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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK | RALEIGH 6 RDU’s Vision 2040 plan hasn’t been finalized, but environmentalists are worried about the impacts on Umstead.

8 If the city doesn’t buy the Sir Walter Apartments building, there’s nothing it can do to keep 140 affordable units there.

9 Aetna’s decision to pull out of the North Carolina Obamacare exchange is evidence that health care shouldn’t be a for-profit enterprise.

11 “I was embarrassed to start running, because the way I grew up in the forties and fifties, women didn’t do stuff like that.”

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DEPARTMENTS 5 Backtalk 6 Triangulator 8 News 10 The Outdoors Guide 22 Food 25 Music 30 Arts & Culture 32 What to Do This Week

15 The first rule of urban-bicycling safety is to act like a car.

35 Music Calendar

17 For an N.C. State professor and his teenage daughter, mountain climbing is a bonding activity.

40 Arts/Film Calendar

22 Back from Sichuan, the Triangle’s best Chinese chef heats things up in Morrisville.

29 Musicianship and rednecks make their marks on Zoocrü’s first LP. 31 The same issue prodded two leading Raleigh galleries to move: parking.

Shane Brown paddles a canoe near Falls Dam. PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

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backtalk From Hell’s Heart We Stab at Thee

Lots of praise on the Internet for Allison Hussey’s oral history of the durham•chapel hill 8|17|16 Squirrel Nut Zippers’ breakthrough record, Hot. Writes Elisson: “I kinda discovered the Zippers by accident while going through bins of CDs at Borders.

(Remember CDs? Remember Borders?) The Inevitable had an interesting sound. Did I care that it had a sort of swing vibe? I did not. It had a few cuts that had an old-timey feel, but what I liked about it was that it sounded different. It wasn’t quite like anything out there at the time. Of course, BY when Hot came out, I snapped it up ALL ISO NH immediately. At the time, my daughUSS E Y, P. 1 0 ter lived not too far from the actual Squirrel Nut Zippers factory in Cambridge, Massachusetts—the one pictured on the cover of Hot. It’s smaller than you’d think—like the band’s career, alas.”

“Great article, thorough and well-researched,” adds aburtch. “Plus, oral histories are a cool way to tell a first-hand, authentic story. Too bad Katharine [Whalen] didn’t want to be interviewed, but what can you do?”

Moving on to the world of politics. TonyD has some thoughts about Richard Burr’s attempts to tar Deborah Ross as insufficiently patriotic (Soapboxer, August 10). “Burr, if anyone has noticed, is nothing but an asshole and a corporate lackey. He works for corporations and not for the citizens of this state. He has supported everything bad that has happened here in our beautiful state, and, left to Republicans, our state will be nothing but poisoned water and land and air.”

On Twitter, DB Foland took Governor McCrory to task for the unfolding coal ash scandal at the Department of Health and Human Services (Soapboxer, August 17): “@PatMcCroryNC and the #GOP NC legislature continue to prove that corporate profits are more important to them than our kids health.”

Meanwhile, two tweeters pointed out that our post about McCrory’s decision to wade into the bogus Iran “ransom” hubbub might not have been newsworthy: “I adore you, @indyweek,” writes Open Mic Tourist, “but Pat McCrory having dumb thoughts can’t be news. If he ever has a smart thought, by all means.” Similarly, from Wilson: “The one thing @PatMcCroryNC does well is ‘dumb.’ He’s the King of Dumb.”

Our story about uranium being found in well water in eastern Wake County generated something of a technical discussion: “The issues for U-238 in solution are its chemical toxicity (like any heavy metal) and alpha particle radiation if ingested. But even then, U-238 is far less worrisome than the radioactive substance in almost every household smoke detector,” ct writes. “… I’m not saying that U-238 is not a concern; obviously it is, or a maximum exposure level would not have been published. And rightly so. … Note that dissolved arsenic is also a concern in some Wake County groundwater, and it’s a combination of naturally occurring arsenic and residue/runoff from old agricultural chemicals. Personally I’d be a lot more worried about that.” l Gang Peace in Our Time, p. 8 The DHHS Dumpster Fire, p. 9 Hog Wild for Slow Food, p. 22 A Different Kind of Superhero, p. 25

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Dallas and Brad Woodhouse, after their mom called the C-SPAN hotline. ILLUSTRATION BY STEVE OLIVA

triangulator +WOODHOUSE FAMILY VALUES

We get the feeling Christmas is going to be extra awkward at the Woodhouse home this year.

Last week, state GOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse blasted an email to Republican county boards of elections members across the state, encouraging them, in so many words, to make it harder for Democrats to vote. Actually, here are his exact words: “Republicans can and should make party-line changes to early voting. … Our Republican Board members should feel empowered to make legal changes to early-voting plans.”

This came a few days after his cousin, former Jesse Helms aide Eddie Woodhouse, was tapped to fill one of two Republican seats on the three-member Wake County elections board, an appointment that hints at just how screwy the state’s system is. Whichever party controls the governor’s office gets two seats on each county’s board, even when that county—like Wake or Durham— tends to vote for the other team. Despite not being elected by anyone, these political hacks get to set early voting schedules and polling locations; they have a lot of leeway to tip the scales in their benefactors’ favor. And that’s exactly what Dallas Woodhouse wants them to do.

Republican election officials are listening.

In Wake, after a federal court ordered the state to restore seven days of early voting, the elections board decided to only open one polling place—in the entire county—for those seven days. In Mecklenburg County, early voting was slashed by two hundred hours. The board’s chairwoman, Mary Potter Summa, told a crowd that she wasn’t “a fan” of early voting at all. In Watauga County, the elections board decided to have only one early voting site and declined to place a voting station at Appalachian State University, because you don’t want to make democracy too easy for those college kids.

And that’s the point: the more inconvenient voting becomes, the less likely certain voters—especially young people and minorities, who tend to vote for Democrats—are to show up. This is a feature, not a bug.

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But it’s not a feature Dallas Woodhouse will cop to. After his email blew up, he put out a statement trying to temper the PR damage: “We did not send an email calling for a blanket reduction in early voting sites, as that is not our position. Every county is different, every county budget is different. The county board members are an independent body, and we have the right to lobby them as much as anybody else for Republican positions such as six-daya-week voting, no Sunday voting, and for additional voting sites in underserved Republican areas.”

Back to the Woodhouse family intrigue: Dallas’s brother, Brad Woodhouse, who is president of the liberal group Americans United for Change, didn’t take lightly to his brother’s original missive. On Thursday, he sent some brotherly tough love in the form of (what else?) a tweet: “This is blatantly racist and completely disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself,” he scolded.

The Twitter spat continued from there: Dallas telling Brad to “go bother” Democratic Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, whose state has no early voting; Brad telling Dallas, “Sorry I’m getting under your skin brother, but I’ve been fighting against your suppression tactics for years.” And so on.

Later, Brad tried to clarify: “I didn’t say and I don’t believe that @DallasWoodhouse is personally racist, I believe the policies are.” Which is, well, probably not enough to make the next family gathering go smoothly.

About those family gatherings: two years ago, you may recall, the brothers Woodhouse appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to plug their documentary, Woodhouse Divided, about their politically divided family. And there, on live television, as they bickered about politics, they got a call from “Joy” from North Carolina.

“Oh God, it’s Mom,” Dallas said as soon as she started talking.

“I was hoping you’ll have some of this out of your system when you come here for Christmas,” Joyce Woodhouse told them, while the brothers shifted awkwardly. “I would really like a peaceful Christmas.”

Mother still knows best, boys. l

+PROCESS STORIES

Most election years, you focus on politicians. But this year, the Durham City Council is taking a different spin on things. It wants to focus on process.

Right now, Durham uses a nonpartisan primary; parties don’t have a formal role. Instead, all candidates battle it out, and the top vote-getters move on to the general. According to council member Don Moffitt, the city spent $400,000 on elections in 2015.

The city has considered tinkering with elections before. In 2009, the Durham County Board of Elections asked the city to switch to what’s called a nonpartisan plurality—meaning the top vote-getter in one election would be declared the winner, with no requirement that the winner achieve a majority or even get a certain percentage of the vote. In a memo back then, city attorney Patrick Baker said it was the only “municipal election process that guarantees no more than one election” will be held. This proved a very unpopular idea, and, after a public hearing, the council opted not to change things.

Now, while there’s no single proposal being floated, some officials are wondering if there’s not a better way to handle elections. At a work session last week, councilman Eddie Davis asked for a future discussion about potential changes to the elections process. Council member Jillian Johnson, meanwhile, brought up the ranked-choice and instant-runoff voting, options favored by many progressive reformers nationwide. (Baker said he’d have to check if that ran afoul of state restrictions.)

Don’t worry: if there is a change, it won’t impact anything this year. You’ve got enough election-related headaches to deal with. l

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The midmorning soundtrack provided by the inhabitants of Umstead State Park—a chorus of chirping birds and humming insects—is no longer audible to the trail runners and cyclists who frequent the grounds. Nature has found itself drowned out by the roar of aircraft overhead. Pollution from a new rock quarry has damaged Crabtree Creek. A stretch of land once celebrated by naturalists now houses an endless sea of pavement sprinkled with office buildings.

The Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority has not yet completed its road map for the next fifteen years of RDU’s development, but should the organization’s master plan, known as “Vision 2040,” come to fruition, environmentalists fear the aforementioned scenarios would become a reality.

So when authority CEO Michael Landguth arrives at the Raleigh Convention Center Thursday, those who oppose the airport’s plans will be there to make their voices heard. Already, more than forty-three hundred residents have signed a Change. org petition to save forested lands near Old Reedy Creek, which might be threatened by the authority’s plans, including a new runway close to Umstead.

Members of both The Umstead Coalition and the Triangle Off-Road Cyclists have put forth a compromise of sorts—a “superior community vision” they say promises to “assist the airport with revenue streams” and “enhance” the area via a “Forested Urban Recreation Center.” Under their plan, they say, develop-

“The biggest qualm is that no one that uses that area wants it developed at all.

It doesn’t matter what they choose to do with it.”

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ment would still happen, and the authority will still make money—just not on more parking lots, transit facilities, and expanded terminals. Instead, they argue, the airport can recoup fees from businesses that make more sense for the environment: hotels, campgrounds, restaurants, zip-lining companies.

For its part, the authority boasts about how transparent the master plan process has been.

Spokeswoman Kristie Van Auken says that in her twenty-plus years in aviation, she’s “never seen a master plan process that has been this transparent.”

But transparency isn’t what opponents are worried about. They want the forested lands, trails, and green space between Umstead and Lake Crabtree County Park to remain unscathed.

“The biggest qualm is that no one that uses that area wants it developed at all,” says Umstead Coalition member Debbie Hage. “It doesn’t matter what they choose to do with it. People want a place to recreate. Green space is important these days. People move here because of that area, because when they fly into that airport, they see all that green.”

A rally will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. outside the Raleigh Convention Center, ahead of remarks Landguth is scheduled to deliver inside. l triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Kenneth C. Fine and Lauren Horsch.

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Reading from a teleprompter in Charlotte, Donald Trump expresses “regret” for words that “caused personal pain,” then promises, “I will never lie to you.” Those statements existing next to each other cause a tear in the fabric of spacetime.

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Since Trump announced his candidacy, North Carolina Hispanic voter registration has shot up 22 percent, compared to 5 percent for the state. New Trump plan: build a wall around North Carolina.

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NCGOP director Dallas Woodhouse and his Democratic activist brother, Brad, duke it out on Twitter over whether Dallas’s votersuppression plans are racist. The fight ends with both tweeting “I’m telling Mom” at the same time.

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McCrory releases an HB 2-related campaign ad—narrated by a woman who says she was molested as a child— claiming that Roy Cooper wants to “force schoolchildren to share the same locker room, shower, and restroom with someone who claims to be the opposite sex.”

Nothing like a little fear-mongering to kick off an election.

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Senate leader Phil Berger complains that UNC faculty are too liberal. “And don’t even get me started on the liberal arts,” he adds.

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Facing a budget shortfall, the Wake County school board cuts its school-cleaning budget. Officials figure that, since teachers already provide most of their own supplies, they might as well help clean up, too.

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Coach K leads the U.S. men’s basketball team to Olympic gold. The coach told a crowd at RDU upon his return, “Well, at least I coached one winning team this year.” He then kicked a puppy out of his path and shouted “Loser!” before heading to his limo.

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Hands Tied

THE SIR WALTER’S 140 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS MIGHT SOON DISAPPEAR. CAN THE CITY DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT? BY PAUL BLEST In June, Raleigh’s city council raised property taxes to, among other things, generate $5.7 million a year for affordable housing. The goal was to expand the number of affordable units built in the city by more than 60 percent, from 200 per year to 325.

Advocates hailed the move as a crucial first— though not last—step in combatting skyrocketing downtown rents.

A few blocks from City Hall, however, the city has another looming affordable housing problem: the Sir Walter Raleigh Apartments building on Fayetteville Street, a senior housing complex with 140 affordable units, is up for sale for $16.8 million. Those units are financed by the Federal Housing Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under a contract that runs through 2020.

The new owner, according to city leaders and HUD, would have a choice not to renew that contract. If that happens, those HUD dollars will go somewhere else—and it’s not clear where.

Even so, some residents see this as an opportunity both to reaffirm the city’s commitment to affordability and to increase downtown’s diversity.

Will Marks, who lives in the PNC building, moved to Raleigh three years ago from New Jersey. He’s lived all over the East Coast, including in Boston. Forty years ago, he lived in a “fleabag” building in Beacon Hill, now one of Boston’s most desirable neighborhoods; the building was renovated in 1983 to create affordable housing for seniors. Today, that building contains eighty-five rent-subsidized and thirty-three rent-moderate apartments.

“This is a really first-class building,” Marks says. “It breaks all the rules. It’s really expensive real estate, but someone found a way to make money on it, even though there are some really down-and-out people who are out there.”

Marks thinks something similar could work for the Sir Raleigh, even if that means the city buys the property or takes it over temporarily, to ensure that the new owners keep those affordable units.

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Bill King, the Downtown Raleigh Alliance’s senior director of economic development and planning, says city intervention is “a possibility, but the price is a little too high for what they could do.”

The city isn’t currently thinking about buying the Sir Walter because “the asking price would be substantially more than our funding for affordable housing,” says housing and neighborhoods director Larry Jarvis.

And if the city doesn’t buy the building, it will have no leverage over what the future owner does with those affordable units.

“It’s privately owned, it would be sold to another private entity, and there’s no way for

the city to be involved in those transactions,” Jarvis says.

Indeed, when it comes to forcing developers to include affordable units, North Carolina municipalities’ hands are tied. North Carolina law doesn’t allow local governments to pass inclusionary zoning ordinances, which require developers to include affordable units in new buildings.

“It’s concerning, because it seems that in North Carolina, municipalities are very limited in what they can and can’t do,” says council member David Cox. The $5.7 million the city’s tax increase will raise, Cox says, “sounds like a lot of money, but it translates

The Sir Walter Raleigh Apartments PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

into a small number of units. So then we’re reliant on the market and what private developers can bring. I find it very frustrating.”

For now, it’s all up in the air, at least until the Sir Walter is sold and the new owners indicate whether or not they’ll maintain the HUD contract.

But for Marks, finding a solution for affordable housing downtown is essential.

