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HOPSCOTCH Including the triumphant return of Little Brother (and why 9th Wonder isn’t pictured here)
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5 In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security warned that conditions were ripe for the growth of dangerous right-wing movements. Republicans dismissed it as political correctness.
6 News 10 Hopscotch 23 Food & Drink
6 Between 2016 and 2018, gang members accounted for 46 percent of the Durham Police Department’s arrests on charges of possession of a firearm by a felon.
26 What to Do This Week 29 Music Calendar 33 Arts & Culture Calendar
9 No at-large Raleigh City Council member—or mayor— has lost a reelection bid since 2001. 10 It took the death of a hip-hop legend to bring Little Brother back to life. 14 Don’t waste time making choices. Use our Hopscotch Perfect Guide to make the most of Raleigh’s biggest music festival. 23 There are about thirty-five black-owned restaurants in Durham, according to Denise Hester—fifty if you count food trucks. Sleater-Kinney performs Thursday at City Plaza as part of Hopscotch. (See our guide on page 14). PHOTO COURTESY OF HOPSCOTCH
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Working the Refs
CONSERVATIVES SHOUTED DOWN EFFORTS TO CONFRONT RIGHT-WING THREATS, WITH GRAVE CONSEQUENCES BY JONATHAN WEILER
Backstreet’s Back, Alright
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n response to our report last week that he skipped a closed-door discussion on the controversial RDU quarry lease to check out a Backstreet Boys concert, Raleigh City Council member David Cox writes: “I have attended every closed session since elected with this one exception. And with this exception, I made arrangements to be available by phone. Others on the council knew this. The story lacks perspective because it doesn’t indicate if my absence is unusual or how it compares with the absences of others. What is unusual about my attendance is that I have been absent only once, which is way below the norm if not unprecedented.” Irene Rusnak has no problem with Cox dipping out to catch the boy band: “I was at the open city council meeting prior to the private session and watched Mayor Nancy McFarlane tie herself in knots to prevent the city attorney from speaking. Her desire to keep this pet project of handing off our public land to a private quarry out of the public view is a violation of the public trust. David Cox knows this issue well, and if you check his track record, I believe you will find his attendance at council meetings quite high. He was available by phone if needed. It looked like the mayor needed this meeting for her own goals, not for the benefit of the public. The author of this piece is desperately searching for insult pieces, not really trying to shed light on the issue.” But Larry counters that “if David Cox cared so much about his community and the issue at hand, he wouldn’t have skipped out on such an important meeting to attend a Backstreet Boys concert. Seriously, the Backstreet Boys? It is sad he chose that over voicing his opinion. He displayed a complete lack of leadership and maturity. He needs to be voted out and replaced with someone who actually cares about the community they live in.” Want to see your name in bold? Comment: indyweek.com Email: backtalk@indyweek.com Facebook: @IndependentWeekly Twitter: @indyweek
JONATHAN WEILER is a teaching professor in global studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and co-author of Prius or Pickup? How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America’s Great Divide and Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. NEXT WEEK: COURTNEY NAPIER, a Raleigh native, community activist, and co-host of the podcast Mothering on the Margins.
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n a moment of candor during the 1992 presidential campaign, then-Republican National Committee chairman Rich Bond admitted that the constant right-wing attacks on the “liberal media” served a strategic purpose: “If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is ‘work the refs.’ Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one.” This is a game GOP elites have played for decades, not only in targeting the media but also in shaping political discourse more broadly to their benefit. Last month in El Paso, Patrick Crusius murdered twenty-two people, targeting a shopping mall popular with Mexicans, shortly after he appears to have posted a manifesto warning of a Hispanic “invasion” of the United States, a term popular among the race-baiting corners of the right (and with our president). The slaughter brought renewed attention to one of the most insidious of those Republican efforts to work the refs—a 2009 media frenzy over an otherwise obscure report produced by the Department of Homeland Security. In 2009, Darryl Johnson, then directing a small domestic extremism unit in DHS’s Office of Intelligence Assessment, wrote a report warning that the conditions were ripe for the growth of rightwing extremism in the United States. At the time, Johnson, a self-described conservative, did not predict a coming surge in violence. But he believed that the election of a black president, the financial crisis, and other factors created conditions in which far-right movements could gain new adherents. The report was met with a concerted fury from the right-wing media and
GOP officeholders. Then-House minority leader John Boehner called on thenDHS secretary Janet Napolitano to explain why her department used the word “terrorist” to describe “American citizens who disagree with the direction Washington Democrats are taking our nation.” Then-congressman and now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that the report was political correctness run amok, designed to soft-pedal the threat of Islamic terrorism. The outcry had its intended effect. Napolitano apologized, the DHS pulled the report, and the domestic extremism unit was essentially disbanded. Since then, however, Johnson’s fears have come to pass—and then some. Killers motivated by extremist and white supremacist beliefs perpetrated massacres at a Sikh temple in 2012, a black church in Charleston in 2015, a synagogue in Pittsburgh, in 2018, and the recent attack in El Paso, to name a few. FBI leaders have told Congress that right-wing extremism has become the biggest source of deadly attacks on American soil, accounting for almost all domestic politically motivated murder over the past two years. And yet, there is no concerted federal effort to confront the problem. Prior to her departure from the DHS, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen sought a regular briefing with President Trump on a range of topics, including domestic terrorism. She was rebuffed. U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin, who chairs the House Oversight subcommittee with jurisdiction over Homeland Security, said recently that the DHS appears to have no “comprehen-
sive strategy to address white supremacist violence.” And the Brennan Center notes that the scope of far-right violence is impossible to fully ascertain because, despite a congressional mandate to do so, neither the FBI nor the Justice Department gathers accurate national data on it. It’s not that greater investment in rooting out violent domestic extremism would stop every attack. But law enforcement has thwarted some potentially deadly threats in recent years, suggesting that greater attention to the seriousness of the problem would lessen their frequency. Neither John Boehner nor Mike Pompeo were trying to encourage or defend right-wing extremism. And no doubt they were as horrified as anyone by the sickening events in El Paso. Political parties, of course, always try to play the media environment to their advantage. As the old saying goes, politics ain’t bean bag. But the right’s ability to shout down efforts to confront profoundly serious threats to our country’s well-being have had grave consequences. In this case, working the refs wasn’t just a game. Johnson’s 2009 report was not in any serious sense a partisan gambit. The frenzied effort to quash it was. We’re still dealing with the aftermath. backtalk@indyweek.com INDY Voices—a rotating column featuring some of the Triangle’s most compelling writers—is made possible by contributions to the INDY Press Club. Visit KeepItINDY.com for more information. INDYweek.com | 9.04.19 | 5
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CAN DURHAM DO ANYTHING TO SOLVE ITS GUN-VIOLENCE PROBLEM? BY THOMASI MCDONALD
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he Bull City had a gun problem long before nine-year-old Z’yon Person was shot to death on August 17, when someone in a burgundy Honda Accord fired into his aunt’s Ford Escape in North Durham. He was in the backseat, on his way to get a snow cone. According to a city report released last month, 662 people were shot in Durham between 2016 and 2018. The city saw thirty-two homicides last year, twenty-one in 2017, and forty-two in 2016. This year looks likely to eclipse them all. Most victims are black men. Most of those arrested for the killings are also black men. In addition, according to the report, the suspects in most violent crimes are felons in possession of a firearm—itself a felony. These individuals are frequently the victims of violent crime, as well. And 46 percent of the people the Durham Police Department arrested on charges of possession of a firearm by a felon between 2016 and 2018 were known gang members, the report says. “These are not random shootings,” Durham County District Attorney Satana Deberry, who took office earlier this year, said at a press conference on August 22. “Neither Z’yon [nor] many of the victims this year were random in a violent city. We know that a small number of people are responsible for most of the violence in Durham County.” The report recommends a “surgical and focused” approach to combating violent crime, “[fishing] with a spear instead of a net” to “target impact players and groups that are driving the violence”—including significantly increasing the frequency of warrantless searches of repeat weapons offenders who are on probation. Local officials often point to the considerable resources deployed to keep young people out of gangs and give them a better chance for success. Wendy Jacobs, who chairs the Durham County Board of Commissioners, has pushed to treat gun vio6 | 9.04.19 | INDYweek.com
“A gun that shows up in Act One leads to a shooting in Act Four.” lence and the trauma it causes children as a public health crisis. The city and county have crafted programs to offer former offenders, including former violent offenders, employment, housing, and mentorship opportunities. And they’ve promised that what they can’t accomplish by the carrot they will by the stick, via lengthy sentences for repeat violent criminals. But watching that press conference, there was an inescapable sense that while the leaders present—Deberry, Jacobs, Sheriff Clarence Birkhead, Mayor Steve Schewel, Police Chief C.J. Davis, and U.S. Attorney Matt Martin—were dismayed by Z’yon’s murder and a recent uptick in violent crime, they knew there wasn’t a quick or easy answer. Schewel lamented that the General Assembly has refused to pass gun reforms. Deberry said she had reoriented her office to focus on violent crime. The law enforcement officials talked about how closely they were working together. Davis said the DPD had boosted its homicide unit and tasked it with looking at “known offenders possibly involved in recent incidents.” (She also pointed out that Durham experienced record crime lows in 2018.) In July, when the INDY reported that Durham had twice as many homicides in the first six months of 2019 as it had in the same period of 2018, Davis said the cases were neither related nor random: Most perpetrators and victims knew each other, but
the incidents weren’t connected. Much of the violence over the last two months, however, appears to be gang-related, officials suggested at the press conference. Four days later, six Durham men were injured in four separate drive-by shootings during a seven-hour period.
