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6 A misogynistic joke may have inadvertently saved a last-minute update to the State Board of Elections requirements for voting systems.

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14 Looking to adopt? In the INDY Pets Issue, meet six doggos that are waiting to win your heart at APS of Durham.

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18 If you’re itching to show off your new pup while you drink, look no further than this roundup of the best dog-friendly bars in the area.

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21 Want to see the best pets in Durham? We’ve got them in our first INDY pets contest. 29 Developer Greg Hatem’s new Square Burger venture is inspired by the burger joints he frequented in his hometown of Roanoke Rapids. 34 Though mythologized as a recluse, the novelist Harper Lee worked briefly on the beat as a true-crime reporter.

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hen Tim Vanderweert saw our “Waiting for Good Dough” cover, he writes, he feared the accompanying story would feature “a transplanted Brooklynite who was going to lecture us rubes about pizza. But you basically nailed it, given two of my three favorite pizza joints were mentioned: Italian Pizzeria 3 and Pizzeria Toro, which to my mind makes some of the best pizza I’ve ever had (and that includes John’s of Bleecker in the Village and da Michele in Naples). You missed a really good one in Raleigh: DeMo’s on Glenwood South.” Speaking of the Big Apple, a MAGA type writing under the pseudonym Rw0864 tells Voices columnist Jonathan Weiler that Donald Trump can’t be racist because he comes from New York: “Trump would not have made it in New York if he was a racist. Secondly, why didn’t you feel this same way in regards to the Democrats’ ‘silence’ in regards to Bill Clinton having sexual activities with an intern at the White House? In fact, Mr. Clinton went on several flights with Jeffrey Epstein in 2009 and 2011.” Finally, Peter Aitken writes in with this take on our recent story about Duke grad students’ efforts to organize: “When I got my PhD, being accepted to a good university for this degree was an earned privilege. It was for people who were really interested in the subject and wanted to do something with an advanced degree. I was being invited to study in a field I loved, with established scholars, and to prepare for a fulfilling career that would hopefully benefit society in some manner. “This was something I was happy to pay for, and while I received a small amount of scholarship assistance, my schooling costs were mostly from my own pocket and my family. I was paid a modest amount as a teaching assistant, but that was part of my education—I was taught how to lecture, how to grade papers, etc., all skills I used later. I did a lot of research, again part of my education, and this research helped establish me as a serious scholar. And the idea of benefits? Please, be real! When grad school starts to be seen as a four-tosix-year all-expense-paid postponement of real life, it can attract students without the motivation or intellect to achieve excellence.”

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WHAT THE BULL CITY COULD TEACH THE PRESIDENT ABOUT THE REAL AMERICA BY BARRY SAUNDERS BARRY SAUNDERS is a former News & Observer columnist who, over his two decades at the paper, wrote extensively about Durham. He now publishes thesaundersreport.com. NEXT WEEK: T. GREG DOUCETTE, a local criminal defense attorney, justice reform advocate, and host of the podcast #Fsck ’Em All.

an, oh man. How I wish President Trump had been riding with me last Friday … said no one ever. Until now. Because, without an ounce of facetiousness, I surely wish the president had been hanging with me when my truck broke down in Durham. I’ll explain why directly. As I was heading out to 15-501— must’ve been about 4:30 p.m. on a Friday—a huge tanker that had just dropped off gas at Costco pulled up to the intersection and blocked my path. Before I could start cussing and ask the driver what the [insert expletive here] he was doing, he leaped from the big rig, ran around the front of his truck, and came up to my driver’s side door. “Hey, man,” he informed me, “you’ve got a flat.” Sure enough, I’d been blissfully tooling along down the road, obliviously grooving to Otis Redding singing “These Arms of Mine,” with my left rear tire as flat as three-day-old beer. I mean, that sucker was on the rim, Jack. I thanked him, limped up to the gas station half a mile away, and asked the attendant for a bag of pork skins and change for the air pump. He gave it to me, but warned, “I don’t think it’s working.” People, he said, had been coming in to complain about it for the past week. “Here’s a number to call if it takes your money.” Forewarned and disgusted, my tire busted, I eschewed the air pump and spied—like the mirage of a water

fountain in the middle of the Sahara desert—the full-service service station across the street. I dashed—if a truck on a flat can be said to dash— across Guess Road and pulled into the RDU Car Care center. The mechanic there was just sitting down to eat, so I apologized for interrupting and told him to finish his meal. He could finish his meal any time, he said. “What’s your problem?” When he inflated the tire, the air seeped out only slightly less quickly than he’d put it in. The tire was shot, he told me, noting a gash in the sidewall. “Wait a minute,” he added. “I think we’ve got one of those in the back.” He then went into the back, climbed a ladder, and proceeded to toss down or push aside twenty or so tires before finding one that fit Otis (that’s my truck). The used tire was in terrific shape, so he went in and talked with the shop’s owner. He emerged a minute later and offered to put it on for less than half of what the tire and job were worth. Right on, I said. I was, like Willie Nelson, on the road again within minutes. Happens every day, right, people getting flats and Good Sams rushing to help? Sure it does, but this is why I wish the president had been riding with me. You know how President Trump seems to prefer a monochromatic vision of America? Well, the people who helped me get back on the road represented a rainbow coalition of

auto angels: The tanker driver who leaped out of his truck to tell me I had a flat was a black guy. The cashier who saved me the trouble of filling up the tire temporarily was Latino. (Had I pumped in two minutes’ worth of air, I’d have gotten onto the highway and possibly had a blowout at 55 mph, endangering many other motorists. I also would have had just enough air to drive past RDU Car Care.) The mechanic who went hunting for a tire was a white dude. And the owner of the service station who sold me the tire at such a bargain was a Hindu from India. None of this occurred to me until later. Oh, it immediately struck me that each of these men had gone beyond what was required, but the fact that they represented four distinct parts of America didn’t hit me until later. Remember how, in Easy Rider, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper went riding cross-country to find “the real America”? I found it, and I only had to drive eight miles from my house. That’s the America I want the president to see. backtalk@indyweek.com INDY Voices—a rotating column featuring some of the Triangle’s most compelling writers—is made possible by contributions to the INDY Press Club. Visit KeepItINDY.com for more information. INDYweek.com | 8.07.19 | 5

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A MISOGYNISTIC JOKE MAY SAVE THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR 2020 BALLOT BY JORDAN WILKIE

misogynistic joke—and the resignation it triggered last week—may have saved a last-minute update to State Board of Elections requirements for voting systems that blocked machines from the controversial vendor Elections Systems and Software, or ES&S. Last Monday, just before the SBE was set to certify three voting systems for the 2020 election, Stella Anderson, one of three Democrats on the five-member board, offered a motion to add a new certification requirement—the production and tabulation of “human-readable marks on a paper ballot”—that would ultimately keep ES&S’s new voting machines out of North Carolina. It passed, 3–2, and not along party lines. The motion required a second meeting and vote to take effect, but the voting security activists in the audience cheered: “We won.” As it turns out, not quite. David Black, a Republican board member who voted with the majority, quickly announced he wanted to reconsider. He said he was confused. He thought the motion would affect future equipment certifications, not the three current vendors the SBE was considering. When he realized his error, the SBE scheduled a second meeting for Thursday, at which it would rescind its previous vote and give ES&S the green light. And then news broke about SBE chairman Robert Cordle’s sense of humor. As WRAL first reported last Wednesday, Cordle— appointed by Governor Cooper—opened morning meetings at a conference for state election officials with a joke comparing a cow that didn’t want to breed with a wife who didn’t want to copulate. He resigned by day’s end. Because he’d voted with the minority, the now-four-member SBE didn’t have the votes to overturn the motion it had accidentally passed three days earlier. With the board deadlocked, Thursday’s meeting was short and uneventful. “What we really need, and what voters need, is for somebody to be able to step in at this critical time with full knowledge of elections, voting systems, voting procedures, election law, and that sort of thing and be able to fulfill this critical function at this juncture,” Anderson said Thursday. Whatever the SBE decides, it needs to do so quickly. Cooper will receive a list of suggestions for Cordle’s replacement from legislative Democrats. (Republican leaders have recommended former General Assembly special counsel Gerry Cohen, a Democrat who currently serves on the Wake County Board of Elections.) Cooper’s choice 6 | 8.07.19 | INDYweek.com

Joshua Lawson, former State Board of Elections special counsel could determine what voting method much of the state uses—and, activists say, whether elections using voting machines are susceptible to hackers and other forms of foul play. The SBE is scheduled to decide the issue when it next meets on August 23. The underlying problem is that many of North Carolina’s voting machines are outdated. Twenty-three counties, including Alamance, Guilford, and Mecklenburg, need to replace all of their machines. Six more use touchscreen machines for early voting and as the federally man-

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dated voting machines for voters with disabilities, though most of their ballots are still cast on hand-marked paper ballots. Per state law, those old machines, called directrecording electronic voting machines, will be decertified on December 1. But a lot needs to happen before new systems can be put in place for 2020. Counties need to do their own certifications and issue public notices. Then, they need to run the systems in a test election, the October 2019 municipal elections. To do that, they need to start building the ballots for all their precincts in September. That’s why the August 23

meeting is likely making some election officials nervous. What could be important enough to delay certification? Public trust. If Anderson’s motion passes, it would be the first of its kind in the nation and would follow best-practice guidelines from election security experts. Not only would ES&S’s voting machines be removed from consideration, but it would make North Carolina an entirely hand-marked paper ballot state (with the exception of voting machines for voters with certain disabilities). It would also mean that North Carolina would be one of just three states using systems in which there is no difference in format between voters using hand-marked paper ballots and voters using touchscreens, a good thing for people concerned about the privacy of the vote for people with disabilities. Josh Lawson, who was the SBE’s general counsel until June, says moving toward hand-marked paper ballots is essential. “My immediate and short-term concern is voter confidence,” Lawson says. “I think that the barcode ballot process does not support or instill voter confidence to the same degree as hand-marked paper ballots. Secondarily, I have a long-term concern about the maintenance of these over a life cycle that we know to be about a decade or fifteen years.” The last round of purchasing came in 2006, and counties have been stuck with the same machines ever since. Over that timeframe, computer quality degrades significantly. In addition, Lawson says, the use of touchscreens causes other problems. The cost is higher, it’s more difficult to conduct audits, and a shortage of voting machines—through misallocation, machine failure, or by purchasing too few machines—can lead to long lines that effectively disenfranchise voters. The security of voting machines is an important slice of North Carolina’s election system, but it isn’t the whole pone of democracy cornbread. There is the overarching state elections information management system to consider, the voter registration database, the election night reporting of results, electronic poll books that help check voters in at the polls, processing mail-in ballots, and a host of other concerns. “It’s not just about security,” Lawson says. “There are pressing concerns about perceived integrity of the elections process, perceived security of those systems, in addition to all the other stuff about costs and lines.” This is especially true in light of the recent Senate Intelligence Committee

report indicating that Russian operatives tried to access voting systems in all fifty states in 2016, part of a multifaceted interference effort designed to benefit President Trump. During his recent testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, former special counsel Robert Mueller said that Russians are continuing their attempts to interfere in American elections. The decision facing the SBE—and Governor Cooper—isn’t partisan. The Republican-led legislature voted to decertify the touchscreen machines in 2013 (that decertification was delayed several times), and Democrats have come out strongly for election security measures since 2016. The question is which stakeholders the board will favor—concerned voters or voting machine vendors? Anderson’s stance aligns with extensive public comments and the cries of activists. Black takes the position that the voting machine vendors have been working for two years to get their systems certified—all while waiting for the SBE to sort out its legal troubles. Those troubles began after the Republican-led legislature overhauled the board’s composition in a special session following Cooper’s 2016 victory, after which Cooper successfully challenged that change in court. It wouldn’t be fair to them to change the certification requirements at the last minute, Black argues. For one election security advocate, the decision is a no-brainer. In her previous career, Lynn Bernstein was an aerospace test engineer. She spent a few years raising a family. Three years ago, when Bernstein was looking to go back to work, a friend told her that voting machines were not secure. “I think most people are like I am, where I just assumed that somebody’s really looking into this and checking it,” Bernstein says. “It turns out that people weren’t. I guess I found my passion in this.” She took an online class from a leading computer security and elections expert and became dedicated to the cause of improving elections systems. For her, winning the fight to get North Carolina to only count votes using the human-readable sections of ballots is a big step, and it sets up her next mission for the state: risk-limiting audits. Risk-limiting audits use statistically significant samples of paper ballots to ensure that computers are interpreting results correctly—in other words, that the computers tabulating the results haven’t been hacked. They’re considered the gold standard. But they only work if voting machines leave a paper record that humans can read. backtalk@indyweek.com

NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING REGARDING THE PROPOSAL TO UPGRADE INTERSECTION AT U.S. 421 AND N.C. 902 IN CHATHAM COUNTY

STIP Project No. W-5517 The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes to upgrade intersection at U.S. 421 and N.C. 902 in Chatham County to improve traffic flow and safety. A public meeting will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 20 at Sandy Branch Baptist Church at 715 Sandy Branch Church Road in Bear Creek. The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather input on the proposed design. As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT public meeting webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings or the project website: https://Publicinput.com/US421andNC902-bearcreek The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done by phone, email, or mail by Sept. 3, 2019. For additional information, please contact NCDOT Capital Region Traffic Engineer John Grant, PE, at 1561 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1561, (919) 814-4952 or jhgrant@ncdot.gov. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, (919) 707-6069 or magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made. Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-4816494.

