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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK RALEIGH

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8 When Raleigh insisted that John Kane put affordable units inside his new downtown skyscraper rather than cut a check, it saved him almost a quarter-million bucks.

6 News 11 Fall Arts Preview

10 Ever wonder how we ended up with a president who draws hurricane projections with a Sharpie? Blame Thomas Hofeller.

25 Food & Drink 27 Music 29 Arts & Culture

11 Consider our Fall Arts Preview a form of preventative care against FOMO this autumn.

30 What to Do This Week 33 Music Calendar

14 Adrian Younge and A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad mind-meld in “sophisticated hip-hop jazz” as The Midnight Hour.

37 Arts & Culture Calendar

25 The Obama-era school-nutrition guidelines haven’t reduced childhood obesity, but they have caused lots of students to stop eating school meals.

28 Genre-bursting indie-pop whiz Sinkane based his name on a misheard Kanye West lyric.

29 After conquering country-rock, Linda Ronstadt formed a supergroup with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton.

Jolie is among this fall’s most anticipated new restaurants (see page 21).

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On the cover FRIDA KAHLO ON BENCH #5 PHOTO BY NICKOLAS MURA

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T H E I N DY ’ S P U B L I C N E W S R O O M The Raleigh elections are right around the corner, and so are the INDY’s endorsements.

Before we make our final decisions, we’d like to hear from you about what issues are on your mind and whom you’re supporting and why. Join editor Jeffrey Billman and staff writer Leigh Tauss at Isaac Hunter’s Tavern on Thursday, Sept. 12, for a conversation and a cocktail.

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INDY VOICES

The Privilege to Be Colorblind

Moloks of Mayhem

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n this week’s Voices column (look to your right), Courtney Napier takes to task those faulting Raleigh for removing the Molok trash bins from city property adjacent to the downtown M&F Bank, an issue Leigh Tauss reported on recently.

People, in other words, like Grayson Simon: “Have y’all seen the number of restaurants lining the corner of Hargett and Wilmington? The placement makes the most sense for those area businesses to access them. The city completely pulled this program solely because of one business, after spending so much money on testing and installation, but didn’t consider the opinions of the several businesses that benefit from it. The city did not consider the overall benefit for the whole area.

“What a complete waste of a $30,000 investment. Should they have considered better placement or at least talked to M&F beforehand? Sure. Should the city have pulled the program based on two individuals’ complaints alone? Hell no. How can progress be made if we concede to every NIMBYer?” Matthew Tunney makes a similar argument: “The location makes sense. It does suck that the city installed these without notifying the business, but it is city property and doesn’t take away any bank parking. Was this a racial thing? I sure don’t think so, but you would need to speak with each person involved in this decision. Before this story, I was unaware this was a black-owned bank. A lot of money was put into this to just scrap it all so soon. I think the program study should be allowed to continue.”

“If the city did not have the history of building landfills and screwing black neighborhoods and disregarding the opinions of people of color, this likely wouldn’t have become an issue,” Alex Howard counters. “Maybe [the Moloks] can be split up and put around the parks.”

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YES, RALEIGH’S MOLOKS DEBACLE REALLY WAS ABOUT RACE BY COURTNEY NAPIER

COURTNEY NAPIER is a Raleigh native, community activist, and co-host of the podcast Mothering on the Margins.

NEXT WEEK: BARRY SAUNDERS, a former News & Observer columnist.

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those of the authoritarian pro-cop crowd istorian Ibram X. Kendi’s new book, How to Be an Anti-Rac- in this unfortunate way. But the Black ist, argues that, like peo- community is far from shocked. The insidious thing about white privilege is ple, government policies can either be that it’s willfully blind to its impact on racist or antiracist. There’s no such Black and Brown people, insisting that thing as neutral, non-racial, colorblind damaging policies are not racist even as policy-making. the oppressed show them their scars and Two stories that came to light in Raleigh last month suggest he has a point. share their stories.

For too long in Raleigh, Black busiIn one, the city placed six giant trash nesses and residents have been shortcans, called Moloks, next to the only Black-owned bank downtown—then, changed by city ordinances and overlooked by its leaders. Many Black after complaints, removed them, which led to an uproar by white business own- Raleighites don’t believe that City Hall or the Raleigh Police Department has ers. In the other, a Black resident was their backs. To gain their trust, the city detained and handcuffed at gunpoint in his own home following a false alarm, may sometimes have to disappoint the dominant class. That’s what equity and which led to renewed calls for a civilian restorative justice look like. oversight board.

Equality feels like oppression to the In both cases, government agents relied on non-racial policies to justi- privileged.

Some of these same white liberals who fy their actions. The city installed the demanded action after a video of Kazeem Moloks on city-owned property, so it didn’t need to consult M&F Bank. Sim- Oyeneyin’s encounter with the police surilarly, the cops followed normal proce- faced also vented at M&F Bank for standing up for its interests—and for the city dures for a breaking-and-entering call. taking its concerns seriously. The bank is And, of course, neither incident had “butthurt,” one commenter wrote on Faceanything to do with race. book. A business owner posted that M&F After the INDY reported on the demise of the Moloks experiment, city council “doesn’t give two shits about their patrons member Nicole Stewart asked on Face- having to sit/stand in trash juice from rotting trash bins …. Their argument is total book for volunteers willing to put the BS.” Still another business owner accused Moloks on their property to contact her M&F of “having two shareholders tossing or the Downtown Raleigh Alliance. No one responded to that part of her mes- racial emails directly to the city manager sage in the comments, but plenty of peo- in order to make a backroom deal with no public oversight.” ple had other things to say.

And finally, a different business owner “It was only one complaint!” accusingly noted that the bank had given “That bank doesn’t own the street! The money to the campaign of Corey Branch, city didn’t have to tell them anything!” the city council’s only Black member.

The “urban progressives” who railed (Campaign finance reports show that against removing the Moloks wouldn’t Joseph Sanson, a retired IBM executive suspect that their politics overlap with

who sits on M&F’s city advisory board, gave Branch $200 in August. Branch appears to have received no other contributions from M&F or individuals connected to it this cycle.)

This rhetoric avoids the taboo language of the civil rights era. But it’s evident that while these folks have trained their mouths not to use race-specific words, they haven’t trained their minds to recognize their own privilege.

The Moloks experiment is a wonderful concept. But, much like the gentrification and displacement occurring in Southeast Raleigh, Black communities and institutions are often the ones expected to absorb the pain that comes with growth and prosperity—and do it with a smile.

In the end, the city did the right thing in responding to M&F’s concerns—an example of antiracist governing. And had someone on the city’s staff consulted with M&F before dropping the Moloks next door, this likely would never have been an issue. With luck, the city will find a new location soon.

But let’s not kid ourselves: The indifference to the concerns of North Carolina’s only Black-owned bank is just as racist as the excessive policing that Kazeem Oyeneyin experienced, whether or not our urban progressives want to admit it.

After all, there’s no such thing as a non-racial policy. backtalk@indyweek.com INDY Voices—a rotating column featuring some of the Triangle’s most compelling writers—is made possible by contributions to the INDY Press Club. Visit KeepItINDY.com for more information.

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The Contender

YOU KNOW J. GUNN AS A RAPPER. HE’D LIKE DURHAM TO KNOW HIM AS COUNCILMAN.

BY THOMASI MCDONALD

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f you only knew Joshua Gunn as the rapper J. Gunn or through the BET reality series Music Moguls, it would be easy to write off his bid for the Durham City Council as a novelty—a way to burnish his brand as an artist, self-described creative, and co-founder of the annual Black August in the Park festival.

But his connections to the community run deep: He serves on the boards of the Durham Public Schools Foundation, the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, and the Museum of Durham History. He’s also vice president of the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce.

And the thirty-five-year-old has notched key endorsements, including from the political action committees of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People and the Friends of Durham, the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, former city council member Cora Cole-McFadden, and, notably, current council member Mark-Anthony Middleton.

He’s an underdog, to be sure. The three incumbents in the at-large race—Charlie Reece, Jillian Johnson, and Javiera Caballero, who are campaigning as a slate—are backed

by Mayor Steve Schewel and the People’s Alliance PAC, which in recent elections has acted as a kingmaker. (Middleton is the only council member who wasn’t endorsed by the PA.) But of the seven challengers who’ve filed for the October 8 primary, Gunn appears best positioned to score an upset.

Gunn exudes confidence, something he says he’s carried with him since he won his first freestyle battle at age thirteen. He was a skinny, mixed-race kid who felt like he didn’t belong anywhere.

All of that changed.

“I beat several twenty-five-year-olds in a battle, and it gave me the confidence and self-esteem that’s carried over through every other aspect of my life,” he says. “I think the battle, for all of us, is finding out who we are and our place in this world.”

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Joshua Gunn

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He says he wants to address what he sees as glaring disparities in the city’s economic development strategy and focus on “equitable and inclusive economic policies to generate jobs and ensure that Durham’s growth can benefit all of its residents.”

The son of a mailman whose forefather arrived in North Carolina a generation after slavery and a stay-at-home mom who fled East Germany as a child,

Gunn argues that poverty lies at the heart of many of the issues that have plagued Durham for years.

“The root of all of our challenges is economics and the ability to provide for our families,” says Gunn, who earlier this year co-founded Provident1898, a co-working collective housed in the NC Mutual Insurance building. That includes violent crime and affordable housing, he says, which can

be addressed by providing better jobs and business opportunities, particularly for black and brown residents.

“I think violence is most often a function of poverty,” Gunn says. “Folks aren’t out here breaking the law because they’re bad people.

They’re breaking the law because they’re making an economic decision. When scarcity exists, people are fighting over food.”

In the short-term, Gunn says, he supports Chief C.J. Davis’s request for additional police officers, which the council rejected in this year’s budget.

But the longer-term problem, he says, is “current elected officials’ lack of engagement with the business community.”

Gunn, who graduated from Jordan High and studied psychology at North Carolina A&T, points out that he’d be the council’s only Durham native—and that he has family members who live in Durham public housing.

He says he has “serious concerns” about the city’s $95 million affordable housing bond, which will be on the ballot in November, though he stops short of opposing it.

“For the first five years, it only addresses the construction of new buildings downtown and the renovation of downtown property,” Gunn says. “So our neighbors who currently reside in public housing that is crumbling around them will continue to live in those conditions for five years without any relief.”

And, he adds, there’s no “real economic development plan attached to the bond.”

Gunn says he’s running for office “to re-engage the business community. And it’s not about being pro-business or anti-business. It’s about being pro-people of Durham.”

This is especially the case for people of color, Gunn says.

“Jobs are our mechanism, and starting businesses are our way out of poverty,” he says. “We don’t have the privilege to be anti-business. Black folk and brown folk, we need businesses to work for us.” tmcdonald@indyweek.com

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Kane, Raised

RALEIGH’S AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEAL WITH A MEGA-DEVELOPER COST THE CITY A LOT OF ACTUAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING BY LEIGH TAUSS

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ome Raleigh City Council members claimed victory last week after strong-arming developer John Kane into including affordable units in his proposed high-rise development on Peace Street, the first foray into a new policy that uses affordable housing as a bargaining chip in rezoning cases.

“It’s a modest first step as part of a longterm vision about what our expectations are for the city of Raleigh,” says council member Russ Stephenson. “We have set the precedent now that our premiere local developers want to be part of the solution.”

Perhaps. But in terms of raw numbers, the city hosed itself.

Kane had offered to contribute $1 million toward the city’s affordable housing fund.

The city could have leveraged that money to build forty units at the cost of about $25,000 each and keep them affordable for at least thirty years, says Larry Jarvis, the city’s housing and neighborhoods director. Wake County is building affordable units for even less, paying just $14,000 per unit this year, with $8.1 million in approved projects that will construct 576 new units. These, too, will remain affordable for at least thirty years.

Under the agreement Kane reached with the city, however, his building will likely include just twenty units of affordable

housing for only five years, and it’ll cost him significantly less than $1 million.

In other words, the council could have gotten twice as much affordable housing for six times as long if it had taken Kane’s money instead of forcing him to include the units in his building.

So why did the council do it?

It’s hard to argue that politics didn’t play a role. With affordable housing at the forefront of next month’s city elections, the council’s development-skeptic majority— Stephenson, David Cox, Stef Mendell, and Kay Crowder, who all face tough re-election challenges, plus Dickie Thompson, who is not running again—had signaled that they wouldn’t approve Kane’s request unless his project included affordable units. His money wasn’t enough.

The council’s Growth and Natural Resources Committee, run by this bloc, first proposed the voluntary affordable housing policy in March as a way to circumvent the state’s ban on inclusionary zoning. Forcing Kane to play ball will allow them to show voters that they brought a powerful developer to heel. (Kane’s project is also contingent on a traffic study.)

The GNR members weren’t the only ones to approve the rezoning with these conditions. The council did so unanimously.

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Mayor Nancy McFarlane, who was on leave during the negotiations with Kane, says she wanted to avoid further delays.

“I think if the one million dollars produced more units, it seemed to me that would have been more beneficial,” says McFarlane, who is not seeking re-election.

“But I guess it’s also symbolic. [Developers] feel they can do a project with those units and include them and make it work.”

Asked if the city got a good deal, McFarlane replies, “You will have to talk to the members of the council that pushed for that deal.”

Stephenson argues that, while Kane’s cash would have netted the city more units, insisting on affordable units in the project itself was essential.

“If we don’t emphasize the need to actually build affordable units downtown, but take a fee in lieu to build something somewhere else, some would say that’s an admission that you plan for downtown to only be for rich people in the future,” Stephenson says.

But the voluntary affordability policy only works with rezoning requests—cases in which the city has leverage—and the downtown core along Fayetteville Street is already zoned up to forty stories. That means most eligible rezoning requests will abut residential neighborhoods, where

they’re already likely to face an uphill battle.

Stephenson voted against this downtown zoning measure in 2015, arguing then that the city was giving away its ability to negotiate for potential community benefits.

“It was a huge mistake, and now we’re paying for it downtown,” Stephenson says.

Kane’s tower will likely have about four hundred residential units, says his managing director, former city council member Bonner Gaylord. At the current market rate, those apartments would rent for at least $2 a square foot, or $2,400 for a twelve-hundred-square-foot two-bedroom.

Under the deal, Kane could rent as much as 15 percent of the units to people earning 80 percent of the area median income for fifteen years to—more likely—as few as 5 percent of units rent to people earning 50 percent of the AMI for five years.

