In a fantastic tale that marries George du Maurier with Kurt Vonnegut, the pair is forced to reexamine romantic notions about chivalry, love, each other and themselves. Guest director Cody Nickell leads Carey Cox and Myles Bullock in the final PRC² production of the season. 7:30 p.m. Weds.–Sun.; 2 p.m. Sun., $15–$42, 150 Country Club Rd., Chapel Hill, 919-962-7529, www.playmakersrep.org. —Byron Woods

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CAROLINA THEATRE: Taj Mahal Trio; 8 p.m., $30–$61.50. See indyweek.com. THE CAVE: U.S. Christmas, Sinister Haze, Generation of Vipers, Bitter Resolve; 9 p.m., $7. DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles; 7:30 p.m., $30–$70. HAW RIVER BALLROOM: Langhorne Slim & the Law, The Dewars; 8 p.m., $16–$18. See indyweek.com.

NIGHTLIGHT 919NOISE SHOWCASE SVBM|SS|0N, a four-track EP released late last year by Durham producer C/\L/\PSE, delivers an unexpected thrill ride. For most of its length, big bass booms shudder the speakers, while glitch electronics turn the space between the beats into a madhouse. And then, at the end, there is a welcoming drone, with tones so placid and a meter so soft you want to live in its bright new age. (Disclosure: C/\L/\PSE’s Reed Benjamin is an INDY employee.) This 919Noise showcase strikes a similar balance, with the piano-and-synth compositions of Holly Springs’ Isotroposphere and the harsh heaviness of Hendecatope accompanying C/\L/\PSE. Also, Robert Shanks. $5/8:30 p.m. —GC POUR HOUSE: Input Electronic Music Series; 9 p.m., free. See indyweek.com. THE RITZ: Jazmine Sullivan; 8 p.m., $29.50. See indyweek.com.

THU, APR 30 BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Aaron Hill Trio; 7 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL: Michelle Belanger & The Mystery Hillbillies; 7 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE HOUNDMOUTH Houndmouth is another entrant in a long line of contemporary bands that reach backward for inspiration to aim for limber retro rock. But the quartet’s songs are crafted with such care they become rote re-creations. The band’s clearly well studied in the ways of Big Brother and the Holding Company and Crazy Horse, but they’ve scrubbed clean the grit and grime. The listener is most often left with little more than a pretty, decorative veneer. $15/7:30 p.m. —PW

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM) 75 DOLLAR BILL Wooden Bag, the third LP from Brooklyn duo 75 Dollar Bill, is one of the year’s most intriguing and playful records. Built by guitarist Che Chen and percussionist and horn player Rick Brown, the instrumental pair alternate between long-form, hypnotic trance music, where the slicing guitar cuts between maraca trots, and horn-and-drum miniatures that suggest a kind of incidental brass band music. The affair’s willful, delightful weirdness suggests the salad days of indie rock, when folks were more concerned about indulging sometimes-errant ideas instead of accruing buzz on blogs or scoring placements in commercials. Strange as a 75 Dollar Bill, no doubt. $5/8:30 p.m. —GC

THE CAVE WRAY, LOST TRAIL Consider this bill a perfectly paired first course and entree. Lost Trail offer a local master class in subtle drone, incorporating ethereal tones and haunting found sounds into pieces that are simultaneously relaxing and provocative. Their supple soundscapes should foreshadow the best of WRAY, an Alabama group whose “powergaze” drives post-rock grooves through big

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distortion. They are delicate but fierce, a fitting finale to Lost Trail’s more sedate start. $5/9 p.m. —JL DEEP SOUTH: Colorway, Suitcase, Dwight Hawkins; 9 p.m., $7. DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles; 7:30 p.m., $30–$70. FUZION CAFE & LOUNGE: Sarah Kaboom’s Listening Session; 8 p.m., $5–$7.

LINCOLN THEATRE: O-Town; 8 p.m., $20–$25. See page 24. LOCAL 506: Low Cut Connie, The Bourbons; 9 p.m., $8. MIDTOWN PARK AMPHITHEATRE: Liquid Pleasure; 6 p.m., free. MOTORCO: Dark Water Rising, Falling Through April, Spaceship Days, Nick Driver; 8 p.m., free. NIGHTLIGHT: Sad Horse, Pena Ajena, The Funs, Mid-Century Modern DJs; 9 p.m., $7. THE PINHOOK: Wailin’ Storms, Down With Homework, Ringwald; 9 p.m., $7. PITTSBORO ROADHOUSE: The Lock-In Cabaret; 7 p.m. POUR HOUSE: The Movement, Signal Fire; 9 p.m., $12–$15. SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS: WRAY; 3 p.m., free. See April 30 listing at The Cave.

SLIM’S THE GHOST WOLVES Austin duo The Ghost Wolves are as ferocious and primal as their name suggests. Singer and guitarist Carley Wolf slings bottom-heavy blues-rock riffs and slides from come-hither

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STATION AT SOUTHERN RAIL: Karol Peril; 8 p.m.

KINGS A TIGER BY THE TAIL Under the name The Silent Wurlitzer Collective, former Wreckless Eric guitarist Tim Carless, American Aquarium pedal steel guitarist Whit Wright, Mount Moriah bassist Casey Toll and former Sixpence None The Richer drummer Dale Baker have conjured improvised scores for The General and It’s A Wonderful Life. Here, the ace locals provide the soundtrack to an array of ‘50s and ‘60s variety show clips compiled and edited by Wright. The films feature country stars like Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Buck Owens. “This concert is not only a tribute to this musical genre I’ve grown to admire through playing the steel guitar,” Wright explains, “but it’s also an experiment to see how the footage causes us to react musically.” $8/8 p.m. —SG

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huskiness to maniacal instability. Jonny Wolf, meanwhile, provides the thump of primordial beats. It appears to be a gender-flipped White Stripes, but The Ghost Wolves play it straighter, landing in the vicinity of Jack and Meg’s amphetamine-addled early discs. $5/9 p.m. —PW

