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It’s PickleFest!

Pucker up, sourpuss, it’s a festival for all things sour By Jill Warren Lucas

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Pen and think There’s so much more than marks on paper in a high-concept drawing show at CAM Raleigh

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Mountain from an ant-hill Raleigh native Peyton Reed, a director of modest comedies, goes for blockbuster gold in Ant-Man

THEATER REVIEW: Bare Theatre brings Macbeth

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“Anything less is illegal. That’s pretty bad when you’re riding that line.” —p. 10 “Per Manson’s rider, said tea is referred to as ‘absinthe’ by all parties present.” —p. 16 “I felt like Fox and I didn’t have the same movie in mind.” —p. 21

ON THE COVER: Raleigh: Ant-Man invades the box office

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The ATT: A uniter, not a divider

Dear INDY, The American Tobacco Trail does a lot to unite Durham and the Triangle communities that it connects.

It’s true that Durham, like other cities, was once tightly segregated. The article’s concern about “haves” and “have-nots” seems to imply that the ATT has divided the city. You’ve identified one spot (along a 22-mile trail) that was opened in 2000 on a rail spur that was built in 1924 through neighborhoods that were already segregated before 1900.

A shared-use trail such as the ATT is part of the solution, not part of the problem. It’s free, it’s healthy, it’s intergenerational, panethnic and multinational. It could be the most healing, unifying factor in our community for equity and democracy.

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The ATT is safe, too. Yes, a few years ago some youths thought it was cool to bother trail users, including me. That was then. A Community Trail Watch (citizens plus police) has made a huge improvement. A new study

by North Carolina Rail-Trails finds that, of the violent crimes near the trail, fewer than 1/2 of 1 percent occur on the trail. In other words, the ATT is the safest place around. I could add that it’s safer than driving a car on public roads, and safer than leaving it in a retail parking lot. The safety adage “bring a friend” serves well wherever we go, whether on a trail or on a shopping trip.

Let’s be grateful for the gem that is the ATT and let’s urge our communities to invest in a future with even more green, connective trails.

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Caveat Moogfest Durham might donate as much as $55,000 to support Moogfest? (“Shifting pitches,” July 15.) Asheville/Buncombe County together kicked in $180,000 in 2014, and Moogfest acted like it was an insult. They used the threat of moving to Durham to try to bully more public subsidy out of city/county coffers. I’m glad our local officials didn’t give in.

Good luck, Durham. Oh, and BTW, if you give them money, I advise making it contingent on Moog promising not to invite Pat McCrory to be the guest of honor at the opening ceremonies. That’s what they did to us, in a town where McCrory is extremely unpopular, and then acted shocked— shocked!—when it didn’t go over well. theOtherBarry via indyweek.com

Corrections

July 15: The story “Truck stop,” misstated Art Sheppard’s name.

In Triangulator, drawing on a ProPublica database, we erroneously reported that Dr. Kim Livingston had received more than $2 million from pharmaceutical companies as compensation for public speaking.

Livingston actually received that money when a pharmaceutical company purchased a company she had invested in.

In the same column, because of a copyediting error, R. Sanders Williams was identified as a doctor who received money from pharmaceutical companies. The correct name is R. Williams.

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Friday noon marked the end of qualifying for the Triangle’s municipal elections, which means we can step back and take a lay of the land. The biggest surprise, at least in Raleigh, was that COUNCILOR WAYNE MAIORANO declined to seek reelection, citing a desire to spend more time with his family, which we suspect is code for “This gig only pays 14 grand a year and I DON’T NEED THIS SHIT.” But nonetheless there are, somehow, a veritable bevy of contenders, both in Raleigh and Durham and elsewhere who covet the privilege of being screamed at by PERPETUALLY OUTRAGED NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVISTS in all-night council meetings for basically minimum wage. Power can be such a tease.

Still, these are the people who, for better or worse, will be charting our future; we’re here to help you get to know them.

RALEIGH

We’ll begin with the race for mayor, where incumbent NANCY MCFARLANE has drawn a challenger in the person of ROBERT WELTZIN, a chiropractor/Wake County Taxpayers Association sympathizer who challenged McFarlane two years ago. McFarlane won with 73 percent of the vote, and Weltzin has been invisible ever since, so there’s no reason to expect a different result this time out.

The TWO AT-LARGE RACES will prove much more interesting. RUSS STEPHENSON and MARY-ANN BALDWIN are generally well-liked, though Baldwin tends to be more receptive to development concerns and Stephenson leans in the other direction. But they nonetheless have two credible challengers to fend off: CRAIG RALPH, a developer who helped found the Southeast Raleigh Assembly and has served on the boards of the Raleigh Transit Authority and the Raleigh Downtown Improvement Commission; and the more exciting, or at least less generic, MATT TOMASULO, the young visionary behind WALK RALEIGH, which became Walk [Your City], an initiative to encourage people to explore their hometowns on foot or bike. This is his first time running for office, but he knows his stuff, and could represent a new vanguard in city leadership. That’s not to count either incumbent out—we like them both—but their

paths toward reelection won’t be cakewalks, and maybe an actual contest of ideas is what this city needs right now.

On to District A, which the freshman Maiorano is vacating: Not only is he not running, but neither is the guy we thought might beat him, RANDY STAGNER, who narrowly lost to Maiorano two years ago. Instead, this will be a contest between three gentlemen of considerable political pedigree. J.B. BUXTON was Gov. Mike Easley’s top education aide and deputy state superintendent of the state school system. Now he’s a nationally known education consultant who chairs the new PAVE Academy Charter School and serves on the city’s Planning Commission, which will no doubt endear him to all those North Raleigh neighborhood groups. RICHARD “DICKIE” THOMPSON, meanwhile, chairs the RDU Airport Authority board and is said to be Mayor Nancy’s choice. He, too, has served on the Planning Commission. And finally, EDWIN “EDDIE” WOODHOUSE JR., a Republican with deep roots in North Carolina politics. He worked for SEN. JESSE HELMS for years. There are probably people who think that’s a good thing, but we don’t know any of them.

District B: JOHN ODOM versus DAVID COX, the driving force behind neighborhood groups like GROW RALEIGH GREAT and NORCHOA. Cox led the successful campaign against the North Raleigh Publix, and has been a thorn in the planning department’s side ever since. Odom, a moderate Republican who’s been on Council since Christ was a carpenter, could well be in trouble.

District C is another old-guard-versus-new election.

The old guard here, of course, is EUGENE WEEKS. The new guard is second-time candidate COREY BRANCH, an engineer who has served on the boards of the Raleigh Transit Authority, WakeUP Wake County and the African American Caucus of Wake County Democratic Party.

Which is to say, he’s legit, he’s energetic, and, were we the gambling sort, we’d thrown a few bucks down on him.

Here’s something we did not expect: Somebody’s daring to run against KAY CROWDER, who is as close to sainthood as Raleigh politics allows. This somebody is ASHTON MAE SMITH, a young Citrix employee who serves on the board of housing nonprofit DHIC. If you believe the rumor mill—and we do, always—she’s Baldwin’s candidate for District D. If true, that could make for some wonderfully uncomfortable moments on the dais.

And finally, District E, where BONNER GAYLORD will have to fend off two challengers: DEANTHONY COLLINS, a first-timer who manages an early childhood education center; and the more formidable EDIE JEFFREYS, a longtime neighborhood activist who is, like virtually all challengers this cycle, trying to channel UDO-related apoplexy into an upset. The question is, will she amount to anything more than a speed bump on Gaylord’s road to the mayor’s office in 2017?

DURHAM

We have four mayoral candidates before us, but only one photo in our hand. In this year’s episode of Durham’s Next Top Mayor, there’s the incumbent, a personnel manager at Walmart, an AMERICAN MAN PROTECTING HIS HOME AND FAMILY, and a Time Warner Cable worker/youth development advocate.

The candidates whom voters do not pick this fall will pack their bags and immediately go back home.

Here are the contestants: Seeking his eighth and final term, Democratic incumbent BILL BELL has been in local politics since the earth cooled, or 1972, whichever is earlier.

He faces three challengers: JAMES LYONS, a Democrat who works at Time Warner Cable (can he help with our molasses-like Internet connection?) and is managing director of Keys to Life, a nonprofit devoted to youth development.

TAMMY LIGHTFOOT, a personnel manager at Walmart in Morrisville. She registered to vote as unaffiliated in Durham County last summer, but SHE’S NEVER ACTUALLY VOTED HERE, according to N.C. Board of Elections. (Pro tip: Vote in a few local elections before deciding to seek the city’s highest office.)

And finally, we don’t want to read too much into this, but Democrat JOHN EVERETT, who organized a campaign committee in March, just got around to filing at the very last minute. We looked at his campaign’s statement of organization, and he’s bequeathed half of his leftover contributions to the organization AMERICAN MEN PROTECTING THEIR HOMES AND FAMILIES, of which we can find no record. The other half goes to Church of Ephesus, which he appears to own. Hmmm.

Reach the INDY’s Triangulator team at triangulator@ indyweek.com.

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ONE MAN, NO VOTE

Week 2 of the state’s voting-rights trial kicks off with allegations of racism and partisanship

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HEN LOUIS DUKE RETURNED FROM SUMMER BREAK IN 2012, he updated his voter registration from his parents’ address in Rockingham County to his new on-campus residence at Campbell University in Harnett County.

But when he tried to cast a ballot during early voting, a volunteer poll worker told him he was not registered. The source of the problem soon came to light: Across the state, local election boards use a mailing system to confirm that the new registrant is an actual voter. While Duke had provided the address of his apartment, he hadn’t signed up for a campus post-office box, describing it as an “unnecessary luxury.”

“This is not a generation that relies on mail,” he testified in federal court this week.

Duke eventually managed to straighten out his registration, returned to the polling place and cast his ballot on the last day of early voting.

However, if that bureaucratic snarl happened today, after most of the provisions of North Carolina’s new restrictive election law have gone into effect, Duke’s vote would not have been counted. The new law eliminated same-day registration, pushing the registration deadline back before the new, shortened 10-day

BY JORDAN GREEN early-voting period.

Duke was one of four witnesses who took the stand in federal court in Winston-Salem on Monday as a federal voting rights trial continued into a second week. Plaintiffs, including the North Carolina NAACP, the League of Women Voters and the U.S. Justice Department, are seeking to invalidate several restrictive provisions of the election law and obtain a legal order requiring the state to get federal preclearance for election changes through a little-used tool under the 1965 Voting Rights Act. From college students to working-class African Americans, many of the plaintiffs’ witnesses share two salient characteristics: They’re part of voting blocs that have historically proven to be unfriendly to Republican candidates, and their residential instability and transience makes them easy marks for new provisions that increase

restrictions on voting.

Duke acknowledged during cross-examination that he experienced no difficulty registering or voting in the 2014 election. The defense has hit on some variation of the same theme during cross-examination of witnesses who have provided firsthand accounts of voting difficulties: Now that they know what they need to do, they should have no problem getting properly registered and voting in

their assigned precinct.

Testimony by expert witnesses called by the plaintiffs complemented the accounts of hurdles encountered by ordinary voters at the polls.

Peter Levine, a professor at Tufts University, testified that North Carolina’s national ranking in turnout by voters ages 18 to 24 rose from 43rd in 2000 to eighth in 2012. But recently, youth voting strength has begun to wane.

“The state in a sense is becoming slightly younger,” Levine testified, “and yet youth have become a smaller share of the voters.”

Both the elimination of same-day registration and the curtailment of early voting days work against turnout of young voters, Levine said. While that cohort’s turnout

between the mid-term elections of 2010 and 2014 remained essentially unchanged after the new election law went into effect, Levine testified that he would have expected a significant increase in turnout because of the “blockbuster” status of the 2014 election: There was unprecedented campaign spending and an intense U.S. Senate race.

Another expert witness, American University historian Allan Lichtman, told the court that voting strength among blacks and Latinos increased over the he last decade as the General Assembly enacted reforms to expand access to the ballot box. However, every provision of the new election law passed since the Republicans took control of the Legislature in 2013 cuts against participation by those segments of the electorate.

The plaintiffs’ expert witnesses have supported their contention that the legislative intent of the new election was racially motivated.

Steven Lawson, professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University, cited a June 17, 2013, email from then-state Sen. Thom Goolsby of Wilmington.

The state Senate would “take a fresh look” at the pending election bill after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Shelby County v. Holder, Goolsby said in the email, which was written 10 days before the high court’s decision.

The Supreme Court decision ultimately lifted federal preclearance requirements on several states, included North Carolina, that had been covered by the Voting Rights Act. “Clearly the outcome of Shelby is on the mind,” Lawson testified, adding that if the case resolved favorably, lawmakers “were prepared to go full speed ahead” with the full slate of restrictive provisions that were ultimately added to the bill.

Lawyers for the state have argued in the defense’s trial brief that nothing in the new law “erects an actual barrier to voting.” Challenged provisions simply repeal or scale back “conveniences,” the defense argues.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs said they expect to rest their case on Thursday. s Jordan Green is the senior editor at Triad City Beat, an alternative weekly newspaper that covers Greensboro, WinstonSalem and High Point. Read it at www.triad-city-beat.com.

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Durham judge in trouble for courtroom outburst

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URHAM DISTRICT JUDGE JAMES HILL TOLD TWO PARENTS THEY WERE “ACTING LIKE IDIOTS.” Now he isn’t looking so bright himself.

Last week the N.C. Judicial Standards Commission recommended that Hill be publicly reprimanded after an incident in which he chastised RiShawna and Collin Morrison, who were in a child-custody dispute.

In court filings recently made public, the commission declared that Hill’s actions constituted “conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute.”

Hill agreed to accept the commission’s recommendation of a public reprimand.

That official sanction must come from the N.C. Supreme Court, which is scheduled to consider the case in early September.

As the INDY reported last fall, on Aug. 7, 2014, Hill told the Morrisons that “Y’all the one that crawled into bed and had sex and made that baby. He didn’t ask to be born,” in reference to their 3-year-old.

Courtroom video recorded Hill telling the Morrisons, “I could care less about the two of you,” and “I better not hear either of you saying anything negative about the other party or y’all gonna get a little trip to the Durham County Bed and Breakfast for contempt of court. And there is no appeal.

You stay until I say you get out.”

Hill’s conduct in part provoked a courtroom melee that required nine sheriff’s deputies to squelch, while Hill retired to his chambers.

Hill also cited RiShawna Morrison for contempt of court and issued a 30-day detention order without offering her a chance to appeal, a violation of civil and criminal procedure.

Reserved for “minor” instances of misconduct, a public reprimand is one of five official sanctions for North Carolina judges. It is the second-lowest level of severity, after a letter of caution. Harsher disciplines include a censure, suspension and removal from the bench.

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Hill’s actions last November, and held a disciplinary hearing in April. In its recommendation, the commission determined that Hill exhibited a failure to remain patient, dignified and courteous; made inappropriate comments; and improperly exercised his contempt powers, thereby denying the Morrisons their rights of due process.

The commission also took issue with Hill’s usage of “Durham County Bed and Breakfast.” His suggestion that RiShawna Morrison could not appeal her contempt order “is a gross misstatement of the law.”

In an interview with commission officials, Hill, who was elected to District Court in 2002, agreed that his behavior was inappropriate, and that he “shouldn’t have said” certain statements.

The commission balanced its recommendation by citing Hill’s “good reputation in his community,” noting that he scored well above average in his most recent Judicial Performance Evaluation.

His actions, the commission ruled, “appear to be isolated.”

Before a 2013 change in the law, which authorized North Carolina’s high court to issue public reprimands, the Judicial Standards Commission issued an average of fewer than three public reprimands per year since 2007. s John H. Tucker is an INDY staff writer.

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PAYING FOR POVERTY

North Carolina #wageweek activists push cities and employers to do better than the bare minimum

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

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F THE CITY OF RALEIGH ONE DAY GOT A BUG UP ITS BUTT AND DECIDED IT WANTED TO HIKE ITS MINIMUM WAGE—like 29 states and many other large cities across the country have done— well, tough luck. The General Assembly doesn’t allow that. Nor, as of 2013, does it permit cities to require their contractors to pay living wages.

But Raleigh does have options. It could, for instance, provide a living wage for all of its employees, like eight other North Carolina cities and counties have already done, starting with Durham in the late ’90s. (It’s not immediately clear how many city workers would be affected by such an ordinance; the INDY placed a records request for that information late last week, but that request had not been fulfilled by

press time.) Or, also like Durham, Raleigh could nudge companies to provide a living wage through a certification process. It could also incentivize developers to pay their workers better.

But none of those things has happened.

In fact, none of them has ever even come up for debate.

“I can say I have not heard it,” says Councilor Bonner Gaylord, who has been on Council since 2009. “I can’t remember any specific conversation, city-related, where it’s been brought up or discussed.”

Perhaps that’s about to change. On Monday evening, Gaylord, widely considered a future mayoral aspirant, told the INDY that he would ask the city attorney’s office to determine what the Council’s legal possibilities are. MaryAnn Baldwin, another potential mayoral candidate in 2017, added that if the issue came before Council, “of course we’d consider it.”

