Asheville Daily Planet October 2015

‘Live at the USO:’ it’s a swinging WWII romp

Busker zones ‘explored’

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City lawyer’s email to brewer: Conflict?

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Pokey LaFarge rocks Asheville Pokey LaFarge, the most successful former Asheville busker, performed with his five-piece band and rocked a full-house audience at Grey Eagle Music Hall in Asheville on Sept. 18. During the first set, he and his band played an extended version of his major hit, “Central Time.”

After a brief break, he returned for a second set and performed a few songs solo. Then, his band joined him for the rest of the set.

After LaFarge and his group finished the show, the crowd clamored for an encore, so they returned to perform Bob Wills’ “Far Away” and Ray Charles’ “Let’s Go Get Stoned.” Several years ago, after busking solo briefly and unsuccessfully in Asheville, LaFarge returned to St. Louis, where he eventually developed into a nationally known musical figure. The group is thought to be “artfully dodgy ambassadors for old-time music, presenting and representing the glories of hot swing, early jazz and ragtime blues” and have “made riverboat chic cool again,” Stephen Thompson of NPR recently said.

The nickname “Pokey” reportedly was coined by LaFarge’s mother, who would scold him to hurry when he was a child.

Photo courtesy of the Asheville Citizen-Times/John A. Zara

This married man flirts (but that’s it)

Q: -- I’m very attracted to my co-worker — a self-described “happily married man.” We are “friends,” but he always has a warm hug, an interesting YouTube video, or a poem or short story he’s written to share with me. He has taken me to lunch and has done work for me gratis. If I have car trouble, he connects me to a mechanic and sees I get great work for a great price. Twice he’s told

The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon

me, “I love you.” The second time, I responded, “I love you, too, and if you weren’t married, I’d take you on!” He then responded, “Previous commitment!” I’m confused as to what’s going on in his head. There has been no sex, and he hasn’t asked for any.

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Coffee, tea or ... sex in W. AVL? 2 entrepreneurs’ posts of trysts trigger outrage

From Staff Reports

Waking Life Espresso on Sept. 17-18 temporarily closed its one location at 976 Haywood Road in West Asheville, following regular protests in front of the business, sparked by recent revelations that owners Jared Rutledge, 31, and Jacob Owens, 27, boasted of sexual conquests of local women — including customers — via misogynist Internet posts and podcasts under a pseudonym.

The men have not been charged with a crime by Asheville police, but the mistreatment of the women with whom the duo were sexually involved has prompted wide condemnation as an affront to women in the community.

The two men have since issued lengthy apologies, admitting to degrading the women in their postings. Some infuriated critics have even suggested the two men, both Asheville natives, leave the city permanently and at once.

In the aftermath, Mountain BizWorks, a local business support group, asked on Sept. 22 that the coffee shop return a loan intended to support the launch of a second location at 89 Patton Avenue, the former site of Artetude Gallery. Patrick Fitzsimmons, executive director of Mountain Bizworks, said the decision to terminate the agreement came without any trouble from the Waking Life owners, who also terminated their Patton Avenue lease.

Fitzsimmons called the actions of the two men “deplorable.”

Also on Sept. 22, another nonprofit, Our VOICE, said it would reject any donations given to it by Waking Life. As the protests ramped up, Rutledge and Owens had offered to give proceeds from their business to help the local rape crisis center, which declined the offer because the center felt the two men were trying to buy redemption and questioned their sincerity.

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How to make U.S. great, again?

Author-prof offers a way forward First in a series of two stories

over the U.S., knocking out the power grid, rendering digital and mechanical devices

By JOHN NORTH useless and leaving the nation defenseless. john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Forstchen addressed the gathering of 1,000 preppers (aka “survivalists”) — SALUDA — The United States is mired in billed as “the largest outdoor preparedness a slump and “the question is, how do we make event in the country” — for 15 minutes.

America great, again,” William R. “Bill” Forstchen He then fielded questions for an hour. said during his keynote address Sept. 19 at Prepper Bill Forstchen The Montreat College history profesCamp 2015 at Orchard Lake Campground.

“It’s going to be up to us, working from the bottom sor gave the keynote address last year and was up, to rebuild America after the darkness hits,” Forst- introduced as “almost the father of the prepper movement” for his impact with his 2009 book, “One chen said, referring to a number of looming catastrophies, especially — as he said later — the probability Second After” (a New York Times bestseller), and his many speeches to, and encouragement of, preppers. of an enemy in a tanker ship in the Gulf of Mexico detonating an electromagnetic pulse in a scud missile See FORWARD, Page A9

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Update unveiled on construction of area schools From Staff Reports

An update on area school construction was presented to the Council of Independent Business Owners on Sept. 11 during an issues meeting at Chick-fil-A in North Asheville.

About 50 people attended the meeting.

The update, including Asheville city schools, Buncombe County schools and Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, was presented by Assistant Buncombe County Manager Jon Creighton.

He noted that his “rundown” included “all the projects we’re participating with” in Buncombe.

On a separate matter, the CIBO also received a report on workforce development through a new program, N.C. Job Works, from former state Rep. Nathan Ramsey, who is now with the North Carolina Jon Department of Commerce Creighton Also, the CIBO heard of proposed changes to the county fire districts from Jerry VeHaun, director of Buncombe Emergency Medical Services; Tim Hinman of the Skyland Fire Department; and Thad Lewis of the Riceville Fire Department.

Specifically, VeHaun noted that the county is “streamlining” its fire districts for efficiency purposes.

In the school construction update, Creighton began with Isaac Dickson Elementary School on Hill Street next to I-240, which was built in 1952 and, he said, “is in bad need of repair.”

He added that “city schools haven’t built anything since the 1970s....”

“I will start out with the project that is most challenging — $21 million” (budgeted) for the demolition of the old IDES — and construction of a new school of the same name on the site.”

“It was on a landfill, so it cost” much more to prepare the site — “and threw the project off its deadline” by about seven months, Creighton said. The original deadline was June 5, but he said the school is “anticipated to open in January” 2016. IDES will serve about 525 students.

Next, Creighton turned to Asheville Middle School, built in the early 1960s on South French Broad Avenue, and was designed to accommodate 900 students.

Construction recently began to replace the aging building with a new structure on a $41 million budget.

“We’re anticipating by mid-summer of next year for it to be completed” for students to attend classes in it, he said. “By February 2017, the project will be completed totally, Creighton added.

The county assistant manager also reviewed several A-B Tech projects, including the New Allied Health Building, noting that “we took the 800-seat auditorium out — it just became cost-prohibitive — and put it (the auditorium) in another building. Allied’s building budget is $32.2 million “The project’s gone well. We had a rough winter,” but “all of the A-B Tech projects will be done by next month,” Creighton said.

A-B Tech’s Rhododendron building, which was constructed in the early 1970s, has a budget of $1.64 million, he said. “We anticipate

starting on it in early February.”

Also, Creighton said, “We’re working on a (new) parking deck” that will include 650 parking spaces. “Basically, what we did was take the design of the (county-owned) College Street deck and put a skin on it. We anticipate it being finished in the middle of next month.”

In speaking of other county building projects that are not school-related, Creighton said, “We started building a parking deck on Coxe Avenue in the old Sears building... It’ll be seven stories high, with an eight-story parking deck. It’s a $48 million project. We expect it to be finished by February 2018.

He also mentioned an indoor shooting range for the sheriff’s department, noting that “we anticipate the project in Woodfin to be finished next year.”

During a question-and-answer period afterward, a meeting attendee asked, “What are you finding in this market?”

“Steel is creeping up” in price,” Creighton replied. “I would like to say all of these projects are within or below budget, except for the elementary school.”

CIBO member Mac Swicegood asked, “What’s the total cost” of all of the school construction projects?

Roughly $160 million, Creighton answered.

“Basically, the county financed it.”

Another attendee then told Creighton, “Out at the airport, you know the parking’s getting further and further away from the terminal.

They’re probably going to have to put a parking deck out there.” Creighton agreed.

A woman asked, “Do you have any plans for A-B Tech Enka?”

“It looks like we might close that campus up.,” Creighton said evenly. “The buildings are old. It’s an expensive campus to run. I think the current president thinks they should grow south, versus trying to maintain that campus” to the west of Asheville.

More specifically, Creighton said that the Enka campus’ Haynes building was built in the late 1960s... The R&R building was built long ago. Those are very expensive buildings to run.”

Meanwhile, Ramsey said in his presentatiton that nearly a year ago the North Carolina Department of Commerce opened up N.C. Job Works. It’s for employers and job-seekers. If you’re a job-seeker you can look for the kind of jobs you’d like.

“Employers say they can’t find the workers with skills they need, according to WRAL (a Raleigh television station) — and not just in high-tech skills,” Ramsey added.

In Buncombe and Asheville, “We consistently have one of the lower unemployment rates in the state. Asheville is currently the lowest jobless city in the state, with around 5 percent,” he said.

“At the end of the day, my job is to listen to employers. You tell us what you need and we’ll try to address that.”

Taking a philosophical bent, Ramsey said, “The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago.

The next best time is today.”

He concluded his presentaiton by noting, “So all of these services are free. Of course, it’s supported by tax money.”

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Latest time capsule sealed into Vance Monument base

From Staff Reports A 100-year time capsule was sealed into an empty cavity in the base of the Vance Monument on Sept. 18 in downtown Asheville, as a crowd gathered for the installation.

