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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH 8 Remember when PayPal bailed on a North Carolina expansion because of HB 2? So why is the company funding the politicians who passed it?

VOL. 33, NO. 36

DEPARTMENTS 7 Backtalk 8 Triangulator

10 A new GOP PAC has reserved more than $2 million in television ad time to bash Josh Stein.

10 News

13 The levain bread at Boulted is the signature loaf of Raleigh’s premier bakery.

28 Arts & Culture

16 Still going strong in its seventh year, the Hopscotch Music Festival returns to Raleigh.

19 Hopscotch has always pushed hip-hop, but this year’s festival is hard on the genre’s fans.

13 Food 16 Music 34 What to Do This Week 37 Music Calendar 41 Arts/Film Calendar

20 Kurt Wagner returns to Raleigh with Lambchop—only this time he has a black box.

21 With age, Hopscotch has lost some of its edge. Or has it?

31 Author Clyde Edgerton resisted painting from photographs until he learned that the Impressionists did it.

A man walks past Boulted Bread.

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We’ll begin with this note from Howard Du Bose, the former owner of River Runners’ Emporium, on our Outdoors Guide story about kayaking [“Keep Paddling, August 24].

“I have several comments,” Du Bose writes. “1) You talk about kayaking but your photo is of a C-1 (single-covered canoe).

Surely you could have found a photo of a kayak. 2) No mention is made of the statewide Carolina Canoe Club, which is one of the largest paddling clubs in the Southeast and may still have more kayak members than canoe members. This club has many instructional availabilities, as well as sponsoring kayak rolling sessions in several cities in the state. 3) Despite state law requirements, the author left out the necessity of a personal flotation device as needed equipment. 4) The river near Pittsboro is the Haw River, the major tributary of Jordan Lake.

5) No mention is made in the entire article that no one should ever paddle alone, even on a lake, but especially in whitewater or in the ocean. 6) No mention was made of ocean and touring kayaking, which is a major and growing segment of the paddling community in North Carolina.”

Also in our Outdoors Guide was a story about urban bicycling and how to stay safe on the road. Commenter Barbara 2 has a thought about that: “Number one, stay out of the middle of the road with oncoming cars. If you want us to ‘share the road,’ perhaps cyclists should get licenses like auto drivers have to. Let them pay their ‘fair share.’”

Counters Michael Peterson: “‘Bicyclists usually ride on the right side of the lane, but are entitled to use the full lane. … Drivers wishing to pass a bicyclist may do so only when there is abundant clearance and no oncoming traffic is in the opposing lane. When passing a bicyclist, always remember the bicyclist is entitled to use of the full lane.’ —North Carolina Driver’s Handbook, p. 95.”

In this space last week, the image that accompanied that urban-biking story—showing a bicyclist riding without a helmet—generated considerable outrage. This concern is misplaced, argues Erik Lanfried: “Helmets provide the illusion of safety, but provide virtually no actual safety benefits for cyclists.

In fact, safety outcomes would improve more for pedestrians and motorists if they wore helmets than cyclists. So if you think cyclists should wear helmets, do you also think motorists and pedestrians should too?”

Finally, Tony D piles on to Judge Thomas Schroeder’s HB 2 takedown, which we reported on in last week’s Triangulator.

“Republicans love to create enemies out of thin air so they can pass laws to protect us from them and rally their stupid base voters to the false cause, and these idiots believe every word they say. Republicans are such idiots; they defy logic.” l 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.

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Total donations to Democratic counterparts this cycle

Remember how all of those big-name corporations came out so strongly against HB 2, blasting in no uncertain terms the General Assembly and Governor McCrory for their clear infringement on the civil rights of the state’s LGBTQ community?

“We believe that HB 2 will make it far more challenging for businesses across the state to recruit and retain the nation’s best and brightest workers and attract the most talented students from across the country,” read an April letter to McCrory signed by eighty top-level executives. “… Discrimination is wrong, and it has no place in North Carolina or anywhere in our country.”

As it turns out, some of them are full of shit—or, more charitably, they don’t always put their money where their mouth is. In April, the Institute for Southern Studies compiled a list of thirty-six companies that had spoken out against HB 2 yet have donated significant money to national PACs that helped elect the legislators and governor who passed it. IRS filings from the second quarter of 2016 show that several of them, including PayPal, Bank of America, Microsoft, Dow Chemical, and Facebook, are still at it, donating tens of thousands of dollars to the Republican Governors Association, the Republican State Legislative Committee, and the Republican Attorneys General Association—after HB 2 became law.

Some of this is merely the proud capitalist tradition of hedging bets: the companies gave to both the Republican PACs and their Democratic counterparts, greasing the wheels no matter who wins.

And these are, of course, corporations that do business all over the country; their interests extend well beyond North Carolina.

But the RGA spent nearly $5 million to elect McCrory in 2012 and figures to be one of his top benefactors this year; the RAGA has gone all in for state senator, attorney general candidate, and HB 2 champion Buck Newton; and as of June 30, the RSLC had sunk at least $50,000 into helping North Carolina Republicans maintain their legislative supermajorities, which could prevent an HB 2 repeal next year even if McCrory loses his reelection bid. You’d think that, if these companies really opposed discrimination, they might want to back up their words with withheld donations—the thing politicians actually pay attention to.

Take two prominent examples: First, recall that PayPal famously eightysixed an expansion in Charlotte just after HB 2 passed. “The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture,” the company explained at the time. Two months later, PayPal donated $25,000 to the RSLC; so far this cycle, it has given nothing to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.

Second, the Charlotte-based Bank of America demanded a full repeal, yet it was the state’s largest donor to the Newton-backing RAGA after HB 2, cutting a $25,000 check on June 23. (Reached for comment, BoA spokesman Larry di Rita told the INDY he’d call back once he investigated the donation, but he hasn’t as of press time.)

We’ve compiled a list of companies that have both loudly criticized HB 2 and continued to finance the politicians who conceived it. The first number notes donations in the second quarter of this year, which began on April 1, a week after HB 2 passed, and ended June 30. (The next round of disclosures isn’t due until mid-October.)

The second and third numbers show the company’s total donations to the Republican PACs and their Democratic analogues this cycle.

Second-quarter donations to Republican PACs

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Total donations to Republican PACs this cycle

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$350,900 $60,000 $177,250 $104,450 $25,000 $75,540

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TL;DR: They say it’s not about redemption—that providing North Carolina’s 150 death row inmates with a voice is an opportunity to both restore a sense of humanity among the condemned and give those outside the walls of Central Prison a chance to “look within” and, perhaps, contribute to the national debate over the death penalty.

But Life Lines, an audio journal for the 147 men and three women living on the row created by Duke University Divinity School graduates Chris Agoranos and Lars Åkerson—not to be confused with LifeLines, a British group that writes letters to condemned inmates all over the U.S.—isn’t about taking a political stand.

“I think the voices speak for themselves, so we don’t really need to take a firm position,” Åkerson says. “And it’s been amazing to hear the guys’ reflections on it and to hear how enthusiastic they are just to be heard. Something as simple as a telephone or hearing someone else’s voice. It’s been revolutionary for them.”

With a recent change in phone-access policy—until June, inmates were only authorized to make one ten-minute call a year, but now they can make calls more frequently—they saw a chance to let the inmates’ stories be heard. And the

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inmates embraced the Life Lines concept. To date, more than a dozen clips have been recorded.

In one, George Wilkerson—a Randolph County man convicted in 2006 of murdering an eighteen-year-old over a $30 drug theft—recites a poem he wrote called “Who Am I?” “I come from the

broken playground, littered with crack pipes, bullet shells, and busted beer bottles, my mom’s walk and stale nicotine,” he says on the recording, which can be heard on the Life Lines SoundCloud page (soundcloud.com/lifelinesjournal).

“I belong to my dad’s hard, heavy leather belt, our dingy apartment in the projects, and crispy, spicy, sour-smelling kimchi.”

But in order to fully realize their dream—an ongoing project that includes voices from death rows all over the country—Agoranos and Åkerson are asking for the public’s help. Life Lines is currently an active project on Kickstarter. With less than a week remaining, it’s raised just over $6,000 of its $16,000 goal. That money would go toward paying for prisoners’ phone calls, which aren’t cheap.

“We say that this is about recovering humanity on the inside and outside the walls,” Agoranos says. “It causes us to look within. I would want this to help someone think about how they have been taught to see people that are incarcerated as like these irredeemable criminals worthy of death. And I think, you know, maybe as the lights go off, you begin to see, ‘I’ve made mistakes, too.’” triangulator@indyweek.com

THE INDY ’S QUALITY-OF-LIFE METER +3

The Triangle avoids significant damage from Hurricane Hermine, which left tens of thousands without power in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Thanks, McCrory—apparently not even hurricanes want to travel here.

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Test scores show that North Carolina students are getting better at math and science, but reading results are a mixed bag. Their comprehension drops off sharply after 140 characters.

+4

A deadlocked Supreme Court rejects the state’s appeal for a stay of a ruling striking down the controversial voter ID law. The state argues that the law addresses a serious public safety issue: voting while black.

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The Washington Post runs a story looking at the racial undertones of that voter ID law and quotes GOP consultant Carter Wrenn saying, “Look, if African Americans voted overwhelmingly Republican, they would have kept early voting right where it was.”

Yep, we have nothing to add.

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Pat McCrory says that, when he was in eighth grade, a band teacher threw batons at him for falling behind the tempo of the theme song to Hawaii Five-0. “That’s not why,” band teacher Mrs. Nostradamus says coyly.

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A judge delays the trial over HB 2, previously scheduled for November, until May. Let’s hope April showers bring May repeals.

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The Republican Attorneys General Association launches a website, www. extremeharvardradical.com, attacking Democrat Josh Stein for going to Harvard and working for John Edwards. Now if he had just gone to ITT Tech and worked for Jesse Helms, that would’ve been fine.

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Real N&O headline: “Winston-Salem Police Increase Patrols After Clown Sightings.”

Jocko, spokesclown for the Union of Professional Clowns, urges calm before dropping his pants.

This week’s report by Paul Blest and Ken Fine.

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The Shadow Campaign

GET TO KNOW THE ANTI-JOSH STEIN PAC WHOSE ADS WILL CLOG YOUR TELEVISION THIS FALL

BY PAUL BLEST AND SARA KILEY WATSON Last week, the newly formed political action committee Carolinians for Freedom launched a website attacking Democratic attorney general candidate Josh Stein for, among other things, going to Harvard and working for John Edwards.

Visitors to extremeharvardradical.com are greeted by a crudely Photoshopped image of Stein in a bright, flowery shirt set atop a tiedye background. “Extreme Harvard Radical Josh Stein wants to bring his Harvard values to North Carolina,” the text reads. “After leaving Harvard, Stein came to North Carolina to be the top advisor for disgraced former Senator John Edwards. Then, as a member of the State Senate, Stein voted to raise our taxes.

He even advocated for crazy ideas like banning grocery bags.”

(Quick fact check: Stein did go to Harvard. He also worked for Edwards, though he left before Edwards ran for president or his philandering became known. And in 2009, then-state senator Stein sponsored legislation to ban plastic bags in three Outer Banks counties; hardly controversial, it passed the Senate 44–2. The logic behind the That ’70s Show theme remains unclear.)

This website, however, is just the tip of the spear. Between now and Election Day, Carolinians for Freedom will flood North Carolina’s airwaves with millions of dollars in ads, according to advertising reservations documented in Federal Communications Commission records. Which raises the question: Who are Carolinians for Freedom?

Put simply, the PAC is a front group for the Republican Attorneys General Association, which is backing state Senator Buck Newton.

According to N.C. State Board of Elections records, CFF organized on June 17; it got off to a rocky start with campaign-finance regulators. The NCSBE fined CFF twice on August 16—once for $500 and once for $150—because the PAC didn’t submit two reports on time.

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TV ad time, including more than $600,000 on WBTV-Charlotte and $400,000 on WRAL. By design, the folksy-sounding name “Carolinians for Freedom” obscures Newton’s true backers, a national partisan organization funded by big corporations and megadonors. And when your television is deluged with anti-Stein ads this fall, they’ll likely say, “Paid for by Carolinians for Freedom,” though the PAC has few ties to this state.

Organizations like CFF, says Josh Stewart of the watchdog group Sunlight Foundation, “are not transparent and make spending more opaque.”

“It’s wrong,” adds Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy NC. “It undermines the ability to understand who’s financing elections and who’s trying to control the information in elections, and it circumvents the disclosure requirements that candidates have to live by where they’re filing—under their own name— the money that they raise and spend.”

There’s nothing illegal about this arrangement, experts say. Nor is it unprecedented or practiced only by Republicans. In 2015, the Bluegrass Committee for Justice and Fairness, an arm of the Democratic Attorneys

General Association, received $352,000 from the DAGA to help Kentucky Democrat Andy Beshear. (The DAGA declined to comment for this story, but there’s no indication that the group has set up a separate PAC to help Stein.)

In fact, nationwide, this is increasingly commonplace, Stewart says—“especially with how easy it is to set up a PAC or a super PAC for national groups to funnel money into these ‘astroturf’ PACs. They’re named, like, ‘Texans for a Better Tomorrow,’ but the money’s really coming from a partisan organization that is usually located in D.C. If they feel their Republican brand is harmful, they’ll set up another organization to act as a front group to mask the money.”

The RAGA’s IRS filings show that, in the second quarter of 2016, the group brought in $3.6 million from fewer than 170 donors.

Just five of them were from North Carolina: Raleigh Republican Bob Luddy ($15,000), Lowe’s ($15,000, the same amount it donated to the DAGA), ACN Opportunity ($15,000), Time Investment Company ($5,000), and Bank of America ($25,000).

“That’s why these sorts of PACs that act as a front for some of these groups are so danger-

ous,” Stewart says. “They don’t have to worry about their reputation being tarnished, because they’re not interested in a sort of long-term political discourse in the state. They just want to get involved in the race and then leave.”

While the RAGA acknowledges its connection to CFF and that it is the PAC’s primary funder—the RAGA will likely end up spending more to elect Newton than Newton will— you’d be hard-pressed to know that from CFF’s public disclosures. (The giveaway is that the two organizations share a Washington, D.C., address, and CFF’s treasurer is the RAGA’s chief financial officer.) Nowhere on extremeharvardradical.com do the words “Republican Attorneys General Association” appear.

In addition, the RAGA’s expenditures have yet to show up in CFF’s campaign finance disclosures; before the most recent disclosure report, which runs through June 30, “we had no activity,” says RAGA spokesman Jordan Russell. The website was built after June 30; the TV ad buys are only reservations, not purchases. These expenditures will appear on a disclosure report due October 31—eight days before the election. l pblest@indyweek.com

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BY DAVID A. ROSS the grain in a constantly whirring mill that sits behind a glass partition only a few feet from the coffee-sipping customers who occupy Boulted’s four tables. It resembles an upturned wheel from a Flintstones vehicle.