“We have a vision for the downtown core, and we say that we want it to be diverse and for everybody,” Marks says. “So wouldn’t we want to do whatever we could do to preserve that?” l pblest@indyweek.com

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WITH AETNA LEAVING THE ACA EXCHANGES, IT’S TIME TO ASK WHY HEALTH CARE IS A FOR-PROFIT GAME

BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

This wasn’t a banner week for the Affordable Care Act. Last Tuesday, Aetna abruptly announced that it was pulling out of eleven of the fifteen Obamacare exchanges in which it did business; North Carolina’s was among them. This followed similar decisions by UnitedHealth Group and Humana, which reported ninefigure annual losses on the exchanges. Aetna had its own motives: its about-face came a month after the Obama administration blocked a proposed merger with Humana.

But the results are the same regardless: some 838,000 people, including 94,000 in North Carolina, will have to find new policies. Add to that the fact that insurers remaining in the exchanges will seek—and likely receive—double-digit rate hikes next year, and the Obama administration’s signature law appears wobbly.

Conservatives pounced. “As Obamacare continues to collapse,” Senator Richard Burr posted on Facebook, “more and more families will be left without health insurance.”

Is Burr right that Obamacare is collapsing?

As these things tend to be, it’s complicated.

At the simplest level, the big insurers’ losses owe to a lopsided risk pool: not enough young, healthy people are signing up, so the exchange’s populations tend to be older, sicker, and more expensive to cover. In fact, not enough people are signing up—the nearly thirteen million on the exchanges in 2016 are well below what the Obama administration predicted.

On the other hand, last year, the rate of uninsured Americans fell to 9 percent, the lowest it’s ever been. And the ACA made it a fundamental tenet of American policy that you can’t be denied coverage for preexisting conditions. Those are good things, and they would evaporate the second Republican “repeal and replace” fantasies came true.

Besides, it’s not like the pre-Obama insurance world was a barrel of plums.

But we shouldn’t pretend that nothing’s amiss. In North Carolina, insurance commissioner Wayne Goodwin, a Democrat, is cer-

tainly concerned. There’s only one statewide insurer left on the exchange—Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina—and Goodwin fears that it may not be able to absorb 250,000 former Aetna and UHC clients.

The ACA’s struggles in North Carolina aren’t just the product of a design flaw. They’re also a result of Republican sabotage. For instance, when the legislature decided to abandon a state-run exchange, defaulting to the feds, that stripped Goodwin of the flexibility that insurers want. If there were a state exchange, he says, “there would be two more carriers.”

Another issue: the state’s refusal to expand Medicaid, which would cover a half-million people, many of whom aren’t all that healthy and don’t have insurance. That drives up costs. According to one recent analysis, insurers in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid are asking for significantly higher rate hikes this year than insurers in states that have.

After November, Goodwin says, “there needs to be a deep-dive policy discussion … . I do believe there’s the opportunity for Washington and state capitals to re-engage and work on meaningful compromise.”

Perhaps. But given GOP control of the House, it’s hard to see what “meaningful compromise” would look like. Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, are once again calling for a public option, which makes sense. After all, had the Obama administration included a public option in the ACA, rather than appeasing insurers, it wouldn’t really matter that Aetna dropped out.

But I think this episode raises a more fundamental question: Can universal health care and for-profit health care coexist? Or are the interests of one diametrically and eternally opposed to those of the other? If they are, then we’ll have to make a choice: Do we want everyone to have health care, or do we want insurance companies to fatten their bottom lines?

Despite the ACA’s best efforts, it sure looks like we can’t do both. l jbillman@indyweek.com

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Go! HIKE THE WOODS, CHASE A WATERFALL, CLIMB A ROCK, KAYAK A RIVER, RUN A HUNDRED MILES, BIKE THE CITY: OUR OUTDOORS GUIDE HAS YOU COVERED

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BY JEFFREY C. BILLMAN

In a few weeks, maybe a month, we’ll finally shake this convection-oven summer heat and soul-crushing humidity. And for a while, before winter takes hold, the Triangle will be as close to paradise as it gets. Not too hot, not too cold, not suffocatingly humid. The leaves will begin to turn, and the torpid air will turn crisp.

In short, this is the perfect time of year to be outside. And that’s where we come in. In the INDY’s Outdoors Guide, you’ll find a collection of stories on all manner of outdoor activities, from hiking to biking, kayaking to marathoning (as well as a quick detour into going outside while still being outside, just because). Whether you’re looking to test the limits of your endurance, lower your carbon footprint, or find an idyllic spot to contemplate the ineffable nature of existence, we hope that, in these pages, you’ll find the inspiration to get out there and do it.

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Learning to Run an Ultramarathon How to Hike the Triangle Lessons from an Urban Bicyclist Lose Yourself in the Whitewater Go Climb a Rock Go Chasing Waterfalls How to Go Outside While Inside

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Going the Distance

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY COMPEL A PERSON TO RUN A HUNDRED MILES?

BY LAUREN HORSCH

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unners looking to tackle marathons train for months to be able to complete the 26.2 miles. Their training pays off after a four- or five-hour race—or two-plus if you’re at the elite level—but for some runners, that’s just not far enough.

Ultrarunners—runners who clock fifty to one hundred miles or more in races—do things differently. It’s not your average road race; in fact, it’s nothing like your average road race.

The Umstead 100—Raleigh’s very own ultramarathon, held in April—is a 12.5-mile loop around Umstead Park that participants repeat eight times. The terrain varies from gravel and dirt paths to a little bit of pavement along hills and trails. It’s a race often undertaken by runners making the leap from fifty to one hundred miles—and that leap takes preparation, or at least a different mind-set. “[It takes] a lot of time, and a lot of mental discipline,” says Mike Dacar, a thirty-nineyear-old Durham resident and ultrarunner.

“You have to get out there and run for hours

and hours and days when you don’t necessarily want to.”

Dacar started running ultras in 2005 after a friend mentioned the JFK 50 Mile—the country’s oldest ultramarathon, held every year since 1963 in Washington County, Maryland.

Since then, he’s run races in Wales, Great Britain, and 150 miles in the Chinese desert. Dacar says that, in the beginning, it was pretty scary.

But as he learned during that first race, ultrarunning requires mental toughness more than bodily strength.

“It was a great feeling when I finished,” he says. “It was amazing. My parents were there.

I finished and I walked away because I wanted to have a little bit of a cry. It was easier than I thought it was going to be—and harder in ways. I thought it was going to be this very physical thing. I was not ready for how mentally challenging it was going to be.”

Indeed it is. Some runners are on their feet from sunup to sundown, and then a second sunrise. Keeping up your strength requires plenty of will—and plenty of sustenance.

Ultramarathoner Mike Dacar runs on a favorite trail in Chapel Hill.

PHOTO BY BEN MCKEOWN

Racing has taken Dacar around the world— and to some extremes. When he made the decision to travel to China in 2010, he’d only run two or three ultras. He took the leap, covering 150 miles in six days while carrying all of his provisions—save for a tent—on his back. For him, it was more of an adventure than a race.

“I ran very little of it. It was super fun,” Dacar says. “You’re out in the middle of the desert getting to see places people don’t get to see. Being out there for a week with all the other runners, getting to camp with them, the camaraderie was great.”

The camaraderie is also what keeps Sally Squier going, even at age seventy-four. Squier, a Raleigh resident, started twenty-five years ago. Her husband, Bill, was running five- and ten-kilometer races, and she wanted to start doing it, too.

Their story isn’t unusual. A 2013 study

on ultramarathon runners in the Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research found that the median age of first-time ultramarathoners is thirty-six; the average age of ultrarunners is forty-three.

Squier wanted to run, but something held her back. “I was embarrassed to start running, because the way I grew up in the forties and fifties, women didn’t do stuff like that.” That didn’t stop her, though. “I wanted to do it, but I didn’t want to wear the running shorts. [So I] measured a course around my house, and nine times around was a mile,” she says. “So I’d do that when no one was around.”

Her first race took place on August 17, 1991. It was only a one-mile fun run, but that was just the beginning. Six years later, she completed her first ultramarathon—like Dacar, the JFK 50. For Squier, running five or ten kilometers wasn’t enough. She wanted the full experience of running an ultra.

And after finishing the Pikes Peak Ultra— a fifty-mile race through Cheyenne Cañon, Mount Rosa, Almagre Mountain, and Deer Park in Colorado—in the late nineties, she knew she had it in her to be out on trails for a long time.

“When you haven’t done it, you don’t know what your body can do until you’ve pushed it,” she says. “You’ve got to believe it.”

Jenna Koenigshofer, thirty-four, is fairly new to the ultramarathon scene. She decided to start running longer distances in 2013.

“I like the challenge of not knowing exactly what’s going to happen, what your body is going to do, what the running conditions are going to be like,” she says. “There’s a certain challenge with that.”

She regularly runs thirty to forty miles a week when she’s training; she doesn’t do anything special to train for ultras, well, except run ultras.

“It’s more mental preparation for the greater distances,” she says. “You have to get yourself on the mind-set of being on your feet and constantly moving for sometimes over twenty-four hours. … I’ll run a fifty-mile race at night, just to kind of get myself prepared for that sense of exhaustion and how to keep putting one foot in front of the other, and it just takes practice.”

Her first ultra was the Graveyard 100, a course on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Her first finish was her second attempt—she dropped out at the Graveyard—and even then, she almost didn’t make it. A strained Achilles tendon rendered her unable to run the last quarter of the race. But she persevered. In ultrarunning, that’s the name of the game. l lhorsch@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.24.16 | 11

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here are few better ways to get your Zen on than spending an earlyautumn afternoon deep in the woods, away from people and traffic and commotion and the stresses of everyday life, communing instead with giant oak trees and winding creeks, maybe a deer off in the distance.

Whether you’re a novice or an old hand, the Triangle has a ton of places to hike, from easy nature walks to relatively steep inclines. (Relatively, of course, because we’re not in the mountains.) Here we’ve compiled a list of our seven favorite hiking destinations, along with some basic info you’ll need before heading out. Happy trails, everyone!

1. WILLIAM B. UMSTEAD STATE PARK

LOCATION: 8801 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh LENGTH: 7.2 miles (Sycamore Trail) DIFFICULTY: Moderate ABOUT: There are plenty of quality hiking options at Umstead, but our favorite is the Sycamore Trail, a seven-mile jaunt, parts of it along a winding creek, under a dense canopy of oak trees. Some hills, but nothing you can’t handle.

2. OCCONEECHEE MOUNTAIN STATE NATURAL AREA

LOCATION: 625 Virginia Cates Road, Hillsborough LENGTH: 2.2 miles (Occoneechee Mountain Loop Trail) DIFFICULTY: Moderate ABOUT: Occoneechee Mountain, the tallest spot in the Triangle, will require some climbing, but the payoff—an expansive view from the peak, some 350 feet above the Eno River—is worth the effort. It’s not as foliage-rich as the Umstead or Eno parks, but it’s often quite beautiful.

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LOCATION: 6101 Cole Mill Road, Durham LENGTH: 3.75 miles (Cox Mountain Trail) DIFFICULTY: Challenging ABOUT: Like Umstead, the Eno River State Park offers a plethora of trail options; at just under four miles, the Cox Mountain Trail is the longest. It starts on a rickety elevation bridge above the Eno, then caps in a steep 270-foot climb to the hilltop. Another Eno option: the 2.6-mile Holden Mill Trail, which stands out for its protruding rock formations. After it rains, this can be especially tricky. Be careful.

4. BLUE JAY POINT COUNTY PARK LOCATION: 3200 Pleasant Union Church Road, Raleigh LENGTH: 3.1 miles (Falls Lake Trail) DIFFICULTY: Moderate ABOUT: Part of the Mountains-to-Sea trail network, the Falls Lake Trail hugs the edges of

Blue Jay Point County Park, looking out at several points into the vastness of Falls Lake.

There are some short climbs, but also several places to stop, relax, and dip your toes in the water.

5. DURANT NATURE PRESERVE

LOCATION: 8305 Camp Durant Road, Raleigh LENGTH: 1.88 miles (Border Trail) DIFFICULTY: Easy ABOUT: There are five miles of trails within the Durant Nature Preserve, one of the lushest and most verdant places in the Triangle. The Border Trail runs for almost two miles around the park’s circumference, edging along a creek and later wrapping around a lake. It’s intersected by any number of smaller trails; take a day and get lost exploring.

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JORDAN LAKE STATE RECREATION AREA

LOCATION: 280 State Park Road, Apex LENGTH: 8.1 miles (combined red and blue loops) DIFFICULTY: Moderate ABOUT: New Hope Trail—one of several trails in the Jordan Lake park—comprises two loops: the 5.4-mile red loop and the more challenging 2.7-mile blue loop, which features several steep hills. Magnificent lake vistas and lush hardwood forests abound.

7. LAKE CRABTREE COUNTY PARK

LOCATION: 1400 Aviation Parkway, Morrisville LENGTH: 6 miles (The Lake Trail) DIFFICULTY: Easy ABOUT: There’s another trail inside the park, the 9.4-mile multi-use Highland Trail, which is frequented by mountain bikers. But the Lake Trail, with its scenic overlooks, Black Creek Footbridge, and the way it wraps around Lake Crabtree, is probably your best bet for a relaxing late-summer excursion. jbillman@indyweek.com

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On the Road Again HOW TO NAVIGATE TREACHEROUS CITY STREETS ON TWO WHEELS (RULE ONE: ACT LIKE A CAR), FROM SOMEONE WHO KNOWS

BY DAVID KLEIN

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he benefits of making a trip by bicycle are abundant. You’re substituting a healthful, active, environmentally sound, economically advantageous activity for one that is passive, polluting, and pricey. You’re swapping the soulstealing ennui of your typical daily drive with a nice rush of endorphins, the satisfaction of calories burned, and a lingering zip in your walk. What’s standing in the way of more people biking to work or on leisure trips to the city? Fear.

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, bike riders are overwhelmingly fearful of cars more than any other safety issue. While the presence of dedicated bike lanes and paths improves the perception of safety, which inspires more people to ride, as it stands, the Triangle biking network needs significant improvement before most people will feel comfortable biking from Chapel Hill to Durham. Biking within the Triangle’s cities is surely less intense than on a highway with trucks whizzing by, but it too takes some skills and know-how.

Riding your bike in any urban environment is always going to be a more complex operation than out on the open road. Cars, foot traffic, irregular surfaces—there’s a surprise in every ride, at least one. Finding one’s place on city streets among automotive traffic requires good habits and, above all, good sense, says Paco Marshall, a Chapel Hillbased bicycle enthusiast who has spent lots

of time making his way around the Triangle on two wheels.

“Biking on public roads in the United States is treacherous,” he says. “You can quote me on that. I’ve been biking on public roads in the U.S. since I was twelve, and I’m fifty-one now. I guess it’s a lot of practice.”

Marshall chronicles his bike trips on a blog whose subtitle reads, “Thoughts while pedaling.” His accounts mix the quotidian details—the route he took, what he ate—with deeper reflections on his reasons for biking to places like the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield and making a pilgrimage to Bristol, Virginia, often referred to as the birthplace of country music. There’s an undercurrent of introspection and self-discovery in his postings, too. In one, posted along with a photo of farmworkers by some desolate highway, he admits that he rode away from them feeling a little guilty.

Even with the joy he derives from these excursions, Marshall says he would rather ride in the city.

“I find the open road kind of boring,” he says. “I really like looking at buildings, and that’s what I do. The Triangle’s not the easiest place in the world, but there are places you can ride.”

To the first-time urban biker, Marshall’s pieces of advice are few but emphatic.

People get killed at intersections, he says. So behave in predictable ways so that cars can predict your movements.

“Always ride in a lane that is predictable to cars,” Marshall says. “The classic example is riding on the sidewalk going the wrong way. Lots of times, people think that getting away from cars is of prime importance; the primary place that people get killed by cars is at intersections. It’s not by being hit from behind, and we need to make sure that we ride in a particular way that normally means acting like a car, much of the time, including making left turns.”

