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Raleigh mayoral candidate Charles Francis doesn’t want to be known just for the cases he won or the business deals he landed.

Since 2006, Durham’s population has grown by 27 percent. But its police force is only 10 percent larger.

You can cook with bad wine. Don’t cook with bad beer.

Until a mutual friend suggested they collaborate, New York City dance artist Eiko and Hillsborough-based painter Beverly McIver had never heard of each other.

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Revolution on Repeat In last week’s cover story, Marc Maximov dove into the world of self-directed learning, reporting on the first year of Pathfinder Community School in Durham, where there are no teachers, classrooms, or textbooks. Ariel Fielding says that this kind of freeschooling is nothing new: “As a graduate of a school not unlike Pathfinder, I saw many of my own early educational experiences reflected there. I also thought the assertion on the cover that this kind of education might be ‘education’s next revolution’ was kind of ironic, since people have been saying that for nearly a century. “I went to a free school based on A.S. Neill’s Summerhill—ALPHA Alternative in Toronto, Canada, where the public system boasts nineteen alternative schools from K–8, and twenty-two alternative high schools—and I’ve watched media outlets discover free-schooling with surprise again and again. The fact is that this kind of selfdirected learning has been around since at least 1921. Closer to home, Western North Carolina’s Arthur Morgan School has been around since 1962 and is still going strong. “People who are new to the anti-authoritarian model of education tend to place it somewhere on a spectrum ranging from preposterous to personally offensive. When my documentary project on free-schooling with photographer Michael Barker (“Notes from the Field”; see notesfromthefield.ca) landed in the pages of the UK’s Daily Mail, it drew some hilariously vitriolic comments from readers. The upshot was that since not all of the graduates we profiled had become doctors, lawyers, or accountants, free-schooling was an abject failure. In fact, free-schooling teaches many things that students in conventional schools often do not learn at all: how to make decisions, how to treat others with fairness and respect, and how to live ethically and responsibly as part of a democratic community. “I think of it in terms of love and fear: traditional education is hierarchical and operates on an undercurrent of fear—fear of failure, fear of punishment—while freeschooling is egalitarian and operates on an undercurrent of love. Surely the world could use infinitely more of the latter; maybe it’s not so surprising that it still seems revolutionary a century after it started.”

“They had time to be kids.” Steve Krug adds: “When the kids were little, we lived in an area of spectacular natural beauty and a terrible school system. After trying to work with the school, we ended up homeschooling. We tried a number of approaches for basic curriculum and settled on student-directed education after reading about Summerhill in Neill’s book. “We agonized about our choice. We found, ‘only’ an hour’s drive away, another group of secular parents, some of whom also wanted to try allowing studentdirected education. The group eventually had a building where we all met once a week, the parents offered ‘classes’ in their specialty, and attendance was, obviously, not mandatory. “It should be noted that for SDE to work, in our situation, we had to be available to explain any concept the kids were interested in. If we didn’t know the topic, we turned finding out about it into a learning experience for both us. It became evident early on that, once reading and math basics were in place, that it took very little of the day for our kids to learn far more than if they had been in a conventional school. They had time to be kids. “With the group, they learned peer social skills, and talk with adults with an ease we had never known growing up. “Our first child graduated from homeschooling and went on to college; she’s an ICU RN. Our second decided she wanted structure and went to school for her last three years of high school. SDE had her reading at a college level and doing math at a tenth-grade level. She went on to become a geologist. “Of all the things we did differently as parents, deciding to try SDE brought the most criticism from family and friends. Were there holes in their educations? Absolutely. Did they find a way to fill those holes? Yes.” Want to see your name in bold? Email us at backtalk@indyweek.com, comment on indyweek.com or our Facebook page, or hit us up on Twitter: @indyweek.

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“It All Comes Back to Leadership”

MAYORAL CANDIDATE CHARLES FRANCIS SAYS RALEIGH IS HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. IT JUST NEEDS A STRONGER CAPTAIN: HIM. BY LEIGH TAUSS

harles Francis is a Raleigh success story. He went from a North Raleigh public school kid in the seventies to an Ivy League education, then to a career as a trial lawyer before founding North State Bank in 2000. Along the way, he amassed considerable wealth. His political efforts haven’t fared so well. He had a brief stint on the Raleigh City Council in 1993—he was appointed to a seat but didn’t win his election—and then unsuccessfully challenged Mayor Nancy McFarlane in 2017, losing in a runoff but garnering support from some Democrats who were dissatisfied with the independent incumbent. This year, with McFarlane not seeking another term, Francis’s opponents are all Democrats: Mary-Ann Baldwin, Caroline Sullivan, Zainab Baloch, and George Knott. But Francis appears to have in his corner some incumbent city council members, including Stef Mendell and David Cox—which suggests that, if you think the council’s majority is headed in the right direction, Francis might be your candidate. He brings some progressive ideas to the table, such as a property tax freeze for senior citizens to mitigate the effects of gentrification, and expanding the number of city council members to promote diversity and inclusion. On other hot-button issues, he’s less clear: He’s for a police oversight board, but he doesn’t know what it should look like. He wants an affordable housing bond, but he doesn’t know for how much money. The INDY spoke with Francis at his downtown law office week about his campaign and why he believes he’s the best person for the job. This interview has been condensed and edited for space and clarity, but you can listen to the full conversation on INDYcast, available now to stream at soundcloud.com/ indycast or for download on iTunes and Stitcher. INDY: When McFarlane said she wasn't going to run again, she said Raleigh politics needs a reset—that there’s this divisive toxicity right now. Do you see that? CHARLES FRANCIS: I agree with her that we need a reset. I think that what the council and the city are in need of is leadership. Leadership starts with relationships, so I have relationships with several of the councilors. I’m going to build relationships with whoever’s on the council so that we can work together to not just find consensus but set consensus, and then move people toward the consensus that we need to all agree on.

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You’ve been a huge big advocate for Southeast Raleigh. What do you think needs to happen in that community? First of all, it’s a very diverse community, and we need more inclusion at the city government level. I think a lot of people in Southeast Raleigh feel that their voice has not been heard. So one thing I’m bringing to the table is to include everybody in the city—not just Southeast Raleigh, but everybody—in the decision-making process and have processes that are fair and that people feel are fair so that they feel, even when they don’t get what they want, that their voice has been heard. The second thing is the city needs to invest more public resources in Southeast Raleigh. I think it’s wonderful that the city’s focused resources, for example, on Hillsborough Street, but there are places in Southeast Raleigh that also need to be

improved. For example, the streetscape in front of Saint Augustine’s University has been overdue for a facelift for quite a while. There are parks in Southeast Raleigh that require attention. I am a huge advocate for Dix Park. I’m going to be a strong advocate for Dix, but we can’t neglect Chavis Park and Lions Park and the other parks. In terms of inclusivity, do you think we need to change the makeup of our boards and commissions? Raleigh needs to become more diverse in many respects. I think we need to look at expanding the number of members of the city council. The city council has stayed the same size for many many years, but Raleigh has gotten much bigger. I think we should look at expanding the number of councilors—not sure the exact number, maybe by one, INDYweek.com | 6.12.19 | 7

maybe by three—so that we don’t have an even number, including the mayor. [Editor’s note: Including the mayor, the council currently has eight members.] What are your thoughts on a police oversight board? The police have a really tough job. Our police need to be well paid, they need to be well-benefited, and they need to be treated as professionals. I do think that we are overdue for a citizen review board. I think that’s a level of transparency and accountability that Raleigh demands and is entitled to. Now, the way I would do it is that anyone who raised their hand for that position would have to go through extensive training once they were selected and have to spend a number of hours and days riding with police officers, seeing what policemen and policewomen do. I think doing that, they’d be better able to assess the danger that officers are in and better able to assess everyday situations and compare those to the things that go sideways that require attention when there’s excessive force or claims of excessive force.

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How do you think the board should look? When city staff and the police chief presented options to the council a couple of weeks ago, they presented a hybrid of staff and citizens. I don’t know the exact composition of the board. In general, I think that because of this council-manager form of government that we have, not just with this but across the board, too many decisions are very, very staff-driven. So I would probably go beyond those options that we got from staff and consider a wider range of possibilities—look at best practices in other cities in North Carolina and put together what the best model would be. I think Raleigh needs to be a leader. I think it’s not acceptable to say because it hasn’t been done before, we’re not going to do it. Sometimes a role in

leadership is to go to the General Assembly and work with them to get changes in state law so we can move where we need to go. Let’s talk about gentrification. As The New York Times reported a couple of weeks ago, houses are being bought up in historically African American communities and turned into half-million-dollar homes. What do you think can be done? Changes like what you're seeing in Southeast Raleigh and around the city are happening all over the country. In part, it’s a market function. Some aspects of it are not a bad thing. The fact that there now are white citizens who are comfortable and happy to move into a historically black neighborhood says we made progress as a society and as a people because that used to not be the case. The problem with it, of course, is that renters are pushed out. People feel culturally displaced, and so the main support that we have to give is to renters who want to remain in the community, who want to retain some level of affordable housing. So that really brings up the whole issue of affordable housing, which will be my top priority as a mayor. What I would like to be known for after my service as mayor is that I expanded options for housing, both to rent and to buy. There is a creeping affordability crisis in Raleigh. Really, it’s beyond creeping now. We've got to expand choices both for renters and firsttime homeowners. That’s the way you deal with the deleterious effect of gentrification. The city council has decided to hold back on seeking an affordable housing bond until 2020. What do you think would be an appropriate level for a housing bond? I think the city probably made the right decision to postpone that bond until next year because we want to get it done, but we want to get it done properly, and we want to have support from all over the community for that. The other thing is there are other needs for bond financing, like Dix

“When I’m old, I want part of my body of work to be public service. I don’t want to just talk about business deals or about cases.” Park, perhaps, like other parks, like transit. We want to have a coordinated approach so that we’re telling the citizens all at one time, here’s what we're asking you to borrow, there’s going to be the effect on your property tax bills, and here’s why it’s going to be a worthwhile investment. Do you see us getting a $100 million bond—or something larger? I think we need to go big. That’s what I’ll say right now. I don’t have a specific number for you. It’s often said that if you raise taxes to fund affordable housing, you might be hurting the very people you’re trying to help. How would you mitigate that? I’m not a big advocate for property tax increases because, in my practice, I have represented people who were land rich but cash poor and struggled, really struggled, to pay their property taxes. We need to figure out a way that we freeze property tax assessments for seniors; they paid taxes for decades and

they paid their part. It’s not fair that their $200,000 house becomes a $500,000 house by reason of all the things happening in the neighborhood and then their tax bills go up. So that’s the first thing. The second thing is, with any bond that we do, we’ve got to be conscious of what the effect is going to be on all taxpayers and make sure that there is a return on that investment that’s worthwhile. What more do you think the city should do to improve access to public transportation? Light rail. I mean, I think we made some improvements in bus transit, but we’ve got a ways to go. I really think we need to focus as a community on light rail and commuter rail. There are rail lines moving around Raleigh and Wake County and in between Raleigh and Durham and Raleigh and the smaller communities. The city and our transit agencies need to require access to that so that we’ve got a light rail going back and forth and into this beautiful train station we have downtown now.

Light rail just fell apart in Durham. It all comes back to leadership. We’ve got to engage the various stakeholders, the rail companies, the state, the university. Everybody says that they are for increasing transit, but it’s just, we need leadership in order to get us there. There’s a lot of talk about protecting neighborhoods through zoning and the use of overlay districts. What do you think about this idea, especially in wealthier areas? I think people all over the city feel like their voices are not being heard. We’ve talked about that earlier with Southeast Raleigh. I think people feel that way over in Cameron Park. I think people feel that way in North Raleigh in the Falls area. I think they feel that way in Country Club Hills. I think people feel that way all over town. So one of the things that I’m going to do is take a real look at city processes and figure out whether or not they are not unnecessarily excluding people. People are not always are going to

get the outcome they want, but if the process is fair, I think they will be more satisfied with the outcome. Is there anything else that you want to tell our readers? Let me tell you about why I want to do it. My family came to Raleigh one hundred years ago, and over four generations, Raleigh has been a very good place to me and my family. I want to see other people achieve the same success that we have been blessed to achieve. I want to help other people achieve the good things in life that I and my family have been able to achieve over a century in Raleigh. That’s the altruistic reason. The selfish reason is that, when I’m old, I want a part of my body of work to be public service. I don’t want to just talk about business deals or about businesses or about cases. Raleigh is a really good city, but we can be a great city. It takes leadership, and that's what I’m offering. ltauss@indyweek.com

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AMID A CRIME WAVE, A COALITION OF YOUNG ACTIVISTS CONVINCED THE DURHAM CITY COUNCIL NOT TO HIRE MORE OFFICERS BY THOMASI MCDONALD

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grassroots coalition working on behalf of young African Americans, the homeless, members of the LGBTQ community, and working-class residents played an integral role in the Durham City Council’s 4-3 decision last Thursday to reject a police department request for eighteen more patrol officers, despite a sharp uptick in homicides so far this year. Instead, the city will bring its roughly two hundred part-time workers up to $15.46 an hour, at the cost of about $650,000. While deeply rooted community groups like the People’s Alliance backed the council’s decision, the Durham chapter of Beyond Policing—a coalition of ten local organizations comprising mostly eighteento-thirty-five-year-olds that want to divest from police and prisons and reinvest local resources in black and brown communities—was at the fore. Its members had spent months preparing for the vote: poring through city budgets, analyzing data, researching past council meetings, and lobbying council members one on one. They made their case during a public hearing the previous Monday. They also sent the council a fifty-page budget report, which included analysis of callsfor-service data and other police metrics. The report recommended that, instead of hiring additional police, the city fund a community-based wellness and safety task force “empowered to research and propose viable, cost-effective, long-term solutions to violence and harm.” “We crafted a strong proposal for why we need Durham to invest in life-affirming services, not an unjustified expansion of the police force,” says Durham Beyond Policing spokeswoman Manju Rajendran. The council’s majority—Charlie Reece, Jillian Johnson, Vernetta Alston, and Javiera Caballero—echoed some of the coalition’s findings. Reece says he appreciated that the recommendations highlighted

“possibilities for bringing our community together to talk about what other types of initiatives might increase community safety and reduce harm in our neighborhoods outside the context of law enforcement.” Reece adds that the department’s clearance rates and response times are better than the national average. Even though there’s been a 17 percent increase in crime this year, he says, “making police staffing decisions based on three months or even five months of crime statistics doesn’t really make a lot of sense, even if you believe that more cops means less crime.” Johnson says the DPD doesn’t need more officers, as its clearance rates and response times “indicate that they already have the resources they need to respond to the increase in violent crimes this year. I don’t think the police department needs any additional officers to meet our goals. They already have them.” Johnson points to a recent audit that found that, of all city departments, the DPD had the most employees who receive at least $10,000 in overtime pay. “We could significantly reduce the number of overtime hours by filling the vacancies in the department,” she says. “We paid thirty-five thousand hours of overtime, but we had forty vacancies.” The DPD has 547 budgeted positions for sworn officers, an increase of 47—or nearly 10 percent—since 2006. During the same period, Durham’s population grew by 27 percent and calls for service to the department increased to 25 percent, although high-priority calls have fallen. The police department loses about fifty officers each year. In March, police chief C.J. Davis said she wanted to add seventy-two new officers over the next three years. Last week’s request had been scaled back to eighteen officers for a pilot program in East Durham. Council member Mark-Anthony Middleton—who voted with Mayor Steve

Schewel and DeDreana Freeman for the additional cops—says he’s frustrated by the perception that the extra officers are only needed because of rising crime or the increasing population. “There are reasons to hire more officers that are not crime-related,” he says. “How long it takes someone to get a police report after a fender-bender, how long it takes police to secure a perimeter after an explosion like the one we had in downtown so that firefighters can get in there and save lives, or when there’s an Amber Alert and how quickly our officers can go out and look for our children.” Middleton argues that calls for service and response times are down and clearance rates are up because the city has more boots on the ground. “The idea is to not be reactionary,” he says. “Our residents should not notice a drop in service in order to spur us to increase staff. I want to be a proactive government, not a reactionary government, because we know the city is growing.” Schewel says he understands the concerns about over-policing, but he trusts Davis. If she says she needs more officers, he’s inclined to give them to her. “She’s done an incredible job of reforming the police department. She’s built trust in our communities of color,” Schewel says. The extra officers would let current officers “have a better work-life balance,” Schewel continues. “The long shifts are not good for the officer and not good for the community. But the council did not go for that.” Rajendran calls that decision—and the council’s vote to spend $500,000 on eviction diversion—an enormous victory. She says bringing the stories of Durham residents’ lives to City Hall “made enough of a difference to tip the vote toward justice” and away from “expanding the policing that harasses and harms our communities.” tmcdonald@indyweek.com

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The Urgency of Now THE CLOCK IS RUNNING ON HUMAN CIVILIZATION. IT’S TIME TO TAKE CLIMATE CHANGE SERIOUSLY. BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

ast week, a canvasser from NC Raise Up knocked on my door and asked me to fill out a survey. It was mostly basic stuff, like whether my job offers health insurance or whether I’d faced discrimination. But at the end, it presented a conundrum. I was given eight issues and asked to pick the three most important. But they were all important: raising the minimum wage and improving health care, ending mass incarceration and police brutality, lowering child care and housing costs, improving education and expanding voting rights. How do I choose, if the right answer is all of them? This is a microcosm of the dilemma facing progressives right now: What do you prioritize when there are so many big problems to confront in a system inherently resistant to sweeping change? I could name a half-dozen issues that could legitimately be called crises. Start with wealth inequality, which is rising like we haven’t seen since before the Great Depression. There’s also the crisis of democracy itself—a Senate and Electoral College overwhelmingly weighted toward white, rural states, as America is becoming more diverse and urban. There are also the frontal assaults on voting rights and equal representation in the form of voter ID and gerrymandering—not to mention education and health care, the burgeoning affordable housing and eviction crises in cities, mass incarceration, and racial disparities in the criminal legal system. These are all emergencies that compel our attention. But there’s one crisis that rises above the rest—a first among equals. Human civilization will trudge on if right-wing populism prevails, authoritarianism rises, our political system degenerates, and the social safety net is shredded. Those outcomes are dystopian. But they’re not apocalyptic.

Climate change is. A study from an Australian think tank last week laid out an extreme but terrifyingly plausible global warming scenario in which civilization as we know it ends by 2050. If the world gets hot enough, more than half of the world’s population will experience more than twenty days of lethal heat per year, with some parts of Africa and Southeast Asia becoming literally unlivable a third of the year. Billions of people will be forced to move, creating a migration crisis unlike the world has seen. Arctic ice sheets, the Amazon rainforest, and coral reef systems will vanish, food production will collapse, and rising seas will drown coastal cities. Humanity will limp on, but “we will destroy almost everything we have built up over the last two thousand years,” the report quotes Potsdam Institute director emeritus Hans Joachim Schellnhuber as writing. It’s alarmist, sure. But we should be alarmed. If this scenario isn’t our reality in 2050, it could be by 2100—and our window to act is closing. Yet the Trump administration is actively burying its head in the sand. On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that the White House blocked a State Department intelligence agency from submitting written testimony to the House Intelligence Committee that called climate change “possibly catastrophic,” after State refused to edit the document to reflect the administration’s efforts to minimize the problem. (This line from the Post story—emphasis mine—should tell you everything you need to know: “Critics of the testimony included William Happer, a National Security Council senior director who has touted the benefits of carbon dioxide …”) This refusal to even acknowledge the existential risk, let alone do anything constructive about it, borders on criminal neg-

ligence. But we talk about the Green New Deal like it’s radical. The GND tries to do everything at once: not just a switch to a zero-emissions future, but also implement a more equitable economy, expand health care, create a sustainable food system, and so on. This is both a policy feature and a political bug: All of those things are essential, and they tie together. But even in Democrats’ best-case 2020 scenario, such a sweeping reform is almost impossible to imagine, and each element gives Republicans another attack line. Still, the GND sets the goalposts and frames the issue, and that’s an indisputably important thing. It’s also forced Democratic presidential contenders to craft their own climate plans, some better than others, but all giant leaps forward from what was thought possible even a decade ago. Governor Jay Inslee of Washington, who is running for president solely to address climate change, wanted one of the Democratic National Committee’s twelve planned debates focused only on this issue—a sensible idea given the scope of the problem. The DNC refused. Chairman Tom Perez told activists in Florida this weekend that it’s “just not practical” because “all of these issues are important.” Here’s the thing: Climate change isn’t just another issue. It’s the issue. One party in the world’s most powerful country—and the world’s second-biggest carbon polluter—is living in denial of the mountain of evidence in front of our eyes. For better or worse, that leaves the Democrats solely responsible for crafting policies to avert disaster. But if Democrats won’t treat climate change like an existential threat, how can they expect the rest of the country to get on board with the fundamental reforms that dealing with the threat will require? jbillman@indyweek.com

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n Saturday, I ventured into a Raleigh Whole Foods, dancing around clusters of flustered shoppers who’d stopped in the middle of the aisle, blocking everyone while they browsed for their selections. I paused and looked up: “For the Dad Who Has Everything: Beer.” It was a week before Father’s Day, and marketing efforts were in full effect. I was here to procure two pounds of pork shoulder and some beer to braise it in. My husband had recently tried grilling with beer, pouring a bottle into an aluminum pan placed next to burning coals, a makeshiftsmoker technique he’d read about in Matthew Register’s new cookbook, Southern Smoke. Dad Fuel—the pale lager from Carrboro’s Steel String Brewery—seemed a good choice to enhance the richness of the pork we planned to braise in the Instant Pot. One problem: Whole Food’s beer section had been picked clean of Dad Fuel. I found solace, however, in the assortment of sours I scored next-door at Ridgewood Wine & Beer Co. When cooking with beer, I’ve learned, you can’t go wrong so long as it’s a beer you enjoy drinking. “When you cook with beer, you develop more flavor,” Brian Jenzer, executive chef for Trophy Brewing Company, told me recently. Jenzer’s menu at Trophy Tap + Table on Wilmington Street includes a number of beer-charged dishes, from Trophy Wife-battered Mahi tacos to a poutineinspired mound of tater tots and cheese curds topped with a fried egg and drizzled with vanilla-coffee-infused Trophy stout gravy—which, Jenzer says, works with the saltiness of curds and potatoes “like fries dipped in a milkshake.” Unlike cooking with wine, the quality of beer matters. Wine reduces to a basic fruity or bitter profile, so you can cook with something you’d never drink. But the intricacies of beer remain mostly intact even after the alcohol evaporates. “Beer adds a richness and complexity to dishes as if they had been cooking all day 14 | 6.12.19 | INDYweek.com

long,” says Katie Coleman, chef-owner of Durham Spirits Co., which will offer a “Beer to Eternity” cooking class in August. “It can be used as a marinade for meat, helping to tenderize. It can be used to baste meat while roasting. And it can even be used in baking, adding lightness to biscuits and batters and a true yeasty flavor to breads.” Darker ales will add depth and color to dishes, Coleman adds, while lighter ones allow spices and seasonings to shine. Cooking with beer isn’t new. Ancient Egyptians drank a kind of beer called bousa, a thick, lumpy porridge heavier in nutrients than alcohol. The traditional Hungarian stew Lecsó is made with dark beer. Germans, of course, invented the beer-braised bratwurst. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the English brewed old ale, known as “old stock,” at home. But the idea of cooking with beer has taken on new life with the proliferation of craft beer and chef-driven menus that pair beer with food. Plenty of local restaurants are getting in on the action, exploring the possibilities of beer for comfort food. At the new Wye Hill Kitchen + Brewing in Raleigh, the pub cheese uses Night Train Black Lager, as the dark malts add complexity without bitterness. Al’s Pub Shack in Governor’s Village features an inventive take on the old standby beer-battered fish and chips. The Raleigh Beer Garden has a beer cheese dip and beer-battered pretzels. Parts & Labor offers beer-battered cheese curds. Bull McCabe’s has beer-battered fries. Pompieri Pizza has a Drunken Horse pizza with a beer-saturated crust, as well as a “Beer-amisu” of ladyfingers soaked in craft beer and espresso. The Federal serves beer-braised pork carnitas. O’Malley’s Pub does a chocolate Guinness cake. Lilly’s Pizza boasts Jon Garrison’s famous beer chili. The Latinx gourmands of downtown Raleigh are on it, too, from Oscar Diaz’s Crank Arm Barbacoa at Jose and Sons