“We use all flour within twenty-four hours,” says Forde.

“After a while the flour is still nice, but it doesn’t have that popping flavor, that big nose.”

Another key, says Forde, is long fermentation. The levain is mixed and shaped the day before it’s baked. It proofs at room temperature for a longish morning and then spends another eighteen to twenty hours proofing in the bakery’s forty-degree walk-in.

The combination of wet dough, long proof, and 540-degree baking temperature produces the crackly, darkened crust full of caramelized flavor.

Good as it is, the levain recipe is not set in stone. The Boulted trio must respond to the vagaries of the grain they mill and to the roller coaster of local humidity. They also must constantly strive to deepen their craft. Like all forms of genuine wisdom, bread making is an endless study.

“We have a pretty good loaf right now, but we will keep tinkering,” says Bellamy. “Probably forever.”

The levain is far more complex than anything you’re likely to top it with. Skippy or Oscar Mayer would be desecrations.

Marshmallow Fluff would be grounds for committal to a state institution. The ideal pairing is a little fresh butter and a crisp Belgian beer like Saison Dupont or Delirium Tremens.

Forde, for one, insists that the levain is great sandwich bread. I concur, as long as the sandwich ingredients are up to the task of sharing a bandstand with Charlie Parker. Here are three recipes that both respect and redeploy the levain. l david_liling@hotmail.com

The machine age pummeled what social critic William Morris called “the arts of life.” In News from Nowhere (1890), Morris envisioned a future in which the loss of these arts had gone so far that rural villagers “had even forgotten how to bake bread.” The processed banality that passes for bread in the postmodern supermarket would have sent Morris into a depressive death spiral.

Morris inspired countless rearguard actions, revivals, and returns to nature. Raleigh’s Boulted Bread—which Bon Appétit magazine last month named one of America’s best new bakeries—upholds this tradition of indignation and DIY resistance.

Boulted’s signature loaf, an intensely flavorful sourdough levain made from whole-wheat flour milled on the premises, might have emerged from the stone oven of a thatched village. It belongs on a plank table, with a wooden tankard set beside it.

Crusty and dark almost to blackness, the levain recalls a world of rough, natural texture. The crust offsets a lightly chewy crumb with a mazy gluten architecture of tenuous strands and cavernous pocks, all emitting an intense fragrance of wheat and char. It comes in seedless and sesame-seeded varieties, the latter especially good.

I’ve previously praised Weaver Street Market’s miche as the Triangle’s supreme loaf. Boulted’s levain both recalls and rivals the miche.

The levain’s miche-like aspects are not surprising, given that Joshua Bellamy, who runs the West South Street bakery with his fellow Raleigh natives Fulton Forde and Sam Kirkpatrick, apprenticed for two years at Weaver Street’s massive and immaculate Hillsborough facility. Forde calls the levain a “more extreme version of the miche.”

What’s “extreme” is the fact that Boulted stone-mills its own flour. The levain begins as Red Turkey grain sold by an organic farmers’ cooperative in Marienthal, Kansas. Boulted processes LEVAIN WITH SEMI-DRIED TOMATO AND BUBBLING CHEDDAR Cut two medium tomatoes into half-inch slices. Toss with salt, pepper, and olive oil. Spread on a parchment-lined sheet and bake at 300 degrees for seventy-five minutes. Cut inch-thick slices of levain.

Brown one side on a buttered griddle. Top with Duke’s Mayonnaise, semi-dried tomato slices, grated cheddar, and black pepper. Broil until brown and bubbling. If artisanal cheese is inconvenient, I recommend a nutty, sharpish white cheddar like Old Croc, an Australian brand available at Harris Teeter.

Joshua Bellamy holds a loaf of sourdough levain bread at Boulted Bread. PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN LEVAIN WITH CHÈVRE AND RASPBERRY-HONEY VINAIGRETTE Combine your favorite goat cheese and fresh ricotta in roughly equal proportions, beating with a fork to a light, spreadable consistency. Blend honey and a few dashes of raspberry balsamic vinegar. Slather slices of levain with the chèvre-ricotta mixture and drizzle with the raspberry-honey vinaigrette.

LEVAIN WITH PROSCIUTTO AND PORT-MACERATED FIGS Dice eight fresh figs into quarter-inch pieces. Macerate the figs in two tablespoons of sweet, fruity port for an hour. Cut inch-thick slices of levain. Lightly drizzle with olive oil. Top with ribbons of prosciutto di Parma, generous mounds of fig jam, and a quick grind of black pepper.

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KOUMI’S FISH SAUCE WINGS SOAR ABOVE TYPICAL HIBACHI FARE BY SAYAKA MATSUOKA Ever since the birth of Benihana in the sixties, Japanese hibachi food has rivaled Chinese takeout in popularity. Fried rice and teriyaki chicken are now standard American fare—and for many, a comfort food.

My parents opened their own hibachistyle restaurant in Greensboro in 1998. Since then, I’ve admittedly enjoyed my fair share of westernized Japanese food. Backed by my parents’ kitchen repertoire, I’ve gotten pretty picky about it, even when it comes in a Styrofoam box. This is why my ears perked up when I heard rave reviews about Koumi (meaning flavor in Japanese) in Durham.

And so did my cravings for my favorite flavor combination: fried rice drowned in a swirl of teriyaki and shrimp sauce.

Driving down Roxboro Road, one could easily mistake the restaurant for a fast-food joint, complete with a drive-thru window and crowded menu signage reminiscent of Cookout’s milkshake list. (Presumably, the building has gone through multiple fast-food reincarnations.)

Its unassuming exterior and minimal interior décor make Koumi casual, but the menu offers an elaborate and exhaustive array of fusion foods. Typical hibachi stir-fry is broken up into “fast entrées” and “combination specials,” while kebabs, soba noodles, Thai curries, Vietnamese pho, and sushi get their own sections on the menu.

After picking up our food at the window, my boyfriend and I decided to park and haul our lunch into the restaurant for immediate gratification. We slid into a red booth close to the entrance and unpacked our bounty.

The “fast” shrimp entrée and curry fried rice lacked seasoning; my palate begged for more flavor. The soba noodles looked like plain spaghetti but were actually delicious, covered in a sweet and smoky teriyaki sauce with hearty lumps of tofu and veggies. The complexity of flavor ramped up when we added a bit of the shrimp sauce, also known as yum yum sauce or white sauce, which wasn’t too watery or sweet.

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stole the show. Different from unflavored Chinese chicken wings, but unlike spicy Buffalo varieties, these tender wings were coated in this quintessential Thai and Vietnamese condiment made from fermented fish. The dark sauce, sweet and tangy, covered the chicken wings just enough to keep them juicy, not drowning.

John Nguyen, Koumi’s manager, says the family recipe is fairly simple and standard among authentic Vietnamese restaurants: battered first, deep-fried second, then tossed in fish sauce and dunked into the fryer once more.

I’m no stranger to Vietnamese restaurants, but I had never seen fish sauce wings anywhere else, except for Google, where a quick search reveals that the recipe is a common element to street food culture in Saigon. While Koumi’s dish didn’t unseat my favorite wings of all time (that honor belongs to my mother’s recipe), it definitely brings a pleasant and unexpected sliver of Saigon to Durham. I’ll be back for more, unless I become distracted by the pad Thai, shrimp kebabs, or the two-for-one sushi deal. What’s offered in the combination again? l Twitter: @whatsaysaid

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ummer doesn’t technically end for a few more weeks, yet the Hopscotch Music Festival always feels like the herald of fall. By the time it arrives in early September, sweltering summer humidity has faded, yielding to crisper breezes and tail ends of tropical storms. The weather may be cooling off, but downtown Raleigh heats up once again as it welcomes thousands of local and out-of-town visitors to convene for three days to revel in daylong slates of music that cover almost every style you could want.

Now in its seventh year, Hopscotch is settled as a Triangle fixture, but it hasn’t arrived without a few changes for 2016. Memorial Auditorium is back in the venue fold after a two-year absence, and the festival added the intimate Nash Hall and 16 | 9.7.16 | INDYweek.com

giant Red Hat Amphitheater as new spaces. This year’s big throwdown also marks the final Hopscotch for Greg Lowenhagen, who cofounded it with former INDY music editor Grayson Haver Currin. Nathan Price, who’s worked for the festival in some capacity since 2012, will take the reins on Hopscotch numbers eight to infinity after Lowenhagen steps down this week.

In the meantime, we look at how Hopscotch stays fresh as it continues to grow as a Raleigh institution. This weekend, you can find everything from rootsy rebels to hip-hop heroes, guitar guardians to otherworldly oddities. It’s an opportunity to see some longtime favorites and discover wonderful new acts—and even better, you can find it all within the same six blocks. l

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ince Staples's star is rising fast. From his days in the Odd Future nebula to his releases for Def Jam Records, the Long Beach, California, native has watched his profile grow exponentially, earning critical acclaim and fan love for his lyricism and music without producing any obvious radio singles.

With a new record titled Prima Donna to promote, he has been active on the festival circuit, with sets at FYF Fest in Los Angeles, Roskilde in Denmark, and Primavera Sound in Spain, among others. By the time he makes it to City Plaza on Saturday, Staples will no doubt have it down to a science, maybe even an art.

Since its beginning, Hopscotch has included hip-hop in its genre jumble—at least to some extent.

There’s generally a concern about novelty when festivals throw a few rap acts into the overwhelmingly white mix, but in recent years, Hopscotch organizers made informed curatorial decisions to secure marquee artists like Earl Sweatshirt and Pusha T alongside independents like Father, Open Mike Eagle, and Cakes Da Killa.

While Murphy’s law struck Hopscotch’s rap picks a few times in previous years with unexpected cancelations by Big Boi and Action Bronson, it hasn’t deterred artists from subsequent participation.

But regrettably, when it comes to programming, Hopscotch still proves somewhat vexing to the hiphop fans it seeks to draw. With significant sociopolitical movements like Black Lives Matter proving a necessary presence at the fore of such events in this toxic election year, the festival has chosen artisanal coffeehouse electropop act Sylvan Esso to headline over the likes of Staples. Putting aside any

SCHEDULING CONFLICTS SNARL THIS YEAR’S IMPROVED SLATE OF HIP-HOP BOOKINGS BY GARY SUAREZ unproductive debates about which act draws more, nothing changes the fact that the latter is apparently the only rapper performing at any Hopscotch venue on Saturday night, a rather notable lapse. Those who wish to hear more rap music after Staples will need to kill time for about four and a half hours in the hope that the 12:30 a.m. set by electronic DJ/producer Mr. Carmack at CAM Raleigh will lean heavily on the hip-hop side.

With an entire day of a multivenue event limited to a single rap artist, one has to wonder about which audience Hopscotch’s selections actually target. The casual rap listener can time Friday night

right so as to catch Young Thug’s set at Memorial Auditorium. Yet for someone more fully vested in the genre, that means sacrificing an opportunity to hear the hugely talented Hellfyre Club alumnus Milo, whose set at Kings starts at the same time as that of the Atlanta star, as well as the surrounding ones by Ratking’s Wiki and Raleigh crew Kooley High. Complicating matters further, Big Freedia headlines the Lincoln Theatre the same night, capping a stacked bill that features Queens rapper Dai Burger and footwork don DJ Spinn. Scheduling matters, and nothing makes that concern clearer than when rap shows are competing with one

another on one day and woefully scarce the next.

To its credit, Hopscotch found an ideal balance with Thursday’s hip-hop events. At Deep South, Charlotte’s Well$ tops an exciting bill of independent artists, including New Jersey spitter Angelo Mota, Raleigh’s Ace Henderson, and Nance. Over at CAM, Junglepussy brings New York fire to an eclectic lineup of R&B bass experimentalists Kelela and Kingdom. Swizzymack’s late-night set at Neptunes will certainly fuel a turn-up, too.

What’s especially maddening about Hopscotch’s hip-hop inconsistency this year is how scarcely it reflects the current abundance

of the genre’s contemporary talent as well as trends coming from the American South. From Drake to Desiigner, so much of the modern rap aesthetic still depends on cities far from Toronto and Brooklyn.

Geographically, Young Thug represents Atlanta, but his sound inspires fresh-faced talent in Philadelphia, Chicago, and other key rap centers.

Locals Jodi and Kooley High will no doubt represent their home turf well; most of the rappers at Hopscotch come from cities above the Mason-Dixon line. By contrast, you’ll find dozens of guitar-based acts from in and around the Triangle in this year’s lineup as you jump between venues and day parties.

Apart from an admirable commitment to showcasing local and regional artists alongside national and global ones, the festival’s biggest strength remains its diversity. Indeed, for many who attend this year, none of the aforementioned grievances will matter. For a music lover with a broad palate and appetite for live performance, Hopscotch’s annual lineup announcement regularly inspires upwardly turned thumbs and other such signs of approval. No other fest promises attendees so many permutations to choose from.

Yet this very approach, which has made Hopscotch so appealing over the years, now threatens to bring it more in line with generalist festivals across the country. Rap music is one of America’s few truly homegrown musical traditions, and it has evolved to its current status as the voice of the nation’s youth—and, in a way, that of the country itself in the wider world. While Raleigh’s most important annual music event has done solid work to include hiphop, it still can do better. l Twitter: @noyokono INDYweek.com | 9.7.16 | 17

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acts like Hiss Golden Messenger and Mount Moriah have risen to national acclaim.

Gustafson’s songs feel like old souls, comforting in their familiarity despite being less than a decade old. This year’s Montana is Gustafson at his sharpest, with detailed fingerpicking on “Empire Builder” and “My Companion.” Elsewhere, he pushes into more experimental territory with the spacious “Nostalgia” and “Capitol Blues," proving himself as a master of forward-thinking music as well as the traditional stuff. That’s not to say Gustafson’s earlier work doesn’t hold up—Donkey’s “Soul Train” and “No Intentions,” from 2013’s Desert, remain some of his strongest songs.

Some quieter acts get their fair shake this weekend, too. Joan Shelley, who makes a doubleheader appearance at Fletcher Opera Theater Saturday night, is arguably one of the finest folk artists around. She begins the night with Maiden Radio, a sublime trio that places her with Julia Purcell and Cheyenne Mize.

The three women offer crystalline versions of traditional songs, with sparse fiddle, banjo, and guitar arrangements.

For her solo set, Shelley will reprise songs from last year’s gorgeous Over and Even, a simple yet utterly striking record that was one of 2015’s best releases. Its songs that simmer and ripple with cool comfort. Shelley’s voice rings clear as a bell, and her accompanist, Nathan Salsburg, is an expert guitarist in his own right. Shelley and her respective cohorts stand to deliver wonderful sets of fresh air among busy, reverberating sets across Raleigh.

