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U SHUCK & W AWE Enter the wonderful world of craft oysters with Triangle author Dana Deskiewicz by Layla Khoury-Hanold, p. 18

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF N.C. 55 (WILLIAMS STREET) FROM U.S. 1 TO OLIVE CHAPEL ROAD (S.R. 1160) IN WAKE COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. U-2901B The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed widening of N.C. 55 (Williams Street) from U.S. 1 to north of Olive Chapel Road (S.R. 1160) in Wake County. The primary purpose of this project is to reduce congestion along N.C. 55. The meeting will be held on Thursday, August 30, 2018 at the Apex Town Hall located at 73 Hunter Street in Apex from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The public may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation. At the meeting there will be maps of the proposed plans as well as project team members who will be available to answer your questions and receive feedback. All comments will be taken into consideration as the project progresses. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail no later than September 30, 2018. As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/. For additional information please contact NCDOT Project Manager, Zahid Baloch, P.E., by phone at (919)707-6012 or by email at zbaloch@ncdot.gov or Consultant Project Manager Candace Andre, by phone at (919)741-5346 or by email at candre@vhb.com. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Lauren Putnam via email at lnputnam1@ncdot.gov or by phone at (919) 707- 6072 as early as possible, so that arrangements can be made. Persons who speak Spanish and 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 1-800-481-6494. Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494. 2 | 8.22.18 | INDYweek.com

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6 Conservations call an area around New Hope Creek the “Amazon of Durham.” A developer wants to flatten twenty-five acres nearby.

6 News

8 Chapel Hill has only 5,464 housing units that are affordable for households of four that earn less than $58,640 a year. But 8,476 of the town’s 20,102 households earn less than $50,000 a year.

18 Food 21 Music 24 Arts & Culture

12 If pundits listened to black women in 2016, they would have seen Donald Trump’s victory coming.

26 What to Do This Week 29 Music Calendar

18 Like craft beer? Rejoice: Craft oysters are now a thing.

32 Arts & Culture Calendar

21 The new LiveLifeLIVE app proposes another solution to getting more money to artists: a digital tip jar. 22 Four years after a chance collaboration at the Durham School of the Arts, Young Bull have their eyes on taking over the world. 24 Kane Smego walks a fine line between representing hip-hop and bowing before it in Temples of Lung and Air.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE DIVISION OF AVIATION UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS) INTEGRATION PILOT PROGRAM IN WAKE COUNTY The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to present information on its Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS, or ‘drones’) Integration Pilot Program initiative that proposes to provide commercial drone delivery service for on-demand food delivery and to set up a network of medical distribution centers that can use drones to make medical deliveries. The meeting will be held on Thursday, August 30 at the Wake Tech Community College Perry Health Sciences Campus located at 2901 Holston Lane, in Raleigh from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation. At the meeting there will be information and activity stations as well as project team members who will be available to answer questions and receive feedback. All comments will be taken into consideration as the program progresses. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, online or mail no later than September 29, 2018. As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings For additional information please contact NCDOT UAS Project Manager, Basil Yap, by phone at (919)814-0572 or by email at bkyap@ncdot.gov or PI Project Manager Simone Robinson, by phone at (919)707-6062 or by email at strobinson1@ncdot.gov. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Simone Robinson via email at strobinson1@ncdot.gov or by phone at (919)707- 6062 as early as possible, so that arrangements can be made. Persons who speak Spanish and 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 1-800-481-6494. Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494. 4 | 8.22.18 | INDYweek.com

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Zero-Sum Game A few weeks ago, after The Lakewood announced that it’d be closing, we ran several letters critical of a piece former food editor Victoria Bouloubasis had written last year about the upscale restaurant’s place in a gentrifying neighborhood. We neglected, however, to run this comment, from cantakerous, which stoutly rises to her defense: “Bouloubasis wrote a thoughtful, balanced piece that gave ample time to both [chef Pheobe] Lawless and two patrons, both of whom work in the food service industry. Can anyone establish definitively that The Lakewood closed because prospective patrons stayed away to avoid feeling guilty about contributing to a wave of gentrification? No information has been made public as to the reason for closing. It could have been for personal reasons, health reasons, as well as business reasons. “Frankly, I found this comment in the thread to be nauseating: ‘Gentrification is not something that is within one person’s control; it is a part of our ever-evolving lives, as it always has been.’ Bullshit. “Community land trusts are a thing. Affordable housing developments that are actually built and sold rather than endlessly kicked around in city council meetings are a thing. Bouloubasis dared to question a businesswoman about why she would choose to market to comparatively wellheeled customers versus the low-income residents indigenous to Lakewood. And Lawless gave an interesting response: The sale of ‘commodity proteins’ would not support living wages for her employees. It’s a zero-sum game, you see. “None of us are helpless before market forces, and every one of us can choose to close our wallets and refuse to shop at nonunion businesses such as Harris Teeter and Amazon. Does anyone think to tip the workers at the movie theaters on Christmas Day? No. Does anyone recognize Kroger’s replacement of eight stores with its Harris Teeter subsidiaries as not just pivoting to take on tough competitors but also as union-busting? Do you care? Of course not. “We have raised two generations that know nothing of labor unions. The working class gets no respect whatsoever. Neoliberals castigate anyone who dares shine a light on systems that depend on

our participation. How dare you attack … an entrepreneur! They’d rather shoot the messenger as opposed to the city council or the mayor who—professorially as always— explains, ‘Well, the state’s authority blah blah blah we can’t risk public money on an assetpoor entrepreneur blah blah blah we haven’t thought about restaurants blah blah blah.’ “It’s Bouloubasis’s fault! It’s Trump’s fault! Nope. You neglected the working class, and now it’s come back to bite you in the ass. Where are you going to get your fresh biscuits—Bojangles? The horror, the horror!”

“You neglected the working class, and now it’s come back to bite you in the ass.” On Thursday, the INDY joined more than three hundred news organizations in editorializing against Donald Trump’s attacks on the free press as “enemies of the people.” Timothy Oswald says the media has it coming: “I don’t think it’s Donald Trump who has eroded the public’s faith in modern journalism. I think the corporate TV news environment (and to a lesser extent print and online) has done that, not to mention activism and advocacy not only being accepted as journalism but becoming the new normal—as, unfortunately, Jeffrey Billman proves by stating, ‘We have a mission: to effect change in our communities through the stories we tell, to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted, to hold power to account.’ “And the irony of the latest narrative, that Trump is ‘inciting violence’ against the media, is not lost on me. The media in unison since his election have called Trump and his supporters bigots, racists, fascists, xenophobes, Islamophobes, Nazis, white supremacists, etc., while labeling Trump a treasonous, authoritarian dictator who was installed by ‘the Russians.’ What effect do they think that has on the public?” Want to see your name in bold? Email us at backtalk@indyweek.com, comment on our Facebook page or indyweek.com, or hit us up on Twitter: @indyweek. INDYweek.com | 8.22.18 | 5

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ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAY A DEVELOPER IS TRYING TO PUSH THROUGH A PLAN TO BUILD ON SENSITIVE LAND BEFORE DURHAM CAN ENACT NEW REGULATIONS BY SARAH WILLETS

f you’ve spent much time in Durham or Chapel Hill, a chunk of it was probably in traffic on 15-501, a thoroughfare so central to movement and commerce that locals sometimes call it The Nile. Idling in the 5:00 p.m. slowdown, it may be difficult to imagine that, not so far away, otters, coyotes, and mussels can be found in and around New Hope Creek, which passes under 15-501 at a bridge near Garrett Road. “It’s the Amazon of Durham,” says Ron Sutherland, a conservation scientist with Wildlands Network, who monitors the world underneath that bridge. With a developer planning to flatten nearby property—a process known as grading—and future development assured, given plans for a light rail station across the highway, advocates for the New Hope Creek Corridor say there aren’t sufficient rules in place to protect this area. They also argue that the developer is trying to push through plans to grade the land before the city can impose stricter regulations— undermining years spent planning the corridor and the light rail system. The developer, Beacon Properties, has submitted a plan to the city of Durham to grade about 25 of 108 acres across eight parcels owned by Oakridge 58 Investors and bordered by 15-501 and New Hope Creek. Chris Howlett, Beacon’s founder, says there is currently no development plan, but whatever goes there will likely be in line with priorities identified for a compact neighborhood district around the future Patterson Place light rail station: jobs and housing, particularly affordable housing. The New Hope Creek Corridor Master Plan—created after the governments of Chapel Hill, Durham, Orange County, and Durham County jointly decided to protect the area—foretold the threat of development. “Even the steepest of the slopes should remain open and undeveloped. This is not because it is not possible to build upon them; with care, delicacy, very good design, and appropriate uses, it is possible to build 6 | 8.22.18 | INDYweek.com

Ed Harrison holds an existing-conditions map as he looks at the slope height near New Hope Creek. there,” the plan reads. “Rather, they should be left in their natural state because they are dramatic, botanically significant, they offer inspiring scenic views, and provide a very different natural environment for people to have as part of their heritage.” Even if it had a plan, Beacon Properties couldn’t begin developing the site for at least another two months. Durham discourages clear-cutting land by prohibiting development on clear-cut sites for up to five years; because six of Oakridge 58’s eight parcels were clear-cut in 2013—four years before Beacon was hired to develop the site—that clock won’t expire until October 31.

In the meantime, city and county planners have sent the grading plan back to Beacon to correct various problems—including that the proposed grading would come too close to the water—and say it won’t be approved until it’s fully up to code. Beacon will also need an erosion control plan and a land disturbance permit from the county before it can begin flattening the land. Actually developing the site, says city-county planning director Patrick Young, would require a detailed site plan and a “whole new suite of regulatory requirements.” There are different rules for the two halves of the 108 acres, thanks to a 1988

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zoning decision based on plans for a senior housing facility at the site. The developer at the time volunteered to dedicate about fifty acres for open space and limit grading of the steep slopes that surround New Hope Creek. One portion of the site, including much of the area Beacon wants to grade, is governed by that decision, which limits the density and footprint of what can be built there and stipulates that no more than 15 percent of the total area of steep slopes can be disturbed—less than an acre in this case. Beacon is proposing to grade 14.8 percent of the total area, including some slopes not far from the boundary of what the state

considers a Natural Heritage Area based on the plant and animal life found there. (That boundary was recently changed to include less of the Oakridge property; Beacon says it hired an outside engineering firm to survey the land and didn’t find the kind of plants or animals on the slopes to warrant the designation.) In order to build more than six dwelling units per acre or build on a larger footprint, Beacon needs the city council to rezone the property. As part of a planning process for the Patterson Place Compact Neighborhood District, planners have proposed stricter environmental rules that, by Beacon’s estimate, could reduce the area the developer is able to grade by as much as about 70 percent. One planning-department proposal would broaden the definition of what is considered a steep slope and prohibit any disturbance of them. Another would require a setback of three hundred feet from the floodplain around the creek and its tributaries, one of which cuts through the center of Oakridge 58’s land. According to planning documents, these changes would protect wetlands, plant and animal habitats, and trees. Beacon, however, views these restrictions as overzealous, arbitrary, and prohibitive of development in an area where the city is trying to encourage it. Last week, the Durham Open Space and Trails Commission passed a statement in support of the proposed regulations, citing two reports recommending setbacks of at least three hundred feet. Tom Stark, an attorney representing Beacon who has served on the commission since the 1990s, points out that the setbacks recommended by those reports refer to a distance measured from streams, not the surrounding floodplains, as the proposed changes dictate. (Stark says he sat out the vote on the statement and will recuse himself from any matters related to the project). But advocates for the New Hope Creek Corridor, including some involved with its establishment thirty years ago, say these restrictions are necessary for the health of the ecosystem, and city-county planners argue that “scientific findings” support their proposal. The grade, location, and soil of the slopes attract unique plant life and, in turn, wildlife, and having an undeveloped setback from the creek gives animals a refuge when it floods. The land has already been damaged by clear-cutting and construction of a sewer line. Grading would erode it further, says Ed Harrison, a former Chapel Hill Town Council member who conducted the field studies for the 1991 New Hope Creek Corridor Master Plan.

“This could qualify for a state park,” says Harrison, who remembers finding a wooded slope as tall as a five-story building in 1989. The corridor—once home to an Occaneechi village first documented by an explorer in 1701—is unique in its own right, particularly the section that crosses 15-501, described by the master plan as “perhaps the hub of hydrological and biological systems occurring in the entire area.” In addition to the coyotes, mussels, and otters, it’s home to deer, an elusive orchid called the Yellow Lady Slipper, and several plants and animals considered by the state to be threatened or significantly rare. The corridor also serves as a connection between Duke Forest and Jordan Lake. “It’s important because it’s a key link between a lot of special habitats,” says Reynolds Smith, chair of Durham Open Space and Trails Commission’s open-space committee. “Without the connection, those threatened species would die.” If new slope and setback regulations are adopted while Beacon’s grading plan is actively under review, it would be grandfathered in, assuming the grading plan, land disturbance permit, and erosion plan are all approved. (Planning for the district is still in the public input phase.) Stark says Beacon isn’t rushing to beat the tighter regulations. “I think they were concerned that they needed to go forward under current regulations because what was being proposed, one, might take some time and slow down— which is not a good thing in the development business, because it’s so costly if you do—and, two, it was felt that the proposals were not based on science,” he says. Advocates for the creek who spoke with the INDY say they agree with the effort to cluster jobs, services, and housing around the light rail stop, but development should taper off to mitigate disturbance of natural areas—and shouldn’t move ahead while rules for the compact neighborhood are still being written. Bob Healy, an environmental policy professor at Duke and chairman of the New Hope Creek Corridor Advisory Committee, says Beacon’s plans amount to “environmental vandalism” seeking to avoid future regulations; grading the land as proposed would make it “impossible” to develop this area in accordance with the planning that has already gone into the New Hope Creek Corridor and the Durham-Orange Light Rail line. “It’s yet untamed wilderness,” says Sutherland, “and it’s being whittled away before we get a chance to discover it.” swillets@indyweek.com

