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VOL. 33, NO. 27 5 As a parting gift, we gave two departing employees matching sets of Crocs.

6 Housing prices in downtown Raleigh have risen 63 percent since 2004.

8 In thirty-eight states, elections are run by an elected official. In North Carolina, elections are run by appointed partisan boards.

10 Even the one small change to HB 2 came with a caveat.

14 New York magazine advice columnist Heather Havrilesky’s best advice?

Write everything.

15 As Fight Club 2 drops in graphic-novel form, Chuck Palahniuk is already thinking Fight Club 3.

16 Hillsborough’s Bona Fide Sandwich Co. fares best when it sticks to the classics.

19 A hoppy accident led to Back Alley Coffee Roasters’ new hops-infused cold-brew coffee.

20 “We’re just a small mom-and-pop. Guitar Center is able to buy large quantities at a much cheaper price.”

24 Jphono1 embraces a full-band sound; Tuskha’s debut keeps it squeaky clean.

26 The ArtsCenter’s annual 10 by 10 in the Triangle festival is a wonderful nightmare to wrangle.

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A BRIEF NOTE ON THE INDY’S RECENT PERSONNEL CHANGES

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

The day Grayson Haver Currin gave notice, I was emailing with an industry colleague, a higher-up at the country’s biggest altweekly chain. I mentioned that I’d have to figure out what to do without my managing editor—a guy who took on so many tasks and did them so well and so enthusiastically—and that I wasn’t sure how I was going to replace him.

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Two stories lit up the comments section this week. The first was David Hudnall’s piece questioning whether the planned light-rail line, which has become a sort of political football in the legislature, is still a good idea.

Andy Smith of Durham argues that we give the work that went into light rail short shrift: “This article uncritically repeats familiar anti-light rail arguments while barely mentioning the [GoTriangle] designers or the many detailed technical arguments in favor of the plan. The LRT plan has overcome tremendous hurdles to gain public support and local and federal funding. Running what amounts to a hastily researched anti-LRT editorial when the project is held political hostage is deeply irresponsible and diminishes my opinion of the INDY.” Commenter hcayless counters that light rail will help developers more than anyone else: “The thing that crystallized it for me, despite being one of the few people who might actually use the D-O LRT occasionally, as I live near the proposed Woodmont station and work at Duke, was a meeting where a representative from the Chapel Hill Town Council spoke. He told us they saw Woodmont as an opportunity to build a new development and get things right … . So the station will be there, with no park-and-ride parking, in an area that is so low density we don’t even have bus service, because Chapel Hill wants to do its developer friends another big favor.”

Story number two is Grayson Haver Currin’s interview with Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers, in which he asked—among other things—about the band’s refusal to condemn House Bill 2 like so many other prominent musicians have. Lavina Curletta thinks the focus on HB 2 reflects misplaced priorities: “Americans are sadly, myopically fixated on this and similar issues. … Children die. Actually die—because their sleep is unsafe!

If American children were dying in rates that malaria kills little Africans, we’d be up in arms (I hope). Little girls are forcibly circumcised. Others are sold into slavery. Women are stoned. Children with ‘defects’ are treated like garbage, abused, neglected. We don’t publicly condemn our celebrities for not speaking out on these atrocities.”

Durham Lou, meanwhile, simply says this: “I am no longer a fan.”

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“My mantra: Turnover is our life,” he responded.

For the most part, he’s right. As an industry model, alt-weeklies hire the young and ambitious, work them to the bone, pay them just-above-subsistence wages, ply them with an environment in which it’s OK to wear jeans and room to develop their craft, and then, after a few years, wish them well when they find something more lucrative or less stressful. Burn and churn. Rinse and repeat.

But this hasn’t really been the case at the INDY. Yes, there have been layoffs and firings over our three-decade existence, just like anywhere else, but there’s also been a core group here for a decade, sometimes longer, as editors and publishers and even owners have come and gone. Which is why, when three of our longtime employees—sales rep Leslie Land (sixteen years); production manager Skillet Gilmore (nine years); and Grayson (who started writing for

the Independent in 2003)—announced their departures within a couple weeks of each other, rumors began to circulate.

On Twitter, someone said half of the INDY’s staff had walked out. The News & Observer and the website Raleigh & Co. ran stories hinting that the sky was falling, or at least that these departures all had a common thread. We started getting emails asking if we would cease publication.

To put those rumors to bed: no, we’re not. And no, the INDY isn’t eliminating any positions, either; in fact, we’re adding personnel.

I’ll get to that momentarily.

First, though, I want to take a second to brag on the work the editorial and design teams have done in the last year. We’ve fully redesigned the paper. We’ve put more resources than ever into covering Raleigh (and added a brand-new ground-floor office on Wilmington Street downtown). And our culture and news departments have produced journalism that is, pound for pound, as good as that of any alt-weekly in the country.

That last part is, of course, subjective. This isn’t: our circulation is higher than it’s been in three years, thanks in part to the covers Skillet designed. Our web traffic is double what it was a year ago.

Our social media engagement is miles ahead of where it used to be.

Are there problems? Sure. You may have noticed, but these aren’t print media’s salad days. Still, to borrow from Mark Twain, the reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated.

As a former boss told me whenever I got a little full of myself, graveyards are full of irreplaceable people. That being said, Grayson and Skillet are as close to irreplaceable as you find in this business.

In Grayson’s case, we’re not even going to try. (Skillet won’t be leaving us until the end of August, so we’re still sorting out what that means for the design department.) Instead of hiring someone to run music and food and special sections and glossies—an impossible amalgamation of jobs Grayson took on with aplomb, often working sixty hours a week or more—we’re going to reinvent the wheel.

Starting this week, Brian Howe will become managing editor for arts and culture, overseeing a consolidated department that includes music and food. Under him, Allison Hussey will take over the music desk as associate music editor. Copy editor David Klein will become associate arts editor, adding culture writing to his job description. Longtime INDY contributor Victoria Bouloubasis will step in as associate food editor. And in the near future, perhaps by the time you read this, we’ll hire a new calendar coordinator.

Grayson (and Skillet) will be missed, no getting around that. But there are few people I’ve met in my sixteen years in this business more capable or thoughtful or witty than Brian Howe. I’m extraordinarily excited to see what he and his team does, and I have the utmost confidence it will exceed your expectations.

This is the end of a chapter. But by no means is it the end of our story. jbillman@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 7.6.16 | 5

triangulator +WE MATTER! Dueling presidential rallies for Donald Trump in Raleigh and Hillary Clinton in Charlotte on Tuesday—with President Obama by her side—proved that North Carolina is very important to these candidates.

For Trump, North Carolina is a must-win; there are few viable paths to 270 electoral votes without it. For Clinton, winning the Tar Heel state would all but guarantee her the White House.

As of Monday, the Real Clear Politics average of polls had Clinton up in North Carolina by less than a percentage point. To quote the eminently quotable Dan Rather, “This race is tight like a too-small bathing suit on a toolong ride home from the beach.”

As The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch reported this week, the Clinton campaign’s North Carolina strategy is “a blend of confidence … and concern.” The concern is that Trump could do better than expected in traditionally Democratic Rust Belt states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Denying him North Carolina—or, for that matter, red states like Georgia or Arizona that have substantial minority populations—would effectively foreclose Trump’s already-steep path to 270.

The joint Clinton-Obama campaign appearance—which took place after we went to press Tuesday—was their first of this election. (A previous joint rally, canceled after the massacre at an Orlando nightclub, was scheduled for Wisconsin.) Democratic candidates Roy Cooper and Deborah Ross were on the guest list. (Worth noting: Cooper and Ross both skipped a solo Hillary rally at the State Fairgrounds last month. It seems a photo op with the president—who, while underwater in North Carolina, is still more popular than Clinton or Trump—was enough to get them to clear their schedules.)

It wasn’t clear by press time which North Carolina Republican officials, if any, would make an appearance alongside Trump, who spent the weekend of Clinton’s FBI interview defending his campaign’s tweet of an anti-Semitic Hillary meme that originated on a white supremacist website. On Tuesday morning, we learned Governor McCrory and Richard Burr were both going to be out of state. Or maybe washing their hair.

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+THE SHORT SESSION, BY THE NUMBERS 68 Number of days the North Carolina General

Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund to the governor’s office to defend House Bill 2 in court.

1 Bill vetoed by the governor. Senate Bill 71

244,000 Number of people in the Medicare

$22,341,437,590 The total cost of the

4.7 percent The average raise for teachers. $50,186 The average teacher salary for

Assembly was in session.

would have reformed the Coal Ash Management Commission that Governor McCrory and the legislative leaders were battling over for more than a year. budget passed by the General Assembly.

$10,000,000 Amount the state will fund

the school-voucher program every year until 2027, when the voucher fund reaches $144,840,000.

$500,000 Money redirected from the

+AN UNEQUAL BOOM It’s been about a decade since home prices peaked in the run-up to the housing catastrophe that nearly destroyed the American economy. In aggregate, the housing market has bounced all the way back, but as a recent analysis

by The Washington Post found, the recovery has “exacerbated inequality, leaving behind many Americans of moderate means.”

As Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, put it: “U.S. housing markets are more unequal today than they were before the housing bubble.”

27701 (downtown Durham)

coverage gap who would have been covered if the General Assembly had voted to expand Medicaid, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

the 2016–2017 school year, including counties’ supplemental pay.

1.5 percent The average raise for other state employees; all state employees will also get a onetime bonus of 0.5 percent of their salary.

Where are the winners, and where are the losers? In the Triangle, on the whole, both Raleigh (home values up 21 percent since 2004) and Durham-Chapel Hill (grouped together by the Post, up 19 percent) are doing well. But zoom in closer, and the nuances of this recovery reveal themselves. The ZIP code 27701—home to downtown Durham—has seen home values rise 63 percent, more than anywhere else in the Triangle.

Here’s a snapshot of some notable ZIP codes and how much their home values are up since 2004. The national average is 14 percent.

27517 (east of 501, down to Jordan Lake in Chapel Hill)

63 percent

19 percent

27703 (east and southeast Durham)

27278 (Hillsborough)

7 percent

27705 (Duke, Walltown, some north Durham)

22 percent

27704 (Northgate Park east out to Falls Lake)

16 percent

27560 (Morrisville)

24 percent

27502 (Apex)

12 percent

27 percent

27713 (Southpoint)

27511 (Cary)

27510 (Carrboro)

27601 (downtown Raleigh)

27514 (UNC, Chapel Hill)

27610 (southeast Raleigh)

14 percent

25 percent

20 percent

27 percent 38 percent 7 percent

TL;DR: THE INDY’S QUALITY-OF-LIFE METER

+PARTY AT THE GOV’S HOUSE! Did you know that, so long as you’re a nonprofit, you can rent out space in the Governor’s Mansion for parties and the like? You can! In May, for instance, the Jesse Helms Center threw a shindig for the late senator’s friends and supporters. “It’s a whole diverse group of folks that rent it,” Governor McCrory’s communications director explained to the media. “We have not said no to any nonprofit that’s asked [to rent it] during his time in office.”

The folks at Progress NC decided to take the gov up on his offer. Next Wednesday evening, as the Air Horn Orchestra’s beautiful cacophony of protest blares across the street, the liberal group will host the Garden Party Against Hate inside McCrory’s house. How cool is that? The event—essentially, a low-key, no-alcohol viewing party for the orchestra’s fourteenth performance—is free, though it’s also RSVP only.

By complete coincidence—honest!—the Garden Party will take place the same day the INDY releases a very special issue dedicated entirely to the havoc that HB 2 has wrought, anchored by an exquisite story on the three decades of politics that made the law inevitable, penned by the inimitable long-ago INDY scribe Barry Yeoman. There will also be features exploring what it takes for trans people to change their birth certificates to comply with HB 2 (spoiler: it’s not easy); what young people think about the law ostensibly designed to protect them from

bathroom predators (they’re not fans); how the law has affected the state’s reputation as a somewhat progressive lighthouse in the Deep South (it’s not good); and the one silver lining from this mess. And that’s just part of it.

We’ll be sure to leave a few copies in the mansion’s (probably not unisex) john. Maybe the governor will learn a thing or two during his morning constitutional. triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Jeffrey C. Billman, Paul Blest, Danny Hooley, and David Hudnall.

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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign in Charlotte Tuesday, while Donald Trump campaigns in Raleigh.

Joe Biden stays in Washington, watches the FBI’s press conference on Hillary’s emails, cries softly.

+2

The North Carolina governor’s race has drawn more out-of-state spending than any other state-level election in the country. HB 2 giveth; HB 2 taketh away.

+1

In the closing days of the legislative session, lawmakers tweak the part of HB 2 that most people didn’t know existed. That part, of course, allows law enforcement to confiscate all ’cue that forsakes vinegar.

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Lawmakers divert $500,000 from the state disaster fund to pay for its HB 2 legal defense. “‘Disaster’ has a couple meanings,’” says a McCrory spokesman.

-3

At the governor’s request, lawmakers also gave Duke Energy a sweetheart deal on its coal-ash pits. Hey guys, why don’t you just get a room already?

-2

The legislature gives police departments complete discretion over when bodycam footage is released. Next up: a bill to give the fox control of the henhouse.

-2

A federal judge rules that the legislature’s gerrymander of Wake County commission and school board districts is unconstitutional. “Nuh uh,” says Paul Stam, furiously erasing the word “Blacktown” from a map on a markerboard.

+1

North Carolina inmates review their prisons on Google. Finally, a Zagat guide for jails.

+1

North Carolina’s first-ever Major League Baseball game takes place at Fort Bragg. The victorious Marlins return triumphantly to the Sunshine State, a soulless culture-free void that still has more liberal bathroom laws than we do.

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The Politics of N.C. Elections

WAKE’S EARLY-VOTING DEBATE ILLUSTRATES WHY IT’S TIME TO RETHINK PARTISAN ELECTIONS BOARDS

BY JANE PORTER

Since 1985, the boards’ majorThe conference room at the ities have been determined by Wake County Board of Electhe party of the governor. Countions building in downtown ty parties nominate appointees Raleigh was filled to capacity who are then approved by the last Thursday evening. People State Board of Elections. Memwho couldn’t get in lingered in bers serve two-year terms—and, the doorway as, one after anothas last week’s hearing in Raleigh er, voters implored the three demonstrated, they have an board members not to limit enormous say over how easy or early voting. There were horror difficult it is to cast your ballot. stories of voters fainting after North Carolina’s system difwaiting in line for hours on Elecfers from that of thirty-eight tion Day. There were comments other states, whose elections about the logistical mess that is are overseen by a usually elected curbside voting. And there were secretary of state. The Tar Heel a few common requests. model has leant itself to partiOne was to keep a voting site san bias. For example, Watauga on N.C. State’s campus to serve County’s board of elections tried west-central Raleigh and offer to block Appalachian State Unithe more than thirty-six thouversity as an early voting site in sand students and faculty a 2014; a Wake County Superior convenient place to cast their Court judge later ruled that the ballots. In the 2012 general elecmove appeared to be designed tion, more than sixteen thouto discourage students—a tradisand people cast early ballots at tionally liberal bloc—from voting. the Talley Student Union. Like“There could be a nonpartiwise, speakers asked the board Portia Rochelle (at podium), president of the Raleigh/Apex branch of the NAACP, asks the Wake County san appointed board, and that to keep a polling site at ChaBoard of Elections not to limit early-voting hours. BY BEN MCKEOWN would be best,” says Bob Phillips, vis Park that has traditionally executive director of the nonserved Raleigh’s African-Ameridea of not having a site at Chavis, a suggestion he walked profit watchdog Common Cause ican population; more than back after it drew audible opposition from the audience.