The threads that tie Shelley with the likes of Victoria, Gustafson, and Lavender Country are loose, but they’re there nonetheless. Whether from Kentucky or Seattle, Nashville or North Carolina, these bands share their unique commitments to chasing bold leads within the big-tent world of folk music. You’ll delight in trying to follow along all weekend. l ahussey@indyweek.com ILLUSTRATION BY STEVE OLIVA

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f you’re looking to fully let your folk freak flag fly, you’ll have to wait a few more weeks for IBMA to get to town to really get your fill of twang. In the meantime, though, Hopscotch offers a handful of acts that take roots music traditions and run wild with them.

The first headliner announced for this year’s festival was Lavender Country, a radical project dating back to the early seventies that’s widely recognized as the first-ever openly gay country band. Its lead instigator is Patrick Haggerty, who’s made social justice his life’s work in Seattle. He and the festival stood firm amid waves of concert cancelations over HB 2. “Nobody in their right mind would dream of Lavender Country performing at Hopscotch being anything other than a protest,” he said in an interview with Pitchfork just a few days after the announcement.

That protest alone is worth celebrating and showing up for, but Lavender Country’s lone self-titled LP hasn’t lost any of its power since its original 1973 release—songs like “Come Out Singing” and “Cryin’ These Cocksucking Tears” feel like they could’ve been written yesterday as they frankly address queer visibility.

For this show, Haggerty has enlisted Paradise of Bachelors label mates Promised Land Sound—a Nashville ensemble that crafts boozy, excellent country-tinged rock and appears at Slim’s Friday night—as his backing band. Lavender Country is the last act to take the stage at Fletcher Opera Theater Saturday night, a closeout set that will be a high-water mark for 2016, and probably for the festival overall.

Nashville’s Adia Victoria shares Lavender Country's radical spirit, though her ideas address the self rather than the sociopolitical. She’s mostly a rock artist, but she pulls in plenty of blues-inspired licks on her debut LP, Beyond the Bloodhounds, which she released in April. Her songs brood and snarl, reckoning with angst, depression, and loneliness. On “Stuck in the South,” Victoria builds a haunting rumination on the thorny

IN A FOLK-FLOODED MARKET, THESE ROOTS-INSPIRED BANDS STAND OUT WITHOUT SUSPENDERS BY ALLISON HUSSEY concept of Southern identity. “I’ve been dreamin’ of swingin’ from that old palmetto tree,” she sings. Victoria’s set at Nash Hall barely overlaps with that of local Sarah Shook at Slim’s, meaning you can double up on raucous sets by whiskey-loving women. Where Victoria occasionally pursues blues, Shook goes full honky-tonk on last year’s Sidelong.

The Dead Tongues, who open up City Plaza Saturday night, make another strong North Carolina showing. Ryan Gustafson, who leads the outfit, was a Triangle fixture for years before decamping to Asheville in 2014. Since 2009’s Donkey, Gustafson has been crafting fantastic tunes that, somehow, have flown under the radar as simpatico

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The title of Lambchop’s forthcoming LP, FLOTUS, repurposes the popular political acronym for the First Lady to mean For Love Turns Us Still— but it could just as well refer onomatopoetically to the floating, wafting quality of the record.

Kurt Wagner, who’s led the ensemble for more than twenty years, is best known for a constantly shifting approach to traditional forms like countrypolitan, soul, and indie, but on FLOTUS, he found inspiration from current trends in hiphop by folks like Kendrick Lamar and Frank Ocean.

It’s not what people expect from Lambchop, and yet the result is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a Lambchop album through and through. From his Nashville home, Wagner elucidated his enthusiasm for an oft-maligned approach to modern pop and how it galvanized the new album.

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INDY WEEK: You’ve always had fun with titles, like FLOTUS’s “In Care of 8675309.” Tommy Tutone doesn’t seem like your kind of inspiration.

KURT WAGNER: Well, there’s a chorus in that song which is “I got it.” It’s sort of a shout-out to some friends of mine, who have a band with that name in Spanish (Yo La Tengo). I write music, and a lot of it, I’m trying to communicate with people—usually subversively, but sometimes more overtly. I do think that it’s nice to think of others in your work and maybe reference it sometimes.

Many of your influences are ones that rock purists love, which don’t always include much hiphop. Do you think you might lose anyone with this LP? I really have no idea about that.

I’m just responding to the world around me. For a long time, that type of music that we’re talking about had been in my world, be it next door, or what my wife listens to, or what I hear when I go out on the town. It is part of the world and I’m trying to move around in it.

Somehow, singing in a processed voice is seen as almost a taboo. We accept an amplified, distorted guitar, but processed vocals are often seen as inauthentic. Were you making this LP in any way to make a case for its musicality?

I think that’s something I discovered by immersing myself in it, that there is something soulful, something beautiful about what happens when you match a voice with technology. It was something that I definitely was not a fan of for

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a long time. I really think it took hold eventually just by virtue of it being sort of omnipresent in almost everything I was hearing outside of my own personal selections. It wasn’t until I discovered the tools to do that that I started to even get a handle on what that was. I remember the advent of Auto-Tuning as a tool to tune country singers and stuff, and thinking that it was sort of evil in a way. I think that notion has been exploded many times over since the early nineties.

Since Cher's "Believe," at least.

That certainly busted it open for a lot of people in general. But it’s been going on in hip-hop and stuff like that for a long time.

It’s kind of like in the seventies, people would write, “There were no synthesizers used to make this album” on the record sleeve.

I even remember when that was a thing, as well. Growing up in Nashville in the sixties, there are string players who would play on all these sessions here—my family was friends with them and stuff. As the advent of synthesizers and string synthesis came about, they started losing work, and they were panicking for awhile, and they went through a sort of dry period. Of course, that’s come around again completely. That’s just the nature of what happens when you start to introduce new technology into art.

Is it a tricky balance to be open to influence and inspiration while avoiding the charge of appropriation?

Again, the word “tool” is an important one. I’m just trying to be myself and go about things the way I do. And allowing that into your life, you have to find a way to integrate those two things in a way that feels—it sounds weird,

but—natural.

The record is bookended by your two most straightforward vocals. There’s something in the cadence of “In Care Of” reminiscent of Bob Dylan’s “I Threw it All Away.”

Ah, not the song I would have thought. It’s true that prior to that writing, I sort of absorbed myself in the Dylan bootleg collection that came out. I think it’s eighteen discs, so it’s everything he recorded around Blonde on Blonde and prior to that, sort of the shift from New York to Nashville—it was every take. And I listened to every take. I was fascinated watching songs develop. But at some point, I became pretty inspired by that sort of thing. There were some longform pieces in that that struck me, and I started studying that and articles written about those songs.

I let it soak in and that song just sort of came out.

In your essay that accompanies FLOTUS, you write about the new sonic pasture opened up by these new productions and sounds. What do you hear in this new sound, and why is it more innovative than previous decades?

There’s sort of a recklessness and a freedom that’s starting to happen, where there doesn’t seem to be any template anymore. It seems like things have opened up in a way where it’s very free and fun and sort of exciting and unexpected. It seems that they are now juxtaposing whatever idea comes to mind, as opposed to staying within some sort of template or format. It does seem like anything now is possible in the world of recorded music. l dklein@indyweek.com

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HOPSCOTCH DESIGN FESTIVAL

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et’s face it, the Hopscotch Design Festival can be confusing. The music festival has had six years to establish itself, but the design festival has had just two—plus, a music festival is, you know, a thing?

Hopscotch Design adopted the original’s downtown-venue-hopping approach to bring together what one has to call “thought leaders,” or, in the festival’s parlance, the people designing the future, whether they’re urban planners, computer engineers, or startup entrepreneurs. They give a lot of talks and do a lot of networking. But the layperson’s role in it all is still an open question.

The festival doesn’t make marketing to the masses any easier for itself with bookings like this year’s keynote, Dan Heath. Heath is a senior fellow at Duke’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship; he’s also the coauthor of New York Times best-sellers like Made to Stick. He’ll be speaking about “designing moments,” an idea so emergent not even Hopscotch Design Festival director Marie Schacht is totally clear on what it means.

“What if we could reverse-engineer the most meaningful, memorable experiences of our lives and use what we learned to create more of them?” Schacht explains. “He’s testing this idea with our crowd; it’s a new thing he’s been thinking about. His past books have focused on which ideas move forward and which don’t, and his research led him to think about that in regard to moments in a person’s life.”

But even if we won’t know exactly what “designing moments” means until Heath explains it, we did learn some more concrete things about this year’s festival, including some meaningful shifts in its organization, an uptick in its interactive content, and how it’s refining its attempt to find the sweet spot between a tech conference and a populist social gathering suited to the Hopscotch brand. This is your beginner’s guide.

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WHAT’S NEW THIS YEAR? The biggest change in this year’s festival is a move from Wednesday and Thursday to Thursday and Friday, so it overlaps more with the music festival.

“We’re making it easier for people who want to come to both Design and Music,” Schacht explains. Though it’s hard to imagine a behemoth who could go to tech talks all day and concerts all night—Greg Lowenhagen might be the only one, and he’s retiring— this shift should productively consolidate the urban energy of the two festivals and get clear of Labor Day travels in the bargain.

In another promising change, Hopscotch Design presentations are getting fleeter and more communicative. While some forty-minute keynotes remain, many more talks are bundled into hour-long packets featuring three speakers each, who will have discussions and take questions at the end.

“The intention is to create some unique insights between speakers who wouldn’t necessarily be sharing a conversation and bringing the audience into that,” Schacht says.

Going hand in hand with this compression, the festival is reducing its number of venues, after it became clear that Hopscotch Music’s model isn’t one size fits all. This year, it mainly relies on just two main venues, CAM Raleigh and Christ the King church, with keynotes in the Convention Center and workshops in Clearscapes.

“We’ve learned from attendees that when you’re hearing a speaker share an idea, you can’t necessarily pop between talks,” Schacht says. “You have to be there for the whole thing, and you’re deciding every forty minutes between four things. This year we’ve slimmed it down so attendees don’t feel overwhelmed, like they’re missing a talk they want to see.”

WHICH SPEAKERS SHOULD I SEE? “I think this is our strongest lineup yet,” Schacht says, when asked for her highlights this year. They include Heath and the following keynote, Tina Roth Eisenberg, the founder of Creative Mornings and the custom temporary tattoo company Tattly, who will talk about a subject with broad interest: turning pet projects into thriving businesses.

If you’ve caught the new program Invisibilia on NPR, a sort of new age Radiolab, you’ll be excited to hear cohost Lulu Miller discuss “The Perverse Trap Your Mind Sets for You to Fail (and How to Break Free),” which is typical of the proactive, solution-based bent of Hopscotch Design talks. And for an especially timely presentation, keep an eye out for Ekene Ijeoma, the Adweek and GOOD Magazine-tipped graphic designer who created the interactive map The Refugee Project.

WHAT’S THIS "AFTERNOON SNACK" THING ABOUT? A curious item appears on the Hopscotch Design schedule Thursday and Friday—the “afternoon snack break.” But it’s much more than a pause for Goldfish and juice boxes.

The festival has enlisted chefs from area restaurants like Bida Manda and Centro to prepare dishes based on ideas they’ve heard that

very morning.

“We’re trying to bring another level of experience into the festival, using your taste buds to explore an idea and also leverage our culinary community to use their creativity,” Schacht says.

The notion, though quirky, is a welcome sign of increased interactivity at Hopscotch Design. Another is a workshop where Mike Cuales and Arthur Earnest will showcase their virtual reality project, The Raleigh Spaces, where you can enter places such as artist Luke Buchanan’s studio and get a 360-degree view as he works.

BUT WHAT IF I DON’T WANT TO SPEND $225?

Well, you can be a student—students can attend for $80. But otherwise, the plentiful day parties and other satellite events that soften the $165 blow of a three-day Hopscotch Music pass are in short supply at Design. There are free daytime street parties with bands and DJs on Commerce Place in the Warehouse District Friday and Saturday, but that’s about it. More public interaction is “definitely an area where we’re interested in more overlap,” Schacht says. But for now, this festival remains fairly exclusive, by content and by design. l bhowe@indyweek.com

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A GIANT DOG Thursday, 12:30 a.m., SLIM’S A Giant Dog’s Pile, released via Merge in March, might be one of the year’s best rock records.

It’s a frenzied, fantastic LP that boasts tremendous hooks, explosive guitar riffs, howlalong harmonies, and plenty of shredding. “Sex & Drugs” and “& Rock & Roll” make for a killer doubleheader, but “Too Much Makeup” and “Sleep When Dead” are just as electrifying. A Giant Dog is a rock band to make you believe in rock bands again.

ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS

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Friday, 7:15 p.m., CITY PLAZA Anderson .Paak’s Malibu is a smooth, gorgeous record that finds the thirty-year-old pulling together jazz, funk, soul, and hip-hop into a magnificent new animal that’s slick and sexy, but never awkward or corny. His set with The Free Nationals at the Art of Cool Festival at the Durham Armory in May was a fiery affair, and City Plaza should allow them to stretch out and settle into a groove that you ought not miss.

Friday, 9:30 p.m., POUR HOUSE

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After a few quiet years following the 2012 release of its debut LP, Trephine, the Triangle’s own MAKE has made a roaring comeback over the past eighteen months. Last summer, the metal trio issued The Golden Veil, and followed it up with Pilgrimage of Loathing in July. Both are excellent, super-heavy LPs that showcase the band’s penchant for formidable yet engrossing slowburn monoliths. MAKE will rattle your Friday night off to a good start.

Even on the most pristine recordings, Daniel Bachman’s guitar work has a rough-around-the-edges grit and ragged determination that rises through the Virginia native’s swift acoustic picking. He bridges folk and experimental styles for a captivating sound that wheezes, jangles, floats, and whispers—all often within the same song. Bachman usually performs solo, but a few friends will join him at Nash Hall for what should be an intriguing new look at one of the South’s best young musicians.

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SEVEN THINGS I’VE LEARNED: AN EVENING WITH IRA GLASS Saturday, Sept. 10, 8 p.m., $35–$65 Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham www.dpacnc.com

Heart of Glass

THE HOST OFTHIS AMERICAN LIFE REMIXES HIS RADIO SAGA ONSTAGE AT DPAC If there’s such thing as a public radio star, Ira Glass is it. Each week, This American Life, the program Glass developed in 1995, garners more than two million radio listeners before being downloaded another 2.4 million times.

His colloquial, verge-of-a-cold style, well rehearsed but full of pauses and inflection, has become so influential that The New York Times dubbed it "the NPR voice,” and the success of This American Life has generated an entire industry of narrative nonfiction, paving the way for shows like Serial and Radiolab. As Glass prepares to bring his talk “Seven Things I’ve Learned” to DPAC, we spoke with him about Twitter, Donald Trump, and what it’s like to be one of a generation's most influential storytellers.