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ZONED OUT Eight years ago, Chapel Hill passed the Triangle’s most progressive affordable housing policy. Here’s how it failed. BY MATT HARTMAN

hen Chapel Hill Town Council members began debating a mandatory inclusionary zoning ordinance in 2005, they knew they were entering a legal gray area. But their goals weren’t revolutionary. The housing market was booming, and developers were building wherever possible. Because they often had to petition the town to rezone land, the council could force developers to set aside a portion of units at below-market rates or pay into an affordable housing fund in order for their projects to proceed—a policy referred to as conditional inclusionary zoning. Chapel Hill had been using this strategy since 1995, officially since 2000. It seemed to be working. But problems loomed. If developers didn’t need to rezone, the council had no leverage. And negotiations over the payment or the number of units to be set aside were arduous and created uncertainty for developers. Faced with too much risk, some started to bail on their projects. Town officials decided they needed a new plan— and mandatory inclusionary zoning looked like a viable option. They had an example to follow. In 2001, the town of Davidson became the first municipality in North Carolina to enact such an ordinance. Rather than negotiating with developers on a case-by-case basis, Davidson set standardized affordable housing concessions for new for-sale developments. A few years later, Manteo followed suit. In a 2005 work session, then-Chapel Hill mayor Kevin Foy, council member Sally Greene, and council member (and future mayor) Mark Kleinschmidt argued that a similar ordinance would streamline the 8 | 8.22.18 | INDYweek.com

process for developers while also ensuring that no projects slipped through without contributing to the town’s affordable housing stock. The most immediate downside was that the town would give up the flexibility to negotiate with individual developers. There was also the small matter that what the town was considering might be illegal. State law doesn’t give municipalities the authority to enact mandatory inclusionary zoning. It doesn’t explicitly forbid it, either, but that still left the ordinance’s legal standing in a sort of limbo. To weigh the pros and cons, the council did what local governments do: It formed a task force. Chaired by Greene and Kleinschmidt, the task force included affordable housing advocates and developers, hired consultants, and studied the policies in Davidson and Manteo. And after five years, Chapel Hill had a proposed ordinance of its own. Chapel Hill’s version requires new residential developments with five or more units for sale to make 10 to 15 percent of them affordable to households that earn between 65 percent and 80 percent of the area median income, or donate an equivalent value of land, existing housing, or cash in lieu of units. It passed unanimously in June 2010—by which point Chapel Hill, like the rest of the country, was on the wrong side of the housing market crash. “We knew at the time that it was a tool, but not a solution,” says Susan Levy, task force member and Habitat for Humanity of Orange County executive director. Eight years on, however, it hasn’t even been much of a tool. In some ways, it might have made things worse.

here are fewer than fifty-five hundred housing units in Chapel Hill that are affordable to households making $58,600 a year, or 80 percent of the area median income for a family of four. Yet, according to the 2016 American Community Survey, nearly eighty-five hundred households make less than $50,000 a year, and just over half of those make less than $20,000 per year. But since it came into effect in 2011, Chapel Hill’s inclusionary zoning ordinance has generated just eleven affordable units, plus $803,250 in payments to the affordable housing fund. (Habitat for Humanity says it costs about $78,000 in materials to build one of its houses in Orange County.) That’s because most developments since then have been rentals, and the ordinance only applies to for-sale projects. A state law passed in 1987 bans rent control, and with mandatory inclusionary zoning already on shaky legal footing, Chapel Hill—like Davidson and Manteo—decided not to further chance a lawsuit by adding rental housing. Instead, its ordinance tacks on a voluntary option, enabling rental properties that add affordable units to receive density bonuses—in other words,

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permission to add more units than they could otherwise. But only six affordable units have been added that way. Instead, developers followed market forces created after the recession, which pushed them toward rentals—and highend rentals at that. Banks stopped giving loans for condos and other for-sale developments, and “the finances of development require at least high-middle-class,” says Robert Dowling, executive director of Community Home Trust, one of Chapel Hill’s largest affordable housing providers. But while “the housing crisis explains everything from 2008 through 2015,” says Dowling, who served on the task force, many advocates say the ordinance itself is creating perverse incentives for developers to focus on more lucrative rentals. In that way, they argue, the ordinance is actually harming the town’s affordable-housing market. “It seems like it’s increasingly difficult for developers to meet the requirements” of the ordinance, says Levy, who also chairs the Orange County Affordable Housing Coalition. By opting for rental projects, developers can avoid those requirements altogether. And luxury rental projects are much more profitable than affordable ones.

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hapel Hill’s rental market could eventually become saturated, nudging developers back toward for-sale developments. That would provide the ordinance an opportunity to show its worth—unless, that is, a lawsuit filed this year eliminates that possibility before it arrives. In September 2012, the council and WCA Partners LLC came to an agreement on a parcel of land on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. In exchange for a $233,000 contribution to the town’s affordable housing fund, WCA would be permitted to build 145 rental units and nine for-sale townhomes, plus office and retail space. Since the development, known then as Charterwood, only had nine for-sale units, WCA argued that it should only be required to contribute one townhome and a fee equivalent to 20 percent of another under the town’s mandatory inclusionary zoning ordinance. But because the property required rezoning, the town felt it had the right to demand more, as it has done for decades under its conditional inclusionary zoning policy. In 2014, Chapel Hill Housing LLC bought the land from WCA and developed it as 1701 North Apartments, one of the many luxury rental complexes cropping up across the town. Chapel Hill Housing paid the $233,000 fee WCA agreed to, but filed a lawsuit in February claiming that the payment was illegally collected and should be refunded. (The lawsuit was originally filed in Orange County Superior Court, but the town had it moved to the U.S. District Court in March.) The company claims that while “the Town’s Charter authorizes the Town to provide incentives” for developers who build affordable housing, it cannot “require all housing developers to reserve a certain number of housing lots or units” (emphasis in the original). Further arguing that the inclusionary zoning ordinance “makes an illusory distinction between properties intended for sale and properties intended for rental” and that the $233,000 fee was “a product of a random, arbitrary, and capricious negotiation,” the suit concludes that “the Town does not have and never has had legislative authority to impose affordable housing obligations” on developers. Company officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and the company’s lawyer, William J. Brian Jr., declined to comment. In North Carolina, local governments only have the powers granted to them by the state constitution and statutes, and inclusionary zoning isn’t one of them. The state could explicitly grant local governments the authority to enact inclusionary zoning, but it hasn’t done so. A 2001 bill

NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING AUGUST 23 FOR PROPOSED INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS AT THE INTERSECTION OF U.S. 501 (N. ROXBORO ROAD) WITH LATTA ROAD (S.R. 1448) AND INFINITY ROAD (S.R. 1639) DURHAM COUNTY TIP No. U-5516 The N. C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting in August regarding the proposed project to widen N. Roxboro Road and add dedicated right turn lanes in both directions on Latta Road (S.R. 1448) and Infinity Road (S.R. 1639). Sidewalks will be added on the north and south sides of both Latta and Infinity Road from the intersection at N. Roxboro Road. The meeting will take place on Thursday, August 23 at Mount Sylvan United Methodist Church located at 5731 N. Roxboro Road, in Durham from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and listen to comments regarding the project. Please note that no formal presentation will be made. Citizens will also have the opportunity to submit comments and questions in writing. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops. The public can view maps displaying the location and design of the project as they become available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings. Anyone desiring additional information may contact Mr. Mark Reep, PE at (919) 900-1635 or by email at Mark.Reep@hdrinc.com. All comments must be received no later than Thursday, September 6, 2018. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact Ms. Diane Wilson via e-mail at pdwilson1@ncdot.gov or by phone (919) 707-6073 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made. Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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that would have done that died in committee, and bills granting the power to specific municipalities, including Durham in 2017, Carrboro in 2003, and Cary in 2001, met the same fate. However, towns do have the authority to regulate “the location and use of buildings.” In a 2010 blog post for the UNC School of Government, C. Tyler Mulligan, author of Inclusionary Zoning: A Guide to Ordinances and the Law, argued that if affordable housing is understood as a protected “use,” inclusionary zoning is legal. Mulligan cited other statutes—one that gives municipalities the authority to consider affordable housing in land-use decisions, though not zoning in particular, and one that specifies that zoning powers “shall be broadly construed”—in support of his argument. Mulligan tells the INDY that he believes inclusionary zoning can be applied to rentals, at least in some cases. He points out that the state prohibition on rent control has an exception for cases in which local governments “enter into agreements with private persons which regulate the amount of rent charged for subsidized rental properties.” “Inclusionary zoning can be designed to fall under that exception,” Mulligan says. The density bonuses included in the voluntary-rental provision of Chapel Hill’s ordinance fall under that umbrella. In court documents, the town largely sidesteps arguments about its ordinance’s legality, arguing instead that the terms of WCA’s permit “were on record and knowable to [Chapel Hill Housing] at the time it negotiated for and purchased the subject property.” In other words, the town is arguing that the ordinance is irrelevant to 1701 North, because the payment was decided by negotiations, not the ordinance. Though the case is currently in federal court, disputes over state law could eventually find their way back to state courts. And historically, the N.C. Supreme Court has not been kind to local governments in these matters. In the 2010 case Lanvale Properties v. Cabarrus County, for example, the court struck down Cabarrus County’s ability to fund public infrastructure through impact fees levied on new developments, ruling that local powers should be construed narrowly except “when our zoning statutes are ambiguous.” There’s also the possibility that the General Assembly could preempt Chapel Hill’s ordinance before the courts weigh in. Something similar has already happened in Orange County, which used to charge impact fees to fund its school system. (The fees were permitted in Orange County through a previous law, so the Lanvale decision did not apply.) But 10 | 8.22.18 | INDYweek.com

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HOUSING CRISIS TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS:

HOUSEHOLDS EARNING:

20,102

$73,300

10.7%

Area median income, or AMI, for a family of 4

11.3%

52 Percentage of renters who spend more than 30% of their incomes on housing

LESS THAN $10,000

12.6%

$10,000–$24,999

Percentage of housing units that are affordable to households with incomes less than 80% of AMI

5,464

$25,000–$34,999 $35,000–$49,999

37.6%

12.6%

Units affordable for households earning less than 80% AMI, or $58,640

8,476 Households earning less than $50,000 per year

$50,000–$74,999

12.6%

$75,000–$99,999

state Representative Sarah Stevens, a Republican from Mount Airy admittedly acting on behalf of a developer, pushed through a local bill in 2017 repealing the county’s authority to do so.

Households earning less than $20,000 per year SOURCES: AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY 2016, TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL AFFORDABLE HOUSING QUARTERLY REPORT, FY18 Q3 PROGRESS REPORT

8.5%

$100,000 OR MORE

3,638

AVERAGE HOME PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT

ven if the ordinance survives, it’s not clear that it will do any good. There are 880 inclusionary zoning programs across twenty-five states, according to the affordable housing organization Grounded Solutions Network, 56 percent of which include a mandatory component. According to the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 70 percent have been created since 2000. But inclusionary zoning is often criticized by developers, city planners, and affordable housing advocates alike. A common argument is that inclusionary zoning raises the price of housing. Because developers must hold some units below market rate, they raise prices on the rest. That creates a glut of expensive units and a small number of affordable ones, but leaves out anything in the middle. Chapel Hill’s already-stringent requirements on developers only exacerbate the problem. “The fees alone make affordable housing almost impossible,” says Ann Moss Joyner, a former developer and now president of

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the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities, which advocates for equitable community development. In Chapel Hill, a special-use permit—the kind WCA received to build Charterwood—is $7,785, plus $30 per one hundred square feet. In Wake County, it’s $800. To address affordability, Moss Joyner advocates for what’s called development by right, meaning developers wouldn’t need approval from the town council for projects

permitted under zoning regulations. She also supports rules that allow for granny cottages, add additional duplex zoning, and encourage boarders, which she believes would both make Chapel Hill attractive for developers and increase housing supply. Comparing Chapel Hill with the rest of the Triangle makes clear that developers prefer building elsewhere. Chapel Hill has only grown in population 5.7 percent since 2010, compared to 18.2 percent in Wake

hen you restrict the supply of housing, it’s going to get more and more expensive.” County, 13.4 percent in Durham, and 13.8 percent in Chatham—which will soon add homes for sixty thousand more people in Chatham Park. Housing construction numbers follow the same trend. But with a growing region and one of the area’s best school districts, there’s still demand. As a result, prices are continuing to rise. A 2017 Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce report shows that home prices in Chapel Hill are higher than they were at the peak of the housing boom before the recession. The price per square foot in Orange County is the highest in the Triangle—$146, compared with $114 in Durham, $124 in Wake, and $142 in Chatham. Looking just at the Chapel HillCarrboro City Schools district makes the problem even clearer: There, it’s $160 per square foot. In addition, with development in Chapel Hill trending toward luxury rentals that can offset the cost of fees and affordable housing concessions, the town’s median rent has risen from $848 in 2010 to $1,061 in 2016, according to the American Community Survey. Both nationally and in Chapel Hill, Dowling says, the housing crisis is “perfectly understandable. It’s driven by the fact that our model for development is premised on private-sector, private-capital, profit-driven entities providing the housing.” It’s fundamentally a supply problem. Not enough homes are being built. With so much demand, that means higher prices. Some advocates are tempted to return to strategies in place before the ordinance. Between 1995 and 2011, the town’s conditional inclusionary zoning policy created 290 affordable units and brought in more

than $1.3 million in payments to the affordable housing fund. If it was working then, it could work again, they say. “In an ideal world,” Dowling says, “you’d have a voluntary ordinance, and it’d be structured to be precisely at that tipping point” that would maximize concessions while still enticing developers to build. But that leaves the same problems that caused the town to turn to a mandatory ordinance in the first place. In addition to the risk developers face, the conditional strategy also requires public meetings, which open the door to opposition from affluent residents who fear their property values will suffer when developments with an affordable component are built nearby. “People don’t even want to live next door to housing for teachers and firefighters,” Moss Joyner says. Ronald Carnes, a member of the Community Empowerment Fund, which works with Chapel Hill’s homeless population, adds that this kind of not-in-my-backyard opposition is often tinged with racism. “There’s more to it than just the fact their property values might decrease,” he says. “There are racial issues, and that’s different.”

his year, Chapel Hill is pushing another affordable housing strategy, one that doesn’t require a legally murky ordinance or protracted negotiations with developers. It simply wants to build affordable units itself. In November, residents will vote on a $10 million housing bond that prioritizes land acquisition, home repairs, and constructing new affordable developments on town-owned land. Mayor Pam Hemminger and town council member Jessica Anderson both cite

various town-funded affordable housing projects such as a partnership with the Raleigh-based nonprofit DHIC that includes 149 units, 80 of which opened in June. They also note a mixed-income development on Homestead Road (currently in the concept phase) and a plan to convert the current parks and recreation building on Plant Road into affordable housing. All told, the town is aiming to create four hundred more affordable units in the next five years. But there could be a nearly threethousand-unit need. Even with the affordable housing bond, the town isn’t going to solve the problem itself. Development—especially development involving public money—is complicated, slow, and expensive. And whether through bonds or payments developers make in lieu of providing affordable housing, it can take years for funding to be converted into housing. “You can’t live in a payment in lieu,” says Anderson. “Yes, it can contribute to our larger strategy, but is it equivalent to a unit [of affordable housing]? Probably not.” That’s why advocates like Dowling and Moss Joyner say Chapel Hill must find ways to make affordable housing financially viable for developers. There simply isn’t anyone else who can build enough units. In some cases, developers’ biggest opponents aren’t affordable housing advocates, but rather well-heeled residents worried about the town’s “character.” NIMBY opposition to density is the most obvious point of conflict, as are anti-sprawl regulations like the rural buffer, a 1984 agreement curtailing development on thirty-seven thousand acres within rural Orange County.