That’s a conversation activists want to

have, both in the capital and across the state. The Legislature has made clear its disinterest in a higher minimum wage (currently set at the federal level of $7.25 an hour), paid sick leave or a multitude of other things that might help the 1.7 million North Carolinians who live below the federal poverty line. It thus falls to local governments and local businesses to nudge the ball forward.

This week, as part of a national #wageweek campaign organized by Interfaith Worker Justice, the NC Justice Center and North Carolina labor groups, among others, are taking to social media to both highlight local companies that have voluntarily raised their wage floors and press politicians at all levels to tackle this issue head-on.

“I hope this week would build awareness among the general public that workers deserve a raise,” says MaryBe McMillan, secretary-treasurer of the NC AFL-CIO. “It can’t be the new normal that people have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet.”

But increasingly, that is exactly what’s happening, both in North Carolina and throughout the country. The economic recovery has been “pretty broadly concentrated in low-income jobs,” says Ana Pardo, campaign and outreach coordinator of NC Justice’s Workers’ Rights Project.

(Pardo says that before landing her current job, she spent 18 months out of work. “It was so hard to find jobs that were decent.”)

A report last year from the NC Budget and Tax Center—another branch of NC Justice— indicated that a living wage for a family of four in North Carolina is just over $52,000, which equals more than $25 an hour for a one-worker family, and more than $12 an hour if both parents work full-time.

In the state’s more expensive counties— including Wake, Durham, Orange and Chatham—that number runs closer to $60,000. And yet, if both adults work fulltime and make minimum wage, the family will only bring in about $30,000. That’s not enough to make ends meet.

Contrary to conservative claims, there’s little evidence that raising the minimum wage hurts job growth. According to a report this week from the watchdog group

Integrity Florida, the 25 states where the minimum wage ticked up in the last year saw job growth of 2.9 percent; in the states where the minimum wage remained the same, job growth increased by 2.6 percent.

And raising the minimum wage is also politically popular. In a Public Policy Polling survey released last August, 58 percent of North Carolina residents favored raising the minimum wage, and 63 percent voiced support for allowing local governments to enact living-wage ordinances.

But given the prevailing attitude on Jones Street—obsequious as it is to Art Pope and his allies—activists aren’t optimistic. Several minimum-wage bills were introduced this session but went nowhere. Neither did bills that would have mandated paid sick time or provided additional protections for caregivers.

Eventually, however, “our expectation is that elected officials have to bend to the public will,” says Allan Freyer, director of the Workers’ Rights Project. “… If legislators are not going to bow to the public will and raise the minimum wage, they’ll be help accountable by their constituents. That’s how democracy works.”

Meanwhile, activists are looking toward the private sector. In Raleigh, for example, they’re using #wageweek to praise a number of local companies who have already raised their wage floors above the legal minimum, including Empire Properties, Square Rabbit, Boulted Bread, lucettegrace and Foundation.

Foundation co-owner Vincent Whitehurst says that it benefits his bar to pay more than the minimum, which for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour. “You’re not gonna be attracting the best people who want to work with you,” Whitehurst says. Moreover, he adds, that’s just not the kind of company he wants to run, even if the bar business often comes with a low profit margin.

“I would always be an advocate of doing better than the minimum,” he says.

“Anything less is illegal. That’s pretty bad when you’re riding that line.” s Jeffrey C. Billman is the INDY’s Raleigh news editor. Contact him at jbillman@indyweek. com or on Twitter @jeffreybillman.

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influences. Firing the shutter is more a matter of reacting than thinking. I don’t know what I’m looking for, but I know it when I see it.

A photo can stand on its own, but putting pictures together allows a photographer to give shape to what’s been documented. These two images were made less than 50 yards apart in downtown Durham. One man walks through a scene full of color, lines and dissected elements.

The environment hints at the history of the downtown, but suggests that it is being transformed.

Just across the intersection, Anthony Mills, a doorman and valet at the 21c Museum Hotel, works on one of the hottest days of the year. The tight shot of his ear contrasts with the loose composition of the other scene, but the shape of the earphone and the shape of the streetlamp connect the two photos.

Past and present are represented in both pictures.

Knowing the context of the hot pink penguin tells a story of change, but the emblem has fallen on its side. Viewers can assign their own meaning to that. s

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PickleFest unites lovers of things sour

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EN WOODWARD REMEMBERS THE CHILDHOOD DELIGHT OF SOUR PATCH KIDS CANDIES. As the sugar crystals melted and his tongue re-enacted the precise sweet-salty-sour-bitter chart that made little sense on the blackboard, he blinked briny tears of joy.

Today, the co-owner of Haw River Farmhouse Ales in Saxapahaw is finishing a brew for beer lovers who crave a similar pucker. His Pickled Pepper Sour Beer will be among the featured pours at Saturday’s PickleFest in Durham.

“It’s an acquired taste for some, but craft beer drinkers are more exploratory today than they were 10 years ago,” Woodward says. “It’s no different than offering someone a shrub. When they realize it’s a vinegar soda, they think you’re crazy.”

Until they try it. In their tasting room, Woodward has observed a three-step reaction among those trying sour beers or shrubs, also called drinking vinegars. The first sip is shock and surprise; the second leads to curiosity and wonder. “By the third sip,” he says, “they accept that it really is as delicious as they think it is.”

Woodward explains that classic sour beer results from slowacting bacteria luxuriating in the barrel as long as a year. His Pickled Pepper is a quicker hybrid called kettle souring. Wild yeast is added to the mixture to hasten fermentation of sugars, delivering a tangy brew in about three months.

“They’re both delicious, but it’s like refrigerator pickles versus fermented ones,” he concedes. “It’s not as complex, but not everyone likes those deep flavors.”

If you’re looking for a gateway beverage that’s alcohol-free but refreshingly crisp, Woodward suggests his golden beet shrub made with white balsamic vinegar.

“We were going to do a traditional red beet and dark balsamic shrub, but when I saw those golden beets at the farmer’s market I couldn’t resist them,” he says. “It will be flavored with black peppercorn and a couple of pickling spices.”

While Haw River finishes its shrubs in casks and pours them from a tap, Woodward says many shrubs are easy to make at home. Books like Michael Dietsch’s 2014 sensation, Shrubs: An Old-Fashioned Drink for Modern Times,, offer basic instruction as well as tips on how to incorporate seasonal botanicals.

“You can make them at home in just a couple of days and finish them with a bit of soda water,” Woodward says. “Unlike commercial sodas, you can make these as sweet or sour PICKLEFEST as you like, and with what Saturday, July 25, noon–3 p.m. whatever fruit or vegetable you The Rickhouse, 609 Foster St., Durham like. Really, the possibilities are Free admission, samples and music; endless.” ▲ Jill Warren Lucas is a Raleigh writer who blogs at Eating My Words. Follow her at @jwlucasnc

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OME PEOPLE CAN’T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES. But Carla Faw Squires, like her mother and grandmother, looks upon a bamboo grove and sees pickles.

“People think they look like calamari,” Squires says. She will offer samples at PickleFest of the bamboo pickle recipe her grandmother developed after World War II. “If you like crunchy dill pickles, you’ll like these.”

Squires drives from Raleigh to her family’s home place in Wilkes County to harvest bamboo each spring. The community gained the curious crop after a woman who served as a nurse during the building of the Panama Canal returned home with a few carefully wrapped plants. With a booming supply and a Victory Garden mindset, the women of Wilkes County were determined to use it to feed their families.

Squires’ grandparents, who owned a small country store before her grandfather became chief of police, eventually moved to Lenoir but returned to North Wilkesboro in the 1970s. They planted their own bamboo grove, starting with just seven stalks. Pickling soon resumed, with young Carla at her grandmother’s side.

“I was the only grandchild interested at the time,” says Squires, who left a technology finance career in 2007 to start the Bamboo Ladies. Bamboo pickles first were processed in Asheville and then at The Cookery in Durham. She now produces about 500 jars annually at a processing center in Hillsborough. They can be found locally at NOFO @ the Pig and Southern Season.

Cooking Light magazine named her pickled bamboo among the winners of its 2010 Taste Test Awards: “Charming, odd, and delicious, they’re a perfect gift for the adventurous foodie.”

The product is entirely handmade, beginning with cutting and shucking young shoots and carefully slicing the bamboo to keep its concentric circles together. “It’s more difficult that you might think,” says Squires, noting that a mandoline or other rapid slicer pops the bamboo into unmanageable rings. “The whole process is hard work, but it’s worth it to keep my family legacy intact.” –Jill Warren Lucas

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KALE, KEFIR, KIMCHI, KOMBUCHA Plus, Happy + Hale, Raleigh Beer Garden

BY LISA SORG

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HAT WE’RE EATING: EVERYTHING at JUJU, the Asian tapas bar on Ninth Street in Durham. Grilled Alaskan King Salmon, grilled shrimp, Brussels sprouts, wild mushroom wontons, salad rolls and grilled corn with Korean chili flakes and miso butter. And Manhattans. Love those Manhattans.

teach you how these friendly foods help your gut’s microbiome. It’s like a tiny town full of tiny people in your intestines, and you need to keep them happy. This is a 21+ adults-only event, so leave your kids at home with the babysitter, who will keep them happy with a delicious meal of cauliflower and Velveeta.

The event is Thursday, July 23, 6:30–9:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers, and includes tastings.

Guess what else is fermented? Beer. Niall Hanley of Hibernian Pub fame opened the RALEIGH BEER GARDEN in Glenwood South on Monday. It has 366 beers on tap—2016 is a leap year, so you could drink a beer a day and get through all of them—plus what appear, in photos anyway, to be delicious pizzas: summer squash and roasted tomato, slow-roasted pulled pork with sweet corn and spicy sausage and peppers. And no kale!?

HERE’S YOUR DINNER MIXTAPE: Sauté a batch of shiitakes in olive oil while listening to THE MAGIC MUSHROOMS’ garage-psych hit “It’s-A-Happening,” which peaked at No. 93 in 1966. As you steam your spinach, sing along to the ULTIMATE SPINACH’S “Ego Trip.”

Because it’s fun to chant “Mindless cretins groped through idiosyncrasy fields” under the influence of thallium.

Sip a Manhattan while listening to one of our favorite love songs “You Said Something” by PJ HARVEY: “watching the lights flash in Manhattan, I see the five bridges, the Empire State Building, and you said something that I’ve never forgotten …”

The cool thing is, she never tells us what that is. ▲

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Speaking of Manhattans, not only does GARLAND in downtown Raleigh have a killer variation called the “SHIFT DRINK” (Bulleit rye, Cardamaro and orange peel), but it also serves a fabulous dinner entrée, CAULIFLOWER 65. It’s prepared with turmeric-yogurt sauce, curry leaves, fresh chiles, lime, cilantro and house-pickled chiles. (Meateaters can order it with chicken.)

And to think as kids we ruined cauliflower with melted Velveeta.

Not to ruin kale for anyone, but Mother Jones reported last week that IT IS POSSIBLE TO EAT TOO MUCH of the trendy green. KALE, SPINACH and other cruciferous veggies—which we repeat, like beer, are good for you in moderation— absorb the heavy metal thallium from the soil. THALLIUM OVERLOAD can cause fatigue, foggy thinking, even skin, hair and digestive issues. And here we were blaming those symptoms on overwork.

The takeaway: If you’re going to drink a kale smoothie, say from HAPPY + HALE— as we reported on the INDY’s food blog, it’s expanding from Raleigh to Durham’s Ninth Street District—maybe skip the sautéed kale for lunch, the kale chips for a snack and the kale salad for dinner.

This week’s Chow is brought to you by the letter K—KEFIR, KOMBUCHA, KIMCHI—and all things fermented. At the MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE in Durham, the SCIENCE OF SOUR will

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OFF THE WALL

Lump director Bill Thelen makes his mark at CAM Raleigh with a high-concept drawing show

BY CHRIS VITIELLO

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HY DO PEOPLE STOP DRAWING?

As kids, most of us drew all the time, compulsively filling notebooks with cats and superheroes, tanks and ponies.

Shaking out the cramps in our hands, we lost whole afternoons in the minute details of a cityscape or the repetition of tiny patterns. But then we grew up and left drawing behind.

The Nothing That Is is a sprawling, joyful exhibit at CAM Raleigh that collects work from more than 85 artists who never stopped obeying the impulse to draw. In many cases, they have followed it well beyond the traditional limits of the form. It’s a mistake to call The Nothing That Is merely a drawing show. Curator Bill Thelen, founder and director of Raleigh gallery and collective Lump, wants to hit the reset button, reconnecting viewers with the essential impulse that he prefers to call “mark-making” and “gesture.”

Video, sculpture and photography hang in dense clusters beside drawings in every medium. The show is organized in five “chapters.” The first, “DDDRRRAAAWWWIIINNNGGG,” is the largest, filling CAM’s main floor. New York City’s Jason Polan co-curated this chapter and contributed the large vinyl drawings that hang on the museum’s exterior. His quick, expressive hand—think Keith Haring after five espressos—can also be seen in the zine-like program notes, where he drew all the works in the chapter.

Thelen curated the other chapters himself. “Conceptual Approaches” collects work with a theoretical relationship to drawing; “Movement” screens drawing-based video; “Locals Only” gives five North Carolina artists, including David Eichenberger, Chris Musina and Tedd Anderson, a small solo show; and “Open Source,” with its title written on the museum window looking out onto Martin Street, indicates a variety of remote community projects that are part of the show.

“DDDRRRAAAWWWIIINNNGGG” and “Conceptual Approaches” provide the biggest highlights. The former evokes a drawing studio in which everyone just pins their “Octoslushy” by Paul Nudd COURTESY OF CAM RALEIGH work to the wall.

“I wanted that salon-style feel because there are so out. Several abstractions stand out for both imagery many different strategies in this chapter,” Thelen says. and materiality, including a dark, congested drawing in “We can put a highly technical drawing next to a very mascara by Mollie Earls that could have been pulled off quick gestural drawing, and they’re having this dialogue a Lascaux cave wall. Vibrant tempera works by Casey with each other.”

Cook recombine her visual vocabulary of zigzags and Drawings by different artists hang in clusters, curves and phallic curves. Christopher Thomas’ charcoal scroll is stacks. There is no wall text. We aren’t given any titles. The unrecognizably based on a close-up image of a compost artists’ names are penciled directly on the wall in spidery pile. And Joy Feasley’s work hangs with the drawn side handwriting. This might grate on the purist as intentionally facing the wall—instead, we see, through the paper, the amateurish, but this show is more for the kid who doodles imprint of the implement she used to draw it. endlessly on the cover of her Trapper Keeper.

When ink is used, it’s not always the ink you expect.

If you’re expecting to see a lot of pencil or ink, look

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OF THE Look closely at drawings

by Allyson Mellberg and Jeremy Taylor to see how differently the paper takes their handmade walnut-based inks. Look even closer at Tricia Keightley’s precise technical drawings, easily mistaken for printouts from a computer drafting program, to marvel at her freehand control.

Heading downstairs into the show’s conceptual chapter, a persistent mechanical noise grows louder, drawing you to Kellie Bornhoft’s kinetic sculpture, “Swept.” A push-broom on a motor endlessly brushes a patch of sod on the gallery floor. Bornhoft states her primary concern as pointing out the disconnection between suburban life and the environment—the mark made upon the sod is one of damage, not care.

Sometime INDY contributor Amy White also displays a sculptural work. “Further Adventures in the Realm of the Static and the Vital” is a shelf of ceramic tablets with drawings in their glaze. Part of a body of diverse work that connects the origin of life to clay, White’s tablets also deeply link handwriting to individual identity.

Similar works by Becca Albee and Joy Drury Cox implicate handwriting’s subservience to the printed word. Cox removes all the text from forms such as a death certificate, a timecard and a credit report, leaving only the lines and checkboxes.

Albee’s “Radical Feminist Therapy” elides the text of Bonnie Burstow’s textbook of that name, leaving only Albee’s underlines and marginalia.

Cox presents the form as a space of institutional control that forces standardized behavior, while Albee shows how the printed book provides a space for dialogue and original thought.

Thelen challenges visitors to make connections back to drawing throughout the conceptual chapter. The folds of Stacy Lynn Waddell’s “Damages Emergency Blanket” lend urgency to the gestures that made them, while elin o’Hara slavick’s colorfully drawn maps of bombing sites such as Pakistan and Bikini Atoll draw you in with their beauty in order to jar you with their military imaging.

Thelen is interested in drawing as a social practice, and would be pleased if the show were to inspire you to participate in “Open Source” community projects such as Vegan Snake Club, The Drawn, CAM Young Artists Advisory Panel, Greensboro’s Elsewhere, Team Lump or the Taco Bell Drawing Club, Polan’s participatory project.

“He just shows up at a Taco Bell, puts [the location] on social media and draws with whoever shows up,” says

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A secret report from Billy Corgan and Marilyn Manson’s group therapy, revealed

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BY ZACHARY LIPEZ

RECENTLY CAME INTO SOME DOCUMENTS—WELL, ONE.

The why and the how shouldn’t matter, but it came with the cost of a great deal of personal dignity at the hands of the Raleigh Red Hat Amphitheater Stagehands Union. It was worth it.