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TYLER, THE CREATOR SATURDAY, MAY 2 THE RITZ, RALEIGH—If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Tyler, the Creator’s Cherry Bomb is one of the loudest and most earnest catcalls in music history. Tyler has been on Pharrell Williams’ jock at least since 2013’s Wolf. But on Cherry Bomb, he’s expanded his millennial burlesque into the wonderful world of R&B, blowing kisses into the machine instead of railing against it. The current targets of Tyler’s malegaze are personal heroes like Roy Ayers and Stevie Wonder, artists he’s blabbed about in all-caps Twitter blasts. Still stubbornly self-producing himself, Tyler makes music in the styles of these and other soul forebears. He mixes super-’70s soundalikes “Find Your Wings” and neo-’90s sex jam “Blow My Load” in with aggro rap numbers like “Buffalo” to keep his Odd Future fanatics in line. Tyler may never admit as much, but it now appears that he—a guy who built his career acting out like Johnny Rotten with WiFi—would like to be, well, liked. Though it sometimes feels like stunt casting, the caliber of invited guests on the record reveals he’s sought the approval of some of the most respected names in music. In addition to Ayers and Williams, Cherry Bomb features living legends Charlie Wilson and Leon Ware. To him, these probably trump getting Lil Wayne and Kanye West to join him on “Smuckers.” A legitimate lament, he couldn’t get Stevie Wonder, who went from a punchline on 2011’s “Yonkers” to being Tyler’s white whale collaborator. Maybe next time? Sure, you could argue that Cherry Bomb purely acts on his cherubic fandom. But that’s a naive view that inadvertently voids Tyler’s artistic ambitions, which anyone who’s paid attention to the world of Odd Future surely knows he has. For instance, he appears to be pushing a broader agenda with Cherry Bomb, fitting given the simmering election season. And his leadership role in Odd Future made him a charismatic if unlikely leader to a small army of impressionable youth, many of whom continue to follow him from endeavor to endeavor. He is an evangelist, then, preaching his secular gospel to a megachurch disguised as a skatepark. Tyler just wants to be seated at the right hand of his father figures. Amen to that. 8 p.m., $28.50, 2820 Industrial Dr., Raleigh, 919-424-1400, www.ritzraleigh.com. —Gary Suarez

TIR NA NOG LOCAL BAND, LOCAL BEER: OCTOPUS JONES, ZACK MEXICO, THE TILLS This showcase features three Carolina psych groups with differing strengths. Raleigh’s Octopus Jones inject shadowy propulsion into glam-rock excess, like Thee Oh Sees taking aim at Marc Bolan. Coastal contingent Zack Mexico stick closer to the intricately refracted grooves of West Coast garage rock, mutating and stretching riffs and rhythms. Asheville’s The Tills are the catchiest of the bunch, dipping infectious ’60s melodies into a vat of colorful scuzz. Also, Hot Water & the Bone. Free/9:30 p.m. —JL

FRI, MAY 1 THE ARTSCENTER BAREFOOT MOVEMENT The bright quartet The Barefoot Movement rank high among leagues of eager young folk outfits. Their take on the traditional gospel number “Wade in the Water,” on September’s The High Road EP, is soulful and sharp. On “Bowling Green,” they pick quickly and cleanly, recalling Nickel Creek’s early days. They seem to be on a fast track to bigger rooms. $12–$18/8 p.m. —AH BEYÙ CAFFÈ: The DexBass Experience; 8 p.m., $10. BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. BYNUM GENERAL STORE: Mary Johnson Rockers and the Spark; 7 p.m., $5–$7. CAT’S CRADLE: Peter Hook & The Light; 9 p.m., $25. See page 24.

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During their best moments, Richmond doom squad Windhand suggest an image of a candle whose light flickers throughout a passing hurricane. Resilient and bewitching, the voice of Dorthia Cottrell is the flame. Around her, the band—a tumescent crew of two very loud and distorted guitars and a meaty rhythm section—is the storm it must withstand. Their recorded output has occasionally dragged, as it’s given to bleary-eyed excess and riffs so big and burly they sometimes lose focus and force. But live, in the right room on the right night, Windhand are a powerhouse. Horseskull and Bitter Resolve, local crews with similar interests, open. $12–$15/9 p.m. —GC THE KRAKEN: Horizontal Hold, Hectorina, Knurr & Spell; 9 p.m.

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guitar. For all his backwoods bombast, Peyton exhibits some nimble fingerpicking, too. His lyrics can be a bit intimidating, warning those not in his flock: “Don’t anger us/we live dangerous.” With Campfires and Constellations. $12–$15/9 p.m. —GB

THE MAYWOOD DYSPLASIA, WAR ASYLUM, GHOSTBRIDGE This regional metal gathering starts low and slow but lifts quickly. Raleigh’s new GhostBridge plays menacing, down-tempo doom, with irascible vocals spilling over spartan riffs. In the top slot, Dysplasia tempers its start-andstop death metal thrust with crisp production and clean, cleaving guitars. The best band here, though, is War Asylum, which adds theatric, grandiose instrumentals beneath mean antiphonal vocals; imagine Queensrÿche locating to Tampa and learning that city’s knotty metal ropes. $7–$9/9:30 p.m. —GC MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM: In The Mood: A 1940s Musical Revue; 2 & 8 p.m., $33.64– $71.53.

MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL NC SYMPHONY FRIDAY FAVORITES: APPALACHIAN SPRING This second week of the NC Symphony’s “Appalachian Spring” run substitutes Bernstein’s Overture to West Side Story for Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Unremembered. This lunchtime concert in Raleigh should be a great musical break in the middle of a work day, with works by Barber, Copland and Judd Greenstein there to provide you sustenance. The symphony also takes the program to Southern Pines, New Bern and Wilmington this week. $28/noon —DR MOTORCO: DTFH Fest V; 5 p.m. $20–$25. See box, page 35.

NIGHTLIGHT ELEPHANT MICAH As Elephant Micah, Raleigh-viaIndiana transplant Joseph O’Connell crafts beautiful folk-pop songs that boast an unusual gravitas. January’s Where in Our Woods is a stunning and quiet crop of tunes, defined by low-key intensity. SNAKE brings the boogie first with long-form psych jams. $7/9 p.m. —AH

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SLIM’S THE CHARMING YOUNGSTERS, STEEPLECHASE, WEIRD PENNIES Run the college-radio gamut with a trio of North Carolina bands, all presented by The Bottom String. Get spacey with Raleigh’s Weird Pennies. Let Asheville’s Steeplechase take you to a beach party thrown by goths. And notice how The Charming Youngsters can make gentle music seem gigantic in minutes flat. $5/9 p.m. —JW SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Perpetual Grass, Brock Butler, James Justin & Co.; 9:30 p.m., $10–$12. ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN CHURCH: Jacob Street; 7:308:30 p.m., donations.