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any of the initiatives proposed by Jacobs and other officials are meant to help young people become more resilient amid trauma—a worthy goal, to be sure. Longer term, city officials want to address the systemic causes of violence: unemployment, a lack of affordable housing, educational resources, and opportunities for residents who grew up surrounded by poverty and violence— also a worthy goal. But these proposals will take years to bear fruit, and people are dying now. The city’s immediate response is to try to lock up the gang members responsible for the bloodshed—and then, presumably, the gang members who take their place. In 2017, activist Solomon Burnette proposed a different solution, one noticeably absent from the conversation: a gang truce. In 2017, he applied for the Durham City Council seat left vacant when Schewel became mayor, pointing to his experience bailing young people out of jail, guiding them out of a gang mentality, and connecting them with educational resources. “I would negotiate a gang truce to address
violent crime in concert with necessary programming to address the employment, educational, and economic development issues that cultivate crime,” he wrote in his application. He told council members Charlie Reece and Jillian Johnson that he could “end the gang war with fifty jobs.” Reece didn’t find Burnette credible, and the council ultimately selected Javiera Caballero for the seat. In an email, Reece says Burnette pitched the ceasefire as a “quid pro quo” for the position and says he never “presented any evidence, then or now, that he had the wherewithal to create such a gang truce.” But someone else might. Diana Powell, the director of NC Justice Served, a Raleigh nonprofit that mentors young men in jail, says that two Durham gang leaders contacted her after Z’yon’s death. “They said it’s not the OGs who are doing the shooting,” she says. “It’s the younger guys that are out there, and they want to do something to at least slow it down.” Powell says she reached out to two Durham activists and suggested the gang leaders speak with them about forming a truce. The gang leaders, however, said they didn’t trust the activists. So Powell’s next step is to try to organize a ceasefire herself. Ceasefires have been successful before. The most famous one began in Los Angeles in 1992. Fashioned after the 1949 truce between Israel and Egypt, it led to declining violent crime rates for a decade. Eventually, a new generation of gang members entered the scene, and the ceasefire eroded. Perhaps, observers have suggested, the city could have avoided its demise by addressing systemic issues such as jobs and poverty. In Raleigh, gang leaders declared a truce in the summer of 2016. The ceasefire followed the death of gang member James Elvin Alston a year earlier, hours before he was set to speak at an anti-gang summit in Southeast Raleigh. But gang leaders had also listened to students at the predomi-
nantly black Torchlight Academy in North Raleigh, who told them that gangs were responsible for killing black people in their neighborhoods. Torchlight offered jobs to the gang leaders who agreed to the truce. The year it went into effect, Raleigh police investigated twenty-three homicides. By 2018, that number dropped to seventeen. Larry Walton, a former Blood leader in Raleigh, says the truce is still in effect. “It’s still holding,” he says. “But you got people who don’t want to accept it.” Torchlight director Donnie McQueen says that after the Raleigh truce, he wanted to expand the movement, including to Durham, but he was unable to put together the resources he needed. “We might have been moving too fast,” he says. Still, he wouldn’t hesitate to try again. “If we can save just one life,” he says, “or reduce the number of guns on the streets, that would be important. A gun that shows up in Act One leads to a shooting in Act Four.” . urham released its report on felons and firearms days after Z’yon’s murder. Much of the media focused on the fact that prosecutors had dismissed more than half of all cases of possession of a firearm by a felon between 2016 and 2018. There’s a straightforward explanation for at least some of those prosecutorial decisions, according to a 2016 Durham County report on gun crimes: The DA’s Office doesn’t have the evidence. “Consider the example of a gun thrown from a car containing four occupants,” the report says. “When the vehicle is stopped, all occupants deny that the weapon belonged to them. Without reliable fingerprints on the gun or a record of registration, it can be very difficult to successfully prosecute any of the occupants.” The report released last month shows that little has changed: “Based on the number of felons in Durham who have firearms in their possession, it is apparent that chances of not being caught far outweighs the chances of being caught with a firearm and facing prosecution for the offense.” Guns are everywhere. They’re bought legally and on the black market. They’re purchased from straw buyers. They’re stolen—more than two hundred guns have been reported stolen this year, Davis said at the August 22 press conference, and her cops had confiscated thirty guns in the previous month alone. This proliferation of guns turns domestic squabbles and drug-deals-gone-bad deadly—and gang turf disputes into rising body counts that inevitably culminate in collateral damage. tmcdonald@indyweek.com
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Down the Stretch They Come WHERE (WE THINK) THINGS STAND A MONTH OUT FROM RALEIGH’S ELECTIONS BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN
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lot happens in the four manic weeks before Raleigh’s elections: candidate forums, endorsements, mailers, oppo dumps, etc. The people running for mayor or city council have spent the better part of a year hustling for money, and except for the handful who might face a November runoff, there’s no point in leaving any of it in the bank. So as these campaigns hit the homestretch, we wanted to offer a quick snapshot of where (we think) things stand, based on fundraising reports, our reporting and analysis, and, well, let’s call it intuition. These races are fluid. They can and will change. But if we were taking bets right now, these are the lines we’d lay down. Keep in mind: Even the longest of long shots occasionally pays off.
MAYOR The Odds
2–1: Mary-Ann Baldwin 3–1: Charles Francis 3.5–1: Caroline Sullivan 40–1: Zainab Baloch 700–1: Justin Sutton 1,000–1: George Knott Two predictions: No one gets a majority on October 8. And Francis emerges that night in first place. The first thing to watch as the polls close: how close Francis gets to 50 percent. If he’s above 45, he’s probably the next mayor; below 40, probably not; in between, who knows. The second thing is who comes in second. Baldwin and Sullivan are fishing from the same pond; whoever prevails should be able to draw on the majority Nancy McFarlane used to vanquish Francis two years ago. We think that will be Baldwin, who has better citywide name recognition and a stronger downtown network than Sullivan. Francis garnered 37 percent of the vote in October 2017 and 42 in the runoff against McFarlane. About two-thirds of his support came from African Americans who felt their neighborhoods were being left behind, the rest mostly from progressives
dissatisfied with the status quo McFarlane embodied. The big question mark is whether Francis can broaden his base; in the 2017 runoff, he won just one (tiny) precinct outside of East Raleigh. To that end, he’s allied with the council’s neighborhood-preservation coalition—David Cox, Stef Mendell, Kay Crowder, and Russ Stephenson.
and outhustled the incumbent so far—also true, Cox won’t win any popularity contests inside City Hall—but ever since Cox rallied his North Raleigh neighbors against a proposed supermarket development in 2014, District B has been his kind of suburbia. In 2017, he defeated former council member John Odom with 68 percent of the vote.
AT-LARGE The Odds
DISTRICT C The Odds 3–1 on: Corey Branch 10–1: Shelia Alamin-Khashoggi 50–1: Ricky Scott 50–1: Wanda Hunter Branch isn’t the most exciting politician, but it’s hard to imagine him losing in this field.
Even: Russ Stephenson Even: Nicole Stewart 3–1: Jonathan Melton 5–1: James Bledsoe 15–1: Carlie Allison Spencer 100–1: Portia Rochelle An important fact: No at-large incumbent has lost a reelection bid since 2001— no mayor has lost since then, either—which favors Stephenson and Stewart. But both Melton and Bledsoe are more ideologically simpatico with Stewart than Stephenson, and thus more apt to draw from him than her in this convoluted top-two-vote-getters-win system. Two years ago, Stewart narrowly missed the 25 percent threshold she needed to avoid a runoff (third-place finisher Stacy Miller declined to seek one), but Stephenson only claimed 28 percent, hardly a show of overwhelming strength. DISTRICT A The Odds Even: Patrick Buffkin 2–1: Sam Hershey 20–1: Joshua Bradley With the endorsements of outgoing council member Dickie Thompson and former mayor Charles Meeker, Buffkin strikes us as a favorite. But Hershey’s taken up the salient RDU quarry issue as a campaign cause, and in a race likely to garner fifteen thousand votes max, anything can happen.