A 118-year-old time capsule, which recently was removed from the monument’s base, contained relics representing Asheville and its residents.

The 1897 time capsule had been forgetten until researchers found a newspaper article about it. (To avoid anyone overlooking the 2015 time capsule, the city has created a plaque to mark its place and when it should be opened.)

And, unlike the 1897 capsule, the new one is made of stainless steel, custom-built to fit into the cavity and is expected to repel water better than its predecessor. It is about the size of a shoebox.

The 1897 capsule, opened on March 12, contained newspaper clips, a Bible, school honor rolls, coins and more. The paper items were water-damaged, but in relatively good condition.

Most items from the 1897 capsule are now on display at the Western Regional Archives, 176 Riceville Road — though coins from the original capsule were placed

into the newer package, to spend another 100 years entombed in the monument.

The 2015 capsule contains newspapers, playbills, bumper stickers touting the importace of local food, beer labels, beer caps, tonurism guides, law enforcement badges, photographs of Pack Square and downtown, the names and signatures of 1,000 Asheville residents and other mementos from this year.

The City of Asheville and Buncombe County wrote a letter to future Ashevillelians, beginning: “We hope you enjoy this glimpse into our world.”

Following a speech by City Councilman Jan Davis, the capsule was sealed, handed off and placed under the monument’s cornerstone, where it will remain until 2115.

Regarding the 2015 time capsule, Debbie Ivester of the city’s parks and recreation department told local news media recently that “the idea was to give a good snapshot of what the Asheville community is like today and to show that diversity and mix.

None of us will be able to sit down and have the conversation with them” in 2115, “so how will we be able to visually communicate what life was like?”

The city and county committed to 14 categories in which to source materials for the capsule, including business, industry, current events,food, heritage and arts, demogaphics, diversity and special events.

Besides emphasizing photos of Pack Square in particular and downtown in general, the beer industry was well-represented because it is one of the defining characteristics of present-day Asheville, officials said.

In addition, the 2015 capsule includes pamphlets about Zebulon Vance, former twotime governor, for whom the monument was named — and coins from the 1897 capsule.

Downtown busker zones ‘explored;’ outcry ensues From Staff Reports

Asheville city officials recently were greeted with a firestorm of backlash from street performers and their supporters upon revealing that they are exploring the idea of initiating designated downtown busker zones —marks on the sidewalks that indicate exactly where performers can set up.

The matter has been discussed by the city Public Safety Committee, which makes recomendations to City Council. However, no laws will change until the issue goes before council as a whole.

On a related matter, city officials have been reluctant to entertain the idea of street CD sales. A law that singles out CDs as acceptable — but limits the sale of everything else —would probably not hold up in court, John Maddux, assistant city attorney, said recently.

He called it a “content-based restriction on free speech,” a violation of the First Amendment. Instead, he encouraged buskers to think of ways to work within laws in place.

“There could be some other creative solutions here,” he told local news media.

“There’s nothing to keep buskers from partnering with other businesses.”

Regarding the proposed busker zone

pilot proposal, Abby Roach, more widely known as the Spoon Lady, said, “We have no intention of standing in boxes,” as a crowd of fellow buskers standing nearby nodded in agreement.

At an Aug. 24 meeting of the city Public Safety Committee, language was proposed that would create three test zones in busy areas of downtown. Those sections would include taped-off boxes on the sidewalks within which the performers and any equipment must stay within, as well as a guideline that they move along after two hours.

The agenda package for the Aug. 24 meeting noted that, over the past year, the committee has worked with stakeholders in the community, but a number of the buskers have publicly challenged that assertion.

“They told us they’d speak to us,” Roach said of the city. “We feel lied to.” In general, the buskers are saying they realize changes are needed because of the increasing crowds on narrow sidewalks amid safety concerns, but that they would like representation in the process — and feel they completely lack it now.

One of the locations in the pilot program is the sidewalk fronting Woolworth Walk. Under the program, no bands would be allowed to play in the space, and the performance area would be a taped-off 3-foot by 4-foot box, which, some buskers say, is too confining.

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Grant installed as UNCA’s 7th chancellor Mary K. Grant was sworn in Sept. 19 as chancellor of UNC Asheville, North Carolina’s designated public liberal arts university.

Grant, who had previously served for 12 years as president of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, took the helm as UNCA’s chancellor in January.

Thomas W. Ross, president of the University of North Carolina system, presided over the official installation ceremony. “In Mary Grant, you have gained a leader who personifies what UNC Asheville is all about,” said Ross. “She is absolutely passionate about the enduring value of the liberal arts and improving lives and communities through higher education.

And after just nine months in the role, she has already demonstrated the creativity, commitment, and boundless energy that will be required to be an outstanding chancellor and advocate for this institution and the people it serves.”

Asheville Mayor Esther Mary K. Grant Manheimer, N.C. State Sen. Terry Van Duyn, and Terri Henry, Tribal Council chair of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians; welcomed Chancellor Grant as part of the ceremony, which as was attended

by elected officials and higher education leaders from the region and beyond, in addition to the campus community.

Grant emphasized community collaboration in her remarks. “This installation is less about me – it is about UNC Asheville, this relatively young institution,” she said. “I take the helm of this outstanding university at an exciting time but also at a time of uncertainty. We face a future of unknowns as well as opportunities. We do understand a bit better now the challenges that we brought with us from the 20th century: the challenge of climate change, of global inequality and global conflict, the ongoing challenges of race, class and gender,

the challenges of hunger, poverty, ignorance and disease.

“But we do not face these challenges unarmed. … In fact, our most powerful tool in taking on these challenges is right here – the combination of optimistic, courageous, bright hardworking students and a university of liberal arts with a faculty and staff ready, willing and able to take on the task of preparing the next generation. … In just a couple of years, we will admit a class of students, nearly all of whom will have been born in this rapidly changing, fast-moving 21st century. The future is now and I say that we are ready,” Grant asserted.

Continued from Page A1 A: Nothing says “I want to make mad, passionate love to you” like a referral to a skilled and honest auto mechanic.

The guy seems to be having a “flirtationship” with you -- which is to say, this stuff he’s doing is foreplay to foreplay that’s unlikely to happen. There seems to be some evolutionary psychology bubbling up here — specifically, a facet of “error management theory.” This is the mouthful of a way that researchers Martie Haselton and David Buss explain how, when we might make an error in judgment, we evolved to make the least costly error. And though women engage in flirtationships, men seem to have evolved to err on the side of not missing a possible mating opportunity. And yes, that’s true even when they aren’t technically free to “mate” — like when a guy has taken (and seems to adhere to) those pesky vows to grow old with some lady, and not just in between sex romps with some other lady.

That’s where flirting comes in. Interpersonal communications researcher David Henningsen points out that the essence of flirting is ambiguity, leading the target to “suspect that sexual interest is being expressed” but not allowing them to really be sure. As for a flirt’s goal, predictably, for many in Henningsen’s and others’ research, it’s about “getting some.” But some flirting, called “instrumental” flirting, is about getting something else — like getting a discount, getting some free help, or getting out of a ticket by flashing a lady cop one’s man boobs.

As for what may be going on here, Henningsen notes that some flirting is just about having fun or is a way for a person to feel good about themselves. (“She’s all over me like ants on a croissanwich!”) There’s also what Henningsen calls the “exploring” motivation: safely testing what a relationship with somebody new might be like (in case the wife runs off with the census taker).

Chances are, this guy is into you but is clinging to fidelity like a shipwrecked rat on driftwood. Maybe try to enjoy this for what it is: free lunch, free work, and referrals to the amazing Carlos at Numero Uno Auto.

And try to be grateful for all that he shares with you, like the poetry and short stories that his wife probably (wisely) refuses to read. As for a companion to take you to that dark place with satin sheets, you’ll have to find somebody unmarried and available. If this guy is looking to make his wife cry, it seems he’ll stick to low-grade relationship misdemeanors, like forgetting her birthday or, when they’re in bed, calling her by an old girlfriend’s name. Or by the dog’s.

Spoken-word telephone conversation does have its merits, like how you’re unlikely to find yourself asking your grandma to send you a better photo of her penis.

There’s an assumption many women make that if a guy’s only texting you and not calling you, he’s not that into you. But context matters.

Like whether “whassup gorjuss?” comes in at 1:17 a.m. or at 9:30 a.m. as you’re riding the elevator up to work. And content especially matters — in a guy’s texts and when you’re together.

For example, on dates, is he looking into your eyes as you two talk for hours or looking into his phone as you stare into your napkin? In short, the medium is not the message. The message is the message — like if someone’s on the phone with you and simultaneously organizing his sock drawer, pondering a zit in the mirror, and bidding on a vintage beer sign on eBay: “Sorry, what was that about your childhood trauma?”

started throwing peanuts at people in the park while debating abortion with a squirrel. But there are three stages of love: the “falling in it” stage, the “figuring out how it’ll work” stage, and finally, the “you’re the one!” commitment stage. You’re in the starting days of the “falling in it” stage — getting hit by rushing hormones and neurotransmitters — which is to say that you’re chemically dazed. Which is to say that making any sort of decision about what you two have is like getting really high and going off to sign papers for a bank loan.

In fact, according to research by psychiatry professor Donatella Marazziti, it’s likely that right now, you and this guy are each chemically different people — and thus behaviorally different people — than you will be once the chemical storm dies down. Marazziti found significant shifts in testosterone levels in both men and women who’d recently fallen in love.