COMMUNITY CHURCH OF CHAPEL HILL THE DUHKS No matter The Duhks’ lineup at any given moment, the Canadian string band’s mix of worldly folk fashions is spirited and inventive. They gather traditional elements as disparate as Appalachian old-time banjo, Celtic fiddle tunes and Latin rhythms. Despite bringing back original vocalist Jessee Havey in 2012, the outfit’s membership has remained in flux as the band looked for long-term replacements on percussion, guitar and fiddle. The current iteration has been together less than six months, so expect it to still be finding its wings. $20–$25/9 p.m. —SG THE PLAZA AT 140 W FRANKLIN ST: Sandbox; 6 p.m., free.

THE RITZ TESLA Birthed in the era of hairspray and spandex, Sacramento’s Tesla never quite fit with the hair-metal set. Their music shared the big hooks, vaguely gruff melodies and propensity for power ballads, but they were less gaudy. Tesla plays like a more tempered complement

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THURSDAY, APRIL 30– SATURDAY, MAY 2 THE PINHOOK & MOTORCO, DURHAM—The 30-plus bands that will play this year’s Death to False Hope Fest—starting with a party at The Pinhook on Thursday before moving to two bigger sessions at Motorco—have two things in common: While they do so from different traditions and scenes, they all rock, emphatically and with abandon. And they are all loved by Scotty Sandwich, the owner of Death to False Hope Records and the man who has rallied this weekend-long shindig for five years. PHOTO BY BAILY STAUFFER “I keep doing it so I can hang out with my friends from across the U.S. without having to leave downtown Durham,” says Sandwich. “Starting last year, I decided to only book bands that I’m friends with. It makes for a much better communal vibe and leaves all the egos at the door. If I’m gonna lose money, every year might as well be the most fun possible.” The catchy punk spirit of Sandwich’s label is an apt indicator for much of what you’ll hear: Winston-Salem’s wolves & wolves & wolves & wolves bound through the kind of rough-edged pop-punk that dominated alt-rock airwaves more than a decade ago. Durham’s Almost People are frenetic and nervy, like Weezer riding an amphetamine buzz. And Plow United, ’90s favorites that don’t play often, chug and churn beneath clawing riffs and barroom shout-alongs. But this festival doesn’t want for variety. Arliss Nancy’s bellowed folk-rock reaches for E Street grandeur. North Carolina crews Totally Slow and Late Bloomer revive old-school indie rock tantrums, built on the state’s storied legacy of such. Mikey Erg’s distorted gems prove that blustering punk remains an apt conduit for thoughtful songwriting. As for Sandwich, he’s too attached to these bands to pick highlights. For him, that’s exactly what makes the festival so fun. “I’m just stoked for everyone,” he says. “That’s the beauty of only booking friends’ bands.” Thursday, April 30, 9 p.m., $7, The Pinhook, 117 W. Main St., Durham, 919-667-1100, www.thepinhook.com. Friday, May 1, 4 p.m.; Saturday, May 2, 11:30 a.m., $20–$25, Motorco, 723 Rigsbee Ave., Durham, $20–$25, 919-901-0875, www.motorcomusic.com. —Jordan Lawrence

their radio shows (Last Motel and The Thistle & Shamrock, respectively) for one night, and you’ve got Elephant Revival. The Colorado band conjures intrigue by mixing bluegrass, Celtic fiddling and world rhythms. A key distinguishing feature: They emphasize longer phrases and darker tones. $15/9 p.m. —JW

THE CAVE CAMERON STENGER Cameron Stenger isn’t one of the best-known singer-songwriters in the Triangle, at least yet, but he’s got the tunes to keep your attention. Lovers, from 2012, wove quiet fingerpicking into bigger electric guitar arrangements, giving Stenger a sharper hook to his style. It seems as though he’s veering away from that on the upcoming Carnival. The title track would be comfortable on a collection of tunes by early-’00s college rock outfits, while “Time and Place” reaches to brooding ’80s new wave. Eston and the Outs and Flash Car open. $5/9 p.m. —AH CITY TAP: The X-Rayons; 8:30 p.m. DEEP SOUTH: Spiralfire, Dylan Michael & The Family, Stray Local, Making Apathy; 8:30 p.m., $7. DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Choral Society of Durham performs James Whitbourn’s Annelies; 8 p.m., free–$22. HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Dmitri Resnik; 7-9 p.m., free. IRREGARDLESS: Hal Engler; 11 a.m. Carolyn Mitchell; 6 p.m. Paul Rogers Quartet; 9 p.m.

KINGS AVA LUNA to their ‘80s peers, somewhere between Cheap Trick and Bon Jovi. After breaking up in 1994, the band found a second wind with a 2000 reunion. Simplicity, their seventh album, arrived last year. With Sledd and Nomara. $25/8 p.m. —BCR THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Yandrew, Skylar Gudasz; 9 p.m., $5. See page 23. TIR NA NOG: The Belfast Boys; 7 p.m.

SAT, MAY 2 THE ARTSCENTER: Gustafer Yellowgold; 11 a.m., $7–$9, under 2 free. BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Connie McCoy Rogers & Mo’Jazz; 8 & 10 p.m., $10.

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Albert Castiglia plays guitar fit for a King. He can sling stinging licks around like Albert or stab with Freddie’s barbs. Junior Wells’ lead guitar player for five years before going solo, Castiglia sports a versatility that also embraces Buddy Guy, Jimi Hendrix, Hound Dog Taylor and Paul Butterfield. His “Put Some Stank On It” plows a funky groove straight into the dance floor. $8/8 p.m. —GB

contralto to a high falsetto within seconds, finally settling into a midrange with a strong, driving vibrato. Based in Oaxaca, Mexico City, and New York, the singer fits neatly into “world music,” thanks to her innovation across borders. She mixes Purépecha folksong with rancheras and blues. On her new Balas y Chocolate, Downs focuses her energy and heart on Mexico. The violent disappearance of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero, weighs on the singer, and she responds with force. Downs brings the power of her octet to Durham. $10–$68.50/8 p.m. —AB