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to Angela Salamanca’s brisket tostadas at Centro. Cardinal Bar co-owner Jason Howard says there’s never been a more interesting time to cook with beer. The Cardinal’s all-beef and even veggie hotdogs are marinated in beer and onions for twenty-four hours. When I visited, two types of dogs were available: one that had marinated in Unicycle, a single hop pale ale from Crank Arm, the other in Hamm’s lager, a cheap Milwaukee brew that is by no means craft. You won’t find beer-doused dogs at Trophy Tap + Table. But the corn dog is served with Cloud Surfer honey mustard, a silken paleyellow dipping sauce that’s neither sugary nor syrupy, a delicate balance of Dijon acidity and honey sweetness. Jenzer says the key is the amount of reduction, as well as the beer. “When you reduce Cloud Surfer, the pineapple really stands out,” he says, explaining

the technique that brings Dijon, honey, and beer to a simmer before reducing it. The mustard is beer-forward, in a good way— savory and piquant. Jenzer’s wisdom proved effective for Saturday night’s pork. I braised our butt with Sandsport, a pineapple-and-pomegranate-infused sour ale from HopFly Brewing, and used a minimalist rub of lemon-pepper, coriander, sea salt, and olive oil. After browning the meat on both sides, I sautéed onions and crushed garlic in butter, then added a little coconut sugar, fresh pineapple juice, and a can of Sandsport. The result was insanely aromatic and easy to pull apart: juicy, succulent, subtly sweet, and tropical. Next time, though, I’m tempted to try something a bit less carnivorous—jackfruit, perhaps. arice@indyweek.com

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Monday, Jul. 8–Wednesday, Jul. 10, 8 p.m., $33 Von der Heyden Studio Theater, Durham www.americandancefestival.org

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Duets with the Living and the Dead

“Another sense of otherness.” —Beverly McIver

MOTHERHOOD, MEMORY, AND MORTALITY IN EIKO OTAKE’S THE DUET PROJECT BY LINDA BELANS

iko Otake and Beverly McIver had never heard of each other until a mutual friend, American Dance Festival director Jodee Nimerichter, suggested that the New York City-based dance artist and the Hillsborough-based painter explore the possibility of working together. After a whirlwind first encounter that included a viewing of McIver’s work at Durham’s Craven Allen Gallery, their intuition said yes. But they had no idea what form their collaboration would take, because Eiko had to catch a plane for Japan. The process would reveal itself through twists and turns on two continents and result in The Duet Project: Distance Is Malleable, commissioned by ADF and co-presented by The Nasher Museum of Art. The piece is a collaboration with McIver and three of Eiko’s former students: visual artist, rapper, and singer-songwriter DonChristian Jones, dancer and poet Mark McCloughan, and filmmaker Alexis Moh. In the thirty-five years I’ve been writing about and conversing with Eiko, from her early work with her husband Koma through her solo work, it has always been clear that she interrogates big human ideas. This new work is anchored in questions including, “How can two artists collide and return changed but whole? How can two individuals encounter and converse over their differences with or without words? How can we express both explicitly and implicitly what each of us really cares about?” Eiko thinks and speaks like a poet, and whether her work occurs in silence or is accompanied by sound, it has an inherent score. McIver speaks with the same clarity and boldness found in her paintings. I wanted to capture the music of their collective spirit in anticipation of The Duet Project’s July premiere at The Rubenstein Arts Center. Eiko PHOTO BY WILLIAM JOHNSTON

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Snow drifts over the procession. Onlookers line the path. White flakes slowly blanket their umbrellas, the wooden box, and the people who carry it. Eiko walks in mourner’s cadence among them. It is scored by silence. Perhaps Eiko Otake has been preparing for this all her life, combining the existential drama of forty-seven years performing with her husband Koma (who is in the procession) with her more recent solo series, A Body in Places, where she interacts with elements in unexpected spaces: in Fukushima. On Wall Street. At the Durham Farmers’ Market. Except this is real life. This is the street in front of the family home in Japan. This is the death of her ninety-three-yearold mother. Beverly McIver is no more astonished to be part of this intimate family procession than the neighbors who respectfully stare at her. It is particularly astonishing because she and Eiko (pronounced A-koh) had only met for forty-eight hours in Durham. McIver’s paintings of this experience will be integrated into The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable, which premieres at ADF in July. Eiko tells me: “I have lost many important friends at sixty-seven. Working with younger artists helps me practice my dying. I don’t want to die anytime too soon. When I work with extremely young people, it makes sense. I die first. In order. If they die first, it’s a tragedy. I miss my mother. It’s not a tragedy.”

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“Thrusting forward is contagious.” —Eiko Collaboration for Eiko requires a conversation—usually an animated one, often over a meal that she prepares in her tiny, well-stocked New York apartment kitchen, where a hunk of ginger sits next to the constant pot of rice. The meal is consumed at a rectangular table in the small adjacent dining room that also served as Eiko’s videoediting station for A Body in Fukushima. Eiko: “Sometimes talking makes it harder to jump over the distance.” So, the conversation might spill over into a sudden improvisational movement session on the well-worn parquet living-room floor,

a surprising oasis of open space in the otherwise fully lived-in apartment she shares with Koma. It also houses a piano, a lifetime of costumes, videotapes, computers, nests of cords, memorabilia, and remnants of their two grown sons whom they raised there. Or, the collaboration might begin at 10:45 p.m. on the Hillsborough doorstep of McIver, who greets her in pajamas. Eiko was making a quick detour on her way to see her mother. But first, she is following ADF director Jodee Nimerichter’s intuitive suggestion— that these two artist and scholars, who have never met, should work together. Eiko, who brings the same intention to relationships as she does to her art, has a long history with ADF. I can still conjure Eiko & Koma’s 1984 Reynolds Theater performance of Elegy, their naked bodies drenched in pools of water and light, all dripping and luminous. And the gasping impact of what they did with all that rice in Grain. The duo returned frequently over the years, performing in a Duke Gardens pond, under giant oaks, and other outdoor settings. Always with glacial slowness. Eiko began her solo work a few years ago when Koma injured his foot. (He has since recovered and performs his own work.) It is her trusting relationship with Nimerichter, whose vision brought A Body in a Farmers’ Market to Durham one May morning in 2016, where Eiko interacted with people and produce, darting through startled crowds. McIver had never seen her work. What might she make of Eiko’s four-hour mesmerizing Fukushima film where she illuminates irradiated ghost towns and immerses herself in radiation-soaked water? Coming from opposite sides of the world, experiences, and cultures, at first glance, the two couldn’t seem a more unlikely match. Eiko chose to drop out of college in the 1960s to join Tokyo’s political revolution. Her work is ephemeral and transitory. She asks people to fill in what isn’t there. “We develop our imagination to get smarter,” she tells me. My own experience with A Body in a Farmers’ Market became stronger as time advanced, compelling me to write about it for no one but myself. And, for Eiko. Fifty-seven-year-old McIver was born into activism in Greensboro’s housing projects, where the Klan infamously killed five people in front of her house. She was seventeen. Her portraits, permanently visible on canvas in thick, bold, here-I-am strokes, confront us with identity and unify us with family, sometimes at the same time. Eiko describes herself as frugal: She carries her futon prop on subways and flies economy. McIver refers to herself as high maintenance: She lives alone in a large house in the woods and flies first class.

“Meeting Eiko” by Beverly McIver PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

What connects them is their willingness to be vulnerable through their art. Their fearlessness about confronting death and dying. And their mothers. That’s where their stories converge. McIver: “I do get called to do things. I must pay attention even if I don’t understand it. But this was probably the most extreme.” Two days after meeting and departing, she felt compelled to photograph Eiko’s mother. But she died two days before McIver arrived. “In some ways, it was like reliving my mother dying [twelve years ago]. Eiko was just how I was at my mother’s funeral. She cried. But for the most part, when my mother was sick and dying, I decided I was going to be an artist and make paintings. I was not going to be emotional; I could capture this moment with some sense of clarity. Eiko was like that. It was easier for me to direct than to be a daughter. Eiko and I are similar in that regard.” “Collaborating with the dead.” —Eiko “In the afterlife.” —McIver Eiko coached McIver on the Buddhist rituals of kneeling, chanting, bell ringing, and incense. She also fed the community who came to pay their respects. The body was at home, packed in dry ice, waiting five days for cremation. There was no embalming. The grieving daughter made sure her mother’s body was never alone, instructing McIver: “Go talk to my mother.” “It’s the closest and most time I have ever spent with a corpse,” McIver says. “No one gets this noble honor.”

At the cremation, McIver’s Englishspeaking partner instructed her to pick up a remaining bone with chopsticks and place it in the urn. But she had never held chopsticks before. She managed the moment by resting hers on the bone with her partner’s and following it to the urn. At dinner, the urn was placed at the head of the table. There was laughter and storytelling. McIver photographed her entire experience, including the body, family-crafted origami, photographs, and other non-metal objects to accompany Eiko’s mother into the afterlife, as well as the cotton slip that Eiko bequeathed her when the two women cleaned out the apartment. And the food. McIver will transform some of these into paintings for the performances.

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“My mind is going forward so my leg is going forward.” —Eiko Eiko says that she has become bold. Become. What might we expect moving forward from this fearless woman who has been naked in performance, who plunges into nucleardisaster water and renders it exquisite. Who stops Wall Street pedestrians in their trading tracks. Who perches atop buildings and crows over the city. Who stands nose-tonose with a stranger and holds their gaze. Who challenges us to reconsider definitions and boundaries. What will “bold” look like for this woman who will be written about long after she’s gone? Eiko: “When I die, I don’t need a Buddhist funeral. Just show the Fukushima movie and have a good meal.” arts@indyweek.com

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MERCE CUNNINGHAM IS A MUCH-STUDIED TITAN, BUT THERE ARE THINGS ABOUT HIM ONLY THE BODY CAN KNOW BY JUSTIN TORNOW

n Thursday, the ADF season opens with a retrospective program called “ICONS” in which three companies perform historical works by three modern-dance legends: Paul Taylor, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham. Cunningham’s 1970 piece Tread will be performed by Stephen Petronio Company, led by an internationally known choreographer who, in his “Bloodlines” series, has been presenting dance by various choreographers who influenced his work, including Cunningham. Cunningham was an American choreographer famed for straddling the line between modern and postmodern dance. He canonized new ideas about the use of chance in the choreographic process, presented radical thinking about spatial design, and developed interdisciplinary practices with media and technology. Last week, the INDY spoke with Petronio about his learning curve with and attraction to Cunningham’s work, his interest in inhabiting and preserving the works of the choreographers that influenced him, the process of bringing their works to life on contemporary dancers, and the impact that a series like “Bloodlines” can have on the conversations about lineage and history in dance today. INDY: Who is Merce Cunningham to you? STEPHEN PETRONIO: Well, he’s the person who changed the game in American modern dance. He broke very basic rules about how the stage is looked at, how and where content is delivered to the audience, and what the audience’s role might be, in terms of a performance. He’s part of a project that I’m doing called “Bloodlines.” It’s a look at postmodern works from mid-century forward that have totally influenced how I can be in the world as an artist. Some people don’t think of Merce Cunningham as a postmodernist, but I believe that he’s the beginning of it all.

Stephen Petronio PHOTO BY IAN DOUGLAS What are some of the ideas at the core of Merce’s work that resonate with you, which you still find relevant for contemporary dancers? Although there are a lot of similarities in influence between my language and Merce’s language, they’re really quite different. His musculature is much more held than mine. He understands stillness, and I understand perpetual motion. But you know, he really broke apart the stage. He centralized the stage in a very amazing way. Up until Merce, there was a human being representing a certain character, a certain representation of humanness, on or in some relationship to center stage. And Merce just smashed all of those models and created a kind of grid where wherever you are facing becomes the central point. That kind of decentralization is radical and is still going on today. We’re all benefiting from it. Oh absolutely. And thank god that we don’t all have to be princes! I’m very happy

that the ballet is bringing back, you know, remaking The Firebird, but Merce gave us the possibility of looking at the body as a very different kind of fabric, not just in service of narrative. Just the word “possibility” sends me into Cunningham land, because he used that phrase over and over. One he disrupted the centralized, systematic role of the stage, it became open to anything. As somebody who’s been choreographing for over thirty-five years, that freedom resonates, and the ability to continue to break down limitations is very exciting. Merce also dislocated music and dance from each other in the way that they had been perceived, where the music is kind of the leader and the choreographer builds the rest. That simultaneous sharing of space between the dancers and each other, the dancers and the music, and the dancers and the décor on stage is very radical.

He sort of cleared the field so that new ideas could come along, and not just his ideas. I find that very remarkable in comparison to other choreographers from that era. Other choreographers tend to want to control things more, I’d say. What is choreography but controlling the perception of how the space is used? And that’s not Merce. [In “Bloodlines,”] I’m getting the opportunity to look at Merce dancing a lot. I never studied Cunningham technique, so it’s not in my body. But I’ve been watching his works since the day I came to New York, and I became a fan of his mind. My particular physicality is much more flung and released, so I went to Merce originally with some kind of physical disdain. But I’m a good student, so I kept going back. As I began to understand what he was doing, conceptually, and how he was shattering paradigms, I fell in love with the work. Watching him dance on the videos that I’ve been studying is a revelation. You could not pin that man down for a second. I find it very interesting to watch the re-stagers from the [Merce Cunningham Dance] Trust deal with that. Because Merce you know, he was a crazy mover! There’s nothing like him, he was so good. And to watch them try to distill that insanity down to something learnable is very exciting. I teach the technique but am not well versed in the choreographic works. It’s more the ideas and less the content that I’m drawn to. A lot of the research I’ve done recently has been excavating the ideas behind the action. Everyone is so enamored by the action, but all this thinking at the foundation is completely genius as well. In a certain way, maybe it was a blessing that I never became versed in the physical technique because I didn’t have to look through that lens. But I will say that watching a work being built during a restaging period, my respect for it has just mushroomed. It’s like having a conversation with Merce every day. I get to really live with the choices he made and INDYweek.com | 6.12.19 | 19

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watch how his constructions take the guise of chance. Everything seems accidental in some way but it works like a clock on the most complicated, sophisticated scale. What are you hoping that the dancers in your company can get by learning Merce’s work but no one else’s? Interesting. I don’t want to compare them in that way, but they’re masters of my language, so watching them master another language, some of them from scratch, has been very interesting. I make historical references all the time, to Merce and Trisha [Brown] and Steve Paxton, to all the people in the “Bloodlines” group. For the dancers to actually see where those references come from, from an internal place and not just an intellectual place, I think it’s been very enlightening. You’re bringing Tread to ADF. What drew you to license it? The first work I had was RainForest. I was determined to start there, for a lot of reasons. And the next work was Signals. Then I was after something very different, something formal and austere, and Trish Lent from the Trust suggested Tread. I looked at it and I was blown over. It’s super playful, and it’s from that early-seventies period where gaming and community were really important, and Merce was right in the middle of that. For my company, which really understands complex, communal relationships, it was a perfect fit.

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What else should be said about Merce Cunningham? It’s not always easy to give your company up to another vision. That was my doing, but to watch it happen has just been so moving. When the curtain goes up on a Merce Cunningham work, I’m so proud to have my

“Until Merce, there was a certain representation of humanness on or in some relationship to center stage. Merce just smashed all of those models.” dancers on that stage, giving themselves to it in a full-bodied way. I really believe that Merce’s work belongs in the hands of modern dancers as well as ballet dancers, but often, it’s the ballet companies that can afford it. That’s why I’ve been committed to bringing as many of his works back as I can afford to. And to go back to the discussion we were having about the approach to the work, the creation of the work, the way that he was dealing with space but also his philosophical ideas, I think it’s really useful for modern and contemporary dancers to have all that coming back around, because many dancers have not had the opportunity to dance a Cunningham work or read his writing about dancing. Yeah, keeping it in the contemporary conversation instead of relegating it to the archives seems incredibly important. Not only to reference what has been and what space it created for more radical shifts, but also just to sit it in our bodies. Yep, that’s the whole point of “Bloodlines.” Physicalizing history instead of reading about it in a book is, for me, the only way to keep it alive, really. It’s part of why I rushed into the studio shortly after Merce’s death. It seemed like it was almost too soon, but I felt like it was important to absorb some of the information while there were still people that had been dancing it. Twenty years from now, it will be a different story. arts@indyweek.com

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’ll start with some numbers: More than 57,000 people voted in the two rounds of this year’s Best of the Triangle contest, totaling more than 365,000 votes in 343 categories. That’s crazy. The INDY’s annual Best Of issue, now in its fourteenth iteration, has a lot of imitators—some paler than others—but there’s a reason this one stands apart: you. From the best spots to catch a drink after work to the most reliable company to call when your AC is on the fritz, our readers’ picks are insightful because our readers are some of the smartest, most knowledgable folks around—and there’s a whole lot of them. What you’re about to read comprises the wisdom of a very large, very wise crowd. In these pages, you’ll find new places to explore, new adventures to undertake, new restaurants to visit, new retailers to support, and maybe, when some jerk rear-ends you on the highway, the right lawyer to call. Throughout, our writers have selected about 60 of these 343 categories and written about the winners. To be clear: These are still our readers’ choices; we just wanted to add some insight of our own. One final note: On Saturday, we’re celebrating this issue with the Best of the Triangle Bash—a free, all-ages party at Hi-Wire Brewing at Golden Belt. There will be vendors, food trucks, killer live music from rad local artists, a bounce house, beer, everything you could want from a late spring afternoon. The festivities start at noon and run until four. Come hang out with us—and with some of your wise fellow readers. —Jeffrey C. Billman

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UNC Students Who Took Down Silent Sam INDY: It’s more than a little embarrassing that a monument honoring white people who fought a treasonous war to subjugate black people and perpetuate chattel slavery— and if you don’t realize that’s exactly what happened, please crack open a history book; we’re tired of explaining it to you—was allowed to stand at the entrance of North Carolina’s flagship university for 105 years. It’s also more than a little embarrassing that its presence was defended by old white men who took a very intense interest in Preserving History™. But it’s pretty badass that, after more than a century—and after several years of increasingly hot-blooded protests and arrests and confrontations with neoConfederates—a bunch of students and activists said the hell with it, we’ll take this thing down ourselves. And one night in August, that’s just what they did.

Best local Facebook page

Fuquay-Varina Memes Finalists: Best of the Bull, Networking Women of the Triangle, Today in the Quay

Best local Instagram account

Fuquay-Varina Memes Finalists: Best of the Bull, @copper.and.lily, @KetsuAndNinja

Best local politician in need of a reality check

Thom Tillis

INDY: During the packed lunch hour rush at downtown’s pay-what-you-can eatery, you can’t tell who spent $2 for a meal and who paid $12. That’s kind of the point, says owner Maggie Kane, who conceptualized the nonprofit after her work in soup kitchens revealed an unmet community need: a place for those struggling to eat with dignity. Kane spends her days doing every job imaginable (besides cooking), but she says the highlight is always the same: “I get to know so many people here with all different stories, ideas, dreams, hopes. It’s just really cool.”

INDY: Last week, Emerson College released a poll showing Senator Thom Tillis down seven points to his presumed Democratic rival, a little-known state senator named Erica Smith. It’s just one poll—some polling experts have taken issue with Emerson’s methodology (which has Joe Biden up twelve over Donald Trump, FWIW)—and, in any event, we’re a long way from the election. But this isn’t the only cloud on Tillis’s horizon. He’s facing a legitimate primary opponent—never a good sign— and he’s losing support from his base. Can you blame them? In his five years in the Senate, Tillis has proven himself a man without a spine. Just one recent example: He wrote a Washington Post op-ed on how terrible Donald Trump’s border-wall emergency declaration would be (look at me, I have GUTS!) then turned around and voted for it a few weeks later (never mind). None of this should be surprising. Tillis is a guy who in 2014 pretended that he’d be a pragmatist, even a moderate, and then promptly turned into a Trump lackey. November 2020 can’t come soon enough.

Finalists: James Tripp, Jessica Hulick,

Finalists: Richard Burr, Greg Ford,

Finalists: Alerta Migratoria, NC Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, South Wake Park Project

Best local do-gooder

Maggie Kane, A Place at the Table

Katelyn Belch, Shop Durham

The North Carolina State Fair

Jessica Holmes

Best local radio station

WUNC 91.5 FM

INDY: WUNC-FM 91.5 offers the standards—Morning public radio standards— Edition, Fresh Air, and the like—but it really shines in its local reporting. In April, the station won five regional Edward R. Murrow reporting awards for Breaking News and Continuing Coverage, among other categories. Frank Stasio lends a familiar voice to regional coverage with The State of Things, WUNC’s live daily syndicated program that highlights personalities and places across the state. Back Porch Music, WUNC’s longest-running program, brings acoustic-based folk and old-time music to the airwaves every weekend. On Sunday evenings, it’s our favorite thing to tune into.