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EMBATTLED RALEIGH CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE MAKING THE RDU QUARRY A BIG ELECTION ISSUE BY LEIGH TAUSS

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ne vote is all we need to join the fight,” Raleigh City Council member Kay Crowder told hundreds of residents rallying against a plan to add a second quarry outside Umstead State Park last weekend. And October 8 is “just around the corner.” It’s not that simple, however. The fight to stop the quarry—specifically, a lease agreement between the RDU Airport Authority and the Wake Stone Corporation that will allow the company to mine the 105acre Odd Fellows tract for the next three decades—has been underway for years, ever since the idea was first proposed, and especially since the authority’s board unanimously approved the lease in March. The Umstead Coalition and Triangle OffRoad Cyclists filed a lawsuit, arguing that because four local governments own the RDU Authority and thus own the Odd Fellows tract—which abuts Umstead State Park and has long been used by cyclists, albeit without the airport’s permission—they should get a say in what happens. The groups won a temporary restraining order, though it was symbolic; it allows exploratory drilling, which is all Wake Stone can do until it completes the years-long permitting process. A court hearing is expected in September. The “one vote” to which Crowder was referring was the council’s 4–4 split in March to send RDU a letter asking the authority board to reconsider the deal. But that, too, would have been symbolic: It wouldn’t have been binding, and it was unlikely to change any minds. The airport says it needs the $24 million that the lease would generate to fund infrastructure repairs and a new runway. (The Umstead Coalition argues that the deal will only net about $8 million while destroying the land’s recreational possibilities.) The only thing the city could do with a fifth vote is to sue. No one on the council has proposed legal action, nor have any other owners of the air-

“It’s taking something that a lot of people very seriously care about and using it as a political gimmick.” port—Wake County, Durham County, and the city of Durham—tried to stop the lease. In fact, citing a ruling from the Federal Aviation Administration, Jessica Holmes, who chairs the Wake County Board of Commissioners, says that while she’s “very concerned about the environmental impact of the quarry,” the county “does not have a vote on whether the land lease moves forward. That is a decision that rests solely” with the airport authority. Durham doesn’t plan to jump into the lawsuit, says Mayor Steve Schewel, but would consider it if the Raleigh City Council and Wake County Commissioners took the lead. And while Raleigh getting in on the legal action might be helpful, it’s not necessary, says Jean Spooner, who chairs the Umstead Coalition. “We don’t need them. We have a strong case on our own.” Yet some council members, facing tough reelection bids, are nonetheless arguing that they can make a difference. “If we had one more vote, we could vote to join the lawsuit that is already taking place, or we could file our own lawsuit,” says council member Stef Mendell. “And I think we would have a better chance of having legal standing since we’re one of the four owners.” Raleigh city attorney Robin Tatum Currin declined to answer the INDY’s ques-

tions on the matter, citing attorney-client privilege and potential litigation. Mendell and the other council members who attended the Umstead Coalition’s rally last week—Crowder, Russ Stephenson, and David Cox—are facing opponents who have raised more money in the first half of 2019. That’s led critics, even those skeptical of the lease itself, to argue that their campaign against the quarry is politically motivated. “It’s taking something that a lot of people very seriously care about and using it as a political gimmick,” says Harry Johnson, the former chairman of the North Carolina Sierra Club. “These are councilors who have done little to nothing to really push the city to implement a clean energy standard. It’s very frustrating to see real issues compressed into one yes-or-no litmus test and to see that used as a checkbox for performative environmentalism.” Cox may call himself an environmentalist, Johnson says, but he also tried to reroute a sewer line through federally protected wetlands after a constituent complained about the city digging on her property. (He then attempted to get a city employee disciplined when he didn’t get his way, as the INDY previously reported.) You can oppose the quarry and oppose political gamesmanship, says council member Nicole Stewart, the development director for the North Carolina Conservation Network. She voted against sending the letter in March. “The Raleigh City Council has no ability to singlehandedly stop the quarry, no matter how many votes my colleagues say they have or need. To say or promise otherwise is false,” Stewart says. “My job has given me the experience and insights beyond a polltested talking point. The ongoing lawsuit brought by the Umstead Coalition will continue to be the most efficient avenue to fight the quarry, and I am watching it closely.” ltauss@indyweek.com

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The Dog Days of Summer Welcome to the INDY’s Pets Issue. Things are about to get ADORABLE. By Jeffrey C. Billman

hen I lie down on the couch tonight to watch TV, a tiny, precious cat will curl up in the nook of my arm, purr loud enough to wake the dead, and bite my hand if I dare to adjust my position in a manner of which she does not approve. When I go to bed, a sweet little dog will wrap his body around my head like a towel, snore directly in my ear, and, if the mood strikes—sorry for this—pass gas noxious enough to strip the bark off a tree. For good measure, he’ll also make sure I’m up at the crack of dawn by licking my face and/or grooming my hair until I agree to rise and feed him. Pets are the best, aren’t they? They give us love. They give us affection. They stare at us, wagging their tails, wondering. They give us

amazing photos to share on Instagram. They ask so very little in return. As a small way of saying thanks, we’re giving them their own issue of the INDY. The INDY does a lot of special issues, but none has gotten our staff as excited as this one. By popular demand (in our office, anyway), and for no good reason otherwise, we even included a selection (page 20) of our staff’s pets, where you can see the aforementioned nippy cat (Rita) and gassy dog (Sebastian). And because we want you to share in the joy of pet ownership, we’ve included lots of pictures of dogs and cats available for adoption at the Animal Protection Society of Durham, too (page 14). After you find your new best friend, we want you to share them with the world: On page 17, Leigh

Tauss hips you to some of the Triangle’s coolest animals to follow on social media, while on page 18, Lena Geller tells you about the best places to have a drink with your four-legged companion. On page 11, I’ll tell you about my Corgi-Golden Retriever, Belle, and her difficult diagnosis. If that bums you out, Brian Howe has the antidote: He spent a week trying to keep a Japanese virtual pet alive (page 28), and he made a solid case for why he should never be made responsible for a living creature. Finally, on page 21, find our very first #INDYpets photo competition, in which we asked you to send us pictures of your furballs. You obliged, and we judged them. Buckle up and get ready for cuteness. jbillman@indyweek.com

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About a Girl How a dog with cancer taught me to never take love for granted By Jeffrey C. Billman

ome days, I almost forget. I never actually forget. There are too many reminders: the morning and evening medication rituals, the vet appointments and special prescription diet, the drained savings and loaded credit card bills, the lump in my throat anytime she seems the slightest bit off. But almost. Because most days she’s not off. Most days she’s just Belle, the same Corgi-Golden Retriever we’ve had for the last ten years. Her face is a little whiter, her steps a little slower, but she’s still our loyal, adventurous, quirky, protective, intuitive, affectionate little weirdo, obsessive about her routines and deeply suspicious of the cat. She still eats, hikes, naps, kisses, hugs, swims, demands belly rubs, scratches her back on the grass, and wags her tail gregariously at the sight of a friend. She still loves being a dog. As best I can tell, Belle loves being my dog. I think she knows I love being her human, too. But in the back of my mind, no matter how normal everything seems, no matter how much I tell myself not to think about it, I always know. Belle has cancer. Belle is dying.

e found out ten months and two weeks ago. As it turns out, we caught a lucky break. If you ask my mother, who does not believe in coincidence, it was a sign from God, or maybe our dog trying to signal us that something was amiss. Whatever the cause, the story goes like this: Belle ate something she shouldn’t have. We don’t know what. My wife, Adri, had taken her and her brother, Sebastian, on an early-morning walk. Belle got into the bushes and found a snack—a discarded chicken bone, perhaps, or maybe a rock. It was dark and happened quickly. To be clear, this was entirely out of character. Save for her tendency to chase the

Belle on a picnic table in Northgate Dog Park cat, her inclinations to herd small, rambunctious children—she is half-Corgi, after all—and one incident with the bunny next door, Belle has always been the good dog. Sebastian, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, is the household troublemaker, the furry vacuum cleaner, the one responsible for our emergency vet visits. Belle became ill—lethargic and visibly uncomfortable. After a few days, we took her to her vet, Dr. Rachel Germain of the Banfield Pet Hospital in Southpoint. She spotted something on the X-ray, in Belle’s abdominal cavity near her kidney. A blockage of some sort. Maybe a mass. Probably not. Hard to tell. Just to be sure, Dr. Germain told me the next morning,

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she wanted Belle to get an ultrasound. I wasn’t eager to drop $400 to be told everything was fine, I replied. Besides, Belle was already doing better. Dr. Germain told me she understood. “But if it were my dog, I would do it.” That line got to me. I scheduled the ultrasound, at Triangle Veterinary Referral Clinic, for the following Thursday, September 20. It was cancer, a woman informed me that afternoon. I say informed because she delivered this information with cold, emotionless remove, like she wasn’t ripping my guts out. Maybe she wasn’t really emotionless. The conversation is a blur, existing in fragments of memory. I don’t remember her face. I’m

not even sure who she was—a vet? A tech? Who do they send to tell you that your dog is dying, that the prognosis is months and not years, that treatments will be expensive but ultimately fail? I recall the room being dry and sterile. I’m pretty sure Belle was in the back somewhere, sleeping off a sedative. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more alone. They needed a biopsy to be sure, she continued, steady and monotone, but the tumor was probably hemangiosarcoma, an aggressive cancer that originates in the cells that line the blood vessels. It’s common in Golden Retrievers. It’s always fatal. I absorbed this news in silence, nodding along to indicate that I understood what my brain hadn’t begun to process. Then I drove home, collapsed on the floor, and cried. More accurately, I bawled. I sobbed. I shook. I screamed at the walls. I don’t know how long I sat there. Five minutes? Twenty? It felt like hours. It was crushingly unfair—to me, selfishly, but also to her. In dog years, I calculated, Belle was in her mid-to-late fifties. I tried to make sense of it, as if there were something to make sense of. I tried to bargain with it, as if there were someone to bargain with, as if I had anything to offer. I hated feeling powerless. And irrational as it was, I hated myself for letting Belle down. I don’t have children. I have Belle and Sebastian—named for the band, not the Disney characters—as well as our mercurial cat, Rita. I love them more than most things and most people. They love without reservation and forgive without hesitation (not so much the cat). They’re so often the best parts of my day. I know we’re supposed to outlive them. I knew they were getting older. But until that afternoon, the inevitability of time had never felt entirely real. Now it did. I knew what the future held. I knew how my little girl’s story ended—and the decision we’d eventually have to make. How the fuck was I supposed to deal with that? INDYweek.com | 8.07.19 | 11