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You can trace Ava Luna’s musical roots to older, outré New York bands. Singer Carlos Hernandez leaps between a strained yawp and debonair falsetto, not entirely unlike The Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth. The odd angles of Ava Luna’s art-rock owe to the Talking Heads, while their effortless cool seems an inheritance from LCD Soundsystem. On the new Infinite House, Ava Luna finally rises beyond imitating its icons by capitulating to its rapid-fire impulses. See, for instance, the entropic bursts of “Billz” and the vibrant R&B of “Black Dog.” Likewise, South Carolina’s ET Anderson works build-andexplode art-project rock into acid-test frenzies. Plus Echo Courts. $7/8 p.m. —PW

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Chit Nasty is the alter ego of Raleigh pianist Christian Jacobi Foushee-Green, a rock showman in the tradition of Little Richard and Elton John. Lead guitarists Jackson Manuel and John Faltass add their charisma to this mix of driving rock, sticky gospel and hard funk. Greensboro’s The Family opens with high-energy folk-rock. $7–$10/9 p.m. —SP

For all its defeatist themes and critical derision, screamo has proven as resilient as cockroaches. Dallas’ Crown The Empire power ahead with songs that match the sing-scream dynamics and ADD-riff shifts of their predecessors. They update the sound with Auto-Tune and glitchy EDM. Volumes open. $16-18/7:30 p.m. —BCR

LOCAL 506 NATIVE LIGHTS, WAHYA’S The shoegaze haze of Native Lights doesn’t let Ester Drang leader Bryce Chambers or Unwed Sailor principal Jonathon Ford stray far from their post-rock backgrounds, though this band’s cinematic shimmer seems more ambitious. The latest project of Pinche Gringo’s Joshua Johnson, Wahya’s balance gritty garage-psych and lurid lyricism with the backing vocals of Daddy Issues’ Lindsey Sprague. It’s a debauched twist on retro pop. WOOL’s reverb-laden fuzz fits nicely with the headliner. $7/9 p.m. —SG

THE MAYWOOD SHADOW REBORN “Hailing from the furthest corners of darkness itself, Shadow Reborn is a concept spanning ages, with the means to expose knowledge long suppressed”: So begins the biography of Fort Lauderdale goth-metal crew Shadow Reborn. On their first national tour in support of the March EP, Intricacies, Shadow Reborn seek to spread their “Urban Vampiria experience”— or at least an enthusiastic blend of melodic death metal, prog-rock and faux-symphonic flourishes familiar from Children of Bodom. Apex’s Aitalla, Raleigh’s Mechabull and Milwaukee’s Eden open. $7–$9/8:30 p.m. —BCR MOTORCO: DTFH Fest V; noon, $20–$25. See box, this page. NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Jon Mueller, Polyorchard; 7:30 p.m., $10. See page 31. NIGHTLIGHT: Persona #4; 10 p.m. NORTH87SOUTH: The Nashvilifiers; 8 p.m., $5. THE PINHOOK: Non-Believers Record Release Dance Party; 9 p.m., $7. See page 21.

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SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL HAW RIVER FESTIVAL This is a benefit meant to raise money and awareness for the Haw River Assembly, a 33-year-old nonprofit that protects the watershed around Jordan Lake and the river itself. And while visiting Saxapahaw and taking in the music along the lawns that line the river, it’s hard to resist the urge to help; this is one of the most beautiful intersections of industry and nature in the Triangle. For the Assembly’s 26th annual Haw River Festival, the young Valleroy brothers—better known as the Bucket Brothers— will play their hot jazz, while the new Honey Magpie will offer yearning, string-swept folk. Playing fetching Americana with veteran aplomb, The Magnolia Collective takes the middle slot. Canoe rides, puppets, workshops and food trucks make this an all-afternoon treat for the entire family. Free/4 p.m. —GC SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS: KIFF, Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program; 8 p.m., free. SHARP NINE GALLERY: Keith Ganz Quartet featuring Kate McGarry; 8 p.m., $10–$15.

SLIM’S SAFE WORD As they shift through styles, Rocky Mount punks Safe Word play like a highlight reel of reliable cues. Crossover thrash sprints suggest DRI before crashing into dark doo-wop a la the Misfits. Ragged, Germs-like protohardcore moments give way to Americana melodies inspired by Social Distortion. With YEA(H) and Machinegun Earl. $5/9 p.m. —BCR SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Electric Soul Pandemic, The Shack Band; 10 p.m., $8–$10. STATION AT SOUTHERN RAIL: Another Roadside Attraction; 8 p.m. DJ Petey Green; 10 p.m.

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NC MUSEUM OF ART: Findlen and Magnone; 3 p.m., $10–$14. PITTSBORO ROADHOUSE: Gregory Blaine, Rootzie; noon. THE PLANT: Concerts for a Cause: Mike + Ruthy Band, Matt Phillips; 5-9 p.m., $20–$25, under 12 free. POUR HOUSE: Lumi’Naughty, Ivy Monae, Honey Dip, Ashley Mar Shell; 10 p.m., $5. THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Alex Smith Quartet; 9 p.m., $5. UNC’S HILL HALL: Chapel Hill Philharmonia; 7:30 p.m., free.

MON, MAY 4 CAT’S CRADLE TWO GALLANTS There’s a ragged indie rock feel to the folk-rock of Two Gallants. The electric guitars lean closer to bending distortion than a Telecaster’s rustic crunch. Adam Stephens’ cries are full of twang, sure, but they’re also hoarse and

throaty, like Mac McCaughan doing his best Bruce Springsteen. The melodies tangle tightly and unwind during understated, wonderful catharses. Blank Range’s psych-scorched take on Southern suggests Band of Horses if they let their hair down a little. $15/8:30 p.m. —JL THE CAVE: La Fin Absolute du Monde, Nikol; 9 p.m., $3. HAW RIVER BALLROOM: Jenny Lewis, Torres; 9 p.m., $25–$27. See page 31. MOTORCO: PopUp Chorus; 6:30 p.m., $5. PITTSBORO ROADHOUSE: The NC Revelers Orchestra; 7 p.m., $5. SLIM’S: Joy on Fire, Pretty Odd; 9 p.m., $5. ST MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: Garth Hewitt; 7:30 p.m., $10–$20.