My source prefers to remain nameless, his family blissfully unaware of his work within the ’90s revivalism circuit. What he provided me is a portal into a world of darkness and human degradation I could have barely imagined: the minutes for the “Team Morale Boosting” meeting of “The End Times” tour, co-headlined by Marilyn Manson and The Smashing Pumpkins.

It is reprinted here, without permission.

MINUTES FOR MEETING TO ADDRESS “LOW MORALE” ON THE SMASHING PUMPKINS & MARILYN MANSON “THE END TIMES” TOUR DATE: Sunday, July 26, 1997 (Note: Date adjusted to reflect that it’s still the ’90s, per request of both artists. It is actually 2015.)

ATTENDEES: Tour crisis mediator; tour stenographer; Marilyn Manson (the man, the myth, the musician); a young woman with more than a passing resemblance to Evan Rachel Wood but who is not actually Evan Rachel Wood; Billy Corgan; a small kitten; an assorted entourage whose members belong in part to Corgan and in part to Manson, but who are united by a high number of black star tattoos (all fading), from wrist to elbow.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES: All parties agree to approval of minutes of previous six meetings, all yesterday. Satisfied with this progress, Corgan places a large satchel, emblazoned with a single star, upon a backstage table. From within, the sound of purring is audible. Also satisfied with the progress, Manson places a brewed bottle of Tazo’s “zen,” or green tea with a little lemongrass, on the table. Per Manson’s rider, said tea is referred to as “absinthe” by all parties present. A number of sugar cubes are placed next to the bottle.

MOTION 1: Tour crisis mediator (also known at one point as Jimmy Chamberlin’s defense attorney) pleas again with all parties to end all entourage aggressions, including but not limited to: leaving of anonymous notes stating “D’arcy wasn’t the extraneous female bass player”; referring to The Smashing Pumpkins as “not as good as Reigndance”; dipping of Corgan’s hand in warm water during eight-hour “drone” naps; placing “Twiggy was the talented one” stickers on numerous guitar cabinets; the intentional washing in hot water of a prized “Jack Off Jill” long-sleeve, causing irreparable shrinkage.

Motion fails to pass.

MOTION 2: Mediator suggests that fake Twitter accounts under Corgan’s and Manson’s names that have, since day two of the tour, been repeatedly sending direct messages to Courtney Love with offers to “Make things right, baby” be discontinued.

All parties immediately begin the Khrushchev-ian banging of numerous multi-inched creepers on the table. The sound of purring from Corgan’s bag grows louder. Everyone is very hostile.

Motion fails to pass.

MOTION 3: Manson attempts to turn topic to “really blowing square’s minds” by offering up razors emblazoned with swastikas as incentive for tickets sold at the door. Evan Rachel Wood’s demidoppelgänger sighs loudly enough to scare the kitten.

Motion is tabled until tomorrow, or maybe sometime this afternoon if Corgan wakes up from his drone nap early enough.

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS AND MARILYN MANSON Sunday, July 26, 6:30 p.m., $35–$75 Red Hat Amphitheater 500 S. McDowell St., Raleigh 919-996-8800 www.redhatamphitheatre.com

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MUSIC VISUAL ARTS PERFORMANCE BOOKS FILM SPORTS MOTION 4: Mediator suggests that the tour would be more successful were the two parties to stop sabotaging each other’s tour buses through wholesale theft of eyeliner, the drawing of “googly eyes” on autographed and beloved Dave Navarro posters, and the addition of Johnny Depp’s Sweeney Todd to each bus’s respective DVD players. Both artists insist there is no problem and that they are actually bigger and more successful than ever. “Just ask anyone in the room,” Corgan half-sings, half-speaks. Respective entourages cheer in agreement, though both Diet Evan Rachel Wood and Corgan’s kitten remain quiet. Even Corgan’s bag is momentarily silent.

Motion is forgotten in a wave of self-satisfaction.

MOTION 5: Manson puts forth the motion that he “does a lot of fucking drugs.” Corgan counters: “I bet not one person alive today knows the words to a single Pavement song.” The mediator says that neither position is relevant to the topic at hand and asks for a vote of agreement, which fails by a show of hands. Corgan’s cat retires to his lap, and Manson calls Corgan “Dr. Evil.” The two parties briefly come to blows. Corgan removes his cat T-shirt to dry his tears; underneath, he is wearing a slightly tighter version of the exact same cat T-shirt.

The meeting is briefly adjourned to disentangle the rat king-like tangle of the entourage’s lip-and-eyebrow rings.

Meeting resumes.

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MOTION 6: Manson suggests team-building exercises.

Everyone agrees cheerfully, until Manson reveals that said exercise consists of “telling the Christian Right to shove it up their asses.” Mediator suggests that perhaps trust falls would be more appropriate, but he is ignored as Corgan furiously scribbles in a Trapper Keeper: “Song idea: Trust Falls Blackly? Trust Fails?” Manson grabs Corgan’s Trapper Keeper and draws a large phallus with an arrow pointed at the song prospects, with “Jesus” written underneath.

Brief adjournment called again.

After a brief lunch break of Quiznos, which Manson insists on calling “drugs,” the meeting resumes. Both sides seem more open to reconciliation. Corgan burps and everyone laughs, even the kitten.

MOTION 7: Corgan suggests that “since we’re the two most important rock ’n’ roll bands on the planet,” they should get along. Manson concurs, adding, “Satan, cock, etc.” For the next 40 minutes, they trade stories of Dave Grohl picking on them. He once pet Corgan’s cats backwards, for instance, and even told him transmeditation wasn’t “real rock.” He didn’t alert Manson his hair was frizzing. They agree “that guy is really, really mean” and decide that, the next time they’re at the Rainbow Room, they’re really going to let Grohl have it.

At last, a motion passes.

MOTION 8: Inspired by this sudden accord, Corgan also suggests issuing a joint press release stating that “Kanye West is totally not a rock star and here’s why,” followed by an extended discussion of not even playing an instrument.

Everyone high-fives, though all parties scold the mediator when he’s seen pinching the bridge of his nose

and exhaling audibly. He apologizes and says, “Yeah, OK, fine. Let’s do that.”

Motion passes.

Satisfied with himself, Corgan at last opens his satchel and pulls out one kitten after another, each one larger than the last, all the while firing members of his entourage and replacing them with said felines. Manson begins carving a pornographic pentagram on the table, chugs some “absinthe” and loudly expounds on how society is the real devil. The mediator reminds both parties of the no-self-parody clause in their Live Nation tour contracts. Both Manson and Corgan profess a lack of familiarity with the phrase.

MOTION 9: Corgan and Manson assert that the phrase “no self parody” doesn’t even sound like English, and they demand the support of their entourages.

With a cacophony of mewling and sieg heils, the motion passes.

ADJOURNMENT: Having successfully settled not very many disputes at all, representatives of The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson (the band) agree that, moving forward, all future disputes will be settled through inter-entourage JT LeRoy cosplay competitions, not band warfare.

After the meeting is adjourned, Manson reminds Corgan that he still wants to take a piss on the ancestral home of Trent Reznor when the tour reaches Florida. Corgan is still into the idea. Neither of them actually knows how Facebook works, but they agree that doing the soundtrack to a movie about it seems really, really lame. ▲ What will Zachary Lipez come up with next? Like most everyone else, probably a tweet: @ZacharyLipez.

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Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams on life with Levon Helm

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ARRY CAMPBELL PLAYED GUITAR ALONGSIDE BOB DYLAN FOR SEVEN YEARS. He’s worked with B.B. King and Jorma Kaukonen, too, Paul Simon and Cyndi Lauper.

But in 2012, Campbell and his wife, the singer Teresa Williams, emerged from perhaps the most professionally and personally enriching period of their career, when The Band’s Levon Helm died in New York.

For eight years, the couple enjoyed an onstage seat for Helm’s victory lap. They toured and recorded with his Midnight Ramble Band and became part of the famed Midnight Ramble Sessions the drummer hosted in “The Barn” at his Woodstock home. When Campbell delivered Helm’s eulogy, he spoke of the joys—of playing, of sharing, of camaraderie, of telling the truth—Helm brought to everything he did.

“He was incapable,” Campbell said, “of having a false musical moment.”

Released in late June, the couple’s self-titled debut carries on in Helm’s spirit. For the Campbell-penned “Did You Love Me At All,” Williams delivers the same kind of raw, simplistic and poignant vocals as Helm, tapping a deep Southern drawl to counter the sadness of love and loss with the hope of redemption and resiliency. And with help from Helm’s daughter, Amy, Campbell and Williams deliver a stirring rendition of the Grateful Dead classic, “Attics of My Life.”

We spoke with the pair about their past with Helm, their future with his legacy and their long-awaited debut.

INDY: Why have you just now released your first album as a duo?

TERESA WILLIAMS: This is the first chance we had.

LARRY CAMPBELL: The idea for this had been 10 years in the making. I left Dylan’s band at the end of 2004, and Teresa and I both did a lot of assessing about what we wanted to be doing. We’d sing together for the pleasure but without any plan or goal in mind. After I left Bob’s band, we ended up doing a couple of low-key shows.

TW: That’s how we got to Levon, too, because Amy Helm saw us sing together. Larry had already worked with her, but then she saw us together and brought me up when they were doing Dirt Farmer and to sub some for her at the Midnight Rambles.

LC: It was really through those years with Levon that we developed what we do now. At the time, we were very busy working with other people—touring with Phil Lesh, Hot Tuna, Little Feat. During the Electric Dirt sessions around 2009, we put our foot in the water and did a couple of tracks with Levon on drums. Soon after Levon died, we managed to force ourselves to put more time into this.

TW: It was time-consuming to be in what I called “The Levon Orbit.”

INDY: You cut “Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning” for the record, as you’d performed it often with The Levon Helm Band.

But what prompted you to include “Attics of My Life” as the closer?

LC: Early on in the Rambles, we were part of the American Beauty project in New York.

There were a bunch of different acts doing songs from that record. I had always loved “Attics of My Life,” and I wanted to try and distill it down to a three-part harmony. As the Rambles progressed, I felt that we needed a moment in the show where everything broke down to that intimacy.

We kicked it around with Amy, and it just clicked. It became a highlight. Levon loved it, and he loved the fact he got a seven-minute break, too.

TW: It has a lot of meaning for us. We did it at Larry’s mother’s memorial, and Phil Lesh sat in with us. We also did it at Levon’s memorial and also for Phil’s longtime road manager’s memorial. The Dead closed with it at their reunion show a few days ago, too.

INDY: In an interview with NPR, Teresa described playing at The Barn, where Levon hosted those Midnight Rambles, as a “music utopia.” What made it that?

TW: All of us who played there would agree. For Levon, it’s shorthand to say he was “True North,” musically. He just kept things honest. He was there just for the music.

When he lost his voice and we were really having to do most of the singing and he was drumming, you could feel him growing more frail. That last night we played with him at Tarrytown Music Hall, he sat in the dressing room, kind of quiet. He had his head down. All the sudden, he looked up apropos of nothing and said, “All I ask for are just those two hours.” He wanted to play so badly and sing so badly.

Larry had been singing “When I Go Away” when Levon had begun losing his voice again. Larry started the song with a phrase, and Levon just took over and sang the rest.

LC: It was a miraculous and beautiful moment.

INDY: It’s been three years since Levon died. What do you miss the most?

TW: Aside from the music, we would go sit by the fire at his house on Sunday nights, the way I used to do with my relatives growing up. It was just Levon, his wife Sandy, and me and Larry. We’d just sit there and trade stories—just like the way they do down south, trying to top each other’s stories from back home and then Larry and Levon with their Dylan stories. That was a big loss for me, having a piece of home in the north.

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LC: We really felt connected to something when we had that leisure time with Levon and Sandy, a really personal family connection. To use Teresa’s phrase “music utopia,” when we played with Levon, it was an opportunity to be everything you ever wanted to be as a musician—playing great songs, great music with great musicians, a great environment with an audience that always made you feel like they were a part of what you were doing. I’ve vowed that’s how I always want to make music—open, free and inclusive.

TW: I grew up with the music being like that, because there was no music business agenda. People just played and sang for the love of music. At the churches where I grew up, there was no air conditioning in those country churches. It felt a lot like being at The Barn, because in the summer, it’d be hot as Hades when the crowds came. It just reminded me of that, just the joy of music and making a joyful noise.

INDY: Are there plans to put out any more recordings from the Rambles?

LC: No plans have been discussed, but I’m sure it’s on everyone’s mind. Amy has her record coming out. Teresa and I are occupied with this. There are a lot of shows in the vault. When things calm down for both Amy and Teresa and I, we’d all be anxious to see what we can release. The more Levon that’s out there, the better the world is gonna be. s Dan Schram documents concerts around the Triangle for the INDY. Look for him near the soundboard, on indyweek.com and on Twitter: @danschram.

LARRY CAMPBELL & TERESA WILLIAMS with Band of Heathens Saturday, July 25, 9 p.m., $20-$25 Southland Ballroom, 614 N. West St., Raleigh 919-821-0023, www.southlandballroom.com

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huck Johnson arrived late to the world of solo instrumental guitar.

For nearly a quarter-century, Johnson made music in a variety of collaborative guises, from the atavistic indie rock of his ’90s tenure in Chapel Hill’s Spatula and the subsequent globetrotting explorations of Idyll Swords, to the wordless Southern exotica of Shark Quest and his

stints with Superchunk and composition pioneer Pauline Oliveros. He’s explored vivid combinations of noise and beats in some projects, culled field recordings in foreign lands in others, and even provided much-lauded scores to films and television shows. For much of Johnson’s career, music has often seemed about connecting with others.

But five years ago, Johnson—then, a recent graduate of the prestigious Mills College, with an MFA partly in electronic music—stepped out alone, his acoustic guitar in hand. He has since released two albums of absorbing instrumental reflection, where pensive sentiments rippled from picked strings and swept chords. Collectively, they seemed to represent the feelings of an individual. During “Alight In The Nor’Easter,” from Johnson’s 2011 debut A Struggle, Not a Thought, three minutes of hair-raising worry resolved into one sudden, elegant pause for calm. And for “On A Slow Passing In Ghost Town,” from 2013’s wonderful Crows in the Basilica, Johnson spoke with his fingers of spirits and nostalgia, a sinister suspicion lurking just beneath the memories.

But on the incisive and ponderous new Blood Moon Boulder, Johnson treats his material as a set of variegated musical mirrors, where the listener applies emotions to a consciously vague framework. Blood Moon Boulder seems to change every time you hear it.

The 12-minute “Corvid Tactics,” for instance, skips between joy and the blues. Woeful slide guitar parts abut moments that feel like pure, colorful fantasy. As he thumbs the bassline with a little extra force, the piece’s late, galloping section seems to tuck some great sadness inside its ostensible jubilation. And toward the middle, Johnson uses his slide to approximate the sound of a sarod, just before he trots back into the core of what could pass as an Appalachian folk beauty.

As his technique stretches, so goes the emotional sweep of the work, now more inclusive than any one story or its sharer. Likewise, the thin, gossamer melody of “Inversion Layer” is delightful. High notes and a lilting, stepwise motion hint at a joyful conversation with an old friend. But Johnson’s furtive, almost hesitant movement along the strings hints at something darker, like an old feud perhaps left unspoken but certainly not forgotten.

There’s no better example of Blood Moon Boulder’s interactivity than the brilliant closer “Private Violence,” a duet for whinnying pedal steel and halting electric guitar. At times, it feels thoroughly depressed, as though the long, still spaces between Johnson’s notes were the unadulterated essence of existential exhaustion itself. Alternately, it feels like liftoff, with the harmonies between the amplified strings suggesting a restorative calm before a return to reality. Johnson spent two albums sharing his own tales; he’s now taken a rather distinguished turn by giving us a framework with which we can reflect on our own. However private it might have become, Johnson’s music has, yet again, found a way to make public connections. —Grayson Haver Currin Chuck Johnson plays the Cat’s Cradle Back Room Tuesday, July 28, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $8–$10, and Moms and Kym Register open.

SKYBLEW RACE FOR YOUR LIFE, SKYBLEW (Random Beats Music)

The Chapel Hill rapper SkyBlew seems to have grown out of the phase in which he sported his Dwayne Waynestyle flip-up glasses. But on his new album, Race For Your Life, SkyBlew, he still reflects the ideals of the A Different World television star, known for those specs and his black exceptionalism balance of book smarts and urban style.

There’s even a track named for Wayne. SkyBlew, too,

feels like the “coolest nerd in the game,” as witnessed in the video for the album’s first single, “Picture That.” The glasses are gone, but the cartoon beanie and the backpack remain. And with this homage to a Charlie Brown classic chasing last year’s Nickelodeon-inspired SkyBlew’s UNModern Life, the emcee has at last conjoined rap worlds where everything is animated—well, except for the raps.