In Raleigh, the AMI for a two-person household is about $74,200. At 50 percent of the AMI, a couple making $37,100 would be eligible to rent an apartment in Kane’s tower for about $800 a month. After five years, the units would return to the market rate.

Over five years, according to Gaylord, that option will cost Kane about $771,000. He’ll save about $229,000 over his cash offer to the city. ltauss@indyweek.com

The Raleigh elections are right around the corner, and so are the INDY’s endorsements. Before we make our final decisions, we’d like to hear from you about what issues are on your mind and whom you’re supporting and why.

Join editor Jeffrey Billman and staff writer Leigh Tauss at Isaac Hunter’s Tavern on Thursday, Sept. 12, for a conversation and a cocktail.

If you’re nice to us, we might buy you a drink.

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All the President’s Sharpies WHEN YOU WONDER HOW WE’VE REACHED PEAK STUPID, DON’T FORGET THE NAME THOMAS HOFELLER BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

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f the myriad episodes that have defined the Trump administration’s idiocracy, few can top the Peak Stupid of Sharpie-gate.

You know the gist: A week ago Saturday, President Trump warned that Hurricane Dorian posed a serious risk to Alabama, though forecasters had days earlier said Alabama was out of danger. The next day, after receiving calls from worried residents, the Birmingham office of the National Weather Service tweeted that “Alabama would NOT see any impacts from the hurricane.”

For reasons best left to a shrink, Trump spent the next week insisting that he was right and the NWS was wrong. By Wednesday, he was in the Oval Office with a week-old hurricane forecast map altered by a Sharpie to include Alabama in the storm’s projected path. By Friday night—after the storm had left the North Carolina coast, and long after we should have moved on—the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a statement “correcting” the Birmingham NWS’s tweet from a week earlier.

This, we later learned, followed the secretary of commerce threatening to fire NOAA officials if they didn’t back the president.

By Sunday, The Washington Post had reported that, the day after Trump’s Alabama flub, NOAA sent a directive ordering NWS staff not to contradict the president, then a similar note after the Sharpie display.

“I have never been so embarrassed,” the head of the NWS union tweeted.

So say we all, pal.

Under different circumstances—say, if he were hosting a reality TV show—the president’s pathological need to be right and his lackeys’ compulsion to assuage his fragile ego might be amusing. But this is real life, and undermining the credibility of government information during a disaster could put lives at risk.

More important, it’s part of a larger problem. On Friday, Business Insider reported that “aides and confidants are concerned

about [Trump’s] mental state after days of erratic behavior and wild outbursts.”

According to one former White House official: “His mood changes from one minute to the next based on some headline or tweet, and the next thing you know his entire schedule gets tossed out the window because he’s losing his shit.”

In the UK, when Trump-lite prime minister Boris Johnson tried to circumvent Parliament to facilitate a no-deal Brexit, he was blocked and then prevented from calling snap elections by defections from within his party. The defectors put country over party, the national interest over politics.

Here, however, administration officials have shown no such spine, even on matters as banal as Sharpie-gate. The higher the stakes—and the more unhinged Trump becomes—the more dangerous that gets.

Plenty of ink has been spilled explaining how we got here—how, since the civil rights movement, the Republican Party’s embrace of white racial grievance and cultivation of authoritarianism in its pursuit of power have eroded liberal democracy’s guardrails.

But we shouldn’t overlook the behindthe-scenes roles played by men like Thomas Hofeller, who made the radicalization and intellectual degradation of the GOP possible.

Hofeller, who died last year, was a Republican redistricting consultant, a number-cruncher who helped gerrymander congressional and legislative districts all over the country, but most famously here in North Carolina. The districts he helped create in 2011 were struck down as racial gerrymanders. The congressional districts he helped draw to replace them were then struck down as partisan gerrymanders— though, earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering was constitutional.

But last week, a Wake County Superior Court panel struck down the redrawn legislative districts, ruling that extreme partisan gerrymandering violated the state constitu-

tion. Facing a Democratic-controlled state Supreme Court, GOP lawmakers declined an appeal, meaning the General Assembly has to redraw its maps again, and North Carolina could see its first fair legislative election in a decade in 2020.

This is where it gets fun: Much to Republicans’ chagrin, Hofeller’s daughter turned over thousands of his files to the good-government group Common Cause, which sued lawmakers over the gerrymanders. On Friday, The New Yorker reported their contents. They showed that Hofeller compiled “intensely detailed” data on race, as well as things like whether college students were likely to have the state-required ID to vote.

The files also showed that Hofeller was involved in Republican gerrymandering efforts in Arizona, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, Texas, and Florida, and that “he was part of a Republican effort to add a citizenship question to the census … which Hofeller believed would make it easier to pack Democrats and minorities into fewer districts, giving an advantage to Republicans.”

(Trump, you’ll recall, championed this cause even after the Supreme Court rejected it because his administration didn’t bother to hide its political motivations.)

Here’s the rub: Hofeller and the Republicans who employed him contorted democracy to their own ends. But by creating ruby-red districts in which Republicans could only lose in primaries—districts impervious to the whims of voters, in which GOP lawmakers answered only to activists within their own party—they helped foster an incentive structure that pulled Republicans hard right, rewarding politicians who played to nativist fears and snuffing out any vestige of moderation.

This resulted in the kind of asymmetric polarization that, in short order, gave us a president who draws hurricane projections with a Sharpie and a party that whistles in democracy’s graveyard. jbillman@indyweek.com

To prevent FOMO, take one Fall Arts Preview and call us in the morning Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and talk-show staple Jay Leno. Martha Graham’s iconic dance company and Bang on a Can’s Pulitzer-winning composer, David Lang. Essential visual artist Frida Kahlo and hilarious memoirist David Sedaris. Seminal postmodern choreographer Lucinda Childs and TV-comedy star Damon Wayans Jr. Music and civil-rights legend Mavis Staples and pop sensation Arianna Grande.

Ivory-twinkler Harry Connick Jr. and fiery spitter Meek Mill. Jazz visionary Ambrose Akinmusire and pop visionary Bon Iver.

We could go on and on, and in the pages that follow, we will.

But first, we should address the obvious question: What do all of these diverse titans and upstarts in their fields have in common?

The answer: They or their art appear in the Triangle this autumn.

In this year’s Fall Arts Preview, we offer our top picks from the worlds of visual art, dance, theater, comedy, readings, and music. We also submit our wish list for fall films we want to see on the big screen, from the sure shots we’ll definitely get (hi, Star Wars) to the smaller films we dearly hope we get (hi, Waves). And we run down ten places to eat or drink that either recently opened or will any day now (right, Poole’side?).

The INDY is big on preventative care. Consider this your FOMO innoculation.

“Frida Kahlo on Bench #5”

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STEWART THEATRE “Ms. Carter is widely considered the finest jazz violinist of her generation...”

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THE LARGEST EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SOUTH YET CREATED. NOW OPEN through Dec 29 OPENING RECEPTION presented jointly with THURS SEPT 5, 6pm Duke’s Power Plant Gallery

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Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now

After setting attendance records at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, where it was created, one of the first major exhibits to treat the work of indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada as contemporary art first and “Native American art” second comes to the Nasher with a variety of great events packed in, from a concert featuring Lakota hip-hop artist Frank Waln and others (Oct. 24) to a talk with the Hudson, New York artist Jeffrey Gibson (Nov. 21).

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Deborah Michel Porché #119885, John LuskLuster, Hathaway, Lakeshore Marina, 2011 Simeon The Priest, 2013

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IN THE AGE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY Are scientists/engineers in charge of the future, or do artists have a role?

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She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World

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Iran and the Arab world. Glowing reviews have followed this landmark exhibit, which complicates archetypal notions of Middle Eastern and Arab identity and explores the bottomless well of women’s creativity. This is the exhibit’s last stop and its first time in a museum in the Southeast.

Toy Boom!

Toys from the 1950s & ‘60s

Boomer nostalgia will last forever, at least for a little while longer. NCMH takes a playful look back at the mid-twentieth century through the toys that reflected and constructed the era’s conception of childhood. Ensconced among wood-burning kits

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Oct. 4–Jan. 3, North Carolina Museum of History, ncmuseumofhistory.org

Scott Avett: I N V I S I B L E

An Avett Brother gets his own solo exhibit at NCMA, and here’s the twist: While those words immediately conjure suspicions of the stunt casting of a famed home-state musician in the role of fine artist, Scott Avett’s large-scale, autobiographical oil paintings actually look good.

Oct. 12–Feb. 2, North Carolina Museum of Art, ncartmuseum.org

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism She Who Tells a Story brings together the from the Jacques and work of twelve female photographers from Natasha Gelman Collection

Sep. 20–Dec. 1, Ackland Art Museum, ackland.org

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and model trains, Easy Bake Ovens and Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, it’ll be like Nintendo never happened.

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Frida Kahlo’s work, in the words of André Breton, is a “ribbon around a bomb.” Her tumultous relationship with the cubist painter Diego Rivera has long fascinated critics and audiences alike, and the titanic legacy of the artistic partnership is undeniable. This NCMA exhibit of their work is one of the most anticipated events of the season.

Oct. 26–Jan. 19, NCMA, ncartmuseum.org

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STAGE live-action remake of Disney’s animated foray into The Thousand and One Nights, be warned—the Broadway version nixes Apu, Rajah, and Iago, because animals can’t sing.

But come on, it’s from the producer of The Lion King and the director/choreographer of The Book of Mormon. Resistance is futile.

Oct. 2–26, Durham Performing Arts Center, dpacnc.com

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rosas: Rosas danst Rosas Playing nicely off the Lucinda Childs booking elsewhere in CPA’s season, this signature postmodern piece is a wonder of taut repetition, marked by the same deep rapport with severely evolving patterns that also drew Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker to make her choreographic mark on Steve Reich’s music.

Oct. 9 & 10, UNC’s Memorial Hall

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Nate Bargatze

Jimmy Fallon favorite Nate Bargatze got his own Netflix comedy special, The Tennessee Kid, in March, and the way he nails his punchline in the trailer (“Olivia?”) is characteristic of his polished, approachable style. Bargatze self-deprecates with a soft Southern twang, and his persona draws from reservoirs of modesty and charm instead of neurosis or creepiness.

Sep. 20, The Carolina Theatre, carolinatheatre.org

The Roomate

Jen Silverman’s 2015 dramedy is a little bit The Odd Couple and a little bit Breaking Bad, according to the Los Angeles Times, which praised the “emerging talent to be reckoned with” for her “unsentimental insight.” In middle age, an empty-nested Iowa homemaker gets a vegan New York slam poet for a roommate, propelling a radical reinvention.

Sep. 26–Oct. 13, The Fruit, bulldogdurham.org

Damon Wayans Jr.

The son of stand-up comedian Damon Wayons is best-known for his roles in sitcoms about the complicated lives of quippy young

urban adults: in Happy Endings, he’s Brad, a married yuppie; in New Girl, he’s Coach, an anxious personal trainer. Outside of these roles he can be found bopping around on episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Bob’s Burgers, among many others.

the students were responding to ongoing racist harassment and initially faced a trumpedup charge of attempted murder. Dominique Morisseau’s charged drama explores the context and the failure of the criminal justice system around the “Jena Six.”

Sep. 27–29, Raleigh Improv, improv.com/raleigh

Sep. 27–Oct. 13, Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre, raleighlittletheatre.org

Martha Graham Dance Company: CURRENT Takeover

The late, great Martha Graham is synonymous with the early, running-in-a-circleon-some-grass days of modern dance, but her company is still pushing the form into the future. This performance installation preserves and innovates upon Graham’s legacy in one stroke: During a Google residency, Tyler Henry figured out how to use a Kinect camera to overlay projections of historical Graham dancers on a live one performing the classic Lamentation. Sounds wow.

Aladdin

If you’re still reeling from Will Smith’s thirsty genie and other changes in the

In a timely revival of Clare Bayley’s 2007 play, five refugees from Afghanistan, Somalia, and Kurdish Turkistan hide in a forty-foot shipping container as they try to enter the UK. Audiences will join the nightmarish ride, twenty at a time, inside a real container in the courtyard of CAM Raleigh.

Oct. 10–27, Murphey School Auditorium, burningcoal.org

Frankenstein

Two years after he tried his spooky hand at The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and just in time for Halloween, Carolina Ballet artistic director Zalman Raffael premieres a new

Sep. 27–29, CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio, carolinaperformingarts.org

Blood at the Root

In 2006, six African-American teens in Jena, Louisiana were convicted of beating a white student at their high school. The fact of the assault is not in question, but it leaves out that

The original Broadway cast of Aladdin

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Alonzo King LINES Ballet

Last seen at Duke Performances in 2010 with jazz band Jason Moran and the Bandwagon, Alonzo King’s original, adventurous ballet company teems with the energy of its longtime home, the San Francisco Bay, with a musical scope encompassing Kronos Quartet commissions and classic Handel.

Nov. 15 & 16, Reynolds Industries Theater, dukeperformances.com

Loch na hEala

Because why should Black Swan have all the dark, deconstructed fun with a fine-feathered ballet classic? Irish dance-theater artist Michael Keegan-Dolan shatters Swan Lake into dreamlike, sometimes nightmarish stage pictures, set to Nordic and Irish folk music and pulsing with “bleak, funny, and astoundingly poetic beauty,” according to The Guardian’s five-star review.

Nov. 20 & 21, UNC’s Memorial Hall

Ragtime Alonzo King LINES Ballet

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work about that grand old ballet archetype, the lumbering monster made of cadavers.

This should be a blast.

Oct. 10–27, Fletcher Opera Theater, carolinaballet.com

The Day

What do you get when you combine an iconic postmodern choreographer, a Pulitzer-winning composer, a longtime New York City Ballet principal dancer, and a powerhouse cellist? This isn’t the setup for a joke—the answer is THE DAY, an evening-length dance-and-music work by Lucinda Childs, David Lang, Wendy Whelan, and Maya Beiser.

Oct. 15, UNC’s Memorial Hall

West Side Story

Since 1957, Tony and Maria have been starcrossed lovers pirouetting their heartsick ballads through the streets of New York.

In this slick North Carolina Theatre production, Eric Woodall directs and Jeremy Dumont choreographs.

Oct. 15–20, Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, nctheatre.com

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

If you’re finding yourself in a mid-fall slump, this Raleigh Little Theatre production of the musical based on Charles M. Schulz’s beloved comic strip may be your family-friendly pick-me-up. The Peanuts crew is caught in amber: Lucy is still heartsick for focused piano savant Schroeder, Sally is 14 | 9.11.19 | INDYweek.com

still a bit of a jerk, and Charlie Brown is still, well, Charlie Brown.