TUE, MAY 5 CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM) SAUL WILLIAMS What’s it going to take to make Saul Williams memorable, at least so that he doesn’t need an explanatory preamble? He came up as a slam poet in New York City. You’re right, he did make records with both Trent Reznor and Rick Rubin, but no, he wasn’t in Street Sweeper Social Club with Tom Morello. Why yes, he was the lead in that failed Tupac Shakur musical on Broadway. Great, you do know who he is! Williams’ upcoming MartyrLoserKing features production from Justin Warfield of She Wants Revenge, yet another thing you may remember. With Sons of an Illustrious Father and Haleek Maul. $18/8:30 p.m. —GS

LOCAL 506 DREAMERS, THE BUSINESS PEOPLE Another trio of dudes from Brooklyn making pop? Sure to elicit a dance move from the most reluctant head-bobber, Dreamers are actually hard to resist. Show up early for Charlotte’s The Business People, whose new “Raygun Superstar” sounds like an essential for summer party playlists. With The Charming Youngsters. $9/9 p.m. —JW PITTSBORO ROADHOUSE: City Folk; 6:30 p.m.

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POUR HOUSE LAYNE Los Angeles’ Layne create arena-ready synth-pop that makes no attempt to conceal its ambitions or catchiness; in an era of such bands who try to make those sounds seem oh so serious, that’s refreshing. Layne Putnam’s voice is crisp and clear, moving above shining synths and blunt rhythms with finesse. $5–$7/9 p.m. —JL

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER JOHN FOGERTY More than four decades have passed since John Fogerty fronted Creedence Clearwater Revival full-time. Despite a lengthy and sporadic solo career that’s resulted in a handful of minor hits and the lone number one rock single of his career, Fogerty still knows on which side his bread is buttered. While he’s long drawn heavily from the Creedence songbook, the “1969” tour finds Fogerty commemorating the year in which the Hall of Fame quartet released Bayou Country, Green River and Willy and the Poor Boys, a trio of multi-platinum discs delivering nearly half of its studio output and many of its best-known songs. Flanked by talented sidemen including former Megadeth bassist James LoMenzo, expect Fogerty’s marathon set to be as close to a classic CCR performance as you’re likely to see. $27.50–$75/7:30 p.m. —SG

WED, MAY 6 BLUE NOTE GRILL: Nash Street Ramblers; 8 p.m. THE CAVE: Severed Fingers, Model Stranger, The Bourbons; 9 p.m., $3. KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Peter Lamb & The Wolves; 5:30 p.m., $5. LOCAL 506: Holiday Mountain, Sam Brown Band, Lady Fingers; 9 p.m., $8–$10. MOTORCO: Killer Bee, American Empire; 8 p.m., $8–$10.

POUR HOUSE RYAN MONTBLEAU Do we need another version of the Black Keys or Jason Mraz? Ryan Montbleau combines the shallow white dude blues-funk of the former with the nasally pop-frontman vocals of the latter. Emily Kopp opens. $8–$10/9 p.m. —AH STATION AT SOUTHERN RAIL: PROM, Space Rabbit; 9

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CHAPEL HILL ART GALLERY: May 1-31: Gardens, Flowers and Vistas. 1215 E Franklin St. chapelhillartgallery.com. JOYFUL JEWEL: May 3-31: Description of Figuratively Speaking, Nancy L. Smith. — Sun, May 3, 1-3 p.m.: Reception. 44-A Hillsboro St, Pittsboro. 919883-2775, joyfuljewel.com. LITMUS GALLERY: May 1-29: Embracing Every Phase, Marie Arondeau, Trudi Taylor. 312 W Cabarrus St, Raleigh. 919-5713605, www.litmusgallery.com. LOCAL COLOR GALLERY: Fri, May 1, 6-9 p.m.: Artist Unleashed, Margaret Griffin, Linda Kimball. 311 W. Martin Street, Raleigh. 919-819-5995, localcoloraleigh.com. MORNING TIMES GALLERY: May 1-31: Misunderstood Creatures, Liz Bradford. — Fri, May 1, 6-11 p.m.: Reception. 10 E Hargett St, Raleigh. 919-4592348, morningtimes-raleigh. com.

NATURE ART GALLERY: May 1-31: Old Roots, New Branches, Ben Owen III. — Fri, May 1, 6-8 p.m.: Reception. 11 W Jones St, Raleigh. 919-733-7450 x369, naturalsciences.org. RALEIGH ARTS COLLECTIVE: May 1-30: Bike Art Show. 500 Royal St., Raleigh. ROUNDABOUT ART COLLECTIVE: Fri, May 1, 6-9 p.m.: Mary Kircher, tapestries. 305 Oberlin Rd, Raleigh. 919-747-9495, roundaboutartcollective.com. THE CARTER BUILDING GALLERIES & ART STUDIOS: May 1-31: Flash of Summer, group show. 12-22 Glenwood South, Raleigh. 919/270-6529, thecarterbuilding.com. THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF CHAPEL HILL UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST: May 3-Jun 28: Psyche Unveiled, Shelly Hehenberger. 106 Purefoy Rd. 919-942-2050.

THE RECORD KRATE: Fri, May 1, 6-9 p.m.: Faces of Ethiopia, Lori Langdon. 508 St. Mary’s Street, Raleigh. 919-633-0529. VISUAL ART EXCHANGE: May 1-28: ROYGBIV, multimedia works. — Fri, May 1, 6-10 p.m.: Reception. 309 W Martin St, Raleigh. 919-828-7834, visualartexchange.org.

ONGOING INDYPICK ADAM CAVE FINE ART: Thru May 26: Emergence, Byron Gin. — Fri, May 1, 6-9 p.m.: Reception. 1151/2 E Hargett St, Raleigh. 919838-6692, adamcavefineart.com. ARTSPACE: Thru May 16: Wild at Heart: Our Affair with Nature. 201 E Davie St, Raleigh. 919-8212787, artspacenc.org. THE CARRACK MODERN ART: Thru May 2: Honey Cult Creek Camp. 111 W Parrish St, Durham. thecarrack.org. CARY ARTS CENTER: Thru May 1: Wilderness Matters,

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The Spirit of Art (Fine + Folk Art Carolina, May 1–July 3) is the first U.S. show by Faiq Haddad, an accomplished Iraqi painter who now lives in Raleigh. Meet him at an opening reception May 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. 116 W. Clay St., Mebane, 919-370-0404, www.fineartcarolina.com.

“SNARE” BY HARRISON HAYNES

Local artist Harrison Haynes’ new show of musically influenced photographed assemblages, Isolated Tracks (Lump, May 1–30), has its opening reception May 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. 505 S. Blount Street, Raleigh, 919-899-2927, www.teamlump.org.