Instead, the environment of “SkyBlew’s Dream Land” oppresses and softens his indictments, like “all these other rappers suck/inhalin’ each other and spittin’ out the same stuff.” On “The Weakness,” the consequences of daydreaming lack real-life results as SkyBlew goes astray with lines like “imagination ecstatic, sporadic fairies to carry us home.” It’s not entirely his fault, as beat providers such as Scottie Royal, Backdraft and Deejay Verstyle present these tracks like mannered compositions, as though they forgot they had an emcee to accommodate. We hear SkyBlew only as a ghost in his own machine, not its master or monster. His play world isn’t ready yet.

When they do get it right, as on the Royal-produced, jazz-hopped “Spirit Detective 2,” we get the best of SkyBlew. “Through the eye of the storm, I transform the norm,” he offers. “Hauntin’ your dreams when I put hands on both horns/and toss into the thorns/the spirit in my hands/tryin’ to make a point that you wouldn’t understand.” He’s living in a fantasy world, wrestling horned enemies in the name of hip-hop. It’s fun to visit his realm for a spell, at least until weak beats or strained lines reroute us to reality. —Eric Tullis SkyBlew plays the Cat’s Cradle Back Room Saturday, July 25, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8–$10, and the bill includes DJ Reimei, War In The Pocket, OC & B2, Azon Blaze and Samson.

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Raleigh native Peyton Reed, a veteran of modest comedies, sizes up his blockbuster, Ant-Man

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T’S FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND PEYTON REED IS STUCK IN TRAFFIC.

“I’m going seven miles an hour,” says the Raleigh-born filmmaker.

“I’m really flying down the 405.” It’s amazing that he’s staying so cool, even enthusiastic. Not only is he inching down a freeway in his home base of Los Angeles, but his new movie, the summer superhero blockbuster Ant-Man, hits theaters today.

News outlets are already touting the

as much), Reed brings the little guy to the big screen, which Ant-Man co-creator Stan Lee has been trying to do since the ’80s.

Cowriter Paul Rudd plays an ex-con thief who comes to possess an outfit that can shrink him to the size of … well, you know.

“I really didn’t feel more pressure on this movie than I have on any other movie I’ve done,” Reed says. “Movies are pressure cookers by design. They just are.”

Reed handles the reins quite well, especially considering that he didn’t

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$6.4 million take from Thursday-night screenings as a slight disappointment compared to other Marvel films. (Ant-Man did top the first Captain America movie.)

“I have to confess I probably only know slightly more about what it means than you do,” says Reed, unconcerned. “But so far, it feels like we’re in a really good place.”

After years of directing modest comedies, from beloved debut Bring It On to rom-com The Break-Up and Jim Carrey vehicle Yes Man, Reed took on his biggest project yet in Ant-Man. With a budget of $130 million— large by Reed’s standards if not Marvel’s (Avengers: Age of Ultron cost almost twice

come up with the concept of making the superhero’s origin story a loose, smartass heist movie. British filmmaker Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), the original cowriter, was signed on to direct for the first eight years of development, but he exited the production (keeping cowriter and producer credits) in May last year, citing creative differences with Marvel Studios.

A month later, Reed came on board. As someone who grew up buying comics at long-gone Raleigh spots, he had some ideas.

“I came into this movie as I would any other movie: There’s a script that exists, or multiple scripts,” Reed says. “I made

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MUSIC VISUAL ARTS PERFORMANCE BOOKS FILM SPORTS copious notes on what I liked, what I ANT-MAN ★★★★ didn’t and what I wanted to bring from the comics that didn’t exist in those scripts.” he Marvel Cinematic Universe shrinks to street level Lang’s Ant-Man training and the big heist. The emotional Considering Reed’s love of comics, as (and well below) for a small-stakes break from epic shedrivers are his efforts to reintegrate with his family and the well as his knack for placing straight-faced nanigans. Leaving aside alien invasions and cosmic cubes, fraught master/pupil relationships that cut every which way. characters in nutty contexts (a skill he began Ant-Man is a good-guy crime caper with high-tech superhero It’s solid ballast for spectacular special effects. Unusually for sharpening by sauce, as if Daa Marvel movie, they produce more gentle wonder than frazzled directing episodes vid Mamet had awe. It’s exhilarating to share Lang’s ant’s-eye view. He rides a of absurdist plotted Honey, I tap-water tidal wave, gets flung from a spinning record, dodges skitcoms Mr. Shrunk the Kids. dancing shoes and swirls up a vacuum hose—and that’s just Show with Bob and Much like one sequence. He also builds a loyal army of fire ants that can David and Upright Guardians of swarm into bridge shapes, winged ants he can ride like Pegasuses and “crazy ants” that conduct electricity. the Galaxy, this Citizens Brigade), Deduct a star if you can’t merrily bound over some plot rackety actionit’s surprising that contrivances. A blatant McGuffin leads Ant-Man to an Avengcomedy stars he didn’t direct a ers facility to fight the Falcon—a fun diversion in a movie an obscure comic-book movie without much violence. We never have to wait 45 minutes character played sooner. It almost for Ant-Man and Yellowjacket to stop punching each other. by an appealing happened 12 years Instead, a comical climactic battle involving a Thomas the everyman. This ago when he was Tank Engine train set serves as a brisk conclusion. time, it’s Paul called to develop The scuttlebutt around the Edgar Wright-Peyton Reed Rudd as Scott the first Fantastic hand-off of Ant-Man suggests Reed added the larger MCU Lang instead Paul Rudd (left) and Peyton Reed on the set of Ant-Man Four movie at 20th connections Wright didn’t want in his self-contained story. of Chris Pratt PHOTO BY ZADE ROSENTHAL / COURTESY OF MARVEL STUDIOS Century Fox. But the “quantum realm” is an intriguing new layer in the as Peter Quill, but Reed has said he showed up at the first MCU, and the Falcon cameo lets our hero flex his superthey could have easily swapped roles. Both characters are meeting with Fox execs armed with his strength, so why not? Ant-Man is a buoyant, creative breathforgivable thieves: Quill was just a helpless Earth boy thrust old Fantastic Four action figures. Alas, the catcher before the big guns return in Captain America: Civil into space piracy, while the corporation Lang burgled, we’re movie that happened (without Reed) was a War. —Brian Howe relieved to learn, totally had it coming. mediocre affair that even the rockin’ bods Fresh out of prison, Lang is trying of Jessica Alba and a pre-Captain America to go straight for his daughter. But Chris Evans couldn’t save. naturally, his former cellmate has one “I just felt like Fox and I did not have the last job in mind. Meanwhile, scientist same movie in mind at that time,” Reed says.

Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) visits his When he considers the Fantastic Four reboot former protégé, Darren Cross (Corey coming out next month, which is worrying Stoll), who has created a bee-like battle fans with its younger cast and darker look, he suit for the tiny soldiers he’s about to once again sees the glass as half full. figure out how to make.

“I’m still a Fantastic Four fan,” he says.

Former Ant-Man Pym won’t share “I’m hopeful. I hope that movie’s great.” the formula that makes him smaller In the movie industry or on the blood and stronger, which Cross resents. We pressure-raising freeways of Los Angeles, know he’s bad news even before he Reed doesn’t dwell on the downside. He uses a janky shrink ray to turn someone is now officially a filmmaker in the Marvel into a pile of goo and flushes it down a Cinematic Universe, and even when You may qualify for a clinical research study being conducted by the Duke Sleep toilet, because he’s bald—shaved to a trapped in bumper-to-bumper traffic, he sinister gleam.

Disorders Center if you are: can’t get over his good fortune.

Pym’s daughter, uptight Hope van • between the ages of 18 to 65 Whether or not Ant-Man launches its Dyne (Evangeline Lilly, in the severest own franchise—though a post-credits bangs we’ve seen this summer since • have symptoms of depression scene hints that the hero will return in Bryce Dallas Howard’s in Jurassic • have thoughts that life isn’t worth living Captain America: Civil War, and the movie World), works for Cross as an equivowound up winning the weekend with a $58 cal mole. Hope has issues with her dad • have difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up too early in the morning because he misplaced her mom (you’ll million take—Reed made the superhero Physicians in the Sleep Center are studying whether a careful, controlled use of see). She doesn’t like Lang, either, movie he always wanted to make. hypnotics will reduce suicidal thoughts in depressed participants with insomnia. because he’s a goofy felon and she’s “I’ve been trying to do a movie like this for a flinty ass-kicker who wouldn’t mind a really long time,” he says. “Just as a fanboy, If you qualify for the study, all study medication, exams and procedures associated with some ant-powers herself. to finally get to make one, in the context of it the study will be provided at no cost to you and you will be compensated for your time The one-last-job brings Lang, Pym being Marvel and not having to deal with any and travel. and Hope together to steal Cross’ other studios, was really great for me.” s For more information, call 919-681-8392 and ask about the Yellowjacket armor. Once the pieces are all deployed, the movie focuses on depression and insomnia study.

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RETURN OF THE MAC

Family focus and richer witches make Bare Theatre’s Macbeth worthwhile

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F YOU WANT TO GET THE SAME ANSWERS, KEEP ASKING THE SAME QUESTIONS. That’s one takeaway from the 11 productions of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night mounted in the area since I began work as a theater critic, 21 years ago this week. Too many versions have been content to cover ground already well explored. Small wonder I am in no hurry to see yet another one.

Though Macbeth has had just as many iterations in the same period, it has fared far better. The region has seen a Kathakali variant and a Kabuki take focused on the bloody regent’s wife.

N.C. State’s designers have placed it, postapocalypse, somewhere on the London tube.

PlayMakers’ 1995 pop-culture version featured three witches whom I characterized as “refugees from an [old] Madonna video” at the time. Win, lose or draw, at least its directors have been posing different questions—and getting different answers—with this ancient script.

Thankfully, director Rebecca Blum extends this tradition in Bare Theatre’s current version, remounted at Chapel Hill’s Forest Theatre after a lateJune staging in Raleigh. Her production asks how the moral calculus changes when the titled monarch is depicted as a family man whose teenaged son (Bevan Therien in Raleigh, Connor Gerney in Chapel Hill) stands on stage, visibly ready to inherit his throne.

This version also challenges us to see, in its famous witches, something well

beyond the usual hags in eldritch drag.

Reflecting recent research on Wiccans of the Middle Ages, Lucinda Gainey, Kacey Reynolds Schedler and Arin Dickson are depicted as respected elder women in their community—counselors and healers who nonetheless must practice their faith in private. Just as strikingly, the trio is not always in accord—not when the credits list one as Macbeth’s crone, another as Banquo’s and a third as Macduff’s, all contenders to the throne.

A triumphant performance in the title role lays to rest any lingering questions

as the comic porter and a harried Seyton stands out. Byron Jennings was notable as Lennox in June; Allan Maule takes his place this week.

The director’s strong sense of tableau capitalizes on her multigenerational cast.

In this Macbeth, the adolescents and kids on stage not only reinforce the sense of community; they also remind us of everything their parents had to lose in that time of war. Recommended. s

about actor Wade Newhouse’s range.

Under Blum’s direction, this dark sovereign delves into an increasingly Nixonian paranoia, as Benji Jones expertly explores the monstrous ambitions of his wife. It is fitting when each horrifies the other at different points as their grip on events— and sanity—slowly gives way.

Actors including Seth Blum and Heather J. Strickland provide strong support, and Jason Tyne-Zimmerman’s double duty

Not-so-weird sisters: Kacey Reynolds Schedler, Arin Dickson and Lucinda Gainey in Macbeth PHOTO BY RON YORGASON

Byron Woods is the INDY’s theater and dance columnist. Twitter: @ByronWoods

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MUSIC | FUTURE ISLANDS 1000 CARRBORO TOWN COMMONS, CARRBORO SUNDAY, JULY 26

In January 2004, when they were still known as Art Lord & the Self-Portraits, the soon-to-be members of Future Islands played the Cat’s Cradle for the first time. It was an humble afternoon set, a “Sunday showcase” where they had to sell their own tickets and hope friends and family arrived on time. Before the show, frontman Sam Herring dislocated his knee in the parking lot, when a pal’s car rolled over his leg. Rather than cancel, they actually went harder, with Herring jumping into the small crowd to distract himself (and the attendees) from the pain. From a relocation to Baltimore and record deals with Thrill Jockey and 4AD to becoming David Letterman’s favorite new band and the legitimate international fame that followed, a lot has changed for Herring, Gerrit Welmers and William Cashion since that small start. But their commitment to showmanship has never wavered or faltered, a quality that’s made their concerts unforgettable, big-tentrevival spectacles. They’ll play their 1000th gig outside in Carrboro, backed by an incredible bill of friends from Baltimore, Raleigh, their college grounds of Greenville and the road at large—electronic pied piper Dan Deacon, infectious rapper Danny Brown, no wave bashers Ed Schrader’s Music Beat and local favorites Valient Thorr and Lonnie Walker. Expect, as always, an incredible show.

2:30 p.m., $20, 301 W. Main St., Carrboro, 919-967-9053, www.catscradle.com. —Grayson Haver Currin

for local creators, including Malcolm Goff, a contributor to the illustrated Running for Hope: A Novel by the John Hope Franklin Young Scholars. The festivities conclude Sunday with a screening of She Makes Comics (Southwest Regional Library, July 26, 3 p.m.), a look at the history and importance of female creators.

Some events require registration; visit the Durham Comics Project website for details. 10 a.m.–4 p.m., free, 3605 Shannon Road, Durham, 919-560-8590, www.durhamcomicsproject.org.

—Zack Smith

FILM/MUSIC | MY MORNING JACKET

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During “Tropics (Erase Traces),” the next-to-last beauty from My Morning Jacket’s excellent new The Waterfall, an aggressive Jim James steps over a stentorian solo and into the final verse.

“Tastes change/frame by frame,” he barks. “Erase traces/Of the past.” That seemingly tossed-off rhyme serves as a mission statement for My Morning Jacket, a band that’s been continually discontent during its 16-year career. They’ve howled through

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A plethora of talent invades the Bull City for the Durham County Library’s fifth annual comics festival, which has a nice mix of fun and educational activities for kids and grown-ups. After kicking off with an adult-oriented Trivia Night (Fullsteam Brewery, July 23, 9 p.m.) and Drink & Draw session (Cocoa Cinnamon, July 24, 7 p.m.), the Saturday main event at Southwest Regional Library finds kid-friendly creators signing books and giving workshops on their craft. Notable guests include Jimmy Gownley, author of the Eisner Award-nominated Amelia Rules! series and The Dumbest Idea Ever!, which is about his own experiences learning to create comics; Jim Ottaviani, who’s written multiple graphic novels about real-life scientists and their discoveries; and Nick Bertozzi, who’s done kid-friendly graphic novels about Lewis and Clark, Houdini and Shackleton. There’s also an artist’s alley

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ragged guitar rock and floated through cerebral soul, drifted through folk ballads and lifted to psychedelic heights. In the process, they’ve become one of America’s best bands, as full of ideas and risks in the studio as they are energy and rewards on the stage. They’ll indulge something of a two-night stand in the Triangle. First, they’ll stop by the Carolina Theatre to screen and talk about the lysergic Jim Henson curio The Dark Crystal for the Film:Acoustic series. Maybe they’ll even offer some unplugged songs before powering up to test downtown Raleigh’s decibel limits at Red Hat Amphitheater Tuesday. Tough break if you have to choose, as My Morning Jacket is as captivating with a whisper as they are with a roar. Monday: 7 p.m., $15, 309 W. Morgan St., Durham, 919-560-3030, www.carolinatheatre.com. Tuesday: 7 p.m., $29.50–$45, 500 S. McDowell St., Raleigh, 919-996-8800, www.redhatamphitheater.com. —Grayson Haver Currin

MUSIC | DEXTER ROMWEBER THE CAVE | SUN, JUL 26

Wrapping up a month-long residency at Chapel Hill’s oldest bar, Dexter Romweber headlines an early gig with support from the ex-Two Dollar Pistol and current Rosewood Bluff frontman John Howie Jr. His affections for classic honky-tonk and Gram Parsons’ country-rock afford him the willingness to revitalize retro sounds in his own style. Romweber ISLANDS reaches back even more, incorporating blues, rockabilly, surf and even some classical music into his pan-Americana mix. The former Flat Duo Jets iconoclast still delivers some of that band’s urgency, but these days, it’s tempered with veteran confidence and expanded scope. To see Romweber perform solo is to see a séance that summons America’s pop-music past, from Tin Pan Alley and Sun Studio to So-Cal and bar rooms in between. With its low lighting and lower ceilings, The Cave has become something of a natural habitat for Romweber and his rewarding excavations.

6 p.m., $5, 452 1/2 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, 919-968-9308, www.caverntavern.com.

—Bryan C. Reed

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Doug Varone’s latest obsession is the pastel work of Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell. “She used pastels in a way I have not seen anyone do.

Their energy almost has a 3-D quality,” Varone told the INDY. “She builds a palette and then pushes away from it; there’s a world behind the color up front.” In the premiere of ReComposed, Varone explores those worlds through contemporary dance.