could tell you a thousand stories about Belle. I could tell you about Cole, her beagle boyfriend in Philadelphia, and how she loved that dog. (Seven years after we moved, she still lights up at the mention of his name.) I could tell you about her first trip to the beach and how terrified she was of, well, everything, or the time she dragged a bewildered toddler by her diaper across a living room—in fairness, the kid probably shouldn’t have been in the kitchen— then kissed her forehead profusely. I could tell you about when she stole bread from a fisherman, or how she spent hours stalking squirrels at the dog park. I could tell you her so proudly climbing that massive oak tree, forty or fifty feet in the air, or how she outran a Greyhound mix in pursuit of a rabbit, or how she quivers with excitement when she sees a horse. I could tell you about her peculiar style of play, which involves crouching low, eyeing an unsuspecting dog from about twenty yards away, sprinting at it full force and slamming into it, then prancing away as if nothing happened. I told you she’s a weirdo. In a way, I think that’s why we’ve bonded. I read somewhere that dogs take on their humans’ personalities as they age. For better or worse, she has, at least in some ways. She’s fiercely devoted to those in her pack, skeptical of those outside of it. (It takes three encounters to move from the latter camp to the former.) She fixates on the task at hand. She finds comfort in consistency and long naps on a Saturday afternoon. Those she chooses to love, she loves deeply. Those lucky enough to be in that group find it impossible not to love her back. (There, I suppose, she and I differ.) I picked her up from some rednecks in an Orlando mall parking lot after seeing her picture on Craigslist. She probably cost a hundred bucks. I never got the full story: Did a Golden jump the fence, or was this combination planned? I probably should have gone to the shelter, but you should’ve seen her: eight weeks old, a little ball of fluff, fuzzy hair and no legs, her stubby paws jutting out from a belly that almost scraped the ground, always pointed ever-so-slightly outward. We got her because Sebastian needed a companion. He was five months old, big eyes and bigger heart, but in want of constant attention. I put her on my lap to drive her back to our apartment. She shook the entire time. When we got home, Sebastian was not amused at the prospect of another puppy competing for Adri’s affection. (He’s very much a mommy’s boy.) He shot me a look: What the hell is that? 12 | 8.07.19 | INDYweek.com

Belle cuddling Sebastian. They love each other very much. It took him three days to decide to keep her. They’ve been inseparable ever since: They eat together, they sleep together, they walk side by side. She uses him as a pillow when they’re in the backseat. When Belle goes to the doctor, Sebastian insists on going with her. When Sebastian begs for food, Belle waits patiently beside him, knowing she’ll split the fruits of his labor. She’s a smart girl.

he insidious thing about hemangiosarcoma is its stealth. It most often forms in the spleen. It’s asymptomatic until the tumor swells and ruptures—a painful, life-threatening condition that requires emergency surgery to staunch massive internal bleeding. Even if the surgery is successful, the rupture spreads microscopic cancer cells all over the body, which reform into other fastgrowing tumors. In weeks or months, the cancer wins. That’s why Belle’s upset stomach was a tender mercy. We caught the cancer early, before it ruptured and spread throughout her abdomen, before it attached itself to other vital organs. So maybe, I tell myself, we got lucky enough to beat impossible odds—that Belle, an exceedingly unusual dog, got an exceedingly unusual tumor.

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But I’m getting ahead of myself. The day after the ultrasound, we met with Belle’s oncologist, Dr. Jennifer Arthur, who told us this would the “the secondworst day of this process.” I suspect it will actually be the third. It was better than the day we learned of the diagnosis. At least she gave us a thin reed of hope. She gave us options. We could do nothing except keep Belle comfortable, she said. Belle would pass away within a few months. We could do the surgery to remove the tumor (and the kidney to which it was attached) but skip the chemotherapy. She might live six months. Or we try everyth— “That’s what we’re doing,” Adri said before Dr. Arthur finished the sentence. Everything. Surgery. Chemo. More chemo. Chinese mushrooms. Chinese anticoagulants. Fight like hell or go broke trying. Among her many qualities, Belle is stubborn, resilient, and brave. We would be, too. The surgery was risky; blood-based tumors can cause hemorrhages. After that, she’d get six doses of intense chemotherapy, spaced three weeks apart, to kill as many of the remaining cancer cells as possible. Then, for the rest of her life (or as long as she could tolerate it), another form of chemo called Palladia given every other

day—with latex gloves, as touching it is toxic—to prevent lingering cancer cells from reforming into tumors. On top of that, four pills a day containing a powdered form of the Coriolus versicolor mushroom, used in Chinese medicine to boost the immune system, and one daily pill of Yunnan Baiyao, a proprietary Chinese medicine said to keep blood from clotting. It’s as expensive as it sounds. All told, we were staring down between $4,000 and $5,000 for the surgery and $450 and $550 a month for the medications. If all goes well, that might give us a year, Dr. Arthur told us. In a small study at the University of Pennsylvania a few years ago, dogs with hemangiosarcoma who were given Coriolus versicolor, sold under the brand name I’m-Yunity, lived several months longer than those who weren’t. And in a case study I found in a veterinary journal, a twelveyear-old dog with hemangiosarcoma lived for two years on Palladia, then died of suspected brain cancer that may or may not have been linked to the hemangiosarcoma. We’d do both and hope for the best. That was a Friday. Her surgery was on Tuesday. That weekend was all about her. We invited her best human and dog friends over. We grilled steak and gave it to her. We took her to Duke Gardens and let her decide where we should go (we ended up staring at the koi pond a lot). We told her how special she was. We snuggled her until she got annoyed with us. We prepared ourselves for the worst. And then, after a long, sleepless night, we took her in early in the morning, dropped her off, went to work, and waited for a phone call. By noon, I’d gotten tired of waiting, so I went to the vet’s office to wait, as if the proximity would speed things along. Adri soon joined me. About two, the vet finally had news. Good news, relatively speaking. The tumor was neatly contained to Belle’s kidney. (Dr. Germain later told me they’d never seen that before with hemangiosarcoma.) They took the kidney out; she has two, and with a prescription diet, losing one doesn’t affect her quality of life. Belle responded well to the chemo, too. Dogs handle it better than humans. They usually don’t get sick or lose their hair. Belle maintained her strength and energy, as much as you can expect from a ten-yearold, anyway. She’s had a few bad days, and she’s gone stretches in which she gets finicky about her food, but I’m told that’s normal. A few months ago, she had another ultrasound. It came back clean. To look at her, you’d never think anything’s wrong. Some days, I almost forget.

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back tears, I told myself to remember this feeling—this gnawing ache, this pit of sadness—to never forget it. Belle had been my companion, my dog, my little girl, for ten years, in different cities, in different jobs, in good times and bad. She’d been a constant presence— always there. I realized that I’d taken that, taken her, for granted. I’d never do it again. Whether this reprieve lasts a month or a year, I swore to make every second of it count. We’ve mostly lived up to that promise. We’ve filled her days with friends and loved ones, Saturday hikes and Sunday morning Celebrating Sebastian’s birthday at Sam’s Quik Shop dog church (if you don’t PHOTO BY ADRIANA RUIZ-BILLMAN know, I can’t tell you), dog-park afternoons and a steady supply of treats and snuggles. he day of Belle’s surgery, as we sat As far as we know, she’s a happy dog. alone in a room during that brief She’s been happier since she figured out period of tranquility between when how to manipulate us. we heard the surgery went well and when I don’t know if Belle understands that Dr. Arthur gave us details, Adri spotted a she’s sick. But she’s most definitely intuited familiar face through the closed door’s small that we’re attuned to her every whim, and window. We went into the hall to say hello. she uses it. So if we try to leave the house Our friend was here to see Dr. Arthur, too. without her, she’ll stare at us, eyes wide, Her dog, a Frenchie, had been diagnosed almost in disbelief, then give a quick, sharp, with hemangiosarcoma four months earaccusatory high-pitched bark, as if to ask: lier. They’d done the surgery, the chemo, How could you? Don’t you know? the mushrooms. They’d spent the money. She knows what she’s doing. And we (“It’s not like they need a college fund,” she mostly oblige. She tells us when she wants quipped.) He was there for a check-up. to go to the park, or when she wants to “Dr. Arthur is the best,” she assured us. see her bestie Junebug, or when it’s eight Last week, she posted a photo to Faceo’clock and she wants us to tuck her in. book of the Frenchie spooning his sister, (She’s an oddly punctual animal.) another Frenchie, on the couch. It’s been Belle is spoiled, of course. Sebastian is, fourteen months since his diagnosis— too. But aren’t they supposed to be? only 10 percent of dogs make it a year— We give these magnificent creatures, and he’s still here, though they’ve stepped who have formed a unique bond with back his Palladia from once every two humanity over thirty thousand years, mere days to once every three because it was pieces of ourselves. We work and travel and making him ill. have marriages and friends. But they have “Sometimes I’m like, was he misdiagonly us. And, for the short time they’re on nosed, and am I pumping poison into him this planet, they give us their everything. for no reason?” she told me. “And then there Don’t they deserve to be spoiled? are times where I look at him and all I see is September 20 will mark one year since a little ticking time bomb.” Belle’s diagnosis. At that point, by Dr. So much rests on things beyond our conArthur’s calendar, we’ll be on borrowed time. trol. But there’s one thing I can control. I don’t how much time we’ll get to borrow. The day after the surgery, we brought However long it is, we’ll make it count. Belle home, woozy from the meds. As she My little girl deserves that. lay on the couch, and I sat next to her, jbillman@indyweek.com stroking her head and her back, choking

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Let the Dogs Out

uses private donations to shelter and care for nearly five thousand stray, abandoned, or abused animals a year, so even if you’re not ready to adopot, consider a donation—and yes, they have cats and other animals, too. Here, meet six doggos in search of good homes (text descriptions provided by the APS of Durham) and consider lending a helping paw.

aybe you don’t own a dog and this Pets Issue has you reconsidering that decision. Or maybe you’re already a proud dog parent but feel your family could use some more canine camaraderie. In either case, The Animal Protection Society of Durham is here to help. The nonprofit organization has been helping local animals in need since 1970 and managing the Durham County Animal Shelter since 1990. The APS

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Karina

Banks

and soon you’ll see what a playful girl I am. With a little training, time, and love, I’ll be a great friend for you. Will you come see me?

tigate everything with this busy nose of mine! Once I’m done exploring, I’d love to play. I can get so excited, I zoom around—it’s adorable! If you’re looking for someone who likes long walks and having fun, I’m your guy.

Age: Three years old (been here two months) About: Oh, hello there! I’m feeling kinda stressed out right now, but give me some time to relax

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Age: Nine years old About: Hi there! I may be older, but I’ve got lots of spunk. I’m a curious guy who loves to inves-

Marlon

Rin Tin Tin

explore! I’d love to go home with someone who will play with me and take me on an adventure! If you’re looking for a walking or hiking buddy, I’m your man! So whaddaya say, will you meet me today?

come right over for you to pet me. I love being with people, and I can’t wait to find my new best friend! If you’re looking for a low-key buddy, come check me out!

Age: Two years old (been here two months) About: Hiya! I’m a bouncy, playful guy who would love to meet you! I love people and I love to

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Animal Influencers Are you following these Instagram-famous Triangle pets yet? By Leigh Tauss

any pets have Instagram accounts, but few ascend to internet fame and glory, amassing more followers than their human counterparts. Here in the Triangle, we’ve chosen the rare breeds that beat the odds with their unique features, undeniable cuteness, or heart-wrenching tales. If you aren’t following these adorable beasts yet, congrats on still having a life. The following local animal celebrities are listed in the order that they’re pictured above, from left to right. To advertise or feature

pet for adoption, Ryder NoaEyelids

please contact As the handle suggests, Ryder is a cat with advertising@indyweek.com no eyelids. He lives in Raleigh, where he @rydernoeyelids

sleeps with both eyes open in a perpetually derpy stare. His hobbies include gazing longingly into the distance and grooming his bright white eyelashes.