Oct. 25–Nov. 3, Cantey V. Sutton Theatre

Be More Chill

Like the high school nerd-love story at its technology-besotted center, this thoroughly millennial musical by Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz came into this world awkwardly, bombing in its 2015 premiere run in New Jersey before its hyperactive electro-pop soundtrack went viral and catapulted it to Broadway.

Oct. 25–Nov. 10, North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre, nract.org

A Bronx Tale

The actor Chazz Palminteri can’t stop telling his story, which began as a one-man show in 1989 before becoming a movie (with Robert De Niro) in 1993 and then returning to the stage as this 2016 Broadway musical.

It’s a durable, archetypal Italian-American coming-of-age story, richly textured with mid-century Bronx and full of heart.

Nov. 5–10, DPAC

Lewis Black

Fire and brimstone is the bread and butter of the comedian Lewis Black who, should you need more proof of his distinct brand of comedy-ire, was perfectly cast as the emotion “anger” in the Pixar film Inside Out. These are days of outrage, though, and his DPAC performance is a red-letter occasion.

Nov. 15, DPAC

We try to be judicious with the word “epic,” but the musical Ragtime is just that: a sweeping diorama of urban life in New York City that takes place around the turn of the century. Take your history buffs and musical theater ners and watch the Gilded Age pass into the Progressive Era in this PlayMakers production.

Leno and Ferguson require little explanation, while Eric Andre requires a lot of explanation—his surrealist take on the late-night talk show is one of the more disturbing televisual products of recent years.

Comedian Jen Kirkman is a Chelsea Lately regular and writer—and yes, Harry Connick Jr. did have a shortlived talk show, Google says so!

JAY LENO Sep. 20, DPAC

ERIC ANDRE Oct. 2, The Carolina Theatre

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Nov. 20–Dec. 15, Paul Green Theatre, playmakersrep.org

Oct. 7, The Carolina Theatre

Torry Bend & Howard L. Craft: Dreaming

Dec. 7, Motorco Music Hall

Certain combinations of artists and material make you gasp with delight just upon hearing about them. Here’s one: At Duke Performances, puppet artist Torry Bend and playwright Howard L. Craft, two local artists with national reach, probe both the wonder and the stereotypes found in the comics of Winsor McCay, of Little Nemo in Slumberland fame.

Nov. 22–24, The Rubenstein Arts Center

David Sedaris

Humorist and Raleigh native David Sedaris makes fine jewels out of the flotsam and jetsom that the rest of us just call bad vacations or part-time jobs from hell. And while it’s doubtful that even David Sedaris has ever actually had a certifiable David Sedaris experience, his gift for storytelling is buoyed by earnestness and truth, and his stories— bumbling attempts to learn French, or playing Santa at the mall—don’t feel contrived.

Dec. 1, Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, dukeenergycenterraleigh.com

JEN KIRKMAN HARRY CONNICK JR. Sep. 21 & 22, DPAC

Ruth Bader Ginsburg For better or worse, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is known for not slowing down. Amid health concerns this past summer, she’s embarked on a flurry of public appearances, including a stop at Meredith College to deliver the Lillian Parker Wallace lecture. (Although her titanic accomplishments need no introduction, it should be mentioned that among them, she’s also the author of a multivolume treatise on North Carolina family law.) Meredith students, alumnae, and faculty get first dibs on the free tickets, but any left over will be offered to the public by lottery starting September 16.

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Sep. 23, Meymandi Concert Hall, meredith.edu

Mab Segrest In 1994, Mab Segrest published Memoir of a Race Traitor, about her experiences as a lesbian organizing against the far right in North Carolina. Sound like a particularly vital read in 2019? Out of print for more than a decade, the memoir is reissued this month by The New Press; a round of local readings from the Durham author mark the occasion.

BY SARAH EDWARDS

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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igated the ways we experience pain and addiction; her new collection is a deep-dive into longing and obsession. For fans of Maggie Nelson and John Jeremiah Sullivan.

Sep. 26, Flyleaf Books, flyleafbooks.com

Tayari Jones Last year, both Barack Obama and Oprah

Winfrey namechecked Tayari Jones’s excellent An American Marriage, making the novel—which centers on an Atlanta couple whose relationship is torn apart by wrongful incarceration—something of a blockbuster.

I heard her read in Chapel Hill last year (Jones’s publisher is Algonquin), and she was brilliant: a warm, hilarious, and open reader. Don’t miss this one.

Oct. 18, Durham Arts Council, kenan.ethics.duke.edu

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Chicano-American poet Jimmy Santiago Baca learned to read and write in prison in the early ‘70s; while there, he submitted his first poems to Mother Jones, then edited by Denise Levertov, who has said that Baca has a “transformative vision.” Since then, Sep. 24, The Regulator Bookshop, he has authored more than a dozen regulatorbookshop.com poetry collections that traverse the Tayari Jones PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR American Southwest and explore Leslie Jamison In her genre-bending essays, Leslie Jamison is known to take a top- community, social justice, and resilience. ic (a feeling, a phenomenon) and deftly refashion it. Previous Nov. 2, The Durham Literacy Center, durhamliteracy.org books The Empathy Exams and The Recovering circumnavsedwards@indyweek.com

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Colombian writer-director Alejandro Landes’s magical realist war movie has been blowing minds since its Sundance premiere. Set in an unnamed Latin American country, the film centers on a group of child soldiers and their American hostage (Julianne Nicholson) as they are hunted by the state. Stunning cinematography shot on location in the Colombian rainforest and a score by Mica Levi (Under the Skin) promise a haunting, immersive experience. —RV

Pain and Glory Oct. 4

Starring Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, and new flamenco darling Rosalía, Pedro Almodóvar’s exercise in auto-fiction has achieved near-unanimous acclaim. Banderas, who won the Best Actor award at Cannes for this role, plays an aging gay filmmaker inspired by Almodóvar himself. The Spanish director reflects on his life and his craft in a film that feels stylistically stripped down yet emotionally intense. —MNP While the big-studio movies are shoo-ins, there’s a lot of great indie, international, and small-distro fare coming out this fall that we’d love to see—if our dwindling smaller cinemas can book it. So consider this a wish list as much as a preview, ranked in order of the likelihood that these films will even breeze across local screens.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Nov. 22

Since its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, this unconventional biopic by Marielle Heller (Will You Ever Forgive Me?) has receivied glowing reviews for its nuanced portrait of the children’s TV host Mr. Rogers (Tom Hanks) and its refusal to exploit easy sentimentality. —Marta Núñez Pouzols

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In the tradition of smart, cosmic science fiction like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris, and Interstellar, director James Gray’s new movie stars Brad Pitt as an astronaut tasked with finding his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones) on the edge of the solar system— basically like a sci-fi Apocalypse Now, we hear. —Glenn McDonald

Joker Oct. 4

Todd Phillips, the director of The Hangover, won the Venice Film Festival with this neo-Scorsese pastiche about the Joker, which has divided audiences and critics.

Nevertheless, there’s already Oscar buzz around Joaquin Phoenix’s interpretation of the iconic Batman villain. —Neil Morris 16 | 9.11.19 | INDYweek.com

Speaking of Scorsese, the filmmaker ventures to Netflix with his latest mob movie, a biopic about a hitman (Robert De Niro) and his intersection with union boss Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). Erstwhile Scorsese regulars Joe Pesci and Harveny Keitel also return. —NM

Knives Out Nov. 27

Ecstatic reviews from the festival circuit suggest a twenty-first-century riff on Agatha Christie, Clue, and psychotic onepercenters; a murder mystery for late-stage capitalism. The all-star cast includes Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Michael Shannon, Lakeith Stanfield, and Christopher Plummer. —GM

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Dec. 20

They say this is the final chapter in the Star Wars saga, but we know it’s not. Still, the rumors have it that director J.J. Abrams might revive some past characters for this menace to box-office records. —NM

Bombshell Dec. 20

Director Jay Roach, who rose to fame making Austin Powers and Fockers films, earned some dramatic cred with Trumbo. Here, he tackles some really weighty material: the in-house allegations of sexual abuse against FOX News founder Roger Ailes, with stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, and John Lithgow.—NM

Uncut Gems Dec. 13

The Safdie brothers follow up their breakout hit Good Time with another portrait of New York City that seamlessly combines social realist mise-en-scene with classical Hollywood storytelling. It features the unlikely choice of Adam Sandler as a jeweler with ties to major figures in basketball and hip-hop.

This madcap, already acclaimed comedy-crime-drama hybrid is not to be missed. —Ryan Vu

Parasite Oct. 11

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, this black comedy from Korean director Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer) follows an impoverished family as they gradually attach themselves to a rich suburban clan. Plot twists! Class rage! Metaphors! —GM

The Lighthouse Oct. 18

From the director of the 2015 art-horror film The Witch comes a claustrophobic thriller with a cast of exactly two. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are lighthouse keepers in a timeless and otherworldly cinematic space of hallucinatory images, monochrome compositions, and sinister sound design. —GM

Frankie Oct. 25

Frankie (Isabelle Huppert) is a terminally ill French movie star who gathers her family for a vacation in a mountain village in Portugal. Independent filmmaker Ira Sachs (Little Men) exposes the complex, dysfunctional relationships between three generations. In the director’s words, the film portrays “the tension between the petty and deep concerns” that surrounds a life’s ending. —MNP

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Harriet Nov. 1

This anticipated biopic of American hero Harriet Tubman chronicles the abolitionist’s escape from slavery and her subsequent role in the The Underground Railroad. Tubman is played by Tony, Grammy, and Emmy winner Cynthia Erivo, who is accompanied on screen by Leslie Odom Jr. and Janelle Monáe. —MNP

The Report Nov. 15

Writer-director (and regular Steven Soderbergh collaborator) Scott Z. Burns crafts this docudrama about a U.S. Senate staffer (Adam Driver) and his arduous investigation into the CIA’s post-9/11 use of torture.

The film will have a two-week theatrical run before it hits Amazon Prime. —NM

The Lodge Nov. 15

A young woman (Riley Keough) and her stepchildren are stranded in a winter cabin, haunted by the memory of their birth mother (Alicia Silverstone)—and, perhaps, something worse. Writer/directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz (Goodnight Mommy) have a gift for shocking imagery and skin-crawling atmosphere. —RV

Marriage Story Dec. 6

Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver are coastal-elite creatives (that’s a noun now, apparently) navigating a complicated divorce. It’s heavy drama, for sure, but it should also be grim fun to watch director Noah Baumbach turn his lacerating style to the modern menace of the divorce-industrial complex. —GM

A Hidden Life Dec. 13

Terrence Malick is a controversial figure in the film world, but mainly for reasons of style rather than politics. That might change with his unusually pointed biopic of Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), a devout Catholic and conscientious objector during World War II. Against another rising tide of fascism, Malick has never made his esoteric spiritual concerns seem more urgent. —RV

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Takashi Miike, the director to blame for terrifying masterpieces Audition and Ichi the Killer, returns with a dark-humored, bizarre, hard-boiled yakuza film that’s said to be the funniest of his career. Full of violence and frenzy, it’s a love story caught up in the bloodshed of a gang war in Tokyo over the course ofone night. —MNP

Waves Nov. 1

Family melodrama is a well-trodden mode, but Waves is already standing out for its sensitive, visually striking portrayal of an African-American family in South Florida caught in a crisis. When high school wrestling star Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) suffers a career-threatening injury, it opens up fault lines between him, his shy sister (Taylor Russell), hod and domineering father (Sterling K. Brown). The ensemble cast is sparking early Oscar buzz. —RV

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An exploitation film in the classic sense of being ripped from the headlines, Queen & Slim follows the titular couple (Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya) on their apocalyptic first date, after they kill a cop at a traffic stop gone wrong. Beyonce and Rihanna music video auteur Melina Matsoukas’s debut feature is a Bonnie & Clyde for the Black Lives Matter generation. —RV

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Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies, Tomboy) continues her insightful exploration of queer identities and desires in her new historical drama. Winner of the Best Screenplay at Cannes, and the first film by a female director to win the Queer Palm, it tells the story of a young painter (Noémie Merlant), who is commissioned to paint the portrait of another young woman in order to improve her chances of finding suitors. —MNP arts@indyweek.com

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‘Tis the festival season—no sooner have we gotten through Hopscotch than ten more day-or-weekenddevouring extravaganzas are breathing down our event planners.

They’re mostly music, from the jazz and hip-hop of Art of Cool to the blues and folk of Music Maker 25, though we squeezed in one fest for those of you hate music. (Warning: It, too, contains music.)

WIDE OPEN BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL Sep. 27 & 28, downtown Raleigh, worldofbluegrass.org

ART OF COOL FESTIVAL Sep. 27–29, downtown Durham, aocfestival.com

CARRBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL Sep. 29, Carrboro, carrboromusicfestival.com

NC DANCE FESTIVAL Oct. 18 & 19, Durham Arts Council/The Fruit, danceproject.org

MUSIC MAKER 25 Ambrose Akinmusre

Ambrose Akinmusire—a familiar face at Duke Performances—rose to fame as a firebrand jazz trumpeter, but last year’s Origami Harvest can’t be constrained by any one genre, much like the work of Kendrick Lamar, with whom Akinmusire has collaborated. He spans jazz, hip-hop, spoken word, chamber music, and beyond for his monumental reckoning with structural racism.

Sep. 19, Rubenstein Arts Center, dukeperformances.duke.edu

Meek Mill & Future

As if Meek and Future weren’t enough, this stadium rap bill comes frontloaded with Houston breakout Megan Thee Stallion, who, in addition to fueling memes, goes very, very hard. At least in Raleigh, hot girl summer looks set to last well into September.

Sep. 19, Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, walnutcreekamphitheatre.com

Judy Collins

In 1961, Judy Collins debuted her first album, Maid of Constant Sorrows, thus cementing herself as a Greenwich Village folk mainstay alongside the likes of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Since then, she’s been as prolific with her activism as she has been with her singing.

Sep. 19, The Carolina Theatre, carolinatheatre.org

Carrie Underwood

Ever since she dug her keys “into the side of his pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive and carved her name into his leather seats,” Carrie Underwood has also ratified herself as a household name. This fall, the country megastar makes a stop in Raleigh as part of her “Cry Pretty” tour; in November, she hosts the Country Music Awards alongside Reba Mcentire.