“I am looking at these images and taking from them their energy, color, line, form, space and negative space,” he says. “I am understanding what makes her compositions so poignant and recomposing that in bodies and space.” The program also includes The Fabulist, Varone’s 2014 solo interweaving narrative, light, shadow and silence, and 2006’s triumphant ensemble work, Lux. Bang on a Can co-founders Michael Gordon and David Lang provide music for two of the pieces, while the other is set to music by Philip Glass. 8 p.m. Fri.; 1 and 7 p.m. Sat., 123 Vivian St., Durham, $19.25–$46, 919-680-2787, www.americandancefestival.org. —Byron Woods

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POUYA AND THE BUFFET BOYS,KIRK KNIGHT, AND BODEGA BAMZ ($20)

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WE 10/28 PEACHES "RUB TOUR" ** 10/31 THE DISTRICTS W/ LADY LAMB ($15) WE 11/4 MINUS THE BEAR **($23/$25; ON SALE 7/24)

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DUKE GARDENS DIALI CISSOKHO & KAIRA BA Senegalese kora player Diali Cissokho creates a spectacle when he performs, whether by throwing his body on broken glass, playing in wildly acrobatic postures or inviting leaping dancers to the stage. But there is substance to the spectacle. Cissokho is a birthright griot, singing songs of love, family and community that reflect his West African roots and Carrboro home. $5–$10, 12 and under free/7 p.m. —SP MOTORCO: Rayland Baxter, Tres Altman; 8 p.m., $12–$14.

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NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Songs From Downstairs with Rod Abernethy: Terry Anderson & The Olympic Ass-Kickin’ Team; 8-11 p.m., $5.

THE PINHOOK: Menteur, Lost Trail, Dendera Bloodbath, Millefleux; 9 p.m., $7.

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POUR HOUSE: TreeHouse!, Sun Dried Vibes; 9 p.m., $6–$8.

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: Idina Menzel; 8 p.m., $35– $99.50. See indyweek.com.

SLIM’S: Plastic Pinks, Acid Chaperone; 9 p.m., $5.

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STATION AT SOUTHERN RAIL: Dex Romweber; 9 p.m. See page 23.

THU, JUL 23 DEEP SOUTH: Maurice Mangum; 8 p.m., $5.

KINGS WIDOWSPEAK As Widowspeak, Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas take songs rooted in stark southwestern blues and turn them

into laid-back west coast pop, backed by a measured touch of circular rhythms. The music swelters, though Hamilton’s cool and easy voice makes it feel refreshing, too, like a breeze during a walk through the woods on a humid day. New single “Girls,” taken from the forthcoming All Yours, is a perfect example. Promising local newcomers Happy Abandon open. $10–$12/8 p.m. —JW

LINCOLN THEATRE BERES HAMMOND The Jamaican-born Beres Hammond moved to New York more than a quarter-century ago, and his career soon took off.

Deeply informed by soul, he made his way with Lover’s Rock, reggae’s ballad-heavy niche. Over the years he’s injected hip-hop, rocksteady and dancehall into his unassuming tunes. He even cut a bona fide soul record. His velvety, smoky-sweet vocals, which suggest Al Green-gone-Peter Tosh, remain. With The Harmony House Singers. $27–$40/8 p.m. —CP LOCAL 506: Great Caesar; 9 p.m., $7.

THE MAYWOOD REPAID IN BLOOD Amid their spasmodic riffs and leaden breakdowns, the California deathcore band Repaid in Blood reveal juvenile humor, evidenced by songs like “She Used My Face As A Pregnancy Test” and “Count Choculitis.” The pranksters also embrace a more traditional death metal mold, as on their 2014 EP’s title track, “Born In A Lazarus Pit.” Aussie deathsquad In Death and Raleigh’s Suppressive Fire open. $7–$9/9:30 p.m. —BCR MIDTOWN PARK AMPHITHEATRE: Liquid Pleasure; 6 p.m., free.

THE PINHOOK QUARTERBACKS

Contributors Grayson Haver Currin (GC), Corbie Hill (CH), Allison Hussey (AH), Maura Johnston (MJ), David Klein (DK), Jeff Klingman (JK), Jordan Lawrence (JL), Karlie Justus Marlowe (KM), Chris Parker (CP), Sylvia Pfeiffenberger (SP), Bryan C. Reed (BCR), Dan Schram (DS), Gary Suarez (GS), Eric Tullis (ET), Patrick Wall (PW), Justin Weber (JW)

It doesn’t take long to realize that this New Paltz, New York, band took their name ironically, as leaders of sports squads are seldom so nasal. None of it takes long, really. All their songs start, thrash and sputter to a close in less than 90 seconds. That nervy, double-time bashing is a nice contrast to the twee vulnerability of Dean Engle’s lyrics, even if that’s the only play he’s drawn up so far.

With Cat Be Damned and Dogbreth. $7/9 p.m. —JK PITTSBORO ROADHOUSE: Katie Basden; 6 p.m. Tokyo Rosenthal with River Glen; 8 p.m.

PNC ARENA SAM SMITH Sam Smith’s star track nearly mirrored his heartbroken lyrics this spring. Pop’s new resident miserablist followed his Grammy wins with a vocal hemorrhage that forced him to go under the knife. But he’s recovered for his latest U.S. tour. Smith only has the much-awarded In The Lonely Hour to his name, but his combination of being sad, soulful and British has led to quick headliner status.

His supple voice is better showcased by uptempo tracks like his Disclosure collaboration “Latch,” but the somber hits “Stay With Me” and “I’m Not The Only One” will provide the group cries. $35–$125/7:30 p.m. —MJ POUR HOUSE: Jesse Malin, Richard Bacchus & The Luckiest Girls, Don DiLego; 9 p.m., $8–$10. See box, this page.

QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS: The Lost Nomads; 7 p.m.

RALEIGH CITY PLAZA: Johnny Folsom 4, Megan Doss Band; 5 p.m., free.

SLIM’S: Pinkish Black, Womb, Beneath the Monolith; 9:30 p.m., $5.

STATION AT SOUTHERN RAIL: El Jefe, Walleyed; 9 p.m.

TIR NA NOG LOCAL BAND, LOCAL BEER: JACKSON SCOTT In today’s overflowing music market, it can be hard for an artist to evolve without losing fans who wanted a specific sound. Witness Jackson Scott, the lo-fi-loving Asheville songwriter who grabbed attention in 2013 for the crisp melodies and cushion-like fuzz of Melbourne. He’s back with Sunshine Redux, a fascinating listen that skews expectations by mutating earnest and engaging tunes with a cache of distortion and effects. Here’s hoping his fans, unlike several dismissive critics,

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Free/9:30p.m. —JL UNIVERSITY PLACE: Embers; 6 p.m., free.

FRI, JUL 24 BEYÙ CAFFÈ: La Fiesta Latin Jazz Band; 8 & 10 p.m., $10.

BLUE NOTE GRILL: Victor Wainwright; 9 p.m., $8. Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free.

BYNUM GENERAL STORE: City Folk; 7 p.m., $5–$7.

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JESSE MALIN, RICHARD BACCHUS & THE LUCKIEST GIRLS THURSDAY, JULY 23

THE POUR HOUSE, RALEIGH—Jesse Malin operates his own franchise of the living punk rock museum, a spiritual shop that can rearrange one’s priorities and values for a lifetime.

Even when he’s not wearing a leather jacket, Malin exudes an old-school essence, which he carries into his new album, New York Before The War. The record closes the five-year gap since 2010’s Love It To Life, arguably the best of the six solo albums he’s made since shuttering his old band, D Generation, in 1999. Malin recorded New York twice—first, in the seclusion of a Virginia farmhouse for sessions he shelved because they lacked what he’s called “angst” and “uptempo anger.” He then cut another 15 tracks elsewhere, to the dismay of his label and bandmates alike.

Three songs survive from those first takes, making New York sound, in some sense, like two different albums. It’s frontloaded with the elegiac Springsteen-like piano ballad “The Dreamers” and the bubbly garage-pop anthem “Addicted.” They’re followed by the New York Dolls-biting “Turn Up the Mains,” an appropriately titled rock rave that signals the more rocking songs to come, like the lacerating “Freeway,” which features the MC5’s Wayne Kramer.

Born in Queens, Malin cut his teeth on punk, auditioning for CBGB in 1980 as a snotty 13-year old. Though they didn’t get the gig, Heart Attack made a name for themselves in hardcore circles, setting the stage for Malin’s defining band with guitarist Richard Bacchus, ’90s punk revivalists D Generation. Their glam-punk earned all kinds of accolades, even if the mainstream explosion of grunge and alt-rock overshadowed them.

After the fact, Malin joined the queue of ex-punkers such as Mike Ness and John Doe, who opted for a gritty singersongwriter vibe after rock band life. Malin’s prose and craft have sharpened during the last two decades, but he’s never quite left behind that old punk swagger. He remains poised between getting deep with you and boxing your ears.

Bacchus—Malin’s old running mate, now based in Raleigh—lacks those qualms. At most, he indulges a little Bowie nostalgia on tracks like “Long Lost Debby.” Mostly, Bacchus prefers to build a wall of distortion and slash his way through it. Bacchus and Malin linked for a D Generation reunion several years ago and even issued a D Generation 10” for this year’s Record Store Day. Don’t be surprised to hear them revisit an old New York classic or two. 9 p.m., $8–$10, 224 S. Blount St., Raleigh, 919-821-1120, www.the-pour-house.com. —Chris Parker

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM) JON STICKLEY TRIO, BIG FAT GAP Asheville’s Mountain Xpress extols the Jon Stickley Trio for “blending the rhythmic, fast-paced techniques of bluegrass with songs from the other end of the musical spectrum.” With her spirited melodies, the dynamic fiddler at Stickley’s side, Lyndsay Pruett, anchors the act as much as the namesake. The trio joins a familiar group of friends in Big Fat Gap. The Chapel Hill bluegrass collective is an institution, with a considerable and impressive roster of former members, Stickley among them. This is bluegrass-plus. $7/8 p.m. —DS

THE CAVE REDLEG HUSKY Carolina, last spring’s album from Boone’s Redleg Husky, opens with some quick acoustic licks and a singing saw. It’s a fetching start, but the band has trouble maintaining momentum for a dozen songs. The vocals never quite sound confident, and the acoustic instrumentation is often unremarkably plain. Fellow North Carolinian crews The Pinkerton Raid and Eno Mountain Boys open and should offer better hooks and more energy, respectively. $5/9 p.m. —AH DEEP SOUTH: Betting for Benson, Ryan K. Hamlin, Days In May, Local Optima; 8 p.m., $5.

DURHAM CENTRAL PARK: The Luxuriant Sedans; 5:30 p.m., free.

HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Charles Pettee; 7-9 p.m., free.

IRREGARDLESS: Something Acoustic; 6:30 p.m.

KINGS ADULT SCIENCE When Raleigh “borrowcore” dance-rock band Adult Science ran Cassie’s 2006 R&B hit “Me & U” through its musical funhouse of torture bells and guitar lashes

INDYweek.com for last year’s Correlations EP, a more malignant and dire version of the song emerged, far from Billboard plebs. Perhaps they’ve hitched on to something more upwardly mobile with the danceable and sassy “You think you’re smart, I know yr dumb” single from their upcoming LP, Causations. Indeed, that joke will be on you if this concept outfit doesn’t stick around long enough for you to enjoy them. With Brass/ Abs, Ellertronic and Apache Kid. $5/9 p.m. —ET

PAGE-WALKER ARTS & HISTORY CENTER: Moment’s Notice; 7 p.m., free.

THE PINHOOK: Girls Rock NC Showcase; 6 p.m., $5–$10. Illegal Dance Party; 10 p.m., $5–$10.

PITTSBORO ROADHOUSE: Bellflower; 8 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE GOLDEN GATE WINGMEN

POUR HOUSE THE BLUE DOGS

Golden Gate Wingmen is the latest project of singer and guitarist John Kadlecik, of Further and Dark Star Orchestra. With a few Further bandmates and Tea Leaf Green’s Reed Mathis in tow, he is deeply inspired by the Grateful Dead. They traced the road through trilling roots-soul and into reverberating jam-folk and back over familiar territory like The Band’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece.” $22.50–$28/9 p.m.

—CP

Across nine albums spread over a quarter-century, Charleston’s Blue Dogs have played the kind of country, Southern rock and buoyant folk that’s been rechristened Americana. Their evocative, hook-lined songs are cozier than an overstuffed couch.

Openers Nasty Habit hark back to ’80s pop-rockers like Foreigner and Night Ranger. $15–$20/9 p.m.

—CP

LOCAL 506 PUNK CUTS TO END RAPE The haircut is simple: Shave down the sides, leave it long on top, and have yourself a Mohawk. It’s not the only punk-rock cut, of course, but it’s one of the classics. At this benefit, it becomes even more righteous by association. Punk Cuts to End Rape is a fundraiser for the Orange County Rape Crisis Center, and those who raise the funds get the excellent haircuts.

Free/8 p.m. —CH THE MAYWOOD: Killing The Catalyst, Threatpoint, Attracting The Fall; 9:30 p.m., $7–$9.

MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Canopy Hands, The Sleeping Policemen; 8:30-11:30 p.m., free.

NC MUSEUM OF ART: Tea Cup Gin; 5:30 p.m., free.

NIGHTLIGHT EARTHLY

THIS FRIDAY!

sources. They pair constant motion with fleeting melody, and Days is pure delight. The excellent bill includes Mans Trash, Wind Sun and Tegucigalpan. 9:30 p.m. —GC

Days is the forthcoming debut LP from Earthly, the Carrboro duo of Edaan Brook and Brint Hansen.

Their wonderful electronic pieces are frantic but comfortable, active but inviting, so that all the quick-paced cut-ups thrive inside softer, slower tones. It’s like watching an action scene take place in a world sculpted with pillows. The recent return of Ratatat is romantic and nostalgic, sure, but Earthly takes that pair’s endearing accessibility and emboldens it through meticulous rhythms and ecumenical sound

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER WILL DOWNING, GERALD ALBRIGHT If romance-minded R&B on a sultry summer evening is your idea of the perfect quiet storm, get to Red Hat. Will Downing may not be a household name, but he’s been delivering soulful, bedroom-ready grooves since the ’80s. Smooth-jazz sax master Gerald Albright joins. His own diverse résumé includes a performance at Bill Clinton’s inauguration and a tour with Teena Marie. You might sweat, but it won’t be due to the beat count. With Najee. $23.62– $32.99/7 p.m. —DK

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Dark Water Rising, Rebekah Todd & The Odyssey; 9:30 p.m., $8–$10.

STATION AT SOUTHERN RAIL: Ian Burton Group; 7 p.m.

Dymacel; 10 p.m.

THE RITZ: Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Dillon Cooper; 8 p.m., $25. See box, page 28.

THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Daniel Stark Quartet; 7 p.m., $5.

SAT, JUL 25 BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Angela Johnson; 8 & 10 p.m., $12.

BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Tornado Blues Band; 8 p.m., $8.

THE CARY THEATER: Claire Holley; 8 p.m., $20.

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): SkyBlew, DJ Reimei, War In The Pocket, OC & B2, Azon Blaze; 9 p.m., $8–$10. See page 19.

THE CAVE: Six Shots Later, 1 Last Chance; 9 p.m., $5.

DEEP SOUTH JOSH PRESLAR BAND The soulful blues of Piedmont native Josh Preslar possess a pendulous swing. After a dozen years of apprenticeship supporting others, Preslar struck out on his own with Packin’ Light.

Its easy sway, Chicago blues chug and deep-set grooves recall Otis Rush or Albert Collins, embossed with understated leads. The Swinging Widmores and Ridin’ The Blind open. $8/9 p.m. —CP

SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS: Chateau; 7 p.m., free.

HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Jeff Mullins & Adam Lane; 7-9 p.m., free.

IRREGARDLESS: Hal Engler; 11 a.m. Gary Brunotte with Nelson Delgado; 6 p.m. Onda; 9 p.m.

JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Rose Gray Band; 7 p.m., free.

SLIM’S SAVAGE KNIGHTS

KINGS CHARMING YOUNGSTERS

If you’ve never been to Slim’s, the blessed downtown Raleigh dive, Savage Knights’ defiantly weird mix of jazz skronk and garage-rock strength might offer a nice, if counterintuitive, introduction. The stalwart local band and essential Raleigh spot offer more than they immediately suggest. Slim’s books a steady stream of diverse and adventurous rock bands, while the Knights bridge genres that don’t regularly share space. Brash hearts beat within both institutions. With Wahya’s and Katiee. $5/9 p.m. —JL

Like dogs that look like their owners, some band names perfectly encapsulate the acts that have them. (See also: Metallica, Devo, Rancid.) Raleigh’s Charming Youngsters are, indeed, charming, as their bouncy tunes belie world-weary lyrics and sophisticated musical nuance.

Gentle tunes explode into gigantic choruses, rushing headlong into maximalist, euphoric pop that suggests the grandeur of Broken Social Scene. (Their preferred turn of phrase is “stadium rock for weirdos.”) Gold Light—think Interpol with less verve and more muscle—headlines, and Youth League opens. $5/8 p.m. —PW

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To advertise or feature a pet for adoption, please contact rgierisch@indyweek.com LOCAL 506 MAPLE STAVE, WINSTON FACIALS, DRUG YACHT This should be a loud one: Revived after a long dormancy, Drug Yacht puts muscle and melody into its math-rock, with shout-alongs delivered by a powerful band of three dudes named Dave.