North Carolina. “It does seem a little awkward that the party twenty-one thousand people voted at Chavis in 2012. A third Both Ratledge and Boyle are Republicans; Mark Ezzell is the of the governor prevails statewide, which does not truly request was to maintain Sunday hours for early voting, a votboard’s lone Democrat. reflect the nature of the county. A Democratic governor serving day that has been popular among African-Americans.

In his comments, Fitzsimmons reminded the board meming Republican counties may not be in line with the county, For the most part, the speakers got what they wanted. The bers that—in a state where people have to present an ID to vote and same thing for Durham or Orange under a Republican.” board settled on a plan to open nineteen early voting sites— and the number of early voting days was cut in 2013 from sevenBut Phillips adds that Common Cause is not currently including Chavis and N.C. State’s Creative Services center— teen to ten—their charge is to make voting “as easy as possible.” pushing legislation to alter the system. “I don’t see, with the during working hours on weekdays and a few hours on the Wake GOP chairman John Bryant didn’t attend the meetlegislature we have, changing anything anytime soon,” he weekend, for a total of 1,659 early-voting hours. That’s one ing, but he submitted a statement asking for fewer earlysays. “There’s not much appetite for a government proposal hour more than the minimum required by state law. voting days. Voting, he said, “should not impose upon [poll to make them as nonpartisan as possible.”

“It could have been worse,” says Wake County Democratic workers’] Sunday day of rest and worship when the hours to Several lawsuits brought on by the 2013 elections law— Party chairman Brian Fitzsimmons. early vote are already so many and the locations where the which critics allege was designed to depress student and But the politics of the exercise were clear. The board’s voting can occur has expanded greatly throughout the county minority turnout and thus help Republicans—are pending in chairman, Brian Ratledge, favored not having an early votsince prior elections have been in such fewer locations.” federal court, so the Wake County board’s early-voting plans ing site on State’s campus because, he said, a site in Raleigh’s Wake’s board, like each county board of elections in North are subject to change. l Method neighborhood would serve more people. He also Carolina, consists of two Republicans and one Democrat. opposed Sunday voting. Ellis Boyle, meanwhile, floated the jporter@indyweek.com |

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5 Ways the Legislature Screwed You HERE’S WHAT YOUR PUBLIC SERVANTS HAVE BEEN UP TO THE LAST TWO MONTHS

BY PAUL BLEST

If you were hoping the state legislature, chastened by the backlash over House Bill 2, might opt for a quiet short session focused on budget tweaks and eschewing hot-button issues, you’re probably pretty disappointed right now.

Instead, over the last two months, lawmakers found new and sundry ways to move the state backward in areas like public education, police accountability, and the environment. And they once again failed to expand Medicaid, which means a quarter million people in this state have to go without health care so Republicans can beat their chests about the evils of Obamacare, and declined to repeal HB 2, which means the state’s reputation remains a shambles.

There were a few silver linings—mainly things

lawmakers could have done but mercifully didn’t (see sidebar), but also a budget that pays teachers and state workers somewhat better and, thanks to an improving economy, avoids the kinds of draconian cuts that have characterized the Republicans’ previous budgets. On balance, however, our perilous march away from the moderate modernism that defined state politics for a half century and set North Carolina apart from the rest of the Deep South continues unabated, and the state’s future looks bleaker than it did two months ago.

So, with this year’s short session having wrapped on Saturday—following an intense final week of lawmaking—let’s take stock of what they did and how they hosed you. Remember, all of these guys are up for reelection November 8.

1. HB 2 STILL EXISTS While lawmakers tinkered on the edges— namely, reversing a provision blocking people from suing in state court over workplace-discrimination claims—the bulk of HB 2 remains intact. That’s not entirely surprising, given how much political capital Republicans have spent defending the law.

But last week, a draft bill championed by moderate Republicans was leaked to a Charlotte TV station. The legislation, apparently designed to appease the NBA and keep the 2017 All-Star Game in Charlotte, would have required transgender people to register with the state and, if they had undergone gender-affirmation surgery, receive a “certificate of sex reassignment.”

That “fix” died a quick but certain death. Soon after the proposal surfaced, both Equality NC and the N.C. Values Coalition denounced it, meaning it had little constituency on the right or left. And when the NBA said the revision wasn’t sufficient, that put a nail in the coffin.

Lawmakers did tweak one section of HB 2 in the session’s waning days, restoring workers’ ability to sue in state court over discrimination claims.

But this wasn’t the part of HB 2 that had generated lawsuits and corporate denunciations. And so the damage to the state’s economy—estimated in May at between $77 million and $201 million—persists.

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“They obviously failed to address the concerns that business and entertainers have been raising, so it’s going to hurt the economy,” says Sarah Preston, the state ACLU’s policy director. “But of greater importance is that LGBTQ people are left without protections. We already knew trans people were in danger of violence, and they’ve done nothing to address that.”

And even that one small change to HB 2 came with a caveat. While victims of discrimination can now sue in state court, they’ll have to do so quickly; the statute of limitations has been reduced from three years to just one. Also, the state’s Human Relations Commission—whose members are appointed by the governor—will hear discrimination claims before they go to court, though the HRC’s powers are limited and employees can still sue even if the HRC decides there’s no basis for their claims, says UNC law professor Jeffrey Hirsch.

Here’s the kicker: last year, the legislature set aside $8 million to defend its various actions in court. After HB 2, that wasn’t enough. So last week the legislature pumped another $500,000 into the defense fund—and raided the state’s Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund to do so. Good thing North Carolina isn’t known for hurricanes.

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2. THE WAR ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS CONTINUES As the session concluded, lawmakers passed a bill that would turn over a handful of struggling schools to charter operators, an idea that has failed miserably in Tennessee.

If Governor McCrory signs the bill, five lowachieving elementary schools will be placed under the control of private charters, which may or may not be for-profit.

The bill’s advocates, including Democratic representative Cecil Brockman, point out that many of the students in those failing schools are African-Americans. They argue that achievement school districts will have more flexibility, less bureaucracy, and thus get better results.

Opponents counter that those schools are failing primarily because of the cuts public education has taken in recent years. And as former state education policy analyst Kris Nordstrom noted in a letter to lawmakers in May, Tennessee’s pilot program didn’t come close to the intended results: five of its six ASD schools still rank in the bottom 2.5 percent of schools across the state. In addition,

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whereas Tennessee provided $50 million for its ASD schools, North Carolina allocated none, so these schools will get no extra help.

Lawmakers, however, haven’t been shy about funding the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides vouchers for students to attend private, often parochial schools that have little oversight and produce, at best, mixed results—all while funneling taxpayer dollars to overtly religious organizations that sometimes openly discriminate against LGBTQ students and further undercutting resource-starved public schools.

Led by Senator Chad Barefoot, R-Wake, the legislature tucked into the budget an additional $10 million for the voucher program every year until 2027, boosting the fund to almost $145 million—$145 million that won’t be going to boost teacher pay. Lawmakers did throw teachers a bone, though, providing them with an average 4.7 percent raise, which should help North Carolina crawl out of the national teacher-pay basement.

Coincidentally, this is an election year.

3. SO MUCH FOR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY

In March, Charlotte’s police chief blocked the release of body-camera footage that allegedly showed an officer beating a man.

Then the chief ruled that the officer’s actions were justifiable, even as YouTube footage taken by witnesses suggested otherwise.

This incident gets to a central issue in police accountability: As more and more cities adopt police-worn body cameras—both Raleigh and Durham are actively considering body cams— who gets to see what they record?

This year, the legislature offered its answer: police departments have complete control.

People who are seen on or heard in either body-cam or dashboard-cam footage will, in most cases, be permitted to review the tape— though this, too, is subject to police discretion—but they can’t make copies or show it to the public.

Others, including journalists, wouldn’t have access unless a judge signs off. And there’s a catch-22: the judge is only allowed to release video that’s been discussed in court, but since litigants wouldn’t be permitted to see the footage before going to court, discuss-

ing what’s actually on the recording would prove difficult.

Moreover, if judges want to release footage, they need to notify the local district attorney and the officer involved and give them the chance to testify; this right is not afforded to alleged victims of police brutality.

The bill, proposed by Republican representatives and former law enforcement officials John Faircloth and Allen McNeill, passed with broad support and little debate in both the House and Senate. How did that happen? Lawmakers sweetened the deal for civil libertarians by attaching a provision decriminalizing needle-exchange programs for drug addicts.

So at least something good came out of it.

“The attachment of this body-camera bill to the needle-exchange program was an interesting procedural maneuver,” says the ACLU’s Preston. “We do support the needle exchange, but the body-camera portion did little to address accountability concerns and undermined the benefit that body cameras have.”

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In May, the Department of Environmental Quality ordered Duke Energy to clean up its thirty-two coal ash ponds—one of those ponds dumped nearly forty thousand tons of toxic sludge into the the Dan River in February 2014—labeling eight ponds “high risk” (which means they have to be cleaned up by 2020) and the others “intermediate risk” (cleanup by 2024).

But Duke said it was worried about the schedule. Under state law, the cleanup of “low-risk” sites could be delayed until 2029, but the DEQ had decided that no Duke sites were low risk. So the McCrory administration—Governor McCrory, it’s worth noting, is a former Duke executive—asked the legislature for permission to review those site classifications in eighteen months.

On the session’s last day, lawmakers obliged the governor and then some: the bill, should McCrory sign it, will force the DEQ to reclassify sites as low risk if Duke provides the pond’s neighbors with a clean water source—leaking coal ash can pollute groundwater supplies—and fixes dams in rivers near its coal-powered plants. Just as important, the bill also allows Duke to dry out intermediate-risk sites and cap them instead

of excavating them, which will save the utility giant as much as $8 billion, according to Duke estimates.

The legislature also helped out developers upstream of Jordan Lake, which provides drinking water to more than three hundred thousand people in Wake and Chatham counties. For years now, runoff from developments has been polluting the lake with nutrients that feed algae, but lawmakers haven’t been keen on new regulations to curtail the pollution.

Their first solution, SolarBees—solarpowered water mixers that were supposed to eliminate the pollutants—fell flat. In May, regulators pulled the plug.

But lawmakers also delayed implementation of the Jordan Lake rules, passed by a Democratic-led legislature in 2008 to address the problem, until October 2019.

That means municipalities and developers can once again delay making expensive but necessary sewer-system upgrades.

On the plus side: after considerable ridicule, a proposal to spend $500,000 studying whether freshwater mussels could succeed where SolarBees failed went nowhere.

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Considering how many services are subject to the sales tax now, it’s likely those people will end up doling out more money to the state.

“Part of the reason for the harmful inequity in North Carolina’s tax system is that the lower a household’s income, the greater share of that income goes to buy things, meaning the share of income paid in sales

taxes goes up,” N.C. Budget & Tax Center analyst Cedric Johnson said in an April report.

“In general, people who make less money have less to save, so much more of what they earn goes to purchases. The wealthy, on the other hand, are able to save or invest a large share of their income, which is not subject to sales tax.”

Indeed, a 2015 report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy showed that the bottom 80 percent of the state’s wage earners pay about 9 percent of their income in taxes, while the top 1 percent pays just 5.3 percent of their incomes in taxes. The more the sales tax is expanded and the income tax is reduced, the more that gap will grow. l pblest@indyweek.com Additional reporting by Jane Porter.

It Could’ve Been Worse

It’s not easy to find a silver lining in the legislature’s dealings this year, but there were several terrible ideas that lawmakers either spiked or didn’t get around to enacting. Here are five bullets we dodged.

1. PUNISHING SANCTUARY CITIES A jury-duty bill was gutted in the last week of the session and replaced with a proposal to pull state funding for schools and roads from municipalities that served as “sanctuary cities” for undocumented immigrants, effectively punishing students and citizens if their towns and cities were seen as too welcoming to the unwelcome. The Senate passed the bill, but the session was adjourned without a vote in the House.

2. ASHEVILLE GERRYMANDERING The same day the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the legislature’s gerrymandering of Wake County commission and school board districts, Senator Tom Apodaca tried to force through a bill to create single-member districts for the Asheville city council; currently, all members are elected at-large. In something of a surprise, this proposal was voted down by the House after Democrats and Republicans questioned the bill’s legality and whether or not it was right to vote for a bill that legislators from Asheville opposed.

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4. ENVIRONMENTAL SHENANIGANS A vehicle-emissions bill was gutted and replaced with language that would have eliminated and barred any regulations costing $100 million or more over five years, without taking into account the possible financial benefits (e.g., from public health savings) from that regulation. The bill would have “endanger[ed] future commonsense regulation to protect clean air and water because it only allows consideration of costs, not benefits or savings,” Wake County Commissioner John Burns told the INDY last month. Thankfully, it died.

5. ENSHRINED XENOPHOBIA Four Republicans who represent counties where a total of two refugees have settled during the last decade introduced a bill aimed at making it easier for municipalities to reject refugees and harder for cities like Raleigh, which has taken in more than twenty-five hundred refugees during the same period, to give them a home. The bill would have allowed counties and municipalities to request a “moratorium” on refugees, while cities that want to welcome refugees would have had to hold a public hearing, adopt a resolution, and get approval from the director of the state’s Refugee Assistance Program. This one never got a committee hearing. —Paul Blest

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to believe I should be giving anyone advice—all I have are words on a page. If you don’t want to read beyond the first paragraph, then I’ve failed.”

How to Be a Person in the World organizes many of these columns by theme. The topics range from “Am I Too Weird?” and “I’m Thirty-Eight and Everything Is Awful” to “I Feel Haunted by My Affair.” Whether Havrilesky’s advice works is purely subjective, but it always feels like the result of sincere personal introspection.

“The experience of reading the book feels like a whole different experience from reading the column online,” she says. “The first column is about a woman who doesn’t want her sister to bring her gorgeous boyfriend to the woman’s wedding because she feels like he’ll upstage the bride, and the last one is about mourning someone who’s died. It kind of starts micro and gets bigger and bigger.”

How to Be a Person in the World is more than just reprints; Havrilesky wrote many new columns for the book. In “crazy binge-writing sessions,” she says, “I learned to embrace the terrible void as a writer much more than I did before.”

(Don’t worry, she laughs as she says it.)