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CAPTAIN JAMES AND EMMA HOLT WHITE HOUSE—Acting was just Leonard Nimoy’s job; he found his true passion on the other side of the camera, as a director and amateur photographer, and parlayed his screen fame into new and successful careers. Nimoy, who died in February, experimented with photography throughout his adult life. Fascinated by the human form, particularly nudes, Nimoy’s use of chiaroscuro harkened back to paintings of the Renaissance, and he often referenced modern masters such as Matisse. But like Mr. Spock, his seminal Star Trek role, Nimoy was far more interested in the inner lives of his subjects, exploring spirituality, empowerment and the emotions lurking just beneath the skin. After this opening reception, the exhibit runs through July 15. 6:30–8:30 p.m., free, 213 S. Main St., Graham, 336-226-4495, www. alamancearts.org. —JP Trostle

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Heath Clayton. 101 Dry Ave. 919469-4069, townofcary.org. CHATHAM MARKETPLACE: Thru Apr 30: Ely Urbanski. 480 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro. 919-5422643, chathammarketplace. coop. INDYPICK CHURCH OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Thru Jun 12: Spring Bloom, Jean-Christian Rostagni. 303 E. Chapel Hill Street, Durham. 919-416-1111. CLAYMAKERS: Thru May 8: Today’s Traditional Clay, Seth Guzovsky, Mark Kozma, Joseph Sand. 705 Foster St, Durham. 919-530-8355, claymakers.com. THE COTTON COMPANY: Thru May 3: Allan Weaver. 306 S White St, Wake Forest. 919-5700087, thecottoncompany.net. CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY: Thru Jun 13: Blue Dream of Sky, Sue Sneddon, Nance Lee Sneddon. 1106 1/2 Broad St, Durham. 919-286-4837, www. cravenallengallery.com. DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL: Thru Jun 27: Cold Gravy, Chance Murray. 120 Morris St. 919-5602787, durhamarts.org. ENO GALLERY: Thru Jun 21: Conjured Ghosts, Julyan Davis. 100 S Churton St, Hillsborough. 919-883-1415, enogallery.net. ERUUF ART GALLERY: Thru May 21: Painting on Silence, Frank Meyers. 4907 Garrett Rd, Durham. 919-489-2575, www. eruuf.org. FLANDERS GALLERY: Thru Jun 2: She, Chris Watts, Aaron Fowler. — Fri, May 1, 6-9 p.m.: Reception. 505 S Blount St, Raleigh. 919-757-9533, flandersartgallery.com. FRANK GALLERY: Thru May 3: Diversabilities. — Thru May 3: Reflections. — Thru Jun 7: Members’ Spotlight Exhibition. 109 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill. 919-636-4135, frankisart.com. GALLERY A: Thru Jun 29: Gadgetry, Catherine Connolly Hudson. 1637 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh. 919-546-9011, www. gallerya-nc.com. GALLERY C: Thru Apr 30: Judy Keene. — Thru May 31: Best of North Carolina 2015. 540 N Blount St, Raleigh. 919-828-3165, galleryc.net. HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY: Thru May 23: Along the Garden Path. 102 N Churton St. 919-643-2500, hillsboroughartscouncil.org. HILLSBOROUGH GALLERY OF ARTS: Thru May 24: What I Came Here For. 121-D N Churton St. 919-732-5001, hillsboroughgallery.com.

INDYweek.com State Highway Patrol: Service, Safety, Sacrifice. — Thru Sep 5: Starring North Carolina!. $6–$10. — Thru Sep 27: Rural Revival: Photographs of Home

Art Related

CLYDEFEST: Sat, May 2, 11 am-4 p.m.: $3–$7, under 3 free. clydefest2015. brownpapertickets.com. MEET IN THE STREET ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL: Sat, May 2, 10 am: Historic Downtown Wake Forest, 139 S. White Street. 919-562-1688. MEET THE ARTIST: Fri, May 1, 6-9 p.m.: Caroline Rodgers. MA Allen Interiors, 1020 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh. SPRING INVITATIONAL CRAFTS SHOW: Sat, May 2, 10 am-4 p.m.: Free. 919-6416808, www.white-oak-pottery. com. White Oak Pottery, 3915 Rivermont Rd, Durham. SPRING OPEN HOUSE: Sat, May 2, 11 am-5 p.m.: Autonomy Gallery & Studio, 1201 W Lenoir St, Raleigh. 919-829-0709, gaylestottlowry.com.

Comedy

CAROLINA THEATRE: Fri, May 1, 7 p.m.: Paula Poundstone. $37–$186.75. 309 W Morgan St, Durham. 919-560-3030, carolinatheatre.org. COMEDYWORX THEATRE: Fridays, 8 p.m. & Saturdays, 4 & 8 p.m.: ComedyWorx Improv Show. $6-12. — Fridays, 10 p.m. & Saturdays, 10 p.m.: The Harry Show, Ages 18+. $10. 431 Peace St, Raleigh. 919-829-0822, comedyworx.com. DSI COMEDY THEATER: Wed, Apr 29, 7 p.m.: Ask Ramses. $6. — Wed, Apr 29, 8:30 p.m.: Comedy Lottery. $6. — Thu, Apr 30, 7 p.m.: Student Showcase. $6. — Thu, Apr 30, 8:30 p.m.: Harold Night. $6. — Fri, May 1, 7 p.m.: Ladies Night. $10. — Fri, May 1, 8:30 p.m.: The Thrill. $10. — Sat, May 2, 3 p.m.: Family Improv. $5–$10. — Sat, May 2, 7 p.m.: Humor Games. $10. — Sat,

Museums

ACKLAND ART MUSEUM: Thru Jun 7: Adding to the Mix 9: From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy. — Thru Jun 7: The Land of No Things: Selected Works by the MFA Class of 2015. 101 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill. 919843-1611, www.ackland.org. INDYPICK CAM RALEIGH: Thru May 3: Sarah Anne Johnson: Wonderland. $5. 409 W Martin St. 919-261-5920, camraleigh.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, 1967-75. 2001 Campus Dr, Durham. 919-6845135, nasher.duke.edu. INDYPICK NC MUSEUM OF ART: Thru Sep 13: Zoosphere, Allison Hunter. — Thru Aug 2: Field Guide: James Prosek’s Un/Natural World. — 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. — Thru Aug 2: North Carolina

and Preservation of Place. 5 E Edenton St, Raleigh. 919-8077900, ncmuseumofhistory.org.