DISTRICT B The Odds 2–1 on: David Cox 3–1: Brian Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmons professes confidence, but insiders are skeptical. True, he’s outraised
DISTRICT D The Odds Even: Kay Crowder 3–1: Saige Martin 10–1: Brittany Bryan 25–1: April Parker Crowder and, before her, her late husband, Thomas, have represented District D since 2003. But this year, she faces some high-quality, well-funded challengers. Martin, a politically experienced and media-savvy twenty-eight-year-old who raised more than $55,000 through June and has netted endorsements from Equality NC, restaurateur Ashley Christensen, and retired longtime NCMA director Larry Wheeler, could pose an acute threat. We still think Crowder wins, but we wouldn’t be shocked if she didn’t. DISTRICT E The Odds Even: David Knight 2–1: Stef Mendell Two years ago, Mendell bested Bonner Gaylord by 526 votes out of 11,130 cast. On Election Day, Gaylord had more than $100,000 in the bank, and he declined a runoff he might have won. Mendell started this cycle as the council’s most vulnerable incumbent, and she drew perhaps the strongest challenger in David Knight. jbillman@indyweek.com
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BROTHERLY LOVE Little Brother will probably never be a trio again. But on their comeback album, Phonte and Big Pooh’s bond is stronger than ever before. BY ERIC TULLIS
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ne year ago, a full-fledged reunion of Little Brother—the Durham hip-hop trio cherished as the offspring of 1990s true-school boom-bap— seemed more likely than it had since the group’s messy, puzzling breakup a decade before. At Durham’s Art of Cool Festival, serendipity brought he trio of Phonte, Rapper Big Pooh, and 9th Wonder together to perform on the same stage for the first time since their breakup. When Detroit rapper Royce da 5’9” canceled his performance at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park because of a missed flight, Sulaiman Mausi, who had recently acquired Art of Cool from its cofounder, Cicely Mitchell, called Phonte to ask if he could fill the slot. Mere hours later, that conversation developed into a surprise Little Broth-
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er show with Pooh and 9th on board. It instantly became the hip-hop reunion heard ‘round the world of social media. Longtime Little Brother enthusiast Questlove wrote on Instagram, “I’ve loved a lot of y’all since I got in the music business, but the last rap group I cared for to the level of the groups I idolized BEFORE I got a record just reunited and I’m nowhere NEAR witnessing it. DAMN DAMN DAMN JAMES.” Never mind that many festivalgoers who were patiently waiting for Erykah Badu and Nas didn’t necessarily grasp the magnitude of what was taking place before them. The moment was symbolic for Little Brother, whose stage chemistry was still perfect. It was in front of this same ballpark, almost twenty years before, where they had their first group photo shoot, riding high on the praise for their debut album, The Listening. Unfortunately, that now-classic debut would turn out to be the only time they functioned as a real unit, even though in 2005, they released a bold follow-up, The Minstrel Show, on Atlantic Records. While it also earned acclaim and featured all three
members on the cover, it would be their first and last record on a major label, and it was the launching point for the drama that led to Phonte and Big Pooh’s split with 9th Wonder. After releasing two more albums as a duo, 2007’s Getback and 2010’s Leftback, a group that had once seemed like hiphop’s most promising dissolved altogether. In their respective solo careers, all three members established themselves as figureheads to varying degrees. 9th Wonder became an in-demand, Grammy-winning producer, Jamla Records label owner, and university lecturer. Phonte began working in television while dropping two solo albums and earning his own Grammy nomination as the front man of soul outfit The Foreign Exchange. Big Pooh, ever the hustler, dropped several solo projects, toured, and picked up three up-and-coming artists to manage full-time. The day after Little Brother’s Art of Cool comeback, they were so thrilled about how it went that Phonte hosted a cookout at his house where he and Big Pooh began to explore a full-on Little Brother reunion. But
in May, days after the Hopscotch Music Festival announced Little Brother as one of its 2019 headliners, the group issued a statement. “I’m excited to announce that my brother Big Pooh and I are back at work,” Phonte wrote in an email to DJBooth.com. “New Little Brother music and a tour are coming soon. After conversations with 9th Wonder following our Art of Cool reunion show in Durham last year, the three of us mutually agreed it was best for LB to continue as a duo, as Pooh and I have officially been Little Brother since 2007.” And just like that, the dream of a full reunion of the original trio slipped away. In a way, history repeated itself around the release of May the Lord Watch. But this time, Little Brother came away not only with a triumphant album, but with a stronger bond—as a duo, not a trio—than ever before.
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n the fictional Little Brother universe, somebody had to die,” Phonte says, rather matter-of-fact, seated in a spotless studio nook on the top
floor of his North Raleigh home. He’s referring to one of the characters he portrays in Little Brother’s renowned skits, but it’s hard not to read something more symbolic into the statement. In the past few years, Phonte has spent a lot of time in this studio: working on various musical projects; recording songs and skits for TV shows such as Black Dynamite, Sesame Street, and Sherman’s Showcase; and voice acting for Michael Jordan’s shoe brand and in sports documentaries. Today, August 15, he’s just finished typing out the final draft of the credits for May the Lord Watch. A few days earlier, he and Big Pooh had posted on social media a ten-second teaser clip for the album. It featured only the logo and the harmonized tagline of the fictional TV station UBN (U Black Niggas Network)—a throwback to one of the most memorable skits from The Minstrel Show. The cover art features the duo dressed in what looks like funeral attire, seated on opposite ends of the couch, leaving an empty space between them where a third figure might have been seated. This image is especially apt because it took two brushes with death to bring Phonte and Pooh back together: one that laid open a wound and one that started to heal it. In 2013, Big Pooh was hospitalized with a blood clot. While 9th Wonder called to check on him, Phonte never did. “Our differences weren’t that bad to where I almost could have died and I haven’t heard from you,” Pooh said to Phonte in the new mini-documentary Homecoming: The Story Behind Little Brother’s Surprise Music Fes- Reunion at the 2018 Art of Cool Festival, one of its by Holland Gallagher. “I was carrying that. tatement. That hurt me. The other shit we were going my broth- through were just petty problems.” ,” Phonte “When I got word that Pooh was in the hosm. “New pital—on my side, I was just like ‘Damn, I’m e coming sorry to hear that. I’ll pray for him.’ And I did,” h Wonder Phonte tells the INDY. “But that was the end n show in of it. We weren’t on good terms. In retrospect, mutually I think that I should have at least reached out inue as a and checked in. But at that time, we did not een Little like each other, we were not getting along, we were not friends. The fact that he was in the of a full hospital did not change that.” ped away. But then, in March 2016, Phife Dawg f around of the pioneering hip-hop group A Tribe atch. But Called Quest died of diabetes-related away not complications. Tribe was in the middle ut with a of recording its first album in eighteen rio—than years, We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service. As direct musical descendants of hip-hop groups such Tribe, the ther uni- loss was a major blow to Little Brother. It e,” Phon- hit especially close to home for Big Pooh, r-of-fact, who had recently run into Phife. When n the top Big Pooh got news of Phife’s death, he
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We had to show people that producers are not important. Little Brother is what is important. immediately texted Phonte to try to reconcile their differences. “Look man, whether we speak again or become close again, it doesn’t matter. I just want you to know that you’ll always be my brother and I love you,” he wrote. Phonte replied, “I love you too. Let’s get on the phone.” The next steps were about catching up and reestablishing their brotherhood. After all, their lives had diverged on two distinct paths, with Phonte foraying into television and podcasting (he cohosts Questlove Supreme) while performing in another popular group, and with Big Pooh still toiling through a solo career, driving Uber for extra cash, and juggling managing duties for three up-and-coming artists: T. Smith, Blakk Soul (who has a feature on May the Lord Watch), and Charlotte-based rapper Lute, who also performs at Hopscotch this year. Over the next two years, Phonte and Big Pooh occasionally broached the subject of what a Little Brother reboot would look and sound like, and whether 9th Wonder would be involved. They even discussed touring together in support of their individual solo albums. Those conversations, however, would always end with the consensus that the whole thing would be too much of a headache. If anything, Phonte and Big Pooh hoped to get to a point where they could hop on each other’s songs without driving fans into a frenzy of Little Brother reunion speculation. But at that cookout at Phonte’s house the day after Art of Cool, he and Big Pooh decided it was time to go for it (9th Wonder was invited to the cookout but couldn’t make it because he was out of town). The duo subsequently reached out to him, and the trio agreed to start working on a new
album together. But when it came time for 9th Wonder to submit beats for May the Lord Watch, which was originally to be titled Homecoming, it seemed to Phonte and Big Pooh that the Grammy-winning producer wasn’t recognizing how much they had grown musically over the years. Between Phonte fronting the sophisticated soul outfit The Foreign Exchange with Dutch producer Nicolay and Big Pooh recording entire solo projects over beefy production by Nottz and Apollo Brown, the two felt they had outgrown their affinity for the dirty boom-bap that 9th Wonder provided on The Listening and The Minstrel Show. “I said, ‘Look man, I think you’re sending us what in your mind is your best Little Brother beats, but we need your best 9th Wonder beats, period. Send us the same shit you send Rick Ross or Nas,’” Phonte says. “To me, it was all a part of the process. We just had to shake the rust off. If you’re willing to work with me, I will stay through the mud with you until it’s over. We have to figure this shit out together.” While they were waiting for more from 9th Wonder, Phonte and Pooh started combing through a hard drive of beats from other producers that Phonte hadn’t used on his second solo album, 2018’s No News Is Good News. It didn’t take long before they came across beats that they were mutually geeked about recording to. But according to Phonte, 9th Wonder felt he should handle all the production duties on a Little Brother album called Homecoming. (The INDY reached out to 9th Wonder through his representation at Jamla Records for comment but received no replies.) Phonte says he was angry, and that he called 9th Wonder to offer an analogy about a father who leaves a family for years and then returns. “And it’s cool. It’s great,” Phonte says. “He’s welcomed back into the family. But mom has remarried. You have a whole new family dynamic now. So you can’t come back into the family and tell the stepdaddy how many seats he can get at graduation. … Who are you to say that brothers like Pete Rock, Nottz, and Illmind, who all helped keep the LB name alive, don’t even deserve a shot or a seat at the table?” When the three next talked, Phonte and Big Pooh say that they had already decided to use just one of the songs that they had recorded over 9th Wonder’s beats. They claim that he agreed to stand behind the album and rejoin the group, but with the stipulation that he only appear with and deejay for the group during festival shows, leaving the deejaying duties for all other tour dates to Little Brother’s longtime tour deejay, DJ Flash. Phonte and Big Pooh rejected that offer. To them, it was INDYweek.com | 9.04.19 | 11
all or nothing. No 9th Wonder-produced song appears on May the Lord Watch.
