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After helping millions of fans get through the pandemic, internet sensations Tiffany Jenkins, Meredith Masony and Dena Blizzard present a journey through motherhood, including their takes on the sleepless nights of the toddler years, middle school craziness and trying not to physically attack a high schooler. Stand-up, stories and videos from the trio’s online community and audience interaction promise to create an up close and personal experience that’s funnier than a pap smear. More: $30-$55; Sept. 2–5, times vary; The Comedy Zone, 900 N.C. Music Factory Blvd.; cltcomedyzone.com
DAVITA GALLOWAY (HAUTE ASIKO FASHION SHOW) Photo by Surf Mitchell
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HAUTE ASIKO FASHION SHOW
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Curated by Dupp&Swatt co-founder Davita Galloway, The Haute Asiko Fashion Show features a diversity of local designers with a range of aesthetics. This art-and-fashion event fuses sustainable materials and contemporary urban culture with various sewing and appliqué techniques. Asiko is a Yourba term that means “fashionable.” While highlighting the art of fashion and design, Haute Asiko will also include a blend of music, culinary arts and signature cocktails. After the show, guests will have an opportunity to shop directly with a variety of local artists and artisans. More: $10-$20; Aug. 27, 7 p.m.; Gantt Center; 551 S. Tryon St.; ganttcenter.org
ELIZABETH KOWALSKI (REVOLUTION) Photo by Brian Twitty
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‘THIS IS MY BRAIN ON ANXIETY’ Press Photo
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Subtitled “The Detailed Experience of an Anxious, Black Woman,” This is My Brain on Anxiety seems to be taking a thematic page from Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman. But the five-part original production promises to go deeper, unraveling and revealing the personal and cultural journey of a black woman dealing with anxiety. Through the art of storytelling, immersive graphics and audience participation, Mia Love chronicles her experiences. More: $20-$25; Aug. 28, 5 p.m. & 7 p.m.; Duke Energy Theater; 130 N. Tryon St.; blumenthalarts.org
Charlotte New Music mastermind Elizabeth Kowalski curates a mix of string quartet and electronic music, promising “a chill evening sipping fresh craft beer, soaked in exquisite sound … worlds created by a rockin’ string quartet and electronics.” All the music is created and played by women. Transforming the traditional classical string quartet experience, each work challenges and surprises the audience with percussive elements, improvisation, electronic soundscapes, even children’s toys, alternating between the serene, electric and absurd. More: $15-$25; Aug. 29, 7 p.m.; Heist Brewery and Barrel Arts; 1030 Woodward Ave.; heistbrewery.com
We don’t say this often, but Jake Blount’s 2020 album Spider Tales is a masterpiece. For his debut full-length, queer African-American banjoist and fiddler Blount unearthed a trove of primarily African-American blues, shuffles and fiddle tunes that provide an alternate history of folk music. In Spider Tales, which draws its title from Anansi, the trickster spider who outwits oppressors in West African folklore, shockwaves of brutality and subjugation echo like a field holler across the centuries, ranging from enslaved people working 19th-century plantations to the protests against police violence today. More: $15; Aug. 31, 7:30 p.m.; Evening Muse, 3227 N. Davidson St.; eveningmuse.com
‘THIS IS MY BRAIN ON ANXIETY’
REVOLUTION
JAKE BLOUNT
JAKE BLOUNT Photo by Michelle Lotker
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