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triangulator +VERY IMPORTANT POLICE BUSINESS
Raleigh’s police union, Teamsters Local 391, apparently has a lot of free time of its hands. According to the local’s vice president, Rick Armstrong, the Raleigh union will meet Tuesday evening (after we go to press) to discuss one issue of actual importance— police salaries—and one issue of no legitimate importance whatsoever: whether the police, as self-appointed arbiters of acceptable speech, should refuse to perform security at Beyoncé’s upcoming concert. To recap: Queen Bey put on an inspired halftime performance at this year’s Super Bowl—so inspired, in fact, that we endured a goddamn Coldplay set to watch it—that featured Black Lives Matter messaging and dancers dressed evocatively as Black Panthers. The Black Panthers, you might recall, weren’t always besties with the fuzz. And that caused some police unions—notably in Miami, where Beyoncé’s Formation World Tour kicks off at the end of April, and now in Raleigh—to get their panties in a wad. “Many officers believe it was disrespectful to the police profession and hope Beyoncé will look to less controversial images to convey her point,” Armstrong told WNCN in a statement this weekend. Perhaps not surprisingly, the National Black Police Association does not share in Local 391’s outrage. In an email, the association’s national chairman, Malik Aziz, says the group “does not have any plans to support any boycott related to the Super Bowl 50 performance by Beyoncé.” The NBPA may be taking the high road, but we’re with Mrs. Carter on this one. Cops or no cops, we’ll see you at CarterFinley Stadium on May 3.
+THE GAMBLER’S QUANDARY
That old gambler’s quandary—take your winnings and go home, or keep on pressing your luck—arose before the Durham City Council last Monday. Wood Partners, a development group, wants twenty acres of land near the intersection of Interstate 40 and N.C. 54 rezoned so that it can build about six hundred apartment units and some office space. The land is also near the Leigh Village station, a plannedfor stop on the light-rail line. This is relevant because, in 2014, the council passed a resolution setting a goal of 15 percent affordable housing within a half-mile of all rail transit stops. Since there’s currently very little in the way of housing in the area, that means roughly ninety of Wood Partners’ new units 6 | 2.24.16 | INDYweek.com
would have to be marketed to low-income renters—hardly an enticing prospect for a developer. Of course, due to a state law that prohibits inclusionary zoning, the city can’t actually require developers to build affordable units. It has hired a consultant, Karen Lado, to strategize some tools the city can use to compel developers anyway. But her findings won’t be unveiled until next month. For now, pretty much the only thing the council can do is strongly suggest to developers that plans that include affordable housing are more likely to be given the go-ahead. And so affordable-housing advocates showed up at council chambers all ginned up and ready to fight the development. In its presentation, though, Wood Partners introduced a twist. Its representative, Deb Anderson, announced that the firm would voluntarily build ten units for renters at 60 percent of area median income (households earning about $31,000/year) and another ten units at 80 percent (households earning roughly $41,000/year). Anderson noted that the addition would triple the amount of affordable housing in the area. A concession, in other words. But did it amount to a goodenough compromise? Mayor Bill Bell appeared ready to cash in his chips. “This is a goal, not a requirement,” Bell said of the 15 percent resolution. But perhaps Lado’s report would reveal new ways to coerce Wood Partners into including more affordable units? Councilman Don Moffitt didn’t think so, but he was in the minority. To the consternation of Wood Partners, the council opted to delay the rezoning vote until March 21, by which time Lado will have presented her findings. The odds aren’t great that Wood Partners will voluntarily add more affordable units; Anderson told the council that the current proposal more or less represented its final offer. But historically it’s a pretty safe bet that, despite their bluffs, developers are willing to endure the slow-grinding gauntlet of municipal government if there’s a big pot of money for them on the other end.
+TE EXTRAÑAMOS
On Friday afternoon, eighteen-year-old Wildin David Guillen Acosta called his sister, Katherin, from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. As has been widely
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reported, the Riverside High School student and undocumented immigrant had been picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on January 28 and is now awaiting deportation proceedings. Katherin had just walked into the downtown Durham post office when she received her brother’s call. Teachers and activists gathered around to hear Acosta’s voice through a muffled connection garbled by the speakerphone. They had marched from CCB Plaza to the post office chanting “Education not deportation!” with posters bearing the hashtag #FREEWILDIN and care packages, including books. On the packing label, Riverside teacher Ellen Holmes scribbled Acosta’s alien number under his name, to make sure he gets the homework inside. “Te extraño,” Holmes told him over the phone. I miss you. Acosta thanked her for sending his books. Determined to graduate by June, on schedule, Acosta began asking for his homework last week. Acosta was assigned an alien number by ICE after he crossed the border in the summer of 2014, part of a wave of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America. At a Durham Human Relations Committee meeting earlier this month, Acosta’s mother, Dilsia, said that if he is deported to Honduras, he will be killed by gangs that have already threatened his life. Earlier in January, another Riverside student was deported to Central America. No one knew much about her, activists say, because she was in the United States alone. Nearly a third of Riverside’s Latino students stopped showing up to school after ICE took Acosta. “I’d go so far to say they may be experiencing PTSD,” Holmes says. She directs the student club Destino Success, of which Acosta was a leader. “The sad thing is that I can’t promise them it will be OK.” “What does it mean for us as human beings to say yes to policies and programs that kidnap people?” asks Sendolo Diaminah, a member of the Durham Public Schools Board of Education, which earlier this month passed a resolution condemning the deportation of students. “[This country has laws] to make sure a whole group of people live in fear in order to exploit them. That was what slavery was about. I’m really glad, as a school board, we’re saying no to that.” More than twenty-five people—activists, teachers, family,
TL;DR: and news crews—packed the post office. Holmes paid $23.38 for priority mail with tracking. Acosta should have received his homework by the time you read this.
+SLOGANEERING
Heading west on Interstate 40, where Durham County yields to Orange, there’s a road sign that says, “Welcome to Orange County: You’ll Be a Fan for Life.” The sign’s beat up and damaged, and Orange County is in the process of replacing it. The county also figured this might be a good time to update the slogan, so in December it solicited ideas from the general public. Last week, after reviewing over eight hundred submissions, the possibilities were narrowed to eleven. These finalists are, to be honest, a tad boring, as these things tend to be (“Where education meets opportunity”; “Visit today. Stay for life”; etc.). But not all the proposals had that market-research ring to them; in fact, many offered pointed commentaries on everything from taxation to atheism to breastfeeding to Duke sucking. The INDY requested the entirety of citizen suggestions from the Chapel Hill and Orange County Visitors Bureau. We’ve picked out twenty-five of our favorites—none of which we made up, honest— and reproduced them below exactly as they were submitted, spelling, grammar, and capitalization errors included. Enjoy! l World l Were
Class Education, Third World Roads too backwoods to add a third lane to I-40
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The General Assembly approves new districts and pushes congressional primary elections to June. Who needs reality television when you have three more months of Kay Daly?
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Gov. McCrory pledges an “immediate” state response to Charlotte’s new LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance. Oh shit, is he calling in the National Guard?
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Hundreds of scantily clad runners take to Raleigh’s streets for the annual Cupid’s Undie Run. Question: Why would people pay to run around in their underwear when you can do that at home for free?
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The News & Observer partners with PolitiFact to examine the truthfulness of candidates’ statements. Roy Cooper begins furiously scrubbing the Internet of all the times he bragged he could lift a cow clear over his head.
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Ahead of Durham Mayor Bill Bell’s State of the City speech, he plays a year-in-review video soundtracked by Montell Jordan’s 1995 classic “This Is How We Do It.” The video is followed by the announcement of a new citywide initiative to get all hands in the air and wave them from here to there.
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Ashley Christensen’s Death & Taxes is one of 25 semifinalists for the James Beard Foundation’s best new restaurant. Unlike death or taxes, being able to afford a meal there is not one of life’s certainties.
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Roy Williams bashes a CBS analyst for speculating that he was going to retire, calling the analyst’s remarks “sinful.” Now, c’mon, Roy, you better take a timeout before you have one of those fainting spells.
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The Downtown Raleigh Alliance launches a new app, DTRaleigh. Greg Hatem immediately declares it unusable and too loud.
l Where
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You Glad We’re Not Named Banana
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You Glad You’re Here
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You Glad You Left Durham Co.
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sucks
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The Orange County Board of Commissioners is expected to announce the new slogan by early March. l triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Victoria Bouloubasis, David Hudnall, and Jane Porter.
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Pick Your Own Voters: A Legislative Adventure!
THE NEW MAP LOOKS BETTER, ACCOMPLISHES THE SAME GOAL
BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN
Ask most political scientists, and they’ll tell you that the media fretting over gerrymandering is often overblown. It’s a factor, sure, but it isn’t the sole driver of political polarization—the not-gerrymandered U.S. Senate has polarized nearly as much as the U.S. House—or the only reason Democrats struggle to win legislative and congressional majorities. “Redistricting isn’t everything,” says N.C. State political science professor Andrew Taylor. “Institutions aren’t everything. There’s something else going on.” Another, perhaps bigger culprit is self-segregation: liberals cram into urban areas, where Democrats rack up huge margins. Conservatives spread out in exurbs and rural areas, where Republicans win more seats by slightly smaller margins. That happens absent any legislative chicanery. Even so, North Carolina’s 2011 gerrymander is a special case. The districts passed by the legislature locked in an immovable 10–3 GOP advantage, packing every available minority voter into those three blue districts and allowing Republicans elsewhere to coast. November elections became meaningless, and races were decided in the primaries, which
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encourages extremism. Republicans weren’t coy about their motives: this was overtly political. Political gerrymandering, by the way, is constitutionally permissible (or, at least, the courts haven’t said it isn’t). Racial gerrymandering is not. Writing for a three-judge panel earlier this month, U.S. Circuit Court Judge Roger Gregory ruled that, despite Republican protestations, he wasn’t convinced that the “redistricting was purely a politically driven affair.” Thus, the map violated the Voting Rights Act. (When African-Americans comprise such a strong Democratic bloc, overlap between partisan and racial interests is probably unavoidable.) So last week, lawmakers took another crack at it. The new map they rushed to cobble together looks different—most notably, the Twelfth Congressional District, which formerly snaked from Charlotte to Winston-Salem, only twenty miles wide at its widest point, is now confined to Mecklenburg County—but it accomplishes the same goal: an immovable 10–3 split. Once again, absent a political tsunami, November is meaningless, and races are decided in the primaries. Not surprisingly, the new map has already come under fire. On Monday, the state NAACP announced that it will ask federal judges to toss these districts and replace them with their own creation. But even if this version passes muster, Taylor points out, the next redistricting battle is just around the corner—in 2021, after the next census. And North Carolina in 2020 will look dramatically different than it did in 2010. In fact, it’s already different. As UNC’s Carolina Population Center observed, the new map relies on 2010 census data. Since then, the state’s urban (and more progressive) counties have seen massive growth, while rural counties have shrunk. The new map doesn’t capture that. But the next one will. Today, says Jane Pinsky, director of the NC Coalition
for Lobbying & Government Reform, “Fifty percent of North Carolina residents live in fifteen counties. Fifty percent of the congressional vote should be coming from those places.” That’s not what’s happening. Of course, it’s not like the Democrats did any better when they wielded power. In the closely divided nineties, Pinsky says, Democrats drew districts that granted Republicans about 30 percent of the seats. If anything, the Democrats back then were only held back by the limits of computer technology. “It’s nothing new,” Pinsky says. “The problem is the process.” That’s why she wants to take redistricting out of politicians’ hands. Instead, her coalition’s plan, modeled after one in Iowa, calls for giving that task to nonpartisan legislative staffers with a dictate that no political considerations be allowed. The legislature could accept or reject the staffers’ map but not amend it. A bipartisan bill to do just that easily passed the state House in 2011—with votes from Representative Paul Stam and then-Speaker Thom Tillis—but died in the Senate. Similar legislation was introduced in 2013 but went nowhere. Politicians may be reluctant to relinquish their power to choose their own voters, but in a fast-changing state, Taylor says, that may prove a strategic error. “The motive [for reform] is that it’s an insurance plan over getting screwed over,” he says. “You can’t draw a plan in one year that you can be sure returns you a majority in the legislative body ten years later. The other guys will just screw you over.” ● jbillman@indyweek.com
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Parting Shots
A COLUMN ENDS, BUT THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES BY BOB GEARY
This is it for my weekly column. Bottom of the ninth, last licks. Which is awkward, because I never got around to writing about the next round of roundabouts planned for Hillsborough Street in Raleigh. Never said what I think about the “Connect NC” bond issue on our March primary ballots. Didn’t say that N.C. Supreme Court Justice Bob Edmunds, to preserve what’s left of his integrity, should drop out as a candidate for re-election—or “retention”—in 2016. Therefore: l The next three roundabouts, if built as designed, will be too big. They should fit within the existing intersections, not bulge out into adjoining properties. Like so much else that’s been done on Hillsborough Street, the concept is fine, but the execution—the scale—is supersized. Here’s hoping that when the bids come in, the price will also be too big, and the city council will put the roundabouts on a diet. l “Connect NC” is like a bond-issue parody. Does anyone seriously believe that this $2 billion grab bag of local goodies tossed together by Republican legislators are North Carolina’s highest capital spending priorities? It’s called Connect NC because, when Governor McCrory first proposed it, it was a transportation bond. Now, not one dollar for transportation. I’m voting no. l How desperate are the Republicans to retain their 4–3 majority on the state Supreme Court? So desperate that they changed the law so that Edmunds, a Republican whose term expires in December, could run against nobody in a so-called retention election. Oops, a three-judge panel just ruled that this Soviet-style election violates the state constitution. That ruling will be appealed to—LOL—the state Supreme Court. Bob Edmunds, do the right thing. Uphold the constitution. But first, remove the conflict of interest, and the stink on your judicial seat, by withdrawing as a candidate. I’ve been writing for the INDY since the nineties as a freelancer, a staff writer for
thirteen years, and for three-plus years as a columnist. I didn’t keep count, but that’s at least two thousand stories, essays, columns, and blog posts, as well as a poem or two. I’ve had my say. And it’s been a privilege. This was my second go-round as a journalist, interrupted by some years in politics and public relations. My first time, I worked for a daily newspaper and in public broadcasting and learned that it’s not what you know, it’s what your sources know. That’s still the case. But here’s the difference between a traditional newspaper and the INDY. In the former, your sources tend to be elected officials, business leaders, and the PR flacks who tell you how well it’s all going. Sure, he said, she said. But everyone, if he or she is in the know, says it’s a great city, honest government, the businesses are growing, and the leaders far-seeing. Look, this one’s even written a book! At the INDY, we listen to those people. But we give equal consideration to the critics, the protesters, and those who dream of what never was and ask—as Bobby Kennedy famously did—why not. So, from my earliest days at the INDY, we asked why not equal rights—and dignity— for our LGBT friends. I didn’t start it. I was happy to get in on it. I was proud when we stated that we wouldn’t treat the despicable Amendment 1 as “he said, she said,” but would plant our flag on the side of seeing the people it would harm. I’m proud that in 2002, when this country—and the mainstream media— couldn’t wait to invade Iraq, we gave voice to the antiwar movement. I went to New York City in 2004 when five hundred thousand protesters marched at the Republican National Convention. I’ve never been more disgusted with the Democratic Party than when John Kerry, the 2004 presidential nominee, reminded everyone that he voted for the war before he voted against it—or was it the other way around? We—I—haven’t always been right. Over my objection, we endorsed John Edwards
for Senate in the 1998 Democratic primary. But I myself was an Edwards enthusiast the second time he ran for president, in 2008. My mistake. On the other hand, we were all over Occupy Raleigh in 2011, when the national Occupy movement defined the 1 percent and how they’re screwing the rest of us. Occupy folks, who camped on the streets for weeks, will forever have my admiration. Likewise, the N.C. Stop Torture Now folks, who refuse to accept what the government has done in our name. Ditto the anti–death penalty groups. They fought for justice. I got to write about them.
Raleigh development? Finally, twenty years after my first story about transitoriented development, Raleigh selected its first four transit routes—five if you count the rail corridor. Hallelujah! In 2006, I wrote a cover story, “Imagine Dix.” Today, Raleigh owns the entire Dorothea Dix Hospital tract, with plans to make it a destination park. You do win some. This column is ending, but I’ll be writing some longer stories for the INDY periodically, starting next month. The first one is on adjunct college faculty. Send me a note if you want to be a source. l rjgeary@mac.com
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The 2016 Citizen Awards
THE INDY ’S ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF THE TRIANGLE’S CHANGEMAKERS “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” Gandhi once told us. The Triangle has more than its share of challenges: affordable housing and gentrification, pockets where there’s a lot of crime but little opportunity, infrastructure that struggles to keep up with growth. And for each of these problems, there are dedicated souls trying to help. For the last thirty-three years, the INDY’s Citizen Awards have honored individuals who are being the change they wish to see. In keeping with that tradition, this installment profiles five people who are striving to foster a better community. Whether they’re assisting the needy, forging a juvenile-justice system that is a little more just, or improving the lives of our canine companions, they exemplify the best parts of our nature—our empathy, our compassion, our willingness to help those who can’t always help themselves. All around us we see a coarsening of our culture and politics, a bubbling sense of anger and resentment in which empathy is mistaken for weakness and disadvantage for laziness. These five serve as a reminder that we can do better.—Jeffrey C. Billman
In late 2013, it seemed like the grappling over feeding the homeless in Moore Square would never end. Volunteers who came to the park on Saturdays and Sundays for years were threatened with arrest for distributing coffee and biscuits to the hungry. The sudden enforcement of a fourteen-yearold ordinance prohibiting food distribution in public parks made national news, creating a tense situation among the Raleigh Police Department, nonprofits, and city officials. The standoff would have been a lot for anyone to handle— especially someone so new to this line of advocacy work. Shana Overdorf, the executive director of the Raleigh-Wake Partnership to End Homelessness, had stepped into her new role on October 21, 2013, in the middle of the Moore Square crisis. The next day, Overdorf attended a community meeting in the massive IMAX building across the street from the park, where 150 people representing forty different community groups were waiting to discuss the issue. “A PowerPoint went up about the short- and long-term
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solutions,” she recalls, “and I was thinking, is that us? Here I am, one day into the job, and there were a lot of challenges.” Overdorf has instigated a massive amount of change in her two and a half years as the partnership’s executive director. In addition to coordinating the two dozen individual agencies that provide homelessness services in the area, Overdorf oversees The Wake County Homeless Resource Guide and Project Homelessness Connect. She also led the charge to create the Oak City Outreach Center, a thirty-two-hundred-square-foot food distribution center across the street from Moore Square that opened in 2014. “I was working with people experiencing homelessness prior to her coming in, and, I swear, it felt like nothing would ever change,” says Maggie Kane, a volunteer at the center who plans to open a pay-what-you-can cafe this summer. “But the change with her here has been radical for the community. She coordinated with the city, built great relationships with nonprofits, and brought everyone together. We finally collaborate because of her.”