Winston Facials, meanwhile, are delirious and devilish, shouting out psychedelic musings and pounding out simple rhythms beneath an unsophisticated sheet of static. Headliners Maple Stave, another band that took a break, create nuanced and oftencinematic anthems that tuck in like post-rock before exploding like noise-rock. (Disclosure: Maple Stave’s Chris Williams is an INDY employee.) $7/9 p.m. —GC

STATION AT SOUTHERN RAIL: Twilighter; 8 p.m.

THE RITZ: Adventure Club; 8:30 p.m., $20–$25.

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position of incalculable rock-nerd envy.) Bully is the muscle car behind her raspy voice and lyrical anxiety. The punch they pack powers them through some songs where Bognanno’s melodic sense is less than refined. But her rawness reads as realness, and real is usually enough. No Love opens. $8–$10/9 p.m. —JK

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“Prayin’ for Daylight,” the band stunning The Darkness Comes was $7–$9/10 p.m. —BCR has pushed country’s limits, albeit an overdue, well executed and in safe, sunny ways. A variety of satisfying follow-up. The Tender hits (“Fast Cars and Freedom,” THE PINHOOK Fruit plays the blissful, early“Bless the Broken Road”) and BULLY evening Saturdays in Saxapahaw misses (“Me and My Gang,” “Bob series. Free/6 p.m. —AH At 25, Alicia Bognanno is already a That Head”) explored a new young veteran of Nashville’s music hybrid of country pop, adult industry. She engineered SLIM’S: Roar the Engines, contemporary and soft rock, recordings and mixed live sound Indiobravo; 9 p.m., $5. creating a vocabulary now present for bands for years before fronting on mainstream country radio.

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TUE, JUL 28 CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM) ROCKY VOLTATO, DAVE HAUSE Wherein former leaders of melodically inclined punk bands ditch bandmates and electricity in pursuit of singer-songwriter bona fides. Rocky Votolato’s plaintive and poetic acoustic odes get by on tried-and-true utilitarian metaphors—hey, not every guy with a guitar hits on Deep Truths—but Votolato builds his songs with inviting melodies. Since putting his pop-punk band The Loved Ones aside for a solo stint, Dave Hause has issued a few collections of populist rock anthems. He chases the urgency of his past without extra instruments. Chris Farren opens. $12–$14/8:30 p.m. —PW

THE CAVE AF THE NAYSAYER Those in the know in matters pertaining to beats recognize the value and scarcity of a co-sign from Jneiro Jarel, of Dr. Who Dat? and JJ Doom fame. Louisianabased producer AF the Naysayer has one. Judging by his leftfield electro-funk, it’s deserved. $3/9 p.m. —GS

THE MAYWOOD JUNGLE ROT For a genre obsessed with certain mortality, death metal sure does love to live forever. Wisconsin’s Jungle Rot is one of many cases in this point, as the two-decade-old band continues its torment of plague-and-horror tropes with yet another crew of new recruits.

Leader Dave Matrise remains the band’s only original member, but at least he takes care to update Jungle Rot’s fury. The group’s latest—and admittedly urgent—material sounds modern with its menace, with heavy breakdowns and shout-out-loud harmonies that suggest they pay attention to trends, though not necessarily their own message.

With Pathogenesis, Only Ash Remains and Basura. $12– $17/8:30 p.m. —GC THE PINHOOK: Paul Green Rock Academy; 5 p.m., free. See July 29 listing at The ArtsCenter.

TIR NA NOG BEER & BANJOS BLUEGRASS JAM

CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Chuck Johnson, Moms, Kym Register; 8:30 p.m., $8–$10.

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KINGS POWER TRIP After a series of demos, EPs and singles, Texas’ Power Trip emerged in 2013 with one of that year’s best metal debuts, the incredibly named Manifest Decimation. Whether than look west like James K. Polk, Power Trip looked back to the time where punk and metal bled into one another and did their best to recreate the ecstatic, exploratory essence of the crossover. While Manifest Decimation had revivalist roots, though, Power Trip found a way to work weird bits into the record’s hits, with tangents and effects helping to refract the fury. In advertising this tour, they teased that their second LP is in the demo stages. Maybe they’ll test some of their new thrash mutations tonight. With Foreseen, Red Death and Society Sucker. $12/8:30 p.m. —GC

NEPTUNES PARLOUR WILDHONEY The alternately oblique and abrasive textures, the pedalswirled guitar and the airy vocal melodies paint Baltimore’s Wildhoney as a shoegaze band.

But the quartet doesn’t lose itself amid the sonic storm; its songs are crisp and ravenously paced. These are perfect pop songs shrouded in psychedelic atmosphere. With Jenny Besetzt. $6/9:30 p.m. —PW PITTSBORO ROADHOUSE: Matt Walsh; 6:30 p.m.

POUR HOUSE THE VELDT The Veldt first rose to prominence with the Triangle’s early ’90s alt-rock explosion and released three albums before checking out in 1998. They returned a dozen years later and have been playing periodically for the last few years. They have a new album on the way. Daniel Chavis’ button-down croon at times recalls the Northern Soul of British new wavers Tears for Fears or Spandau Ballet, while the guitars move between glacial sweep and distortion-laden rumble. They know how to be sweet and sour. Aidan Connell opens. $5–$8/9 p.m. —CP

Raleigh-based banjo player Hank Smith wears many hats related to his instrument, whether by working as a professional picker or the host of Tir na Nog’s weekly Beer & Banjos series. Instead of the usual single performer in the spotlight, this episode of Beer & Banjos is an open-ended jam.

Free/7:30 p.m. —AH

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RED HAT AMPHITHEATER: My Morning Jacket, Lucius; 7 p.m., $29.50–$45. See page 23.

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THE RITZ, RALEIGH—Every time they split a track, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon push one another to be better. To wit, on the new Twelve Reasons To Die II, Ghostface’s follow-up to his 2013 record with producer Adrian Younge, he trumps the Chef-bereft predecessor by offering Raekwon several guest spots. Indeed, very few rap duos have ever been as dynamic as this pairing—or quite so codependent, either.

There’s real magic when the Wu-Tang standouts come together; in tandem, they remain two of the most recognizable collaborators in the genre’s history. In all their glittering, gold-chained glory, they stare out together from the covers of Ironman, Bulletproof Wallets and both volumes of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. They are terrifically matched on 1995’s “Criminology,” for instance, or 2001’s “Apollo Kids,” where their swapped verses feel fluid, not just natural. The meetings move beyond the competitive rivalries present in the studio, producing something bigger than either of them.

But when they’re apart, things soon get sour. The Chef’s sole full-length without so much as a Tony Starks ad lib, 1999’s tepid Immobilarity, offered one of the first signs of the Wu’s impending decline. And the less that’s said about the Wu-deficient Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City, the better. Ghostface has never found anyone who can work with him so well, though he’s tried. Wu Block partner Sheek Louch, also of The LOX, is little more than a Raekwon stand-in, available for Ghostface when his best bud has a scheduling conflict.

Six years have passed since Raekwon and Ghostface recorded an entire album together. That was Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II, the sequel to their 1995 masterpiece, whose anniversary they’re now touring to commemorate. Since nobody wants to pay for recorded music anymore, it seems only right that they would take their medicine show on the road. Unlike Method Man and Redman, whose joint efforts are more sideshow than main attraction, these two share a tremendous catalog, always capable of regaling the amassed.

Nowhere else can Wu-Tang necromancy feel so good. With Dillon Cooper. 8 p.m., $25, 2820 Industrial Dr., Raleigh, 919-836-8535, www.ritzraleigh.com. —Gary Suarez

In the classic Simpsons episode “Homerpalooza,” Homer declares he’s going to reclaim his rockin’ youth, only to have Marge pipe in with, “Well, good.

Try and include Bart and Lisa.”

Paul Green—the inspiration for Jack Black’s School of Rock—has been including little Barts and Lisas for 15 years, teaching kids the ins and outs of rock performance at camps in Woodstock. This year, the idea goes on tour. There’s a free installment at The Pinhook July 27 at 5 p.m. $7–$12/8 p.m. —CH

DUKE GARDENS PAT COHEN, BIG RON HUNTER They call Pat Cohen “Mother Blues” because her cavernous soul-shout sounds like it emerged from the genre’s basement bedroom. A Big Easy fixture for years, Cohen was displaced by Katrina, so she reestablished her brassy blues-funk in North Carolina with the help of Music Maker Relief Foundation. Big Ron Hunter plays acoustic blues with real back-porch warmth. $5–$10, 12 and under free/7 p.m. —CP

KINGS EYES LOW A few months ago, young Raleigh producer Jake Funke, or Funkss, changed his stage name to Eyes Low. It’s too early to tell whether the shift from party nomenclature to a decidedly sedate handle indicates a comprehensive stylistic move away from his upbeat pieces, but the newly released “Dish” suggests it might be. Bright mutated tones rise and swirl beneath a sampled sermon, as a slowly building bassline hints at a climax that never comes. Instead,

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it fades away beautifully, leaving more questions than answers.

Funke has always excelled at adjusting the timing and tone of his sets; perhaps he can slow them down and keep that up.

With No Smoking, Pocari Sweat and iCloud. $5/9 p.m. —GC LOCAL 506: Chief Scout, Concord America, Cool Party; 9 p.m., $8.

THE MAYWOOD: Kut ov Azazel, Secrets She Kept, Faith in Ashes, Heron; 8:30 p.m., $12–$17.

THE PINHOOK LANDLADY Brooklyn’s Landlady are experts at writing songs that sound cheery while exploring darker emotional corners. Their Upright Behavior, released last year via Hometapes, is a sparkling set of fun songs that scratch at tender spots like loss and anxiety. Live, Landlady only operate at full-tilt. Adam Schatz is a captivating and energetic frontman, and the rest of the band follows closely. The performances have an energy and enthusiasm that reinvigorate the audience in turn. Buke & Gase open, with charming local duo Eric + Erica taking the first slot. $10–$12/9 p.m. —AH

POUR HOUSE PORCH LIGHT APOTHECARY Even as a live record, the minimalism of Porch Light Apothecary’s new album is daring. Many of the popular songwriters that leap immediately to mind when listening—current alt-country standouts Jason Isbell and John Moreland, for instance—wrap their studio efforts with deceptively full arrangements, where pedal steel and harmony singing can cushion any lame lyrics. But on Live at Lincoln Theatre, there’s just acoustic and electric guitar and drums. Sure, there are some moments when Brent Jordan’s words could use a little more support, but more often than not, his booming baritone and sincere sentiments play well in this stark light. With Roger Troy Smith & the Red Engine, City Below. $5–$8/9 p.m. —JL STATION AT SOUTHERN RAIL: Cool Party, M is We; 9 p.m.

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LITMUS GALLERY: Jul 25-Aug

28: Fine Arts League of Cary. 312 W Cabarrus St, Raleigh. 919-5713605, www.litmusgallery.com.

ONGOING 311 GALLERY & STUDIOS:

Aug 24: Student Teacher Staff Show. 120 Maury O’Dell Place.

919-469-4081, www.townofcary. org.

CEDAR CREEK GALLERY:

Thru Aug 16: Summer Still Life, vases and pitchers. — Thru Aug 16: Summer Still Life: A Collection of Vases and Pitchers. Free. 1150 Fleming Rd, Creedmoor. 919-5281041, www.cedarcreekgallery.com.

Thru Jul 24: Dan Nelson Paints the Town, plein air paintings by Dan Nelson. free. 311 W Martin St, Raleigh. 919-436-6987, 311westmartinstreetgallery.com.

CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY: Thru Jul 31: Jim

ALIZARIN GALLERY: Thru Aug

CHATHAM MARKETPLACE:

15: Jim Lee, art and photography.

Free. 119 W Main St, Durham.

919-434-5400, www.facebook. com/alizaringallery.

Toub, works in pen and ink.

100 Library Dr. 919-969-2028, chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

Thru Jul 31: Ely Urbanski,

Avent Ferry Rd, Raleigh. 919-8289886, cspot.com.

DUKE CAMPUS: CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES: Thru Oct 3: Beyond

the Front Porch 2015. 1317 W Pettigrew St, Durham. 919-6603663, www.cdsporch.org.

DURHAM ART GUILD: Thru Aug 1: Illustrious: Spotlight on Regional Illustration, 70 works by 28 different regional artists exploring illustration. 120 Morris St. 919-560-2713, www. durhamartguild.org.

ELEVATION GALLERY AT SKYHOUSE RALEIGH: Thru

Sep 26: New Works, by Linda Ruth Dickinson. 308 S Blount St. 919296-0100, skyhouseraleigh.com.

ENO GALLERY: Thru Aug 23:

Birdland, work by Tim Turner and Molly Cliff Hilts. 100 S Churton St, Hillsborough. 919-883-1415, www. enogallery.net.

ERUUF ART GALLERY: Thru Aug 13: What Comes From, paintings by Sandra Elliot. 4907 Garrett Rd, Durham. 919-489-

JOYFUL JEWEL: Thru Jul 31: Fur & Feathers, paintings by Beth Bale.

44-A Hillsboro St, Pittsboro. 919883-2775, www.joyfuljewel.com.

LEE HANSLEY GALLERY:

Thru Aug 8: Ann Harwell: Looking Skyward, quilted tapestries, plus ceramics by In-Chin Lee. 225 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh. 919-8287557, www.leehansleygallery.com.

LIGHT ART + DESIGN: Thru

Aug 15: Opening, work from Katherine Armacost, Béatrice Coron, Lynda Curry, Green Daniel, Dail Dixon, Marguerite Jay Gignoux, Harriet Hoover, Anne Lemanksi, Rachel Meginnes, Grant Newton, Daniel Rickey, Leigh Suggs and John Webb. free. 601 W Rosemary St, Chapel Hill. 919-9427077, www.lightartdesign.com.

LITMUS GALLERY: Thru Jul 24: Bi-Polar Photography, work by Charlie Dickens and Mike Lewis.

312 W Cabarrus St, Raleigh. 919571-3605, www.litmusgallery.com.

LOCAL COLOR GALLERY:

Thru Jul 31: Red, White & Blue, female artists’ works in mixed

Aug 22: The Beehive Salon Art Challenge: The 1940s, work inspired by hairstyles of the 1940s.

102 E Weaver St, Carrboro. 919932-4483, thebeehive-salon.com.

BULL CITY ARTS COLLABORATIVE: UPFRONT GALLERY: Thru Jul 31: Close

to the Earth, photography by Marthanna Yater. 401-B1 Foster St, Durham. 919-949-4847, www. bullcityarts.org.

THE CARRACK MODERN ART: Thru Aug 1: Aether Arcana, new work by Cade Carlson. 111 W Parrish St, Durham. www. thecarrack.org.

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Pause in a Timeless Moment, work by Ruth Ananda. Free. 919942-2050, ruth@ruthananda. com, www.c3huu.org/upcomingart-exhibits.html. 106 Purefoy Rd. 919-942-2050.

ORANGE COUNTY MAIN LIBRARY: Thru Aug 1: Summer

THROUGH THIS LENS: Thru Aug 15: Tiny Situations from the Collective Unconscious, photography by Jessica Berkowitz.

— Thru Aug 1: Photography of Dance, work by Chris Walt. 303 E Chapel Hill St, Durham. 919-6870250, www.throughthislens.com.

Art Show, photographs by Bruce Weber; watercolors by Jeeyhun Hoke; acrylic/mixed media pieces

by Marie Lawrence. Free. 919245-2525, www.bit.ly/ocplibrary.

137 W Margaret Ln, Hillsborough.

919-245-2525, www.co.orange. nc.us/library.

PAGE-WALKER ARTS & HISTORY CENTER: Thru Aug

16: Impressions in Color and Light, work by Karen Meredith. — Thru Aug 16: Visions of Yesteryear, painted portraits by Kevin Peddicord. free. — Thru Aug 16: Out of the Flames, ceramics

by Andi Dees. 119 Ambassador Loop, Cary. 919-460-4963, www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

PLEIADES GALLERY: Thru Jul 31: Endangered, work by TJ Christiansen. 109 E Chapel Hill St,

UMSTEAD HOTEL & SPA:

Thru Aug 30: Madonna Phillips, mixed media glass work. 100 Woodland Pond, Cary. 919-4474000, www.theumstead.com.

UNC CAMPUS: HANES ART CENTER: Thru Aug 10: Arbor

Incognita, sculpture, old growth stump prints, and book art by Mark Iwinski in the John and June Alcott Gallery. Free. 919/962.2015.

101C E Cameron Ave, Chapel Hill.

919-962-2015, art.unc.edu.

VILLAGE ART CIRCLE: Thru Aug 24: Crossroads, work by JJ Jiang and students. 200 S Academy St #130, Cary. www.villageartcircle. com.

VISUAL ART EXCHANGE:

Thru Jul 31: Summer, work by Trish Klenow. free. 309 W Martin St, Raleigh. 919-828-7834, www. visualartexchange.org.

