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Family Style Healthy or indulgent, savory or sweet, comfort food always comes back to where you’re from

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BEASLEY’S MEATLOAF, P. 24

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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK RALEIGH

VOL. 35, NO. 43

6 “In its current, and recently altered, form, light rail will undoubtedly damage our thriving city center,” according to reps from DPAC, American Tobacco, and the Durham Bulls.

DISH COMFORT FOOD DEPARTMENTS 6 News

8 Ever wonder what happens when a Wake County developer comes across ancient, unmarked graves?

14 Dish 27 Music

14 Regardless of where you are, comfort food has the power to transport you to a happier time and place.

30 Arts & Culture 34 What to Do This Week

27 Because Night of the Living Dead exists in the public domain, it became easier for Ben Singer to remix the film for special live scores.

37 Music Calendar 40 Arts & Culture Calendar

28 Jazz drummer Kobie Watkins wrestled with a melody for a decade before he finally got its “funk” right.

30 Paula Poundstone does not have Carl Kasell’s voice on her home answering machine.

The Daredevil at Trophy Brewing + Pizza

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On the cover PHOTO BY STACEY SPRENZ

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PEt of the week

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Raleigh Durham | Chapel Hill PUBLISHER EDITORIAL

Susan Harper

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Elizabeth Bracy, Timothy Bracy, Araceli Cruz, Katie Jane Fernelius, Curt Fields, Nick Gallagher, Spencer Griffith, Laura Jaramillo, Debbie Matthews, Glenn McDonald, Niki McNeill, Neil Morris, Hannah Pitstick, Noah Rawlings, Kevin J. Rowsey II, Dan Ruccia, David Ford Smith, Zack Smith, Cole Villena, Chris Vitiello, Ryan Vu, Patrick Wall

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PAID RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Whose Side Are They On? Last week, we published our endorsements for more than sixty races across the Triangle. Not everyone was pleased.

Molly Renda is unhappy with our endorsement of U.S. Representative David Price: “Reading your endorsement of Price as having no viable ‘fresh blood’ contender makes this reader’s blood boil. At best a backhanded compliment, the INDY overlooks his indefatigable years of service, including during these current chaotic times. This also could have been an opportunity to inform the many newcomers to North Carolina not only about Price’s contributions, but also—especially for nonSoutherners—what “progressive” means in the context of North Carolina politics. He deserves more respect than your two column inches offered. Price has my vote, and he can retire whenever he pleases.”

John Curtis Smith, meanwhile, has a different but no less pointed take on our Price endorsement—and our endorsements for Democrats generally: “So we should vote for David Price, who voted to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act, which caused the recession that led to ten thousand suicides and ruined millions of lives across the globe, mainly targeting the same poor people Democrats pretend to care about?

“We should vote for people like GK Butterfield, who voted for HR 1625, which increased the budget for ICE so Trump can continue to keep kids in cages? Or the same GK Butterfield who voted against getting U.S. forces out of Libya in 2011 and supported the U.S. policy of destabilizing a country that now has slavery because of people like him?

“We should vote for people who agree with Trump that Iran and Syria are bigger threats to poor people in Raleigh than gentrification and urbanization? We should vote for a Democrat Party that takes cash from Bank of America, which is the fifthlargest investor in Lockheed Martin, a firm selling weapons to Saudi Arabia so they can kill kids in Yemen? We should vote for people who take support from Duke Energy, which put coal ash in our rivers and faced no criminal action for it? We should really vote for these people? Whose side are they on?”

Shannon Joseph says we erred in not backing Wake County Clerk of Superior

“Price can retire whenever he pleases.”

Court Jennifer Knox—who, as our endorsement noted, is Jesse Helms’s granddaughter.

“Political party affiliation has nothing to do with the qualifications for an effective Wake County Clerk of Court, and should play no role in your endorsement for that office,” Joseph writes. “Contrary to the impression conveyed by your article, the clerk’s office has thrived under Knox’s leadership. She worked to add staff to the estates division and instituted an appointment system, so now people who are involved in the thousands of estates opened in Wake County each year do not wait for hours just to speak with a deputy clerk. She personally interviews everyone hired to join the clerk’s very large staff and has worked to ensure that there are bilingual employees in every division of the clerk’s office. She expanded the office’s internship program to include N.C. State and Wake Tech, and that program has led to post-graduation employment for participating interns.

“Despite the outdated technology provided to her office, Knox has elevated the performance and level of service by the clerk’s office. For example, under her leadership, Wake County piloted programs to make it easier for citizens to pay court fines and fees online, and became only the second county in the state to allow victims of domestic violence to file for protective orders against their abusers electronically.

“I am a practicing attorney in Wake County. I have regularly worked in the Wake County Courthouse, not only as a lawyer but also during my service as a special superior court judge after appointment to that position by a Democratic governor. I am very familiar with the important role that the clerk’s office plays in ensuring that our justice system serves the needs of the people. I respectfully request that you withdraw the INDY’s endorsement for this office.”

Want to see your name in bold? Email us at backtalk@indyweek.com, comment at indyweek.com or on our Facebook page, or hit us up on Twitter: @indyweek.

Researchers at NC State University are looking for healthy adults between 25 and 40 years of age to serve as paid participants in a research project, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that is focused on identifying factors related to maintained functioning and well-being in adulthood.

The study will take about 1.5 hours and pay up to $35.

If interested, please call (919) 515-9063 or email: cognitivedevelopment@ncsu.edu

President Obama and The Indy Week agree:

WILEY NICKEL is the best choice for

STATE SENATE IN DISTRICT 16!

President Obama on his endorsement of Wiley Nickel: “I’m proud to endorse such a wide and impressive array of Democratic candidates – leaders as diverse, patriotic, and big-hearted as the America they’re running to represent.”

The Indy Week’s endorsement of Wiley Nickel: “[W]e were impressed with his background working in the Obama administration and for former Vice President Al Gore, his ability to raise money, and his thoughtful approach to policymaking… Nickel is going to win, and he’ll do so with our support.”

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A Bridge to Nowhere

GOTRIANGLE’S PLANS FOR LIGHT RAIL COULD CUT OFF DOWNTOWN DURHAM FROM DPAC AND THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CAMPUS BY SARAH WILLETS

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ith the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit project more than 50 percent designed, the need for some route changes has become apparent. To that end, over the next few weeks, GoTriangle, the transit agency spearheading the not-yet-fully-funded project, will release a host of proposals.

Among them: closing to traffic the railroad crossing where Blackwell Street becomes Corcoran Street—raising concerns that the American Tobacco Campus, the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, and Durham Performing Arts Center could be cut off from the vibrant downtown they helped to create.

Light rail has “the potential to create immense opportunity and economic growth,” American Tobacco Campus development director Mark Stanford, Durham Bulls vice president Mike Birling, and DPAC general manager Bob Klaus wrote in a recent letter to the Durham City Council. “But,” they continued, “in its current, and recently altered, form, the plan will undoubtedly damage our thriving city center … from the downtown core. And so, here we, as a community, should pause to seek a sharper vision.”

GoTriangle has already spent about $90 million developing the line, which will run about eighteen miles from UNC-Chapel Hill through downtown Durham to N.C. Central. The proposed route alterations come as project developers try to hit tight deadlines imposed by the state legislature and seek a federal grant for half of the $2.47 billion price tag.

The prospect of light rail cleaving the central business district and the American Tobacco area first arose in 2015, when plans for a “city center” station near DPAC were floated. The problem: Running the line along existing rail tracks would require planners to raise Blackwell Street by about five to seven feet so that vehicles driving over the tracks don’t get stuck. But raising the street would create an awkward height differential 6 | 10.24.18 | INDYweek.com

Rendering of the proposed light rail station on Blackwell Street between the street, the sidewalk, and the adjacent Old Bull building, a national historic landmark, says John Tallmadge, interim director of the light rail project.

Instead—as part of a new environmental assessment GoTriangle intends to release in early November—GoTriangle has proposed as one possible solution installing a “pedestrian bridge that would serve as a signature civic space.”

In their letter, Stanford, Birling, and Klaus argued that “the use of the term ‘pedestrian bridge’ is concerning as the image it conjures falls far short of the kind of open and inviting connectivity that a truly great downtown requires.” They suggested delaying light rail construction to ensure it’s done right. (On behalf of the trio, Stanford declined an interview request, saying the letter speaks for itself.)

Tallmadge says the bridge concept will firm up over the next few months following a public input and design process, but the intent is to create “a place people actually want to come and be, not just walk across”—perhaps to watch the sunset over the city skyline.

While GoTriangle is exploring alternatives for the Blackwell crossing, elevating the line there or running it underground

could be cost-prohibitive and trigger a lengthy environmental study that would throw off the timeline. “That leaves us little time to do radically different solutions,” Tallmadge says.

Even with the pedestrian bridge, eliminating the Blackwell crossing means vehicular traffic would have to be reconfigured downtown. To remedy that, another proposal in the forthcoming assessment suggests converting the lower portion of the downtown loop—Ramseur from Chapel Hill to Dillard Street—to two-way traffic.

The city plans to eventually make the entire loop two-way.

Overall, Tallmadge says, GoTriangle’s proposed changes aim to improve safety, traffic flow, and access to stations, and some will save money. They include designing the new station near DPAC; elevating a portion of the line on Erwin Road to not interfere with Duke University hospital access, emergency vehicles, and a utility line serving the medical complex; and realigning infrastructure at the Gateway, Patterson Place, and Alston Avenue stations.

All of this planning has to fit into GoTriangle’s timeline for seeking $1.2 billion in federal funding and $190 million in state funding. The state budget passed

this summer requires the agency to have commitments for $1 billion in local funding by April 30. That includes tax and fee revenue from Durham and Orange Counties as well as the proceeds of a private fundraising effort to collect $102 million in land and cash donations. Earlier this month, Tallmadge announced the nonprofit GoTransit Partners had secured land donations from UNC and N.C. Central along the route totaling about $14 million.

GoTriangle plans to submit its final application for federal funding in April (previously, the agency planned to apply before the end of 2018), with the hope of getting a commitment in September. Per state law, federal funding must be secured

by November 30, 2019. If GoTriangle doesn’t hit these deadlines, the project will be removed from current and future consideration for what has been a shrinking contribution from the state.

Factoring in all of these changes, there’s about a 20 percent contingency built into the light rail budget. Tallmadge says GoTriangle is comfortable with that, but that the Federal Transit Administration will conduct a review of plans next month and make its own recommendation on how much of a contingency is needed.

In the meantime, GoTriangle will seek public input on all the proposals in the new environmental assessment, specifically regarding what to do with the Blackwell crossing. But delaying the project—as Klaus, Stanford, and Birling asked— is simply “not an option,” Mayor Steve Schewel responded to them.

“To delay it is to kill it for many, many years and to put Durham and our region behind every other urban region in the nation in terms of rail transportation in the next twenty years,” Schewel wrote. “…

But just as delaying our application is not an option, neither is it an option to fail to create a signature civic space for the Blackwell-Corcoran crossing.” swillets@indyweek.com

NCDOT TO HOLD TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS REGARDING PROPOSED TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS TO U.S. 70 (GLENWOOD AVENUE) I-540 IN RALEIGH TO LYNN ROAD IN DURHAM DURHAM AND WAKE COUNTIES STIP PROJECT NOS: U-5518 AND U-5720 Two public meetings will be held to present information on two projects to make improvements to U.S. 70 (Glenwood Avenue) between I-540 and Lynn Road. The meetings will take place on Tuesday, October 30 and Thursday, November 1 between 4 and 7 p.m. The same maps and information will be presented for review at both meetings.

Tuesday, October 30, 2018: 4-7 p.m.

Embassy Suites 8001 Arco Corporate Drive Raleigh

Thursday, November 1, 2018: 4-7 p.m.

Grove Park Chapel 605 Sherron Road Durham

These meetings are being held in an effort to effectively involve the public in the project planning process and the important decisions that will be made regarding the proposed improvements.

Project U-5518: proposes to make improvements to U.S. 70 between T.W. Alexander Drive and I-540.

The project also proposes to upgrade current at-grade intersections to either grade-separated roadways (bridges) or interchanges at T.W. Alexander Drive and Brier Creek Parkway.

Project U-5720: proposes to upgrade U.S. 70 to a controlled access roadway, meaning no access will be allowed except at interchanges and intersections between Lynn road in Durham and T.W. Alexander Drive in Raleigh. The project also proposes to convert the at-grade intersection with Sherron Road/South Miami Boulevard to an interchange.

Maps of the alternatives being considered for U-5518 and concepts under development for U-5720 will be available for viewing at both meetings. Maps of the alternatives and concepts are available for viewing and downloading from the NCDOT public meetings website: www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/U-5518 Additional information is available on each project’s website: U-5518: www.ncdot.gov/projects/us-70-brier-creek U-5720: www.ncdot.gov/projects/us-70-durham-raleigh An opportunity to discuss the project with NCDOT and Consultant team members, ask questions, and provide feedback will be available.

Interested citizens may attend at any time between 4 and 7 p.m. as no formal presentation will be made. Attendees will also have the opportunity to submit written comments and questions until November 16, 2018.

For more information on project U-5518, please contact NCDOT Project Manager, Jamie Lancaster, by email at jlancaster@ncdot.gov, and for project U-5720, NCDOT Project Manager, Elmo Vance, by email at eevance@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact: Ms. Diane Wilson at (919) 707-6073 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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No Rest for the Dead

IN THE LAST DECADE, WAKE COUNTY HAS ALLOWED DEVELOPERS TO DIG UP AND MOVE ABOUT 150 GRAVES. (ISN’T THAT HOW POLTERGEIST STARTED?)

BY LEIGH TAUSS

KIM COLEY WAKE COUNTY COMMISSIONER About Kim • Small businesswoman, wife, and mother.

• Wake County Resident for 24 years.

• Will bring people together for common-sense solutions to Wake County Government.

What Kim Cares About • School funding, mental healthcare, jobs.

• Affordable housing, and property taxes.

• Government accountability – how our tax dollars are spent.

“I want to be your voice on the Wake County Commission” Visit TrustKimColey.com to join our campaign to make Wake County thrive!

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n North Carolina, final resting places aren’t always final, at least when it comes to unmarked graves in abandoned folk cemeteries that are relocated to make way for development. Over the last decade, in fact, Wake County has allowed property owners to exhume about 150 graves, including burial sites at N.C. State’s athletic complex and at the site of a planned Raleigh subdivision.

“Everybody involved shows the utmost respect,” assures Wake County planner Keith Lankford. “We want to make sure it’s done property carefully, thoroughly, and respectfully.”

Southern folk cemeteries were common in North Carolina before funerals became a commercial industry after World War II. Dating back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, these humble cemeteries were often found on hilltops surrounded by cedar trees and privet hedges, usually with river rocks for grave markers. The history of these burial grounds and the identities of those laid to rest is often lost when the properties change hands, leaving a mystery for the archeologists and genealogists with whom developers contract to research these sites.

That’s the case with a property on New Hill Olive Chapel Road, outside Apex in southwestern Wake County, that Forsyth Investments Company LLC is set to redevelop. An archeological survey identified two weathered tombstones with no visible inscriptions covered by leaves and vegetation in an overgrown area of the property.

The property’s owners, who had only lived there a few decades, had no idea who was buried on their land.

Anyone other than next of kin has to get the county government’s approval to move the remains, according to state law.

The process requires public hearings, newspaper notices, and reinternment in a well-maintained cemetery. Genealogical

research can attempt to find family members, but even in the best cases, that results in a phone call to distant descendants who may not have any idea their relatives owned the property, let alone were buried there.

“Known only to God, as they say.”

“Most of these are abandoned cemeteries, and they are overgrown and in poor condition, so the two biggest things the county has is to try and identify next of kin and give them the opportunity to comment,” Lankford says.

At the New Hill Olive Chapel Road property, genealogist Deborah Joy was able to trace ownership back to 1816. The graveyard is referenced in deeds dating to 1897, and although only two graves were found, as many as thirteen people were buried there, according to Joy’s research. She found a few relatives, but none knew anything about the cemetery.

So last week, the developer came before the Wake County Board of Commissioners with an application to relocate the two graves. All but one commissioner—Greg Ford—signed off. Ford said that moving remains runs afoul of his religious beliefs.

“My faith tradition is one where final resting place really does mean final resting place,” Ford said. “There’s not an asterisk there [if ] it impedes progress or profit.”

Commissioner Jessica Holmes said she agreed with Ford on moral grounds, but she voted for the relocation anyway, saying the graves would be better cared for in Oakwood Cemetery.

“Morally, I believe that disinterment is wrong,” she said, “but as an attorney and elected official, I respect that the guidelines have been abided by.”

With the relocation approved, a meticulous process has been set in motion, beginning with exhumation. Even in graves just a few decades old, you’re unlikely to find much in the ground due to the Piedmont’s soil conditions, says N.C. State forensic anthropologist Ann Ross. While corpses elsewhere can be preserved for hundreds or even thousands of years, this part of North Carolina has very moist, high alkaline, and acidic clay soil, which accelerates decomposition. Bones actually last longer in the sun than underground here, Ross says.