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Kane says it’s hard to imagine that a large undertaking like a centralized food-distribution center would have been possible without Overdorf’s guidance. At the Outreach Center, Overdorf coordinates with forty-eight different volunteer and community groups that provide meals on the weekends. “I will tell you now, twenty months into this, that we have groups working together who probably never envisioned that,” Overdorf says. “In the morning, it could be a church, in the afternoon a nonprofit, and the next morning an Islamic group. We have a lot of diversity, and everyone has stayed with us.” Overdorf has also been instrumental in healing the relationship between the homeless and the Raleigh Police Department. With over a hundred people in the building at any given time, the center relies on a roster of fifty RPD members who have chosen the Outreach Center—over football games and concerts—to devote their off-duty hours to. “They stand for nine or ten hours a day and interact with people they might not normally interact with,” she says. “Giving the police department the opportunity to be seen in a positive way is one of the things I’m most proud of. They deserve that.” With Overdorf at the partnership’s helm, the number of homeless in Wake County has dropped from 1,170 in 2014 to 887 in 2015, according to annual counts. With the right tools, Overdorf believes her team can end homelessness entirely in Wake County. She sees affordable housing as her next big challenge, along with standardizing systems throughout the various agencies she works with. That effort begins with a partnership between Overdorf’s group, the city of Raleigh, and Wake County to capitalize on the momentum of the Oak City Outreach Center and build a multiservice facility— think showers, lockers, and laundry—within the next two years. “We’re doing a lot more than just serving meals. It’s relationships, community building, connecting people,” Overdorf says. “We send volunteers to pick up trash in Moore Square, because we love downtown Raleigh and want to be really good neighbors. We want people to be happy, because this is just the beginning.” —Tina Haver Currin
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Making Juvenile Justice Actually Just
A disturbing paradox of North Carolina state law is that, though sixteen- and seventeenyear-olds can’t smoke, drink, or vote, they can still be prosecuted criminally. A sixteenyear-old busted for a dime bag (or for any other misdemeanor offense) is considered an adult in the eyes of the justice system in North Carolina. This is not true anywhere else in the country except for New York—and in New York there’s a program that allows these minors to be sent from the adult system to the juvenile system under certain circumstances. “If you’re sixteen or seventeen anywhere else, the juvenile courts will work with you to improve your school situation, or your mental health situation, or substance-abuse issues,” says Durham County Chief District Judge Marcia Morey. “They fashion their services to help you be a productive part of the system, rather than have you start your life out with a criminal record at the age of sixteen.” Morey has been an outspoken critic of this state policy, but she’s also doing something about it here in Durham. With the cooperation of the Durham County District Attorney’s Office and local law enforcement agencies, Morey established the Misdemeanor Diversion Program in 2014. Today, sixteen- and seventeen-year-old misdemeanor offenders in Durham with no criminal history are eligible to participate in a ninety-day diversion program, in which they have to do community service and sit through a scaredstraight educational session, where the teenage offenders see up close how severe their financial penalties—as much as $1,000 in court-related fees and costs—could have been. There are other costs, as well. “You’ll have a record showing a charge and conviction for the rest of your life,” Morey says. “So when you want your first job, or your first apartment, or financial aid for college, or to sign up for the military, that record will be there to slam shut those doors of opportunity.” Morey—who serves on a variety of committees in the area, including the Durham Crime
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Cabinet, the Criminal Justice Advisory Committee, and the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council—took a winding road to her judgeship. Most notably, she was cocaptain of the women’s swim team in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. A few years later, when the NCAA opened its doors to women’s sports, Morey— by then a lawyer—became its first female investigator. During her three-year tenure with the NCAA, she investigated Charlie Pell (the disgraced Clemson and Florida football coach) and the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels. After a brief stint as a journalist in her hometown of Decatur, Illinois, Morey relocated to Chapel Hill. She landed a job in the Durham County District Attorney’s Office in 1989. One of her first assignments was juvenile court. “You hear heartbreaking stories, but it’s also early enough in their lives that you can try to give hope to these kids and families about their future,” Morey says. “I learned a lot during that time.” She founded the Durham County Teen Court program, a precursor to the educational aspect of the Misdemeanor Diversion Program. She also saw what she considered various forms of injustice baked into the system. “At that time, any judge could throw a kid into training school, which is what they used to call juvenile prison, for any reason—shoplifting, running away from home, whatever. If they were thirteen years old, a judge could send them away until their eighteenth birthday. It was just a mess.” In 1997, Morey was appointed to a task force that produced the Juvenile Justice Reform Act, a major rewrite of the state’s juvenile code. Of the task force’s forty-two recommendations, forty-one were adopted.
The one that wasn’t? Raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction to eighteen. “And it continues to be a knife in the back to kids in our state,” Morey says. “It needs to change.” In Durham, at least, things are beginning to change. So far, the Misdemeanor Diversion Program has a 98 percent success rate: of the 125 youths who have passed through it, only two were not successful, and only four received new charges. And last year, the program expanded to include nonviolent offenders between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one. This week marks Morey’s seventeenth anniversary on the Durham County bench. State law allows judges to serve until the age of seventy-two. That gives Morey about ten more years if she keeps being re-elected (she has run unopposed in every election), and if she wishes to continue to serve the citizens of Durham County. We should be so lucky. —David Hudnall
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What It Means To Be a Black Man
One of Mark Anthony Neal’s proudest moments as an educator happened while he was waiting in the drive-thru at a Durham KFC. It was around six years ago, when his weekly black-studies webcast, Left of Black, was still in its early stages. Back then, it was shown on a local-access channel. He had no idea how many people he was reaching. “I was at a KFC one day, and my food wasn’t quite ready,” Neal recalls. “So they asked me to pull to the side. And eventually the guy came out to bring me my food. And he stopped, and he goes, ‘I know you. I saw that episode with Cornell West that you did. Good stuff.’ And for me, that was the moment—the fact that a dude working in the KFC found some value in the work we were doing. That’s what this is about.” What it’s about for Duke University’s esteemed black popular culture professor can be summed up by his own words: “I am absolutely committed to the idea of an academy in which the work we do in the classroom extends beyond the four walls of the classroom.” He’s used and provided many platforms for doing that: books, podcasts, webcasts, social media, and, of course, the classroom. And many people, like that guy at KFC, have INDYweek.com | 2.24.16 | 13
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Lori Hensley Mark Anthony Neal Cooper, he notes, “was writing as a black woman feminist in the eighteen nineties. You know, that has nothing to do with Gloria Steinem.” The “hip-hop head” in him comes from the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, where he grew up. He was there in the seventies, when DJs started spinning records and making breakbeats in the park. That background, naturally, impresses 9th Wonder. “Mark Anthony Neal has taught me that, speaking about hip-hop, speaking about culture, you have to be as objective as possible,” he says, “even if you’re talking about faults. We have to do that sometimes. A lot of people don’t like when we have to do that. Academia makes you look at things from a broad scope. You can’t be closed-minded about it.”—Danny Hooley
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ning, this will be the space where you can have the most honest conversations about race and gender and sexuality than you’ll have in any other places,” he says. Black masculinity is the main focal point of Neal’s career—and the subject of his books New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005) and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (2013). That career focus “wasn’t necessarily my idea,” he says. His path began when the former English major went into American studies at the University of New York at Buffalo. “My dissertation adviser, Alexis De Veaux, was an out black lesbian. And somehow we created this relationship, the young hip-hop head, the older black lesbian. You know, I still refer to her as my intellectual mother.” After he graduated, De Veaux urged him to write a book about black men. “What De Veaux trained me to think about is that there is actually a long trajectory of feminist scholars that have nothing to do with [white feminism],” Neal says. To prove it, he mentions Anna Julia Cooper, who was born enslaved in Raleigh in 1858. She went on to become the fourth African-American woman to earn a doctorate.
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benefitted from his work. Natalie Bullock-Brown, a professor in the Department of Film and Interactive Media at Saint Augustine University, is Neal’s copanelist on the weekly WUNC podcast #BackChannel. She considers him a mentor—and she’s not the only one. “He has people who, I would say, call him a mentor at schools throughout the country,” says Bullock-Brown. “That’s just the type of person that he is. He’s very generous in sharing platforms that’ll allow for his younger colleagues to flex, and grow, and shine.” Neal, who just turned fifty, has written extensively on popular culture, hip-hop, and black masculinity. In 2014, he opened the Center for Arts, Digital Culture, and Entrepreneurship at Duke, where he offers courses on all aspects of black culture and masculinity, including signature courses on Michael Jackson and the history of hip-hop, which he teaches alongside acclaimed Durham producer 9th Wonder. His work is laudable in part for his genius at identifying the best texts and digital platforms he can use to engage his students in continued conversations about pop culture, black-music history, Black Lives Matter, slavery, Jim Crow, and all things interconnected through the ages. Neal’s hip-hop class has roots in the Bronx high school class he taught in the early nineties. Other teachers considered it the worst class in the school. The kids had run the previous teacher out. But, for Neal, the turning point came when he brought a song by Guru and Gang Starr into class to illustrate the crucial link between hip-hop and jazz. “To this day, I tell folks that that was the most rewarding teaching experience that I ever had,” he says, “and one that continues to inform how I teach.” A commitment to honesty also informs his teaching. “We tell [students] from the begin-
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Changing the Landscape of Canine Care
It’s a mild February morning, and a dozen people are hammering wire to wood, building a fence in a grassy backyard off Ashe Street in east Durham. The fence builders are from the Coalition to Unchain Dogs, an animal welfare and community outreach organization founded in 2008. Lori Hensley, a woman with a warm demeanor and infectious energy, is overseeing the build, accompanied by the five pit bulls that will live in individual compartments within the fence’s confines after it is built. “The neighbors tell each other about Mrs. Lori,” says Derrick Scott, who owns both the dogs and the property. Neighbors to the left and right of his home also
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thousand students were identified as being truly homeless; twenty-seven thousand lacked stable housing. Some folks view the issues that face impoverished students in North Carolina as insurmountable. For Nation Hahn, a consultant for the education advocacy group EdNC, these problems are his purpose, and making sure the state’s students have enough healthy food is his focus. Hahn understands that when students’ basic needs are met, they’re able to learn better, and with learning comes leadership. Creating the state’s future leaders through the Jamie Kirk Hahn Foundation— the organization he founded following the death of his wife, Jamie, who was murdered in 2013—is Hahn’s second mission. “If you invest in people, you are investing in change,” Hahn says. “And, in some ways, if you invest in the right people, you could be investing into a large-scale system change.” The foundation invests in the state’s young people in a variety of ways. For example, this summer will mark the second year of a fellowship program, in which selected applicants, who are paid for their time, develop leadership skills by traveling the state, touring lowwealth schools, working in urban gardens, and meeting with diverse groups of people. A fellow last year devised a policy boot camp through EdNC; 120 Enloe High School students participated in skill-building and leadership-development exercises, a model that EdNC wants to use across the state. The foundation also hosts an annual series of conversations called “Gathering for Good,” in which participants talk about issues facing the state and explore ways to address them. The theme this year is how to build better relationships between rural and urban communities. “The idea is that you bring people together across race, gender, age, socioeconomic background, and experience,” Hahn says. “You make it to where everyone feels they are on an equal playing field and where everyone can share their ideas for how to improve North Carolina and their community.” Last year, the series focused on creating a
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have these fences in their yards. “That’s how you know Mrs. Lori will be there for you.” Previous Citizen Award winner Amanda Arrington started the coalition, which grew out of work by her and others to pass an ordinance in Durham County outlawing unattended tethered dogs. It has evolved into a one-stop services provider for dog owners who need help. Coalition volunteers will build a fence for dog owners on the condition that they spay or neuter their pets. The group donates food to its clients, covers vaccinations and veterinary care, transports dogs to the vet, provides straw in the winter and tarps for shade in the summer, and gives owners new leashes and collars. Arrington calls it “a comprehensive approach to keeping owners and their dogs together.” Hensley, who met Arrington at a party in 2007, has been with the coalition since its inception. She’s held the role of director of operations since 2010. Hensley manages the business side, including applying for grants and planning fund-raisers, engaging clients and donors, and organizing fence builds. Hensley describes the coalition’s evolution as being “a lot of trial and error.” “For example, in 2008 we might have built a big fence for all five of these dogs, thinking this will be great, they can all play together,” she says. “And we’ve learned they probably can play together. But if they can’t, it’s not going to go well.” Hence, the individual compartments. Hensley says that, over the past eight years, the coalition has unchained 1,134 dogs and provided spay/neuter services to 2,075 dogs in Durham. It now has roughly seven hundred clients. Building relationships with the members of the community that the coalition serves, Hensley and Arrington say, is just as important as the animal-welfare aspect. “People who live here don’t really have access to resources you and I have and take for granted,” Hensley says. “They have no access to getting what they need to help their pets. If one of Derrick’s dogs gets really sick and his car is broken down, he can’t put it on the city bus. What’s he going to do? So we bring the services here, because we think that poverty’s not a measure of how much you love your pet.” Under Hensley’s guidance, coalition chapters have popped up in Wake and Orange
counties as well. Hensley oversees these chapters, though other volunteers run their day-to-day operations. And similar models have popped up in cities across the country, including Portland and Nashville, though they are not affiliated with the coalition, which was the first of its kind in the country. Last year, Hensley accepted the ASPCA’s national Henry Bergh Award for her work on behalf of animals and communities. “The work is very gratifying because within a couple of hours you’re making a huge difference in the lives of the dogs,” Hensley says. “Amanda and I talk about when we started nine years ago, we would drive into the neighborhood and see roaming dogs, pregnant chained dogs, dogs everywhere. And now it’s a different scene. It’s very rewarding to still be here and to see a huge difference in the community, a change in landscape with regard to pet care.” —Jane Porter
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Turning Tragedy into a Mission Two-thirds of North Carolina’s public school students are enrolled in free and reduced lunch programs, according to the state’s Department of Public Instruction. At the last statewide point-in-time count, three
twenty-first-century leadership-development model for a changing state. The group then used the model to help make communities healthier, and it came up with funding for a strategic plan to serve southeast Raleigh’s food desert. In March, the foundation will announce the winner of a $25,000 innovation grant, which will go to a group that devises the best way to deliver high-quality food to homeless or housinginsecure people. The contest, known as the Fresh Food Challenge, is being done in collaboration with the Raleigh-Wake Partnership to End Homelessness (helmed by fellow Citizen Award winner Shana Overdorf ). Hahn draws heavily on his own life experience to guide his work. Born to teenage parents in Lenoir, Hahn lived with different family members until he was adopted by his aunt and uncle. His adoptive father was a butcher, and his grandmother owned restaurants; he spent his summer vacations in the backs of restaurants and in family gardens, where he developed an interest in food and nutrition. Jamie, Hahn says, inspired his interest in the politics of food. She volunteered at Raleigh City Farm and was an avid cook. Before her death at the age of twenty-nine, she and Nation had already discussed establishing a foundation that took a holistic view of food systems and communities. “I dove in and just learned as much as I could and in turn became passionate about it as well,” he says. Hahn’s overarching goal through the foundation, he says, is to create “an army of Jamies,” groups of volunteers and leaders who embody Jamie’s dedication to service and share her desire to bring people together. And through EdNC, Hahn says, he wants to ensure that every child in North Carolina has a chance to succeed. “We are always listening and trying to always learn,” says Hahn. “It’s fun to be part of two different organizations in two different ways that mean a lot to me personally, and I think also, to the community. We are trying to do things differently, not the same way things have always been done.” —Jane Porter backtalk@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 2.24.16 | 15
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Side-eye from the fall guy: Jon Wurster (left) and Tom Scharpling
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hen you’re about to interview Tom Scharpling over the phone, you might feel a twinge of anxiety. After all, on The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, he’s made an art out of creatively hanging up on poor, unsuspecting callers. It happened to me! It was 2012, but I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was listening to the show on my computer, and Scharpling opened up the lines. Many callers failed to impress him and were GOMPed. (That’s shorthand for “get off my phone,” which Scharpling often yells before hanging up.) Still, I took a chance and called in, fully expecting the hang-up treatment. As I began to tell Scharpling the story of a trio of women I knew who went to karaoke bars calling themselves The Crotchless Panties, he kept saying, “Uh-huh.” I kept talking until I heard the phone click. As I went back to the show online, I heard Scharpling giggling. It turns out that while I was talking, he was playing Bad Company’s “Bad Company.” When I reach Scharpling on the phone this time—he assures me he won’t hang up—he says I was probably one of the first to receive the unfortunate honor of being "Bad Companied," a fate reserved for boring callers. “You might have been on the ground floor of it,” Scharpling says, driving home from his day job as a writer for the upcoming HBO series Divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker. “Congratulations on being an early adopter.” Scharpling has presided over The Best Show with mighty, cranky authority for sixteen years, first at New Jersey free-form radio station WFMU, where it was called The Best Show on WFMU, then on his own podcast. The show has attracted devotees from the worlds of music (Aimee Mann, Ted Leo) and comedy (Marc Maron, Patton Oswalt), who often call in or show up as studio guests. Celebrities like Amy Poehler, Conan O’Brien, Paul Rudd, and Zach Galifianakis are fans. Scharpling steers the ship as a curmudgeonly captain, throwing callers overboard if they’re bringing the show down. “It’s all in the quest to try to put together the funniest possible show,” he says. “I’m sure you’ve wanted to hang up on people and couldn’t. But when I’m on the air, I can. It’s not the real world.” There couldn’t be a more accurate statement about what Scharpling does every Tuesday night, fielding lengthy calls from the townspeople of Newbridge, New Jersey. But here’s the thing: Newbridge is fake, and
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the callers are usually portrayed by one man, Chapel Hill’s Jon Wurster. When Wurster isn’t busy drumming for Superchunk, the Mountain Goats, or Bob Mould, he calls The Best Show in character as various Newbridge citizens, baffling Scharpling with all the weird, wacky things that go on there. There’s mediocre rocker Barry Dworkin and two-inch-tall racist Timmy Von Trimble (long since retired, for obvious reasons). There’s Horse, the muscle-headed computer repairman from Radio Hut’s “Jock Squad;” Roland “The Gorch” Gorchnick, senior citizen and alleged model for the Fonz; and, most frequently of all, hardcore Philadelphian Roy Ziegler, a.k.a. Philly Boy Roy (see sidebar). It’s apt that the most famous resident of a town as eccentric as Newbridge (he was even mayor for a while) is someone who—to paraphrase what W.C. Fields famously wanted on his tombstone—would rather be in Philadelphia. l l l
When I meet up with Wurster at a downtown Raleigh eatery, he tells me how Newbridge came to be after the characters emerged. “A few years into the calls, we realized these people should all live in the same place,” he says, citing the sketch-comedy show SCTV, broadcast from the fictional town of Melonville, as an influence. “It just made things a lot more compact and easier, and then we could have these people interact. A character could reference a character from two months ago that you had forgotten about.” Wurster, who grew up outside of Philadelphia, met Scharpling in the summer of 1992, when Superchunk shared a New York show with Pavement and My Bloody Valentine. Contrary to what an old bio on their Stereolaffs website says about their first meeting, Scharpling didn’t actually shove Wurster’s face in a backstage toilet. “We talked that night and got along great,” Wurster remembers. “We had a very similar sensibility in terms of what we liked, comedy-wise, music-wise, and we just kind of kept in touch after that.” They did their first call together in 1997, before The Best Show even existed, when Scharpling was a DJ at WFMU. Wurster portrayed a pedantic music critic who’d written a book called Rock, Rot and Rule, which divided artists into those three categories. Wurster says the character was inspired by Jim Desmond, a critic for this paper at the time.