This is a common—and potentially deadly—rookie mistake. “Constantly I see people seeking refuge from cars by going the wrong

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way on roads,” Marshall says. “Traversing areas cars can’t predict, such as against traffic or on the sidewalk. Most of the time you have to take the same routes as cars.”

Another danger zone for bikers is the right hook. When he’s at a red light, Marshall says, he either gets in front of all the cars or lines up behind one. “You don’t want to be alongside a car as you’re leaving an intersection.

Because they can make right turns and flatten you,” he says.

This is particularly true in the Triangle, which is “no one’s idea of an ideal place to bike ride,” he adds. “Some places are good to bike ride, and some places are extremely difficult. Chapel Hill is difficult because everything revolves around going up and down that giant hill.”

There’s no direct bike path from downtown Chapel Hill to Durham, he points out. Somewhere along the way, you’ll have to ride along a road that wasn’t made with bikers in mind.

“I’ve been riding my bicycle from Chapel Hill to Durham for years, and there’s still not a good way to do it,” Marshall says. “If you ride to Durham, no matter which way you go, you end up riding either on Estes Drive or on Old Chapel Hill Road, both of which are extremely narrow. I do it all the time, but there are still several sections where it’s really not very safe.”

As for Raleigh: “I feel like it’s taken me years that I now have a fairly safe way to ride all the way from Chapel Hill to Raleigh without going on any major roads, but it took me a long time to figure out it was [made up] of a whole bunch of little roads. It’s not exactly inspiring—you have to make your way through numerous pretentiously named subdivisions— but it’ll get you there.”

In terms of equipment, Marshall says that bike maintenance—meaning basic knowledge of how to lubricate the thing and keep tires inflated, or having it regularly serviced at a good shop—is more important than getting a top-shelf bike. But don’t go too cheap: “Department store bicycles are inherently unsafe. Don’t buy a bike from a department store. The quality can be horrific.”

You’ll also want to invest in a good lock, for obvious reasons—he recommends a Kryptonite u-lock attached to a quality bracket.

Vigilance is key: “Don’t ever leave your bicycle even for a second.”

And, when on the road, he always keeps his phone handy.

“The map function of Google Maps frequently helps you find a route that takes you through a combination of neighborhoods and bike paths,” Marshall says. “Sometimes it just puts you on a main highway because there’s no other way to go. It won’t tell you that; you’ll find that out.” l dklein@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.24.16 | 15

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WHAT IS KAYAKING, AND HOW DO YOU DO IT WITHOUT DYING?

omeone who caught the sport of kayaking for the first time during the Summer Olympics might have had a few thoughts. Namely: “Holy shit, how are they doing that?” And, “How are they paddling that fast?”

If you decide to pick up the sport, you probably won’t make it to Tokyo in 2020, but Elizabeth Gardner says you will overcome some of your fears: “When you go to a river and you look at a raft and think, ‘Wow, that is a chaotic piece of whitewater, how am I going to get down there, that looks scary.’ And then you get through it, and you look upstream. And you think, ‘Wow. I really did that.’”

Gardner, a meteorologist at WRAL who grew up in Raleigh and lived in some great outdoors states like Colorado and Washington before coming home eighteen years ago, is the president of the Falls Whitewater Park Committee, a nonprofit that is trying to get the city of Raleigh to invest in a whitewater park that would be available for fishing, tub16 | 8.24.16 | INDYweek.com

ing, and—yes—kayaking. (The city released a study in March 2011 on the viability of a park—it would cost $2.8 million—and is now working on an environmental assessment with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.)

Gardner says she became interested in kayaking after whitewater rafting—a common story. “You see people who think rafting looks really fun,” she says, “and they go on a commercial trip, and then they see people who kayak.”

The difference between the two is in the details. Whitewater rafting, Gardner says, is “fairly expensive” and more of a “special occasion kind of thing,” where a guide tells you and a group of several people what to do. It’s also only naturally accessible near mountains— Gardner says some of the best rivers for doing that in North Carolina are the French Broad, the Nolichucky, and the Nantahala, all in western North Carolina. (There’s also rafting at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, but that’s a man-made park.)

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Kayaking, on the other hand, is a one- or two-person job that is more accessible to people who don’t live near Appalachia. “The Hall River over around Pittsboro is a great place,” Gardner says. “The Eno River, the Little River, and the Flat River [near Person County] are rain-dependent, but we’re lucky.

We have some kayaking here.”

So, how do you kayak?

First, Gardner says, you need to learn from some experienced kayakers, and there’s a group in Raleigh that does just that: the Carolina Kayak Club. “They provide instruction several times a year,” she says. “They have group trips every weekend for beginner, intermediate, and advanced kayakers.”

Then you need some equipment, most of it obvious: a boat, a paddle, and a helmet. Kayaks can run from under $100 (for inflatable models) to well over $1,000 for more high-end models. Similarly, paddles can range from around $30–50 to $400– 500, and helmets can cost as little as $30 or

$40 or as much as $200 or $300.

With equipment in hand, you’re ready for class. But what should you expect when you actually get out on the water?

“You get in the water and you paddle the boat downstream,” Gardner says, “but there are obstacles—rocks, trees that have fallen in the river. If you’re a beginner and get in a river that has a pretty big whitewater, you’re going to fall out. One of the things you learn is how to do a roll, so you can roll your kayak and keep on going. Learning how to kayak is learning how to manage the features in the water without flipping.”

But, while you should expect to fall out in the beginning, Gardner says there’s nothing like the feeling of adventuring on a kayak.

And once you’ve got the basics down, you’ll get to conquer those fears.

“It’s a great confidence booster,” Gardner says. “It makes you feel good.”. l pblest@indyweek.com

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Go Climb a Rock

HOW AN N.C. STATE PROF AND HIS TEENAGE DAUGHTER BONDED OVER MOUNTAIN CLIMBING

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ou know something’s a part of your identity when your prom-posal is centered around it. No one was surprised, then, when Emma Briggs, a high school senior and amateur outdoor rock climber, received a poster from her date with the pun: “It would rock if you went to prom with me!”

Emma had never been very quiet about her love for climbing. Her Instagram is devoid of the typical group shots, Starbucks cups, and party pics; instead she has death-defying shots of her on a cliff anywhere from Blowing Rock to British Columbia.

Rock climbing might seem like an unusual passion for a teenage girl in central North Carolina. Luckily, her father, Emil Briggs, had already been climbing for twenty-five years before Emma took an interest four years ago.

Emil Briggs is a research scientist in N.C. State’s physics department by day, but by night—well, he’s sleeping—but by weekend, he’s hauling gear up a mountain with his seventeen-year old daughter.

So how does a Triangle physicist take up outdoor rock climbing?

Two decades ago, he says, “me and my

wife went on a trip to Colorado, and while we were there, we saw some people rock climbing. And I looked at it and went, ‘That looks interesting.’”

That was all it took: he and his wife ventured into climbing soon after, with little idea what they were actually doing.

His entry into the sport was atypical, especially back then, before indoor rock climbing exploded. Climbing takes training, and it seems to require an experienced mentor.

And while the rise of indoor climbing has allowed more novices to enter the climbing world, inexperience out on the mountain poses considerable safety concerns.

“It’s actually a big issue,” says Emma, “because there used to be, like, a very tightknit community, and people knew everyone that climbed, and now so many other people are just going out with, like, no knowledge.”

It’s not that new members are unwelcome.

But new climbers who are transitioning from a few indoor sessions to scaling mountains in Boone are putting themselves in danger, Emil says.

That’s something he wants to fix, one generation at a time.

“My part is, I take a lot of the younger kids out climbing, because they’re friends with my daughter, and I try to teach them things, proper safety and ethics, how you behave, and how you can keep people safe,” he says. “Because, as I know, being friends with Emma means a request to try climbing at least monthly, despite her warnings about proper experience.”

But Emil doesn’t mind—for both him and his daughter, climbing serves as a bonding opportunity. “I certainly see a lot of friends with their kids, they don’t actually have much in common,” says Emil. “Sometimes parents have to push their kids into doing something. With climbing, that was never the case with Emma.”

Emma says it’s not just the bonding with her father that she holds dear. “I would say half the reason I climb is for the community. It’s just because, well, there’s the older generation, which is amazing, and they’re all like-minded people that come together to do this one thing.” After a look from her father, she laughs, thinking about her rock-climbing peers and boyfriend. “And I have the younger generation, which is really fun, so it’s like,

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my age that all are super passionate about protecting the environment, going outside, climbing rocks, and so it’s really nice to go and hang out and be with people you are similar to. And at [school] I don’t get that at all.”

If those people sound like your kind of people, you’re in luck: getting started is way less daunting than it sounds, the Briggses say.

They first and foremost recommend taking classes at a local indoor rock climbing gym. There are courses available to transition climbers from indoor to outdoor; the trick, they say, is that you have to be patient and honest with yourself about your capabilities.

After all, one of the best things about climbing is that it requires no type of person; ability is not linked to gender, body type, height, or even the love of exercise.

As Emma puts it, “As long as you just want to get out and have fun and be in nature, you’re gonna have a great time, and people are gonna accept you.” backtalk@indyweek.com

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Go Chasing WATERFALLS

DON’T STICK TO RIVERS AND LAKES THAT YOU’RE USED TO. (OR,TIPS FOR FINDING THE BEST CASCADES IN THE STATE.)

BY ALLISON HUSSEY

You’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone in North Carolina who loves waterfalls as much as In 2012, after ditching a career in mortgage and banking, relocating to the Triangle from Nashville, and recovering from a serious head injury, Casey Marcum went on a hike that changed his life. He found himself captivated by the natural beauty of waterfalls, and he’s spent the last four years trying to see as many as possible—his count is up to 452 across North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. At Raleigh’s REI, where he works as a senior outdoor school instructor, Marcum delivers indepth presentations about his experiences with waterfalls and related hikes.

Marcum recently shared with the INDY his wealth of waterfall-related knowledge, including how to stay safe and find the waterfall trip that’s best for you.

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INDY: How did you become interested in waterfalls?

Casey Marcum: As a kid, I used to love going out into the mountains and creeks by myself and getting lost in it all. When I moved out here, I went on a backpacking trip and saw the mountains. It kind of rekindled my childhood fascination with being outdoors. It’s funny, when you’re an adult, and you get so sidetracked by your job, everything that’s put on you, social media—it’s just go, go, go and immediate gratification. When you can step outside and just hike and spend time just with yourself, it’s almost like being a kid again in

some ways. You can just get away from everything, and you discover a lot about yourself.

Everything I learned, from reading maps to reading a compass to planning trips, I selftaught. Out of all the four hundred waterfalls I’ve been to, almost all of them were solo. I just disappear by myself and leave people a list of where I’m going.

How did you know where to start looking for them?

The beauty of this map [Outdoor Paths Publishing’s Waterfalls of North Carolina] is it gives you GPS coordinates of the waterfalls, so you can put them in your phone or GPS device, so you at least know generally where they are. Most of them have trails, but not all of them. A lot of them are just complete bushwhack, out in the middle of nowhere.

Sometimes there’s rappelling and climbing involved in them. After the easier ones, there were some of them out in the Smokies that were twenty miles round-trip to get to one waterfall. So some of them, you can knock out ten of them in a weekend, some weekends I might get two. As you get further

and further along, the waterfalls get further and further out, so it takes a lot more time to find them.

What are some of the risks of these expeditions?

There’s so many, depending on the time of year. People may not be aware of their own abilities when it gets to hiking outside, what kind of terrain they’re comfortable with, or, when in a dangerous position, if they know it or don’t know it. People are drawn to go to tops of waterfalls, which is a terrible, terrible, dangerous place to go. I always tell my classes the pictures suck, and you’re just in an incredibly dangerous situation with water and wet rocks. One wrong move and you can fall out.

What, to you, makes a really good waterfall?

I love the ones that very few people go to, or they’re more difficult to reach, because the area itself is still very pristine, you still have all the mosses and flowers growing on the rocks, whereas you go to the waterfalls that are easy hikes that everybody goes to, all that stuff is gone. People climb on them, people leave trash, you get the wrong crowd for it.

The people that work for it, that walk five miles to get somewhere, are typically not the people that are leaving trash. For me, it’s not just the waterfall—it’s the challenge of the hike to get there.

What are some other resources you’d point people to if they want to go on their own waterfall trips?

I always point them to Kevin Adams [a naturalist and wildlife photographer], and his books, and this map. There is a website, ncwaterfalls.com—Rich Stevenson put that together. It’s incredible. It has driving directions. Essentially, if you put in a waterfall and you add “North Carolina,” his site is probably going to come up first. He has pictures along the way of the hike, and he updates that site very frequently. I try to avoid the whole, “Give me a list of ten waterfalls I absolutely have to go see,” and then they go. I want them to do a little bit of research. In Kevin’s book [North Carolina Waterfalls], he’ll give it a beauty rating, he’ll give it a hiking difficulty rating, best times to see it, all those types of things. I want people to read those hiking descriptions and go, “Is this something I really want to do?” Or can they read that hiking description and go, “Yeah, not interested at all”?. l ahussey@indyweek.com

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How to Go Inside Outside

I’m in São Paulo, Brazil, standing on a dusty path edged with lush green foliage. Excavation tools are scattered around the remains of a campfire. Turning my head in one direction, I can peer down into a sunny valley. In the other, my sight line slams into a sheer cliff with inscriptions on its face. The sounds of singing birds and wind in leaves rustle in my ears. It’s been twenty minutes since I left my office in Durham.

The scene would be perfectly ordinary if it weren’t for this and a few other things.

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THE DiVE

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ing checklist it notionally carries. There are strange voices coming from somewhere, explaining esoteric points of motion tracking and photogrammetry, but I can’t see anyone around. And that rustling breeze? I can’t feel it. I can’t even see my body when I look down.

Then, when I stare at the campfire, it blazes to life and night falls in an instant, the stars wheeling in the sky.

When I remove my visor and earphones, São Paulo vanishes. Now I see Regis Kopper and David Zielinski in a nondescript campus office, jammed with computers and peripherals. I had reached out to them right away

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when the INDY decided to do an Outdoors Guide. After all, it’s not like you have to go outside anymore to have an awe-inspiring experience in nature, and no one was better equipped to show me one than the caretakers of Duke University’s ambitious virtual reality enterprise.

After years of false starts, the consumer market appears ready for virtual and augmented reality. The former term refers to completely immersive simulations; the latter composites of the real world and digital objects or information. New York Times subscribers got a cardboard visor that turns

their smartphones into VR goggles so they can watch video journalism from the inside.

The Oculus Rift, the leader of the new wave of VR gaming headsets, should be the hot Christmas gift this year (at least for people with $600 and a good computer). Augmented reality has been implemented as disastrously as Google Glass and as successfully as Pokémon Go, which is actually getting gamers outside—even if they’re taking it in through the small windows of their phones.

The simulation I just exited was built for the Oculus Rift, but it isn’t a game, and it’s not for sale. Instead, it’s what Kopper, the

CREATIVE METALSMITHS THE INDY’S GUIDE TO DRINKING BEER IN THE TRIANGLE director of the Duke immersive Virtual Environment, or DiVE, calls a cyber-archaeology project. It was funded by the Brazilian government and made for education and research, in collaboration with archaeologists at the University of São Paulo.

“The ultimate research goal for this kind of technology is for archaeologists to be able to experience a site without going there, and to have the ability to compare side-by-side different stages in an expedition,” Kopper explains. “That’s something you’d never get otherwise, because you excavate a layer and then it’s gone.”