Finalists: WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1, WRAL-FM / MIX 101.5, WXDU (88.7 FM)

Best local TV newsperson

Debra Morgan, WRAL Finalists: David Crabtree, WRAL; Gerald Owens, WRAL; Tisha Powell, WTVD

Best local TV weatherperson

Elizabeth Gardner, WRAL

Finalists: Big Weather, WTVD; Cat Campbell, WRAL; Mike Maze, WRAL

INDY: Technically, Today in the Quay isn’t a blog. It’s a Facebook page run by Jason Wunsch—and it lost out on Best Facebook Page (and Best Instagram Account) to Fuquay-Varina Memes, a somewhat more ribald and meme-ified (and popular, judging by likes) competitor, if you can call it that. TITQ, meanwhile, doesn’t offer much commentary. It posts stories that appear in the news about FuquayVarina (“Why Entrepreneurs Are Choosing Fuquay-Varina,” “After 32 years, Fuquay-Varina Town Hall Returns to Downtown”) and offers a forum for readers to discuss the burning issues of the day (“Where do you get your favorite sub in FuquayVarina?” Some answers: Jersey Mike’s, Johnny’s Pizza in Holly Springs, a Citgo gas station). Fuquay is a small town, sure, but like the rest of Wake County, it’s growing fast. TITQ gives natives and newcomers alike a hyperlocal forum to learn about their hometown’s youth and community events that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Finalists: Best of the Bull, Bites of Bull City, Palmetto Blog

Best local-interest website

Duke Lemur Center lemur.duke.edu

Finalists: Best of the Bull, NC Tripping, Offline

Best place to hike

Eno River State Park ncparks.gov/eno-river-state-park

Finalists: Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area, Raven Rock State Park, William B. Umstead State Park

Best place to people watch

Best local Twitter feed

NC State Fair

Finalists: @alRiggsMusicOk,

Finalists: American Tobacco Campus, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Weaver Street Market

@bitesofbullcity @joeovies, @MajortheBull

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Best place to pick up an INDY

Elmo's Diner elmosdiner.com

Finalists: Caffe Driade, Weaver Street Market, Whole Foods Market

Best place to run

American Tobacco Trail

triangletrails.org/american-tobacco-trail INDY: You’ve likely seen the American Tobacco Trail, even if you didn’t know it: The route begins in downtown Durham at the corner of Morehead and Blackwell, and stretches southward for more than twenty miles, crossing major roads like MLK and Roxboro before making its way through rural stretches of Cary and into Wake County. The rails-to-trail route receives you with the gentleness you need: It’s completely flat and the first stretch is paved, it’s mostly shaded, and it’s dotted with bridges and creeks and all the variant scenery you need to keep a run interesting. Stretches can be isolated—part of its appeal; for sure, but it might be wise to run with a buddy if it’s dark out. Protected stretches of green are a special thing, and it’s hard to imagine a better place in the Triangle to get those miles in.

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INDY: When your guests have already cycled through brunch spots and breweries, it doesn't take very long for hosting panic to set in. Fear not. Sarah P. Duke Gardens—named one of the top-ten public gardens in America by TripAdvisor—is the perfect place to spend an afternoon. The garden, fiftyfive acres in total and comprising four gardens, has a sprawling, you-canget-lost-here feel to it, although it's immaculately curated and designed with English cottage gardens in mind. To get your fix of botanicals, make sure to stop by the Peonies, Iris Bridge, Azalea Court, and the “Carnivorous Plant Bog.” And if it’s commemorative pictures that you seek, the Red Bridge has got you covered. Best of all: Admission is free. And if you come before 10:00 a.m. or after 5:00 p.m., you can bring your dogs. They’ll love to stare at the koi pond. Or try to eat duck poop.

Finalists: American Tobacco Campus, Duke Lemur Center, North Carolina Museum of Art

Best politician in Durham County

Steve Schewel Finalists: Vernetta Alston, Jillian Johnson, Charlie Reece

Best politician in Orange County

David Price

Finalists: Verla Insko, Graig Meyer, Damon Seils

Best politician in Wake County

Roy Cooper

Finalists: Matt Calabria, Jay Chaudhuri, Sig Hutchinson, David Price

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N.C. General Assembly INDY: The General Assembly is slightly less of a horror show than it was a year ago, but that’s not because the Republicans who run it have gotten any less cynical. They just got their asses kicked in November. Their gerrymandered districts still gave them decent majorities—despite earning fewer votes statewide than Democrats—but they no longer have supermajorities, which means they no longer have the ability the override Governor Cooper’s vetoes at will. That doesn’t mean much good is coming out of Jones Street these days—the state still hasn’t expanded Medicaid or funded education like it should or reversed efforts to curtail voting rights—but it does mean less bad is happening. For now, we’ll take it.

Finalists: Traffic, housing prices,

the heat

Best reason to love the Triangle

Diversity

Finalists: Food, craft beer, Duke Lemur Center

Best use of public money

Public education

ICE

INDY: In November, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents convinced Samuel Oliver-Bruno, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who’d been living in sanctuary in a Durham church for nearly a year, that he needed to come to Cary to receive a biometric screening so that he could proceed with his asylum claim. He knew there were risks, but he went anyway. And, of course, as soon as he arrived, ICE agents tackled him, arrested him, and quickly deported him, bravely saving us from a menace who had [checks notes] lived in the U.S. for almost twenty years before returning to Mexico to visit sick relatives, then illegally re-entered the U.S. to care for his wife, who has a serious heart condition, and their son. This is a microcosm of what ICE has become. At least six children have died in its custody since 2018. It’s stacked thousands of immigrants into overstuffed holding pens. It’s taken kids from their parents. It’s snatched people who’ve been living in the U.S. for decades and shipped them off to for-profit detention facilities or faraway countries they barely know. All of this, in furtherance of the president’s racist migration policy. Your tax dollars at work.

Finalists: Private school vouchers, N.C. General Assembly, Chapel Hill taxes

Finalists: Greenways and parks, affordable housing

Best-kept secret

Duke Lemur Center lemur.duke.edu

INDY: We totally get how this eightyfive-acre lemur sanctuary is the best. We do not get how it is a secret (especially considering the Lemur Center also won Best Local Interest Website). Just look at that face!

Finalists: Kenny’s Tree Removal, Edde Burgess Photography, The Greenway Club at Falls River

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Best Bagel in the Triangle

Monuts

1002 Ninth Street, Durham monutsdonuts.com INDY: Pretty soon, Monuts is going to switch to its summer menu, and when it does, you’ll be able to order this delicious slice of breakfast heaven called the Heirloom Summer. It’s pretty simple. Heirloom tomatoes atop chevre cream cheese slathered over a bagel (salted, if you’re smart), with some sweet basil pesto to pour over it all. If you like, they’ll slap an egg on it, too. The bagel has to hold all of this together, which means the bagel has to be done just right. And Monuts’ bagels are just right—as a sandwich, with cream cheese, on their own, whatever.

Best Bakery in Orange / Chatham County

Guglhupf Bake Shop

1800 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill guglhupf.com

Finalists: Mediterranean Deli, Bakery, and Catering; Phoenix Bakery; Weaver Street Market

Best Bakery in Wake County

La Farm Bakery

4248 Northwest Cary Parkway, Cary lafarmbakery.com

Finalists: Boulted Bread, Stick Boy Bread Co., Utica Bakery

Best Barbecue in Durham County

Finalists: Bagel Bar, Benchwarmers Bagels & Coffee, New York Bagels & Deli Raleigh

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Best Bakery in Durham County

Finalists: Backyard BBQ Pit, Picnic,

Guglhupf Bakery, Cafe & Biergarten

2706 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, guglhupf.com INDY: Pulling off of the busy commercial strip along 15-501 and stepping into the dim, twinkling recesses of Guglhupf—a bakery, restaurant, and biergarten that has the feel of old-world Europe—always requires a few moments of calibration. Once your senses adjust to the romantic lighting and sweet smells, you still have to process the wealth of Guglhupf’s upscale offerings, which are baked fresh daily and run the gamut from mainstays—sandwich bread, baguette and batard, kaiser rolls—to olive ciabatta, black pepper parmesan, and Jewish rye. A brotzeit menu, which translates loosely to “bread time” (please and thank you!), is available from mid-afternoon through the evening, offering plenty of grains to pair with a wide selection of beers and cheeses.

Finalists: East Durham Bake Shop, Loaf, Ninth Street Bakery Chirashi at M Sushi

2510 University Drive, Durham theqshackoriginal.com The Pit Durham

Best Barbecue in Orange / Chatham County

Allen & Son Bar-B-Que 5650 U.S. Highway 15, Pittsboro stubbsandsonbbq.com/location/ pittsboro-allen-son-bbq

Finalists: Hillsborough BBQ Company,

The Pig, Spotted Dog Restaurant & Bar

Best Barbecue in Wake County

The Pit Authentic Barbecue 328 West Davie Street, Raleigh thepit-raleigh.com

INDY: The Pit—the kind of restaurant joint that offers valet service, so don’t imagine a shack in the middle of nowhere—doesn’t take sides in the Great East-West N.C. Barbecue Rivalry. What it does is serve excellent wholehog ’cue alongside a ton of fixins’— collards, mac ‘n’ cheese, hush puppies, etc.—and you leave happy and full.

Finalists: Clyde Cooper’s Barbeque, Ole Time Barbecue, The Redneck BBQ Lab

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Best Bloody Mary in Durham County

Motorco Music Hall Best Biscuits in Durham County

Rise Southern biscuits & righteous chicken (Downtown durham) 401 Foster Street, Suite A, Durham risebiscuitsdonuts.com/locations/ downtown-durham

Finalists: Monuts, Rise (Southpoint), True Flavors Diner

Best Biscuits in Orange / Chatham County

Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen

1305 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill sunrisebiscuits.com INDY: Everyone’s first experience with a Sunrise biscuit is pretty much the same: hungover in college, squeezed into a car full of other hungover college students worn out after a night of unnecessary romantic turmoil. You order without expectation and bite into a biscuit that tastes like nirvana and lasts for what feels like an hour. The weird thing is, as you get older, the biscuits hold up—figuratively, but also literally: They’re flaky and buttery, but won’t crumble when touched. And you can get everything you need for less than four bucks. (Also: Skip the line of cars stretching down Franklin waiting for the drive-through; park and walk to the window instead.)

Finalists: Neal's Deli, Rise (Carrboro), Saxapahaw General Store

Best Biscuits in Wake County

State Farmers Market Restaurant 1240 Farmers Market Drive, Raleigh realbiscuits.com

Finalists: Big Ed’s City Market Restaurant, Rise (Morrisville), Tupelo Honey

723 Rigsbee Avenue, Durham motorcomusic.com

Finalists: Jack Tar and The Colonel’s

Daughter, Pizzeria Toro, Watts Grocery

Best Bloody Mary in Orange / Chatham County

Acme Food & Beverage Co.

110 East Main Street, Carrboro acmecarrboro.com

Best Brewery in Wake County

Trophy Brewing & Taproom

Best Breakfast in Durham County

Elmo's Diner

656 Maywood Avenue, Raleigh trophybrewing.com

776 Ninth Street, Durham elmosdiner.com

Finalists: Bond Brothers Beer

Finalists: Foster’s Market, Monuts,

Company, Brewery Bhavana, The Mason Jar Lager Company

Best Breakfast in Orange / Chatham County

Best Burger in Durham County

200 North Greensboro Street, Suite B12, Carrboro, elmosdinercarrboro.com

107 East Parrish Street, Durham bullcityburgerandbrewery.com

True Flavors Diner

(closed), Spotted Dog Restaurant & Bar, Zogs Pool

Elmo's Diner

Bull City Burger and Brewery

Best Bloody Mary in Wake County

Finalists: Acme Food & Beverage Co,

Finalists: Dain’s Place, Only Burger,

Finalists: Laplace Louisiana Cookery

The Mason Jar Tavern

305 South Main Street, Fuquay-Varina

Finalists: Beasley’s Chicken + Honey, NOFO @ the Pig, The Raleigh Times

Best Bread in Durham County

Guglhupf Bakery, Cafe & Biergarten

2706 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, guglhupf.com

Finalists: The French Corner Bakery, Loaf, Ninth Street Bakery

Best Bread in Orange / Chatham County

Weaver Street Market

228 South Churton Street, Hillsborough weaverstreetmarket.coop

Finalists: The Bread Shop, Chicken

Bridge Bakery, Guglhupf Bake Shop

Best Bread in Wake County

La Farm Bakery

4248 Northwest Cary Parkway, Cary lafarmbakery.com

Finalists: Boulted Bread, Stick Boy

Bread Co., Yellow Dog Bread Company

Breadmen’s, Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen

Town Hall Burger and Beer

Best Breakfast in Wake County

Best Burger in Orange / Chatham County

State Farmers Market Restaurant

Al's Burger Shack

1240 Farmers Market Drive, Raleigh realbiscuits.com

516 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill alsburgershack.com

Finalists: Angie’s Restaurant, Big Ed’s

INDY: You always remember your first Al’s burger—it’s one of those flashbulb memories that evoke the good kind of nostalgia. Ours was the Mookie, a burger that comes topped with bacononion jam, roasted garlic, and blue cheese. Is that a lot of aggressive flavors for one burger? Yes. Does it make your breath smell repulsive? Absolutely. Does it taste incredible? Obviously. Still not convinced? If you haven’t had Al’s Bobo Chili Cheeseburger, the one that was named Best Burger in America by TripAdvisor in 2018, know that it is a cheeseburger in paradise.

City Market Restaurant, The Fiction Kitchen

Best Brewery in Durham County

Ponysaurus Brewing Company 219 Hood Street, Durham ponysaurusbrewing.com

Finalists: Durty Bull Brewing

Company, Fullsteam Brewery, The Glass Jug Beer Lab

Best Brewery in Orange / Chatham County

Haw River Farmhouse Ales

1713 Saxapahaw-Bethlehem Church Road, Saxapahaw, hawriverales.com

Finalists: Carolina Brewery,

Steel String Brewery, Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery

Finalists: Buns, Hops Burger Bar, Wooden Nickel Pub

Best Burger in Wake County

Char-Grill Multiple locations chargrillusa.com

Finalists: Chuck’s Burgers, Krafty’s

Burgers and Brews, Players’ Retreat

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Best Burrito in Durham County

Cosmic Cantina

1920 Perry Street, Durham facebook.com/cosmiccantina INDY: There are lots of people around here who, during their college years, lived almost exclusively off of Cosmic Cantina—and who can blame them? These burritos make other burritos look wimpy. The protein offerings (see: the Regular Chicken Burrito and its kissing cousins, the Old School Chicken Burrito and the Deluxe Chicken Burritos) are all good values. But the secret is the Old School Vegetarian burrito, which is $3 and could feed a small army. Cosmic is open until 4:00 a.m., making it a prime spot for night owls.

Finalists: Chubby’s Tacos, Nanataco,

Best Chinese Restaurant in Durham County

Happy China

2505 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, happychinasichuan.com

Finalists: Neo-China Restaurant, Peony Asian Bistro, Shanghai Restaurant

Best Cheap Eats in Durham County

1920 Perry Street, Durham facebook.com/cosmiccantina

Best Burrito in Orange / Chatham County

Finalists: Guasaca, King’s Sandwich

711 West Rosemary Street, Carrboro carrburritos.com

Finalists: Cosmic Cantina, Fiesta Grill Restaurant, El Restaurante Ixtapa

Best Burrito in Wake County

Gonza Tacos Y Tequila 7713 Lead Mine Road, #39, Raleigh gonzatacosytequila.com

Finalists: Chubby’s Tacos,

Original Flying Burrito, Totopos Street Food and Tequila

Best Caribbean or Cuban restaurant in the Triangle

Mami Nora’s Rotisserie Chicken 2401 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh mamislatinrotisserie.com

Finalists: COPA, Cuban Revolution

Restaurant & Bar, Qspresso Food Truck

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Best Cheap Eats in Orange / Chatham County

Mediterranean Deli, Bakery, and Catering 410 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill mediterraneandeli.com

Finalists: Cosmic Cantina, Elmo’s Diner, Neal’s Deli

Best Cheap Eats in Wake County

Guasaca

4025 Lake Boone Trail, Raleigh guasaca.com

Finalists: Carroll’s Kitchen,

Mami Nora’s Rotisserie Chicken, Mitch’s Tavern, MOFU Shoppe

Best Chef in Durham County

Ricky Moore

Finalists: David “Flip” Filippini, Matt Kelly, Mike Lee, Roberto Copa Matos

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Best Chinese Restaurant in Orange / Chatham County

Gourmet Kingdom 301 East Main Street, Carrboro thegourmetkingdom.com

Cosmic Cantina

Taqueria La Vaquita

Carrburritos

Chef Ricky Moore, Saltbox Seafood

Best Chef in Orange / Chatham County

Vimala Rajendran Finalists: Andrea Reusing, Ben Braxton, Martina Russial

Best Chef in Wake County

Ashley Christensen INDY: Everyone around here knows who Ashley Christensen is. (You can’t really call yourself a Raleighite if you’ve never eaten Poole’s macaroni au gratin, can you?) Now the world is taking notice. Last month, Christensen won Outstanding Chef at the James Beard Awards, pretty much the most prestigious honor a chef can receive. And soon, she’ll add to her empire—Poole’s, Death & Taxes, Beasley Chicken + Honey, Chuck’s Burgers, Fox Liquor Bar— with Poole’side Pies, a pizza joint that will almost certainly enter the market among the Triangle’s very upper crust.

Finalists: Adam Jones, Cheetie Kumar, Miguel Cuevas

Finalists: Jade Palace Restaurant, Lucha Tigre, Red Lotus

Best Chinese Restaurant in Wake County

Brewery Bhavana

218 South Blount Street, Raleigh brewerybhavana.com

Finalists: Five Star Restaurant, Mei Wei Asian Diner, MOFU Shoppe

Best Chocolate in the Triangle

Videri Chocolate Factory

327 West Davie Street, Raleigh viderichocolatefactory.com

Finalists: Chocolate Fix, Escazu

Chocolates, Matthew’s Chocolates

Best Coffee Shop in Durham County

Cocoa Cinnamon Multiple locations 4thdimension.coffee

Finalists: Bean Traders, Joe Van Gogh (Durham), Joe Van Gogh (Woodcroft)

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Best Coffee Shop in Orange / Chatham County

Caffe Driade

1215 East Franklin Street, Suite A, Chapel Hill, caffedriade.com INDY: Caffe Driade feels like something plucked from Lord of the Rings, like maybe it just sprouted from a stump or a mushroom: It blends with exceptional naturalism into its enchanted wooded settings, and doesn’t offer your average coffee shop experience (once, while we were sitting outside, a raccoon ran underneath our table, which somehow felt more charming than alarming). Driade’s espresso is award-winning, as are the baristas who make it, so this is certainly a place with an artisan menu that’s not to miss (there’s also wine, beer, and a diverse selection of teas). Here’s a suggestion: Leave your laptop at home and bring a book instead.

Best Draft Beer Selection in Wake County Best Deli in Orange / Chatham County

Mediterranean Deli, Bakery, and Catering 410 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill mediterraneandeli.com

Finalists: Neal’s Deli,

TRU Deli and Wine Bar

Best Deli in Wake County

Neomonde Mediterranean Raleigh 3817 Beryl Road, Raleigh neomonde.com

Finalists: Charron’s Deli & Café, Sassool, Village Deli and Grill

Coffee Co., Open Eye Café

Best Desserts in Durham County

Best Coffee Shop in Wake County

117 Market Street, Durham theparlour.co

Finalists: Cup-A-Joe, The Meantime

Sola Coffee Café

7705 Lead Mine Road, Raleigh solacoffee.com

Finalists: Drive Bru, Fount Coffee + Kitchen, The Morning Times

Best Cupcake in the Triangle

Smallcakes Durham 4711 Hope Valley Road, Durham smallcakesnc.com

Finalists: The Cupcake Shoppe Bakery, Cupcakes d’Amour, Gigi’s Cupcakes

Best Deli in Durham County

Lucky's Delicatessen 105 West Chapel Hill Street, Durham luckysdelinc.com

Finalists: Eastcut Sandwich Bar,

Neomonde Mediterranean Durham, Parker and Otis

The Parlour

Finalists: East Durham Bake Shop,

Guglhupf Bakery, Cafe & Biergarten, Mad Hatter Cafe + Bakeshop

Best Desserts in Orange / Chatham County

Guglhupf Bake Shop

1800 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill guglhupf.com/chapel-hill-bake-shop

Finalists: Laplace Louisiana Cookery (closed), The Root Cellar Cafe & Catering, Weaver Street Market

Best Desserts in Wake County

Hayes Barton Cafe & Dessertery 2000 Fairview Road, Raleigh facebook.com/HayesBartonCafe

Finalists: Annelore’s German Bakery, Bittersweet, lucettegrace

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Best Distillery in the Triangle

Durham Distillery 711 Washington Street, Durham durhamdistillery.com

INDY: Last year, USA Today named Durham Distillery the best gin distillery in the country, and that’s only the latest in a slew of bests and gold and silver and platinum medals in competitions all over the world. (Heck, Durham Distillery’s Navy Strength Gin won Best Locally Made Liquor in our readers poll as well.) It makes some other spirits—liqueurs and a cucumber vodka—and they bring home the hardware, too, but it’s the gin, bursting with botanicals, on which the distillery has made its name.

Finalists: The Brothers Vilgalys

Spirits Company, Mystic Distillery, Topo Distillery

Best Donut in the Triangle

Duck Donuts

8323 Creedmoor Road, Raleigh duckdonuts.com

Finalists: Early Bird Donuts, Monuts, Rise (Southpoint)

Best Draft Beer Selection in Durham County

Beer Study

2501 University Drive, #4, Durham beerstudy.com

Finalists: The Glass Jug Beer Lab,

Growler Grlz, Tyler’s Restaurant & Taproom

Best Draft Beer Selection in Orange / Chatham County

Beer Study

106 North Graham Street, Chapel Hill beerstudy.com

Finalists: House of Hops,

Tyler’s Restaurant & Taproom, Wooden Nickel Pub

Raleigh Beer Garden 614 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh theraleighbeergarden.com

Finalists: Bottle Rev Apex, Flying Saucer Draught Emporium, Krafty’s Burgers and Brews

Best Food Truck in the Triangle

Chirba Chirba Dumpling Truck

Finalists: American Meltdown, Arepa Culture, Boricua Soul

Best French Restaurant in the Triangle

Vin Rouge

2010 Hillsborough Road, Durham vinrougerestaurant.com

Finalists: Coquette, La Farm Bakery, Rue Cler, Saint Jacques

Best Fries in Durham County

Bull City Burger and Brewery

107 East Parrish Street, Durham bullcityburgerandbrewery.com

Finalists: Federal, Heavenly Buffaloes, Only Burger

Best Fries in Orange / Chatham County

Al's Burger Shack

516 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill alsburgershack.com

Finalists: Spotted Dog Restaurant & Bar, Tyler’s Restaurant & Taproom, Wooden Nickel Pub

Best Fries in Wake County

Char-Grill Multiple locations chargrillusa.com

Finalists: Chuck’s Burgers, Players’ Retreat, The Raleigh Times

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Best Irish Pub in the Triangle

Bull McCabe's Irish Pub

427 West Main Street, Durham bullmccabesirishpub.com

Finalists: Hibernian Pub, Doherty’s

Best Frozen Treats in the Triangle

Maple View Ice Cream 6900 Rocky Ridge Road, Chapel Hill mapleviewfarm.com

Finalists: The Parlour, Pints Ice Cream & Beer, Vida Dulce

Best Greek Restaurant in the Triangle

Neomonde Mediterranean Raleigh 3817 Beryl Road, Raleigh neomonde.com

Finalists: Kipos Greek Taverna;

Mediterranean Deli, Bakery, and Catering; Taverna Agora Greek Kitchen & Bar

Best Guacamole in the Triangle

Gonza Tacos

Multiple locations gonzatacosytequila.com

Finalists: Carrburritos, Centro,

Totopos Street Food and Tequila

Irish Pub & Restaurant, James Joyce Irish Pub and Restaurant

Best Italian Restaurant in Durham County

Gocciolina

3314 Guess Road, Durham gocciolina.com INDY: Downtown Durham is great and all, but don’t forget our standout restaurants in strip mall land, especially Gocciolina. It’s the coziest little Italian place, out by the ABC store on Guess Road, an unusually warm and casual room for fine dining. And its menu of pasta dishes, seafood and steak, and small plates is delightfully modular. We groan a little when a pasta portion shows up looking like three meals on a plate, so we love to see a little ramekin with a couple of rows of perfect gnocchi that leaves plenty of room for whiteanchovy-wrapped olives, spicy chickpeas, sautéed brussels sprouts, and other shareable nibbles.