“I was answering two advice letters a day and sending them to my editor to pick the best ones,” she continues. “It was like OD-ing on advice-giving and other people’s problems, which was pretty hardcore intense. But it was also really great.

Doing so much of it gave me confidence in the sustainability of the column. It helped me move to another level of believing in what I was doing, and enjoying it more than I ever had before.”

Havrilesky admits she might not go back to her TV-critic roots for a while, as she feels burned out and behind on TV. But trying different kinds of writing is still her best advice to herself.

“I feel like every different genre I try to write in is good for my writing overall,” she says. “By straining to write good essays about good books, I can turn to my advice writing and find that this crazy, florid prose flies out of me, as applied to someone’s bad boyfriend.” l Twitter: @thezacksmith

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Heather Havrilesky made her name with her critiques of books and TV, but she’s found a new level of success critiquing people’s lives. The former Durhamite comes home on Monday, July 11, for a live version of Ask Polly, the popular advice column she writes for New York magazine, at Motorco Music Hall. Hosted by The Monti’s Carter Kersh, the Regulator-sponsored event is part of a tour for Havrilesky’s new collection of Ask Polly columns, How to Be a Person in the World.

Havrilesky first became known to many as the TV critic for Salon, a position she occupied for seven years, and as author of the cartoon Filler on Suck.com. She’s moved on to outlets like The New Yorker, All Things Considered, The Baffler, and, most recently, Bookforum’s The Bestseller List column. She also wrote the 2011 memoir Disaster Preparedness, which chronicles her family life growing up in Durham in the 1970s and ’80s.

“I always felt like I had a voice as a writer—a grouchy voice, but a voice,” Havrilesky says of her eclectic output. “Becoming a more flexible writer is like learning to play different instruments, different types of music. There’s more tools at your disposal. So it’s true that my voice used to speak in a lot of two-syllable words and short sentences, and now it’s got more flourishes, and is a lot more whimsical and fun.”

The weekly doses of advice Havrilesky dispenses in Ask Polly are longer, deeper, and more self-lacerating than what readers of Dear Abby or Ann Landers might recall. Her average response to readers’ qualms runs a few thousand words, with Havrilesky bluntly recapping her own experiences and failures. It feels more like sitting down with a friend for a pep talk than being lectured by a know-it-all.

“I try to go back to the basic premise of, ‘What is the issue here?’ Not so much how to solve the problem immediately, but how to figure out what the central issue is for this person, where the slippage is in their existence,” Havrilesky says. “The other question is, ‘Does the response immediately grab you by the throat?’ There’s no reason

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Chuck Palahniuk concentrated a decade of male self-absorption and frustrated macho behavior in Tyler Durden, the anarchist demagogue of the novel Fight Club and the 1999 film version with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. But the man behind Durden and other darkly comic works, such as Choke and Snuff, is surprisingly soft-spoken, even bemused, about the longevity of his most lasting creation.

“Tyler Durden kind of represents the Übermensch, and people are really attached to that archetype,” Palahniuk says from his home in the Portland area.

“So it’s a lot of fun to play with that, sort of stand on Tyler’s soapbox and say those over-the-top things—but then chicken out and just be myself. It’s fun to put on that mask and be Donald Trump for two hundred pages.”

Palahniuk (pronounced, for the record, like “Paul and Nick”) brings back Tyler and company in Fight Club 2, a graphic novel originally published last year as a ten-issue series from Dark Horse Comics, illustrated

by Cameron Stewart (Seaguy). Palahniuk brings the new collection to The Regulator for a signing next week (the $30 entry fee covers the price of the hardcover).

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“There were so many aspects of telling a story differently, dictating every aspect of each scene and panel,” Palahniuk says of working in the graphic medium. “Most of the time, Cameron saved me. He has kind of a punk sensibility, where the characters are composed of these lean, slight bodies that are good for gesture.”

Palahniuk likes trying new outlets for his work—one of the writing group members depicted in the comic is Lidia Yuknavitch, who recently raised more than four-hundred thousand dollars on Kickstarter for a film adaptation of Palahniuk’s 2002 novel Lullaby.

“Portland is almost like a Bloomsbury community where all writers know each other, and that extends to comics,” Palahniuk says. While he wrote the story for Fight Club 2 before he submitted it to Dark Horse, going to comic conventions and talking to fans led to some changes.

“I kept rewriting it based on their expectations of what they told me they wanted it to be,” he says. And he’s game for more Tyler Durden comics: “What I want to do next is Fight Club 3.” l Twitter: @thezacksmith

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The classic American sandwich shop takes a cue from Burger King—have it your way. Imagine, for instance, ordering a turkey sandwich. Smoked turkey. Not roasted.

White bread is fine. Unless there’s wholewheat? Swiss. Mustard. Mayo. Light on the mayo! Lettuce. Tomato. No onion. And can you toast the bread? To go. Actually, for here.

Actually, to go.

Such is the difference between sandwich culture in the U.S. and the UK. “In Britain, pre-prepared sandwiches have remained the norm,” writes Bee Wilson in Sandwich: A Global History. “By contrast, the American deli sandwich caters for every whim of man, woman, or child.”

In this sense, Bona Fide Sandwich Co. in Hillsborough takes a cue from across the pond. I like that.

The sandwich shop, which opened in March, is the creation of Matt Fox, Jeremy Blankenship, and Dean James—the names behind The Wooden Nickel Pub, Hillsborough BBQ Company and LaPlace, a few of the most popular restaurants in town.

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and zero seating, save for the rarely vacant bench outside. It has colorful walls, six taps of craft drinks (get the ginger kombucha), a shelf of potato chips, a basket of “Whookies” (cookie-whoopie pies with too much frosting for their own good), and not much else.

If the sandwich is the ultimate convenience food—it was invented in the eighteenth century so the Earl of Sandwich could gamble and snack simultaneously— Bona Fide’s setup makes sense. Sandwiches thrive at desks and playgrounds, on commutes and road trips. Like birds, they want to be free. Walk around Hillsborough on a sunny afternoon and you’ll notice people eating lunch on benches, stoops, and patches of grass—all, it seems, from the same place.

Talk about great advertising.

Bona Fide’s menu consists of twelve sandwiches as well as three salads and three “power bowls,” or Whole Foods-spirited “ancient grain” bowls. There are several rotating sides, reminiscent of a potluck cookout—some dishes disappear within the first hour while others linger. Momma’s Potato Salad and CJ’s Mac begged to be chosen on both my visits (denied). Buffalo cucumbers, with hot sauce vinaigrette and

blue cheese, kept teasing me online, then standing me up in the shop. If you can, snag the pickled peanut carrots—thick orange slabs whose flavors shimmy back and forth between taqueria pickles and Chinese takeout noodles. Some sandwiches are smaller than they should be for their prices, which makes a side seem like a good idea (how convenient).

As for the salads and power bowls—neither will leave you feeling, well, powerful.

Hungry, perhaps. In a time when gluten is decreasingly trendy, opening a sandwich shop comes with the obvious risk: If everything is on bread, what about all the people who avoid bread?

Of course, it’s bad business to give a menumiddle finger to the growing group of antiglutens (roughly one percent of people genuinely have Celiac disease, but we won’t get into that). Hence, the sympathy items.

The Waldorf-reminiscent “Harvest” salad.

The Cobb. The Kabouli, with kale, walnuts, apples, pomegranate, sumac, and a lemoncaper vinaigrette. The last was just all right, like a “free” salad bar at a buffet.

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only with respect to the term, which has become as overused as a tea bag on its tenth brew. “Beet It,” with roasted beets, pistachios, shaved fennel, and Hillsborough Cheese Company feta, offered the most promise, but disappointed in the way a dressing-on-theside, to-go salad inevitably does.

After all, the threshold to the shop reads, “Enjoy Every Sandwich.” It makes no promises about anything else, but it keeps its word.

Bona Fide sources bread from Weaver Street, and the various items—hoagies, sliced rye, seeded buns, focaccia—accomplish all they set out to. Hoagies with parchment crusts and fluffy centers. Rye that loyally supports Russian dressing. Focaccia that stains your fingertips with olive oil and salt flecks, prompting you to lick them clean.

The sandwiches themselves are familiar, like a high school reunion: old friends, updated look. For some, it’s just a haircut.

Take the Italian Hero: a mound of shaved salami, pistachio-dotted mortadella, and locally cured ham. But instead of soggy iceberg and mealy tomato, it sports a lively salad of roasted red peppers, spicy arugula, red onion, and herb oil.

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The five-spice banh mi features soy saucewasted portobellas (and seemingly zero spices?), plus the standard pickled carrots and daikon, cucumbers, and cilantro. The vegetables would have been better off had the panini press kept to itself. But thanks to the buttery walnut spread—a creative substitution for paté—I still ate every bite.

I hate to say my favorite was the girl-nextdoor Mozzafiato, but it was. You know the one: focaccia, mozzarella, tomatoes, pesto.

This version puts the others to shame. The mozzarella is milky and melty, like an Italian grandma’s grilled cheese. There is almost too much olive oil, balsamic, and garlic, which is exactly right.

The Brotha’ Love offers an ode to Philadelphia: a generous portion of rare roast

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Other sandwiches try harder than the rest and don’t get much in return. The K-Town Reuben—corned beef, Two Chicks Farm kimchi, Russian dressing, Swiss—attempts a clever reboot of the classic sandwich.

Unfortunately, the beef was not only scarce but also so chewy that I couldn’t decide if the measly portion was a curse or a blessing.

If I visit Bona Fide again, it’ll be for that Italian hero. Of course, it is my go-to. I can’t visit a sandwich shop that offers an Italian hero and not order one, and the more I think about that, the more I wonder if this is the whole point—to tune into customer nostalgia and strike a chord. And they got me. But what about you? l Twitter: @EmmaLaperruque

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Matt Flinn pours a glass of hops-infused cold-brew coffee at Back Alley Coffee Roasters. PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

A Hoppy Accident

BEER MEETS COLD COFFEE AT BACK ALLEY

BY ANGELA PEREZ

In downtown Wake Forest, Matt Flinn pulls a pint of dark brown brew topped with caramel-colored foam and alive with cascading bubbles. It looks suspiciously like Guinness. Upon my first sip, however, I quickly recognize Back Alley Coffee Roasters’ newest chilly beverage as, indeed, cold-brewed coffee. The brew, transformed by a nitrogen-pressurized tap, looks so similar to that iconic Irish stout that I was surprised by its earthy flavor, dominated by citrus and flower notes, not chocolate.

“The cold brew is infused with hops,” Flinn says with a smile. “We’re flipping the brewing script.”

Flinn is referring to his recent coffee experiments with hops, inspired by collaborations with nearby White Street Brewing for coffee-infused beer. Such collaborations are frequent in the Triangle craft beer community. Raleigh Brewing Company brightens up one of its porters with Oak City Coffee Roasters’ Kabum bean.

Trophy Brewing’s popular Slingshot Coffee Porter derives its punch from Raleigh’s eponymous cold-brewed coffee. Local chocolatier Escazu roasts cacao beans for Big Boss’s Big Operator black ale.

Using true craft beer lingo, Flinn and his fellow experimenters at Back Alley decided to call the beverage Citra N.H.C. (nitro hop coffee), named after the Citra variety of hops it uses.

The brew’s unique citrus flavors began not with

hops but as a roasting accident. A Back Alley apprentice accidentally “messed up” a batch of expensive Konga beans. Instead of confessing to the mishap, he waited until the tasting crew cupped the coffee to see if anyone noticed.

“Oh, we noticed, all right,” says Flinn. The apprentice lucked out when the tasting crew realized the roast perfectly matched the bright, citrusy flavor of the hops Flinn was already experimenting with.

After roasting, the coffee is ground and flash-brewed, a method using thin, precise streams of water to steep the beans. The hot coffee is then quickly chilled over ice. Back Alley uses the flash-brew method instead of the twenty-four-hour steeping it employs for its regular nitro cold-brew coffee. According to Flinn, hot water brings out the acids in the coffee beans needed to match the acidity of the hops. The nitrogen tap lends the coffee a creaminess that renders sugar and cream an unnecessary addition.

For Flinn, the Citra N.H.C. is only the beginning of his lab experiments, and not just because cold-brewed coffee makes up 50 percent of Back Alley’s coffee sales. “There’s no limit to the flavor profiles we can offer,” says Flinn. “I can change the flavors by choosing a different bean, by grinding a different size, by using another type of water, by picking a new variety of hops, by steeping the coffee longer, and by playing around with the roasting.”

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In its mission to connect people with ideas and resources for a more equitable food system, the Raleigh Food Corridor project hosts Second Saturdays to celebrate and empower our local food community. This week, chef Geoff Seelen of Piedmont Biofarm and pastry chef Andrew Ullom of AC Restaurants offer free cooking demos at Camden Street Learning Garden, utilizing the quintessential summer ingredient: tomatoes. You can also join in on the blackberry brigade (yeah, that’s a thing), competing for the biggest berry haul from nearby Raleigh City Farm.

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GUITAR CENTER IS MOVING FROM DURHAM TO CARY. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE TRIANGLE’S INDEPENDENT MUSIC SHOPS? BY DANNY HOOLEY Rusty Adams feels good about how his little Apex music store is doing.

Since 2011, when he his wife, Rhonda, bought Burt’s Music, brought it to the Beaver Creek Commons shopping center, and renamed it Quarter Note Music, they’ve run a thriving guitar store and music instruction center that employs twenty instructors to teach about two hundred students.

But now he’s concerned about some news he heard recently: Guitar Center is coming.

The fifteen thousand-square-foot store at Durham’s Northgate Mall is closing July 9 and reopening five days later in Cary, about fifteen minutes from Quarter Note. Not only that, but a sign on the door at the new store advertises lessons and rentals, which means that Guitar Center is trying to cut into his market.

“We’re a little worried,” says Adams.

“We’re just a small mom-and-pop. They’re able to buy large quantities at a much cheaper price than I am. And I’m worried that they’re going to come in, and they’re going to have big sales.”

Back in Durham, Guitar Center’s exit presents an opportunity for independent music stores to come back—and for those few existing stores to up their game. Right now, there are only three.

High Strung Guitars & Violins on Markham Street, off Ninth Street, specializes in acoustic stringed instruments, but

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owner Lee Raymond says that she’ll be stocking some electric guitars soon, in an effort to bring in new customers who might have headed to Northgate in the past. Music & Arts, a subsidiary of Guitar Center that also focuses on lessons and rentals, is located on Mount Moriah Road off 15-501. SoundPure on Washington Street is just a short walk from Motorco, which regularly sends people to Guitar Center to buy warrantied cables and other equipment that can’t be found at SoundPure, which is mostly a boutique guitar store with a recording studio.

Scotty San Dwich, the longtime production manager at Motorco, says he doesn’t know where he’ll get those emergency things now. The Guitar Center at Northgate was only six minutes from the club.