The Furniture Society Members Exhibit, juried exhibition of work

by Furniture Society members from across the United States and Canada. www.furnituresociety. org. 324 Blackwell St, Durham. 919-433-1570, americantobaccohistoricdistrict. com.

THE BEEHIVE SALON: Thru

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NATURE ART GALLERY: Thru Aug 2: Transparent-Overlapping Images of Nature, work by Trena McNabb. 11 W Jones St, Raleigh.

919-733-7450 x369, www. naturalsciences.org.

AMERICAN TOBACCO CAMPUS: Thru Jul 31: HOME:

THE ARTSCENTER: Thru Jul 31: Kendal Brown, watercolor paintings. Free. — Thru Jul 31: We’re All In This Together!, giant puppets, masks and paintings by the Paperhand Puppet Intervention. 300-G E Main St, Carrboro. 919-929-2787, www. artscenterlive.org.

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NERYS LEVY’S “BRENTA, BASSANO, VENETO, ITALY,” ON VIEW IN VISTAS AT FRANK GALLERY THROUGH AUG. 9 PHOTO COURTESY OF FRANK GALLERY

printed works. 480 Hillsboro St, Pittsboro. 919-542-2643, www. chathammarketplace.coop.

CLAYMAKERS: Thru Sep 11:

Elemental, new functional and sculptureal ceramic work by Nathan Hood, Warner Hyde and Savannah Scarborough. 705 Foster St, Durham. 919-530-8355, www. claymakers.com.

THE COTTON COMPANY: Thru Aug 9: At Home in North Carolina, work by Renee St. Hilaire. 306 S White St, Wake Forest. 919-570-0087, www. thecottoncompany.net.

CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY:

Thru Sep 10: Art Starts Here, work by teachers and students from the Durham School of the Arts. free. 1106 1/2 Broad St, Durham. 919-286-4837, www. cravenallengallery.com.

CUP A JOE: Thru Jul 31:

Mandala Manifesto. 2109-142

2575, www.eruuf.org.

FRANK GALLERY: Thru Aug

9: Overtures, multimedia work by various artists. — Thru Aug 9: Vistas, work by Nerys Levy, Carolyn Rugen, Siglinda Scarpa and Anthony Ulinski. free. 109 E Franklin St, Chapel Hill. 919-6364135, www.frankisart.com.

GALLERY C: Thru Aug 1: The Magical Realm of Haitian Art. 540 N Blount St, Raleigh. 919-8283165, www.galleryc.net.

INDYPICK HORACE WILLIAMS HOUSE: Thru Jul 27:

Harriet Bellows, paintings. 610 E Rosemary St, Chapel Hill. 919-9427818, chapelhillpreservation.com.

HQ RALEIGH: Thru Sep 25:

Portraits, work by Ross Ford. 310 S Harrington St. 877-242-6090.

JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING:

Thru Jul 31: Joan Vandermeer, paintings. 901 W Main St, Carrboro.

919-932-5070, carrboro.com/jgf.

media. 311 W. Martin Street, Raleigh. 919-819-5995, www. localcoloraleigh.com.

LUMP: Thru Jul 25: With

Everyone Watching, work by Carrie Alter and George Jenne. 505 S Blount St, Raleigh. 919-889-2927, www.teamlump.org.

MELISSA DESIGNER JEWELRY: Ongoing: Handcrafted

Jewelry by Local Artists, works by in-house gold designer Melissa Booth, local artists Ben Dyer & Michele LeVett. 116 S Churton St, Hillsborough. 919-643-2600.

MEREDITH COLLEGE: JOHNSON HALL: Thru Nov

5: Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition. 3800 Hillsborough St, Raleigh.

MORNING TIMES GALLERY:

Thru Jul 31: Luncheon+, collage works by Mollie Earls. 10 E Hargett St, Raleigh. 919-459-2348, www. morningtimes-raleigh.com.

Durham. 919-797-2706, www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

INDYPICK POWER PLANT GALLERY: Thru Aug 22: Phone

Home Durham. 320 Blackwell Street, Suite 100, Durham. 919660-3622.

ROUNDABOUT ART COLLECTIVE: Thru Jul 31:

Dreaming in Color, mixed media paintings by Constance Pappalardo. free. 919-747-9495, www.roundaboutartcollective. com. 305 Oberlin Rd, Raleigh. 919-747-9495, www. roundaboutartcollective.com.

THE SCRAP EXCHANGE: Thru Aug 15: Accumulation, ceramic and mixed media sculptures by Jeffery Zern. 2050 Chapel Hill Road, Durham. 919-688-6960, www.scrapexchange.org.

THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF CHAPEL HILL UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST: Thru Sep 6:

GINA BOYLE: Sat, Jul 25, 2-5

p.m.: live demonstration of mosaic art. Joyful Jewel, 44-A Hillsboro St, Pittsboro. 919-883-2775, www. joyfuljewel.com.

MODERN PAINTING: WHAT WERE THE ARTISTS THINKING?: Sun, Jul 26, 5:30

p.m.: presentation by Clifford T. Chieffo. free. Cary Arts Center, 101 Dry Ave. 919-469-4069, www. townofcary.org.

NASHER CREATES: ADULT STUDIO: Thu, Jul 23, 6 p.m.:

drop-in workshop led by local illustrator Jordan Grace Owens.

Nasher Museum of Art, 2001 Campus Dr, Durham. 919-6845135, nasher.duke.edu.

NEW ANIMAL SCULPTURE GARDEN PARTY: Sat, Jul 25,

10:30 a.m.: unveiling of four new permanent-fixture statues with ice cream, cookies, storytime for children and more. Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Dr. 919-969-2028, chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

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ACKLAND ART MUSEUM:

Thru Aug 9: Potters Four, work by Blaine Avery, Doug Dotson, Bruce Gholson and Samantha Henneke in the museum store. 101 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill. 919-8431611, www.ackland.org.

CAM RALEIGH: Thu, Jul 23, 8-10 p.m.: Big, Bent Ears: Record Listening Event, with Caitlin Cary and Skillet Gilmore. free. — Thru Sep 7: The Nothing That Is, five-part show featuring work by over 85 artists. $5. — Thru Sep 13: Big Bent Ears: A Serial in Documentary Uncertainty, work exploring the nature and craft of listening, making creative use of sound recordings, video, still photography and text in various configurations. $5. 409 W Martin St. 919-261-5920, camraleigh.org.

NASHER MUSEUM OF ART:

Thru Aug 30: Colour Correction: British and American Screenprints, 1967-75. 2001 Campus Dr, Durham. 919-684-5135, nasher. duke.edu.

NC MUSEUM OF ART: Thru Sep 27: Teens, Inspired, work by high school students from across North Carolina who were inspired by the Museum’s collection to create original poems and art. — Thru Aug 2:

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Field Guide: James Prosek’s Un/ Natural World. — Thru Aug 23: The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina. — Thru Sep 13: Zoosphere, animal-based video installation by Allison Hunter.

— Thru Sep 13: Director’s Cut: Recent Photography Gifts to the NCMA. 2110 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh. Info 919-839-6262, tickets 919-715-5923, www. ncartmuseum.org.

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Thru Aug 2: North Carolina State Highway Patrol: Service, Safety, Sacrifice, highlighting the organization’s history and showcasing vehicles, firearms, uniforms and more from 1929 to the present. — Thru Sep 5: Starring North Carolina!, featuring pieces of movie memorabilia and more from films shot in North Carolina. $6–$10. — Thru Sep 27: Rural Revival: Photographs of Home and Preservation of Place, photographs by Scott Garlock of abandoned and old buildings in eastern and northeastern North Carolina. free. — Thru Feb 28, 2016: Hey America!: Eastern North Carolina and the Birth of Funk. 5 E Edenton St, Raleigh. 919-807-7900, www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

NC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES: Thru Aug 16: Dig

It! The Secrets of Soil. 11 W Jones St, Raleigh. 919-733-7450, www. naturalsciences.org.

performance Comedy THE ARTSCENTER: Sat, Jul 25, 6 p.m.: Transactors Improv: For Families!. $6–$10. 300-G E Main St, Carrboro. 919-929-2787, www. artscenterlive.org.

BLACKJACK BREWING COMPANY: Every third

Wednesday, 7:30-10 p.m.: Blackjack Comedy Night. Free.

1053 E. Whitaker Mill Rd., Raleigh.

919-424-7533.

CAT’S CRADLE: Thu, Jul 23,

8 p.m.: Comedy at the Cradle, Hosted by Brian Burns: Jarrod Harris, Lace Larrabee, Eric Trundy, Jason Webb, Lew Morgante (Back Room). $7. 300 E Main St, Carrboro. 919-967-9053, www. catscradle.com.

COMEDYWORX THEATRE:

Fridays, 8 p.m. & Saturdays, 4 & 8 p.m.: ComedyWorx Improv Show, 2 teams of improv comedians earn points by making the audience laugh. $6-12. — Fridays, 10 p.m. & Saturdays, 10 p.m.: The Harry Show, Ages 18+. Improv host leads latenight revelers through potentially risque games, with audience volunteers brought onstage to join in. $10. 431 Peace St, Raleigh. 919829-0822, comedyworx.com.

DSI COMEDY THEATER: Wed,

Jul 22, 7 p.m.: Everybody Welcome. $6. — Thu, Jul 23, 7 p.m.: Show and Tell. $10. — Thu, Jul 23, 8:30 p.m.: Harold Night: BASIC, Power Pose, Lost Colony. $6. — Thu, Jul 23, 10 p.m.: Stranger Danger. free. — Fri, Jul 24, 7 p.m.: Stewart Huff. $10.

— Fri, Jul 24, 8:30 p.m.: Carolina’s Funniest Comic 2015: Chad Cosby, Mike Brocki, Leo Hodson. $10. — Sat, Jul 25, 7 p.m.: Humor Games.

THEATER

5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE THURSDAY, JULY 23–SUNDAY, AUG. 2, DURHAM

COMMON GROUND THEATRE—Two snags have arisen at the 1956 Quiche Breakfast of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein. Its officers have momentarily lost their poise—and ruined most of the titular entrée in the process. Then there’s the nuclear blast that has annihilated the world outside of the basement of their community center. While the quintet in this campy, coarse absurdist comedy hunkers down, borders dissolve, and simply shocking revelations about their sexual histories and orientations will come out—so to speak. In this Tiny Engine Theatre Company production, Paul Sapp directs Noelle Azarelo, Erica Heilmann, Laurel Ullman, Pimpila Violette and Liz Webb. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat.; 2 p.m. Sun., $12–$16, 4815-B Hillsborough Road, Durham, 919-578-1654, www.tinyenginetheatre.com. —Byron Woods

INDYweek.com $10. — Sat, Jul 25, 8:30 p.m.: Best Show Ever. $10. — Wed, Jul 29, 7 p.m.: Everybody Welcome. $6.

— Saturdays, 10 p.m.: Pork, 5 NC comics perform. Free. — Fridays, 10 p.m.: Mister Diplomat. Free. — Fridays, 11 p.m.: The Jam. free. 462 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill. 919-3388150, www.dsicomedytheater.com.

FLEX NIGHTCLUB: Thursdays,

midnite: Trailer Park Prize Night, comedy drag show with gag prize giveaways. 2 S West St, Raleigh.

919-832-8855, www.flex-club.com.

GOODNIGHTS COMEDY CLUB / THE GRILLE AT GOODNIGHTS: Thu, Jul 23, 8

p.m., Fri, Jul 24, 7:30 & 10 p.m. & Sat, Jul 25, 7:30 & 10 p.m.: Yannis Pappas. $15–$31. — Wed, Jul 29, 8 p.m.: Best of Raleigh and Goodnights Comedy Academy Graduation Show. $5–$12.

— Saturdays, 10:30 p.m.: Anything Goes Late Show. free. 861 W Morgan St, Raleigh. 919-828-5233, www. goodnightscomedy.com.

LLOYD’S LOUNGE: Second &

Fourth Wednesdays, 9 p.m.: Out & Out Comedy Open Mic, With host B.I.S.H.O.P. Omega. 919-410-7575, TAO@JustAskTruitt.com. 704 Rigsbee Ave, Durham.

TIR NA NOG IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT: Mondays, 8:30

p.m.: Cure for the Mondays, Weekly comedy night. 218 S Blount St, Raleigh. 919-833-7795, www.tnnirishpub.com.

TOOTIE’S: Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.: ComedyMongers Open Mic. $5, free for comedians. 704 Rigsbee Ave, Durham. 984-439-2328.

Dance

free 50+ singles social club. $5–$8.

Northbrook Country Club, 4905 North Hills Dr, Raleigh.

PERFORMANCE ADF CHILDREN’S SATURDAY MATINEES: Sat, Jul 25, 1 p.m.: $16–$32.25. Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St. Info 919-688-3722, Tickets 919-6802787, www.dpacnc.com.

DAMN IT’S HOT BURLESQUE: Sat, Jul 25, 9:30

p.m.: $10. The Pinhook, 117 W Main St, Durham. 919-667-1100, www.thepinhook.com.

DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS: Fri, Jul 24, 8 INDYPICK

p.m. & Sat, Jul 25, 7 p.m.: $10–$46.

Durham Performing Arts Center, 123 Vivian St. Info 919-688-3722, Tickets 919-680-2787, www.dpacnc.com.

See p. 23.

INDYPICK

FOOTPRINTS:

Wed, Jul 22, 8-10 p.m. & Thu, Jul 23, 8-10 p.m.: $10–$34.50. Duke Campus: Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus, Durham. Theater

INDYPICK MACBETH: Fri, Jul 24, 8 p.m., Sat, Jul 25, 8 p.m.: $17.

UNC Campus: Forest Theatre, 300 S Boundary St, Chapel Hill. 919962-0522, ncbg.unc.edu. See p. 22.

SNOW ANGEL: Fri, Jul 24, 7 p.m. & Sat, Jul 25, 1 p.m.: free. Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church, 927 W Trinity Ave, Durham.

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE: Fri, Jul 24, 7:30 p.m., Sat,

Jul 25, 7:30 p.m., Thu, Jul 30, 7:30 p.m., Fri, Jul 31, 7:30 p.m. & Sat, Aug 1, 7:30 p.m.: $5–$10. Clayton Center, 111 E Main St. 919-5531737, www.theclaytoncenter.com.

ONGOING INDYPICK

10 BY 10 IN THE

TRIANGLE: Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. & Sundays, 3 p.m.; Thru Jul 26: $12–$18. The ArtsCenter, 300-G E Main St, Carrboro. 919929-2787, www.artscenterlive.org.

9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL:

Theater OPENING 5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE: ThursdaysINDYPICK

Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 2 p.m. Continues through Aug. 2 presented by Tiny Engine Theatre. $12–$16. Common Ground Theatre, 4815-B Hillsborough Rd, Durham. 919-384-7817, www. cgtheatre.com. See p. 31.

BELLA MASQUERADE: Sat,

Fri, Jul 24, 7:30 p.m.: $10.

Reality Center, 916 Lamond Ave, Durham. 919-688-7776, www. realityministriesinc.org.

Jul 25, 7 p.m.: $20. 202-642-4227, sdavis@jweeksentertainment. com, www.jweeksentertainment. com/Upcoming-Productions. html. Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris St. 919-560-2787, www. durhamarts.org.

TRIANGLE SINGLES DANCE CLUB: Sat, Jul 25, 8 p.m.: Alcohol-

INDYPICK BUDDY: Wed, Jul 22, 7:30 p.m., Thu, Jul 23, 7:30

TRIANGLE COUNTRY DANCERS CONTRA DANCE:

p.m., Fri, Jul 24, 7:30 p.m., Sat, Jul 25, 2 & 7:30 p.m. & Sun, Jul 26, 2 & 7:30 p.m.: $25–$70.14.

Memorial Auditorium, 2 E South St, Raleigh. 919-996-8700, www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. & Thru Jul 26, 3 p.m.; Thru Jul 26: North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, 7713-51 Leadmine Rd. 919-866-0228, www.nract.org.

INDYPICK

DREAMGIRLS:

Thru Jul 26: $27. Kennedy Theater, 2 E South St, Raleigh. 919-996-8700, www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com/ venue/kennedy-theatre.

GUYS & DOLLS: July 15-18,

7:30 p.m., Sun., July 19, 2 p.m., Fri., July 24, 7:30 p.m. and Sat., July 25, 7:30 p.m. presented by Playmakers. UNC Campus: Paul Green Theatre, 120 Country Club Rd, Chapel Hill. 919-962-7529, playmakersrep.org.

INDYPICK

RUNAWAYS: Thru

Jul 26: presented by Teens on Stage. $11. Raleigh Little Theatre, 301 Pogue St. Office 919-8214579, Tickets 919-821-3111, www. raleighlittletheatre.org.

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RADICAL READERS: Last

Tuesdays: Durham People’s Alliance book group meets at night to discuss books. RSVP for location, time & car pool. 682-7777.

books

Readings & Signings

DUKE YOUNG WRITERS’ CAMP READINGS: Tue, Jul 28,

7:15 p.m.: Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St, Durham. 919-286-2700, www.regulatorbookshop.com.

YOUR STORY: Fourth Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon: Informal writers’ group facilitated by Gaines Steer.