Compared with single people and people who’d been in relationships awhile, women newly in love had elevated testosterone, likely making them more sexually tigress-y, while the

T levels of men newly in love dropped, likely making them more gooey and emotional — to the point where even a Navy SEAL might start sounding like a Valentine’s Day card.

How long the biochemical inebriation lasts varies, but Marazziti’s research suggests that couples are pretty much out of the falling in love daze a year to two years later. It’s only then — once you sober up — that you find out what you actually have together.

The kind of love that sticks around is not just a feeling but a feeling that inspires loving action. As novelist Marlon James, quoting a former lover, put it: “Love isn’t saying ‘I love you,’ but calling to say, ‘Did you eat?’”

Love that lasts should also inspire a sort of loving inaction — loving the person enough that you don’t hate them for all the ways they turn out to be a total idiot: how they can’t seem to understand that pee goes in the big white porcelain thing, not on the floor; that those gross phlegm-clearing sounds are not a mating call; and that socks left on the bedroom rug will not grow tiny legs, crawl up the hamper, and fling themselves in.

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I’ve been texting a lot with this guy for a few weeks, but he never calls me. We’ve been on a few dates that were really nice.

My girlfriends tell me that if he really liked me, he’d call me. But one of my friends is about to get married, and their whole courtship was basically conducted via text.

How important is the whole calling versus texting thing?

— Worried

Do I look infatuated in this?

Is there anything inherently bad about getting into a serious relationship quickly? I met this guy about a month ago. We hit it off instantly, became boyfriend and girlfriend two weeks later, and have been dropping I-love-yous. It all feels pretty great; I don’t have a history of poor relationship judgment; and I wasn’t desperate or even looking for a new partner. However, popular opinion seems to run against getting involved so fast. Your thoughts?

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Asheville flower bomb wrapped in pretty riddle

From Staff Reports

An anonymous person or persons left a flower display — aka “flower bomb” — that was discovered early on the morning of Sept. 18 on the floor of an abandoned building with a tragic past at 39 Banks Ave. in downtown Asheville’s South Slope area.

In addition, an anonymous poem was left behind, bobbing in the wind but tied with a fishing line to the building, claiming it was “the bird of summer flowers” that brought the marigolds to the building in the night.

However, the human touch was evident from the arrangement of the blooms into the shape of a giant keyhole, or the careful placement of dahlias into each apothecary jar.

“She disappeared just as quickly as she had arrived,” the poem said of its anonymous creator.

For the third year in a row, someone left a massive flower display and a poem in downtown Asheville, but has yet to reveal their identity or sign their poems. This also was the largest flower bomb yet, with hundreds of marigolds — valued at $300 to $400 — spread on the concrete floor.

Local news media reported that some residents in the area believe the flower bomb is the work of one woman, but no one can prove it or identify anyone.

Asheville Public Works Director Greg Shuler said of the latest flower bomb, “If this were on the sidewalk, we would try to figure out who did it.”

The display, comprising flowers that would have cost hundreds of dollars if

bought through a florist, occurred on private property, under the cover of darkness either late Sept. 17 night or early Sept. 18 morning, sources on the scene said.

Shuler added that it is not the city’s responsibility to sweep away the wilting flowers or track down the person behind it.

In other American cities, the works of flower bomb artists have appeared in public places, but the artists at work have made themselves known. In contrast, nobody has emerged to identify Asheville’s flower bomber ... or bombers.

Two years ago, the branches of tree on the corner of Wall Street were strung with marigolds and a floral mandala was created around its base with a hand-written poem stuck to its trunk.

Last year, a tree on College Street was given similar treatment with marigolds at its base, but in that case dahlias in small apothecary jars were tied to hula hoops that were then hung from the tree’s branches.

Commonalities in the three Asheville flower bombing include that they all took place in September, they all featured marigolds of red, orange and yellow and each installation came with a hand-written poem.

Meanwhile, David W. Cook, a Minnesota-based artist known as “The Flower Bomber,” told the Asheville Citizen-Times that he could not take credit for the work.

His flowers are made from wood and duct tape — not from seeds, he said.

“It’s not mine, but I might know why someone did it,” he told the AC-T on Sept.

19. “Whenever I do an installation, I feel like a renegade. I wake up at 2 a.m. to do them and by 5 a.m. they are done. It’s exhausting work, but I do it because I like making people smile.”

As for the building’s tragic past, last September a fire at 39 Banks Ave. left it in an irreparably charred condition. Also, three years ago, two homeless men were found dead behind the abandoned building.

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City lawyer’s emails about jobs at new brewery trigger ‘review’

From Staff Reports

The City of Asheville’s top-ranking staff — as of late September — was reviewing an assistant city attorney’s emails to New Belgium Brewery, asking about employment opportunities.

Local news media revealed in mid-September that Assistant City Attorney Jannice Ashley had sent emails — in January — to New Belgium general counsel Joe Davis, asking if the company would consider hiring the brother of a friend. She also asked if the company, based in Fort Collins, Colo., was hiring any attorneys.

“P.S.: I am personally curious about whether you ever hire for a local legal team? Or does that all stay with corporate in CO?” Ashley wrote in an email timestamped 11:52 a.m., Mon., Jan. 5.

The emails between Ashley and Davis have appeared on the website of Asheville River Gate, a publication that has been critical of the city’s deal with New Belgium to locate the brewery on the west bank of the French Broad River.

City staff has confirmed the authenticity of the emails and noted that they came from what they said was an unusually large public records request.

City Attorney Robin Currin, who supervises Asheville’s legal department, said she is looking into the exchange between the two attorneys whose employers have been involved in high-level negotiations over $3.5 million in taxpayer-funded incentives and millions of dollars in infrastructure overhauls. Currin answers directly to Asheville City Council.

“I am currently reviewing this matter, however, whether a particular employee’s actions comply with city policies is considered personnel information and disclosure is permitted only as authorized by the general statutes,” Currin told the local media in mid-September.

River Gate’s website showed three emails, the first of which is the Jan. 5 message in which Ashley said she understands the brewery is hiring and recommends the brother “of one of my best friends who is applying for a quality assurance/chemit position.” She briefly addressed his qualifications and said his personality would fit with the company.

“You are the only person at the company who I have direct contact with, hope you don’t mind my sending,” Ashley wrote Davis.

In the first email’s postscript, she asked about attorney positions.

In the second email, time-stamped 3;07 p.m. Tues., Jan. 13, the brewery’s chief attorney responds that he has passed along her job recommendations to New Belgium’s hiring manager in Asheville.

Her friend’s brother “sounds like good candidate,” he said. “So we’ll see where the chips may fall.” Davis added that the company might add an attorney in Asheville “in next few years.

“I will keep you in mind if we decided to go down that route. Let’s try to touch base next time I’m in touch — it would be great to finally meet you in person!”

In a third email, time-stamped 1:48 p.m.

Wed., Jan. 14, Ashley thanked Davis, especially in regard to the attorney positions.

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Sex

Continued from Page A1 What’s more, Raife Davis, landlord of Waking Life’s Haywood Road location said Sept. 23 he would evict Waking Life, if it cannot be done legally.

Also, a petition was drafted that urged local businesses to pull Waking Life products from their shelves.

Responding to the petition, the owner of Orbit DVD posted on Facebook: “I am going to (go) one further. We have a few bottles of Waking Life coffee left, and they are already paid for. So, for every bottle we sell, Orbit will donate $50 to Our VOICE, the nonprofit dedicated to helping victims of sexual violence.

Further, several interested parties are eyeing the business for takeover, although as of late September neither Rutledge nor co-owner Owens have publicly announced intentions to sell the business.

Using the name “Holistic Game,” Rutledge and Owens allegedly posted content such as (and this is one of their tamer posts), “There are no ‘special’ girls. There are cool ones, and lame ones. There are ones who’ve earned investment, and ones who haven’t. That’s it.”

A joint statement from owners of Waking Life

To Our Asheville community: We know many of you are angry right now. That anger is justified.

There is nothing to balm the wound for now, and we recognize that. We validate and affirm your frustration and disappointment.

We’ve issued separate apologies and those stand more than ever.

We’ve said terrible and demeaning things — things that belie unhealthy thought patterns that do not contribute to a stable and equal society. Things our mothers and sisters had to hear. We cannot and will not excuse these things. We grieve for the systematic and ongoing actions we’ve taken.

We apologize to the women in our lives and the greater community for the harm we’ve caused, and the potential danger weve put them in with our attitudes and beliefs.

We opened Sunday (Sept. 19) in order to have conversations with some of our regular customers, and to give an opportunity for folks to chat, if they wished.

A few did just that, and we’re grateful for your thoughts and feelings. We’re humbled by and undeserving of the grace displayed by you in the face of our acions.

We’re going to close for the next couple days so we can have some room for introspection. We want to allow ourselves to be accountable to our friends, family, employees, clergy and counselors for our actions, and give ourselves room to be silent and reflect.

These attitudes were not grown in a day, and they will not be destroyed in a day. We want to humbly oonnect to that process.

We’re not good people, but we want to be.

We’re going to donate all our business profits through the end of the year to Our VOICE. Many of you in the community have great regard for this organization, and their work is of immense importance.

We know this is but a step, but it’s something to which we can commit. Our employees who have lost their jobs due to our behavior will be given severance to help as they transition.