At some point, advocates say, Chapel Hill must look at the costs of those benefits. “When you restrict the supply of housing, it’s going to get more and more expensive, no matter how you restrict it,” Dowling says. “In the 1980s, we didn’t want suburban growth around here, which everybody loves. But there are costs.” That’s especially true now that there’s little undeveloped land left within the buffer, he says. Those limitations are straining the town’s existing affordable housing supply. Many affordable units are older and can’t command higher prices. But with restrictions on new growth and increasing demand, those units are apt to be “bought up and torn down, because they can fill it with people who can pay those prices,” Dowling says. And because that kind of development typically has fewer than five units and does not require rezoning, the town’s inclusionary zoning rules won’t apply. As affordable housing disappears, those with very low incomes—people the inclusionary zoning regulations weren’t designed to help—could suffer. “At this point in time,” says Carnes, “there are zero dollars laid aside for housing for people below twenty percent [of AMI]. Something has to be done about it.” One such something Carnes supports is a “master leasing” program. It would empower a nonprofit to rent blocks of apartments and sublease them at subsidized rates to residents earning less than 30 percent of AMI. Carnes says it benefits landlords because it guarantees rented apartments and uses the nonprofit to act as a guarantor, reducing risk. For residents, it cuts the long wait times associated with Section 8 programs. (Recipients of Orange County Housing Authority Section 8 vouchers have been on the waiting list an average of more than seven years, according to the authority’s website.) “The people who benefit from these projects quite naturally want it now—all of us do,” Carnes says. But it takes time to create an effective, scalable program, he says. “We’ve been building our foundation a block at a time.” Carnes says he believes Chapel Hill is trying to do the right thing. But it’s not clear whether Chapel Hill has the resources or leverage necessary to combat a problem plaguing cities across the nation. “It’s never going to be enough,” Anderson says. “There are always going to be people on our waiting lists and on our partners’ waiting lists. But that doesn’t mean that we give up.” backtalk@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.22.18 | 11

THE WISDOM OF A BLACK WOMAN Two years after being dropped by MSNBC, Duke alum Melissa Harris-Perry isn’t going away BY CARL W. KENNEY

y life and work have been connected to political scientist Melissa Harris-Perry—who received her bachelor’s at Wake Forest and her Ph.D. at Duke— ever since she wrote Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, which was published in 2004. Among other things, the book examined how my sermons and columns influenced the political views of members of the congregation I served. I had no doubt that Melissa would rise to the top. In 1999, I performed her first wedding ceremony. The marriage didn’t last, but with Melissa, that’s not an indication of failure, but more of a reflection of her ability to pull herself up when a person—or cable TV network—disappoints her. Starting in 2012, she developed a following at MSNBC, where she hosted the Melissa Harris-Perry Show on weekend mornings. She called it “Nerdland”—an unrepentantly wonky exploration of the week’s political happenings. She redefined what it meant to be a nerd and created space for conversations about black women in politics. In February 2016, Melissa wrote a widely publicized email to her show’s staffers announcing that her show was taken off the air “in the midst of a campaign season” without explanation. “I am not a token, mammy, or little brown bobble head,” she continued, adding that she would only return if she were allowed to do substantive work. NBC responded that many of its daytime shows had been “upended” because of breaking political news, but the relationship was beyond repair, and Melissa never went back on the network. A few months earlier, when Melissa visited the University of Missouri—where I was then an adjunct faculty member at the school of journalism—we talked about her leaving MSNBC. Officially, MSNBC let her go, but, in my mind, Melissa decided to walk away after being treated like leftovers. She knows she’s not a journalist, but she 12 | 8.22.18 | INDYweek.com

brought the clearheaded expertise of a political scientist to the overheated world of cable punditry, and that’s what MSNBC’s honchos were too blind to realize they needed throughout the 2016 election. Melissa isn’t one to shed tears over things people don’t understand. And she hasn’t gone away. She’s doing the heavy lifting in Wake Forest with her current husband, James, and their two daughters. James is president of the Winston-Salem Urban League. The power couple recently founded the Perry Political Partnership, a political consulting business. They also opened Anna’s Park Homestead, a farm where they sell fresh eggs. Melissa is currently the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, as well as the founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center, a project that investigates how gender and race intersect to support women’s politics in the South. She’s editor at large for Elle.com, and director of the democratic engagement program Wake the Vote at Wake Forest. “Those kids saved my life in many ways,” Melissa says of the students enrolled in Wake the Vote. During the 2016 election, she pulled together thirty of them, conservative and progressive alike; they committed a year of their lives to experiencing the American political system, traveling first to early caucus and primary states, later to national political conventions, and volunteering for local campaigns. This year, she’s preparing for Midterms Matter, a one-semester version of Wake the Vote in which students will travel across the country and work with candidates from both sides of the aisle. Melissa will be in Durham on August 25 to speak at the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People’s eighty-third annual Founders’ Day Gala. I caught up with my old friend to discuss the lessons she’s learned since the publishing Barbershops and what she could have contributed at MSNBC if the network hadn’t the plug in the middle of the campaign.

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INDY: You spent five years in Durham while completing your Ph.D. at Duke. What are some of your best memories while living in Durham, and how has the city changed since you graduated? MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: In 2014, I returned to live permanently in North Carolina. Coming back to North Carolina was a homecoming in every way. Like all homecomings, it is profoundly complicated. Nothing has changed, and everything is different. Durham is such an important city for my own personal history. It is where I became an intellectual adult. It is the city where I met my best friend in all the world. And Durham is where I first taught college students—at North Carolina Central University. It is also a city of profound racial historical relevance, from black business to black industry to black culture to black politics. Durham’s history is the history of our people. I still feel all of that personal and collective history when I am in Durham. At the same time, I see the encroaching gentrification, the razing of historic homes, the loss of long-held land to make way for commercial concerns unlikely to benefit the communities I most love. I love a good rehab, and retail can be great, but I worry about what we lose. In Barbershops, you used my sermons and columns from the Durham Herald-Sun to measure the impact the black church has on how people think about politics. What’s changed related to that since you wrote that book? There no such thing as “the church.” When I look back at your sermons and columns used in writing Barbershops, Bibles, and BET, the work was ahead of its time. In thinking about this question, we have just lost Katie [Cannon, one of the first to write on womanist theology], and I’ve been thinking a lot since she died about her contribution in this political and public world. In one way, what you were doing at Orange Grove [Missionary Baptist Church, where Kenney was pastor until 2002]— a black, feminist, liberal critique of the social-political world while simultaneously providing pastoral guidance—I never found in another church like I found in that moment. So the groundwork that you laid, Reverend [Jeremiah] Wright laid, Dr. Canon laid, you don’t get to walk into the promised land. You don’t get to see it in your work, but you get to see it in public space. The work of the church in prosperity space, using Jesus for self, has always been there and it will always be there. The struggle continues. I think about sitting in church and reading your columns and listening to your sermons while thinking

about intersectionality, a practiced and lived theology. No one else is doing this. We need a new word to talk about intersectionality, to talk about the fight with baby daddy, where black folk are around queer identity, and other issues that impact faith. You have to be nuanced to pastor a church. It only happens because you were fighting. All these people are fighting, and most people will never know these people. You can bring people to the feminist holy spirit, but if she don’t heal you, they won’t listen. Bringing people to a God who did not judge them is hard when you still need to be healed. The political imperative makes people feel it and experience what it means, but it’s hard to hear all of that if you still need to be healed. I’m reminded of the conversation we had on your radio show in Chicago while you were on faculty at the University of Chicago during the Duke Lacrosse scandal. We both fought against language that questioned the credibility of women like accuser Crystal Mangum. Our support of poor black women stirred controversy among defenders of the lacrosse team. As a black woman who critiques images of women in public life, what’s left to be said that would help Duke, Durham, and the nation think more critically about what happened? It’s so hard given the crucial change of the Me Too movement—what counts as evidence, who counts as a credible witness to believe, who is allowed to tell their story within the court of public opinion, and even how we witness the black woman’s response. Black women are very reticent to report sexual assault. Black women are more likely to be survivors of sexual assault at every age, but they remain silent. How can it be if black women are such a small minority of those who report being survivors of sexual assault? If any part of our story does not hold up, it’s not just us being judged, it’s our entire community. For black women, Me Too is just a movement. The backlash is bad, if not worse, for black women. The conversation becomes part of a broader conversation: Every black woman is a liar. Black women remain silent because they couldn’t take any of it anymore. So while white women participated in the Me Too movement, black women weren’t there, and no white women paused to ask where we might be.

When you came to speak at the University of Missouri in September 2015 to discuss Black Lives Matter, it appeared then that MSNBC was moving in a different direction. I don’t want to rehash what happened, but I would like to hear what you could have offered in the form of deeper analysis before and after the election.

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Black women were the key to victory for Clinton. The Democratic Party enjoys advantages among female voters when there is support from black women. In 2012, black women voted at a higher rate than any other group and gave 96 percent of votes to Barack Obama. Black women needed to see that Hillary mattered to them. She had to earn their vote. It would have helped if

he media looked at pundits and pollsters who asked the wrong questions and formed the wrong conclusions.”

I have a perspective most New York Citybased reporters did not and do not have. Because I live in the South and maintain genuinely diverse relationships. Because I am a scholar who understands political outcomes within a scholarly context and because I was not and I am not tied to the business of media. For those reasons, if I had been on air in 2016, I would have brought a very different analysis to the election than was offered by those who were on the air. I often take weeks to walk my students through the data that backs up claims. I don’t think Donald Trump’s win is evil. I don’t think all Trump voters are good people, just like all Hillary Clinton voters are not good people. These issues are super complex and are based on data. I had no doubt that Trump would be elected, and that’s based on data rooted in history. If the American media had bothered to put the history, expertise, and experiences of black women into their political analysis, they would have come to the same conclusion. Instead, they devalued the knowledge and experience of black women, and that continues to dominate post-election analysis.

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Hillary chose a woman of color as the vice presidential candidate instead of a white man. She needed black women to believe she represents the future of their own black daughters and sons. Hillary failed to give black women reason to believe this. The wisdom of black women isn’t taken seriously as political information that might help us understand the outcomes of the election. The media looked at pundits and pollsters who asked the wrong questions and formed the wrong conclusions. They did that while earning high television ratings for their laughably inaccurate coverage of a circus presidential campaign. Black women are the solution for the Democratic Party, but they continue to believe white voters are the answer. They continue to believe Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have the populist message to bring white working-class voters back to the party. They deny the data that Trump’s primary supporters were more affluent than Clinton primary supporters. Black women are the answer, but the Democratic Party fails to invest in the leadership, issues, and concerns of black women. backtalk@indyweek.com Carl W. Kenney is the co-producer of God of the Oppressed, a documentary examining black liberation and womanist theologies. INDYweek.com | 8.22.18 | 13

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N.C. STATE/HILLSBOROUGH STREET

he neighborhoods surrounding N.C. State’s central campus are no longer reserved for those pursuing degrees. Sure, Hillsborough Street—the campus’s signature strip—is steeped in history, and many of the rental houses, convenience stores, and eateries that have served generations of Wolf Packers still stand. But these days, swanky apartment buildings, high-end dining options, boutiques, and ongoing construction projects are a familiar sight, as well. This corridor also boasts the highest concentration of performing arts venues in Raleigh, including the famed N.C. Museum of Art and its outdoor amphitheater. Whether you’re looking for a hot new date-night restaurant, a chill place to grab a beer with friends, or a museum worth getting lost in, you’ll find it here.

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BLIND BARBOUR

305 MEDLIN DRIVE; BLINDBARBOUR.COM

This small spot is essentially a neighborhood bar worth driving to, even if your neighborhood is miles away. Don’t go looking for extensive beer or wine lists. The Blind Barbour is all about the cocktail, and bartenders Joey Barbour (the owner) and Nichole Scaraglino are all about making sure you get the perfect one. The B.O.B. (Evan Williams Single Barrel, Baker’s, Demerara, bitters, flamed orange peel) is one of their most popular, but you should also try The Smoked Turkey (Wild Turkey rye, Yellow Chartreuse, habanero, Chile Ancho, smoked finish) and the Sin Nombre (Beefeater Gin, Montenegro, fig, lime). 14 • SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION • 8.22.18

EAT

AJISAI JAPANESE FUSION

427 WOODBURN ROAD; 919-831-9907; AJISAI3.COM The sushi is fresh and the decor is modern. No prepackaged fish here—every dish is prepared in the kitchen.

BEANSPROUT CHINESE RESTAURANT

3721 HILLSBOROUGH STREET 919-755-0554; BEANSPROUTCHINESE.COM Every city needs a fast, quality Chinese place, right? Beansprout has been feeding hungry college kids, families, and politicians alike for years. Get the General Tso’s chicken. It’s spicy as hell, but worth the burn.

CAPITAL CREATIONS

1842 WAKE FOREST ROAD; 919-836-8000; CAPITALCREATIONS.COM Capital Creations has the audacity to put a muffuletta pizza on the menu, but the Ole Mex, a cornmeal crust topped with a black bean base, picante sauce, jalapenos, cheddar, mozzarella, ground beef, tomatoes, black olives, and red onion, is a religious experience.

GOODBERRY’S

2042 CLARK AVENUE; 919-833-9998; GOODBERRYS.COM The folks at Goodberry’s have been making frozen custard for nearly thirty years. They have all the standard flavors, but the smart move is to check out the flavor of the day.