Sep. 30, PNC Arena, pncarena.com

Mavis Staples

Not many singers can count Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Dylan, and Ben Harper as fans, but Mavis Staples, who is coming to The Carolina courtesy of Duke Performances, has always been exceptional. From The Staple Singers’ gospel-rooted pop resistance to oppression during the civil rights movement to her eclectic solo career today, Staples remains a musical force and a role model in her ninth decade of life.

Oct. 3, The Carolina Theatre

Zedd

Even if you think you don’t know Zedd, you know Zedd. If it’s a ubiquitous pop song and it sounds like a time bomb made of candy, he probably produced it (see Alessia Cara’s “Stay,” Maren Morris’s “The Middle,” and Ariana Grande’s “Break Free). He’s also a stadium EDM monster in his own right, as he reminds us on his “Orbit Tour.”

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Dec. 4–8, The Fruit, dukeperformances.com

Wilco

Poet of jean jackets and felt cowboy hats Jeff Tweedy is back, and when he plays in Cary this October, he’ll have highly anticipated new Wilco album, Ode to Joy, under his belt.

Tweedy’s music is consistently accompanied by a kind of smoky warmth, and while his songs are not full of too many plot twists, it is a bit surprising (delightfully so) that Nashville lo-fi singer-songwriter Soccer Mommy is the opening act on this tour.

Oct. 16, Koka Booth Amphitheatre, boothamphitheatre.com

N.C. Symphony feat.

Leslie Odom Jr.

The North Carolina Symphony welcomes Tony-winner Leslie Odom Jr., who played

jazz piano trio Harlem Quartet. Making its own lane between classical and jazz, the work weaves poetic oration into a visionary pastiche of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme.

Nov. 16, Baldwin Auditorium

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Aaron Burr in the original production of Hamilton, to sing a selection of Broadway and jazz hits.

Oct. 18, Baldwin Auditorium, dukeenergycenterraleigh

Bon Iver

After he virtually disappeared into the glitched-out production of 22, a Million, Bonnie Bear reasserted his humanity on i,i last month, even if his version of humanity sounds like a cybernetic angel. A live band of close collaborators, including Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes, should warm things up, as will Feist in the opening slot.

Oct. 19, PNC Arena

The Kingdom Choir

If they’re good enough for a prince of England and the Duchess of Sussex, they’re good enough for us, right? Riding their royal wedding stardom into a new Sony Music deal and global touring, British gospel institution The Kingdom Choir brings its uplifting artistry to Duke Chapel for Duke Performances.

Oct. 26, Duke Chapel

John Prine

It’s possible to love contemporary music yet also hear John Prine and think, “They don’t make them like that anymore.” After fifty years in the business, it’s uncontroversial to call Prine one of the definitive songwriters of a generation, whose humorous, political folk and country songs are heavy with human warmth and melancholy wisdom.

Nov. 1, Durham Performing Arts Center, dpacnc.com

Sam Green & Yo La Tengo

Filmmaker Sam Green narrates his “live documentary” as indie-rock lifers Yo La Tengo perform their original score in a stirring, contemplative collaboration at Duke Performances that pays tribute to the polymathic Buckminster Fuller, who, among countless designs and inventions, pushed the geodesic dome into history at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.

Nov. 1, Reynolds Industries Theater

The Black Keys

The Black Keys have scuzz-rock for a pop palate down pat, as you might guess from their utilitarian tour title, “Let’s Rock.” Armed with a praised new back-to-basics album (Lo/ Hi, Nonesuch Records), they’re apparently so confident that they’re dragging Modest Mouse out of wherever they’ve been hiding for the last few years.

Nov. 8, PNC Arena

Emmylou Harris

If you’re digging through crates at a record store, you can throw a dart and probably hit an Emmylou Harris disc. This is because the country singer is preternaturally consistent, with a stream of strong, steady releases since her early days recording with Gram Parsons.

She’s got the hardware to match: thirteen Grammy wins and forty-seven nominations.

Nov. 8, UNC’s Memorial Hall, carolinaperformingarts.org

Siegfried, Act III

North Carolina Opera continues its snazzy, scrappy exploration of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle with this concert of the penultimate part, in which our hero meets the Valkyrie Brünnhilde. Conducted by Timothy Myers, the music will be sung in German with English supertitles.

Incandescent electronic duo Sylvan Esso’s intimate “WITH” tour is comprised of only six stops, so we’re lucky that Durham gets two of them. Molly Sarlé—who is one-third of the band Mountain Man, and who releases her debut album, Karaoke Angel, this fall—will join the duo on stage. Take it from the New York Times, not us: “Sylvan Esso makes pop human.”

Nov. 22, DPAC

Nostalgia concerts—remember this thing you loved years ago? Here it is again, played by older people!— have become a big enough industry to fill their own sidebar. From indie bands performing classic albums and Explosions in the Sky turning twenty to a touring tribute to The Band and Scorsese’s famed rock doc, these five shows will take you back to when you had more hair and fewer worries.

Ariana Grande

Has it only been four years since Ariana Grande acheived notority for licking a donut at shop and then putting it back? It feels like at least four decades. In the time since Grande has released several albums and experienced several very dark tragedies. She’s pulled through, though, and along the way, she’s won audiences over with her cathartic, empowering pop, prolific output, and earnest live shows.

Nov. 22, PNC Arena

The Mountain Goats

Following the release of In League with Dragons, John Darnielle’s fantasy-besotted new album, The Mountain Goats are embarking on a massive international tour.

In Decemeber, they make a home-state stop for a special two-night performance at the Haw River Ballroom.

BUILT TO SPILL PERFORMS KEEP IT LIKE A SECRET Oct. 6, Cat’s Cradle

LUNA PERFORMS PENTHOUSE Oct. 7, Cat’s Cradle

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Regina Carter

The improvisational jazz violinist Regina Carter is widely considered to be a once-in-alifetime talent; on her “Simply Ella” tour, she pays tribute to another great: Ella Fitzgerald.

“Whenever I hear an Ella recording,” Carter says, “it grabs me at my core.” We’re sure we’ll feel the same way hearing Carter.

Nov. 12, Stewart Theatre, live.arts.ncsu.edu

Imani Winds & Harlem Quartet

Imani Winds is a virtuosic wind quartet that focuses on music by African-American and Latinx composers, and its French hornist composed Passion for Bach and Coltrane for the group, the poet A.B. Spellman, and the

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CHRISTMAS CONCERTS 2019 Cantata 63, Christen, ätzet diesen Tag by J.S. Bach and Choral Arrangements of holiday movie music and The Nutcracker with singers from Jordan High School

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FOOD M Pocha [Opened early August] 101 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham m-restaurants.com

Chef Michael Lee’s latest hit zeros in on Korean-gone-global-inspired small plates that pair exceptionally well with drinks (read: your Friday night game plan). Early favorites such as the Malaysian-style fried rice and the homey kimchi stew are sure bets, but we can’t wait to try Jjampong Tsukemen, Lee’s take on a well-known Korean seafood noodle soup that pairs thick ramen with spicy dipping broth.

Poole’side Pies [Opening TBA] 428 South McDowell Street, Raleigh, ac-restaurants.com/poolside

BY LAYLA KHOURY-HANOLD

Just like Vogue’s September issue, the Triangle’s food scene is bursting at the seams with buzzworthy news, albeit our musthaves skew more cookies than couture. These ten spots are coming in hot for fall.

Coronato [Opened Aug. 2] 101 Two Hills Road, #140, Carrboro, coronatopizza.com

Dine with a group to take full advantage of chef Teddy Diggs’s Roman-style pizzeria.

Start with snacks such as braised lamb meatballs and supplì (cheese-stuffed rice balls) before moving on to pies such as the charred-broccoli-topped Il Verde and the Funghi, which combines roasted mushrooms with funky Taleggio. Ask for a mezzanine-level seat for views of the kitchen and dough room (yes, it’s a thing).

Farmhouse Café [Opening Sep. 16] 320 Vintage Point Lane, Wendell, farmhousecafewendell.com

In mid-September, Patrick Cowden and Daniel Whittaker, co-owners of Pharmacy Café in Raleigh, will open Farmhouse Café in Wendell Falls. The menu focuses on sea-

sonal small plates and smørrebrød—Scandinavian-inspired open-faced sandwiches (think smoked salmon with roasted-tomato-and-pea relish). Wash it all down with kombucha and prosecco on tap.

fruity, floral number that mingles Fino sherry, sparkling wine, and habanero-infused Aperol, crafted with local peppers bred sans spice.

Snack on chef Joel Schroeter’s charcuterie and pickle plates or the grilled cheese.

Jolie [Opened Aug. 23] 620 North Person Street, Raleigh, restaurantjolie.com

kō•än [Opening Sep. 30]

Even if you didn’t nab a reservation, you can still try Scott Crawford’s stylish French bistro by arriving early and snagging a bar seat. Plus, the late afternoon light is magnifique, and it’s a treat watching Crawford and chef de cuisine Madison Tessener working in lockstep. (The rooftop is a good option once it gets cooler.)

Standouts include a killer French onion soup with an Instagram-ready cheese pull, trout almondine in a luxurious lemon-brownbutter sauce, and the lavender pot de crème.

Kingfisher [Opened Jul. 31] 321 East Chapel Hill Street, Durham, kingfisherdurham.com

Every nook at Sean Umstead and Michelle Vanderwalker’s sexy subterranean cocktail den is a photo op waiting to happen; no wonder Vert + Vogue shot its fall look book here.

Settle in at the gorgeous ceramic-tiled bar or in one of the reservable semi-private booths.

Sip on Umstead’s latest, the Yucatan Spritz, a

2800 Renaissance Park Place, Cary, koancary.com

Chef Drew Smith takes the helm at kō•än, a Southeast Asian restaurant from the bu•ku and so•ca team opening in late September in Cary. The menu is designed for sharing, so bring a crew and sup on small plates like twice-fried cauliflower, duck bao, and lobster gyoza, and then dig into the hotpot-inspired Thai red curry brimming with lobster, cod, and shrimp.

Locals Oyster Bar [Dinner service opened Jul. 31] 500 East Davie Street, Raleigh, localsoysterbar.com

Book ahead for date night or walk in for a solo bar seat at Transfer Co. Food Hall’s N.C.-seafood-centric spot. The dinner service is where chef Eric Montagne’s creativity really shines. Don’t miss the seafood charcuterie (the tuna prosciutto is crazy good) or dishes showcasing his no-waste philosophy, such as ricotta gnocchi with Bolognese bolstered with rich, savory tuna bloodline.

In case you missed it, all-star chef Ashley Christensen is opening a Neapolitan-inspired pizza joint set in a swim-club-themed space. Anticipation has been mounting with images teasing us on social media, from a shot of the custom Marra Forni brick pizza oven being air-lifted through the skylight to a walk-up window menu from Hopscotch, which included a five-cheese pie with chili garlic crunch oil. Any day now, right?

Spanglish [Opened mid-July] 104 City Hall Plaza, #101, Durham, eatspanglish.com

Spanglish brings its signature Puerto Rican flair to the Bull City with a vibrant, fast-casual eatery ideal for a quick lunch or laidback dinner. The Cuban sandwich is on point (there’s also a vegan version with jackfruit), as are the made-to-order empanadas.

Don’t miss mofongo, a traditional Puerto Rican dish of fried, mashed green plantains, here served bowl-style with proteins such as slow-roasted pork or shrimp in tomato-pepper sauce.

Union Special [Opened Aug. 10] 2409 Crabtree Boulevard, #102, Raleigh, unionspecialbread.com

Pastry chef Andrew Ullom steps into the spotlight with a bakery in the revamped Gateway Plaza. The cheery space has ample communal seating plus windows offering a peek into the kitchen. Ullom excels at croissants, but don’t sleep on the tahini-andsour-cherry cookie. This weekend, he’ll roll out brunch, followed closely by breakfast and lunch. Highlights include hash-brownand-egg-sandwiches, whole wheat waffles, and vegan-friendly grit cakes with coconutmilk-creamed spinach.

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Outside the Lunchbox

SCHOOL-MEAL PARTICIPATION HAS PLUMMETED OVER THE LAST DECADE. TRIANGLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE TRYING TO BRING STUDENTS BACK. BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS

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n 1946, President Truman signed the National School Lunch Act, a reaction to the hundreds of thousands of recruits the army rejected during World War II because of the damage childhood malnutrition had inflicted on their bodies. The law set the first federal school nutrition standards.

Six decades later, President Obama faced a different childhood nutrition dilemma: record obesity rates. His administration’s solution, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, was designed to get kids to eat healthier. But the Sheryl “Missy” Weaver serves lunch at Carrboro food it mandated was bland, and High School. PHOTO BY JADE WILSON kids didn’t want to eat it. School-meal par- chefs—including Ashley Christensen, Scott Crawford, and Cheetie Kumar—and other ticipation plummeted.

Today, nearly all public schools meet the local businesses are participating, asking Obama-era guidelines, but the childhood patrons to donate five bucks toward the effort when they pay their tab. obesity epidemic has only worsened.

Both Wake and Durham schools have Across the Triangle, school districts are taking different approaches to lure students partnered with Food Insight Group, a local back to school-meal programs. Part of the organization that collaborates with sciengoal is to get more kids who are eligible for tists, economists, and others to build equitafree and reduced lunch programs to partic- ble and sustainable food systems. Working ipate. That allows school districts to recoup with the NCPCN, FIG is conducting two more money from the federal government, studies with the goal of enhancing school which can go toward nutrition services. But dining in Wake County. The first will investigate best practices around the country. it also helps those children eat better.

Many lower-income kids prefer to go The second will examine Wake’s nutrition hungry or eat junk food than participate programs and recommend improvements.

Along with Durham Public Schools, FIG in free or reduced lunch because of the stigma attached to it, says Steve Mangano, is also helping spearhead the 2019 Durham co-founder of the North Carolina Partner- Bowls Food Fest, a healthy-food compeship for Child Nutrition. To overcome that tition that will take place at The Scrap stigma, schools need more children buying Exchange on October 12.

Durham Bowls consists of eleven their lunches, as well—a “cultural change,” he calls it, that persuades teachers and stu- two-person teams comprising a DPS nutrition professional and a Bull City chef who dents to each school meals.