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he “kill off ” is a device used by writers and directors of TV shows to end a character’s run, often to the dismay of loyal followers. On May the Lord Watch, in the make-believe world of UBN, the trope was deployed to dispatch the beloved, outrageous, Jheri-curled soul crooner Percy Miracles, a satirical character that Phonte has stepped in and out of for the length of his career. But other memorable characters from previous skits return—Roy Lee, Producer Extraordinaire (who sold all of his stock in Korg Triton, put it in Bitcoin, and became a famous trap producer); the mad black dad from The Minstrel Show (who is now trapped in an Iyanla: Fix My Life-style reality show); and the real-life HOT 97 radio personality Peter Rosenberg, who, in a perfectly believable turn of events, is now the president of the uber-urban TV network UBN. Big Pooh says that Phonte did most of the heavy lifting on the ideas for the skits, while Phonte credits Big Pooh with carrying the album’s lyrical load. “This is Pooh’s album,” says Phonte. “I think that this is finally going to be the record that he gets his flowers as an MC. This is the moment where people get what Pooh brought to the table as an MC in Little Brother, and also just how singular he is. He sounds like nobody. You just don’t have those kind of heavy tones in rap right now. That kind of guy that barrels straight down the middle and cuts through any kind of fucking track.” “I’ve grown as a writer,” Big Pooh says. “I learned how to slow down and take my time and really think through the process. Writing on paper helped me with that. Phonte told me about how when he would do songs with The Roots, their former manager, the late Rich Nichols, used to want to read his lyrics in addition to hearing them.” The takeaway from Nichols’s philosophy was to treat song lyrics as literature instead of fleeting, auditory word parties. Big Pooh does this in several spots on May the Lord Watch—most notably on “Good Morning Sunshine” and “What I Came For,” where he hits pockets of narrative brilliance. In turn, Big Pooh believes that May the Lord Watch will earn Phonte his own flowers for arranging and structuring songs. If the album sounds sonically uniform, it’s because Phonte and Big Pooh approached the beats as a collection of instrumentals before they did any songwriting, often swapping out picks vetted from a large pool of submissions. While 12 | 9.04.19 | INDYweek.com
this was a common practice for Phonte, Big Pooh had never approached recording in this way. “This album meant something to me,” he says. “I went into it with focus. Not necessarily because I wanted to show motherfuckers that I could rap, but because I wanted us to be at our best. I wanted to show people that even though we had that time off, ain’t shit changed, and that we could pick up better than when we left.” In the end, they went with hammerhead beats from Khrysis, Nottz, Black Milk, Focus, and King Michael Coy. Remove the skits from the album and it’s a seamless sequence of glossy thumpers whose utility puts the spotlight on its MCs. The irony is that the magic of May the Lord Watch winds up sounding as if it were produced by one person—in the wake of one person’s attempt to produce the whole album. “We had to show people that producers are not important. Little Brother is what is important. We are the creative spirits that drive this,” Phonte says. “Not taking anything away from the producers and what they brought to the table, because these niggas are monsters. But, again, take them same producers and put them with any other rapper, group, or duo, and you’re not going to get this.” Phonte and Big Pooh say that while making this album, they spent more time together than they ever have in twenty years of knowing each other. Big Pooh would often drive up from where he lived in Charlotte and stay with Phonte in Raleigh for days at a time. They spent as much time hanging out and grabbing a bite as they did recording music. “It’s really like the first time we were actually able to become friends,” says Phonte. “It’s the closest we were ever able to get to recording our first album and record in relative obscurity. No one knew we were doing this. We were able to live with each other. We lived this shit.” “I credit Phonte with realizing that we had to make sure that we were more complementary with each other and in synch, as opposed to each person going out to get theirs,” says Big Pooh. “I knew that there was no way that we could do that if every verse was just slaughterhouse,” Phonte adds. “On this album, I can compare it to being a lead guitar play versus being a rhythm guitar player. When it’s solo time, yeah, solo all goddamn day. But when you’re playing in a band, just carry the melody. Keep it in the pocket. It’s about you serving the band. I wanted it to be a conversation where no one over-talks the other person. It’s truly an exchange of ideas.” music@indyweek.com
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ifty. Freaking. Hours. Based on our back-of-the-envelope tally, that, more or less, is the total number of hours of Hopscotch programming coming our way September 5–8. And that’s only counting the official day parties and nightly concerts, not the numerous independent after-hours events that will keep the party rolling to last call and beyond. Think you can handle it? Yeah, we’re not sure we can, either. But wouldn’t it be fun to try? (Well, fun or fatal, which are often separated by the thinnest line.) There’s far too much good music at Hopscotch this year to waste a second of your time making decisions. While we at the INDY generally support free thinking and personal agency, just this once, why not let us take the burden off of your hands? In constructing this Hopscotch perfect guide, which accounts for every waking hour of the festival, we encountered a number of impossible choices that we haggled out so you don’t have to. We can’t claim that you’ll see everything you want to see if you follow our guide, because that’s impossible at a festival with so many great things happening at the same time. Still, roll with us and there won’t be a wasted moment.
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Potluck Presents
Noon-1:00 p.m.
at Slim’s
Let’s keep the good local-band vibes rolling at the Potluck Records day party and catch sets by Land Is, Matt Southern & Lost Gold, Bleeder, and North Elementary. These are some good early-afternoon sounds for sure.
Al Riggs
at The Wicked Witch
We’re starting our Hopscotch at the Tiger Bomb Promo and To Be Heard Booking party at The Wicked Witch, where hometown hero Al Riggs is performing their recent album, Lavender Scare, in its entirety. The INDY heartily endorsed its dreamlike yet sharp-hewn electro-pop in a four-star review.
3:30–4:30 p.m.
8:30–9:15 p.m.
4:30–5:30 p.m.
Zack Mexico
5:40–6:30 p.m. 6:30–7:30 p.m.
Snail Mail at City Plaza
EarthGang at Lincoln Theatre If you’re here for harshness, no question, you’re going to see Wolf Eyes, the veteran noise group whose nauseating gale infiltrated indie rock. It’ll be sick. But we’ve seen them enough times that we’re choosing EarthGang, a vibrant young post-OutKast duo in J. Cole’s stable that impressed at Raleigh’s Dreamville Festival. (Frankly, we wish both acts would just combine as WolfGang.)
at City Plaza
at Kings & Neptunes
9:15–10:00 p.m.
Sleater-Kinney at City Plaza
10:30–11:00 p.m.
Injury Reserve at Lincoln Theatre
We like to keep it moving at Hopscotch, but we’ll spend a while at the popular music site Stereogum’s day party. Early in the day, it features the tender pop-punk of LA’s Illuminati Hotties and—for the olds!—The Messthetics, a band built around Fugazi’s rhythm section.
7:45–8:30 p.m.
at City Plaza
Zen Mother at Fletcher Opera Theater
12:30 a.m.-1:00 a.m.
The Nude Party
Kurt Vile
10:00–10:30 p.m. We have FOMO about the collaboration of the versatile Washington, D.C. bass improviser Luke Stewart with Tashi Dorji and Crowmeat Bob. But while the latter two musical explorers are often seen in these parts, the same can’t be said of Seattle’s Zen Mother, whose synthheavy art-rock breathes mystery and grandeur.
Stereogum Day Party
at Slim’s
Tomberlin at Imurj It can feel (pleasantly) disorienting to stumble into sets as intimate as this, but Tomberlin makes for a compelling pit stop before the indomitable Sleater-Kinney. Growing up, singer-songwriter Sara Beth Tomberlin was not allowed to listen to secular music; through performing, she broke free of fundamentalism. Her lilting, dexterous vocals are well-matched to her story.
1:00-3:00 p.m.
11:00–11:30 p.m. Rosenau & Sanborn
at Fletcher Opera Theater
It’s a short walk from Lincoln to Fletcher, so between Injury Reserve and Joey Purp at the former, we’re going to sneak back to the latter to get a taste of the woodsy electro-acoustic music of Chris Rosenau and Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn—maybe it’ll fill the improviosational-shaped hole in us from missing Luke Stewart.
11:30 p.m-Midnight Midnight–12:30 a.m.
Lucy Dacus
at The Pour House
Joey Purp
at Lincoln Theatre
Look, there’s also A Place to Bury Strangers at Slim’s. That’s where we’d be for the noisy shoegaze unit’s nocturnally elongated jams—if they weren’t up against Joey Purp, a Chance the Rapper pal (you know him from “Girls”) whose laidback energy should point the night in a more social, less somnolent direction.
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FRIDAY
Al Riggs covers Silver Jews at Slim’s
Noon-1:00 p.m. Gem Productions at Imurj Let’s get it popping on this bleary Friday morning with the Gem Productions party at Imurj; while it’s not strictly time-slotted, early in the day promises the steely, hypnotic R&B of Durham’s M8alla and the stylish, party-ready rhymes of Raleigh’s ZenSoFly.
3:00–3:45 p.m.
3:45–4:00 p.m.
4:00–4:20 p.m.
Khxos
Loamlands at Ruby Deluxe
at Ruby Deluxe
Planting Moon’s earthy psych-rock paves the way nicely for Loamlands, the project of Durham’s Kym Register, an artist with deep roots in the folk-punk scene—and a prominent tattoo of the faces of Stevie Nicks, Bonnie Raitt, and Kim Deal, as a kind of musical lodestar on their arm. An earthy, thoughtful fifteen-minute set preps you for Ryley Walker and Nathan Bowles’ sweetly cosmic Americana, up next at Kings.
James Blake
6:30–7:00 p.m.
Faye Webster
4:20–5:30 p.m.
Ryley Walker and Nathan Bowles at Kings
5:30–6:30 p.m.
at City Plaza
at Red Hat
8:00–8:30 p.m.
Dirty Projectors 8:40–9:30 p.m.
at Red Hat
Jenny Lewis at City Plaza
Midnight–12:30 a.m.