MAMA JEE THAI, SUSHI & BAR

105 FRIENDLY DRIVE; 919-307-8403; MAMAJEERALEIGH.COM Chef Jeerawan Bessinger, an immigrant from Thailand, has added her personal touch to a wide variety of Thai dishes.

MITCH’S TAVERN

2426 HILLSBOROUGH STREET; 919-8217771; MITCHSTAVERN.COM A cheap, dimly lit trip back in time. Pair the ham and cheese sandwich with a bowl of chili. Have a beer, and you’ve just filled up for less than $15.

NEOMONDE

3817 BERYL ROAD; 919-828-1628; NEOMONDE.COM Is it a bakery or a deli? Is it Mediterranean or Lebanese? All of the above. Neomonde serves grape leaves, hummus, kebabs, and the best baba ghanouj in the city.

COCO BONGO

PHO VIETNAM

2400 HILLSBOROUGH STREET; 984-242-0809 You’ll find all the standards on Hillsborough Street’s newest Mexican spot’s expansive menu. You’ll also find a rib-eye cheese steak.

2811 HILLSBOROUGH STREET; 919-655-4403; PHOVIETNAMONE.COM A Vietnamese restaurant that prides itself on authenticity, Pho serves much more than pho. There are smoothies, Banh Mi sandwiches, rice plates, BBQ spring rolls, and a savory chicken noodle soup.

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THE PLAYERS’ RETREAT

1 DIXIE TRAIL; 919-821-9985; EASTVILLAGEGRILL.COM East Village is a college hangout—it gets pretty crowded on game days and weekends—but it’s a good place to grab a quick lunch or dinner, too. The pricing is reasonable, and the wings are good.

THE FLYING BISCUIT CAFE

2016 CLARK AVENUE; 919-833-6924; FLYINGBISCUIT.COM An all-day breakfast hang, Flying Biscuit features filling omelets, pancakes, and organic options that taste like something your parents would put on the table. If you’re packing an appetite the day after some heavy drinking, try the Piedmont, an omelet loaded with bacon, sausage, onions, and cheese. Hangover cured.

105 OBERLIN ROAD; 919-755-9589; FACEBOOK.COM/PLAYERSRETREAT PR serves up some of the best bar food around, in a friendly, laid-back environment. It’s the kind of place parents take their children when they’re moving into their dorms. It’s also the kind of place certain Raleigh journalists have been known to frequent, so as to score a reasonably priced meal and much-needed scotch.

SECOND EMPIRE

330 HILLSBOROUGH STREET; 919-829-3663; SECOND-EMPIRE.COM Picture an old-school Southern mansion converted into a high-end dining establishment—that’s Second Empire. Perfect for a business dinner or date night, Second Empire features fresh seafood and

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Black Angus steaks, not to mention a to-diefor crème brulee. The Tavern offers a smaller menu—though it still runs the gamut from paella to osso buco—along with specialty cocktails in a drinks-after-work, businesscasual environment.

TAZZA KITCHEN

432 WOODBURN ROAD; 919-835-9463; TAZZAKITCHEN.COM Tazza has craft beer, interesting cocktails, locally sourced food, and a wood-fired oven. The cast-iron goat cheese is a good start to any meal.

THE VILLAGE DELI AND GRILL

500 DANIELS STREET; 919-828-1428; VILLAGEDELI.NET The burgers, panini, and salads are uniformly good, and the gyros might be the best in town. But you should make a point to order a deli sandwich. From the tuna salad and fried green tomato BLT to the vegetarian options, you’ll leave satisfied.

DRINK

CAMERON BAR AND GRILL

2018 CLARK AVE; 919-775-2231; CAMERONBARANDGRILL.COM Cameron Bar and Grill’s cocktails are some of the best around. The Thyme Will Tell with Bulleit bourbon is our favorite.

CUP A JOE

3100 HILLSBOROUGH STREET; 919-8289665; CUPAJOE.COM Want a great cup of coffee that won’t put a dent in your bank account? Cup A Joe provides an eclectic atmosphere only a few blocks away from N.C. State’s campus. Both novice drinkers and those with a more sophisticated palate will appreciate the beauty and variety.

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425 OBERLIN ROAD; 919-723-9353; TUPELOHONEYCAFE.COM As good as Tupelo Honey’s food is, its cocktails might be the best reason to stop in. Monday through Friday from four to seven p.m., there are draft cocktails for $5; get the Kentucky Mule.

RALEIGH BREWING COMPANY

3709 NEIL STREET; 919-400-9086; RALEIGHBREWINGCOMPANY.COM Since it opened in 2013, Raleigh Brewing Company has become the third-largest production brewery in Wake County, cranking out beers like the House of Clay Rye IPA. Our favorite: the Raleighwood Barrel-Aged Old Ale.

VILLAGE DRAFT HOUSE

428 DANIELS STREET; 919-833-1373; VILLAGEDRAFTHOUSE.COM Although the nearby Raleigh Beer Garden grabs headlines with its egregious plethora of draft beers, the Village Draft House’s selection of one hundred isn’t too shabby either.

SHOP

ANTIQUES EMPORIUM

2060 CLARK AVENUE; 919-834-7250; FACEBOOK.COM/ANTIQUESEMPORIUM Plan to spend some time exploring this multi-dealer antique shop in Cameron Village. If you’re a big spender looking for fine art or porcelain, costume jewelry or a unique engagement ring, the emporium has you covered.

BARGAIN BOX

401 WOODBURN ROAD; 919-833-7587; FACEBOOK.COM/JLRBARGAINBOX Everybody loves a good thrift shop, and Bargain Box is a very good thrift shop. It offers a decent collection of books and household items—the prices here make furnishing a new apartment affordable—and if you go on the right day, you might even find some vintage or designer clothing for prices you won’t believe are legit.

LITTLE ART GALLERY

432 DANIELS STREET; 919-890-4111; LITTLEARTGALLERYANDCRAFT.COM This gallery features wares from local artists—oils, acrylics, and watercolors— and sells handcrafted pottery, jewelry, and other North Carolina items that make for unforgettable gift options.

NICE PRICE BOOKS AND RECORDS

3106 HILLSBOROUGH STREET; 919-829-0230; NICEPRICEBOOKSANDRECORDS.COM The name tells the story. For fans of literature and good music, there’s no better bargain in Raleigh. Now add the fact that the employees know the location of just about everything in the store. Oh, and don’t forget about the selection of free books located on the shelves outside.

TIN ROOF TEAS

419-B DANIELS STREET; 919-834-9000; TINROOFTEAS.COM Tin Roof carries loose-leaf teas you’ve never heard of and has a tea bar that allows you to sample before you buy. There’s also a honey bar.

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PLAY

COMEDYWORX

3801 HILLSBOROUGH STREET; 919-829-0822; COMEDYWORX.COM In its new home inside the Royal Bakery building, Comedy Worx offers improv classes during the week and performances on weekends. The mainstay (on Friday and Saturday night, as well as a Saturday matinee) is The ComedyWorx Show, a competitive improve setup in which teams compete in improvised games based on audience suggestions.

N.C. STATE’S CENTRAL CAMPUS

NCSU.EDU If you’re new in town, you might find parking your car and walking through State’s campus enjoyable. You’ll stumble upon historic Reynolds Coliseum and notice a lot of beautiful brickwork—and perhaps discover a cool water feature or two along the way.

THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR

1903 HILLSBOROUGH STREET; 919-515-3503; GREGG.ARTS.NCSU.EDU Now housed in the Historic Chancellor’s Residence—an elegant Georgian mansion built in 1927—the twenty-five-year-old N.C. State museum is free and offers more than thirty-four thousand pieces, from antique quilts to nineteenth-century Japanese color woodblock prints to archeological artifacts.

1025 BLUE RIDGE ROAD; 919-821-7400; NCSTATEFAIR.ORG Want a homemade ham biscuit prepared by a woman your grandmother’s age? Or maybe you’re looking for a deep-fried candy bar (who isn’t?). But forget about the food for a moment and think about the rides—and the carnies baiting you into trying to break a bottle with a baseball. The State Fair only comes around once a year—in October—and it’s everything you can imagine and more. Starting this year, there will also be a beer tent where you can sample North Carolina brews.

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4415 BERYL ROAD; 919-515-3132; JCRA.NCSU.EDU Need a moment of Zen during a chaotic day? N.C. State’s arboretum features an extensive collection of Southeast landscape plants. More important, it offers an escape for those living and working in a city that has, for so many years, been defined by development.

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2110 BLUE RIDGE ROAD; 919-839-6262; NCARTMUSEUM.COM NCMA has the distinction of being the first major museum formed and funded by a state government. Sixty years after its founding, it offers a collection of works spanning millennia, with more than forty galleries. Be sure to check out the museum’s outdoor amphitheater, which hosts national musical acts under the stars.

408 ASHE AVENUE; 919-831-6052; RALEIGHNC.GOV/PARKS Everyone wants to feel like a kid again, and Pullen Park is the best place around to do just that. Want to ride a 1911 Gustave A. Dentzel carousel? Check. How about a little paddleboat action or a view of the park from aboard a C.P. Huntington train? Check, again.

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1025 BLUE RIDGE ROAD; 919-899-3532; RALEIGHFLEAMARKET.NET Located within the State Fairgrounds, this flea market provides far-flung North Carolina vendors a place to sling their goods. If you’re lucky, you might just find that rare comic book you’ve been looking for.

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Shuck and Awe

IN HIS BOOK, ON HIS APP, AND AT THE TABLE, DURHAM AUTHOR DANA DESKIEWICZ DROPS SCIENCE ON THE DELICIOUS MERROIR OF CRAFT OYSTERS BY LAYLA KHOURY-HANOLD

Craft oyster shells vary in shape, color, and cup size. PHOTO BY DANA DESKIEWICZ

ana Deskiewicz is an oyster encyclopedia, as I learned over a twohour dinner at Saint James Seafood. His Appreciating Oysters: An Eater’s Guide to Craft Oysters from Tide to Table, published by The Countryman Press (a division of W.W. Norton & Company) last spring, is the first book on craft oysters. Yes, that’s a thing. Just as craft beer aficionados geek out over hops and fermentation, Deskiewicz is animated about oyster varieties and cultivation methods. His book celebrates and documents craft oysters and the farmers who raise them, instilling a deeper appreciation for briny bivalves in oyster virgins and experienced eaters alike. It also includes a bucket-list section of eighty-five different varieties, along with tips on how to eat them. It’s the next best thing to dining with Deskiewicz himself. A craft oyster is one that is produced by a small, independent farmer who has a passion for raising unique, beautiful, and flavor18 | 8.22.18 | INDYweek.com

ful oysters. So, how can you be sure you’re eating one? Most oysters are farmed, but not all farmed oysters are craft. If a menu includes the name or provenance, that’s a good sign. Among the seven listed at Saint James, Deskiewicz immediately recognizes Sweet Jesus and Fire Lake, and he counts three varieties from North Carolina. Even if a menu just lists “oysters,” if they’re craft, the wait staff should be able to tell you their provenance or how they’re raised. “It’s a bit like the Wild West at the moment for craft oysters. There is no true certification for craft versus regular farming,” Deskiewicz explains. “In a way, it’s like the organic movement in the early days.” Farmers start with oyster “seed,” typically sourced from a common supplier. Even so, not all oysters taste alike. It’s partly because of merroir, a term derived from terroir to describe how the marine environment— water type, nutrients, salinity, climate, and ocean conditions—affect an oyster’s flavor,

texture, and appearance. But it’s also due to crafting—the expertise, care, and time the farmer puts into raising the oyster. By understanding merroir, farmers can experiment with location and farming methods to craft oysters with a specific flavor profile, texture, and appearance. As a result, even craft oysters living within a hundred-yard radius can vary. “It’s almost like a time machine, because oysters come out of a certain time and place, and you get that essence. And it kind of changes by the minute,” Deskiewicz says. “No other food really does that.” Deskiewicz is a self-professed “foodie and drinkie,” but it’s clear that oysters hold a certain sway over him. It really began in 2009, when he took a six-month road trip to eat and drink his way cross-country. Deskiewicz ordered oysters everywhere and noticed how they varied by region: plump Canadian oysters, salty East Coast oysters, and sweet, melon-y West Coast oysters. Back in New York City, where he worked as a graphic designer, Deskiewicz frequented Grand Central Oyster Bar, where he marveled at the forty-plus varieties and the shuckers’ speed; Maison Premiere, where the night might turn into a two-hundred-oyster feast that elicited a bottle of champagne on the house; and Upstate Craft Beer & Oyster Bar, where he saw oysters delivered and got to taste them with the owner before they hit the menu. “That sprung an idea,” Deskiewicz says. “There was no app that tells you what this oyster is, the flavor profile, a description.” In 2012, he created Oystour to fill that niche. A searchable and beautifully designed app, it includes photos, descriptions, and facts on two hundred and fifty oysters.

Given the content Deskiewicz had created for the app, his passion for craft oysters, and his eye for design, his wife, Jessica, a literary agent, steadily encouraged him to publish a book. By 2016, when they were living in Durham for his job at Research Triangle Park, he gave in. In 2018, they celebrated the book’s release over dinner at Saint James, when Deskiewicz learned that the staff uses Oystour as a reference. Which reminds us—there’s an order of gleaming oysters beckoning. Deskiewicz deems the presentation pristine: The shells are intact, the meat isn’t punctured, there’s no shell debris, and there’s plenty of liquor, the oyster’s naturally occurring, briny liquid. (To my horror, Deskiewicz reveals he’s seen places dump out the liquor.) There’s a lineup of condiments, but Deskiewicz recommends first trying the oyster naked to get a sense of the flavor, and then dress the next one if needed—a dash of Tabasco to cut richness, a squeeze of lemon to accentuate brightness. First up are South Lakes from Canada. Deskiewicz sniffs, registering a whisper of brine, then sips the liquor, whose candylike sweetness elicits a surprised “Oh!” The taste can either hint at what’s to come or be completely misleading, a surprise he relishes. He tips it back and after a few chews (yes, you’re supposed to chew), notes that it started sweet before revealing a mild richness that gives way to a creamy finish. Pause here. Don’t even think about reaching for your drink; one sip washes away the finish and robs you of the full experience. Next up are North Carolina Devil Shoals. As Deskiewicz chews, his eyes widen in surprise, and his shoulders sink with pleasure.