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Roy Ziegler, or “Philly Boy Roy,” has been The Best Show’s most incessant caller through the years—more than a hundred times and counting. So we weren’t too surprised to hear from him when he found out we were doing this story, and he insisted we print the unedited emails below.
INDY: Thanks for taking the time to talk to us. First off, how’s the family?
PHILLY BOY ROY: Oh, you know, for every good thing, there’s somethin’ not so good. For example: my wife Rhoda is lettin’ me sleep in our bedroom again. On the minus side, Roy Jr. is in juvie for trying to steal a decommissioned WW2 tank from the park down the street. They should let him out because 1) he only drove the thing two blocks before crashing it into a gas station, and B) hardly anyone was hurt.
What made you want to start calling The Best Show?
I didn’t like that Tom never played no Philly music on his show. I mean, who don’t wanna hear a Hooters/Todd Rundgren/Dead Milkmen rock block? So, I called to complain
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TALKIN' WITH PHILLY BOY ROY and we became what you might call best of enemies, like William F. Buckley and Al Gore.
How do you feel about a lot of your calls appearing in the Best of the Best Show box set? On the one hand it’s cool because people are finding out more about how to party Phillystyle. But on the other hand it sucks because I don’t get no money from the box set. It makes me feel like the artist formerly known as and also currently known as Prince when he was mad at everybody in the ’90s.
Since you’re the expert on all things Philly, I was wondering, do you know where the hell actress and South Philly native Linda Fiorentino went?
Oh, she’s still around. I actually helped her pick out a new hockey jersey for Kevin Smith a couple weeks ago at Foot Locker Behemoth.
Speaking of Philly and Hollywood, are you pissed off Creed was nominated for only one Oscar? Damn right I am. But how can I take serious an institution that don’t give Eddie Murphy
Best Actor for sayin’ “I’m a karate man … karate man bruise on the inside” in “Trading Places”—the best Philly movie of all time?
Are you going to be at the Scharpling and Wurster show? If so, what can we expect?
Oh, yeah, I’ll be there havin’ a tailgate party outside Motorco. You should stop by and have one or fourteen Yuenglings with me. But don’t be surprised if I get onstage and tell those two dips to take me to where my box set money’s at, like in “Jerry MacGyver.”
What do you want people to know the most about Philly Boy Roy?
Look, I’m just a normal guy. I put on my Phillies sweatpants one leg at a time before goin’ to church just like everyone else. I try to do what’s right, but it’s hard because the wrong way is, like, always 100% more fun. That phrase is chiseled onto the Liberty Bell, by the way. Ben Franklin had them add it at the last minute. You know he was doin’ bong hits when they was writing the Declaration of Independence, right? All those guys partied Philly-style. I’m just keepin’ our four fathers’ dream alive.
The calls, which are mostly scripted, can go for a couple of minutes or nearly an hour. They earned the duo a cult-comedy status that fed into mainstream careers. Scharpling has been a writer and producer for Monk and the director of witty music videos for Aimee Mann, The New Pornographers and Wild Flag. With Wurster, he’s contributed to Adult Swim shows Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and Tom Goes to the Mayor. They had their own Adult Swim special in 2014, The Newbridge Tourism Board Presents: “We’re Newbridge, We’re Comin’ To Get Ya!” And next month, Scharpling and Wurster hit primetime, appearing on The Simpsons as characters similar to those who live in Newbridge. “Who would’ve ever thought this would lead to that?” Wurster says. “It’s just—I can’t believe it.” Scharpling and Wurster have released compilations of their calls for some time, but last year they got the proper box-set treatment from Chicago reissue label The Numero Group. The Best of the Best Show includes sixteen CDs’ worth of calls, and its release prompted the pair to take the characters on the road to appear in front of live audiences. “We’d been talking about doing live shows, but we didn’t know how to do it, or if people would like it or get it,” Wurster says. “This was the perfect opportunity to actually try it.” The experiment wraps up Saturday night at Motorco, with a house band that includes several notable locals, including Peter Holsapple, Ben Folds Five’s Robert Sledge, and a couple of Pressure Boys. As they give their old characters a workout on tour, Scharpling and Wurster continue to introduce new ones on The Best Show. Earlier this month, Wurster called in as extremesports athlete Rad McKinney, talking to Scharpling about a thrilling yet ill-fated stunt he pulled on top of Mount Newbridge. “We’re not in it for the money,” Wurster says of their long-lasting enthusiasm, laughing. “We just love to do what we do, and I’m so lucky that I found this guy to be in my life and to help create this stuff for the last fifteen years or so—and hopefully, fifteen more.” Even after all these years of playing the crabby foil to Wurster’s ridiculous townsfolk, Scharpling agrees that The Best Show will always be a labor of love. “It’s still fun to do, and it’s still funny,” he says. “It’s still my favorite thing to do, and it’s still satisfying.” l Twitter: @unclecrizzle INDYweek.com | 2.24.16 | 19
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INDY: You recorded Bramble Rose fifteen years ago, in 2001. How has it felt to reconnect with songs that are now teenagers? TIFT MERRITT: This is a really complicated time to look back. That’s a little bit like me to stick my face into something loaded. That’s what writers are prone to do, so I didn’t shy away from it. I’m not a huge fan of looking back, but having just moved back and having so many things going on, I thought it would be a nice time to reconnect with my old friends, if nothing else. Creatively it’s really interesting to look back at that 20 | 2.24.16 | INDYweek.com
That’s a really clear, straightforward place to come from. I like that.
BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN
Tift Merritt PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
I last sat down to talk to Tift Merritt in January 2008, in a coffee shop in Manhattan. It was a period of intense transition for the countrysoul singer, songwriter, and Raleigh expatriate. The major label Lost Highway had just dropped her after two records, and she’d dispatched to an apartment in Paris, writing alone with only a piano. Back in New York, though, she and her longtime drummer and partner, Zeke Hutchins, had settled into a 265-square-foot Greenwich Village walk-up apartment, from which she was restarting her career with the charming third album, Another Country. Eight years later, Merritt, now forty-one, and I meet in another coffee shop—this time in Raleigh, just a few blocks from the house she’s renting in the old Oakwood neighborhood. She’s been here three weeks, and she admits she’s still living largely out of boxes. She’s currently mixing her sixth studio album, and she’s seven months pregnant with her first child. Merritt and Hutchins split long ago, so she’s adjusting to the Triangle without him—again, another period of intense transition. This time, Merritt and I sat for an hour to talk about the present but especially the past, given the recent reissue of Bramble Rose, the debut LP she released on Lost Highway fourteen years ago. She’s practicing to perform it in its entirety for the first time. “There’s a lot going on,” she says, smiling and blinking in the noon sunshine. “But it’s interesting to be home.”
THREE WEEKS AFTER RETURNING TO RALEIGH, TIFT MERRITT LOOKS BACK ON HER NEWLY REISSUED DEBUT, BRAMBLE ROSE——AND LIFE SINCE THOSE SONGS
record. I have a lot of opinions about it, mostly about the writing. I can see I was really more of a short story writer than a songwriter; the songs are so goddamn long. I’m glad to see the arc of where I’ve come. There is a recalibration that happens when you do this kind of thing. Maybe that’s what I was hoping for with all of the change that is going on in my life—to sort of touch base with where it started. That record was a lot about my family and who I wanted to be and planting a flag.
Last year, Don Henley released his own version of “Bramble Rose.” Did that give this album a retroactive boost? We wanted to do what we could to support the Bramble Rose record in light of that. Universal was sweet and allowed Yep Roc to reissue it, which doesn’t always happen with those larger companies. It’s funny, when I was making Tambourine, Don Henley’s bass player was involved. He was like, “You know, we play ‘Bramble Rose’ all the time in our sound check with Don Henley.” That was twelve years ago. Then, I was actually playing the Cradle with Andrew Bird in 2014. We had all had a fair amount to drink that night. I woke up, and there was this email from Don Henley. I thought, “I better get up, get some coffee, and look at my email again.” He said, “I have cut a cover of ‘Bramble Rose,’ and I wanted to make sure that it is cool with you. I actually felt like I needed to bring another layer to it, so Mick Jagger did it with me and Miranda Lambert.” I couldn’t believe it.
Is it more significant somehow since it’s the title track from your record—a thesis almost? It certainly is what I wanted to stand for in a way. There actually was a bramble rose—I don’t remember the exact proper name—but it was a wild rose that I saw. It’s in Oakwood, on a bank, on a street. I was probably twentyfive or twenty-six years old, and I was really trying to become the person I wanted to be. This wild rose wasn’t really polished. It wasn’t perfect. It was, on some level, self-sufficient and determined. There was some grace in that. It was this amazing burnt orange color. It will come up in July, if it’s still there.
You’ve said that relationships to old records are never black or white, that they evolve. What do you like from Bramble Rose right now?
TIFT MERRITT PERFORMS BRAMBLE ROSE Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro Friday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m., $25 www.catscradle.com
I’m always surprised at how much I like “Sunday,” but I don’t play that one very often. If there is a piano at the gig, I’ll probably play that song. It feels very, very true to me, but it is very labored with the whole band. There are so many changes, and it’s such a long song. This isn’t one where I’m like, “Hey fellas, 1,2,3,4.” I think “Supposed to Make You Happy” is one of the more special things I’ve written, just the simplicity. I’m working on a new record now, and I can feel my eyebrow raise on particular sounds, minutiae required to turn in a one-hundred-percent-loved work. I couldn’t tell you one of those details on Bramble Rose. Those things fade away, and you don’t remember what you labored over unless it is a really special thing. I remember how I wrote “Supposed to Make You Happy.” It was a really simple, no-nonsense process. Those times are really special. You’ve gotten out of the way of something that needed to be said. What don’t you like? People like “Diamond Shoes” because it is a fast song. People like fast songs. But it is a very flawed song. There are just so many parts, so many long phrases, so many changes. They’re not, like, stupid, but how about we not make War and Peace into a four-minute song? I can remember talking to Ethan Johns and him saying, “We need to throw this part out,” which is a producer’s job. But I’m a writer first, and I can’t mess with the words very easily. I sort of have the same reaction these days. Did you change them? I don’t know. I’m stubborn, but I’m also a very whole-hearted collaborator. Ethan and I sat down before that record was made, and he made a lot of suggestions that I definitely took to heart. I came home and rerecorded things and thought about what he said. I’m generally protective of my words, but really getting the red pen out and being heartless about editing was important. What did you learn from that process? Having songs that shirk traditional song form and go on for six minutes are important. If you were gonna put seven of them on
one album, I would suggest editing yourself a little. I see myself transitioning into a shorter form on Bramble Rose. It’s very interesting to go back and musically see how I was trying to support that many words. My first two records are on a major label, and that wasn’t always easy, either. I had to fight to write my own songs and to keep my own band. It wasn’t a cakewalk. I don’t mind thinking about that at all now, because I’m very proud of how we held ourselves. One thing about Bramble Rose is that we really wanted to go from being a bar band to being “recording artists.” This is the first time that we’re standing in front of Neumann microphones. You want to gather your heroes and your best ideas and your highmindedness. But by the time we finished touring Bramble Rose, I felt like I wanted to incorporate the energy of being a bar band that we had had. Bramble Rose can be a bit of an interior record. I wanted to test that. Does that happen after most records? You try not to get your records to be a reaction to each other, but how can they not be on a certain level? You have an experience, and you go through, “Well, I’m gonna have this other experience now.” You do always have to push forward, but you have to do it in a way that feels true to your organs. There are a lot of things I haven’t accomplished, but I do think I’ve done that. That began with Bramble Rose, where I thought about what Ethan said. Then I decided, “Hey, here’s my line. We are gonna include this six-minute-and-fiftysecond song, good or bad.” Has revisiting this material made you feel like you’re being transported to some earlier version of yourself—especially now that you’re back in Raleigh? Surreal is a word. Emotional is a word. If my life were a little more intact, it would be more joyful. But it has been hard, just because Zeke and I aren’t together anymore. My life has just changed a lot. It’s really good to stop and say, “Holy cow, look at all that’s happened.” I’ve sorted through those old pictures, I guess. I’m trying to savor it in whatever way I can and allow it to seep in to what comes next. l gcurrin@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 2.24.16 | 21
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PIZZERIA MERCATO
408 W. Weaver St., Carrboro www.pizzeriamercatonc.com
Pie and Mighty
WITH PIZZERIA MERCATO, THE BARKER FAMILY AGAIN JOINS THE RANKS OF THE AREA’S BEST BY DAVID A. ROSS
“I have a chef friend who’s eaten here four straight nights,” exclaims the woman at the table next to mine. The statement is meant to astonish, but the server merely nods. Had the woman said, “I have a chef friend who liquidated his 401(k) so he can eat here every night for the next four years,” the reaction might have been the same. Pizzeria Mercato, the Barker family’s first post-Magnolia Grill venture, is a buzzy, pricey, James Beard-caliber departure from Carrboro’s earthy, earnest somnolence. Malfunctioning electrical transformers and Hollywood cellphones are this sort of buzzy. On a Thursday night at eight p.m., a five-deep throng clogs the entranceway. Heads swivel and crane to catch glimpses of charred pizzas in transit on metal trays. Nobody tentatively wonders if Elmo’s is busy or recalls being told that Akai Hana is OK or even checks the time. “Ooh, what was that?” is the sum of conversation.
An offering: Gabe Barker pulls a pizza from one of Mercato’s gas ovens.
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Is there a low-price Triangle food franchise more exciting than Rise right now? By summer’s end, Rise will have opened its seventh location, with expansion plans continuing to evolve. Just two months after launching in Raleigh’s Cameron Village, Rise will open its Carrboro location Saturday, Feb. 27. Two weeks later, on Saturday, March 12, the new downtown Durham location will open. A week earlier, Rise will be dispensing free donuts at the Durham Farmers Market. Hey, enjoy the rise. www.risebiscuitsanddonuts.com 22 | 2.24.16 | INDYweek.com
FAIR CATCH
Since Greg Gettles arrived at Piedmont as the executive chef amid last summer’s steam, the Durham institution has aspired to new tasks. Fried moss? Ambitiously themed dinners? Coon Rock Farm dishes that trim waste to a minimum? Piedmont’s latest endeavor, a quarterly series called Seasons of the Sea, attempts to fold other area chefs into that process. Saltbox’s Ricky Moore will dive into the water with Gettles first, as they plunder the offerings of Locals Seafood for a sixty-five-dollar six-course meal featuring striped bass and oysters, dogfish and rockfish stew. They’ll pay it forward, too, funneling a portion of the funds to education-and-advocacy nonprofit NC Catch. www.piedmontrestaurant.com
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Mercato is another exercise in industrial shabby-chic. In addition to the obligatory open kitchen with ringside seating, there are butcher-block tables, distressed wood benches, ducts and wires dangling from the corrugated metal ceiling, and cinder block walls. By way of artwork, three enormous montages of tin hang, as if in salute to the patchwork tenements of Brazil or Taiwan. The cuisine must—and does— warm a rather cold room. Named in honor of the nearby farmers market, Mercato focuses on soundness and simplicity. You can close your eyes and trust that the Italian verities have not been cross-pollinated, trend-aligned, prostituted to the Olive Garden palate, or otherwise forced to crawl through the dust like the bad guy in the final minute of a spaghetti western. As the midweek mob scene attests, the pizzas are very good. But how good? There are now five Triangle pizzerias worthy of my attention. Like a medieval theologian
HAPPY 516TH, CHARLES V!