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HQ RALEIGH: Thru Jun 15: Make A Scene, Amy S. Hoppe. 310 S Harrington St. 877-2426090. JOYFUL JEWEL: Thru Apr 30: Orlan Johnson Work Works. 44-A Hillsboro St, Pittsboro. 919-8832775, www.joyfuljewel.com. LITTLE ART GALLERY & CRAFT COLLECTION: Thru May 30: Our Monuments, Brenon Day. 432 Daniels St, Raleigh. 919890-4111. MERCURY STUDIO: Thru May 9: Hidden Roots: A Poem for Nature’s Unremembered Forms, Kendal Draper. 401 W Geer Street, Durham. 919-3816306. MEREDITH COLLEGE WEEMS GALLERY: Thru May 5: Senior Art Exhibition: The 15th. 3800 Hillsborough St, Raleigh. 919-760-8332, meredith.edu/the-arts. NC CRAFTS GALLERY: Thru Apr 30: Jason Abide. — Thru Apr 30: A Passion for Nature, Joan Meade. 212 W Main St, Carrboro. 919-942-4048, nccraftsgallery.com. INDYPICK PLEIADES GALLERY: Thru May 9: Kind of Blue. 109 E Chapel Hill St, Durham. 919-797-2706, PleiadesArtDurham.com. ROUNDABOUT ART COLLECTIVE: Thru Apr 30: Moondog Quartet. — Fri, May 1, 6-9 p.m.: Reception. — Thru Jun 28: Victoria Powers. 305 Oberlin Rd, Raleigh. 919-747-9495, roundaboutartcollective.com. THE ROOT CELLAR: Thru Apr 30: Cinc Hayes. 750 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill. 919-967-3663. THROUGH THIS LENS: Thru May 9: Belize: Mayans in Transition. 303 E Chapel Hill St, Durham. 919-687-0250, www. throughthislens.com. TYNDALL GALLERIES: Thru May 6: Lucid Dreams, Jane Filer. 201 S Estes Dr, Chapel Hill. 919942-2290, tyndallgalleries.com. UNC HANES ART CENTER: Thru May 11: 2015 Undergraduate Honors Exhibition: Anti-Matters. 101C E Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill. 919962-2015, art.unc.edu. UNC SONJA HAYNES STONE CENTER: Thru Jun 30: Selected Works of J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr.: Returning to Where the Artistic Seed was Planted. 150 South Rd, Chapel Hill. 919-962-9001, sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu. VILLAGE ART CIRCLE: Thru May 23: Karol Tucker, Lori White. 200 S Academy St #130, Cary. villageartcircle.com.

May 2, 8:30 p.m.: Spring Loaded. $10. — Wed, May 6, 7 p.m.: Starting Block: Lost Colony, Gasp, Genghis Mom. $6. — Wed, May 6, 8:30 p.m.: Comedy Lottery. $6. — Fridays, 10 p.m.: Mister Diplomat. Free. — 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. GOODNIGHTS: Wed, Apr 29, 8 p.m.: Jay Stadler Game Show Show Show. $5. — Thu, Apr 30, 8 p.m., Fri, May 1, 7:30 & 10 p.m. & Sat, May 2, 7:30 & 10 p.m.: Byron Bowers. $15–$28. — Wed, May 6, 8 p.m.: Brad Reeder & Friends. $12–$20. — Saturdays, 10:30 p.m.: Anything Goes Late Show. free. 861 W Morgan St, Raleigh. 919-8285233, goodnightscomedy.com. PNC ARENA: Fri, May 1: Kevin Hart. 1400 Edwards Mill Rd, Raleigh. Office 919-861-2300, Tickets 1-800745-3000, thepncarena.com. See story, page 29.

Durham Independent Dance Artists presents the premiere of ShaLeigh Dance Works’ Aló (The Reality Center, May 1 and 2, 8 p.m., donation at door), an audience-immersing performance in the round. 916 Lamond Ave., Durham, www.didaseason.com.

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PAULA POUNDSTONE FRIDAY, MAY 1, DURHAM

THE CAROLINA THEATRE—There must be people who wonder if Paula Poundstone—she of the oversized, colorful zoot suits—actually has an act. The veteran comedian makes an art of crowd work, basically just sitting on a stool (or leaning on or lying around it, depending on her mood) and shooting the shit with the audience, occasionally telling a joke when it comes to her. In her 1990 HBO special, Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff, she got someone in the crowd to open up about her mom getting her face cut open by a lube rack. (Trust me, Poundstone made it funny.) That relaxed yet quick-witted comedy has made her a regular panelist on NPR’s quippy quiz show, Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! It’s also what keeps people flocking to theaters to see her. They know she’ll always give them a comfortable experience because she’s comfortable onstage herself. 7 p.m., $37–$47, 309 W. Morgan St., Durham, 919-5603030, www.carolinatheatre.org. —Craig D. Lindsey

Dance PA R T I C I PATO RY ROWDY SQUARE DANCE: Sat, May 2, 9 p.m.: The Kraken, 2823 NC Hwy 54 W, Chapel Hill. 919943-0398, thekrakenbar.com. TRIANGLE TANGO OUTDOOR MILONGA: Sat, May 2, 3 p.m.: Lichtin Plaza. Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E South St, Raleigh. 919-996-8700, dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

PERFORMANCE NC CHAMPIONSHIP STEP SHOW—CAROLINA STOMP FEST: Sat, May 2, 2-6 p.m.: $8. East Millbrook Middle School, 3801 Spring Forest Rd, Raleigh. 919-850-8755.

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HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH: Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 3 p.m., Thu., May 7, 8 p.m. and Thu., May 14, 8 p.m. Continues through May 17 $12–$24. Raleigh Little Theatre, 301 Pogue St. Office 919-8214579, Tickets 919-821-3111, raleighlittletheatre.org. THE LIAR: First Friday, Saturdays, 8 p.m., First Sundays, 2 p.m. & First Wednesday, Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.; Thru May 23: $14–$25. Deep Dish Theater Company, 201 S Estes Dr, Chapel Hill. 919-968-1515, deepdishtheater.org. THE MOUSE THAT ROARED: Thu, Apr 30, 7:30 p.m., Fri, May 1,