To me, it tastes the way catching a wave feels. There’s a surge of brine that then undulates between creaminess and saltiness, before a mineral, vegetal finish laps up, part slate, part algae. Another highlight is the N.C. Core Sounder. Deskiewicz is a fan of the farmers, who recycle shells to aid ocean conservation efforts. These are tumbled oysters, so there’s a pool of luscious liquor, and we savor the eye-popping brine.

“Not a lot of people know North Carolina has a wide range of oysters; the boom is just starting here,” Deskiewicz says. “Established oyster farmers have been producing delicious oysters for awhile. But as consumers gain an appreciation for craft oysters, new farms are being established to satisfy demand and discerning palates. It’s an exciting time for North Carolina’s oyster scene with the best yet to come.” laylakh@indyweek.com

FROM TIDE TO TABLE HOW TO MAKE CRAFT OYSTERS ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS 1. Start with oyster seed, or baby oysters beginning to form shells.

7. Restaurants recycle shells by sending them back into the water. This aids oyster-recovery and waterconservation efforts.

6. The oysters are shucked at the restaurant and served on the half shell.

5. Once oysters reach market size, they’re harvested and prepped for delivery. “Farmers use calipers, sized metal rings, or slots on trays or tables to measure the oysters. After harvest, oysters are cleaned via a spray wash or quick scrub-a-dub. Packaging varies, but the most common is a mesh bag with a tag providing key information including farm, oyster type, location, and most importantly, harvest date.”

2. Farmers place the seed in an upweller system—a continual supply of nutrientrich, flowing water—to grow. “The farms place the seed into nurseries— fine mesh bags, netted boxes, or containers—so that water flows over the seed, which allows the oysters to filter all those yummy nutrients. They grow, on average, about twice their size every day.” –Dana Deskiewicz

3. Once the oysters grow large enough, they’re put into bigger containers until they can be placed into open water.

4. The farmers tend to the oysters by checking and moving cages, tumbling, and other methods until they reach market size, which takes eighteen to twenty-four months on average. “Tumbling forces the shell to grow deeper and smoother, creating those wonderful cup shapes. It also helps strengthen the adductor muscle, which keeps the shell closed and creates firmer meats. Think of it as CrossFit for an oyster. The more intense the workout, the leaner, firmer, and stronger they get.”

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BULL CITY FOOD SWAP

Monday, Aug. 27, 7 p.m., free Bull City Ciderworks, Durham www.facebook.com/bullcityfoodswap

Swap Meat

BARTERING FOODIES FEAST ON LOCAL HOMEMADE TREATS WITH A SIDE OF SOCIAL CONNECTION AT BULL CITY FOOD SWAP BY MELODY MILLER

rmed with homemade coconut panna cotta drizzled with a blueberry balsamic reduction, I arrive at Fullsteam Brewery for Bull City Food Swap’s July meet-up. By 7:00 p.m., about twenty people have gathered, casually sipping beers as they set up their homemade fare—jars of pickled onions, pork pastrami, cured bacon—eagerly anticipating what they’ll trade their goods for. “I typically have more jam and pickles than I can eat,” says Erin Urquhart, a pickle enthusiast and food blogger. “When I moved to the area in 2015, I looked around but couldn’t find a food swap in the Triangle area, so I decided to start one.” Urquhart founded Bull City Food Swap not only to stock her pantry, but also to meet new people. Prior to moving to Durham, she started a food swap in New Hampshire, where she discovered how bonding over food fosters fast friendships. Two years in, Urquhart relishes bringing Triangle transplants and foodies together; though these people have a mutual love of food—the swap attracts a mix of avid home cooks, pro chefs, casual bakers, canners, gardeners, and foragers—they might not otherwise cross paths. At the first swap I attended back in June (where I just observed), I learned that many participants were first-timers. One couple had met Urquhart through a relative, and they showed up with armloads of candiedorange-peel-and-dark-chocolate scones. A man who had recently moved to Durham from Singapore discovered the event on Facebook and brought a homey Indian rice and cheese dish that became an instant hit. When I show up with my panna cotta at my second-ever food swap, I had a much better idea of what to expect. The atmosphere was a relaxed flurry of setting up and sampling: “informed chaos,” as Urquhart describes it. The swap works like a silent auction sans money. It’s all about 20 | 8.22.18 | INDYweek.com

Wilson Salls swaps his hot sauce for Kim Stein’s peanut brittle at Fullsteam. barter. We each set up a display with samples of our fare and complete a form to indicate the name of the dish and denote any allergens. The form also includes numbered spaces where swappers can write down their name and dish to trade if they’re enticed by my panna cotta. I do the same on other swappers’ forms in hopes of scoring the bacon I spied earlier in the night, along with a jar of garlic dill pickles. This process lets each participant know who wants to trade with them, and from there we say yea or nay. Saying no is perfectly acceptable, even encouraged; Urquhart reassures people that it’s okay to pass on items you don’t have a taste for.

PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA

As the swapping gets underway, there’s a fervor for items such as bresaola from regular Matt Strain, a former chef turned stay-athome dad who has earned a following for his cured meats. Wilson Salls, another regular who makes hot sauce, has recruited a friend to help make tonight’s batch and invited him along to experience the food swap firsthand. I pour a dot onto my finger, and the blend of jalapeño and serrano peppers dissolves onto my tongue in a balanced combination of vinegar and heat. I love everything spicy, so I’m elated when the guys hand me a bottle as a trade for my panna cotta. I’m already planning to fold it into a mushroom omelet and dot it onto lentil soup.

My panna cotta is turned down as a trade for the garlic dill pickles, but no matter; I’m laden down with goodies, and my belly— and heart—are full. (And I’m not mad about going home with a serving of my panna cotta.) While geeking out with a fellow swapper over fermented foods, I remembered a South Indian fermented lentil and rice batter recipe I learned to make when I nannied for an Indian family. They regularly sent me home with a large container of batter, which I used to make crepe-like dosas and pancake-like uttapam. I know just what to make for the next swap. food@indyweek.com

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Band-Aid Solution

A NEW, LOCALLY DEVELOPED APP IS BRINGING BACK THE MUSICIAN'S TIP JAR FOR THE VIRTUAL AGE

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been stagnant since the seventies, which he largely attributes to the internet and its consequent tectonic shifts in the music industry. The internet is a double-edged sword: It’s democratizing in its ability to grow access to musicians and their music unlike ever before, but it’s also deeply corporatizing as that access is filtered through social media and streaming platforms, often negatively affecting an individual artist’s earnings. A new report by the banking and financial corporation Citigroup detailed that music was a $43 billion industry in 2017, with artists taking home twelve percent of that sum. Once reliable revenue models, like album sales, are no longer reliable; artists have had to turn to new ways to support their work. And though the artist percentage reported by Citigroup is higher than in years past, artists still struggle for their fair cut of an increasingly smaller pie. In this landscape, different attempts have been made to direct revenue towards artists. Bandcamp’s user-friendly model gives artists a way to sell their music and other merchandise online directly to fans, allowing them to adjust their pricing easily and taking a 10- to 15-percent cut. New subscription-based streaming platforms, like TIDAL, tried to incentivize artists to join their allegiances, promising better pay for artists and higher quality audio and exclusive content for listeners. But titans like Spotify and Apple Music still rule the day with over 45 million monthly users each, though musicians earn fractions of a penny for each individual stream. Even offline, artists are struggling. Venues take a cut of a band’s ticket revenues to cover their own operating costs, and when a show is sparsely attended, that can mean a band leaves with a paltry sum (if anything). For touring musicians, particularly those playing small clubs, they are lucky to break even on a tour, much less to churn any sort of

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ast year, when working musician Mark Willms and entrepreneur Bob Riedlinger were traveling together with friends in Vancouver, Willms began to reminisce about the tip jar that sat atop his piano when he played bar gigs. “Basically, the dad would send little Jimmy across the room with the ten dollar bill,” Riedlinger says. “And Mark said, ‘They feel a little bit dirty and I feel a little bit dirty. It’s just an awkward way to exchange money.’” But by the end of the night, Mark would go home with a pocket full of Washingtons and Lincolns, even the occasional Hamilton or Jackson. These days, a musician’s tip jar is less common. Most people don’t carry cash, and the custom has fallen out of habit, he thinks. But those tips could be a vital source of income for many live musicians. Inspired by the tips of yore, Willms and Riedlinger developed the LiveLifeLIVE app as an alternative way to pay live musicians during a performance, like the tip jar used to. “But we don’t like to use the word tip,” Riedlinger corrects. “These are fans supporting artists.” Riedlinger and Willms, childhood friends who grew up just south of Toronto, Canada, have known each other since they were ten and eleven years old, respectively. Riedlinger has lived in Raleigh for more than twenty years, while Willms lives in Kitchener, Ontario in Canada. Willms is the quintessential working musician. He has worked on movies like Lost in Translation, toured with country bands across the United States, and performed as a jazz pianist for audiences abroad. He estimates that he’s performed for at least one million people over the span of his career. But an accomplished résumé, as many musicians can testify, rarely translates to steady short-term income, much less long-term financial stability. Willms, for example, says his income from music has

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profit. As labels have smaller coffers to foot the bill for robust tours, artists are shouldering those expenses themselves. “What I really underestimated is how financially tight it is for musicians,” Riedlinger says. “There’s a crisis of performing arts at the local level.” The LiveLifeLIVE app is a modest solution: Audiences can support musicians live and in concert, anonymously, by digitally sending them money and feedback. And they can even make customized requests, like for an artist to play a particular song. Ninety percent of the contributions will go directly to the artist, with the remaining ten percent going to credit card processing fees and the LiveLifeLIVE company. During a show, you can check in on the app through the venue and support the artist directly. And artists can create customizable buttons asking listeners for specific feedback, like what to name a newly written song. “This app is the Swiss Army knife of musical enjoyment,” Willms says. Willms and Riedlinger are rolling the app out, beginning in Raleigh. They’ve worked with venues like Imurj, The Pour House, and

Deep South, promoting the app to bands and audiences who frequent there. According to Riedlinger, the first band who used LiveLifeLIVE for a show made a respectable $250 from the app in one show. However, the app’s search function turns up nothing in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Durham, undermining their supposed claim of super utility. Even so, LiveLifeLIVE’s founders maintain that they’re looking out for artists, offering another possible revenue stream for small acts. “What we’re trying to do is connect people directly to their artists,” Riedlinger elaborated. “We want to give [fans] an option to say, ‘I can make a difference in the music business. I am going to help my favorite artists; I am going to help a friend; I am going to help a total stranger playing in this bar because I’ve had a really good time,’” Riedlinger says. “And we hope this will balance the powers, to direct the revenue streams back to the artist.” Now, it’s just a matter of getting those fans to pony up in the first place. music@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.22.18 | 21

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Get the Horns

YOUNG BULL DOES DURHAM PROUD WITH ITS INVENTIVE FUSION OF HIP-HOP, JAZZ, AND SOUL BY LENA GELLER

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hen Tahmique Cameron and Gabe Fox-Peck showed up to Durham School of the Arts’ spring talent show auditions in 2014—each with his own prepared musical number— the show’s coordinator informed them that there was only one slot left. Choose between yourselves or audition together as one act, he said. The two high school juniors, who knew each other casually from the JV basketball team, opted for the latter, singing John Legend’s “Ordinary People” with Fox-Peck playing accompaniment on the piano. “That was the beginning,” Fox-Peck, now twenty-one, says. “We found that we had a good chemistry, and a few weeks later we recorded our first song, ‘Can’t Get You Outta My Head,’ in my bedroom after school.” “Can’t Get You Outta My Head” is a laidback number, featuring Cameron’s smooth, emotive voice over funky keyboards, steady tambourine, and sparkling synth. It epitomizes the sound that would go on to become Young Bull—in the group’s own words, “distinctively Southern, fusing trap and old-school soul influences into an unmistakably electric aesthetic”— showcasing Cameron’s background in church choir and Fox-Peck’s studies in jazz piano. Since then, Young Bull has established itself as one of Durham’s most promising young acts, energizing the hip-hop scene as they one-up themselves with each new song. Cameron and Fox-Peck continued to put songs together post them on SoundCloud, with Cameron singing, Fox-Peck producing, and each writing songs. They took on the title Young Bull, a name Cameron says was given to them by their friends. “We’re young and from the bull,” Cameron explains, referring to Durham’s Bull City nickname. “For a while, we were really thinking of changing it, because we ain’t gonna be young forever, but then we just decided that we represent our youth. The youth lives in us forever.”

Young Bull PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST During the summer of 2016, as Cameron and Fox-Peck were finishing up their first album, Sopadelic, they received a message from Christian Sinclair, a Winston-Salem based rapper and singer interested in collaborating with Young Bull. They sent Sinclair a track called “Quiet” and within the day, he wrote an accompanying verse, recorded himself in his dorm room at N.C. State, and sent it back. They loved it, and Sinclair officially joined the fold shortly after. “Christian brought rap, and an energetic, bouncy sound,” Fox-Peck says. “He gave some of the songs a different vibe and completed the circle of emotional expression.” In parallel with his vocals, Sinclair brings a positive spirit and high aspirations to Young Bull.

“We’ll be one of the bigger groups in the country for sure,” Sinclair, twenty-three, says. “I want to go global with our sound and represent American hip-hop and R&B in a new way.” As Young Bull developed their signature sound, they also refined their lyrics to better convey the sentiment they hope to leave with listeners. “We’re all writers, and we’ve gotten better at saying what we’re trying to say,” Fox-Peck says. “We want to give an everyday voice to something that people can relate to, but not cliché-sounding. We want to sound like you’re in the same room as us when we’re talking.” Through years of hard work, Young Bull has transformed a few casual SoundCloud

uploads into two albums and multiple singles with millions of plays on music streaming services, leading them to gigs at clubs and colleges, spots at music festivals like Hopscotch, Art of Cool, and this weekend’s Beats N Bars Festival, as well as critical acclaim. Their general success is impressive, given that Cameron, Fox-Peck, and Sinclair currently live hours away from each other, in Durham, Boston, and New York City. Fox-Peck attends Harvard University and schedules all his classes on one day so he can devote the rest of the week to making music and performing. They use FaceTime and voice memos for long-distance collaboration and endeavor to book shows that fit with each other’s schedules. “We’re constantly making things work, but we’ve had to miss funerals and all types of things,” Cameron says. “[Young Bull] is our number one priority.” “Even when we’re not in Durham, it still lives through us,” Fox-Peck says. “I think especially with so many artists who are from big cities like New York or Chicago, the fact that we have a local city that’s a dope place with a unique character sets us apart and adds to who we are.” The city’s abundant creative energy also makes it easy for the band to work closely with other local artists and businesses, which they’re eager to do. The band recently teamed up with the streetwear brand Runaway for an event; both sides reap the rewards from helping each other get a leg up.