The site, down to its ancient wall carvings and other items of archaeological interest, was captured using laser scanning and photogrammetry, which allow for highly detailed and accurate 3-D modeling. The simulation looks more like a video game than photorealistic, but it feels real because it integrates your movements—some of them, anyway.

You can turn your head to look at any part of your digital surroundings, but you can only move to a few different locations, activating tools and artifacts with your gaze to learn more about them. This limited mobility isn’t a technological deficit; it’s part of the software’s educational goal.

“This guided experience is not that different than a visit to a restricted site,” Kopper says. “The fact that it’s guided allows you to easily reach all the important parts without getting distracted by things that don’t matter.”

Still, I do get distracted by things that don’t matter—the shapes of the rock formations surrounding the path, the intricate patterns of light in the leaves, that feeling of being outside and wanting to look at everything. This isn’t a world of stock images; it’s a real place rendered stem by stem. I want to walk around, but instead, I look at a ladder and silently zoom there, as if floating.

The dissonant sensation of your perspective moving while your body stays still is not a simile for anything. It’s something new and unique in the human experience. It feels like being a ghost.

This Oculus Rift simulation isn’t on public view, but natural environments can be explored in the actual DiVE, an even more impressive way to experience VR, which I visited a few years ago (“Virtual Wonder-

lands,” November 27, 2013). You enter a tenby-ten-foot cube of rear-projection screens, surrounded by images turned three-dimensional by your goggles, and use a Wii-like wand to move through boundless environments and manipulate objects. You can see your body, which reduces the disorientation—even though you still have to remember not to physically walk into the scene.

Anyone can experience the DiVE at its open houses every Thursday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. It’s a lot of fun, but it also represents serious research objectives for Duke.

“My research really touches on, ‘What is VR good for? What applications can have a benefit?’” Kopper says. “I believe VR can be really helpful for training. You have highfidelity simulation that’s controllable and repeatable, and most importantly, it’s safe. I recall a DiVE simulation for training mine rescuers, something that would be hard to safely simulate in real life.”

“And think of hazardous waste removal, firefighting, maybe even training police to de-escalate things,” says Zielinski, the DiVE’s research and development engineer. “Not to mention all the medical applications. We can potentially give people training beyond looking at a textbook.”

We discuss VR’s ability to create firstperson spaces that integrate far-flung sites, its potential to allow many people to visit delicate restricted sites without destroying them. The conversation strays to VR in art and into the future. Zielinski recently spent a week demoing the São Paulo project at a computer graphics conference in Anaheim, California, and he says several museum curators gave him their cards.

“People might one day use VR instead of having to schedule an appointment with a realtor,” he muses, gathering steam. “Go to the website and strap on goggles and get a tour of the whole house.”

“But I think there’s a limit to that,” Kopper cautions. “VR is complementary to what we have, but I don’t want to replace it.”

Indeed, virtual reality is a fascinating new way to get outside, but it’s a place to go, not a place to live—a different class of experience than feeling the coolness of the breeze on your face and the simple orientation of your feet to the earth. bhowe@indyweek.com

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10285 Chapel Hill Road, #300, Morrisville www.szechuangardennc.com

No Easy Route

EMBRACE THE HEAT AT SZECHUAN GARDEN Sucking the chili oil sheen from a frog’s leg, my Taiwanese wife gives Zengming Chen her highest accolade: “He could survive in Taipei.” To survive in Taipei is to soar in the Triangle. Chen has long been— and remains—the Triangle’s best Chinese chef.

Chen arrived from Philadelphia in 2008, instantly transforming Cary’s Super Wok into a destination restaurant for knowing Sinophiles. Chen’s searing Sichuan cuisine brought tears to the eye. Sinus inflammation explained some of this dew, elation the rest.

Coincidentally, I was Chen’s first-ever Super Wok customer. I happened into the restaurant ten minutes after an airport cab had deposited him there. As I sniffed at the generic Thai-Chinese menu, the waitress said, “Our new chef just got here—he cooks Sichuan, very spicy.

Want to try?” Among easily answered questions, this ranks with, “Would you like a free upgrade to first-class?”

Chen, having returned from a fourmonth hiatus in China that had me on tenterhooks, has now opened his own restaurant: Szechuan Garden, at 10285 Chapel Hill Road (Hwy. 54), a few minutes southwest of RDU. Orient Garden previously occupied the space, and the awning confusingly continues to bear the defunct restaurant’s name.

Szechuan Garden is a Super Wok reincarnation. Déjà vu governs the nondescript strip-mall setting; the modest, cleanly room without music or television; the maternal bustle as Chen’s wife rearranges the table to make room for another dish; the Styrofoam boxes in plastic bags awaiting pickup; the acridity of Sichuan peppercorn in the air.

Chen reprises all of the Super Wok classics. As the table begins to groan with old favorites—West Lake soup, squirrel tail fish, tri-pepper chicken, cumin lamb, lotus root with diced pork belly—I begin to feel reconciled to the Triangle. It may not be an expatriate Chinese food capital like Vancouver or Toronto, but then again, it’s neither exorbitant nor frostbitten. It occurs to me that Morrisville, USA, is a pretty good GPS location, even in terms of Chinese food.

Chen’s cold appetizers express his subtlest craft and represent the pinnacle of local Asian cuisine. These dishes feature chicken breast, chicken gizzard, dried beef, tripe—whatever’s available—dressed in a spectrum of Sichuan chili sauces.

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Unlike the Chinese sauces sold in gallon jugs by industrial food distributors, these are vibrant with dualities, insinuations, evocations of terroir. They may even encode personal memories, fragments of worldview. A native of Fuzhou with almost no English, Chen speaks through his sauces.

“A good sauce needs the right herbs,” Chen told me in 2012, with my wife translating. “You cannot take the easy route and omit this or that. Every herb must come from Sichuan. Without authentic Sichuan herbs, you cannot make authentic Sichuan sauces; without authentic Sichuan sauces, you cannot make authentic Sichuan dishes.”

My wife long petitioned the Chens to serve fish ball soup.

They long replied that fish balls are a pain in the ass. Generations of Chens have run a fish ball shop in Fuzhou, which makes my wife’s campaign a matter worth pressing. The parties have at least reached an accord: Chen pledges to offer fish balls as an occasional special.

Purists must be wary of the menu’s few sops to the Harris

Teeter palate. “Sesame Chicken” might be a specialty of the Sichuan countryside; then again, it might be—and in fact is—a General Tso’s mutation. At lunchtime, there are the usual combos, a mainstay of hurried calorie-packers from nearby Research Triangle Park. At $6.95 for soup, egg roll, and a mound of something familiar, the deal is good, even if the cuisine is compromised.

Spice-averse and kid-handcuffed diners needn’t resort to fried rice. I recommend the sautéed pork with scallion, a simple stir-fry of julienned pork and onion with a mild hoisin-inflected smokiness. I even more heartily recommend the spectacular squirrel tail fish—a pair of hefty deep-fried flounder filets in a peaand mushroom-studded sweet-and-sour sauce. Ingeniously scored, the filets coil into squirrel tail facsimiles when fried.

Having a young daughter who’s tickled by the “squirrel” conceit, I have rarely escaped the task of downing one of these filets.

Certain dishes have the deceptive innocuousness of a Bill Evans tune. The silky melon—emerald wedges floating in a slightly thickened broth—is a study in understated flavor and texture. The West Lake soup, a cornstarchy broth suspending a colorful, petite dice of ground beef, carrot, mushroom, and silky melon, is another exercise in quiet intricacy.

Szechuan Garden solidifies Morrisville’s status as a foodie epicenter (foodie: one who does not drink flavored martinis or comment on the lighting). The Davis Drive-Chapel Hill Road corridor includes some twelve Indian restaurants; Dim Sum House, a cart-equipped weekend draw; C&T Wok, a begrimed nook that caters to Chinese college students pining for a blunt dose of what Grandma used to cook; Taipei Cafe, a less begrimed version of the same; Taste and Pho 919, the Vietnamese equivalents, the former better than the latter; and Neomonde, the western outpost of Raleigh’s popular Middle Eastern bakery and cafe.

Szechuan Garden is notable even amid this banquet geography. Its deeper merits are not obvious, however; you must notice, somewhere in the indistinct recesses of nose and throat, a smoky incense, a savor of something far away. l david_liling@hotmail.com

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Bloom where you’re planted, advises the deceptive adage. Well, sometimes you’re planted in tune. The front of the refrigerator with the door agape, thickened basking in its chill and looking for a quick The West snack to power you through the next deadful, petite line. I am, of course, speaking from my own melon, is experience.

On a recent morning, I conducted a similar s a foodie ritual. I held a ripe farmers market tomato martinis or in one hand and, naturally, reached for the Hill Road squeeze bottle of Duke’s mayo with the other.

Dim Sum Eyeing the sriracha next to it, I remembered begrimed I had something even better on the fridge ning for a shelf: a package of six kimchi cucumbers afe, a less from Shilla Oriental Market. the Viet- I smothered sourdough toast with mayo. atter; and On one slice, I stacked two thick slabs of ar Middle tomato. I then pulled one small kimchi

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a fresh, verdant color and a crunch. I sliced one in half and gently settled each piece into the mayonnaise. I added a leaf of romaine lettuce for good measure—and more mayo.

There was my blooming flower: a crisp stack of Durham summer. And it tasted glorious.

Still, I felt uneasy about this untraditional fusion as I drove back out to Highway 55 to find out who made this kimchi—and if this sort of medley would sit well with the maker.

There I met Sunnyeo Bak. At least twice a week, she makes five to seven cases of kimchi varieties for Shilla Market, which she has owned for six years with her husband and daughters. One of them, Jane Kim, helped interpret our conversation. Situated next to Vit Goal Tofu, the small market caters to Korean clientele, with a smattering of Chinese, Japanese, and Thai items.

I usually go in there for big bags of coarse sea salt, even bigger bags of rice, the occasional Panda snack, and to peer into the small kimchi cooler in back, adjacent to the produce.

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What catches my eye is the verdurous hue of the cucumber kimchi, which Kim later explains is pronounced oee-soh-bah-kee in Korean. Bak says that the supply of firm Persian cucumbers has been precarious during this particularly wet summer; finding the product at her market can be hit or miss.

When I ask Kim to explain my mayo-laden spin on the kimchi to her mother, she pauses and exclaims, “Oh, wow” before interpreting it for Bak. Bak thinks a moment, then relays an entire story to her daughter, who grows even more surprised.

“She says that makes sense!,” Kim exclaims.

“In Korea, she remembers an Italian restaurant with kimchi on their pizza. It goes really well with cheese. Any kimchi is a good way to ease [points to her stomach] oily foods.”

I am relieved. And Bak laughs at where all this food has taken us, from an Italian restaurant in Korea to a photo of her kimchi in a Durham newspaper. l vbouloubasis@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.24.16 | 23

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Milemarker, still reaching for the future

BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH THE INIMITABLE, REUNITED CHAPEL HILL POST-HARDCORE BAND MILEMARKER

BY BRIAN HOWE

It’s only natural that Milemarker was one of the first bands to break out of Chapel Hill in the Internet era—though “natural” might be an odd word to link with a band so obsessed with the artificial, the mechanical, and the post-human. Technology and its isolating effects were always Milemarker’s great theme, and so it remains on Overseas, out this week on Lovitt Records.

It’s the band’s first new album in eleven years, and when its comeback tour concludes at Cat’s Cradle Back Room on Saturday, newcomers might wonder whether they’ve time-traveled to 1989, 1999, or 2099.

But for old-school local-music heads, it’ll inevitably be a trip down memory lane, even though Milemarker sounds surprisingly energized in the present.

When people talk about nineties Chapel Hill indie rock, they usually mean the early years—Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Polvo.

But, believe it or not, the city did keep producing bands throughout the decade. One of the most important and least remembered is Hellbender, a mid-nineties trio that split the difference between its hometown slacker rock and the more svelte, striving strains of West Coast emo bands like Jawbreaker.

Hellbender’s relaxed sneer, pretentious proclivities, and depressive furor sound period-perfect today. Archers sniped at needy scenesters and subpar bands, and Pavement took shots at Smashing Pumpkins, but these guys raised indie snobbery to another level with “Song About Some Girls,” a pastiche of good-times beer-commercial rock that was as catchy as the real thing. But this was the exception to the rule. Usually, Hellbender trafficked in dark-hued, lightseamed songs with serious, disaffected lyrics that dripped Bukowski. The band left behind a handful of terrific singles and LPs (dig up swan song Con Limón) before dispersing in different directions that all transcended its humble origins.

Singer and guitarist Wells Tower went

on to become a pretty famous fiction writer (Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned), carrying on the small-town Southern terroir of the Hellbender songs he penned.

Drummer Harrison Haynes became a prominent Triangle visual artist and developed the dancey undercurrents of his rock drumming with the influential Brooklyn art-punk band Les Savy Fav. In 1997, singer and bassist Al Burian formed Milemarker with Dave Laney and Ben Davis. They retained Hellbender’s emocore foundation, centered on Burian’s gruff, sonorous shout and distinct lyrical style—incendiary, incantatory, pun-laden, technophobic—and built on it in bold, startling ways.

Milemarker’s roughshod early albums remain my nostalgic favorites. There wasn’t much in Chapel Hill at the time like Future Isms, where primitive electronics and claustrophobic noise balanced spacious postrock. “Robotussin” is a dead ringer for Slint’s “Breadcrumb Trail,” sparse and shambling, with mumbled lyrics about drinking cough syrup and wandering around Harris Teeter in Chapel Hill. Without sacrificing messy emotion—“You’ve gotta make allowances for the human factor,” as Burian sang on Non Plus Ultra—Milemarker caught a Y2K current from the airwaves and funneled it into clangorous, potent rock music.

That intuition was consummated in 2000, when Milemarker released Frigid Forms Sell via Lovitt and emo giant Jade Tree Records. It was an extensive reinvention; new second singer and keyboardist Roby Newton became a prominent force.

With cleaner production, Milemarker’s waterlogged electronics turned into hardedged, gleaming new wave. It was a felicitous moment for such a shift, at the front of the early-aughts dance-punk boom. Vocoder broadsides and aggressive synth patterns tangled with crashing, serrated rock.

The latter then came to the fore on 2005’s metal-tinged Ominosity, bogged down by

double drummers and string arrangements.

The band petered out afterward, its membership scattered through Chicago and Germany. Dave Laney started Auxes, a hardrocking band reminiscent of his and Burian’s Milemarker side project, Challenger. Burian continued the writing and zine-making for which he’s as well known in some circles as he is for music.

The reformed version of the band features Burian, Laney, keyboardist and singer Lena Kilkka, and drummer Ezra Cole. Overseas recombines Milemarker’s past incarnations while developing things that were latent before. With its needling yet sleek post-punk guitars coursing with flanger, chorus, and delay effects and its retro-computerized accoutrements, more redolent of vocoders and talk boxes than modern tech, the album evokes a winning collision of Les Savy Fav and cult favorites Trans Am. “Conditional Love” opens Overseas like a thesis statement, its lockstep guitar blasts gradually growing covertly funky with answering squeaks, as a synth arpeggio tightens it all together like a long, thin screw. The vocoder vocals in the verses contrast Burian’s naturalistic bellows in the chorus, which adds a layer of timbral tension and release to the rhythmic one.

“The Dreamer” posits Milemarker as a darkwave jam band, with almost seven minutes of spacy guitar and synth effects like stars melting and sliding down the sky.

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And “Blue Flag” has some great examples of Burian’s instantly recognizable singing style, a rhythmic bellow punctuated by hoarse, distended shouts.

Fleeting bouts of silliness from Milemarker aren’t new, though you might not expect them from a band styled so gravely.