Oak City Kitty

Hamilton the Pig

Miss Biscuits Fat Cat

@oakcitykitty

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@missbiscuitsfatcat

We’ve written before about the notorious fat cat Tucker, the unofficial king of Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street. Behold his sheer girth and utter indifference toward human life. The twenty-five pound, twenty-two-year-old shelter rescue has only one passion: food. He’s not above eating off the pavement.

Holden the Golden @holdenthegolden_

No two ways about it: This is just one good-looking dog. His luxurious locks flow in the breeze as he chases a ball (or the paparazzi). With nearly fifty thousand followers, this Raleigh pooch is basically a pup-size model. In 2018, Holden was diagnosed with an enlarged heart and congestive heart failure, but he’s been able to turn things around thanks to a diet overhaul. He’s now a registered therapy dog.

Fans of the Carolina Hurricanes may already worship the team’s unofficial mascot. Hamilton, a ninety-pound potbelly pig, is allegedly a good luck charm at Canes games, which he attends from the luxury of his wagon. (Hey, they made the NHL Finals this year, even if things didn’t quite pan out.) His passions include tailgating and free carrots. Who are we to argue?

Peach the Duck @ohbichonplease

A month after Peach was born, owner Bridget Cady noticed that the Pekin duck was having trouble waddling. X-rays determined he had scoliosis. Instead of letting Peach go belly up, Cady started a GoFundMe to get Peach a special duck wheelchair. (Don’t even pretend that’s not adorable.) Give her a follow and check out her owners’ other fowl, which include roosters and hens.

Turns out Tucker isn’t the Triangle’s only Instagram fat cat. Hailing from Durham, Miss Biscuits is a rotund tabby with movie star eyes. Her biscuits may bring all the boys to the yard, but her hobbies include yoga and napping on her human’s treadmill.

Kiwi & Truffle @cavycoterie

Rodents aren’t known for their sophistication, but these two guinea pigs enjoy the finer things in life, like tea parties with miniature china and blueberries served on a bed of fresh lettuce. Kiwi is a creamcolored diva and Truffle is white with orange spots. See them don flower crowns and frolic like Coachella hipsters on their Raleigh lawn. ltauss@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.07.19 | 17

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Beer for My Puppies Our ten favorite local spots to get a drink with your best friend By Lena Geller

ntil last month, there was a provision in the state food code that prohibited animals from being inside many taprooms. Because it was stupid, this rule was largely ignored—except in Guilford County, where, earlier this year, health inspectors suddenly decided that dogs lazing about in taprooms was an Issue of Public Concern and began cracking down. The quick and furious pushback led to a section of the recently passed Senate Bill 290 permitting dogs (and cats) inside breweries and taprooms as long as they don’t prepare food on-site. The law doesn’t officially take effect until September 1, but it’s not like we were paying attention to the old rules, anyway. To celebrate all of this becoming legit—to be honest, we never knew it wasn’t—we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite places to have a drink with Fido in the Triangle, as well as one place in Guilford County that both got around the dumb ban and is worth the drive.

106 Main 106 East Main Street, Durham facebook.com/106Main

With comfy booths, friendly bartenders, tasty drinks, and a dim, dive-y atmosphere, downtown Durham’s neighborhood bar also extends an open invite to pooches.

401 Main 401 East Main Street, Carrboro 401main.com

It hasn’t opened yet—and it’s not the same Main Street as the one above—but we have a feeling that this forthcoming latenight bar and sandwich shop might be the dog-friendliest of them all. Customers are encouraged to bring their companions and sit outside on one of the two spacious patios, where 401 will offer treats. And while the bar is co-owned by Al Bowers of Al’s Burger Shack fame, it’s not Bowers’s face plastered on the 401 logo, but a Cocker Spaniel’s. 18 | 8.07.19 | INDYweek.com

Toby at Trophy PHOTO BY JADE WILSON

The Barking Deck

Barley Labs

106 South Walnut Circle, Suite B, Greensboro, thebarkingdeck.com

4015 University Drive, Durham barleylabs.com

Yes, it’s a good hour’s drive away. And yes, you’ll need to pay to get in (and make sure your dogs are up on their vaccinations). But the Barking Deck is a concept whose time has come—and really, why hasn’t this thing come to the Triangle? (Anyone want to front us some cash?) The idea: Dog parks are hit and miss. Indoor dog parks are air conditioned. Pubs have beer. You can drink beer and watch dogs play. What else could you possibly want in life?

Dogs are so integral to Barley Labs that just calling the space “dog-friendly” doesn’t do it justice; this taproom, bottle, and gift shop is more like a humanfriendly bar for dogs. Dogs comprise two out of the four team members listed on the site—Barley, a lab mix, is VP of quality control, and Hops, Barley’s little brother, is director of PR—and the taproom provides pup patrons with water bowls, dog beds and toys, leash ties, a doggy

potty station, and their own all-natural peanut butter, sweet potato, and cheeseflavored dog treats, made using barley recycled from Fullsteam’s beer-brewing process (partial proceeds benefit the APS of Durham).

Hi-Wire Brewing 800 Taylor Street, Durham hiwirebrewing.com

Between its vast taproom and outdoor covered patio and beer garden, Hi-Wire boasts ample space—more than ten-thousand square feet—for your dog to romp and

socialize while you enjoy a local beer or cider from one of the twenty-four taps; play shuffleboard, ping-pong, cornhole, or foosball; and listen to live music.

Parts & Labor 723 Rigsbee Avenue, Durham motorcomusic.com/eats

Motorco’s bar and global street food restaurant makes its canine affinity evident by its Instagram page, @dogsofmotorco, which is devoted to photos of the “doggos and puppers” who hang with their humans on the garage bar’s large outdoor space.

Ponysaurus Brewing Company 219 Hood Street, Durham ponysaurusbrewing.com

With a sprawling, grassy lawn, long picnic tables, and strings of twinkling lights, Ponysaurus is the perfect place to bring your dog while enjoying a beer on a warm summer evening. And if you reserve a grill ahead of time, the brewery will provide bratwurst, hot dogs, burgers, and wings for you to cook (and slip to a certain hungry friend waiting for a handout).

Tasty Beverage Company 327 West Davie Street, #106, Raleigh tastybeverageco.com

So, a bunch of dogs wandering around a small bar and bottle shop packed with tall shelves full of bottles sounds … dangerous? Whatever. Tasty loves pups, pups love Tasty, everyone’s happy.

Trophy Brewery + Taproom 656 Maywood Avenue, Raleigh trophybrewing.com

Picture this: dozens of adoptable dogs wearing party hats, sitting at picnic tables, eating dog-friendly cupcakes and ice cream. This was the scene on Trophy’s outdoor patio last week, when the brewery threw a birthday party and fundraiser for the senior dogs of Hope Animal Rescue. Don’t fret if you missed it: Trophy is usually packed with four-legged friends, even if it’s not hosting a special event.

Wye Hill Kitchen & Brewing 201 South Boylan Avenue, Raleigh wyehill.com

Can anything top sitting on Wye Hill’s covered rooftop patio, sipping a cold beer, snacking on pub cheese and potato chips, and enjoying gorgeous views of the Raleigh skyline? Yes. Doing all of that with your best friend by your side. food@indyweek.com Gizmo (top) and Milo (bottom) at Trophy PHOTOS BY JADE WILSON INDYweek.com | 8.07.19 | 19

The Pets Issue

Your Pets Are Great, but Ours Are Clearly the Best

Belle & Sebastian Billman

Rita Billman

Lula Hurld

Pizza Schmader

Darcie Smith

Luna Smith

Barnaby & Jasper Tauss

Juniper Edwards

Human: Jeff Billman, Editor in Chief

Human: Hanna Smith, Marketing Executive

Bela Lugosi

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Human: Jeff Billman, Editor in Chief

Human: Hanna Smith, Marketing Executive

Everything Bagel Howe

Human: Brian Howe, Arts & Culture Editor

(see story, page 28)

Human: John Hurld, Director of Sales

Human: Leigh Tauss, Staff Writer

Melon & Dew Geller Human: Lena Geller, Intern

Human: Sarah Schmader, Marketing Executive

Human: Sarah Edwards, Associate

Arts & Culture Editor

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Human: Sophia Wilhelm, Intern

The Pets Issue

Best in Show Everyone’s a winner, except not really. Meet our faves from the inaugural #INDYPets photo contest.

his might shock you, but people are very enthusiastic about sharing pictures of their animals on the internet. So when we asked people to send us pics of their pets for a contest in our Pets Issue, they responded. Lots and lots of them responded. And yes, all of these photos were adorable—even the gerbil. But we didn’t have room to print them all, nor could we name all of them winners. So our crack team of Puppy Bowl junkies put

our otherwise useless skills to work, assiduously scrutinizing each and every image for cuteness and composition, until we narrowed it down to twenty finalists, from which we selected three winners based on our proprietary blend of absolutely objective criteria. Thank you to everyone who entered. Without further ado, here they are: The winners and finalists from our inaugural #INDYPets contest.

FIRST PLACE: Indiana Bones

SECOND PLACE: Jolene the Pig

He likes to eat and make dog noises. His mom tells us he’d “love to be featured in his namesake magazine.” Judges’ Notes: We are his namesake magazine. Of course he won. (Also: that face!)

thieving snacks from the pantry, and lying in the sun until forced to wear sunscreen. Judges’ Notes: So, look, if you send us a photo of a pig wearing sunglasses and lying in the grass, you’re going to place. That’s just how these things go.

Human: Kasey Kyprianou, Raleigh Instagram: @mr_indy_bones About: Indiana Bones, who goes by Indy, just turned five.

Human: Kelsey Dawson, Durham Instagram: @jolenethelillady About: Jolene, a pig, loves short walks to the Eno River,

THIRD PLACE: Neville

Human: Victoria Russell, Apex About: Boston terrier, thirteen years old. Loves: eating gar-

bage, flashing ridiculous smiles. Judges’ Notes: We’ve got some love for the senior dogs, especially when they warm our hearts like Neville here.

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FINALISTS

Human: Veronica Vivona, Durham Instagram: @potatodoodle About: Goldendoodle, almost two years old. Loves: metal

mixing bowls, bowties, snooping. Hates: bandanas, sneezing.

Rocky and Millie

Rooney the Keeshond

They are both manipulative. Rocky loves butt pats, Millie runs the house.

climbing on strange objects (also his mother’s head).

Human: Alison Jordan, Durham About: Rocky is the boxer and Millie is the tuxedo cat.

TRUST IS EARNED. NOT APP’ED.