1:30–2:30 p.m. Three Lobed Records + WXDU at Kings If you tear yourself away from Riggs’s Silver Jews tribute a little early, you might catch the end of Samara Lubelski’s collab with Bill Nace, who is known for being in Body/Head with Kim Gordon. And you’ll be in time for Planting Moon, a new psych band featuring INDY favorite Sarah Louise. (If the vibes at Kings make us too sleepy, though, we’ll dip over to the Carolina Waves hip-hop showcase at Pour House.)
Tyler Ramsey
at Red Hat Amphitheater
Blake is up against some good acts, but we wouldn’t care if Radiohead and Wilco were forming a supergroup— we’re going to Blake. If you’ve only heard the electronic R&B cherub’s music on records, you’ll be amazed how soulful (but still uncannily produced) it becomes live.
Last month, David Berman—who was slated to headline Hopscotch with his new project, Purple Mountains, and who had long fronted the beloved indie-rock band Silver Jews—passed away. The new Purple Mountains record was good, but nothing gets at DB’s keen wit, brutal honesty, and touch of mystery quite like his Silver Jews work. Raleigh’s prolific Al Riggs is well-equipped to pay him tribute.
Bangzz
at Ruby Deluxe
9:45–10:30 p.m.
1:00-1:30 p.m.
10:30–11:00 p.m.
Linqua Franqa at Neptunes
7:00–8:00 p.m. Orville Peck at City Plaza
Orville Peck has the sad honor of filling the slot vacated by Purple Mountains. Peck, who plays ambient country music while wearing beaded veils, is one of the most interesting acts this year—and timely, as Lil Nas X is rewriting the bounds of the form.
Ryley Walker at Nash Hall If his late-afternoon set at Kings gave you a taste for more, Ryley Walker can slake your thirst and close—well, almost close—the night out with his textured, psychedelic spin on prog-folk. His sets tend to be experimental, intimate, and self-aware: perfect for shaking the dust off of a long day of music.
11:30–midnight
Pat Junior
11:00–11:30 p.m. No Love at Kings
12:30 a.m. Pharmakon at The Wicked Witch By now, we’ll be ready to go hard into that good night, and while local MC JooseLord Magnus definitely does that, no one does it like Pharmakon’s Margaret Chardiet, whose dramatic harsh noise performances are unforgettable. 16 | 9.04.19 | INDYweek.com
at Neptunes
We’ll already be at Neptunes for Linqua Franqa, so we’ll definitely head upstairs to Kings to catch a good portion of No Love, the riotous Raleigh punk band representing Sorry State Records, to flush out any introspective vibes lingering from James Blake.
SATURDAY
11:30 a.m.-12:30 Empire Agency Day Party & Big Ed’s Bloody Brunch
2:00–3:30 p.m.
12:30–1:00 p.m.
Zen Mother
Trophy Tap Day Party at Trophy Tap + Table
at Neptunes
The day party at Trophy isn’t scheduled out by band, but with an Americana-heavy lineup of local standouts such as Dead Tongues, John Howie Jr., and Chessa Rich on tap, there’s not a bad time to drop in.
at The Pour House
This party gets out ahead of the pack with an 11:30 start time, but with next-gen local hip-hop scion Defacto Thezpian and the groundwork-layers of Kooley High (which gave the world Rapsody) on the docket, this is probably where we’d be anyway.
1:00–1:30 p.m.
Yowler at Kings
6:00–7:00 p.m.
3:30–4:30 p.m.
Raphael Saadiq at City Plaza
No shots if the dance-punk of !!! (pronounced chk-chk-chk) claims your pre-dusk slot, but we’ll be basking in the classic R&B of Saadiq, who’s enjoying a great second act after his success in New Jack Swing group Tony! Toni! Toné! (See, you’ll get your three-exclamation-point fix either way.)
Grace Ives at Kings
4:30–5:00 p.m.
Lute
at City Plaza
5:00–6:00 p.m.
Pie Face Girls
at Person Street Bar
Queens, New York’s Grace Ives does acrobatics with her playful, synth-y bedroom pop, in that she somehow manages to carve meaning out of the internet age. INDY mainstay Kooley High also plays in this slot, making this half-hour a hard decision, but there’s something about Ives’s danceable stuff that feels zeitgeisty and true, somehow, despite itself.
7:15–8:00 p.m.
Little Brother 8:00–9:00 p.m.
at City Plaza
Phantogram
9:00–9:30 p.m. Niecy Blues at Pour House
Sandwiched between the saturated acts of electronic pop-rock superstars Phantogram and Chvrches, you’ll find the honeyed vocals of Niecy Blues, an up-and-coming singer from South Carolina. Her take on R&B is a little bit trippy, a little bit experimental—and definitely something to keep a close eye on.
11:00–11:30 p.m.
at Red Hat
Joyero at Imurj
9:45–10:30 p.m.
Chvrches at Red Hat
10:30–11:00 p.m.
Gruff Rhys at Fletcher
It’s a tight squeeze between Gruff Rhys and Cate le Bon, but if you hustle, you should be able to catch a bit of Joyero. The solo project of Wye Oak’s Andy Stack, which recently debuted on Merge Records, is one of the INDY’s favorite new local acts. (Try to squeeze in What Cheer? Brigade between le Bon and Long Hots, too.)
11:30 p.m.–midnight
Cate le Bon at Fletcher
12:30–1:00 a.m.
Long Hots at Slim’s
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SUNDAY
Noon–3:00 p.m.
4:00–9:00 p.m.
Slims’s Hopscotch Hangover
The Suah Sounds Sunday Spectacular/ Thrashitorium & Devil’s Trumpet Day After Hopscotch Party
at Slim’s
It’s Sunday! We made it! Almost—one more afternoon and early evening of before we can rip off our fifty paper wristbands and crash. This party leads with local rock belter Reese McHenry, and we’re going to need that dose of vocal adrenaline to propel us through this day. (We’ll also try to pop over to Pour House to see Skylar Gudasz at 1:00 p.m.)
1:00–1:30 p.m.
Skylar Gudasz at Pour House
3:00–4:00 p.m. Beatmaking and Showcase with Raund Haus at Schoolkids Records By now we’ll need a break from bars, and our brains might feel kind of atrophied, so let’s all go learn something and nod out to some bass music at Raund Haus’s beat-making demo and showcase with the likes of Trandle and Tony G.
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SORE THUMB HOPSCOTCH DAY PARTY
HEAVY FOR THE VINTAGE, CLYDE BOOMER, CANDY COFFINS, THE PSEUDO COWBOYS, WINFIELD, SLUSH CRANK ARM BREWING: NOON – 5 P.M.
2ND ANNUAL LIVE NATION X LOST APPEAL HOPSCOTCH DAY SHOW ISSAC HUNTER’S TAVERN: NOON – 5 P.M.
TRIANGLE POP UP MARKET KINGS: NOON – 5 P.M.
ADHOC PRESENTS: “FREE FOR ALL” OFFICIAL HOPSCOTCH DAY PARTY
INDIGO DE SOUZA, YOWLER, MEGA BOG, TRUTH CLUB, GRACE IVES, FAYE WEBSTER LEGEND’S NIGHTCLUB: NOON – 4:30 P.M.
WKNC DAY PARTY
SPAZZSCOTCH 2019
TROPHY TAP AND TABLE: NOON – 4 P.M. DEAD TONGUES, JOHN HOWIE JR., CHESSA RICH, JOSEPH TERRELL THE WICKED WITCH: NOON – 5 P.M.
CLAIRE GINN’S 2ND ANNUAL HOPSCOTCH DAY PARTY THE ADVERTISERS, SUNNY SLOPES, AUTOSPKR, SE WARD, 300 DOG NIGHT
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RALEIGH RAW (7 W HARGETT STREET) 11 A.M. – 4 P.M. RECOVERY DAY PARTY – DJ DDUBB SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS: NOON – 5 P.M.