INDY: In a lot of ways, you’re sharing other people’s stories and feelings rather than your own. What does that responsibility feel like?

IRA GLASS: I don’t generally feel like what I am doing is giving lessons. I think of the stories as being fun. We report on a lot of things that we think are important for the world to understand, but always in a context of entertainment. Like, I’m just trying to do a nice job for people, so when they turn on the radio, there’s something interesting there.

The way I see it, my job, like yours, is as a reporter. I want it to be interesting, and I also want it to be powerful. I do feel a sense of responsibility to fulfill the mission of public broadcasting, which is not just excellence but also to put voices and stories on the air that aren’t getting on the air anywhere else. I take that responsibility very seriously.

The thing that you’re pointing to, though, is that the producers are conduits for other people. Through our taste, the things that we notice about stories, there’s a lot of us in there, too. To pretend otherwise would be silly. We don’t try to hide it. We’re fair, but I don’t think we’re these omniscient, objective broadcast news reporters.

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about situations, but we do that in a way that’s still cognizant that we’re mainstream media. I think you can be mainstream and be fair to everyone and not pick a side, and still be in there, reacting to things.

In Durham, your performance includes mixing stories live onstage. What does that mean, exactly?

When I started giving these talks, I hadn’t been onstage since college. I was used to being on the radio. So I tried to get through a speech by making it as much like a radio show as I possibly could. I had them give me a mixing console and audio, and I actually performed the entire talk sitting down, mixing clips and music. I did get much more comfortable, and the technology changed, so now I have all of the basic mixing power on an iPad. I can basically re-create stories by doing narration, music, and sound. It’s fun to do. We used to do the radio show that way. There were parts that we would mix on air, and I always really liked that.

Over the years, you’ve expanded into movies, podcasts, and live shows. How does that affect your public radio career?

I wish there were some system to it, or some high-minded reason. The last time I was at DPAC was for a dance show, where I told stories and dancers danced, and occasionally I danced with them. We toured the show all over the United States. Don’t Think Twice, the movie with Mike Birbiglia, seems to be doing great so far. There’s no system to it other than people came up with ideas, or I did, and they seemed like they would be fun to do. One of the things that doesn’t get said to young journalists enough is to amuse themselves. It’s so much better when we, as serious-minded journalists, are out for fun, out for curiosity, or for our own pleasure. I hope that’s not wrong to say in this context.

I think one of the reasons why our show has done a lot of coverage of Donald Trump is because we, as a staff, are fascinated by what is happening in the country. To pretend it’s not exciting seems wrong.

Radio star: Ira Glass

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I read an interview where you sort of denounced Twitter, since you already had a platform through your radio show. Now, you are tweeting quite a bit. What inspired that change?

I didn’t denounce it. But at that time, I wasn’t on Twitter, and I thought, I’m already reaching enough people with my thoughts. But now I’m on Twitter! Part of it was running a business, if I can be totally frank. And then I started spending a lot of time on Twitter, reading what people were writing and going to the links that they were sharing. There are many mornings when the very first thing I do is search for Donald Trump’s name on Twitter.

That seems like a terrible way to wake up.

But I want to know what’s happening. I’m a citizen of the United States of America. It’s a great way to wake up. It’s always interesting.

This American Life had a television show for two seasons. What happened there?

We won three Emmys and then asked to be taken off of television. That’s one of the things I’m going to talk about. I show clips of the TV show, and talk about what it was like to make it,

and why we quit. In short, to do stories that feel like our show is just enormously different on TV, for a bunch of reasons.

Why is radio important?

Radio is weirdly powerful. Since the 1950s, when TV came in as a force, people have been predicting its demise, but it just doesn’t die.

It seems to be going as strong as ever. I think there are activities that you can’t do while looking at a screen, so it’s nice to have audio content when you’re driving or cooking.

And then, when radio is working well, it’s a very specific and intimate medium. It feels like you’re connecting with just one other person. It’s less like TV and more like the Internet, like we’re both on equal ground somehow. There’s something very adorable about that. An interesting process has been putting our radio show on the Internet.

We now have more people listening on the Internet than we do on the radio, and we did nothing to market it. I think it adapted so well because the tone of the show is so much like the tone of the Internet. You feel like, oh, it’s just a person talking to me. l Twitter: @tinacurrin

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BELLE BOGGS: THE ART OF WAITING

Wednesday, Sept. 7, 7 p.m., free Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, Durham www.cdsporch.org

Worth the Wait

ON THE BANKS OF THE HAW, BELLE BOGGS CHARTS A COURSE FROM CHILDLESSNESS TO MOTHERHOOD

BY MICHAELA DWYER

There’s no shortage of trees along the banks of the Haw River, but a certain one near Chicken Bridge Road literally sticks out.

It’s sturdy enough to hold a bald eagle’s nest, which can weigh up to a thousand pounds. A few years ago, the eagles’ previous home—a nearby pine—was knocked over in a summer storm that also dropped a tree limb on Belle Boggs’s car.

“I was much sadder about the tree,” she says. She’d been watching the birds nest for years and she worried they’d relocate. They did, but only one tree over.

Boggs regularly takes river walks like the one we’re on today, and she captures some of them in her second book (following Mattaponi Queen, her award-winning 2010 short-story collection). In The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood, Boggs employs a range of stylistic approaches to document experiences of infertility and motherhood, including, centrally, her own.

The essays chart expansive territory, moving between references to Raising Arizona and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, interviews with local parents who choose to adopt, and the 2011 gorilla births at the North Carolina Zoo, among other topics. Boggs celebrates the book’s release on Graywolf Press in a conversation with Jill McCorkle at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies this week.

INDY: It feels appropriate that we’re meeting here. One thing I noticed in The Art of Waiting is the way you trace the physical landscape. It sort of maps onto the landscape of the body.

BELLE BOGGS: I grew up in rural Virginia.

Being outside and being in nature was this balm for me because it’s been a mainstay in my life. But it’s also been this reminder that I was missing something. I think when you are longing for a family in any sense, but particularly going through infertility, there are so many reminders in nature that life is cyclical and that the world is a fertile place.

What have the responses been like from others who’ve overlapped your path towards motherhood?

I have good friends through my [infertility] support group who read my work periodically. I’ve heard some really kind and generous responses from booksellers, some of whom are not at a point where they desire children in their lives, so it has been nice to hear that the book is resonating with people who have had different experiences than those I’ve had.

I really care about how alienating [infertility] is. The pressure of pronatalism and also the desire to have children—the way this impacts younger women has been really interesting to me. It was so interesting to read the narrative descriptions that Anna Rotkirch collected from women who felt the experience of “baby fever” was unbidden, working against their own interests. Those passages are so eloquent and

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evocative. They’re crystallized expressions of longing.

I once saw a physical therapist and had X-rays done. The nurse asked me, abruptly, “Could you be pregnant?” It was this moment of semantic slippage. I interpreted it as, “Are you pregnant at this moment?” but also wondered if the question was referring to my capability of being pregnant.

There’s that power dynamic between doctor and patient, especially if the patient is younger. Then think about patients who have any kind of difference of language or socioeconomic status or geography. There can be this gulf between doctors and their patients that I thought about a lot as I interviewed people. But I also think that you’re right; there’s something about the way we talk about fertility. It seems to me that we talk about pregnancy as this magical thing

that happens to you that you’re not supposed to have much control over, whether it’s ending a pregnancy or creating a pregnancy using reproductive technology. I think that’s disempowering.

You’ve written about North Carolina’s eugenics and sterilization programs, which you revisit in this book. You also bring in Amendment One to signal changing conceptions of marriage and family.

If you were still writing this book, how would House Bill 2 figure in?

Back in the spring, I read this article in STAT News about the longing for pregnancy by transgender women and the possibility in the future that they might be able to benefit from uterus transplants. The article described this longing that I was familiar with, and also this willingness to subject the body to something risky and certainly expensive.

One of the things transgender people have to think about, or are asked to think about by doctors before they transition, is, do you want to preserve your fertility? Do you want to bank your sperm or freeze your eggs? That is an expensive proposition. If you don’t have insurance coverage for that but you also don’t have the job that you took out student loans for because people are discriminating against you, those really aren’t choices. That’s something I really want to write about.

You call attention to certain words of fertility discourse, like “patient,” “trying,” and “waiting.” What does waiting mean to you now?

I don’t feel like I’m waiting for anything anymore, in some ways, and I think a lot of parents would probably say the same thing. I look at my daughter and she’s speaking in full sentences and running and riding a tricycle, and it seems like just yesterday I was at the Haw River with her wrapped in a little sling close to my chest. calendar@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 9.7.16 | 29

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Years ago, at a Durham Bulls game, Clyde Edgerton told John Rosenthal about a man he’d seen that day whose jaw looked like it was swallowed up into his nose.

“It was one of the weirdest looking men he’d ever seen,” remembers Rosenthal. “And he said, ‘I’m’a put that down. I’m gonna store that one away.’ And sure enough, three books later, there that guy was.”

That anecdote captures the bond between a writer and a friend who is also a devoted reader. That friendship is the uniting force behind a new exhibit set to run through October 9 at FRANK Gallery. Rosenthal, a renowned photographer, shows a selection from his “Museum Series.”

Edgerton, the well loved North Carolina literary figure, shows paintings based on photographs by Rosenthal and others.

Rosenthal finds this exchange profound. “Proust talks about that fraternity that exists between a writer and his readers, and I agree, but it becomes very special when the writer is transforming the work of a friend into his own artwork. I see the mischief and the humor and something terribly relaxed in the painting that might not exist in the photograph because Clyde transformed it.”

Hang on, though. Clyde Edgerton, professor of creative writing and author of ten novels, including several New York Times Notable Books, is also a painter? Apparently lightning sometimes strikes twice. Rosenthal attributes some of Edgerton’s skill with paint to his close observation of life as a novelist.

But he acknowledges that discovering such a gift in one’s sixties is far from the norm.

“I’d say it’s pretty weird,” he says with appreciation. “It’s really something to see him suddenly move off into paint. When

Clyde Edgerton's painting (left) after John Rosenthal's photograph (right) of Wood Neck Marsh in Massachusetts PHOTOS COURTESY OF FRANK GALLERY

you’re a writer, there’s one word that’s going to work, but when you’re painting, it’s a thousand strokes that are going to work.”

Edgerton’s decades-long dance with the visual arts began as a teen, when he convinced his parents to pony up seventy bucks for a correspondence art course. But when he received a B rather than an A on his first assignment,

Hemingway, who has remained a mentor figure, along with one in portraiture.

Initially Edgerton was torn about his inclination to paint from photographs. Hemingway is a plein-air painter, to whom painting from a photo is akin to cheating. Then Edgerton started reading, and he learned that it was a common practice among many of

he quit drawing. (He also kicked up a fuss until his deposit was returned.) Eventually he took up painting, quite casually, producing one or two in acrylic every few years.

Then he got obsessed with the grille of a 1950 Chrysler.

“It belonged to the bad guy in the novel I was working on, which was The Bible Salesman. And I just took a notion to paint it,” Edgerton says. In retrospect, it was a “mediocre to bad painting." But at the time, in 2007, he thought it was wonderful.

“Artists are lucky when they believe in their early work,” he says. “That happens in any art, I think. If you believe in it and it’s fun to do, you keep doing it, regardless of what it looks like.”

With practice, his work started to look good. In 2008, he met Chip Hemingway, a Wilmington painter. Hemingway suggested he switch to oils, which facilitated his progress. Edgerton took a painting class with

his beloved French and American Impressionists. He discovered possibilities, not limitations.

“Once I have the composition down, there’s things I’ve learned I can do with color,” he says. “I can make it into something I feel confident is my own.” l l l

Rosenthal was a fan before he was a friend.

As the host of a TV show called Portfolio, he had Edgerton on as a guest in 1985 to promote his first book, Raney.

“Clyde is very loyal to his place,” he says.

“He doesn’t try to invent a landscape, because he has one. It’s very seriously embedded in his consciousness, and exploring that landscape has been his career.”

Edgerton says Rosenthal’s interest has been crucial. Over the years, first by letter,

then by email, Rosenthal continued to provide feedback. “He’s got a knack for pointing out things that either I’d forgotten or I was hoping someone would read and appreciate,” says Edgerton.

Rosenthal’s work ranges from stunning images of menacing ocean waves to enigmatic moment shots in the spirit of CartierBresson to priceless views of New York in the seventies. One standout in this show was taken at MOMA and includes Warhol’s “Double Elvis,” anchored by the distant figure of a woman who chanced to pause at a window overlooking West 53rd Street.

“To me it’s just fascinating to look at people in museums,” Rosenthal says. “Think of the painting as a window.

You look at a Turner painting of Venice, you’re stepping into commerce in 1830. If you look at a Pollack, you’re going into an argument that happened in the 1950s.”

This is not Edgerton’s first rodeo. Four years ago, he exhibited fifteen “rather small” paintings in a show with Louis Rubin, his editor at Algonquin and a watercolorist by hobby. To his delight, almost everything sold.

“I didn’t have sense to know that if you’re among your very best friends, a lot of them are going to buy your art to keep from being embarrassed, especially if it’s not too highly priced,” he says. Still, he was encouraged, even a bit thrilled. He’s kept at it since then.

Lately he’s begun to go deeper.

“I’ll do a painting and it will turn out pretty bad, and I don’t know why, and I’ll do another one and it turns out, in my view, pretty good, and I don’t know why,” Edgerton says. “But I’m beginning to learn why.” l dklein@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 9.7.16 | 31

art You know this kid. It’s the first day of school, and your summer assignment—a personal essay about how you’ve spent the last three months—is due. Everyone is clutching a page of hastily penciled prose, written while wolfing cereal that morning, about making leather bracelets at YMCA camp and visiting the grandparents in St. Petersburg.

Except the kid next to you.

This kid has boxes and dossiers on her desk. She has the bottle cap from every soda she drank all summer. She has the nail that she helped her dad pull out of a flat tire on a road trip, mounted on a map in the exact location where the flat occurred. She has an oral history from her grandmother, who lived next door to Lee Harvey Oswald, scrawled on a bedsheet from a Dallas hotel he stayed in with a vintage ballpoint pen from the Texas School Book Depository.

Two such kids have curated the new exhibit Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art at the Nasher. Trevor Schoonmaker, the museum’s contemporary curator, and Miranda Lash of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, have gathered 125 works by sixty artists—most of them contemporary and many of them local—in two of the museum’s pavilions, adding an extensive music library and an inch-thick catalog that serves as a literary anthology unto itself. Taken together, Southern Accent is less an exhibition than a speculative and critical archive of Southern identity.

It’s impossible to tag Southern Accent with an overarching theme, which speaks to the curators’ ultimate point: Southern identity is profoundly multiple and very complicated.

Slavery, the Civil War, racism, and their complex inheritances? Much of the work in the show explores and interrogates that.