Human: Taylor McDonald, Raleigh About: Three years old. Loves: snow (obviously), barking,

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Brian Battles the Purple Robot What to expect when you’re expecting a virtual pet By Brian Howe

s a never-married person, I’ve felt a twinge of anxiety every time we’ve done a wedding issue. I felt the same about a special issue dedicated to pets. Though I’ve lived with and cared for family and friends’ pets, I’ve never had my own. I like cats and dogs, especially cats, and I talk to animals outside of my house more often than I should admit. My pets are the black caterpillar with yellow racing stripes on the porch, the bird that bathes in the dust of the driveway (I call it the plover, but I know it’s not), and the squirrels being squirrelly in the trees. It’s mainly a lifestyle thing. Pets are financially challenging and time-consuming, and so is culture journalism. I often neglect to feed and care for myself, and it’s not fair to inflict that on a fellow creature. I joked in our edit meeting that the best I could do was to write about virtual pets, which is how I became a Tamagotchi parent three days after my fortieth birthday. Tamawhatchi? In the late nineties, Japan, already a leading producer of giant monsters, decided that we needed tiny ones in our pockets, too. The world agreed, going mad for Pokémon and Tamagotchi. The former was an adorable handheld game about humans capturing animals and making them fight. The latter was a line of handheld digital pets from toy giant Bandai. It’s a little unnerving that today, you can order one from Amazon in the morning and a sinister gray van will deliver it that night. It shouldn’t be so easy to get something so crazy. Then again, latenineties nostalgia is in full effect, and these are unnerving, crazy times. My Tamagotchi is a twentieth-anniversary mini edition—a squashed purple egg, an inch and a half lengthwise, with three pink buttons and a small LCD screen the color of dirty seawater. On July 24, at 9:31 a.m., I press a sunken switch with a stick of Nag Champa and an egg springs to life in liquid crystal. After a minute, it hatches 28 | 8.07.19 | INDYweek.com

a bouncing baby blob, or “Babytchi,” which sounds like a Cardi B song. I decide to call it Everything Bagel Howe. I wish I could say I was eating an everything bagel, but that’s too bald-faced a lie even for silly journalism. Everything Bagel comes from a list of ridiculous baby names that I’ve joked about over the years with various partners who didn’t want kids, the psychological implications of which are probably better discussed in a professional therapeutic context. Anyway. way. Everything Bagel has three states: He’s hungry, he’s in a bad mood, or he’s just chilling. (Somewhere around the christening, it became he.) When he’s hungry, he needs rice, which, for some reason, is represented by an icon that looks like a mushroom. When he’s cranky, he needs candy, which—for an inadvertent good reason I’ll explain later—looks like a hashtag. My care will determine what kind of “Adultchi” he grows up to be, and if he even lives long enough to attain his ultimate “rare” form. It’s comforting that Tamagotchi diminishes death to a state like hunger or having poop near you—reversible, up to a point, with enough vigilance. I’ve only been a virtual parent for thirty seconds, and already, I have no idea what to do. Though I’ve pored over the manual, I’m not sure how constantly Everything Bagel needs tending to forestall trauma or

death. His status icon right now doesn’t really look like food or candy, and I’m freaking out. Peering closer, I decide it’s candy he wants: Quite sensibly, Everything Bagel came into this world pissed. But then I press the wrong button and give him rice. He eats it happily enough, so I give him the candy for dessert, which I think was pretty clutch parenting. Now that he’s satiated, I pocket him, wondering when he’ll need me again. I’ve gotten thirtyseven emails about actual work in the time that I’ve spent on this so far. At 10:13 a.m., Everything Bagel trills out. Still absorbing the controls, I accidentally give him extra food for the second time. Nevertheless, not thirty minutes later, his mood sours again. Though he’s a Leo, I think he’s really a cuspy Cancer, like me. At 11:12, I have to stop buttering waffles when this heckin’ chonker demands more of everything. I gorge him to shut him up for long enough to eat my cold, unevenly buttered waffles. At last, at 12:33 p.m., the feeding frenzy has its natural outcome when Everything Bagel poops. He won’t do a thing until I clean away his flyblown scat. They get old so fast, in more ways than one. On his second day of life, after sleeping for more than twelve hours, Everything Bagel turns from globular baby to duckbilled adult. But he still wants sweets first thing in the morning, and my attentiveness is already sliding into a distracted cycle of

feeding, soothing, and feces removal. Two nights in a row, I go out, and by the time I remember to check on him, he’s fallen asleep in his own filth. This, of course, does nothing good for his breakfast candy addiction. And me? I’m not great. Caring for an electronic pet does strange things to a person. I keep feeling like I should feed my Switch or clean my drum machine’s litterbox. Whatever initial cathexis I felt when I Slacked the whole paper Everything’s Bagel’s birth video has dissolved into stress and irritation. But not once have I deliberately ignored his cries, partly because I have a martyr-ish streak, partly for a more interesting reason. I occasionally glimpse something unsettling in pets, an incongruity that hits a little too close to home. It’s weird, these wild creatures, domesticated in climate-controlled environments—but then, what am I? The Tamagotchi has been a similarly unsettling mirror. It’s weird, this virtual monster chirping in my pocket, meaninglessly interlacing with my self-esteem and clamoring for my attention—but then, what is my smartphone? Everything Bagel changed into an angry-looking orb as I was finishing this story, but I don’t think our relationship is going to go on. It turns out that Tamagotchi was unwittingly preparing kids less for pet ownership or even parenthood than for the worst scourge of social media, the push notification. It’s just like Twitter except it’s terrible and doesn’t do anything, which is to say that it’s just like Twitter. The needs of a real pet are starting to seem like a healthy alternative. So goodnight, sweet Bagel. To the world, you were just another chunk of Chinese plastic destined for a whirling garbage patch on the ocean. But to me, in the week before I decided you were psychologically toxic and let you die of neglect, you were Everything. bhowe@indyweek.com

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GREG HATEM’S NEW MOORE SQUARE RESTAURANT RESEMBLES A SHAKE SHACK AND SHARES ITS NAME WITH A BURGER JOINT IN PHILLY’S HISTORIC FRANKLIN SQUARE. HE SAYS THAT’S A COINCIDENCE. BY ANDREA RICE

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t’s not Moore Square Park, it’s Moore Square,” says Greg Hatem, whose restaurant group, Empire Eats, opened Square Burger on August 3 in that newly renovated downtown Raleigh landmark. Square Burger, the ninth restaurant to join his empire, is not inspired by Shake Shack, though it resembles one. And it isn’t affiliated with either the SquareBurger in Philadelphia’s historic Franklin Square or the Square Burger in the historic downtown square of McKinney, Texas. (In response to the INDY’s questions, the Philly location didn’t seem concerned.) Hatem says the name is a coincidence. His intention is not to mimic the success of other burger stands in historic parks but to educate the public on the history of the city’s squares. And, as he points out—pedantic though it may seem—Raleigh’s five squares are not parks. In 1792, Moore Square, Nash Square, Caswell Square, Burke Square, and Union Square were designated by land surveyor William Christmas as squares, which, ironically perhaps, were modeled after Philadelphia’s system of squares. “You hear a lot of folks—especially in the last year and a half—say ‘Moore Square Park,’” Hatem says. “It’s just Moore Square. That’s how we’ve traditionally done it here in the last two hundred years, and it’s only in the last ten where that inaccuracy crept in.” (Even the city’s website identifies the square as Moore Square Park.) Square Burger, the first—and for now, only—kiosk that will serve food and alcohol in the square, made a successful bid in 2016 for the space. Despite the prime location, there was surprisingly little competition. A group of restauranteurs from the neighboring City Market, including partners in Stanbury and Royale, were the only other bidders. “We were getting ready to open up Royale, so we just kind of just threw a last-minute proposal together,” says Will Jeffers, a co-owner of the two restaurants. The city had requested proposals as part of its long-in-process $13 million renovation of the square, but as Jeffers recalls, no one, aside from him (along with his partners) and Hatem, had bid. Scott Payne, the city’s interim director for parks, recreation, and cultural resources, says he was also surprised by the lack of interest. “It’s new and unknown, and it’s a risk,” he says. In any event, Hatem put together a thoughtful, welldefined concept, evoking nostalgia for the burgers, fries, and shakes of simpler times. He says Square Burger is

Square Burger in Raleigh's newly opened Moore Square Park inspired by the burger joints he frequented in his hometown of Roanoke Rapids some fifty years ago. “It’s not pretentious. It’s not trying to be anything other than a great burger,” he says. “To this very day, I still go to Second Street Lunch and have a couple cheeseburgers there. It’s one of the few places that have endured, and it’s just as good today as it was back then.” Like other Empire Eats establishments, Square Burger will offer local and seasonal fare. The menu showcases the classics with a Carolina twist: a quarter-pound burger and a hot dog served with coleslaw, chili, mustard, and onions. Crinkle-cut fries and handcrafted chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or salted caramel milkshakes. In addition, vegetarians can enjoy a Boca Burger or grilled cheese, and those seeking lighter options can order a grilled chicken sandwich, a chicken Cobb salad, or a Caesar salad. There’s also a selection of wine and beer. Much like at a traditional burger shack, patrons can pick up their orders at an outside window, and just like at Shake Shack and the other Square Burgers, guests can sit and eat at movable tables and chairs or on a blanket on the grass. Square Burger is open from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 10:00 p.m. on Friday

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and Saturday; however, it will close at 6:00 p.m. in the fall and winter. Hatem, who in 2015 led efforts to curtail what he viewed as DTR nightlife’s excesses, says Square Burger won’t serve late-night, but ultimately, regulating those hours is the city’s responsibility. During August, all profits will go toward food-insecurity programs like BackPack Buddies. The menu also offers a “Square Deal Meal”—burger, fries, and drink for $9—a nod to a famous speech that, according to Hatem, was delivered by President Theodore Roosevelt on a visit to Raleigh in 1905. “When I say a square deal,” Roosevelt said, “I mean a square deal; exactly as much a square deal for the rich man as for the poor man; but no more. Let each stand on his merits, receive what is due him, and be judged according to his desserts. To more he is not entitled, and less he shall not have.” Hatem, a prominent developer, finds the quote as relevant today as it was then. The focus for his real estate company, Empire Properties, he says, is revitalization, restoration, preservation, and community building. “Restaurants are a huge part of it,” he says, “because it brings people in and keeps people in town and gives it the energy you need to make a real community.” arice@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.07.19 | 29

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RALEIGH PLAYWRIGHT MOSES T. ALEXANDER GREENE REIMAGINES THE GOSPEL MUSICAL IN POOLED BY BYRON WOODS

t’s not unusual to see gospel musical theater on the marquee at the National Black Theatre Festival, which was held last week in Winston-Salem, where it was expected to draw sixty-five thousand attendees. The form has been popular in the African-American community since its origins in the 1930s, from The Green Pastures and Langston Hughes’s series of biblical stagings in the 1960s (including Black Nativity, a perennial Triangle holiday favorite) to the Tony-winning 1976 breakthrough hit Your Arms Too Short to Box with God. That popularity has only increased in recent years, with touring productions of shows like Mama, I Want To Sing and My Grandmother Prayed for Me, which have largely clung to the values of traditional African-American churches. But Moses T. Alexander Greene, an emerging playwright at the helm of the upstart Raleigh company Li V Mahob Productions and a minister at Raleigh’s Baptist Grove Church, took the venerable genre in a controversial direction at the largest professional gathering of black stage artists in the world. “I want them to come expecting the same story they’ve always received: something about Jesus and singing and praying,” Greene says, with no small amount of holy mischief. “Then we’ll give them this highdefinition reflection of their own lives.” Greene’s drama, Pooled, was chosen from more than one hundred applications across the country for the festival’s twenty-five main-stage productions. (North Carolina Central University’s production of Blood at the Root, about the Jena Six case, was also selected.) But Pooled was the only gospel musical chosen this year at a festival that usually puts several of them on the schedule—a significant endorsement. “It just jumped out at us when we saw it,” says Jackie Alexander, artistic director for the North Carolina Black Repertory Company, the producers of the NBTF. “Pooled is breaking the mold of what people think traditionally in terms of gospel musicals.” 30 | 8.07.19 | INDYweek.com