“I’m not a huge fan of Guitar Center, because of, you know, evil, corporate Bain Capital shit,” says San Dwich, who plays guitar for the Durham punk band Almost People. But he buys stuff there anyway. He’s not alone: as much flak as Guitar Center takes from anti-corporatist musicians, almost everybody in the Durham scene has used it at one time or another.

Still, Bain Capital is a cause for antipathy far beyond what is usually reserved for big chains. People started talking about the private equity firm’s connection to Guitar Center around the same time its founder,

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Mitt Romney, was running for president in 2012. Bain bought California-based Guitar Center Holdings for $2.1 billion in 2007 and took on $1.6 billion in debt. Bain couldn’t make the payments, so its partner, Ares Management, bailed out investors and took over management.

But the bad press continued. In 2015, commissions for salespeople were cut from 10 percent to 0.25 percent. At the beginning of this year, Forbes reported that employees were forced to sign an arbitration agreement, stripping them of the right to sue over unjust firings, wage violations, and workplace discrimination.

It’s notable that Guitar Center is still kicking. A year ago, it was all but pronounced dead by business analyst Eric Garland. His provocatively titled posts (“The End of Guitar Center,” posted on his blog in February 2015, was the first) quickly went viral.

“The corporate entity known as Guitar Center, Inc. is in the midst of irreversible collapse dynamics and will cease to hold its position as the industry leader in the shortterm,” he wrote. But that hasn’t happened.

And while he’s still skeptical about Guitar Center’s future, Garland admits that it’s been smart to move into affluent areas (like Cary) and focus on lessons and rentals.

“They’re a player,” Garland says. “They have some real assets compared to other

You can walk into any Guitar Center and start banging or strumming away on most instruments, and participate in a storewide cacophony that would seem intolerable in other venues. retailers. They have scale. As long as they’re around, they’re always gonna be larger.”

To supporters of independent stores, it’s just another unfair advantage for a company that’s too big to fail. Guitar Center’s buying power has made it impossible for a lot of small stores to stock Fenders and Gibsons, which is why merchants like Adams and Raymond are always looking for lesserknown but high-quality brands.

But musicians are a stubborn, brand-loyal bunch, and building loyalty for anything that isn’t the industry’s two most recognizable brands is a challenge. Adams can make the case for his products, and he can build personal connections with his customers in a way chains can’t, but he also knows he’ll need to focus on holiday sales to stay alive.

“What I’m worried about is Christmastime, when the parents want to buy these little combo kits—like, a little Fender Squier with an amp in it,” he says. “And they’ll go there instead of coming to see me, mainly for the price. So I’m competing against that.”

The new Guitar Center at the sprawling Parkside Town Commons looks strangely small from the front. It’s nestled between a Petco and a Target that contains a CVS pharmacy and a Starbucks. Durham store manager Chris Weldon says that twenty of his employees, all but one, will go to the Cary store.

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For years, the Guitar Centers and Sam Ashes of the world have coexisted with indies that managed to find the right formula. They both have their functions. “If someone comes to me and says, ‘I want to buy left-handed black drum keys from you, and if you stock ’em, I’ll buy two a week,’ then I’ll stock ’em,” says Jim Dennis, owner of Music Loft in Carrboro.

On the other hand, you can walk into any Guitar Center and start banging or strumming away on most instruments, and participate in a storewide cacophony that would seem intolerable in other venues. That’s a key incentive for a lot of teenage kids.

Thirteen-year Durham resident John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats is a regular at High Strung, where, in 2003, he bought his beloved Larrivee OM-O3 acoustic. “It was the first really good guitar I ever owned,” he says.

Like Raymond, he’d like to see some new stores pop up—a niche store that just sells synths and related electronic doodads may be a good idea, now that Moogfest is part of Durham’s culture, he suggests. But high rents downtown rule out that area. And the absence of Guitar Center from Northgate, he adds, is likely a negative for Durham.

“What are they gonna put there? A cell phone store? Whatever they put up, it probably won’t be a better place than Guitar Center.” dhooley@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 7.6.16 | 21

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THE DIVERGENT PATHS OF GUITARISTS STEVE GUNN AND WILLIAM TYLER

BY DAN RUCCIA

On a sunny August afternoon in 2014, guitarists Steve Gunn and William Tyler shared the main stage on an island in the French Broad River in Marshall, North Carolina. It was Gunn’s set at Harvest Records’ Transfigurations II festival, and he was easing through a set of laid-back jams, often leading from an acoustic guitar.

About halfway through, Tyler joined in for “Lurker,” a looping, slow-burning blues. Tyler’s Telecaster was set to a watery burble, flashing glowing leads in and around Gunn’s singing. They were lovely little choruses of sound, their diffusion contrasting with the laser-like focus of Gunn’s own fretwork. It was one of many highlights of an exceptional festival, a rare collaboration between two of the more intriguing guitarists of the moment.

As that performance suggests, Gunn and Tyler have very different approaches to the guitar. Both are rooted in a fuzzy miasma that links John Fahey with Southern rock, krautrock with Memphis soul, and Ali Farka Touré’s desert blues with La Monte Young’s drones. From that starting point, they derive complementary but contrasting musical visions, which will be on display at a pair of concerts around the Triangle this week: Gunn brings his band to Raleigh’s Kings on Tuesday, and Tyler takes the stage in Durham at Duke Gardens Wednesday.

Gunn’s playing has always been sharp and driven, with a strong sense of forward momentum. Within his early drone group GHQ, he pushed its exploded mountain music forward.

He perfected that sense of directness with drummer John Truscinski in the Gunn-Truscinski Duo, whose songs would often transform from experimental ragas into intricate rockers, drawing equally on Jack Rose and the Sun City Girls. Their rare performances in the Triangle have verged on the transcendent.

So it’s come as a surprise to see Gunn attempt to make his name as a songwriter over the past few years. His last three albums have all been song-based, gradually moving in a more conventional rock direction, his baritone voice at the center of things. His newest, June’s Eyes on the Lines, is accomplished and a little confounding. His guitar sounds as good as ever, with Allman Brothers twang added to his signature Television-esque tumbles. The production is crisp and clean, allowing Gunn to unleash a wide range of guitar timbres.

But the songwriting itself remains uneven. Gunn’s voice is thin, with a fairly narrow range, so many of the melodies tend to hover around one or two notes. He often gets stuck in midtempo rock songs that start to sound the same, and his lyrics are alternately mystical, oblique, and banal. Sometimes, as on “Conditions Wild” or “Ancient Jules,” everything works perfectly, with evocative imagery and good-enough vocal melodies complementing spacious guitar solos and infectious grooves. Else22 | 7.6.16 | INDYweek.com

where, Gunn delivers lines like, “There’s a constant motion/ makes you feel like the ocean.”

That his vocals do so little begs the question of why have them at all? In a 2013 interview, Gunn said that he had long been interested in making singer-songwriter moves, not just being an instrumental picker. He said he wanted to avoid getting forced into a specific subset of music, but his songs with vocals seem to fall back into an even narrower range of genres. Gunn is one of the best guitarists around these days, and he clearly knows how to construct instrumentals that work. Do the verses and choruses provide some kind of buttressing for his instrumental material? Or is it something deeper about rock music that places a premium on the voice over the instrumental? Gunn doesn’t

exciting. On Modern Country—released the same day as Gunn’s Eyes on the Lines—Tyler erects towering instrumental compositions where the constant process of accumulation becomes the focal point itself. He’s making the argument that you can use repetition, evolution, and complexity to replace vocals as an organizing principal. “Highway Anxiety,” for instance, maintains a single, longing melody for nine riveting minutes. At first, it’s just reverb-drenched electric guitar accompanied by a soaring pedal steel and a basic bass line, shortly joined by a piano plucking a few chords and bits of melody. A slippery drum line (played by Wilco’s Glenn Kotche) enters, and more guitars spin wonderful countermelodies before everything gradually fades back to silence.

Guitar guys: Steve Gunn and William Tyler GUNN PHOTO COURTESY OF GROUND CONTROL TOURING/TYLER PHOTO BY ANGELINA CASTILLO seem to have found the answer to these questions.

William Tyler, on the other hand, is fundamentally an instrumentalist and an architect. Most of his songs start out with a simple core, to which he adds layer upon layer of instrumental counterpoint and color until it all explodes with joy. The exact path to that explosion has changed over time.

On his 2010 LP, Behold the Spirit, written after years of playing with Lambchop and the Silver Jews, his process of accretion is subtle. He’ll introduce barely audible synth chords and a few playful trombone licks to a Fahey-esque fingerpicking tune or let extra layers of guitar gradually engulf an old-timey melody. More often than not, though, he lets the tunes sing for themselves, unadorned. Impossible Truth, from 2013, expanded on this approach, adding pedal steel, walking bass, and the occasional trombone chorus to his electric guitar.

Things have gotten more complicated recently, and more

“The Great Unwind” does something similar with piles of guitar distortion, while “Gone Clear” is an expansive piece of baroque folk, complete with layers of organ, twelve-string guitar, chimes, and bells. And “I’m Going to Live Forever (If it Kills Me)” sounds almost like an impression of older Steve Gunn records: a forward-tumbling melody undergirded by motoric drumming. A few extra-sweet harmonic turns remind us that it’s actually Tyler at the helm. Before we know it, he's off to build his next edifice.

It's a shame the two don't play together more often. They’d balance out each other well, with Gunn's directness adding a through line to Tyler's loops and Tyler's gauzy layers providing an alternate structure for Gunn's songs. Together, the two players might stand to craft megaliths even more magnificent than the sum of their parts. l Twitter: @danruccia

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On his last record as Jphono1, 2013’s Know Your Clouds, John Harrison built songs and atmospheric miniatures around moments recorded during his at-home guitar jams, ranging from wide-awake-at-3-a.m. ruminations à la Elliott Smith to instrumentals both intimate and charmingly kitchensink-y. If a singing saw would work, he’d use one. The process was more important than the product.

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It pulls you in quickly. The deep thick slide lick that anchors the opening “Codes” has a note that at first feels out of place, but as the figure cycles through, the feeling is of a forge heating up. When Harrison’s voice enters at an oblique angle, it’s like light poking through thickets. The refrain of “You’re much brighter now” could almost be Harrison singing to himself as he brushes aside some of the gauze of previous efforts and lets his songs stand out in riveting bold relief.

While Harrison’s earlier work may have been served by being assembled piecemeal by its maker, the spirited rhythm section of John W. Jaquiss and Patrick O’Neill provides the aural heft required to echo the lush records that provide inspiration here: the earthy slide guitar and Indian tunings of Led Zeppelin III; the pastoral, sighing melancholy of midperiod Pink Floyd; the “pretty daze” sensibility of Kurt Vile and the War on Drugs. Harrison’s bemused but reassuring authority, exquisite taste in riffs, and ability to write lyrics that suit the celestial sprawl of the music convey just the right amount of trippy wisdom.

With its multiple beguiling guitar lines and a damnably catchy deadpan chorus full of lysergic perplexity, “Feedback Is Strange" provides one of the most arresting moments. Its lyric “What I feel/I can’t say” echoes another Harrison, The 24 | 7.6.16 | INDYweek.com

Beatles’ George, who said as much in “What Is Life.” Still, the musical spirits summoned here tend to come from less well-trodden precincts: “The Dog That’s Listening” seems to repurpose a motif from the deep and devastating Floyd track “Fearless.” Likewise, the casual harmonies on “”House Built on Mercury” are redolent with Meat Puppets, key figures in incorporating psychedelic sounds into indie music of the eighties.

Harrison does allow himself a few deep jams. But just as the guitar solo in “Castles” threatens to get a bit noodly, there’s a blissful vocal turn and a return to the central chiseled lick that anchors the piece. On the final, lengthiest track, “Upside Down,” Harrison seems to address the listener directly: “And we turn it upside down and we gave it all away,” he sings, like a man about to scatter his intricate sand mandala off into the ether with a puff of breath, his commitment to process intact after all. —David Klein

TUSKHA TUSKHA

(Self-released) For a certain kind of singer-songwriter, pop music has a particular allure. Rock, folk, and related forms often provide these types with safe passage into a scene, their clandestine longings for supermarket-checkout-line levels of fame kept in a back pocket. The exhaustive contemporary use of the term indie pop, that subcategory of guitar-based music where the performers actually know how to write a ditty, often

offers sufficient cover for those who dream of bigger, cleaner green rooms and on-demand artisanal deli platters.

If these scoundrels get lucky enough, the time comes to show off their chops. That’s when it all potentially falls apart, their hooks held to a higher standard than the typical act playing a 250-capacity venue. Sometimes the embarrassment proves colossal. But in most instances, the shame of unmet expectations is vague, hardly worth condemnation or ridicule. The artist returns a little humbler to what he or she excels at or otherwise knows better.

On the whole, Phil Moore’s Tuskha resists either of these fates on its eponymous debut, largely due to fairly unambitious execution. The mild sins of the Bowerbirds member’s LP will only rankle those impatient for that crowdfunded (and unfulfilled) follow-up to 2012’s The Clearing. Even if his choice of instrumentation and effects pedals differs between the two projects, Moore’s perfectly listenable album isn’t quite the radical reinvention it threatened to be. With references to willow trees and lilac bushes, “Stops” feels at best like a half step from his tweedier main band, teensy eco-apocalypses and all.

Tuskha does no harm, even in its addiction to the notion that repetition is all it takes to make something catchy.

Informed by today's radio and yesterday's synth presets, "No Pain" and “Fight All Things” make for diverting hybrids. Setting Tuskha’s leisurely pace, electro-pop numbers like "The Program" amble along pleasantly, while "CV_Joint" exists just slightly left of recent Bieber or classic Artful Dodger.

Setting aside issues of scale, Moore’s closest parallel in the gentle leap into pop’s deceptively inviting maw is The Killers’ Brandon Flowers. On a break from his millennial arena rock quartet, the charming Flowers presented a solo album titled Flamingo, one considerably close to the Jersey-meets-Vegas charms of his group work. Anyone who’d been to a Killers show could tell how much Flowers wanted to make his synthesizer sound bigger and more immediate than any guitar.

But when he had the chance, he played it too safe, clearly reluctant to make a major, humiliating blunder. A kindred spirit, Moore does just fine with this similarly conservative solo shot and should get the reception that he deserves.

—Gary Suarez

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indystage Theatrical Tetris

THE INSANE LOGISTICS OF PRODUCING THE ARTSCENTER’S POPULAR SHORT-PLAY FEST

BY BYRON WOODS

Imagine a producer convincing a regional director to take on a script that neither of them has read for a show both already know will sell out. The director must also forfeit control in selecting the cast, which the producer will choose—again, before ever having read the play. A pretty risky proposition, right?

Now suppose that the producer must also persuade nine other directors to accept these dubious terms. Plus, they have to share a single pool of ten actors. Then they all have to work out their shows at the same time before presenting them to the public. The chances of this working once or twice seem slim. But fifteen times?