Finalists: The Boot (closed), Mothers & Sons Trattoria, Pompieri Pizza

Best Hot Dog in the Triangle

Best Italian Restaurant in Orange / Chatham County

600 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh snoopys.com

411 W Franklin Street, Chapel Hill 411west.com

Snoopy's Hot Dogs

411 West Italian Café

Finalists: The Cardinal Bar,

Finalists: Alfredo’s Pizza Villa,

Best Indian Restaurant in the Triangle

Best Italian Restaurant in Wake County

Merry Franksters, The Roast Grill

Vimala's Curryblossom Café 431 West Franklin Street, #415, Chapel Hill, curryblossom.com

Finalists: Viceroy, Sitar Indian Cuisine, Zeera Indian Restaurant

Panciuto, Pizzeria Mercato

Garibaldi Trattoria, Pizza & Pasta

900 North Main Street, Fuquay-Varina garibalditrattoria.com

Finalists: Amedeos Italian Restaurant,

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Best Japanese Restaurant in Durham County

Best Kid-Friendly Restaurant in Durham County

311 Holland Street, Durham msushidurham.com

776 Ninth Street, Durham elmosdiner.com

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Finalists: Dashi, Kurama Japanese Seafood, Shiki Sushi

Best Japanese Restaurant in Orange / Chatham County Chef-inspired dinner fare meant to share. Dinner served inside, at the bar or on the beautiful, covered patio and tiki bar. 317 S Harrington St in the Warehouse District of Downtown Raleigh 919.829.9222

Akai Hana Japanese Restaurant 206 West Main Street, Carrboro akaihana.com

Finalists: Mr. Tokyo Japanese

Finalists: Bull City Burger and Brewery, Pompieri Pizza, Pour Taproom: Durham

Best Kid-Friendly Restaurant in Orange / Chatham County

Elmo's Diner

200 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro elmosdinercarrboro.com

Finalists: The Root Cellar Cafe &

Restaurant, Oishii, Sushi Nikko

Catering, Saxapahaw General Store, The Town Hall Grill

Best Japanese Restaurant in Wake County

Best Kid-Friendly Restaurant in Wake County

Waraji Japanese Restaurant

5910 Duraleigh Road, Raleigh warajijapaneserestaurant.com

Finalists: Kanki Japanese House of Steaks & Sushi, Sono Sushi, Yuri Japanese Restaurant

Best Juice Bar in the Triangle

Happy + Hale Multiple locations happyandhale.com

INDY: With two locations in Raleigh and another in Durham, Happy + Hale’s “Health = Happiness” mission statement has made it a favorite among local wellness enthusiasts. The emphasis here is on fuel to power your day, from smoothies to quinoa and acai bowls, falafel to avocado toast, all served in a lively, lunchtime grab-andgo-friendly atmosphere. Right now, you can preview Ashley Christensen’s new concept and try the Poole’side Salad at all three locations.

Finalists: Juicekeys, Pure Juicery Bar, Raleigh Raw Juice Bar & Café

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Elmo's Diner

The Cowfish Sushi Burger Bar 4208 Six Forks Road, #100 thecowfish.com

INDY: The youngest wants a cheeseburger. The older kid has suddenly discovered that she loves sushi. Mom just needs a chardonnay. Few restaurants can satisfy everyone’s cravings. Cowfish, in North Hills, does so without compromising quality. The bustling fusion restaurant has a menu long enough to make your head spin, but the bento box offers the best of both worlds, with a mini burger, sushi roll, edamame, and sweet potato fries.

Finalists: Carolina Ale House, The Daily Planet Café, Ruckus Pizza, Pasta and Spirits

Best Late-Night Meal in Durham County

Cosmic Cantina

1920 Perry Street, Durham facebook.com/CosmicCantina

Finalists: Dashi, Heavenly Buffaloes, Parts & Labor, Pie Pushers

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Best Late-Night Meal in Orange / Chatham County

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Best Mexican Restaurant in Durham County

201 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill timeout24-7.com

Gonza Tacos Y Tequila

Finalists: Cosmic Cantina,

604 Fernway Avenue, Durham gonzatacosytequila.com

The Northside District, Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery

Finalists: Nanataco (now NuvoTaco), Tamale Factory and Tequila Bar, Taqueria La Vaquita

Best Late-Night Meal in Wake County

Char-Grill Multiple locations chargrillusa.com

Finalists: Abbey Road (Fuquay-Varina), The Raleigh Times, Whiskey Kitchen

Best Latin American Restaurant in Durham County

Alpaca Peruvian Charcoal Chicken 302 Davidson Avenue, Durham alpacachicken.com

Finalists: COPA, Gonza Tacos Y Tequila, Luna Rotisserie and Empanadas

Best Latin American Restaurant in Orange / chatham County

Carrburritos

711 West Rosemary Street, Carrboro carrburritos.com

Finalists: Bandido’s Mexican Cafe,

Fiesta Grill Restaurant, Monterrey Mexican Restaurant

Best Latin American Restaurant in Wake County

Gonza Tacos y Tequila 525 New Waverly Place, #104, Cary gonzatacosytequila.com

Finalists: Jose and Sons Bar and Kitchen, Guasaca Arepa & Salsa Grill, so•ca

Best Mexican Restaurant in Orange / Chatham County Best Locally Made Craft Beer in the Triangle

Trophy Wife, Trophy Brewing trophybrewing.com

INDY: The session IPA can be a tricky beast. It’s meant to be lighter and lower-alcohol, the kind of thing you drink on a Saturday afternoon—not quite a “light beer” (because, gross), but something that doesn’t punch you in the face with hops and leave you sprawled out on the couch. But it’s also an IPA, so it needs to be bright and hopforward and not lose its flavor profile or seem even remotely watered down. Trophy Wife pulls off this delicious alchemy better than anyone around.

Finalists: First Squeeze, Raleigh

Brewing Company; Opacity, The Glass Jug Beer Lab; White Street Kolsch, White Street Brewing

Best Locally Made Liquor in the Triangle

Navy Strength Gin, Durham Distillery 711 Washington Street, Durham durhamdistillery.com

Finalists: Bedlam Vodka, Graybeard

Distillery; Krupnikas, Brothers Vilgalys; Oak City Amaretto

Carrburritos

Best Locally Made Wine, Mead, or Cider in the Triangle

711 West Rosemary Street, Carrboro carrburritos.com

Bull City Ciderworks

Finalists: Fiesta Grill Restaurant, Monterrey Mexican Restaurant, El Restaurante Ixtapa

305 South Roxboro Street, Durham, bullcityciderworks.com

INDY: With its all-inclusive cider house on Roxboro Street—not to mention its production facility and taproom in Lexington—Bull City Ciderworks has become a premier destination for the state’s cider aficionados. The “Exploratorium” boasts brews that are anything but sickeningly sweet—think honey, black tea, pear, butternut squash, maple syrup, hibiscus, hops, ginger, cherries, bacon, Carolina Reaper peppers, even candy corn infusions—a diverse set of offerings designed to meet the demands of a growing cider culture.

Finalists: Botanist and Barrel,

Honeygirl Meadery, Starrlight Mead

Best Mediterranean restaurant in the Triangle

Mediterranean Deli, Bakery, and Catering 410 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill mediterraneandeli.com

Finalists: Neomonde Mediterranean Raleigh, Sassool, Sitti

Best Mexican Restaurant in Wake County

Gonza Tacos Y Tequila 7713 Lead Mine Road, #39, Raleigh gonzatacosytequila.com

Finalists: Centro, Salt & Lime Cabo Grill, Torero’s Mexican Restaurant, Totopos Street Food and Tequila

Best Middle Eastern Restaurant in the Triangle

Mediterranean Deli, Bakery, and Catering 410 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill mediterraneandeli.com

Finalists: Neomonde Mediterranean Raleigh, Sassool, Sitti

Best New Restaurant in Durham County

Zweli's Kitchen

4600 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, #26, Durham, zwelis.com

Finalists: COPA, Eastcut Sandwich Bar, M Tempura

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Best New Restaurant in Orange / Chatham County

Oakleaf

310 East Main Street, Carrboro oakleafnc.com

Finalists: The House at Gatewood, Lula’s, Samantha’s Pupusas

Best New Restaurant in Wake County

Vicious Fishes Taproom & Kitchen

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132 South Fuquay Avenue, Fuquay-Varina, viciousfishes.com

Finalists: Bodega Tapas, Wine,

and Rum; Fount Coffee + Kitchen; Postmaster Restaurant

Best Outdoor Dining in Durham County

Guglhupf Bakery, Cafe & Biergarten

2706 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, guglhupf.com

Finalists: Geer Street Garden, Namu, Parts & Labor

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East Durham Bake Shop

406 South Driver Street, Durham eastdurhambakeshop.com INDY: While East Durham Bake Shop’s scones have received some well-deserved shine from the INDY, the pies definitely shouldn’t be overlooked. Owner and baker Ali Rudel is a protégé of Emily and Melissa Elsen, owners of New York’s famous Four & Twenty Blackbirds pie shop, and that lineage is evident in a rotating spread of fruit and chess pies (current offerings include strawberry ginger crumble, honey lemon chess, and buttermilk coconut chess). The dough is rolled out by hand, and all fillings are made from scratch. It’s a treat to be able to pick up a whole pie in the shop, but EDBS’s charming interior makes it a welcome stop if you’re just looking for a slice.

Finalists: Bean Traders;

Foster’s Market; Rose’s Noodles, Dumplings, and Sweets

Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery

Best Pie in Orange / Chatham County

Finalists: Acme Food & Beverage Co., The Eddy, Glasshalfull, Saxapahaw General Store

716 Market Street, Chapel Hill weaverstreetmarket.coop

100 East Franklin Street, #300, Chapel Hill, thetopofthehill.com

Best Outdoor Dining in Wake County

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Best Outdoor Dining in Orange / Chatham County

Best Pie in Durham County

Weaver Street Market

Finalists: Laplace Louisiana

Cookery (closed), The Root Cellar Cafe & Catering, Village Diner

Taverna Agora Greek Kitchen & Bar

Best Pie in Wake County

Finalists: Humble Pie, Krafty’s Burgers

Finalists: Annelore’s German Bakery,

326 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh tavernaagora.com

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Angus Barn

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Best Pizza in Durham County

Pizzeria Toro

105 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham pizzeriatoro.com INDY: Toro is the cornerstone of Gray Brooks’s downtown empire, splitting the difference between the accessible faux-diner Jack Tar & The Colonel’s Daughter and the elite Littler. Downtown’s favorite wood-fired pizza (and fancified bar snacks!) is reliably good, with just the right amount of flash, effortlessly convincing you that things like escarole, turnips, and Meyer lemons are not only acceptable but are in fact excellent pizza toppings. And though we’re going to kick ourselves for saying this, Toro’s barroom is a sometimes-overlooked sneaky spot for a great cocktail and a bite when the downtown bars are packed. (Not the dining room, that’s full as hell.)

Finalists: Pie Pushers, Pompieri Pizza, Randy’s Pizza

Best Pizza in Orange / Chatham County

Pizzeria Mercato

408 West Weaver Street, Carrboro pizzeriamercatonc.com

Finalists: Italian Pizzeria III, Napoli Wood-Fired Pizza, Radius Pizzeria & Pub

Best Pizza in Wake County

Lilly's Pizza

1813 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh lillyspizza.com

Finalists: Capital Creations Gourmet Pizza, Oakwood Pizza Box, Trophy Brewing & Pizza

Best Restaurant in the Triangle

Best Salad in Durham County

218 South Blount Street, Raleigh brewerybhavana.com

703 Ninth Street, Suite B, Durham happyandhale.com

Brewery Bhavana

Happy + Hale

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Best Sandwich in Durham County

INDY: “But make it fashion”—the famous, heavily memed quote from Tyra Banks—applies perfectly to Raleigh’s Brewery Bhavana: “Dim sum, but make it fashion.” Bhavana has taken the concept of dim sum, removed the cacophony often present in traditional dim sum dining experiences, and elevated the fare while retaining core flavors of Chinese cuisine. Scallion pancakes with bone marrow and coconut and oxtail jam. Turnip cakes with bacon bits and hoisin-honey sauce. In a more general sense, Bhavana’s atmosphere fits the bill for “a restaurant, but make it fashion.” It’s the readers’ choice for Best Restaurant in the Triangle, but “restaurant” is only one of Bhavana’s many hats: It’s also a flower shop, a craft brewery, and a bookstore.

Finalists: Pizzeria Toro, Saladelia Cafe + Catering, Toast

Irregardless Cafe & Catering

Best Sandwich in Wake County

Finalists: COPA, Krafty’s Burgers

Finalists: Happy + Hale,

Finalists: Krafty’s Burgers and Brews, MOFU Shoppe, State of Beer

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Best Salad in Orange / Chatham County

Spotted Dog Restaurant & Bar 111 East Main Street, Carrboro thespotteddogrestaurant.com

Finalists: Glasshalfull, Laplace

Louisiana Cookery (closed), The Root Cellar Cafe & Catering, Venable Rotisserie Bistro

Best Salad in Wake County

901 West Morgan Street, Raleigh irregardless.com Manhattan Cafe & Catering, Sassool

Toast

345 West Main Street, Durham toast-fivepoints.com

Finalists: Eastcut Sandwich Bar,

KoKyu Na'Mean, Lucky's Delicatessen

Best Sandwich in Orange / Chatham County

Merritt's Grill

1009 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill merrittsstoreandgrill.com

Finalists: Imbibe, Left Bank Butchery, Neal’s Deli, Spotted Dog Restaurant & Bar

La Farm Bakery

4248 Northwest Cary Parkway, Cary lafarmbakery.com

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Authentic Mexican Restaurant DINE IN • TAKE-OUT • CATERING

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West End Billiards of Durham 601 West Main Street 919.717.3915

West End Wine Bar of Durham 601 West Main Street 919.381.4228

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Best Seafood Restaurant in the Triangle

Saltbox Seafood Joint

2637 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, saltboxseafoodjoint.com

Finalists: 42nd Street Oyster Bar,

N.C. Seafood Restaurant at the Farmers Market, Saint James Seafood

Best Southern Food Restaurant in the Triangle

Mama Dip's Kitchen

408 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill mamadips.com

Finalists: Bullock’s Bar-B-Cue, Crook’s Corner, Picnic

Best Southeast Asian Cuisine in the Triangle

Bida Manda Laotian Restaurant and Bar 222 South Blount Street, Raleigh bidamanda.com

Finalists: MOFU Shoppe, Namu, Thai Café

Best Sports Bar in Durham County

NanaSteak PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE

Best Sports Bar in Orange / Chatham County

Linda's Bar & Grill

203 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill lindas-bar.com INDY: Linda’s is special. A favorite of UNC-Chapel Hill students and faculty alike, it’s been a Franklin Street fixture since its current location, across from McCorkle Place, opened in 1988. Drink prices are reasonable and, as if in a dream, college basketball games seem to play year-round on the televisions. The twice-weekly trivia nights, meanwhile, are a blast (be ready to lose: it’s packed with competitive grad students), and the menu is filled with reliably greasy staples like burgers, sliders, and fries. Speaking of special: Linda’s cheese fries are a religious experience, matched only by Linda’s generously-loaded sweet potato tots. When you’re not watching basketball or losing at trivia, this bar is perfect for PBRs and lingering conversations in one of the famously deep booths.

Finalists: Tobacco Road Sports Café,

Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery, Tyler’s Restaurant & Taproom

Tobacco Road Sports Café

Best Sports Bar in Wake County

Finalists: Bull McCabe’s Irish Pub, Dain’s Place, Pour Taproom: Durham, Town Hall Burger and Beer

Finalists: Carolina Ale House,

280 South Mangum Street, #100, Durham, tobaccoroadsportscafe.com

Players' Retreat 105 Oberlin Road, Raleigh playersretreat.net

Krafty’s Burgers and Brews, WINGIN’IT Bar and Grille

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Best Steak in Durham County

NanaSteak

345 Blackwell Street, Durham nanasteak.com

Finalists: Metro 8 Steakhouse, Rue Cler, Vin Rouge

Best Steak in Orange / Chatham County

Bin 54

1201-M Raleigh Road, Chapel Hill bin54chapelhill.com

Best Sunday Brunch in Orange / Chatham County

Acme Food & Beverage Co.

Finalists: Acme Food & Beverage Co.,

110 East Main Street, Carrboro acmecarrboro.com

Best Steak in Wake County

Cookery (closed), Lula’s, Venable Rotisserie Bistro

The House at Gatewood, Tandem

Angus Barn

9401 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh angusbarn.com

Finalists: Rey’s Restaurant,

Second Empire Restaurant and Tavern, Vinnie’s Steak House & Tavern

Best Sunday Brunch in Durham County

Guglhupf Bakery, Cafe & Biergarten

2706 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, guglhupf.com

Finalists: Monuts, True Flavors Diner, Vin Rouge

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Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar 206 W. Main St., Carrboro • 919-942-6848 909 A Arendell St., Morehead City • 252-222-3272 www.akaihana.com

Finalists: Laplace Louisiana

Best Sunday Brunch in Wake County

Beasley's Chicken + Honey

237 South Wilmington Street, Raleigh ac-restaurants.com/beasleys

Finalists: Brigs Great Beginnings

Restaurant, The Fiction Kitchen, Irregardless Cafe & Catering

Best Sushi in Durham County

M Sushi

311 Holland Street, Durham msushidurham.com

Finalists: Sake Bomb, Shiki Sushi, Sushi Love

Best Sushi in Orange / Chatham County

Akai Hana Japanese Restaurant 206 West Main Street, Carrboro akaihana.com

Finalists: OiShii, Spicy 9 Sushi Bar & Asian Restaurant, Sushi Nikko

Best Sushi in Wake County

Waraji Japanese Restaurant

5910 Duraleigh Road, Raleigh warajijapaneserestaurant.com The Cucumber and Plum Roll at Waraji PHOTO BY ALEX BOERNER

Finalists: Sono Sushi, Sushi Blues Café, Yuri Japanese Restaurant

Oven-made Pies • Fresh Salads Sandwiches & Kabobs • Catering (919) 847-2700 9650 Strickland Road, Raleigh (919) 300-5586 1347 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary Now open at Morgan Street Food Hall! www.sassool.com BEST OF THE TRIANGLE 2019 | INDYweek.com | 6.12.19 | 27

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Best Vegan-friendly Restaurant in Wake County Best Tapas in the Triangle

Mateo Bar de Tapas

109 West Chapel Hill Street, Durham mateotapas.com INDY: Did you know the Michelin Guide only evaluates restaurants in four U.S. cities (New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and D.C.)? If the Guide ever decides to inspect Durham restaurants, mark my words: Mateo will be the first place to secure a spot on the prestigious list. Michelin acknowledges five general criteria for awarding stars: quality of the product (check), mastery of flavor and cooking techniques (duh), the personality of the chef in his cuisine (c’mon, it’s Matt Kelly!), value for money (most plates are around $10), and consistency between visits (there’s a reason Mateo wins this Best Of category every year).

The Fiction Kitchen 428 South Dawson Street, Raleigh thefictionkitchen.com

INDY: “Vegan-friendly” doesn’t do justice to The Fiction Kitchen. It’s more like “carnivore-hostile”—or it would be, if its completely meat-free kitchen didn’t produce dishes so wellconceived and executed as to satisfy all but the biggest meat fiends. Maybe you grew up eating meat but gave it up and miss the experience, if not the ethics; at The Fiction Kitchen, tacos and sandwiches are filled with mock chicken and veggie barbecue, as well as many pure-vegetable dishes that don’t even pretend to be flesh. Breakfasts like biscuits with soysage gravy let the veg-heads among us—and we are legion—keep something of our Southern roots without the guilt.

Finalists: Irregardless Cafe & Catering,

Finalists: Juju Durham, MOFU Shoppe,

Neomonde Mediterranean Raleigh, The Remedy Diner

Best Taqueria in the Triangle

Best Veggie Burger in Durham County

Taberna Tapas

Gonza Tacos y Tequila Multiple locations gonzatacosytequila.com

Finalists: Chubby’s Tacos,

Taqueria El Toro, Taqueria La Vaquita

Best Vegan-friendly Restaurant in Durham County

Goorsha

910 West Main Street, Durham goorshadurham.com

Finalists: Earth to Us, Pompieri Pizza, Souly Vegan Cafe

Best Vegan-friendly Restaurant in Orange / Chatham County

Vimala's Curryblossom Café 431 West Franklin Street, #415, Chapel Hill, curryblossom.com

Finalists: Sage Vegetarian Café,

Spotted Dog Restaurant & Bar, Vegan Flava Cafe

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Finalists: Eastcut Sandwich Bar, Elmo’s Diner, Only Burger

Best Veggie Burger in Orange / Chatham County

Spotted Dog Restaurant & Bar 111 East Main Street, Carrboro thespotteddogrestaurant.com

Finalists: Al’s Burger Shack, Buns, Saxapahaw General Store

Best Veggie Burger in Wake County

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Finalists: Chuck’s Burgers, MoJoe’s Burger Joint, The Remedy Diner

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9401 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh angusbarn.com

Best Wine List in Durham County

Bar Brunello

117 East Main Street, Durham barbrunello.com

Finalists: Mothers & Sons Trattoria,

Parizade, Pompieri Pizza, Vin Rouge

Best Wine List in Orange / Chatham County

Glasshalfull

106 South Greensboro Street, Carrboro glasshalfull.net

Finalists: 411 West Italian Café, Botanist and Barrel, West End Wine Bar

INDY: The myth. The legend. The Angus Barn. Since 1960, “Big Red,” the beloved red barn that houses Raleigh’s most cherished steakhouse, has been an Oak City landmark. Its top-notch wine cellar, which has its own staff, kitchen, and dining areas, was first developed by co-founder Thad Eure, Jr., who was commissioned to build a wine list that would compete with the very finest California had to offer. Before Eure passed away in 1993, he’d collected wines that would soon make his list one of the most envied in the country—and the recipient of twenty Wine Spectator Grand Awards.