Connections to place so deep that land and body become the same thing? Many artists unravel the warp and weft of that. The dissonance of the past’s intrusion into the present? Most of the exhibition shimmers with that temporal disorientation.

Instead of packaging the experience into thematically organized galleries that fire the bullet points of a thesis at the visitor, Schoonmaker and Lash offer a highly informed and engaged onslaught of artists’ approaches to these ideas, histories, traumas, and hauntings.

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SOUTHERN ACCENT: SEEKING THE AMERICAN SOUTH IN CONTEMPORARY ART Through January 8, $3–$5 (free for members) The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham www.nasher.duke.edu

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emerge as you walk this show. Visionary aesthetics is one: a tendency to infest every inch of an artwork with such intense detail that it can’t be apprehended as a whole. Work by notable visionary artists such as Howard Finster and Minnie Jones Evans, whose mandala-like drawings seem to hide arcane, figural secrets in their symmetries, sets the stage for massive tours de force by Ralph Fasanella and Deborah Grant. Fasanella’s painting “American Tragedy” crashes together JFK’s assassination and funeral in order to represent the complex causality list springing from that devastating moment.

Grant’s multi-panel, multimedia work “In the Land of the Blind the Blue Eye Man Is King” contains so many highly charged racial, religious, and nationalistic details, at so many different levels of pictorial scale, that a viewer cannot possibly see them all.

The implication is that extreme mania is necessary for human experience. Otherwise you’re willfully avoiding your responsibility as a witness to your times and are therefore complicit in the resulting abominations.

Many works feature, or simply are, architecture. “Family Tree House” and “Moonshine Man’s House,” Beverly Buchanan’s small, descriptively titled wooden sculptures, force you to deal with the nasty Southern habit of aestheticizing the ramshackle and dilapidated. Bill Thelen, cofounder of Lump gallery in Raleigh, collaborated with Carrboro-based artist Jerstin Crosby on a dollhouse-size replica of Durham’s former Biscuit King restaurant— recently razed to make way for a faceless block of luxury condos—that captures, in unromanticized detail, its idiosyncratic iconography (longtime Bull City residents can recite the window text: “Seafood Ham Chicken”) as well as its grungy façade and boarded-up windows.

Four photographs of the same subject by William Christenberry in “Building with False Brick Siding, Warsaw, Alabama”— taken in 1974, 1984, 1991, and 1994—show the abandoned structure’s gradual consumption by the landscape. A functional house on a dirt road becomes a patch of wild forest that barely reveals a rotted roofline in its foliage. These works show how quickly time, in the South, conspires with the landscape and the economy to mess with one’s memory and sense of belonging.

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history’s persistence in time and place, rising to an obsessive level. Four photographs from Jessica Ingram’s series “Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial” look like mundane shots of a mountaintop, a swamp, a front door, and an overgrown backyard, but they document the sites of racially motivated crimes and murders. Sally Mann’s dim image of Antietam trenches, from her “Battlefields” series, seems to be a window in time that makes the ghosts around us visible.

Dario Robleto goes further in his installation “A Defeated Soldier Wishes to Walk His Daughter Down the Wedding Aisle,” which appears to be a pair of boots leaving footsteps through sand. The boots, however, are sculpted from melted-down records of Skeeter Davis’s “The End of the World,” and the sand is a fine ballistic gelatin that, when mixed with water, forms a substance with the consistency of a human body, which militaries use to test ammunition. Southerners know that history marks and shapes each place, but we have to tune our attention to that elegiac frequency.

The epicenter of Southern Accent is a room containing work by some of the biggest names in contemporary art as well as one by a local artist placed very fittingly among them.

The red-glitter glitz of Ebony G. Patterson’s “Strange Fruitz” draws you in until you see the black legs hanging down from above, enacting the chilling song about lynching made famous by Billie Holiday. One wall shows four

photographs from Carrie Mae Weems’s “The Louisiana Project,” in which the artist adopts artificially lyrical “historical” poses around a plantation and a cemetery to implicate the stories that racist power tells itself so it can sleep at night.

Pointing out the connection between slave labor and the rise of the American economy, the opposite wall pairs “belle”—in which Chapel Hill’s Stacy Lynn Waddell has used a branded-paper technique to produce the image of a Southern belle with a slave ship’s bell over her head—with Kara Walker’s cutpaper work “Cottonhead, a Mouthful of Teeth and Spitting Seeds,” in which racist stereotypes are simultaneously outed and cartoonishly subverted. The wall opens to a theater showing Walker’s absolutely terrifying psychosexual fable “8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker.” This is powerful artwork by supremely capable artists, and the intensity of their proximity is life-changing.

Although Southern Accent is not without its humorous notes—George Jenne’s video “Spooky Understands” elicits deliciously uneasy laughter—the exhibition has an overall gravity on par with a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. It demands an emotional commitment, which you likely want to give because, after all, you are a Southerner.

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Adventurous but accessible, Nathan Bowles’s solo explorations find the intersection of the multi-instrumentalist’s work with old-time string band The Black Twig Pickers and experimental drone ensemble Pelt. The Virginia native’s percussive clawhammer banjo transcends tradition; his melodic instrumentals melt away into sheets of abstract noise. The sharp new Whole & Cloven showcases Bowles at ease as he stretches to the extremes of his range. He shifts from a back-porch, boot-stomping feel, with the obscure Jeffrey Cain tune “Moonshine Is the Sunshine”—where he casually dispenses homespun wisdom in a joyful drawl—to the expressive, atmospheric album centerpiece “I Miss My Dog,” which exhibits plenty of Eastern influence during nearly eleven minutes of subtle, slow-building, hypnotic haze. —Spencer Griffith

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An odd story: A British shoe factory was doing poorly, so its owner decided to change its product to footwear for drag queens. Business turned around, and the story became the basis of an episode of a BBC documentary series. After viewing the episode, filmmakers turned it into the 2005 film Kinky Boots, which was seen by a stage producer, who helped turn it into a musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper. It became a surprise hit and was nominated for thirteen Tony awards, winning six, including best musical. By working with non-cis individuals and embracing them as part of their population, a traditionally working-class industry was able to revitalize itself and become an international multimedia sensation. You think certain elected officials might need to see this? There’ll probably be some jokes about that in this touring production, which plays through September eighteenth. —Zack Smith

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If you’ve walked down Martin Street recently, you’ve likely been snared by Lincoln Hancock’s installation FLAG. In an empty storefront Hancock was asked to fill by urban-projects fund Flight Raleigh, an array of vertical stripes ripple with light when passersby inadvertently trigger motion sensors. The many colors speak of inclusivity, the personalization of division—a flag, after all, is an inescapable symbol for something everyone interprets with sharp, heartfelt differences. The piece celebrates and implicates; it’s as if Jasper Johns’s “Flag” had been created, with cool neon precision, by light artist Dan Flavin. If you haven’t seen it, there’s no better time than during Hopscotch, when the installation will become the site of a performance called “In Spectrum.” It incorporates sound and objects by Reflex Arc, the experimental duo of Ginger Wagg and saxophonist Crowmeat Bob, and a new set piece by Jaclyn Bowie: a prism that will shatter the light of the flag into even more dazzling facets and shards. —Brian Howe 17 EAST MARTIN STREET, RALEIGH 5 p.m. Thurs. & Sat./1 a.m. Sun., free, www.lincolnhancock.com

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NORTH CAROLINA DANCE FESTIVAL

Interviews with international refugees. Aging. Surviving a disaster. Codependency. Though these subjects seem more suitable for academic symposiums or documentary films, choreographers are taking them all on in the North Carolina Dance Festival, as its twenty-sixth annual tour begins in Raleigh. Highlights include excerpts from Renay Aumiller’s Blood Moon, which premiered in Durham last year; Sarah Council’s Dislocate, based on Charlotte refugee communities; and Alyson Colwell-Waber’s Takes, drawn from interviews with eighteen aging dance professionals. Lindsey Kelley Brewer’s that happened, now onward follows a woman walking away from wreckage, and Kristi Vincent Johnson’s When the Bough Breaks probes the cyclic instability of codependent relationships. E.E. Balcos’s Forward/Rewind and Eric Mullis’s Phasings, a dance depiction of the techniques of composer Steve Reich, round out the statewide showcase. —Byron Woods MEREDITH COLLEGE’S JONES AUDITORIUM, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $5–$15, www.danceproject.org

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Why wait for Carnaval to get down to Brazilian beats?

Cities with large Brazilian populations often celebrate Brazilian Day each September, in conjunction with the country’s Independence Day. Durham’s version at Motorco features a diverse lineup of acts brought in to cater to the growing Brazilian population in the Triangle.

Singer-songwriter Princess La Tremenda, who rose to fame on Brazil’s version of The Voice and sang at Carnaval in Salvador, serves up soul fusion, while Cissa Paz’s arrangements of Afro-Brazilian and Portuguese-African songs bring rich new musical textures to the stage.

Toward the end of the night, the percussive stylings of Caique Vidal and Batuque and the international samba reggae collective Batala Durham will keep you grooving until the wee hours. —Amanda Black MOTORCO MUSIC HALL, DURHAM 8 p.m., $10–$12, www.motorcomusic.com

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PRIME Since leaving the PICKER Carolina Chocolate Drops, the string band he cofounded with Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson, Dom Flemons has been busy forging a sharp solo career. These days, he brands himself as “the American Songster,” playing hidden gems from American music (you’ll probably recognize a few, though, like murder ballad “Stackolee”). He gets local support from the South Carolina Broadcasters, who share his affinity for old-time. —AH [AMERICAN TOBACCO CAMPUS, FREE/6 P.M.]

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THU, SEP 8 Holly Bowling PHISH The music of jam PHAN bands like Phish and the Grateful Dead is supposed to be spontaneous—or at least that’s their rhetoric. Phish fan and pianist Holly Bowling has decided to try a different take, performing note-for-note transcriptions of the band’s extended jams, transforming her fandom into extreme replication. No doubt, it takes some serious chops to attempt this, but the bigger question is whether or not it’s actually worth it. Bring your pipe. —DR [THE SHED, 8 P.M./$15]

Rebecca Newton SONGS Most folks know SHOWN Rebecca Newton from her swinging years fronting Rebecca and the Hi-tones, but she’s also the author of the folky “One Square Mile: A Durham Anthem,” written to accompany 27 Views of Durham, the 2012 collection of poems and essays.

Singer-songwriter Nancy Middleton joins Newton, plus Wes Collins. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, FREE/7 P.M.]

Teedra Moses R&B PAST It’s hard to top Dr. & FUTURE Dre’s sixteen-year absence between albums, but Los Angeles-based R&B singer Teedra Moses may be a close second.

After releasing her debut album in 2004, Moses went back behind the scenes for a decade, writing for artists like Raphael Saddiq, Mary J. Blige, and Christina Milian.

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SAM BUSH/CHRIS THILE The birth of bluegrass is largely credited to Bill Monroe, who took an eight-string instrument with an Italian pedigree and developed a whole new faction of American music. This week finds two of the instrument’s best contemporary players in the area, both of whom have taken the mandolin and its bluegrass roots to magnificent ends.

The elder of the two is sixty-four-year-old Sam Bush, who infused bluegrass with loose, hippie aesthetics to forge newgrass in the early seventies. With New Grass Revival, Bush and company built a subgenre that added layers of jam band and rock ideologies the bluegrass bedrock, making for colorful, easygoing grooves that horrified some of the field’s staunch purists. But in the decades since, Bush has gotten the last laugh—he’s maintained a steady hold on his status as one of folk’s finest players, as a solo artist and as a co-conspirator with the likes of David Grisman, Béla Fleck, and Edgar Meyer, in addition to appearing on dozens of other records. Bush’s mandolin marks are as unique as they are ubiquitous.

Bush’s booming career has helped pave the way for Chris Thile, a thirty-five-year-old player who first made waves as a child prodigy and with his Grammy-winning band, Nickel Creek.

Thile is a direct descendant of Bush’s ambitious and broad-minded approach to the mandolin, though he’s never traded in Bush’s brand of newgrass. Instead, Thile carries the torch of taking folk-based music to bold and unexplored places with his current ensemble, Punch Brothers, as well as on his own. Thile is a brilliant player whose honors include a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012. He can rip out a barn-burner version of a bluegrass standard before sliding into a Radiohead cover and topping off with a fluttering Bach partita, barely batting an eyelash as he jumps from one tune to the other. Genres don’t exist for Thile as he romps across his fretboard, his fingers moving so fast that it becomes difficult to see them.

It’s almost a shame that Bush and Thile aren’t on the same bill—it would make for a hell of a two-for-one deal, and a duo set would be outright incredible. Still, this week affords the opportunity to witness two masters in action, the best in their business, continuing to push themselves to thrilling heights. —Allison Hussey SAM BUSH CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $29–$66, www.carolinatheatre.org CHRIS THILE UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m., $10–$69, www.carolinaperformingarts.org

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Conversation & Cognac, a solid showcase of her talents that also proved how tough it is to carve out a niche in the current pop/R&B landscape, even for someone who was there at the beginning. —RC [MOTORCO, $20–$25/8 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Andy Kleindienst Trio; 7 p.m. • CAM RALEIGH: Hopscotch Music Festival: Kelela, Junglepussy, Kingdom, Zensofly; 9:30 p.m. • CARRBORO CENTURY CENTER: Triangle Guitar Society Benefit Concert; 8 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Cabinet, Billy Strings; 8 p.m., $12–$15.

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FADED The old bull is on his BLUES knees—you’ve got to wonder what the people behind the Bull Durham Blues Festival are thinking. From a thirty-year-long freewheeling outdoor experience that featured top headliners in blues and R&B, the festival has been knocked down to an indoor venue with so-so headliners and a few local and regional acts added for flavor.

The Triangle Blues Society competition winner is no longer featured on the bill, and the prices are pretty high—a single-day pass runs $35, with a full weekend costing $60. The two bright spots are seventy-six-year-old Beverly “Guitar” Watkins’s behind-thehead guitar tricks and the high-octane blues of WinstonSalem’s Luxuriant Sedans. —GB [HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER, $35–$60/7 P.M.]

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RIGHT The bebop flows AHEAD from the hands of pianist Joey Calderazzo. After a stint playing with Michael Brecker, he’s been in the Marsalis orbit since the late nineties, and his sound is rooted in that brand of hard-swinging bop. When he’s not teaching at N.C. Central, Calderazzo makes the piano glisten and gleam. —DR [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $23–$25/8 & 10 P.M.]

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Debonzo Brothers, Jack the Radio, The Connells; noon. • SLIM’S: Hopscotch Day Party: JPhono1, Some Army, Schooner, The Second Wife, Organos, See Gulls, Beauty World, Knurr & Spell, Teardrop Canyon, Magnolia Collective; noon. Hopscotch Music Festival: A Giant Dog, Pink Flag, The Powder Room, The Hell No; 8 p.m. • UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL: Hossein Alizadeh; 8 p.m., $20.