With deepest regret, — Jarded and Jacob

They referred to women as “plates” to be spun and “juggled.” The authors were outed about a month ago by another anonymous blog, JaredandJacobsaid.

The two men admitted to taking part in the blog/podcast and issued apology statements, closed their shop for the next few days to have “some room for introspection,” Rutledge and Owens wrote. “These attitutudes were not grown in a day, and they will not be destroyed in a day. We want to humbly commit to that process.

We’re not good people, but we want to be.”

Rutledge, in a separate apology, noted, “I grew up in West Asheville and have disappointed and brought shame to the community that raised me, and there’s not really anything I can do to make it right. There are no excuses to be made. The way I’ve phrased and framed my private conduct in a sad and tawdry public way is humiliating.”

Meanwhile, Owens wrote, “Under a disguise that I thought would be anonymous, with the accountability that good friends hold you to, this persona that I am fully responsible for was developed into a chauvinist and a misogynist. I love women.

I value them. In my experience with them they have taught me of kindness, grace and compassion. Many of my words in the podcast do not reflect that.”

Men, as well as women, protested outside the coffee shop, clutching signs referencing the owners’ most vulgar comments.

Some called for the immediate closure of Waking Life and the demands ranged from “get out of town” to “go find a cliff and jump,” as well as other more graphic condemnations.

The public shaming has reached the point in late September that hundreds, of not thousands, of real-life and social media voices have taken to task the two men. A subgroup of Facebook mobbers posted a thread listing the ways in which women would most like to castrate or kill the two men. Some have posted home addresses of the offenders and photos of family members.

In the meantime, there has been concern expressed in some quarters about critics being unforgiving — and not giving the men an opportunity to make amends.

To that end, the Rev. Howard Hanger, founder of the nondenominational Jubi-

lee! Community Church in downtown Asheville, recently asserted, “Yom Kippup is about being at one with God. And how are you one with God? You ask for forgiveness and you forgive. “‘Do these guys deserve a good tongue lashing? Yes. And they got it. They’ve lost the downtown shop. They’ve lost business and they’ve lost the respect of the community. The thing to do is to go to them and ask, ‘How can I help you move on?’”

In addition, activists have organized several community forums on the rape culture and how it contributes to sexual violence, prompted by events at Waking Life Espresso. One was held Sept. 27 at VaVaVoom, a woman-owned downtown boutique and lingerie shop; and Sept. 30 at UNC Asheville.

UNCA also will host a screening of the documentary, “The Hunting Ground” at 7 p.m. Oct. 13 in the Humanities Lecture Hall. The film looks at the rape culture on college campuses. After the viewing, there will be a panel discussion raising voices of faculty, students and representatives from Our Voice, the campus police and university counseling staff.

Forward

Continued from Page A1 Event organizer Rick Austin welcomed the crowd to the night’s program, noting, “Just about a week ago was the 14th anniversary of 9/11. I said then that we’re in a holy war. Our existence, right now, is at stake...

“These people want to kill you.

“We have Bill Forstchen, who was here last year ... saying basically: ‘Don’t be politically correct.’ Some people told me after his speech the hair stood up on the back of their heads.

“He wrote ‘One Second After,’ a great book. He’s almost like the father of prepping.

Not only did I meet him, but he’s spoken here two years in a row.

“Now has out ‘One Year After,’ the sequel to ‘One Second After.’” Austin concluded, as Forstchen was greeted with rousing applause and cheers from the crowd.

During his speech, Forstchen expressed frustration that “the book (‘One Second After’) came out in 2009 — and it’s 2015 ... and the government hasn’t done anything” to protect the U.S. from the catastrophic consquences of an EMP, or a coronal mass ejection.

“We need to build a shield of anti-ballistic missiles to avoid an EMP,” Forstchen said.

Instead, the author-prof lamented that the U.S. government is giving huge amounts of money to Middle Eastern countries in an effort that is likely to backfire.

For instance, Forstchen asked if those attending his talk knew that “the cost was $100 million per fighter to train Syrians to fight ISIS?” Regarding a CME, a phenomenon that occurs periodically and affects the earth similarly to a massive EMP, one is long overdue and is likely to happen soon, Forstchen said later. (A CME is a massive burst of gas and magnetic field arising from the solar corona and being released into the solar wind, which also would render most of today’s digital and mechanical devices inoperable.)

Forstchen told how he got the idea to write “One Second After,” noting that the idea was hatched in July 2004, when he was working with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on a book on the Civil War. Gingrich “has excellent vocabulary control,” but he exploded with “about five minutes of expletives about the EMP — and Congress not acting on its threat.”

He added, “We then had a six-hour discussion about the EMP threat,” with Gingrich telling Forstchen that he should write a book about it.

When a major report by the U.S. EMP Commission was released on the devastating consequences that would occur from an EMP attack on the U.S., “no media members came by to pick up a report on the threat of EMPs because on the other side of town everyone was paying attention to release of the 9/11 report... Everyone was focusing on the last war rather than on the future war.”

Following an EMP strike, “90 percent of all Americans would be dead within a year,” Forstchen said the congressional report reported.

“EMP is about a first-strike weapon,” he said. “All you need is three or four of them and you can completely paralyze your opponent.”

Shortly after “One Second After” came out in 2009, “people asked if I’d do a sequel, Forstchen said, adding that “writing that book was one of the worst nightmares of my life.

It was too emotionally draining. It went on to become a bestseller....

“I didn’t want to go near the subject again.

It hurt too much. But people kept asking me to do another book,” so that is why he recently released the sequel, “One Year After.” Just like “One Second After,” the new book is set in and around Black Mountain after an EMP pulse wipes out all electronic devices and communication and most motorized travel. (“One Year After” is “a riveting and real-

Asheville Daily Planet — October 2015 - A9 istic account of a struggling America in the aftermath of an EMP attack,” according to the publisher, Forge Books.

It continues the storylinefrom “One Second After,” now two years since the EMP pulse, as the federal government demands that most of the young “One Year After,” men and women the sequel to “One of Black Mountain Second After,” be drafted into an recently was re“Army of National leased.

Recovery” and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away.”

Town Administrator John Matherson protests the draft, and the federal government cracks down.)

Speaking generally about America’s future, Forstchen said, “I still believe our destiny is in the stars.”

To that end, his recent book, “Pillar to the Sky,” prompted one reviewer to say that Forstchen “should stick to gloom and doom,” he wryly told the crowd, which laughed.

What’s more, Forstchen said the Mountain Xpress, an Asheville-based weekly newspaper, “had my face on the cover, titled ‘Dr. Gloom.’”

After a pause, he said, “I finally agreed to do the book ‘One Year After’ because I had to. I feel the prepper movement has graduated (from a basic level) and needs to go to the graduate level.”

After voicing a few more criticisms of American foreign policy and looming threats to national security, Forstchen asserted, “With all that being said, I much prefer going to (the) questions and answers” portion of his program.

However, he then added that “I can bring Abraham Lincoln into anything.”After a big Union loss to the Confederacy in battle, Lincoln expressed some profound thoughts in his annual State of the Union address to Congress on Dec. 1, 1862, Forstchen said.

He praised Lincoln for his foresight, saying he even “laid out what America would be like in 1900 and 1960. He concludes with an incredible statement.”

Forstchen read the Lincoln passsage as follows: “Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history.

We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here -- hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Other means may succeed; this could not fail.

The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.”

“That’s always stayed with me,” Forstchen said of Lincoln’s aforementioned words. “He talked about the debt we owe to those who fought in the Revolution.

“We owe it to our children and grandchildren to ensure that the nation that our Founding Fathers created is the one that we will leave” to future generations.

“When the day comes that we face our ancestors in heaven, they will ask if we did

our duty... We have to start talking about how we’re going to take our country back and restore it to the America that we once knew.”

Forstchen then asserted, “I much prefer question and answer and so....”

A man asked, “Is it true that there are talks of ‘One Second After’ being done as a movie?”

“Yes and no,” Forstchen replied. “The book had been optioned, but Warner Brothers did not renew its option. Well, last year I literally got a call out of the blue” from a different interested party. “So we’re getting close, again.

“The big problem is we must have editorial control over content,” he said, as the crowd erupted into applause. “Otherwise, Hollywood would turn it into” something it is not.

Another man asked, “When you wrote ‘Day of Wrath,’ do you think you were giving a blueprint to the Muslims?”

“On June 27, 2014, they were talking on the news about the total collapse of security on our Southern border,” Forstchen answered. “Within 15 to 20 minutes,” using his computer, “I pushed into actual ISIS sites.

Even FOX News didn’t have the guts to show it.... We decided to go with self-publication on ‘Day of Wrath’” because its subject matter was so controversial.

As for ISIS’ terrorism, Forstchen said, “It’s coming to America. It’s here.” He then praised Prepper Camp 2015 for its efforts, noting, “I know we have some well-trained security people here.”

However, he said, “When I walk into a school building and see the sign that says ‘This is a gun-free zone’ and I think, dang. I envision a terrorist coming up and seeing that sign.... and saying” they have an easy target.

“Imagine three well-trained terrorists coming into a school, fully armed and vicious — they could murder 600 children in six minutes,” Forstchen noted.

“Christians and Jews are dying horrific deaths. They’re having their heads sawed off,

being blown up, burned alive....

“I believe we can train well-trained teachers to ‘carry’ (weapons). If we could train one teacher, we could save 100 children....

“Instead, we’re putting up signs that say ‘come and get it.’ When are we going to wake up? I’m angry.”