Finalists: Vidrio, Vinos Finos Tapas

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Best Wings in Orange / Chatham County

Wooden Nickel Pub

113 North Churton Street, Hillsborough thewnp.com

Finalists: Heavenly Buffaloes, Town Hall Burger and Beer, Wings Over Chapel Hill

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1807 West Markham Avenue, Durham heavenlybuffaloes.com

Finalists: The Blue Note Grill, M. Kokko, Mattie B’s Public House, Tomato Jake's Pizzeria

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Finalists: Krafty’s Burgers and Brews, MOFU Shoppe, Sharky’s Place

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Best Acupuncturist in the Triangle

Austin Dixon

austindixonacupuncture.com INDY: There are so many reasons to try acupuncture: from post-surgical recovery to stress relief to aiding in digestion to, as many women will attest, fertility enhancement. Austin Dixon, a licensed acupuncturist based in Durham, has served clients around the Triangle since relocating here from New York City, where she received her formal training at the renowned Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. She’s worked at City Acupuncture of New York, a high-volume, low-cost clinic, and did an internship in the HIV clinic at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Dixon also spent time observing in hospitals in China through a program offered by the Beijing University of TCM, and is a certified Kundalini yoga teacher. Her well-rounded, holistic approach to functional, non-traditional medicine shows in her practice.

Finalists: Carmela Mager, Li-Lan Hsiang Weiss, Tory Hendrix

Best Aesthetician in the Triangle

Jennifer DelamarGoss, Fabulously Flawless

5640 Six Forks Road, #203, Raleigh fabulouslyflawlessnc.com/team

Finalists: Colette Tomasi, Colette Skincare; Mariah Ewald, Posh the Salon; Lindsey Westendorf, Smoothe LLC

Finalists: Dennis Best Men’s Salon, Rock’s Bar and Hair Shop, Van-tique Barbershop

Best Chiropractor in the Triangle

200 PARK AT NORTH HILLS STREET, STE 111 RALEIGH, NC 27609

Thank you to everyone who voted!

Dr. Blake Livingood

1901 Northwest Cary Parkway, #111, Morrisville, trianglehealthcenter.com

Finalists: Dr. Drew Kluger, Dr. Greg Barnes, Dr. Michael Poplak

Best Couples Therapist in the Triangle

Adrienne Alden

Raleigh relationshiprestoration.org/team/ team-adrienne-alden INDY: When we think of couples therapy, the first place our minds go is that terrible movie Couples Retreat, where married couples travel to an island resort and learn strange methods to prevent divorce. In real life, couples therapy is a lot less scary than the movie makes it out to be. (To be fair, feeding sharks with Vince Vaughn is about the most horrifying experience imaginable; feeding Vince Vaughn to sharks, on the other hand …). If you and your partner find yourselves fighting about the same thing day after day, you may want to seek help from Adrienne Alden, an experienced therapist who specializes in illuminating problematic relationship patterns and teaching clients a new way of engaging with each other. Fighting is inevitable, but there’s a right way to do it, and Alden can show you how.

Finalists: Jen Wynn, Laurie Watson,

Michael Sleigh

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Best Day Spa in the Triangle

The Umstead Hotel and Spa

100 Woodland Pond Drive, Cary theumstead.com INDY: Nestled on twelve acres of lush landscaping on a secluded lake, The Umstead Hotel and Spa is a retreat haven for locals and visitors alike. Whether it’s a one-day respite or several glorious days spent off-thegrid and surrounded by nature—and plenty of pampering—there’s no shortage of relaxing treatments like a facial or deep tissue massage, as well as rejuvenating activities like lounging poolside, relishing in the spa’s jacuzzi and sauna, or enjoying a yoga class, to help you hit the reset button and detox your mind, body, and soul. The spa is just a half-mile from William B. Umstead State Park, so enlist a friend for a weekend getaway to explore the exceptional nearby terrain on foot, or take advantage of the twenty-fourhour fitness center before you sip on an afternoon cocktail by the pool beneath a cabana.

Finalists: Alossi Renewal Spa, Azura Skin Care Center, Spa Retreat Cary

Best Dentist in Durham County

Dr. Jenny Citineni, Triangle Kids Pediatric Dentistry 3115 Academy Road, Durham trianglekidsdentist.com

Finalists: Dr. Amy Gadol, Dr. Harold

Speight, Dr. Michael Riccobene, Riccobene Associates Family Dentistry

Best Dentist in Orange / Chatham County

Dr. Shaina Holman, DDS, PhD 1836 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Chapel Hill, holmanfamilydentalcare.com

Finalists: Dr. David Lee Hill, Dr. Dennis Ellis, Dr. Jeffrey West, Dr. Joel Wagoner

Best Martial Arts Studio in the Triangle

Triangle Krav Maga

Best Dentist in Wake County

Dr. Justin Russo, Russo Dentistry

6905 Fayetteville Road, #102, Durham trianglekravmaga.com

3811 Ed Drive, #120, Raleigh russoddsraleigh.com

Finalists: Dr. Archie Cook Jr., Signature Smiles; Dr. Heath Brantley, Wendell Family Dentistry; Dr. Jessica Forestier, Britt Dental; Dr. Michael Riccobene, Riccobene Associates Family Dentistry

Best Dermatologist in the Triangle

Dr. Mark Fradin, Chapel Hill Dermatology

891 Willow Drive, #1, Chapel Hill chapelhilldermatology.com

Best Hair Salon in Durham County

Vent Salon

1125 West North Carolina Highway 54, #206, durhamventsalon.com

Finalists: Dr. Amy Stein, Regional Dermatology; Dr. Elizabeth Hamilton, Regional Dermatology; Dr. Sue Ellen Cox, Aesthetic Solutions

Finalists: The Cottage Salon, Kem’s Looking Glass Salon, Posh the Salon

Best Gym in Durham County

Best Hair Salon in Orange / Chatham County

Levin Jewish Community Center

1937 West Cornwallis Road, Durham levinjcc.org

Finalists: The 360 Approach, Camp

Gladiator, Ride Cycle Studio

Best Gym in Orange / Chatham County

Camp Gladiator campgladiator.com

Finalists: The Coalition, Planet Fitness, UNC Wellness Center at Meadowmont

Best Gym in Wake County

Camp Gladiator campgladiator.com

Finalists: Arise Athletics, North Raleigh Fit Body Boot Camp, Original Strength Institute

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INDY: People train in martial arts for many reasons. Some are attracted to the grueling and gratifying nature of combat sports; for others, a more holistic and historical approach satisfies. But for those seeking a no-frills, self-defense-driven course of study, Krav Maga has become a popular way to gain an intense workout while developing techniques directed toward real-world confrontations. Triangle Krav Maga focuses on “practical applications over acrobatic kicks” and seeks to “equip responsible citizens with the necessary skills to neutralize threats quickly,” according to its Facebook page. With classes running seven days a week, TKM offers options for all walks of life, covering conditioning and self-defense as well as agetailored classes for kids and sessions specific to law enforcement officers.

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Finalists: Chapel Hill Quest Martial Arts, Quest Martial Arts Raleigh, Triangle’s Best Karate

Finalists: Ceremony Salon, Lavish

Best Massage Therapist in the Triangle

601 West Rosemary Street, #103, Chapel Hill, tothewoodssalon.com Beauty Lounge, Syd’s Hair Shop Inc.

Best Hair Salon in Wake County

Tone Hair Salon

808 Salem Woods Drive, #105, Raleigh tonehairsalon.com

Kelly Cox, LMBT, Randori Bodywork

1821 Fordham Boulevard, Chapel Hill

Finalists: Bacio Salon, Blo, Pinup Studio

Finalists: BodyWork by Ginger, LMBT; Brittany Herzberg, LMBT; Matthew Fecteau, LMBT

Best Holistic Medicine in the Triangle

Best Optometry Practice in the Triangle

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Dr. Stephen Gangemi Finalists: Armonia Health LLC,

InsideOut Body Therapies, Integrative Medical Clinic of North Carolina

Academy Eye Associates

Finalists: Carrboro Family Vision, Triangle Visions Optometry, Woldorff Family Optometry

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Best Pediatric Practice in the Triangle

Regional Pediatrics

4022 Freedom Lake Drive, Durham dukehealth.org

Finalists: Chapel Hill Pediatrics; Jeffers, Mann, and Artman Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine; Triangle Health Center

Best Therapist in the Triangle

Best Personal Trainer in the Triangle

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Finalists: Dani Almeyda,

Hardee Merritt, JoJo Polk

Best Pilates Studio in Durham County

InsideOut Body Therapies

5720 Fayetteville Road, #101, Durham insideoutbodytherapies.com

Finalists: Base Pilates & Movement,

Bull City Pilates and Massage, Fitness @ the cube

Best Pilates Studio in Orange / Chatham County

Spira Pilates Studio 601 West Main Street, Carrboro spirapilates.com

Finalists: barre3 Chapel Hill, Carolina Core Pilates, Pilates at Studio 8

Best Pilates Studio in Wake County

Barre-Up

4224 Beryl Road, Suite A, Raleigh barreupraleigh.com

Finalists: 110 Hot Yoga, Blue Sky Pilates, PBX Pilates Barre Extreme

Best Primary Care Practitioner in the Triangle

Dr. Oscar Cornelio-Flores

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Finalists: Dr. Blake Livingood,

Dr. Henry Van Pala, Ivy Todd, PA

Amber Diamond, MA, LPCA

Finalists: Dr. Adam Mathews, PhD,

Best Women's Health Practitioner in Durham County

Michelle Kessler, PA-C 209 East Carver Street, Durham durhamwomensclinic.com

LMFT, LPC; Adrianne Robinson, LCSW, LCAS, PLLC; Allison Grubbs, LCSW, LCAS, CCS, CDWF, RYT; Amy Baker, MSW, LCSW

Finalists: Dr. Amy Broach, Dr. Nicolette Schreiber; Wendy Fields, FNP

Best Women's Health Practice in Durham County

Best Women's Health Practitioner in Orange / Chatham County

Durham Women's Clinic

209 East Carver Street, Durham durhamwomensclinic.com

Finalists: Duke Women’s Health Associates at Patterson Place; Durham Obstetrics and Gynecology at North Duke Street; Family Care, PA; Women’s Health Alliance PA (Centre OB/GYN)

Best Women's Health Practice in Orange / Chatham County

Chapel Hill OBGYN / Women's Health Alliance

120 Conner Drive, #101, Chapel Hill chapelhillobgyn.com

Finalists: Mosaic Comprehensive Care,

North Carolina Women's Hospital, Women's Birth & Wellness Center

Best Women's Health Practice in Wake County

Mid-Carolina Obstetrics & Gynecology

4414 Lake Boone Trail, #300, Raleigh midcarolinaobgyn.com

Finalists: Arbor OB/GYN, Kamm McKenzie OB/GYN, Triangle Physicians for Women

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Dr. Joshua L. Hardison chapelhillobgyn.com/joshua-hardison

Finalists: Amy Dixon, CNM, MSN; Maureen Darcey, CNM; Wendy Fields, FNP

Best Women's Health Practitioner in Wake County

Dr. Ashley Rush

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Finalists: Dr. Jack Inge, Dr. L Carter Gray, Dr. Philip Deibel

Best Yoga Studio in Durham County

Global Breath Studio 119 West Main Street, #300, Durham globalbreath.org

Finalists: Community Power Yoga, Durham Yoga Company, ThreeHouse Studios

Best Yoga Studio in Orange / Chatham County

Carrboro Yoga Company

200 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro carolinayogacompany.com

Finalists: barre3 Chapel Hill,

Franklin Street Yoga Center, Loving Kindness Yoga School

Best Yoga Studio in Wake County

YoBa Studio

5003 Falls of Neuse Road, Suite G, Raleigh, yobastudio.com INDY: It’s no secret that the yogis of Raleigh love a good sweat. With an abundance of hot yoga offerings available in Oak City, from Open Door Yoga to Midtown Yoga, Element Hot Yoga to everyone’s favorite corporate mainstay, CorePower Yoga. And then there’s YoBo Studio, voted best in Wake County by #SweatADay diehards. With upbeat playlists in a warm, therapeutic setting, YoBa boasts an array of signature offerings including YoBaShine BARRE and even yoga and barre hybrid classes in which exercises performed at a ballet barre make you quake and shake in places you didn’t even know you had, toning your glutes, core, arms, and legs for a total-body workout. The room is heated to eighty-five degrees with far-infrared panels that penetrate the skin two to three inches into the body to warm you from the inside-out; infrared light improves blood flow and circulation while also maintaining healthy blood pressure. Not sure you can handle the heat? Be sure to namastay for the cool-down with meditation and savasana, or try YoBaShine Flow and Deep Stretch for a more passive, relaxing practice.

Finalists: Colors of Yoga Raleigh, Element Hot Yoga, Midtown Yoga Raleigh

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Best Barista in Orange / Chatham County

Rajeev Rajendran, Caffe DriadE

Best Adult Entertainment in the Triangle

Finalists: Zach Brown, Cup-A-Joe; Thurmond Buckelew, Carrboro Coffee Roasters; Casey Lunceford, Joe Van Gogh; Christina Sykes, Weaver Street Market

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Best Barista in Wake County

Boom OR Bust Burlesque

Finalists: 4 Play NC, Capital Cabaret, Nerd-vana Burlesque

Best Art Gallery in the Triangle

Artspace

201 East Davie Street, Raleigh artspacenc.org INDY: Artspace is so much more a gallery where you go to look at art in relative solitude. For starters, it contains several galleries, which are currently showing exhibits by local painter Lien Truong and Richmond’s Katie Shaw. And its thirty thousand square feet of space in the historic Sanders Ford building also teems with working artists—more than thirty have open studios there—as well as teaching spaces and programs and large, lively crowds at its numerous receptions. As a nonprofit visual art center that appeals to a wide slice of Raleigh’s community, it’s a strong contender to keep art downtown, as other, smaller galleries have absconded to places like Dock 1053 and slipped out of the downtown social circuit.

Finalists: The Carrack Modern Art,

Finalists: Casey Lunceford, Zach

Neuman, Pine State Coffee; John Michael Parnell, Videri Chocolate Factory; Larz Robison, Pine State Coffee

Best Bartender in Durham County

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Traders; Maricarmen Paz Hernandez, Cocoa Cinnamon; Midiala Lafita Utria, Cocoa Cinnamon Chinese Lantern Festival

INDY: The Triangle is awash in festivals, and most of them sort out into one of a few categories: music, film, dance, theater, books, etc. But there’s one that stands alone: the annual Chinese Lantern Festival in Cary. In celebration of the Chinese New Year, the festival transforms Koka Booth Amphitheatre at night into an illuminated wonderland of enormous dragons and lions, flowers and swans, created by Chinese artisans on the grounds. Locals with a Cary aversion are already missing out on the forested grounds and ship-like amphitheater of Koka Booth, and there’s no better time to discover it than this family-friendly fantasy world each winter.

INDY: Bittersweet barista Klay Meisenheimer is almost too cheerful for 7:00 a.m. The thirty-one-year-old swirls a heart in the cream atop his first cappuccino of the day. “Bitches be loving my lattes” is embossed in a sparkly text on his t-shirt. He laughs easily and has a huge smile and bright brown eyes, but it’s a bittersweet kind of day—his last at the downtown Raleigh coffee shop/gin emporium/ dessert palace after five years. He’s changing careers, going to work for a local architectural design firm and putting his art degree to use. At least he’s going out on top.

Pinhook; Kelsey Dawson, Ponysaurus; Kerri Hoffman, Beer Study

Finalists: Dave Chapman, Bean

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Klay Meisenheimer, Bittersweet

Gallery C, Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Pleiades Arts

Benjamin Tarlton, Joe Van Gogh (Woodcroft)

Chinese Lantern Festival

James Peery, The Kraken

Finalists: Andrew, Linda’s Bar & Grill; Cynthia Burkins, Vecino Brewing Co.; Mandey Brown, Zog’s/Imbibe

Finalists: Beaver Queen Pageant,

Carrboro Music Festival, Hopscotch Music Festival

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Best Bartender in Wake County

Johnny, Southern Peak Brewery Finalists: Derek Clausing, Bottle Revolution Apex; Ari Greco, Imurj; William Warcup, Tonic, Bar and Social Club

Best Comedy Club in the Triangle

the Pinhook

117 West Main Street, Durham thepinhook.com

Finalists: The Bar, The Green Monkey, Legends Nightclub, Ruby Deluxe

Best Golf Course in the Triangle

MacGregor Downs Country Club 430 Saint Andrews Lane, Cary macgregordowns.org

Finalists: Chapel Hill Country Club, Hope Valley Country Club, Treyburn Country Club

Goodnights Comedy Club

Best Karaoke in the Triangle

Finalists: ComedyWorx, The PIT Chapel Hill, Raleigh Improv

Finalists: Kingdem Karaoke, Krafty’s Burgers and Brews, The Night Rider

861 West Morgan Street, Raleigh goodnightscomedy.com

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117 West Main Street, Durham thepinhook.com

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INDY: We love Raleigh Little Theatre because it’s grown up right alongside Raleigh. One of the area’s oldest community theaters, it was founded in 1936 as part of a New Deal arts project, blossoming as a small proscenium theater, a large outdoor amphitheater, and a rose garden. In the ensuing decades, it expanded its technical capacities and added the black box Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre, apt for an institution that’s as much about community engagement and education as it is about entertainment. Though its goals are more inclusive than commercial, Raleigh Little Theatre shows are frequently well-reviewed in the INDY and appear on our best-ofthe-year lists. Inevitably, some famous faces have passed through, from Andy Griffith to, a half-century later, future Chilling Adventures of Sabrina actor Lachlan Watson.

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Finalists: Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh Little Theatre, Theatre in the Park

INDY: It seems that every week sprouts a new true-crime podcast exploring the dark side of human nature. But before the genre exploded, there was Criminal, a podcast exploring “stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.” Produced in Durham by hosts Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer, the podcast explores everything from gruesome homicides to the origin of Stockholm Syndrome. Now with millions of listeners per episode, Criminal has taken the show on the road; you can catch the team at the Carolina Theatre on October 5.

Finalists: At the Intersection, RDU on Stage, Weddings For Real

Best Museum in the Triangle

Museum of Life and Science

433 West Murray Avenue, Durham lifeandscience.org

Finalists: CAM Raleigh, Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Best Neighborhood Bar in Durham County

Beer Study

2501 University Drive, #4, Durham beerstudy.com

Finalists: Accordion Club, Barley Labs, The Glass Jug Beer Lab

Best Neighborhood Bar in Orange / Chatham County

The Wooden Nickel Pub and Grill

113 North Churton Street, Hillsborough thewoodennickelpubandgrill.com

Finalists: The Kraken, Orange County Social Club, Zog’s Pool

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Best Neighborhood Bar in Wake County

The Green Monkey

1217 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh peacelovemonkey.com INDY: The Green Monkey, which opened in a former grocery market on Hillsborough Street in 2013, is a lot of things. It’s a gift shop that sells kitschy T-shirts (e.g., “Lard Have Mercy”) and kitschy other things (a “Bitches Be Sippin’” stemless wine glass). It’s a place to view and buy locally made art. It’s a bottle shop with a wellcurated selection of beer and wine. It’s a bar with an always interesting rotation of brews on tap. But more than anything else, The Green Monkey is an inclusive, welcoming space for friends—and a place where strangers become friends. That’s what a neighborhood bar is all about.

Finalists: Bottle Rev Apex, Krafty’s

Burgers and Brews, Sharky’s Place

Best Open Mic Night in the Triangle

Carolina Waves carolinawaves.com

Finalists: Imurj, Ruby Deluxe, Zog’s Pool

Best Outdoor Music Venue in the Triangle

Red Hat Amphitheater 500 South McDowell Street, Raleigh redhatamphitheater.com

Finalists: Durham Central Park, Koka Booth Amphitheatre, North Carolina Museum of Art

Best Place for Indoor Fun in the Triangle

Boxcar Bar + Arcade 330 West Davie Street, Raleigh theboxcarbar.com

Finalists: Bull City Escape, Dogwood Country Club, Whole Brain Escape

Best Place to Dance in the Triangle

Legends Nightclub 330 West Hargett Street, Raleigh legends-club.com

Finalists: Arcana Bar and Lounge, The Kraken, Ruby Deluxe

Best Place to Get Specialty Cocktails in Durham County

Alley Twenty Six

320 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham alleytwentysix.com

Finalists: Arcana Bar and Lounge, Bar Virgile, The Durham Hotel

Best Place to Get Specialty Cocktails in Orange / Chatham County

The Crunkleton

320 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill thecrunkleton.com INDY: Yes, the bartenders wear suspenders, Avett-style. Yes, there’s a sliding ladder. Somehow, though, the Crunkleton manages to avoid the fussiness that usually accompanies these sorts of stylings. Fact is, it’s a great bar with great bones and one of the liveliest spirit selections in the South, and owner Gary Crunkleton just wants to put a good drink in front of you. Whether that drink comes off the menu—the Elderflower Sour, the Gin-and-Germain equivalent of the first swimming-hole plunge of the summer, is a thing of wonder—or is dreamed up in a conversation with one of the attentive bartenders, it won’t disappoint.

Finalists: Lantern, Laplace Louisiana Cookery (closed), Zog’s Pool

Best Place to Get Specialty Cocktails in Wake County

FOUNDATION

213 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh foundationnc.com

Finalists: Bittersweet, C. Grace,

MOFU Shoppe

Best Place to Hear Bluegrass in the Triangle

PNC presents Wide Open Bluegrass, Raleigh worldofbluegrass.org/ wide-open-bluegrass

Finalists: The Blue Note Grill, Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist, Haw River Ballroom

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Best Place to Hear Jazz in the Triangle

C. Grace Cocktail Bar 407 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh cgracebar.com

Cat's Cradle

INDY: Not all Prohibition-era speakeasies involved flappers, swing dancing, or big-band jazz. Some were just Jersey teenagers with a bathtub full of booze they’d mix with juniper juice and sell to workingclass customers. Not as sexy as the movies, but pretty badass, regardless. If you want a more glamorous take on the Roaring Twenties, there’s C. Grace, a burlesque-inspired basement speakeasy that serves sophisticated cocktails in an elegant environment. Order the Mendacity—an original cocktail, with gin, absinthe, and frothy egg whites—then sink into a plush couch and let the always-excellent jazz musicians on stage transport you to a more refined era.

