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Utility accused of running ‘dog and pony show’
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Duke Energy was accused of launching a local joint energy task force that amounts to little more than “a dog and pony show” during a May 5 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners at UNC Asheville’s Sherrill Center. CIBO member Mac Swicegood voiced the criticism during a questionand-answer peMac riod that followed a Swicegood presentation by Duke Energy’s Jason Walls. “Now you’ve got a task force comprised of Brownie (Newman), who’s in the solar panel business; and Julie (Mayfield), who’s trying to stop everything, and you’re stuck in the Jason Walls middle,” Swicegood told Walls, who is also a member of the three-person unit. “It’s like a dog and pony show.” Newman, who lives in the Montford
AHS conductor, prized intern bid adieu
community, founded — in 2015 — a new solar energy company, Headwaters Solar. He is chairman of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. Mayfield, who lives in West Asheville, is co-director of MountainTrue and a member of Asheville City Council. MountainTrue battles for area environmental and conservation causes. In a state hearing, MountainTrue was a key opponent to Duke Energy’s plan to replace its coal-fired generator in South Asheville with two new 280-megawatt combined cycle natural gas-fired electric generating units with fuel oil backup. At the same hearing, Swicegood spoke strongly in favor of Duke’s proposal. Duke eventually received approval to proceed with the two natural gas generators. In responding to Swicegood’s verbal joust, Walls said, “Personalities aside, I think we have a lot of the right people around the table... Brownie and Julie, each, were appointed by their respective political bodies, and I was appointed by Duke.” He added, “I’m going to resist you’re saying ‘dog and pony show’ because I don’t think that’s a very nice phrase… So I think we have a real opportunity to make real progress....” See ‘DOG AND PONY SHOW,’ Page A9
Wedding his appetite
Q: I have this disturbing pattern. I’ve dated three different guys, each of whom said he didn’t want to get married, wasn’t ready, whatever. But then, the next girl they met…BAM! Walking down the aisle. Why am I marriage boot camp, but never the one the guy marries? — Aisle Seat It’s depressing when the only place you’re ever “registered” is at the DMV. There’s a reason you suspect your experience is a meaningful pattern, and it’s the same reason people think they see the Virgin Mary in their toast. Our minds are meaning-making machines. We evolved to
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be deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty — probably because an uncertain world is a more dangerous world. Say a man hands you some blue liquid in a glass. You’re all, “Hmmm…should I drink that or take it home in case I ever need to dissolve a dead body in the bathtub?” We figure out what things are by looking for patterns — ways that the things match up to things we’ve encountered before. So, regarding that blue liquid, yes, Drano is blue, but it isn’t sold in a martini glass and garnished with a tiny paper umbrella. See ADVICE GODDESS, Page A11
Special photos by EAKIN HOWARD
A conductor and an intern conductor of the Asheville High School Band were honored during the “Hello Spring” concert on May 18 at AHS. Above (from left) are Emily Talley and Sarah Maccio. Talley is shifting jobs at AHS after many years with the band, while Maccio is moving on to another school after serving as an intern. Talley termed Maccio the best band conductor intern in recent school history and much-loved by the band members. Talley conducted the AHS Wind Symphony in “O Magnum Mysterium” and “Arabesque.” Maccio conducted the Wind Symphony in “Inglesina.”
Opponents of APD’s $1M request pack hearing; demand spending elsewhere From Staff Reports
Asheville City Council chambers were filled to overflowing May 23 with a big and vocal crowd opposing additional funding for the hiring of 15 new police officers. A $1 million request, sought by Asheville Police Chief Tammy Hooper, would finance the addition of more officers with the aim of reversing the 17 percent jump in violent crime, mostly in the downtown district. In response, activists, protesting under the slogan of “$1 Million for the People,” say the funds, instead, should go to public transit or anti-poverty programs. The hearing on the APD issue lasted more than two hours, as mostly opponents
— and a few proponents — voiced their viewpoints, often passionately. The hearing was the last opportunity to comment on the budget before council’s vote on June 13. The Rev. Amy Among the speakers, Cantrell the Rev. Amy Cantrell, the protest organizer, told council that she is giving it a petition — with 903 signatures “and climbing” — that says “we need more community. That community creates safety, and not expanding police.” See APD, Page A9
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Colt Prattes as dance instructor Johnny Castle and Abigail Breslin as Baby Houseman dance during a scene from the TV remake of “Dirty Dancing.”
‘Dirty Dancing’ remake can’t hold a candle to the original By JOHN NORTH
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The small-screen remake of the 1987 sleeper mega-hit movie “Dirty Dancing,” which was filmed last summer in Western North Carolina and featured extras from the area, was telecast May 24 on ABC-TV and, while it had its bright spots, generally it was a flop — and even cringe-worthy. The original “Dirty Dancing” was fueled by its highenergy characters, most notably handsome, swivelhipped, charismatic Patrick Swayze as dance instructor Johnny Castle and the mesmerizing, deceptively pretty and obviously smart Jennifer Grey as Baby Houseman. Also, even though Swayze and Grey were known not to get along in real life, they had — indisputably — white-hot chemistry on-screen. (Tragically, Swayze died from pancreatic cancer at age 57 in 2009.) In contrast, the “Dirty Dancing” remake featuring a fit-looking Colt Prattes as Johnny and a chunky Abigail Breslin as Baby plods along, drearily and lifelessly, and not only is there no spark between the two leads, scenes from the previous movie that were classic, such as “The Lift” of Baby over Johnny’s head, are recreated in the remake in such a dull way as to cause one to cringe. Indeed, the energy level putters along throughout this debacle in low gear. Could it be the cast was just going through the motions, realizing it could not eclipse the magnificent performances by Swayze and Grey about 30 years ago? One wonders. Despite some changes, including development of some minor characters, such as Baby’s sister Lisa (played by Sarah Hyland) and her parents (Debra Messing and Bruce Greenwood), and the inclusion of African-Americans and more graphic sex scenes than in the original, it is, by and large, just a retread of a more enjoyable film, perhaps produced in a halfhearted attempt to capitalize on the 30th anniversary of a true movie classic. And, perhaps it should come as no surprise that the original “Dirty Dancing” had a runtime of one hour 40 minutes, while the hefty remake slightly exceeds two hours, but was shown on TV in a three-hour slot. It was obvious that the remake was shot to accommodate a maddening number of commercial breaks. Ugh! See ‘DIRTY DANCING,’ Page 13
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Mission’s Macon hospital won’t include labor, delivery services From Staff Reports
FRANKLIN — In unveiling plans to build a new $43 million replacement community hospital with no labor and delivery services, Mission Health’s chief executive officer expressed his deep regrets to Macon County residents on April 28. Dr. Ronald Paulus, president and CEO of Mission Health, said at a news conference in Asheville that the nonprofit regional health care system was faced with two bad alternatives in an increasingly regulated and expensive health care environment. “We are very sorry that we cannot keep this program open,” he told reporters. “We looked at every possibility that we could conceive of ... We just couldn’t find a way.” Mission Health is the state’s sixth largest health system. It operates six hospitals in Western North Carolina, including Angel Medical Center in Franklin. Women in Macon County wanting to deliver at a hospital now will have to drive 67 miles from Franklin to Asheville, as Mission also is closing its Sylva practices for women and children. (See related story on this page.) Changes to the Affordable Care Act, coupled with cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, and North Carolina’s refusal to expand government subsidized health care for the poor has put extraordinary pressure on the health care system, Paulus said, leaving it $34 million behind its original projections with little hope for an upswing. Seventy-seven percent of the patients at Angel Medical Center are either uninsured or insured by Medicaid and Medicare, he said. For the Mission Heath System as a whole, 75 percent are either uninsured or on Meidcare or Mediacid.
Spruce Pine hospital could lose its maternity services
SPRUCE PINE — Mission Health announced recently that it will make a final decision in the coming months on a plan to shift labor and delivery services offered at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital in Spruce Pine to McDowell Hospital in Marion. “A final decision has not yet been made, but we are reviewing a proposal to combine the two programs at McDowell Hospital where there is a stable, high quality OBGYN practice and a new, state-of-the-art replacement hospital will soon open,” Mission Health CEO Ron Paulus said in written responses to questions from the Asheville Citizen-Times. Under the proposal, labor and delivery services would be consolidated at McDowell Hospital and, therefore, no longer available at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital.
Mission to close Sylva practices for women, kids
SYLVA — Mission Health announced on May 24 that — in September — it will shut down its pediatric and women’s health centers in Jackson County. The number of employees who will be terminated in the move was not immediately available. Staff members at Mission Children’s Sylva and Mission Women’s Sylva learned of the decision in mid-May. Mission Health’s action takes place four years after announcing it would bring Sylva Pediatrics, now Mission Children’s Sylva, under the umbrella of Mission Children’s Hospital as part of a push to provide “specialized care to local, convenient settings.”
Tribal council votes to impeach chief of Cherokee’s Eastern Band
From Staff Reports
CHEROKEE — After four days of testimony, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council voted 9-3 on May 25 to impeach Principal Chief Patrick Lambert. The action marked only the second time — since the early 1800s — that the tribe has forced a chief from office. Facing 12 articles of impeachment, Lambert was found guilty of eight and not guilty of four. Only one guilty verdict was needed in order Patrick to impeach the chief, accordLambert ing to the rules of the special impeachment hearing. A majority of council members believed that Lambert violated hiring practices, made business contracts inappropriately and acted to benefit himself. Thoughout the proceedings, Lambert denied all charges, calling them tantamount to a political witch hunt. After the vote to oust him from office, Lambert addressed 15 of his supporters, who marched out of the courtroom after the impeachment vote. They also vented their ire that Vice Chief Richard Sneed appeared to be rushed to the courtroom to be sworn into office as the new principal chief immediately after the vote. “Those nine just overruled 71 percent of this tribe,” Lambert told his supporters, according to a report from Asheville’s WLOS-TV. “What we saw in there, as well, was those nine trying to swear in a new chief. However, that new chief would not allow the people to speak.”