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“The fact that we have a local city that’s a dope place with a unique character sets us apart and adds to who we are.” Whether it’s fusing musical genres, finding new fans across social media and streaming platforms, or collaborating with other artists, creative cross-pollination has proven to be Young Bull’s secret weapon. The band has its finger on the pulse of not just the music industry, but the entire aesthetic of what young people are into. They’re trendsetters with the talent to back it up, paving the way for Durham’s talent to come. music@indyweek.com

BRIEF

DON’T DODGE KING DRAFT King Draft is hip-hop recording artist originally from Plainfield, New Jersey, but he’s come to admirably represent independent hip-hop in the Triangle. In March, King Draft and four other local rappers—Konvo the Mutant, $wank, Kelly Kale, and (J) Rowdy—traveled to New York City to compete on BET’s reboot of Freestyle Fridays. There, he wasted no breath whatsoever proving that he’s a smooth-flowing, lyrically oriented rapper in the mold of Common and Talib Kweli by delivering clever bits of braggadocio such as, “If you rainin’, I be a storm/I’m king, and you be a pawn.” The young emcee has lofty goals well beyond a brief appearance on cable TV, however. As he told this year’s Beats N Bars Festival host Domo during a YouTube interview, Draft wants to put out platinum-selling records and win Grammys. But he’s not there yet: So far, Draft has released four full-length recording projects, including two under the moniker The Kingdom with longtime producer Jerm Scorsese. The studio efforts have earned the duo props in hip-hop circles, but they’ve yet to break through to wider audiences. Even so, their music is certifiably solid. Jerm masterfully samples old soul and hip-hop records and constructs unique sonic backdrops for Draft’s raps (see 2015’s Kingdom Come). Jerm often favors classic elements such as soul vocals and humming organs, but he’s equally liable to lay down hypnotically menacing trap beats. The collaboration proves fruitful again on Two Eyes, a seven-song collection that dropped in June. On “Resurrection,” Jerm mashes up seemingly disparate sounds to build a dark and complexly layered instrumental track that leaves just enough space for the methodical bars of Draft and guest rapper $wank. If Draft keeps this up, listeners beyond the Triangle are bound to catch on. —Howard Hardee INDYweek.com | 8.22.18 | 23

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TEMPLES OF LUNG AND AIR

Wednesday, Aug. 22–Sunday, Aug. 26, various times, $15+ UNC’s Kenan Theatre, Chapel Hill www.playmakersrep.org

Raising Kane

IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TEMPLES OF LUNG AND AIR, A HOMETOWN HERO AND SPOKEN-WORD STAR DROPS REAL TALK ON HIP-HOP AND WHITE PRIVILEGE BY KEVIN J. ROWSEY II

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top acting black, Kane. … You’re not black, Kane.” As I enter a rehearsal space at PlayMakers Repertory Company, Kane Smego seems to be battling himself, with this mantra echoing through a series of other voices both historical and personal. With his body, hand motions, rapid-fire monologue, and precise verbal pivots, Smego seamlessly flips back and forth between exploring the experience of being accused of “wiggerism” and delving into nineteenth-century American hypocrisy. From a young age, Smego has lived a life of blurred lines. In the hip-hop world, he’s appeared alongside G Yamazawa and J. Gunn in the breakout local anthem “North Cack,” and he’s the associate director of Next Level, a U.S. Department of State exchange program that fosters hip-hop diplomacy. In the poetry world, he’s been a National Poetry Slam finalist, and he cofounded Chapel Hill youth poetry organization Sacrificial Poets. Now, in the world of theater, Smego will combine his disciplines into one piece of performance art. Temples of Lung and Air, directed by Joseph Megel in PlayMakers’ PRC2 series, is a one-man play about how Smego navigates his unique identity and perspective. “When we talk about race in America, race is a white issue,” Smego says. Unlike the creators of Hamilton and their gentrification of hip-hop culture, he is keenly aware of his responsibilities when it comes to representing hip-hop. His traditional audience is from the poetry and hip-hop community, but with this show, he says he feels a need to speak to white middle-class audiences, too, building a bridge between the two worlds. Judging from the preview, Temples of Lung and Air attacks a plethora of issues around race, privilege, and identity that are prevalent in our country. Though Smego has put in tremendous work in the Triangle and internationally, in the worlds of art education, 24 | 8.22.18 | INDYweek.com

Kane Smego PHOTO BY CAITLIN PENNA

poetry, and hip-hop, he still humbly labels himself a “guest” in hip-hop culture and sees part of his job as “speaking to white people and how they are socialized to learn not to see things,” such as how white artists take from hip-hop without using their platform to address issues that affect it. “The notion of privilege is probably the hardest to communicate to people who have it,” Megel points out to me at the rehearsal. I smile a bit to hear this said out loud. Though the statement is something many white allies can agree on, not many are having the conversation in a public forum. Smego might be the perfect catalyst to push difficult conversations about white privilege to the forefront of the theater world, bringing his dual consciousness to the stage. While he has a home in the family of hip-hop and had a black father figure in his life as a child, his show also unapologetically airs out closeted conversations white people have among themselves—the racist and hateful expressions he’s heard as part of a multigenerational white family. His skilled wordplay shows the love he got from his white father and grandparents, but also how this love was conflicted by a hateful worldview toward those that did not look or think like them. Temples of Lung and Air is an example of PlayMakers strategically edging toward diversity in performance and audience, a way to “reach out to audiences that never come to PlayMakers” and expose the usual audience to new experiences, Megel says. While the theatergoing crowd will no doubt be in attendance, there will definitely be new support from the hip-hop community to see one of its top performers coming home and combining everything he’s learned as an artist. Each performance will also include a featured poetry group from the community, such as the Bull City Slam Team and Blackspace Poetry. And a panel of poets, artists, and academics, including Dasan Ahanu, will discuss

the show and how it applies to our society. This should help bring a necessary dialogue to the discussion of race, all from a dynamic viewpoint that utilizes amazing spoken word

and skillful rhyme schemes, speaking on the progressive conversations that we as a community so desperately need. arts@indyweek.com

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PUZZLE ½

Opening Friday, Aug. 24

Missing Pieces

PUZZLE IS A PATCHY PICTURE OF THE COMPETITIVE JIGSAW-PUZZLING WORLD AND THE SOUL OF ITS STAR BY RYAN VU

dapted from the Argentine film Rompecabezas, this quiet indie drama from producer/director Marc Turtletaub centers on Agnes (Kelly Macdonald), an unworldly and underappreciated housewife who is inspired to assert her own identity after discovering a latent talent for competitive jigsaw puzzling. Best known as the producer of Little Miss Sunshine, Turtletaub has assembled an impressive team, from veteran character actor Macdonald and international superstar Irrfan Khan to screenwriter Oren Moverman (The Dinner, Love & Mercy). Nevertheless, the film suffers from a nagging sense of professional detachment. The only woman in a household of men, Agnes is exiled to the periphery and ignored until something goes wrong. Her husband, Louie (David Denman), is loving but has no concept of her selfhood; he thinks nothing of demanding that she help with the accounting for his auto business on top of her housework. Her younger son, college-bound Gabe (Austin Abrams), treats her with open disdain, assisted by his obnoxious vegan Buddhist girlfriend (Liv Hewson). Older son Ziggy (Bubba Weiler) is a more sensitive soul, and his growing relationship with Agnes is the most compelling subplot. Into this claustrophobic environment comes a fateful birthday gift: a one-thousand-piece puzzle in the shape of a world map. Agnes finishes it in an afternoon. Soon, to visit a Manhattan puzzle boutique, she takes her first trip from Bridgeport to New York in years. An ad for a competitivepuzzling partner leads her to the palatial yet empty brownstone of Robert (Khan), a lonely, eccentric divorcé. It’s a quirky take on a romance-novel scenario, and Macdonald and Khan play their scenes with an understated self-awareness that, at its best, turns the improbability of this relationship into a virtue.

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Though I haven’t seen Natalia Smirnoff’s original film, much of what doesn’t quite work about the remake seems to stem from the shift in context from Buenos Aires to the Tri-state area. Associating Agnes’s stifling family life with blue-collar suburbia and her self-realization with the cosmopolitan city reads as condescending, given how little either milieu is fleshed out beyond a few obvious clichés. Nor do we learn much about the competitive puzzling world; the action (such as it is) is kept to the edges of the screen as a vague metaphor. The movie stakes everything on its portrait of Agnes. But no matter how much screen

time Turtletaub devotes to her facial reactions, we don’t see much of her character beyond an extreme unfamiliarity with the modern world, hammered home through faux pas like her inability to use an iPhone and her assumption that vegans can eat chicken. When Gabe’s college-entrance essay callously uses her as a negative example of a sheltered person, all she can do is agree. Because we’re kept on the outside of her desires and drives, it’s hard to see her transformation, especially in the anticlimactic ending, as much more than an endorsement of middleclass tourism à la Eat Pray Love. arts@indyweek.com

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK 8.22–8.29 THURSDAY, AUGUST 23

RURAL AVANT-GARDE: THE MOUNTAIN LAKE EXPERIENCE

For art nerds, the mention of a sylvan rural enclave in which merry interdisciplinary shenanigans attracted the likes of composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and painter Cy Twombly will immediately call to mind North Carolina’s own Black Mountain College, which fostered connections between those three iconic artists and many more in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. But decades later in their lives, all three also passed through painter Ray Kass’s Mountain Lake Symposium in Christiansburg, Virginia (as did photographer Sally Mann, folk artist Howard Finster, Japanese sculptor Jiro Okura, and others), a sort of experimental test lab dedicated to connecting the arts and sciences with rural life and culture. In this exhibit, which runs through the end of the year after this opening reception, the Gregg gives us a look inside the life and the unique collaborative work this vital, little-known oasis in the art world has produced. —Brian Howe GREGG MUSEUM OF ART & DESIGN, RALEIGH 6–8 p.m., free, www.gregg.arts.ncsu.edu

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 25

BE LOUD! ’18

JULIA GARTRELL: SCAPE

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Hospitals can be frightening, intimidating places, and while they can generally cater well to adults and small children, teens and young adults are often found wanting when it comes to comfortable environments as they battle serious illnesses. Such is the premise of Be Loud!, an annual fundraiser in memory of Sophie Steiner, who passed away at age fifteen in 2013, following a battle with germ-cell cancer. In her memory, her parents have thrown concerts to raise money for better, more age-appropriate programming and resources for young people battling cancer. This year’s Be Loud! iteration is another two-night run, with “Girlfriend” hitmaker Matthew Sweet leading the charge on Friday night with The Right Profile and Surrender Human in tow. Saturday night’s bill features a reunion of beloved local party band The Sex Police, plus Collapsis and The Veldt. —Allison Hussey

Sometimes, when you’re driving, you see it. The slight swell of a certain hill—you know it, it’s familiar even if you haven’t been there before. The way the hill rises, the way it sits in the landscape, it triggers a memory in you. Maybe not even the specific memory of something that happened on a certain day in a certain place, but the recognition makes you reach within yourself toward that memory. Julia Gartrell’s installation, Scape, which continues at CAM Raleigh through September 9, is a simple work, in a way— really nothing more than a plywood incline slathered thickly with plaster and joint compound. You can walk all the way around it and look at its structure and underside. But stop next to it, unfocus your eyes, and let yourself reach back toward that hill and that day and that moment you won’t completely remember. Gartrell discusses the piece, her largest ever, at this artist talk Saturday afternoon. —Chris Vitiello

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO?

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 24

SLICK RICK, NAUGHTY BY NATURE, DOUG E. FRESH

Earlier this summer, in his song “1985,” J. Cole told Lil Pump and his followers— who started a social media campaign bashing the Fayetteville phenom, in part just for being over thirty—that, regardless of age, it’s talent, not trend-following, that ensures longevity in hip-hop. On Friday night, Cary’s Koka Booth Amphitheatre hosts a handful of artists that prove Cole’s point: Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, and Naughty By Nature, who have made an indelible mark on hip-hop culture through thirty years of prominence as masters of the craft. Rick is the prolific storyteller; Fresh, the inhuman beatboxer; and Naughty By Nature’s Treach, the originator of aggressive multisyllabic rhyme schemes. Their contributions to the way rap music is made are as important as Queen and Led Zeppelin are to rock, and their catalogs as extensive. Expect to spend the whole night singing along and getting lost in call-and-response nostalgia. With Mr. Cheeks, Eric B. & Rakim, and Blackstreet. —Charles Morse KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, CARY 5 p.m., $35–$105, www.boothamphitheatre.com

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2ND WIND: Yeaux Katz; 7-9 p.m., free. BLUE NOTE GRILL: Blue Wednesday; 8 p.m. CAT’S CRADLE: Alkaline Trio, Together Pangea, Ogikubo Station; 7 p.m., sold out. THE CAVE: Lady Queen Paradise, Bella; 9 p.m., $5 Suggested donation. CROOK’S CORNER: Hannah Hodge; 7 p.m. HUMBLE PIE: Sidecar Social Club; 8:30 p.m., free. THE KRAKEN: Shake Sugaree Americana Residency with Jonathan Byrd & Friends; 7-10 p.m., free. POUR HOUSE: Dopethrone, WitchTit, Old Codger; 8 p.m., $15.

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Joe Louis Walker [$15–$20/7:30 P.M.] Bay Area-bred bluesman Joe Louis Walker began bringing his rough-hewn voice and blistering guitar licks to the table when he was a teen in the sixties. After a hiatus, he kicked off his recording career in the eighties and never looked back. At age sixtyeight, he’s become something of an elder statesman on the modern blues scene, but between the full-frontal assault of his rock-informed axe work and his from-the-gut vocal delivery, he still sounds as enlivened and electric as ever. —Jim Allen MOTORCO: Fireside Collective, Slocan Ramblers; 8 p.m., $11–$23. NEPTUNES PARLOUR

Ivory Layne [$10–$12/9 P.M.]