Studies have shown that bodies disappear completely in about thirty-five years, leaving only the “shadow of bone” as a faint outline in the dirt. Excavators typically find only about an inch-deep layer of discolored dirt, an outline of a casket or body, and metal coffin hinges.

This was the case in 2014, when Lankford oversaw the exhumation of thirty graves from what is now N.C. State’s indoor football training facility. Only one grave was marked: It belonged to the Reverend John W. Dalton, the pastor of a church formerly on the property, and was dated 1943. Earlier this year, the county approved the relocation of fifty-three graves from a planned Raleigh subdivision; those graves were marked only by rocks at their head and foot.

“Known only to God, as they say,” Lankford says.

Whatever’s left of the graves is placed into a small wooden box and numbered by location, so that when they’re reinterred, the families are kept together. Cremation isn’t an option under state law, but even if that weren’t the case, burning the remnants might raise complicated moral issues.

“We don’t know who these people were,” Lankford says. “We don’t know what their feelings were about cremation.” ltauss@indyweek.com

THE INDY RECOMMENDS: U.S. CONGRESS District 1: GK Butterfield District 2: Linda Coleman District 4: David Price CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS No on all six.

STATE SENATE District 14: Dan Blue District 15: Jay Chaudhuri District 16: Wiley Nickel District 17: Sam Searcy District 18: Mack Paul District 20: Floyd B. McKissick Jr. District 22: Mike Woodard District 23: Valerie Foushee STATE HOUSE District 11: Allison Dahle District 29: MaryAnn Black District 30: Marcia Morey District 31: Zack Forde-Hawkins District 33: Rosa Gill District 34: Grier Martin District 35: Terence Everitt District 36: Julie von Haefen District 37: Sydney Batch District 38: Yvonne Lewis Holley District 39: Darren Jackson District 40: Joe John District 41: Gale Adcock District 49: Cynthia Ball District 50: Graig Meyer District 54: Robert Reives Jr. District 56: Verla Insko

JUDICIARY N.C. Supreme Court: Anita Earls N.C. Court of Appeals, Seat 1: John Arrowood N.C. Court of Appeals, Seat 2: Tobias Hampson N.C. Court of Appeals, Seat 3: Allegra Collins N.C. Superior Court 10D, Seat 1: Keith Gregory N.C. Superior Court 14B, Seat 3: Josephine Kerr Davis N.C. District Court 10D, Seat 2: Rebecca Edwards N.C. District Court, Court 14, Seat 1: Dave Hall N.C. District Court Judge, District 14, Seat 5: Jim Hill DURHAM COUNTY Sheriff: Clarence Birkhead Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor: Natalie Murdock, Laura Marie Davis ORANGE COUNTY Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor: Heather Main, W. Chris Hogan Chapel Hill Affordable Housing Bond: Yes WAKE COUNTY District Attorney: Lorrin Freeman Sheriff: Gerald Baker Clerk of Superior Court: Blair Williams Board of Commissioners: Sig Hutchinson, Matt Calabria, Susan Evans, Greg Ford, Vickie Adamson Board of Education, District 1: Heather Scott Board of Education, District 3: Shaun Pollenz Board of Education, District 5: Jim Martin Board of Education, District 8: Lindsay Mahaffey Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor: Ian McMillan, Jenna Wadsworth Bonds for Education, Wake Tech, and Greenways: Yes on all three

Early voting runs through Saturday, November 3; early voters who are not currently registered to vote are allowed to register and vote on the same day.

Durham EV sites: County Board of Elections office, Duke University Brodhead Center, East Regional Library, N.C. Central, North Regional Library, South Regional Library.

HOURS: Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sunday, noon–4 p.m.; Saturday, November 3, 8 a.m.–1 p.m.

Orange EV sites: County Board of Elections office, Carrboro Town Hall, Chapel of the Cross, Seymour Senior Center, Efland Ruritan Club Building.

HOURS: Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.–3 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m.–3 p.m.

Wake EV sites: Apex Community Center, Chavis Community Center, County Board of Elections office, Herbert C. Young Community Center, Knightdale Recreation Center, Lake Lynn Community Center, NCSU Talley Student Union, Northern Regional Center, Optimist Community Center, Wake Tech South Campus Physical Education Building.

HOURS: Monday–Friday, Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.–1 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m.–6 p.m. HOURS AT THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS OFFICE: Monday– Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m.; closed weekends except Saturday, November 3, 8 a.m.–1 p.m.

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EAT • DRINK • SHOP • PLAY

GLENWOOD SOUTH

EAT

lenwood South’s reputation as a late-night party strip has evolved as new offices, retail spaces, high-end restaurants, now-under-construction boutique hotels, and, yes, bars have moved in. This new energy extends up to Five Points, where breweries and restaurants have emerged in the warehouses of Whitaker Mill.

From relaxing in the sun in Fred Fletcher Park and cocktails with friends at Hummingbird to a first date enjoying Southern Mexican cuisine at Cortez and a foreign film at The Rialto Theatre, this area is maturing into a district for everyone. —Jedidiah Gant

508 WEST JONES STREET, 919-831-2811, 42NDSTOYSTERBAR.COM Started in 1931 as a grocery store serving oysters, 42nd Street has become one of the busiest restaurants around, serving classic sea fare from fried shrimp and hushpuppies to oysters Rockefeller and grilled mahi.

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ARMADILLO GRILL

439 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-546-0555, ARMADILLOGRILL.COM A quick, cheap, and casual Tex-Mex spot for tacos, enchiladas, burritos, and chalupas, Armadillo is perfect for a sunny patio lunch.

THE CARDINAL BAR

713 NORTH WEST STREET, FACEBOOK. COM/THECARDINALBAR Located in the old Cardinal cab building, simplicity is the style: beer-braised hot dogs and beers to wash them down. The outdoor deck has one of the best hidden views of the Raleigh skyline.

CHAR-GRILL

618 HILLSBOROUGH STREET, 919-8217636, CHARGRILLUSA.COM Walk up to the window, fill out an order card, and wait for your chargrilled burgers to be cooked to order and your name called over the loudspeaker. Serving Raleigh since the fifties, Char-Grill still feels like the golden era of drive-in theaters, soda pop, and sock hops.

THE CORTEZ SEAFOOD AND COCKTAIL

413 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-342-8227, CORTEZRALEIGH.COM Owner Charlie Ibarra has expanded his Southern Mexican cuisine to include more soulful Latino sister to Jose and Sons.

Among the best new spots in Raleigh, Cortez has brought a whole new level of culinary expectations to Glenwood South.

THE CUPCAKE SHOPPE

104 GLENWOOD AVENUE 919-821-4223, THECUPCAKESHOPPERALEIGH.COM You’ll find classic cupcakes small and large along with coffee drinks from Joe Van Gogh.

Flavors such as the Oreo-laced Cookie Monster and carrot-filled What’s Up Doc are among the dozen standards, with new ones constantly in the mix.

DEMO’S

222 GLENWOOD AVENUE, #121, 919-7541050, DEMOSPIZZERIADELI.COM Quick slices, cheesesteaks, and salads are on offer. DeMo’s is open until midnight on the weekends for that late-night post-bar craving.

HAYES BARTON CAFÉ AND DESSERTERY 2000 FAIRVIEW ROAD, 919-856-8551, HAYESBARTONCAFE.COM

Raleighites refer to this restaurant by the size of the last slice of cake they devoured.

(Hint: They’re enormous.) The interior is decked out as an upscale diner with forties memorabilia, a chrome bar, and checkerboard tile. Classic American dishes (meatloaf, chicken pot pie) are served at dinner, and sandwiches (chicken salad, egg salad, burger, BLT) are served at lunch.

PHOTO BY EAMON QUEENEY

HUMMINGBIRD

1053 EAST WHITAKER MILL ROAD, #111, 919-301-8900, HUMMINGBIRDRALEIGH.COM Chef Coleen Speaks brought her love of New Orleans into this small-plates restaurant and craft cocktail bar. The décor, food, and cocktail menu all reflect the rustic Southern flare of The Big Easy. Po’boy, succotash, brandied chicken liver paté, and charbroiled oysters share space on a menu that features one of the best desserts in the city: ricotta fritters with mascarpone cream.

LILLY’S PIZZA

international food experience. The Sunday roast pork loin specialty is stuffed with local peaches, garlic, carrots, and pork jus.

SUSHI O

PHO PHO PHO NOODLE KITCHEN

An Asian fusion restaurant with an abundance of sidewalk patio seating, Sushi O is often packed with young professionals enjoying BOGO sushi deals or one of the many Thai, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Japanese dishes on the vast menu.

510 GLENWOOD AVENUE, #103, 919-322-1433, PHOPHOPHONC.COM

Glenwood South has an abundance of Asian restaurants, but this is one of the best. The menu is focused on poke bowls, banh mi sandwiches, broth noodles, and more broth noodles.

1813 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-833-0226, LILLYSPIZZA.COM Vintage décor, loud music, and kids’ paperplate art give this pizza joint its funky vibe.

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One of Glenwood South’s oldest restaurants, The Rockford is a casual dinner spot serving a variety of entrées, salads, and sandwiches, including a Cubano, a flank steak, a burger, and fish tacos. The bar is a good spot to grab a drink and read a book before a fun night out on Glenwood.

620 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-832-6799, MOJOESBURGERJOINT.COM Mojoe’s specializes in a variety of burgers, sandwiches, and wings. Photos of clientele who have completed the “pound-burger challenge” montage the walls inside.

PLATES NEIGHBORHOOD KITCHEN

300 GLENWOOD SOUTH, #100, 919-828-0018, PLATESKITCHEN.COM Plates is a globally inspired, locally produced restaurant based on the owners’ travels and

320 1/2 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-821-9020, THEROCKFORDRESTAURANT.COM

SUSHI BLUES

301 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-664-8061, SUSHIBLUESCAFE.COM Mixing Japanese cuisine with American blues and jazz décor, this popular sushi restaurant has daily BOGO rolls and a huge patio full of young adults sipping martinis.

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THAIPHOON BISTRO

301 GLENWOOD AVENUE, #190, 919-7204034, THAIPHOONBISTRO.COM Tucked a half block off of Glenwood South, you enter Thaiphoon through a small patio garden with a koi pond. It features modern styling and traditional Thai cuisine, including tom yum, avocado and mango eggrolls, and a delicious grilled beef salad, along with multiple curry options.

VIDRIO

500 GLENWOOD AVENUE, #100, 919-803-6033, VIDRIORALEIGH.COM Vidrio is an upscale Mediterranean restaurant with a large selection of wines as well as cold and hot plates including a fig flatbread, braised short ribs, and green chickpea hummus. Vidrio means glass in Spanish, which is beautifully expressed through the colorful collection of 350 glass bowls and orbs hanging in the dining room.

XOCO MEXICAN BAR & GRILL

410 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-835-9010, XOCORALEIGH.COM Xoco is a funky Mexican restaurant with delicious enchiladas, carnitas tacos, corn maiden, chowder, and margaritas. The chips and salsa train, eclectic wall decor, and jungle-like patio fill the place with a fun atmosphere for the whole family.

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CLOUDS BREWING

126 NORTH WEST STREET, 919-307-8335, CLOUDSBREWING.COM A German-inspired bar, Clouds has a rotating cast of more than forty beers on tap including some of its own brewing. Its claim to fame is a downpour wall that rotates ten self-serve taps each week, with RFID technology that allows you to pour and pay by the ounce.

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A two-story rustic Irish pub with all the delicious classics: bangers and mash, fish and chips, shepherd’s pie, corned beef and cabbage, Black and Tan, Guinness, Guinness, more Guinness. The roof deck is the perfect perch to sip a cold beer and watch the nightly chaos of Glenwood South roll by.

LYNNWOOD BREWING CONCERN

1053 EAST WHITAKER MILL ROAD, 919-424-7533, LYNNWOODGRILL.COM/ LYNNWOOD-BREWING-CONCERN Lynnwood Brewing Concern features awardwinning craft beer brewed in a warehouse, and an outdoor patio and green space that are ideal for games, kids, and picnics.

MILK BAR

410 GLENWOOD AVENUE, #101, 919-9773714, NCMILKBAR.COM The name comes from the creamery building, but this is far from a bar serving milk.

Instead, beers and cocktails are slung to twenty somethings playing pool or hanging out in the rollup-door patios.

NORTH STREET BEER STATION

521 WEST NORTH STREET, 919-977-0825, NORTHSTREETBEER.COM Singles and six packs of beers from all across N.C. (and the U.S.) are plentiful on shelves and on tap. Most days, the garage door is rolled up and laughter can be heard from the street as the board games and video games (and beer) flow.

PARLIAMENT

322 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-444-2769, PARLIAMENTRALEIGH.COM The hard-to-miss glowing red neon sign and chandelier that hang inside this craft cocktail

bar give Parliament a baroque spin. Ask for a cocktail made with prosecco on draft.

THIRD PLACE COFFEE SHOP

1811 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-834-6566, THIRDPLACERALEIGH.COM Third Place, one of Raleigh’s first neighborhood coffee shops, serves sandwiches, pastries, and fresh brews. Known for its eclectic local wall art, the shop’s owner is also an artist, David Benson, who created the iconic acorn sculpture dropped during Raleigh’s annual New Year’s Eve celebrations.

RALEIGH BEER GARDEN

614 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-324-3415, THERALEIGHBEERGARDEN.COM With more than 350 brews on tap, this expansive beer garden holds the Guinness world record for largest selection of draft beers available in one restaurant. Much of the building opens up, creating a blur between inside and out and a lovely outdoor space to hang with friends after work or during RBG’s annual St. Baldrick’s shaving event—also one of the largest in the world.

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CARTER BUILDING SHOPS

22 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-848-3869, THECARTERBUILDING.COM Before the trend of maker shops and coworking spaces hit Raleigh, there was the Carter Building. Since the 1940s, the interior spaces have been rented to artists, comedians, metalworkers, painters, and creatives of all kind. More than thirty entrepreneurs currently call it home.

FORM & FUNCTION

1700 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-831-2138, FORMANDFUNCTIONRALEIGH.COM Located on the second floor of a beautifully renovated modern building, F&F is a wonderland of funky furniture, gifts, and home accessories, both nostalgic and modern. The owners are also interior designers, so ask for advice.

NOFO @ THE PIG

2014 FAIRVIEW ROAD, 919-821-1240, NOFO.COM Southern kitsch is on full display at NOFO’s upstairs gift shop. Kids games, gift baskets, jams, and local art round out this large collection of affordable gifts for family and friends.

THE RALEIGH WINE SHOP

126 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-803-5473, THERALEIGHWINESHOP.COM A locally owned wine shop with community focused owners.

REVOLVER

122 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-834-3053, REVOLVERBOUTIQUE.COM Owner Liz Johnson and her pup Rigsby have been a staple of the Glenwood South retail scene for a decade, selling men’s and women’s high end consignment clothing at affordable prices.

THE RECORD KRATE

508 ST. MARYS STREET, 919-601-3131, RECORDKRATE.BLOGSPOT.COM Artist and audiophile Kirk Adam has turned selling crates of records at local markets into a thriving record store tucked into the back basement of a multistory building off of St. Marys Street. Multiple rooms are stocked full of new and used vinyl, laser discs, cassette tapes, and vintage music paraphernalia.

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Google is slowly installing fiber in the Triangle and has renovated this warehouse at the base of Glenwood South to showcase its products—tablets, gigabit internet, HDTV. Pop in to check out the future, stay for coffee and fast internet.

FRED FLETCHER PARK

820 CLAY STREET, 919-996-6833, RALEIGHNC.GOV/PARKS One of Raleigh’s most urban parks is sandwiched between the bustling nightlife of Glenwood South and surrounding neighborhoods. Concerts, sports fields and courts, picnic shelters, and multiple wideopen fields are a beautiful backdrop to community events, weddings, or an afternoon alone tucked into a book while lying under clear blue skies.

RIALTO THEATRE

1620 GLENWOOD AVENUE, 919-856-0111, AMBASSADORCINEMAS.COM This Raleigh icon and independently owned single-screen theater has shown foreign and art films in Five Points since before your parents were born. Its large red velvet curtain and vintage lighting globe are as iconic as its cash-only policy and Fridays-at-midnight interactive showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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Creature Comforts

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hen we asked our staff and writers to name their favorite comfort food, everyone responded with something different. That’s not surprising, given that food is so subjective and personal. Whether you seek out a bowl of pho to fight a cold, a slice of pizza to remedy a bad day, or a basket of dumplings to celebrate a good one, food has the power to transport us to a happy time and place— one rich and warm with a sense of family and home.

But even if our cravings are rooted in nostalgia, the magic of comfort food is that it still allows for fresh discovery. Even a dish

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you’re trying for the first time can become a comfort food, either because of who you’re eating it with or something familiar it calls to mind. Such eating experiences don’t simply recall home, they let us redefine it, no matter where our table is set.

In this edition of Dish, we tuck into the many guises of comfort food, whether you want to cook it for yourself, find it in restaurants, or prepare it for others. We dig deep into meat pies and dumplings, savory treats that take many forms but are a common thread of comfort in many global cultures.