Lambert’s supporters said he was just trying to clean up fraud and corruption. “He’s not trying to make no money,” Barbara Wouldroup told WLOS. “He’s not trying to do anything, but just help everybody.” A new vice chief will be chosen from the tribal council’s ranks after Memorial Day.
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Spicer Greene Jewelers robbed at gunpoint by men on dirtbikes
In an unusual smash-and-grab crime, three suspects wearing motorcycle helmets and wielding a hammer and a handgun robbed Spicer Greene Jewelers on the afternoon of May 3, Asheville police reported. The suspects arrived and left on two red and white dirt bikes — and everyone was wearing black clothing, police Lt. Geoffrey Rollins said. No shots were fired and there were no injuries in the robbery that occurred around 4:15 p.m., he noted. One suspect wore a grey hoodie, another wore
a full-faced white-and-red helmet, and a third suspect wore a full-faced, white-and-yellow helmet, Rollins said. One suspect stood lookout, while the two others entered the store, “smashed one of the jewelry cases with a hammer, displayed a firearm, collected a bunch of jewelry and were gone very quickly,” Rollins told reporters. The robbers arrived via Otis Street and left the same way, Rollins said. The suspects remained at large as of the Daily Planet’s May 26 press deadline.
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Wicked Weed to sell to Anheuser-Busch; backlash ensues; Funkatorium canceled From Staff Reports
Anheuser-Busch InBev— a brewing giant, making its first U.S. craft brewery purchase of 2017 — announced on May 3 its acquisition of Asheville’s Wicked Weed Brewing. The acquisition prompted an outcry among Asheville craft beer enthusiasts in the local news media and on social media. Wicked Weed, billed as an innovative brewery, will be joining A-B’s The High End, a business unit focused on craft and import brands. The High End was established in 2015
Wicked Weed, founded in Asheville in 2012 by Walt and Luke Dickinson and Ryan, Rick and Denise Guthy, has created nearly 600 different beers since it opened almost five years ago. The owners said on May 3 that they anticipated the 1,000-beer mark might be reached relatively quickly.But they said not to expect major changes at the brewery with the pending acquisition. In the aftermath, Wicked Weed announced that it will cancel its July Funkatorium Invitational, previously known as Funk Asheville. It plans, instead, to host another “reimagined” festival on Sept. 16.
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Friday, June 2
WEEKEND LECTURES, 7 p.m., First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1735 5th Ave. West, Hendersonville. The Rev. J. Pittman McGehee, D.D, will address “Making the Transcendent Imminent” June 2-4. His talk is part of the church’s Walter E. Ashley Memorial Lecture Series. At 7 p.m. June 2, McGehee will address “The Paradox of Love.” At 10 am. June 3, he will speak on “Creating a Twenty-First Century Psycho/Spiritual Worldview.” Lunch will be available for attendees at noon June 3, followed by a 1 p.m. address on “The Invisible Church.” At 9 a.m. June 4, McGehee will lead the Adult Forum, and then preach on “Shining the Light of Consciousness on the Dark Side of the Soul” at the 10:30 a.m. worship service,. He will address McGehee is an Episcopal priest and Jungian analyst in private practice in Austin, Texas. He is widely known as a lecturer and educator in the field of psychology and religion, as well as a published poet and essayist. He is the author of “The Invisible Church: Finding Spirituality Where You Are (Praeger Press, 2008),” “Raising Lazarus: The Science of Healing the Soul (2009),” “Words Made Flesh” and “The Paradox of Love.”
Wednesday, June 7
Sacred Insights Message Circle, 6:308:30 p.m., Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. The monthly Sacred Insights Message Circle will be led by Sandra Sullivan. She works with the Counsel of Ancients and the Counsel of Ages. They deliver a group message as well as personal messages for individuals in the group time permitting. Each message has information for each person. If time permits, a question-and-answer session will be held aterward. Sullivan is billed as “a gifted and talented spiritual intuitive and Tarot reader.” Admission is $15 per person.
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‘Dog and pony show’ Continued from Page A1 In response to Walls, Swicegood said flatly, “But I want to be assured that I’ll have electricity when I switch on something in the morning….” To that, Walls asserted, “We (Duke Energy) wouldn’t be involved in anything without that. We have a state mandate to provide reliable electricity at a reasonable price.” CIBO had invited Walls, who has been Asheville district manager for Duke Energy for four years, to provide an update on the utility’s local Energy Innovation Task Force. On a personal note, Walls began by saying, “Asheville has become home for us (his family) — and we don’t want to go anywhere soon.” He added, “There’s never been a more exciting time to be at Duke Energy than right now.” In his talk, he would “set the stage — and then overview EITS,” Walls told CIBO. “In 2015, we were able to leverage a large natural gas expansion project,” Walls said. “That made it possible for us to retire the Asheville coal plant. “When we learned about PSNC’s plans to expand the (natural gas) pipeline, we made the economic decision to retire the coal plant early and build the (two) naturalgas plants” to replace it. “A big part of that is that Asheville and Buncombe County are growing at a rate — really — much faster than anywhere else in North Carolina. We are punching in as fast as Charlotte and other places… insofar as our growth rate on electricity. “We knew our new plant would be needed … a combustion turbine peaker plant. The commission did not approve that. At the same time, we heard from the community that we can curb our demand for electricity, through solar” and other alternatives, “so we listened.” He said one of Duke Energy’s primary objectives is to invest in a smarter energy future. For instance, he said that “battery storage is a technology that is evolving…. “So we started the Energy Innovation Task Force — building the airplane we were flying on. It was three members – me, Brownie Newman and Julie Mayfield. We realized about five months in, that we needed help. So we enlisted the help of the Rocky Mountain Institute. “What we found is they brought with
them a lot of credibility in the power conservation and community organizing space. So they will help us decide what’s costeffective” and help address “what will give us the best bang for the buck,” Walls said. He added that a question Duke Energy was addressing with the task force was “how do we leverage the spirit of the community to conserve?” What’s more, Walls said, “The Shelton Group was hired to do community engagement plan to help drive more conservation behavior.” He concluded by noting that the task force “was born out of the community.” Besides Swicegood’s aforementioned comments during the question-and-answer session that followed, an unidentified man said, “Some of the numbers I’ve seen have been pretty attractive about battery technology. Tell us more.” “We have an early-morning peak in WNC,” Walls replied. “Solar doesn’t help us. But when you add battery storage, then it can help. Batteries also have other stacked benefits. You can use it (battery power) during peak times. The thing about storage, as technology becomes more efficient and prices come down,” it becomes a more viable option. Another unidentified man asked Walls to comment on delays in Duke Energy’s response to service requests “because of the economic spurt.” “We’re adding meters” and other improvements “more than we were prior to the Great Recession,” Walls answered. “We’re rebuilding our staff. Over the last two years, we’ve got some orders that are getting pushed back two weeks to several months. We’re in a really high-growth community, so we really have to staff up.” Yet another unidentified man asked “if there are other possibilities besides solar? Seems like lots of other technologies emerging even faster than solar.” “Before we create new programs, we have to figure out why customers aren’t leveraging the programs we have today,” Walls replied. “I’d say there is no technology on the table” — beside solar and battery storage. “There is opportunity and room for a lot of discussion.” On an unrelated matter at the CIBO meeting, Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene presented the county’s budget proposal for fiscal 2017-18. The budget would increase by 2.3 per-
Continued from Page A1 Referencing the larger national debate over police racial bias was Dewanna Little, a black resident, who said, “We (AfricanAmericans) are the ones who police stop, walking down the street. Other speakers assumed more confrontational stances, with some questioning the role of police in society. Others questioned the basic structure of Asheville’s government. One speaker read aloud a long description of the “pig,” as a species. (“Pig” also is a derogatory reference to police.) Another opponent to the police hiring read an analysis of policing as a tool of state violence that included references to German philosopher Friedrich Engels (1820-1895). Engels also was a revolutionist and social theorist — and, with Karl Marx, was the cofounder of modern socialism. Jake Swett said the gathering represented workers’ growing dissatisfaction over low wages and what he called a lack of government transparency. “There’s a lot more of us than of them, or of you,” Swett told council. “We’re starting to organize. If we don’t start to see real sustainable change in our government here, I can’t even
speak to what will happen.” Despite Mayor Esther Manheimer’s requests for citizens to refrain from applauding at the meeting, the crowd cheered loudly on occasion. Dee Williams, one of two black candidates for council, said during the hearing that policing is based on historic oppression, and that that needed to change. “Modern policing is no more than compilation of, let’s face it, slave catching and protection of property that folks who are landed gentry own,” Williams asserted. Two other council candidates who spoke included transit activist Kim Roney, who opposed the new police funding, and South Asheville resident and municiopal budget specialist Vijay Kapoor, who said there needs to be more clarity about how the city is going to spend the $74 million in voter-approved bond borrowing. Among the few citizens and leaders of police labor groups who spoke in favor of the APD expenditure was Rondell Lance, president of the Fraternal Order of Police. Lance said anti-police sentiment expressed at the hearing was unfair, “Believe it or not, these people in the police department love the city... They will come and lay down their lives for you.”