BEATMAKING AND SHOWCASE WITH RAUND HAUS RECORDS
FT. TONY G, TRANDLE, GAPPA MIGHTY, RONNIE FLASH AND SPECIAL GUESTS, DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, AKIRA SCREENING WITH MICAH MOSES SLIM’S DOWNTOWN: NOON – 6 P.M. SLIM’S HOPSCOTCH HANGOVER X – REESE MCHENRY, ZEN MOTHER, ANDY HOLMES, THE VIBEKILLERS TRANSFER CO. FOOD HALL: 11 A.M. – 2 P.M. LIGON MIDDLE SCHOOL’S JAZZ ENSEMBLE, SAXOPHONIST DONTEZ HARRIS + FRIENDS
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AFRICANA MARKET & FOOD TRUCK RODEO Black Communities: A Conference for Collaboration Durham Convention Center Plaza at the Carolina Theatre 309 West Morgan Street, Durham | Sept. 9–11
A Place to Call Home DENISE HESTER SHOWCASES RESTAURATEURS IN AN ALL-BLACK MARKETPLACE BY ANDREA RICE
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he Hayti in which Denise Hester grew up in the fifties was not the Hayti she returned to in 1989, after a twenty-year absence, to run her family’s dry-cleaning business. The vibrant mixed-income hub of black arts and commerce she knew was stagnant. The once-thriving Durham neighborhood was destabilized decades earlier by redlining, but it had been decimated by the city’s so-called urban renewal program in the late sixties. More than four thousand households and five hundred businesses were displaced to make way for the Durham Freeway. In the years that followed, as the rest of Durham grew and prospered, Hayti fell further behind. In 2000, Hester and her husband, Larry, developed the Phoenix Crossing Shopping Center. Since then, through the Great Recession and high unemployment, they’ve added fifty-five thousand square feet of commercial retail space to the Fayetteville Street corridor, part of an ongoing effort to restore Hayti’s entrepreneurial legacy. Next week, the Africana Market & Food Truck Rodeo, which Hester spearheads, will return to downtown Durham in conjunction with the second annual Black Communities Conference, an international summit for academics and black communities sponsored by UNC’s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and the Institute of African American Research. “We bootstrapped this thing, and it’s just kind of gotten out of control, in a good way,” says Mark Little, executive director of the Kenan Institute. Following the success of last year’s conference and Africana Market, which drew about six hundred people, Little anticipates bringing more than eight hundred historians, elected officials, architects, artists, and representatives from nonprofits from around the world to Durham. The three-day conference features lectures from academics—many from Durham—on topics such as the intersec-
tion of technology and gender, poverty, and race, a short talk on community food access, and a workshop on obesity and diabetes epidemics in the South and Midwest. Little says the Africana Market is a way to make some components of the conference available to the general public. The market features artisanal crafts and other handmade goods such as traditional and contemporary African jewelry and clothes, while the food truck rodeo, limited to ten trucks from around the state, features Lawrence & Perry BBQ, Selena Fried Chicken & Fish, and Bull City favorite Saltbox Seafood Joint, to name a few. Hester says the rodeo gives African American restaurateurs the opportunity to showcase their businesses in an all-black marketplace. Often, she says, these businesses are overlooked. Many of Durham’s restaurants are small—70 percent have fewer than ten employees, Hester says—mobile, or even web-based, making them hard to pin down. There are about thirty-five black-owned restaurants in Durham, fifty if you count food trucks, and that number is rising, she says. “That impetus to create and produce has always been in the black community, but most businesses need a place from which to operate,” Hester says. That idea drove her and her husband into commercial real estate in Hayti, she adds. Little agrees. A century ago, Durham’s robust black middle class—built first from the decent-paying jobs black workers could access in the tobacco industry and then the rise of Black Wall Street—was unique in the South. To offer attendees a window into that rich historical context, the Black Communities Conference will hold afternoon tours of Black Wall Street, Hayti, and the Pauli Murray Center. “There are a significant number of blackowned businesses in Durham today,” Little says, “and anyone interested in their survival can buy things from them.” arice@indyweek.com
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FARM TO FORK PICNIC + LECTURE Thurs., Sep. 5, 5:30–9 p.m. Lavender Oaks Farm 3833 Millard Whitley Road, Chapel Hill $45, farmtoforknc.com This year’s second installment of the Farm to Fork Picnic fundraiser features a lecture from Monica White, the author of Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, followed by a meal prepared by local chefs Billy Cotter of Dashi and Toast, Roberto Copa Matos of COPA, Thomas Card of Counting House, Brendan Cox of Oakleaf, Andrea Reusing and Miguel Torres of Lantern, and Angelina Koulizakis-Battiste and Sarah Sligh of Angelina’s Kitchen, as well as libations from Fullsteam Brewery, The Haw River Wine Man, and TOPO.
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FALL FEST BACKYARD PARTY Sat., Sep. 7, Noon–11:30 p.m. Cotton House Craft Brewers 307 S. Academy St., Cary cottonhousecraft.com Cotton House’s newly completed backyard and outdoor beer shack will be unveiled at a day-long party featuring craft beers complemented by food trucks— Cousins Maine Lobster, American Meltdown, Curry in a Hurry NC—and live music from the Grammy-nominated Gabriel Kelley and Nashville’s Hogslop String Band, as well as hand-rolled cigars from the Amendola Family Cigar Co., axe throwing by Axes & X’s Axe Throwing Range, and artwork by Nick Osetek. DINNER IN THE MEADOW Sun., Sep. 8, 5:30–8:30 Meadow Lane Farm at N.C. Century Farm 571 Leonard Farm Road, Louisburg $100, dinnerinthemeadow.org Hosted by WUNC’s Frank Stasio, this fundraising dinner features dishes prepared by some of the state’s most notable chefs—Joe Lumbrazo of Backyard Bistro, Jake Wood of Plates Neighborhood Kitchen, Kevin Goller of Pompieri Pizza, Michael Ward of Michael’s Showside Grill in Spring Hope, and John Oliver Evans of Funky Fresh in Goldsboro, to name a few. Tickets (they’re tax-deductible) are going fast—the dinner has sold out every year. —Andrea Rice INDYweek.com | 9.04.19 | 23
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 & FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
SOUTHBOUND: PHOTOGRAPHS OF AND ABOUT THE NEW SOUTH The South sprawls, and so does this new multimedia exhibit shared between N.C. State’s Gregg Museum and Duke’s Power Plant Gallery. Southbound is made up of works by fifty-five contemporary photographers and debuted at Charleston’s Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art last fall; this iteration of the travel exhibit curated by UNC-Chapel Hill professor Randall Kenan, who has further organized the exhibit into two themes: The Gregg’s “Home” and Power Plant’s “Flux.” Expect to find Jeff Whetstone’s mystical images of bodies of water, McNair Evans’s painterly images of home, and Tamara Reynolds’s humanistic portraits in which, no matter how crowded the frame, one subject always seems to hold the camera’s gaze. Following these two opening receptions, the exhibits run in Raleigh and Durham through December 29 and December 21, respectively. —Sarah Edwards GREGG MUSEUM OF ART & DESIGN, RALEIGH (6–8 p.m. Thursday) POWER PLANT GALLERY, DURHAM (6–9 p.m. Friday)
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CRAIG WALSH: 1971 If you’re walking through UNC’s campus in September and you think you see a giant face hovering in the trees, don’t freak out—it’s just because there’s a giant face hovering in the trees. In 1971, the first outdoor art installation ever commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts, the Australian site-specific artist Craig Walsh fills the boughs at Polk Place (September 7–17) and the Chapel Hill Public Library (September 19–29) with the visages of women who drove the fight for voting rights in North Carolina (the Constitution’s Nineteenth Amendment wasn’t ratified in our state until 1971). Walsh is essentially a sculptor whose medium is the seam between natural or urban topography and projected light, and his work is sure to inspire both awe and discussions on campus and throughout Chapel Hill. The free installation is open to anyone who wanders by, starting at dusk each day of the run. —Brian Howe UNC CAMPUS/PUBLIC LIBRARY, CHAPEL HILL Various times, free, www.carolinaperformingarts.org
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been performing as the Indigo Girls since 1985, and they’ve been an indelible part of pop culture since, reliably putting out heartfelt, skillful songs about finding oneself while navigating complicated relationships. Even if you’re not a dedicated fan, you’re probably familiar with their sound. The duo’s earnest but snappy folk-rock harmonizing was distinctive at their height in the 1990s, and if you’ve spent any time in a coffee shop in the intervening decades, you’ve heard their numerous copycats. That said, Ray and Saliers still have something that’s all their own: an emotionality and enthusiasm that hasn’t been dampened by years of recording and touring. Listening to recordings of recent performances, you get the sense that they still feel all their songs—and that audiences do, too. With H.C. McEntire. — Elizabeth Szypulski DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, DURHAM 8 p.m., $25–$50, www.dpacnc.com
NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED CLOSURE AND GRADE SEPARATION OF TRINITY ROAD AT-GRADE CROSSING
STIP P-5734 Trinity Road Crossing (630657S) in Wake County The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to present information on the proposed closure of the Trinity Road at-grade crossing of the North Carolina Railroad (NCRR) and the replacement of the closed crossing with a grade separation.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
FLYING LOTUS IN 3D With every successive release, beat music thaumaturge Steven Ellison expands his creative universe. He looked inward on 1983 and Los Angeles, ruminating on his birth year and the city in which he found his musical identity as Flying Lotus; looked heavenward on Cosmogramma; gazed into the life of the mind on the feverish Until the Quiet Comes; and mused on the nature of death, the afterlife, and rebirth on the space oddity magnum opus You’re Dead!. Five years separate it from this year’s Flamagra, though in between came his feature-film directorial debut, Kuso, a series of surreal post-apocalyptic visual vignettes. Flamagra largely frees itself of earthly concerns, further vaporizing the lines between jazz, beat music, and Surrealist art. It channels Afrofuturism and fatalism, manipulating maximalism to mete out the murk and confusion of a world’s end. Its through line is eternity, using the image of a flame on a hill as a subtle motif. Live, FlyLo’s oeuvre is paired with trippy visuals, taking the immersively tenebrous sonics into a transcendent extrasensory experience. After all, he doesn’t need anybody—he’s bouncin’ on that astral plane. —Patrick Wall THE RITZ, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $30, www.ritzraleigh.com
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TH 9/26: PALM PALM (J RODDY WALSTON'S NEW BAND) W/SECRET AMERICAN
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music 9.04–9.11 WED, SEP 4 THE CAVE Hollywood Horses, Bodyshots, Puddle Cuddle; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE New Reveille, Andrew Duhon; $5. 5:45 p.m. THE PINHOOK Mal Blum, Pretty Crimes, Dissimilar South; $12. 8 p.m. THE RITZ In This Moment, New Years Day, HellzaPoppin Sideshow Circus, Ded; $35. 6:30 p.m.