Throughout September, the NCPN’s create nutritious and locally sourced meal Support School Meals initiative aims to bowls. Each team must operate within the raise $300,000 to increase Wake Coun- same conditions—and price constraints— ty’s school-meal-participation rates, which as DPS school cafeterias. The teams form Mangano says are currently below 50 per- in April and utilize the flavors of the spring cent. More than forty of the area’s top and summer to design their creations. The

bowls are judged at the October fest, and the winner is featured in DPS lunchrooms through May. It’s challenging to cater to the taste buds of DPS’s diverse student population, says Charmaine White, cafeteria manager for Durham’s School of Creative Studies, though the classic childhood trifecta—pizza, macaroni and cheese, and chicken nuggets—is usually a safe bet.

But James Keaton, director of child nutrition at DPS, says he’s been surprised by students’ growing interest in the Durham Bowls competition.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has privatized its nutrition program with Chartwells, a food service company that gives its cafeterias full creative control over their menus. Some have stations where students can customize their own dishes, such as build-your-own nachos or stir-fries.

CCHCS elementary schools will periodically host a farmers market, in which students can select produce, learn about it, and then work with chefs to prepare it.

In 2018, Carrboro High instituted a program called Student Choice, in which students voted on their favorite sandwich after a weeklong tasting of options. The winner, Nashville hot chicken, and second choice, Teriyaki-pineapple chicken, are currently on rotation in the school’s lunchroom and district cafeterias.

Chartwells dining director Liz Cartano says that making lunches more enjoyable for students is as much about nutrition education as the meal itself—and depends on engagement with the community and training for cafeteria staff members.

“You can serve the best food to students,” she says, “but if it’s served by someone that’s mean and doesn’t take pride in it and is not invested, then it impacts the program.” food@indyweek.com

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RALEIGH BREWING PRESENTS: OKTOBERFEST 2019 Fri., Sept. 13, 5–10 p.m.

3709 Neil St., Raleigh, raleighbrewing.com Last year’s Oktoberfest may have been canceled due to Hurricane Florence, but Raleigh Brewing promises to make up for it this Friday. Don your best lederhosen for a night of dancing to live music from Little German Band & Dance Inc. while noshing on Bavarian pretzels from Annelore’s German Bakery and local food trucks. Raleigh Brewing will offer not one but two pumpkin spice Oktoberfest firkins on tap—and celebrate the annual release of its Oktoberfest lager by gifting the first three hundred patrons who order one a commemorative 2019 Oktoberfest beer mug. The event is free and open to guests twenty-one and up.

THE EAST MEETS WEST FOOD FESTIVAL Sat., Sept. 14, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

Park West Village, Morrisville Morrisville hosts the East Meets West Festival with a day of food, culture, and music from around the globe. Local restaurants are offering small plates of select dishes, as cultural performances by community groups take the stage. Kids can get their faces painted or enjoy a romp in the on-site bouncy castle. Admission is free and open to the public; food and beverages are available for purchase.

FARMHOUSE CAFÉ OPENS Mon., Sept. 16 320 Vintage Point Lane, Wendell, wendellfalls.com Patrick Cowden and Daniel Whittaker, the duo behind Person Street’s Pharmacy Cafe and Green Planet Catering, are opening the Southeast’s first eatery dedicated to the Smørrebrød—a Scandinavian-style open-faced sandwich that originated in Denmark. The Farmhouse Café features a locally sourced and seasonally rotating menu of shareable plates designed to pair with wine or craft beer. Cowden and Wittaker have partnered with local vendors to showcase products from Boulted Bread and Union Special Bread Company, Locals Seafood, Videri and Escazu chocolates, Tin Roof Teas, Blue Sky Farms, Sweet 31 Baking Company, and Many Hands Farm.

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Right on Time

ADRIAN YOUNGE AND A TRIBE CALLED QUEST’S ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD MELD MINDS AS THE MIDNIGHT HOUR

BY KYESHA JENNINGS

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ne is a member of hip-hop’s most legendary trio, A Tribe Called Quest. The other is a distinguished producer and composer who collaborated with Ghostface on the concept album Twelve Reasons to Die. Together, they are The Midnight Hour, and they’re coming to Motorco with a ten-piece live band September 17.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge share a love for all things hip-hop, soul, and jazz. Previously, they co-produced a track (with vocals by CeeLo Green) that appeared on Kendrick Lamar’s Untitled Unmastered album, which featured unreleased demos from To Pimp a Butterfly. The duo also created the sonic backdrop for the acclaimed but short-lived Marvel superhero show Luke Cage. As they tour their self-titled debut album of “sophisticated hip-hop jazz,” the INDY reached them on a three-way call and learned about how the multi-instrumentalists’ rapport, steeped in classic records and hip-hop culture, allows them to achieve a creative state “separately in unison.”

INDY: How has Luke Cage influenced The Midnight Hour, and how has The Midnight Hour influenced Luke Cage?

ADRIAN YOUNGE: Well, The Midnight Hour is just us really being in a room together. We like working with each other because we’re both individually filled with so many ideas, and we like each other’s creative thoughts so much that when we come together, it’s easier for us to go where we’re supposed to go.

The Midnight Hour essentially started when I was producing The Souls of Mischief album [There Is Only Now] in 2013 and I asked Ali to be a part of it. [When] we stopped Luke Cage, we just said, “You know what, where are we going and how can we take it a little different from Luke Cage?” We put some thoughts together and it became The Midnight Hour, which is something that we like to coin as “sophisticated hip-hop jazz,” professionally.

The two of you have acquired legendary status and collaborated with a number of revered artists, from Kendrick Lamar to Raphael Saadiq. How has your past experience influenced The Midnight Hour album?

AY: I would say all of our music is really influenced by old records that we love. Ali and I started out as DJs—every aspect of our career, every single person that we’ve worked with, our ideas, it’s all derivative from studying the great music that came before us and trying to make new music based on the old standards.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad in The Midnight Hour

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ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD: First and foremost, we’re fans, and we’re fans who aspire to be great musicians.

That’s really what The Midnight Hour has been, us acquiring information and it becoming part of our DNA. We can simply say Curtis Mayfield inspires us, but it’s not like we sat and listened to his music while we were making The Midnight Hour. But the spirit of what he has offered is just part of us now. So now when Adrian and I get together, it all just pours out.

What was the collaboration process like for the album?

ASM: Both Adrian and I play multiple instruments. Usually we’ll sit together, and he may be at the piano. He’ll play his idea and I’ll jump on drums, and we just start building and constructing. Adrian will grab the bass and add on parts and vice-versa, or it could be something where I have a piano idea and I’ll play a part, but Adrian is a way better piano player than I am. I’ll show him what I’m thinking and then he’s like, “Oh, cool, I got it. Let me add this to it.” We just continue to build from there.

The one thing that makes working together really special is that our start as DJs was under the schooling of

hip-hop. We have a strong desire to take and innovate the process of what would be a simple four-bar or eight-bar sample. We both have made self-improvements as musicians to learn how to really go outside of a loop. And so when we sit down with these instruments, that’s just us taking a unified approach to making hip-hop music, but then just making great compositions offhand because we both are able to play multiple instruments.

We’re able to [develop our ideas] kind of separately in unison. We think alike, but we would never play the same way. We have different styles of playing the piano, different styles of playing the drums, different styles of playing bass. The starting point is similar, and we know where we both want to end without even speaking. We speak the same language in that regard. But the way we get there is somewhat different. We have a lot of fun. We push each other to be great. It’s great to be in partnership with someone who thinks like you think. For an example, hip-hop drums have to be fat; the bass has to be thick, and there also has to be a soulfulness aspect included—things we don’t have to speak about because we know. We just know what it is. music@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 9.11.19 | 27

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SINKANE

Friday, Sep. 13, 9 p.m., $15–$17 Motorco Music Hall, Durham www.motorcomusic.com

Man of the World

SINKANE PACKS HEAVY GEOPOLITICS INTO FUNKY, LIGHTER-THAN-AIR POP THAT OBEYS NO GENRE BORDERS

BY DAVID FORD SMITH

F

or someone whose band name is based on a Kanye West misquote, Ahmed Gallab, the Sudanese-American leader of the five-piece Brooklyn band Sinkane, isn’t a guy you can easily file away in the endless dusty crates of 2010s “indie rock” product.

Sure, in the past few years, he’s cemented a reputation as a purveyor of a certain kind of breezy, globe-hopping dance-pop, the sort of humid, perfumed funk you could probably throw on at a ritzy brunch or meticulously scrutinize, MFA-style, for Sudanese folk/psychedelia influences and arcane song concepts. But to slot Gallab away so quickly under trends or labels would be myopic and missing his whole universalist bent.

Gallab folds a hell of a lot of the world into his stuff. Like any good musician, he understands the crucial interplay between serious and fun, and is prone to smuggling harsh truth into what could seem like ambitious vibe music.

There are no cheap zingers or cute political winks, just plain, direct statements on sticky world issues that, in other music, often get mired in generalization. African immigrant identity politics. Religious discrimination. Executive Order 13769, the United States’ ban on travel from certain Muslim countries. On a recent track, “Ya Sudan,” he spins a tale about the activists who overthrew Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir earlier this year.

To some, this kind of brazen subject matter may not feel all that odd in 2019. Dozens of artists have coughed up empathetic, politically flavored pop records in the muddied age of Trump. But Gallab did not cynically switch the morning after the 2016 election. Fueled by the writings of transformative thinkers like James Baldwin, Gallab’s passion for world politics has always run hot, and he’s been preaching at this particular street-level pulpit for years, lit by a fire of what he sees as a “re-emerging trend of open xenophobia in American culture.”

Adventurous types might already know of his ongoing stint as the vocalist and project director for the African psychpop great William Onyeabor’s Atomic Bomb supergroup, a sprawling undertaking that has featured contributions from kindred spirits like David Byrne and Damon Albarn.

In conversation, Gallab is thoughtful and engaging, quick to downplay his own achievements and shower praise upon his colleagues and influences. On the recent trials and travails of Kanye West (the name “Sinkane” comes from a mishearing of the J. Ivy lyric “I’m trying to get us free like Cinque” from The College Dropout cut “Never Let Me Down”), he offers nuance.

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Sinkane

PHOTO BY DANIEL DORSA

“It’s easy to say a lot of music inspired me, but I didn’t truly see myself in black music until Kanye West. That said, I think we saw someone completely crack under pressure. Even on my relatively low level, I feel the extreme pressures of fame. of expectation, of always having to top yourself and think of what’s next. So I understand the pressures he’s going through, even if I don’t buy half the shit he says.”

Gallab’s music taste follows this egalitarian impulse. He explains his lifer appreciation for classic subversive ‘70s staples—the Parliaments and Bob Marleys of the world— but his reference pool also tends to zig and zag all over the place. At one point, we mourn the recently passed songwriter and poet David Berman, of cult indie-rock outfit Silver Jews, of whom he is a superfan.

“I was so shaken to hear he died,” he says. “When I was growing up in Ohio, Berman and the Silver Jews were foundational to me. I had got into them through Pavement,

and one of the first songs I ever covered at an open mic was ‘Random Rules.’ I even had a cover band called ‘Black Jews’ in college.”

That American-omnivore upbringing, running alongside Gallab’s particular highbrow, global-facing eclecticism, has defined his life, especially when you consider that he strengthened his music chops as a session musician and live drummer for Caribou, Yeasayer, Of Montreal, and a motley assortment of other indie standard-bearers—perhaps not the CV you would expect from such a firebrand.

Although, according to him, the story of his foray into Caribou is embarrassing.

“My friends got me into a show that Caribou was playing,” Gallab says. “I was drunk and offered Dan [Snaith] a CD-R of mine, because Caribou are one of my absolute favorite bands. I ended up getting kicked out of the show, and thought that was the end of that. Then, I got added to an email chain with the Flaming Lips drummer, all these people, basically every crazy drummer in music. When word came down that they needed me, of all people, I literally quit my day job on the spot.”

Gallab released his excellent latest album, Dépaysé, earlier this year on the Berlin indie label City Slang. His most intricate and personal work to date, the title stems from a French word that doesn’t quite have an exact translation, but means something like “removed from one’s habitual surroundings.”

One song on the record, the startling “On Being,” was inspired by the civil rights figure Al Hajj Sheik Kenneth Murray-Muhammad, who founded the first mosque in North Carolina and was outspoken against bigotry and oppression. Gallab belts out the line “We maybe never know but we can always choose / hate or truth,” an idea that he borrowed from Murray. “I used that line as a mantra when writing this record, and as simple as an idea as that is, I think it’s very powerful,” he says.

Undeniably, these are still sunny, highly palatable pop nuggets, and people will almost certainly continue to airily drop them into their late summertime deck-drinking playlists without a second thought. With that in mind, I joked with Gallab about whether he has considered dropping his exuberant pan-genre style in favor of grittier sonics.

The apocalyptic Sinkane noise record, coming when? He chuckles, but dismisses the idea. It’s not quite up to him, he says, offering an dusty, if earnest, truism. “You don’t pick the music, the music picks you.” music@indyweek.com

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She’s So Good

THE NEW LINDA RONSTADT DOC APTLY CENTERS ON HER VOICE BY SARAH EDWARDS

AT THE JOSEPH M. BRYAN, JR., THEATER IN THE MUSEUM PARK

LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE

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he December 2, 1976 cover of Rolling Stone features a soft, wide-eyed Linda Ronstadt wearing a cross necklace and a red slip; one strap of the slip has jumped ship from her shoulder. The portrait was taken by Annie Leibovitz, and the slip was not Ronstadt’s idea. She hated its sexedup implications. Perhaps the styling was the magazine’s attempt to reverse course on previous coverage of the singer. A piece the year prior had begun by describing her as someone who “looks, acts, and sounds like a little girl.”

It’s no surprise, then, that a singer whose image was always malleable to the whims of critics—ingenue or sex object, depending on the day—might feel skeptical about a documentary. Over the years, Ronstadt, who lost her voice to Parkinson’s disease and retired in 2011, has been uninterested in the attention. Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman won her over, though, and wisely, the result—Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice—focuses mostly on the versatility of her voice. In the film, her vocal range becomes a symbol for everything else she represented during her tenure in the seventies and eighties as the Queen of Rock: adaptability, doggedness, a certain moral clarity.

And her voice is unforgettable, a bel canto vehicle that moves so effortlessly between yearning and assertion that you forget the kind of chops it takes to make those leaps.

She was, as Jackson Browne says in the film, a “fully developed vocal stylist” who was as unafraid of Broadway and Mexican folk music as she was of rock and country. Singing, after all, was what interested her; curating a public image or a career path did not.

In her heyday, Ronstadt won ten Grammys and consistently topped the charts. And though she was not the first female rock star, her career was forged during a time when

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

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there were particularly few pieces of the pie.