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cent increase — or $7 million, Greene said. She noted that “we’re ‘creatures of the state,’ so we can only have” limited leeway in making decisions on spending and ways to generate revenue “The property tax is all we can use — it’s 62.7 percent of our revenue stream. Greene added, “Counties exist primarily to administer state-level programs” in North Carolina. “In our budget, that (state mandates) reflects 92 percent of our expenditures. The other 8 percent” is for facilities and services, such as libraries. “So it’s a really tightly controlled budget by the state.” In the county’s budget proposal, 41 percent of our expenditures are salaries and benefits,” she said. “This year we looked at education because we had so many questions on how the funds are spent... For us, homeschooled (children) have a big impact on our libraries... So it’s a fairly complex revenue stream. We do have some new costs in our budget this year. Primarily, from opening the Coxe Avenue (county health and human services) facility.” Greene noted that $2.8 million of the budget is “primarily to restore the exterior of our old courthouse” and “we do carry about $4.7 million in debt — 62 percent of that debt is paid with restricted funds... We also have some economic development debt, and that’s paid with lease payments. “We’re timing out debt a lot better than we used to,” she said. Following a May 16 retreat, where she and the county Board of Commissioners reviewed the financial state of the county, Greene said a public hearing on the budget plan would be held June 6. A final vote on the budget is scheduled June 20. “That’s the turbo-verson of our budget,” Greene concluded with a smile. During the Q&A session that followed, Swicegood said, approvingly, “You
(Greene) speak about a million dollars like they are dollars…. The numbers are phenomenal. Each year, you get stuck with some fee from the state. In 2017, we lost $600,000 in sales tax” due to changes by the state, Greene replied. “We will lose $1.4 million in sales tax” unless the state is able to get things changed for this year. “Right now, what we’re especially dealing with is sales tax.” An unidentified man asked, “$1.3 billion in assets? Are you depreciating those assets?” “These are all brick-and-mortar assets,” Greene answered. “In government, you don’t depreciate it. So it’s the price we paid when we acquired it, based on the debt against it.” A woman asked for clarification on revenue-neutral numbers that Greene had revealed during her talk. “You get to keep the growth on a year that you didn’t have a rebound,” the county manager replied. “It would have been 53.4 cents. But with spending, it’s 55.9 cents in the budget....” A man asked for Greene to specify what the $7 million expenditure covered. “To open the Coxe Avenue facility and utilities, which she said totaled $4.9 million) … and NC FAST and some retirement issues... The retirement system is entirely driven by the state.” A man quipped, “What’s fair is not always equal!” Greene and many in the CIBO crowd laughed at the witticism. A man then asked, “How much extra money might be gained from growth?” “Growth was worth about 1.7 percent in our property tax,” Greene said. “It was a big increase in the revaluation.” She added that in Asheville, the Central Business District, North Asheville and West Asheville, “had huge increases.”
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The Daily Planet’s Opinion
Better solution needed than cutting maternity services
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lans to eliminate labor and delivery services at Mission Health’s Angel Medical Center in Franklin and — possibly — cutting the same services at its Blue Ridge Regional Hospital in Spruce Pine need to be shelved. We agree with the viewpoint expressed recently by Franklin Mayor Bob Scott, who, in asking Mission to reconsider while noting that tensions are high in his town, asserted, “I’ve never seen so much passion in all my years in politics... We’re not sure what the answer is, but we think the situation deserves a closer look, considering how much is at stake.” In defending Mission’s stance, Paulus referenced changes to the Affordable Care Act, along with cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, and North Carolina’s refusal to expand government subsidized health care for the poor, putting major pressure on the health care system. As a result, it is $34 million behind its original projections with little hope for improvement. (Mission Health, based in Asheville, is the state’s largest private employer west of Charlotte.) Seventy-seven percent of the patients at Angel Medical Center are either uninsured or insured by Medicaid and Medicare, Paulus said. Across Mission Heath System that number is 75 percent, making it a struggle for the company to make money. Obviously, one tack for Mission would be to charge more to those who are able to pay for services to generate enough extra money to support the continuation of maternity services. However, that doesn’t strike us as fair. For every problem, there is a solution — and cutting maternity services, in our view, only magnifies the problem, particularly for already-stressed pregnant women and their families. Mission, with its vast resources, if pressed, surely could come up with a better way to provide hospital services (including maternity) — and still make money.
Dangers of the blame game highlighted
CHAPEL HILL — Reactions to the socalled repeal of HB2 show one reason why Democrats are already in trouble for the 2018 and 2020 elections. They had hoped this year would be a time of unity to mobilize opposition to the “mis-administration” of the other party in Washington and the state legislature. Instead of strengthening their party and bringing it together for successfully ridding the state of much of the damage from HB2, the repeal has brought about more disappointment and disunity. Instead of unifying and celebrating the achievement of their party’s leader, Gov. Roy Cooper, Democrats have broken into angry factions. Many of the state’s more important and influential figures have attacked the governor for “selling out” by accepting a compromise, which is, so they say, worse than HB2 itself. Mark Joseph Stern, writing for Slate, noted, “As soon as the ‘compromise’ bill was revealed, however, LGBTQ groups lined up against it, arguing, in essence, that the cure would be worse than the disease. They are absolutely correct. The measure, HB142, would be an unmitigated disaster for LGBTQ rights. It substitutes the old anti-trans policy for new, equally cruel one—and prevents cities from protecting their own LGBTQ residents. This bill is not a compromise. It is a capitulation.” The editorial board of The Charlotte Observer joined the chorus criticizing Cooper, calling his actions “a betrayal of the promises the governor made to the LGBT community.” Continuing its harsh attack, the Observer wrote, “This was the first real test of leadership for Gov. Cooper, a Democrat, and he failed spectacularly by inexplicably discarding his earlier promise not to accept any deal that left people vulnerable to discrimination.” Chris Sgro, executive director of Equality North Carolina, wrote “Bitterly disappointed in a man I truly believed was the future of North Carolina.” Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, wrote that while Cooper was taking credit for HB2’s repeal, “He did no such thing. Instead he signed a new version of HB2 and betrayed [his] campaign promise.” One radio caller, angry with Cooper and the compromise, said she would rather
D.G. Martin carry the burden of HB2 for a lifetime than accept a compromise or anything other than the law’s unconditional repeal. At least this caller recognized the choices that were then available to Cooper: 1. Negotiate a compromise with the legislators who passed HB2 in the first place, who still supported it, and who still had control of the legislature, or 2. Live with HB2 indefinitely, at least until, when and if, the political situation in North Carolina changes. Most Republicans were not eager to repeal HB2. Lt. Gov. Dan Forrest defended it and opposed the compromise: “I’m proud of the stance we’ve taken. I’m proud of the work we did to protect women and kids in bathrooms. I’m proud of the work we did to uphold the Constitution. I think that the only thing that was wrong with HB2 was the false narrative and the negative narrative from the left, from the media, from the leftist groups out there who were coming against North Carolina and boycotting North Carolina.” Forrest’s comments are a reminder that legislative supporters of a full repeal were a minority against a steadfast majority that was unwilling to support and vote for an unconditional appeal. To get HB2 repealed, there had to be a compromise. It is certainly fair to criticize the compromise and work for an expansion of protections for gay and transgender rights. But now is not the time to turn on Cooper just because he did not get it all. There will be other chances, after elections in coming years. But Democrats who are trashing Cooper and those who supported the compromise are jeopardizing their party’s unity and its chances to do well in those upcoming elections. • D.G. Martin hosts “North Carolina Bookwatch,” which airs at 9:30 p.m. Fridays and at 5 p.m. Sundays on UNC-TV.
Letters to the Editor
Happy birthday (May 14) to the great Frank Sinatra
As is my custom, at this time I take a few moments to honor the memory of singer/ actor/director/entertainer Frank Sinatra who passed away 19 years ago on May 14, 1998. His talents in the aforementioned categories cannot be denied and I hope that people around the globe will join me and the likes of singers Peggy King and the Philly based All Star Jazz Trio, Harry Prime, Tony Bennett, Jane Powell, Michael Buble, music director/musician George Roumanis, Frank Sinatra WYYR program director Chris Valenti, Global Productions musician/talent promoter Billy Jon Coogan, music archivist Anthony DiFlorio III, DJs Jonathan Schwartz, Ronnie Allen and Sinatra maven/author Will Friedwald. May his legacy of superb choices of songs from the Great American Songbook live on forever. There is an untitled Broadway musical production in the works — based on Sinatra’s fabulous career — for 2018. I wish all involved much success. Frank Sinatra will always be “A-number one, top of the list” in our hearts. His contributions to the entertainment industry virtually demand remembrance. HERB STARK Mooresville EDITOR’S NOTE: The lyric fragment quoted in the second to the last paragraph of Stark’s letter is — as any
Sinatra fan would know — from Sinatra’s classic, “New York, New York!”
Bold, honest, visionary idealistic leadership needed
With the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution, this country was founded on a heroic vision of a society of unprecedented optimism and hope. The greatest two presidents since this country’s founding, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, were able to rally the nation and move it through times of unprecedented danger with eloquence and sincerity. As we enter what I believe is a critical period of our history, such leaders of stature, courage and vision are nowhere to be found. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are among several progressive leaders who speak clearly and boldly, but I fear without the charismatic clarion quality the times require. Environmental crisis, international chaos, growing income inequality and technology replacing the human workforce are the realities and challenges facing us, and our government, business and educational institutions are completely inadequate to the task. Instead, we have a cynical charlatan in the presidency who tapped into this need with hollow calls to “greatness,” but takes our country backward and builds an autocracy rather than strengthening our democracy. Meanwhile, Republican controlled legislatures at the federal and state levels are intent on enriching the rich and dismantling government as protector of the people and environment, undermining democracy at every opportunity to solidify their own power. See LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Page A12
The Candid Conservative
Stealing our kids
“If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.” — Rebecca Manley Pippert •
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f you’re a graduate of a public-school system, odds are you’re going to have trouble with this one. Please read on. The slippery reasons for a lack of intellectual traction may be of interest. It’s never too late to get educated. Know any public-school teachers? You should. And with an assumption of your interest in the future of our culture, might we suggest you ask them how they feel about their work? If they’re honest, the answer will be discouraging. We have a lot of unhappy people spending seven hours a day programming our kids. Don’t blame the teachers. It’s as true today as it ever was that most go into education from a good heart. By the time our hyper-centralized education system gets through pounding them into submission, psychological defibrillation is in order. Happy to help. Corrupting our culture Twentieth century earth saw tremendous advances in technology, health and prosperity. Amidst these successes there were setbacks – a global depression and two world wars. Out of the carnage a group of people – let’s lump them into a category we’ll call Progressive-Liberal-Socialists – found purchase among the many who saw man as
Carl Mumpower doomed under existing social structures. These learned scholars – some who were lingering voices from the previous century – were characterized by three qualities – they were smart; they were angry; and they were radical. They were also people with a mission of corrupting America’s culture. The names – Freud, Darwin, Marx, Dewey, Sanger, Friedan, Ayers, Zinn, Alinsky, Kinsey, Foucault and others – may or may not ring a bell. In the echoes of the 21st century left, their beliefs are immediately recognizable. At the top of their passions came the idea of moral relativism. This is the pretense that ethics are fluid and that there really isn’t such a thing as a moral code – just man’s temporary ideas on what it should be. Hitler, Stalin and Mao lived off this mantra. If one wishes to rewrite an existing culture’s script, it’s important to kill enthusiasm for the original. At the hand of these humanistic zealots, Christianity was redefined as the “opiate of the masses” and capitalism as “exploiting the masses.” That both had uplifted more people than any social movements in history was conveniently discarded. Power interests are rarely interested in the truth. See CANDID CONSERVATIVE, Page A14
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Commentary People must act to put checks, balances on Trump
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resident Trump is not writing a fantasy novel, tweet by tweet. What he writes is what he thinks. And some of it is constitutionally scary. One thing is clear: he doesn’t like to be told what he can do and can’t do. And our Constitution does a lot of that. Us old folks learned about the Constitution in a high school class called Citizenship. Mine was taught by A.L. Williams, the baseball coach. He kept a stack of blackboard erasers on his desk that he whizzed at sleeping students with a catcher’s snap throw. He taught Citizenship from the perspective of a WWII veteran who had fought for American freedoms. “Boys,” he would say – girls still had their own high school – “America is the greatest country in the world.” He loved the Constitution.