Each year since 1999, the acclaimed Belgian brewery Het Anker has invited in the public of surrounding Mechelen on February 24 to help it brew one special beer—the eleven percent “Gouden Carolus Cuvée van de Keizer Blauw,” named for, and brewed on the birthday of, Charles V. It’s a long way to Mechelen, but at the new Mash & Lauter, above The Busy Bee in downtown Raleigh, you can share in the celebration by trying a reserve plus the standard and tripel takes on the Gouden Carolus. The special suds start flowing at five p.m. And on March 1, Mash & Lauter throws a grand-opening party at five p.m. www.busybeeraleigh.com
contemplating the hierarchy of angels, I rank them this way: Napoli, a Carrboro-based food truck and presumable Dantean inferno during the summer; Pompieri Pizza, the Durham sister restaurant of the crowd-pleasing Bull City Burger; Mercato, a Carrboro hot spot, a phrase no longer oxymoronic; Capp’s Apizza, a Pittsboro-based trailer-oven; and Pizzeria Toro, a modish Durham trattoria with an unfortunate propensity to catch fire. Five years ago, I would have braved a hailstorm of razor blades to eat Mercato’s pies. But now, they aren’t even the best on the block—that laurel goes to Napoli, which camps a few hundred yards down Weaver Street. If one artisanal pizzeria is a godsend, five are a commandment: Thou shalt not eat reheated strip mall slices! Unlike its peers, Mercato rejects the cult of the wood-burning oven. While Napoli’s penny-encrusted monster reportedly exceeds nine hundred degrees, Mercato’s gas-fired, brick-lined twins hover at 725. They’re hot enough, in any case, to disgorge pizzas gorgeously charred and bubbling, with puddles of molten mozzarella shifting slightly in steaming slicks of tomato puree. The note of Hadean smoke is missing, but a general volcanism remains operative. Gabe Barker, the son of Magnolia’s Ben and Karen Barker, cut his teeth at San Francisco’s Pizzeria Delfina. He masterminded Mercato’s crust. While Napoli and its ilk emulate the Neapolitan crust, with its soft texture and black mottle, Mercato serves a chewier Neapolitan-New York hybrid. It combines Caputo “OO” flour, King Arthur bread flour, and a sourdough starter that Karen Barker has maintained continuously since 1990. “The starter has gone on vacation with us, gone to the beach with us,” says Ben, with the note of affection, amazement, and resignation usually reserved for geriatric cats. Mercato’s crust is thin, crisp, and ringed with a puffy cornice. If you’re lucky, blackened gluten-bubbles swell here and there. An initial crunch gives way to a bready medium-chew. Despite its thinness, this crust triumphs over the central sogginess to which even Napoli’s exceptional pizzas succumb. The explanation is presumably the admixture of high-gluten flour. Among Mercato’s seven pizzas—margherita, funghi, carbonara, etc.—the mustard green pie is the minor revelation. The faintly bitter greens surprisingly jibe with the fennel sausage, while what seems to be a thin layer
of béchamel tempers the toppings’ aromatic interplay. The puttanesca is the menu’s hardest sell. Acknowledging anchovy as a difficult taste that must be embraced on its own terms, I did not relish the hyper-saline combination of anchovies, olives, and capers. The formaggi misti, Mercato’s closest approach to a conventional cheese pizza, is the obvious kid-quieter. At its best, Mercato’s antipasti and salads rival Toro’s consistently exquisite accompaniments. The crostini with squash puree, ricotta, onion marmalade, and sultanas—for me, the highlight of the entire menu—reprise Magnolia Grill’s assured touch with seemingly incongruous ingredients. At once crisp and melting, the arancini—golden-fried orbs of carnaroli rice and pimento cheese—are the best I’ve ever tasted, far surpassing Pompieri’s heavy and sometimes cold-centered version. The accompanying lemon aioli feels like another Magnolia Grill throwback. A notable subtlety elevates even this simple mayonnaise. Wishing for grilled asparagus spears or undressed eggs Benedict, I paid homage with a furtive forefinger. The polenta with roasted mushrooms, parmesan, and chives is like a beatified bowl of grits. Though expensive at $10, the dish’s silky lacings of flavor mute one’s tendency to grumble at the price. The house-marinated olives will permanently sabotage your taste for jarred, but a ramekin of forty is a headscratcher. I recommend a take-away box and a month of Mercato martinis. Less appealing is the pasta e fagioli, a thick, University of Tennessee-orange bean puree buoying a few conchiglie rigate. It’s salty and mired in the mundanity of its main ingredient. The “piatti”—meatballs, grilled quail, cavatappi with pork ragu—are lyric little descants, but in an artisanal pizzeria, they are incidental. At $13–$15, they are not particularly good bargains, either. The quail is scrumptious but, alas, dispatched in three bites of five bucks each. UNC parents in from New York or LA won’t mind, or even take note of, these prices, but Elmo’s and Tyler’s regulars may flinch at the tab. My medium-hungry family of three had no trouble dropping $65. A few drinks and a reasonable tip bring the total to a Tororeminiscent $90–$100. Will I return to Mercato? Yes, as volition has nothing to do with it. Recall a tranced Bugs Bunny wafting through the air on the scent of a carrot—that’s me on my way to Mercato. l food@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 2.24.16 | 23
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M SUSHI
309 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham www.twitter.com/msushidurham
Freshest Catch
DOWNTOWN DURHAM’S M SUSHI TAKES UNEXPECTED CHANCES ON FRESHNESS AND FUSION–– AND MASTERS THEM ALL BY VICTORIA BOULOUBASIS
Dive right into the chirashi at Durham’s M Sushi. PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE
In my experience, regaling visitors to Durham with stories of an incredible, incredibly small sushi joint tucked into an alley raises eyebrows. Try telling a longtime resident that you’ve found a place that serves fresh fish direct from Japan and Korea in a spot that once housed a bike shop, and the looks grow even more dubious. That’s OK. Chef and owner Mike Lee had his own doubts about the basement he’s turned into Durham’s latest gastronomic gem. “I walked in and was like, ‘Are you sure?’” Lee remembers thinking of the narrow, dark, windowless space with a low ceiling. “But my team and my wife, they could visualize a beautiful, rustic restaurant.” M Sushi is inspired by these spatial limitations. Minimalist décor—matte stone-gray walls, low-backed black chairs, dim lights— keep your mind Zen-clear, syncing it with your palate. The space is like a vault, a lower den of secrets stowing a menu of ingredients begging to be unearthed. The unadorned sushi bar is a piece of African Bubinga wood, cut close to its natural shape. The conceptual and literal focus, it 24 | 2.24.16 | INDYweek.com
nearly occupies the entire length of the room. “I can see everybody,” Lee says. “I’m in the middle of it all. It’s a big playground.” With diners at the bar, Lee and his sous chefs glide their knives against glimmering fish, breaking down big-eye tuna from Hawaii into blood-red rubies and splintering salmon into bite-size pieces, to be slurped like melted butter. M balances clean, raw flavors with elements cooked or seared to perfection. M takes near-daily deliveries of seafood from Japan, Korea, and Hawaii, including a Saturday morning drive to an RDU cargo pad for pickup. The same high-end seafood Lee serves raw is used for the menu’s few cooked dishes, a detail other restaurants skip in exchange for cheaper cuts. Raw wasabi is not an option but the standard. A chef cooks rice constantly throughout lunch and dinner service, two cups at a time. This small-batch method allows Lee to monitor the water temperature for sushi rice that always arrives in perfect, warm mounds. “No shortcuts,” he stipulates. With M, Lee also makes this area’s first earnest attempt at “Nikkei,” a blend of the
citrus and seafood found in Peruvian and Japanese cuisine. It’s a highlight of the rawcentric menu. The backbone of this marriage is tiradito, created by a Japanese chef who migrated to Peru decades ago. It incorporates thick slices of raw fish cured by the acidity of lime juice and the Peruvian pepper aji amarillo. Lee turns the concept into an inspired appetizer, where raw, slippery scallops drown in brilliant aji and a melon puree the color of egg yolk. Thin flakes of crispy prosciutto and a verdant sprinkle of microgreens are welcome afterthoughts. The most stunning display of raw ingredients, though, is Lee’s take on chirashi—essentially, a bowl of assorted fish and vegetables. A dollop of warm sticky rice, dabbed with fresh crabmeat and dusted with nori, supports sherbet-hued layers of fish. Strips of salmon, tuna, sea bream, and scallop pop individually. Tiny bits of pickled Japanese cucumber and eggplant, both with thick skin, balance the naturally sweet and saline flavors of the ocean. By combining the briny, oceanic flavors of raw seafood with elements that don’t overshadow them, the M Futomaki, Twisted Mango, and Unagi Maki allowed me to appreciate sushi rolls again. The tempura lightly softens the shrimp without dominating it. Fresh green mango complements the fish with a subtle sourness. And crispy garlic flakes offer a savory, cooked essence for palates needing reassurance. The nigiri and sushi options arrive two pieces at a time. Seared eel (anago) and steamed octopus (tako) may sound the most adventurous, but their mild undertones and firm textures make them perfect for sushi beginners. Sea bream (madai) and salmon (sake) offer gentle, buttery decadence. Served raw, the shrimp (ebi) resemble a kitschy plastic toy tied to a landing pad of rice with a strip of seaweed, its tail hanging off. It is, however, the most pleasantly pungent raw
flavor on the menu. The spotted prawn companion (ama ebi) is a sight to behold, served whole and tempura-fried, with gnarly antennae curving above eyes that resemble tiny black pearls. The octopus appetizer, a treat from the grill, transplants you to a backyard beach party. Charcoal-seared tentacles become thick chunks of white meat, nestled in a bed of tiny beans and a smooth uni sauce. For maximum decadence, Lee even re-creates the dish that nearly gave Anthony Bourdain an orgasm at New York City’s Marea: uni toast. A long, thin baguette is topped with freshly chopped blue crab, a fat piece of uni (the briny sea urchin, lavish on its own), a thin strip of seared lardo (Italian fatback, y’all), and orange bubbles of roe. M does not have a dessert menu, but my server recommended the tamago, or the “egg omelet” sushi, as the finale. Served in a tall block, it was as spongy as a pound cake— almost as sweet, too. Lee’s family moved from Seoul, South Korea, to the U.S. when he was an adolescent. He remembers “cooking” with his brother while his parents were at work. When he was fourteen, he started flipping burgers at Sonic before settling into a local steakhouse’s salad station. In college, he trained forty hours a week as a hibachi and sushi chef while studying computer programming. With twelve credit hours to go, he quit to devote himself to restaurants. After years bouncing around the West Coast and the South and, most recently, taking the reins at Raleigh’s Sono, Lee says M is the place where he can live out his sushi dreams. “We’re aiming toward such high goals, trying to exceed expectations day in and day out,” he says. “Let’s make people happy. I say that with sincerity.” It’s a basement deal worth making. l Twitter: @thisfeedsme
PICNIC
EAT THIS
1647 Cole Mill Road, Durham www.picnicdurham.com
A Deal with the Devil
AT PICNIC, AN ANTIQUATED FAVORITE GETS A BRILLIANT NEW TWIST BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN
Weeks before Picnic opened in early February, sous chef Isaac DeBoer, then in the throes of finalizing the place’s appetizers, decided to dump some of the sauce into a brine designed for deviled eggs. A brine for deviled eggs, you say? That’s right: Rather than simply boil them, slice them, and turn the bright yolk into the tallow-colored filling, DeBoer opted to boil and then pickle the eggs before deviling them—like the sauce, a strange, perfect Southern combination. “It just made natural sense to me,” says DeBoer. The brine gives the skin the light brown look of a marinated egg you might find lurking amid a mess of ramen. But the taste is strangely,
exquisitely, and indelibly suggestive of smoked mozzarella. The pickling solution gives the albumen a little extra firmness, too, enhancing that brilliant cheese feint. When I first tried it, I wondered if it had somehow been grilled. It’s a subtle, stunning reinvention of an aged staple. After letting the eggs rest for six hours, Picnic’s kitchen cuts them, scoops out the brine-soaked yolk, and combines it with a mess of ingredients—whole-grain mustard, Duke’s mayonnaise, Texas Pete, and (alas!) a touch of rendered pork fat. They’re topped with pickled
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Boiled, pickled, deviled, devoured
You know that Picnic loves a good hybrid as soon as you sit at one of the new Durham barbecue joint’s square, dark-stained pine tables. There, in the gleaming condiment rack, towering above the salt and pepper shakers but level with the bottles of Texas Pete and ketchup, stands a true Tar Heel oddity—Pig Whistle, a barbecue sauce that blends the thick, sweet ketchup-based stuff of the West with the stinging, vinegar-and-pepper of the East. It’s like Rameses sporting Duke blue, Mount Mitchell standing suddenly alongside a lighthouse.
shallots, adding a pop of crunch to the cream and chew. “When you grow up, deviled eggs are just egg yolk and mayonnaise and maybe some mustard,” says Picnic co-owner Ben Adams, who never liked them until he encountered DeBoer’s reinvention. “But this gives you a little more texture. I like it a lot.” So does most everyone else, it seems: since opening two weeks ago, Picnic has depleted its daily supply of five dozen by the end of almost every night. When deBoer says Picnic will soon up the quantity, he grins proudly—the smile of a peacemaker between the pickle and the devil. l gcurrin@indyweek.com
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ssential Health & Wellness is a medical practice in Cary, NC delivering comprehensive and highly personalized care to enhance the overall wellness, performance, and longevity of our patients. We strive to be at the forefront of medical technology and understanding, focusing on holistic approaches to total wellness through proactive disease prevention and state-of-the-art anti-aging techniques. Dr. James Stevens, president and founder of Essential Health & Wellness, and nurse practitioner, Jennie Welner, are committed to creating healthy lifestyles for all of their patients. We utilize an integrative approach, which is centered around the patient, taking into account every aspect of mind, body, and spirit, including health status, history, environment, genetics, and lifestyle. The personalized medical practitioner and the patient form a collaborative relationship built upon the common goal of maximizing health and preventing illness and chronic conditions. Integrative medicine involves understanding the bigger picture of a patient’s health, treating whole people rather than specific conditions. We are featuring our nurse practitioner, Jennie Welner. She is family medicine trained, but has a passion for anti-aging and regenerative health. Her specialties include bio-identical
hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) and intravenous nutrient therapy. Her passion for BHRT inspired her to become a certified Diplomat in Anti-Aging Medicine by the American Board of AntiAging Health Practitioners. Individuals struggling with peri-menopause, menopause, or andropause (male menopause) will benefit from our functional approach and services. Our typical patients are seeking assistance in order to age gracefully and continue their lives with optimal health and peak performance.
We offer a 30-minute no-cost consultation to discuss your questions and concerns and to assess if our practice is appropriate for you. Jennie has extensive experience and training in this field. She is currently accepting new patients and eager to optimize your health.
FREEDOM HOUSE OUTPATIENT CLINIC
KD KRAMER, PHD Psychologist and Mindfulness/Meditation Instructor (At Spira Pilates Studio)
Integrated Behavioral Healthcare for children and adults
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400 Crutchfield Street, Suite D Durham • 919-251-8806 www.freedomhouserecovery.org
he Freedom House logo, seed pods swirling away from a tree’s strong foundation, captures our hope for individuals when they come to Freedom House: renewed by expert care and empowered with new resources, they recover to live rich, full lives. A former client once said it best, “Recovery means that I can live again, that I can be at peace again, that I can love again and that I can be loved again.” Each day individuals come to Freedom House looking for hope, craving respite and seeking guidance and care. Whether they struggle with mental health issues or substance use disorder, we offer solace, sympathy and care based on individual needs and evidence-based, best practices of integrated behavioral healthcare. We are proud to add a new branch in Durham: the Freedom House Outpatient Clinic where we provide a range of services: Open Access/Walk-in Clinic, Comprehensive Clinical Assessment, Psychiatric Evaluation, Medication Management, Individual, Family and Group Therapy, Telepsychiatry, Integrated Medical Care, Substance Abuse Comprehensive Outpatient Therapy (SACOT), Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Program (SAIOP), Court Related Programs and Mobile Crisis Management. We accept private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare and provide services on a sliding scale for those in need of financial assistance. For over 40 years, Freedom House has been committed to new beginnings and is consistently a leader in effective Person Centered treatment. Please call us or explore our website for more information about how Freedom House can help you, or a loved one, rebuild and renew life.
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mndfl.living@gmail.com LIVING MINDFULLY
sually, we are lost in a stream of thoughts and emotions, so much so that we often miss the moments of our lives. Through mindfulness, we embrace the present and develop a greater sense of awareness. Through meditation, we learn how to live more mindfully. Research shows mindfulness improves both physical and mental health, including boosting memory, focus, and immunity. It helps with emotional regulation, reduces stress, and improves relationships. My teachings bridge current, evidence-based knowledge with various meditation techniques (which are over 2000 years old). Meditation can become a refuge and fosters relaxation, reflection, and restoration. Through this process, we grow and learn to live with more thoughtfulness, more ease, and more open heartedness. I have been practicing meditation for over 30 years. As a health and clinical psychologist, I devoted myself professionally to researching and implementing evidence-based approaches to prevention and wellness. My intention is to create a community of meditators, where both beginners and seasoned mediators feel welcome. Classes include gentle stretching, teachings, and various types of meditations. I am there to guide you and answer your questions, as you meditate with others or develop a home practice. I am happily retired and live outside of Carrboro with my husband and two dogs. Class schedule: Each week on Tuesdays at noon - about 45 minutes long. Individual sessions can be arranged directly with KD. Drop-ins are welcome! Pricing: Group classes are $15 each or you can buy package of six for $80. Individual sessions are $30 each or four weeks for $100. Send questions to KD Kramer at: mndfl.living@gmail.com General information: www.SpiraPilates.com, 304 W. Weaver St., Suite 203, Carrboro 27510
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JULIE McGREGOR, MD Integrative Medicine Physician
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55 Vilcom Center Drive • Suite 100 Chapel Hill, NC • 919-929-7990 ChapelHillDoctors.com/tima
ulie is a UNC trained internal medicine physician. Her integrative medicine practice is open to all adults looking for integrative primary care or integrative consultations. Julie McGregor, MD is a board-certified internist and nephrologist trained in integrative medicine. Dr. McGregor hails from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she worked in the hospital for 12 years, including a vasculitis and glomerulonephritis fellowship at UNC Kidney Center, and was on the faculty at UNC’s School of Medicine for 5 years. Dr. McGregor has had training in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona and has also participated in Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Mind-Body Skills training while at UNC. Dr. McGregor has extensive clinical and research experience in autoimmune diseases, such as lupus and vasculitis. The focus of Dr. McGregor’s practice is the integration of complementary medicine with gold-standard medicine and specialty training. Her passion for integrative medicine stems from her desire to treat patients in the same manner that she approaches wellness and disease for herself and her family by combining the most effective modalities from Eastern and Western medical approaches. She provides primary care, as well as general internal medicine and nephrology consults. Integrative components of her clinical practice include mindfulness-based techniques, such as meditation and breathing, wellness coaching, dietary modification, allergy immunotherapy, aquatic therapy, music therapy and aromatherapy. She also maintains close consultative relationships with experts who work with her to provide holistic care in acupuncture, massage, physical therapy, craniosacral therapy, reiki, polarity therapy, shamanic practice and yoga. Dr. McGregor’s mission statement is to enhance wellness and naturally treat and cure disease using a holistic approach grounded in safety and supported by extensive allopathic medicine experience. Dr. McGregor is in network with Blue Cross Blue Shield and Duke Basic and Duke Select and Medicare Plans. Cash pay patients are welcome.
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NORTH CAROLINA CHIROPRACTIC Indy Best of the Triangle Winner the past 9 years 304 West Weaver Street • Carrboro 919-929-3552 • ncchiropractic.net
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r. Chas Gaertner has been voted Best Chiropractor by Indy readers for the past 9 years. NC Chiropractic celebrated 20 years in business with a bold move to a new office in downtown Carrboro last April. The new location is between Weaver Street Market and the Carrboro Farmers’ Market. It’s an easy walk in town, or a quick one mile bike or bus ride from UNC or downtown Chapel Hill, and also has plenty of free parking. Dr. Gaertner has convenient, flexible hours so that business people, students, university employees, and local residents can make lunch or evening appointments, and he offers quality health care without a hassle or obligation to commit to any series of treatments. Dr. Gaertner’s approach is unique in that he combines traditional chiropractic techniques with neuromuscular trigger point therapy. He appeals to, both, newcomers and experienced chiropractic patients who seek more personalized interaction in understanding their care and treatment plans. “From children to the elderly, with headaches, shoulder or leg pain, or injuries from work or auto accidents, everyone feels better with chiropractic.” Dr. Gaertner has become known for his practical treatment with pregnant women who seek a drugless approach for problems and general discomfort. Also, he is certified in the Webster Breech Protocol to aid in correcting a baby in breech position. “The most flattering compliment is the referrals from M.D.s, PTs, and midwives, as well as massage therapists and yoga instructors, a positive indication of the increased understanding of chiropractic benefits.” Dr. Gaertner attributes his success to simplicity, a theme in both his business and personal life. Unburdened by receptionist, staff, or complex processing, you get the attention of the doctor himself. His personal hand in every aspect of patient care, from scheduling to treatment, are what his patients have come to expect. Dr. Gaertner is easily available for patient emergencies, as he walks or bikes to and from work each day
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ONE FITNESS TRAINING
DR. S. ALICIA RAMOS
4810 Hope Valley Rd • Durham.
1515 West NC Hwy 54 Durham • 919-493-5714 DrRamosDentistry.com
NE Fitness Training in Durham is led by former strongman and kettlebell expert Chris Erickson and 3 time INDY Week’s Best Personal Trainer in the Triangle and former fitness competitor Leigh Ann Yeager. With a combined 25 years in the fitness industry, they set out to create a space where high-level exercise professionals would want to work, and fitness enthusiasts would want to play. They carefully selected trainers with experience in unique areas of the fitness industry who can expertly craft exercise programs to help achieve virtually any fitness goal, from weight loss to powerlifting. “Our training style is fun, maintainable, and effective” says Yeager. “We want to deliver results, and we do that in a way that is science-based and health-focused.” ONE is open seven days per week, offering fitness classes, personal training, and open gym. ONE offers a wide variety of classes, from indoor cycling to strength-based classes like the immensely popular class named The P.I.T. “P.I.T. stands for primitive intense/intelligent training and focuses on techniques that promote functional movement patterns. We often use exercise equipment that no one has ever seen to add another dimension to the workout” says Erickson. Personal training at ONE is led by Yeager, who has a Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology and a BA in Exercise and Sports Science. “Personal training is a great option for those who are new to exercise, and for those who need help achieving a specific goal”. Open gym is an opportunity to get a workout for those who cannot commit to a specific training time each day. Simply come to ONE during the open gym hours and complete a challenging workout, designed by a trainer, at your own pace!
from his family’s modest home just a few blocks away. He enjoys an exceptionally happy life in Carrboro with his wife, Elaine, and two children, Greta and Van.