Finalists: Imurj, Kings, Pinhook

Finalists: Arcana Bar and Lounge, Art of Cool Festival, Imbibe

Best Place to Hear Blues in the Triangle

The Blue Note Grill 709 Washington Street, Durham thebluenotegrill.com

Finalists: C. Grace, The Kraken, PineCone-Piedmont Council of Traditional Music

Best Place to Hear Hip-Hop or Soul in the Triangle 300 East Main Street, Carrboro catscradle.com

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Best Place to Hear Rock 'n' Roll in the Triangle

Cat's Cradle Best Place to Hear Noise/ Electronica in the Triangle

Nightlight

405 1/2 West Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, nightlightclub.com INDY: Fifteen years ago, when we used to eat sandwiches and browse waterlogged paperbacks at The Skylight Exchange, we never imagined that the sunny spot would soon become synonymous with darkest night. Now, we can’t imagine it any other way. Nightlight, which briefly shared space with the lunch-andused-books business before the latter closed, is hidden down a long, narrow alley at 405 1/2 Rosemary Street. There’s something perfect about that street number for a music venue that shelters the in-between genres, whether it’s electronic noise music, noisy electronic music, or anything else that slips through the rock clubs’ nets. It’s our undisputed champion of experimental music venues; long may it lurk in the dark. If you’re not sure what noise music is and you’re feeling brave, check out the Savage Weekend festival this week for a truly crashing crash course.

Finalists: The Fruit, Pinhook, The Wicked Witch

300 East Main Street, Carrboro catscradle.com

Finalists: Imurj, Kings, The Kraken, Slims

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Best Place to Hear World or International Music in the Triangle

Duke Performances 2010 Campus Drive, Durham dukeperformances.duke.edu

INDY: The strength of Duke University’s art presenter is diversity, as it brings everything from classical and jazz to modern dance to venues on campus and around Durham. But it particularly fills a gap for music from other countries, and not just European string quartets. This past season brought Cuba’s Afro-Cuban All Stars, Ireland’s The Gloaming, and Benin’s Angélique Kidjo, and that’s leaving aside the invaluable Black Atlantic Festival, which explores music from Africa and the African diaspora through the Americas. Even the homegrown bookings have a cosmopolitan flair, such as the Farsi-language garage rock of Brooklyn’s Habibi.

Finalists: The ArtsCenter, Cat’s Cradle, Neptunes Parlour

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Best Trivia Night in Durham County Best Place to Shoot Pool in the Triangle

The Green Room 1108 Broad Street, Durham greenroomdurham.com

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INDY: What can you possibly write about The Green Room that hasn’t been written a million times before? It’s not a complicated place, and it never really changes. That’s the charm. Were it not for the excellent selection of craft bottles and the lack of cigarette smoke, entering this un-gussied-up pool hall would be like taking a time portal three decades into the past. (They shot a key Bull Durham scene there, you know.) There’s beer, there’s pool, there’s rock music, there’s usually a so-bad-it’s-good horror movie on the small TV; you play, you drink, you talk, you watch, you laugh.

Finalists: High House Billiards, Sharky’s Place, West End Billiards, Zog’s Pool

Tomato Jake's Pizzeria 8202 Renaissance Parkway, #101, Durham, tomatojakes.com

Finalists: Barley Labs, Bull City Ciderworks, Growler Grlz

Best Trivia Night in Orange / Chatham County

Linda's Bar & Grill

203 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill lindas-bar.com

Finalists: House of Hops,

King Street Bar, Vecino Brewing Co.

Best Trivia Night in Wake County

Ruckus Pizza, Pasta, and Spirits 2233 Avent Ferry Road, Raleigh ruckuspizza.com

Finalists: House of Hops; Krafty's Burgers and Brews; Ruckus Pizza, Pasta, and Spirits (Apex)

Best Theater to see an Indie Film in the Triangle

The Carolina Theatre 309 West Morgan Street, Durham carolinatheatre.org

INDY: You can frequent The Carolina Theatre without ever laying eyes on a movie, given the regular performing arts rotation rolling through Fletcher Hall, from stand-up comics to Moogfest. But you’d be missing out on a charming old-school arthouse experience paired with modern comforts and energy. The historic Beaux Arts theater screens new indie and international films in its two cinemas daily, and even if your tastes run more Avengers than the latest from Branagh, Assayas, or Jarmusch, there’s something for you in the robust rosters of retro film screenings, which have found new lifeblood in the age of digital cinema.

Finalists: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Raleigh, Chelsea Theater, The Rialto Theatre 48 | 6.12.19 | INDYweek.com | BEST OF THE TRIANGLE 2019

The Carolina Theatre PHOTO BY JEREMY M. LANGE

Thank you to all who voted for us! The Musicians Learning Center is Wake County’s largest private music lesson provider. Top 5 Reasons to Choose The Musicians Learning Center:

1) Music Lessons are # 1-At The Musicians Learning Center, providing you with a great music learning experience is our #1 priority.

2) The best teachers-We have the largest and most qualified teaching faculty in Raleigh. In addition to their teaching credentials, our teachers have warm personalities, and are dedicated to teaching you the style of music that you want to learn in your lesson. 3) Free, all-inclusive recitals-Your participation in recitals is optional. However, they are a great way for you to grow your talent. 4) Professional office staff to serve you- We strive to bring you the best customer service possible, 6 days a week. 5) Trophies, certificates and award wristbands to celebrate achievementWe are the only music school in Raleigh that gives their students the opportunity to earn special color wristband bracelets, trophies AND certificates. You can only get The Musical Ladder here. It’s easy to take the next step: Lessons are first come, first serve so contact us today to arrange your first lesson!

It’s easy to take the next step: Lessons are first come, first serve so contact us today to arrange your first lesson!

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Best CD / Record Store in the Triangle

Schoolkids Records Best Ad Agency in the Triangle

Aubrey's Marketing Services

facebook.com/AubreysMarketingServices

Finalists: Abundant Marketing, Gather

Group & Co., New Start Impressions

Best Architect / Architecture Studio in the Triangle

Sophie Piesse Architect, PA

302 West Weaver Street, Suite F, Carrboro, sophiepiesse.com

Finalists: The End Vision Visual Design Group, Jim Spencer Architects, PA, Linton Architects

Best Art / Craft Supply Store in the Triangle

The Scrap Exchange 2050 Chapel Hill Road, Durham scrapexchange.org

Finalists: Freeman’s Creative, Hillsborough Yarn Shop, Jerry’s Artarama of Raleigh

Best Attorney in the Triangle

Arnette Law Offices, PLLC

Chapel Hill Tire

203 West Main Street, Carrboro chapelhilltire.com

Finalists: Auto Logic, Chapel Hill

Tire (formerly Auto Pro to Call), Sturdivant’s Tire Pros & Auto

Best Auto Repair in Wake County

Fuquay Tire & Automotive Center

108 East Academy Street, FuquayVarina, fuquaytireandauto.com

Finalists: A & J Automotive Inc., Chapel Hill Tire (formerly Atlantic Avenue Tire & Service), Johnson Auto Body Inc.

Best Bed & Breakfast in the Triangle

The Carolina Inn

211 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill carolinainn.com

Finalists: Arrowhead Inn Bed and Breakfast, Guest House Raleigh, The King’s Daughters Inn

Best Bike Shop in Durham County

Durham Cycles

arnette-law.com

Finalists: Ben Hiltzheimer,

Chris Mann, Miller Law Group

756 Ninth Street, Durham durhamcycles.com

Finalists: Bicycle Chain (Durham),

Bullseye Bicycle, Seven Stars Cycles

Best Auto Repair in Durham County

Wasp Automotive 4906 Meadow Drive, Durham waspauto.com

Finalists: Ingold Tire & Auto Service Center, Massey Brothers Automotive, Northgate Auto Service Li-Ming’s Global Mart

Best Auto Repair in Orange / Chatham County

PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA

Best Bike Shop in Orange / Chatham County

Back Alley Bikes 100 Boyd Street, Carrboro backalleybikes.net

Finalists: The Clean Machine, ReCYCLEry NC

2237 Avent Ferry Road, Raleigh schoolkidsrecords.com

Best Bike Shop in Wake County

Finalists: Chaz’s Bull City Records, Hunky Dory, Nice Price Books & Records

Oak City Cycling Project

Best Children's Clothing Shop in the Triangle

212 East Franklin Street, Raleigh oakcitycycling.com

Beanstalk—Because They Grow So Fast

Finalists: Bicycle Chain (Raleigh), Cycle Logic, TLC for Bikes

3400 Westgate Drive, #13A, Durham beanstalkrdu.com

Best Bookstore in the Triangle

Quail Ridge Books

4209 Lassiter Mill Road, #100, Raleigh quailridgebooks.com INDY: In October, this quirky, inviting book store will celebrate thirty-five years, and it’s still going strong. On its shelves, style meets substance: Customers can browse the extensive Southern fiction and nonfiction collections and crack open a new release under the elegant chandeliers while kids cozy up with a picture book beneath the leaves of an indoor tree surrounded by fuzzy cloud lights. The shop also regularly hosts local and national writers, including, recently, the poet Ocean Vuong and the Pulitzerprize winning historian Rick Atkinson.

Finalists: Dog-Eared Books,

Flyleaf Books, The Regulator Bookshop

Best Butcher Shop in the Triangle

Finalists: Glee Kids, Little Details, Tiny

Best Comic Book Store in the Triangle

Ultimate Comics Durham/Chapel Hill 6120 Farrington Road, Chapel Hill ultimatecomics.com

INDY: Thief smash puny display cases! That’s what happened a year ago at all three of Ultimate Comics’ locations, in Raleigh, Cary, and Durham. It’s the favored shop of criminals because of its curated selection of rare comics and pricey toys, but it’s the favored shop of respectable citizens because of its welcoming staff and vibrant culture (it also puts on NC Comicon twice a year, in Raleigh and Durham). Atomic Empire is the joint for games, but when it comes to comics collecting and culture, make ours Ultimate.

The Butcher's Market

Finalists: Atomic Empire, Capitol

Finalists: Cliff’s Meat Market,

Best Consignment Shop in Durham County

5045 Falls of Neuse Road, Raleigh thebutchersmarkets.com

Kings Red & White, Left Bank Butchery

Best Caterer in the Triangle

Catering Works Inc.

Comics II, Fight or Flight Comics

Pennies for Change Thrift Boutique

2319 Laurelbrook Street, Raleigh cateringworks.com

2715 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, facebook.com/ PenniesforChangeThriftStore

Finalists: Neomonde Mediterranean, Old North State Catering, Rocky Top Catering

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Best Consignment Shop in Orange / Chatham County

Clothes Mentor (Chapel Hill)

241 South Elliott Road, Chapel Hill clothesmentor.com/chapel-hill

Finalists: My Secret Closet, Rumors

Best Consignment Shop in Wake County

Finalist

Fallon’s

Best Dance Studio in the Triangle

CC & Co. Dance Complex Dance Theatre School, Renner Dance

Finalists: Petersons’ Consigning Design, Raleigh Furniture Gallery, Revolver Consignment Boutique

902 Broad Street, Durham nidocoworking.org

Actual Size Builders Inc.

new.actualsizebuilders.com

Finalists: Children’s Campus at

Southpoint, Harvest Learning Center

Best Early Childhood Learning Facility in Orange / Chatham County

Learning Outside

2912 Jones Ferry Road, Suite B, Chapel Hill, learningoutside.org

Best Contractor in Orange / Chatham County

Finalists: Casa Club Spanish Immersion Preschool, Children’s Campus of Chapel Hill, Emerson Waldorf School, The Goddard School of Chapel Hill

Actual Size Builders Inc.

new.actualsizebuilders.com

Finalists: Grey Star Woodworks

& Design LLC, Little Corner Construction, Will Johnson Building Company

Best Contractor in Wake County

Big Monkey Renovation & Repair bigmonkeyreno.com

Finalists: Tri City Maintenance, Razon Contracting, Little Corner Construction

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Finalists: CQC Durham,

Grey Star Woodworks & Design LLC, Little Corner Construction

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Finalists: Arts Together Inc., Barriskill

Fifi's of Cameron Village

Best Contractor in Durham County

TROS and

8863 Six Forks Road, Raleigh cccodance.com

Best Early Childhood Learning Facility in Durham County

2028 Cameron Street, Raleigh fifisfineresale.com

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Best Early Childhood Learning Facility in Wake County

Knightdale Station Preschool 710 Lightrail Drive, Knightdale knightdalestationpreschool.com

Finalists: Arts Together Inc., Little by Little, Temple Beth Or Preschool

Best Electrician in the Triangle

Bonneville Electric

210 Maple Avenue, Suite B, Carrboro bonneville-electric.com

Finalists: Braco Electric Company,

Electric Jake, Michael & Son Services

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The Scrap Exchange PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA

Best Environmentally Friendly Business in the Triangle

The Scrap Exchange 2050 Chapel Hill Road, Durham scrapexchange.org

Finalists: CompostNow, TROSA

Thrift Store and Donation Center, Ungraded Produce

Best Erotic Gifts in the Triangle

Cherry Pie

1819 Fordham Boulevard, Chapel Hill cherrypieonline.com INDY: This ain’t Walmart for vibrators. Cherry Pie is a locally owned love shack for all of your bedroom needs. You’ll find a wide array of lingerie, lube, toys, and novelty items, and no kink-shaming. Into BDSM? Get your freak on. Looking for some adult entertainment? Porn galore. And it’s also accessible to adult store virgins. As a sales associate describes it: “We’re pretty entry-level.”

Finalists: Adam & Eve,

Frisky Business Boutique

Best Ethnic Market in the Triangle

Li Ming's Global Market

3400 Westgate Drive, Durham

Finalists: CapriFlavors, H Mart Cary, Mediterranean Deli, Neomonde Mediterranean

Best Event Planner in the Triangle

The Details Events thedetailsevents.com

Finalists: Cherished Occasions

Production, Magnolia and Grace Events, MyssJanuary Events

Best Fabric Store in the Triangle

Cary Quilting Company 935 North Harrison Avenue, Cary caryquilting.com

Finalists: Freeman’s Creative, Mill Outlet Village, Mulberry Silks & Fine Fabrics

Best Florist in the Triangle

Pine State Flowers

Best Gift Shop in Durham County

2001 Chapel Hill Road, Durham pinestateflowers.com

Morgan Imports

Finalists: The English Garden,

Fallon’s Flowers, Ninth Street Flowers

Best Furniture Store in the Triangle

TROSA Thrift Store and Donation Center 3500 North Roxboro Street, Durham trosathriftstore.org

INDY: TROSA is like the Six Flags of thrift stories—it’s cavernous and brimming with things, and after spending more than five minutes inside, you’re likely to lose some sense of time and space. The inventory is exhaustive. Need an assortment of vases? Check. Need electronics or a weirdly sized table for that one weirdly-sized spot in the living room? Check. Need a reasonably priced sectional couch? Check (and they’ll

deliver it, too). It’s sort of staggering how one store can check so many boxes and fill so many nooks and crannies in your house, but TROSA—which is staffed by folks in TROSA’s nonprofit rehabilitative program—takes the cake.

Finalists: Discount Furniture of the

Carolinas, Petersons’ Consigning Design, Raleigh Furniture Gallery

Best Garden Store in the Triangle

113 South Gregson Street, Durham morganimports.com Parker and Otis, Vaguely Reminiscent

James of All Trades, Razon Contracting, Shayne Kilpatrick

Finalists: Hillsborough Gallery of Arts,

Best Hardware Store in the Triangle

SallyMack, This & That Gift Gallery

Finalists: The Green Monkey, NOFO @ the Pig, Petersons’ Consigning Design

Deco Raleigh

207 South Salisbury Street, Raleigh decoraleigh.com

Cary,

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Best place for erotic gifts

Finalists: Big Monkey Renovation,

360 East Main Street, Carrboro womancraftgifts.squarespace.com

Finalists: Durham Garden Center,

2009-2018 Winner!

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Womancraft Gifts

Best Gift Shop in Wake County

Homewood Nursery & Garden Center, Stone Brothers & Byrd

Grey Star Woodworks & Design LLC

Best Gift Shop in Orange / Chatham County

Logan's One Stop Garden Shop 707 Semart Drive, Raleigh logantrd.com

Best Handyman/woman in the Triangle

Finalists: One World Market,

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309 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro facebook.com/fitchlumber

Finalists: Burke Brothers Hardware, Seaboard ACE Hardware, Triangle Ace Hardware

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Best HVAC Company in the Triangle

Newcomb and Company Best Hotel in the Triangle

The Umstead Hotel and Spa

100 Woodland Pond Drive, Cary theumstead.com

Finalists: 21c Museum Hotel Durham, The Durham Hotel, The Franklin Hotel Chapel Hill, Unscripted Durham

Finalists: 6 & Fix Heating & Cooling, Boer Brothers Heating & Cooling, Michael & Son Services

1631 Midtown Place, #103, Raleigh

Best Insurance Agent in the Triangle

Finalists: Carpe Diem Cleaning, Enovana Green Cleaning, Tangerine Clean

Knightdale Station Preschool is committed to guiding young children through their most critical developmental years. Our program focuses on social, cognitive, emotional, language, physical and educational development so the children understand and are ready for the world around them We provide care for children ages 6 weeks through 5 years Our goal is to promote the social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development of each child in an enriched environment.

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INDY: Nothing feels better than a cool breeze blowing through your vents on a ninety-degree day—and nothing feels worse than when it’s replaced by stagnant, hot, stale air. Locals say the responsive pros at Newcomb and Company can solve HVAC problems faster than you can dab the sweat from the brow.

Best House Cleaners in Durham County

Best Clean Ever

Start your child on the right track.

3000 Comfort Court, Raleigh newcombandcompany.com

Best House Cleaners in Orange / Chatham County

Amanda Hagood, State Farm myagentamanda.com

Carpe Diem Cleaning

Finalists: Blake Edwards, Christine Walorz, Christopher Domingo

Finalists: Lucie’s Home Services,

Best Jewelry Store in Durham County

carpediemcleaning.com

Southern Hospitality Cleaning & Concierge, Tangerine Clean

Best House Cleaners in Wake County

West Domestic

305 South Salem Street, Apex westdomestic.com

Finalists: Enovana Green Cleaning,

Go-2-Girls, Raleigh Cleaning Company

Jewelsmith Inc.

2200 West Main Street, Suite A, Durham, jewelsmith.com

Finalists: Atelier N Fine Jewelry, Hamilton Hill Jewelry, John David Jewelers

Best Jewelry Store in Orange / Chatham County

Best House Painter in the Triangle

William Travis Jewelry

zarazuapainting.com

Finalists: Creative Metalsmiths,

Zarazua Painting Finalists: Anderson Painting, Bryant

Froeschle, Jason Johns Specialty Paint

201 South Estes Drive, #400D, Chapel Hill, williamtravisjewelry.com Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Melissa Designer Jewelry, Womancraft Gifts

Best Jewelry Store in Wake County

Bailey's Fine Jewelry 415 Daniels Street, Raleigh baileybox.com

Finalists: HTY Jewelry, Katie Callahan & Co., Petersons’ Consigning Design

Best Landscape Company in the Triangle

TROSA Lawn Care 1100 Neville Street, Durham trosalawncare.com

Finalists: Bountiful Backyards, Central Carolina Lawn and Landscape, KP’s Lawncare and Landscaping

Best Local Brand in the Triangle

House of Swank Clothing

119 East Hargett Street, Raleigh houseofswankclothing.com

Finalists: Humility Clothing,

Munjo Munjo, RUNAWAY (closed)

Best Moving Company in the Triangle

TROSA Moving

700 Mallard Avenue, Durham trosamoving.com

Finalists: All American Relocation, Crabtree Family Moving, Two Men and a Truck

Best Music Lessons in the Triangle

High Strung School of Music

1805 West Markham Avenue, Durham highstrungdurham.com/school

Finalists: The Musicians Learning Center; Katherine Posner, Vocal Studio; Matt Stutzman, American Home Studio

Best New Business in Durham County

Boxcar Bar & Arcade 621 Foster Street, Durham theboxcarbar.com/durham

Finalists: Barley Labs, Emerald Medicine Company, Gibson Girl Vintage

Best New Business in Orange / Chatham County

Cat Tales Cat Café

431 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill cattalescatcafe.com INDY: Whether you want to get your cat yoga on or you just want to drink a craft beer and pet a cat, Cat Tales Cat Cafe is your one-stop shop for all your favorite feline fixes—including adoption. In partnership with the Goathouse Refuge in Pittsboro, Cat Tales gets its wellsocialized and housebroken kitties from the good folks who foster from the Goathouse. On Franklin Street in downtown Chapel Hill, Cat Tales’ two-story glass-walled building is pure paradise for the twelve cuddly creatures who dwell there at a time, awaiting your pets—and maybe even a new place to call home. No purrrressure, of course

WHERE A DOG CAN BE A DOG.

Finalists: House of Hops, Samantha’s

Free Day Camp with Boarding Stays

Large Indoor & Outdoor Play Yards

Best New Business in Wake County

All Day Play Snooze The Night Away®

Live Web Cams Open 6:30am to 7:30pm

Pupusas, Ungraded Produce

Black Dog Bottle Shop 140 West Holly Springs Road, Holly Springs, blackdogbottleshop.com

Finalists: Just 4 Dogs Mobile Dog Treats, Pine State Coffee, Trellis Beauty

Camp Bow Wow North Durham 4310 Bennett Memorial Road | Durham, NC 27705 919-309-4959 ®

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Best Nonprofit in Durham County

TROSA

1820 James Street, Durham trosainc.org

Finalists: Animal Protection Society of Durham, Beyond Fences, Hope Animal Rescue

Best Nonprofit in Orange / Chatham County

Orange County Rape Crisis Center 1506 East Franklin Street, #200, Chapel Hill, ocrcc.org

Finalists: Carolina Tiger Rescue, ISLA, TABLE

Best Nonprofit in Wake County

Cause for Paws cfp-nc.org

INDY: This nonprofit takes a multifaceted approach to rescuing abandoned and unwanted pets from euthanasia, from raising money through thrift stores and pet supply drives to fostering homeless pups. If you’re looking to add a furry friend to the family, you’ll have your pick of the litter. Sign up for CFP’s newsletter, Wet Nose News, for updates on local events and the cutest new rescues.