Lee Ballard What we learned in Citizenship has stayed with us. We see our Constitution as flawless. Its system of checks and balances is fail-safe. We assume if one branch of government is abusing power, they will be checked, and balance will be restored. We learned wrong. Long before our Founding Fathers and their Constitution, philosophers had written about what came to be called “checks and balances” – the balance between the monarchy, the nobility and the people’s Parliament.
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Continued from Page A1 it when women ask them out. However, Also, bartenders keep their job by having research suggests that this may permayou pay your tab, not having you carried nently lower a woman’s worth in a man’s out in convulsions by a couple of EMS eyes. Men value women who are hard to dudes. get, not those who eagerly pursue them — Although our mind’s tendency to recsometimes with all the subtlety of a golden retriever chasing a hot dog down a hill. ognize patterns helps us quickly identify Being Hard To Be Around: A review threats and opportunities, it often does of research on personality by psycholothis too quickly and on too little evidence. gist John M. Malouff finds three characNeuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga and teristics that are likely to eat away at a psychologist Daniel Kahneman each caurelationship: neuroticism (a psych term for tion that our mind is so intent on having being nervous, chronically distressed, and things be concrete that when we’re faced with ambiguous or incomplete information, volatile), a lack of conscientiousness (being it will invent a tidy explanation to fill in the disorganized, unreliable, and lacking in self-control), and disagreeableness (beblanks. ing an unpleasant, egotistical, hostile and Your mind may be doing that now in seeing a meaningful pattern in guys sweep- argumentative mofo). The Undercooked Man: Behavioral ing you off your feet and then, like that science research supports the evolutionary annoying shopper who’s just reached the theory that women — even today — priregister, their going: “Ooops…don’t want this one. Gonna run and grab the other one. oritize male partners who can “invest” (a preference that men coevolved to expect). Sorrreeeeee!” For example, marriage researchers BarHowever, epidemiologist and stats ninja bara Dafoe Whitehead and David Popenoe Sander Greenland reminded me that just find that “men want to be financially ‘set’ because we’re prone to see a pattern where before they marry.” Career attainment and there is none doesn’t mean a particular stability are likely a major part of this. So, pattern isn’t meaningful (as opposed to occurring randomly — by coincidence, like if unfortunately, a relationship with a man in you tossed a coin and got heads three times transition can end up being a sort of FEMA tent on the road to permanent housing. in a row). Ultimately, instead of deeming yourself One way you figure out whether somedeath row for “happily ever after,” try to thing is due to coincidence or is a real choose wisely and be a valuable (rather effect is by having lots of examples of it. than costly) partner. That’s really your best If you’d dated 10 men who’d left you to bet for eventually walking down the aisle marry somebody else, it might say some— and not just to hear, “Do you take this thing. Might. But three? Greenland points woman … till the last of your nine little out that in looking at what seems to be lives do you part?” a pattern, “we tend to forget the times • it didn’t happen (like before we started (c.) 2017, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. noticing the claimed pattern).” Also, if you believe there’s a pattern -- that you’re a sort Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 of fruit bin where men go to ripen -- maybe Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com. you start acting differently because of it, coloring your results. (Selffulfilling prophecy kinda 1,200 square feet of merchandise thing: “Why try? He’ll be outta here anyway.”) In short, maybe this is a meaningful pattern or maybe it is not. What you can Don’t come without time to explore! explore is whether there are √ Appointments strongly encouraged patterns in your behavior √ Competitive pricing that could be tripping you √ Sales weather permitting up. There are three biggies that research suggests can be relationship killers. Blatant Boy-Chasing: 2046 N. Leicester Hwy.• Asheville, N.C. 28806 Men often claim they like
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These guys were wildly optimistic. As John Trenchard wrote in 1698: “A Government is a mere piece of Clockwork; and having such Springs and Wheels, must act after such a manner….This whole Mystery is only to make the Interest of the Governors and Governed the same.” They even argued that it doesn’t matter whether the ruler is good or bad. What matters is the political system they operate in. If government is properly designed, it will hum along like a clock, and abuse of power can’t happen. Our Founding Fathers bought their philosophy – and borrowed their optimism. They said similar things when selling the Constitution in 1787. And their confidence was warranted – as long as the Fathers (and one son) had power in the White House, the first six presidents. Andrew Jackson was number seven. Jackson didn’t respect the system of government established by the Fathers. When he wanted “Indian removal” to the West, Congress obediently passed such a law – because they feared Jackson’s great popularity with the people. When the Supreme Court ruled that a Georgia law to remove Indians was illegal, Jackson said, “John Marshall made his decision; now let him enforce it.” And he proceeded with removal, eventually using the nation’s military. Jackson was never checked, and balance favored the executive branch. Congress passed Jackson’s economic plan that led to a sevenyear depression.
Our system of checks and balances, you see, is not like a clock. It’s manually operated. People must take action. In the churning weeks before Richard Nixon resigned, those around him worried they would come to work and find tanks encircling the White House to keep Nixon in power. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger gave an order to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to ignore any command from Nixon. A key element in the Nixon drama should not be overlooked: Nixon believed in the Constitution. He turned over tapes when the Supreme Court ordered him to. He didn’t destroy them or defy the Court. He didn’t try to call out the military. He admitted to his chief of staff and press secretary, “I screwed up, didn’t I?” Trump has tendencies like Jackson, but this is not the1830s. Congressional Republicans will likely remain timid out of fear of his fanatically loyal voting bloc, unless things really go terrible for the President. Checks will appear, from places not inscribed in the Constitution, like Schlesinger did with Nixon. And then there’s the media. Ah yes, there’s the media. Trump will try, try again to monkey with the Constitution to gain his ends. And our country will pin-ball from crisis to crisis. My question is: What will Trump do as his frustrations build? Will he quit? Or will he look around at his millions of loyalists and say, “Hmm?” • Lee Ballard lives in Mars Hill.
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Letters to the editor
Continued from Page A10 The realm of commerce is increasingly dominated by international corporate megadynasties who look to and concern themselves only with their own profits. Our educational system has lost its mission to open minds and develop creativity to instead be trade schools for the government and corporate bureaucracies. The concept of stewardship of our environment and institutions toward a high quality of life for generations to come is non-existent. Instead of utopia, only dystopia looms ahead of us. In this country and in Europe, this unease is palpable and results in elections that reject the old order, but fail to bring bold visions for the future, only misguided attempts to recoup past glories based in outdated and failed notions of nationalism and nativism. Bold, honest, visionary, idealistic leadership is called for. If the Democrats want to become relevant and regain authority and leadership, it is a vision of honest, creative and compassionate government serving all the people they must vigorously put forward. We need heroes not bureaucrats. If ever a generation needed Jeffersons, Washingtons, Lincolns and Roosevelts, it is this one. BILL WALZ Asheville
Legislature urged to back Governor’s School funding I’m distressed to read that the Senate Appropriations Act contains a provision to completely defund the Governor’s School of North Carolina. As a student at Enka High School in 1970, I was honored to be nominated and
selected to attend Governor’s School in Choral Music at Salem College. That summer was truly a life-changing event for me. To be able to sing choral music that I’d only heard on records by prestigious professional groups, but also to participate in seminars and conversations with students from all across North Carolina was a revelation on how much talent and academic excellence existed and thrived in this great state. Attending Governor’s School not only helped me be accepted at UNC-Chapel Hill, but more importantly, that summer was a major factor in my decision to concentrate in arts administration, and has led me to my present position as executive director of the Montford Park Players of Asheville. For the sake of future generations of students who are hungry for the knowledge and opportunities they may never receive in their high schools, I urge the House to support full funding of the Governor’s School of North Carolina, so that even more academically gifted and talented students can participate in this wonderful program, which was the first of its kind in the nation, and has been a model for nearly every Governor’s School established since 1963. John Russell Candler
What did your protesting and marching accomplish? Because President Donald Trump was elected as our next president, thousands of people decided to protest and march with signs and sounds: “We want our rights!” You have your rights. Some set fire to things, some broke out windows, etc. But why display such behavior? Because of hate and anger?