Speaking of global, our Australian correspondent weighs in on finding solace in that most American-Southern of cuisines,

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biscuits and gravy. Two stories explore how comfort can be found in cooking (and check out our recipe for green curry mussels), not just in eating. We also report on the science behind comfort food, and we pick a baker’s dozen of our favorites in Triangle restaurants.

Of course, we don’t neglect the fact that, even for chefs and foodies, sometimes only Waffle House or a mall food court can sate that particular hunger for something familiar, whether you’re in your hometown or on the other side of the world.

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o be honest, I was more than a little skeptical.

My husband and I had just moved to the Triangle from Elizabeth City, a sleepy little town in the very northeastern corner of the state. The holidays were just around the corner, and I was really starting to miss my family and old friends.

A new friend, Holly, knew I was feeling blue. One evening, she showed up at my house and told me she was taking me someplace that would cheer me up.

When she pulled her car into the parking lot of a Waffle House, skepticism morphed into flat-out disbelief. How was some dodgy greasy-spoon chain eatery going to make me feel better? I wasn’t even sure it was safe to eat there.

When we walked in, a waitress greeted us like she’d been expecting us and eagerly awaiting our arrival.

“Do you know her?” I asked Holly.

“Never seen her before in my life,” she answered with a glitter of mischief in her eye.

We took a seat, and Holly ordered for both of us. She requested cheese omelets, Cokes with light vanilla, and hash browns, scattered, smothered, and covered.

The omelet was a revelation. They beat the eggs in a milkshake machine, so it turns out puffy and light, almost soufflé-like. But that’s the only fancy thing about it. The cheese is basic American, the fat they use is the kind of institutional cooking oil that comes in barrels, and the pans they use are generic restaurant supply. But these humble elements come together to make this steaming, yellow, cheese-filled plate of breakfast nirvana.

And, can we talk about those perfectly crispy hash browns with a pantry’s worth of possible additions? There’s the menu lingo that not only denotes your own favorite combo; scattered (on the grill), smothered (onions), covered (cheese), chunked (ham), and so on, but also separates the vets from the newbies and becomes the basis for friendly debates between strangers.

After that first meal with Holly, Waffle House became the place I wanted to go after a bad day. I’ve since learned that the Waffle House friendly greeting is standard issue at every location, but that doesn’t diminish its warmth. And I know that, with every visit,

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my go-to order—a cheese omelet; scattered, smothered, and covered hash browns; and a vanilla Coke, light on the vanilla—will satisfy every time.

It’s become a place for celebrations, too.

My husband and I have eaten many birthday and Valentine’s Day meals on those Formica tables while listening to eighties tunes on the jukebox, a cherished feature at every location.

A visit to Waffle House is so bewitchingly transcendent, it’s beloved by all. It was the site of the famous Super Bowl Eve double date of couples John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Carrie Underwood and her family eat Christmas breakfast there every year.

Even chefs are not immune to its charms.

“I have a long relationship with the Waffle House and places like it,” local restaurant impresario Ashley Christensen says. “My dad was a truck driver when I was growing up, so I’ve always had a soft spot for those twenty-four-hour restaurants that cater to travelers and find ways to create hospitality through accessibility. Waffle House is

the pinnacle of this—they are consistent and always a sure bet. That’s one of the hardest things to achieve in restaurants, so I have a lot of respect for them.”

Christensen even chose to celebrate her most recent birthday at Waffle House. “I typically order an egg dish of some kind, always hash browns (smothered, covered, diced). And I like to do a pecan waffle for the table—I never want more than one bite, but can’t resist ordering it.”

Chef James Clark, of Postal Fish Company in Pittsboro, remembers going to Waffle House with his mom as a kid, a tradition he’s recreated with his own daughters.

“We go for the first day of school; we’ve gone after watching lunar eclipses and early morning school functions. And when it’s dad and daughters’ day,” Clark says. “My go-to order is a ‘patty melt one’ (one patty on Texas toast); hash browns scattered, covered, chunked; and a pecan waffle, extra crispy.”

There are twenty-one-hundred Waffle Houses, but each one feels like home. food@indyweek.com

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f somebody told me that biscuits and gravy would become my go-to comfort food, I’d have laughed in their face. When I moved to Durham from Australia a year ago, I had a hard enough time thinking of biscuits as savory (biscuits are cookies where I’m from), not to mention getting my head around the idea of gravysoaked dough. For me, American biscuits are equivalent to the British scone, which we eat with jam and cream.

Though queso filled the void in my latenight snacking routine (one I didn’t know existed), in my frequent bouts of homesickness, nothing edible came to mind.

But a couple of months ago, I found myself unable to politely resist when my friend offered me a taste of what I had written off as an unappetizing beige breakfast— and everything changed.

It was the ham-and-cheddar biscuit with Neese’s sausage gravy at Durham’s Joe Van Gogh coffee shop. Only available on weekends, the creamy gravy with sausage chunks literally smothers the soft biscuit halves.

Surprisingly, the dough, baked with tender bites of ham and cheese, never gets soggy, perfect for mopping up the last of the gravy.

It dawned on me that the gravy reminded me of home. As a child, I’d suffered terrible tonsillitis, right through to my early twenties until a doctor finally agreed to remove them.

As my throat swelled and swallowing proved impossible, my mother prescribed an aspirin gargle chased with a bowl of mashed potatoes and gravy, a tradition I continued when my two boys suffered the same affliction.

My father’s auntie used to make gravy by adding lard to porkchop pan juices, while my mother’s mother made gravy with drippings

from our Sunday roast. But the real gravy clincher for me is my mother’s pies.

My mother passed away unexpectedly in October 2009. I had visited her three weeks earlier (at the time, we lived in different states, she in South Australia and me in Victoria) and she had made piping hot homemade savory pies for dinner: a classic beef one with brown gravy filling, and my favorite, chicken and vegetables with a white gravy (not unlike Alabama white sauce).

Had I known that this was to be the last time I’d get to eat her pies, I might have enjoyed them more, perhaps less, but regardless, it was a taste of home. A taste of my childhood.

A taste of my mother.

Recently, I started making my own gravy in my Southern kitchen, playing around with online recipes and ones that were gifted to me by fellow gravy connoisseurs. I ladle country-style sausage gravy over pork, bake savory beef pies simmered in gravy, make classic chicken gravy with the roasting juices, and plan to try my hand at redeye ham gravy. Yet my favorite way to eat gravy is poured over warm biscuits.

Having recently suffered a career setback, I found myself sitting at the counter at Joe Van Gogh with a plate of biscuits and gravy before me. Nursing a mild hangover, I sipped a black coffee before shoveling in a mouthful of comfort. I was pleasantly surprised that it had extra kick this time, thanks to the addition of hot sausage and hot sauce—just the extra boost I needed to get me through till next time. food@indyweek.com

Home Court Advantage

For a world traveler, mall food courts bring comfort from the States to Swaziland BY KATIE JANE FERNELIUS

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Once, I was working in Swaziland and or some, comfort food means a eating a diet comprised almost exclusively great aunt’s hearty stew or dad’s of stewed meat and mashed corn. I worked special enchiladas, dishes that and lived in a context where I was barely evoke the familiarity of home and meals functional in the dominant language. And shared with family. But I have spent a good I spent most of my free time watching chunk of my life away from the places and people I call home, eating by myself in unfamiliar locations, so I’ve had to learn how to make myself comfortable in places where I don’t necessarily feel at home.

This is why I love the mall snack. Hot, buttered, large pretzels, satisfyingly over-salted.

Sticky cinnamon rolls smothered with cream-cheese frosting. Hot dog on a stick. None of these constitute a balanced diet, and all are unnecessarily, sickeningly indulgent. They are the kind of food one would only eat at a mall where lavish consumption is not just permitted but mandated. But they are treats one can eat just about anywhere in the world.

Malls, the modern inheritors of marketplaces, bazaars, and mercados, exist across the globe.

Even as we regularly read stories about the closures of malls across the country—20 to 25 percent are projected to close in the next five years, according to Credit Suisse—these news stories are paired with others about Dubai outdoing itself to build the largest mall in the world, American developers moving abroad to The food court at Northgate Mall PHOTO BY STEVE OLIVA build malls, and Chinese shopThe Wire while bundled up in layers of pers going wild for outlet malls. sweatshirts. On a free weekend, I drove a When we think of global food brands, few hours to Johannesburg and visited my we tend to think of KFC, Hard Rock Cafe, first mall in months. In that mall, I saw the or Starbucks. Not as much attention has gleaming logo of a Cinnabon, and my heart been paid to the food companies who have leapt. I ordered a classic roll with a side of globalized through malls, like barnacles on extra cream cheese frosting. I promised the skin of a whale. Auntie Anne’s and its myself that I would savor it, but I am pretty pretzels exist in South Korea, Turkey, Camsure I gulped it down in three whole bites. bodia, and Brazil. More than one thousand The indulgence felt like a homecoming.

Cinnabon stores operate across forty-eight In Dubai, I took refuge at an Auntie countries. And mall locations are the crux Anne’s; in Istanbul, at another Cinnabon. of their businesses.

second-hand clothes store, nail salons, tailors, a shoe repair shop, and even a branch of the Durham Public Library.

And once you get over the post-apocalyptic eeriness of walking past a row of empty storefronts, the mall feels communal and inclusive in a way that so few places in this corner of COMFORT Durham do anymore.

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Children ride a miniature carousel outside Sears. Sweets ‘N News offers the equivalent of a bodega with a clerk who knows my order (Reese’s and a People magazine).

Northgate feels like one of the last puttering heartbeats of Durham of yesteryear. With two new food halls set to open in the next year, it may feel like public dining options in Durham are at their all-time best, but prices at these new food halls will likely exceed the cost of a food court meal. Not to mention they exist in gentrified neighborhoods, host to luxury apartment buildings and residential high-rises.

Northgate, meanwhile, draws in the cross-hatched locales of Walltown and Braggtown. On a recent Sunday afternoon, the food court was full of families, young professionals, and retirees, all sitting down to eat pupusas, teriyaki chicken, and pizza.

But no Northgate attractions are quite so popular as the Cinnamonster and Pretzel Twister. I have yet most cherished refuges in Durham. It has to walk around the mall and not see a shoppepperoni pizza, hard-shell tacos, orange per savoring a cinnamon roll or a teen couchicken, lamb gyros, and miso soup, each ple ripping bites of a large pretzel to feed at fast food spots with generic names like each other.

Chopsticks or Greek Cuisine. Like the cover Recently, I watched a toddler hoist a of a textbook from the nineties, Northgate’s pretzel the size of his head high above his food court promises diversity and blunt shoulders like a prelude to a body slam, stereotypes. grinning evilly. And I’ve been known to But Northgate Mall has its own local indulge in a cinnamon roll if I need a charm. Absent are most of the department pick-me-up. stores that define a luxury mall like Southfood@indyweek.com point; instead Northgate boasts a DMV, a Less obvious than a McDonald’s, these spots offered me a taste of home without the white flag of surrendering to tourist hot spots.

So, it’s no surprise that the Northgate Mall food court has become one of my

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Mood Food

Nostalgia is a key comfort-food ingredient, but science explains what really drives our cravings

BY LAYLA KHOURY-HANOLD

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s I sink my fork tines through the pasta shell blanketed in red sauce and stuffed with cheese, I am transported to my grandma’s kitchen. I can smell garlic sizzling in olive oil; I can see her standing at the counter; I can hear the spoon clinking against the sides of the metal mixing bowl, scraping up the ricotta filling. I savor a mouthful, feeling a warmth emanating from my core, the kind of hug from within that only that combination of cheese-stuffed noodles nestled and baked in sauce elicits.

My grandma may not have made the pan of manicotti I devoured during a particularly deadline-heavy week, but nostalgia is a heady ingredient. Just the smell and taste of the dish made me feel comforted in a way that few foods can. It makes sense: Living in six different countries before the age of fifteen, my Sita’s table—and the pans of manicotti and platters of grape leaves, hummus, and freshly baked pita our family shared together every summer—was where I felt most at home.

Food preferences are personal, particularly when it comes to comfort food. After all, fond food memories are influenced by where you grew up, what you grew up eating, and with whom. But research shows that our minds have just as much sway over our comfort-food cravings as our hearts.

From a physiological standpoint, humans eat because we need energy. To meet those metabolic nutritional needs, we are inherently wired to seek out energy-dense foods, those that are rich in carbohydrates, fats, and protein. When those foods also taste good, our bodies crave them even more.

So, it’s no surprise that Americans’ favorite comfort foods fit that make-up. In a 2015 Harris Poll survey of 2,252 adults, pizza tops the list as the most popular comfort food, chocolate and ice cream tie for second, and mac ‘n’ cheese and chips round out the top five.

Jonathan Allen, a professor in N.C. State University’s department of food, bioprocessing, and nutrition sciences, explains why this is.

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salt, and fat. Sometimes the sugar is there, and you don’t even notice it. If you hold a starchy food in your mouth for a little bit, you have enzymes that make sugars, and you can taste the sweetness that you don’t taste when you first put it in your mouth,” he says.

“That’s an evolved response to learning that a food that has starch is pleasurable, so you want to eat more of that food because it’s high in available energy.”

In a 2003 University of Illinois study exploring comfort-food preferences, Brian Wansink cites evidence that certain foods can have seemingly addictive qualities and that eating highly palatable foods also releases trace amounts of opiates, which elevate mood and satisfaction.

Lindsay Tanskey, a postdoctoral teaching scholar at N.C. State and a public health and nutrition expert, says that besides being tasty, comfort-food triggers and preferences are also determined by psychological factors.

“There’s this idea of highly palatable foods that have an almost addictive quality triggering reward in the brain that keeps us coming back for more. Comfort food, specifically, is [associated with] nostalgia and a specific association we have with a person, place, or time that invokes comfort,” she explains.

As a result, research pertaining to the psychology of comfort-food preferences tends to focus on triggers—when or why we seek out the foods we do—and what the measurable benefits or effects are.

“Overwhelmingly, people believe that eating their favorite comfort food will improve their mood or help alleviate any negative emotion,” Tanskey says. “But when you look at the research, that’s not necessarily borne out; it’s not clear how effective comfort food is in reducing negative emotions.”

In fact, Wansink’s framework suggests that there are stronger consequences for women in that they may feel guilty and less healthy after indulging in comfort foods, which is attributed to body image expectations set by societal standards.

The Harris Poll findings also show that women tend to seek out their favorite comfort food when they’re stressed (54 percent), whereas men are more likely to turn to comfort food after a really good day (43 percent).

But regardless of gender, one of the main reasons we seek out comfort food is to fulfill our fundamental need to belong.

“Because of the connections comfort foods have to relationships and past memory, sometimes loneliness is the reason that people seek out that comfort food,” Tanskey says. “That’s been one of the areas [where] comfort food has been somewhat effective, in terms of reducing feelings of social isolation.”

The need for social connection might explain why we’ve seen an increase of comfort-food dishes on restaurant menus in the last decade. In an article entitled “Contemporary Comfort Foods: Bringing Back Old Favorites” published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association in 2008, the author writes that some food experts point to the economic recession and terrorism as contributing factors in the rise of comfort foods and suggests that the resurgence of comfort food offerings by specialty food retailers can be traced to 9/11.

Given our divisive political climate, the widespread imbalance of power in the #MeToo era, and a general sense of malaise looming before the midterm elections, if ever there was a time to conduct additional scientific research on comfort food, I think it’s now. In the meantime, please pass the mac ‘n’ cheese. food@indyweek.com

Mussel Memory

When love ends, eat your heart out

BY MATT LARDIE

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ears ago, toward the tail end of the collapse of a ten-year relationship, I escaped to Charlotte for a night with a friend who had a spare ticket to a Sufjan Stevens concert. We went out to eat before the show and shared a pot of green curry mussels. We plucked the meaty morsels from their shells and dipped hunks of crusty French bread into the tangy coconut broth as we dissected what had become of my life. The dish was perfectly balanced and harmonious, whereas my life was disjointed and in shambles. And then I went and sobbed through an excellent Sufjan concert.

Later, toward the start of a new relationship, I decided to recreate the green curry mussels dish from memory. I fashioned a dining room out of two camp chairs and a folding table (my ex took most of the furniture) and plopped a steaming pot of the mussels onto the table alongside a bowl of bread slices, and we dug in. I had no television, so we listened to some records and talked into the night. It was the first time my boyfriend came over to my house and one of our first real dinners together, and it was wonderful.

Green curry mussels have seen me through highs and lows ever since. For me, they hit all the right comfort food notes; they’re simple and quick to make, they’re a one-pot dish that requires very little cleanup, and they can be made from memory for all of life’s moments, big and small. They are exotic yet informal. Green curry mussels also know no season; they’re just as at home in the sweltering summer heat as they are on a chilly January night.

Most of all, green curry mussels remind me that in one of my darkest moments, when I truly thought I had nowhere to turn, sharing a simple pot of food with a friend brought me a little joy. It’s a dish that reminds me of that night huddled around a folding table in an otherwise-empty living room, laughing and talking and flirting with the man who just last month became my husband. Green curry mussels are now our comfort food, a dish we turn to when we need a boost, when we’re feeling nostalgic, or when we just want to have a good time and eat with our fingers.