Even as a fan of Frigid Forms Sell, which Lovitt reissued this year, I always had to laugh at the deadly seriousness with which Newton delivered the line, “Turn on the microwave and defrost the world.” There are a couple of such moments on Overseas: “I’m super duper with my super computer” probably didn’t need to be sung once, let alone chanted repeatedly, and “Untamed Ocean,” though a good cut overall, sounds uncomfortably like a krautrock Motörhead at times.

But the highs far outnumber the lows.

Locals will be especially interested in “Carrboro,” a cynical little number that must have been born on the Weaver Street Market lawn.

“At the co-op the water is oxidized and reasonably priced,” Burian sings, warning us not to be fooled by “simulacra,” an echt-Milemarker word if ever one was.

Of course, Milemarker has always been cunning with simulacra of its own. It continues to seek the real through the artificial on a reunion record, nostalgically redolent of the past and darkly besotted with the future, which evens out into something more vital and contemporary than we’d any reason to expect. l bhowe@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.24.16 | 25

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Stay Sharp

AN OUT-OF-THE-WAY CLUB IN DURHAM KEEPS THE TRIANGLE’S JAZZ SCENE ON POINT

BY DAN RUCCIA

Industry Lane certainly doesn’t look like a place to find jazz. That corner of southeast Durham, near the intersection of Fayetteville Road and MLK Parkway, is anything but hopping. But if you look closely between the storage spaces, the ignition interlock installation facility, the shoelace manufacturer, and the pair of storefront churches, you’ll find the Sharp 9 Gallery, an unlikely pocket of the Triangle jazz community.

Founded in 2012 by saxophonist Dave Finucane and artist Valerie Courreges, the gallery has a simple, ambitious mission: to be a hub for jazz education in the Triangle.

The two had run a similar workshop in Peekskill, New York, and had hoped to restart it when they moved to Durham in 2004. It only took eight years of planning for the gallery to emerge.

“We initially started the workshop in our house,” Finucane recalls. “We were doing ensembles, which was great. Some of the students still participating were from those days,” he says.

Finucane and Courreges had hoped to open the gallery downtown but found, unsurprisingly, that rents were too high and institutional support was absent. When the Industry Lane space appeared on Craigslist, they jumped at it, with some help from grants from the Jazz Foundation of North Carolina.

After four years, Courreges and Finucane seem to be well on their way to achieving their mission, despite being dwarfed by more established institutions like North Carolina Central University’s stalwart program and the Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble. They have over a hundred students of all ages taking classes and lessons, and playing in various big bands and combos.

As Finucane observes, “A lot of band programs in schools, some of them have jazz programs, but mostly it’s big band-centered stuff, and there’s not a lot of small-group improvisation. I think there was a need for that.”

For adults, classes at Sharp 9 provide an opportunity for students to jam, letting them

learn to respond to one another in real time.

Instructors drawn from all over the Triangle teach courses on everything from vocal arranging to advanced harmonic theory, from Afro-Cuban jazz to music publicity.

Finucane takes pride in the gallery’s ability to adapt to the needs of students. When a vocal student mentioned that she didn’t know how to talk to a rhythm section, for instance, they started a vocal combo class.

And when a student isn’t at the right level for a given class, Finucane will guide him or her to the right place to make the most of his or her potential. l l l

Once you get past Sharp 9’s generic brick-and-glass façade, you reach a small antechamber whose walls are covered with black-and-white pictures of jazz musicians.

Images of jazz greats sit among Courreges’s photos of locals on the Sharp 9 stage, emphasizing the gallery’s connection to, and investment in, jazz tradition.

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After passing through a black curtain, you enter the main space, a large room with high ceilings and exposed girders. Along the far wall, blocking a garage door, is the small main stage with a new Yamaha C7 grand piano and a small drum kit. The rest of the space is filled with rows of comfortable chairs, interspersed with small round tables topped with candles. On the wall hang decorative panels, also Courreges’s creations, adorned with open CD booklets from various jazz albums.

Their pages spill this way and that, enticing you to spend a minute reading about Dave Brubeck or Art Blakey.

What’s not there is just as significant: there’s no kitchen, no bar (just a small concession stand), no place to stand around and have a side conversation. The stage is the focal point, the music front and center.

“This really is a listening room,” Courreges says. In so many other venues, she notes, “people are there to drink and to talk, so jazz becomes more of a secondary thing. Here it is forefront. We only do two hours of music.

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We limit the time since it requires listening.”

Finucane adds that, for jazz players, the dynamic of restaurant gigs differs slightly from that of small, cozier spaces that demand listeners’ attention.

“We really enjoy seeing the performers who don’t often get to play for an attentive audience and seeing the effect on them, especially when they come back a month or two months later. They come prepared for a show,” he says.

Those shows draw on the area’s deep pool of talent, presenting some of the finest players from around the Triangle and beyond.

NCCU and UNC faculty and graduates play alongside talented high schoolers; prominent performers come from Charlotte and Wilmington; nationally acclaimed musicians like guitarist John Abercrombie, pianist Joey Calderazzo, and vocalist Tierney Sutton occasionally show up, too.

Other concerts explore the gallery’s educational mission. Over the past year, it has presented a Tuesday night series of lectures and performances that expand on the diverse history of jazz. Pianist Ernest Turner has been excavating the history of jazz piano—the next iteration on September 13 focuses on postbop and more modern players—while drummer Larry Q. Draughn Jr. goes deep into the roots of jazz rhythm on September 20.

Finucane and Courreges have turned their distance from downtown into an asset. Going there requires a certain kind of focus and intentionality. You can’t just wander in on your way from one bar to the next. You have to want to listen and play and learn, efforts that bloom into a stronger, more close-knit musical community—one that Courreges and Finucane hope will bear fruit for years to come. l Twitter: @danruccia

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Lucid Dreaming

ON ITS DEBUT RELEASE, ZOOCRÜ BENDS TOGETHER HIP-HOP, JAZZ, AND…REDNECKS? In June, four years and a world away from its youthful origins at North Carolina Central University, the Durham-based five-piece Zoocrü released Lucid, its first recorded work.

The record is a complex, masterful reimagining of black American music, drawing liberally from multiple jazz styles, R&B, and hip-hop, with further-flung influences that include Radiohead. Throughout the record, the chordal shadings are subtle, the music travels in unexpected directions, and the execution is flawless. It features smooth, fusion-jazz-flavored instrumental songs, while tracks featuring spoken-word and rap elements add a vital urgency. One interlude, titled “Redneck,” is a disturbing yet riveting piece that’s guaranteed to elicit a visceral reaction from listeners. On the Pour House stage Saturday, in support of the similarly exploratory-minded Hot at Nights, Zoocrü will re-create its ambitious, accomplished debut. Bassist Christian Sharp, one of the group’s cofounders, discussed Lucid and some of its core elements.

FUSION

I think of old and new. I think of Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, those guys who were there playing with Dizzy [Gillespie]. And then there were those guys like Miles [Davis]. Miles pretty much transcends everything. We pull from the old stuff to the new hip-hop-era stuff and try to grab from different places in American music, black American music—from Dixieland to what it is now, what you want to hear on the radio. We want to make people feel good and dance too. We used to dance to jazz.

BASS

My first time noticing bass was Fred Hammond. He’s one of the renowned gospel artists, and he’s actually a bass player and a singer. A lot of his music is bass and drums and maybe guitar, and it’s the most in-thepocket groove you can ever think. And I think I was talking to my dad when I was hearing it. I was like, “Dad, I wanna play that.” He’s like, “What, guitar?” I’m like, “Naaah. That low note. Those low notes that’s slappin’ and stuff.” I had to be eight when I noticed it. I don’t know why I noticed bass, but I noticed

that instrument. So many bass players run through my mind. Oteil Burbridge, James Jamerson, Nate Wood. We’ve got so many styles, from upright to electric. It’s crazy how far electric bass has come. That instrument itself is not that old. People are still finding out things you can do with an electric bass.

MUSICIANSHIP

I think it’s the most important thing: understanding the history of music, understanding technical aspects of instruments, or your instrument in particular. It’s a constant thing. It’s like being a doctor: I’m practicing.

Same thing with a musician. I’m practicing my instrument. I’m never gonna be the best.

If you’re a musician, you strive to be the best that you can be.

REDNECK

Somebody, I don’t know who in the group, brought it. Most of us in the group are pretty active on what’s going on in the community, and it just caught us all off guard. This caucasian man talking about he drinks beer and likes pork and he gets to be a racist, and now

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he’s seen the light on everything that’s going on. It’s great that he’s a white male talking about this. Being African-American, that’s who we think would be saying the opposite.

Even African-Americans don’t talk like he’s talking. We went back and forth—should we put this on our record? We just made a decision to go with it. We played the recording at a few of our shows for about two minutes.

The people would get a little shaky and a little uncomfortable. I listen to the record and I’ll still be taken aback, because it’s truth, and it makes you uncomfortable. It makes everybody uncomfortable.

TRIANGLE

This place is growing. I got here in 2010. I went to N.C. Central and, that point until now, Durham and Raleigh have changed so much. It’s really a great time to be here right now. There’s so many doors opening, so many more spaces that you can freely express your contribution to the world. North Carolina’s been getting a bad rep these days, but from the inside, it’s a pretty good place to be yourself. l dklein@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.24.16 | 29

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BY GLENN MCDONALD

The German historical drama The Lives of Others won the Academy Award for best foreign language film in 2006, and deservedly so. But Little Men, the new indie gem from director Ira Sachs (Love Is Strange), is more deserving of the 2006 film’s title. In its most essential mode, this is what cinema provides: a sustained gaze into the lives of others.

The story of Little Men is simple enough. When his grandfather passes away, thirteen-year-old aspiring artist Jake Jardine (Theo Taplitz) moves into the vacated Brooklyn brownstone with his family. Jake’s dad, Brian (Greg Kinnear), is a struggling actor. His mom, Kathy (Jennifer Ehle), is a psychotherapist and the family breadwinner. Money is tight.

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Garcia cuts against the grain with some finely honed emotional cruelty. She bites.

The teenagers’ story, meanwhile, is held in perfect tension against the adult drama. Jake and Tony form that deep, instinctive friendship specific to adolescent boys. They’re old enough to know love but haven’t yet learned

that, as American men, they must sublimate their feelings. Their loyalty is fierce. When the adults’ stupid money problems threaten to separate them, the boys fight back as best they can.

The performances, without exception, are piercingly intimate. Watching the scenes with the adults, I felt voyeuristic and even a little guilty, somehow, as if I were spying on my neighbors.

That’s a testament to the actors, but also to Sachs. His direction is so natural, so subtle, that it renders virtually invisible those layers of filmmaking artifice we’ve come to accept. You lose yourself in these people and their stories, and only after the credits roll do you remember you’ve been watching performers in carefully composed images.

When a filmmaker can achieve this, it’s something like magic. Roger Ebert once described the movies as a machine that generates empathy, and Little Men is a perfect example. It’s an opportunity to shift your perspective for a couple of hours, into the lives of others. l Editor's note: The local release of Little Men, which had been scheduled for August 26, was delayed until September 9 as this issue went to press.

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PARKING WOES DRIVE PROACTIVE MOVES FOR LEADING RALEIGH GALLERIES

must subloyalty is pid money ate them, ey can. BY BRIAN HOWE ut excepWatchingAdam Cave had been working at Gallery I felt voy-C, one of Raleigh’s oldest galleries, for ten lty, some-years when he decided to strike out on his neighbors.own. Cave, a genial dealer who represents rs, but alsonational artists, was especially interested in natural, soprintmaking, a niche he began to fill when he ally invis-and his wife, Cindy, opened Adam Cave Fine ng artificeArt on Hargett Street in 2008. e yourself “Like everybody, we knew the recession was ories, andcoming and it would be a great time to jump u remem-in,” he jokes. But, after weathering the crash— ormers inwhich made going out to eat, let alone buying art, a dispensable luxury—Cave participated in hieve this,and enjoyed the rapid growth downtown. oger Ebert “Downtown seemed awesome when we a machinestarted, and it was,” he says. “It was this Little Mendeveloping place we feel like we contributed pportunityto. Even adding one gallery to First Friday couple ofmade it feel much more dynamic. It went from being centered around Artspace to l being this downtown circus.” ittle Men, That circus, however lively, brought new st 26, waschallenges, and they led to Adam Cave Fine ssue wentArt closing shop on Hargett Street in June.

The reason for its move to Progress Park, mcdonald1where it reopens this week, is contextually complex but essentially simple: as new restaurants and bars increased congestion downtown and Fayetteville Street was frequently closed on weekends for events, it got really hard to park.

“Be careful of your own success,” Cave says.

“We increasingly felt like people had a hard time getting to us downtown.”

Cave isn’t the only important Raleigh gallerist seeking to activate a more spacious fringe of downtown. In the fall, he’ll be joined on the edge of Five Points by Lee Hansley Gallery, moving from its longtime home on Glenwood Avenue. If this migration picks up steam, it could change the geographical complexion of the Raleigh art scene and its First

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When Cave started looking for a new space about a year ago, he wasn’t too concerned about its address. After the recession, his business had taken off in an unexpected direction.

“We were seeing much higher online sales than we used to,” Cave explains. “That suggested that location in Raleigh was less important for us.”

While he didn’t want to completely forsake an urban identity for the sake of convenience, accessibility was a greater concern than expense. The rent on Cave’s former small space, tucked in a decrepit Victorian building downtown, had increased at a modest rate, although that’s only because it was on the second floor.

“I could not afford ground-floor rent, which had skyrocketed,” he says. “I’ve always seen rent as marketing money, but every dollar you can save there, you can reach out to people through other means.”

Nestled in a small line of low storefronts, the new Adam Cave Fine Art retains the intimacy of the old one but feels much more

modern. With high white walls ranging across multiple levels, the space is also more flexible, and Cave thinks he’ll be able to hang more art. It will be a significant change not only for his customers, who can take advantage of ample dedicated parking, but also for the artists he represents.

“This is a far more contemporary environment, and I like that. I don’t think that 1890s building was the best environment to showcase Will Goodyear’s work,” Cave says, pointing to a painting by the Raleigh artist I’d admired on my way in. “Will is so excited about doing massive pieces on these big white walls. The art snob in me didn’t want to be in a shopping center, and I feel like we’ve gotten some of those advantages without stepping over that line.”

A group exhibit of artists Cave represents will be on view at the opening party this Saturday, followed by a Goodyear show in October. It’s the perfect first solo exhibit for the space; Goodyear brings a sense of futuristic speed to architectural abstractions, conjuring images of a city in process.

Of course, being two miles outside of downtown means that Adam Cave Fine Art will probably no longer participate in First Fridays.

For a more local-community-oriented gallery, that could be a death knell, but for a sales-driven business like Cave’s, it’s no big deal.

“All of us outside of major tourist destinations are destination businesses,” he explains.

“Visibility certainly never hurts, but the vast majority of people are coming with a mission.”

Cave won’t be lonely in Five Points for long. In October, Lee Hansley Gallery will move just a few minutes’ walk away, into Dock 1053, a mixed-use warehouse at the intersection of Whitaker Mill Road and Atlantic Avenue.

Hansley, an accomplished curator and a dealer who specializes in canonical North Carolina art, is one of Raleigh’s pioneering gallerists. He first set up shop twenty-five years ago, on the second floor of the Capital Club Building, when Raleigh had only a handful of galleries. Even then, parking was a problem.

“I had done all I could do there after seven years,” Hansley says. “I was beginning to hear complaints about parking. When I moved out, I still had to go get my mail for about a month. I thought, Oh god, I’ve been doing this to my customers?”