Forstchen added, “You know, there was a terrible time in America that testing people before they could vote was ‘racism.’”

However, now, if he were calling the shots, Forstchen said, “I’d start one thing. Before you could cast a ballot, you have to know the Constitution of the United States.” The crowd cheered his assertion, as a man yelled, “Not the new one — the old one!” The crowd cheered even louder, as Forstchen broke into a grin.

“We need people voting who are mature, thinking, rational adults, who swear an oath to uphold the Constitution,” Forstchen continued.

With a smile, he then asserted that he — maybe — has focused too much on gloom and doom, noting that “I want to write a happy book, someday called ‘Happy Bunny Goes to Town.’” The crowd then laughed along with Forstchen at that notion.

A man asked, “What’s been the reaction of the people in Black Mountain” to his apolyptic books set in and around that area?

“I always picture the people carrying torches up my driveway, yelling, ‘There he is!’”

Forstchen replied with a smile. “Actually, the reaction has been delightful. The chamber of commerce likes it,” referring to the publicity for the community resulting from “One Second After” and “One Year After.”

“Almost every character in the (newest) book is real. The one exception is the chief of police. I needed a foil....

“I asked a pharmacist what would happen if your supply system went down. The two people who know the most of what is going on in a town is the pharmacist — and the kindergarten teacher,” Forstchen said.

(To be continued in November’s Daily Planet)

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Saturday, Oct. 3

CHICKEN DINNER FUNDRAISER, 11 a.m.5 p.m., Asheville Mennonite Church, 49 Bull Mountain Rd., Asheville. The church will hold its semi-annual smoked-chicken dinner and bake sale. More than 900 chicken-halves will be slowsmoked and sold as quarter- or half-chicken dinners. Chicken also may be purchased without a dinner. Dinners include cole slaw, baked beans and a roll. The bake sale offers homemade pies, breads, cakes and cookies. All items are in carry-out containers, but also may be eaten at the covered outdoor dining area. Proceeds will support mission projects and other needs.

FAMILY BARBECUE, 4-6:30 p.m., Fletcher United Methodist Church, 50 Library Rd., Fletcher.

A family barbecue will feature pork BBQ for $3 for the general public and free for those ages 10 and younger. Also featured will be a pumpkin-carving contest, corn-hole tournament, photo booth and game stations for ages 5 and younger.

Monday, Oct. 5

CONCERT, 10 a.m., The Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove, 1 Porters Cove Rd., Asheville. A SeniorSalt concert will feature Stephanie Seefeldt, followed by a buffet-style luncheon. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. For tickets, which are $29, call 298-2092 or visit http://the cove.org.

Saturday, Oct. 10

CHRISTMAS CRAFTS FAIR, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., All Saints Anglican Church, 15 McDowell Rd., Mills River. The church will hold a Christmas Crafts Fair. To reserve table space ($25 for a 6-8foot table or $15 for a half-table), call 891-7216.

SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM, 7 p.m., Sandburg Hall, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville. “Disruption,” a documentary on climate change, will be screened.

Admission is free.

Sunday, Oct. 11

COFFEEHOUSE CONCERT, 7-9 p.m., sanctuary, Sandburg Hall, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville. The Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse concert series will feature Louise Mosrie and Cliff Eberhardt. Doors open at 6 p.m., with the program starting at 7 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults and $10 for students.

Friday, Oct. 16

CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Stuart Auditorium, 20 Chapel Drive, Lake Junaluska. The Lake Junaluska Singers will perform. The professional ensemble serves as the ambassador choir for the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church and the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center. For tickets, which are $22.50 for reserved and $17.50 for general admission, call (800) 2224930 or visit www.lakejunaluska.com/.

Sunday, Oct. 18

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Holt performs at colleges, universities, corporate events and spiritual centers around the world, sharing his inspiration and music.

Sunday, Oct. 25

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Sports Commentary

Patriots: We cheat, so what? Who cares?

Tank Spencer is the host of a weekly sports talk show, “The Sports Tank,” on Asheville’s News Radio WWNC (570AM) that airs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. Spencer also serves as WWNC’s news anchor, reporter and afternoon producer. This column features posts from his blog.

• The following was posted Sept. 10: All throughout the offseason it’s been DeflateGate, DeflateGate, DeflateGate; and now this week we’re finding out more details about SpyGate.

Are you aware that news broke eight years ago?

I remember vividly because I was on my honeymoon in Boston the week SpyGate hit the fan.

Why are we just now getting some of the details about the blatant rule breaking of the New England Patriots?

You conspiracy theorists can (and will) spin your wheels over that.

The answer is simple: WINNING. America (especially Pats fans, apparently) and businesses like the NFL love a winner and they don’t care how it’s done.

News reports are that the DeflateGate penalties were a “make-up call” for the NFL botching the SpyGate investigation and penalties. I totally get and am fine with the attempt. Especially so, after hearing the Patriots were not only secretly filming opposing coaches’ signals and opponent walk-throughs, but coaches were also having low-level staffers steal play sheets from opponent locker rooms or sidelines. This apparently all took place 40-something

Tank Spencer times over a seven-year stretch.

And yet we are asked to believe by the offending franchise that the ball boys were not being directed to deflate footballs.

The Patriots organization and fans have done a laughable job of trying to play the victim over these scandals. You got caught... twice now. Admit it and move on.

But they can’t, it’s apparently too much in their nature.

Here is why I say the Pats don’t care: Tonight is the season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tonight the Super Bowl champions will raise their banner celebrating another tainted title.

Jonathan Kraft, Patriots president and son of owner Robert Kraft, told WBZ-FM last week that if Tom Brady were suspended for the opener, they wouldn’t raise the Super Bowl banner without him. He said they actually would’ve raised a banner listing Brady’s accomplishments… as a special F-U to the league. (I added that last part.)

That’s how my child reacts when he’s scolded for not using a fork at dinner.

(Don’t like it? How about this!) As he grabs a bigger handful of macaroni and shoves it in his mouth, slowly.

Maybe the NFL needs to give the Pats a good spanking once and for all and send them to their room for a while.

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The Daily Planet’s Opinion

Asheville flower bomb? Bravo!

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e say “bombs away” to the creative and artistic individual (or individuals) who, as of late September, had left behind three different so-called flower bombs around Asheville.

The latest was reported Sept. 18. when an unexpected and huge flower display was left on the floor of the abandoned building at 39 Banks Ave. in downtown Asheville’s South Slope area.

What’s more, a poem was left behind claiming that it was “the bird of summer flowers” that brought the marigolds in the night. The flowers, however, appeared to have had the human touch, as they were arranged into the shape of a giant keyhole.

Also, dahlias were placed in each apothecary jar.

“She disappeared just as quickly

as she had arrived,” the poem — tied with a fishing line to the building and swaying in the wind — said of the anonymous creator.

Elusive, fleeting and mysterious, two previous displays have appeared in Asheville’s streets in the past. Nationally, the works of flower bomb artists have been left in public places, but those artists have made themselves known.

All three of the known Asheville flower bombs occurred in September. Two years ago, a tree on the corner of Wall Street had marigolds strung from its branches and a flower mandala created around its base with a hand-written note stuck to its trunk. Last year, a tree on College Street was given similar treatment.

What an intriguing and beautiful thing: a flower bomb with a anonymous poem. Our curiosity is piqued.

His most hopeful book, says Ron Rash

CHAPEL HILL — Ron Rash, Western Carolina professor and author of five previous novels including “Serena,” captures his beloved North Carolina mountains at their best.

And their worst.

In his new book, “Above the Waterfall,” his main characters, though possessing overwhelmingly positive qualities, have flaws that complicate our admiration for them.

For instance, there are two narrators. One, Les, is a respected and effective sheriff.

However, he takes small but regular payoffs from the local marijuana growers. The other, Becky, is a park ranger, whose love of nature and service is clouded by psychological damage that occurred when she was a child and witnessed a brutal shooting at school.

Using the voices of the sheriff and the park ranger, Rash describes the local lovely mountains in passages throughout the book, beginning with its opening paragraph. “Though sunlight tinges the mountains, black leatherwinged bodies swing low. First fireflies blink languidly. Beyond this Ron Rash meadow, cicadas rev and slow like sewing machines.

All else ready for night except night itself.

I watch last light lift off level land. Ground shadows seep and thicken. Circling trees form banks. The meadow itself becomes a pond filling, on its surface dozens of blackeyed susans.”

Balancing the mountains’ beauty are the ugly realities of life, like the struggles of poverty and drug addiction.

Rash’s description of the sheriff’s raid on the mobile home of a suspected meth cooking operation is brilliant. He brings his readers into the suspense, danger, horror, and disappointment of a law enforcement assault into the broken lives of meth-addicted people.

The sheriff explains that although television has glamorized meth, “You didn’t smell the moldy food, or the vomit, …or blood, the meth itself burning your nose like ammonia, or how, once you’d arrested them, you turned your face so you didn’t smell their rotting mouths. No, TV couldn’t give you that.”

Last week (mid-September) on UNC-TV’s “North Carolina Now,” Rash said, “I write

D.G. Martin about it. But the one thing I don’t want to do is glamorize it.”

In a response to questions about the current status of meth addiction and manufacture in our mountains, he continued, “Well, I think we’re starting to see it, I hope, burn itself out. I mean, there seems to be other drugs coming in.