Moses T. Alexander Greene at Raleigh’s St. Francis of Assisi Church PHOTO BY JADE WILSON Greene’s script is drawn from the story of the healing pool at Bethesda as recorded in the book of John. According to that scripture, the sick would gather around its five porches in order to be the near the pool when an angel descended and troubled the waters. The first one in when the waters were stirred would be cured—but because only the first would be healed, people could linger for years in search of relief. In the Bethesda pool, Greene found a potent metaphor for our times, so he set his drama in the present. At first glance, the community around the pool seems homey, and the people there—those seeking remedy, their friends and family, and those already healed— are just plain folks. Though they squabble at times, four vivid matriarchs—Grandma Rose, Grandma Doll, Sister Adah, and Sister Carry—seem to keep things well in hand. Then we begin to notice the little fractures along the edges. The two grand-

mothers of central character Delsin, whose limp symbolizes deeper suffering, are always talking each other down. A third character sings, “I’ll pray for you, but I really don’t like you.” We gradually realize that healing means something different for each person, but it often involves finding answers to difficult questions— answers that others on stage have sometimes carefully concealed. “At the pool, you have everyday people and the stories they can’t be shielded from,” Greene says. “Whoever you are, you can’t be shielded from aging parents, from a marriage that looks good on the outside but is crumbling inside, or the sexual abuse of your children when you’re not there.” That’s when a twist reminiscent of Sartre’s No Exit hits us head-on: On a fundamental level, many of these characters are one another’s jailers, whose silences, words, and deeds prevent true healing. Sister Car-

ry (India Williams) clings to her heartbreak at the hands of her estranged husband, Deacon Carry (Darius Hooks), a man whose addiction to alcohol and porn is so debilitating that he’s been repeatedly healed at the pool, but he keeps relapsing. Freedher (Lynette Barber) is denigrated by prejudice against darker skin, and central character Delsin (played by Greene himself ) has been stigmatized his whole life because he was molested by men as a child. When he poignantly asks why God permitted this, the community replies, in one strong voice, “Hush black man, don’t you talk about that.” Delsin has no choice but to conclude that “there is no place in the world and less than no place in the church” for him to talk about that dilemma. These and other robust characters point to another signal difference between Greene’s drama and previous gospel musicals. The issues the characters raise and the people they represent have historically remained invisible in the genre. “It’s changing up the narrative, and that’s important. Pooled addresses a lot of issues that most gospel musicals wouldn’t dare touch,” Alexander says, and it has the potential to open that sphere to a larger audience. “Some people define faith-based communities very narrowly. I know people from all walks of life, people of faith, but they often feel excluded from faith-based stories and musicals.” Greene partly based the musical on his and others’ past experiences in unwelcoming churches. “Many of our cast members have had these moments where we’ve had to learn the love of God despite the conventional church,” he says. “We’ve had to learn to separate God from some of the iterations of the church.” “When things get rough is when you need faith the most,” Alexander observes. “It gets rough sometimes for all of us. Pooled is about the beauty of what faith can do for the characters in this play, and for us all.” arts@indyweek.com

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DOWNTOWN DURHAM GETS A JAZZ BOON IN A NEW SERIES AT THE FRUIT There used to be lots of jazz in downtown Durham. Between the Thursday-night jam sessions at Whiskey and Beyú Caffè’s bursting calendar, there was a decent chance that you’d find jazz to your liking somewhere on any given night. But Whiskey closed years ago— followed, a little later, by The Shed, whose jam sessions at Golden Belt were sometimes the stuff of legend—and Beyú got out of the regular-jazz-progamming business at the start of 2019. Sharp 9 Gallery continues to present top-notch programming, but it's not exactly walking distance from downtown. Given how many good musicians there are in town, thanks in part to N.C. Central’s renowned jazz studies program, the downtown void has been palpable. Enter The Fruit. Duke Performances’ two jazz festivals there—Monk@100 and In the Jazz Tradition—have already shown that it makes for a pretty great jazz club. So it seems natural for the venue to take a go at its own jazz night, as it will do in a new, just-announced, weekly-ish series, held most Mondays at 7:30 p.m. and titled Local Jazz (door prices range from $15 to $25). Curated by singer, songwriter, and cellist Shana Tucker, the series currently includes nine shows, held between August 12 and November 11, highlighting local jazz musicians doing the kinds of gigs that used to be Beyú mainstays. This Monday, August 12, 99 Brass Band kicks things off in raucous fashion with its Durhamized take on New Orleans brass bands. In the coming weeks, we’ll see Brian Horton and Shana Tucker attempting to recreate and recontextualize John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman’s iconic 1963 album of ballads. Pianist Ernest Turner’s trio will provide deft interpretations of Stevie Wonder and Fats Waller alongside adventurous originals. There will also be shows by relative newcomers like saxophonists Shaquim Muldrow and Annalise Stalls, each of whom has a distinctive approach to the instrument. And Lynn Grissett of the New Power Generation will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue. Indeed, every event in the series has something interesting to say. Hopefully, it will become the new mainstay for the everimprovising, creative Durham jazz scene. —Dan Ruccia

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Unfinished Business

REVISITING THE CRIME STORY THAT HARPER LEE LEFT BEHIND, CASEY CEP UPENDS CLICHES ABOUT THE AUTHOR BY SARAH EDWARDS

n the late 1970s, Harper Lee’s neighbors reported hearing her typewriter at all hours. She’d recently finished a nine-month stay in rural Alabama, where she was reporting on a string of grisly murders, and it seemed possible that, years after To Kill a Mockingbird, the beloved writer would publish once again. She never finished that book, though. She dropped the project, entitled The Reverend, after a decade of work. Save for Go Set a Watchmen—a novel drafted half-acentury before it was published in 2015, and clouded by considerable questions about authorial agency—Lee remained largely absent from public life. This was the murky territory that the journalist Casey Cep entered when she decided to pick up the threads of the case that Lee had left behind. “Unfinishedness,” Cep writes in her new book about both Lee and the case, “is an emotional category as much as a chronological and aesthetic one.” Several complex stories lie at the heart of Cep’s Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, which Cep handles by dividing the book into three parts; the first two of which deal with the crime that Lee was reporting on for The Reverend. Part one is about Willie Maxwell, a black minister in Alabama in the 1970s, who was accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money. (Although a jury was never able to indict him, he was shot by a vigilante at the funeral of his stepdaughter.) Part two takes up the story of Tom Radney, an Atticus Finch-like figure who defended both Maxwell and the vigilante. And part three treats Lee as a character, exploring both the demons that stymied her writing and the side of her that we’re less familiar with—the lively, obsessive reporter who contributed massive (and largely unrecognized) research to her friend Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood. Furious Hours, a work braced equally by lyricism and meticulous research, doesn’t attempt to solve the Maxwell case, but over the course of 275 pages, it deftly touches on race, crime, journalism, and what it means to try to tell the truth. Cep has two upcoming readings in the Triangle, one at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh (where she briefly spent time doing parish work) on August 12 and another at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill on August 15. The INDY caught up with her by phone as she was coming in from gardening at her home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 34 | 8.07.19 | INDYweek.com

What was the genesis of your book? When Go Set a Watchmen was announced in 2015, my [New Yorker] editor and I talked about a quick armchair piece. I went down and wrote a piece about that, and maybe a month later I wrote about the Maxwell case and her work on this true-crime project. It was clear in the reporting that there were more people alive to talk to and this abundance of material. Here was this chance to do the original crime story that she was trying to write. And I could make her a character, too.

Casey Cep PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR INDY: Harper Lee has always been like catnip for reporters. Why do you think that is? CASEY CEP: On the one hand, I was in the category of people who think she wrote one of the most extraordinary novels of the twentieth century, so I don’t blame people for being interested in the woman who wrote it. It’s the kind of irony about monasticism where, by withdrawing from the world, you can sometimes make the world more interested in you. It was like a rite of passage if you were a Southern journalist. It wasn’t enough to get her signature; you had to be the one who got the sphinx to give up her riddle. And that’s grievous if you sincerely and authentically want to live a modest life. I think that’s what made it hard for her to work: these ongoing expectations of people.

During the reporting of the Maxwell case, did that reclusive fourth wall break down a bit for Lee? Harper Lee did not want to be a public celebrity, but she was very social. She loved conversation and, in the way a lot of Southerners do, believed that it was its own form of art. So she goes to this town, Alexander City, and it’s instant. People think she’s the most interesting person they’ve ever talked to. She’s going to cocktail parties and someone’s having her over for pimento cheese sandwiches. It wasn’t Harper Lee, the famous writer; it was Nelle Harper, the wit and wonder. I think that for those nine months, all those things that made it hard for her to write were temporarily abated. It has this nice echo of the time she spent in Kansas with Capote. We know from all those folks that ended up [in In Cold Blood] that they were fascinated by Capote but trusted [Lee.] The myth of Harper Lee as miserable and reclusive is untenable when you actually learn about her life. She was able to cold call and do things that a lot of reporters find hard, which is to knock on a door and say, “Tell me about the tragedy of your life.” But at some point, you have to stop reporting and start writing, and the writing was what was hard for her. How did her approach to true crime differ from Capote’s? One of the interesting things about my book is that it’s a way of looking at how writers make decisions. They shape a story and pick heroes and villains and figure out a narrative structure that is almost always slightly artificial, and I think that the choices [Capote] made were not the ones that she would have. She expected [In Cold Blood] to be a book about the suffering of the community and, instead, it’s a book that is quite sympathetic to Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. She had been there for all of the reporting and, reading the proofs, she could see some of the exaggerations. That was one of the risks of their friendship.

In general, I think she was kind of oldfashioned about believing that there was no such thing as a nonfiction novel. In that sense, she was not made for the time she lived in. She was never going to be a New Journalist. I think it’s very useful to look at In Cold Blood and the controversy over that book and the credo of New Journalism, because that’s her context, and it’s one she was uncomfortable with. Her relationship with New Journalism and this case seem interesting, both because we live in a post-truth age and because true crime has had such a boom. I don’t think she would be entirely disdainful, but I do think that some of those ethical positions she held would be abrasive against some of what is championed today. In general, her deepest convictions were about fact and fiction. I think it would have been fine so long as it was packaged correctly. But again, this is pure speculation. Of course. Hard to know if she’d be a fan of My Favorite Murder. Right. And the thing to remember about Harper Lee is that she was witty and smart and sarcastic. There’s a couple of photos of her not long before she died [in a shirt] that says “I plead the Fifth.” It’s an Alabama bar association shirt, but it’s a joke about a fifth of whiskey. I think that the shirt shows that her high-mindedness did not exempt her from thinking that there could be such a thing as dark humor. You’ve talked about how you applied her ethics to your own reporting—can you say more about that? I feel there’s a certain kind of reader who would be frustrated with my book and would have been frustrated with hers, because I tell you everything I know but don’t go beyond that. I don’t try and guess what the Reverend or the victims of these murders were thinking. The same is true for Harper Lee. I quote from as many letters of hers as I could find, and I talked to as many people who knew her as I could, but I don’t invent her thoughts. For me, the way the book works is, I tell you everything I know, but it’s up to you to decide—everything from, “Did the Reverend commit these murders?” to “How much of the book [did] Harper Lee write?” True crime is one of those genres where it’s tempting to invent things because it’s unsettling. That feels in keeping with her legacy, since that’s what Go Set a Watchmen kind of did by rewiring a lot of the moral satisfaction that readers found in Mockingbird. Some people who were close to Harper Lee would say that’s exactly what she did

and that she desired to publish Go Set a Watchmen because it would reevaluate her beloved hero. That was Nelle. She hated false piety, and she liked to bring people down to Earth. Of course, there are plenty of people who would also say, “Gosh, that was truly a draft manuscript, and she would never have wanted it out in the world.” For me, though, I would say that the book seems partly in conversation with her legacy. In this story, there’s voodoo, gossip, death—a lot of the biggest hits of Southern Gothic. But both Lee’s writing and your book seem to resist that tagline. Both the Maxwell story and the story at the heart of Mockingbird have the conventions of Southern Gothic but also the hallmarks of realism. With Mockingbird, on top of the story of Boo Radley, there’s this courtroom drama. It represents a lot of the miscarriages of justice in the South, and that doesn’t sit well with the freaks-andgeeks narrative that we think the book is opening into. Dracula doesn’t walk on these pages. What’s confounding about Harper Lee is that so much of what we want to believe is made up is grounded in life. Same thing with Boo Radley; he’s supposedly this Southern Gothic character and then turns out to be the nice guy next door—and isn’t that the experience that so many of us have of having misunderstood someone? That’s not gothic; it’s not Dracula; it’s just a nice man who has been kept at home for too many years. It’s the same thing with the Maxwell case. It’s not a voodoo priest: When the court of law gets into it, it’s just a man who solicited some accomplices to murder relatives for the insurance money. You quote Janet Malcolm in the book— One word! Yeah, “abyss.” She said that the place between writing and reporting can feel like an abyss. Did you ever feel that? Poor you, you’re about to meet that moment—you’re about to go transcribe! I think for writers, that’s where they live, and a lot of their hours are spent in misery and what we call writer’s block. When you called, I was out working on the garden beds. I tend to think a lot before I sit down to the blank page. So no, I don’t quite have that experience of the abyss. But [Harper Lee did], and that’s why I quote Malcolm and take it very seriously. For readers who aren’t writers, I want them to understand emotionally what can happen. sedwards@indyweek.com