That drove Hansley into his current space, in pre-gentrification Glenwood South, at a time when street parking was free. Seventeen years later, history is repeating itself.

“We’ve become victims of our own success,” Hansley says, echoing Cave. “There’s no parking anymore.”

If Cave’s move represents a major change for his gallery, Hansley’s represents an even bigger one. He’s trading a genteel, rambling Victorian cottage for a contemporary warehouse.

“It has eighteen-foot ceilings, clerestory windows, very industrial looking, with polished concrete floors,” Hansley says. “But my focus will not change. I will still be in the forefront of defining the art history of the state.” He plans to reopen with an exhibit of work by the late Melissa Brown sometime in October.

We usually interpret stories about urban development pushing out art as tragedies, but because of parking woes, these two galleries stand to fruitfully modernize their operations, and maybe even kick-start a new arts district outside of an inhospitable downtown. Sounds like a triumph to me. l bhowe@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 8.24.16 | 31

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08.24–08.31 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31

NC COMICON: THE MOVIE

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NC Comicon, the Triangle’s dominant comic book convention, returns to the Durham Convention Center in November. But you don’t have to wait that long to plunge into a world of high drama, low humor, epic battles, shocking reveals, and near escapes from certain doom. Oh, you thought we were talking about comics? No, we meant the convention. A film crew from Raleigh’s Amazing Studios followed the folks behind NC Comicon for three days at last year’s convention, and the result is this feature-length documentary, premiering at the Carolina Theatre. Beyond the always-colorful posse from Ultimate Comics, the local retailer behind the con—owner Alan Gill commissions black-velvet portraits of his employees dressed as superheroes, to give you an idea—the doc also ropes in famous guests such as My Chemical Romance singer-turned-comics writer Gerard Way and The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard. Curious what all those costumed people do after they enter the Convention Center each fall?

Here’s your chance, with no risk of secondhand body paint.

—Brian Howe THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM 8 p.m., $5, www.carolinatheatre.org

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SOUTHERN ACCENT OPENING PARTY

“A Day at the Beach,” Kadir Nelson’s illustration for a recent New Yorker cover, depicts a clear-skied beach day.

A black father stands next to his two daughters; his son is perched on his shoulders. But clouds are reflected in the father’s sunglasses—the only blemish on an otherwise perfect family portrait. Maybe Nelson took this image from his own life on the Pacific shores of Los Angeles. “Now that I’m a father myself, I relish the long summer days spent with my own children,” he recently said. But it’s just as easy to imagine this scene anywhere on the Southeastern seaboard, where beaches once symbolized the disruption and destruction of the black family. To the versed eye, those clouds are still very visible—especially below the Mason-Dixon line.

Similar truths are uncovered in Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, an expansive new exhibit that contextualizes a complicated regional identity. Opening at the Nasher in September, it includes works by more than sixty Southern and non-Southern artists, as well as a music library that accentuates the area’s rich cultural milieu. So why not kick off the whole dag-on thing with some music and a cash bar? Wednesday night’s opening party features a New Orleans homage from the John Brown Band, distinct takes on Mason jar jam-rock from Justin Robinson and Shirlette Ammons, and a dance party with North Carolina hip-hop ambassador 9th Wonder. —Eric Tullis NASHER MUSEUM OF ART, DURHAM 7–10 p.m., free, www.nasher.duke.edu

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BE LOUD!

After fourteen-year-old Sophie Steiner passed away from cancer, her parents started the Be Loud! Sophie Foundation to support other young people undergoing cancer treatment at UNC Hospitals. Each year, the foundation celebrates Sophie’s life and spreads its message with a weekend of music. Local bands like Friday night’s I Was Totally Destroying It are a hallmark of the fest. But on the first night, the headlining slot belongs to the demonstrably non-local English Beat, whose nervy, new wave-informed take on ska held brief but powerful sway in the early eighties. Youth will be served well on Saturday, with a daytime lineup featuring PopUp Chorus, goof rockers Billy Warden & the Floating Children, Girls Rock NC, and the sublime Kinks tribute The Well Respected Men. A cracking nighttime lineup features the gritty soul of Hobex, Chris Stamey’s new retro-leaning project, Occasional Shivers, and unofficial Be Loud! house band Preeesh, consisting of numerous Triangle legends. —David Klein CAT’S CRADLE, CARRBORO 8 p.m. Fri. & 1 p.m. Sat., $10–$45, www.beloudsophie.org

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31

HORSE LORDS

An old Laotian proverb says that if you like to have things easy, you’ll have difficulties, but if you like things difficult, you will succeed. Baltimore quintet Horse Lords likes things difficult. Its kinetic freak-out rock offers rich rewards and thrilling ecstasies. The band uses a mélange of far-flung influences—Saharan guitar music, gamelan music, krautrock, jazz, post-punk—as building blocks that tumble and rebuild into whirling jams that sound tightly wound yet wholly free. Like infinitely spiraling Horse Lords PHOTO BY THEO ANTHONY fractals, the songs on April’s Interventions are marked by precision and great structural complexity. They shiver with bristling arcs of electricity. Their geodesic patterns and skeletal grooves are unflagging and mesmerizing, with polyrhythms woven together in pointillist layers. The album is an inherently challenging listen, but it’s also remarkably engaging, fun, and satisfying. Hotline and The Dinwiddies open. —Patrick Wall KINGS, RALEIGH 9 p.m., $8–$10, www.kingsraleigh.com

WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO? ADAM CAVE FINE ART REOPENING AT ADAM CAVE FINE ART (P. 31), B939.9 SUMMER JAM AT THE LINCOLN THEATRE (P. 37), CREATURE AT NORTH RALEIGH ARTS & CREATIVE THEATRE (P. 41), MONSTER DRAWING PARTY AT THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART (P. 41), QUEST WIRX AT POWER PLANT GALLERY (P. 40), POMS AT THE ARTSCENTER (P. 35), MILEMARKER AT CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM (P. 25), THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AT MISSION VALLEY CINEMAS (P. 42), ZOOCRÜ AT THE POUR HOUSE (P. 29) INDYweek.com | 8.24.16 | 33

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The Veldt

Christiane & the Strays

FUZZ Identical twin SHOCKS brothers Daniel and Danny Chavis started The Veldt in 1986 in Chapel Hill, mixing soul with damaged rock guitar. Signing with Capitol in 1989 brought frustration instead of fame.

Though the band toured with the Cocteau Twins and The Jesus and Mary Chain—widely acknowledged as shoegaze pioneers— only recently has The Veldt received credit as similar originators of shoegaze. The brothers never liked the term anyway. This three-night residency takes place mere miles from the band’s first gigs all those years ago. Frank Olson & the Olson Twins open. —DK [THE CAVE, $7/9 P.M.]

W00dy CYBER To some, a JAMS classically trained voice is the apex of music, perfected long before audio workstations entered the picture and ruined everything. However, on the Timberdoodle EP from Catherine Woodcock’s W00dy project, her otherworldly voice bridges the gap between technology and raw humanity.

Think elegant, bitcrushed, often vocal-driven electronic music that suggests both Quarantine-era Laurel Halo and the airy cybergrunge atmospheres of the Ghost in the Shell soundtrack. With DJ Pink0 and Matt Stevenson. —DS [NIGHTLIGHT, $7/9 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY ARCANA: Ashni Dave; 7:30 p.m.

• CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Three Days of Light Gathering; 8 p.m., $10. • LOCAL 506: Drivin’ N’ Cryin’, The Feeds; 9 p.m., $15–$18. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: Seabreeze Diner, Blueberry, Tangible Dream; 10 p.m., $6.

• POUR HOUSE: Agent Orange, Fea, Snake & The Plisskens, Black Irish Texas; 9 p.m., $12–$15. • RUBY DELUXE: Second Husband, Al Riggs; 8 p.m. • SLIM’S: The Royal Nites, Autospkr, Sinister Lamps; 9 p.m., $5.

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Jared & the Mill

The free Pickin’ in the Plaza summer concert series in downtown Raleigh continues with Americana singer-songwriter Christiane Smedley. Prerelease tracks like “Coyote” and “So Long,” from her upcoming record Waiting with the Lights On, promise a smart, bold presentation of her Southern millennial female point of view.

She’s a Dolly Parton for the iPhone generation. Fireside Collective and Eric Scholz start things off. —KM [RALEIGH CITY PLAZA, FREE/5 P.M.]

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GINGER WAGG, SARAH WILSON, AND STELLA WINGFIELD COOK PHOTO BY JACKIE LEE

Brantley Gilbert COUNTRY After the cancel‘TUDE ation of his June 23 show in Raleigh, Brantley Gilbert returns to Walnut Creek for some hell raisin’ and beer drinkin’. The “One Hell of an Amen” singer out-Jason Aldeans even Jason Aldean, the country star who originated the brand of roughneck country music Gilbert has come to own. Joining him is former Staind frontman Aaron Lewis.

—KM [COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK, $30–$55/7 P.M.]

Hard Working Americans SMART This gang of roots ROOTS rockers comes with a powerful pedigree. Todd Snider is one of the most celebrated alt-country singer-songwriters around; Dave Schools hails from jam masters Widespread Panic; Neil Casal is an accomplished solo artist and former bandmate to Chris Robinson and Ryan Adams. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The band’s blue-collar twang ‘n’ roll approach is aided considerably by a songwriting sensibility that’s a notch or two above the competition, even in its covers. —JA [HAW RIVER BALLROOM, $25/8 P.M.]

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POMS

Sometimes a star’s collapse also looks like a hug. These two images collided unexpectedly for choreographer Sarah Honer during a rehearsal of POMS, the multidisciplinary work she created with Mac McCaughan and Amanda Barr for Durham’s inaugural Moogfest this year.

“There’s a tableau where we’re playing with energy, moving in and expanding out,” Honer says. “Even though I was meaning for this to be more universal star imagery, when I watched [the dancers] do it, I was like, Ah! They’re hugging. And it brought tears to my eyes.”

POMS, which McCaughan and company reprise at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, plays with perception and association. When dancers move on a proscenium stage wearing oversize lips on their heads, are they still dancers? Or are they something else otherworldly? Honer’s movement, combined with McCaughan’s musical score and Barr’s costumes and stage design, emerge from the boundary-crossing artistic approach of Robert Moog’s electronic synthesizers and the festival’s programming.

“Here [they are], these amazing machines created by a visionary,” Honer says. “It takes human hands to then program or to transmit energy between a human and a machine.”

McCaughan approached Honer and Barr—already friends, but not yet collaborators—with the idea last winter as he was brainstorming for Moogfest. He’d previously performed live film scores with Superchunk and Portastatic but never explored music for dance. Honer and Barr, whom McCaughan calls “super-creative people who see possibilities everywhere,” agreed almost immediately. Honer has a background in dance; she DJs locally as Fifi Hi-Fi, and runs Spira Pilates Studio; Barr is a visual artist, ceramicist, and co-owner of Carrboro’s Bowbarr. Honer joked that POMS brings together an all-star cast, including Ginger Wagg, Sarah Wilson, Skylar Gudasz, and Stella Wingfield Cook.

POMS evolved partly as a blind collaboration. The three worked independently on their respective pieces, sending samples back and forth and meeting a few times in order to pin things down. With each live performance, the work takes on a slightly different shape as the dancers respond to McCaughan’s musical cues and the physical limitations of Barr’s costumes. When the dancers don those outsize lips, Honer explains, their vision is restricted to what’s directly in front of them.

“It puts you as mover or performer in kind of an altered state,” Honer says. “[Barr’s] costumes offer you a different view of reality through masking.”

This is what POMS offers the audience, too: a chance to meditate on our own bodies in relation to what we think lies beyond. —Michaela Dwyer

EAGLES & What would happen AVETTS if some musical mad scientist dared to cross The Avett Brothers with the Eagles? It’s entirely possible that the end result would have come out sounding not dissimilar to this Phoenix Americana act, who blend the usual folk, country, and rock influences with some heavy-duty vocal harmonies and have already trod the boards of America’s arenas as an opening act for mainstreamers like the Zac Brown Band and others. Edison opens. —JA [MOTORCO, $12–$15/8 P.M.]

Local Band Local Beer: Lacy Jags, Drag Sounds WILD Chapel Hill quartet HEARTS Lacy Jags—like the poet Walt Whitman, from whose “Song of Myself” they get their name—is not a bit tamed, effusing itself in eddies and slinging rock laced with pop jubilation and psychedelic oddity.

Durham (via Greensboro and Baltimore) quartet Drag Sounds ain’t no drag; its brand new bag, the just-released Sudden Comfort, offers slanted and enchanting dive-bar indie rock. —PW [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9:30 P.M.]

Maple Stave, Drug Yacht BALANCE, In ways, Maple MAN Stave is the sober yin to Drug Yacht’s raging yang.

Maple Stave is coiled and calculated, creating nuanced and often cinematic math-rock anthems that ratchet tension through restraint. (Disclosure: Maple Stave’s Chris Williams is an INDY employee.) Drug Yacht puts muscle and melody into its math rock, but the trio is wilder and woolier. Its active, anxious post-punk shares traits with that of The Minutemen. Today’s Forecast opens. —PW [THE PINHOOK, $7/8 P.M.]

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Seven Deadly Bibs ROCKFearlessly tackling APELLA anything from Justin Timberlake’s “Pusher Love Girl” to Missy Elliot’s “Ain’t That Funny,” Durham’s Seven Deadly Bibs put some snap in a cappella, beat-boxing, and wailing as soulfully as the original artists, but with a better sense of humor. It’s as much fun to watch as it is to listen to. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, FREE/7:30 P.M.]

Rick Springfield STAYING Rick Springfield was POWER an Aussie teen idol and then a soap opera star before becoming a well-scrubbed MTV staple in the early eighties. Since then, he’s deftly made his way across the pond of fame without falling in. More recently, the man whose biggest hit introduced the word “moot” into the pop song vocabulary has acted with Meryl Streep and written a lauded autobiography. Can a collaboration with Rick Rubin be far behind? Let’s not get crazy. With Night Ranger and the Romantics.

—DK [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $23–$177/7 P.M.]

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Close your eyes and imagine it’s Psychostick? With Bigg Brad and Eggy Strange. —DS [LOCAL 506, $8/9:30 P.M.] ALSO ON THURSDAY AMERICAN TOBACCO CAMPUS: The Gibson Brothers; Hank, Pattie & The Current; 6 p.m., free. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Russell Favret Trio; 7 p.m. • CARY ARTS CENTER: Cary Town Band; 7:30 p.m. • CAT’S CRADLE: Local H; 8 p.m., $12–$15. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Vegabonds, Boy Named Banjo, Left on Franklin; 8:15 p.m., $5–$10. • THE CAVE: The Veldt, Minor Moon, Chimes at Midnight, Cameron Stenger; 9 p.m., $7.

See Aug. 24 listing. • KINGS: Steve Hartsoe, Kevin Thompson; 8 p.m., $5.

• LINCOLN THEATRE: End of Summer Jam; 8 p.m., $9.39. See box, this page.

FRI, AUG 26 Arliss Nancy NOT NEB- Fort Collins, RASKA Colorado’s Arliss Nancy inhabits the now-familiar space between gruff punk and heartland rock. Following Uncle Tupelo, Lucero, and Gaslight Anthem, the quintet holds tight to punk’s three-chords-and-thetruth credo, while coloring gruff bar-rock songs with bold vamps and chiming piano that evokes The Hold Steady. Eno Mountain Boys, Almost People, and A Bottle Volcanic open. —BCR [LOCAL 506, $7–$9/9 P.M.]