Such actions show the ignorance of some Americans/ It will get them nowhere. It was God’s plan he (Trump) be elected. No one can stop God! It is a shame that other countries see the division we hae. What an example — acting like children who didn’t get their way. If all those protesters had been praying for our president and leaders, would not that have been better? EDITH BIDDIX Marion
2 events show mankind’s lack of belief in God’s word
Two separate events show’s how unbelieving of God’s word, mankind has become. Both used the-time-figure 165 million years. The first showed NASA’s gold plated satellite dish that supposedly will go into space and be able to go back some 165 million years into the evolution of the universe. At least, that’s “Man’s” foolish goal! The second was a newspaper announcement of a coming circus event “where you can experience firsthand the giants of today’s world” (elephants) “and enormous creatures from the past” (dinosaurs). That supposedly takes you back 165 million years to the Mesozoic Era, when they say dinosaurs roamed the earth. Problem with that Mesozoic Era time period, and others, is that a human being assigned each layer of rock the time they were formed, and completely ignored the Creator who was there and formed it. God, the Creator, spoke it into being, out of invisible particles, called atoms, and held together by His Word. According to “The Word of God,” time started only a few thousand years ago. God declared the first earthly day after He lit up the Sun, creating night and day, because of
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From Staff Reports The Waymasters, Asheville natives and one of Christian country gospel music’s premier groups, recently added another national honor to its impressive run of recent accolades. The newest addition was the reception — on May 23 — of the “2017 Gospel Music Fan Award for Favorite Country Gospel Group,” a fan-driven award presented by Christian Voice Magazine. The Gospel Music Fan Awards are fan-nominated and fan-voted awards. The Waymasters were nominated for
“Favorite Country Gospel Group” along with the Singing Cookes, Crimson Ridge, Crossfire, the Freemans, Sunday Drive, the Roarks, the Cupps, the Drummond Family and the Parish Family. The reception of the award was just the latest in a string of impressive milestones for the band. Originally from Asheville, the Waymasters cemented their rise in popularity in 2015 when the quartet won Acoustic Artist of the Year at the prestigious ICGMA Awards.
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the earth’s 24-hour rotation. God invented time. At that time Earth was uninhabitable, fully covered by water, and THERE WAS NO LIFE! On the subsequent five days God caused land to rise, creating dry land, created all forms of vegetation, trees, and other things to sustain life. From the dust of the earth He formed all animals and Man and gave them life, including the infamous dinosaurs (probably the behemoth referred to by God in Job 40:15-19). God made Dinosaurs and Man on the 6th day of creation. Now Man questions the existence of God, with “words without knowledge” (Job 38:2). The truth is in God’s Word, not Man. Manuel Ybarra Jr Coalgate, Okla.
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Johnny and Baby perform in an intimate dance scene from the TV remake of “Dirty Dancing.”
‘Dirty Dancing’ Continued from Page A3 Also bizarre in the remake was that the characters constantly were shown singing to the music, even while dancing, It seemed ridiculous. The “Dirty Dancing” remake was bloated and boring, while the original soared. Also, nobody seems to sweat in this version. And there’s hardly anything “dirty” in the film — and there’s not even much dancing. The new version was shot a year ago, largely at Kanuga Conference Center, an Episcopal-affiliated retreat just south of Hendersonville. The KCC provided the rustic setting for the summer camp, along with the cabin scenes. A nightclub scene was shot in Saluda.Other scenes were filmed at High Hampton Inn in Cashiers and in Asheville. The original was shot, largely, at Lake Lure in October 1987, when, reportedly, the water was so cold that the actors’ lips got so blue that close-ups were scrapped. Ten students and staff at Pat’s School of Dance in Hendersonville were part of filming the remake. The participants included Sheraton Phillips, Dustin Phillips, Sarah DeVore, Daniel DeVore, John Daniel DeVore, Pat Shepherd, John Shepherd, April Freeman, Kaitlyn Harrington and Katelyn Ledbetter. The original chart-topping soundtrack
featured the Oscar-winning song, “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” by Billy Medley and Jennifer Warnes, as well as Swayzee’s “She’s Like the Wind” and Eric Carmen’s “Hungry Eyes,” while the remake’s soundtrack includes a Prattes-Sagal duet of Peggy Lee’s hit “Fever” and Bruce Greenwood, in the reprise, singing Frank Sinatra’s “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.” In Swayze’s autobiography, “The Time of My Life,” he revealed that “the first cut of the original ‘Dirty Dancing’ was not received well and the producer commented, ‘Burn the negative and collect the insurance.’ But director Emile Ardolino’s faith in the film saved it. “We all figured it would be a modestly successful movie, and not much more than that. My wife, Lisa, thought it was the kind of story people would be drawn to, but we had no idea what was coming, that after the movie opened we would be swallowed by a tidal wave of fame and attention,” writes Swayze. To that end, in one of its most famous lines (and one that Swayze hated) in the original, Johnny boasts that “Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” but in the remake of “Dirty Dancing,” not only Baby — but the entire cast — is put in a corner of lifelessness from which there is no escape.
Pete Kaliner is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WWNC (570AM) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog. • The following was posted on May 24: I’ve covered local budget processes for almost two decades in various cities in the Carolinas, and I’ve never seen a city pressured to NOT hire police officers. Normally, police (along with firefighters and other emergency services) are used as leverage for increasing tax rates, as elected officials assert they must raise taxes to pay for more coverage. This tactic works precisely because most people want greater police and fire protection. It’s the core responsibility of any local government. Which is why the tactic normally works. Normally. But this is Asheville. In Asheville, there is organized opposition to hiring more police officers to patrol the downtown business and tourism district: ASHEVILLE - An unusually large and impassioned crowd packed City Hall Tuesday to oppose additional funding for 15 new police officers. Police Chief Tammy Hooper has said the officers, who would cost around $1 million, are necessary to deal with a 17 percent increase in violent crime, much of it downtown. That has drawn protests from activists using the slogan “$1 Million for the People” who say the money should go toward public transit or anti-poverty programs. For more than two hours opponents and a few supporters of the funding spoke in the public hearing that was the last official chance to comment on the budget before a planned June 13 City Council vote. “I want to give you 903 signatures and climbing to say that we need more community. That community creates safety, and not expanding police,” said protest organizer the Rev. Amy Cantrell. The leaders of “the community” oppose the hiring of more police officers because they believe it will lead to more arrests of black people by white cops. Several speakers echoed the larger national debate over police racial bias, including Dewanna Little, an AfricanAmerican resident who said she’s experienced problems locally. “We are the ones who police stop walking down the street,” Little said. Many took confrontational tones, questioning police’s role in society and the even the basic structure of city government.
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In a sizzling scene from the original “Dirty Dancing,” Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze get a good look at one another.
Perhaps Asheville could provide a national model in this regard. Perhaps the City Council should agree to pull law enforcement from areas that the leaders of “the community” choose. This would allow reassignment of those officers to other areas the Chief of Police chooses.
Pete Kaliner
Spend the money on the services “the community” desires, and see if the model works better. As a reminder, the Asheville City Council is completely run by progressive Democrats. There is not a single representative for Republicans or conservatives. Nor has there been in nearly a decade. Jake Swett said the gathering represented workers’ growing dissatisfaction over low wages and what he called a lack of government transparency. “There’s a lot more of us than of them, or of you. We’re starting to organize,” Swett said. “If we don’t start to see real sustainable change in our government here, I can’t even speak to what will happen.” Some of the biggest applause came after Luis Serabio, who was providing live interpretation in Spanish, spoke against the funding. Serabio told council members more needed to be done to include Hispanics in local government. “All of you, what do you do to reach out to my community?” he said. Dee Williams, one of two black council candidates, said policing was based on historic oppression, and that needed to change. Modern policing is no more than compilation of, let’s face it, slave catching and protection of property that folks who are landed gentry own,” Williams said.
Given the level of animosity towards law enforcement, perhaps it is time to give these local leaders exactly what they seek.
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Continued from Page A10 Today’s liberals are carrying on that tradition in our public schools. Destroying our reason The ruthlessness of the left finds its energy in ends justifies the means thinking. They believe their mission is so pure their methods don’t matter. Witness former Weatherman terrorist, college professor and Asheville lecturer Bill Ayers, “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.” It’s telling that Mr. Ayers and most of those mentioned above – add to the list young Berkley converts – validate violence, despotism and their own brand of moral zealotry as counters to the same traits they condemn in others. That’s the rationalization model of a pedophile priest. Examples are found in the left’s slick approach to tough social issues. Ending new lives is a simple matter of ‘choice’. Using and being used as a sexual toy – that’s called ‘liberation.’ Drug legalization is being successfully and ironically sold as a job and revenue generating ‘enterprise.’ Warehousing people in dangerous crime havens is OK because it’s ‘public housing.’ Making people dependent on government is innocently screened as ‘public assistance.’ Those who dare question the deeper origins of gender swapping are called ‘homophobes,’ while supporting the 2nd Amendment makes one a ‘murder.’ You get it – today’s left uses language to manipulate minds and destroy debate. They learned how in our public schools. Manipulating our sense of reality American culture was founded on the idea that, per the benevolence of higher spiritual authority, we have certain natural inalienable rights. The Progressive-Liberal-Socialist movement is founded on the idea that our rights are inalienably tied to the benevolence of Big Government. They like their way better because it puts them in charge. That’s about power, not benevolence, and all the proof one needs can be found through interaction with essentially any governmental bureaucracy. Benevolence is episodic – inefficiency, complexity and detachment are consistent. For an exclamation point on the folly of putting your faith in government, attempt to read any letter from the IRS. Though Progressive-Liberal-Socialism doesn’t work, hasn’t worked and never will work, the left continues to pursue the fantasy. That’s because fantasies are always easier to sell than reality. The real world awkwardly matches liberty and opportunity
Burning out our teachers Anyone wishing to stomp the stuffing out of an individual can do no better than to place that person in a position of responsibility without corresponding authority. That’s precisely what we’ve done to our teachers. We give them theoretical control of their classes, but then strip them of the tools necessary to pulling it off. Ask any teacher how much energy goes into behavioral management versus instruction. Discipline in public schools is first and foremost applied to protecting the system. Shielding students and securing the classroom from disruption and distraction come later. That’s one of the reasons we have schools within schools and isolated elite campuses for those who really want to learn. Teachers know that chaos and learning are not compatible. As the distance between those who instruct and those who design curriculum, develop policies and distribute funding has increased, teacher moral has plummeted. Today’s teachers are like today’s peace officers – surrounded by government bureaucrats, immature players, ineffective unions, paralyzed administrators and indifferent participants. That’s a perfect formula for burnout. Any warrior knows that as the distance between command and those doing the fighting increases, potentials for success decrease.