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KINGS’ 20TH ANNIVERSARY Back in 1999, three Raleigh musicians opened Kings Barcade—a music venue– arcade bar combo—on South McDowell Street. The club quickly became one of the Triangle’s musical focal points for nearly a decade, until the city razed it to build a parking deck in 2007. Three years later, Kings reopened on West Martin Street, and the venue’s grit, sweat, grime, and mission statement followed it to its new digs. (The arcade games didn’t, though there are a few at Neptunes, the basement bar.) Kings is one of the area’s marquee rock halls—and an anchor venue for Hopscotch—but more than that, it’s a club by musicians, for musicians, and a central a hub of Trianglearea creativity. This four-day anniversary party features reprisals of the venue’s longrunning Great Cover Up series: Among myriad others, local musicians take on Amy Winehouse, Eddie Money, and the Replacements on Thursday; Judas Priest, The Strokes, and The Buzzcocks on Friday; and Tom Petty, Elton John, Guns N’ Roses, and Loverboy on Saturday, before Sunday’s conclusion downstairs at Neptunes. —Patrick Wall KINGS, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $10, www.kingsraleigh.com

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HEART & JOAN JETT

This twin bill of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees is hard to beat if you’re a fan of 1970s classic rock. Hitting the road together for the “Love Alive Tour,” which draws its name from a track on Heart’s 1977 album Little Queen, the iconic female-fronted bands will be rolling out their respective hits and mixing in a few surprises. In Heart’s case, fans can expect longtime set-list staples like “Magic Man,” “Mistral Wind,” and “Crazy on You”—not to mention “Barracuda,” featuring that flanger-saturated riff of pure guitar magic—as well as covers of songs by Yes, Simon & Garfunkel, and Led Zeppelin. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, meanwhile, are sure to roll out a few of Jett’s signature snarling anthems, like “Bad Reputation,” “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” and “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll.” And speaking of women who rock, Elle King—known for her infectiously catchy, swinging single “Ex’s & Oh’s”—opens the show. —Howard Hardee WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE, RALEIGH 7 p.m., $27+, www.walnutcreekamphitheatre.com

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The moment comes late in Sam Shepard’s visceral 1985 drama, A Lie of the Mind. After Sally tells her brother, central character Jake, that everything in their family seems shattered now, he responds: “When wasn’t it shattered?” In award-winning works including Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, and Fool for Love, Shepard traced a series of dysfunctional family relationships back to their diseased roots. Here, after Jake’s uncontrollable paranoia and violence has hospitalized his wife, Beth, both retreat to their respective families in the backwoods of Montana and California— and we gain deeper, even more harrowing insights into how these two damaged people got together in the first place. Though there’s dark humor in the mix, Shepard is focused on the lineage of abuse and what researchers have termed the repeating cycle of domestic violence. Dana Marks directs Jeff Alguire, Steven Cooper, Lenore Field, Erik Lars Myers, and Amanda Scherle in this Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern staged reading. —Byron Woods MONKEY BOTTOM COLLABORATIVE, DURHAM 7 p.m., donations, www.littlegreenpig.com

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THE PINHOOK Mndsgn, Blvck Spvde; $15. 9 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE The Menzingers, The Sidekicks, Queen of Jeans; $18-$21. 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM LaLa for Ta-Ta’s; $5 suggested. 8 p.m.

WALNUT CREEK Thomas Rhett, Dustin Lynch, Russell Dickerson, Rhett Atkins; $50+. 7 p.m.

THE CAVE Mess, Barely Civil, Condado; $5 suggsted. 9 p.m. KINGS The King Khan and BBQ Show, Paint Fumes; $16-$18. 8 p.m. LOCAL 506 Maple Stave, Caustic Casanova, Bedowyn; $8. 8 p.m. NC MUSEUM OF ART Lyle Lovett and His Large Band; 8 p.m. NEPTUNES PARLOUR Brothers Griiin; $5. 10:30 p.m. POUR HOUSE The Aristocrats, Travis Larson Band; $25-$30. 8:30 p.m. RED HAT AMPHITHEATER The Flaming Lips, The Claypool Lennon Delirium; $29+. 6:30 p.m. THE WICKED WITCH Taylor Kelly, The Kids Downtown, The Materials; $10. 8 p.m.

THU, AUG 8 FRIDAY, AUGUST 9

JON SHAIN & FJ VENTRE Jon Shain is a master of the Piedmont style of blues guitar fingerpicking, and while he’s had no shortage of regional acclaim, including winning the Triangle Blues Society competition last year, he also managed to claim top honors in 2019’s International Blues Challenge in Memphis. And once you’ve gotten the nod as a bluesman in Memphis, well, you can basically hang your hat anywhere. But Shain doesn’t box himself into being strictly a blues player, either. He works bits of folk, bluegrass, jazz, and more into his sound. His last couple of albums exemplify the open-endedness of his approach. Tomorrow Will Be Yesterday Soon is full of harmonically modern singer-songwriter material, while Getting’ Handy with the Blues is a roots-minded tribute to blues legend W.C. Handy. But whichever side of Shain is in the spotlight, be assured that you’ll hear a six-string heavyweight at work in this duo show with bassist FJ Ventre. Rissi Palmer opens. —Jim Allen THE CARY THEATER, CARY 8 p.m., $20-$25, www.thecarytheater.com

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ARCANA The Moon Unit; 8 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL The Waybacks, Karma Squad; $20-$25. 8 p.m. BYNUM FRONT PORCH Neville’s Quarter; 7 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE Neurosis, Bell Witch, Deafkids; $25-$28. 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Andrew Belle, William Wild; $15-$17. 8 p.m. THE CAVE XGK, Nice; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. KINGS Kings’ 20th Anniversary Party: Night One; $10. 8 p.m. LOCAL 506 Dawson Hollow, Dissimilar South; $10. 8 p.m. NIGHTLIGHT Open Field, C. Albert Blomquist & The Tegucigalpans, Sun Studies; $8. 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Local Band Local Beer: Pearl Snap Prophets, Whiskey Foxtrot, Chris Mcginnis; $5. 9 p.m.

FRI, AUG 9 ARCANA Sarah Donner, Juliana Finch; 9 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL Poor Man’s Flying Pigs, Joe Bell & the Stinging Blades; $8. 9 p.m. THE CARY THEATER Jon Shain, FJ Ventre, Rissi Palmer; $20-$25. 8 p.m. THE CAVE Charles Irwin, Jackson Lundy, Certain Seas; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. DURHAM CENTRAL PARK New Reveille, Raleigh Rockers; free. 7 p.m. DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Arrival From Sweden: The Music of ABBA; $30+. 8 p.m. IMURJ Big Smile; $10-$13. 7:30 p.m. KABOOM Nick Jordan; $10. 6:30 p.m. KINGS Kings’ 20th Anniversary Party: Night Two; $10. 8 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE Stephen Marley, DJ Shacia Päyne; $25-$38. 10 p.m. LOCAL 506 The Gone Ghosts, Jordan Igoe, Hayes’; $8-$10. 8 p.m. THE MAYWOOD Takeheart, Infirma, Fever Strike, Subjugator; $10. 8:30 p.m. NIGHTLIGHT 919 Super Summer Jam; 9 p.m. THE NIGHT RIDER Joey Nebulus, Softly, Mean Habit; donations. 8 p.m. POUR HOUSE The Producers, Arctic Blonde; $25-$30. 8 p.m.

a vanilla venue like this one in Cary. —Eric Tullis SHARP NINE GALLERY Batian Pienaar, Daniel Berenfield Quartet; $15. 8 p.m. SLIM’S North Elementary, Dragmatic, Crumb Catcher; $5. 9 p.m. ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN CHURCh NC Baroque Orchestra; 3:30 p.m. WALNUT CREEK Heart, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Elle King; $25+. 7 p.m.

SUN, AUG 11 CAT’S CRADLE Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears; $15-$17. 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Mad Crush, Jess Klein, Mike June; $4-$8. 3 p.m. THE CAVE Harlan, Kira Jari, Shortcuts; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. NEPTUNES PARLOUR Defacto Thezpian, Scienze, Danny Blaze; $10. 8:30 p.m. NIGHTLIGHT Red Herrings, MSA Ramblers; $10. 7 p.m.

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RED HAT AMPHITHEATER Rebelution, Collie Buddz, DJ Mackle; 7 p.m. RHYTHMS LIVE Motown Throwdown Tribute; $40. 8 p.m. THE RITZ American Floyd; $15. 7 p.m. SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS RALEIGH Gary Pullen; 7 p.m. SLIM’S Over the Wire, Still Searching, Hollow Intent; $5. 9 p.m. THE STATION Lester Coalbanks & the 7 Sorrows; 8:30 p.m. THE WICKED WITCH Becoming, Syanide; $10-$15. 10 p.m.

SAT, AUG 10

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE Ultimate ‘90s Hip-Hop Video Dance Party; 8 p.m. ARCANA Dusky Roses; 9 p.m. BLUE NOTE GRILL Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps; $15 -$10. 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Stevie, Scott Yoder, Personality Cult; $8-$10. 9 p.m. THE CAVE Sahara Smith, Stray Local; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Get the Led Out; $28+. 8 p.m.

KINGS Kings’ 20th Anniversary Party: Night Three; $10. 8 p.m. LINCOLN THEATRE Mother’s Finest, April B & The Cool; $20-$30. 8 p.m. THE MAYWOOD We Rally For Seth: The Straight 8s, Energy Tank; $20. 9 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Preachervan, Jeff White; $7-$10. 9 p.m. THE STATION Ravary, Crosstalk; 8 p.m.

MON, AUG 12 NEPTUNES PARLOUR Atomic Rhythm All Stars; $5. 8 p.m. NIGHTLIGHT Incidental Exercise, Trippers & Askers; $7. 9:30 p.m. POUR HOUSE J.D. Pinkus, Kiff; $10-$15. 8 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT Stevie, Scott Yoder, Personality Cult; 10 p.m.

SLIM’S Darth Kannabyss, Wizzerd, Hempire; $7 suggested. 9 p.m.

RHYTHMS LIVE Motown Throwdown Tribute; $40. 8 p.m.

TUE, AUG 13

RUBY DELUXE The Body Party; $5. 10 p.m. SERTOMA AMPHITHEATRE

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MARIA BRITTON: SOFT STORAGE There’s something at once immediately familiar and immediately strange about the recent work that Carrboro-based artist and curator Maria Britton will display in Soft Storage, a new exhibit viewable on Second Friday (and throughout August by appointment) in the My Room space at Attic 506. Familiar, in that they largely consist of patterned household bed sheets, but strange, in that they’re painted, sculpted, and collaged to resemble ectoplasmic specimens spattered on the wall, the works aim to unfold strength and vitality from qualities and types of labor traditionally identified as feminine. “Like skin, fabric retains a physical memory of experiences; it wrinkles from habitual behaviors and environmental conditions,” Britton writes; she heavily draws on floral patterns that will strike nostalgic chords in many viewers while also enacting the distorting effects of time. —Brian Howe

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Jimmie Banks Retrospective Thru Sep 9. Rubenstein Art Center Gallery 235, Durham. artscenter.duke.edu. Cary Gallery of Artists: A Few of Our Favorite Things Group show. Thru Aug 27. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org. Jillian Clark: Age Thru Aug 10. Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com. Marsha Cottrell: Black and Light Works on paper. Thru Sep 8. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh.

OPENING Bad Kitty 2: Rebirth Variety show. Fashion, art, & music. $12. Sat, Aug 10, 8 p.m. The Fruit, Durham. Maria Britton: Soft Storage Textiles. Aug 8, 6-9 p.m. Attic 506, Chapel Hill. mariabritton.com.