Flyleaf Books, 752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill. 919-9427373, www.flyleafbooks.com.

of Ghosts. free. Flyleaf Books, 752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill. 919-942-7373, www. flyleafbooks.com.

SAMUEL FROMARTZ: Wed,

Jul 29, 7 p.m.: with In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker’s Odyssey. Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St, Durham. 919-286-2700, www.regulatorbookshop.com.

HOMEGROWN: Sun, Jul 26,

2 p.m.: self-published Triangle authors will read from and sign their books. Featuring Myra Yarborough Debruhl, Tyree Daye, Tim Mattimoe and Sallie Hite McDaniel. Quail Ridge Books & Music, 3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh. 919-828-1588, www. quailridgebooks.com.

KATIE ROSE GUEST PRYAL: Wed, Jul 22, 7 p.m.: with novel Entanglement. Regulator Bookshop, 720 Ninth St, Durham. 919-286-2700, www. regulatorbookshop.com.

KRISTI HELVIG AND JEN MCCONNEL: Thu, Jul 23, 7

p.m.: with YA sci-fi/fantasy novels Strange Skies: Burn Out Book 2 and Gods of Chaos. Flyleaf Books, 752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill. 919-942-7373, www. flyleafbooks.com.

MELINDA HUNT: Thu, Jul 23,

6 p.m.: with 7 Tiny Offerings, Handpicked Blessings for the Human Heart. Mercury Studio, 401 W Geer Street, Durham. 919381-6306.

PAUL TREMBLAY: Sun, Jul 26, 4-5 p.m.: with novel A Head Full

Literary Related

INDYPICK AUDIO UNDER THE STARS: DOG DAYS: Fri,

Jul 24, 8 p.m.: stories of indolence and frenzy. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W Pettigrew St, Durham. 919-6603663, www.cdsporch.org.

CITY SOUL CAFE POETRY & SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIC:

Wednesdays, 8-10 p.m.: Poets, vocalists, musicians & lyricists welcome. All performances a cappella or acoustic. $5. www. citysoulcafe.splashthat.com.

Smokin Grooves Bar & Grill, 2253 New Hope Church Rd, Raleigh.

INDYPICK DURHAM COMICS FEST: Sat, Jul 25,

10 am-4 p.m.: Workshops and presentations will cover cartooning basics, writing and drawing for comics, creating historical fiction and nonfiction comics and self-publishing. free. durhamcomicsproject.org.

Durham Main Library, 300 N Roxboro St. 919-560-0100, www.

sports Participatory

CAROLINA GODIVA TRACK CLUB ALL-COMERS TRACK MEET: Wednesdays, 7-9

p.m.; Thru Aug 5: See www. carolinagodiva.org for more information. summertrack2015@ carolinagodiva.org. Fetzer Field, 309 Stadium Dr, Chapel Hill. 919962-6000, www.goheels.com.

RIVER RUN CLUB: Thursdays, 6:45 p.m.: The Hop Yard, 1141 Falls River Ave, Raleigh. 919-971-0631, www.thehopyardnc.com/.

TEAM ON DRAFT BIKE RIDE: Wednesdays, 6 p.m.: Ride

sponsored by New Belgium. To join, you should be able to hold a 15 mph pace for 18 miles, and have your own helmet, water, pump and spare tube. The Glass Jug, 5410 Hwy 55, Durham. 919813-0135.

WEDNESDAY BIKE RIDE:

Wednesdays, 6 p.m.: Crank Arm Brewing Co, 319 W Davie St, Raleigh. www.crankarmbrewing.com.

WEST END RUN CLUB:

Tuesdays, 6 p.m.: DSI Comedy Theater, 462 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill. 919-338-8150, www. dsicomedytheater.com.

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BETTER OFF DEAD AND SAY ANYTHING: Wed, Jul 22, 8:30 pm: free. Local 506, 506 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill. 919-9425506, www.local506.com.

SHE MAKES COMICS: Thu, Jul 23, 3 pm: part of the Durham Comics Fest. free. Southwest Regional Library, 3605 Shannon Rd, Durham. 919-560-0290, www.durhamcountylibrary.org.

See p. 23.

ST. VINCENT: Fri, Jul 24, 8:30 pm: $5. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, 8003 Regency Pkwy, Cary. 919-462-2025, www. boothamphitheatre.com.

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING: Fri, Jul 24, 9 pm: $5, free for members. NC Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh. Info 919-839-6262, tickets 919-715-5923, www. ncartmuseum.org.

THE AVENGERS: Sun, Jul 26, 2 pm: free. Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Dr. 919-9692028, chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: Sun, Jul 26, 8:30 pm: free. Raleigh Little Theatre, 301 Pogue St. Office 919-821-4579, Tickets 919-821-3111, www. raleighlittletheatre.org.

FILM:ACOUSTIC: THE DARK CRYSTAL: Mon, Jul 27, 7 pm: with Jim James (My Morning Jacket). $15. Carolina Theatre, 309 W Morgan St, Durham. 919560-3030, carolinatheatre.org.

Film Capsules

Our rating system uses one to five stars. If a movie has no rating, it has not been reviewed. Signed reviews are by Jeffrey C. Billman (JCB), Brian Howe (BH), Laura Jaramillo (LJ), Kathy Justice (KJ), Craig D. Lindsey (CDL), Glenn McDonald (GM), Neil Morris (NM) and Ryan Vu (RV).

Find times and locations in our Film Calendar at www.indyweek.com.

Opening

PAPER TOWNS—This adaptation of a book by The Fault in Our Stars author John Green is about a Florida teen searcheing for a missing friend. Rated PG-13.

PIXELS—In this new Adam Sandler vehicle, aliens attack Earth with ‘80s video game tropes. Rated PG-13.

SOUTHPAW—Antoine Fuqua’s boxing drama stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a boxer who has to take on one last fight to save his family. Rated R.  1/2 TESTAMENT OF YOUTH—This film adaptation of Vera Brittain’s 1933 memoir about being a World War I nurse is at least partly inspired by

the current appetite for British period dramas such as Downton Abbey. Reared in a life of privilege, Brittain (Ex Machina’s Alicia Vikander) leaves Oxford to join the Voluntary Aid Detachment and care for the war-wounded in England and France. Her Florence Nightingale turn permits her to follow the fate of a quartet of friends and family dispatched to the front, including fiancé Roland (Kit Harington) and brother Edward (Taron Egerton). Director James Kent’s stark depiction of trench warfare’s awful aftermath stands in sharp contrast to the airbrushed rendering of the Great War’s disruption of the British home front. Vikander, playing a part Keira Knightley would have gotten five years ago, effectively channels Brittain’s emotional upheaval and earnest resolve.

English screen regulars Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson and Dominic West show up mainly because Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon are aging out. Ultimately, Kent’s feature directorial debut is handsome, though hardly memorable, résumé filler for the young cast.

Rated PG-13. —NM

FILM | DINNER AND A MOVIE:

RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES

THURSDAY, JULY 23 DURHAM, NASHER MUSEUM OF ART—“Toynbee idea in Kubrick’s 2001 resurrect dead on planet Jupiter.”

Since the 1980s, obsessive variations on this puzzling message have been found on hundreds of linoleum tiles embedded in asphalt throughout the U.S. and South America. No one is sure who is making them or exactly what they mean, though plentiful theories have been offered in serious publications and Internet conspiracy circles alike.

David Mamet claims they’re inspired by his play 4 A.M., where a talk-radio caller invokes Kubrick, Toynbee and life on Jupiter, though some researchers say there’s evidence that the tiles predate the play. This urban legend, all the more spooky for being absolutely real, is the subject of Jon Foy’s 2011 documentary, Resurrect Dead, which won a Sundance Directing Award. Foy’s team combs through the existing evidence and theories to make a compelling case for a new suspect. The film screens in the Nasher’s “Dinner and a Movie” series, where the two-course dinner will cost you (for reservations, visit www.nasher.duke.edu/café) but the 7 p.m. screening is free on a first-come, first-served basis. 5–9 p.m., free (screening), 2001 Campus Drive, Durham, 919-684-5135, www.nasher.duke.edu. —Brian Howe

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 AMY—Penetrating and brutally sad, director Asif Kapadia’s documentary on singer Amy Winehouse is built around amazingly intimate archival footage. The early scenes are captivating—Winehouse was a prodigy-level jazz vocalist and a natural-born songwriter. The film’s second half charts her death spiral of drugs, booze and fame. The doc presents everything at an artistic remove, with implicit critiques of media and society and so on. But it still feels awful. We watched Winehouse die once. Do we really need to watch again, in close up? Rated PG-13. —GM  ANT-MAN—The Marvel Cinematic Universe pauses its epic shenanigans for a lean, rackety heist flick. Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) can control ants and shrink to their size. An ex-con, he’s pulled back into burglary alongside original Ant-Man Hank Pym and his daughter, Hope.

The shrinking conceit makes this more than a spry caper. Lang rides a tap-water tidal wave, gets flung from a spinning record, dodges dancing shoes and swirls up a vacuum hose—all in one sequence. He also builds a loyal army of ants to help fight his mini-nemesis, Yellowjacket.

The Avengers cameo is shoehorned in, but it’s a fun diversion in a movie without much violence. Rated PG-13. —BH  AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON—In director Joss Whedon’s superior popcorn movie, the A.I. Ultron, voiced with delicious oiliness by James Spader, is out to destroy the Avengers. The efficient script digs into each character’s comic-book psychology.

Whedon amplifies a jokey tone with running gags. Of course, superhero movies need epic heroics as well, and the goods are delivered in stunning CGI showcases. Rated PG-13.—GM THE GALLOWS—This foundfootage horror film revolves around a haunted play. Rated R. I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS— Brett Haley’s comedic drama stars Blythe Danner as a widowed singer putting her life back together. Rated PG-13.  1/2 INSIDE OUT—Audacious and overflowing with ideas, Inside Out tells the story of 11-year-old Riley and the five color-coded Emotions that live in her head—golden Joy (Amy Poehler), blue Sadness (Phyllis Smith), purple Fear (Bill Hader),

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Programs in Massage Therapy, Medical Assisting, and Medical Office. Call Today!

Amplify is seeking students in grades 6-9 5 7 to partner with us.

THE MEDICAL ARTS SCHOOL

Interested? Please contact: mathlab@amplify.com or 919.794.6516 For more information visit: www.amplify.com/junior-designers-nc

ART CLASSES

Taught in small groups, ages 5-adult. www.lucysartstudio.com 919-410-2327

BARTENDERS NEEDED MAKE $20-$35/HOUR Raleigh’s Bartending School 676.0774 www.cocktailmixer.com 1-2wk class

WEAR RALEIGH WEAR DURHAM WEAR NC-WHERE? WWW.OAKCITY.ORG

HIRE THE BEST!

Find the best candidates for your job opening in the INDY! Employment ads start at 70 cents/ word/week and go online at no extra charge.

Call INDY Classifieds: 919-286-6642 or email classy@indyweek.com

NEW CLASSES IN SWING, LINDY, BLUES

At ERUUF, Durham & ArtsCenter, Carrboro.

RICHARD BADU, 919-724-1421, rbadu@aol.com

HILLSBOROUGH QUILTING

919-732-1243. Gammill computerized longarm quilting services from 1.8 cents/square inch.

PORCH LIGHT APOTHECARY CD Release Party! (Free CDs at Door) Wed., July 29 at The Pour House

PSYCHIC MILLIE

Others try- I SUCCEED! Palm/Tarot Card readings. Clairvoyant Medium. 40 years’ experience. Intuitive Psychic Readings, Communication with Loved Ones, Advice on Life and Love matters. I Help you solve problems! www.psychicmillie.com 919.942-1184

GLAMOUR MODELS NEEDED For film/print work. 919-949-8330

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BODY THERAPY INSTITUTE OPEN HOUSES

GOT A MAC?

Thurs. July 23. See our beautiful campus, free seated massage/refreshments. Registration discount. DIRECTIONS/INFO: www.bti.edu 919-663-3111

EVERYDAY 10AM - 9PM

Say Bye Bye Pain! Deep tissue, Trigger Point & Reflexology massage, all together, all at once. Ask for 4 handed massage. Always Free hot stones. $58.00. Text your time request to: Michelle 919.527.3126 NCLMBT #12997

IS IT HARD TO IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT WEED?

Need Support? Let AppleBuddy help you.

Call 919.740.2604 or log onto www.applebuddy.com

MEAD DAY PITTSBORO AUGUST 1 SAT. 12-5PM!

Celebrate the making, drinking & sharing of Mead (honey wine)! Sword fighting knights, Renaissance music, arts/crafts vendors, turkey legs, Fairies, more! Free, Family Friendly, wine & food for sale. Rain or shine! Starrlight Mead, 480 Hillsboro St. (Chatham Mill building) 919-533-6314 www.starrlightmead.com

Do you want to stop, but can’t? We Can Help!

Marijuana Anonymous: www.NorthCarolinaMA.ORG 919-886-4420

LASER TATTOO REMOVAL - ALL COLORS ACNE/SURGICAL SCAR REMOVAL - LATEST LASER TECHNOLOGY ExcelLase Laser Center 919-833-8484 www.

LaserNC.com 614 West Peace Street Raleigh.

LOST IN PORN’S DOWNWARD SPIRAL? The answer is not another hollow promise to never do it again. Sex Addiction is real.

Triangle SAA can help. 800-921-1896 or www.saatriangle.org

LOTUS LEAF GIFTS/APPAREL

410 W. Geer St. Durham. Your local source for healing crystals & stones, Himalayan salt lamps, jewelry, & great summer apparel.

Beautiful tie-dye prints. INFO: Lotusleafnc.com or 512-350-3250

SELL YOUR CAR FAST!

You give us $20, we’ll run a 20 word ad with a color photo for 4 weeks. Call 919-286-6642 or emailclassy@indyweek.com

919.286.6642

Raleigh: 919-872-6386 • www.medicalartsschool.com MISSING CAT “BEATRICE”

Reward $150. Siamese/tabby mix. Blue eyes, light beige, gray/black stripes. Collar w/ purple tag (though may have come off). She needs medicine and her family misses her very much. Last seen June 15 on Damascus Ch. Rd. in Chapel Hill. 973-600-4616 or joanna. percher@gmail.com

NINTH STREET DANCE

Contact Improv Workshops 7/25-26. Ballet, tap, lyrical, hip-hop, belly dance, Irish, salsa, swing, break dance, African, Pilates, kids’ classes and more. All shapes/sizes welcome!

286-6011

VOICE LESSONS WITH MET/ LA SCALA STAR CHRISTINE WEIDINGER For audition, call: 910-318-4205 or email: weidingerc@yahoo.com

BOOKSELLER WANTED

Energetic, self-motivated, computer-savvy person with strong interpersonal skills and a knowledge of books. Prior bookstore experience a huge plus. Permanent parttime; start immediately. Resumes to The Bookshop, 400 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill 27516 or MAIL@bookshopofchapelhill.com

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Weekly deadline 4pm Monday • classy@indyweek.com HOME REPAIR SPECIAL!

Place an ad in the Professional Services section for 4 weeks, get 2 extra weeks FREE! Ads start at $19/week. 919-286-6642 or e-mail classy@indyweek.com

INTRO TO IMPROVISATION

Sat. July 25. Be funny, be quick, be confident.

919-829-0822 or www.comedyworx.com

INTRODUCTORY TAOIST TAI CHI CLASS(R) 919-787-9600 Raleigh, MW 10:30am beginning 8/3 or Wednesday 6:30pm beginning 8/5; 5218 Hollyridge Drive. Durham, Episcopal Center at Duke, 505 Alexander Drive, Thursday 6pm beginning 8/6. For more info: http:// northcarolina.usa.taoist.org

TICKETS ON SALE NOW BROOKLYN RIDER

ORGANIST NEEDED

Pilgrim United Church of Christ is a progressive, Open and Affirming congregation in Durham looking for a new organist. Music ranges from Medieval polyphony to pop music, and everything in between. Enjoyers of sight-reading weird things especially encouraged to apply. Wednesday nights, Sunday mornings only. ~$14K roman.testroet@gmail.com

PIANO AND VOICE LESSONS

Learn Classical, Jazz and Pop in a creative, relaxed environment. All levels. Emphasis on learning songs instead of repetitive drills. 20 years experience. Kurt Melges: 919-491-6152 kmelges@gmail.com myspace.com/kurtmelges

CENTRAL PARK SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS

For rising 6th graders. We nurture the natural eagerness of each child to explore, grow and relate to others in a diverse, safe, and supportive community. Info: www. cpscnc.org/ CPSCMiddle. To apply, see the Admissions section. Questions/ tours: email Tiffany Grant tiffany@cpsfc.org.

RUN YOUR AUCTION AD IN 100 NC NEWSPAPERS FOR $357! for a 25-word ad. Call Leslie at 919-2866642 or email classy@indyweek.com for details.

Opening Weekend!

LIVE AT UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL

CHECK OUT THE SEASON LINEUP GOES WHERE NO STRING CAROLINAPERFORMINGARTS.ORG QUARTET HAS GONE BEFORE. OCT

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