understood in two contrasting approaches to education – didactic and dialectic. Both have been corrupted to the left’s mission of mischief. At its best, dialectic learning relies on reasoned discourse from different angles of view on a subject with an eye on determining the best point of truth. In the didactic method, the teacher gives instruction on a subject with the specific intent of identifying facts and securing them in the student’s memory. Both methods have a place in modern education. Both have been flipped upside down by the left. In the old application of the didactic model a teacher might teach a Civics class and impart the time-tested truths of America’s exceptional system of governance. Interspersed in that opportunity would be dialectic moments whereby failures in that system – the institutional acceptance of slavery as an example – might be reasonably debated and discussed. In today’s classroom, teachers use the didactic method to program children on liberal propaganda and the pretense of dialectic discussion to drown out dissenting points of view. Imagine a classroom teacher today sharing the undeniable truth that the laws of nature are antagonistic to gender swapping, casual sex and abortion. Then picture a classroom holding a rational discussion of that assertion. Any classroom that doesn’t teach timetested facts, constructs, history and values is a hostage to liberal relativism. Any classroom that doesn’t support open, rationale, inclusive, safe and honest discussion on same – ditto.
Kidnapping our normal One of the favored constructs of the P-L-S movement is the idea that normal doesn’t exist. Note the climate change denial charges immediately thrown about when anyone dares challenge the assertions behind manmade climate change. Does it follow that anyone who similarly questions man-made gender swapping is guilty of gender denial? How did we get to a point in today’s crazy academic environments where gender and climate confusion is good and gender and climate clarity is bad? Sorry guys, for the same reason we define ‘normal’ as that digestive place between constipation and diarrhea, normal is real. Sure, sick cultures sometimes embrace weird notions of normal, but over time, the road to reason reestablishes itself between the ditches. Anyone claiming there is no normal – isn’t normal.
Recapturing our children’s minds You’ve just had a course on the damaged state of most public-school classrooms – and what to question if you’d rather not have a bunch of smart, angry, radical crazy people programming your child. Freedom of speech, reason and morality do not apply in the left’s idea of scholastic utopia – and we’re letting them get away with it. The solution – climb out of your recliner and take a cue from former James Bond villain and conservative thinker Robert Davi, “We aren’t the silent majority, we’re the noisy as hell majority!” In the face of the shrill academic orchestrations of progressive-liberal-socialism, our kids merit something better than silence…. • Carl Mumpower is a psychologist and former elected official. He is chairman of the Buncombe County Republican Party. He can be reached at drmumpower@aol.com.
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FRP show gives sizzling salute to Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison
Encore? It smoked with ‘Ring of Fire,’ ‘Oh, Pretty Woman’
By JOHN NORTH
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HENDERSONVILLE — A 90-minute show saluting influential musical artists Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison ended with a standing ovation in Flat Rock Playhouse’s sold-out 235-seat downtown Hendersonville venue on May 12. (The show ran May 4-14.) As the audience begged for the show to go on, one of the five tribute band members asked, teasingly, if those present had Photo courtesy of FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUS “time for one or two more” songs. The FRP’s Cash-Orbison tribute band featured (from left) Ryan Guerra, Jon The crowd erupted in cheers as the group launched — at once — into Cash’s Brown, Jeremy Sevelovitz, Eric Anthony and Andrew Rogleberg. 1963 magnum opus, “Ring of Fire,” folon April 15, 1989. lowed by Orbison’s 1964 signature song, “The most remarkable thing demon“Oh, Pretty Woman.” strated by ‘You Got It’ is that Roy OrbiDuring “Oh, Pretty Woman,” between son’s signature style not only wasn’t out 15 and 20 audience members — predom- of date for the 1980s, but actually fit right inately women — dashed into the open in,” the website Songfacts noted. “While area in front of the band to dance ecstatiyou can hear the updated musical convencally to the music. (“The lyrics tell the tions in the instrumentals and handclaps, story of a man who sees a pretty woman Orbison’s trembling, vulnerable voice walking by,” the website Wikipedia and poetic lyrics remained faithful to his noted. “He yearns for her and wonders if, 1950s style, and also managed to be as Website photo as beautiful as she is, she might be lonely fresh as any teen pop idol of the 1980s.” like he is. At the last minute, she turns Roy Orbison performs “Oh, Pretty The tribute show featured Jeremy back and joins him.”) Woman,” accompanied by Johnny Sevelovitz (who played Carl Perkins After the second encore song, the Cash, during a TV performance on “The in FRP’s 2016’s hit musical “Million crowd, which had remained on its feet, Johnny Cash Show” in the late 1960s. Dollar Quartet”) and Eric Anthony (who cheered for yet more music, but the band recently performed in “The Music of the ny’s note-perfect guitar work. members gathered side-by-side on stage, Beatles.”) Sevelovitz did a fairly good The show would have been even better if joined hands and bowed in unison before job of singing many of the Cash leads, had told more about the lives and music of leaving. The audience continued to cheer, while Anthony truly wowed the crowd Cash and Orbison, so that attendees would hoping for a second encore set, until the with his Orbison leads. In addition, Anleave knowing much more about them. house lights were turned up, at which thony served as music director. However, the band did note that Orbison point the concert-goers relented, but Also performing in the band were Ryan was the first to have a hit — in 1961 departed with smiles. Guerra on bass, Jon Brown on drums and (when he earned Australian radio airplay Prior to the encore set, the band finAndrew Rogleberg on keyboards. Guerra — with “Love Hurts”) and lots of other ished the regular show with a dazzling sang lead movingly on several songs and prominent artists recorded renditions of rendition of “You Got It,” Orbison’s last Brown sang a credible lead on Cash’s “A the song. However, in 1975 many in the major hit. Tragically, he died of a heart Boy Named Sue.” Guerra also, at times, music world were surprised when the attack in December 1988, before he could played fiddle, while Rogleberg played acScottish hard-rock band Nazareth recorded cordion on at least one occasion. see just how successful his comeback the version that sold the most records Highlights of the show included the was. The album “Mystery Girl” was re(making it to the U.S. Top 10), to date. soaring harmonies of the singers and the leased a few months later, with “You Got tightness of the band, along with AnthoIt” peaking at No. 9 in the United States See CASH-ORBISON, Page B7
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Wed, 3/15/17 rrived at Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, La. Upon pulling up to the bed and breakfast known as The Most Haunted House in America, we noticed yellow caution tape barring our way to one of the outer buildings. Turns out, the Myrtles had a fire just one week earlier that completely engulfed the restaurant. Luckily, the Garden Rooms next door, the gift shop and the main house were unharmed. Pointed out Scooby Doo-like portrait at the top of the stairs to Patty. Even in the low light, he had the weirdest eyes. Very light-colored, one blue, one brown. Well, the brown one was mostly yellow. I’m sure if I walked around, those creepy eyes would follow me. Patty and I had just left the guest shop before foraging for food and she pointed out the cute white cat...who I noticed had very light eyes...one blue and one yellow! Thurs, 3/16/17 It’s 12:48 a.m. I should be asleep. I haven’t really slept in days. But this place is just too creepy. I won’t even take my clothes off. Patty and I both feel like we’re being watched in our rooms. It’s 12:57 a.m. and the man next door has started snoring. Again. The couple down the hall, well, I don’t know what they’re doing, but it sounds like the gods are bowling. The street noise sounds like howling wind. And all the doors creak a creepy creak. I hadn’t been in my room for 10 minutes when the toilet paper dispenser came apart in my hands and the whole unit fell off the wall and onto the floor. And I have no hot water in my sink or the bathtub, but that’s fine because I am not taking my clothes off in here. Pretty sure there’s a death portait of a little kid hanging on the wall by the bed. My room is the William Winters Room. Legend has it that Mr. Winters had a sick child and sent for Cleo, not to be confused with the slave girl Chloe, who boiled 16 Oleander leaves to make the childrens’ birthday cake. You only need one leaf to kill a horse. Anyway, Cleo was a Voodoo priestess and put a conjure bag underneath the sick girl’s bed. See WRIGHT, Page B7
Film captures swing’s resurgence By JOHN NORTH
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A couple dances the Lindy Hop in competition in “Alive and Kicking.”
Susan Glatzer’s debut documentary “Alive and Kicking” — about the rise, fall and resurgence of swing dancing in America — makes a viewer want to jump up and join the fun during this 90-minute immersion into the world of Lindy Hop competitors, filled with joy, high-energy, athleticism, humor and drama. The film, screened at the downtown
Asheville’s Grail Moviehouse in mid- to late May, noted that Lindy Hop was the original swing dance from which swing, shag and other variations evolved. It shows swing dancing’s humble origins as a street dance in Harlem in the late 1920s and early ‘30s, after which it gained such polularity in society at large that it soon was included in the ballroom world. However, swing eventually experiencing a 30- to 40year span of near-extinction — from the end
of World War II until the 1980s. In 1983, the film noted that four places — Los Angeles, New York, London and Sweden — “rediscovered” Lindy Hop. In 1993, the swing dance genre got a sonic boost with the surprising popularity of the film “Swing Kids,” followed in 1996 by the film “Swingers,” along with a Gap television commercial in 1998 that featured ultra-hip-looking young swing dancers. See FILM, Page B6
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DON HENLEY/PHIL COLLINS TRIBUTE SHOW, 7:30 p.m., Downtown venue of Flat Rock Playhouse, downtown Hendersonville. A tribute show, “The Music of Don Henley and Phil Collins,” will be presented through June 11. The show runs Thursday through Sunday. Thursdays shows are at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. For tickets, visit FlatRockPlayhouse.org, or call 693-0731. “THE LION KING” MUSICAL, 7:30 p.m., Peace Center, Greenville, S.C. Disney presents “The Lion King,” billed as “the world’s No. 1 musical,” through June 25. For tickets, visit PeaceCenter. org, or call (864) 467-3000. “A TUNA CHRISTMAS” SHOW, 2 and 7:30 p.m., mainstage, Flat Rock Playhouse, Flat Rock. “A Tuna Christmas,” billed as a “hilarious comedy featuring the residents of Tuna, Texas — the ‘third smallest’ town in the state,” will be performed through June 3. Showtimes vary. For tickets, visit www.flatrockplayhouse.org.