Delightfully, The Sound of My Voice features interviews from Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, and Dolly Parton, who all vouch for Ronstadt’s eagerness to take them under her wing and develop a sisterhood. The film follows the trio she formed with Parton and Harris, a country supergroup whose harmonies are possibly only rivaled by the recent formation of the group The Highwomen.

The documentary can feel a bit impersonal at times, and those hoping for a tell-all about Ronstadt’s personal life may be disappointed.

For anyone simply looking to fall back in love with her voice, though, the animated archival footage from concerts will do just that while converting the uninitiated. Whether you’re hearing powerhouse karaoke ballads “Blue Bayou” or “You’re No Good” for the first or the hundredth time, the resonance is electric. (I’ve had the poster from 1975’s Heart Like a Wheel tour framed in my bedroom for years; YOU’RE NO GOOD is bolded at the top, a message I likely could not handle waking up to every morning from any source save Ronstadt.) She was a rock star because she had the presence of a rock star, a voice that could hold a room captive with its wide and roving command. On stage, she was shimmering and assured; when she belts out lyrics like “When will you love me?” the script flips; the song is less a question than it is an assertion that she will be just that: loved. sedwards@indyweek.com

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

OUTLAW MUSIC FESTIVAL One of country music’s original outlaws, Willie Nelson, brings a handful of friends to town just a week after returning from a month-long break from the road, having canceled a handful of summer dates due to breathing issues a year after abruptly walking off the stage in Charlotte last summer. While Nelson hasn’t announced plans to give up touring, each opportunity to see the eighty-six-year-old should be treasured.

He still delivers the goods, too, with a ragged and endearing set that gallops between his own hits and covers of tunes made famous by his contemporaries. At the Outlaw Music Festival, Bonnie Raitt brings her powerhouse pipes and searing slide guitar to soulful, bluesy rock, while Alison Krauss’s angelic voice graces tunes that straddle the borders between contemporary bluegrass, country, and pop. Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real gives a psychedelic twist to bar-band rock and heartland jangles. Stephanie Quayle adds anthemic modern country.

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Tierra Whack FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13–SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

PHOTO BY MARIA JOSE GOVEA

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

SPARKCON

TIERRA WHACK

SPARKcon, VAE Raleigh’s annual “open-source” pan-arts festival, almost went the way of so many other Triangle arts institutions last year—into oblivion. But it rebounded with a crowdfunding campaign that showed how much it means to the artists who participate in it and the community around them. This year it’s back with a more streamlined footprint in the Warehouse District, but it’s still as seam-bursting as it always is. There is something on the schedule for virtually anyone, from visual art and dance to music and readings, all the way through circus arts and design workshops. You might want to just dive in and see what you discover, as the programming is all free and primed for sampling.

Wandering through venues such as Legends, Cirque de Vol, VAE, CAM Raleigh, Crank Arm Brewing, and the streets themselves, you’ll discover music by the likes of Smoke from All the Friction and Yung Meme, zine-making and printmaking demonstrations, and much more. —Brian Howe

In these hectic times, we’re all trying to squeeze an hour into fifteen minutes. Tierra Whack actually pulled it off. On last year’s acclaimed Whack World, fifteen one-minute songs flow by seamlessly, each with a musical and thematic richness that makes the album feel like a full-length concentrated in a candy-coated capsule. And Whack World is so much more than music, as its title lets on. The video, not a promotional annex but a core part of the art, evokes both the surreal visual brilliance of Missy Elliot and the pop plasticity of Nicki Minaj as Whack raps and sings her way, in character, through a series of vignettes. The North Philly native was a teenage freestylerap prodigy, so of course she has bars, which she uses to furnish her equally preternatural conceptual genius—before Whack World, there was the Grammy-nominated “Mumbo Jumbo” video, where Whack went meta with mumble rap, burbling in a dentist’s chair. In her early twenties, she seems poised for ubiquity, and her tickets are starting to sell out faster than the end of her songs. —Brian Howe

VARIOUS VENUES, RALEIGH Various times, free, www.sparkcon.com

UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL, CHAPEL HILL 8 p.m., $27, www.carolinaperformingarts.org

Kasey Musgraves PHOTO COURTESY OF UMG

Tickets start at

$15

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

KACEY MUSGRAVES Kacey Musgraves has put in years of hard work to prove herself as one of the most forward-thinking performers in the genre. Her recent progressive lyricism stands out in a sea of truck-driving, beer-chugging cliches, while still paying homage to the greats. Take, for example, “Follow Your Arrow,” an empowering, pro-LGBTQ anthem that combines the don’t-give-a-hoot attitude of Dolly Parton with the dry wit of John Prine. When her latest work, Golden Hour, won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, it felt like a jolt of optimism in country music. On Golden Hour, Musgraves pushes her sonic boundaries in an accessible direction with songs like “High Horse” and “Oh, What a World” implementing pop and sparkly modern disco elements. Meanwhile, the piano ballad “Rainbow” sheds those notes entirely, closing the album off on a bittersweet note. Psych-folk singer Weyes Blood will open. —Sam Haw

When you look in the mirror what do you see?

SEP 11–29

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KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, CARY 8 p.m., Free (lawn)—$288+, www.boothamphitheatre.com

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13–SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

THE METROMANIACS Don’t let the title of Honest Pint Theatre’s season opener fool you. The Metromaniacs is no upscale urban update of some Herschell Gordon Lewis grindhouse flick. “Metromania” is actually the irrational, illicit thrill of ... writing verse. Hey, it was a thing in Parisian society in the eighteenth century—no less a figure than Voltaire found himself caught up in a literary contretemps that threatened his career because of it. After publicly declaring his love for a supposedly female poet from Appalachia, the author of Candide was caught up short when the writer was revealed to be a man, and a rival of Voltaire’s. The wicked eighteenth-century satirist Alexis Piron lampooned Voltaire’s plight, and comic playwright David Ives adapted Piron’s deft social skewering in the third in his series of resurrected French comedies. Tara Nicole Williams and Aaron C. Alderman star, and Sean A. Brosnahan returns to the local stage in a cast including Rob Jenkins, JR Harris, Gus Allen, and Morgan Piner. —Byron Woods

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WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO? FIRST FRIDAY OPENINGS AT ONEONEONE GALLERY (P. 37), DOWNTOWN ABBEY AT THE CAROLINA THEATRE (P. 40), DANIEL COOK JOHNSON AT SO & SO BOOKS (P. 38), THE MIDNIGHT HOUR AT MOTORCO (P. 27), NATIVE SON AT PAUL GREEN THEATRE (P. 39), SINKANE AT MOTORCO (P. 28)

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SA 9/21 @ KOKA BOOTH AMPITHEATRE

Chocolate Lounge & Juice Bar

MANDOLIN ORANGE

Tokyo Rosenthal Carol Parker Schafer Souls Gothic Lounge Sun 9/15 Dead 7pm-12am Fri 9/13 Sat 9/14

Wed 9/18 Free wine tasting 5-7pm Fri 9/20 DOTWAV Media Sat 9/21 Slow Down for Poetry Music Performed from 6pm to 10pm Beer & Wine Served Daily Timberlyne Shopping Center, Chapel Hill 1129 Weaver Dairy Rd • specialtreatsnc.com

W/ MOUNTAIN MAN

SA 9/14 @ NC MUSEUM OF ART

SU 9/15 @ CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM

SNARKY PUPPY

SERATONES W/THA MATERIALS TH 9/12: WUNC MUSIC PRESENTS: HC MCENTIRE, ALICE GERRARD, JOHN HOWIE JR, TATIANA HARGREAVES. PREVIEWING KEN BURNS’ “COUNTRY MUSIC” SERIES. FREE!

FR 9/27 @ CAT’S CRADLE

RIDE

W/THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

FR 9/13 WHO’S BAD - MICHAEL JACKSON TRIBUTE! W/ DJ FATZ SA 9/14 AID FOR THE BAHAMAS FUNDRAISER: DISSIMILAR SOUTH, TEXOMA, GONE GHOSTS, LOVE & VALOR, MATT SOUTHERN, & MORE! SU 9/15 PENNY & SPARROW

W/CAROLINE SPENCE

THU

9/12 FRI

9/13

MO 9/16 CAT POWER –

RECENTLY ANNOUNCED: Over The Rhine, Phutureprimitive, an-ten-nae

“WANDERER TOUR 2019” W/ARSUN

SUBHUMANS/ FEA / Drugcharge / No Love SUBHUMANS FEA / Drugcharge / No Love

TH 9/19 SNOW THA PRODUCT

SINKANE SINKANE / Flash Car Flash Car

WE 9/18 TINARIWEN ($30/$33)

W/ LONNIE HOLIDAY

FR 9/20: THE FAB FOUR AT 55: A LOCAL ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES ($10) SA 9/21 WHITNEY W/ HAND HABITS TH 9/26 THE MOTET W/ MELLOW SWELLS FR 9/27 RIDE

W/ THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

SAT

9/14

8THANNUAL ANNUAL 8TH DURHAM OKTOBERFEST featuring Little German Band DURHAM OKTOBERFEST

featuring Little German Band

SUN

9/15

TUE

9/17 THU

9/19 FRI

Cat’s Cradle presents

BLEACHED

The Paranoyds / Hey Champ!

The Sol Kitchen presents

THE MIDNIGHT HOUR

with Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest) and Adrian Younge with opening performances by: Loren Oden, Angela Muñoz, Jack Waterson

TAMECA JONES Crank It Loud Presents: Ones to Watch Presents

9/20

FLOR

SAT

SCHOOL OF ROCK WAKE FOREST

9/21 SAT

9/21 SUN

9/22 MON

9/23

Joan / lostboycrow Season Showcase featuring The Police and Modern Rock

BOY HARSHER Olivia Neutron-John

THIS WILD LIFE

The Happy Fits / Rome Hero Foxes

FLASH CHORUS

sings “Hey Good Lookin’” by Hank Williams Sr and a mash up of “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X and “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons

COMING SOON: River Whyless, The Art of Cool Festival, The Regrettes, Generationals, The Way Down Wanderers, Sheer Mag, Kero Kero Bonito, Team Dresch, White Denim, Blackalicious, Warbringer, Lucky Daye, Sonata Arctica, (Sandy) Alex G, Griffin House, Fleetmac Wood, Russian Circles, Superchunk, Nile, TR/ST, Chastity Belt, With Confidence, Fruit Bats, Com Truise, Mikal Cronin,Amigo The Devil, Jen Kirkman, Street Corner Symphony, Black Atlantic

Also co-presenting at The Carolina Theatre of Durham: Criminal LIVE SHOW (on Oct 5th)

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SA 9/28 ABBEY ROAD LIVE! ( 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF "ABBEY ROAD" ) TU 10/1 MT JOY W/ SUSTO

SU 9/15 @ CAT’S CRADLE

MO 9/16 @ CAT’S CRADLE

W/CAROLINE SPENCE

WANDERER TOUR 2019

PENNY & SPARROW

CAT POWER

FR 11/15 BLACK MIDI ($13)

SA 11/9 INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS W/ KITCHEN DWELLERS

TH 9/26: PALM PALM (J RODDY WALSTON'S NEW BAND) W/SECRET AMERICAN

TU 11/12 CURSIVE / CLOUD NOTHINGS / THE APPLESEED CAST

FR 9/27 LESLIE STEVENS W/MICHAEL MCARTHUR ($10/$12)

TU 11/19 ANNA TIVEL & MAYA DEVITRY

SA 9/28 ELLIS DYSON & THE SHAMBLES / NOAH ADAMS & THE LOUISIANA NATIVES ( FREE SHOW/ CMF KICKOFF)

WE 11/20 KING BUFFALO ($10)

WE 11/13 KIKAGAKU MOYO W/ MINAMI DEUTSCH ($15/$17) TH 11/14: TURNOVER/ MEN I TRUST

Cradle

FR 11/15 ALLAH-LAS W/ TIM HILL ($17/$20)

SU 9/29: CARRBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL HIP HOP STAGE MO 9/30 JONAH TOLCHIN

SA 11/16 THE BLAZERS ‘HOW TO ROCK’ REUNION

SU 11/24: BEACH BUNNY W/ ANOTHER MICHAEL SOLD TH 12/5 JUMP LITTLE CHILDREN OUT

ARTSCENTER (CARRBORO) TU 9/24 BOB MOULD (SOLO) W/ WILL JOHNSON

SA 10/5 ELECTRIC SIX

SA 11/16 GAELIC STORM

TUE 10/1 THAT 1 GUY

SU 10/6 BUILT TO SPILL

SU 11/17 ADHOC PRESENTS: CRUMB W/ DIVINO NIÑO, SHORMEY ($20)

WE 10/2 B BOYS W/FAMILY VISION

WE 9/25 HOLLY BOWLING

TH10/3 BLANCO WHITE W/SHEY BABA

FR 10/25 JONATHAN WILSON ($20/$22 )

MO 10/7 LUNA PERFORMS PENTHOUSE W/ OLDEN YOLK TH 10/10 WITT LOWRY

W/ XUITCASECITY ($16/$18) FR 10/11 VIOLET BELL HONEY IN MY HEART ALBUM RELEASE ( $10/$12) SA 10/12 LANGHORNE SLIM

MO 11/25 NEW FOUND GLORY W/HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS, FREE THROW, JETTY BONES ($27 / $32)

SA 10/5 TYRONE WELLS W/ DAN RODRIGUEZ

WE 11/27: LA DISPUTE, TOUCHE

TU 10/8 ELIZABETH MOEN

AMORE, EMPATH

FR 12/6 OUR LAST NIGHT

WE 10/9 ELDER ISLAND W/ DIRTY NICE

& THE LOST AT LAST BAND W/ KATIE PRUITT ($18/$20)

SA 12/7 SOUTHERN CULTURE ON

TH 10/10 CHARLIE PARR W/ JOSH MOORE ($15)

WE 10/16 MELVINS/ REDD KROSS

W/TOSHI KASAI

TH 12/12 TWIN PEAKS

W/ LALA LALA AND OHMME

FR 10/11 HANK, PATTIE & THE CURRENT

TH 10/17 WATCH WHAT CRAPPENS ($25/$28)

SA 12/14 THE REVEREND HORTON

SA 10/12 O'BROTHER W/ THE END OF THE OCEAN AND HOLY FAWN ($14/$16)

FR 10/18 RA RA RIOT ($17/$19)

THE SKIDS

HEAT, VOODOO GLOW SKULLS, THE 5678'S, DAVE ALVIN ($25/$28)