Fear Nuttin Band REGGAE What happens if RAWK you blend Rage Against the Machine with Lee “Scratch” Perry and System of a Down? Well, you get Fear Nuttin Band. But you can’t get mad at these guys, mainly because you gotta love lefties no matter their aesthetics, and unlike way too many other reggae-rap-rockers, the band’s vocalists are actually from Jamaica. Six Shots >ater opens. —DM [THE MAYWOOD, $12–$15, 9 P.M.]

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25

B93.9 END OF SUMMER JAM It may still feel like a hundred degrees outside, but preposterous pre-fall markers abound: Professional football is in full swing, McDonald’s debuts its pumpkin spice latte on August 31, and Halloween decorations are creeping into stores. Beat the heat and bid a (sorta, kinda) farewell to summer at the annual End of Summer Jam and its five-part lineup of country radio stars, featuring Joe Nichols, Chase Bryant, Josh Abbott Band, Jordan Rager, and American Idol alum Trent Harmon.

Showcase partner B93.9-FM markets itself as a “new country” station that embraces the hip-hop and R&B influences of Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, and other format superstars—so much so that bro-country detractors could argue that when the iHeartRadio station flipped its format from pop to country nearly three years ago, it wasn’t really much of a change. Still, the night promises a balance of parties and rural pride with more traditional roots influences.

Headliner Joe Nichols’s voice and delivery builds from the work of neo-country masters George Strait and Keith Whitley.

His second record, 2002’s Man with a Memory, produced an intriguing slew of singles like the weary warning “She Only Smokes When She Drinks” and “Brokenheartsville,” which contains the satisfyingly country lyric, “Love’s gone to hell and so have I.” Like his predecessor Alan Jackson, Nichols demonstrates a knack for balancing hundred-proof fare with sly winks like “What’s a Guy Gotta Do” and his career-making hit, “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off.” The cleft-chinned Nichols even made a rare second act on country radio in 2014 with the release of “Yeah,” a lowest-common-denominator country song elevated only by his memorable baritone.

Josh Abbott Band, a Texas country outfit, is following a trajectory similar to Nichols’s, tracing twangy roots back to Abbot’s 2011 duet “Oh, Tonight” with current-day darling Kacey Musgraves. Five years later, the band is banking on another duet to spring out of the Texas charts. The new “Wasn’t That Drunk” pairs Josh Abbott with Carly Pearce, but the compelling rough edges of the six-piece ensemble have been smoothed and sanded down. On the other end of the spectrum, newcomers Chase Bryant, Jordan Rager, and Trent Harmon skirt the pop edges of country. Bryant’s “Take It on Back” is the most successful example of that pairing, a nostalgic whitewashing of young love.

—Karlie Justus Marlowe LINCOLN THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m., $9.39, www.lincolntheatre.com

SING FOR Raleigh’s Kings is on KINGS its second life, and it seems to be running just as strong as ever. The club first opened in 1999 and ran until 2007 before being pushed out of its McDowell Street space to make room for a parking deck. Sigh. But in 2010, the celebrated club reopened on Martin Street, where it has resumed operations as one of Raleigh’s best rooms for music.

Celebrate the sixth anniversary of its return to glory with sets from TV Knife and a Great Cover Up version of The Beastie Boys, as well as film clips from Kings’ final show before it first closed. —AH [KINGS, $5/8:30 P.M.]

Mipso YOUNG In early October, REVERIE Chapel Hill’s Mipso released Old Time Reverie, its third full-length record, which shot the band to the top of Billboard’s bluegrass chart and high on its folk and heatseekers charts. The record is Mipso at its sharpest yet, with the band pushing itself into deeper, more mature songwriting.

Mipso maintains its ascent with this sold-out Lincoln Theatre show, its last in the Triangle for a while as it starts work on LP number four. Look Homeward opens. —AH [LINCOLN THEATRE, $12/9 P.M.]

N.C. Summer Release Party HEAT Boone emcee and DROPS founder of the North Carolina hip-hop crew Free The Optimus, C.Shreve the Professor has always been more of a live art detonation than a proverbial ticking time bomb. But it’s fun to watch him get riled up, like on the single “Asystole,” from his new album, Twenty Sixteens, where he puts unnamed “fake and fraud” violators on blast. Twenty Sixteens is just one of three new album releases being celebrated tonight.

Raleigh’s Samson performs off his M.I.L.F. project, and Greensboro’s Ed E. Ruger arrives with his second Guerilla Grind installment.

Mosca Flux, Young Corona, Nas T, and Case Jones join the affair.

—ET [DEEP SOUTH, $5/10 P.M.]

ALSO ON FRIDAY ARCANA: One Track Mind Dance Party; 10 p.m., free. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: All-Nite Public Radio; 8 & 10 p.m., $8. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Too Much Fun; 9 p.m. Duke Street Dogs; 6 p.m., free. • BYNUM GENERAL STORE: Tommy Edwards and The Bluegrass Experience; 7 p.m., free. • CAT’S CRADLE: Be Loud! ‘16; 8 p.m., $10–$25. See page 33. • THE CAVE: The Veldt, Frank Olson & The Olson Twins, John Howie Jr.; 9 p.m., $7. See Aug. 24 listing. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: Joe Lasher Jr.; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: The Bucket Brothers; 7 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Jyl Clay; 6:30 p.m. • MOTORCO: Orquesta GarDel, Kward; 9 p.m., $12–$15. • THE PINHOOK: Dreaming of the 90s Dance Party; 10 p.m., $7. • THE RITZ: On the Border; 9 p.m., $10. • SLIM’S: Iselia, Chew, Broken Tapes; 9 p.m., $5. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Clever Measures, Stammerings, Paper Dolls, Promo; 8:30 p.m., $7. • ST STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: North Carolina Baroque Orchestra; 7 p.m., $10–$15. • THE STATION: Sound System Seven; 7:30 p.m., $5.

SAT, AUG 27 ’80s vs. ’90s with Biz Markie BIZ & These types of BANDS decade-face-off parties have become many DJs’ bread and butter. For instance, a huge one took place last weekend in Durham with DJ Lonnie B and Mad Skillz. Hip-hop legend Biz Markie’s spin on the themed parties, however, is that in between his sets, an eighties tribute band will go head-to-head with a ninetiess tribute band.

Obviously, none of this is about an actual win, but rather about agreeing that Soul For Real’s “Candy Rain” has aged just as finely as Run-D.M.C.’s “Sucker M.C.’s.

—ET [THE RITZ, $15/$7:30 P.M.]

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Edge of Paradise OH, Edge of Paradise is a ALMOST band out of time.

Immortal Waltz—recorded by Kiss producer Bob Kulick and mixed by Michael Wagener, who mixed Metallica’s Master of Puppets— placed in the top twenty in CMJ’s loud chart upon its release, but its industrial-tinged hard rock is about a decade and a half past its prime. Frontwoman Margarita Monet can really belt it, though.

The Gray, Knightmare, and Forever Chained open. —PW [THE MAYWOOD, $10–$12/8 P.M.]

Firing Squad PURIST On its four-song HXC demo debut, Richmond’s Firing Squad offers a potent, if brief, clinic in hardcore fundamentals. “Endless Game” sounds like a burlier Minor Threat, while the driving lead riff of “C.T.O.” suggests a Boston-bred Dead Kennedys. Tonight, Firing Squad splits the bill with Blackball, the acclaimed Richmond-andRaleigh outfit whose self-titled debut is a vicious, thrilling rush of blown-out fury. The anxious Saxapahaw band Life Alert and young guns Waffle Stomp open.

—BCR [SOUND FACTORY, $7/8 P.M.]

Ghostt Bllonde SCUZZ Ghostt Bllonde POP returns to the stage after spending much of its summer recording the full-length follow-up to its 2013 debut LP, the terrifically messy TrashPop// DoomWop. With any luck, the lo-fi Raleigh foursome has scrounged up plenty more nervy indie rock hooks from the garages and bedrooms it frequents. Suburban Living, White Laces, and Surf Rock is Dead stack the bill. —SG [KINGS, $6–$8/8 P.M.] 38 | 8.24.16 | INDYweek.com

Goo Goo Dolls KARAOKE In recent years, Goo KINGS Goo Dolls leader Johnny Rzeznik has pulled that emergency brake of older frontmen where he sings his verses and allows the crowd to belt out the hook, to disguise that he can’t belt out the notes like he used to. If we’re being real, he shouldn’t be chastised. Who else could successfully transition from heavy metal and Replacements worship in the eighties to teary-eyed pop-rock hits that conquered the world? Collective Soul tries to fill thirty-five minutes beforehand. With Tribe Society.

—DS [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $20–$175/7 P.M.]

Carolyn Malachi DISTRICT Grammy-nominatDARLING ed, Washington D.C.-bred soulstress Carolyn Malachi is no newcomer to Beyù’s stage or the music world at large.

This time around she’s armed with the slapping single “Blowing Smoke,” which combines her clever world of Teslas, plantation days, paparazzi nights, and rifles into a clap-soul declaration of self-worth and anti-bullshit. If you can squeeze yourself into the first of the night’s two shows, you might find yourself wanting to stay for more. —ET [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $15/8 & 10 P.M.]

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North Carolina songwriting stars under the evening skies at Shakori Hills, bookended with performances by Gasoline Stove and Dr. Bacon. This year’s lineup gathers Nikki Talley, Aaron Burdett, Lizzy Ross, James Olin Oden, and Liz Moudy together. —KM [SHAKORI HILLS, $12–$17/7 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY ARCANA: Seance Goth Industrial Dance Party; 9 p.m., $5. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: Armand & Bluesology; 8 p.m., $10. • CAT’S CRADLE: Be Loud! ‘16; 1 p.m., $10–$25. See page 33. • CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Milemarker, Puff Pieces, Committee(s) ; 9:30 p.m., $12. See page 25. • THE CAVE: Julia., Lee Gildersleeve & Co., Me in January; 9 p.m., $5. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Tokyo Rosenthal; 7 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: PULSE: Electronic Dance Party; 9 p.m. • NIGHTLIGHT: Disco Sweat XXVII; 9 p.m., $8. • POUR HOUSE: Caramel City, The Hot at Nights, Zoocrü; 9 p.m., $10–$12. See page 29.

• SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL: Piedmont Regulators; 6 p.m., free. • SLIM’S: Gray Young, Poinsettia; 9 p.m., $5. • SOUTHLAND BALLROOM: Out of the Cellar, Mister Sister, Driver X; 9 p.m., $10. • THE STATION: Summer Sessions: Jazz Saturdays; 2 p.m., free. Back To School Dance Party; 10 p.m.

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TEXAS IN On his 1998 album NC The Man That I Have Been, Lone Star state laureate Cory Morrow perked up ears outside of his home state, with “Nashville Blues” continuing the long tradition of country establishment protest songs. No longer too young to have a point of view, the singer-songwriter carries the Red Dirt torch with an edge of wisdom on his 2015 Thirty Tigers release, The Good Fight. —KM [MOTORCO, $15–$18/8 P.M.]

LOCAL Head over to Raleigh HIP-HOP this Sunday for performances from a selection of the best and brightest in up-and-coming Triangle hip-hop in the form of the Dreams-2-Reality’s “B the Change” showcase.

Featured are the stirring singer Keo-Soul, the dextrous tongue and slippery singing of Joel Venom, and many more. —DM [POUR HOUSE, $5–$10/6 P.M.]

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• MORDECAI HISTORIC PARK: Sacred Harp Singing; 2 p.m. • SOUTHERN VILLAGE GREEN: Swift Creek; 6 p.m., free.

MON, AUG 29 Vomit Stain MORE It’s telling that the GORE title track of the split release Virginian gorehounds Vomit Stain share with Organ Trail is a sound-effects horror play that prominently features a chainsaw caesarian. The band’s visceradrenched fusion of thrash and death metal, which charms with songs like “Cheese Grater to the Ball Bag” and “Gential Maceration,” owes a heavy debt to the forefathers (gore-fathers?) of splattermetal: the no-frills death metal of Cannibal Corpse or General Surgery, the anatomically obsessive grind of Carcass and Exhumed’s macabre thrash, and The Accüsed’s crossover carnage.

Basura and Fly Trap open. —BCR [THE CAVE, $5/9 P.M.] ALSO ON MONDAY POUR HOUSE: Vacant Company, Atomic Buzz, Thick Modine; 9 p.m., $5. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Sessions at the Shed with Ernest Turner; 8 p.m., $5.

TUE, AUG 30 Homewrecker DEADLY Homewrecker’s mix DYNAMIC of thrash and hardcore embraces Slayer’s screaming solos and dissonant scene-setting as much as it relishes the belligerent hardcore of early Agnostic Front and Obituary’s grimy, mid-tempo death metal. The Ohio band’s 2014 LP, Circle of Death, is essentially a nine-track mosh-pit

ignition switch. Joy, Fractured, and Dogs Eyes open. —BCR [LOCAL 506, $10/7:30 P.M.]

LGI Dope Fest RAP Touring rap MEDLEY collective shows are a dime a dozen, but this East-meets-Midwest tour brings together several local and regional rappers including S. Gold, GamerGad, JRichLGI, Kain, Dennis K, and KPVLACE for a solid night of rap theatrics. There’s a selfie contest advertised, whatever that could entail. —DS [POUR HOUSE, $10/9 P.M.] ALSO ON TUESDAY IRREGARDLESS: Brian Dolzani; 6:30 p.m. • RUBY DELUXE: DISCOTOÑO; 11 p.m.

WED, AUG 31 Grass Cats STRING For nearly twenty VARIETY years, North Carolina’s Grass Cats have been bluegrass chameleons, as likely to stick to tried-and-true Bill Monroe standards as to whip out an unconventional cover of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff,” complete with banjo break and high harmonies. The quintet’s easygoing, chart-topping originals find the contemporary sweet spot. —SG [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $5/5:45 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY CAT’S CRADLE: Wifisfuneral, Ski Mask the Slump God, Pollári, Danny Towers, xxxtentacion; 9 p.m., $12–$15.

• KINGS: Horse Lords, Hotline, The Dinwiddies; 9 p.m., $8–$10. See page 33. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Sizzla and The Fire House Band; 9 p.m., $30–$45. • POUR HOUSE: Emily Jane White; 9 p.m., $10. • SLIM’S: Softaware, Slimyoungman; 9 p.m., $5.

• WAVERLY PLACE: The Embers; 6 p.m., free.

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OPENING

Equine Abstractions: Paintings

by Laura Hughes. Aug 24-Sep 24. Reception: Fri, Aug 26, 6-9 p.m. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25– SATURDAY, AUGUST 27

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Ribbons of Color: Layers of Wax: Encaustic paintings by Carol Retch-Bogart. Aug 26-Sep 4.

Reception: Fri, Aug 26, 6-9 p.m.

The Qi Garden, Hillsborough. www.the-qi-garden.com.

African American Quilt Circle: Block-quilting, original designs, and fiber art by local artists in Durham’s African American Quilt Circle. Thru Sep 4. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www. frankisart.com.

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ONGOING

PHOTO COURTESY OF POWER PLANT GALLERY

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

Aug 26-Sep 25. Reception: Fri, Aug 26, 6-9 p.m. Eno Gallery, Hillsborough. www.enogallery. net.

“WU-XING V (THE FIVE ELEMENTS V)” BY QUOCTRUNG NGUYEN PHOTO COURTESY OF THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL

All That Glitters: Golden-hued artwork by Gordon Jameson, Sheila Stillman, and Samantha Henneke and Bruce Gholson of Bulldog Pottery. Thru Sep 4. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com.

Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Durham. www.eruuf.org.

www.artspacenc.org.

www.tippingpaintgallery.com.

Bathroom Humor: National Cartoonists Take on HB2: Visual commentary on NC House Bill 2. Thru Sep 25.