I’ve perfected my recipe for green curry mussels, but the beauty of the dish is that it continues to evolve as I evolve, taking on new meaning each time I prepare it. If that’s not comfort food, then I don’t know what is. food@indyweek.com

GREEN CURRY MUSSELS RECIPE BY MATT LARDIE

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This is my idea of comfort food—a delicious one pot meal that comes together in minutes. It’s a dish that practically demands to be eaten communally, so gather around the pot with friends and family and prepare to get a bit messy as you pluck the mussels out of the tangy, creamy broth. This dish works just as well with clams if you can’t find mussels, and make sure to have plenty of crusty bread on hand for dipping.

Ingredients 2 lbs mussels (or clams) 2 Tbsp vegetable oil 1 medium shallot, diced 3 cloves garlic, diced ½-inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and diced 4 Tbsp prepared green curry paste 1 cup chicken stock ½ can (13.5 oz) coconut milk ½ cup fresh cilantro, roughly chopped One loaf French bread

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Directions 1. Scrub the mussels under cold running water and remove the beards, a string-like appendage that may be hanging off the shell. If using clams just give them a good scrub.

2. In a large, heavy-bottomed pot set over medium-high heat, add the vegetable oil, then the shallots, garlic, and ginger. Sauté, stirring frequently, for three to four minutes.

3. Add the four tablespoons of green curry paste and sauté, stirring constantly, for about a minute, until the paste just begins to darken.

4. Add the stock, stirring to dissolve the paste, and bring the liquid to a simmer. Add in the mussels (or clams) and return the liquid to a simmer. Cover and cook for five to seven minutes, until most of the shellfish have opened.

5. Uncover the pan and add the coconut milk.

Gently stir to combine and simmer for about one minute more.

6. Remove from the heat, garnish with the chopped cilantro, and serve hot, with plenty of crusty bread for dipping.

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Good Grief

A stress eater heals from a personal loss by feeding others instead

BY SHARON KURTZMAN

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’ve always been a stress eater. When the going got tough, I got busy eating.

In my twenties, bags of peanut M&Ms were college exam study buddies; I devoured them seven at a time for good luck so I’d pass my journalism classes. As a New York City publicist, my remedy to a crummy day was picking up a crumbly apple turnover from Zabar’s on my way home. Don’t get me started on the dating disappointments—like the guy who, after a few dinners, invited me to the Super Bowl only to ghost me on the big day. My game day MVP was a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia.

My relationship with stress-eating experienced a seismic shift in my late thirties, when my seventy-four-year-old mother suddenly passed away. She still lived in New Jersey, while I’d moved to Raleigh several years earlier. A four-pack-a-day smoker for most of her life, my mother had asthma and COPD, but nothing stopped her. My mom was invincible as she and my dad wintered in Florida and spent weekends dancing and going to shows in their retirement community. Mom loved visiting Atlantic City and playing the slots, though the one-armed bandits never wore her out. We were incredibly close, speaking on the phone several times a day, and she was my go-to for our favorite family recipes like roasted chicken, potato latkes, and chicken noodle soup. In the year after her death, I mourned, but instead of eating my feelings, I unintentionally found a different way to use food for comfort. I cooked up a storm. Daily.

I became obsessed with Food Network, especially Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril.

Along with the whirlwind of taking care of my family, which included little ones aged five and two, I “bammed!” my way through new recipes. There was something soothing and therapeutic in the repetition of chopping and dicing, a meditative quality to the stirring and ladling of soups and sauces.

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friends all over North Raleigh. My favorite appetizer from that year was orange-glazed chicken wings, which became a welcome dinner to a sick mom friend with small kids.

A white spinach lasagna made a delicious one-pan entree when it was my turn to host supper club. Baking was never my thing, but a dense chocolate ganache topped with fresh

raspberries and homemade whipped cream became my favorite potluck dish. My friends didn’t mind a bit; I’m a good cook, and they were eager taste-testers and frequent diners in my home.

During those twelve grieving months, if I wasn’t in the kitchen, I stayed busy ferrying my kids to school and activities, often crying

silently in my car so they wouldn’t know mommy was sad. Or I spent time working on a novel about a New York City single gal with a dying mother, my heartbreak ever-present.

I found comfort and distraction by hosting frequent dinner parties and two big bashes for fifty guests each: a thirty-fifth birthday party for my husband and a baby shower for a good friend. I was the caterer, handling all the cooking and serving myself. My kitchen became stocked with professional catering equipment, including chafing dishes, tiered food stands, and enough dishes and flatware to serve fifty. For my husband’s birthday party, I hired a local wine store for tastings, and when the owner learned that I would be making and serving all the food, he proposed we partner in a catering business. (But I was a writer, not a caterer, so I kindly declined.)

It wasn’t so strange that I found comfort in preparing food after my mother’s passing.

In the suburban New Jersey house where I grew up, my mother believed food was love.

Her modus operandi was rooted in her childhood; she was a Holocaust survivor, starved through teen years spent in a war-torn Lithuania ghetto and a concentration camp. She told stories about her first post-war year when she worked in a Vienna hotel kitchen and ate everything in sight. Happy laughter accompanied her retelling of how fat she got in only a few months.

One of my strongest childhood memories is hearing my mother ask every visitor crossing our threshold, “Can I get you something to eat?” Our cupboards were well-stocked, as if my mom’s stacking of cans and boxes of food was her way of building a tin and cardboard wall to keep out future hunger.

When the one-year anniversary of my mother’s death passed, my fever for whipping up new dishes waned, though the experience wasn’t for naught. As a fledgling fiction writer, food began infusing my prose and became fodder for many articles and essays.

With hindsight, I know my year of comforting myself with cooking gave birth to my food writing journey—and one more thing I owe to my mom. food@indyweek.com

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In the Pocket

From the microwave to global cuisine, meat pies fill more than their flaky crusts

BY ARIAINE SANDERS

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t’s 3:30 p.m., sometime in the nineties.

As for many latchkey kids, it’s time for me to run to the school bus, walk the dog, and then book it back to school before whatever extracurricular is on the docket.

I throw my backpack into the den, leash Duke up, and head outside, but not before doing the most important thing: tossing a Hot Pocket (pepperoni, ham and cheese, meatballs, take your pick) into the microwave and setting the timer to three minutes. Once the dog is walked, it won’t quite be too molten to eat, and I can jump into the pile of kids carpooling back to school.

To my middle-school-age self, the Hot Pocket symbolized freedom and self-reliance. These days, I have a lot more to worry about than grabbing a bite and being on time for practice without help from my parents, but something about pastry crust sealed around a meat filling still evokes comfort for me.

As an adult, it takes more than a nukeable processed snack to sate my foodie palate. My go-to grown-up Hot Pockets are a tie between El Salvadorian pupusas from Puperseria la Metapaneca on Holloway Street, and the Jamaican patty, preferably goat, from Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill on Duke Street.

Both take me back to my early childhood summers in Brooklyn, tossing a few bucks to a street vendor and biting in, hoping not to scald myself but hastening to let the savory, spicy goodness flood my taste buds.

Thick cornmeal tortilla gives way to savory, spicy beef and tangy, bitter curtido on the side, or gamey goat meat and earthy curry burst from a turmeric-brushed turnover.

Nearly every culture has some sort of meat-filled pastry. Restaurants all over the Triangle have tapped into the nostalgia of things that remind people of homes far abroad or the novelty of sharing a staple dish from another culture.

Just like sweet pies, savory ones, bursting with meat, spices, and starches, require wonderful crusts with some contrast. Most meat pie crusts are simply flour, salt, and oil, maybe an egg wash to baste or spice to finish the baked versions. Cultures where people walked miles to work meant that the crust had to hold up to travel, and it had to be dense enough to hold in juices and 22 | 10.24.18 | INDYweek.com

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Empanada from Luna Rotisserie and Empanada PHOTO BY MELISSA MAUREEN PHOTOGRAPHY liquefying fats while cooking. After baking or frying, often in open community ovens or over open flames, these meat-filled pies made for hearty meals on the go.

When I think of empanadas, like the ones from Durham’s Luna Rotisserie and Empanada, born in the Americas and Spain; Viceroy’s samosas, which call India home; and Goorsha’s Ethiopian sambusas, we can point to climate and culture as another driver of the dish. Spices and salt were used as preservatives before modern refrigeration, both to make the meat last longer and to mask the flavor of meat that had perhaps lasted a bit too long.

Meats like goat and lamb were early bases in the Caribbean, while ham, fish, and corn were primary fillers in continental South America. Similarly, spices like cumin and bases like peas and seeds were used as

filling in India. Most of these pastries have a flaky, salty crust that pairs perfectly with the spicy fillings.

Great Britain’s meat pie, the Cornish pasty, is made to eat hot or cold during a standing lunch and to provide the caloric fuel that powered the growth of British industry and life in the mines of Cornwall.

The pasty takes advantage of the root vegetables that grow easily in this climate—turnips, potatoes, and onions—and the Brits fill it with beef. No good Brit would be caught having a pasty without a side of HP Sauce, but this American would be fine with A.1. Despite being separated by the pond, the two sauces are kin, both tomatobased, with malt vinegar, salt, pepper, and other spices.

HP or A.1., this girl is a dunker, not a pourer. After all, wouldn’t want to make the

crust soggy. If you’re really lucky, the turnips will still have a little bit of snap, and the rich tang of the sauce will highlight the earthiness of the veggies. Even if you nab one from Fortnight Brewery in Cary and take it home for later, it’s great to bite right into cold. The crust is the highlight at room temperature—it’s short and powdery and crumbles just right to complement the beef.

And even if it’s not a handheld take, the chicken pot pie at Tyler’s Taproom is just like my grandma used to make and perfect for a cold day. (It’s also been known to cure hangovers.)

Be careful, though. I know from experience that the light crust and perfectly cooked carrots and white-meat chicken in a savory white gravy can be downright addictive. food@indyweek.com

Half-Moon Happiness

Regardless of style or filling, dumplings know no cultural bounds

BY AMY SENTEMENTES

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Pork and chive dumplings from MOFU Shoppe PHOTO BY DANAE EDMONDS

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y heart raced as the looming stress of starting my first dissertation chapter caused me to stare blankly at my laptop screen. A savory aroma wafted through the air, and I glanced to see my roommate folding dough around ground meat, using a technique she learned from her Chinese grandmother. Heat escaped the bamboo basket as she lifted the lid and kindly offered me a freshly steamed dumpling. Though they were a far cry from the bowls brimming with my Texan grandma’s creamy chicken and biscuit dumplins’, they similarly relaxed my nerves, comforting me despite the constant stress of graduate school.

From momos to xiao long bao, these pockets of minced meat or vegetables enveloped in dough are universally appealing, not only offering solace after a tough day but serving as windows into diverse cultures who eat dumplings for both everyday and special occasions.

Never turn down an offer for homemade dumplings, but if a craving strikes when you’re on the go, restaurants around the Triangle are turning out stellar versions.

Taiwanese Dumplings: When picturing Asian dumplings, these pleated parcels are the variety that comes to mind for me. Sophia Woo, co-owner of Raleigh’s MOFU Shoppe, exclusively serves this style of dumpling in her restaurant, following her beloved generations-old family recipe. Their plumped horn shape represents prosperity, as it closely resembles the gold ingots used as currency during the Ming Dynasty. Woo deems these pockets everyday dumplings as their preparation and consumption bring families together on any occasion. However, many Chinese families still enjoy them on holidays like Lunar New Year and may even hide a coin inside one of the dumplings, so one person receives an extra dose of luck.

Xiao Long Bao (Soup Dumplings): Sipping tea while sharing dim sum dishes like xiao long bao is an ideal way to spend a weekend morning. Popular in Southeast China, these dumplings contain a congealed meat filling that dissolves into a soup once steamed in a bamboo steamer. Placing one on a wide spoon and breaking the thin skin releases the soup onto the spoon. They’re also one of the most popular dumplings at Raleigh’s Brewery Bhavana, which chef Chun Li calls delicious and adorable (xiao means small).

While she first learned how to create this complex circular dumpling from online tutorials, she perfected the technique by interviewing the general manager of Shanghai’s renowned Nanxiang restaurant, whose family members have made soup dumplings for generations.

Momos: In Nepal, momos—pleated dumplings stuffed with vegetables or meats such as chicken or buffalo—are a common street

food snack. Because of their crescent shape, I thought momos would taste similar to Chinese steamed dumplings, but a bite revealed a dense interior blended with curry spices.

When I first ate the jhol momo dish at Kathmandu Kitchen in Cary, I realized why Nepalese families convene over these dumplings whenever a craving or rainy day hits. Slurping the jhol, or spicy broth, elevates the flavor of the momos and has the ability to not only soften the thick outer layer, but my general disposition.

Samosas: I used to only perceive samosas as having a starring role in Indian food, occasionally making a cameo on Pakistani or Nepalese menus. But after a recent dinner at Zweli’s in Durham, I discovered that several African cuisines include samosas, too. Chefowner Zweli Williams grew up in Zimbabwe eating samosas both at home and at restaurants. After observing the distinct takes on the flavors and fillings at neighborhood cafes, she devised her own recipe. Williams’s soft, yet crispy dough is nothing more than a humble flour tortilla, and the filling combines curried onions, garlic, peas, and potatoes with her signature piri piri spices, and either beef or vegetables. Unlike Indian versions served with chutneys, Williams serves her samosas plain to showcase the flaky pastry and spiced filling.

Pierogis: These semi-circular dumplings popular in Central and Eastern Europe involve stuffing carbs into more carbs, so I imagine that they deliver a meta-dose of comfort. John Korzekwinski, chef-owner of J. Betski’s in Raleigh, seems to agree. Korzekwinski first learned the art of pierogi making from his family and attributes the dense texture of the dough to the addition of sour cream. First timers can experience the “Old World” by selecting traditional fillings like potato and cheese or sauerkraut. Though pierogis function as an everyday staple, they also enjoy a prime spot on holiday menus. As a result, Korzekwinski may feature elevated ingredients like oxtail and lobster, or dessert varieties that include sweet cheese or fruit.

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Our 13 Favorite Comfort Foods

Meatloaf

BEASLEY’S CHICKEN + HONEY

In the madness of Hopscotch’s long, hot days of loud music an ing cheap beers, I make a pilgrimage to Beasley’s Chicken + and order the meatloaf. If you don’t like your food to tou dish isn’t for you: The meatloaf slice is served in a bo whipped mashed potatoes and drizzled with charre gravy, but it makes it easy to grab a bite with every ele tow. It’s not exactly summertime food, but it fuels a n at Hopscotch and gives me a chance to slow down, en company, and let the ringing my ears die down. —Kat H

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veryone’s idea of comfort food is different—hot or cold, sweet or savory, veggie or meat—but they all provide more than sustenance. Here’s a baker’s dozen of our favorites in Triangle restaurants.

Pho

LIME & BASIL The moment I get a tickle in my throat, whether it’s allergies or something more sinister, I make a beeline for a bowl of pho at Lime & Basil. A wicker basket filled with bean sprouts, fresh basil, jalapeño slices, and a lime wedge hits the table first; the ceremonial tearing of basil into beef broth (chicken or vegetarian, if you prefer) follows. Chopsticks unearth rice noodles and generous slices of meat, while a Chinese soup spoon is perfect for skimming the cilantro, red onion, and scallions from the broth’s surface. It’s a sensory experience that’s as healthy as it is delicious, and the generous portion size means you’re bound to head home with leftovers. —Veda Gilbert

The Daredevil TROPHY BREWING + PIZZA

As a kid, my New Jersey family frequented two pizza joints, one a few miles from our house and the other down the shore. So now, when I crave comfort food, ordering a few slices is the way I go. Back then, I only ate cheese pies, but lately, I like my pizza spicy, and Trophy Brewing + Pizza’s Daredevil delivers with a triple-threat heat. The pie is slicked with fire-roasted tomato sauce, scattered with mozzarella, then topped with a trio of spicy toppings—ghost pepper salami, jalapeño, and sriracha—plus caramelized onions for a hit of sweetness. Trophy’s crust is my Goldilocks moment, not too thick, not too thin, but just right. —Sharon Kurtzman

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Chicken Uttapam

VIMALA’S CURRYBLOSSOM CAFE Is second-degree comfort food a thing? Can a dish that I tasted for the first time last August— one that causes my Indian friends to reminisce about their childhoods—comfort me in a similar way? In the case of the chicken uttapam, I think so. The flavor combination of the uttapam—a crepe-like fermented lentil and rice pancake— and hearty, charred tandoori chicken temporarily mutes the ever-looming stress of dissertation deadlines and job applications. And there’s something about tearing off pieces of the pillowy crepe and dunking them into chutney that takes me back to my childhood and eating with my hands. —Amy Sentementes

Skillet Cornbread

ACME FOOD & BEVERAGE COMPANY

The 2016 Presidential election was a disaster for some and a cele for others. I came to from my post-Election Night daze over a st skillet of cornbread at Acme, a mound of sticky, sweet sorghum seeping into coarse crumbs. If dishes could give hugs, Acme’s cor would provide a warm, tight embrace, not an awkward side-hug. F cornbread that is moist without being too cakey is a challenge in our loving region, and though I don’t enjoy talking about politics as much, I unapologetically identify as team cornbread over team biscuit, and Acme’s cornbread validates my polarizing stance. —Amy Sentementes

El Finquero Breakfast EL CHAPIN

Hashpuppies

Nothing feels more luxurious than eating breakfast out. I’ve waited hours in line for feats of pastry innovation, indulged in $12 all-youcan-drink mimosas, and spent more on avocado toast than I would a hardcover book. But my favorite breakfast is at El Chapin. Nestled in a strip mall, the combination grocery and restaurant serves many Guatemalan specialties, but the most comforting meal is their el finquero desayuno: fried egg, queso para freir, black beans, and sweet, almost-caramelized plantains. Plus, a side of sirloin steak. It is not uncommon to see whole Guatemelan families there on a weekend morning, some in their Sunday best, some hunched over in anxiety as they watch a futbol match. —Katie Jane Fernelius

If you like biscuits, donuts, or fried chicken, yo wrong with Rise’s menu, but it’s the “hashpu hash-brown-hushpuppy hybrid—that call to (nightly, too). Picture a deep-fried, jumbo tot ( threw a tater tot into the mix, too) stuffed w ed Idaho potatoes, cheddar cheese, and a s of fresh chives, all fried-to-order t crispy perfection. They arrive pi but you must wait a hot minu you can bite into the cris outer layer and reveal t cheesy reward within— four pieces per order, y ing will be well and tr —Veda Gilbert

RISE BISCUITS AND DONUTS

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Fosolia GOORSHA

It is difficult to pinpoint one dish as the comfort food of Goorsha.