Finalists: Healing Transitions,

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NOW THAT DUKE'S CAMPUS CAN MEET ITS NEEDS, ADF IS PULLING BACK FROM DPAC AND DOWNTOWN BY BYRON WOODS

e noticed something a little alarming about the American Dance Festival’s 2019 season. A decade ago, the festival greeted DPAC’s opening as a long-overdue answer to one of its biggest problems: Where to put productions by top-ranking companies that were too large to fit in Duke’s Page Auditorium or Reynolds Industries Theater? Since then, ADF has routinely booked its biggest acts, including Pilobolus and Paul Taylor Dance Company, in the 2,100-plus-seat downtown behemoth. Mark Morris Dance Group: Pepperland PHOTO BY MAT HAYWARD But this year, the festival has dialed back DPAC to a single show. Moreover, But with the opening of the one-hundredthis seemed to be part of a larger contraction. fifty-seat von der Heyden Studio Theater in In recent years, ADF had scattered main-stage the Rubenstein Arts Center and lengthy renproductions in nontraditional spaces across ovations finally completed at Page Auditothe Triangle, including bars, hotel lobbies, and rium—the festival’s original anchor venue, farmers markets. This year, only two main- starting with its first North Carolina seastage shows are taking place off-campus: son in 1978—access to intimate, professionMark Morris Dance Group at DPAC and Ren- al-grade small and medium-sized spaces at nie Harris at The Carolina Theatre. Duke is secured. But according to ADF executive director “We love DPAC, and we want to keep using Jodee Nimerichter, this contraction is a it for the pieces that demand it,” Nimerichter feature, not a bug. says. But she’s also eager to be shed of the Ten years of shows at DPAC were enough to venue’s downsides. High production costs determine that, when it comes to modern and have forced ADF to cut the length of company contemporary dance, one size does not fit all, residencies in the past, and patrons and as the INDY has also sometimes noted in its performers both have been affected when festival reviews. Though Kidd Pivot’s Betrof- crowds that would pack any other venue fenheit and Shen Wei’s Neither filled every have looked like lackluster audiences in the inch of the DPAC stage, small-ensemble and DPAC’s supersize room. solo pieces often seemed dwarfed. “It’s a Broadway roadhouse; it wasn’t meant And as the dance world itself has trend- to specifically be for modern dance. If you ed—for economic reasons as well as aesthetic picked up that theater and put it in New York ones—toward smaller works by smaller com- City, it would still be incredibly difficult for panies, ADF had to scramble to find the right any dance company to fill it,” Nimerichter says. fit for intimate works. Given the lack of small- “I’m thrilled that audiences will get to feel the size performance venues in the region, the intimacy with the artists that in many ways festival went everywhere from Motorco to the has been lost [at DPAC]." Cameron Village Library for staging space. arts@indyweek.com 22 | 6.12.19 | INDYweek.com

BYRON WOODS’S TOP FIVE 2019 ADF SHOWS Mark Morris Dance Group: Pepperland (DPAC, Jun. 19 & 20) “If you’re here for a Beatles singalong, that’s not going to happen,” choreographer Mark Morris warns audiences before his hour-long dance suite, which parlays Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band into a think piece on 1960s culture. Composer Ethan Iverson (formerly of The Bad Plus) has a live orchestra to intersperse elliptical original music into moody takes on five songs from the 1967 Beatles classic (plus “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever,” the two that EMI left out). Morris contrasts wit and poppy optimism with the period’s darker notes. Dorrance Dance: SOUNDspace (Reynolds Industries Theater, Jun. 21–23) Keep your eyes on the feet. In parts of local hero, tap choreographer, and MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipient Michelle Dorrance’s SOUNDspace, that’ll be easy: with Kathy Kaufmann’s lighting design, feet are the only thing that are lit. As the work builds, The New York Times notes, “you hear metric units within metric units, and then, dizzyingly, yet faster units within those smaller ones … This isn’t tap to music, this is tap as music, without accompaniment. It trains your ear and then bewilders it.” Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (Reynolds Industries Theater, Jul. 2 & 3) Revered dance maker Donald McKayle addressed the challenges of immigrants the world over in Uprooted: Pero Replantado (Uprooted: But Replanted), and Katherine Dunham scandalized audiences with her 1938 Barrelhouse Blues. Both works appear on Cleo Parker Robinson’s program. But we especially want to see the world premiere of a piece by Micaela Taylor, the meteoric Los Angeles-based choreographer-of-the-moment who fuses Gaga, hip-hop, and contemporary classical technique to music by the Bee Gees, Max Richter, and Wild Cherry. Its title? Resist. Rennie Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater: Rennie Harris Funkedified (The Carolina Theatre, Jul. 10 & 11) It’s been a minute since Harris, “the grandmaster of transforming street dance for the stage” (Dance Magazine), put Rome and Jewels, his hip-hop take on Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, on the ADF stage. His company returns with a multimedia, evening-length autobiographical disquisition on funk, joined by the Philadelphia-based quartet The Hood Lockers and New York funk band, Invincible. Malpaso Dance Company (Page Auditorium, Jul. 12 & 13) This quickly-rising Cuban dance troupe is known for the company it keeps; the program of its ADF debut includes works by Batsheva’s gaga dance genius Ohad Naharin, whose Tabula Rasa bristles with conflict, and Canadian choreographer Aszure Barton, whose pensive Indomitable Waltz is “an approach to the soul under extreme and intense emotional circumstances,” according to cofounder Fernando Sáez Carvajal.

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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM OUR ARTS-CRIT EXPERIMENT BY BRIAN HOWE AND ALEXANDRA RIPP

he weekend before last, Carolina Performing Arts’ new festival, The Commons, debuted at CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio. Envisioned and spearheaded by CPA postdoctoral fellow Alexandra Ripp, the festival offered three weeks of free studio space, technical equipment and staff, marketing, and photo and video documentation to three local performing artists or groups, who then showed their inprocess works in the festival. One of several ways in which the festival was untraditional was that critical coverage, instead of being simply hoped for, was baked in. In addition to funding the artists, CPA also funded two writers per artist group, one who was embedded throughout the process and one who only engaged with the final showing. The premise was that critical documentation is at once changing in form, diminishing in frequency, and urgently needed. And it’s not just documentation of performances that is needed, but also of the work and conversation that surrounds and sustains them. The Commons Crit, a collaboration between Ripp and INDY arts and culture editor Brian Howe, grew out of conversations about these issues and attempted to address them. The festival was a rich experience, from Megan Yankee’s participatory dance theater piece on Mestizx identity and border policy and Justin Tornow’s audience-improvised happening to a ritual reconstruction of masculinity by Eb. Brown, Daniel Coleman, and Joie Lou Shakur. But we were just as inspired by the conversations among artists, presenters, and attendees that rolled on through the afterparties at Bowbarr and took shape more formally on June 1 in a roundtable discussion about criticism with area arts professionals. Through these conversations, we learned both how we might cultivate a healthy artscrit symbiosis in the new media landscape and how much we still have to figure out. With oodles of documentation of the performances already posted in The Commons Crit section of the INDY’s website, we want to also document this conversation, 24 | 6.12.19 | INDYweek.com

offering some preliminary answers to the questions we raised in the project’s introduction, now that the results of our critical experiment are in. The Commons Crit was designed to test several hypotheses, which we raised again at the start of the roundtable: that criticism should not always be beholden to a coverage model; that critics should have the space and freedom to experiment; that critics and artists are allies, not adversaries; that artistic process deserves as much attention as the final product; and that artists have legitimate ideas about who can authentically represent the cultural perspective of their work. This seed was planted two years ago, when Ripp, trained as a critic and dramaturg, moved to the area and observed that, after the dailies made significant cuts to arts criticism, the INDY was almost the only place to find it. This created a need for wide coverage, both pre- and post-show, that is both urgent and virtually impossible for one paper to fulfill alone. The INDY is intent on remaining a leading voice in local criticism, but we need more critics generating more work than one outlet alone can support. Reviews are not lucrative, and given the current market landscape, it seems unlikely that additional critical voices will emerge from a standard business model. But if traditional outlets operate within certain practical and financial limits, there is another cultural site that has a vested interest in a healthy critical climate and fewer constraints of resources and readership: the academy. Arts organizations and universities could invest in fostering criticism, whether by training students in it, producing it themselves, or working with outlets like the INDY. If The Commons Crit, a collaboration between a university arts presenter and an independent newspaper, taught us one crucial thing, it’s that this model is not only possible, it is fertile, and remains full of unexplored possibilities. And while universities might shy away from training critics as a professional “dead-end,” criticism develops

Dice from Justin Tornow's happening in The Commons PHOTO BY ERIN BELL/BULL CITY PHOTOGRAPHY the capacities that a liberal arts education purports to teach: analysis, interpretation, composition, and even empathy. We also learned about the valuable range of expressive possibilities that lie beyond and complement a standard coverage model. We encouraged the writers to take risks in form and to foreground their subjective experiences. (It’s worth mentioning that the writers were also following the lead of the Commons artists, all of whom created radically participatory pieces that would have been ill-suited to standard reviews.) Don Holmes, an African-American literature scholar and first-time performance writer, documented Eb. Brown and company’s work from an inextricably involved perspective. Victoria Bouloubasis, the INDY’s former food editor, and Michaela Dwyer, a current dance critic at the paper, experimented with fragmented, poetic forms dictated by personal experiences and intuitions, framed by Chris Vitiello and Stephanie Elizondo Griest’s more comprehensive vantages on the same works. In the contrasts between the perspectives of embedded and final writers, between critics and scholars, and between broad and acute takes, we discovered unique insights that couldn’t have been found in univocal sources. Nor could they have been found in dispassionate ones, which the critic on a general assignment and a tight deadline can sometimes be. In journalism, it’s a no-no to let an artist pick their reviewer, but in

The Commons, to a large extent, we did. At least, we consulted the writers about what sort of person would be an apt conduit for their cultural perspective. For example, Victoria and Stephanie—accomplished writers, but not performance critics— were selected for their fluency in Spanish and border issues, while Chris and Michaela built upon longstanding relationships with Justin. For Eb. Brown, a male African-American embedded writer was essential, but it would take the perspective of a female African-American writer (Danielle Purifoy) to round out the performance’s meaning. The principles of The Commons Crit are general, but there are also ways in which they are locally specific. The Triangle is a vibrant and growing yet still small and underfunded arts community, which makes it essential that artists and writers support one another, when so much largely uncompensated time and labor goes into the enterprise. Through The Commons, we glimpsed the outline of a new community of artists and writers, presenters and media, united in producing robust documentation and vetting one another’s perspectives and critiques. We glimpsed the possibility of decentralizing the expert, who remains necessary but could occupy a chorus of voices with equally invaluable perspectives. By weaning ourselves off the ingrained ideal of critical objectivity, we might discover a model more enriching to this community. bhowe@indyweek.com

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CALEXICO AND IRON & WINE

When Sam Beam began recording Iron & Wine’s first album, The Creek Drank the Cradle, he intended for Joey Burns and John Convertino to be his rhythm section. The entire record lacks drums, so it’s safe to say that didn’t work out. But in 2005, Beam enlisted their group, Calexico, to help expand seven of his unfinished songs. The resulting EP, In the Reins, projects the intimate vocals from Beam’s humble, lo-fi dwellings into a massive Southwestern soundscape. A handful of live shows followed, as did a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Dark Eyes,” but that was it for the collaboration, aside from an occasional song feature. Fourteen years later, the two groups have reunited for a full-length album aptly named Years to Burn. In support of the release, Calexico and Iron & Wine kick off their international tour at the Haw River Ballroom. With Daughter of Swords, the solo project of Mountain Man’s Alexandra Sauser-Monnig. —Sam Haw

SAVAGE WEEKEND IX

Savage Weekend doesn’t do media blitz. Hell, even if you happen to find the Facebook invite, the only information it gives is three dates and a long, long list of names that are virtually unknown to—well, to anyone who isn’t already up on Savage Weekend. It’s an “if you know, you know” kind of thing, which isn’t the only way Savage differs from most other music festivals in the area (all of them, until Wicked Witch’s All Data Lost came along). For two long days at Nightlight and one bleary afternoon down the street at All Day Records, dozens of acts from around the East Coast converge to play short, back-toback sets that hit every weirdo node from noise and electronic to experimental pop. (Think of it as an immersion course in the nebulous genre called Nightlight-core, which I just made up.) In its ninth year on its home turf, the area’s premier out-music festival features locals like saxophonist Crowmeat Bob and electronic art-poppers Tescon Pol alongside out-of-town noise legends like Miami’s Rat Bastard. Savage doesn’t do much media, but you’ll get blitzed all right. —Brian Howe NIGHTLIGHT, CHAPEL HILL Various times, $20, www.nightlightclub.com

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Dante High

FRIDAY, JUNE 14– SUNDAY, JUNE 16

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

HAW RIVER BALLROOM, SAXAPAHAW 8:00 p.m., $35, www.hawriverballroom.com

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK

6.12–6.19

SATURDAY, JUNE 15

DANTE HIGH

Dante High’s full-throttle romantic synthpop compels metaphor, not because it’s esoteric, but because it fits within a universe of suburbmeets-country-noir doldrums: papercut (or is it fistfight?) blood on fresh-cut grass, makeouts amid dead cicadas, class anxiety in the dull summer sun. Some ways I’ve described their eminently danceable and screamable music: like S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders meets Joy Division; what Riverdale’s score would sound like if its showrunners had sonic sense; the “goth” in Southern Gothic; stadium pop-rock for overgrown Piedmont high school arenas. Led by Lost in the Trees’ Ari Picker (and buoyed by a couple of former LITT members), Dante High plays this weekend in celebration of the vinyl release of last year’s tight eight-song self-titled album. Molly Sarlé, who costars in the band’s Orange County Social Club-set video for the plaintive “Melt Down,” opens. Her clear-eyed, full-hearted, deity-deconstructing “Human” is one of the most captivating singles out so far this year. —Michaela Dwyer CAT’S CRADLE, CHAPEL HILL 8 p.m., $10–$12, www.catscradle.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL IN DURHAM (P. 16–22), AMARILLO RAMP AT ATTIC 506 (P. 33), BRIGHT STAR AT TITMUS THEATRE (P. 35), IRÈNE MATHUIE AT SO & SO BOOKS (P. 34), KIKAGAKU MOYO AT KINGS (P. 28), LUKE & JO AT FULL FRAME THEATRE (P. 36)

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SU 16 NAILS W/ MISERY INDEX / DEVOURMENT / OUTER HEAVEN 6p

WE 19 THE RECORD COMPANY 7p FR 21 THE STRANGER – BILLY JOEL TRIBUTE FEATURING MIKE SANTORO 7p

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FR 28 LIQUID STRANGER 8p SA 29 “TRAP APOLLO”

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THE CLARKS

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SA 20 LONG BEACH DUB ALLSTARS

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RAMYA KAPADIA: VANDE MATARAM

Love of home and homeland has the capacity to evoke many of our greatest ideals for the common good, but it can also be manipulated to bring out the worst in human nature. With impressive economy—just two dancers on an otherwise empty stage, accompanied by words and music—nationally renowned dancer, choreographer, singer, and storyteller Ramya Kapadia has carefully crafted a cautionary fable for our time out of an unlikely source: Bharatanatyam, a thousand-year-old Indian dance form based on breathtaking precision in gesture, posture, and movement. One true measure of Vande Mataram’s success, though, is that you need no knowledge of Indian culture to fully dive into this contemporary myth, in which a difference between two people (Kapadia and dancer Seema Viswanath) escalates into something exponentially greater. Original music by Rajiv Sundaresan; text by Aditya Sharma. —Byron Woods WALLTOWN CHILDREN’S THEATRE, DURHAM 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., $7–$20, www.didaseason.com

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KIKAGAKU MOYO The phrase “Japanese psychedelic rock” normally conjures walls of sound: the thrashing dissonance of Boredoms, the lumbering grooves of Acid Mothers Temple, the complicated prog of Ruins, the hazy ruminations of Les Rallizes Dénudés. When they put their mind to it, Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo can and do turn up the distortion, surfing waves of decibels. The quintet feels much more comfortable, though, in the less-trodden pastoral side of psychedelia. Tellingly, they titled a track on their most recent album, Masana Temples, “Fluffy Kosmisch.” That spaciest of krautrock varieties seems a prime inspiration here, with lockstep grooves paired with looping guitar lines and a constant sense of moving forward while staying in one place. Flashes of Stereolab or Can appear almost everywhere. They’ve also been known to just lay down endless grooves or walls of sitars and see where the jam takes them. With Sarah Louise. —Dan Ruccia KINGS, RALEIGH | 9 p.m., $15-$17, www.kingsraleigh.com

Kikagaku Moyo

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RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: O.A.R.; 6:30 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Earth, Helms Alee; $15. 8 p.m.

SARAH P. DUKE GARDENS: H.C. McEntire; $10. 7 p.m.

LOCAL 506: Church of Misery, Toke, Crystal Spiders; $20. 8 p.m.

SLIM’S: All Hell, Ose, Everwraith; $5. 9 p.m.

MOTORCO: Remo Drive, Slow Pulp, Slow Bullet; $15-$18. 8 p.m. THE PINHOOK: NOTS, Oliva Neutron-John; $10. 9 p.m. POUR HOUSE: Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin Stones, C2 & The Brothers Reed; $8-$10. 9 p.m.

THU, JUN 13 BLUE NOTE GRILL: Tommy Tutone; $20-$25. 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Dylan LeBlanc, Erin Rae; $12$15. 8 p.m.

THE CAVE: Stray Fossa, In Sonitus Lux; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: Shallowford Presbyterian Church Youth Choir of Atlanta; free. 7 p.m. GIBSON GIRL VINTAGE: Taya Mishin Band; free. 6 p.m. KINGS: Thinkin Bout You: Frank Ocean Nite; $5. 9 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE: Tech N9ne, Dax, Mayday!, UBI; $32. 7:30 p.m. LOCAL 506: ZEALOTROUS, No Rope, Snake Shaming; $7. 9 p.m.

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FR 9/6 BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH ($15/$18)

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SU 9/15 BLEACHED ($15/$17)

SA 9/21 THE ROCKET SUMMER ($15/$17

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FR 6/14 STEEP CANYON RANGERS WITH CHATHAM RABBITS SA 6/22 TRAMPLED BY TURTLES WITH DEER TICK

TH 6/20 JOSH ROUSE ($20) FR 6/21 NIGHT MOVES W/ COMPUTER SCIENCE

SU 8/18 DEAD RIDER

MO 9/30 JONAH TOLCHIN

WE 9/18 TINARIWEN ($30/$33)

WE 6/26 KRISTIN HERSH ELECTRIC TRIO ($18/$20)

WE 10/2 B BOYS

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WE 7/24-SA 7/27 MERGE RECORDS 30 YEAR CELEBRATION TH 8/1 DONAVON FRANKENREITER ($20/$24) WE 8/7 MENZINGERS W/ THE SIDEKICKS, QUEEN OF JEANS TH 8/8 NEUROSIS W/ BELL WITCH AND DEAF KIDS SU 8/11 BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS ($15/17) MO 8/19 PEDRO THE LION / MEWITHOUTYOU ($25/$27) TU 8/20 BIRD AND THE BEE FR 8/23 BE LOUD '19: CHATHAM COUNTY LINE, THE OLD CEREMONY, TAN & SOBER GENTLEMEN SA 8/24 BE LOUD ‘19: THE JACKSON FOUR, GREG HUMPHREYS TRIO, THE CHORUS PROJECT

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WE 6/19 ABIGAIL DOWD / ISABEL TAYLOR (DUAL ALBUM RELEASE SHOW)

FR 8/16 SIDNEY GISH

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SU 7/21 THE GET UP KIDS W/ GREAT GRANDPA ($22/$26)

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TH 8/15 ILLITERATE LIGHT ($12/$14)

MO 9/16 CAT POWER WANDERER TOUR 2019” TH 9/19 SNOW THA PRODUCT

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MO 6/17 CULTURE ABUSE W/TONY MOLINA, DARE, FAKE EYES ($15/$18)

FR 7/12 THE LOVE LANGUAGE: CELEBRATING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR SELF TITLED DEBUT. FEATURING THE ORIGINAL LINEUP ($14/$16)

SA 9/21 WHITNEY W/ HAND HABITS

WE 10/16 WILCO LOCAL 506 (CHAPEL HILL)

SU 7/21 COVET W/ VASUDEVA AND HOLY FAWN

SU 9/15 PENNY & SPARROW W/ CAROLINE SPENCE

MO 7/15 ATERCIOPELADOS

SA 9/21 MANDOLIN ORANGE W/MOUNTAIN MAN

WE 7/31 GABBY’S WORLD AND BELLOWS W/ MUSEUM MOUTH, JENNY BESETZT

TU 7/9 YEASAYER W/ STEADY HOLIDAY ($27/$30)

TU 7/16 BILL CALLAHAN ($22/$25)

CULTURE ABUSE TH 11/14 ROBYN HITCHCOCK (SOLO)

SA 7/13 @NCMA

WE 6/12 EARTH W/HELMS ALEE ($15)

TU 6/18

MO 6/17 @CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM

WE 9/25 HOLLY BOWLING (ON SALE 6/14)

ANDREW BIRD

FR 6/14 @CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM

SA 6/22 @NCMA

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SA 6/22 MARK LEE (OF THIRD DAY)

TH 6/27 CAR CRASH STAR, WHENEVER ATOMIC BUZZ, SPORTSMANSHIP, ALLCAPS

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FR 7/19 SUMMER SALT W/ DANTE ELEPHANTE, MOTEL RADIO MO 7/29 WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS ‘THESE FOUR WALLS’ 10TH ANNIVERSARY W/ CATHOLIC ACTION ($16/$18)

MO 9/30 GENERATIONALS

TU 7/2 COURTNEY BARNETT

TH10/3 BLANCO WHITE

SA 7/13 ANDREW BIRD WITH SPECIAL GUEST TIFT MERRITT

SA 10/5 TYRONE WELLS W/ DAN RODRIGUEZ ($17/$20)

TU 7/23 BRUCE HORNSBY AND THE NOISEMAKERS/AMOS LEE

WE 10/9 ELDER ISLAND

SA 7/27 JOHN BUTLER TRIO+ W/ TREVOR HALL

TU 10/1 MT JOY

FR 6/28 COMMUNITY CHORUS PROJECT SUMMER SHOWCASE

SU 10/6 BUILT TO SPILL- KEEP IT LIKE A SECRET TOUR ($28/$32)

SA 6/29 TAN & SOBER GENTLEMEN, TUATHA DEA, VIRGINIA GROUND

MO 10/7 LUNA PERFORMING PENTHOUSE W/ OLDEN YOLK

SU6/30 DOCTOR SIG W/ NITE BEAST ($10)

WE 10/16 MELVINS AND REDD KROSS W/ SHITKID

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SU 7/7 WAND W/ DREAMDECAY ($13/$15)

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TU 7/9 "SONG TRAVELER’S WRITER’S NIGHT:” SUZIE VINNICK, WYATT EASTERLING, ROD ABERNETHY

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Priests performs at the Pinhook on Sunday, June 16 PHOTO COURTESY OF GROUND CONTROL TOURING

MOTORCO:

Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh [$20-$25 9 P.M.]

Baltimore-raised soul singer and hip-hop artist Maimouna Youssef (also known as Mumu Fresh) has been a dedicated artist ever since her early years attending D.C.’s famed Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Her social consciousness, along with a keen, retroinspired flair for sound, has garnered her an enviable set of collaborators including Common, Erykah Badu, and even the Congressional Black Caucus, with which Youssef has worked as an activistartist panelist. —Josephine McRobbie

FRI, JUN 14 ARCANA: Electric Velvet; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. THE ARTSCENTER: Songs from the Circle; 8 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL: Selwyn Birchwood; $15. 9 p.m. CARRBORO TOWN COMMONS: Cool John Ferguson, Pat Mother Blues Cohen, Cookie McGee; free. 6:30 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Eilen Jewell, Buckshot Betty; $16-$18. 8 p.m. THE CAVE: Pete Mancini & The Hillside Airmen, Krista Shows, Pastel Panties; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: Alanna Royale; free. 7 p.m. KINGS: Kikagaku Moyo, Sarah Louise; $15-$17. 9 p.m.