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Comprehensive Relationship-Based Dentistry
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hen you talk you only repeat what you already know, but if you listen you may learn something” Dr. Ramos discovered this basic truth many years ago and she made it the hallmark of her practice. What makes our Durham Dental Practice unique is we start by listening. Many of us have had the frustrating experience of having to first tell our problem to the secretary, then the assistant, and finally having a minute or two to re-tell it to the doctor. We begin with the doctor listening to you. Dr. Ramos begins by listening to your concerns, reviewing your individual history and explaining the examination process and diseases that may affect you. Only when your past experiences, dental and medical history is thoroughly discussed is the examination started. Your examination involves you and is not merely the collection of data for the doctor. We explain what we see and what is healthy and unhealthy. We call this unique way of examination a “guided tour” of your mouth. Typically on the first visit you have the doctor’s undivided attention prior to any treatment being initiated. Results of the exam are presented to you in an easy to understand written format. Depending on your needs, a Review of Findings appointment may be set up (at no extra charge) solely to have the opportunity to explain your treatment needs and options. Dr. Ramos prepares a detailed Master Plan for your individual optimal health. Only when you are comfortable about the doctor’s recommendations and have all your questions answered do we move forward with treatment. We believe it is our privilege to help you understand your dental health, how it affects your overall health.
RAPID RESULTS FITNESS, LLC In.Out. Fit.
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Suite 10 4125 Chapel Hill Blvd Durham, NC • 403-8651 www.rapidresultsfitness.net
elebrating our 8th year anniversary, Rapid Results Fitness, a kettlebell based group exercise program, offers two things to busy individuals of all ages that this area has never seen: 1. A high quality comprehensive fitness system designed to empower, strengthen, and reinvigorate not just your physical state, but as importantly, your mental and emotional states-empowering individuals to an easier, more gratifying, stress-reduced life, and 2. A program that is exclusively designed around the world’s most versatile piece of hand-held exercise equipment in the fitness industry today: the Russian Kettlebell. It allows for simultaneous strength training, cardiovascular conditioning, and core strengthening without your feet ever leaving the ground-alleviating the stress and trauma to the joints experienced with traditional forms of training such as running and machine circuits. Testimonial: What Betsy has developed at Rapid Results Fitness is truly something unique and special in the fitness industry. I have always considered myself a “fit” person. I have tried most exercise forms and have typically been pleased from a cardiovascular perspective. However, as a female, the anaerobic “weight training” component of my workouts has always been a struggle. I would incorporate weights and just never feel like I saw results ie muscles! Betsy and her team at Rapid Results have changed that. Learning to use Kettlebells has been the best thing I have ever done. Rapid Results program consists of safe, challenging, effective workouts that challenge me mentally and physically to achieve the best cardiovascular and muscular workout possible. If you are tired of doing the same old fitness routine and not getting the results you desire, you owe it to yourself to experience kettlebell training at Rapid Results Fitness. For the best in meeting fitness goals and achieving rapid results in fat loss and gaining lean muscle mass, all injury free, Rapid Results Fitness provides the answer. Unparalleled expert instruction in how to use your body correctly the way it was designed to move.
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5504 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd. • Durham www.ridecyclestudios.com
IDE CYCLE STUDIO: Explicit Lyrics, Exquisite Classes— Because the best things in life make you sweaty. RIDE CYCLE STUDIO is energetic, smart and powerful. With over 40 classes a week including cycle, barre, and yoga, we’ve got you moving to your strongest, best self. Book your bike, clip into your pedals and let the journey begin. Our dynamic instructors lead you through classes with technique and form instruction, killer motivation and the best beats in the business. With an eclectic group of bright personalities we will ignite your inner fire to tackle climbs, push through sprints and stay on beat during tap-backs. Step into a barre class to sculpt and tone. Still moving to the beat, we work the entire body using both small and larger movements to build heat, sculpt the muscles, lengthen the body and improve your balance. Challenge yourself through a variety of barre classes. You’ll gain knowledge to move with precision and confidence as you build your practice at the barre. Your effort delivers a leaner, stronger and more flexible body. Reset the mind and body with music to lead every vinyasa in our yoga studio. Build your asanas through, movement, alignment and breath. With a menu of slow yin to vinyasa flow to powerful yoga fusion you can pick your tonic and leave with a rejuvenated soul. Check out our website for the latest in Theme classes, Community Events and Challenges. Go ahead and take yourself on! Your future self will thank you! Facebook.com/ridecyclestudio Soundcloud.com/ridecyclestudio Twitter: @ridecyclenc
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SYNCSTUDIO
CYCLING • YOGA • STRENGTH TRAINING Locations near Southpoint and Downtown Durham www.syncstudio.net
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YNCSTUDIO represents a fresh, fun, unique approach to fitness. Our mission is to foster a community built on encouragement and support. Whether you are a cardio junkie, a chilled out yogi or someone who has never stepped foot inside a fitness class – we believe we have something special to offer you, at an affordable price. We opened our first studio at the Renaissance Center near Southpoint in Durham, NC in 2010 – an idea that came to life amongst friends who shared a mutual love of synchronized cycling and great music. Realizing the mind and body benefits yoga offers, it was quickly added to the SYNC equation, in addition to TRX and circuit training. Today you can also find SYNCSTUDIO in downtown Durham as well as Brooklyn, NY. What can you expect from a SYNCSTUDIO class? SYNCCYCLING® is our signature indoor, stand-up cycling class, focused on synchronizing both lower and upper body with the rhythm of the music. Beat driven and bass heavy, we will have you sweating with a smile on your face! Our SYNCYOGA program offers a variety of classes with an underlying focus on alignment throughout the progression of the flow. Each class will boast a different sequence, teacher and playlist, keeping your practice fresh, inquisitive and interesting. Tap into your inner athlete in a non-competitive and motivating atmosphere. Our TRX and circuit training classes will take you through a series of circuits designed to increase functional strength, agility, and provide all-over toning. Ultimately, we aim to deliver the highest quality of health and wellness to the neighborhood, with a team of fun, creative and positive instructors. We move, we love, we laugh - most of all we live. Come join our SYNCSQUAD! Try us out with our new student offer of 2 weeks for $30 or $13 drop- in.
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WHOLE PERSON WELLNESS CENTER Well-Being Awaits You!
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8800 Seawell School Rd Chapel Hill • 919-869-1774 www.wholepersoncenter.com
ur team of seasoned practitioners simplifies your journey to optimal well-being through a variety of integrated and affordable healing services. The experts agree: “90% of disease is caused or complicated by stress” (Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, 2007). But there are solutions to help you thrive! Whole Person Wellness Center (WPWC) practitioners are certified or licensed in a variety of healing modalities and therapies that can help you better manage stress, feel more balanced and relaxed, and live life to the fullest. With our integrated approach, you no longer need to shop around to find what works best for you, saving you time and money. Our experienced practitioners work with you to create an approach that fits your unique needs, through services such as: • massage therapy • homeopathy • meditation & mindfulness • energy healing • bodywork • acupuncture • hypnotism • coaching and more
Our caring, joyful approach will help you tap into your body’s natural healing intelligence and experience the authentic you that can be hidden behind chronic pain, discomfort and stress. What will your optimal life feel like? Can you imagine living as your
highest self? If you’re ready to get started on the path to wellness, join us at our March 8th Healing Circle where you can experience a variety of mini-sessions with our practitioners free of charge.
WPWC Healing Circle: Tuesday, March 8th from 7-9pm at the Unity Center of Peace. 8800 Seawell School Rd., Chapel Hill.
WOMEN’S BIRTH & WELLNESS BOUTIQUE
SPIRITUAL FRONTIERS FELLOWSHIP
930 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 204 Chapel Hill, NC • 919.537.7055 www.ncbirthcenter.org Open 7 Days a Week
505 Oberlin Rd., Ste. 110 #12773 Raleigh, NC • www.spiritual-frontiers.com
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here’s a purpose to your purchase! Women’s Birth & Wellness Boutique is a unique retail store that gives you a chance to shop locally and put your mind and your conscience at ease. Your purchases help support Women’s Birth & Wellness Center, a non-profit birth center, and its mission to offer individualized healthcare to mothers and families. At the Boutique, we price match. We have an all-female staff. We offer free one-on-one, hands-on helpful guidance for all your birth, breastfeeding and baby needs. We focus on breastfeeding support, including hospital-grade breast pump rentals and supplies and a wide variety of nursing bra sizes and styles, fitted by certified bra fitters. We specialize in selling a variety of cloth diapers, baby carriers, and holistic health and wellness products for the entire family. The Boutique also offers gift registries. More than anything, the Boutique is a community resource offering free baby-wearing classes taught by International Babywearers of the Triangle educators the first Saturday of every month, as well as free cloth diapering classes the third Saturday of every month. Breastfeeding Café meets the second and fourth Friday every month for mothers and babies to relax in a supportive setting with lactation consultants on hand. There’s also Dads Hangout - a place for fathers to come with their children for community every Monday. Please check our website calendar for more details and happenings! We want to be around for a long time. When you buy from the Boutique, you support the Birth Center. When you support the Birth Center, you fill the community with healthier, happier families. Shop Local. It means the world to us.
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Shining a light into the metaphysical community since 1973.
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t has been said that SFF is the best kept secret in the Triangle! Since 1973, Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship (SFF) of Raleigh has been sponsoring monthly spiritual presentations and meditations on a wide variety of metaphysical and mystical topics. We are passionately committed to raising the consciousness of our community by facilitating programs that promote personal growth and a more holistic approach to health and living. We are non-profit, all volunteer, and not affiliated with any religious organization. Visit our website to browse our past monthly speakers and Upcoming Events of local and out-of-town speakers. From local experts and practitioners to out-of-town guest speakers, we strive to bring new ideas to you and fellow seekers in a setting that is inviting and genuine. We meet the first Thursday of every month except July. Intermission is an opportunity to socialize with snacks, door prizes and raffle prizes! Arrive early to attend our FREE 30-minute Early Meditations (prior to the meetings). Don’t miss our Psychic & Healing Fair annual fundraising event on the first Thursday of June. This is a very special opportunity to experience 20-minute one-on-one sessions with the area’s finest Readers and Healers specializing in a spectrum of different modalities. If you are seeking intellectual stimulation or a place to meet like-minded people, we invite you to join us at our next talk! spiritual-frontiers.com meetup.com/spiritualfrontiersfellowship facebook.com/spiritualfrontiersfellowship
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The Voice of QUEENSRYCHE
Fri Feb 26
Geoff Tate’s
www.lincolntheatre.com
Operation: Mindcrime
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Fr 26 GEOFF TATE’S (of QUEENSRYCHE) OPERATION MINDCRIME w/The Fifth / Hayvyn 7p
Sa 27 DAVID ALLAN COE w/Jonathan
Parker Band/Eric Smallwood Duo 7p
Su 28 MIKE GARDNER BENEFIT
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TITUS ANDRONICUS w/Craig Finn LEADFOOT w/Walpyrgus + THE CLARKS w/The Iller Whales PINK TALKING FISH 7:30p JUDAH AND THE LION 7p w/The Saint Johns
PULSE Electronic Dance Party JOHN MAYALL BAND 7p CEE-LO GREEN w/Escort 7p MAC SABBATH w/Aeonic 7p THE BREAKFAST CLUB
Y&T
Tue Mar 1 Wed Mar 2
w/Unchained (Van Halen tribute) 8p
w/ Look Homeward Su 20 WE THE KINGS w/AJR, She is We+ Tu 29 TWIDDLE w/Groove Fetish 8p
We 30 AUTOLUX Th 31 STICK FIGURE w/Fortunate Youth
Randy Rogers Band Thu Mar 3
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START MAKING SENSE THE MANTRAS THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS BIG GIGANTIC ELLE KING (SOLD OUT) DELTA RAE 8p AFTON MUSIC SHOWCASE DIGI TOUR JJ GREY & MOFRO 8p LAST BAND STANDING & YARN DOPAPOD w/The Fritz 8p SOMO w/Kid Quill 7p BIG SOMETHING THE OH HELLOS STEEL PANTHER KING MEZ FLATBUSH ZOMBIES TAB BENOIT
Advance Tickets @Lincolntheatre.com & Schoolkids Records All Shows All Ages 126 E. Cabarrus St. 919-821-4111
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Long-Anticipated Arrivals A DURHAM SONGWRITER STUNS ON HER DEBUT, AND A MATH-ROCK TRIO TICKS AGAIN SKYLAR GUDASZ OLEANDER (Daniel 13 Press)
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Oleander, the overdue debut LP from the sharp Durham songwriter and stunning singer Skylar Gudasz, is chockablock with talented guests. Members of the North Carolina Symphony sit alongside a who’s who of local session players and vocalists—pop crooners Brett Harris and Django Haskins, band-leading veterans Brad Cook and Leah Gibson, experienced sidemen Jeff Crawford and James Wallace. Chicago free jazz giant Ken Vandermark breaths between and beneath lines with his horn, and collegerock demigod Norman Blake, of Teenage Fanclub fame, murmurs gently behind Gudasz during “Friday Night Blues.” Chris Stamey, a North Carolina musical institution with few equals in influence, is the wonder behind the curtain here, the producer who’s been helping Gudasz orchestrate these dozen songs for years. But when these largely perfect forty-seven minutes click to an end following the exquisite drift of “Car Song,” only one inviolable star remains—as it should be, Skylar Gudasz. These songs deftly explore adoration and abandonment, lust and loneliness, friendship and fallibility. Gudasz loads them with punchy quips (“Don’t ask me if I believe in God/I believe in Gibson guitars) and ponderous gems (“I’m not saying I want to be there with you always/’cause honey you know
there ain’t no such thing.”) And she sings all of these lines with a practiced vocal perspicacity, hitting every word so as to make it the most effective. Nothing seems arbitrary. Gudasz’s antecedents are no mystery. She summons Joni Mitchell throughout Oleander, particularly in the twisted acoustic romp of the ebullient “Just Friends” and the Bluelike piano fantasy of “About Great Men.” You can trace the lessons of Laurel Canyon and Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Jayhawks and perhaps even The Shins. “I’m So Happy I Could Die” and “I’ll Be Your Man” are entirely bittersweet, brilliant reminders that Aimee
Mann hasn’t made an essential record (or one this good, really) during this millennium. Just as she eclipses her guests, though, Gudasz largely resists the temptation of idolatry, teasing her tastes just enough that these songs don’t mimic past masters. Yes, “Just Friends” wades through the legend of Joni. But in its final minute, when the horns and Gudasz tangle in a subtle little climax, you hear an audacity, perhaps even an aggression,
that Mitchell often cloaked. And Gudasz is as good smirking over snarling electric guitars, as on “I’m So Happy I Could Die,” as she is confessing quietly over the radiant, weepy piano of “Aviary.” With Oleander, you get the sense—the energizing, intoxicating sense— that Gudasz is deploying all of these predecessors and these styles and wielding them for her own purposes, not being used by them or merely checking off boxes on some folkrock-reference Wiki. The most unfortunate thing about Oleander, really, might be that it’s finally finished and available after being in the works for so long. Gudasz’s songs seem to be personal testimonials, little life reflections that she then fretted over, fussed with, and, at last, committed to tape. They take time not just to write and record but, first, to live. That’s why they feel so deep, so unapologetic. Still, here’s already hoping for the next openhearted, wonderfully wrought batch. —Grayson Haver Currin
MAPLE STAVE V (Phratry Records) Maple Stave has forever been defined by precision. More so than the unorthodox instrumentation of Andy Hull and Chris Williams, who play aluminum-body baritone electric guitars, and drummer Evan Rowe, the trio’s propulsive, pugnacious math rock is marked
MAPLE STAVE
The Pinhook, Durham Saturday, Feb. 27, 9 p.m., $8 www.thepinhook.com
by method, a geodesic sense of melody, and tension ratcheted through restraint. (Disclosure: Maple Stave’s Chris Williams is an INDY employee.) At first, Maple Stave’s recorded output arrived like clockwork. Across its first seven years, the band operated on a reliable release schedule, dropping an EP or LP about every twenty months. But V, Maple Stave’s fifth record, arrives after a halfdecade in the making and a period of extended hibernation. Hull moved to Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. After an eventual geographical reunion, the members of Maple Stave started cutting V as they first returned to action in early 2015. Rather than being hampered by the hiatus, Maple Stave still treats tightly wound tension as a way of life, their bifurcated guitar lines still pulled tight like tripwires and their tangential rhythms still enforcing a sense of urgency. Opener “Townsend” sticks to Maple Stave’s fundamental strengths. After a noisy opening, the song rumbles forward, gaining steam until it barrels to a close. The instrumental “Venkman” recaptures EP3’s thrust, with Rowe tom-rolling his way through an extended climax as Hull and Williams pulverize chords. “Call Signal Spider” evokes the same domestic discord Maple Stave mined for EP2. Williams delivers defeat in staccato gasps of desperation: “After all you have seen, after all you have promised me/Never say you could be here for us/As me and the kids watch you parade in from Boca Raton,” he seethes. Rowe punctuates the memory with two drum hits that suggest a slamming door. It may seem disappointing that Maple Stave has picked up so few new tricks. But back in 2010, just a few months before the band released its first LP, Rowe hit upon a key truth: in Maple Stave, no one part dominates the others. Like gears in a Swiss watch, the players work together, each cog directing or reacting to the other two thirds. V, then, isn’t so much a comeback or redirection as a culmination of the band’s collective thirteen years, the intersection of many winding paths. Breaks aside, the precision remains. —Patrick Wall
On view through June 26, 2016
2001 Campus Drive, Durham I nasher.duke.edu Christian Marclay, Actions: Flopppp Sllurp Spaloosh Whoomph (No. 3) (detail), 2013. Screenprint and acrylic on canvas, 61 1⁄2 x 102 1⁄2 inches (156.2 x 260.4 cm). Collection of Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger. Image courtesy of the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York. © Christian Marclay. Photo by Steven Probert.