Friday, June 2
Departure: Journey Tribute Band SHOW, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, 1028 Georgia Rd., Franklin. The Journey tribute band, Departure, will perform in concert. The band, which has been together eight years, is billed by the SMCPA as “the most respected Journey tribute band in the nation. Departure replicates the look, sound and feel of the original 1980s rock super group.” For tickets, which are $18, visit www. greatmountainmusic.com/eventdetail.
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DANCE PERFORMANCE, 8:45 a.m., The Foundation Performing Arts Center, Isothermal Community College, Spindale. Dreamweavers Dance Studio will present its “Legends” performance. All seats are reserved. For tickets, which are $5.50 each, visit www. FoundationShows.org. MUD RUN, noon, Berkeley Park, Hendersonville. The sixth annual Mad Mountain Mud Run will be held. The charity 3-mile-plus race is filled with mddy obstacles, such as crawling through mud pits and mulch piles, climbing over hay bales and under logs and — perhaps the most extreme — dunking in a dumpster full of ice water. The mud run usually draws about 1,000 people and fills up quickly. Entry fees are $43 for untimed individuals, $50 for a timed individual and $170 for a team of four. To sign up, visit www.madmountainmudrun.com. ASHEVILLE STARS BALL, 6 p.m., Event Center, Crowne Plaza Hotel & Resort, West Asheville. The
Asheville All Stars Ball will be held June 3-4, featuring dance competition in pro-am, solos, ballroom, Latin, smooth, rhythm and country events. June 3 will feature pro-am and amateur solos. The June 4th program, which begins at 9 a.m. and runs late into the night, will feature — in the morning — pro-am and amateur events, smooth and ballroom divisions. The June 4 afternoon events include country, rhythm and Latin divisions. A dinner and awards ceremony will be held at 7 p.m., followed at 8:30 p.m. by what is billed as a “professional world-class show” that will be capped by general dancing with live music. For more information, visit www.ashevillestarsball.com. MANNA FOODBANK’S BLUE-JEAN BALL, 7-11 p.m., MANNA FoodBank, 623 Swannanoa River Road, Ashville. The annual MANNA FoodBank blue-jean ball will feature the theme of “Pirates of the Swannanoa.” Attendees, who must be ages 21 or older, are encouraged to dress up to win costume prizes or practice their pirate voices to win the Best Pirate Growl. Music will be provided by DJ Scurvy. Dawg and Michelle Amato & The Booty. For tickets, which are $95, call 299-3663 or visit www.MANNAEvents.org.
Thursday, June 8
CHEROKEE BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL, noon10:30 p.m, Happy Holiday RV Village and Campground, 1553 Wolfetown Road, Cherokee. The Cherokee Bluegrass Festival will be held noon to 10:30 p.m. June 8-10, with open stage from 11 a.m. to noon each day. The June 8 lineup features, Jimbo Whaley & Greenbrier, Volume Five, Feller & Hill and The Bluegrass Buckaroos, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, Old Friends (Doyle Lawson amd Paul Williams) will do one 90-minute show at 3:15 p.m. and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver will perform one 90-minute show at 9 p.m. The June 9 lineup will feature Breaking Grass, The Farm Hands (SPGBMA Award Winners), The Little Roy & Lizzy Show, The Crowe Brothers, and Rhonda Vincent (“Queen of Bluegrass” and IBMA Female Vocalist of the year for eight years) and The Rage. Also featured June 9 will be country music legend Gene Watson and the Farewell Party Band performing one 90-minute show at 8:30 p.m. with special guest, Rhonda Vincent. The June 10 lineup will feature Deeper Shade of Blue, The Harris Brothers, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Nothin’Fancy, and The VW Boys with one 90-minute show by Dailey & Vincent at 8:30 p.m. (newest members of The Grand Ole Opry). Attendees are urged to bring lawnchairs — with no high-back chairs or rockers allowed. No pets or alcoholic beverages will be allowed in the concert area. Security will be on duty at what is billed as “a family show.” Tickets will be available at the gate. To buy tickets in advance, visit www.adamsbluegrass. com. To make reservations at Happy Holiday RV Village and Campground, call 497-9204.
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Comedian John Mulaney will perform at 7 p.m. June 14 in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium at the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville.
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Friday, June 9
BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION, 11:30 a.m., Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center, 223 W. State St., Black Mountain. The SVM&HC Book Club will meet to discuss Wiley Cash’s 2012 work, “A Land More Kind Than Home.” All are welcome to attend. Admission is free. MUSIC ON MAIN STREET CONCERT/DANCE, 7-9 p.m., outside of Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., downtown Hendersonville. The anniual Music on Main Street summer concert series will debut with the band Tuxedo Junction playing song hits ranging from the 1940s to today. In addition, many in the crowd will dance in a large roped-off area in front of the stage. Attendees are urged to bring chairs and/ or blankets. A classic car show also will be held along the street adjoining the concert area. Admission to the concert and car show is free. “ANNIE” FAMILY MUSICAL, 8 p.m., mainstage, Flat Rock Playhouse, Flat Rock. “Annie,” billed by the FRP as “one of the best family musicals ever written,” will be performed through July 2. Showtimes vary. For tickets, visit www. flatrockplayhouse.org. MOVIES IN THE PARK, 8 p.m., Pack Square
Park, downtown Asheville.The film “Sing” will be shown in the Movies in the Park summer series. Attendees are urged to bring blankets and/or lawnchairs. Admission is free.
Saturday, June 10
BILLY CURRINGTON CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. Country music singer-songwriter Billy Currington will perform in concert. For tickets, visit www. ticketmaster.com.
Wednesday, June 14
JOHN MULANEY COMEDY SHOW, 7 p.m., Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, downtown Asheville. Comedian John Mulaney will perform on his “Kid Gorgeous” tour. For tickets, visit ticketmaster.com or the U.S. Cellular Center box office, or call (800) 745-3000.
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The group Huey Lewis and the News will perform at 9 p.m. June 16 in the Event Center at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino in Cherokee. Website photo
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Thursday, June 15
RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT, 7-9 p.m., Main Street (between Caswell and Allen streets), downtown Hendersonville. The summer Rhythm & Brews outdoor concert series will headline the six-piece ensemble Major and the Monbacks, featuring lively horns and a powerful rhythm section, will merge retro 1960s rock ‘n’ roll with the high energy and horn-laden grit of Southern soul. The Norfolk, Va.-based band is billed as “a returning favorite from last year.” Earlier, from 5 to 7 p.m., local singerssongwriters and opening acts will perform. The event also will showcase local brews. Admission is free.
Friday, June 16
DOWNTOWN AFTER 5 CONCERT, 5-9 p.m., North Lexington Avenue (near the I-240 overpass, downtown Asheville. The DA5 summer outdoor concert series will feature — at 7 p.m. — the headliner band, Sonny Knight and the Lakers, billed as a “seven-piece soul powerhouse.” The band will perform a throwback-style, blending gospel and rhythm and blues into what is billed as “a unique sound that sure to make your next playlist.” Opening at 5 p.m. is Asheville’s The Northside Gentlemen, which infuses funk into old soul classics. Admission is free. MUSIC ON MAIN STREET CONCERT/DANCE, 7-9 p.m., outside of Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., downtown Hendersonville. The anniual Music on Main Street summer concert series will feature the Charlotte-based band Horsefly, playing classic and Southern rock ‘n’ roll and some jumping blues playing song hits, ranging from the 1940s to today. In addition, many in the crowd dance in a large roped-off area in front of the stage. Attendees are urged to bring chairs and/or blankets. A Corvette show also will be held along the street adjoining the concert area. Admission to the concert and car show is free. HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS CONCERT, 9 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. The group Huey Lewis & the News will perform in concert. For tickets, visit Ticketmaster.com.
Sunday, June 18
“GLOBAL ETHICS” LECTURE/DISCUSSION, 2-3:30 p.m., Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road, Asheville. “Global Ethics: 10 Universal Essentials (Capabilities) to Well-Being” will be presented by Grace Campbell at the monthly meeting of the Ethical Humanist Society of Asheville. Informal discussion and refreshments will follow the presentation. Campbell teaches philosophy, environmental studies and all four courses in UNC Asheville’s required Humanities core. All are welcome to attend.
Monday, June 19
CONCERT ON THE QUAD,, 7-8:30p.m., Quad, UNC Asheville. The summer Concerts on the Quad outdoor series will debut with Chatham County Line, a Raleighbased band that combines traditional bluegrass harmonies with moder influences. Attendees are urged to bring blankets and/or chairs. Admission is free.
Friday, June 23
MUSIC ON MAIN STREET CONCERT/DANCE, 7-9 p.m., outside of Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., downtown Hendersonville. The anniual Music on Main Street summer concert series will feature the six-piece, Asheville-based band Emporium, which plays what is billed as “the finest in dance music —
classic rock, disco, funk, beach and current hits.” In addition, many in the crowd dance in a large ropedoff area in front of the stage. Attendees are urged to bring chairs and/or blankets. A classic car show also will be held along the street adjoining the concert area. Admission to the concert and car show is free.
Sunday, June 25
BRIAN CULBERTSON CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greeneville, Tenn. Culbertson, a contemporary jazz-rhythm and blues-funk musician, instrumentalist, producer and performer from Decatur, Ill., will perform. For tickets, visit www.npacgreeneville.com.