NEPTUNES PARLOUR: No One Mind, Space Cubs, Sunset Palette; $8. 10 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE: The Breakfast Club, 8 Track Minds; $10. 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: Smoke From All The Friction, Foxture, SE Ward; $5. 9 p.m.

LOCAL 506: Pretty Crimes Single Release with Roar the Engines, Magnet Grey; $8. 9 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD: KIFF, PROMO, Killing the Catalyst, Attracting the Fall; $8. 9 p.m. MOTORCO: The Crystal Method, Aviation Parkway; $20-$25. 9 p.m. NC MUSEUM OF ART:

Steep Canyon Rangers, Chatham Rabbits [$27-45/8 P.M.]

Asheville-based Steep Canyon Rangers have long been making masterful bluegrass on their own terms—winning a Grammy for 2012’s Nobody Knows You and topping the bluegrass charts with every album since—but have often ceded the spotlight to Steve Martin, while touring and recording with the comedian over the past decade. The sextet’s sharp songwriting and swift picking star at this NCMA outdoor concert, with Triangle outfit Chatham Rabbit opening the evening with homespun folk tunes. —Spencer Griffith

THE PINHOOK: Girl Werewolf, Severed Fingers, Slime, Spookstina; $8. 9 p.m. POUR HOUSE: The Shakedown, Biscuits and Groovy; $10-$12. 9 p.m. RHYTHMS LIVE: The Heaters; $8. 8 p.m. THE RITZ: Satisfaction; $7+. 7 p.m. SHARP NINE GALLERY: Sean Mason Trio; $20. 8 p.m. SLIM’S: Necro Sexual, Basilysk, Darth Kannabyss; $7. 9 p.m.

SAT, JUN 15 ARCANA: School’s Out Summer Pride Party; $7. 9 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL: Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos; $10-$15. 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Dante High, Molly Sarlé; $10-$12. 8 p.m. THE CAVE: The Zolephants, Woodsy Pride, Lazy Bones; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: Triangle Community Band Festival; free. 5:30 p.m. KINGS: &Dearfriends, Juxton Roy, Toothsome, Youth League; $10. 8:30 p.m. KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: NC Symphony: Classics Under the Stars; $30-$33. 7:30 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE: Nightrain, Thunderstruck, The Fifth; $10-$20. 8:30 p.m. THE MAYWOOD: Night Hag, Noctomb, Corona Mortis; $7. 9 p.m.

MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM: Remember When: 70’s Soul Tour; $43+. 7:30 p.m. MOTORCO: Summer Kickoff: Spade, Wg Shock, Zack Cokas, Donchulo, K. Mojica, Tanna Da Demon, Prince Poodie, Primox; $10-$15. 8 p.m. NIGHTLIGHT: Savage Weekend; $20.

KINGS: Spirit Adrift, High Command; $10-$12. 8 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE: NAILS, Misery Index, Outer Heaven, Ulthar; $17. 7 p.m. LOCAL 506: Shin Guard, For Your Health, Black Bouquet; $7. 8 p.m. NIGHTLIGHT: Savage Weekend; donations. THE PINHOOK:

Priests

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Maimouna Youssef performs at Motorco on Thursday, June 13

NIGHTLIGHT: Savage Weekend; $20.

result is jangly, rough-edged psych-rock, busy with jamband enthusiasm. You can hear their energy even on more subdued songs; if you go see them on Sunday night, expect to dance. —Elizabeth Szypulski

Beginning with their no-wave roots in D.C.’s punk scene, Priests have always been anchored by tight rhythms and the flashy, hot-blooded vocals of Katie Alice Greer. No stranger to radio-ready reverence (see: her cover album of the Dixie Chicks’ Fly), Greer belts out ten conceptual pop songs on new record, The Seduction of Kansas, an offering that exists in the same brainy art-rock sphere as U.S. Girls and St. Vincent. —Josephine McRobbie POUR HOUSE: Fort Defiance; $8-$10. 8 p.m. SOUTHERN VILLAGE GREEN: Jamie Anderson; 6 p.m.

MON, JUN 17 POUR HOUSE: Steff Mahan, Elliott Humphries; $10-$12. 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Culture Abuse, Tony Molina, Dare, Fake Eyes; $15-$18. 8 p.m. NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Resonancy: Leo Suarez, James Gilmore; $8. 8:30 p.m. THE CAVE: Dexter Romweber; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

TUE, JUN 18 ARCANA: Nancy Middleton & Lisa Rhodes; 7:30 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE: Sebadoh, Waveless; $18-$20. 8:30 p.m. HAW RIVER BALLROOM: Calexico, Iron & Wine; sold out. 8 p.m. PNC ARENA: Luis Miguel, 8:30 p.m. POUR HOUSE: Night Battles, Florida Man, Shadows; $8-$10. 9 p.m. SLIM’S: Earther, Sparrows, The Drowned God, Dot Wav; $5. 8 p.m.

WED, JUN 19

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM: Abigail Dowd & Isabel Taylor Dual Album Release; $7-$10. 8 p.m.

CAROLINA THEATRE:

Steve Earle & The Dukes [$35-55/8 P.M.]

Since the release of Copperhead Road more than thirty years ago, Steve Earle has been balancing gritty, twangy rock with the early influence of his fellow Texan singer-songwriters. Like his Townes Van Zandt covers album before, this year’s Guy found Earle embracing his troubadour side while paying respects to the legendary Guy Clark. Along with his backing band, The Dukes, he’ll pull heavily from Clark’s catalog for tonight’s set, along with plenty of his own first-rate originals. —Spencer Griffith THE KRAKEN: Grant Peeples, Jess Klein; 8:30 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE: The Record Company, Buffalo Gospel; $20. 8 p.m. LOCAL 506: The Spirit of the Beehive, Strange Ranger and Truth Club; $10. 9 p.m. THE PINHOOK: The Oblations, Dino Horns, Dreamroot; $8-$10. 8 p.m. POUR HOUSE: Witchtit, Book of Wyrms, Bedowyn; $5-$8. 9 p.m. SARAH P. DUKE GARDENS: Joan Shelley & Nathan Salsburg; $10. 7 p.m.

POUR HOUSE: Moon Hooch, Nathan-Paul & The Admirables; $15-$18. 9 p.m. PSI THEATRE: Karen Novy Album Release; $15-$25. 7 p.m. RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: Jon Bellion; $25+. 7 p.m.

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AMARILLO RAMP Amarillo Ramp was the last piece made by the earthworks artist Robert Smithson, who died in a plane crash in 1973 while conducting an aerial survey of the site. Smithson, perhaps best-known for his Spiral Jetty sculpture in Utah’s Great Salt Lake, created land works that meditate on our relationship with time, scale, and change. Amarillo Ramp, a 396-foot-long earthen jetty spiraling through the heart of the Texas panhandle, captured the imagination of North Carolina artists and filmmakers Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown, who made a film, which screens this week, that is named after the ramp. Today, the land itself has been semiabandoned and serves as a transcription of change (fracking and power lines, to name just the human interventions). Gruffatt and Brown shot their experimental film on Super-16mm, drawing close to what they saw as a challenge to encounter “the existential implications of climate change with novel ways of thinking and seeing.” —Sarah Edwards

ATTIC 506, CHAPEL HILL 6–9 p.m., free, www.facebook.com/Attic506

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OPENING Elise Alexander & Sharon Hardin: Jun 14-TBA. Reception: Jun 14, 6-8 p.m. Chapel Hill Town Hall, Chapel Hill. Way Out West: Celebrating the Gift of the Hugh A. McAllister Jr. Collection: Jun 14-Aug 25. Curator’s Keynote: Jun 14, 6 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org.

ONGOING 150 Faces of Durham: Photos. Thru Sep 3. Museum of Durham History, Durham. AfterSchool Arts Immersion Student Show: Thru Jun 30. Reception: Jun 14, 6-8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org. Ancestry of Necessity: Group show. Curator, April Childers. Thru Aug 24. Reed Bldg, Durham.

Paolo Arao, Sam King, Jason Osborne: Like Mercury in the Wind: Paintings. Thru Jul 20. Oneoneone, Chapel Hill. oneoneone.gallery. Britt Bates, Charles Marksberry, Seth Marksberry: Thru Jun 28. Gallery C, Raleigh. galleryc.net. Mike Benson: Thru Jun 30. Smelt Art Gallery, Pittsboro. Beyond Despair: An Environmental Call for Art: Work from 33 artists about, including, and referencing the environment. Thru Jun 22. National Humanities Center, Durham. vaeraleigh.org. Annie Blazejack & Geddes Levenson: Dark Ecology: Paintings, video, and sculpture. Thru Jun 23. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. thecarrack.org. Wim Botha: Stil Life with Discontent: Mixed media. Additional work on view at

21c Museum Hotel. Thru Aug 4. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Ellie Brenner: Backyard: Mixed media. Thru Jun 14. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. scrapexchange.org. Cary Gallery of Artists: Creative Diversity: Group show. Thru Jun 25. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org. Garry Childs, Jude Lobe, Pat Merriman: Be in Touch: Thru Jun 23. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. Allison Coleman, Gabriella Corter, Angela Lombard: Thru Jun 27. Artspace, Raleigh. Charles Eneld: Upcycled: Upcycled Haitian art. Thru Jun 29. Triangle Cultural Art Gallery, Raleigh. triangleculturalart.com.

Rachel Goodwin: Look Through This: Mixed media. Thru Jun 29. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com.

Stacey L. Kirby: The Department of Reflection: Multimedia. Thru Aug 4. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org.

Berkeley Grimball, Jim Lux, Jim Oleson, Mary Stone Lamb, Phillip Welch: Group show. Thru Aug 3. Reception: Jun 14, 6-8 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill.

Left-Handed Liberty: Outsider art. Thru Jun 23. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Susan Harbage Page: Borderlands: Documentary photos and found objects from the US-Mexico border. Thru Jul 28. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Christian Marclay: Surround Sounds: Synchronized silent video installation. Thru Sep 8. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

John Parkinson & Mary Kircher: Furniture and tapestries. Thru Jun 30. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. preservationchapelhill.org.

Kelly Sheppard Murray: Accumulated Color: Thru Jun 23. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh. vaeraleigh.org.

Pop América, 1965-1975: Latin American pop art. Thru Jul 21. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

New Faces of Tradition: Documenting North Carolina’s Young Artists: Documentary portraits. Thru Jun 30. Rubenstein Art Center Gallery 235, Durham. artscenter.duke.edu.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective: Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com.

Bryant Holsenbeck & Kathryn DeMarco: We the Animals: Sculpture and collage. Thru Jun 29. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com. INTERSECTIONS: Finding Common Ground: Group show. Thru Jun 30. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. John James Audubon: The Birds of America: Ornithological engravings. Thru Dec 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Jim Kellough: Vine Paintings: Thru Oct 10. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamarts.org.

Our House: Durham Arts Council student-instructor

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Darius Quarles: ARTsenal: Paintings. Thru Jul 1. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. pleiadesartdurham.com. [re]ACTION: Artistic renditions inspired by scientific images. Thru Jun 23. Golden Belt, Durham. V L Rees: I Love Paris: Paintings. Thru Jun 29. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com. reNautilus: Thru Jul 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com. Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris: Their World Is Not Our World: Video installation. Thru Jul 7. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Lien Truong: The Sky is Not Sacred: Multimedia. Thru Jun 22. Artspace, Raleigh.

Southern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off: Interactive sculptures. Thru Oct 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Truth + Tamales: Large-scale, collaborative, temporary public artwork. Thru Jun 28. Reception: Jun 14, 6-8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.

Kirsten Stoltmann: I am Sorry: Thru Jul 31. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org. Tilden Stone: Southern Surreal: Furniture. Thru Sep 8. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

UNREAL: Group show. Thru Jun 29. United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County, Raleigh. vaeraleigh.org.

William Paul Thomas: Disrupting Homogeny: Portraits. Thru Jul 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com.

Ely Urbanski: Layers: Monoprints. Thru Jul 6. Durham Arts Council, Durham.

Katie Shaw: Thru Jun 29. Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

Cheryl Thurber: Documenting Gravel Springs, Mississippi, in the 1970s: Photos. Thru Mar 2020. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill.

Christina Lorena Weisner: Explorations: Science sculptures. Thru Jul 28. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Smelt Art & Skittles Inaugural Exhibit: Sixteen local artists. Thru Jun 29. Smelt Art & Skittles, Pittsboro.

Triangle Visual Artists: On the Move: Group show. Thru Jun 17. University Place, Chapel Hill. trianglevisualartists.com.

Within the Frame: Photos. Thru Jul 7. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

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Philip Gerard: Civil War history The Last Battleground. Sat, Jun 15, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com. Michael Kinch: The End of the Beginning: Cancer, Immunity, and the Future of a Cure. Mon, Jun 17, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com. Frank Langfitt: The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China. Wed, Jun 12, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Joshua Nadel: Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America. Tue, Jun 18, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

The Future of Non-Motorized Transportation in Durham: Thu, Jun 13, 7 p.m. Southwest Regional Library, Durham. durhamcountylibrary.org.

Eryk Pruitt: Novel Down on the Street. Thu, Jun 13, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com.

Green Saves Green: The Latest on Home Energy and Water Savings: Sierra Club OrangeChatham Group. With Mark Marcoplos, Jamie Hager, Mary Tiger, and Tom Marsland. Refreshments. Wed, Jun 19, 6 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill.

Amber Smith & Mason Deaver: Novels Something Like Gravity and I Wish You All the Best. Wed, Jun 19, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

LECTURES ETC. History à la Carte: No Strangers: With Carol Thornell. Refreshments. Wed, Jun 12, noon. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Chris Laws: Confederate Monuments in North Carolina: Sun, Jun 16, 1:30 p.m. Extraordinary Ventures, Chapel Hill. ncethicalsociety.org.

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Frank Langfitt The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China 7pm HOW TO FIND AN AGENT: A workshop with Scott Reingten 12pm SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE! Jessica Handler, The Magnetic Girl 2pm Jessica Handler, WRITING HISTORY: YOURS AND OTHERS, A WORKSHOP 3:15pm. SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE! Cara Black, Murder in Bel-Air 2pm

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JUST ANNOUNCED: WELL-READ BLACK GIRL BOOK CLUB 7pm Meet and greet with the moderator on July 20. Check our website for more info! Kickoff meeting for A YEAR OF READING JAMES BALDWIN with N.C. Poet Laureate JAKI SHELTON GREEN 2pm Check our website for more info! Randall Munroe, How To: Abusrd Scientific Advice for Common Real World Problems 7pm AT NCSU’s HUNT LIBRARY, TICKET REQUIRED www.quailridgebooks.com • 919.828.1588 • North Hills 4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road, Raleigh, NC 27609 CHECK OUT OUR PODCAST: BOOKIN’ w/Jason Jefferies

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SATURDAY, JUNE 15

IRÈNE MATHIEU The tradition of physician-poets goes back all the way to John Keats and William Carlos Williams, and you can add the Virginia-based poet Irène Mathuie to that list. The pediatrician and public health researcher is the author of three collections of poetry and the recipient of three Pushcart nominations, among numerous other distinctions. Her most recent collection, this year’s Grand Marronage, explored the lives of Creole women of color in New Orleans and was a runner-up for the Cave Canem/Northwestern prize. Experience working with the body lends her writing a tender vocabulary; in “eleventh attempt at going home,” published in Scalawag, she asks, “what does it mean that I feel this craving under my diaphragm?” Her poems have been published in Narrative, American Poetry Review, and TriQuarterly, among other places; in this So & So event, she will read alongside Raleigh poet Jane Craven. —Sarah Edwards

SO & SO BOOKS, RALEIGH 6 p.m., free, www.soandsomag.org

stage OPENING Boat Jail: Comedy. $7. Wed, Jun 19, 8:30 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. kingsraleigh.com. Dan Cummins: Jun 13-15. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com. Groovy Hues: Variety show. Art, comedy, music, and more. Free. Fri, Jun 14, 4 p.m. The Outpost, Raleigh.

Gay Card: North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre. Play. Thru Jun 23. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. nract.org.

Of Good Stock: $19-$27. Thru Jun 23. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. theatreinthepark.com.

Junk: Thru Jun 16. Kennedy Theatre, Raleigh. theatreraleigh.com.

Pippin: Thru Jun 16. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. raleighlittletheatre.org.

NC’s Funniest Person: Comedy competition. $10. Jun 12, 18-19: 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Six Pack Standup Show: Wed, Jun 19, 7:45 p.m. North Street Beer Station, Raleigh. northstreetbeerstation.com.

ICONS: American Dance Festival. Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Paul Taylor. $12-$49. Jun 13-15. Duke’s Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham. americandancefestival.org.

THROUGH JUNE 23

BRIGHT STAR It was a stinging but well-founded criticism of Edie Brickell and Steve Martin’s popular 2015 Broadway musical, set in the Appalachians in the 1920s and ‘40s: the production was “filled with well-meaning white folk and nary a non-Caucasian,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. At TheatreFest, N.C. State’s summertime repertory series, director Rachel Klem has nimbly flipped the presumed racial stage equation before, in a remarkable African-American 2014 stage adaptation of Clyde Edgerton’s novel, Walking Across Egypt. Noted actor Tina Morris-Anderson anchors this production as Alice Murphy, a hard-nosed Asheville literary editor, while newcomer Benaiah Barnes portrays young writer Billy Cane, just back from the war to end all wars with a story that will ultimately change both of their lives. This intrepid production promises to show another aspect of a story we thought we already knew. Diane Petteway and Ron Foreman share musical direction. —Byron Woods

NCSU’S TITMUS THEATRE, RALEIGH Thu.–Sat. 7:30 p.m. /Sun. 2 p.m., $8–$30, www.theatre.arts.ncsu.edu

Mark Morris Dance Group: American Dance Festival. $12-$74. Wed, Jun 19, 7 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. americandancefestival.org. Miss North Carolina 2019: Jun 19-22. Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. The Monti: Sh*t Hits the Fan: Storytelling. $22. Sat, Jun 15, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. The Roast of Thanos: Attention Horse Comedy. Thu, Jun 13, 8 p.m. The People’s Improv Theater, Chapel Hill. thepit-chapelhill.com. TheatreFESTival: University Theatre. Interactive open house. $12. Sat, Jun 15, 1 p.m. NCSU’s Thompson Hall, Raleigh. theatre.arts.ncsu.edu. True West: Play. $10. Jun 13-15. 8 p.m. The PIT Chapel Hill, Durham. thepit-chapelhill.com.

ONGOING Agatha Christie’s Go Back For Murder: University Theatre. Play. $15-$26. Jun 14-15: 7:30 p.m. Jun 16: 2 p.m. NCSU’s KennedyMcIlwee Studio Theatre, Raleigh. theatre.arts.ncsu.edu. Caroline or Change: Thru Jun 23. Umstead Park United Church of Christ, Raleigh. thejusticetheaterproject.org. Comedy in a Cave: With host Michelle Maclay. Wed, Jun 19, 7 p.m. The Cave Tavern, Chapel Hill. caverntavern.com.

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SPECIAL SHOWINGS The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Tue, Jun 18, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. BEYOND: Curated film festival, screenwriting workshops, and more. Jun 19-23. 10 a.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com. Captain Marvel: Free. Wed, Jun 19, activities at 7:15 p.m., film at 8:30 p.m. Downtown Cary Performance Green Cary Citizen Lane: Q&A with historian Morna O’Neill to follow. Mon, Jun 17, 6:30 p.m. Full Frame Theater, Durham. nationalhumanitiescenter.org. CORE.SOUNDERS: Documentary. Free. Thu, Jun 13, 5:30 p.m. UNC’s FedEx Global Education Center, Chapel Hill. global.unc.edu. The Dead Don’t Die: $10. Thu, Jun 13, 7:10 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. Desperate Living: Wed, Jun 12, 10 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. Galaxy Quest: Wed, Jun 19, 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. Gold Diggers of 1933: $7. Wed, Jun 19, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. 36 | 6.12.19 | INDYweek.com

I Drink Your Blood: Cinema Overdrive series. $7. Wed, Jun 12, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. Ready Jet Go!: One Small Step: Sat, Jun 15, 11 a.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. Stagecoach: Sun, Jun 16, 11 a.m. and 1:50 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. Trading Places & The Blues Brothers: $10. Fri, Jun 14, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org. Under the Silver Lake: Mon, Jun 17, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

OPENING Late Night—Emma Thompson plays a late-night host whose ratings are in the red. Enter her scrappy new hire, played by Mindy Kaling. Rated R. Shaft—Samuel L. Jackson gets another go-around as the legendary FBI agent (and son of one legendary Shaft, and father of another). Rated R. Men in Black: International— There’s a mole in the MIB organization. Who is it? Rated PG-13. The Dead Don’t Die—A dream cast is found in this zombie comedy, starring Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, and Adam Driver (to name just a few). Rated R.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com.  Captain Marvel—Brie Larson is an intergalactic fighter questioning who she is. Rated PG-13. ½ John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum— A bloody, Buster Keaton-esque ballet meets Sam Peckinpah. Rated R. ½ Long Shot—The sex jokes and political satire both sag in this Seth Rogen-Charlize Theron rom-com. Rated R.  Tolkien—All the dots between The Lord of the Rings and the author’s life are connected in a strangely dispiriting biopic. Rated PG-13. ½ Non-Fiction—This French sex comedy by director Olivier Assayas explores the narcissistic anxieties of literati; those anxieties, however, fall flat. NR.

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

LUKE & JO

The low-budget feature Luke & Jo has Durham native Andie Morgenlander all over it— not only does she play title character “Jo,” but she also co-wrote and costume-designed the film, which was shot in Asheville. In the tradition of Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy, the film follows the story of two unlikely people crossing paths; in this case, Luke (Erik Odom), a screenwriter who Morgenlander’s Jo, a musician, runs (literally) into on the Asheville roads. From there, the duo embarks on a meandering discussion about life, art, hopes, disappointments, and those things that you only seem to be able to talk about with a stranger. Filmed using Asheville natives as extras, Luke & Jo has proven successful on the regional film festival circuit and is doing a series of screenings, leading into the film’s distribution on Amazon Prime and Vimeo on Demand. The screening includes a Q&A with the filmmakers, free drinks from Wicked Weed Brewery, and live music from Millie McGuire. —Zack Smith

FULL FRAME THEATRE, DURHAM | 7:30 p.m., $10, www.lukeandjo.com

Luke & Jo

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LambruscoFest: Italian food festival. Full schedule online. Jun 17-22. Pompieri Pizza, Durham. pompieripizza.com.

Wicked Weed Beer Dinner: $65. Wed, Jun 19, 6:45 p.m. Fairview at Washington Duke Inn, Durham. washingtondukeinn.com.

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