Ethiopian food works best as a gustatory symphony: tangy injera bookending bites of savory kik alecha, sour beetroot salad, and pungent gomen. But if you, like me, grew up with the mandate to eat your vegetables, and if you, like me, often had the same two steamed vegetables in rotation at your house (broccoli, green beans), then you, like me, may also feel like a meal is incomplete unless you’ve shoveled a few bites of green veggies into your mouth, the hall pass for dessert. The fosolia—a barely-vinegared, cooked-just-right mix of not-quitesoft green beans and carrots—is the element that makes any meal at Goorsha feel complete, and it’s what I wish “eating your vegetables” meant for every meal. —Katie Jane Fernelius

Corned Beef and Cabbage TRA’LI IRISH PUB

At the first sign of frost, my great-grandma swore by making and eating a dish of smoked neckbones, steamed cabbage, and boiled potatoes. Tra’li Irish Pub’s corned beef and cabbage—hearty, salty, and usually served with a scoop of mash—warms me up from the inside on even the coolest of days. And it’s about as close to that feeling as I can get without my whole house smelling like boiled cabbage or having to pick through neckbones. Though online recipes for corned beef and cabbage abound, if you don’t have four hours and a crock pot to make your own, any Irish pub worth its salt will serve it up for you—and for me, that’s Tra’li Irish Pub. —Ariaine Sanders

Lamb Gyro

MEDITERRANEAN DELI During a long-distance relationship, I flirted with the Triangle for two years before committing and moving here. Each bi-monthly trip included a visit to Chapel Hill’s Med Deli and a lamb gyro, a near-impossible dish to eat neatly on a date. I’d try to navigate the loaded pita stacked with meat, fresh tomatoes, onions, and lettuce in a graceful way. But resistance, as they say, is futile, especially when the tzatziki sauce starts dripping down your face. And it’s so worth it.

Though absence does make the heart grow fonder, my love for the lamb gyro has never waned, even though I can now have it whenever I want. —Kat Harding

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LaPlace Salad LAPLACE

Comfort foods are often synonymous with guilty pleasures, but for me, the key to comfort is satisfaction—minus the guilt. A wellput-together salad can hit the spot—ideally, it’s more complicated than something you’d make yourself, falling somewhere between a sad kale-based deprivation and a soggy ranch dressing delivery system. LaPlace’s signature salad strikes the right balance of texture and taste, fat and crunch: mixed greens and sweet onions mingle with crumbled bleu cheese and lardons—the sophisticated Frenchman’s bacon—while poached pears wait patiently on the side, so you can add a little sweetness to offset the tart vinaigrette. The salad holds its own as-is but is even better topped with shrimp or fried oysters.

—Meg Nesterov

Churros

WATTS GROCERY While you wait for one of chef Amy Tornquist’s delicious brunch dishes, an angel in an apron appears and sets upon your table a dish of freshly made churros with a warm, homemade chocolate sauce for dunking.

The churros are crispy, airy, lightly sweetened, and perfectly spiced.

The sauce is rich, like chocolateflavored silk. Together, they hit every taste and texture note. You may have a hangover. You may have ditched sleeping in to come out for brunch. You may be facing a hellacious work week and an unreasonable boss on Monday morning. But, one bite of those glorious pastries dripping in that heavenly sauce, and you know everything will be OK. —Debbie Matthews

“Pep it Up” Bagel Breakfast Sandwich MONUTS

When I moved to Durham, I told people that the Monuts pastry case was my forwarding address.

There’s something about Monuts—the laid-back atmosphere, the cavalcade of Durham personalities—that settles me into my seat for hours. The seasonal menu always has a bagel breakfast sandwich, and the “Pep It Up” is the stuff of breakfast fantasies. Melty white cheddar cheese oozes onto a bagel smeared with tangy pepper jelly, smashed avocado, and a flawlessly over-easy egg. As a selfprofessed bagel expert—I’m Jewish (the official peoples of the bagel) and from Montreal (home of the world’s best bagels)—I can attest that Monuts’ bagels are first rate: thick and chewy, toasted to just the right crunch, and in no way designed for sharing or restraint. —Natalia Lutterman INDYweek.com | 10.24.18 | 25

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Spooky Screens

MERGING LIVE MUSIC AND FILM SCREENINGS— WHETHER FOR NOSTALGIA OR NEW INSPIRATIONS— GIVES NEW LIFE TO FAMILIAR FRIGHTS

BY BRYAN C. REED

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mong horror film fans, Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo classic Suspiria is easily one of this year’s most anticipated releases. When the new film’s trailer hit the Internet this summer, the movie also became one of the year’s most divisive for horror fans.

The trailer departed immediately and obviously from Argento’s rich, saturated color palette, favoring a more muted, austere aesthetic. And behind the frames, Thom Yorke takes a similarly spartan approach with its minimalist piano moving across foreboding drones. That’s another stark contrast to the original, which featured an equally iconic score from the Italian prog-rock band Goblin. Where Yorke gives the film a dark and tense backing, Goblin offered something more bewitching and groove-driven; Goblin’s keyboardist, Claudio Simonetti, has called the band’s Suspiria score its “masterwork.” Purists of the original, or those looking for a strong point of comparison before Guadagnino’s movie premieres on November 2, will have the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to see the current iteration of Goblin performing a live score of Suspiria at Raleigh’s Lincoln Theatre on October 30.

Indeed, the week surrounding Halloween is ripe with opportunity to explore the ways a score can affect a movie’s reception. In addition to Goblin’s live score of Suspiria, Local 506 hosts a screening of The Shining with a live synthesizer score from Micah Moses on October 28, and Kings will host Greensboro’s Modern Robot for a live-scored

presentation of Night of the Living Dead on October 25.

Each takes a markedly different approach.

Where Goblin’s performance is likely to add live intensity, it promises to remain true to the original film and the original score.

Moses’s set at Local 506 will give a new dimension to Stanley Kubrick’s classic with the extemporaneous nature of a one-off performance. But for Modern Robot, which has developed this presentation of George A. Romero’s iconic zombie movie over dozens of performances at fringe theater festivals and movie-house screenings, it’s a full reimagining of the source material.

Modern Robot’s live-score projects began like many others have, as one-off improv sets in bars and coffeehouses, playing against familiar scenes or silent-era film clips in a wide-ranging approach. Ben Singer, the band’s mastermind, recalls his first forays into Night of the Living Dead.

“It was a totally different feel,” he says. “I cut all the dialog and just left all the monsters in, and it was just kind of goofy. Look at the gore, look at the silliness.”

As Modern Robot evolved its performances from loose, improvisational sets into more planned, structured scores with the band’s first formal project: F.W. Murnau’s 1926 silent film, Faust. And when the time came to find a new title to score, Singer returned to Night of the Living Dead. He wanted to find something a bit more popular, something with an easy draw and a cult following. And because of an oversight upon its initial release, Night of the Living Dead also falls under the public domain, meaning Singer wouldn’t have to

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pay out royalties to perform it. That alone made it a solid choice, but Singer wasn’t fully prepared for just how much more popular the new project would be.

“I only really learned after choosing it how many people have a relationship with this movie. It’s big.”

To bring his vision for Night of the Living Dead to life, Singer cut the film from an hour and a half to just an hour, suited to the fringe festival format. He extracted all the dialog to preserve the interpersonal conflict among the film’s characters, and re-added sound effects to keep the film’s sonic dimensions.

Then, with a blank musical canvas, Singer had free reign for his minimalist guitar-anddrums arrangements.

“The music in [the original] is really just stock, canned stuff,” he says. “They didn’t have any money to get an actual composer, so I didn’t feel bad about ripping it out. It’s recognizable music, it’s kind of fun, but it’s not like the music really makes this movie.

So yeah, let’s give it another run with something else.”

Drawing from minimalist composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich, and the swelling dynamics of post-rock, Modern Robot gives Night of the Living Dead a modern feel, and a heightened sense of tension as the characters face the horrors

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both inside and outside the abandoned house they’ve barricaded themselves into.

“The zombies are not really evil; they just are what they are,” Singer says. “I liked that moral flatness. It doesn’t say that this is right or this is wrong so much as just, like, we’re all in this shit together and we’re not doing a great job at it.”

Similarly, Singer’s score—which he performs locally with drummer Nicholas Falk—attempts to give the film a subtle shading rather than a bombastic urging.

That, Singer says, is one of his major attractions to Glass’s film work.

But whether it’s a subtle shading or a throbbing synth score, music is a vital component of how audiences react to a film. Whether it’s hearing Goblin perform their classics in front of a screen, or watching Jack Nicholson’s manic performance against a new bed of synth music, or seeing Singer bring new life into a classic zombie flick, the live presentation further enhances the role the music plays.

And, Singer says, it gives people a reason to get out of the house and bond over a shared experience.

“I like having a little bit of a push to say this is a reason to be with other people and watch the movie.” music@indyweek.com

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obie Watkins was riding in a car in Zimbabwe over a road laden with speed bumps and potholes that jostled him in his seat. The year was 2008, and he was on a musical tour of Africa that would take him through the eastern and southern part of the continent, from Kenya and Rwanda to South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, among other countries.

Staring out the window and daydreaming, the bumps in the road began to syncopate a melody he was working out in his head.

“Ba! Ba-da-da-da. Ba! ba-da-da-da,” Watkins says, recalling the melody while clapping his hands, thrumming his fingers on the table, and enunciating the beats.

“It’s all off-beats. It was really more of a swing then.”

Over the next ten years, Watkins held on to the melody. He sped it up; he slowed it down. He added a bridge, subtracted it, then added a bridge again. He sang hundreds of different iterations of this melody into his phone, recording them as voice memos, trying to get it just right. Sometime he’d sing it over the phone to one of his musical collaborators. He kept struggling to get the “funk” just right. And through this iterative process, the song became “MBDC,” the eighth track of Movement, his most recent album, which he released in May. Movement is the first album of the Kobie Watkins Grouptet. Having already worked with a Kobie Watkins Quartet and a Kobie Watkins Group, the drummer needed a new name for this new ensemble of musicians.

The Grouptet includes bassist Aaron Miller, pianist Justin Nielsen, guitarist Micah Stevens, trumpeter Ryan Nielsen, and saxophonist Jonathan Armstrong. Watkins met his bandmates in Idaho, where he still returns four times a year to teach master classes and perform with the grouptet at the ArtWest Performing and Visual Arts School.

The eleven-track Movement speaks to what Watkins loves best: jazz you can dance to. “Manteca” recalls the subtle, flirtatious twists and half-steps of dancers in jazz clubs. The nearly ten-minute long “In the Motion” is a slow but steady odyssey, one can imagine its danced plot moving in line with the drum. “Falling Upward” seems to demand joyful, erratic spins.

“There is movement in every track you hear,” Watkins exclaimed. “Every song should be able to be danced to!”

Since his last record, Watkins has become a father to two sons, who are now two and four years old. On one sunny afternoon when we met at Joe Van Gogh, he regaled me with the story of how one of his sons had knocked down the living room television and hurt himself, prompting an urgent care trip, all in the midst of family visiting from out of town.

He said a day like this was not atypical for the family: craziness seemed to rule his days.

But he loves being a dad.

He conspicuously leaves drumsticks laying around the house in the hopes that his sons will pick them up. He regularly dances with them to whatever record he’s got on. He only restricts music in one way in the house: the sons are not allowed to play the piano.

“Because it’s out of tune,” Watkins explains. “It will under-develop their ears for intonation! Once it’s tuned, they can.”

Because he spends much of his days with his sons, the only uninterrupted time Watkins regularly has to himself is in the early morning. He wakes up at four in the morning every day. During this time, he usually will practice drumming or go for a run. His go-to workout playlist is gospel music or a metronome—especially anything between 160 and 170 BPM, he says. Like so many musicians, church was where he got his start as a performer and honed his skills early on, and he says that gospel music still keeps him grounded.

“To be able to have [gospel] music in my cassette throughout my teen years helped remind me that I didn’t need to be anyone else,” Watkins said. “I have been going to [the gym] since back when it was not cool to work out. Even then, I have never listened to rap or hip-hop while working out. Only gospel. It keeps me joyful.”

Though Watkins has called Durham home for about seven years, he has his eye on moving abroad, maybe Japan or Australia.

He believes strongly that jazz will play a role in his life wherever he ends up. After all, for Watkins, jazz is truly global music.

“It should be able to evolve,” Watkins said.

“Jazz should have more spaces and places to go. People are not all the same, so why should the music stay the same? Allow the music to grow based on environment. It can’t just stay where it’s at.”

The same can be said for Watkins’ life philosophy: He doesn’t feel like he can just stay where he is. He wants to grow and change environments. For now though, Watkins is still based here in North Carolina, his ears perked up, searching for the beat around him. music@indyweek.com

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PAULA POUNDSTONE

Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m., $33–$48 Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com

Wait Wait, Do Tell Me

PAULA POUNDSTONE DISHES ON YOUR FAVORITE RADIO NEWS QUIZ AND OTHER ADVENTURES IN COMEDY

BY BRIAN HOWE

remind me of a piece of material I’ve had rattling around in my head. But that’s just like every conversation you’ve had in your life! Part of it is a framework—hi, how are you, fine—and it’s very well scripted. Part of it might be telling a story about your kid you’ve already told to five different neighbors. This idea of having an unscripted conversation is really not all that mindblowing. [Laughs] It seems like a really fine art to balance the Bluff the Listener stories between funny and plausible. Sometimes someone will put in a joke that’s so just-so, you know it’s fake.

I’d rather be funny than anything else, but mine are never funny. I struggle with writing the Bluff story: one, it’s homework, and I balk at homework. I’ve written only a couple in my seventeen years where I felt like I nailed it, and the rest of the time I’m just in there pitching. I don’t think anyone’s ever chosen mine thinking it was the true one.

I think, now and then, when they have no idea, they’ll pick mine as a mercy pick.

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aula Poundstone is an author (The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness), a podcaster (Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone), an actor, and, most of all, a stand-up. Rather than parlaying live comedy into a movie career, Poundstone has honed her chops and persona—self-deprecation, belied by the high volume at which it’s broadcast—on stage for decades, making it her true medium. Still, many know her best from NPR’s radio news quiz, Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, where she has been a frequent MVP panelist for seventeen of the program’s twenty years. Before she comes to Raleigh this week, Poundstone humored our Wait Wait 30 | 10.24.18 | INDYweek.com

fandom and disabused us of the notion that there’s any such thing as unscripted conversation, in comedy or in life. And if you’re wondering: Yes, on the phone, she sounds just like she does on the radio, but with the occasional profanity and a cat yowling in the background.

INDY: What keeps Wait Wait fresh for you after all these years?

PAULA POUNDSTONE: By its very nature, it’s fresh. We know the questions will be about the week’s news, and ostensibly one could prepare jokes, guessing what they’re going to talk about, but I’ve never done that once. Really it’s just monkeys in a barrel.

I assumed it was a mix of scripted jokes and riffs on them.

No, not for the panelists. For Peter, who makes that look much easier than it is, yes.

We are told the Bluff the Listener story the night before, and we write that. And the last joke, the prediction, where they say, “If any of these things happen,” we’re told a few minutes before we go out. The rest of it is conversation.

When I’m on stage by myself, I do a lot of talking to the audience—where are you from, what do you do for a living? Threequarters of the time, somebody will say something, and I think of something funny.

And a quarter of the time, someone will

But I think you’re the funniest off the cuff, and surely that has to do with both being on the show and being a stand-up for so long.