Whatever the odds, 10 by 10 in the Triangle has been beating them since 2002. In the process, the festival of new ten-minute plays has improbably become The ArtsCenter’s most successful annual theatrical endeavor, attaining a national reputation among playwrights—witness the eleven hundred entries it received this year, twice the number from a year ago.

The better it works, the less patrons detect the logistics of coordinating ten simultaneous productions that have to fit on the same stage under one set of lights. They’ll also need individual rehearsal spaces at times that don’t conflict with the actors’ other shows in the festival or The ArtsCenter’s daily summer camps.

“It’s an algorithmic miracle how Jeri Lynn Schulke puts it all together,” says Page Purgar, a regional actor and five-time festival veteran.

Each January, Schulke, the festival’s producer, has to track the progress of a small army of readers as they cull submissions for three months. During that time, she’s also reaching out to regional actors and directors about scripts that won’t be selected for months.

“You have to do it that way,” Schulke says. “If you wait until May, when the scripts are chosen, people get booked.”

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That makes 10 By 10 “a trust exercise, in some ways,” says director Tamara Kissane.

Still, Schulke endeavors to give directors as much choice as she can. She gives them a week to make their selections from the final forty scripts, first come, first served. Once the shows are cast, stage manager Emma Nadeau constructs a stack of spreadsheets to cross-reference artists’ schedules with available rehearsal spaces. The result suggests a multicolored duel between a Mondrian and Tetris. It’s the only thing that keeps production from descending into total chaos.

With so many of the usual variables taken out of the directors’ hands, Kissane says the festival is “more of a reactive experience.”

That allows her greater freedom to focus on the elements of a show she cares most about.

“There are fewer things for me to worry about, and since the quality of the material and people are really high, it’s not that much of a risk,” Kissane says. “It feels more like an adventure.”

For actors who have to play multiple roles in one evening, there are certainly challenges.

But Purgar, who performs in three productions this year, thinks it’s all in good fun.

“I don’t think anyone wants to see an actor play the same thing two or three times in one night; that’s not the festival’s point,” she says.

“Here you get to put on different hats so fast in front of the same audience. It’s like actors’ summer camp.” When creators work in such close proximity, a community mindset develops.

“It takes so many people to make it, where the usual theater experience tends to be smaller,” Kissane says. “It’s about being part of something bigger, one piece of the whole.” l Twitter: @Byron Woods

This year’s 10 by 10 playwrights Lazarus Simmons and Jillian Lea in Canyon at last year’s 10 by 10 TOP

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10 BY 10 IN THE TRIANGLE

Friday, July 8–Sunday, July 24, $16-$18 The ArtsCenter, Carrboro www.artscenterlive.org

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I WISH YOU A BOAT

Saturday, July 9–Sunday, August 28, $25 Ward Theatre Company, Durham www.wardtheatrecompany.com

You Must Build a Boat

WARD THEATRE COMPANY EMBARKS ON A TIMELY, RESEARCH-BASED VOYAGE INTO IMMIGRATION ISSUES

BY BYRON WOODS

Director Wendy Ward clearly remembers the moment that sparked her company’s upcoming play, I Wish You a Boat. It was in a New York classroom in 2005. As one of Ward’s students traced her ancestors’ journeys to North America during a performance, she gently guided paper boats over a map of the world.

When the last of her little crafts didn’t make it across the ocean, the room went still.

Ward responded by asking her students to improvise, playing a group of passengers on a ship as a storm arose and worsened.

“It was so evocative, so emotional,” Ward recalls.

“And they acted it in silence.”

Then the class started researching nineteenthcentury nautical disasters.

Drawing from sources including harbor logs, formal inquests, and newspaper accounts, they devised a composite ship, the Merry Rose, filled with European exiles seeking a future in the new world, whose fates will change drastically in eight brief minutes.

“That’s how long it took the S.S. Stella to sink,” Ward notes. “People were just wiped off that ship into the sea.”

I Wish You a Boat catalogs the lives and legacies of the Merry Rose’s passengers and crew—their dreams as well as their disaster.

The research allowed Ward and her students to reflect on how fraught immigration has been throughout our country’s history, long before the isolationist slurs of the current campaign season.

In February, Ward Theatre Company’s

first local production, the intimate Jacuzzi, demonstrated an uncanny emotional reality at point-blank range. Its savvy set design transformed a nondescript Durham office park into an isolated mountain ski lodge. As I interviewed Ward at her studio recently, I glimpsed design and technical elements that will likewise transport viewers to a ship at sea.

At a time when many Americans’ information on immigration comes from a distance, through the tales of grandparents or news accounts from Syria or Sudan, I Wish You a Boat depicts the experiences of expatriates and the stakes of their decisions firsthand. Ward has personal experience with immigration. She moved to Australia from the United States for a job in 2012, and she recalls underestimating the challenges, even in an English-speaking country she was already familiar with.

“It’s a very emotional thing to leave your homeland,” she says. “These people were leaving their homes, forever, to go to America.

It meant everything to them.” As the historical record reflects, their chances of survival at sea hinged in large part on their socioecomic class, and I Wish You a Boat contrasts the experiences of the passengers in first class with those who dwelled below decks.

At a time when an English referendum can rock global financial markets and cast a shadow on an American election, Ward’s show underlines the degree to which we’re all in steerage—all in the same boat. l Twitter: @ByronWoods

”These people were leaving their homes, forever, to go to America.

It meant everything to them.”

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07.06–07.13 WEDNESDAY, JULY 6 & THURSDAY, JULY 7

JOHN JASPERSE PROJECTS: REMAINS

John Jasperse always leaves an impression. The three-decades-deep New York choreographer addresses big questions with sensual movement. His deft dances and dancers toy with the imagery we’ve come to expect of him. I tend to think of his series of American Dance Festival performances as distilled tableaux. In 2008’s Pure, dancers flanked by shadow figures posed against flowered wallpaper while Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days” boomed. In 2014’s Within between, the performers stretched a giant pole into the audience and used it to outline someone’s head. (How’s that for breaking the fourth wall?) Jasperse and his ensemble return to premiere Remains this week at ADF. It’s a work about legacy: How do we build what we intend to leave behind, and what effect does this pursuit have on us? I’m already anticipating the residue, whatever shape it takes. —Michaela Dwyer

THURSDAY, JULY 7

INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONFERENCE

Recently, on a warm spring weekend, dozens of sweaty people emptied their brains of expectations as they packed into Chapel Hill’s primary experimental room, Nightlight. Their goal? To take in melted techno, deepest drone, Christian noise, and varied flavors of performance art as part of Savage Weekend, Nightlight’s annual celebration of all things out.

The same transgressive, populist spirit animates this touring incarnation of the International Noise Conference, an offshoot of the legendary Miami festival of the same name. About twenty-five acts will perform quarter-hour sets, with a great deal of genre variety in the lineup. Thanks to the inclusion of fresh faces like Chula with established favorites like Secret Boyfriend, the event also serves as a crash course in current Triangle underground talent. Stick around late-night for the final run—Housefire, Yohimbe, Clang Quartet, and Laundry Room Squelchers will be pure lightning. —David Ford Smith

REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER, DURHAM 8 p.m., $10–$27, www.americandancefestival.org

Remains PHOTO

NIGHTLIGHT BAR & CLUB, CHAPEL HILL 7 p.m., $7–$10, www.nightlightclub.com

COURTESY OF THE FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT BARD COLLEGE/© ANTOINE MIDANT

SATURDAY, JULY 9

SATURDAY, JULY 9

CAMEO, S.O.S. BAND

DURHAM COMICS FEST

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, RALEIGH 7:30 p.m., $24–$43, www.redhatamphitheater.com

SOUTHWEST REGIONAL LIBRARY, DURHAM 11 a.m.–5 p.m., free, www.durhamcomicsfest.org

Updating the paradigmatic funk designs of James Brown and Funkadelic in the early seventies, Cameo, the S.O.S. Band, and other early-eighties dance-music purveyors used electronic percussion’s machine-tooled precision to imbue their songs with an eraappropriate sheen. Cameo’s driving force—the polymath drummer/producer/performer Larry Blackmon—sported a high-top fade and liked to perform wearing a codpiece, and his willfully weird persona marked a handful of killer singles. “We don’t have no time for psychological romance,” he promised perplexingly on the classic “Word Up.” The S.O.S. Band, on the other hand, took a more sophisticated approach to moving the masses, most memorably with the ingenious dub-pop concoction “Just Be Good to Me” and the celebratory “Take Your Time (Do It Right).” Both bands know their way around a ballad, so be prepared both to swoon as well as “Shake Your Pants.” —David Klein

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As is apt for a kid-friendly, community-focused festival dedicated to comics and graphic novels, the main event of this year’s Durham Comics Fest will take place among the stacks at 3605 Shannon Road on Saturday. There will be a comics swap, an artist alley lined with local creators, and workshops with estimable guests like Keith Knight (The K Chronicles) and George O’Connor (The Olympians). But this year, the festival also spills tendrils of ink outside of the library. It begins with a meet-up for local creators at Atomic Empire (Wednesday, July 6, 6 p.m.) and continues with a drink-and-draw event at Cocoa Cinnamon’s Geer Street spot (Friday, July 8, 7 p.m.). It concludes back at the library with a screening of Dear Mr. Watterson (Sunday, July 10, 3 p.m.), a loving documentary about Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, whose timeless work is a perfect argument for the emotional appeal of sequential art for people of all backgrounds and generations. —Brian Howe

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK

The Truth Booth PHOTO

COURTESY OF THE CAUSE COLLECTIVE

FRIDAY, JULY 8 & SATURDAY, JULY 9

IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH (THE TRUTH BOOTH)

In The Elements of Style, Strunk and White strongly advise against the use of the expression “the truth is.” “If you feel you are possessed of the truth,” they write, “… do not give it advance billing.” Yet what might be redundant or selfincriminating on the page gains urgency when spoken aloud in The Truth Booth, an interactive art installation created by the Cause Collective. It aims to gauge the nature of truth in this pre-election moment, simply by asking people to video-record themselves responding to the aforementioned three-word prompt in two minutes or less. The results are disarming, eloquent, and powerful—with the visceral impact one feels when a person speaks candidly from the heart. The “audio confessional,” which has gone global since originating in 2010, stops at NCMA for two days before heading off to forty-five other destinations in the U.S. We often fall short of telling the truth in our daily lives; here’s an opportunity to break from that tradition. The world is listening. —David Klein

SATURDAY, JULY 9

WE LOVE THE ’90S DANCE PARTY

The eclectic We Love the ’90s Dance Party, held annually on the second Saturday in July, has become a summertime throwback tradition in Raleigh. It’s hosted once more by Kooley High’s Ill Digitz and DSCVRY’s Nixxed, and the duo is joined by area DJ Triple B. He’ll add a set of goldenera boom bap to the night’s inclusive soundtrack, which spans a decade’s worth of deep hip-hop cuts and catchy alt-rock hits. “It’s a way for us to celebrate and preserve an era of music that had and continues to have a profound impact on us,” says Digitz, adding that the event involves more than just tunes. “Each year, we try to find ways to incorporate more nostalgia from the nineties beyond the music.” He promises that the DJs have been doing plenty of crate-digging to keep the bash varied in its fifth year. —Spencer Griffith

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

10 BY 10 IN THE TRIANGLE AT THE ARTSCENTER (P. 26), DURHAM BY GHOSTBIKE AT CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY (P. 36), STEVE GUNN AT KINGS (P. 22), HAIR AT THEATRE IN THE PARK (P. 39), HEATHER HAVRILESKY AT MOTORCO MUSIC HALL (P. 14), I WISH YOU A BOAT AT WARD THEATRE (P. 27), JPHONO1 AT THE STATION (P. 24), CHUCK PALAHNIUK AT THE REGULATOR BOOKSHOP (P. 15), SILICA-GEL AT NEPTUNES PARLOUR (P. 33), WILLIAM TYLER AT DUKE GARDENS (P. 22)

LINCOLN THEATRE, RALEIGH 9 p.m., $7, www.lincolntheatre.com

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SU 10/30 NF ($18/$21)

8/6: OH PEP! ($10/$12)

FR 11/5 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

8/12:ELIZABETH COOKW/ DEREK HOKE ($15/$17)

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FR8/12 THE JULIE RUIN **($23/$22) SA 8/13 RAINER MARIA ($15/$17) TH 8/25 LOCAL H (AS GOOD AS DEAD TOUR) FR 8/26-SA 8/27 BE LOUD! SOPHIE '16 THE ENGLISH BEAT,

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TH 7/7 CIRQUE DE VOL PRESENTS: SA 7/9 TU 7/12

SUMMER SIZZLER CIRQUE-BURLESQUE NC MUSIC LOVE ARMY / BIRDS OF AVALON

PIE FACED GIRLS / WOOL / S.E. WARD STEVE GUNN / THE DEAD TONGUES (SOLO) LIVE AT NEPTUNES

BLOODWORTH COMBO

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WE 7/13 LIVE AT NEPTUNES

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TU 7/19 LIVE AT NEPTUNES

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PREESH!, HOBEX, I WAS TOTALLY DESTROYING IT, CHRIS STAMEY'S OCCASIONAL SHIVERS, BILLY WARDEN & THE FLOATING CHILDREN, & MUCH MORE... ($45 WEEKEND/ $25 PER NIGHT./ $10 MATINEE)

MOTHERS / SUN CLUB SAM BROWN / DYLIJENS SNEAKS / DROZY / TENNIS RODMAN XXX FILES: THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE DANCE PARTY TO BENEFIT INTERNATIONALIST BOOKS! VIVICA C. COXX PRESENTS: THE BIG SHOW - DURHAM’S BEST DRAG THAT’S THE JOINT OPEN MIC NIGHT BEST IN THE TRIANGLE NIGHT BEATS MYSTERY LIGHTS / THE NUDE PARTY PINHOOK KARAOKE BEST IN THE TRIANGLE POETRY VS. HIP HOP DURHAM NC EDITION ILLEGAL DANCE PARTY FREAKWATER DRUNKEN PRAYER COMING SOON:

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SU 9/4 OF MONTREAL W/ RUBY THE RABBITFOOT ($17) TU 9/6 CRYSTAL CASTLES **($20/$23; ON SALE JULY 8) TU 9/13 BLIND GUARDIAN W/ GRAVEDIGGER ($29 - $60 FOR VIP)

TH 11/17 REV PAYTON'S BIG DAMN BAND, SUPERSUCKERS, JESSE DAYTON ($15/$17) TU 11/22 PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT ($25)

8/13: THE WELL RESPECTED MEN, LUXURIANT SEDANS ($7) 8/14:FLORIST W/EMILYYACIAN($10) 8/25: THE VEGABONDS

2/1/17 THE DEVIL MAKES THREE ($22/$25)

8/27: MILEMARKER W/ PUFF PIECES, COMMITTEE(S) ($12)

CAT'S CRADLE BACK ROOM

7/6: KITTEN W/ SIZZY ROCKET, CLEAN SPILL ($14/$16)