Friday, June 30
SOCK HOPS CONCERT,, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, 1028 Georgia Rd., Franklin. The vocal quartet, The Sock Hops, will perform a show titled “Red, White and Doo-Wop.” SMCPA noted, “Let’s kick off Fourth of July weekend with a drive down memory lane as The Sock Hops perform classic songs from all your favorite albums of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s.” The Sock Hops specialize in four-part harmonies. For tickets, which are $18, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com/eventdetail.
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Continued from Page B1 Since its resurgence, especially among young people, swing dancing is depicted — at least in the film — as being as popular as it ever was in its heyday. And “Alive and Kicking” makes the case that its popularity has spread worldwide among young people, with South Korea being the No. 1 Lindy Hop community outside of the U.S. Also the film notes that, while swing was spawned by African-Americans in Harlem, today’s swing dance community includes few black faces. “Alive and Kicking” includes interviews with famous African-American and white Lindy Hop dancers from the past, including Frankie Manning (1914-2009), a dancer, instructor and choreographer. Manning is considered one of the founders of the Lindy Hop. On his deathbed, he told those around him that his greatest wish would be for more blacks to participate in swing dancing. Another Lindy Hop original, Norma Miller, praised Manning for his patience with beginning dancers, while she referred to beginners as crows, quipping, “I wouldn’t teach a crippled crab how to use a crutch!” While the film is definitely worth seeing, it goes far overboard — almost to infomerical extremes — in extolling the virtues of swing dancing. For instance, through interviews with dance instructors and dance competitors, it tries to make the case that the Lindy Hop provides a connection in an increasingly disconnected world. Also, the film shows the dance community at-large taking care of its members when calamity strikes. However, at least one dancer-teacher interviewed said that while there often is a strong bond forged during three minutes with someone on the dance floor, it usually stops there, as people are traveling and switching partners. Therefore, the bond is a superficial one.
As far as community goes, some dance pros with whom this reviewer spoke with after the film said that contrary to the portrayal in the film, the Lindy Hop community is not the only one that is collegial — that all of the dance genres emphasize community. The film includes interviews with dancers who equate certain ballrooms to cathedrals, touting dancing as more spiritual than — or at least on a par with — attending church. “Alive and Kicking” also goes on and on about the psychological and physiological health benefits of dancing, without mentioning much about the potential for injuries. It also included interviews with dancers who noted that they have seen — time and again — people join the dance world and soon transform into much more attractive individuals by stepping up their grooming, dressing more stylishly and losing weight. It also featured an interview with a U.S. military veteran who returned from the combat service in the Middle East with thoughts of suicide. The veteran saw people performing the Lindy Hop — and he soon tried it, excelled and, he said, it transformed his life to one of joy. Some dancers interviewed in the film claimed that dancing will keep one alive for a long time. Indeed, the film showed a number of original Lindy Hop dancers in their 80s and 90s still able to move nimbly on a dance floor. The film includes wonderful stock footage of dancers from the past, as well as some recent video of unbelievably talented swing dancers. Perhaps one of the most profound points in the movie was made by the DecaVita sisters, a dance duo, who said that they both were practicing psychologists in Sweden, when they began performing the Lindy Hop together. They said they eventually decided that they could bring more joy to people by teaching them to dance than by counseling them in psychotherapy sessions, so the both became full-time professional dance teachers and competition dancers.
Monday, June 26
CONCERT ON THE QUAD,, 7-8:30p.m., Quad, UNC Asheviille. The summer Concerts on the Quad outdoor series will featiure Westsound, a quartet covering soul and funk music, with songs by Sam Cooke, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, Kool & the Gang, Michael Jackson, Rick James, Prince, James Brown and others. Attendees are urged to bring blankets and/or chairs. Admission is free.
Thursday, June 29
MOUNTAIN VOICES CONCERT, 7 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, 1028 Georgia Rd., Franklin. Mountain Voices, a 55-member chorus, will present music by the decade. The program will include show tunes, Top 40 hits, gospel, and patriot songs from more than 50 years of music. Mountain Voices is under the direction of Beverly Barnett and accompanied by Lorie Meservey. For tickets, which are $12, visit www.greatmountainmusic.com/eventdetail.
Friday, June 30
MUSIC ON MAIN STREET CONCERT/DANCE, 7-9 p.m., outside of Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., downtown Hendersonville. The annual Music on Main Street summer concert series will feature the Greensborobased band trio Wishful Thinking. The band plays acoustic, alternative and minimalist music. In addition, many in the crowd dance in a large roped-off area in front of the stage. Attendees are urged to bring chairs and/or blankets. A Corvette show also will be held along the street adjoining the concert area. Admission to the concert and car show is free.
Tuesday, July 4
MUSIC ON MAIN HOLIDAY CONCERT/DANCE, 7-9 p.m., outside of Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., downtown Hendersonville. The annual Music on Main Street summer concert series will feature an Independence Day special show featuring the Asheville-based soul band Westsound, along with a patriotic tribute and fireworks. In addition, many in the crowd dance in a large roped-off area in front of the stage. Attendees are urged to bring chairs and/or blankets. Admission to the concert and car show is free.
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Continued from Page B1 The girl died. Mr. Winters assumed Cleo put a curse on the child, so he had her hanged! Mr. Winters died two days later. When I first arrived, my room was perfectly comfortable. But as the night wore on, it took on a sinister feeling that I couldn’t shake. I was wide awake and watching an area across the room in front of a low chest-of-drawers. I still wore my jeans and sweatshirt from earlier. Guests in my room report moving furniture and candlesticks that fly through the air. I didn’t experience any of that, but I still didn’t fall asleep until sometime after four. Patty took the John Leake Room. Guests
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Continued from Page B1 Also, despite a good effort, the show would have benefited from more heartfelt vocals on the Cash songs. The concert was billed as providing “a musical journey featuring the country and rock ‘n’ roll hits they (Cash and Orbison) performed together and on their own.” It was intended to “pull from the full range of their repertoire that began in Memphis, Tennessee, and traveled across the country and beyond.” FRP also billed Cash, who died in 2003, and Orbison as “two of the most influential artists in the history of American popular music.” It also was noted that Cash, in particular, “was a collaborator” who liked to perform and/or record with artists of his musical genre as well as those far outside of it, such as Nine Inch Nails, Sting and U2. The band’s emcee admitted to the crowd near the beginning of the show that, “at first glance, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison didn’t seem like a natural pairing” for a tribute concert. However, a deeper look into history would show that Cash and Orbison were next-door neighbors in Hendersonville, Tenn., and they both spent time in their early careers at Sun Studios in Memphis, under the wing of the famed recording genius Sam Phillips. The show highlighted some of the early songs at Sun, as well as their later hits of the 1960’s, ‘70s and ‘80s.” The concert opened with Orbison’s classic, “Only the Lonely,” followed by the Cash smash, “I Walk the Line.” Other standout first-set songs included “Blue Bayou,” Cry, Cry, Cry,” “It’s Over” and the fiery set-closer, “I Got a Woman.” After a 15-minute break, the second set began with a bang with Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” followed by a superb — and hilarious — rendition of “A Boy Named Sue,” “Dream Baby,” “Man in Black,” “Love Hurts,” ‘Sunday Morning Coming Down” and “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” Besides performing Cash’s and Orbison’s individual hits, the show also highlighted hits from their days of performing with their respective “super groups,” including Cash’s the Highway Men and Orbison’s the Traveling Wilburys. Regarding Cash’s efforts with the Highway Men, the tribute band performed “The Road Goes on Forever.” And for Orbison’s stint with the Traveling Wilburys, the band played “Handle With Care.” For its next Music on the Rock tribute concert, June 1-11, the playhouse will feature “The Music of Don Henley and Phil Collins.” Other upcoming shows include “Motown Summer Nights,” Aug. 3-13; “The Music of Lionel Richie and Diana Ross,” Sept. 28-Oct. 8; and “August 1969: The Women of Woodstock,” Oct. 26-Nov. 4.
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report seeing red orbs and ghostly hands that grab your feet. Thurs, 3/16/17 - Gulf Breeze, Fla., “The UFO Capital of the World” When we arrived in Gulf Breeze it was darn cold! The drive in and the ocean-front hotel room were beautiful and perfect for UFOwatching. Unfortunately, we didn’t catch sight of anything even remotely UFO-like. Fri, 3/17/17 - Birmingham, Ala. The Alabama “White Thang” has been sighted since the 1940s. This creature is more than 7 feet tall and covered in white hair. It’s known for its ability to move extremely quickly and for its eerie screech that sounds
like a woman’s scream. You’re not alone if you suddenly thought of that video “What does the Fox say?” Some believe it may be an albino Bigfoot. Whatever it is, Patty and I decided that since we were a couple of chicks not used to the Alabama terrain and had no weapons, hiking boots or a guide, we’d best leave it to the professionals. Sat, 3/18/17 - Chattanooga, Tenn., Suck Creek Giant Death Fish We arrived at Suck Creek at around 10 a.m. It was a lovely river surrounded by trees and homes. It’s located at the foot of Signal Mountain and is so-named because of the whirlpool that caused two ships to capsize within a week of each other in 1973. It’s also rumored to hold the souls of everyone who has died there.
As if that’s not enough, and it never is, there’s a big honkin’ fish! The Cherokee Indians called it “Dawka.” It spans 20-25 feet long and has a head like a rabid dog and a fin in the middle of its back. Upon further research, it’s seen after consuming several 40-ounce cans of malt liquor. Patty and I agreed that malt liquor was the key ingredient to seeing this fish. Sat, 3/18/17 - Home sweet home! • Shelley Wright, an Asheville native, is a paranormal investigator. She owns and runs Nevermore Mystical Arts shop and works at Wright’s Coin Shop, both in Asheville. Wright also is a weekly participant in the “Speaking of Strange” radio show from 9 p.m. to midnight on most Saturdays on Asheville’s WWNC-AM (570).
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