Well, thank you. It is a muscle, and the show does a very smart thing that’s rare in show business. The suits on any show cannot help themselves but tell the creators what to do. On Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, one of my cherished experiences was back when we were not yet in front of a live audience. We were in a recording studio somewhere, and somebody jumped on my headset, saying, “Say whatever you want, jump in anytime.” That’s unheard of in this business. Obviously, there’s some manners groundwork, but this idea that you bring on people you think are funny and allow them to be that—it doesn’t seem like it should be earth-shattering, but it’s done very rarely.

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“It’s one of the few things almost all human beings have in common right now: We breathe oxygen, we don’t eat our young, and we listen to podcasts.”

l I’ve had that’s just Was there any guest that was particularly ad in your memorable for you? , how are Tom Hanks was a Not My Job guest one pted. Part time, and we had belly-laughs with him, and t your kid then he came on as a host. He could do nt neigh- whatever he wants, I guess, but he wanted nscripted to! Before, I bumped into Mike Danforth in hat mind- the hallway and went, “What was he like?”

Because they’d been working on the script all week and had met him. Mike goes, “You alance the know what? Came in in the morning, got en funny his coffee, sat down, and did the work.” Oh eone will god, I love that. I just could not get over that you know this was Woody—one might also say Forrest Gump—but it was Woody across from me! It g else, but was all I could do not to throw myself on the with writ- floor like a Beatles fan and cry. work, and nly a cou- Do you have Carl Kasell’s voice on your felt like I home answering machine?

I’m just in I do not have Carl’s voice on my answerone’s ever ing machine! Carl didn’t have his voice on true one. his answering machine. Until my answery have no ing machine broke—and I did replace it, by pick. the way—I had the voice of my daughter when she was maybe four, and that was good f the cuff, enough for me. I must have won something oth being to get that. up for so Thanks for humoring my Wait Wait fan, and the dom. You have a podcast, Nobody Listens to hat’s rare Paula Poundstone. any show It’s me and my buddy Adam Felber. Adam is the cre- one of the perks of doing Wait Wait … Don’t t … Don’t Tell Me!. He’s one of my favorite panelists periences to work with and became a good friend of t in front our family. I’d started working on a podcast recording for NPR called Live from the Poundstone y jumped Institute, and we worked together on that tever you short-lived podcast. We liked working in nheard of that capacity so much, we decided to develop re’s some for ourselves another vehicle. idea that We tape in a gnarly North Hollywood are funny neighborhood, not far from anyone who sn’t seem works on the show—except for me! I drive g, but it’s like an hour and a half. Basically, what we wanted was to have a little conveyer belt

of topics to play with, so we call it a comedy advice podcast. How to move out of your parents’ house; [how to] get an honest car mechanic, which, by the way, I’ve never done. [The format] is sort of like bread to butter for me. I don’t really like bread that much, but I love butter. Socially, it just looks better to have it on the bread. We go to this hole-in-the-wall studio; I make balloon animals, which is very rarely done on audio. It’s one of the few things almost all human beings have in common right now: We breathe oxygen, we don’t eat our young, and we listen to podcasts.

To me, performing with a live audience is the absolute best, because it’s good for people to come out of their houses, it’s good for people to put down their flat screens and take things out of their ears, it’s good to sit around other people, and of course, it’s great for people to laugh. I consider myself a proud member of the endorphin production industry. If I could wiggle my nose like [in] Bewitched and be at the theater, it would be much easier than traveling the way I do, but it’s a small price to pay for such a glorious experience.

I can’t even wiggle my nose like that, much less make any magic happen.

Well, you could always use the Jeannie way, with the arms and the ponytail. It’s funny that both of those shows were on around the same time, with these supernatural abilities to make things good. I feel bad for kids now.

I love Pixar and Harry Potter, but even Harry Potter is very dystopian. I mean, Jesus, we had Hogan’s Heroes! We even made the Nazis entertaining. I don’t know why we’ve decided to saddle our children with this idea that the world’s not going to go on.

It’s like that was some vestige of the America-wins-everything dream, but now the children don’t have jobs or believe in the future.

But on the other hand, the generation raised with the kind of TV I was raised with are

the ones who created this world for the next generation. Maybe there was a downside to the happy entertainment.

Maybe they all just woke up rubbing their eyes one morning like, holy shit, we made a funny show about Nazis.

I can’t imagine how that was pitched. If you did it now, there’s maybe—maybe—enough of a distance. But pitching that show to network in the sixties?

It’s like if you pitched a comedy about the Iraq War now.

Exactly! Wouldn’t that be fun? But at least they had managed to wrap up World War II. Does one come to a Paula Poundstone show to laugh at the state of the world or to escape it?

A little bit of both. It’s not all Trump all the time. My act is largely autobiographical. I started out talking about busing tables and taking public transportation in Boston.

Whatever’s going on in my life gets folded in like dry ingredients to the eggs. And I watch the news a lot. So it’s like I’m walking through the room with a cup that’s really full, and until I spill some of that off, I can’t proceed. Politics [are] a big part of what I think about. I used to try to not mention that I was a Democrat, but at this point, it just comes out even if I don’t say it.

Reasonable people could once disagree, but nothing’s reasonable anymore, and those divisions can’t help but stand out.

I think part of it is just the stakes are so much higher. We have been told by a preponderance of scientists from around the world that if we don’t change what we’re doing by 2030, we’re toast. I don’t care if you wear a red tie every day, but my god, I do care about the policy stuff. I never liked Thanksgiving anyway, so I can understand why tensions run high. arts@indyweek.com

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SPOOKY TREATS ON LOCAL STAGES FOR HALLOWEEN Dracula (Through Oct. 28, Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh, www.carolinaballet.com): Marcelo Martinez returns to the erotic role Lynne Taylor-Corbett created for him as Carolina Ballet exhumes this 2010 work, with Robert Weiss’s The Masque of the Red Death, set to J. Alan Scearce’s live orchestral scores. David Heuvel’s costumes are to die for; Alan Campbell narrates. An Oct. 26 party and costume contest, Nightmare on South Street, includes dancing, food, and drinks until midnight.

The Rocky Horror Show (Oct. 26 & 27, Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary, www.theatreraleigh.com): Theatre Raleigh’s been trumpeting its stunt-casting of Internet dad-about-town Penn Holderness, in his stage debut as Riff Raff. Our eyes will be on veteran Jesse Gephart as Dr. Frank N. Furter and seasoned David Henderson and A.C. Donohue as the Narrator and Magenta. Should you forget your squirt guns, newspapers, and sliced bread (for the toast), they’ll have them at the theater.

The Strange City of Edgar Allan Poe (Through Oct. 31, Sonorous Road Theatre, Raleigh, www.sonorousroad.com): Sonorous Road’s intriguing immersive theater piece casts us as psychic explorers in 1848, entreated by Poe’s friend to enter his grief-stricken nightmares after his wife’s death in an effort to restore the author’s sanity. Unlike last year’s House of the Fury, no guide will lead you through the maze of narratives and rooms in this choose-yourown-adventure. (Reviewed on p. 32.)

A Walk in the Dark (Oct. 26 & 27, N.C. Museum of History, Raleigh, www.seedraleigh.org): There are two versions of Seed Art Share’s lantern-lit afterhours theatrical museum tour, probing the spooky side of the Story of North Carolina exhibit. Friday’s shows are for teens and adults; Saturday’s are for the kids.

Nothing More (Oct. 27, Mordecai House, Raleigh, www.seedraleigh.org): In Seed Art Share’s second collaboration with local historical venues, a young and mischievous Ellie Mordecai leads us through the plantation’s gardens, grounds, and main house as she weaves her own eerie variation on Poe’s classic, The Raven. —Byron Woods INDYweek.com | 10.24.18 | 31

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That’s So Raven

ENTER THE MACABRE MIND OF EDGAR ALLAN POE LIKE NEVER BEFORE IN SONOROUS ROAD’S STRANGE CITY

BY BYRON WOODS

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writer—the strange city of the title. In doing f you get a little thrill from reading other so, the imaginative production raises the people’s mail, regard the magnified verstakes from the company’s 2017 Halloween sion of a letter from August 1848 posted show, House of the Fury. With no guide to outside Sonorous Road Theatre. In a nonelead us through the maze-like series of rooms too-steady hand, a woman writes for help and corridors after the first chamber—a from a fellow spiritualist. Her colleague is writer’s office, violently smashed beyond slipping into grief-induced madness after repair—we’re left to the death of his wife. encounter characters The woman writes in fragments that she plans to mesfrom Poe’s stories, merize him, opening including Clare a psychic portal for Vestal’s unstable her correspondent to narrator from “The enter his nightmares.

Tell-Tale Heart” “Explore … experiand Douglas Kapp ence as much as you and Lia Fitzgerald’s can. Your human melodramatic King touch, your presence and Queen Pest alone should help from “The Masque restore some sanity— of the Red Death.” some humanity,” she Michael Bacigalupo writes. does uncanny More than a minor Elena Mulligan in Strange City work as a Hopfootnote in literary PHOTO COURTESY OF SONOROUS ROAD Frog who seems an history, the letter’s exhausted, bewildered, thinly masked proxy author is Sarah Helen Whitman. The man for what remains of the embattled Poe. she’s writing about is Edgar Allan Poe. These characters increasingly overlap and The premise alone of The Strange City encounter people from Poe’s life, including of Edgar Allan Poe reveals that cowriters Elena Mulligan’s dead but still soulful and directors Christian O’Neal and Michelle Virginia. It’s disappointing when isolated Murray Wells, the artistic director of cast members clearly don’t rise to the level of Sonorous Road, have done a bit of digging into the above-mentioned actors. the last two years of Poe’s dark life. After his In Strange City’s jigsaw script, characters young wife, Virginia, died from tuberculosis unite as they struggle to break behavior patin 1847, Poe became unstable, falling deeper terns as deeply embedded as Poe’s hauntinto the depression and alcoholism he had ing verses. A prologue confirms the author’s fought for years. fate when a love from beyond the grave ultiO’Neal and Murray cast those attending mately proves healthier than the ones on this this intriguing immersive-theater work as side of it. psychic explorers who enter the fractured arts@indyweek.com consciousness of the macabre poet and

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MID90S ½

Opening Friday, Oct. 26

Thrashin’ Project

WITH SKATING ODE MID90S, DIRECTOR JONAH HILL EYES SOME HEAVY RAILS BUT STICKS TO GRINDING CURBS

BY BRIAN HOWE

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ou don’t need to be into skateboarding to catch nostalgic feelings from Mid90s, beloved old-millennial Jonah Hill’s paean to SoCal skate culture at the end of the twentieth century. You just need to be at least pushing thirty. Hill plasters his directorial debut with images of Guile from Street Fighter II and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ren and Stimpy and Beavis and Butthead, Wu-Tang Clan and Mobb Deep.

That’s the first five minutes. But there are still eighty to go. In their course, cameras linger adoringly on nineties Doritos bags and CD jewel cases no doubt amassed through mail-order clearing-house clubs; the words “Blockbuster night” are uttered. And nineties skating is just as lovingly glossed: The puffy shoes and knit beanies are all in place, and skate brands like Girl, Alien Workshop, and Chocolate wantonly mix with preppy gear by Polo, Hilfiger, and Nautica.

Too bad this surface verisimilitude doesn’t go all the way down. Mid90s has charming moments and hits all the beats of coming of age while learning to skate. But Hill, working from his own script and drawing from his youth, seems to overshoot his nostalgia, slinging it back through the nihilistic nineties and into the innocent eighties—the era of Stevie’s first department-store board, with its bitchin’ neon-colored graphic, fat bubble tail, and plastic rails. It’s a rose-tinted take on a complex culture, and the film, though enjoyable enough, starts rolling away as soon as you leave the theater.

Stevie, a thirteen-year-old with a vaguely “troubled home life”—his brother’s a mess sometimes, his mom seems fine—levels up from angel-baby to grom to skate rat over one LA summer. Besides puberty, the engine of his transformation is a crew he joins at the aptly named Motor Avenue skate shop, which appears to be run entirely by children. Motor Avenue is fictional touch in a film obsessed with real brands, with one other, more curious exception: No pro skater is ever mentioned. It’s inconceivable

Olan Prenatt in Mid90s PHOTO BY TOBIN YELLAND that these kids would sit around the shop bullshitting and leafing through Big Brother magazine all day without bringing up Chad Muska or Ed Templeton.

Mid90s is best as a narrow but heartfelt chronicle of overcoming the physical and social challenges of skating, extending your capacities with joy and terror. The bewildered smile Stevie wears for much of the film applies equally to his first push and his first ollie, his first smoke and his first beer, his first hookup and his first fistfight. He glides effortlessly through the rites of passage and mercurial hierarchies of skating, undergoing suspiciously mild ragging for such a little kook. The truest moment comes when he attempts a roof-gap trick he has no hope of making after someone else chickens out, instantly shifting the pecking order.

But the plotting is thin and schematic, leaving little room for grace notes in its lowstakes momentum, and while the actors are delightful, the characters are under-sketched in some ways and overstated in others. Stevie (Sunny Suljic) isn’t layered, he’s positively split—this sweet child with a mildly problematic home life and good friends who

will suddenly start strangling himself with a Super Nintendo controller cord, as if having flashbacks of being in The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Pack leader Ray (charmer Na-kel Smith, a real-life pro) sometimes seems to have wandered in from an ABC after-school special, so nurturing and motivational are his pep talks. Fuckshit (that’s what he says when someone makes a heavy trick), a slacker played by the luminous Olan Prenatt, is calibrated to be Ray’s foil more than his own person. Fourth Grade (Ryder McLaughlin) has no POV; he hovers on the periphery signaling sadness and poverty. And while Lucas Hedges is watchable as always, his character, Stevie’s older brother, is a bizarre creation who alternates between beating Stevie up and weeping when Stevie hurts his feelings.

Some of Mid90s’ limitations chalk up to overcautious first-time filmmaking, though we get glorious cinematography of LA light and an expensive soundtrack of nineties rap, punk, and indie to compensate. The airless script could have used more space for improvisation, more lulls in the narrative, so the characters could grow into more than avatars of their types, and the minutiae of

skating could shine through. There’s a great sequence where Ray sets up a new deck for Stevie, razoring off the grip tape and screwing in the trucks, but this is the exception to the rule in a movie where skating is more emotional texture than material fact.

The faint ersatz quality haunting Mid90s’ period accuracy is starkest in a scene where the posse encounters a homeless man in a park full of other skaters, and they all sit down to wax rhapsodic about skating. This is hard to square with the more accurate, if carefully hedged in basic decency, portrayal of nineties skate kids elsewhere, with their commonplace misogyny, aggression, and homophobia—all well-documented in Big Brother, the culturally rich but absolutely vile nineties skate bible. Honestly, those kids would have been just as likely to shit in the homeless man’s hat.

The nineties introduced a pronounced dirtbag strain to skate culture that culminated, by 2000, in Jackass. It was an era when skate mags and videos were full of angry young men falling off roofs in shopping carts and playing horrible pranks on each other. This wasn’t universal, but in clearly alluding to it while also downplaying it, Hill shies away from having to criticize it and explore its sociological sources.

There’s another area where he doesn’t want to go: You don’t need to be into skateboarding to catch nostalgic feelings from Mid90s, but you might need to be a man.

Women’s subjectivity is completely absent, which might be as era-appropriate as the casual use of “faggot” but is just as off-putting today. The film resembles a fake version of sublime skate doc Minding the Gap, which both validates its essential truth and highlights its cagey artifice. Mid90s just outlines the same home traumas that create skate tribes that Minding the Gap fills in so deeply. Watch that for a genuine glimpse of skating now. As for the nineties, sadly, Larry Clark’s Kids still feels like the more piercing, authentic fictional film of record. bhowe@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 10.24.18 | 33

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK 10.24–10.31

Company Wayne McGregor PHOTO BY ANDREJ USPENSKI THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25

COMPANY WAYNE MCGREGOR

Unless my memory is failing, we haven’t seen the work of world-renowned British choreographer Wayne McGregor locally since 2012, when Duke Performances presented his electronic lightbox of a piece, FAR—a title that handily describes McGregor’s travels across culture. One minute he’s choreographing for London’s Royal Ballet, the next he’s movement directing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. One minute he’s placing rigorous work on Nederlands Dans Theater, the next he’s placing jittery moves on Thom Yorke in a Radiohead video. One minute he’s using an original Steve Reich score, the next a White Stripes arrangement. He even worked with twee novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, for which we forgive him. Now McGregor returns with Autobiography. Marked by his trademark distorted limbs and his concern with science and the body, the piece is based on the sequence of McGregor’s genome and is structured differently at each performance. Perhaps most intriguing, for those who admire McGregor’s music tastes as much as his movement, is the inclusion of Jlin. A young electronic producer, she specializes in footwork, a fast, rococo Chicago style that will provide McGregor’s dancers with a very different energy than, say, the ambient classical of frequent collaborator Max Richter. —Brian Howe UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., $37+, www.carolinaperformingarts.org 34 | 10.24.18 | INDYweek.com

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27

BRIAN HARNETTY: SHAWNEE, OHIO

For the past few years, Duke Performances has made a habit of presenting performances that marry music with multimedia explorations of history: William Tyler’s 2014 guitar-driven study of Civil War photographs, Hiss Golden Messenger’s Kentuckyinspired Heart Like a Levee in 2015, Gerald Clayton’s 2016 celebration of Piedmont blues.