TU 10/15 MIKE WATT & THE MISSINGMEN ($15)

TH 11/14 ROBYN HITCHCOCK (SOLO) WE 11/20 SAN FERMIN ($18/$20) KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE (CARY) SA 9/21 MANDOLIN ORANGE W/MOUNTAIN MAN WE 10/16 WILCO W/SOCCER MOMMY CAROLINA THEATRE (DUR) TH 9/26 JOSH RITTER & THE ROYAL CITY BAND W/ SPECIAL GUEST AMANDA SHIRES MOTORCO (DUR) SU 9/15 BLEACHED W/ THE PARANOYDS AND HEY CHAMP! ($15/$17) SU 9/29 THE REGRETTES ($15)

W/BAYONNE

TU 12/17 DAUGHTERS/HEALTH W/

SA 10/19 MOONCHILD ($22/$25)

SHOW ME THE BODY

WE 10/16 THE CACTUS BLOSSOMS W/ ESTHER ROSE ($15)

MO 9/30 GENERATIONALS W/NEIGHBOR LADY

01/21, 2020 TOO MANY ZOOZ W/

FRI 10/18: SWERVEDRIVER W/MILLY

WE 10/23 THE ALLUSIONIST ($25/$28)

3/14, 2020 RADICAL FACE

SA 10/19 JOHN HOWIE JR & ROSEWOOD BLUFF W/DYLAN EARL AND SEVERED FINGERS

TU 11/12 TR/ST NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART SA 9/14 SNARKY PUPPY

WE 10/23 CITY OF THE SUN W/ OLD SEA BRIGADE

WE 9/25 RHIANNON GIDDENS AND FRANCESCO TURRISI THE RITZ (RAL)

LD SOSU OUT 10/20

THE BAND CAMINO

TU 10/22 NOAH GUNDERSEN W/JONNY G ($17/$20)

BIROCRATIC

WE 10/23 ADHOC PRESENTS: OH

SEES W/ PRETTIEST EYES, NO WHAMMY

TH 9/12 DR BACON W/ EMLY MUSOLINO

TH 10/24 DRIFTWOOD

SA 9/14 A DIFFERENT THREAD, HONEY MAGPIE, OUTFIELDER

FR 10/25 HOVVDY, KEVIN KRAUTER, AND CAROLINE SAYS ( $12/$14)

W/ THE AVENGERS

SU 9/15 SERATONES W/ THA MATERIALS

SA 10/26 KNOCKED LOOSE

TU 9/17 SHOOK TWINS W/HEATHER MALONEY

SA 10/26 CAT CLYDE W/JAMIE DRAKE ($12/$15)

TH 10/24 KISHI BASHI FR 10/25 STIFF LITTLE FINGERS

W/ ROTTING OUT, CANDY, SEEYOUSPACECOWBOY WE 10/30 WIZARD FEST

FR/SA SOLD 11/1 & 2 (TWO SHOWS, FRIDAY AND OUT x2SATURDAY) BILLY STRINGS

TH 9/19 KOLARS // THE SH-BOOMS FR 9/20 DESTROY BOYS W/FRUIT SNACK

W/ HARMONY WOODS

SA 9/21 THE ROCKET SUMMER W/ROYAL TEETH ($15/$17)

FR 11/8 THE DIP ($15/ $18) W/ ERIN &

SU 9/22 FREE THROW W/CHRIS FARREN, YOUTH FOUNTAIN, MACSEAL ( $14/$16)

THE WILDFIRE

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KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE Jeanne Jolly $5. 5:45 p.m.

THE PINHOOK Poison Anthem, ZEALOTROUS, Car Crash Star, LunchBox Hero $6. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Buffalo Gospel $9-$12. 9 p.m.

THU, SEP 12

Beer: Andrew Scotchie & The River Rates, Stig, Unaka Prong $5. 9 p.m.

THE CAVE The Donner Deads $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

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CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Dr. Bacon, Emily Musolino $10-$12. 9 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD Cloud Rat, Basura, Leachate $10-$12. 9:30 p.m.

MOTORCO Subhumans, Fea, Drugcharge, No Love $15-$18. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Local Band Local

SLIM’S Spookstina, Kelli Corrado, De_Plate, tegucigalpan $5. 8 p.m.

ARCANA The Paco Band 9 p.m.

BLUE NOTE GRILL Adrian Duke Band, Teresa Richmond $10. 9 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE Who’s Bad: $15$18. 9:30 p.m.

A recent Pitchfork essay on Moon Pix—the 1998 album that Cat Power wrote in a state of feverish terror while living in a barn in Prosperity, South Carolina—described her work as “dangerously potent,” and that feels true of her whole body of work. Listening to Moon Pix and the six crushing albums that have followed it, you feel as if you’re on the brink of catching something: some spiritual rapture, some beautiful horror, something that, for better or worse, implicates you. On last year’s Wanderer, which she released after a six-year hiatus between albums, her husky voice tangles with bluesy electronics in a way that feels slippery and incantatory as snake handling. Cat Power rarely tours, so this stop in Chapel Hill—with opener Arsun—isn’t one to miss.

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WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE Jason Aldean, Kane Brown, Carly Pearce $48+. 7:30 p.m.

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Charlie Wilson $60+. 8 p.m.

KINGS Kate Teague, Libby Rodenough $10-$12. 8 p.m.

KINGS Abdu Ali, M8ALLA, KHXOS $10. 10 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE Wilder Woods $30. 8 p.m.

LOCAL 506 As Cities Burn, All Get Out, Many Rooms $18-$20. 7 p.m.

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MOTORCO Sinkane, Flash Car $15-$17. 9 p.m.

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The multi-talented, flute-playing, unapologetically body-positive twerker Lizzo headlines a Raleigh venue for the second time this summer. This year, Lizzo has reached a level of broad cultural success that required hard work, consistency, and endurance. Her album Cuz I Love You received rave reviews, while her single “Truth Hurts” climbed to the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 charts— almost two years after its official release. —Kyesha Jennings RHYTHMS LIVE Hi-Five, Solo $50.

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SHARP NINE GALLERY UNCChapel Hill Faculty Jazz Combo, James Aebersold $20. 8 p.m.

THE CARY THEATER Jason Adamo & Bill West 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Honey Magpie, A Different Thread, Infielder $8-$10. 8 p.m.

THE CAVE Mystery Ranch, C. Albert Blomquist & the Cockle Warmers $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE Kacey Musgraves $65+. 8 p.m.

The Kraken Loose Lucies 8 p.m.

LOCAL 506 Rachel Despard, Justin Hackeling $10. 9 p.m.

THE MAYWOOD Overlord SR, The Fifth, The Gray, Bones Fork $10. 8:30 p.m.

MEYMANDI CONCERT HALL NC Symphony Sensory Friendly Performance 1 p.m.

SLIM’S Psychotic Reaction, Machinegun Earl, Yea(H) $5. 9 p.m.

NC MUSEUM OF ART Snarky Puppy $32-$45. 8 p.m.

UNC’S MEMORIAL HALL Tierra Whack $27. 8 p.m.

THE PINHOOK Glove, Stevie, Black Surfer $10. 8 p.m.

[$15–$20, 7 P.M.] Celebrating year four, Beats n Bars Festival returns with a limited but homegrown line-up. This year, Bull City favorites and Beats n Bars alum, Young Bull, and Wreck n Crew headline the festival. Partnering with Momentum Learning faculty and graduates, the festival offers a free “Intro to Coding with Music” workshop. —Kyesha Jennings SHARP NINE GALLERY Ralph Bowen, The Steve Haines Trio $25. 8 p.m.

SLIM’S Serial Hawk, Monte Luna, Lightning Born $8. 9 p.m.

WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE Peter Frampton, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening $30+. 7:30 p.m.

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CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Seratones $13-$15. 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE Penny & Sparrow, Caroline Spence $20-$22. 8 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE Brent Cobb and Them $17. 8 p.m.

MOTORCO Bleached, Paranoyds $15-$17. 8 p.m.

NEPTUNES PARLOUR Nordista Freeze, Cry Baby, Charlie Paso $8. 8:30 p.m.

TUE, SEP 17

POUR HOUSE Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers $10-$12. 9 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM Shook Twins, Heather Maloney $12-$15. 8 p.m.

RED HAT AMPHITHEATER Nghtmre, Slander, Seven Lions, The Glitch Mob $50-$76. 5 p.m.

THE CAVE Psychotic Reaction $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

SLIM’S Brutal Jr., Death Hags, Housefire, Distributed Systems $5. 9 p.m.

KINGS The After Party: Heyz, Oak City Slums, Ndeep $10-$15. 10 p.m.

LINCOLN THEATRE Goblin $20-$30. 8 p.m.

WED, SEP 18

LOCAL 506 Them Coulee Boys, Love and Valor $10-$12. 8 p.m.

SLIM’S Martin Bisi, Wailin Storms, The Paul Swest $5. 8 p.m.

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE Diamond Creek $5. 5:45 p.m.

MOTORCO Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge $25-$40. 8 p.m.

CAT’S CRADLE

THE STATION Corbie Hill, Mitch Hayes, Pete Pawsey 7:30 p.m.

WALNUT CREEK AMPHITHEATRE Outlaw Music Festival: Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Alison Krauss, Lukas Neslon and Promise of the Real, Stephanie Quayle $35+. 4 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT La Urss, Das Drip, Det $10. 9 p.m.

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What’s an essaysist (even one whose first book, the painful, incisive memoir Codependence, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s essay collection contest) doing on our music calendar?

Well, on this tour, Amy Long is bringing along Ray Raposa of the Asthmatic Kitty odd-folk act Castanets, who’ll play some music, as will local songwriter B.R. Bickford of The Strugglers.

—Brian Howe

CAT’S CRADLE Cat Power $37$40. 8 p.m.

THE FRUIT Brian Horton Quartet 7:30 p.m.

SLIM’S Seven Letter, Bleach Garden, The Old Laws $5. 9 p.m.

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Amy Long & Raymond Raposa [$7, 7 P.M.]

Lonnie Holley In Lonnie Holley’s universe, folk art, activism, poetry, and music all become one. Holley’s gift for blurring genres—not to mention his instinct for sense-making— has moved artists as disparate as Bill Callahan and Bon Iver to collaborate. On recent album MITH, the dark, droning track “I Woke Up in a Fucked-Up America,” churns with violence and astral beauty. Opening for Tinariwen.—Sarah Edwards THE CAVE The Brothers Gillespie, Slark Moan $5 suggested. 9 p.m.

NIGHTLIGHT Ben Paley 10:23 p.m.

THE PINHOOK The Muslims, Church Girls, M is We $10. 8 p.m.

POUR HOUSE Agent Orange, The Turbo Acs, Queen City Rejects, Poison Anthem, Ghost OSN $12-$15. 8 p.m.

Lonnie Holley opens for Tinariwen at Cat’s Cradle on Wednesday, September 18.

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On view through January 12, 2020 Mirror Shield Project. Conceived by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. Drone image still by Rory Wakemup. Oceti Sakowin Camp, 2016. A special thank you to Jack Becker from Forecast Public Art and Rory Wakemup at All My Relations Arts in Minneapolis, MN, for helping bring over 500 Mirror Shields to Standing Rock, ND. Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. The exhibition is co-curated by independent curator Candice Hopkins (Tlingit, citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation in the Canadian territory, Yukon), Mindy Besaw, curator of American art at Crystal Bridges, and Manuela Well-Off-Man, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Support for this exhibition and its national tour is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Sotheby’s Prize.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

SECOND FRIDAY OPENINGS

Three exhibits launch at the Chapel Hill gallery Oneoneone this month: Leigh Suggs’s No One Ever Makes a Promise in a Dream, group exhibit Another Potato Chip Weekend (which will be located at 109A Brewer Lane, a block away from the gallery), and, at 601 West Gallery, another group exhibit by North Carolina artists Harriet Hoover, Rusty Shackleford, and Vanessa Murray. The Richmond-based Suggs makes holographic drawings and geometric cutouts that, according to her artist statement, are a “reflection of physical and psychological states;” her exhibit will run through November 2. Another Potato Chip Weekend, which features multimedia works by Sabine Gruffat, George Jenne, Bill Brown, and Lindsay Metivier, among others, offers “waves of light and sound wash” and will be on display through October 12. Meanwhile, the exhibit at 601 West Gallery will run through January 4. All three exhibits open officially at a joint Second Friday reception on September 13.

—Sarah Edwards

ONEONEONE GALLERY, CHAPEL HILL 6–8 p.m., free, www.oneoneone.gallery

“Sandwiched” by Sabine Gruffat PHOTO COURTESY OF ONEONEONE GALLERY

ONGOING 5 Points Gallery Grand Opening Exhibit Group show.

Thru Oct 1. 5 Points Gallery, Durham. 5pointsgallery.com.

Katherine Armacost, Nikki Blair, Natalie Boorman, Peg Gignoux, Linda Prager & Carol RetschBogart Group show. Thru Oct 5.

FRANK Gallery, Chapel HIll.

Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now Contemporary Indigenous art.

Thru Jan 12. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

The Carrack’s Final Community Show Thru Sep 21. The Carrack Modern Art, Durham. thecarrack.org.

Kennedi Carter: Godchild Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

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Cary Gallery of Artists: All Creatures Great and Small Thru Sep 24. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. carygalleryofartists.org.

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José Manuel Cruz: COLORICAN Various media.

Thru Oct 11. NCCU Art Museum, Durham.

José Manuel Cruz: Urban Cultural Footprints Thru Oct 31. Reception: Sep 14, 3-5 p.m.

Triangle Cultural Art Gallery, Raleigh. triangleculturalart.com.

Dymph de Wild & Corinne Diop: Evoking Spirits Collages and mixed media. Thru Sep 15. UNC Campus: Hanes Art Center, Chapel HIll. art.unc.edu.

Empirical Evidence Group show. Thru Sep 30. Carrboro Town Hall, Carrboro.

Fantastic Fauna-Chimeric Creatures Thru Jan 26. Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu.

Feels Warm, Like Things Burning Group show. Thru Oct 26. Lump, Raleigh. lumpprojects.org.

Raymond Goodman: Burlap Photography. Thru Oct 3. Smelt Art Gallery, Pittsboro.

Lolette Guthrie, Alice Levinson, & Pringle Teetor: Speaking in Colors Group show.

Thru Sep 22. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough.

John James Audubon: The Birds of America Ornithological engravings. Thru Dec 31.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Jim Kellough: Vine Paintings Thru Oct 10. Durham Convention Center, Durham. durhamarts.org.