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Tennessee native Amythyst Kiah possesses the kind of raw, soulful voice—a booming, bluesy wail capable of freezing listeners in their tracks—that needs little accompaniment. Indeed, while she’s regularly backed by a muscular, somewhat funky rock combo, Kiah may be at her best when her own simple banjo strums or deftly picked acoustic guitar put her bare vocals front and center. Kiah has dubbed herself a “Southern Gothic, alt-country blues singer-songwriter,” although oldtime and spiritual influences flow through her music, and she regularly digs up traditionals to sit alongside her similarly styled originals. A talented songwriter to boot, she’s recently collaborated with former Carolina Chocolate Drops Rhiannon Giddens and Leyla McCalla along with Birds of Chicago’s Allison Russell as Our Native Daughters, a project that explores how the identity of black women has been shaped by events in American history. —Spencer Griffith THE POUR HOUSE MUSIC HALL, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $15–$30, www.live.arts.ncsu.edu
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Richard Smith performs at the ArtsCenter on Thursday, September 5. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTSCENTER the hand free to outline chords and melodies. The resulting sound can be wonderfully dense. Richard Smith is one of the leading proponents of the style, unfurling richly polyphonic interpretations of the Beatles, Chet Atkins, Bach, Django Reinhardt, and beyond. —Dan Ruccia BLUE NOTE GRILL Nikki Hill, Jose Ramirez; $12. 7:30 p.m.
CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Abraham Alexander; $15-$18. 8 p.m.
CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Liz Cooper & the Stampede, Harpooner; $12$14. 8 p.m.
Splitting the difference between folky, Fleetwood Mac-esque soft rock and today’s pop-country trends, Little Big Town’s harmony-laden jangles have progressively shifted toward the former, thanks to the group’s open-minded approach to arrangements and songwriting outside the country sphere. With piercing lyricism and tender, whiskey-worn vocals, opener Ashley McBryde sounds like a modern Nashville outsider. Her major label debut, 2018’s Girl Going Nowhere, earned a Grammy nomination.
THE CAVE Evil Engines, Split Type, Spaced Angel; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. MOTORCO Supersuckers, The Hangmen; $15-$18. 9 p.m. THE PINHOOK Anamorph, Stellar Circuits, Echonest; $10. 9 p.m.
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FRI, SEP 6 CAROLINA THEATRE Three Dog Night; $55-$80. 8 p.m.
THE CAVE The Hollow Roots, Whatserface; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. THE FRUIT Fresh Fruit; Free. 10 p.m. KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE
Little Big Town [$45+, 7:30 P.M.]
—Spencer Griffith MOTORCO Sophomore Slump Fest; $3-$55. NIGHTLIGHT Sophie & Friends; 10 p.m. THE PINHOOK Old Heavy Hands, Eno Mountain Boys, Almost People; $10. 7:30 p.m. RED HAT AMPHITHEATER Hopscotch; Full schedule online.
SAT, SEP 7 BLUE NOTE GRILL The Terry Wiley Band; $8. 8 p.m. CAROLINA THEATRE Leo Dan; $56-$131. 8 p.m. THE CAVE
Shelles, Bleeder, Jphono1 [$5 SUGGESTED, 9 P.M.] Sometimes only a dose of vintage Chapel Hill indie-rock vibes will
DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Indigo Girls, HC McEntire; $35+. 8 p.m. RHYTHMS LIVE Huggy Lowdown, Chris Paul; $25. 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. SHARP NINE GALLERY Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet; $30. 8 p.m. THE STATION Underhill Rose, Elonzo Wesley; 7 p.m.
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do—and what better place to get them than townie-haunted house The Cave? This bill features three bands you’ll like that stem from other bands you like: Shelles, the project of Old Bricks’ Stuart Edwards, includes people who’ve played in Schooner, Spider Bags, and Shit Horse; Bleeder is the current band of former Simple guy Shelby Smoak; and jphono1 is the psych-pop solo project of North Elementary’s John Harrison. —Brian Howe
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CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Quinn Christopherson, Angelica Garcia; $12. 8:30 p.m.
MON, SEP 9
CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM The National Parks, WILD; $12-$15. 8 p.m.
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THE CAVE Clark Stern, Chuck Cotton; $5 suggested. 9 p.m.
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Mallarmé Chamber Players A performance that gives a snapshot of the musical world in 1869 might sound like, well, any generic classical concert. The Mallarmé Chamber Players give it a twist to celebrate Durham’s birthday with some unusual selections. Brahms and Schumann show off two different flavors of horn. Grieg’s second violin sonata is free flowing and tragic. And American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk attempts to make the piano sound like the titular instrument. —Dan Ruccia MOTORCO BoDeans, Andrew Winter; $20-$25. 8 p.m.
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DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Buddy Guy, Shemekia Copeland; $30+. 7:30 p.m. LOCAL 506 Daddy Long Legs, Reese McHenry, Drag Sounds; $10-$12. 8 p.m. POUR HOUSE Amythyst Kiah; $15-$30. 8 p.m. THE RITZ Flying Lotus; $30. 8 p.m.
WED, SEP 11 THE CAVE Calico Vision, Weird God, Echonest; $5 suggested. 9 p.m. KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE Jeanne Jolly; $5. 5 45 p.m. THE PINHOOK Poison Anthem, ZEALOTROUS, Car Crash Star, LunchBox Hero; $6. 8 p.m. POUR HOUSE Buffalo Gospel; $9-$12. 9 p.m.
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nasher.duke.edu/voices Radiant Tushka (detail), 2018. Repurposed quilt, assorted glass, plastic and stone beads, printed chiffon, nylon ribbon, canvas, acrylic paint, nylon fringe, copper, and artificial sinew; 95 ½ x 64 x 2 ½ inches (242.57 x 162.56 x 6.35 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta, Chicago. Photo by Peter Mauney. Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. The exhibition is co-curated by independent curator Candice Hopkins (Tlingit, citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation in the Canadian territory, Yukon), Mindy Besaw, curator of American art at Crystal Bridges, and Manuela Well-Off-Man, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Support for this exhibition and its national tour is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Sotheby’s Prize. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This exhibition has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. At the Nasher Museum, this exhibition is made possible by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, with additional support from The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Exhibitions. This project was supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources.
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DAMIAN STAMER: UNSEEN
For Triangle residents, the works of the accomplished local painter Damian Stamer thrive on the pleasure of seeing familiar things in new ways, from his deeply textured portrait of former North Carolina Museum of Art director Larry Wheeler to his photorealist but somehow still-abstract grayscale images of tobacco barns. In Unseen, Stamer’s first exhibit exclusively comprised of works on paper, the focus remains regional—see the evocative “Horry County” pictured here—but the medium shifts from oils to watercolors (not to mention works that integrate painting, drawing, and lithography). Sharp perspective marks these views of local landscapes and forgotten interiors, which coalesce from abstract storms of marks, like visible traces of time. As usual, Stamer finds the hidden soul of abandoned places and evokes their complex histories. After this opening reception, the exhibit runs through November 2. —Brian Howe
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“Horry County” by Damian Stamer PHOTO COURTESY OF CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY
OPENING Feels Warm, Like Things Burning Group show. Sep 6-Oct 26. Reception: Sep 6, 6-9 p.m. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org. Andrew Kozlowski: Dark Days Prints and more. Sep 6-Oct 26. Reception: Sep 6, 6-10 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org. Vanessa Murray: Transmutations Paint and experimental media. Sep 6-28. Reception: Sep 6, 6-10 p.m. Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.
Frank Myers: Strolling Through Durham Photos. Sep 5-30. Reception: Sep 20, 6-9 p.m. 5 Points Gallery, Durham. 5pointsgallery.com. New Orleans Second Line Parades Photos. Sep 5-Dec 31. Reception: Sep 5, 5:30-7 p.m. Love House and Hutchins Forum, Chapel HIll. southerncultures.org. Ode to the Rainbow: Serigraphs by Joseph Albers (1888-1976) Sep 6-28. Reception: Sep 6, 6-9 p.m. Gallery C, Raleigh. V L Rees: Seems Like Home Sep 6-21. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com.
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Photography. Sep 6-Dec 21. Reception: Sep 6, 6-9 p.m. Power Plant Gallery, Durham. powerplantgallery.com. Damian Stamer: Unseen Watercolors and works on paper. Sep 7-Nov 2. Reception: Sep 7, 5-7 p.m. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com.
ONGOING Katherine Armacost, Nikki Blair, Natalie Boorman, Peg Gignoux, Linda Prager & Carol Retsch-Bogart Group show. Music Salon: September 8, 6-7 p.m. Thru Oct 5. FRANK Gallery, Chapel HIll.
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now Contemporary Indigenous art. Thru Jan 12. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. Jimmie Banks Retrospective Thru Sep 9. Rubenstein Art Center Gallery 235, Durham. artscenter.duke.edu. The Carrack’s Final Community Show Thru Sep 21. Reception: Sep 6, 6-9 p.m. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. thecarrack.org. Kennedi Carter: Godchild Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. 21cmuseumhotels.com. Cary Gallery of Artists: All Creatures Great and Small Thru Sep 24. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org.
Marsha Cottrell: Black and Light Works on paper. Thru Sep 8. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. José Manuel Cruz: COLORICAN Various media. Thru Oct 11. NCCU Art Museum, Durham. Kristen DeGree Screenprints. Thru Sep 9. Durham Arts Council, Durham. Dymph de Wild & Corinne Diop: Evoking Spirits Collages and mixed media. Thru Sep 15. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel HIll. art.unc.edu. Empirical Evidence Group show. Thru Sep 30. Carrboro Town Hall, Carrboro. Fantastic Fauna-Chimeric Creatures Thru Jan 26. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.