Our Bull City: S.E. Rochelle Community curated exhibit. Aug 9-Sep 2. Reception: August 9, 6-8 p.m. Museum of Durham History, Durham. museumofdurhamhistory.org.

ONGOING 150 Faces of Durham Photos. Thru Sep 3. Museum of Durham History, Durham. Tony Alderman: Waterline Paintings. Thru Aug 24. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com.

Ancestry of Necessity Group show. Curator, April Childers. Thru Aug 24. Reed Bldg, Durham. Katherine Armacost, Nikki Blair, Natalie Boorman, Peg Gignoux, Linda Prager & Carol Retsch-Bogart Group show. Thru Oct 5. Reception: Aug 8, 6 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill.

Kristen DeGree Screenprints. Thru Sep 9. Durham Arts Council, Durham. Empirical Evidence Group show. Thru Sep 30. Carrboro Town Hall, Carrboro. Golden Expressions Golden Belt resident artists show. Thru Aug 25. Grand Gallery at the Golden Belt Campus, Durham. goldenbeltarts.com.

HERENCIA2019 Juried art exhibit featuring Hispanic and Latinx artists. Thru Aug 31. Reception: August 9, 6-8 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org. Clarence Heyward: Conundrum Thru Aug 31. Triangle Cultural Art Gallery, Raleigh. triangleculturalart.com. John James Audubon: The Birds of America Ornithological engravings. Thru Dec 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Jim Kellough: Vine Paintings Thru Oct 10. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamarts.org. Michael Klauke: In So Many Words Paintings, work on paper, and video. Thru Aug 18. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. Lloyd Konneker: Solar Mobiles Mobiles. Thru Aug 30. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh. vaeraleigh.org.

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Rachel Kosbab: Possibility Paintings. Thru Aug 22. Durham Arts Council, Durham. Justin LeBlanc: Probable Normal Hearing Thru Aug 18. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. Hunter C. Levinsohn: Boats and Coats of the Times Thru Aug 18. Skylight Gallery, Hillsborough. Local Color Group show. Thru Aug 25. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. hillsboroughgallery.com. Shawhan Lynch: Light Fusion Glass. Thru Aug 24. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. Christian Marclay: Surround Sounds Synchronized silent video installation. Thru Sep 8. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. Casey McGuire Installation art. Thru Aug 31. Artspace, Raleigh. Jim McQuaid: Detroit Thru Aug 10. Through This Lens, Durham. throughthislens.com. Charlene Newsom, Kathy Daywalt, & Lee Mims Thru Sep 3. Gallery C, Raleigh. galleryc.net. Outsider Art in the Visitors Center Group show. Works for sale. Thru Aug 30. Alexander Dickson House, Hillsborough. Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com. Nicole Simpkins: Giving What Takes Drawing and printmaking. Thru Sep 28. Artspace, Raleigh.

Southern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off Interactive sculptures. Thru Oct 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Tilden Stone: Southern Surreal Furniture. Thru Sep 8. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu. Dennis Szerszen: Unstill Waters Photos. Thru Aug 27. The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist, Chapel Hill. Cheryl Thurber: Documenting Gravel Springs, Mississippi, in the 1970s Photos. Thru Mar 31. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. Way Out West: Celebrating the Gift of the Hugh A. McAllister Jr. Collection Thru Aug 25. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org.

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ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN “I cultivate great relationship anarchy by working to stop assuming ownership/belonging is a part of true love,” said adrienne maree brown in a recent interview with Bon Appetit. Join brown Wednesday at NorthStar Church of the Arts to hear her read from her latest book, Pleasure Activism. Brown is a black feminist, social justice activist, facilitator, and author; Pleasure Activism centers on the experiences of black women and their pursuit of pleasure. The text also explores the spaces where humans—no matter their gender, sexual orientation, or race—explore “finding pleasure beyond oppression.” Brown’s work is powerful and revolutionary. Her New York Times best-selling Pleasure Activism (AK Press, 2019) follows Emergent Strategy (AK Press, 2017), Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (AK Press, 2015, co-edited with Walidah Imarisha and Sheree Renee Thomas), and Octavia Butler Strategic Reader (Allied Media Conference, 2010, co-edited with INDY Voices columnist Alexis Pauline Gumbs.) —Jameela F. Dallis

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What in the World Is a Grain Mummy? Egyptology and art. Thru Aug 8. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

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Waterways Thru Aug 31. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com.

Casey Cep Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. Mon, Aug 12, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Marthanna Yater: Growing Together Photos. Thru Aug 18. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. preservationchapelhill.org.

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Alexandra Fuller Memoir Travel Light, Move Fast. Tue, Aug 13, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. George Hovis Novel The Skin Artist. Fri, Aug 9, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Lisa Howorth & William Ferris Authors in conversation. Wed, Aug 14, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com. Sally A. Nuamah How Girls Achieve. Sun, Aug 11, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. Cara Robertson The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story. Thu, Aug 8, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Brad Schwartz Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago. Wed, Aug 14, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. Summer Indie Noir Series With Eryk Pruitt, Katy Munger, Benjamin Whitmer, & Attica Locke. Thu, Aug 8, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com. Larry Tise Circa 1903: North Carolina’s Outer Banks at the Dawn of Flight. Mon, Aug 12, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

LECTURES, ETC. How the West Was Told Panel discussion of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller and the Ackland’s Way Out West exhibit. $38. Fri, Aug 9, 7 p.m. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. ackland.org. What Kind of Asian Are You? The Heart & Art Series. Short film screening and panel discussion. Mon, Aug 12, 6 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com.

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ONGOING Hush Hush Mettlesome. Improv. Fri, Aug 9, 9 p.m. Okay Alright, Durham. thisismettlesome.com. Top Secret Stand-Up Confidential One-off comedy show featuring a surprise guest from the national comedy scene. $15-$23. Wed, Aug 7, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Though that vagabond, rough-edged, heart-stealing photographer Robert Kincaid claims that “first you must have the images, then come the words,” the opposite was originally true for The Bridges of Madison County. Robert James Waller’s breakthrough novel was first a 1992 best seller before Clint Eastwood adapted and starred in the 1995 film version with Meryl Streep. Fast-forward nineteen years later, and playwright Marsha Norman (‘Night, Mother, The Color Purple) and composer Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years) penned the Broadway musical version. We already know the story of Italian war bride Francesca, idling in a humdrum marriage in a humdrummer Iowa farm town in the 1960s, shocked back into her senses and sensuality when a roving National Geographic photographer ambles through on an assignment, but Brown’s vivid musical frames for their passionate collisions won him the 2014 Tony and Drama Desk awards for best original score. Artistic director Lauren Kennedy Brady directs a cast including Janine DiVita and Patrick Oliver Jones in this Theatre Raleigh production. —Byron Woods

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screen SPECIAL SHOWINGS The Big Lebowski Sat, Aug 10. Party: 6 p.m. Film: 8:30 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. The Blues Brothers Mon, Aug 12, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. Blue Vengeance Wed, Aug 7, Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. The Cat Rescuers $10. Fri, Aug 9, 2 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org Danseur Panel discussion to follow. $3-$6. Thu, Aug 8, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com. Dr. Caligari Wed, Aug 14, 2 p.m. & 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. Drunken Master Wed, Aug 7, 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. Forgetting Sarah Marshall $3-$6. Sat, Aug 10, 9 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com. Free Solo $7. Fri, Aug 9, 8:30 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. How to Train Your Dragon 3 Sun, Aug 11. Movie starts at sundown. Moore Square Park, Raleigh. It Chapter One Fri, Aug 9, 9 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. Jurassic World $5. Fri, Aug 9, 8:30 p.m. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. boothamphitheatre.com. Kiki Sat, Aug 10, 6 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. Laurel and Harry Short Comedies Wed, Aug 7, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org The Long Shadow Panel discussion to follow. Sun, Aug 11, 4 p.m. Varsity Theatre Chapel Hill, varsityonfranklin.com Luz $10. Fri, Aug 9, 2 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org 44 | 8.07.19 | INDYweek.com

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Free. Thu, Aug 8. Food trucks: 7 p.m. Film: 8:30 p.m. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. raleighlittletheatre.org. Motion for Pictures Screening Series Short films. $6. Wed, Aug 7, 8 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com. The Remains of the Day Sun, Aug 11, 2 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. Society Tue, Aug 13, 2 p.m. & 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. The Stunt Man Mon, Aug 12, 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh. This Gun for Hire & The Narrow Margin $10. Fri, Aug 9, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org Wild Style Sun, Aug 11, 6 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

OPENING The Art of Racing in the Rain—Kevin Costner voices a dog who ruminates on the nature of family. Rated PG. Dora and the Lost City of Gold—Dora the Explorer goes live action in this family mystery. Rated PG. The Kitchen—Women played by the likes of Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish take over the mafia in 1970s New York when their husbands get nabbed. Rated R.

Maiden—The first allfemale sailing crew in the Whitbread race gets a feature film. Rated PG Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark—After terrorizing a generation of eighties kids, Alvin Schwartz’s horror stories reach the big screen. Rated PG-13.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale.  The Art of SelfDefense—A nebbish gets entangled in a dark dojo, and writer-director Riley Stearns fashions pitchblack comedy in which the extremes of modern masculinity are rendered so risible that any metaphorical value is leached away. Rated R. —Neil Morris  Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw—The testosterone-driven repartee between Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham is the only reason to endure this cartoonish, logically and temporally challenged CGI fest. Rated PG-13. —NM ½ John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum— A bloody, Buster Keatonesque ballet meets Sam Peckinpah. Rated R. —NM ½ The Lion King—Jon Favreau’s photorealistic palette is the boon and bane of Disney’s “live-action” computer rendering of an animated classic. The scenery is grand until the animals start talking and singing. Rated PG. —NM

food & drink Basque Culinary Center Fundraising Dinner With Chefs Justin Severino, Kyle Bailey, and Krystle Swenson. $30-$150. Mon, Aug 12, 6 p.m. Mateo, Durham. mateotapas.com.

Goses & Beermosas Flight Night Short pours, beermosas, and more. Thu, Aug 8, 4 p.m. Durty Bull Brewing Company, Durham. durtybull.com.

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Would you scale a three-thousand-foot wall of sheer granite without a rope? Good, we wouldn’t either. But it’s impossible to not be gripped—and terrified, and thrilled, and out of verbs—by climber Alex Honnold’s 2016 free solo ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan, a feat previously thought to be impossible. The climb is recorded in the National Geographic documentary Free Solo, which screens at NCMA on Friday. Extreme sports generally inspire extreme reactions: free soloing, in particular, is usually regarded by experts as either reckless behavior with a death wish or as the purest articulation of the human body. Honnold is a compelling subject, and there is nothing about the technical choreography that he carefully plots out in the documentary that will lead you to believe he takes the feat lightly. Still, as you watch him scale a fearsome glass-like portion of granite that requires a technique called “friction climbing,” it is hard not to feel somehow implicated by the act of watching someone take such great risk. Perhaps, though, these ethical polarities are the mark of a documentary that takes its job seriously. You’ll walk away from the film with hands tingling and mind racing. —Sarah Edwards

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Free Solo PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART  Men in Black: International—What if Men in Black, but Morocco and Chris Hemsworth’s torso? Rated PG-13. —Glenn McDonald  Midsommar—Horror upstart Ari Aster’s latest isn’t quite as scary as his unforgettable Hereditary, but his tale of feckless American students and Swedish cultists

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in bland nostalgia for a bygone era of unaccountable hypermasculinity. Rated R. — Marta Núñez Pouzols

 Once Upon a Time In Hollywood—Quentin Tarantino portrays the late-sixties Hollywood film industry and vaguely mumbles something about the Manson family in this tedious, irrelevant exercise

 Toy Story 4—A spork’s severe ontological distress ballasts a half-daring, halfpredictable extension of a beloved animated franchise. Rated G. —NM

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