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The immersive Van Gogh exhibit has drawn focus from this mesmerizing Michelangelo show, but they’re both worth checking out. Instead of going to Rome to see the ceiling’s frescoes 44 feet away from the Sistine Chapel floor below, patrons can see them up close. The paintings cemented Michelangelo’s reputation, but the sculptor never wanted the job in the first place, and insisted he was wrong for the task. In the 1560s, Pope Pius IV had the genitals of the artist’s nude figures painted over, but modern restorers stripped away the fig leaves. More: $13-$19.40; through July 31; Savona Mill, 401 S. Gardner Ave.; chapelsistinecharlotte.com/
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How do you make “free” even better? Add animals. The Mint Museum, which is open and free every Wednesday night, has partnered with Stevens Creek Nature Center to make its mid-week pick me up a little wilder. Drop by the lawn at Mint Museum Randolph to get up close with the animals who have inspired artists throughout history, pick up an animal-themed art kit, and go on a self-guided “Seek and Sketch Hunt” through the museum. More: Free; June 16, 6 p.m.; Mint MuseumRandolph, 2730 Randolph Road; mintmuseum.org
The Fillmore gets us back in the concert-going swing with a set by electronic dance act ATLiens. The DJ duo of Tommy Ross and Michael Ami Ronca appears to have taken a stylistic page from Daft Punk, appearing onstage and in public as robotic automatons, but instead of Daft Punk’s Phantom of the Paradise garb, ATLiens opt for a Dr. Doom-in-ahoodie look. With buzzing slabs of noise, interview samples of UFO sightings and erratic random beats, ATliens evoke ’90s nostalgia for both The X Files and Waxtrax Records. More: $20-$30; June 18, 7 p.m.; The Underground, 820 Hamilton St.; fillmorenc.com
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MOVIES ON THE LAWN: ‘THE GOODNIES’
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Basically, a tweens’ treasure-hunt movie played at high volume, The Goonies belongs to a curious ’80s subgenre — adventure movies that also try to gross out their target audience. Paced like an Indiana Jones movie the flick takes in hyperactive Home Alone style-slapstick, gruesome Gremlins-style action and underground booby traps straight out of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It’s a slapped-together movie, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t entertaining More: Free; June 23, 5:30 p.m.; Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, 6500 S. New Hope Road, Belmont; dsbg.org
No one has encapsulated the appeal of Mipso better than the Chapel Hill band itself when they entitled their fifth album Dark Holler Pop. Mipso draws on the vocabulary of bluegrass — Appalachian dance rhythms and white-lightning instrumental runs that dovetail into a round robin off intertwined solos — and applies it to buoyant pop song structures and dark instrumental hues that suggest gothic country. The band’s mix of authenticity and experimentation has also paid off commercially. They’ve topped bluegrass and folk charts and even opened for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York More: $80-$110; June 24, 7 p.m.; Rural Hill, 4431 Neck Road, Huntersville; maxxmusic.com
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