Raymond Goodman: Burlap Photography. Thru Oct 3. Reception: Sep 5, 5-8 p.m. Smelt Art Gallery, Pittsboro. Lolette Guthrie, Alice Levinson, & Pringle Teetor: Speaking in Colors Group show. Thru Sep 22. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. John James Audubon: The Birds of America Ornithological engravings. Thru Dec 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org. Jim Kellough: Vine Paintings Thru Oct 10. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamarts.org. Christian Marclay: Surround Sounds Synchronized silent video installation. Thru Sep 8. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. INDYweek.com | 9.04.19 | 33
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MISTY COPELAND IN CONVERSATION Ballet’s Eurocentrism dates back to its formation in the 1400s. So has its systemic racism, aligned against dancers from the African diaspora, as has been reflected in everything from the historical single color of manufactured pointe shoes—“European pink”—to the ceiling that only the smallest handful of artists of color, like Raven Wilkinson and Janet Collins, began to crack during the 1950s. But after Misty Copeland smashed through those barricades in 2015 as the American Ballet Theatre’s first female African-American principal dancer, she became an outspoken activist for bringing racial equity to her art form. “George Balanchine created this image of what a ballerina should be: skin the color of a peeled apple, with a prepubescent body,” she told the London Daily Telegraph in 2015. Her conversation with Susan Jaffe, dean of dance at UNC School of the Arts, is likely to be every bit as frank, and kicks off Carolina Performing Arts’ new season. (American Ballet Theatre appears at Duke Performances in February.) —Byron Woods
UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 8 p.m., $27, www.carolinaperformingarts.com
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READINGS & SIGNINGS William L. Andrews Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 18401865. Tue, Sep 10, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. Dan Ariely Amazing Decisions: The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals. Tue, Sep 10, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com. Jim Auchmutey & John Shelton Reed Authors in conversation. Mon, Sep 9, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.
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Wes J. Bryant Hunting the Caliphate. Sat, Sep 7, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com. Seane Corn Revolution of the Soul. Ticketed event. Wed, Sep 11, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. James Dean Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party. Wed, Sep 4, 6:30 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com. Peter Guzzardi Emeralds of Oz. Tue, Sep 10, 6:30 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com. Sara Johnson Molten Mud Murder. Sat, Sep 7, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.
NAACP Community Book Read Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Wed, Sep 11, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com. Frank Pasciuti Chrysalis Crisis, How Life’s Ordeals Can Lead to Personal & Spiritual Transformation. Fri, Sep 6, 7 p.m. The Episcopal Center at Duke Durham https://www.rhine.org Mary Doria Russell The Women of the Copper Century. Thu, Sep 5, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.
Victoria Schwab Novel Tunnel of Bones. Thu, Sep 5, 6 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.
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Laura Vaccaro Seeger Children’s book Why? Sat, Sep 7, 11 a.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.
Chernobyl Panel Panel discussion of nuclear energy with Harris Nuclear Plant experts and NC State engineers. Tue, Sep 10, 7 p.m. Fullsteam, Durham. fullsteam.ag.
Laura Vaccaro Seeger & David Shannon Children’s authors in conversation. Sat, Sep 7, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.
Misty Copeland In conversation with Susan Jaffe, UNC School of the Arts. $27. Fri, Sep 6, 8 p.m. UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. carolinaperformingarts.org.
Jon Thompson Notebook of Last Things. Sun, Sep 8, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.
Deondra Rose & Mayor Lydia Lavelle Author Deondra Rose in conversation with Carrboro mayor Lydia Lavelle. Wed, Sep 4, $7. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com. Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba: A Talk About Turtles Ruby Fridays. Fri, Sep 6, noon. Ruby Lounge at Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham. artscenter.duke.edu.
stage OPENING Tone Bell Comedy. Sep 5-7. Thu: 8 p.m. Fri-Sat: 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com. Jeghetto Puppetry. Mon, Sep 9, 6 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. Native Son Play. $15+. Sep 11-29. UNC’s Paul Green Theatre, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org. Jeremy Piven Comedy. $30. Sep 6-7. Fri: 7:30 p.m.& 9:45 p.m. Sat: 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Raleigh Improv, Raleigh. improv.com/raleigh. The Scottsboro Boys Theatre Raleigh. Musical. Sep 4-15. Kennedy Theatre, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. Transactors Improv Improv comedy. Sat, Sep 7, 6 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org. When Magic Found Poetry Poetry and magic. Sat, Sep 7, 7 p.m. Wake Forest Coffee Company, Wake Forest.
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THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
They were boys—the youngest, thirteen; the oldest, nineteen—hoboing on a freight train through Tennessee in 1931. But when two women in a group of white hoboes who started a fight with the nine African Americans boys accused them all of rape, their subsequent arrest and trials in Scottsboro, Alabama resulted in one of the most infamous miscarriages of American justice. Two landmark Supreme Court decisions from the seven-year legal odyssey established the universal right to adequate legal counsel and said jurors could no longer be dismissed from trials due to their race. But eightytwo years would pass before the last of nine innocents were pardoned, in 2013. Three years before that, in one of their last collaborations, longtime Broadway legends John Kander and Fred Ebb sharpened the point of their musical theater adaptation by placing a tale of atrocity in an equally scandalous frame, as a old-time minstrel show. Buckle up; it’s going to be intense. Gerry McIntyre directs the Theatre Raleigh production. —Byron Woods
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OPENING Brittany Runs a Marathon— A woman runs herself out of a rut and across the New York City Marathon finish line in this feel-good comedy. Rated R. IT Chapter Two—The evil clown is back in Derry, Maine. Do we really need a movie about an evil clown when we have one sitting in office? Rated R.
N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Unstarred films have not been reviewed by our writers. Adam—In the polarizing directorial debut of Rhys Ernst, a straight man passes as a transgender man in order to pursue a relationship with a lesbian love interest. Rated PG-13. —James Michael Nichols After the Wedding— Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams outshine the script, in this gender-flipped remake of the 2006 Danish drama. Rated PG-13. —Glenn McDonald ½ Angel Has Fallen— In the third installment of the Fallen franchise, secret agent Mike Banning is framed for the president’s murder. Rated R. The Angry Birds Movie 2— Jason Sudekis leads a surprisingly decent film about an iPhone game. Rated PG. Blinded by the Light— Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics hold the meaning of life for a Pakistani-British teen growing up in the 1980s. Rated PG-13. David Crosby: Remember my Name—The Byrds singer gets his due in this rock-doc about his tumultuous road to rehabilitation and beyond. Rated R. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw— The testosterone-driven repartee between Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham is the only reason to endure this cartoonish, logically and temporally challenged CGI
fest. Rated PG-13. —Neil Morris The Farewell— A family travels to China to say goodbye to the family matriarch, who is dying of cancer. The twist? They feel that it’s more benevolent to not tell her she’s dying. Rated PG. —Sarah Edwards ½ Good Boys—The evolution of coming-of-age comedies is that the subjects keep getting younger. In this Superbad for tweens, a trio of sixth-grade BFFs have misadventures as they try to find the cool-kids party. The profuse profanity is cut by the kids’ infectious charm. Rated R. —NM ½ The Lion King— Jon Favreau’s photorealistic palette is the boon and bane of Disney’s “live-action” computer rendering of an animated classic. Rated PG. —NM Luce—A young man from Eritrea, adopted by an American couple, is the star of his school until a teacher makes a discovery in his locker that leads to a charged exploration of race. Rated R. Maiden—The first all-female sailing crew admitted to the elite Whitbread race around the world is the subject of this inspiring biopic. Rated PG. Men in Black: International—What if Men in Black, but Morocco and Chris Hemsworth’s torso? Rated PG-13. —GM Midsommar— Horror upstart Ari Aster’s latest isn’t quite as scary as his unforgettable Hereditary, but his tale of feckless American students and Swedish cultists is likewise brilliant in its treatment of trauma; it’s also a lot weirder and funnier. Rated R. —Brian Howe Once Upon a Time In Hollywood—Quentin Tarantino portrays the late-sixties Hollywood film industry and vaguely mumbles something about the Manson family in this tedious, irrelevant exercise in bland nostalgia for a bygone era of unaccountable hypermasculinity. Rated R. — Marta Núñez Pouzols
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MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA THRASH METAL STORY
Thrash metal is often described in shorthand as a collision of hardcore punk and the British heavy metal—Black Flag meets Iron Maiden, so to speak. And, without putting it so bluntly, filmmaker Adam Dubin’s documentary Murder In the Front Row, suggests the same thing. The film traces the ascent of the Bay Area thrash scene and its most notable exports as story of a tight-knit group of young people who, instead of pining for a longshot chance of seeing their favorite British bands, adopted punk’s DIY ethos and just started their own. Through interviews with key players and narration by comedian and avowed metalhead Brian Posehn, Murder in the Front Row celebrates the mythology of megastars like Metallica and Slayer and explores the influence of lesser-known acts like Exodus and Possessed—memorializing not just a moment in time, but also the people that created it. Dubin, who will participate in Q-and-A sessions after both screenings, has said of the film, “It’s not just a film about heavy metal. It’s about people. It’s hard music with a warm, fuzzy beating heart.” —Bryan Reed
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The Peanut Butter Falcon—This heartwarming Tom-and-Huck tale features a breakout performance by Zack Gottsagen, who has Down Syndrome, and a soulful Shia LaBeouf. Rated PG-13. —GM ½ Ready or Not—Samara Weaver plays a new bride drawn into a brutal game of hide-and-seek with her husband’s wealthy family in this class-ragey, genre-
blurring horror-comedythriller. Rated R. ½ Spider-Man: Far from Home—It’s a bedrock truism that a superhero story is only as good as its villain. Everyone knows this, except, evidently, the screenwriters of Far From Home. Mysterio’s motivations are entirely and conspicuously dumb. Rated PG-13.
Toy Story 4—A spork’s severe ontological distress ballasts a half-daring, halfpredictable extension of a beloved animated franchise. Rated G. —NM Where’d You Go, Bernadette— When Cate Blanchett’s titular character goes missing, it’s up to her family to unravel the mysteries of her past. Rated PG-13.
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