But the meth has just been devastating, I think because it’s been so easy to make. Almost anyone can make it. Materials are out there and inexpensive and, as I say, incredibly addictive.

I can’t think of a more sinister drug.”

Rash wanted his book to show how the tragedy of addiction extended to the parents of meth addicts. He said that the scene in which the sheriff had to tell his friends that their daughter had been arrested was “maybe the most powerful scene and the hardest scene for me to write. And the heartbreak there, I thought, was to me, what I wanted to focus on.”

In the nonfiction mountains, Rash says, “Parents are watching their children that they love get caught up in this and not be able to get out. The attempts to get them to go to rehab, too often the failure of that; as a parent, what could be more heartbreaking than to watch your child descend into this?”

Still, Rash believes “Above the Waterfall” is “my most hopeful book.”

“I hope that the reader senses that this is also a book about wonder and the beauty of the world and of people trying to do their best and people redeeming themselves. I think particularly with Les and Becky, the two main characters, that these are people who have gone through tough times and been able to survive and become better.”

Whether or not “Above the Waterfall” is his most hopeful book, it may be his most powerful, and certainly an important one for North Carolinians to read.

• 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

Bernie Sanders’ popularity marks start of a movement

Bernie Sanders’ popular message is the reason for his dynamic rise in the polls. It’s not that the public is buying into the smear campaign against Hillary Clinton. It has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton.

It’s much deeper than that. People have had enough of business-as-usual politics purchased by big-money interests that has little regard for the needs of middle class and low-income families who make up 99 percent of the population.

Sanders has spent his long political career building a well-deserved reputation of honesty and independence from Wall Street and from the general corruption of our political system.

The all-powerful multi-national corporate interests and the “mainstream” news media that represents their perspective didn’t see the Sanders campaign coming and still are in denial of what is happening.

Bernie Sanders is not Barack Obama and this isn’t 2008. The Sanders campaign is

bringing to the surface an ocean of underlying injustices and misplaced priorities in the corporate-co-opted American political system.

Sanders’ message is resonating deeply with the American public including members of all sectors and demographic groups.

It’s not a cult of personality.

It’s a movement motivated by real issues that affect all our lives on a daily basis. The more people learn about Sanders the more they like him and his message. There is no acceptable reason why, in the wealthiest country in the world, millions of people can be working 40 or 50 hours a week and still be living in poverty, lacking affordable health care, decent housing and the financial ability to provide a higher education for their children, while the upper one-tenth of one percent have accumulated 90 percent of the wealth generated by a growing economy.

Something is very wrong with this picture.

It no longer matters how much of a monetary advantage other candidates may have over Sanders in the campaign.

See LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Page A15

The Candid Conservative

Schooling in bullying

“Bullying is the sanctuary of the immature, the inadequate and the truest coward.”

The Problem

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he heart of the second amendment isn’t about guns – it’s about the natural right to defend ourselves.

There’s growing evidence we may

need to.

Recent events involving the Middle East, Mexico, and Baltimore reveal America’s impaired capacity to defend foreign lands, US borders or our own cities. Even those who would protect us are vulnerable.

The purposeful executions of ISIS differ little from the service station murder of a Texas deputy filling his gas tank. Both reflect a world growing ever more dedicated to savagery as a solution.

It may surprise you that some of the most violent places in our community are public schools. Though officials blame diligent reporting Whistle Blower integrity for that disturbing stat, Buncombe has roughly twice the crime rate of the average North Carolina school system. Real integrity is found in their effort to take a stronger stance on predatory behavior.

That matters because our schools are incubators for the next generation of criminals as surely as our nurses, truckers, teachers, and plumbers. Today’s seventhgrade bully is more likely to be tomorrow’s cop killer than tomorrow’s cop.

We can do something about it.

What’s a bully?

Anyone who derives pleasure, meaning, power or opportunity out of abusing others rates on the bully meter. Having stumbled onto the drugs of anger and violence as a destructive source of identity, bullies are equally at risk for other addictive enterprises like video games, pornography, substances, laziness, TV, hip-hop music or anything else representing a shortcut to feeling good. Like all addicts they’re usually experts in denial, self-service and social manipulation.

Carl Mumpower In today’s confused world, bullies are just as likely to be women as men. A tendency to criticize others and run in packs marks masked insecurities. They get started at an early age and, like rogue predatory lions, learn to love to eat people.

Bullies have a big impact

How many times do you have to be bitten by a dog, spider or snake to develop a dread of such?

Bullies have the same impact, except the pivotal outcome is a fear of people. Adults identify bullying at school as the second greatest source of childhood pain. Teen suicides and 75 percent of school shooting incidents routinely track to a bullied child.

Bullies aren’t just a problem in the hallway, school bus or bathroom. They leak their venom all day long by disrupting the learning environment. Ninety percent of all 4th- through 8th-graders report being victims of bullying and one out of 10 dropouts leave to escape bullies.

It’s no small concern that children develop their social-emotional coping model amidst the turmoil of middle school – the most precarious segment of the academic spectrum.

How to spot the bullied There are signals like a low sense of selfworth that doesn’t improve. A child who chronically avoids school, tends toward the Sunday evening blues, seems socially isolated and has unexplained injuries or missing stuff may be telling you something.

Casual reference to suicide can mean your child fears the unknowns of death less than their abuser at school.

Be advised that external cues merit keen attentions. Abused children rarely tell adults what’s happening. They’re too ashamed, blame themselves or fear being ignored, criticized or punished by those they tell. And when the bully finds out?

See CANDID CONSERVATIVE, Page A18

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Commentary

Engaged minds needed by N.C. voters

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he world was coming unglued in the early ‘70s. Mighty America was all but begging the North Vietnamese for peace talks.

Women’s liberation was actually happening. The law seemed to give more rights to the criminal than the victim.

America was ready for Dirty Harry.

Movie posters featured the bore of Harry’s .44 Magnum revolver, with words superimposed on shattered glass: “Detective Harry Callahan. He doesn’t break murder cases. He smashes them.”

In a time of insecurity, Harry was the man. He called a punk a punk. He had no

Letters

Continued from Page A14 For instance, Clinton has been spending heavily in Iowa while Sanders has yet to spend anything on TV, radio or newspaper ads. But, still he has rapidly closed the gap in the polls.

The thousands who gather to hear Sanders wherever he goes speaks volumes about the hunger for authenticity that he brings to the electoral process.

We can expect that process to continue because the corporate news media is nolonger the actual “mainstream” media.

Social networks are now the new and real mainstream media.

As members of the public we are now capable of informing ourselves and are no longer dependent on the carefully tailored indoctrination of the network News.

And that’s why Bernie Sanders is probably going to win in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, on Super Tuesday, at the Democratic National Convention and on the Presidential Election Day in November of 2016.

Avram Friedman Dillsboro

Best kind of conservation: A ‘re-wilding’ of our hearts

The senseless killing of Cecil the lion has catalyzed a worldwide discussion about the gratuitous trophy hunting of large carnivores.

In Western Canada, countless Cecils are killed in an equally senseless manner each year for the amusement, pleasure, and excitement of recreational hunters.

From the unrestrained killing of wolves in British Columbia and Alberta to the persistence of the insupportable B.C. grizzly bear hunt, large carnivores are persecuted in Western Canada by way of an anachronistic approach to wildlife management that relies on suffering and death as its primary tool.

The chief purveyors and ideological proponents of this faulty and antiquated model are government ministries responsible for wildlife management and trophy hunting special interest groups.

Moreover, they are rapidly falling out of favour with much of society as their excesses and biases steadily become more widely known.

Clearly, the time has come for a different way of managing wildlife.

Dr. Marc Bekoff, one of the foremost proponents and thinkers in the evolving field of compassionate conservation, writes that “compassionate conservation — in which the guiding principle ‘First do no harm’ stresses the importance of individual nonhuman animals — is gaining increasing global attention because most animals need considerably more protection than they are currently receiving.

See LETTERS, Page18

Lee Ballard respect for pussy-footing institutions. He knew what was wrong out there, and he knew how to fix it.

Later in the ‘70s, along came Ross Perot.

When two of his employees were taken hostage in Iran, he recruited Vietnam veterans from his company and a retired colonel to lead them, and they went in and rescued the hostages. He used the State Department; he didn’t ask their permission.

A song appeared: “Where are you now when we need you, Ross Perot?”

When the going gets tough, we seem to look for a tough guy.

Certain people have a hard-to-define something that draws us to them as followers – especially in times of stress. It’s called charisma.

So, with presidential elections coming up soon, it might be a good idea for us to think about what we want in a president. I don’t like it, but charisma – and non-charisma – will inevitably play a part in how we vote.

When we’re drawn to a candidate by his or her charisma, we should take special care. Caveat suffragator. Voter beware.

Charisma cuts two ways.

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We know about bad use of charisma from the likes of Hitler, Napoleon, Senator Joe McCarthy and (in my opinion) Andrew Jackson. When they gained positions of power, they came to see themselves as allpowerful. They ignored lawful checks on their power.

Some say John Kennedy misused his charisma. He centered power in his office.

He had a Cabinet only because departments needed heads. Congress was a necessary annoyance.

But that’s precisely the appeal of Dirty Harry and Ross Perot, isn’t it? They don’t fret over how things are supposed to be done. They just get ‘er done.

We also know examples of charisma used well. Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Lech Wałęsa led movements with the force of their personalities. They knew they had right on their side, and against all odds, they refused to give up.

Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt used their personal charisma to lift the spirits of their people in desperate times.

Barack Obama belongs here, too. Twice he electrified voters with his expansive personality. And in the face of an intransigent Congress, he didn’t give up on his goals and promises.

Now we come to my man: Harry Truman. Charisma? Maybe 3.6 on a scale of 1-to-10. Yet he’s universally held as a Great President. His strength was in

decision-making – even when his decisions were unpopular. He integrated the military (angering Southern Democrats).

He ordered the atomic bomb and stopping North Korean aggression. He was behind the Berlin Airlift, G.I. Bill, Marshall Plan, the formation of NATO. (And he got rid of a Republican Congress.)

And then there’s… Donald Trump.

Imagine Dirty Harry applying for a detective job and telling them what he’ll do if he’s hired. That’s what’s going on in the GOP primary race. Trump’s target people are those fed up with what they see as America in decline – loss of respect in the world and Washington’s politicians and bureaucrats. They are in stress, and they want a savior.

In a charisma-free field of politicians, Trump is a beacon to the up-to-here crowd.

And finally, there’s North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, bless his heart: no charisma and no savvy. A dud for all seasons.

Engage your minds, voters of North Carolina. If you do, all will be well.

• Lee Ballard lives in Mars Hill.

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Commentary

To jail and back: The ballad of Kim Davis (Or ... how to hate your way to fame)

Jeff Messer is the host of a daily radio talk show on Asheville’s WPEK (880AM, The Revolution) that airs from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. This column features posts from his daily blog.

• The following was posted on Sept. 10: h, the mightily offended, and even more mightily God-fearing saga of Kim Davis.

She grew to media fame (is there any other kind these days) by being the County Clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky who so loved the Lord and Jesus that she wept sorrowful tears over the dirty, filthy gays being allowed to consummate their love with wedding vows that were — apparently — written by God, after he finished writing the US Constitution.

Ah, right wing logic. The irony of the idiocy.

Jaded, as I am, I instantly thought that Davis was simply making a fuss in order to get famous. After all, her religious objections seemed to be less than fully thought out. After all, she was filled with many contradictions herself.

First, she was on marriage number four.

Never mind that she found four men to marry her, and breed with her, but I would assume — she not being a Mormon — that there were three divorces in there. And we all know (or do we?) that adultery is more frowned on in the Bible than anything to do with same sex relationships (which getting vaguely twistable passing references at best, and at worst are constructs of the heavily edited and censored modern Bible, that were never actually in the texts until the late 1940s).

I’m sure Davis thought the judge would simply issue a fine against her for her failure to obey the law as an elected official.

He did not. He sent her to jail, and pointed out that fining her would just lead to a wild fund raising rush from right wing supporters of her selective hate agenda. I’m sure she was shocked to be sent to the slammer.

It was said that she spent time there reading the Bible. I’m shocked. That she could read. Though the real question is about her reading comprehension skills.

Clearly there’s a problem there already. Or maybe she was looking for the actual text to support her views, which must have been frustrating, since that would take a very

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Jeff Messer long time.

What followed her jailing was wildly entertaining. First, there was a Twitter account that popped up, claiming to be the person in the clerk’s office who sits next to Davis.

Then there was Davis’ husband (number 4) who found himself in front of many TV cameras. In one particular interview, he spouted on, in such deep woods hick dialect, that he sounded like a foreigner.

I’m shocked that they didn’t subtitle his comments, though they may not have been able to, because they couldn’t figure out what he was saying.

I was able to glean enough to hear him complain that America was more like Russia or Iran than the good ol’ US of A. And, in the height of audacity, he declared that the governor of Kentucky should do his job and let his wife out of jail or resign.

Wonder where he heard that idea?

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tempts to not issue divorces from religious objections in some places.

While 14 Alabama counties have stopped issuing any marriage licenses after the Supreme Court ruling (though they all neighbor counties who do, which almost makes is all the more laughable.) Indeed, Kim Davis cited that within 30 miles of her office there were others that issued licenses.

And while that’s all well and good, it doesn’t make it acceptable that she refuse to do her job, and be allowed to.

After all, there’s an NPR radio station right here in town that airs content during the same hours I do, yet I expect I would be fired if I came to work, refused to broadcast my show because they do, and people can just listen there, and then still demand that iHeart pay me to be here.

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ers, having been married so many times, divorcing hubby one after getting pregnant with hubby 3’s offspring, yet getting hubby 2 to marry her, then marrying hubby 3, before moving on to number 4. Follow that?

Its like a very special episode of Montel Williams.

Of course, Davis can believe what she wishes, but the real problem is with her elected position/job as a county clerk who issues marriage licenses. As such, she will have to serve many who are acting against things a devout Bible thumper (can’t call them Christians, since they spend all their time in the Old Testament). She will have to issue, and I’m sure has issued, new marriage licenses to adulterers. And she should be an expert on that topic, having done so herself. So, where’s the religious objection to that? At least we’ve heard of some at-

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Undercover abortion videos spark national protests 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 Aug. 24: sheville was home to one of more than 300 demonstrations at Planned Parenthood facilities across the nation Saturday (Aug. 19).

The day of action is in response to a series of undercover videos shot by the Center for Medical Progress that capture Planned Parenthood officials from other states talking about the harvesting and compensation of fetal organs.

Lt. Gov. Dan Forest says North Carolina does not fund the organization. However, the federal government does.

Mike, a listener to the show, shot this video on Saturday morning. He said there were about 300 protesters and about 30 supporters demonstrating.

WLOS puts the crowd count at 300 protesters and 100 supporters.

From the WLOS story: “As you can see from my poster here, only 3 percent of PP budget is abortion,” said Caitlin Battles. “Everything else is cancer screening, it’s counseling, mammograms, STD testing, prevention, contraception. There’s so many things that go into Planned Parenthood.”

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Pete Kaliner This claim has been used by Planned Parenthood supporters for a long time. It is, however, not accurate.

From The Washington Post fact-checker: “With limited data, there is no accurate way to measure how much of Planned Parenthood’s activities comprise abortions. Both sides are using meaningless and incomplete comparisons to make their argument, and the public should be wary of both figures. Thus, both receive Three Pinocchios.”

“While Planned Parenthood has no legal obligation to make its data more public, it is unfortunate that the public has limited access to data about the organization.

Planned Parenthood could end the speculation–and Pinocchios–by providing a more transparent breakdown of its clients, referrals and sources of revenues.”

In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal announced he would play the undercover videos on a big screen when supporters of Planned Parenthood showed up to demonstrate.

They moved their demonstration when they heard of his plan.

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“Governor Jindal had a screen set up on his front lawn and had the disturbing Planned Parenthood videos played on a loop for the duration of the protest so the demonstrators could see why he made the decision he did.

“As the governor noted in his statement prior to the protest, “many Planned Parenthood supporters, including President Obama and members of the White House, said they have not or will not view the horrific Planned Parenthood videos.”

“Apparently, the Planned Parenthood supporters outside the governor’s mansion Thursday also refused to watch the horrific videos.

“According to Jindal, they moved their protest further away from the governor’s mansion in order to avoid them. “‘We can understand why they wouldn’t want to watch,’ concluded the governor.”

Indeed.

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Continued from Page A14 Don’t do this if you want to help Like all government agencies, the number one mission of schools is self-protection. That’s why uncomfortable crime stats are tagged to reporting excellence instead of not-so-excellent enforcement. Painting a happy face on everything helps administrators – not bullying victims. Pretending bullies aren’t really that big of a problem, tolerating their harm as a ‘kids will be kids’ thing, and punishing the victim as surely as the bully are examples of protecting the system over the child.

Pretending we can’t find who’s at fault is unethical nonsense. Teachers and administrators know the bullies – and so do their parents – and that bullies dodging accountability usually become bigger bullies.

Skip hollow advice for the bullied like, “Tell your teacher,” Try being his friend,” or “He’ll get tired of picking on you.” That

makes us feel better, not the child. Pay attention to the power of the computer – cyber bullying, like cyber accessed pornography, is very common, very damaging and very easily hidden.

Whatever you do, avoid nonsense statements like, “You bring it on yourself.”

Children don’t purposefully trigger bullies any more than seals actively seek the attentions of killer whales.

What can we do about it?

Bullies operate out of the instinctive versus thinking brain and thus respond to conditioning, not logic. This is why most school interventions don’t work. Consequences have to vigorously exceed the rewards of bullying. That takes administrative courage.

Stop punishing the victim, especially when they stand up. Disciplining the perpetrator and their prey equally sends the message there’s no difference in violence

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vores become scapegoats for the decline of other animals from marmots to mountain caribou.

Humans intrude, degrade, and destroy large carnivore habitat, including restricting access to or depleting their food, in our relentless pursuit of resource development, economic gain, and even recreational activity.

In doing so, top predators are deprived of the requisites they need to survive, and then are slain when they become “problem” animals as a result of their search for sustenance.

Large carnivores are demonized in books, films and television programs, as our society clings to malevolent myths that

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“And many people can no longer justify or stomach harming and killing animals in the name of conservation.”

Too often, conservation and wildlife management primarily focus on the maintenance of population numbers.

We forget wild populations are formed by of individuals that can suffer stress and pain, which we deem unacceptable for companion animals that share our homes and those we farm to eat.

Although suffering is a feature of a wild life, the human-induced suffering caused by sport hunting and lethal predator control, such as the B.C. and Alberta wolf culls, is not.