7:30 p.m. & Sat, May 2, 7:30 p.m.: $5–$10. Carrboro High School Theater, 201 Rock Haven Rd. MOVING PIECES:2: Fri., May 1, 6 p.m. and First Friday of every month, 8 p.m. Continues through Sept. 4 $20.95. www. seedraleigh.org/moving-pieces. org. Trinty Gallery, 549 N. Blount St. Raleigh. 919-833-4202. NEXT TO NORMAL: Fri, May 1, 7:30 p.m., Sat, May 2, 2 & 7:30 p.m., Sun, May 3, 2 & 7:30 p.m., Tue, May 5, 7:30 p.m., Wed, May 6, 7:30 p.m., Thu, May 7, 7:30 p.m., Fri, May 8, 7:30 p.m., Sat, May 9, 2 & 7:30 p.m. & Sun, May 10, 2 & 7:30 p.m.: $30.96–$80.06. Fletcher Opera Theater, 2 E South St, Raleigh. 919-996-8700, dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. PLAYMAKERS: MARY’S WEDDING: WednesdaysSaturdays, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., May 3, 2 p.m. $15. UNC Campus: Kenan Theatre, 120 Country Club Rd, Chapel Hill. 919-9627529, playmakersrep.org. RENT: Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 3 p.m. Through May 10. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, 7713-51 Leadmine Rd. 919-866-0228, www.nract.org. THIRD DATE: Sat, May 2, 8 p.m.: $12. Common Ground Theatre, 4815-B Hillsborough Rd, Durham. 919-384-7817, cgtheatre.com. TRANSACTORS IMPROV: IN LOVE ON LINE: Fri, May 1, 8 p.m.: $10–$15. Common Ground Theatre, 4815-B Hillsborough Rd, Durham. 919-384-7817, cgtheatre.com.

ONGOING THE FAIRYTALE LIVES OF RUSSIAN GIRLS: ThursdaysSaturdays, 8:15 p.m., Mon., May

INDYweek.com 4069, www.townofcary.org. INDYPICK SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE: Thru May 3: Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk St, Raleigh. 919-834-4001, burningcoal.org.

books

Readings & Signing

ANN HEDREEN: Thu, Apr 30, 7 p.m.: with Her Beautiful Brain. Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St, Durham. 919-286-2700, www.regulatorbookshop.com. CINDY MCMAHON: Fri, May 1, 7 p.m.: with memoir Fresh Water from Old Wells. Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St, Durham. 919-286-2700, regulatorbookshop.com. DAVID MORRELL: Fri, May 1, 7 p.m.: with Inspector of the Dead. Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-8281588, quailridgebooks.com. EILEEN FLANAGAN: Tue, May 5, 7 p.m.: with Renewable: One Woman’s Search for Simplicity, Faithfulness, and Hope. Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St, Durham. 919-286-2700, regulatorbookshop.com. FRANCES BRODY, ANN CLEEVES, MARCIA TALLEY AND ELAINE VIETS: Wed, May 6, 7 p.m.: discussing their mystery novels. Quail Ridge

Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-828-1588, quailridgebooks.com. RUPERT NACOSTE: with Taking on Diversity: How We Can Move from Anxiety to Respect. — Wed, May 6, 7 p.m.: Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St, Durham. 919-286-2700, regulatorbookshop.com. — Thu, Apr 30, 7-8 p.m.: Flyleaf Books, 752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill. 919-942-7373, flyleafbooks.com. SEAMUS MCGRAW: Sun, May 3, 4 p.m.: with Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change. Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St, Durham. 919-286-2700, regulatorbookshop.com.

Literary Related

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.

AN EVENING WITH AT LENGTH: Mon, May 4, 7-8:30 p.m.: discussion with At Length magazine contributors and editors. Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St, Durham. 919-2862700, regulatorbookshop.com. FREE COMIC BOOK DAY: Sat, May 2, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.:

Seminary, 120 S Wingate St, Wake Forest. INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY PARTY: Sat, May 2: Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-8281588, quailridgebooks.com. THE MONTI STORY SLAM: AMBITION: Thu, Apr 30, 7:30 p.m.: $20. The Cookery, 1101 W Chapel Hill St, Durham. 919-9088974, durhamcookery.com.

free comics, live music, facepainting and more. Ultimate Comics, 6120-A Farrington Road, Chapel Hill. 919-960-8107, ultimatecomics.com. FRIENDS OF WAKE FOREST LIBRARY USED BOOK SALE: Sat, May 2, 8 am-3:30 p.m.: Southeastern Baptist Theological

Noelle Granger, a UNC Chapel-Hill School of Medicine Professor Emerita, reads from Death in a Dacron Sail (McIntyre’s Books, May 3, 2 p.m.), the second book in her mystery series about Rhe Brewster, “an emergency room nurse with a type-A personality and a nose for investigation.” 220 Market St., Pittsboro, 919-542-3030, www.fearrington.com.

READING

AN EVENING WITH AT LENGTH MAGAZINE MONDAY, MAY 4, DURHAM

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Our rating system uses one to five stars. If a movie has no rating, it has not been reviewed. Signed reviews by Zoë Gonzales (ZG), Brian Howe (BH), Laura Jaramillo (LJ), Kathy Justice (KJ), Craig D. Lindsey (CDL), Glenn McDonald (GM), Neil Morris (NM), Lauren Vanderveen (LV) and Isaac Weeks (IW).

HHHH CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA—Heady, naturalistic French director Olivier Assayas delivers the season’s, and possibly the year’s most stunning, complex film. Juliette Binoche plays Maria, an aging actress quite aware of her dwindling cinematic shelf-life. Where Maria once launched her career playing a young seductress, she is now rehearsing for the older role in a London revival of the play. Her loyal assistant (Kristen Stewart) helps her prepare and fills her in on the scandalous doings of the bratty young star (Chloë Grace Moretz) taking the younger role. It’s a riveting character study of Binoche’s proud but fading star and Stewart’s wise-beyond-heryears underling. Stewart notably displays the sort of independent wit and intelligence she couldn’t while pining for heartthrob monsters, and they’re an endlessly fascinating pair. Assayas rounds out a superficially simple, visually resplendent story with a third-act twist that leaves you wondering. Rated R. —CDL

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H AGE OF ADALINE—This romance about an immortal young woman’s reentry to dating is one of the worst films of the year. There are no characters worth loving or hating, and the stakes are painfully low. It’s mainly an excuse for Blake Lively, whose character has been 29 for almost eight decades, to look gorgeous in a spectacular 1940s wardrobe. She aims to portray a woman set outside of time but only puts on airs. Michiel Huisman takes a quirky,

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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 dazzling virtual-reality set pieces. The film can also be halved into its action scenes, which are

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