URGENT Straightforward RHYMES rhymes backed with moderate beats are usually

pleasant enough, but the breezy nature tends to discourage much in the way of a distinct delivery.

Greenville rapper Konvo the Mutant is the exception to that rule, speaking with an urgency unusual for old-school-inspired acts. It’s something that weighs on the emcee too: “I’m most haunted by the words I never said,” he spits on “Survival of the Gifted.” He and Durham’s Tracy Lamont combine for a show heavy on substance and light on fluff. With Tha Materials, Pragmaddix, Bonds, Mistrye, Iron Mic, and more. —RC [LOCAL 506, $7–$10/9 P.M.]

Stephane Wrembel JANGLE Guitarist Stephane JAZZ Wremble was a Pink Floyd devotee until he discovered Django Reinhardt’s music at the age of seventeen. He began honing his chops hanging out in Romany camps surrounding his Paris home, absorbing enough technique to get him through Berklee summa cum laude. In 2008, Woody Allen picked Wremble’s “Big Brother” for his film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, then later hired him to score the theme for 2011’s Midnight in Paris. Chapel Hill’s Big Fat Gap opens. —GB [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $20/8 P.M.]

“Weird Al” Yankovic DARE TO Who’d have thought BE DUMB in 1979 when Dr. Demento played a bathroom solo-accordion recording of “My Bologna”—a parody of The Knack’s “My Sharona” that, nearly four decades later, “Weird Al” Yankovic would own four Grammy awards and eleven more nominations? It’s a credit not just to Yankovic’s pitch-perfect parodies of contemporary radio hits, marked by his indefatigable canniness, but to the wonderful weirdo’s gift for sharp pop-culture satire. —PW [DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, $40–$269/8 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY BOXCAR BAR + ARCADE: Hopscotch Day Party: The Affectionates, MyBrother MySister, Husband, Thayer Sarrano, Fk. Mt, Secret Guest, Say Brother, She Returns

from War, Savannah Valentino; noon. • CAM RALEIGH: Hopscotch Music Festival: Twin Peaks, Car Seat Headrest, Beach Slang, The Wyrms; 9:30 p.m. • CAROLINA THEATRE: Sam Bush; 8 p.m., $29–$62. See box, page 37. • CAT’S CRADLE: Abbey Road LIVE!; 8:30 p.m., $12–$15. • CRANK ARM BREWING CO: Hopscotch Day Party: The Bleeding Hearts, The Kneads, The Lemon Sparks; 1 p.m. • DEEP SOUTH: Hopscotch Day Party: Drozy & Friends, Trandle, Away Msg, Yyen, Mhymes, Kabak; 12:30 p.m. Hopscotch Music Festival: Diet Cig, No One Mind, The Dinwiddies, Al Riggs; 9 p.m. • FLETCHER OPERA THEATER: Hopscotch Music Festival: Demdike Stare, Ricky Eat Acid, Kid Millions & Jim Sautrer; 10 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Aubryn; 7 p.m., free. • KINGS: Hopscotch Day Party: Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore, Sarah TUESDAY Louise, Bachman-Toth Duo, 75 Dollar SEPTEMB Bill, Watery Love, Bill Nace, Kid Millions, Manas; noon. Hopscotch Music Festival: Jodi, Kooley High, Milo, Wiki; 8 p.m.

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TITUS ANDRONICUS Back in 2014, the rock critic Steven Hyden wrote a piece for the now-defunct sports-andculture site Grantland, titled “The American Band Championship Belt.” The idea, he wrote, was to figure out the top band for a particular era using an indistinct set of criteria that included popular appeal, critical acclaim, and lasting impact on the culture. Deerhunter, Hyden determined, wore the crown from 2008 to 2010. One of the main challengers to the throne was the New Jersey indie-punk act Titus Andronicus.

“Of all the bands that have claimed to be influenced by Bruce Springsteen in the past ten years,” Hyden wrote, “Monitor-era Titus Andronicus was the best at communicating potentially embarrassing (or just embarrassing-embarrassing) thoughts and emotions in a similarly galvanizing fashion.”

Were Hyden to update his list, he’d have to give Titus Andronicus serious consideration as the belt’s current owner.

Last July, Merge issued The Most Lamentable Tragedy, a critically acclaimed, semiautobiograpical punk rock opera in five acts that spans twenty-nine tracks and ninety-three minutes. Its protagonist, scarred by abuse, drugs, and mental illness, is thrown into a violent existential crisis after he meets his doppelgänger. Frontman Patrick Stickles confirms that the record is a work of fiction, but it’s hard not to hear his struggle with manic depression in it. The record doubled down on the band’s many strengths: multi-movement songs, thrashing shout-alongs, brazen, arena-size guitar riffs, therapist-couch honesty. Tragedy is so bold that 2010’s The Monitor—a sprawling concept album shot through with Civil War imagery—is now the band’s second-most challenging and grandiose LP. Nearly a year to the day after Tragedy’s release, Titus Andronicus dropped Stadium Rock, a selection of live recordings from the band’s five consecutive sold-out release shows at New York City’s DIY haven Shea Stadium. If Tragedy found Titus Andronicus at its most ambitious and creative, then Stadium Rock reaffirmed the band’s mythical, had-to-be-there live presence. Shorter and punchier, Stadium Rock shows the band stripping away all the studio wizardry of Tragedy until only the pure, primal passion remains.

“To those with a soft spot for rock ’n’ roll ideology—be it arena or indie—Titus Andronicus are likely the keepers of the flame,” SPIN’s Kyle McGovern wrote last year in naming Titus Andronicus the eighth-best active rock band, seven spots behind Deerhunter, the magazine’s number one pick. Indeed, Titus Andronicus’s high-minded lit-punk merits such overstuffed phrasing. It’s only fitting for, quite possibly, America’s greatest operating rock ’n’ roll band. A Giant Dog opens. —Patrick Wall

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(RALEIGH): Hopscotch Day Party: Nevernauts, Dick Richards, Second Husband, The Eyebrows, Happy Abandon; 1 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Jim Ketch Swingtet; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • SLIM’S: Hopscotch Day Party: The Dry Heathens, Shirlette Ammons, Drag Sounds, The Nude Party, Scanners, KONVOI,; noon. Hopscotch Music Festival: Gun Outfit, Promised Land Sound, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Charming Youngsters; 8 p.m.

• SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Sok Monkee; 9 p.m., $10. • THE SPACE AT COMMERCE PLACE: Hopscotch Day Party: See Gulls, Palm, Daniel Bachman, Natural Causes; noon.

embody both. The South Carolina-based outfit has spent almost a quarter century fusing the Misfits macabre melodies with the Ramones’ pop affection and the occasional fit of 2 Tone pep. Tonight, the band tops a marathon bill that includes standouts such as The Ghost of Saturday Nite’s pub-bred anthems, SiBANNÄC’s crusty ska-punk, and Snake and the Plisskens’ frantic and hook-heavy rock. —BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $10/5 P.M.]

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WOKE Plenty of musicians JAZZ like to say they represent “the struggle,” but few actually live that truth like South African-born, North Carolinabased R&B singer Laura Reed.

With socially conscious topics like police brutality at the forefront of her mind—one of her prominent numbers is called “Don’t Shoot”—she filters gritty societal criticism and personal introspection through an elegant neo-soul prism. She takes the stage for two sets at Beyù, which also feature two-time Grammy winner Shannon Sanders. —DS [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $15/8 & 10 P.M.]

Ellis Dyson & the Shambles VARIETY Before Ellis Dyson & HOUR the Shambles hit The Rubber Room this winter to record their second LP, the Chapel Hill outfit will be joined by a smattering of guests to present this one-off revue written by Dyson and dubbed Mr. Medicimo’s Medicine Show, which promises comedic and theatrical additions to the sextet’s raucous ragtime folk. Asheville’s Resonant Rogues are a fitting opener, doubling down on the retro vibes and jazzy strings. —SG [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/9 P.M.]

The Outboards EIGHTIES Although Pittsboro’s ROCK The Outboards slap an Americana label on their sound, the band leans more towards jangly eighties rock. Even with some comparisons to Wilco, these guys seem to want no part of that band’s folkie side. —GB [THE KRAKEN, FREE/8 P.M.]

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Rock it Forward RIGHTUniting their talents ON NOISE to help pay for their friend Tony Dobbs’s brain surgery and eventual heart surgery, eight area bands will take to the Southland stage and play some rock ’n’ roll. These include the driving hard rock of Lexx Luthor, the sleaze-rocking Last Call Messiahs, the party rock of Driver X, pop rock by Lauren Nicole, plus the “I can’t believe it’s not Van Halen” fare of Fair Warning’s “ultimate tribute” to Van Halen.

—DK [SOUTHLAND BALLROOM, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

Darius Rucker HOOTIE & Though his lyrics NO FISH have a touch more character than those of his mostly generic-sounding peers, Darius Rucker’s inexplicable turn to pop-country added bits of banjo and dobro while watering down the huge hooks that, along with

Rucker’s husky vocals, drove home Hootie & the Blowfish’s jangly Southern anthems. Still, despite Rucker’s role in spreading the “Wagon Wheel” plague, there’s far less to complain about than his brief, ill-advised venture as a solo R&B act. Dan + Shay and Michael Ray join. —SG [COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK, $25–$175/7 P.M.]

Thank You Scientist PROG Even the most PRAISE adventurous of music fans might blanch at Thank You Scientist’s stated reputation for jazz-influenced, flugelhornaccented prog-metal. And yet this technically accomplished seven-piece stirs its weird gumbo into something appealing, finding an unimagined middle ground between Jethro Tull at its heaviest and Chicago at its most buoyant.

Extinction Level Event, Raimee, and Kiss The Curse open. —TB [LOCAL 506, $10–$12/7:30 P.M.]

WUNC’s 40th Anniversary THIS IS You might hate the NPR annual pledge drives, but WUNC, the Triangle’s NPR affiliate station, has been in business for four decades—that’s certainly nothing to sneeze at. To celebrate, the station is throwing a late-afternoon, family-friendly party that features performances from longtime station favorites Chatham County Line and The Red Clay Ramblers. The classic Ramblers will offer their signature blend of Dixieland, ragtime, and folk, while the Americana-inclined Chatham County Line will tout Autumn, its new LP released by Yep Roc last week. Come for breezy banjos, stay to rub elbows with Frank Stasio. —AH [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $20, 12 AND UNDER FREE/2:30 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY ARCANA: Aether Lounge: A Steampunk/Neovintage Dance Party; 9 p.m., $5. • THE ARCHITECT BAR & SOCIAL HOUSE: Hopscotch Day Party: Young Cardinals; noon. • BERKELEY CAFÉ: Hopscotch Day Party: Brothers Grim,

Sara Bell, Melissa Swingle Duo, Texoma, Chris Smith and Marc Smith, Mike June; noon. Kitty Box and The Johnnys, Ryan Johnson; 8 p.m. • BOXCAR BAR + ARCADE: Hopscotch Day Party: Preach Jacobs, H3R0; 2 p.m.

• CAM RALEIGH: Hopscotch Music Festival: Mr. Carmack, Earthly, Suzi Analogue, Oak City Slums; 9:30 p.m. • CARY ARTS CENTER: Claire Lynch Trio; 8 p.m., $25. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: Norlina; 8 p.m.

• CRANK ARM BREWING CO: Hopscotch Day Party: Coytah, Drling, Oatmeal Conspiracy; 1 p.m. • DEEP SOUTH: Hopscotch Day Party: Professor Toon, PLEASURES, Youth League, Lazarus Wilde, Greaver, Dogs Eyes; noon. Hopscotch Music Festival: LVL UP, Red Sea, ET Anderson, Weird Pennies; 9 p.m. • FLETCHER OPERA THEATER: Hopscotch Music Festival: Lavender Country, Joan Shelley, Maiden Radio; 9:30 p.m. • HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER: Bull Durham Blues Festival; 6 p.m., $35.

• HISTORIC MOOREFIELDS ESTATE: Bluegrass at Moorefields Festival; 2 p.m., $10–$15. • IRREGARDLESS: Charlie Elliot; 11 a.m. George Knott Trio; 6 p.m. Zen Groove Arkest; 9 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Mike Rodgers; 7 p.m., free. • KINGS: Hopscotch Day Party: Birds of Avalon, Rock *A* Teens, Special Guest, Sneaks; 1 p.m. Hopscotch Music Festival: Eldritch Horror, Necrocosm, Earthling, Tribulation; 8 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Hopscotch Music Festival: Baroness, Soldiers of Fortune, Amanda X, All Dogs, Bad Friends; 7 p.m. • LITTLE LAKE HILL: Bett Padgett; 8 p.m., $15. • LORRAINE’S COFFEE HOUSE & MUSIC: Gerald Godwin; 7:30 p.m. • MEADOWMONT GAZEBO: The Charlie Band; 6:30 p.m., free. • MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM: Hopscotch Music Festival: Eric Bachmann, Andrew Bird; 10 p.m. • MOTORCO: Brazilian Day Party with Caique Vidal; 9 p.m., $10–$12. See page 35. • NASH HALL: Hopscotch Music Festival: William Basinski, Laila Abdul-Rauf and Nathan A. Verrill, Damon/Dorji Duo, Daniel Bachman & Friends; 9 p.m. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Hopscotch Day Party: Queen of Jeans, Faults, Shelles, Boogie Reverie; noon.

Hopscotch Music Festival: Youth Code, Container, Bodykit, Housefire; 9:30 p.m. • PERSON STREET BAR: Hopscotch Day Party: Benji Hughes, Grand Champeen, The Trousers, Zack Mexico; 1 p.m. • THE PLANT: Lizzy Ross and Omar Ruiz, Mr. Darcy; 8 p.m.,.

• POUR HOUSE: Hopscotch Day Party: Zack Mexico, No Eyes, Gray Young, Echo Courts, Seabreeze Diner, Happy Abandon, Vacant Company, Flash Car, The Summer Life; noon.

Hopscotch Music Festival: Stooges Brass Band, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Dynamite Brothers, Hotline; 9 p.m.

• RALEIGH CITY PLAZA: Hopscotch Music Festival: Sylvan Esso, Vince Staples, Tuskha; 5:50 p.m.

• RALEIGH ROADHOUSE: Hopscotch Day Party: Parallel Lives, Catie King, Ellis Dyson & The Shambles, DRISKILL, Texoma, Jesse Stockton; noon. • THE RITZ: Strutter: A Tribute to Kiss; 9 p.m., $10. • RUBY DELUXE: Hopscotch Day Party: ZZ Corpse, Essex//Muro, Ouroburos Boys, Dip, The Nude Party, Dirty Fences, Nest Egg; 11 a.m. DJ Luxeposh; 10 p.m.

• SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS (RALEIGH): Hopscotch Day Party: He Who Walks Behind the Rows, Horseskull, Gross Reality, Toke, Wailin Storms; 1 p.m. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: SDJD Quartet; $10–$20.

• SLIM’S: Hopscotch Day Party: Wing Dam, The Backsliders, Ghostt Bllonde, Jack the Radio, The Charming Youngsters, Wild Fur, Maple Stave, Other Colors; noon. Hopscotch Music Festival: Downtown Boys, Konvoi, Voight-Kampff, Crete; 8 p.m. • THE SPACE AT COMMERCE PLACE: Hopscotch Day Party: Kooley High, Stooges Brass Band, Nervous Dupre, Dirty Dub, DJ Nick Neptune; noon. • THE STATION: Jam On This!; 10 p.m., free. • TACTILE WORKSHOP: Hopscotch Day Party: Vacant Company, Pie Face Girls, Just Archie, Brassious Monk, Nayfong; noon.

• TROPHY BREWING AND TAPROOM: Hopscotch Day Party: The Tills, Body Games, Drag Sounds, Shadowgraphs; 1 p.m. • UNC’S PERSON RECITAL HALL: Paul Sanchez; 7 p.m.

SUN, SEP 11 Leon Bridges SOUL Texas singer-songMAN writer Leon Bridges seemingly came out of nowhere to become one of the key figures in the most recent revival of Southern soul music. Smoother than St. Paul & the Broken Bones and less rocking than the Alabama Shakes, Bridges largely plays it straight with simple arrangements peppered by punchy horns and graced with touches of vintage doo-wop and

gospel, putting the spotlight on his powerful pipes, which recall Sam Cooke and Otis Redding. Fellow Grammy nominee Lianne La Havas opens. —SG [DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, $35–$137/7:30 P.M.]

The Outer Vibe STOCK The marketable INDIE feel-good indie onslaught of the mid-2010’s rolls on with The Outer Vibe, who self-identify as “cinematic surf disco.” This is a charitable way to describe the band’s soulful MGMT-like vocals, chipper, bouncing bass lines that do their job and nothing more, and the occasional extravagant brass instrument, swirled into an all-toofamiliar stew. If you have ever Shazamed the music in the lobby of a Jimmy John’s, give this a swing. With Raid the Quarry and Eric Paul. —DS [MOTORCO, $8–$10/8 P.M.]

The Saint Johns FOLK A fashionable MAC Nashville two-piece with a polished take on modern roots rock in the Lumineers vein, The Saint Johns seem well positioned to achieve a similar brand of widescreen success.

Louis Johnson and Jordan Meredith pepper their tandem vocals with Fleetwood Mac harmonies, lovelorn sighs and spritely energy. Birdtalker opens.

—EB [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10–$12/7 P.M.] ALSO ON SUNDAY IRREGARDLESS: Larry Hutcherson; 10 a.m. Jade Maurelle; 6 p.m. • THE MAYWOOD: The Oh Whales, Count to Four, Centerfolds, But You Can Call Me John, Summer Wars; 8:30 p.m., $8. • POUR HOUSE: The Day After Hopscotch Party; 2 p.m., free. • SLIM’S: Hopscotch Hangover 7; noon. • ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: David Arcus; 3 p.m. • STEEL STRING BREWERY: Gasoline Stove; 4 p.m.

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Pat McGee Band PORCH The country-flaROCK vored soft-rock array of this Richmond, Virginia native almost qualifies him as a folkie.

But on his choruses, Pat McGee slips into arena rock mode and can rally the troops in a good-sized room. McGee upped the ante by bringing John Popper and Little Feat’s Paul Barrere on board for his eponymous 2015 release, but he still sounds more like easygoing front-porch rock than the tear-the-house-down variety. Reeve Coobs opens. —GB [LINCOLN THEATRE, $16/8 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY CAT’S CRADLE: Blind Guardian, Grave Digger; 8 p.m., $29–$60.

• CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Mr. Darcy, Spencer Scholes; 8 p.m., $8. • IRREGARDLESS: Marilyn Wienand; 6:30 p.m. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Bloodworth Combo; 9 p.m., $5. • THE PINHOOK: Titus Andronicus, A Giant Dog; 9 p.m., $15. See box, page 39. • POUR HOUSE: Adrock 2016; 6 p.m., $5.

WED, SEP 14 Heart, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Cheap Trick STAYING An unlikely if POWER admittedly formidable bill featuring some of the unimpeachable kingpins of late-seventies and eighties rock, this triptych makes it clear that divisions between mainstream, punk, and new wave were always a market invention. There’s always been genius behind each act, from Heart’s white-knuckle melodrama, to Jett’s forward-looking feminist edge, to Cheap Trick’s fuck-it-already insouciance. The hits figure to pour down like rain.

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Magic Beans FUNK The thing about jam FUN bands like Magic Beans is that they usually exist in a binary universe. Ergo, most music fans will either submerge enthusiastically in these

long-winded interstellar jams, or refuse to dip a toe in, citing egregious wankery. Magic Beans are decent and rock eclectic kitchen-sink jams. Funk, soul, classic rock, and psychedelia are all on the chopping block, and the mixtures are decent. If you haven’t figured out your stance on jam bands, this wouldn’t be a bad place to start. With Electric Soul Pandemic. —DS [POUR HOUSE, $5/9 P.M.]

Jacob Wick TRUE Jacob Wick GRIT composes spaces and experiences as much as he makes music. His trumpet playing is all about texture, grit, and the sounds of his lungs giving out. The last time he played in Raleigh, he guided the audience on an aural journey, narrating urban sounds to the audience before re-creating them through his horn. It was a remarkable kind of sonic transportation. His quiet meditations verge on silence, focusing you in on every aural fleck. With Frank Meadows. —DR [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $8/10 P.M.]

ZZ Top BEARD Approaching their ALERT fifth decade in existence, the justifiably revered ZZ Top has carved out a unique legacy as both loose-limbed purveyors of seventies blues and boogie and unlikely avatars of MTV’s eighties revolution. Few guitarists rival the esteem held for Billy Gibbons, the expressive lead axe man whose avowed influences include everyone from Jimi Hendrix to the Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood. Catch them while you can. Gov’t Mule opens. —TB [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $45–$55/5:30 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY THE ARCHITECT BAR & SOCIAL HOUSE: Shane Smith; 9 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Seth Walker, Cyril Lance & Friends; 8 p.m., $10–$12. • HUMBLE PIE: Sidecar Social Club; 8:30 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: The String Peddlers; 6:30 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: DJ Sami Automatic; 10 p.m.

• THE STATION: Saundhaus: KC Masterpeace, DJ Meesh; 9 p.m., free.

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SPECIAL Annual Instructor EVENT Exhibit: Work by painting, mixed media, and ceramics instructors.

Reception: Sep 9, 6-8 p.m.

The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

Copy That: Neon art by Nate Sheaffer. Sep 7-Oct 2. Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

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Scent of the Pine, You Know How I Feel: North Carolina Art from the Jonathan P. Alcott Collection: Thomas Hart Benton, Minnie Evans, Mary Anne Keel Jenkins, James Augustus McLean, and more.

Sep 10-Dec 4. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

ONGOING SPECIAL Against the Wall: EVENT Paintings by Katherine Armacost. Thru Oct 9. Reception: Sept 9, 6-9 p.m.

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

LAST Altered Land: Works CHANCE by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist: In Altered Land, Stamer and Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. scenes.

Stamer paints a barn with blackand-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Thru Sep 11.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Avant-Gardens: Mixed collage work by Lauren Worth. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Bathroom Humor: National Cartoonists Take on HB2: Visual commentary on NC House Bill 2. Thru Sep 25. Horse & Buggy Press, Durham. www. horseandbuggypress.com.

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09.07–09.14 Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock. Thru Sep 25.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection: Whereas many glassblowers content themselves with bongs and lampshades, Dale Chihuly has taken the form into the upper echelons of fine art with his sculptural fantasias.

This private collection of Chihuly’s works focuses on vessels inspired by Venetian art deco vases from the 1920s and ’30s, almost fifty of which are arrayed around the centerpiece of the Laguna Murano Chandelier, a tour de force made of more than 1,500 pieces. Thru Oct 15. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham. —Brian Howe The Colors of Summer: Peg Bachenheimer. Thru Sep 17.

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

Come Out and Play: Outdoor sculpture group show.

Thru Sep 24. JimGin Farm, Pittsboro. www.carrboro.com/ comeoutandplay.

Continuum: Martha Clippinger, Joy Drury Cox, Susan Harbage Page, Tom Spleth, and Hillary Waters. Thru Oct 1. Light Art + Design, Chapel Hill. www. lightartdesign.com.

LAST Dear, Deer: Oil CHANCE paintings by Trish Klenow. Thru Sep 9. Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex. www.thehalle.org.

Do You Have a Moment?: It’s a question that might send you scurrying when posed by someone clutching a clipboard

on the street. It’s also the title of Jody Servon’s new show, which comes to life only when you respond to its prompts.

Servon developed the exhibit during her summer residency at Artspace. The centerpiece is “Our Top 100,” in which visitors write down a song title and a recollection it sparks. The notes are posted on the wall, and each song is added to the playlist streaming in the gallery. The result is a collective memory mixtape for Raleigh. Thru Sep 27. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org. —Brian Howe Dreaming in Color: Paintings by Lolette Guthrie, textile art by Alice Levinson, and blown glass

by Pringle Teetor. Thru Sep 25.

Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

Durham by Ghostbike: In one of his mixed-media collages, Jeremy Kerman shows us a familiar downtown vantage through fresh eyes. Using bright colors, blocky shapes, and skewed perspectives remindful of a child’s drawing, he depicts the collision of old and new Durham, as historic brick jumbles with shiny ELF vehicles in front of the Organic Transit building. A“Ghost Bike” parking sign pays a tribute to a friend of the artist’s in particular, and to all the people being erased, literally or figuratively, from Durham.

Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery. com. —Brian Howe SPECIAL A Garden is a Dream EVENT Space: Paperworks and textiles by Ann Marie Kennedy. Thru Sep 25.

Reception: Sep 11, 2-4 p.m.

Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpreservation.com.

History and Mistory: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: This free exhibit is the first time in four decades that NCMA has curated an exhibit from its British holdings—and if you simply don’t care about pictures of random aristocrats

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

MICHAEL POLOMIK: “GUARDIAN”

MICHAEL POLOMIK: HELLBENT CROWN

in ruffs, the show also includes portraits by famous names like Anthony van Dyck and William Beechey. Thru Mar 19, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Hometown (Inherited): Photographic and mixed media work by Moriah LeFebvre. Thru Oct 2. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

In the Footsteps Of...: Group photography show. Thru Sep 9. Halle Cultural Arts Center, Apex. www.thehalle.org.

Landscapes: Matter and Spirit: Michael Brown, Jacob Cooley, Julyan Davis, Larry Gray, Jennifer Miller, Marlise Newman, and Chad Smith.

Thru Sep 25. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. enogallery.net.

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

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

SPECIAL Matins to Verspers: EVENT Paintings by Ruth Ananda. Thru Oct 2. Reception: Sep 9, 6-9 p.m. Vespertine, Carrboro.

Muhammad Ali Memorable Images: Ringside photos from Zaire and Manila by Sonia Katchian. Thru Sep 15. Vegan Flava Cafe, Durham. www.

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LAST Natural CHANCE Abstractions: Photographs by Michael Rosenberg. Thru Sep 10.

Through This Lens, Durham. www.throughthislens.com.

SPECIAL Natural Lines: EVENT Furniture by Jim Oleson. Thru Oct 9. Reception: Sep 9, 6-9 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com.

NC to NYC: Work by Jim Hallenbeck. Thru Oct 1. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com.

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

OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello Erin Oliver: Site-specific installation. Thru Sep 24.

Artspace, Raleigh. www.

artspacenc.org.

On Today: Charcoal drawings by Louis Watts. Thru Oct 1. Lump, Raleigh. www.teamlump.org.

Oppressive Architecture: Photographs by Gesche Würfel.

Thru Dec 4. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. www.camraleigh.org.

Out of Context: Mixed-media by Kathryn DeMarco, Linwood Hart, and Libby O’Daniel. Thru Sep 10.

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

SPECIAL Paintings, EVENT Photographs, Friendship: Works by Clyde Edgerton and John Rosenthal.

Thru Oct 9. Reception: Sep 9, 6-9 p.m. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart. com. See story, p. 31.

Josue Pellot: Sculpture. Thru Sep 27. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill. art.unc.edu.

Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective: Photographs of North Carolina.

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

Printocracy: Work by North Carolina printmakers. Thru Sep 16. Cary Town Hall. www. townofcary.org.

Processes of Illumination: Work

by Kevin Peddicord, Ashley

Raleigh’s Michael Polomik paints images that instantly evoke Renaissance religious art—the voluminous figures in sculptural poses, the awed perspective and immanent light—and then renders them strange with light-touched surrealism: a head replaced by a skull here, a face billowing clouds there. The scenes that don’t evoke primitive terror swing toward wonder, with figures clasped in diagrammatic pictographs that slip between modern graphic design and some kind of Mesoamerican science fiction. Polomik’s stark, focused iconography creates a unified world that resists direct interpretation but invites viewers to fill in their own epic story. Play your part in Hellbent Crown, Polomik’s new exhibit at the Carrack, which runs for one more day after this closing reception. —Brian Howe THE CARRACK MODERN ART, DURHAM 6–9 p.m., free, www.thecarrack.org

Lowe, and Stephen Cefalo. Thru Sep 22. Litmus Gallery, Raleigh. www.litmusgallery.com.

Remembrances: The Peruvian artist Silvia Paz incorporates imagery from the depths of her subconscious into her striking, luminous oil paintings.

Though her work is marked by realistic rendering, something in the light, perspective, and especially the iconography transmits the visceral sense of being in a dreamworld. Paz juxtaposes the ordinary and the fantastical in a way that calls to mind Surrealists such as Magritte, while her spooky landscapes have a de Chirico flavor. Thru Sep 30. Gallery

C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net.

—David Klein Resilience: The Divine Power of Black & White: Artwork by Julie Niskanen Skolozynski. Thru Sep 18. Cary Arts Center. www. townofcary.org.

Rorschach: Photographs by Titus Brook Heagins. Thru Oct 29. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Sea Life: Sculpture by Renee Levity, Brenda Holmes, and Nate Sheaffer. Thru Sep 25.

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

Seeing Beyond the Structures: Portraits of the Landscape: Paintings by Adam Bellefeuil, Rachel Campbell, and Caitlin Cary. Thru Sep 16. Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Raleigh. www.raleighnc.gov/arts.

Selections from the Photography Collection: Thru Jan 22, 2017.

Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Selma to Montgomery: A March for the Right to Vote: Photographs by Spider Martin.

