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Like the Dix Park sunflowers and crowds of college students, Hopscotch Music Festival is a local seasonal demarcation, signaling the slow shift from summer to fall. It’s wild to think that it’s already next week. 

If you’re going or considering going, Jordan Lawrence has a guide to this year’s acts—the comedy shows, doom metal inclusions, and experimental acts to catch. It can be easy to get overwhelmed by a hundred-plus tiny band names scrunched on a lineup, but Jordan’s a festival veteran and knows better than anyone how to navigate the landscape. 

More below. Thank you for reading, and happy Labor Day! 

Musician Tift Merritt at home in Raleigh – read our profile of her here. Photo by Matt Ramey.

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Raleigh musician Tift Merritt has a special two-part release out today—a remastered reissue of her second album Tambourine (that’s the one that the beautiful “Good Hearted Man,” a song I’ve been listening to since college, is on), and Time and Patience, a companion album with acoustic demos and a few unreleased songs from the same era. 

On the occasion, I wrote a profile of Merritt and her deep community involvement, in the years since she moved back to Raleigh (including a dreamy lodge/neighborhood bar that she is opening next summer!), and why “time and patience” is an apt reflection of her artistry. 

More big news this week: Shadowbox Studio co-owners Alex Maness and Jim Haverkamp announced that they plan to open an arthouse cinema, Skin and Bones Theater, in downtown Durham next summer. Huge! The intimate venue will be located on historic Black Wall Street at 118 Parrish Street. Read more about their plans here, and familiarize yourself with Shadowbox’s phenomenal experimental programming with this feature on its tenth anniversary. 

Here are some ideas of things to do this weekend, including a wild Duke Arts event featuring a “hybrid AI-human entity” that is open to the public next week. 

Lena Geller’s “Lunch Money” column this week is on Global Suq, a Palestinian-owned market and grill on a corner of South Roxboro Street in Durham. Read for: some grocery shopping ideas, the Friday special, and chicken shawarma wrap. And as part of our ongoing “Ask INDY” column, she has some thoughts—as someone who was once a child in Durham!—about places to take your kids out to eat. 

Finally, Jacob Tobia—who grew up in Raleigh, currently lives in Durham, and is the author of Sissy—spoke with writer Jasmine Gallup about their new book, which looks at the way the patriarchy hurts women and men and imagines a world with greater gender freedom.

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Uproar Festival announced this year’s winners. Durham non-profit Book Harvest celebrated the installation of its 100th book hub. A preview of the newly remodeled NC Museum of History. Danish artist Thomas Dambo’s large troll sculptures are coming to Raleigh. The Chicken Hut, the oldest Black-owned restaurant in Durham (and historically, one of the most generous), is the recipient of a $50k preservation grant. 

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