Horse & Buggy Press, Durham. horseandbuggypress.com.

Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection: Thru Oct 15. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham.

Flowers of France and Italy: Paintings by Sonia Kane. Thru Sep 24. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org.

Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist: In Altered Land, Stamer and Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. scenes. Stamer paints a barn with black-and-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Thru Sep 11.

NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe

Bonnie Brooks: Life of an Artist: Paintings made over several decades. Thru Aug 31. Sertoma Arts Center, Raleigh. parks. raleighnc.gov.

Dreaming in Color: Paintings

by Lolette Guthrie, textile art

by Alice Levinson, and blown glass by Pringle Teetor. Thru Sep 25. Reception: Fri, Aug 26, 6-9 p.m. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughgallery.com.

Avant-Gardens: Mixed collage work by Lauren Worth. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council,

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

Thru Sep 25. Artist Lecture: “Photojournalism at its Best,” Sun, Aug 28, 2:30 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum. org. —Brian Howe By the Sea: Robert Harrison.

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The Colors of Summer: Peg Bachenheimer. Thru Sep 17.

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

Come Out and Play: Outdoor sculpture group show. Thru Sep 24. Reception: Sat, Aug 27, 12 p.m.-dark. JimGin Farm, Pittsboro. www.carrboro.com/ comeoutandplay.

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

Departures and Arrivals: Paintings by Gayle Stott Lowry. Thru Sep 3. Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill. www. tyndallgalleries.com.

Do You Have a Moment?: Installations by Jody Servon.

Thru Sep 27. Artspace, Raleigh.

Durham and the Rise of the Baseball Card: An exploration of Durham’s role in popularizing the baseball card. Thru Sep 5.

Durham History Hub, Durham. www.museumofdurhamhistory. org.

Durham by Ghostbike: Works on paper by Jeremy Kerman.

Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com.

Ingrid Erikson, Tonia Gebhart, Caroline Hohenrath, Anna Podris, and Tim Saguinsin: Thru Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Faces: Portraits by Amy Beshgetoorian. Thru Aug 27.

Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh.

Grillo/Geary: Resident artists Joe Grillo and Mike Geary exhibit collaborative paintings, sketchbooks, collage, and sculpture. Thru Aug 28. Lump, Raleigh. www.teamlump.org.

High Tides, Good Vibes: Photography by Kristine Remlinger. Thru Aug 31. The Qi Garden, Hillsborough. www.theqi-garden.com.

Kyle Highsmith: Oil paintings of coastal and local imagery.

Thru Aug 31. Little Art Gallery & Craft Collection, Raleigh. littleartgalleryandcraft.com.

History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection: Selections from the NCMA’s permanent collection of Old Master British paintings and sculpture from 1580 to

Seeds, mountains, enchanted gardens. Forests, clay, mounds, bark. Buildings, foundations, enveloping, stillness. Such are the spirits that coalesce under the rubric “Earth” in the last stage of qUest wiRx’s elementally themed August residency at Power Plant, the gallery of Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies and MFA program in experimental and documentary arts. The interdisciplinary collective, which includes women from visual art (Stacey L. Kirby), dance (ShaLeigh Comerford), and other fields, seeks to buffer the world of technology in its installations, and it has transformed the gallery into “a sanctuary that nourishes many layers of being.” The mediums involved might include textiles, paintings, flora, instruments, projections, and points outlying; go claim a little sanctuary and find out for yourself. —Brian Howe POWER PLANT GALLERY, DURHAM 11 a.m.–6 p.m., free, www.powerplantgallery.com

1850. Thru Mar 19, 2017. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

Hometown (Inherited): Photographic and mixed media work by Moriah LeFebvre. Thru Oct 2. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org. humor me!: Works about humor. Thru Aug 31. Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh. www. visualartexchange.org.

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

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 26

MONSTER DRAWING RALLY Art lovers get more chances to admire the end result of the creative process than the process itself—which makes sense. Watching a choreographer notating a dance could never beat taking in a ballet from a velvet-covered seat. But NCMA’s Monster Drawing Rally asks us to reimagine the inherently private act of drawing as a spectator sport. And we shouldn’t be too surprised that watching a thing of beauty, or even an attempt at one, unfold has rewards of its own. See for yourself as seventy-two artists, ranging from novice-level dabblers to skilled pros, let loose with their arsenals of watercolors, ink, and graphite. To make it a bit more alluring, you can take it all in as you dig a genius segue by DJ Forge, sip a local beer, and chomp on some BBQ from Big Mike’s. If you like what you see, you can buy it for fifty bucks. All proceeds support the museum’s outreach to the artistic community, so in case of a bidding war, everybody wins. —David Klein NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, RALEIGH 6 p.m., free, www.ncartmuseum.org Its Some Kynd of Thing It Aint Us but Yet Its In Us: Found object paintings by Andrew Hladky. Thru Sep 5. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org.

Blaine Janas: Metal flower arrangements and animal sculptures. Thru Sep 30. United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County, Raleigh. www. unitedarts.org.

Learned Behavior: Lamar Whidbee’s sculpture/painting hybrids made from found objects. Thru Aug 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

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

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

Made Especially for You by Willie Kay: Dresses by the

Raleigh designer. Thru Sep 5.

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

George McKim: Thru Sep 24.

Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com.

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

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

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

OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring

of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham/. —Chris Vitiello

Southern Discomfort: The Art of Dixie: Work concerning the American South. Thru Sep 13. Gallery C, Raleigh. www. galleryc.net.

Erin Oliver: Site-specific installation. Thru Sep 24.

Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Space of Otherness: Paintings

by Quoctrung Nguyen. Thru Sep 19. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Out of Context: Mixed-media work by Kathryn DeMarco, Linwood Hart, and Libby O’Daniel. Thru Sep 10. The Scrap Exchange, Durham. www. scrapexchange.org.

Spectrophobia: Photographs

by Ian F.G. Dunn. Thru Aug 29.

Flanders Gallery, Raleigh. www. flandersartgallery.com.

The Process of Seeing: Paintings

by Lisa Creed and William Paul Thomas. Thru Sep 30. American Tobacco Campus, Durham. americantobaccohistoricdistrict. com.

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

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

Pleiades Gallery, Durham. www.

PleiadesArtDurham.com.

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

Selections from the Photography Collection: Thru Jan 22, 2017. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke. edu.

Useful Work: Photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm: Ken Abbott’s color photographs of family farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Free. Thru Sep 10.

Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www. cdsporch.org.

Catherine Vosecky: Photographic works of reflected metal. Thru Aug 31. HagerSmith Design Gallery, Raleigh. www. hagersmith.com.

Sunset: Sunrise: Works on paper by intergenerational artists, including Victoria Turner Powers. Thru Sep 1. The Carter Building Galleries & Art Studios, Raleigh. www.thecarterbuilding. com.

Under the Microscope: Oil paintings by Rosalynn Villaescusa. Thru Aug 28.

Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences.org.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26– SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

CREATURE After enduring childbirth without anesthesia, Margery Kempe, a middle-class woman of the fifteenth century, experienced harrowing spiritual visions and mystic experiences for the rest of her life. She recorded her struggles with them—and with doubtful villagers, clergy, and authorities—in what’s now believed to be the first autobiography in the English language. Playwright Heidi Schreck’s version, a surprisingly contemporary dark comedy, follows Kempe as she contemplates carnality and divinity in the same “creature,” as she calls herself. See what happens when an everyday person insists on the integrity of her individual religious experience in this NRACT coproduction with Tiny Engine Theatre. —Byron Woods NORTH RALEIGH ARTS & CREATIVE THEATRE, RALEIGH 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat./3 p.m. Sun., $14–$17, www.nract.org

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VETERAN PHILIP STRAUB IN THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

Wars of unprecedented length in the Middle East have led to a crisis among returning U.S. combat veterans. The new documentary Thank You for Your Service takes a hard look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the failure of the U.S. military to acknowledge and address the psychological effects of war on those it asks to engage in battle. Interviewees include generals and politicians, writers, and Gary Sinise. Robert Gates and David Petraeus also make appearances, but most moving is the testimony from veterans who speak of their daily struggle to hold it all together and the military’s unforthcoming response to their plight. Producer Matt Tyson, a Raleigh native now based in Brooklyn, will conduct a Q-and-A after the screening. —David Klein MISSION VALLEY CINEMAS, RALEIGH 7 p.m., free, www.ambassadorcinemas.com

stage OPENING

Tone Bell: Stand-up comedy. $15. Wed, Aug 31, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

Draw the Circle: One-man performance by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen. $15. Aug 24-28. UNC Campus: Kenan Theatre, Chapel Hill. www. playmakersrep.org.

Eyes Up Here Comedy Showcase: Stand-up comedy. $8. Wed, Aug 31, 8:30 p.m.

Neptunes Parlour, Raleigh. www.neptunesparlour.com.

Geektastic 2: An Evening of Geeky Bellydance: $12–$20.

Sat, Aug 27, 7 p.m. PSI Theatre, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Edward Lewis’ Ballet: Dance.

Sat, Aug 27, 8 p.m. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

Miss Gay Southeast America: $10. Sun, Aug 28, 8 p.m.

Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh. www. lincolntheatre.com.

POMS: Dance, with music by Mac McCaughan. $18. Sun, Aug 28, 4 p.m. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www.artscenterlive. org.

Jon Reep: Thu, Aug 25, 8 p.m., Fri, Aug 26, 7:30 & 10 p.m. & Sat, Aug 27, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

The Sinful Six: Dirty humor. Hosted by Lauren Faber. $5. Wed, Aug 24, 8 p.m. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com.

ONGOING The Beautiful Beast: Paperhand Puppet Intervention. Thru Sep 5.

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UNC Campus: Forest Theatre, Chapel Hill. ncbg.unc.edu.

Creature: Play. $17. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 3 p.m. Continues through Sept. 11. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. www. nract.org.

I Wish You a Boat: Play. $25.

Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Thru Aug 27. Ward Theatre, Durham. wardtheatrecompany.com.

Memphis: Musical. $21.55– $26.00. Thru Sep 4. Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh. www. raleighlittletheatre.org.

Million Dollar Quartet: Play/ musical. $30.50–$32.50.

Thru Aug 28. Kennedy Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com/ venue/kennedy-theatre.

Trust the Bus: Multidisciplinary, site-specific performances. Sat, Aug 27.

Saxapahaw General Store, Saxapahaw. saxgenstore.com/.

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SPECIAL SHOWINGS

Contemporary Color: Full Frame Road Show series. Wed, Aug 24, 7 p.m. Silverspot Cinema, Chapel Hill.

A Fat Wreck: $8-$10. Wed, Aug 24, 8 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www.motorcomusic. com.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: $6.

Fri, Aug 26, 8:30 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org.

NC Comicon: The Movie: $5.

Wed, Aug 31, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre, Durham. www. carolinatheatre.org.

Spectre: $6. Sat, Aug 27, 8:30 p.m. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum. org.

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Year 1999 AD: With preshow presentation by science fiction author John Kessel. $5. Fri, Aug 26, 7 p.m. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

OPENING Don’t Breathe—A wealthy, vicious blind man turns the tables on a band of young people who try to rob him.

Rated R. Don’t Think Twice—Friends in an improv comedy troupe must reckon for themselves and their careers when one begins to find fame. Rated R. Equity—A looming financial crisis threatens a Wall Street investment banker (Anna Gunn), who has to disentangle herself from deep layers of corruption. Rated R. Hands of Stone—This biopic follows the life of legendary boxer Roberto Durán (Edgar Ramírez) and his trainer, Ray Arcel (Robert De Niro). Rated R.

Mechanic: Resurrection—An assassin (Jason Statham) returns to his bloody business to complete three impossible assassinations across the globe. Rated R.

A L S O P L AY I N G The INDY uses a five-star rating scale. Read our reviews of these films at www.indyweek.com.  ½ Bad Moms—It’s The Change-Up and The Hangover for women. You’re welcome?

Rated PG-13.  Ben Hur—Better storytelling is crippled by lackluster cinematography in Timur Bekmambetov’s update on this epic. Rated PG-13.  ½ Florence Foster Jenkins—Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant carry their tunes, but this biopic of an opera singer who couldn’t sing never finds its melody. Rated PG-13.  Ghostbusters—Haters aside, the casting isn’t the problem here: The limp script is. Rated PG-13.  Hell or High Water— Two texas antiheroes try to make the best of their bad hand in this bleak but brilliant neo-Western.Rated R.  Jason Bourne—Matt Damon’s amnesiac assassin returns in an efficient, effective genre exercise with a disposable plot. Rated PG-13.  The Jungle Book— Disney’s animated classic gets a well-done, CGI-heavy update. Rated PG.  ½ Lights Out—A viral no-budget short about a monster that appears only in the dark becomes a surprisingly effective horror feature with a sensitivity to subtext. Rated PG-13.  ½ The Secret Life of Pets—This charming, beautifully crafted family movie falls apart in the final act. Rated PG.  Suicide Squad—The plot is throwaway thin, but this team of antiheroes brings much-needed levity and breadth to the DC Extended Universe. Rated PG-13.

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$3 Dinners: Weekly revolving menu with vegan options. Free live music. Thursdays, 4 p.m.; Thru Sep 1. Durham Co-op Market, Durham. durham.coop.

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

Chuy’s Green Chile Festival: Thru Sep 4. Chuy’s Mexican Restaurant, Raleigh and Cary. www.chuys.com.

Greek Night 2016: Live music, dancing, and buffet. $40. Sun, Aug 28, 5:30 p.m. Parizade, Durham. www.parizadedurham. com.

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

Raleigh City Plaza, Raleigh.

Wine Tasting: Hand-selected wine from Fearrington Sommelier Colin Williams.

Saturdays, 3 p.m.; Thru Aug 27. The Goat, Pittsboro. www. fearrington.com/eateries/thegoat.

page READINGS & SIGNINGS Ralph Hardy: Children’s author.

Tue, Aug 30, 4 p.m. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org.

Danny Johnson: Debut novel The Last Road Home. Sat, Aug 27, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro. www.mcintyresbooks. com.

North Carolina Poetry Society Reading: Tara Lynn Groth, Myrna Merran, and Hilde Weisert. Sun, Aug 28, 2 p.m.

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

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Craig Werner: We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War. Mon, Aug 29, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www. regulatorbookshop.com.

LITERARY R E L AT E D Audio Under the Stars: Work It: Audio storytelling about labor and leisure. Fri, Aug 26, 8 p.m. Duke Campus: Center for Documentary Studies, Durham. www.cdsporch.org.

Bullish on Durham: Neighborhood Panel: Robert Korstad and Benjamin Filippo discuss housing inequities in Durham. Tue, Aug 30, 7 p.m.

Stanford L Warren Branch Library, Durham. www. durhamcountylibrary.org.

Sheridan Bushnell, Brooks de Wetter-Smith: Poetry reading with flute performance. Fri, Aug 26, 7:30 p.m. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www.joyfuljewel.com.

Robert Cassanova: Reading from Visual Rhythms of Art, Science and Religion and showing photography. Wed, Aug 24, 12:30 p.m. The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh. www.themahlerfineart. com.

DURM Talks: Discussion of local politics and community issues. Tue, Aug 30, 7 p.m. Beyù Caffè, Durham. www.beyucaffe. com.

John Kessel: Science fiction author. Fri, Aug 26, 7 p.m. NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. www.naturalsciences. org.

Adam Jones: Novel Fate Ball.

Thu, Aug 25, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com.

Liz McGuffy: Discussing Mary Hancock: One of North Carolina’s Most Successful Unknown Writers. Thu, Aug 25, 7 p.m.

Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com.

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