Andrew Kozlowski: Dark Days Prints and more. Thru Oct 26.

Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

Vanessa Murray: Transmutations Paint and experimental media. Thru Sep 28. Artspace, Raleigh. artspacenc.org.

Frank Myers: Strolling Through Durham Photos.

Thru Sep 30. 5 Points Gallery, Durham. 5pointsgallery.com.

New Orleans Second Line Parades Photos. Thru Dec 31. Love House and Hutchins Forum, Chapel HIll. southerncultures.org.

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Ode to the Rainbow: Serigraphs

by Joseph Albers (1888-1976) Thru Sep 28. Gallery C, Raleigh.

Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective Thru Jan 31. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

DANIEL COOK JOHNSON At this book reading, local author Daniel Cook Johnson will share passages from his recently published passion project, Wilcopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to the Music of America’s Best Band. Sure, it’s debatable whether Wilco truly is the best band in the country, but there’s no question that the alt-country and sophisticated pop-rock stalwarts have been hugely influential on a generation of bands, not to mention a generation of acoustic-guitar coffee-shop performers. Wilcopedia celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of Wilco’s formation with an exhaustive song-by-song, album-by-album chronicle of the band’s catalog. It follows Jeff Tweedy and company from the “ashes of Uncle Tulepo” through hallmark albums A.M. (1995), Summerteeth (1999), Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001), and beyond. The book is impressively detailed in its rundown of each and every Wilco song — even the B-sides and bonus tracks. Superfans will delight at Johnson’s insights and obscure trivia, and more casual readers might get pulled into the Wilco-verse, too. —Howard Hardee

QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women’s Voices Through Quilts Thru Mar 8. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Eric Raddatz Thru Sep 14.

Through This Lens, Durham.

V L Rees: Seems Like Home Thru Sep 21. V L Rees Gallery, Raleigh. vlrees.com.

Noah Saterstrom: Faces Paintings. Thru Sep 29. Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com.

Nicole Simpkins: Giving What Takes Drawing and printmaking.

Thru Sep 28. Artspace, Raleigh.

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Photography. Thru Dec 21.

Power Plant Gallery, Durham. powerplantgallery.com.

Southern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off Interactive sculptures. Thru Oct 31. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

Damian Stamer: Unseen Watercolors and works on paper. Thru Nov 2. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. cravenallengallery.com.

Cheryl Thurber: Documenting Gravel Springs, Mississippi, in the 1970s Photos. Thru Mar 31. UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel HIll. Allison Tierney: A Matter of Form Paintings. Thru Sep 30.

Reception: Sep 13, 6-8 p.m.

The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. artscenterlive.org.

Nicole Uzzell: Landscraping Mixed media and sculpture.

Thru Sep 30. Meredith College: Gaddy-Hamrick Art Center, Raleigh. meredith.edu.

Jan-Ru Wan: You thought you are the center of the universe Found objects. Thru Oct 5. VAE Raleigh, Raleigh. vaeraleigh.org.

What in the World Is a Grain Mummy? Egyptology and art.

Thru Jan 8. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

SO & SO BOOKS, RALEIGH 8 p.m., free, www.soandsomag.org

READINGS & SIGNINGS Jean Anderson Cookbook Kiln to Kitchen. Sat, Sep 14, 2 p.m.

McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. mcintyresbooks.com.

Raymond Byron, Amy Long, B.R. Bickford Readings and music. Tue, Sep 17, 7 p.m. Okay Alright, Durham. thisismettlesome.com.

Seane Corn Revolution of the Soul. Ticketed event.

Wed, Sep 11, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

David Fajgenbaum Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope into Action. Sun, Sep 15, 2 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Stuart Gibbs Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation.

Wed, Sep 18, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Thomas Goldsmith Earl Scruggs and Foggy Mountain Breakdown: The Making of an American Classic. Tue, Sep 17, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

Debra Kaufman God Shattered. Tue, Sep 17, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. regulatorbookshop.com.

Stacy McAnulty The World Ends in April. Tue, Sep 17, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

NAACP Community Book Read Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Wed, Sep 11, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. flyleafbooks.com.

LECTURES, ETC.

Thomas Phillips Sine Wave. Sat, Sep 14, 2 p.m.

Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

QueerXscape Ruby Fridays.

Fri, Sep 13, noon. Ruby Lounge at Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham. artscenter.duke.edu.

J. Dana Trent Dessert First: Preparing for Death While Savoring Life. Thu, Sep 12, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. quailridgebooks.com.

Southern Summit on Philanthropy and the Academy Full schedule online. Sep 9-20.

UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill. documentarystudies.duke.edu.

Haider Warraich State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease. Wed, Sep 18, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop Durham regulatorbookshop.com.

Climate Change: The Way Forward Panel discussion.

Mon, Sep 16, 7 p.m. Seymour Senior Center, Chapel Hill. chalt.org.

stage OPENING Mark Curry Comedy. $20.

Sep 12-14. Thu: 7 p.m. Fri: 7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m. Sat: 6:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. Raleigh Improv, Raleigh. improv.com/raleigh.

Fever/Dream Little Green Pig. Play reading. Sun, Sep 15, 7 p.m. Monkey Bottom Collaborative, Durham. littlegreenpig.com.

Inherit the Wind Justice Theater Project. Sep 13-29.

Umstead Park United Church of Christ, Raleigh. thejusticetheaterproject.org.

THROUGH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

NATIVE SON

In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote of the “double-consciousness” that African Americans occupy: “this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of...a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” But Bigger Thomas puts it a different way in Nambi Kelley’s raw stage adaptation of Richard Wright’s Native Son: “We all got two minds. How we see them seeing us. How we see our own self. But how they see you take over on the inside. And when you look in the mirror—you only see what they tell you you is. A black rat sonofabitch.” Brandon Herman St. Clair Haynes plays Thomas, while Brandon J. Pierce portrays his constant companion and other consciousness, The Black Rat, in this PlayMakers Repertory Company production. Guest Colette Robert directs. —Byron Woods

PAUL GREEN THEATRE, CHAPEL HILL 7:30 p.m. Wed.–Sat./2 p.m. Sun., $15–$64, www.playmakersrep.org

On Golden Pond Play. $14. Sep 12-14. Thu-Fri: 7:30 p.m. Sat: 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Holly Springs Cultural Center, Holly Springs.

Peppa Pig Live $30+. Sun, Sep 15, 3 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc. com.

Rubies Carolina Ballet. $36+.

Sep 12-15. Thu-Fri: 8 p.m.

Sat: 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. Sun: 2 p.m. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. carolinaballet.com.

Tom Segura Comedy. Sat, Sep 14, 7 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. dpacnc.com.

Dave Landau Live Album Recording Comedy. Sep 12-14. Thu: 8 p.m. Fri-Sat: 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. goodnightscomedy.com.

Sweet Mama Stringbean: The Life and Times of Ethel Waters Musical. $20-$25. Sep 12-13.

Fri: 7:30 p.m. Sat: 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Hayti Heritage Center, Durham. hayti.org.

The Metromaniacs Honest Pint Theatre. Play. Regional premiere. Sep 13-29.

North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. honestpinttheatre.org.

Two Flew Over the Coo-Coo’s Nest Skit comedy. $10-$15. Fri, Sep 13, 8 p.m. Imurj, Raleigh.

The Monkey Trial: A Legal Perspective With attorney Seth A. Blum.

Sat, Sep 14, 6:30 p.m.

Umstead Park United Church of Christ, Raleigh. thejusticetheaterproject.org.

The Monti: On the Edge Storytelling. $24. Fri, Sep 13, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

Native Son Play. $15+. Sep 11-29. UNC’s Paul Green Theatre, Chapel Hill. playmakersrep.org.

A Need Fulfilled NC Central University Theatre and Never Stop Productions. Play. Sep 13-15. Fri-Sat: 8 p.m. Sun: 3 p.m. NCCU’s University Theater, Durham.

ONGOING Paperhand Puppet Intervention: We Are Here Puppetry. $20 suggested. Sep 13-15. UNC’s Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. paperhand.org.

The Scottsboro Boys Thru Sep 15. Kennedy Theatre, Raleigh. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Six Pack Standup Show Comedy. $5. Wed, Sep 18, 7:45 p.m. North Street Beer Station, Raleigh. northstreetbeerstation.com.

Space Force Transactors Improv. Comedy. Fri, Sep 13, 8 p.m. Monkey Bottom Collaborative, Durham.

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screen SPECIAL SHOWINGS The Big Lebowski Sat, Aug 10.

Party: 6 p.m. Film: 8:30 p.m.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. ncartmuseum.org.

12 Angry Men & The Paradine Case $10. Fri, Sep 6, 7 p.m.

Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

All About My Mother Mon, Sep 9, 7:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

The Biggest Little Farm Thu, Sep 5, 7 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary. thecarytheater.com.

Diamantino Screen/Society.

Free. Fri, Sep 6, 7 p.m.

Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham. ami.duke.edu.

A Faithful Man Screen/ Society. Free. Thu, Sep 5, 7 p.m. Rubenstein Arts Center, Durham. ami.duke.edu.

The Frisco Kid & Coma $10. Sun, Sep 8, 2:30 p.m.

Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

Grease Wed, Sep 4, 7 p.m.

Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space Tue, Sep 10, 9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Loopers: The Caddie’s Long Walk Benefit screening. Thu, Sep 5, 4:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Carolina Theatre, Durham. carolinatheatre.org.

The Motorcycle Diaries Wed, Sep 11, 7:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

Murder in the Front Row Sun, Sep 8, 4 p.m. & 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, Raleigh. drafthouse.com/raleigh.

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OPENING The Goldfinch—Jezebel put it best: “Everyone already hates The Goldfinch,” which makes a pretentious muck of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer-winning novel of art and grief. Rated R. Hustlers—Based on a true story in New York Magazine, a group of strippers hustle wealthy men during the late2000s financial crisis. Rated R.  Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of my Voice—Reviewed on p. 29. Unrated.

N OW P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Unstarred films have not been reviewed by our writers.  After the Wedding— Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams outshine the script, in this gender-flipped remake of the 2006 Danish drama. Rated PG-13. —Glenn McDonald ½ Angel Has Fallen— In the third installment of the Fallen franchise, secret agent Mike Banning is framed for the president’s murder. Rated R.—Neil Morris The Angry Birds Movie 2— Jason Sudekis leads a surprisingly decent film about an iPhone game. Rated PG. Blinded by the Light— Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics hold the meaning of life for a Pakistani-British teen growing up in the 1980s. Rated PG-13.

Brittany Runs a Marathon— A woman runs herself out of a rut and across the New York City Marathon finish line in this feel-good comedy. Rated R. David Crosby: Remember my Name—The Byrds singer gets his due in this rock-doc about his tumultuous road to rehabilitation and beyond.

Rated R.  Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw— The testosterone-driven repartee between Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham is the only reason to endure this cartoonish, logically and temporally challenged CGI fest. Rated PG-13.—NM

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 The Farewell— A family travels to China to say goodbye to the family matriarch, who is dying of cancer. The twist? They feel that it’s more benevolent to not tell her she’s dying.

Rated PG. —Sarah Edwards ½ Good Boys—The evolution of coming-of-age comedies is that the subjects keep getting younger. In this Superbad for tweens, a trio of sixth-grade BFFs have misadventures as they try to find the cool-kids party. The profuse profanity is cut by the kids’ infectious charm. Rated R. —NM IT Chapter Two—The evil clown is back in Derry, Maine. Do we really need a movie about an evil clown when we have one sitting in office? Rated R. ½ The Lion King— Jon Favreau’s photorealistic palette is the boon and bane of Disney’s “live-action” computer rendering of an animated classic. Rated PG. —NM Maiden—The first all-female sailing crew admitted to the elite Whitbread race around the world is the subject of this inspiring biopic. Rated PG.  Midsommar— Horror upstart Ari Aster’s latest isn’t quite as scary as his unforgettable Hereditary,

Nearly four years have passed since the fifty-second and final episode of the British series Downton Abbey put that mannered—and sometimes soapy, sentimental— snow globe of upper and lower British class society at the start of the last century, on the shelf. But in the Focus Features film that opens nationally next Friday, after this one-night-only advanced screening—which takes place at The Carolina Theatre and at various theaters throughout the Triangle—only a little over a year has elapsed since we last looked on. It’s 1927 in the North Yorkshire estate, and the younger generation, including the Earl of Grantham’s daughter, Mary (Michelle Dockery), and son-in-law, Tom (Allen Leech), is coming into its own. They’re also openly questioning the sustainability of their way of life, in the face of economic reversals and the closure of other similar estates nearby. But the eminent arrival of King George V (Simon Jones), Queen Mary (Geraldine James) to the abbey puts particular pressure on parties downstairs and upstairs, including the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith). One thing’s for sure: tears will be jerked by Julian Fellowes’s script. Don’t forget the tissues. —Byron Woods

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Downton Abbey PHOTO COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES but his tale of feckless American students and Swedish cultists is likewise brilliant in its treatment of trauma; it’s also a lot weirder and funnier. Rated R. —Brian Howe  The Nightingale— The second feature by The Babadook’s director skillfully explores trauma and grief in the context of the brutality of colonialism, but its character development is heavy-handed at times. Rated R. —Marta Núñez Pouzols  Once Upon a Time In Hollywood—Quentin Tarantino portrays the late-sixties Hollywood film industry and vaguely mumbles something about the Manson family in this tedious, irrelevant

exercise in bland nostalgia for a bygone era of unaccountable hypermasculinity. Rated R. — MNP  The Peanut Butter Falcon—This heartwarming Tom-and-Huck tale features a breakout performance by Zack Gottsagen, who has Down Syndrome, and a soulful Shia LaBeouf. Rated PG-13. —GM Ready or Not—Samara Weaver plays a new bride drawn into a brutal game of hide-and-seek with her husband’s wealthy family in this class-ragey, genreblurring horror-comedythriller. Rated R.

½ Spider-Man: Far from Home—It’s a bedrock truism that a superhero story is only as good as its villain. Everyone knows this, except, evidently, the screenwriters of Far From Home. Mysterio’s motivations are entirely and conspicuously dumb. Rated PG-13. —GM  Toy Story 4—A spork’s severe ontological distress ballasts a half-daring, halfpredictable extension of a beloved animated franchise.

Rated G. —NM Where’d You Go, Bernadette— When Cate Blanchett’s titular character goes missing, it’s up to her family to unravel the mysteries of her past.

Rated PG-13.

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