This year, the institution manifests those efforts in Brian Harnetty’s Shawnee, Ohio.

Drawing on his own family’s history in the small town in the southwestern corner of the Buckeye State, Harnetty winds through Shawnee’s history as a mining town, and the after-effects of the industry’s collapse on the community. His music melds traditional folk instruments and songs with contemporary arrangements that evoke curiosity, hardship, and heartbreak. He adds field recordings, snippets of interviews, and archival photos and film to round out a unique—yet familiar—story about industry, community, and the crumbling American Dream. —Allison Hussey DUKE’S VON DER HEYDEN STUDIO THEATER, DURHAM 8 p.m., $10–$25, www.dukeperformances.duke.edu

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26–SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11

NEXT TO NORMAL

Playwright Brian Yorkey and composer Tom Kitt won a Pulitzer Prize for drama for this 2010 musical, which takes mental illness out of its usual scary, sensationalist theatrical realm and places it where it had never been before: in the spotless kitchen of a middle-class suburban home on a sunny spring morning, where workaholic mom and housewife Diana’s optimism gradually veers into the manic side of her bipolar disorder. Though this smart, warm central character is not depicted as a victim, we witness her and her family’s struggles to maintain dignity and balance in the face of treacherous hallucinations and fluctuations in her brain chemistry. The odyssey of treatments and modalities Diana endures in the search for normalcy puts everyone around her through changes as well, including her loving but bewildered husband, Dan, and her overachieving, worried daughter, Natalie. Aubrey Comperatore plays Diana; NRACT artistic director Timothy Locklear directs. —Byron Woods NORTH RALEIGH ARTS AND CREATIVE THEATRE, RALEIGH Various times, $15–$22, www.nract.org

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31

NORTH BY NIGHT BLOCK PARTY

Halloween is all about distortion: distorting the self through costumes and masks, the mind via intoxicants, the fabric of reality through arcane rituals. This soirée stars two acts that use heaps of distortion to different ends. Brooklyn’s Upper Wilds use gnarly industrial distortion to anchor their keening hooks in a bedrock of noise. On Mars, the first entry in a series of planet-themed releases, the band explores contemporary issues through the lens of interstellar science fiction. The songs bristle with life, even as they evoke the craggy, barren red planet and the infinite vacuum of the cosmos. Chapel Hill heavies Solar Halos use distortion to invoke empty, wide-open spaces, too. Consider “The Vast White Plains,” where a torrent of fuzz rides over a classic two-note drone vamp, underscored by a thunderous tumult of drums. The song’s atmosphere is electric and bracing, like a bitterly cold wind whipping over its titular frozen wasteland. With Black Sabbath tribute act Hand of Doom. —Patrick Wall NIGHTLIGHT, CHAPEL HILL 9 p.m., $7, www.nightlightclub.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

NEAL BRENNAN AT FLETCHER OPERA THEATER (P. 42), A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT AT THE VARSITY (P. 43), GOBLIN AT LINCOLN THEATRE (P. 27), HALLOWEEN ON STAGE AT VARIOUS VENUES (P. 31), MODERN ROBOT AT KINGS (P. 27), PAULA POUNDSTONE AT MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM (P. 30), PETE SOUZA AT FLYLEAF BOOKS (P. 42), TRANSCENDING OTHERNESS AT WEEMS GALLERY (P. 40), KOBIE WATKINS GROUPTET AT THE FRUIT (P. 28) INDYweek.com | 10.24.18 | 35

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the Great Cover Up features locals donning the outfits and playing the tunes of acts legendary and obscure, all in the name of charity.

Members of Grohg, The Rosebuds, Jenny Besetzt, and more revive three recent favorites—Weezer, The Cranberries, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs—for a pre-Halloween party, with proceeds benefitting Hurricane Florence recovery.

—Spencer Griffith MOTORCO: Charley Crockett; 8 p.m.

Lizz Wright stops at The Carolina Theatre Saturday night.

WED, OCT 24 BLUE NOTE GRILL: Blue Wednesday; 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE: Big Thief, The Range of Light Wilderness; 8 p.m., $16-$18.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Mike Mattison, Scrapomatic; 8 p.m., $15-$20.

THE CAVE: Grizzly Goat, Crumb Catcher; 9 p.m.

HUMBLE PIE: Sidecar Social Club; 8 p.m.

THE KRAKEN: Shake Sugaree Americana Residency with Jonathan Byrd & Friends; 7 p.m.

MOTORCO: Amy Ray & Her Band, H.C. McEntire; 8 p.m., $20.

THE PINHOOK: Durty Dub, The Beast, Maj Deeka; 8 p.m., $10.

THU, OCT 25 BLUE NOTE GRILL: Kirk Ridge Band, Individually Twisted; 7 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Ellis Dyson & the Shambles; 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: The Mutineers, Drunken Prayer, Turkey Buzzards; 12 a.m.

THE MAYWOOD: Albannach; 7 p.m.

POUR HOUSE:

Local Band Local Beer Disqo Volante, Treee City [$3–$5/8 P.M.]

This week’s Local Band Local Beer is a strong electronic triple-hitter, headlined by Washington, D.C.-via-Seoul’s Disqo Volante. Existing in the node between dreamy club music and the free eclecticism of a jazz/neo-soul innovator like Robert Glasper, his Yellow Fervor EP from earlier this year crisscrosses a number of styles that caress and bruise with equal measure. The bill also features Durham’s Treee City, who usually sails through equally varied blissed-out beat environments. His excellent single, “Tidal Wave,” with area rapper Ace Henderson from earlier this year, is a late-night

THE DURHAM HOTEL: David D’Angelo Ft. Violin Remix and C.J Baker; 7 p.m.

KENAN MUSIC BUILDING: UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Music: A Sound Map of the Danube; 7 p.m.

NCSU’S STEWART THEATRE: NC State Choirs; 7 p.m.

RUBENSTEIN ARTS CENTER - VON DER HEYDEN STUDIO THEATER: Brian Harnetty; 8 p.m.

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cruise on back country roads, drenched in humid atmosphere and melting jazz keys. With Luxe Posh —David Ford Smith SAHAJA SPACE: Refractions Percussion Ensemble, Incidental Exercise; 8 p.m.; $8–$11.

UNC’S HILL HALL: UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Music: Unraveling Beethoven Album Release Concert; 7 p.m., free THE WICKED WITCH:

Guerilla Toss [$10/9 P.M.]

Since forming in 2010, this art-rock band out of New York has consistently given listeners the impression that it’s from another planet. On its most polished album to date, September’s Twisted Crystal, frontwoman Kassie Carlson’s sugar-sweet melodies are packaged in otherworldly instrumentals and sci-fi sound effects, with synthesizers bending in unexpected ways and guitar riffs zig-zagging in all directions.

—Howard Hardee

FRI, OCT 26

CAT’S CRADLE: Idlewild South; 8 p.m.

THE ARTSCENTER:

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM:

Piedmont Melody Makers [$15/8 P.M.]

This longrunning quartet does folk, classic country, and old-timey music right.

And they should, since their star player is Alice Gerrard, the octogenarian force of nature that revolutionized the folk scene in the sixties through her duo work with Hazel Dickens. The Piedmont Melody Makers continues to explore Southern musical traditions with just acoustic axes and a couple of keening voices, but if you’re doing it right, that’s really all you need anyhow. —Jim Allen

Greg Humphreys Electric Trio [$12–$15/8 P.M.]

Former Dillon Fence and Hobex frontman Greg Humphreys returns to his old stomping grounds with Haymaker, his electric trio’s new album of funk- and soul-infused Americana jams.

Southern jangle powerhouse Peter Holsapple reunites with dB’s drummer Will Rigby and Well Respected Men bassist Glenn Jones for more rootsy power pop. —Spencer Griffith

UNC’S PERSON HALL: UNCChapel Hill Department of Music: String Quartet Recital: 8 p.m.

SAT, OCT 27 BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Daniel Weatherspoon; 7 p.m.

CAROLINA THEATRE:

Lizz Wright [$35–$55/8 P.M.]

Great Cover Up Classics

BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Ira Wiggins; 7 p.m.

[$8/10:30 P.M.]

Vocalist Lizz Wright grew up in small-town Georgia, the daughter of a church’s music director. Her gospel roots shine through her six studio albums, taking their place alongside notes of jazz, blues, soul, and Southern pop. Influences aside, what has always been remarkable about her work is the pure strength of her voice. As an alto, she sings with a radiant, full-bodied emotional composure that at once grounds and transports.

—Sarah Edwards

BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6 p.m.

Among the Triangle music community’s best traditions,

CARY ARTS CENTER: The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass; 7 p.m.

BERKELEY CAFÉ: Charles Latham & the Borrowed Band, Hardworker; 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: The Remarks, Unaka Prong; 9 p.m.

KINGS:

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DURHAM FRUIT COMPANY: Halloween Underground II Dance Party; 10 p.m.

Roky Erickson [$25–$28/8:30 P.M.]

Across the long, strange trip of his rock ’n’ roll career, seventy-one-year-old guitarist Roky Erickson has been a lot of things: a pioneer (of psych-rock, with the cultfavorite band 13th Floor Elevators), a burnout (his tragic personal life has been marked by legendary bouts with mythic drug abuse and stretches in maximumsecurity state hospitals), and a heroic comeback story (a career renaissance in the new millennium culminating in 2010’s revered True Love Cast Out All Evil). He may have lost his soul to rock ’n’ roll, but Erickson, unlike so many similarly troubled souls, was able to get it back.

—Patrick Wall CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Driftwood, Hardworker; 8 p.m.

Chapel Hill singer-songwriter Jonathan Byrd has amassed quite a catalog of tunes over the years, but his latest album is inspired by (and features songs from) the itinerant tribe of troubadours he calls his own. The Pickup Cowboy is multi-instrumentalist Johnny Waken, who helps to flesh out Byrd’s thoughtful-but-rootsy brand of Americana, whether the mode of the moment is arch alt-country or reflective folk balladry. With Jess Klein, Violet Bell, A Different Thread, and Stan Lewis.

—Jim Allen

KENAN MUSIC BUILDING: UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Music: A Sound Map of the Danube; 9 p.m.

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HISTORIC DOWNTOWN APEX: Apex Music Festival; 2 p.m.

THE CAVE: Trike, Yardarm, The Harlem Insect Laws; 9 p.m.

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Check out rising Nashville stars while supporting animals displaced by Hurricane Florence: Danielle Bradbery puts a pinch of twang in pop tunes powered by her Voice-winning pipes, while vocal trio Runaway June suggests The Dixie Chicks for a new era. Guitar slinger Clare Dunn adds a bit of rock attitude to her slick anthems.

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by Melissa Dyne. Now a duo under the same moniker, Maricich and Dyne combine backgrounds in performance art and the physics of light and sound, composing and dispatching experimental pop from within their selfdescribed mothership of modular synths. ZenSoFly opens. —Julie K. Smitka

After breaking out with debut album Landmark and following it up with the similarly beloved Warm Glow EP, Hippo Campus is back with more slickly produced, high-fidelity indie rock. The band, from St. Paul, Minnesota, is touring in support of its second LP, Bambi, produced by BJ Burton (Bon Iver, Sylvan Esso, Francis & The Lights).

Though the album is a breeze to listen to, frontman Jake Luppen touches on the heavy subjects of mental health, vulnerability, toxic masculinity, and the #MeToo movement. —Howard Hardee

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RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m.

TUE, OCT 30

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Adult Mom, Derek Ted; 8 p.m.

Titus Andronicus is at Motorco on Saturday.

MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM:

N.C. Symphony: Halloween Spooktacular [$20/1 & 4 P.M.]

Halloween is a time when orchestras normally bring out the spooky hits: “Danse Macabre,” “Night on Bald Mountain,” and so on. This year, the North Carolina Symphony takes a slightly different tack, with an original, haunted musical mystery aimed at kids by composer Gregory Smith.

Inspector Beckensteiner is brought in to figure out why major suddenly turned to minor in the middle of a concert, investigating everyone in the concert hall to figure out whodunit. Bring your costume! —Dan Ruccia MOTORCO:

Titus Andronicus [$17–$20/9 P.M.]

Titus Andronicus’s Home Alone on Halloween EP— which, perhaps not entirely coincidentally, bears the Merge catalog number MRG666—is mostly meant as a party favorite, a pumpkin-colored

THE CAVE: Importer/Exporter; 9 p.m.

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vinyl lagniappe for longtime fans. But the three-song trick and treat contains a nugget of the band’s essence. Consider the closing track, “A Letter Home.” At seventeen minutes (and nearly twelve thousand words), the song winds through great personal grief and despair before blooming into a plea for universal humanity.

Its terror is existential, the grim spectre of potential squandered. Washington, D.C., punk legend Ted Leo—he of The Pharmacists—opens with a solo set. —Patrick Wall NIGHTLIGHT: BENT: The Scary Fairy Edition with Doc Sleep; 10 p.m.

THE PINHOOK: Fat Tony, Cadence Weapon, Hua Li, Apollo J; 9 p.m.

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together under the new name Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike (sans Ralph Tresvant) and hitting the road to send aunties across the country into hysterics. The quartet will be performing classics from New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe, and Bobby Brown’s solo career. — Charles Morse

UNSCRIPTED HOTEL: Zombie 80s Takeover Dance Party; 9 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT: Chew, Fuckin’ Lovers, Das Drip, Zero Stroke; 9 p.m.

SUN, OCT 28

SLIM’S DOWNTOWN: DJ Pangean 10 p.m.

RIVER PARK: The Wood Brothers, Seth Walker, Shoaldiggers, Walker Family Band: 11 a.m.

DEEP SOUTH THE BAR: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m.

DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Andrea Edith Moore and Klaus Dieter Jung; 4 p.m.

SHARP NINE GALLERY: Iris Ornig Quartet: 8 p.m.

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER:

Youssou N’Dour

Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike

Youssou N’Dour first gained international acclaim via Peter Gabriel’s 1986 album, So, and was a prominent vocal feature on Paul Simon’s Graceland.

You may remember them as New Edition and Bell Biv Devoe, but the pioneers of R&B’s New Jack Swing era and boy bands in general are operating

UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: [$27–$72/8 P.M.]

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MEREDITH COLLEGE’S CARSWELL CONCERT HALL: Raleigh Flute Choir, Silver Fantasy Flute Choir; 7 p.m.

UNC’S HILL HALL: UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Music: Henri Duparc: The Complete Melodies; 3 p.m.

WEST END WINE BAR: Eric Meyer, Noah Sager & Friends; 4 p.m.

MON, OCT 29 21C MUSEUM HOTEL: Muse Unmasked: Made of Oak; 12 a.m.

THE CAVE: Blood on the Harp, Bonemeal Baker, Paper Windmills; 9 p.m.

FLETCHER OPERA THEATER: Dweezil Zappa; 8 p.m.

IMBIBE: Grewen and Griffin; 7 p.m.

MOTORCO: Flash Chorus; 7 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE:

DUKE CHAPEL: Conviction: Songs of Hope from Women in Prison; 7 p.m.

MEREDITH COLLEGE’S CARSWELL CONCERT HALL: Octavia; 8 p.m.

RUBY DELUXE: Anne-Claire, Bero Bero, The Two Youths; 8 p.m.

UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL:

Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich [$27/7:30 P.M.]

World-renowned pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and protégé Tamara Stefanovich return to Memorial Hall to perform keen interpretations of modern piano masterpieces.

The kindred intensity between Aimard and Stefanovich showcases a mutual respect for and dedication to the traditional as well as an undeniable excitement in pushing its limits. Expect a renewed sense of admiration for both creative and physical dexterity during an expansive repertoire of Bartók, Ravel, Harrison Birtwistle, and Messiaen. —Julie K. Smitka

WED, OCT 31 THE KRAKEN: Shake Sugaree Americana Residency with Jonathan Byrd & Friends; 7 p.m.

[$22–$25/8 P.M.]

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Lazaris Pit; 9 p.m.

THE CAVE:

Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands [$10/8 P.M.]

Greensboro native Crystal Bright makes music that’s a little bit carnivalesque Kate Bush, a little bit Amèlie soundtrack, and a little bit goth Leonard Cohen.

Dark indie pop, in other words, though her multiinstrumentalist approach— sets involve the accordion, concertina, musical saw, and adungu (Ugandan harp), among other instruments— ensure that there is no typical concert experience. The party also includes Katharine Whalen’s Swedish Patrol, Jimmy Ray Swagger and The Fussy Eaters, and Codeine Haze. —Sarah Edwards NIGHTLIGHT: Solar Halos, Upper Wilds, Hand of Doom; 9 p.m.

MOTORCO:

Paranormal Party [$8–$10/9 P.M.]