9/24: PURPLE SCHOOLBUS

GREAVER,YOUTH LEAGUE, BEAR GIRL, LAWW X BIGG, HUNDREDFTFACES ($10/$12)

10/15: GRIFFIN HOUSE ($18)

3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW W/ PROFESSOR TOON,

7/11 DAVID BAZAN W/ LAURA GIBSON ($15) 7/12: PRIMITIVE WAYS PRESENTS THE LYSINE

SA 10/15: BRETT DENNEN W/ LILY & MADELEINE ($22/$25) WE 10/19 BEATS ANTIQUE W/ TOO MANY ZOO'S, THRIFTWORKS ($26/$29)

REUNION

10/19: MC CHRIS ($14/$16) 10/21: SERATONES ($12/$14) 11/16: SLOAN "ONE CHORD TO ANOTHER" 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR ($20)

CONTINGENCY, MORE OF MYSELF TO KILL, VALLEYS, ANAMORPH ($8) 7/13:SKOUT, CATIE CURTIS, KATIE PRUITT($10) 7/16: HEGE V AND MICHAEL KELSH ($10) 7/19: THE GOTOBEDS AND ARBOR LABOR UNION 7/22:: JON LINDSAY W/MATT

11/17:BRENDAN JAMES ($14/$16)

7/23: MAGNOLIA STILL

10/3 BAND OF SKULLS W/ MOTHERS ($20/$23)

7/25: MARISSA NADLER W/ WREKMEISTER HARMONIES, MUSCLE & MARROW ($13/$15)

WE 10/12 DIARRHEA PLANET** ($12/$15)

9/10: ELLIS DYSON & THE SHAMBLES W/ RESONANT ROGUES ($10/$12) 9/21: GOBLIN COCK ($10/$12)

TH 9/22 BUILT TO SPILL W/ HOP ALONG, ALEX G($20/$25)

SU 10/9 LANY($15)

9/9:STEPHANE WREMBEL ($20)

7/9: CARDIGAN RECORDS

PHILLIPS (BAND) & YOUNG MISTER

FR 10/7 THE DEAR HUNTER W/EISLEY,GAVINCASTLETON ($18/$20)

9/1:SAWYER FREDERICKS W/ MIA Z ($20/$25)

7/8: NC SONGSMITHS SHOWCASE: E-S GUTHRIE, CHARLES LATHAM, BOB FUNCK

TU 9/20 OKKERVIL RIVER W/LANDLADY ($18/$20)

MO 10/3 NADA SURF W/ AMBER ARCADES($17/$20)

W/ BOY NAMED BANJO

7/26: FEAR OF MEN W/PURO INSTINCT, JANXX ($10/$12) 7/28:DEMON EYE /

HORSEBURNER / RUSCHA ($7) 7/29:GROSS GHOST & FRIENDS (ALSO...SARAHSHOOK, NATURALCAUSES,WAILIN'STORMS, NOONEMIND) ($10) 7/30: GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! W/ THE BRONZED CHORUS, ZEPHYRANTHES 8/5: THE CHORUS PROJECT ($8 ADULT / $5 STUDENTS)

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10/6: BLITZEN TRAPPER W/ KACY & CLAYTON**($17/$19; ON SALE JULY 8) KINGS (RAL)

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WED, JUL 6

BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Spoonbenders; 8 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Kitten, Sizzy Rocket, Clean Spill; 8 p.m., $14–$16. • DUKE GARDENS: Sierra Hull; 7 p.m., $5–$10, 12 and under free. • HUMBLE PIE: Peter Lamb & the Wolves; 8:30 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Ricky Stein; 6:30 p.m. • KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE: Brand New, Modest Mouse; 6:30 p.m., $40–$60.

• LOCAL 506: Tony Furtado Duo, Ellis Dyson; 8 p.m., $12–$15.

• NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Blursome, Iggy Cosky, Rude Shade; 10 p.m., $6. • THE PINHOOK: Mothers, Sun Club; 9 p.m., $10–$12. • POUR HOUSE: The Dink Down: Young Cardinals, The Infamous Sugar, Wonky Tonk; 9 p.m., $5. • THE RITZ: In This Moment, Hellyeah, Shaman’s Harvest, Sunflower Dead; 7 p.m., $25. • THE STATION: DJ Craig Layabout; 8 p.m. • WAVERLY PLACE: Bull City Syndicate; 6 p.m., free.

THU, JUL 7 Local Band Local Beer: ET Anderson

SLOW Based in Columbia, ROLL South Carolina, Tyler Morris crafts slouchy, stoned rock songs as ET Anderson—think a lazier, less bratty Mac DeMarco.

Raleigh’s own Zephyranthes and Tangible Dream join this week’s Local Band Local Beer installment.

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Wilmington’s Phantom Playboys add surf and fifties rock to their rockabilly sets. —GB [THE STATION, $5/8 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Michael Jones Trio; 7 p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Nash Street Ramblers; 7-9 p.m. • THE CAVE: Arson Daily, The Remarks, Chrome Scene; 9 p.m., $5. • DEEP SOUTH: Chit Nasty; 10:30 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: Half Past Six; 6:30 p.m. • PITTSBORO ROADHOUSE: Marty Christian; 6:30 p.m. • RALEIGH CITY PLAZA: 120 Minutes, Shirlette Ammons, Hotline; 5 p.m., free. • THE STATION: Of Good Nature, Sound System Seven; 11 p.m., $6.

FRI, JUL 8 The Art of Noise CALL & Last November was REVERB the first time that the Virginia-based DJ and MC duo of Lonnie B. and Mad Skillz brought their Art of Noise party to the Triangle, but the event hardly got a red carpet treatment. Barely promoted, it was held in a North Raleigh nightclub and sprung on us during Thanksgiving weekend.

Mad Skillz set a grand dance precedent inside Motorco with his own “A King and a Prince” tribute party in June, so his return doubles the need for him and Lonnie to throw everything at us, from “Juicy Fruit” to new jack swing. —ET [MOTORCO, $10/9 P.M.]

The Ghost of Saturday Nite NEW Long-running CLASSIC Raleigh punk rock band The Ghost of Saturday Nite got a glimpse of the big time when Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio, Blink-182) sang its“Barrio” for the punk supergroup Teenage Time Killers. But it was anything but an odd match: The Ghost of Saturday Nite’s raw and melodic punk waves a flag for punk’s

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Girls Rock N.C. Showcase GET IT, For more than a GRRRLZ decade, Girls Rock N.C. has been providing a platform for girls to learn life and leadership skills under the guise of joining a rock band. The youngsters learn that, whether they play guitar, keys, bass, or drums, their most important instrument is their voice. Campers strut their stuff at this early evening showcase. —AH [THE PINHOOK, $5/6 P.M.]

N.C. Songsmiths Showcase DUDES & The Triangle boasts SONGS a rich pool of excellent songwriters with a range of backgrounds and talents, but for some reason, this showcase focuses exclusively on dudes armed with acoustic guitars.

Charles Latham and The Grand Shell Game’s Eric-Scott Guthrie share an eager affection for earnest, impassioned songs that often draw their power from social justice causes. They’re joined by Durham’s Bob Funck.

—AH [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $6–$8/8 P.M.]

Laura Reed LIVE IT UP Raleigh-based Laura Reed released her last album, Awakening, in 2014. It was a breathy take on R&B pop that leaned more sassy than soulful, and she’s been touring the album’s songs ever since. Despite two-time Grammy and Emmy-winning producer Shannon Sanders’ input on the record, the rough-hewn edges of Reed’s live shows beat her polished recorded performances, especially on the pleading “Bombshelter.” Ten-piece band The Savants of Soul opens, plus Khrysis and the Raleigh Rockers.

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DAVID BAZAN On some level, I’ve always felt a connection to David Bazan. We both grew up in conservative evangelical environments, in which we were taught to fear an angry God. We both grappled with our demons and our faith (and the inherent contradictions and logical fallacies therein), as well as the intersection between religion and right-wing politics. In time, we both embraced agnosticism and accepted uncertainty.

But whereas my existential crisis played out privately, his played out in front of a devoted fan base of youth-group kids and late-nineties emo enthusiasts. The Pedro the Lion songwriter I first met in 1997 was devout, singing about the redemptive blessings of faith (“I know I’m understood when I hear him say, ‘Rest in me, little David, and dry all your tears’”). The inklings of doubt that had appeared on 1998’s It’s Hard to Find a Friend had metastasized into full-blown cynicism by 2002’s masterful Control, a blistering takedown of rapacious capitalism (“All of the experts say you ought to start them young, that way they’ll naturally love the taste of corporate cum”).

In 2005, Bazan stopped performing as Pedro the Lion, and in 2009 he released his first solo LP, Curse Your Branches, a record best understood as a breakup letter to Jesus (“With the threat of hell hanging over my head like a halo, I was made to believe in a couple of beautiful truths that ultimately had the effect of completely unraveling”). The follow-up, 2011’s Strange Negotiations, ruminated on the Tea Party and the politics of fear.

With Blanco, released in May, Bazan steps away from acerbic commentary on politics and religion, bathing instead in waves of lo-fi synthesizers and down-tempo beats that recall his 2005–2006 project, Headphones. It’s something of a departure from the distorted guitars and thundering drums that characterize much of his back catalog, and it lulls you to sleep more than jars you awake. It’s intimate but understated, beautiful but elusive. His camera points at small questions rather than existential crises, his cynicism occasionally giving way to quiet celebrations of humanity.

We’re older now, Bazan and me, and wrestling demons has worn us out. Quiet celebrations are OK sometimes. —Jeffrey C. Billman CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, CARRBORO 8 p.m., $15, catscradle.com |

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an acoustic duo for over two decades. The skilled vocal-swapping siblings weave a smattering of originals into an array of covers spanning Appalachian folk instrumentals, retro country ballads, and classic rock hits.

—SG [SERTOMA AMPHITHEATRE, FREE/6 P.M.]

Cardigan Records Three-Year Anniversary Show 3’S COM- The Durham-based PANY Cardigan Records has always had a broad approach to building its roster. That spirit shines tonight as Bull City rapper Professor Toon shares the stage with the prog-leaning emo band Greaver. But even despite their disparate aesthetics, Toon’s blend of relatable rhymes and beats that find a middle ground between old-school boom bap and chart-topping hooks forms a surprising complement to Greaver’s narrative-driven songwriting and bombastic arrangements. Both deliver their songs earnestly, with a gift for drawing high drama from everyday existence. They’ll be joined by the Wilmington’s Youth League, Atlanta’s Bear Girl, Durham’s Laww x Bigg, and Chapel Hill’s HundredftFaces.

—BCR [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/7:30 P.M.]

The Forryst Bruthers FOLK Since first playing FUNK together a dozen years ago in The Old Ceremony’s early days, James Wallace and Mark Simonsen have been valuable contributors to a slew of esteemed local acts: The Dead Tongues, Max Indian, Mandolin Orange, and more. Enlisting a rhythm section of Aaron Oliva (Sarah Shook & the Disarmers) and Evans Nicholson (Old Habits), the freewheeling crew—which also features guest Robert Sledge tonight—collaborates on country-soul originals inspired by seventies songwriters like Jim Ford and Eric Kaz. —SG [SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL, FREE/6 P.M.]

The Harris Brothers SHARP Caldwell County ARSENAL natives Reggie and Ryan Harris have been playing stringed instruments together since they were youngsters and as

Impact, Hangman

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SILICA-GEL

“Digital sound sampling devices are... able to render the whole orchestral panoply, plus all that grunts, or squeaks,” wrote plunderphonics progenitor John Oswald in his widely cited 1985 manifesto on the subject. Under that umbrella of sampling, you’ll find everything from Beastie Boys’ 1989 masterwork Paul’s Boutique to Girl Talk’s dense walls of mash-ups. But in both instances, the chopped and repurposed materials are used to create something accessible—as revolutionary as Paul’s Boutique was, ultimately there weren’t that many grunts or squeaks.

For that, you have to aim instead for something like Evolution Control Committee’s “Rocked by Rape,” in which Dan Rather newscasts are rearranged to form gleefully twisted lines like “emergency anti-fatal shooting rampage,” as ham-fisted AC/DC riffs chug mindlessly along. In the age of the sampler, this kind of music is the equivalent of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain: it simultaneously screams “this clattering mess is art” and “fuck art.”

Wednesday night, a local difficult music masterpiece sees a loving 180-gram double LP reissue, twenty-three years after its initial release. Silica-Gel’s 50) Noisy Children Party, the raucous electronic creation of Michael Pilmer and Chris Tector, was first issued on CD in 1993. Cuts like “Jerk” present damaged, danceable percussion—a deranged version of what was called “techno” at the time—while the slowed-down voice in “Master of the Game” describes the tattoos on a homicide victim over disembodied voices singing “ohs” and “oohs.” “Pssst” is a minute and a half of static, bloops, and bleeps while the phrase “did they tell you?” repeats, to a maddening end, while another voice confesses “secrets are good/secrets are bad.” In “Sex w/ a Woman,” an insistent drum machine pushes forward while an emotionless voice intones “have sex with a woman” a dozen times or so. In spots, it’s a disturbing record, while cuts like “You Bear Gram Her” are riotously funny. Almost a quarter century later, Silica-Gel remains aggressively weird in the best way. —Corbie Hill NEPTUNES PARLOUR, RALEIGH 8 p.m., Free, www.kingsbarcade.com

HXC New York bands ENDURES Impact and Hangman (from Staten and Long Island, respectively) headline a six-band bill of burly, straightahead hardcore. The groups both stay true to the legacy of their forebears in bands like Judge and Gorilla Biscuits. Greensboro’s Future Primitive tilts toward crossover, while Charlotte bands Rapid Change, Refocus, and Low Roll bring it back to the Youth Crew stomp. —BCR [NIGHTLIGHT, $10/7:30 P.M.]

Brad Linde Team Players SAX Brad Linde has been SUMTHIN a fixture of the D.C. jazz scene for more than a decade, but the multi-instrumentalist/educator/jazz spokesman has maintained ties with this region with frequent area performances of Monk and Coltrane. All-American, the second release with his talented Team Players, showcases Linde’s major influences, with works by Thelonious Monk and free jazz avatar Albert Ayler, plus original compositions inspired by, among other things, “baseball and Americana.” —DK [THE SHED, $10/8 P.M.]

No Eyes FUZZ ‘N’ For whatever reason, SUCH No Eyes rereleased “Soaked”—one of only a handful of tracks the Raleigh psych band has committed to tape during its half-dozen years—as a single via Bandcamp in April. (It first appeared on 2012’s No Eyes.) The song is all incense and peppermints, with gauzy reverb and tinny fuzz scuzzing up a motortik groove. Asheville’s Shallows, who sit atop the bill, go heavy, yoking the post-metal burl of Isis onto

Alice in Chains’ grungy sludge.

With Weird Pennies (of Raleigh).

—PW [SLIM’S, $5/9 P.M.]