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KING
The Pour House, Raleigh Saturday, Feb. 27, 9 p.m., $10–$20 www.the-pour-house.com
Holding Court
WHY KING SHOULD BE THE NEW RULERS OF R&B BY ERIC TULLIS
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Last August, two dozen elite producers, DJs, and musicians met on a tucked-away Delaware estate to workshop and network. Founded by hip-hop icon DJ Jazzy Jeff, the inaugural gathering, dubbed The Playlist Retreat, pulled together progressive young musicians with their more-practiced influences—DJ Scratch, James Poyser, Lord Finesse, and Young Guru, for example. “It started with me and some of my DJ friends who look for cool music. We would swap music,” Jazzy Jeff remembers. “I thought it’d be really cool if we got all the DJs together, but then somebody made the suggestion: ‘Why don’t we invite the guys that make some of the music we swap?’” One artist Jazzy Jeff soon recruited was producer, composer, and songwriter Paris Strother, 34 | 2.24.16 | INDYweek.com
one of three women in the new R&B dream, KING. Jazzy Jeff first heard the trio after the group released its breakout 2011 EP, The Story. Initially, KING was an Internet phenomenon that gradually inched toward the mainstream. A year later, Robert Glasper Experiment included KING on Black Radio, while Prince, Erykah Badu, Questlove, and Phonte Coleman cosigned the trio, too. Coleman recruited KING for a Foreign Exchange song; Prince added the group to a “21 Nights” concert at The Forum. “It was an honor,” says Strother from a stop in Pontiac, Michigan, just days after the release of her debut LP, We Are KING. “It reflected that we took our time to make an album that people really wanted to hear.” Before the rest of the world got to hear (and unanimously praise, it seems) the great We Are
KING, Strother played the album for some of Jazzy Jeff’s assembled experts at the Playlist Retreat. It quickly confirmed KING’s ability to update throwback R&B, to make past masters feel vital again. It’s especially obvious on the three songs borrowed from the EP, now refitted with more florid instrumentation. KING’s primary vocalists, Amber Strother (Paris’s twin) and Anita Bias, layer We Are KING with the sort of sweet soul mystique that’s gone missing from so much contemporary R&B. On newer numbers like “Red Eye” and “Carry On,” they sing life into Paris’s royal arrangements. “The three of us always considered the vocals to be an instrument along with the other instruments,” says Paris. “It’s all very much different pieces of a puzzle, all very integrated.”
For Jazzy Jeff, KING’s writing and harmonies stem from a sisterly kinship, genetic or otherwise. This inherent ease and familiarity helps them translate complex recording techniques and ideas into songs that are easy to enjoy—an idea, he says, lifted from history but often lost in the moment. “I hate when people dumb music down because they think that people can’t understand it. There was absolutely nothing simplistic about Earth, Wind & Fire’s arrangements, but we all got it,” he says. “KING is reminiscent of the past—the very lush chords and the structure of the music. It isn’t dumbed down. Let it be what it is and people will follow along and catch up.” l Twitter: @erictullis
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BROWNSVILLE SONG (B-SIDE FOR TRAY) Manbites Dog Theater, Durham Thursday, Feb. 25–Thursday, March 12, $5–$25 www.manbitesdogtheater.org
Where Brooklyn At?
PLAYWRIGHT KIMBER LEE INDICTS SYSTEMIC NEGLECT FOR A REAL-LIFE GANG MURDER IN BROWNSVILLE BY BYRON WOODS
Kimber Lee says the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville has been the kind of place that only makes the news when something bad happens. “Oh look, someone was raped or shot or stabbed in Brownsville,” Lee says. “It’s just for a brief span. Then it goes away, and nobody looks more deeply into the fact that Brownsville has been an underserved, ignored section of New York City since its inception.” In Lee’s drama brownsville song (b-side for tray), having its regional premiere this week at Manbites Dog Theater, a woman who’s just lost her grandson in Brownsville says something similar. Lee writes, “Same Old Story huh/ A few damn lines in the paper/ A split second a some poor old woman/ Wringin her hands and cryin on your evening news/ And then/ Nothing.” Lee based her drama, which premiered at the 2014 Humana Festival of New American Plays, on a 2012 murder in Brownsville. Shortly after winning a college scholarship, twenty-year-old student athlete and amateur boxer Tray Franklin Grant was killed during a gang conflict he had no part in. Lee, a fellow boxer and a Brooklynite, first read about Grant on the blog of Sarah Deming, a writer and one-time boxer who’d tutored him. “She said he didn’t want to talk about his struggles,” Lee recalls. “He felt it would make him seem like he was complaining. Yes, Tray had problems, one of which was losing his father—in the same way he’d die, actually. But he felt like, ‘You know what, I have a good life.’ He had a quiet strength. That just stayed with me.” When we first meet Tray, the ongoing generational violence in the neighborhood has already split his family. With his Korean-American mother, Merrill, estranged, his grandmother Lena is raising him and his nine-year-old sister,
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Devine. In intervening scenes, we observe the love and the losses that have already taken place—and the family bonds that have strengthened as well as those that have broken. “I felt this strong drive to provide a certain kind of intimacy with this family, in the depth and complexity of their relationships,” Lee says. “When you’re hearing numbers and statistics on violence all the time, it can get a little faceless, nameless, person-less. I wanted to get behind the numbers.” She also had a point to make about the epidemic of deaths among young black men in recent years, whether from violence within their communities or at the hands of police. “Those two things come from the same source: the conditions that are perpetually allowed to exist in certain neighborhoods in our cities,” Lee says. “We’re all implicated in that; we’re all contributing to a system that allows those conditions to exist.” Since writing her play, Lee has become more involved in the community. Working with the Brownsville Communi-
ty Justice Center, she has learned of young people whose greatest hope is for a one-bedroom apartment of their own in the projects. Her play might help those who’ve grown up in stable environments imagine such a state of mind, where possibilities are severely limited. “You’re constantly being told you’re not going to make it," Lee says. "You think, 'Yeah, I don’t really expect to live past twenty, so I’m just going to do what I’m going to do to get by.’ Their ambitions are curtailed because of things beyond their control in a neighborhood so devastatingly underserved, and those things become the foundations for everything that ends up being in the headlines.” But Lee also points to renewed hope, in her text as well as in Brownsville. She notes that neighborhood organizations now are “dreaming a different direction” for the community. “It’s not just a dark, terrible pit where people fall in and die," she says. "It’s someone’s home. And the people who live there see it can be a wonderful place to live.” l Twitter: @ByronWoods INDYweek.com | 2.24.16 | 35
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FRIDAY, FEB. 26
SATURDAY, FEB. 27
BOOKER T. JONES
SLAYER, TESTAMENT, CARCASS
Booker T. Jones mastered the oboe and upright bass when he was a kid. He was playing semiprofessionally by high school. He took up the keyboard, and the sharp, cutting tone of his Hammond B3 provided grace behind the grooves of his band of ace session players, the MGs. “Green Onions,” the band’s indelible hit from 1962, might be the ultimate rock instrumental, a tight, swinging jam delivered with an almost supernatural cool. On its own and with others, the band shaped the Stax sound and spoke in a language that connected with the likes of Petty and Costello. Not content to rest on his legendary status, on his recent Sound the Alarm, Mr. Jones shows he’s far from out of ideas. —David Klein
You can’t help but wish that the 2016 version of Slayer will unbottle the same lightning that earned the band infamy and icon status when its founding foursome crafted the speedfrenzied riffs and squealing solos of Show No Mercy and Reign in Blood. More than three decades have passed, however. Slayer fired Dave Lombardo in 2013, and Jeff Hanneman died months later. Last year’s Repentless suffers those losses, even if its rush of frantic, scathing thrash feels so familiar. Thanks to the band’s immortal early work, plenty of acts now play with the same tropes and sometimes outmatch the old masters. Fellow first-wave thrashers Testament split the undercard with Carcass, whose early grindcore innovations have given way to a remarkably fruitful second life as an ambitious melodic death-metal band. Original Slayer or not, this is still a worthwhile night of heavy metal rites. —Bryan C. Reed
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FRIDAY, FEB. 26
UNEXPOSED MICROCINEMA
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Josh Lewis: “Pillager”
As the INDY recently reported (“Shot in the Dark,” Jan. 6), Unexposed Microcinema made big moves to start the new year. Brendan and Jeremy Smyth not only rented a space at 105 Hood
Street to house their formerly roaming experimental-film series, but they also bumped up their schedule from monthly to weekly and instituted a yearlong theme. After featuring New England filmmakers in January, they’ve been showcasing the mid-Atlantic region in February, culminating in this in-depth screening of works—mostly 16mm—by two New York City filmmakers, who will be present for a discussion. Drawing on his experience working in film processing labs, Josh Lewis creates photochemical abstractions where film becomes as much substance as medium. His “Pillager” evokes film stock imbued with its own primitive consciousness, dreaming. Lewis is paired with Joel Schlemowitz, who recently completed his first feature, an experimental documentary about the gramophone. Samples of both filmmakers’ work are on the Unexposed website, and you can meet them at the screening Friday night. It’s a great chance to see what the Smyths have wrought. —Brian Howe UNEXPOSED MICROCINEMA, DURHAM 8 p.m., $5, www.unexposedmicrocinema.com 36 | 2.24.16 | INDYweek.com
THE RITZ, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $49.50, www.ritzraleigh.com
SUNDAY, FEB. 28
RHIANNON GIDDENS, BHI BHIMAN, LEYLA MCCALLA
Rhiannon Giddens cofounded the Carolina Chocolate Drops a decade ago. For many, the band introduced what should have long been accepted wisdom—that is, the role of African-Americans in American folk music is foundational, not an outpost. Though the Drops have changed, and though Giddens has now found real success under her own name, her mission remains largely unchanged. Here, in a program called Swimming in Dark Waters: Other Voices of the American Experience, she shares the stage with occasional Drops cellist Leyla McCalla and the masterful Sri LankanAmerican singer-songwriter Bhi Bhiman. Together, they will share the protest and perseverance songs of people of color in this country, adding new context to old works. Incredible vocalists all around, this triumvirate is familiar with translating the songs of others, of salvaging almost-lost sounds and making them resound anew. —Grayson Haver Currin UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., $10–$69, www.carolinaperformingarts.org
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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK +
TUESDAY, MARCH 1
BEN RATLIFF & MAC MCCAUGHAN
“I want to suggest a connective spirit of listening,” wrote New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff by way of introducing an excerpt of his intriguing new book, Every Song Ever, “so that we can become our own adventurous recommendation engines and get to know the back rooms of the inventory.” The equally erudite and ponderous Every Song Ever offers twenty rubrics for penetrating the intimidating mass of sound to which streaming now allows access. These are qualitative, often emotional approaches—like sadness or slowness—that cut across genres and niches, popularity and obscurity, allowing Ratliff to reference Gillian Welch, Eyehategod, and Ravi Shankar within the same two sentences. Ratliff will discuss Every Song Ever, and our ever-fluctuating musical moment, with Merge and Superchunk cofounder Mac McCaughan, whose own tastes are, like those of Ratliff, suitably voracious. —Grayson Haver Currin THE DURHAM HOTEL, DURHAM 7–8:30 p.m., free, www.thedurham.com
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WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT …
The unwieldy title of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Südwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 seems like a comical amalgam of Sonja Linden’s I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady From Rwanda and Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade (its full title would fill the remaining space here). At the beginning of Drury’s play, six young actors blunder through rehearsals as they create the script for what just might be the worst example of devised theater ever. But as they struggle to tell the story of the first genocide of the twentieth century through the letters of German soldiers in Africa, Drury lays ungentle hands on her characters’ racial and cultural assumptions, fiercely questioning the liberties artists take with the past. In a play The Washington Post called “devastatingly funny … dangerous and primal,” guest director Desdemona Chiang leads a cast including Caroline Strange, Myles Bullock, and Carey Cox. —Byron Woods PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY, CHAPEL HILL Various times, $15–$54, www.playmakersrep.org
WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?
BELL WITCH AT KINGS (P. 39), BROWNSVILLE SONG AT MANBITES DOG THEATER (P. 35), FUTURE AT THE RITZ (P. 42), KING AT THE POUR HOUSE (P. 34), MAPLE STAVE AT THE PINHOOK (P. 33), TIFT MERRITT AT CAT’S CRADLE (P. 20), SCHARPLING & WURSTER AT MOTORCO MUSIC HALL (P. 16), TIME TRAVELS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LANDSCAPES AT THE ACKLAND ART MUSEUM (P. 44)
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MANDO Not yet twenty-five, the MASTER mandolin-wielding Sierra Hull is one of the hottest artists in bluegrass. She’s been nominated for five IBMA awards in three years, and her January LP, Weighted Mind, now tops Billboard’s bluegrass chart. This fierce talent won’t be playing Southland-size rooms for much longer. The Forlorn Strangers open. —AH [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $15–$25/7:30 P.M.]
THU, FEB 25
The Knights with Gil Shaham
Terry Anderson and the Olympic AssKickin Team
RESIDENT For the third VIOLIN performance of his yearlong Chapel Hill residency, violinist Gil Shaham joins the Knights, a rapidly rising chamber orchestra from New York. They’ll perform Prokofiev’s second violin concerto, one of the last works he wrote before returning to the USSR. It sits at a happy medium between his radical early works and his gloomy later pieces. The Knights will offer a boisterous dance suite from 1715 by French composer Jean-Féry Rebel. Beethoven’s fourth symphony, as light and flowing as the fifth is heavy and dark, closes. —DR [UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, $10–$59/7:30 P.M.]
NICE During the last fifteen CHAP years, the singer-songwriter Josh Ritter has, in addition to those first two job descriptions, proven himself to be quite the storyteller. Whether love at first sight or love at the brink of nuclear war, whether a chronicle of folk heroes or the testimony of a good kid born of bad seeds, Ritter has consistently found ways to turn evocative tales into sharp songs. Last year’s Sermon on the Rocks again delivered his usual mix of ardor and affability, with a new, radio-ready verve supplied by songs like the irrepressible “Getting Ready to Get Down.” Barnstar opens. —GC [CAROLINA THEATRE, $29–$64/8 P.M.]
Biz Markie
BIZ BEATS Your familiarity with hip-hop legend Biz Markie may only go as far as Big Daddy Kane’s “Just Rhymin’ With Biz” or from his role as the goofball rhymer who once dressed up as Mozart and sang about his love woes in “Just a Friend.” But he’s also a DJing sensation and vinyl connoisseur; he owns the world’s only pair of Technics SL-700 turntables, which were custom built to only play seven-inch singles. He probably won’t break out those for this eighties-versusnineties party, but his famous decree of “party-havin’ people guaranteed to be like having a ball” will be in effect. —ET [THE RITZ, $15/7:30 P.M.]
Tony Furtado
STRING Veteran singer-songFAN writer Tony Furtado unleashes his strings—primarily banjo, slide guitar, and ukulele—on eclectic, progressive interpretations of roots idioms, from blues and bluegrass to folk and jazz. Major Sevens frontman Brooks Forsyth opens with acoustic folk. —SG [MOTORCO, $10–$12/8 P.M.]
Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville MOVIE + A decade ago, The MUSIC Triplets of Belleville charmed French, English, and American audiences with its quirky, music-heavy tale of a Tour de France caper. Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville performs the film’s score under the baton of Benoît Charest, who wrote the original. —AH [DUKE’S REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATRE, $10–$38/8 P.M.]
Local Band Local Beer: First Persons, Beauty World, Teardrop Canyon TRI ALL This Local Band Local THREE! Beer hits all three points of the Triangle. First Persons (formerly First Person Plural) represents Raleigh with simmering, patient tunes. As Beauty World, Durham’s Duncan Webster and Leah Gibson craft sweet, intricate songs with cello and guitar.
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GOLD As the gold standard of MEDAL bar bands, Terry Anderson & The Olympic Ass-Kickin Team kick off the weekend early with rowdy, riffy meat-and-potatoes rock. OAK Team members have served as studio support for show-stopping Nashville singer-songwriter Erica Blinn, whose bluesy and twangy pop-rock conjures Raitt and Potter comparisons. —SG [DEEP SOUTH, $7/9 P.M.]
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BELL WITCH & WREKMEISTER HARMONIES How long does it take them to get from tour stop to tour stop—an eon? What’s their tour van of choice—a stegosaurus? How long does it take the bands to load in, should they ever arrive at a venue—a month? A joint tour between the graceful, glacial Seattle doom duo Bell Witch and Chicago drone sculptor Wrekmeister Harmonies prompts a slew of easy jokes about their respective speeds, or lack thereof. These are especially slow bands in slow genres, acts obsessed with finding and finessing an idea until they’ve examined every aspect of it. Wrekmeister Harmonies, the evolving collective led by JR Robinson, spends entire albums moving through one musical swell, turning a near-symphony orchestra of heavy metal musicians, harsh noise collaborators, and seraphic harmonizers into one dramatic musical movement. Bell Witch, on the other hand, filled sixty-six minutes with just four songs for last year’s harrowing Four Phantoms, an album that examined death by way of the elements of fire, water, earth, and air. The patience gave the topics requisite deference. In a world where the distance between wanting and getting seems to shrink by the instant, it’s easy to interpret such a pace as lethargy. But the music of both Bell Witch and Wrekmeister Harmonies teems with erudition and possibility. On Four Phantoms, the melodies of six-string bassist Dylan Desmond and the motion of drummer Adrian Guerra alternately conjure spiritual jazz and prog rock, black metal and Tuvan throat singing. And Wrekmeister Harmonies’s best records, particularly 2014’s Then It All Came Down, are Godspeed-like in their grandeur but actually more impressive in their stylistic reach, able to fold in the roar of metal without merely alluding to it. Those metallic dalliances and Bell Witch’s extra-metal influences allow the duo to serve as Wrekmeister Harmonies’s touring band, a move that connects their sets in slow tenacity—that is, if they ever make it to town. With Bedowyn. —Grayson Haver Currin KINGS, RALEIGH 8:30 p.m., $10, www.kingsbarcade.com Carrboro’s new Teardrop Canyon drops in the first slot. —AH [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9:30 P.M.]
My 3 Sons FUSED High-energy Raleigh FUNK power trio My 3 Sons shows off its chops through skillful
originals that mesh jazz with funk and rock. Lemon Sparks opens. —SG [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $8–$10/9 P.M.]
Joe Jack Talcum MILKWhile smart-aleck Philly MAN punks The Dead Milkmen were disbanded, Joseph Genaro, or Joe Jack Talcum, kept himself busy with side bands and his prolific singer-songwriter output. Despite flurries of Milkmen activity, Joe’s solo show goes on. His Talcum stuff is more earnest than “Punk Rock Girl” might have lead you to believe. The wit of these songs comes through with a warm smile instead of a sardonic sneer. With Coolzey and D&D Sluggers. —JK [THE PINHOOK, $10/9 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY THE CAVE: Hail! Cassius Neptune, Sister David; 9 p.m., $5. • DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Duke Wind Symphony; 8 p.m., free. • KINGS: Bell Witch, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Bedowyn; 8:30 p.m., $10. See box, this page. • LOCAL 506: Milo, SB The Moor, Defacto Thezpian; 9 p.m., $10.