Thru Mar 5, 2017. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art: Exploration of Southern identity through contemporary art. Thru Jan 8, 2017. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. See review, p. 32.

LAST Southern CHANCE Discomfort: The Art of Dixie: Work concerning the American South. Thru Sep 13.

Gallery C, Raleigh. www. galleryc.net.

Space of Otherness: The painter Quoctrung Nguyen swirls his experience as a migrant into elegant abstractions in this new exhibit. Works like “Utopia III” and “Heterotopia” suggest overlapping prints from the coats of fantastic animals, with textures furred, mottled, and fluid drawn into chaotic harmonies. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www. durhamarts.org. —Brian Howe Synesthesia: LED artwork by Lile Stephens. Thru Oct 2.

Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www.

flandersartgallery.com.

The Ties That Bind: Work by Precious Lovell. Thru Jan 8, 2017. CAM Raleigh, Raleigh. camraleigh.org.

Trio: Ceramics by Phillip Haralam, Evelyn Ward, and Doug Dotson. Thru Sep 17.

Claymakers, Durham. www. claymakers.com.

Up Close and Personal: The Beauty of Tiny Insects: Photographs by Stan Lewis. Thru Oct 2. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences.org.

LAST Useful Work: CHANCE Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm: Ken Abbott’s color photographs of family farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Thru Sep 10. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

Joan Vandermeer: Travel paintings. Thru Sep 30.

Mad Hatter Bakeshop & Cafe, Durham. www. madhatterbakeshop.com.

William Noland: Dream Rooms: Long video takes examining technology and intimacy. Thru Feb 5, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.

stage OPENING

The Capitol Steps: Political comedy. $10-$45. Sat, Sep 10, 4 & 8 p.m. NCSU Campus: Stewart Theatre, Raleigh.

ETM: Double Down: Dorrance Dance. $10-$49. Wed, Sep 14 & Thu, Sep 15, 7:30 p.m. UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. carolinaperformingarts.org.

Gary Gulman: Stand-up comedy. $15. Thu, Sep 8-Sat, Sep 10. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

In Spectrum: Multimedia Hopscotch performance by Reflex Arc, Lincoln Hancock, Jaclyn Bowie. Thu, Sep 8. 17 E Martin St. Raleigh. See p. 35.

In the Wings: Playmakers on

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1967: Play. Mon, Sep 12, 7 p.m.

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

Jumbled: A One Woman Show: Spoken-word poetry by Alise Leslie. Tue, Sep 13, 7 p.m. Beyù Caffè, Durham. www.beyucaffe. com.

Kinky Boots: Musical. $35-$95.

Sep 13-18. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www. dpacnc.com. See p. 35.

North Carolina Dance Festival Concert: Dance. $5-$15. Sat, Sep 10, 8 p.m. Meredith College: Jones Auditorium, Raleigh. www.meredith.edu. See p. 35.

Oracle Plus, Dungeon Bronco, Ginger Wagg and Wild Actions: Sun, Sep 11, 8 p.m.

Nightlight, Chapel Hill. www. nightlightclub.com.

Our Graceful Falls From Grace: Vaudeville performance.

Sat, Sep 10, 8 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Hillsborough. www.uuchnc.org.

The Owl and the Turtle: Children’s play. Sat, Sep 10, 12:30 p.m. Northgate Mall, Durham. www.northgatemall. com.

Soundbites Festival: Featuring

local comics and author Sara Benincasa. Thu, Sep 8-Sat, Sep 10. DSI Comedy Theater, Chapel Hill. www.dsicomedytheater. com. See box, right.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

SARA BENINCASA The second annual Soundbites Festival brings a variety of podcasts to the stage of DSI Comedy Theater September 8 through 11. The headliner is Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi’s impertinent pop-culture show, Throwing Shade, a two-time People’s Choice Podcast Award winner for best LGBT podcast, and local comedy fans are sure to turn out in droves for a Mr. Diplomat improv performance featuring Robert Sledge of Ben Folds Five. Another big draw among the individually ticketed shows is writer and comedian Sara Benincasa, whose books get blurbed by the likes of Patton Oswalt. Benincasa resolutely focuses on real life in topical, interview-based essays about the agoraphobic experience (Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom) and, in her new book, the working lives of creative people. Local artists with day jobs tell all on Friday night in this live version of Real Artists Have Day Jobs, hosted by Benincasa, who also teaches a memoir-publishing workshop on Saturday. —Brian Howe

Transactors Improv: For Families!: $6-$10. Sat, Sep 10, 6 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive.org.

True West: Play. $18-$24. Thu, Sep 8–Sun, Sep 11, 7:30 p.m.

Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www.theatreinthepark.com.

ONGOING LAST  The CHANCE Beautiful Beast: Paperhand Puppet Intervention.

Thru Sun, Sep 11. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum. org. Read Byron Woods’s review at www.indyweek.com.

LAST  Creature: Play.

CHANCE $17. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 3 p.m. Thru Sun, Sep 11. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. www.nract.org. Read Byron Woods’s review at www. indyweek.com.  Maccountant: Play.

Thru Sep 17. Common Ground Theatre, Durham. www.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9–SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

DSI COMEDY THEATER, CHAPEL HILL 8:30 p.m., $20, www.dsicomedytheater.com

cgtheatre.com. Read Byron Woods’ review at www.indyweek. com.  Memphis: Musical. $21-$26. Thru Sep 11. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org. Read Byron Woods’s review at www. indyweek.com.

LUNGS

In Duncan MacMillan’s incisive 2011 play, Lungs, a millennial couple keeps going back and forth on the idea of having a baby. “I could fly to London and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tons of CO2,” the woman says. “That’s the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I’d be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.” How will two members of what The Guardian calls “a generation for whom uncertainty is a way of life” decide to bring new life into the world—and what will happen to their relationship when they do? Tony Lea directs Michelle Murray Wells and Jonathan King in Sonorous Road Theatre’s season opener. —Byron Woods SONOROUS ROAD THEATRE, RALEIGH Various times, $15–$18, www.sonorousroad.com

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SPECIAL SHOWINGS

Ain’t Nothing Like Being Free: Sun, Sep 11, 8 p.m. Nightlight, Chapel Hill. www.nightlightclub. com.

American Shift: Wed, Sep 14, 7 p.m. NCSU Campus: DH Hill Library, Raleigh. www.lib.ncsu. edu.

Central Park Five: Tue, Sep 13, 6 p.m. Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill. www.varsityonfranklin.com.

Dumpster Dive Cinema: VHS Movie Night: Tue, Sep 13, 8 p.m. The Station, Carrboro. stationcarrboro.com.

No Hand King, That Deputy Sheriff Might Surprise You: Film Shorts in the Park series. Thu, Sep 8, 7:30 p.m. Chavis Park, Raleigh.

Rosenwald: Fri, Sep 9, 6:45 p.m. Historic Russell School, Hillsborough.

Tomorrowland: Sat, Sep 10, 8:45 p.m. Riverwalk, Hillsborough.

MICHELLE MURRAY WELLS AND JONATHAN KING IN LUNGS PHOTO COURTESY OF DARYL RAY CARLILES PHOTOGRAPHY

Twitch: $5. Tue, Sep 13, 8:15 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic. com.

OPENING Complete Unknown—A man is sure a mysterious woman (Rachel Weisz) who shows up at his birthday party is his former lover, but she denies it.

Rated R. Sully—The pilot who landed an airliner disbled by geese in the Hudson River in 2009 gets the biopic treatment.

Rated PG-13.

When the Bough Breaks—A surrogate mother goes bad in this psychological thriller.

Rated PG-13.

A L S O P L AY I N G

The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.

 ½ Bad Moms—It’s The Change-Up and The Hangover for women. You’re welcome?

Rated PG-13.  Ben-Hur—Wow, who thought the director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter needed a crack at BenHur? Rated PG-13.  Don’t Think Twice— Mike Birbiglia’s comedy is a insider’s look at the tension between improv and mainstream comedy. Rated R.  ½ Florence Foster Jenkins—Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant carry their tunes,

but this biopic of an opera singer who couldn’t sing never finds its melody. Rated PG-13.  Ghostbusters—Haters aside, the casting isn’t the problem here: The limp script is. Rated PG-13.  Hell or High Water— Two texas antiheroes try to make the best of their bad hand in this bleak but brilliant neo-Western. Rated R.  Jason Bourne—Matt Damon’s amnesiac assassin returns in an efficient, effective genre exercise with a disposable plot. Rated PG-13.  The Light Between Oceans—This period romance starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander delivers some Old Hollywood magic.

Rated PG-13.  ½ The Sea of Trees—Gus Van Sant turns Japanese culture into a backdrop for American angst. Rated PG-13.  ½ The Secret Life of Pets—This charming, beautifully crafted family movie falls apart in the final act. Rated PG.  Suicide Squad—The plot is throwaway thin, but this team of antiheroes brings much-needed levity and breadth to the DC Extended Universe. Rated PG-13.

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FOOD EVENTS Chapel Hill Downtown Pop Up Farmers’ Market: Thursdays, 3:30 p.m; Thru Oct 27. The Plaza at 140 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill.

Forage to the Future: Dinner. $90. Tue, Sep 13, 6:30 p.m.

The Rickhouse, Durham. www. rickhousedurham.com.

Greek Festival: Food, activities, and more. $2-$3. Fri, Sep 9, 5 p.m., Sat, Sep 10, 11 a.m. & Sun, Sep 11, 11 a.m. North Carolina State Fairgrounds, Raleigh.

Launch the Sauce BBQ: Benefiting the Wake County Fire Department. $13. Sun, Sep 11, 2 p.m. Mandolin, Raleigh. www. mandolinraleigh.com.

Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market: Wednesdays, 10 a.m.

Raleigh City Plaza, Raleigh.

Summer Soiree: Wine and food tasting. $40. Thu, Sep 8.

City Kitchen, Chapel Hill. www. citykitchenchapelhill.com.

TXOTXFEST: $50-$75. Sat, Sep 10, 12 p.m. Black Twig Cider House, Durham. www. blacktwigciderhouse.com.

Wine Tasting at Mandolin: Exploring Terroir with Pinot Noir: Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Mandolin, Raleigh. www. mandolinraleigh.com.

Wine Tasting: Tuesday Special: Argentinian wines. Tue, Sep 13, 6 p.m. Mandolin, Raleigh. www. mandolinraleigh.com.

Wines of Portugal: $35. Thu, Sep 8, 6 p.m. www.fearrington. com/event/wines-of-portugal/.

The Fearrington Granary, Pittsboro. www.fearrington.com.

F O O D R E L AT E D DIY to Better Drinking: Cocktail Ingredients at Home: Alley Twenty Six owner Shannon Healy. Tue, Sep 13, 7 p.m.

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

Fred Thompson: Bacon: A Savor the South Cookbook. Sun, Sep 11, 2 p.m. The Root Cellar, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

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READINGS & SIGNINGS Nicholson Baker: Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids. Sat, Sep 10, 2 p.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks.com.

Sep 14, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

Cassie Beasley: Middle-grade novel Circus Mirandus. Sat, Sep 10, 2 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Tim Crothers: The Queen of Katwe. Sun, Sep 11, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Jonathan Safran Foer: Here I Am: A Novel. $30. Sun, Sep 11, 2 p.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks. com.

Ruth Moose: Wedding Bell Blues: A Dixie Dew Mystery. Sat, Sep 10, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks. com.

Lee Pace: Football in a Forest: The Life and Times of Kenan Memorial Stadium. Wed, Sep 14, 7 p.m.

Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com.

S.P. Sipal: A Writer’s Guide to Harry Potter. Sat, Sep 10, 1 p.m.

Barnes & Noble, Durham. www. barnesandnoble.com.

Alan Schwarz: ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma and the Making of an American Epidemic. Mon, Sep 12, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop. com; Tue, Sep 13, 7 p.m. Quail

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JACQUELINE WOODSON

Belle Boggs: Memoir The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood. Wed, Sep 7.

Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www. cdsporch.org. See story, p. 29.

Jacqueline Woodson’s long and diverse career as an author has spanned multiple genres and styles of literature. She won a National Book Award in 2014 for her novel Brown Girl Dreaming—an event regrettably overshadowed in the media by award presenter Daniel Handler making a tasteless joke about Woodson’s real-life allergy to watermelon. She’s received major acclaim for her new novel, Another Brooklyn, which deals with a girl named August recalling her family’s move to Brooklyn in the seventies, at a time when friendship and possibility coexisted alongside darkness and menace.

It’s already earned comparisons to such coming-of-age tales as Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina and been named one of the best books of this fall in reviews. Take the opportunity to check it out before it does even better than Brown Girl Dreaming on the literary awards circuit.

—Zack Smith

Robert Olen Butler: Novel Perfume River. Wed,

QUAIL RIDGE BOOKS, RALEIGH 7 p.m., free, www.quailridgebooks.com

Dave Barry: Wed, Sep 7, 7 p.m.

Durham Armory, Durham.

Andrea Beaty: Ada Twist, Scientist. Sat, Sep 10, 10 a.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks.com.

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Katy Munger: Piedmont Laureate, mystery writer.

Sat, Sep 10, 3 p.m. Durham Main Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org.

Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Shelby Stephenson: NC Poet Laureate. Sat, Sep 10, 2 p.m. Textile Heritage Museum, Burlington. textileheritagemuseum.org.

Two Writers Walk Into a Bar: Miriam Herin and Steve Cushman. Tue, Sep 13, 7 p.m.

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

Jacqueline Woodson: Another Brooklyn. Fri, Sep 9, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

LITERARY R E L AT E D

Arts Activism in Durham: Roundtable discussion. Thu, Sep

8, 12 p.m. powerplantgallery@ duke.edu. Power Plant Gallery, Durham.

Brain-Machine Interfaces: A New Way to Understand and Repair the Human Nervous System: Duke Professor of Neuroscience Miguel Nicolelis. $5. Tue, Sep 13, 7 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www. motorcomusic.com.

Islamophobia in the Triangle Community: Panel discussion.

Wed, Sep 7, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www. quailridgebooks.com.

Stephen Moore: $10–$15.

Lecture on economics. Tues, Sep 13, 7 p.m. Extraordinary Ventures, Chapel Hill.

Reader’s Party: Activities and interactive performance

by Triangle Readers Theatre Ensemble. Sun, Sep 11, 2 p.m.

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

Seven Things I’ve Learned: An Evening with Ira Glass: $35$75. Sat, Sep 10, 8 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www.dpacnc.com. See story, p. 28.

Nina Simone: Art, Music and Civil Rights: Talk by Michael A. Ausbon, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts. Wed, Sep 14, 12 p.m. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Songs of a Melting Pot: Tin Pan Alley and the Anxiety of Ethnic Identity: Scholar Daniel Goldmark. Fri, Sep 9, 4:15 p.m.

UNC Campus: Person Recital Hall, Chapel Hill.

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