North Tower Band WANNA Summerfest series SHAG? fans, take note: the N.C. Symphony will not be performing at this installment of the orchestra’s summer-spanning concerts. Instead, party band North Tower, led by beach music legend Jackie Gore, brings the shagging soundtrack without any any brass or string sections.

—KM [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $30–$35/7:30 P.M.]

N.C. Local Music Anniversary ALT-ROCK N.C. Local Music BASH throws itself an anniversary party fitting for the nine years it’s spent promoting alternative rock across the Triangle. A trio of Raleigh bands—Skycrest, I Am Maddox, and The Old Laws—take slightly varied but consistently angsty and aggressive approaches to modern, metallic hard rock. —SG [DEEP SOUTH, $5–$8/9 P.M.]

N.C. Music Love Army LOTS OF In 2013, Django LOVE Haskins, Jon Lindsay, and Caitlin Cary formed the N.C. Music Love Army. Calling on friends and fellow musicians from the state’s rich arts community, the collective began writing songs decrying the regressive politics of the current GOP leadership in the state, donating all proceeds to a host of nonprofit groups. Tonight, the ensemble hosts a killer lineup featuring a full-band performance as well as sets from Birds of Avalon, WOOL, S.E. Ward, and Pie Face Girls. Proceeds will go to Equality NC, the LGBT Center of Raleigh, and Now or Never NC to fight HB 2. —CB [KINGS, $10–$12/7:30 P.M.]

Aoife O’Donovan NOT JUST Aoife O’Donovan FOLK has been largely classified as a folk artist, thanks to INDYweek.com | 7.6.16 | 33

her work in roots ensembles like Crooked Still and Sometymes Why. O’Donovan’s first solo LP, 2013’s Fossils, was a fine, moderate effort, but her new In the Magic Hour is stunning.

Building from a rootsy foundation, O’Donovan outdoes herself in magnificent fashion. There are tangled, off-kilter guitar riffs and hair-raising violin parts on the boldly vulnerable “King of All Birds,” while jazz percussion frames the tender and gorgeous “Magpie.” Her appearance at Hayti should be a magic hour indeed. —AH [HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER, $22/8 P.M.]

Yolanda Rabun

SNOOZE Accomplished JAZZ jazz-soul vocalist Yolanda Rabun raised twenty-four thousand dollars on Kickstarter to release her new self-titled LP. Though it officially came out back in March, the prim and proper Rabun celebrates her album’s release this weekend, appropriately, from the antiseptic atmosphere of Raleigh’s Duke Energy Center. —ET [KENNEDY THEATER, $15–$20/8 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY

APEX NATURE PARK: Bombadil; 7 p.m., free. • BERKELEY CAFÉ: Chelsea Stepp; 8 p.m. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Calvin Edwards Trio; 8 & 10 p.m., $6. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: JP Soars & the Red Hots; Lawyers, Guns & Money; 8 p.m., $10. • CARY ARTS CENTER: David Holt, David Wilcox, and David LaMotte; 8 p.m., $30. • THE CAVE: Greg Phoenix Experience, JP & Leon; 9 p.m., $5. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Ozymandias; 7 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Cole Koffi; 11:30 a.m.; The John Palowitch Trio; 6 p.m.

La Fiesta Latin Jazz Quintet; 9 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: We Love the ‘90s Dance Party; 9 p.m., $7. See page 29. • LOCAL 506: Future Thieves, Guthrie Brown; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • THE MAYWOOD: Clever Measures, Tortuga Stone, Noise Ordinance; 9:30 p.m., $8. • POUR HOUSE: Trae Crowder, Corey Ryan Forrester, Drew Morgan; 7:30 p.m., $25. Groove Fetish, Psylo Joe; 10:30 p.m., $6–$8. • RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: Cameo, The S.O.S. Band; 7:30 p.m., $23–$43.

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SHARP NINE GALLERY: Lynn Grissett Quartet; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • THE STATION: Noah Wall; 8:30 p.m., $12. DJ Aviation Parkway; 11 p.m.

SUN, JUL 10 America Is a Mistake NONThough they operate REVIVAL a relative distance from the genre’s revivalists, Charlotte’s America Is a Mistake and Mineral Girls fall under emo’s broad scope. America Is a Mistake’s vocal-driven tunes feature sore-throated emoting over dream-pop progressions; their instrumentals veer toward U.S. Maple’s avant spasms.

Mineral Girls, meanwhile, graft emo’s punk rock thrust to lo-fi indie rock. Plus Beverly Tender.

—PW [POUR HOUSE, $5/9 P.M.]

Toby Keith FREE TO Toby Keith is a quintBE(ER) essentially American study in contradictions.

His most notorious hit, “Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American),” is a post-9/11 broadside aimed toward anyone who might infringe on the boot-in-ass “American way.”

Since then, he’s lent his name to a casual-dining chain with guitar-shaped bars and libations served up in Toby-branded red Solo cups, an homage to his 2011 entrant in the bro-country canon.

“Drunk Americans,” the opener of 2015’s 35 MPH Town, sums up not just his duality, but his country’s: “In these neon lights, we’re all stars, we’re all stripes/And we’re all drunk Americans.” God bless.

—MJ [COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK, $18–$95/7 P.M.]

Meatwound, Die Choking VICIOUS Last year, Florida’s METAL Meatwound— whose collective résumé includes membership in Combatwoundedveteran and The Holy Mountain, among others—issued the vicious and viscous Addio, a six-track salvo of burly hardcore, beefed up with elements of industrial metal, sludge, and black metal. Tonight, the band headlines over Philly’s

Die Choking, whose own 2015 album, III, is a violent outburst of searing grindcore. Local crew Lesser Life arrives fresh off tour and with the new tape, Bone Deep & Numbing, offering a thick fusion of old-school death metal and grindcore. Durham stoner rock outfit Mantle opens. —BCR [LOCAL 506, $8/9 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY BERKELEY CAFÉ: Emmanuel Nsingani and Sheila Flemming; 5 p.m. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Michael Pelz-Sherman; 11 a.m.-2 p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: James, Pace & Preslar; 5 p.m. • THE CAVE: Shann & Shanahan; 7 p.m. Phil Yates & The Affiliates, Ravary, S.E. Ward; 9 p.m., $5. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Denver Carlstrom; 1 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Gene O’Neill; 10 a.m. Kelly Zullo; 6 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Daniel Spiegel; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • WEST END WINE BAR-DURHAM: Eric Meyer, Noah Sager & Friends; 4-6 p.m., free.

MON, JUL 11 Black Pistol Fire SURE Austin-by-way-ofSHOT Toronto blues-rock outfit Black Pistol Fire draws easy comparisons to The Black Keys and The White Stripes. For one thing, there’re only two of ’em: singer-guitarist Kevin McKeown and drummer Eric Owen. For another, they tread the same well-worn ground as the Keys and Stripes, playing electric blues riffs in the key of Zeppelin’s “Hats Off to Roy Harper” at amphetamineaddled speeds. It’s by no means original, but it never loses the underpinnings that made the Keys and Stripes special, either.

Chrome Pony opens. —PW [POUR HOUSE, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

Boys of Summer Tour OMG ILU This traveling WYD menagerie of online video stars boasts a pair of Biebers-in-waiting: thirteen-yearold Johnny Orlando and fourteen-year-old Carson Lueders. Me, I’m most curious whether or not adenoidal sixteen-year-old vlogger Nathan Triska, who boasts an uncanny

resemblance to One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson, will solicit loving, yet pointed insults from his devotees à la his May clip “READING HATE COMMENTS.” There, he proves how his supporters are better at “hating” than those souls who have found themselves at the internet’s very bottom—YouTube comments— and can only rage their way out.

—MJ [LINCOLN THEATRE, $36–$100/5 P.M.]

modern bebop compositions are, but this local improvisational supergroup promises lots of them, along with some originals. Given who’s in the group—Mike Isenberg, Steve Cowles, Joe Westerlund, Christopher Thurston, and Robert “Crowmeat” Pence—you should expect nothing less than the finest free jazz skree. —DR [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $5/8:30P.M.]

The Harlequins

Carrack Free Improv Tuesday: Jizo

THEE OH- Cincinnati trio The IO SEES Harlequins offer a fuzz-blasted and frenzied take on garage rock that fuses the groove of sixties garage, the slithering melody of surf rock, and the throb of krautrock in a way that shows more than a little influence from West Coast titans Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees. Raleigh singersongwriter Tyler Billman opens.

—BCR [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.]

Mixtape Monday: DJ Wade Banner MIXED The groove experts SIGNALS from Carolina Soul Records have been the resident DJs bringing the noise at this weekly great-case-of-the-Mondays kickback series at the new-look Beyù Caffè. But expect this one—DJed by K97.5-FM’s Wade Banner—to edge on reaching a party ambience. It might be just a little too hype for downtown Durham’s happy hour crowd, but also tempting enough to urge a few Beyù diners to get up and break in those new wooden floors. —ET [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, FREE/6 P.M.] ALSO ON MONDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Bo Lankenau; 7 p.m.

• CAT’S CRADLE: David Bazan, Laura Gibson; 8 p.m., $15. See box, page 31. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5.

TUE, JUL 12 Bloodworth Combo FREE-BOP I’m not entirely sure what “standard”

FREE YR Help The Carrack MIND break in its new home on East Main Street with its monthly Free Improv Tuesday.

This round features Jizo, a Greensboro-based improvisational trio, who are joined by Laurent Estoppey on sax and Agymah Busch on trumpet.

Together, they’ll craft ample, free-form creations that pull from West African, blues, country, jazz, and other varicolored influences.

—AH [THE CARRACK, $10/8 P.M.]

Jared Leibowich FUZZ POP Jared Leibowich leads the Austin psych-tinged outfit The Zoltars, who straddle the line between floating dream pop jangles and fuzzy garage rock charges. On their own, Leibowich’s supremely melodic tunes maintain the same sense of timelessness across last year’s sleepy and unassuming solo debut, Welcome Late Bloomers. Conversely, Colin Sneed, of Mississippi’s Unwed Teenage Mothers, carries over more of the gnarled enthusiasm from his main outlet’s ragged power pop. —SG [THE CAVE, $5/10 P.M.]

Night Beats ACID The fuzz-toned, BEST Day-Glo tropes of the psychedelic sixties have been well mined, but Night Beats looks to the era’s dark, twisted side: Altamont, Charlie Manson, burn baby burn. The music has a throbbing, primitive appeal that draws from American garage and psych, making a fine backdrop for dark rituals around a bonfire.

Night Beats’ determinedly vintage sound may threaten to collapse into the maw of its own influences, but it casts a powerful spell. With Mystery Lights and The Nude Party. —DK [THE PINHOOK, $12/9 P.M.]

Danny Schmidt POETIC Austinite Danny SONGS Schmidt can often be found touring with his wife, fellow troubadour Carrie Elkin, but here he splits a bill with Rebecca Newton and Wes Collins.

Schmidt’s most recent outing, 2015’s Owls, earned some rhapsodic reviews, but a fifteen-year career means he’s got plenty of other arrows in his quiver. His penchant for pairing intense lyrical imagery with a simple but potent, folk-tinged framework makes him a balladeer worth hearing. —JA [MOTORCO, $10–$12/8 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY IRREGARDLESS: Marilyn Wienand; 6:30 p.m. • KINGS: Steve Gunn, Spacin’, Ryan Gustafson; 8:30 p.m., $13–$15. See page 22. • LOCAL 506: In the Whale; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • POUR HOUSE: The Groove Orient; 9 p.m., $5.

WED, JUL 13 BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Quebe Sisters; 8 p.m., $12. • DUKE GARDENS: William Tyler, Jake Xerxes Fussell; 7 p.m., $5–$10, 12 and under free. See page 22.• HUMBLE PIE: Sidecar Social Club; 8:30 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: Dave Wright & Katie Stephens; 6:30 p.m.

• LOCAL 506: Stephen Babcock, Schuyler Grant, Curtis Stith; 9 p.m., $6–$8. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Silica-Gel, Repetophile; 8 p.m., free.

See box, page 31. • POUR HOUSE: Six Shots Later, Us & Them, The Great Fall, Magnolia; 8:30 p.m., $5. • THE STATION: DJ KC Masterpeace; 9 p.m. • WAVERLY PLACE: Spare Change; 6 p.m., free.

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SPECIAL A Recovery Process: EVENT Scott Higgins Jul 9-31. Reception: Sat, Jul 9, 4-7 p.m. Naomi Studio and Gallery, Durham. www.

NaomiStudioandGallery.com.

A Winter Day, a Summer Morning: Joe Lipka. Jul 7-Aug 13. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

Artist at Work: Eric Ennis: Beaded fabric art demonstration. Sat, Jul 9, 1-3 p.m. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

SPECIAL The Colors of EVENT Summer: Peg Bachenheimer. Jul 9-Sep 17.

Reception: Sat, Jul 9, 5-7 p.m.

Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com.

SPECIAL Durham by EVENT Ghostbike: Works on paper by Jeremy Kerman. Jul 9-Sep 17. Reception: Sat, Jul 9, 5-7 p.m. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com.

In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth): Interactive installation where visitors record responses to the prompt “The truth is...” Fri, Jul 8, 12-8 p.m. & Sat, Jul 9, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. See p. 29.

SPECIAL Calli Ryan: New EVENT paintings. Jul 8-31.

Reception: Fri, Jul 8, 6-10 p.m.

Galerij Eumbaach, Chapel Hill.

The Sky Is Falling: Jenn Hales.

Jul 7-Aug 13. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

Truth to Power 4: Juried exhibit of North Carolina artists that explores social justice. Jul 13-Aug 7. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

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JEREMY KERMAN: DURHAM BY GHOSTBIKE

ONGOING 20 Years of Horse & Buggy Press and Friends: In this must-read retrospective, the past twenty years are an open book. That’s how long Dave Wofford has been letterpress printing paper pleasures at Horse & Buggy Press. Wofford collaborates with writers and artists to produce beautiful, minutely tailored books in small runs, their content ranging from abstract photojournalism to translations of Rilke. You can read them all in this exhibit, which also includes dozens of framed artworks. Thru Aug 7.

CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh. org. —Brian Howe A Retrospective Exhibition of Photo Essays: Donn Young.

Thru Jul 24. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery. net.

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A Short History of Orange County Baseball: Photographs. Thru Jul 31.

Orange County Historical Museum, Hillsborough. www. orangeNChistory.org.

SPECIAL Abstract Territory: EVENT Lolette Guthrie and Sandy Milroy. Thru Aug 7.

Reception: Fri, Jul 8, 6-9 p.m.

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

The Adventures of Two Red Bicycles: Paintings by Phyllis Andrews. Thru Jul 28. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www. eruuf.org.

Afghanistan: A Country A People—Through the Eyes of the Men and Women of the U.S. Military (Part I): Thru Jul 24.

Cary Arts Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

Along These Lines: Constance Pappalardo. Thru Oct 16. Durham Convention Center, Durham. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.

Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist: In Altered Land, Stamer and Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. scenes. Stamer paints a barn with black-and-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Thru Sep 11.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Art from Raleigh Sister Cities: Fifty-one works by seventeen artists in Raleigh’s sister cities in France, Germany, England, and Kenya. Thru Jul 31. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

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The Art of Shadow & Light: Beth Bale. Thru Jul 31. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www.joyfuljewel.com.

The Art of the Bike: Bicyclethemed art exhibit. Thru Oct 23. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www.co.orange.nc.us/ library/carrboro.

Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock. Thru Sep 25.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe

In one of his mixed-media collages, Durham artist Jeremy Kerman shows us a familiar downtown vantage through fresh eyes. Using bright colors, blocky shapes, and skewed perspectives remindful of a child’s drawing, Kerman depicts the collision of old and new Durham, as historic brick jumbles with shiny ELF vehicles in front of the Organic Transit building. Lean in close and you’ll notice a “Ghost Bike” parking sign, a tribute to a friend of the artist’s in particular, and to all the people being erased, literally or figuratively, from Durham in general. “Road Closed Ahead,” reads a construction sign; the symbolic question Kerman tacitly asks is “for whom?”

Other pointed Durham scenes populate Durham by Ghostbike, Kerman’s new show at Craven Allen Gallery, which runs alongside The Colors of Summer, Peg Bachenheimer’s exhibit of vibrant encaustic paintings, through Sept. 17. — Brian Howe CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY, DURHAM 5–7 p.m., free, www.cravenallengallery.com

Chatham Artists Guild: Thru Jul 27. NCSU Campus: The Crafts Center, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/ crafts.

Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection: Whereas many glassblowers content themselves with bongs and lampshades, Dale Chihuly has taken the form into the upper echelons of fine art with his sculptural fantasias. This

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private collection of Chihuly’s works is currently on tour. The collection focuses on Chihuly vessels inspired by Venetian art deco vases from the 1920s and ’30s, almost fifty of which are in the exhibit, arrayed around the centerpiece of the Laguna Murano Chandelier, a tour de

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force made of more than 1,500 pieces. Thru Oct 15. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham. —Brian Howe Chill Out: Thru Jul 30. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com.

Color Abstractions: Allen Clapp, Mary Storms, and Sherri

Stewart. Thru Jul 30. 311 Gallery, Raleigh.

Corruption of the Innocents: Controversies about Children’s Popular Literature: Thru Aug 15.

UNC Campus: Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu/wilson.

SPECIAL Creative Recovery: EVENT Mixed media by Grayson Bowen. Thru Aug 7.

Reception: Fri, Jul 8, 6-9 p.m.

FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Kathy Dawalt and Michiel Van der Sommen: New oils and bronzes. Thru Jul 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

LAST Divergent: Paintings CHANCE by Darius Quarles and idiopathic art by Kim Howard. Thru Jul 10. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

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Durham and the Rise of the Baseball Card: An exploration of Durham’s role in popularizing the baseball card. Thru Sep 5.

Durham History Hub. www. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

Ingrid Erikson, Tonia Gebhart, Caroline Hohenrath, Anna Podris, and Tim Saguinsin: Thru Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

SPECIAL FRANK Summer EVENT Invitational: Janet Cooling, Drew Deane, Laura Hughes, Jenny Eggleston, Mary Kircher, and Jim Lee. Thru Aug 7. Reception: Fri, Jul 8, 6-9 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

LAST Geometric Universe: CHANCE Sculpture, neon, glass, mixed media, and paintings by Pleiades member artists. Thru Jul 10. Pleiades

Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Grounded: Paintings by Pat Merriman and Ellie Reinhold, and pottery by Evelyn Ward.

Thru Jul 24. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

Andrew Hladky: Found object paintings. Thru Sep 5. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Inside Out: Sculpture for all Environments: Representative and abstract sculpture.

Thru Jul 31. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www. cedarcreekgallery.com.

Christin Kleinstreuer: Thru Sep 24. more. Raleigh. www. jmrkitchens.com/.

Local Color: Multimedia works by twelve local female artists.

Thursdays. Thru Jul 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www. localcoloraleigh.com.

Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Made Especially for You by Willie Kay: Dresses by the Raleigh designer. Thru Sep 5.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

George McKim: Thru Sep 24.

Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com.

LAST Mottainai! Waste CHANCE not, Want not: Large-scale installations by Katherine Soucie. Thru Jul 9.

The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www.scrapexchange.org.

Muhammad Ali’s Most Memorable Images: Photographic portraits of the late boxer by Sonia Katchian.

Thru Aug 6. Vegan Flava Cafe, Durham. www.veganflavacafe. com.

Narrative Landscapes: Eric Smith. Thru Jul 23.

Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org.

Nature in Colored Pencil: The Colored Pencil Society of America. Thru Jul 31. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

Nature on Canvas: Brian Moyer.

Thru Aug 31. Bond Park Senior Center, Cary.

Nature: The Beauty of the Beast: Kathryn Green Patel.

Thru Jul 24. Herbert C Young Community Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

LAST North Carolina’s CHANCE Favorite Son: Billy Graham and His Remarkable Journey of Faith: Thru Jul 10.

NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Not Your Grandma’s Watercolors: Ryan Fox. Thru Jul 31. Mash & Lauter, Raleigh. www.busybeeraleigh.com/ mash-lauter-food.

OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings

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are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello

Erin Oliver: Site-specific installation. Thru Sep 24.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

SPECIAL One More Drop in EVENT the Bucket: Improvisational installation by Paperhand Puppets. Thru Jul 31.

Reception: Fri, Jul 8, 6-8 p.m.

The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

SPECIAL Our House: Durham EVENT Arts Council faculty and students. Thru Jul 10.

Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

People and Places: Meera Goyal.

Thru Jul 22. Cary Town Hall, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

LAST Picturing Sound: CHANCE Gemynii, Frank Myers, and James Cartwright.

Thru Jul 10. Arcana, Durham. www.arcanadurham.com.

The Process of Seeing: Paintings

by Lisa Creed and William Paul Thomas. Thru Sep 30. American Tobacco Campus, Durham. americantobaccohistoricdistrict. com.

LAST Rare Earth: CHANCE Photographs by Marjorie Pierson. Thru Jul 10.

Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org SPECIAL Selfie EVENT Representation:

Wither, Nickolas Dimondi’s locally produced short film about an overtaxed mother and a calamitous high school graduation weekend, gets an encore screening at Unexposed Microcinema.

Saturday, July 9, 8 p.m., www. unexposedmicrocinema.com

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A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  ½ Alice Through the Looking Glass—The story’s thin but the visuals shine; see it in 3-D or not at all. Rated PG.

Paintings by Shelby Bass. Thru Jul 31. Reception: Fri, Jul 8, 6-8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive. org.

Separation: Megan Bostic, Samantha Pell, and Jan-Ru Wan. Thru Jul 24. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

Jody Servon: Installations. Thru Aug 4. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Student Teacher Staff Show: Thru Jul 22. Cary Senior Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

Garden, Hillsborough. www.theqi-garden.com.

Thomas Teague: Paintings.

Thru Jul 31. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com.

Watercolor Society of NC: Thru Jul 26. Cary Visual Art, Cary. www.caryvisualart.org.

The Women: Portraits by Rebecca Rousseau and John Samosky. Thru Jul 31. Cameron Village Regional Library, Raleigh. www.wakegov.com/libraries.

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Thru rgierisch@indyweek.com Jul 26. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists. org.

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Dear Mr. Watterson: Documentary about the Calvin & Hobbes creator. Sun, Jul 10,

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3 p.m. Southwest Regional Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org.

The Martian: $6. Fri, Jul 8, 9 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum. org.

Minions: Thru Jul 7, 9:30 am.

Northgate Mall, Durham. www. northgatemall.com.

Movies by Movers: Short films focused on movement. Fri, Jul 8, 7 p.m. The Shed Jazz Club, Durham.

Moving Midway: Thu, Jul 7, 6:30 p.m. UNC Campus: Murphey Hall, Chapel Hill.

Norm of the North: Jul 12-14, 9:30 a.m. Northgate Mall, Durham. www.northgatemall. com.

The Sandlot: Thu, Jul 7, 7:30 p.m. Northgate Mall, Durham. www.northgatemall.com.

Still Alice: Sat, Jul 9, 7 p.m. Raleighwood Cinema Grill, Raleigh. www. raleighwoodmovies.com.

Yoga Hosers: $25-$41. Fri, Jul 8, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre. org.

OPENING Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates—Zac Efron and Adam DeVine are troublemaking brothers who put out an ad to find dates for their sister’s wedding. Rated R. The Secret Life of Pets— Abandoned pets (one voiced

by Louis C.K.!) band together against their cruel masters in this animated comedy. Rated PG.

 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice—D.C. Comics’ most iconic heroes clash in an overstuffed slog littered with great moments. Rated PG-13.  The BFG—Roald Dahl’s Big Friendly Giant gets a shiny Spielberg adaptation. Rated PG.  ½ Captain America: Civil War—As in Batman v Superman, superheroes turn on each other, but the action is served with a Marvel smirk instead of a D.C. frown. Rated PG-13.  The Conjuring 2—This supernatural thriller checks off fifty years’ worth of horror movie tropes. Rated R.  The Jungle Book— Disney’s animated classic gets a well done, CGI-heavy update. Rated PG.

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 The Lobster—Yorgos Lanthimos skewers society’s fear of single people in this surrealist dark comedy. Rated R.  Love & Friendship—Whit Stillman misplaces his wit in this achingly boring Jane Austen adaptation. Rated PG.  Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising—A sorority and a

suburban couple square off with mindless gross-out gags.

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Bernie’s in this alternately touching and confounding tale. Rated R.

 ½ Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping—Well, here’s a feature-length Lonely Island sketch. Rated R.

 Weiner—The newsploitation industry turned sexting congressman Anthony Weiner into a punch line, but as this doc shows, the joke’s on us. Rated R.

 Swiss Army Man—Cast Away meets Weekend at

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Chuck Palahniuk: Signing line ticket requires the purchase of Fight Club 2. Wed, Jul 13, 4 p.m.

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Orrin Pilkey, Charles Pilkey: Lessons from the Sand: FamilyFriendly Science Activities You Can Do on a Carolina Beach and Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change. Wed, Jul 6, 7 p.m.

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Peter Rizzolo: Novel Judging Laura. Thu, Jul 7, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com.

OPENING Best of Raleigh and Goodnights Comedy Academy Graduation Show: Stand-up comedy. $20.

Wed, Jul 6, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Cirque de Vol Summer Sizzler Cirque-Burlesque Showcase: $10. Thu, Jul 7, 9 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www.kingsbarcade. com.

Vivica C. Coxx: Drag performance. $10. Sat, Jul 9, 10 p.m. The Pinhook, Durham. www.thepinhook.com.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: Musical presented by N.C. Theatre Conservatory and Master Summer Theatre Arts School. $25. Jul 8-10. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

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First, the bad news: Although James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermot were kick-ass songwriters back in the day, they were mediocre astrologists at best. It’s now generally accepted that the Age of Aquarius didn’t dawn in 1967, when the trio dreamed up the first rock musical, Hair. (Given various calculation methods, some astrologers claim it started as early as 1447, while a few are fond of 2012; others say check back around 2600 A.D.) The good news? Theatre in the Park is reviving the original counterculture classic that gave the world sodomy and hashish—or songs with those one-word titles, at least— performed by Diane Petteway’s orchestra and a cast directed by Ira David Wood III. —Byron Woods THEATRE IN THE PARK, RALEIGH Various times, $24–$30, www.theatreinthepark.com

The Light in the Piazza: Musical based on the novella by Elizabeth Spencer. Jul 6-14. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

Men’s Stories: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. Mon, Jul 11, 7 p.m. & Tue, Jul 12, 8 p.m.

Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc. com.

N.N.N.N.: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. $16–$62. Fri, Jul 8, 8 p.m. & Sat, Jul 9, 1 & 7 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc. com.

Jon Rudnitsky: Standup comedy. $15–$25. Jul 7-9. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

THURSDAY, JULY 7

ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS Durham’s Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who holds a doctorate from Duke for her work in queer black feminism, powerfully merges art, academics, and activism in her full-length poetry collection Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, forthcoming in October from Duke University Press. For aesthetically minded readers, Gumbs’s taut, incantatory prose poems require no exegesis. Meanwhile, for those who feel inspired to learn more about the issues of gendered and racial violence and black feminism the poems probe, copious footnotes lead to a variety of citations and a further-reading bibliography. The resultant artifact can be read for pleasure, edification, or both at once. This week, Gumbs reads from the book in the So & So Reading Series, which also features Heather Bowlan, a poetry editor at BOAAT Press and Raleigh Review, and Joseph Silvers. —Brian Howe CAM RALEIGH, RALEIGH 8 p.m., free, www.camraleigh.org

Studs of Steel: $10–$15. Sat, Jul 9, 8 p.m. City Limits Saloon, Raleigh. www.hellyeahraleigh. com.

Transactors Improv: For Families!: Comedy. $8–$10. Sat, Jul 9, 6 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive. org.

ONGOING Hair: Musical. $24–$30. Thru Jul 24. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www.theatreinthepark. com.

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READINGS & SIGNINGS Heather Havrilesky: How to Be a Person in the World. Mon, Jul 11, 7 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic. com. See p. 14.

Erik Lars Myers: North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries. Wed, Jul 13, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Two Writers Walk Into a Bar #25: Jaki Shelton Green and Quinn Dalton. Tue, Jul 12, 7 p.m.

West End Wine Bar, Durham. www.westendwinebar.com.

LITERARY R E L AT E D Durham Comics Fest: See website for a full schedule and more details. Jul 6-10. www. durhamcomicsfest.org.

Benjamin Filippo: Executive Director of Preservation Durham, discussing smallformat homes for Durham’s workforce and other housing issues. Thu, Jul 7, 7 p.m.

Durham Main Library, Durham. www.durhamcountylibrary.org.

Chris Smith: Discussing the mission and work of the Duke Lemur Center. Sat, Jul 9, 3 p.m.

Durham Main Library, Durham. www.durhamcountylibrary.org.

Edward Swindell: “Site X—New Clues in the Search for Our Lost Colony.” Wed, Jul 13, noon. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

TEDxDurham 2016: Centers and Edges: A locally organized independent TED event with eighteen local speakers. $30– $75. Sat, Jul 9, 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www.carolinatheatre.org.

Ernest Turner: “History of Jazz Piano: Jelly Roll Morton to Stride.” $5–$10. Tue, Jul 12, 7 p.m. Sharp Nine Gallery, Durham. www. durhamjazzworkshop.org.

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ASSOCIATE EDITOR The Sun, a nonprofit, ad-free magazine, needs an associate editor to edit text for publication, solicit new writing, evaluate submissions, and work with authors to develop and revise their work. Visit thesunmagazine.org for details.

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