FRI, FEB 26 Caleb Caudle PASTE Caleb Caudle’s new COUNTRY Carolina Ghost has earned plenty of advance love from rustic music-loving outlets like Paste, which has likened the Winston-Salem singer-songwriter to Ryan Adams and Jason Isbell. Caudle’s simpatico Americana tunes evoke the impressionistic Southern lyricism of Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton, INDYweek.com | 2.24.16 | 39
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Dogs Eyes BEAST Durham’s Dogs Eyes MODE stepped up to make their big debut, Measure the Earth. A scathing hybrid of hardcore, sludge, and post-punk weirdness, the band sounds like the venomous offspring of Young Widows and Nails. Greensboro’s grinding hardcore titans Torch Runner and Asheville black metallers Weak Wrists help celebrate Measure the Earth’s release. —BCR [LOCAL 506, $8/9 P.M.]
Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins, and Anaïs Mitchell VOTING On their own, Patty GrifLADIES fin, Sara Watkins, and Anaïs Mitchell are strong singer-songwriters. The Grammy-winning Griffin has been putting out great folk records for two decades. Watkins cut her teeth in Nickel Creek before springing solo. Mitchell has a masterwork with her stunning “folk opera,” Hadestown. Together, then, they should be a force of nature, or at least of harmonies and common musical interests. The trio has partnered with the nonpartisan League of Women Voters to encourage women to participate in politics. —AH [DUKE’S PAGE AUDITORIUM, $10–$55/8 P.M.]
Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan; Hectorina DUAL Durham trio Cantwell, CHAOS Gomez & Jordan pursue rock with sharp angles and brash colors. They slash ahead with volatile rhythms and helter-skelter melodies. Charlotte’s Hectorina also revels in chaos, but more in the emotions piled atop overdriven psych-rock jangle. With Le Weekend. —JL [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/9:30 P.M.]
Griffin House NOT So it’s clear, Griffin CONDOS House is a musician, not another expensive Triangle high-rise thoughtfully designed for tech-class Harry Potter fans. Following a three-year recording hiatus and a slick new hairdo, the singer-songwriter 40 | 2.24.16 | INDYweek.com
returned with So On and So Forth. The first single, “Yesterday Lies,” is a throwback track complete with female background singers echoing its chorus. —KM [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $15–$18/8 P.M.]
Kathryn Musilek. There is no greater master of giddy intimidation than Dexter Romweber, whose old-school rock ’n’ roll comes loaded with swagger and wit. —JL [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]
I Draw Slow
Rare Music Concert: Giovanni Antonio Pandolfo Mealli
IRISH The commonalities UPSTART between bluegrass and Irish folk are underlined whenever the Dublin quintet I Draw Slow unpacks its banjo, fiddle, standup bass, and acoustic guitar. They deliver newgrass with just a dash of Celtic flavor. Does this qualify as world music? —JA [FLETCHER OPERA THEATER, $22–$29/8 P.M.]
N.C. Symphony: Saint-Saëns’ “Organ Symphony” ORGAN The North Carolina LOVE Symphony delivers a great Romantic program under conductor Andrew Grams’s baton, featuring “Organ Symphony” by Camille Saint-Saëns, his best-loved work. It’s a cool change of pace, as the pipe organ takes the place of strings. The symphony also plays works by Franck and Debussy, including his “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” and reprises the program on Saturday. —CV [MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL, $18-$66/8 P.M.]
Necrocosm LOVELY Balancing melodic DEATH elegance and grim brutality, Necrocosm’s arrangements and momentum are expansive and urgent, matching neatly with growled images of existential terror. The band’s 2015 debut, Damnation Doctrine, shades classic death metal cues with harsh black metal and arena-scale guitar hooks. With Abhorrent Deformity, Lorelei, and Attracting the Fall. —BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $7/8:30 P.M.]
Nevada Nevada, Dexter Romweber MEAN Below Franklin Street, TANDEM you’ll find a perfectly paired touring band and local opener. Nevada Nevada’s sound is a swirl of Americana noir and artful indie rock, indulging in the menace and whimsy that coexist in both and getting a boost from the powerful personality of singer
LOST & The further back in time BAROQUE you go, the more music you find by obscure or anonymous composers. Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli is one such unknown. Essentially, all we have is twelve violin sonatas. They’re playful and sometimes intensely strange works. Part of the HIP Festival, this concert should live up to its title. —DR [DUKE’S NELSON MUSIC ROOM, FREE/7:30 P.M.]
Lazarus KEEP Lazarus may be the best GOING equipped rapper in North Carolina outside of Phonte Coleman and J. Cole. But no one outside of Raleigh may ever know this, because Lazarus has never made much of a push to spread his prolificacy beyond the state lines. He has, however, thrown out some recent winners—“You the Whole Time,” “All In,” “Strange,” and last month’s “16”—to remind us that he’s perched, somewhere, waiting for his strike. Let’s hope it happens. Also with Samson, Poe Mack, GFC, and Boog Brown. —ET [DEEP SOUTH, $5/9 P.M.]
Geoff Tate
DAD Metal’s a young man’s PROG game dominated by old dudes, and former Queensryche vocalist Geoff Tate defines that tragic contradiction. His wail on the Maiden/ speed metal hybrid of Queensryche’s self-titled debut EP, the prog-metal mastery of Operation:Mindcrime, or even the sensibly mature Empire has been lost. The soft prog he peddles now only appeals to dads painfully oblivious as to why their kids listen to Travis $cott. With The Fifth and Hayvyn. —AO [LINCOLN THEATRE, $25–$35/8 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY THE ARTSCENTER: Booker T. Jones; 8 p.m., $32–$60. See page 36. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Dee Lucas; 8 & 10 p.m., $8. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free.
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Spank; 8 p.m., $8. • CAROLINA THEATRE: Vocalosity; 8 p.m., $27–$79. • THE CARY THEATER: Johnny Folsom 4, Rod Abernethy; 8 p.m., $20. • CAT’S CRADLE: Tift Merritt, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig; 8 p.m., $25. See page 20. • HAW RIVER BALLROOM: The Beast, In The Pocket; 8:30 p.m., $10–$12. • KINGS: Stammerings, Flimsy, Zephyranthes; 9 p.m., $7. • THE KRAKEN: The Radials, Patrick Turner; 8 p.m. • THE MAYWOOD: Necrocosm, Abhorrent Deformity, Lorelei, Attracting the Fall; 8:30 p.m., $7. • THE PINHOOK: Dreaming of the ‘90s Dance Party; 10 p.m., $5. • POUR HOUSE: Signal Fire, Elephant Convoy; 9 p.m., $5–$10. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: The Blue Dogs, Finnegan Bell; 8 p.m., $15.
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PARTY At a mere $5, the ECONO Anohat dance party scans as a highly affordable option for Raleigh revelers looking to let the music use them. The complete roster for this shindig includes Mr. Monopoly, Ronin, Bad Catholics, Ra, and Mighty Mouze. Wear some good shoes. Come early. Stay late. —DS [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $5/9 P.M.]
The Black Lillies
GRIT & This Americana outfit GRIN from Knoxville is country enough to have taken the stage at the Grand Ole Opry, but its sound sports touches of folk, pop, rock, and soul, too. Indebted to The Band, they’ve got enough grit to separate them from all the plaid-shirted-and-strummy “whoa-oh-oh” acts around. Underhill Rose opens. —JA [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $14/8 P.M.]
Georg Fredric Handel: Serse MORE Handel’s 1738 opera WIGS Serse opens with a countertenor singing a tender love song to his favorite tree—one of the strangest, most beloved opening numbers in opera. With piles of courtly intrigue, the plot only gets more complicated. This semi-staged performance, capping the HIP Festival, is a collaboration between the Mallarmé Chamber Players and the
UNC Department of Music, with Brent Wissick conducting from the cello. —DR [UNC’S HISTORIC PLAYMAKERS THEATRE, $10–$15/7:30 P.M.]
Jeanne Jolly SERIOUS On last year’s A Place to PIPES Run, Jeanne Jolly and a band of Triangle music-scene mainstays delivered polished Americana with flecks of soul. Jolly can sing the hell out of most anything, from opera to standards, and a recent cover of Hendrix’s “Angel” indicates rock isn’t out of the question either. Lacy Green opens. —DK [THE ARTSCENTER, $15–$20, 8 P.M.]
Metropolitan Opera Rising Stars FARM If you’re the type who TEAM likes to say you saw them before they made it big, the Metropolitan Opera has you. Big-name singers such as Renée Fleming and Mariusz Kwiecien have come up through this series, in which young talent sings popular arias, duets, and ensembles. —CV [CAROLINA THEATRE, $12–$157/8 P.M.]
Other Colors, Borrowed Beams of Light LOWEST The refined FI jangle-psych of Baltimore’s Other Colors can be traced directly back to The Byrds, but the quartet scuffs up its paisley-patterned riffs with a bedheaded approach. Charlottesville’s Borrowed Beams of Light tuck snippets of melodies inside dream machine expanses that are just cheesy enough to be endearing. Both bands strike a great balance between immediacy and obscurity. —PW [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]
The Queers CRETIN There’s no question The POP Queers know how to craft a pop hook. A mix of the Ramones’ idiot-savant punk, the Beach Boys’ warm melody, and The Undertones’ brisk power pop, with concessions to the nineties pop-punk that gave the band its closest brushes with fame, The Queers have been relentless and consistent for more than thirty years. Like
their compatriots in Screeching Weasel, The Queers stubbornly refuse to evolve beyond dick jokes and snotty rants, which grows tiresome. Still, there’s something to be said for sticking to one’s guns. Durham’s scrappy surf outfit Blood Red River, Charlotte garage stompers Paint Fumes, and Chapel Hill ska-punks Sibannac fill the bill. —BCR [LOCAL 506, $12–$15/8 P.M.]
Reed Turchi & The Caterwauls RETRO Asheville slide guitarist STAX Reed Turchi’s namesake band used to whip hill country drone into a funky lather he called “kudzu boogie.” Upon moving to Memphis in 2014, he revised his sound. Despite the name, his latest incarnation, The Caterwauls, are more mellow, making smooth, country-informed soul with gospel overtones. With Hardworker. —GB [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY CAT’S CRADLE: WXYC 90s Dance; 9 p.m., $5–$8. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: Frank Foster; 8 p.m., $12– $17. • DEEP SOUTH: Joe Hero; 9:30 p.m., $8. • DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Randall Love; 8 p.m., free. • KINGS: The Backsliders, Maldora; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • THE KRAKEN: Chuck Champion & The Contenders, Monika Jaymes; 8 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: David Allan Coe, Jonathan Parker Band, Erik Smallwood Duo; 8 p.m., $20–$30. • THE MAYWOOD: The Chemical Lizards, Machinegun Earl, Audio Ashes; 9:30 p.m., $7.• MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL: N.C. Symphony: Saint-Saëns’ “Organ Symphony”; 8 p.m., $18–$66. See Feb. 26 listing. • THE PINHOOK: Maple Stave, Horizontal Hold, Bad Friends; 9 p.m., $8. See page 33. • POUR HOUSE: KING, Heather Victoria, Khrysis; 9 p.m., $10–$20. See page 34. • THE RITZ: Slayer, Testament, Carcass; 8 p.m., $49.50. See page 36.• SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS: Bedowyn; 7 p.m., free. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Rodney Wright; 8 p.m.
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UP THE As soon as Durham ANTE rapper Anonymous Jones stops diluting his reputation with frequent open-mic performances at neighborhood watering holes, I’ll take him seriously. His self-produced debut, Like Minds, may not live up to its conceits, but it’s fun to listen to him fight to get better. Just give up the karaoke rap. —ET [THE PINHOOK, $7/9 P.M.]
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BLUE NOTE GRILL: Craver, Hicks, Watson, and Newberry; 7 p.m. • LOCAL 506: 3@3: Barrett Brooks, Leia Gaskni-Sadiku, Joe Romeo; 3 p.m., free. • UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: Rhiannon Giddens, Bhi Bhiman, Leyla McCalla; 7:30 p.m. See page 36.
ALLSTAR North Mississippi Allstar GUITAR Luther Dickinson has plied his muscular blues-rock fretwork with The Black Crowes, John Hiatt, and The Word. He goes semi-solo on this tour behind Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger’s Songbook) Vol. I & II, on which he revives ancient folk, hill country blues, and gospel tunes. He’s backed by Sharde Thomas on fife and drums. With Amy LaVere and Will Sexton. —SG [ARTSCENTER, $20–$23/8 P.M.]
BLEH IFFY This Brooklyn synthpop BAD OK duo strode into the void left when MGMT refused to replicate the Coachella-core hits that once made its career zoom. Great Good Fine OK aren’t much fun, though. Their songs try to skate by on overworked falsetto and uninspired synth tones, sorely missing the weird detours or self-deprecating charm. Handsome Ghost opens. —JK [KINGS, $12/8 P.M.]
Mike Gardner Benefit for Parkinson’s Disease
INDIE As American indie rock ALONE has continued to look toward the irreverent local scenes of the Northeast, Boston indie rock quartet Pile has become gospel among a certain type of DIY scenester. This set features Pile frontman Rick Maguire playing the band’s material. The versions might be stripped down, but their weirdo structures and acerbic charms remain. With Look A Ghost. —DS [DUKE COFFEEHOUSE, $5, FREE WITH DUKE ID/9 P.M.]
FIGHTING Triangle guitarist and DISEASE producer Mike Gardner is best known for teaming up with Nantucket’s rhythm section to form PKM in the eighties. He now lends his name to this annual Parkinson’s disease benefit, which began shortly after his 2009 diagnosis. PKM’s Peewee Watson holds it down on bass for Monkeywrench (who cover more than just Foo Fighters), while fusion instrumentalists My 3 Sons feature PKM drummer Kenny Soule. Vintage rockers Sidewinder and Arrogance guitarist Rod Abernethy join. —SG [LINCOLN THEATRE, $20/7 P.M.]
Fazıl Say
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Mutual Benefit GENIAL & Jordan Lee spent years SHY building up the skills, ideas, cohorts, and collaborators that would make his debut album, Love’s Crushing Diamond, a surprise success in 2013. It was uncommonly gentle for a modern indie rock breakthrough, featuring cozy banjo strums and lightly layered drifts. No concrete news of a full-length follow-up has come, but one’s expected sometime this year. —JK [THE PINHOOK, $10–$12/9 P.M.]
Son Little SMOOTH It’s en vogue for artists SOUL to employ classic soul and doo-wop tropes in the name of throwback jams. But on songs like “Lay Down,” Son Little delivers slick, contemporary songs that hang on to the spirit of old soul without drowning in mimicry. It’s immediate, deeply satisfying stuff. —AH [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/8 P.M.] ALSO ON MONDAY LOCAL 506: The Shadowboxers, Sages; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: The Atomic Rhythm All-Stars; 8 p.m., $3–$5. • POUR HOUSE: Motorbilly, Jittery Jack; 9 p.m., free.
TUE, MAR 1 Particle LITE Particle makes its living ELECTRO off light-heavy live marathons of electronic-infused soundscapes. Members of Brothers Past, Roster McCabe, and FiKus will help shape this rendition, as cofounder and lone mainstay Steve Molitz brings along yet another lineup for this tour in anticipation of Anticipator, the band’s first studio release in a decade. —SG [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $12–$15/9:30 P.M.]
Y&T FIND A Y&T’s mid-eighties LIGHTER single “Summertime Girls” is one of the best arguments for hard rock as power pop’s goofier sibling. Anchored by a glassy keyboard hook, the band’s lone Hot 100 appearance sounds larger than life thanks to unbridled horniness and an instantly sticky chorus. Y&T’s set list will likely dwell on the “yesterday” portion of the band’s acronymic name, but it’ll offer at least five prime moments for the 2016 equivalent of lighter waving. —MJ [LINCOLN THEATRE, $16.50–$40/8 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY DUKE’S NELSON MUSIC ROOM: Fazıl Say; 8 p.m., free. • UNC’S HYDE HALL: Roger McGuinn; 3 p.m., free.
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of Mozart—is sold out. If you want to hear his stride version of the “Rondo alla Turca,” you’re probably out of luck. But you can hear him expound on Turkish music with Duke’s Erdağ Göknar tomorrow and play chamber music with Duke students March 1. —DR [DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM, $10–$38/7 P.M.]
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Robbie Robertson—in 2002. In the ensuing years, the Alabama-based Adams has put out a handful of gentle, moderate Americana records that lean toward pop. They’re bland and fine. Molly Pardon opens. —AH [MOTORCO, $14–$16/8 P.M.]
Rap rarely makes room for new stars. Even when it does, the deal is a consignment contract, the threat of revocation looming between albums. Future’s unexpected, recent rise following the failure of 2014’s Honest seemed a disruption of the natural hip-hop order, a second chance in a business that offers few first ones. But Atlanta’s most popular contemporary rapper filled a void in the genre at a time when tastemakers took a narrow view of the hip-hop landscape. Still, today’s success story can quickly become tomorrow’s tabloid fodder. (Just ask Kanye.) While Future’s releases last year felt like major rap events, his 2016 projects haven’t. EVOL debuted atop the Billboard 200, but neither that nor its mixtape predecessor, Purple Reign, produced the conversations of DS2 or 56 Nights. Our collective reaction to these newer projects is a consumerist reflex, a vestigial twitch in the direction of the “Buy” button. Future is repeating himself, and so are we. His producer, Metro Boomin, continues to compose bass-bin wonders, designed to shake Atlanta and the world. That homogeneity, though, may doom him to the fate that befell the once mighty DJ Mustard. A weary hedonist, Future relies on Metro, which leaves him slinking into a rut, too. He’s trapped in the trap house, repetitively rapping about xans and lean. Quality control no longer applies to Future, making him increasingly more prone to meme-ification and clowning. (Again, see Kanye.) Even as his new songs prompt more hashtag humor than rap radio appeal, Future commands attention. His current tour is a very hot ticket, with dates selling out in short order. He’s tapped into the zeitgeist and made these concerts places to be. Can he sustain it without progressing? Changing his sound seems risky, but, at some point, he must—for the sake of his artistry and his paper. Ty Dolla $ign and Lil Donald open. —Gary Suarez THE RITZ, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $47.50, www.ritzraleigh.com
WED, MAR 2 Peter Case ROCK —> Peter Case first made ROOTS his name as the frontman for LA power pop wonders The Plimsouls, but he’s been slogging it out as an acoustic-guitar-slinging troubadour for decades now. He’s embraced his roots with age and improved as a songwriter. The new HWY 62 is no exception. —JA [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $15/8 P.M.]
mc chris ADULT Christopher Ward wrote PHLEGM and voice-acted for multiple shows on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim before switching to full-time spitting in 2004. Known for his high-pitched voice, rapping-inmom’s-basement material, and densely packed rhymes, mc chris’s sound is
unique—even if the result isn’t always that unpredictable. —RC [CAT’S CRADLE, $13–$15/8 P.M.]
Randy Rogers Band COUNTRY If you gave up on the SHINE Randy Rogers Band after its last string of Nashville-polished records, the new Nothing Shines Like Neon begs for another chance. Featuring heavyweights like Jamey Johnson and Alison Krauss, the independently released record returns to gloriously underproduced Texas country. The stark lyrics and instrumentation especially deliver on “Things I Need to Quit,” a slow burner about bad habits. —KM [LINCOLN THEATRE, $15/8 P.M.]