Ivory Layne’s knack for an earworm was apparent long before the North Carolina singer-songwriter-producer signed with Justin Timberlake’s artist development venture. Layne pens lyrics for the social media age—reflecting on identity, relationships,

material culture, and mental health—and pairs them with huge hooks on piano ballads and eighties-flavored pop anthems. Blueberry opens. —Spencer Griffith OAK AND DAGGER PUBLIC HOUSE: Ryan Johnson; 8 p.m., free.

POUR HOUSE: Local Band Local Beer: The Blue Footed Boobies, Lazaris Pit, The Oblations; 8-11:45 p.m., $5. RUBY DELUXE

Sieve, Boothe [$5/9 P.M.] Sieve’s latest EP, Three Secrets, seems to draw stylistic flavor from recent weirdorock outfits like Palberta. Bizarro synth lines and offkilter art-rock vocals fall like manna from heaven. Fellow Philadelphia export Boothe actually had their latest experimental pop EP Angel Melody Horn recorded by Nina Ryser of Palberta, so yes, the East Coast indie scene is very small. With The Muslims. —David Ford Smith

FRI, AUG 24 618 BISTRO: Randy Reed; 7-9:30 p.m. BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Marell Glenn; 7 & 9 p.m., $14. BLUE NOTE GRILL: Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. CAT’S CRADLE: Be Loud Sophie 2018; 8 p.m., $25–$40. See page 26. THE CAVE

Bellflower [$5/9 P.M.] Chapel Hill rock band Bellflower is all about keeping things organic, priding themselves on producing music through natural means. Lead singer Natasha Wilson’s voice swells and wavers in a way that is refreshingly raw and bursting with emotion; percussionist Jeff Lindsay channels fervor through his rhythms to create a sound “beyond the programmatic controls of any Casio to date.” —Lena Geller CITY TAP: Dmitri Resnik & Bootleg Beat; 8:30 p.m.

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For a guy who’s enjoyed such a steady country music career, Brad Paisley has a curiously high number of novelty hits for someone who’s not Weird Al, from odes to intoxication (“Alcohol”) to ragging on superstars (“Celebrity”) to winking songs about loveadjacent feelings (“I’m Gonna Miss Her,” “Ticks”). They haven’t always worked out well—see 2013’s disastrous “Accidental Racist”—but for the most part, Paisley comes off as an affable guy with a decent sense of humor and some pretty impressive guitar chops. You could do worse in the realm of arena-size country shows. Kane Brown and Tyminski open. —Allison Hussey

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Runaway Cab [$10/9 P.M.] This is a special occasion for Raleigh’s Runaway Cab. This hometown celebration marks twenty years that the band has been fusing alt-rock edginess and classic-rock melodic sensibilities. There have been a few personnel changes along the way, as you’ll find with any band that’s been around for that long, but Runaway Cab’s mission remains the same. For this event, the current members of the group will be joined on some songs by cofounders Drew Parkinson and Chad Hough. —Jim Allen POYNER PLACE: Big Chief; 6 p.m. ROCK HARBOR GRILL: Bruce Clark Trio; 9 p.m.-midnite, free. WALL OF SOUND MUSIC CENTER: Mia Shelton; 8:30 p.m., $10.

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Jenny Besetzt, Bound [$10/8 P.M.] Greensboro’s Jenny Besezt established itself as a local favorite some time ago, finding a compelling balance of atmospheric guitars, drifting vocals and a driving postpunk low end. It forms an able complement to Washington, D.C.’s Bound, which thrives in the intersections of shoegaze and doom, lending the former genre’s latticework of bright tones and textures to the latter’s deliberate pacing and seismic dynamics. Dreamless, the dark post-punk duo of The Nein’s Finn Cohen and Birds of Avalon’s David Mueller, opens. —Bryan C. Reed

SAT, AUG 25 APEX NATURE PARK: Zoe & Cloyd; 7 p.m., free. ARCANA: Ally J; 10 p.m., free. BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Jade Collective; 7 & 9 p.m., $13. CAT’S CRADLE: Be Loud Sophie 2018; 8 p.m., $25–$40. See page 26. CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): The Orange County Opry: Lester Coalbanks & the Seven Sorrows, Charles Latham, John Howie Jr., The High Bushy Tails; 8 p.m., $10.

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POUR HOUSE: Jimmie Ray Swagger, Lester Coalbanks & the Seven Sorrows; 1 p.m., $5. ShameSundays: 3AM, Imani Pressley, Allie Capo, Jerrod, Lyrik G; 8 p.m., $15. WEST END WINE BARDURHAM: Eric Meyer, Noah Sager & Friends; 4-6 p.m., free.

Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap Dance Off The Pinhook’s calendar is never short on dance parties, but this Saturday night throwdown is a special one indeed. Jonathan Toubin is mostly a deejay, though his thorough affinity for rare midcentury soul, rock, and R&B records has transformed him into a one-man archive of sorts. He brings his worldfamous Soul Clap party to Durham for a sensational night of sweat. —Allison Hussey POUR HOUSE: Carnival Reloaded: Nailah Blackman, Rohan da Great; 8 p.m., $25. SAXAPAHAW RIVER AMPHITHEATER: Caique Vidal & Batuque; 6 p.m., donations. THE GREAT MEADOW PARK AT BRIAR CHAPEL: Music in the Meadow: Soul Play; 6 p.m., free. UNITY OF THE TRIANGLE: Feel the Spirit; 5-7 p.m.

SUN, AUG 26 ALL PEOPLE’S GRILL: FreeThings In Life Music & Art Festival; 12-8 p.m., free.

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THE MAYWOOD: Summer NC Showcase: Waking Tera, Nephilym, Nova Mortis, NORM; 8:30 p.m., $8.

DEEP SOUTH: Earther, Juxton Roy, Basement Life, Canadian Airports; 8 p.m., $8. DURTY BULL BREWING COMPANY: Sam Frederick; 4 p.m.

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Knurr and Spell [$10/8 P.M.] The members of Chapel Hill quartet Knurr and Spell are no strangers to local stages; their collective resume includes Chest Pains, North Elementary, and Pleasant. Their sound is the sort of indie rock that seems to perennially bloom in the college town—understated, shaggy melodies emerge from wiry guitar riffs and swelling bursts of fuzz. Tonight, the band releases its second album, Wooleye, with support from Carrboro’s psych-tinged Sunny Slopes and Durham stalwarts The Wigg Report. —Bryan C. Reed

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[$7/10 P.M.] Here’s a back-to-school dance party with sleek neo-electro/ space disco maven Bézier, aka Robert Yang. Hailing from San Francisco’s underground

dance scene, he runs with the longtime San Francisco party collective Honey Soundsystem and has released music with other forward-thinking house producers like Fort Romeau. It’s club music spiked with late night John Carpenter intimations in a way that isn’t grossly nostalgic or cheesy. —David Ford Smith THE PINHOOK

Regina Hexaphone [$8/7:30 P.M.] The Regina Hexaphone was one of the first jukeboxes in the early twentieth century, but it’s also a Durham band that’s been kicking around since the late nineties. You can catch the latter as they unfurl their gentle, melodic folk-rock sound. With Sara Bell’s low-key but resonant vocals leading the way, the band makes its way through hushed, rootsy atmospheres as well as the occasional, relatively harder-edged rushes of indie-rock, with a minimum of fuss and an excess of charm. —Jim Allen

BOTANIST & BARREL: Virgin Oak; 3 p.m., free. DEEP SOUTH: Live & Loud Weekly; 9 p.m., $3. LONDON BRIDGE PUB: Q Soul; 2 p.m., free. MOTORCO

Elizabeth Cook [$15–$28/8 P.M.] Born and raised in central Florida, singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook has checked off just about all of the boxes for a career in country music. Her voice recalls Iris DeMent’s high, taut warble, and she eloquently rhapsodizes on heartbreak and personal struggles, having overcome plenty of her own. Music industry stalling and restructuring flagged her career in her earlier years, but a handful of appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman between 2011 and 2014 helped set her on a more steady arc toward success. —Allison Hussey

MON, AUG 27 THE CAVE: Conor Donohue; 9 p.m., $5 Suggested donation. IMBIBE: Grewen and Griffin; 7-10 p.m., free. MOTORCO: Flash Chorus; 7 p.m., $7–$10. MOTORCO

Mike Farris and the Fortunate Few [$20–$25/8 P.M.]

In the nineties, with his band Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies, Mike Farris embraced excess and almost died because of it. These days, he’s taken a more balanced approach in music and in life, with a soulful fusion of Americana and gospel that earned him a Best Roots Gospel Album Grammy for 2014’s Shine for All The People. He’ll arrive in Durham mere weeks ahead of releasing his next album, Silver & Stone. If lead single “Golden Wings” is any indication, Silver & Stone continues Farris’s melding of Americana twang and soul and embrace of the redemption narrative. —Bryan C. Reed THE PINHOOK: Mama Played Mondays; 7 p.m., free. RED HAT AMPHITHEATER

Leon Bridges [$25–$80/7:30 P.M.]

While Leon Bridges’ breakout debut pigeonholed the silkyvoiced singer as a retro-soul revivalist thanks to a sound straight out of the early sixties, he’s spent the ensuing years pushing against that label by collaborating with the likes of hip-hop tag-team Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and electronic duo ODESZA. Bridges’s terrific follow-up LP updates his style

with a more modern range of R&B influences, from Marvin Gaye to Bruno Mars, while his musings become more complex. Take the standout ballad “Beyond,” which finds him struggling with commitment: “I’m scared to death that she might be it/ that the love is real, that the shoe might fit,” he admits in the chorus. Masego opens. —Spencer Griffith RUBY DELUXE: DJ Lord Redbyrd; 10 p.m.

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Wolf Parade [$20–$23/8:30 P.M.] In 2005, a scrappy band out of Montreal released its debut album, Apologies to the Queen Mary, and instantly became one of the most influential bands in indie rock. “I’ll Believe In Anything,” arguably Wolf Parade’s most beloved song, is equal parts annoying (co-frontman Spencer Krug’s distinctive vocal style isn’t everyone’s cup of tea) and profoundly longing. Wolf Parade sounds rejuvenated on their first album in seven years, Cry Cry Cry, and deliver the usual mix of slightly uncomfortable prog- and synth-rock. Blanko Basnet opens. —Howard Hardee POUR HOUSE: Animalweapon, Zack Falls, DJ Grant; 8 p.m., $8. SHADOWBOX STUDIO: Maple Stave, Sewingneeedle, Woodvamp; 5 p.m., free.

WED, AUG 29 2ND WIND: Yeaux Katz; 7-9 p.m., free. THE CAVE: Jazzbeau; 8 p.m., $5 Suggested donation. THE KRAKEN: Shake Sugaree Americana Residency with Jonathan Byrd & Friends; 7-10 p.m., free. THE MAYWOOD: Incite, Aethere, Outliar, Origin of Disease; 8:30 p.m., $12–$15. Incite, Aethere, Outliar, Origin of Disease; 8:30 p.m., $12–$15. MOTORCO: Joe Mande; 8 p.m., $12–$15.

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ColorFull: Paintings by Chris Graebner and Lolette Guthrie, blown glass by Pringle Teetor. Aug 27-Sep 23. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

ONGOING August Summer: Acrylic works by Margo White. Thru Aug 31. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www.localcoloraleigh.com. Beyond The Stars: Paintings by Renzo Ortega. Thru Aug 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org. By the Sea: Seascapes and shore living. Thru Sep 1. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees. com. Cameron Village Underground Photography Exhibit: This is going to sound crazy, but did you know there used to be an underground mall under

Cameron Village, and that it housed nightclubs that both incubated local rock and hosted legendary touring acts as diverse as R.E.M., Barry Manilow, Jimmy Buffet, and Chuck Mangione? In the late seventies and early eighties, before it was shut down because of concerns about safety, The Village Subway— aka the Raleigh Underground— roiled with nightclubs such as The Frog and Nightgown and The Pier, where Sonic Youth recorded the cover of “I Wanna Be Your Dog” that appears on Confusion Is Sex. This rich history, mostly lost beyond some hazily remembered blogs, is the subject of a new exhibit at The City of Raleigh Museum, which runs through January after a sold-out, wait-listed reception with photographer Chris Seward. His dynamic black-and-white photos from the scene capture now-famous names and local,

proto-indie-rock bands such as The Fabulous Knobs and Arrogance in their primes. More than two hundred photos are featured in the exhibit, along with flyers, videos, and other artifacts. Thru Jan 31. Raleigh City Museum, Raleigh. cityofraleighmuseum.org. —Brian Howe LAST Common Ground: CHANCE Paintings by Linda Carmel and Michele Yellin, jewelry by Nell Chandler, and pottery by Evelyn Ward. Thru Aug 26. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www.hillsboroughgallery.com. Existential Distress: Drawings by Jessica Burke. Thru Sep 16. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. Expressions of Life: Jenny Jones B., Amy Gardner Dean, and Hello Pottery. Thru Sep 20. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www.litmusgallery.com.

LAST Dana Lynn Harper: CHANCE Summer artist-inresidence exhibition. Thru Aug 25. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. Hotel Theory: Around the time he stepped away from his twenty-year tenure as founding director of Raleigh gallery Lump, Bill Thelen struck out for an artist residency in a hotel in Oaxaca. He brought two books with him, Huysmans’s decadent Against Nature and Wayne Koestenbaum’s Hotel Theory, an experimental philosophy of hotel life. The result is Thelen’s own Hotel Theory. Consisting of drawings, collages, wall paintings, and a new fiber piece, the exhibit tracks an artist “immersed in the colors and textures of the Oaxacan landscape and facing middle age” as he observes the lines of history, place, and personal identity from a rented room, a space (like middle age) that, in its nowhere-ness, offers fresh vantages. Thru Sep 21. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Brian Howe Journey: New Paintings and Assemblages: Lisa Creed. Thru Sep 27. Horse & Buggy Press

and Friends, Durham. www.horseandbuggypress.com. Jeana Eve Klein: PNC Pop-In Artist in Residence. Thru Sep 1. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. Louisiana Trail Riders: Jeremiah Ariaz’s photographs of AfricanAmerican trail-riding clubs in Louisiana. Thru Sep 22. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org. M.E.: Mixed media by Susie Silver. Thru Sep 16. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.. LAST Painting the CHANCE Camino de Santiago: Oil paintings by Sonia Kane. Thru Aug 26. Cary Town Hall, Cary. www.townofcary.org. Paintings from Haiti: Thru Aug 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net. Ronan Peterson, Peg Bachenheimer, and Paul Hrusosvsky: Though it’s full of abstract forms, what could be more concrete than nature? This quiet paradox beats at the heart of the new triple show at Durham’s Craven Allen Gallery, which runs

through September 8 after this opening reception. But the three formally diverse exhibits become one in the resonances of their titles and themes. In Layered, FRANK Gallery member artist Peg Bachenheimer shows her imaginative landscapes and abstractions in encaustic wax. In Fecundity, Ronan Kyle Peterson displays wheelthrown red earthenware that embraces a “comicbook interpretation of ... the perpetual organic comedy of growth and decay.” And in Embellished, former Craven Allen director Paul Hrusovsky comes home with a clutch of new paintings, complicated with stencils and silk screens, which portray organic shapes in what the artist calls “a cacophony of excessive adornment.” Thru Sep 8. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com. —Brian Howe LAST Searching for CHANCE Serenity: Photography by j.j. raia and silver jewelry Monica R. Hunter. Thru Aug 28. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists.org.