Halloween is one of those holidays that continues to buzz with excitement for adults, despite the fact that most adults don’t seem to have solid Halloween plans. Thankfully, Motorco takes on the partyplanning mantle with it’s sixthannual dance party, featuring hometown favorites DJ Rang and DJ Forge, alongside Birdgherl, who promises to “galvanize space for collective healing through movement.”

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TRANSCENDING OTHERNESS The idea of “normal” is—well, it’s very strange. What is normal in a world of endless forms, endless diversity, endless different preferences and perspectives? And how can anyone truly be free when the very concept of “normal,” a baseline to follow or flaunt, exists? Such questions lie at the heart of Transcending Otherness, a group exhibit at Meredith College that probes social issues relating to class, education, gender, mental health, race, and more, all by sounding voices that are central to the American experience even as mainstream culture might try to marginalize them. The five artists included in the exhibit are textile artist Jennifer Markowitz, conceptual artist Stacey L. Kirby, painters Libby O’Daniel and Lamar Whidbee, and photographer Jade Wilson.

N.C. poet laureate Jaki Shelton Green responds to the work in verse. Meet the artists at this reception and gallery talk. —Brian Howe

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MEREDITH COLLEGE’S WEEMS GALLERY, RALEIGH 4:30 p.m., free, www.meredith.edu

OPENING Ack! An Artsy Halloween Party: Spooky museum tour.

Sun, Oct 28, 2 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www. ackland.org.

SPECIAL Evee Erb: Strong EVENT Ties, Invisible Threads: Interactive fiber installation. Artist talk: Thu, Oct 25, 5 p.m. Opening reception: Fri, Oct 26, 6 p.m.

Oct 25-Nov 11. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. www. thecarrack.org.

The Muse Masquerade: Carrack fundraiser. Sat, Oct 27, 8 p.m. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. thecarrack.org.

ONGOING Alternative Images: Pleiades artists in conjunction with the Click! Photography Festival.

Thru Nov 5. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. PleiadesArtDurham. com.

Anne Berry: April Is the Cruelest Month: Photographs.

Craven Allen Gallery, Durham.

Thru Oct 31. cravenallengallery. com.

Cameron Village Underground Photography Exhibit: This is going to sound crazy, but did you know there used to be an underground mall under Cameron Village, and that it housed nightclubs that both incubated local rock and hosted legendary touring acts as diverse as R.E.M., Barry Manilow, Jimmy Buffet, and Chuck Mangione? In the late seventies and early eighties, before it was shut down because of concerns about safety, The Village Subway—aka the Raleigh Underground—roiled with nightclubs such as The Frog and Nightgown and The Pier, where Sonic Youth recorded the cover of “I Wanna Be

Your Dog” that appears on Confusion Is Sex. This rich history, mostly lost beyond some hazily remembered blogs, is the subject of a new exhibit at The City of Raleigh Museum, which runs through January after a sold-out, wait-listed reception with photographer Chris Seward.

His dynamic black-and-white photos from the scene capture now-famous names and local, proto-indie-rock bands such as The Fabulous Knobs and Arrogance in their primes.

More than two hundred photos are featured in the exhibit, along with flyers, videos, and other artifacts. Thru Jan 31.

Raleigh City Museum, Raleigh. cityofraleighmuseum.org.

—Brian Howe Fall Corridor Exhibition: Artspace members Jason Bryant, Ryan Fox, Trish Klenow, Frank Kreacic, and Susie Silver.

Thru Oct 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Food of the Gods: New York photographer Lydia McCarthy.

Thru Oct 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

I Be Person I No Be Number: Part of the Click! Photography

Festival. Thru Oct 26. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Nerys Levy and Michele Maynard: Paintings. Thru Dec 8. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. frankisart.com Meditations: Fiber art by Alice Levinson. Thru Nov 15.

Durham Arts Council, Durham. durhamarts.org.

Mothers, Daughters, and the Writer’s Life: Writing and photography by Elizabeth Matheson and Barbara Tyroler.

Thru Nov 23. Block Gallery, Raleigh. raleighnc.gov.

Origins: Photography by Monika Merva. Part of the Click! Photography Festival.

Thru Nov 1. Durham Arts Council, Durham. durhamarts. org.

A Palette of Rust and Dreams: Photography by Karen Healy.

Part of the Click! Photography Festival. Thru Nov 1. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective: 21c Museum Hotel unveils a packed portraiture exhibition

featuring work by forty contemporary artists, many of whom pay striking homage to classical portraiture in recasting their own images and experiences. Anthony Goicolea, a photographer interested in digital manipulation and themes of duality and the reclamation of self, nods to John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” with “Portrait in Negative of a Boy with Harmonica as Madame Gautreau.”

Miguel Ángel Rojas’s series depicting a young, injured Colombian soldier in repose gracefully gestures toward Michelangelo’s “David.” The exhibition also includes works

by Titus Kaphar, Ori Gersht, and Zanele Muholi. Thru Mar 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Sarah Edwards Sudie Rakusin: Mysticale: Thru Oct 31. Bull City Art & Frame Co., Durham. bullcityartandframecompany. com.

Tom Rankin and Holden Richards: View Camera: Photography. Part of the Click! Photography Festival.

Thru Oct 31. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com.

Re-Collections: Photography.

Thru Oct 31. Chatham Hill Winery, Cary. www.chathamhillwine.com.

Semiotics of Cruising: William E. Jones, Robert Blanchon, Dean Sameshima, and others.

Thru Nov 17. Lump, Raleigh. www.lumpprojects.org.

Strange New World: Largescale paintings by Jennifer Davis. Thru Oct 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Thirtieth Annual Sculpture in the Garden: Outdoor show.

Thru Dec 9. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill. ncbg.unc.edu/sculpture.

Trace message from under quarry stone: Tarik Garrett, Doris Guo, Sarah Viviana Valdez, and Jack Crowley.

Thru Nov 17. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org.

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Beefsteak 8: Pastureraised meats and beer. Sun, Oct 28, 5 p.m. Bull City Burger & Brewery, Durham. bullcityburgerandbrewery. com.

Not Your Average Oyster Roast: With Oysters Carolina. $35. Sat, Oct 27, 1 p.m.

Botanist & Barrel, Cedar Grove. botanistandbarrel.com.

Pancake Brunch & Craft Market: Pop-up holiday farmers/craft market and free pancake brunch. Sun, Oct 28, noon. Botanist & Barrel, Cedar Grove. botanistandbarrel.com.

Ruby C. Williams: Farm Fresh Folk Art: Paintings.

Thru Nov 2. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. historichillsborough.org

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OPENING Boomstick Burlesque Presents: Gears, Graves and Grinds: $10-$25. Mon, Oct 29, 9 p.m.

The View at Legends, Raleigh. www.gearsgravesgrinds.bpt.me.

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Capitol Steps: Musical comedy.

Sat, Oct 27, 4 p.m. NCSU Campus: Stewart Theatre, Raleigh. www.live.arts.ncsu.edu.

Company Wayne McGregor: Autobiography: Thu, Oct 25, 7 p.m. UNC Campus: Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. www. carolinaperformingarts.org.

Dragged To Oz: Drag Wizard of Oz show. Oct 27 & 28.

View Bar & Gameroom, Durham. tickets.legends-club.com.

ONGOING Anything Goes Late Show: Saturdays, 10:30 p.m.

Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com A Doll’s House, Remodeled: Play presented by the Justice Theatre Project. Thru Oct 28.

Umstead Park United Church of Christ,Raleigh. www.upucc.org.

Duke Players Presents: [title of show]: Musical. Fri, Oct 26, 7 p.m. Brody Theater-Branson Hall, Durham.

The Harry Show: Ages 18+. Potentially risque games improv games with audience volunteers. $10.

Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m. ComedyWorx, Raleigh. comedyworx.com.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25

NEAL BRENNAN Neal Brennan’s long and impressive comedy career has mostly been in collaboration with other comic minds. He’s best known for co-creating Chappelle’s Show, one of the most influential sketch-comedy series of the 2000s (Brennan directed the classic Rick James sketch). More recently, he’s been visible as “Noah’s Friend Neal” on The Daily Show, appearing onscreen to banter with Trevor Noah. He’s continued collaborating with many other comics, executive-producing Chris Rock’s 2018 special Tambourine, directing Michelle Wolf ’s HBO special Nice Lady, and cowriting the film The Female Brain with Whitney Cummings. Brennan’s helped some of the funniest people alive be funnier. Here’s a chance to see how funny he is on his own. Also, if you get to talk to him after the show, find out if he still has any copies of the 2006 VH1 eighties parody movie Totally Awesome!, which he made with The Good Place’s Michael Schur. That thing is impossible to find. —Zack Smith

FLETCHER OPERA THEATER, RALEIGH 7 p.m., $30+, www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com

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Improv at the Varsity: Stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy. $6. Saturdays, 9:30 p.m. Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. improvatthevarsity.com.

New Headliner Night: Josh Rosenstein and Kathleen McDonald: Local comics debut longer sets. $10. Sat, Oct 27, 9 p.m. The Peoples Improv Theater, Chapel Hill. www. kathleenmcdonaldcomedy.com.  Skeleton Crew: Reviewed at indyweek.com. $15$57. Thru Oct 28. PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill. www.playmakersrep.org.

Stuff Happens: Play. Thru Oct 28. Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, Raleigh. burningcoal.org.

Transactors Improv: The Spooky Show: Improv comedy.Sat, Oct 27, 8 p.m.

The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26

PETE SOUZA

Pete Souza took nearly two million photographs of President Barack Obama during his eight-year tenure as the White House’s chief official photographer. The images captured Obama’s levity and gravity in equal measure, from the situation room during the 2011 raid that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden to the president playing with children on the floor of the Oval Office. Since departing from his post in January 2017, Souza has taken to Instagram to continue to post photos of Obama, which he frequently captions with subtle yet cutting lines comparing the previous administration to the present one. In his new book, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents, Souza’s digital sass makes the jump to paper, bolstered by headlines, tweets, and more about Trump and company’s current skullduggery. Buying a book won’t do much to help fight against injustice, but maybe it can at least serve as a slightly happier reminder of times that felt less like a surreal, permanent hellscape. —Allison Hussey

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screen READINGS & SIGNINGS Thomas Brothers: Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration. Sat, Oct 27, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Sheri Castle: Cookbook Instantly Southern. Sat, Oct 27, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Daniel Mason: Sat, Oct 27, 4 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

North Carolina Poetry Society Reading: Sun, Oct 28, 2 p.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

The Monti StorySLAM: Fear!: $12. Tue, Oct 30, 7 p.m.

Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic.com Frankenreads: Marathon reading of Frankenstein.

Wed, Oct 31, 9 a.m. Duke Campus: Allen Building, Durham.

LECTURES ETC. Tiber Falzett: UNC Scottish Gaelic Studies lecturer. Fri, Oct 26, 6 p.m. Kenan Music Building, Chapel Hill.

SPECIAL SHOWINGS I Am Not a Witch: Wed, Oct 24, 6 p.m. American Tobacco Campus, Durham. americantobaccohistoricdistrict. com.

Ingrid LaFleur: From the Drexicya to Mars: An Interplanetary Water Mission: Afrofuturist lecture.

Thu, Oct 25, 12 p.m. Franklin Humanities Institute, Durham. watermission.eventbrite.com.

Beetlejuice: Wed, Oct 24, 8 p.m.

Unscripted Hotel,Durham.

Periodic Tables: The Thrill of Discovery: Science talk and beer featuring biologist and author Sean B. Carroll. Thu, Oct 25, 7 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. scienceandsociety. duke.edu

Dumpster Dive Cinema: Tue, Oct 30, 9 p.m. The Station, Carrboro. stationcarrboro.com.

Visionary Aponte: Aural Futures and Afrofuturism: Panel discussion with Pierce Freelon and Ingrid LaFleur. Light lunch served. Fri, Oct 26, noon.

Duke’s Forum for Scholars and Publics, Durham. fhi.duke.edu.

White Women and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae. Wed, Oct 24, 7 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

Dirty Computer: Janelle Monáe visual album. Thu, Oct 25, 7 p.m. Full Frame Theater, Durham. www,powerplantgallery.com.

The General: Film screening with live score by Tim Carless.

Sat, Oct 27, 2 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

John Carpenter’s Halloween: Sat, Oct 27, 9 p.m. Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. www. thechelseatheater.com The Mask: 3-D screening. Thu, Oct 25, 7 p.m. Shadowbox Studio, Durham. www. shadowboxstudio.org Purple Rain: Fri, Oct 26, 9 p.m.

Chelsea Theater, Chapel Hill. www.thechelseatheater.com

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT Billed as “the first Iranian vampire Western,” A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night pleasurably does the work of both defying and nodding to genre conventions. Ana Lily Amirpour’s 2014 debut, shot in black and white, is a stylish noir that tracks a mysterious woman (simply called “The Girl”) as she walks the streets at night in her chador. Eventually, she befriends a young loner (and James Dean lookalike), and the film takes romantic, sleekly comic turn, complete with a getaway car and a rotating cast of misanthropic characters. The screening marks the halfway point in the Ackland Film Forum’s fall series, “Woman with a Movie Camera: American Female Directors 1990–Present,” which also includes films by Dee Res, Gina Prince-Bythwood, and Greta Gerwig running in the upcoming weeks. As for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night—if you’re looking for the perfect Halloween date night, something campy and subversive with a bit of a bite, this may be just the ticket. —Sarah Edwards

VARSITY THEATRE, CHAPEL HILL | 7 p.m., $7, www.ackland.org

Visionary Aponte: Aural Futures: Screen/Society: The Model: Oshun and the Dream, Chapter 1 & 2; You and I and You; and Dirty Computer.

Fri, Oct 26, 7 p.m. Full Frame Theater, Durham. www. powerplantgallery.com.

OPENING Hunter Killer—It’s a classic submarine action movie from director Donovan Marsh.

Rated R. ½ Mid90s—Reviewed on p. 33. Rated R.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com. ½ Christopher Robin— After you get used to them being 3-D plush toys, Winnie the Pooh and friends charm, but Christopher Robin is the least interesting thing in this movie. Rated PG.  Crazy Rich Asians— This Asian-American-led rom-com is an undeniable cultural milestone, but put

that aside and it’s uttery standard fare. Rated PG-13. ½ First Man— Damien Chazelle shoots the moon in his glorious film about Neil Armstrong. Rated PG-13. ½ Halloween—A backto-basics approach fails to restore the mystery and menace of Michael Myers.

Rated R. ½ Incredibles 2—Dialing up socially progressive themes fourteen years after the original,

Pixar’s sequel is fun, funny, and timely but not quite transcendent. Rated PG.  The Old Man & the Gun—Robert Redford goes out with a bang in this crime caper, reportedly his final film role. Rated PG-13. ½ A Star Is Born— Neither modern classic nor mega-bomb, this CooperGaga remake is best when it’s allowed to be what it wants to be: a tender countrywestern love story.

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If your ability to build material security is wobbly or has a crumbling foundation, you are given the Aries 21-April 19)ways to amend this, to heal this for generations past and ones to come. chance(March to reflect and find Dear week feelmoney a littleontight, a little slowerthese than parts you prefer.

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now. Revel in that without having to wonder what is around the bend. Feel the rooted depths of your

Taurus 20-May 20) growth. (April How do the relationships in your life align with those that fell short? Turn on the music that Dear Bull: the your Newown Moon will ask to take care ofyour yourevolution. body, health, and your day to day. best matches rhythm andyou dance, honoring Now is a time to revisit your rituals and routines, make slow-cooked foods, tend to your own GEMINIThe (May 21–June 20) hearth. more you nourish yourself, the more you can make offerings to others.

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Thiswatch is a the moon settle inspired over the time city. for you and the New Moon wants you to harness it. Write down your particularly symphonies, pen your poems, fill your canvas with color.

CANCER (June 21–July 22) Dear Crab: We all have unique origin stories, family trees, ancestral wounds, and magics that shape

Cancer (June 21-July 22) us. Allow the silvery light of this week to outline their edges and softly shade in their forms for you.

Dear Crab: home is where the heart is and this New Moon will usher you there. Though you may What do you gleam from these illuminations? Get cozy at home and cook your grandma’s famous be combing through days gone by, try not to get lost in the past. Create the harmony you need at recipes. home, connect with your roots, and you will see what can be cleared away to make room.

LEO (July 23–August 22)

Leo 22) career do you feel acknowledged, and where do you feel taken for Dear(July Lion:23-August Where in your Dear Lion:Any sortfrustrations through what been waiting for you toneed give to it your attention.

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Dear Virgin: Whatever has blossomed for you lately, take time to bask in it. The strides you have Virgo (August 23-September 22) made Virgin: are paying off—big and alike. temper any restlessness with gratitude for how Dear although you aresmall known forThis yourweek, graceful service to others, the New Moon solicits far you’ve come,that especially the spring.

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LIBRA (September 23–October 22) Dear Scales: Your relationships Libra (September 23-October have 22) transformed you and helped your purpose to become more defined. Your attention is drawn toward the tried and true companions and places in your life, Dear Scales: this is your season and your Moon. Use the energy of the week ahead to set reminding you to trust what you’ve built together. This week, set an intention around accepting and intentions which best serve you, your vision for the years ahead. Use this momentum to renew receiving that love.

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