Turkuaz UPTOWN Brooklyn nine-piece FUNK Turkuaz is a pop band
trying to play soul and funk music. Unlike the outfits operating on revivalist labels Daptone and Dunham, Turkuaz doesn’t prize grit. The nonet is squeaky clean, its blemishes swapped for a platinized smoothness. Calling Turkuaz a poor man’s Sly and the Family Stone wouldn’t be wholly inappropriate. If nothing else, they capture at least some the Family’s roof-raising energy. —PW [POUR HOUSE, $10–$12/9 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY DUKE’S BALDWIN AUDITORIUM: Duke Symphony Orchestra with Jennifer Koh; 8 p.m., free. • LOCAL 506: The Eastern Sea, Ravary, XOXOK; 9 p.m., $7. • NCSU’S STEWART THEATRE: Triangle Brass Band, N.C. State British Brass Band; 7 p.m., $5–$10. • THE RITZ: Future, Lil Donald, Ty Dolla $ign; 8 p.m., $47.50. See box, this page.
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SPECIAL Art-Music FUSION: EVENT Dan Campbell. Feb 26-Mar 23. Reception: Fri, Feb 26, 6-9 p.m. Village Art Circle, Cary. www.villageartcircle.com. From Frock Coats to Flip-Flops: 100 Years of Fashion at Carolina: Feb 25-Jun 5. UNC Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu. SPECIAL Prismatic Atoms: EVENT Glass sculpture installation by Gretchen Cobb. Feb 26-Mar 30. Reception: Friday, Feb 26, 6-9 p.m. The Qi Garden, Hillsborough. www.theqi-garden.com. SPECIAL Sedona Sunrise and EVENT Sunset: Oil paintings by Lori Leachman. Feb 27-Mar 26. Reception: Sat, Feb 27, 5-7 p.m. Naomi Gallery and Studio, Durham. www. naomistudioandgallery.com.
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African American Quilter Circle Show: Thru Mar 19. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org.
Americana: Textile & History as Muse: Robert Otto Epstein, Margi Weir, and David Curcio. Thru Mar 26. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.
Aqueous: Watercolors by Lyudmila Tomova. Thru Mar 6. Golden Belt, Durham. www. goldenbeltarts.com. LAST The Art of Love: CHANCE Paintings by Laura and Trip Park. Thru Feb 29. ArtSource Fine Art, Raleigh. www.artsource-raleigh.com. LAST Aunties: The Seven CHANCE Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila: Photographs by Nadia Sablin. Thru Feb 28. Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www. cdsporch.org. LAST Beach-Headz: North CHANCE Carolina Marine Fossil Portraits: Rick Jackson. Thru Feb 28. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org. LAST Black History: CHANCE Artists’ Perspectives: Mixed-media work by Durham
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artists. Thru Feb 29. Hayti Heritage Center, Durham. www.hayti.org. SPECIAL Black Holes: Richard EVENT C. Thru Feb 27. Reception: Wed, Feb. 24, 6-8 p.m. Lump, Raleigh. www. teamlump.org. LAST Boys Keep Swinging: CHANCE Work by Louis St. Lewis inspired by David Bowie. Thru Feb 29. Crook’s Corner, Chapel HIll. www.crookscorner.com. Chisel and Forge: Works by Peter Oakley and Elizabeth Brim: Thru Mar 20. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org. LAST Crinkle and Color — CHANCE Interpretations of a Flower: Charcoal and pastel by Vinita Jain. Thru Feb 28. Village Art Circle. www.villageartcircle.com. LAST Dim Sum: Sculpture CHANCE by Catherine Thornton. Thru Feb 28. Adam Cave Fine Art, Raleigh. www. adamcavefineart.com. Disappearing Frogs Project: Environmental art project raising awareness of the global decline of amphibian populations. Thru Mar 3. NCSU Crafts Center, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/crafts. SPECIAL Divided by DecadesEVENT Bound by Tradition: Oil and graphite by Janet Link and Sherry di Filippo. Thru Mar 24. Reception: Thu, Feb. 25, 4-6 p.m. Meredith College Cate Center, Raleigh. DURHAM UNDER DEVELOPMENT: Citing the incredible amount of money in projects on the Downtown Loop, Pleiades Gallery called for art that would help “discuss how we want go to forward, rather than to presume development is linear and therefore that certain people have expertise, sway, authority, that we, as a community, do not.” In this juried exhibit, twenty-six artists respond. We were struck by Kim Wheaton’s “Five Points: Past, Present, Future,” which illustrates the omnipotent view of time only attainable through a creative lens. Thru Mar 6. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www. PleiadesArtDurham.com. —Brian Howe Everyday Chaos: Re-Collaging the Surface: Carlyn Wright-
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TIME TRAVELS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LANDSCAPES Before the nineteenth century, there was an established hierarchy of painting genres. Religious allegories were at the top, while still-life works and animal paintings were at the bottom. This system, which valued works that sought to depict the universal and disregarded those that merely reflected reality, began to break down at the turn of the century, as the collapse of empires and the rise of technology created a new order. Landscapes were reinvented by artists who imbued them with a nostalgic idealism about the time before industrialization—or those with an eye for the onrushing future. Painters like J.M.W. Turner created landscape images that toe the line between fantasy and reality, here and there, past and present. Time Travels in Nineteenth-Century Landscapes, a new exhibit consisting of drawings, paintings, and photographs from the Ackland, UNC’s Wilson Library, and NCMA, enables viewers to decode works that temper realism with a fascination for an untouched past through April 3. —Sayaka Matsuoka ACKLAND ART MUSEUM, CHAPEL HILL 10 a.m.–5 p.m., free, www.ackland.org Eakes, Richie Foster, Harriet Hoover, and Saba Taj. Thru Mar 13. Arcana Bar and Lounge. Excavations from Nothingness: Harriet Hoover, Wendy Collin Sorin. Thru Mar 18. Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Raleigh. www.raleighnc.gov/arts. Failure of the American Dream: Installation by Phil America. $5. Thru May 8. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. www.camraleigh.org. HACKENSACK DREAMING: Nancy Cohen lives and works in New Jersey, and her traveling installation abstracts the ecosystem of Mill Creek Marsh. Cohen shapes organic materials such as handmade paper and glass into an allusive facsimile of a place she has internalized. The result is an immersive diorama—a memory you can walk inside. Thru Mar 6. Power Plant Gallery, Durham, www. powerplantgallery.org. —Brian Howe
LAST Hey America!: CHANCE Eastern North Carolina and the Birth of Funk: Thru Feb 28. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org. Home in a New Place: Katy Clune photographs an immigrant community in Morganton, N.C. Thru Apr 27. Center for the Study of the American South, Chapel Hill. www.uncsouth.org. If I Were You and You Were Me: Polymer clay and found object sculptures by Elissa FarrowSavos. Thru Mar 17. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net. LAST Inside Out: Work CHANCE exploring relationships between architecture and psychology by Sandra Elliot. Thru Feb 29. Duke Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Durham. duke.edu.
SPECIAL It’s All About The EVENT Story: Allan Gurganus: Artists respond to the Hillsborough author. Thru Mar 20. Reception: Sun, Feb 28, 4-6 p.m. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www.hillsboroughgallery.com. La Sombra y el Espiritu IV - The Work of Stefanie Jackson: Thru May 13. UNC Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Chapel Hill. www. sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu. Longitude and Latitude: Explorations of Land and Sea: Paintings by Tony Alderman and Stephen Estrada. Thru Mar 12. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. Made Especially for You by Willie Kay: One-of-a-kind dresses by the Raleigh designer. Thru Sep 5. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.
Mixed Media Journeys: Wax pencil drawings of circuses, carnivals, and travels by Benjamin Frey. Thru Mar 15. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. www. littleartgalleryandcraft.com. MORPHOLOGY AND THE BIOMORPHIC IMPULSE: With lush forms abstracted from a fantasy called the natural world, the biomorphic style naturally flourished in the angular, industrial twentieth century. You can see it in the tree-like columns of a Gaudí church, the smooth skin of a Brancusi bronze, or the voluptuous fluids in an Yves Tanguy painting. Three FRANK artists revisit the terrain in this show, where Bill McAllister’s photo of a human body turns into a wooden whiplash in Mark Elliott’s sculpture and then shatters into colored panels in Harriett Bellows’s painting. Thru Mar 9. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com. —Brian Howe
New Year Show: Jeff Bell, Kiki Farish, Heather Gordon, Warren Hicks, and Sallie White. Thru Mar 12. Light Art + Design, Chapel Hill. www.lightartdesign.com. Constance Pappalardo: Paintings. Thru Apr 30. Umstead Hotel & Spa, Cary. www.theumstead.com. Past Tense/Future Perfect: Work by seven artists using found objects. Thru Mar 12. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www. scrapexchange.org. The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.
PUBLIC DISPLAYS: Early Thomas Edison film “The Kiss,” where two stage actors share a chaste peck, began a tradition of outcry over the moral toxicity of mass entertainment. Considered obscene (they didn’t have Internet porn in 1896), it called down denunciations from newspapers and the Roman Catholic Church. Flanders Gallery asked people to re-create the original PDA for this exhibit. The re-creations are projected alongside the original, reminding us how yesterday’s racy is today’s quaint. Thru Feb
28. Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www.flandersartgallery.com. —Brian Howe
PULL: If last year’s excellent Nasher show of prints is still embossed on your brain, then check out this new exhibit of work by modern printmakers. Curated by Supergraphic’s Bill Fick and UNC art professor Beth Grabowski, the show features twenty-three international artists who work in everything from screenprinting to 3-D printing. Lynne Allen etches her Lakota Sioux family history on wood and deerskin, while Fick offers a grotesquely blemished face that might have sprung from a Charles Burns comic. Thru Mar 27. Meredith College Weems Gallery, Raleigh. www. meredith.edu/the-arts. —Brian Howe LAST Reality of My CHANCE Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection: Thru Feb 28. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. LAST SILVER SCREENS: CHANCE Published in a monograph by Daylight Books, Tama Hochbaum’s project is a tribute to her mother via iPhone images of TV screens showing golden age films, evoking the blurry distances opened by time, technology, and Alzheimer’s. Thru Feb 28. Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www. flandersartgallery.com. —Brian Howe
THE TIES THAT BIND: Beverly McIver is a painter, originally from Greensboro, whose guardianship of a sister with developmental disabilities was the subject of the HBO documentary Raising Renee. McIver exposes another thread of her complex family life in these oil portraits of her father, whom she has gotten to know over the last decade. “I believe that I have fallen in love with my dad,” McIver writes. In her vibrant, expressive portraits of him at various ages, perhaps you will, too. Thru Apr 9. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com. —Brian Howe
Tilt-A-Whirl: Installation by Martha Clippinger and Rachel Goodwin. Thru Mar 4. SPECTRE Arts, Durham. www.spectrearts.org.
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In After Nature, Jedediah Purdy looks at the current environmental crisis through the lens of American cultural and political history with a focus on moments when the battle over a “widely shared goal,” such as gender equality or the effort to overcome racism, was fought and won in the political arena. Politics may be the engine to drive the change, but Purdy believes what’s required is a fundamental reordering of our relationship with the nonhuman world. While he argues that we have lost our connection to nature, Purdy points to past struggles as proof that a moral rewiring can occur, even in our present age—the Anthropocene, or age of humans. Joining Purdy is fellow Duke law professor Jonathan B. Wiener, whose most recent book examines regulatory responses to manmade catastrophes both nuclear and financial. If this sounds like heady stuff, it is. The conversation promises to be lively. —David Klein REGULATOR BOOKSHOP, DURHAM 7 p.m., free, www.regulatorbookshop.com
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Robin Moore: In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World’s Rarest Amphibians and Other Stories. Thu, Feb 25, 6 p.m. NCSU Crafts Center, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/crafts. — Fri, Feb 26, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.
Ben Ratliff: Discussing Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty with Mac McCaughan. Tue, Mar 1, 7 p.m. The Durham Hotel, Durham. www.thedurham.com. See p. 37.
Katy Simpson Smith: Historical novel Free Men. Mon, Feb 29, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com. — Tue, Mar 1, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com. Daryl Walker & Fred Broadwell:
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William Henry Curry: Resident conductor of the N.C. Symphony discusses his work. Thu, Feb 25, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com. Life on the Ice: Penguins Past and Present: Steve Emslie. $5, free for members. Thu, Feb 25, 6:30 p.m. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org. What is Socialism?: Barry Maguire of UNC’s Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program, and UNC student Kerry Foerst. Open discussion follows. Wed, Feb 24, 7 p.m. Internationalist Books, Carrboro. www.internationalistbooks.org. 7-Stories: Kill Me, Cupid: Seven storytellers sharing tales of love, relationships, and broken hearts. $5. Sun, Feb 28, 7 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www.kingsbarcade. com.
MONDAY, FEB. 29
ELECTORAL COLLEGE TOUR Satellite radio channel SiriusXM Insight (“Inspiring Talk with a Sense of Humor” is the motto) will take over Duke all day Monday, with a couple of comics-turned-radio hosts broadcasting their respective shows from campus. Chrome-domed bigmouth Pete Dominick will host his daily gabfest Stand-Up! with Pete Dominick in the morning, while ubiquitous TV host John Fugelsang (whose credits include stints on VH1 and America’s Funniest Home Videos) does his Tell Me Everything thing later in the day. It’s topped off that evening by stand-up from both, as part of the channel’s “Electoral College Tour.” They’ll be joined by PalestineanItalian-American comic Dean Obeidallah, who hosts The Dean Obeidallah Show on the weekends. Not coincidentally, this is happening the day before Super Tuesday. So, in all likelihood, expect these gents to do a lot of topical gags about our current slate of presidential candidates—men and women who, from both sides of the aisle, give these guys a lot of material to work with. —Craig D. Lindsey PAGE AUDITORIUM, DURHAM 7:30 p.m., $5–$10, www.tickets.duke.edu
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Discussing Bill Dow’s memoir What I Stand On: Practical Advice and Cantankerous Musings from a Pioneering Organic Farmer with Gary Phillips. Sat, Feb 27, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com. Nancy Young, Ralph Earle, Sarah Edwards: Poetry. Sun, Feb 28, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks. com.
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WILLIAM LEUCHTENBURG: In The American President, William Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of the executive branch with telling anecdotes, character-defining moments, and dramatic episodes that marked the tenures of the past century’s seventeen chief executives. Leuchtenburg, a noted presidential scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, elucidates how the office has been altered both by transformational figures like FDR and ineffectual, even maligned, personages like Warren G. Harding. Sat, Feb 27, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com. — David Klein
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brownsville song (b-side for tray): Play. $5–$20. Feb 25-Mar 12. Manbites Dog Theater, Durham. www. manbitesdogtheater.org. See p. 35. Hurt Village: Play. $10 suggested donation. Feb 26-28. NCCU University Theater, Durham. Now Boarding: Dance by Killian Manning. $10–$15. Feb 25-28. Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www.cgtheatre.com. The Sklar Brothers: Standup comedy. $15–$32. Feb 25-27. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing: Play from Applause! Cary Youth Theatre. Feb 26-Feb 28. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org. Twelfth Night: Shakespeare play. $5–$15. Feb 25-28. Leggett Theatre, Raleigh. www.theatre. peace.edu. We Are Proud to Present ...: Play. $15–$44. Thru Mar 13. UNC Paul Green Theatre, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org. See p. 36.
ONGOING Alice, A Mad Musical Fantasy: $7–$15. Feb 26-27. EK Powe Elementary School, Durham. powe.dpsnc.net.
Jacuzzi: Play. $25. Thru Mar 5. Ward Theatre, Durham. wardtheatrecompany.com. The Lion King: $39–$109. Thru Mar 20. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com. ½ Love Letters: A.R. Gurney’s epistolary drama usually features two actors traversing the friendship of Melissa and Andy through five decades of their correspondence. The challenge to an actor’s range is obvious. But in this poignant Bare Theatre production, director Rebecca Blum declines that test. Three pairs of performers play the characters as their lives diverge. Gurney’s conclusion, and Blum’s cast, might leave you struggling to compose yourself—or a letter to someone you have let slip away. $10–$18. Thru Feb. 28. Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh. www. sonorousroad.com. —Byron Woods Sweeney Todd: In Raleigh Little Theatre’s take on the famed Sondheim musical about a serial killer who provides fresh protein to Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop, the leading actors, directed by Patrick Torres, are persuasive. David Henderson is more haunted than when he first performed the title role, and Rose Higgins shines as Mrs. Lovett. But some actors in supporting roles are less convincing. $13–$27. Thru Feb 28, 8 p.m. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www.raleighlittletheatre. org. —Byron Woods
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A L S O P L AY I N G See our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com. ½ 45 YEARS—A lifetime of regret unravels between a comfortably married couple (Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling) as their wedding anniversary arrives. Rated R. ½ BROOKLYN—The nostalgic melancholy of Colm Tóibín’s novel is preserved in this elegiac old-school immigrant’s tale. Rated PG-13. ½ DEADPOOL—Marvel’s smartass semi-hero (Ryan
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I remember a distinguished professor, designer, and artist named Walter Hood telling his compatriots at dinner, “When I was growing up there was one thing I knew: if a white woman ever asked me to come bust up her chifforobe, I was going to say no thank you,” he said, citing an infamous scene from To Kill a Mockingbird. “I did not even know what a chifforobe was, but I knew a black man would get into a world of trouble for busting up a white woman’s chifforobe.” Black folk and white folk tend to take dramatically different lessons from Nell Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. I know at least ten white female lawyers (and an abundance of white male lawyers) who trace their careers to the 1962 motion picture. In 2003, the American Film Institute even named Atticus Finch America’s all-time-favorite hero. No wonder, then, that last year’s release of Lee’s early draft of and sequel to the iconic first novel caused so many shudders and cries. Atticus Finch a member of a White Citizens’ council? Atticus Finch questioning the humanity of good Tom Robinson? Our beloved Scout not becoming a combination of Virginia Durr, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Gloria Steinem? In 2006, I moderated a panel of civil rights attorneys gathered to discuss the film and the book. After watching the movie, a black mother rose and said she regretted bringing her daughter to see it. The film registered differently to her now than when she was her daughter’s age. For her, the visions of patriarchy and paternalism recalled a rather recent era and offered a bitter reminder of how little things had changed. The famous post-trial scene where the black folk rise in honor of Atticus was now a mockery—docile, voiceless negroes embracing their subservience and dependence. As James Baldwin once wrote of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, To Kill a Mockingbird is “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” in which, “whatever unsettling questions are raised are evanescent, titillating; remote, for this has nothing to do with us, it is safely ensconced in the social arena, where, indeed, it has nothing to do with anyone, so that finally we receive a very definite thrill of virtue from the fact that we are reading such a book at all.” When I think of Nell Harper Lee, I like thinking of the woman with the steel-trap mind who accompanied her eldritch little friend, Truman Capote, to windswept Kansas, listening to the stories of the everyday folk of Holcomb. She knew all sorts of truth. Can we handle the truth? —Randall Kenan Twitter: @BuckarooBZ your| ad • CALL LesLie at 919-286-6642 | 2.24.16 49Book INDYweek.com
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STINGING BLADES ALBUM RELEASE EVENT
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