Step Right Up: Sculpture by Patrick Dougherty. Thru Aug 31. Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill. www.ackland.org. Truth to Power 6: Attending Pleiades annual social-justicethemed exhibit has almost become a civic responsibility, as much to acknowledge and support the spirit of protest inherent in the arts as to see the actual work on the walls. It always provides a reliable core sample of the local political ethos—the left side, anyway— and the gallery becomes a safe space to share emotional reactions to the moment. Now

that we’re mired out in the middle of the pit of despair that is the Trump presidency, we should be flocking to share this space with our likeminded neighbors. The work can be a bit colorful and literal for my taste, but critique is better set aside to listen to the messages of these artists (including Mary Kramerer, Alex Clark, Jenny Blazing, and others), which are sincere. Juried by Nasher’s director, Sarah Schroth. Thru Sep 10. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www. PleiadesArtDurham.com. —Chris Vitiello

food & drink Brewfest: Twelve local brewers, farmers who grow their ingredients, beer samples. Sat, Aug 25, 8 a.m.-noon. Chapel Hill Farmers Market. www. thechapelhillfarmersmarket.com.

Creative Workshops & Food Truck Fridays: A different food truck and craft workshop every Friday. Fridays, 3-7 p.m.; Thru Aug 31. Inspirations Home Decor and More, Raleigh.

Bu•ku Wine Dinner: Four wines and pairing courses with winemaker Guy Farge. $75. Thu, Aug 23, 6:30 p.m. bu•ku, Raleigh. www.bukuraleigh.com.

Kids for Change: End-ofsummer celebration for kids and families with food trucks, activities, and live entertainment from Rissi Palmer, Baron Von

Visualizing Micro Environments: Paintings by Orr Ambrose inspired by cosmology, physics, and microbiology. Thru Oct 11. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamconventioncenter.com. Waxing Poetic: Encaustic paintings by Marcia Streithorst. Thru Sep 1. Bull City Art & Frame Co, Durham. www. bullcityartandframecompany. com. The World Around Us in Watercolor: MAC (Marie Anne Crock). Thru Aug 31. Jerry M. Passmore Center, Hillsborough. www.orangecountync.gov/

Rumblebuss, and Jeghetto. Sun, Aug 26, 3-5 p.m. Durham Central Park, Durham. www. durhamcentralpark.org. Someday: A Brunchy Party for Everyone: Weekly summer brunch series with various guests and activities. Sundays, noon Thru Sep 2. The Durham Hotel, Durham. thedurham.com.

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The young couple in the new house down the way seems so nice. But as they unpack boxes, their argument is really getting nasty. Why? The husband’s noticed that all is hardly well in the gentrified community they’ve just moved into. “You and I grew up with this middle-class safety net,” he says. “That’s the only reason we’re able to afford the house.” A few moments later, she glares at him: “Are you done mansplaining civics to me? Because I live in this broken world too, and I’m not blind to the situation.” What can two people do as they slowly come to grips with the systems of privilege that have advantaged them while disadvantaging their neighbors? The formerly local songwriter and performer Kaitlin June comes home, albeit briefly, with collaborators Raphael Sacks and director Shawn Shafner, for a performance piece that uses acrobatics, slapstick, theater, dance, and song to lay hands on one of the Triangle’s most divisive issues, in Carrboro Friday and Durham Saturday and Sunday. —Byron Woods

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Be Kind, Rewind: Totally 80s Burlesque Bash!: Burlesque, live music, dancing, comedy, and more, sponsored by Alamo Drafthous’s Video Vortex. $12$15. Sat, Aug 25, 9 p.m. Kings, Raleigh. www.kingsraleigh.com.

Summertime Muses and Fuses: Fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity by Bottom Line Burlesque & Comedy Troupe. $12-$15. Sat, Aug 25, 8 p.m. Botanist & Barrel, Cedar Grove.

Farewell to Summer: Third Date improv show. $14. Sat, Aug 25, 8 p.m. Walltown Children’s Theatre, Durham. walltownchildrenstheatre.org. Gilbert & Sullivan’s Patience: Presented by White Iris Light Opera Company. $5 suggested donation. Thu, Aug 23-Sun, Aug 26. Meredith College: Jones Auditorium, Raleigh. www. meredith.edu. Giselle la Trent the Gazellephant: Children’s theater presented by Aggregate Theatre Company. $10-$12. Wed, Aug 22, 11 a.m. Church on Morgan, Raleigh. churchonmorgan.com. Nerd-Vana Burlesque: Nerdthemed burlesque. Sun, Aug 34 | 8.22.18 | INDYweek.com

ONGOING Anything Goes Late Show: Saturdays, 10:30 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com. Boat Jail: Late Night Standup: $5. Fourth Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Thru Sep 1. Neptunes Parlour, Raleigh. neptunesparlour.com. The Harry Show: Ages 18+. Potentially risque games improv games with audience volunteers. $10. Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m. ComedyWorx, Raleigh. www.comedyworx.com.  In the Heart of the Fire: Even the smallest amount of fire has power; the light from

a single candle can be seen from more than a mile and a half away. Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s nineteenth annual large-scale summer pageant is a broad-ranging view of different aspects of this elemental engine of transformation. The sequences scripted by cofounders Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger include a socially conscious examination of flame’s fundamental dichotomy of creation and destruction, and a colorful, choreographed congress of supernatural fire-based creatures. Dance maker Tommy Noonan builds from an initial quartet of small, dancing flames wearing vivid yellow, orange, and red costumes, gradually joined by two smiling fire demons that fling sparks from fingers tipped with yellow tendrils of flame. These are joined by a firebird, fire monkeys from Chinese astrology, and the eight puppeteers required

to animate a breathtaking, two-story-tall, fire-breathing dragon, which leers down upon the front rows before venturing into them during its serpentine dance. $8-$15. Thru Sep 23. UNC Campus: Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. www.paperhand.org. —Byron Woods Improv at the Varsity: Standup, sketch, and improv comedy. $6. Saturdays, 9:30 p.m. Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. improvatthevarsity. com. It’s Only a Play: Ask anyone who’s ever worked tech in theater: Sometimes, the real drama is totally unscripted and takes place just out of the audience’s sight. Technical gaffes, costuming flubs, and ego-driven meltdowns happen often enough that they’ve inspired their own theatrical subgenre. Moss Hart’s Light Up the Sky is the most famous, a savagely funny exercise in blame-gaming when bad reviews start trickling into

a Broadway cast party on opening night. Terrence McNally grinds different theatrical axes when he visits the same circumstance here. McNally rewrote the show for its 2014 Broadway debut some twenty-two years after its initial off-off-Broadway bow. Jesse Gephart directs this regional premiere. $18$24. Thru Aug 26. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www. theatreinthepark.com. —Byron Woods Sister Act: Hollywood’s been trying to convince the Catholic church it needs to up its production values for decades. Almost half a century before the 1992 blockbuster film Sister Act—in which Whoopi Goldberg, as a lounge singer in witness protection in a convent, irked the Mother Superior by putting “Salve Regina” on the good foot—Bing Crosby similarly flabbergasted Barry Fitzgerald with newfangled songs in

the sentimental chestnut Going My Way. Cheri and Bill Steinkellner’s 2006 musical theater adaptation moves the setting from San Francisco to mid-seventies Philadelphia. Songwriter Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors) jettisons the film’s instantly recognizable girl-group send-ups for an alloriginal score that turns central character Delores Van Cartier (Tyanna West) into a disco diva who isn’t exactly keeping the lowest profile while mobster goons are on her trail. Nancy Rich directs this Raleigh Little Theatre production. $15-$28. Thru Sep 9. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org. —Byron Woods The Sunday Show: Stand-up comedy by Eric Trundy, Aaron Ransom, Shane Rhyne, Aaron Cardwell, Ryan Bender, and Noni Shemenski. Sun, Aug 26, 8 p.m. Mystery Brewing Public House, Hillsborough. www. mysterybrewing.com.

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In 1944, Recy Taylor, a twenty-four-year-old black sharecropper in Alabama, was kidnapped and gang-raped by six young white men. When local police failed to handle Taylor’s assailants properly, the NAACP sent its own investigator: a strong-willed young activist named Rosa Parks. The righteous outrage over Taylor’s case highlighted the intersection of racism and misogyny and helped establish Parks as an essential organizer for black Americans in their struggle for equality. This 2017 documentary by Full Frame founder Nancy Buirski— inspired by Danielle L. McGuire’s excellent 2010 book, At the Dark End of the Street—corrects the erasure of black women from midcentury activism for racial justice. The black feminist writer and activist Audre Lorde famously proclaimed that women are powerful and dangerous. If you didn’t already believe it, bearing witness to Taylor’s legacy will convince you. —Allison Hussey

SUNDAY, AUGUST 26

A TRIBUTE TO JAKI SHELTON GREEN “Why wasn’t it Jaki Shelton Green?” In poetry circles, this is what one heard over and over in 2014, when former governor Pat McCrory infamously made an end run around the N.C. Arts Council to appoint Valerie Macon, whom no one had ever heard of, as state poet laureate. After the outcry, her tenure lasted a week. She was eventually replaced by the more sensible choice of Shelby Stephenson. But Roy Cooper’s appointment of Jaki Shelton Green, with the blessing of the NCAC, is truly cause for celebration. Not only is Green the state’s first AfricanAmerican poet laureate—better late than never—the Duke Center for Documentary Studies poetry teacher has deep, rich roots in the community, after years of cultivating a devoted following through her relatable story-driven verses. This tribute featuring the likes of Judy Hogan, Green’s first publisher, should be a great warm-up for Green’s upcoming events, including a September 6 reading at the Regulator and a September 19 induction ceremony at the capitol. —Brian Howe

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READINGS & SIGNINGS Camille Andros: With The Dress and the Girl. Sat, Aug 25, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com. Refugees: The Neighbors Next Door: Madeline Uraneck and Tenzin Kalsang with How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family & the Midwestern Woman They Adopted. Wed, Aug 22, 7 p.m. Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Raleigh. pullen.org.

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LECTURES ETC. Audio Under the Stars: SuperStars: Five Years of Favorites: Outdoor audio stories. Fri, Aug 24, 8 p.m. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org. Body Mind Spirit Expo: Holistic exhibitors and lecturers. $12. Aug 25 & 26, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh. www.ncstatefair.org.

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SPECIAL SHOWINGS A/V Geeks Present: Your Friend, the Computer: $5. Mon, Aug 27, 7:15 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. Champagne Cinema: Pretty in Pink: $12. Mon, Aug 27, 7:30 p.m. & Tue, Aug 28, 7:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. Kids Camp: Despicable Me: $1-$5. Wed, Aug 22, 11 a.m. & Thu, Aug 23, 11 a.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. Knockouts: Creed: $9. Sun, Aug 26, 1:45 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. Knockouts: Thrashin’: $9. Thu, Aug 23, 7:15 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. Movie Party: Bring It On: $13. Sat, Aug 25, 2:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. National Dog Day: Isle of Dogs: $5. Sun, Aug 26, 2:45 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. Space Week: 2001: A Space Odyssey: IMAX screening. $5-$11. Fri, Aug 24 & Thu, Aug 30, 10 a.m. Wells Fargo IMAX Theatre at Marbles

Kids Museum, Raleigh. www. marbleskidsmuseum.org. Terror Tuesday: Brain Damage: Tue, Aug 28, 7:15 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. Weird Wednesday: Cat’s Eye: $5. Wed, Aug 22, 7:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh.

OPENING A.X.L.—A top-secret robot super-dog stars in this family adventure. Rated PG. The Happytime Murders— Brian Henson gets Oedipal in this dark crime comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and some markedly Sesame Street-like puppets. Rated R. Papillon—It’s 1973 at the movies all over again, but with Charlie Hunnam instead of Steve McQueen as a French safecracker stuck in a brutal prison colony. Rated R. ½ Puzzle—Reviewed on p. 25. Rated R. Skate Kitchen—Crystal Moselle (acclaimed doc The Wolfpack) turns her lens on young female skateboarders in New York in this fictional feature. Rated R.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read reviews of these films at indyweek.com.  Ant-Man and the Wasp—Marvel takes a goofy, low-stakes break from existential threats. The tone is so agreeable you hardly notice the rickety script. Rated PG-13. ½ Christopher Robin— After you get used to them being 3-D plush toys, Winnie the Pooh and friends charm, but Christopher Robin is the least interesting thing in this movie. Rated PG.  Crazy Rich Asians— This Asian-American-led rom-com is an undeniable cultural milestone, but put that aside and it’s uttery standard fare. Rated PG-13.  Deadpool 2—If the first Deadpool movie was a halfhearted R-rated Spider-Man, the sequel is a controlled detonation of the superhero-movie template: filthy, funny, and cheerfully ultraviolent. Rated R.

½ Eighth Grade—A brilliant first act and a more staid second split the difference in internet star Bo Burnham’s film about young life online. Rated R. ½ Incredibles 2—Dialing up socially progressive themes fourteen years after the original, Pixar’s sequel is fun, funny, and timely but not quite transcendent. Rated PG. ½ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom—Murky morals, jump scares, and diminishing returns of digital dinos weigh on this once-mighty franchise. Rated PG-13. ½ Mission: Impossible – Fallout—This Tom Cruise vehicle isn’t a good action film; it’s a great one, rivaling genre exemplars and drawing upon the previous entries in franchise. Rated PG-13. ½ Solo: A Star Wars Story—If Rogue One was a war picture set in the Star Wars universe, then Solo is a space western, and a pretty good one, too. Rated PG-13.

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