In Western Canada, thousands of large carnivores are killed annually under the guise of conservation and wildlife management.

The recreational hunting of wolves, grizzly bears, black bears and cougars is done for the most trivial of motivations such as “bagging a trophy.”

In addition, hundreds more of these animals are tyrannized every year in the name of predator control, as large carni-

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as intentional aggression and reluctant selfdefense.

Remember the bullied are more often confused and untrained than the stupid word for a complex fight, freeze, or flight process – ‘chickens.’ A rabbit is not a chicken because he doesn’t battle with a hawk.

Every parent should teach their child to defend themselves – with words and physically when necessary. Passivity is not rewarded for a kid like it is for an adult.

Stop pretending videogames, movies, television and hip-hop do not influence our children. Doing so ignores every empirical principle of social/behavioral psychology known to man.

It’s important to pay attention to your child as they are, not as you wish they would be. Give your child a soft landing place in a hard world. Setting up success opportunities is a counter to the harms of bullying for the same reason growing good grass is a counter to weeds.

If you’re bullied, remember the difference in a Ferrari and a Volkswagen. Bullies

are usually the latter and peak early. The more complex you are, the longer it takes to develop your full potentials.

America is rapidly losing connection to the Christian values that have brought us to a special dance. Lost is the eventually of a society abandoning its true moral compass and predators thrive in bewildered societies.

A wise man was asked, “What’s the most important thing to a person?” “To matter,” he answered. “We all need to matter.”

There will always be good and bad ways to do that – bullies stumble toward the latter.

• Do you have information about a source of mischief in our community?

You can safely contact us at 252-8390 or drmumpower@aol.com. We are offering a $500 reward for information on corruption, crime, or other harms you share in confidence and we reveal in print.

Bad things grow in the dark. We have a flashlight – do you have a whistle?

• Carl Mumpower is a former member of Asheville City Council.

have no basis in reality, but are instead phantasmagoric products of our own deepseated fears and paranoia about the “other.”

We diminish the lives of large carnivores by relegating them to the status of unthinking and unfeeling beasts, fostering our bloated sense of entitlement and misguided belief in human exceptionalism.

We hold the balance of power in our relationship with wildlife and typically wield that power with downright ruthlessness, motivated by a parsimonious self-interest that continues to be informed by superstition, hubris, and indulgence.

Bekoff summarizes the goals of compassionate conservation and the challenges we face in fundamentally changing our current relationship with wildlife thusly: “Striving to live peacefully with other animals with whom we share space, and into whose homes we’ve moved, is part of the process of re-wilding our hearts, and coming to appreciate other animals for whom they are and for what they want and need in our troubled world, to live in peace and safety.”

Gary Carter Walhalla, S.C.

Primary set Oct. 6 to narrow council race to 6 hopefuls

From Staff Reports A primary will be held on Oct. 6 to narrow the field of 15 candidates to six in the nonpartisan race for seats on Asheville City Council.

The general election will be held Nov. 3, when voters will pick the top three candidates to serve four-year terms.

The lone incumbent is Vice Mayor Marc Hunt, as Jan Davis and Chris Pelly decided not to seek re-election.

Besides Hunt, the candidates include Rich Lee, Grant Millin, Julie Mayfield, Keith Young, Corey Atkins, John Miall, Ken Michaelove, Brian Haynes, Lindsey Simerly, Dee Williams, LaVonda Payne, Dr Carl Mumpower, Joe Grady and Richard Liston.

In addition, two Buncombe County commissioners who represent Asheville-based District 1, Holly Jones and Brownie Newman, have announced they will seek higher office in 2016. Jones is running for lieutentant governor, while Newman is vying for the commission’s chairmanship.

What’s more, two city councilmen, Cecil Bothwell and Gordon Smith, have announced they are seeking the seat on the Buncombe commissioners that Jones must give up when her term expires, as she cannot run simultaneously for lieutenant governor and commissioner. Also vying with Bothwell and Smith for Jones’ seat is city resident and activist Isaac Coleman.

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Soprano Amanda Horton makes a point during a song she sang with baritone Jonathan Ross during “Live at the USO” on Sept. 11.

At USO show, there’s always magic in the air

By JOHN NORTH

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“Live at the USO,” a 70th anniversary musical tribute to the World War II era, scored a smash hit with a standingroom-only crowd on Sept. 11 in the upstairs lounge at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall in West Asheville.

Because of the rollicking show’s timing, pianist and artistic director Daniel Weiser said the night’s performance also would honor those Americans who were killed in “that horrible tragedy,” referring to the four coordinated Islamic terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

The show, presented by AmiciMusic, also was performed Sept. 12 at the White Horse nightclub in Black

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Ross sings a romantic song to Horton, to the piano accompaniment of the show’s artistic director, Daniel Weiser, at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall in West Asheville.

Bugle Boy,” “G.I. Jive” and Glenn Miller’s “Moonlight Mountain and on Sept. 13 at All Soul’s Cathedral in BiltSerenade,” and then several songs from Leonard Bernmore Village. stein’s “On the Town.”

The sold-out gala drew about 50 people for dinner and The stellar second half featured songs from Rodgers and the show, featured songs from the 1940s. (The United Hammerstein’s groundbreaking musical “South Pacific.”

Services Organizations — USO Show — is a nonprofit The show’s featured performers are soprano Amanda organization that provides programs, services and live entertainment to U.S. troops and their families. During World Horton and baritone Jonathan Ross.

In an effort to help place the piece in its socio-historical War II, the USO was billed as the GI’s “home away from context, Weiser, who provided piano accompaniment, gave home” and began a tradition of entertaining the troops that continues today with its live performances, known as camp brief but revelatory talks before each piece was played.

Horton and Ross have sung several roles with the shows, through which the entertainment industry helped Asheville Lyric Opera and are frequent performers with boost the morale of U.S. servicemen and women.)

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The Asheville show’s first half include a number of songs from the early ‘40s, including “Boogie-Woogie See USO SHOW, Page B7

Sinatra’s 100th birthday celebrated early A ‘very good year’ coming for Frank’s fans

Dean Vellef sang Sinatra songs, while playing piano, at an Asheville gala.

A gala — “Mad Men” and Frank Sinatra Dinner and Musical Revue — was held Sept. 9 at Lex 18 Moonshine Bar and Restaurant, 18 Lexington Ave., Asheville.

The 50-some attendees wore attire of the swing era — and some even danced to the music at what was billed as Sinatra’s birthday party, with a salute to his upcoming 100th birthday.

Sinatra was born on Dec. 12, 1915, and died on May 14, 1998.

Among the Sinatra songs that were played on piano and crooned by impersonator Dean Vellef was “Fly Me to the Moon,” which was the show opener and closer.

Sandwiched in between were rendtions of “All of You,” “September Song,” “Witchcraft,” “Night and Day,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Our Love Is Here to Stay,” “Triste,” “Wave,” “Autumn Leaves,” “Desafinago,” “Can’t Take That Away From Me,” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” “Watch What Happens” and “It Was a Very Good Year.”

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Country music singer Travis Tritt (left) will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2 in the Smoky Mountain Center for Performing Arts in Franklin.

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Thursday, Oct. 1

TRANSPORTATION ISSUES FORUM, 6:30 p.m., Clingman Cafe, 242 Clingman Avenue, River Arts District, Asheville. Asheville on Bikes will present “Step Right Up,” a primary Asheville City Council candidates forum focused on the issues of transportation. Socializing with candidates will begin at 6:30 p.m.. At 7, candidates will share their policy position and vision of Asheville’s transportation. Afterward, candidates will meet with participants.

RACIAL JUSTICE PANEL DISCUSSION, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Multipurpose Conference Room, YWCA, South French Broad Street, downtown Asheville. A panel discussion on racial justice will be moderated by the Rev. Michael Carter of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley. Elder panel members will include Isaac Coleman, civil rights activist, community leader and founder of Read to Succeed; the Rev. Jim Abbott, retired rector of St. Matthias Episcopal Church, Asheville; and Jacquelyn Hallum, director of education at Mountain Area Health Education Center. The youth panel includes Raekwon Griffin, class president at Asheville High School; Felicia Blow, intern for the Institute for Southern Equality; and Michael Collins, representative of Showing Up for Racial Justice. Public discussion will follow the panel. Admission is free and open to the public.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS VIGIL, 7-9 p.m., Pack Square Park in front of Buncombe County Courthouse, downtown Asheville. Victims and survivors of abuse will be honored during this year ‘s Domestic Violence Awareness Vigil and ceremonial lighting of the courthouse, which will shine purple through October in order to raise awareness for domestic violence. Featured will be singers, speakers, music, survivor testimony and a candlelight vigil. There will also be a reading of North Carolina homicide victims names and a proclamation to end domestic violence. Admission is free.

MUSICAL PRODUCTION, 7:30 p.m., Peace Center, Greenville, S.C. The musical “Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage” will be presented through Oct. 4.

Friday, Oct. 2

Humanities LecturE,11 a.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Incarceration Nation” will be addressed by Scott Walters, professor of drama. Admission is free and open to the public.

Humanities LecturE,11 a.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Islam and the Modern World: From the Ottoman Empire to the Rise of the Republic of Turkey” will be addressed by Rodger Payne, associate professor of religious studies. Admission is free and open to the public.

LECTURE, 11:30 a.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “Balance and Prevention of Hip and Knee Replacements” will be addressed by Jason Wingert, UNC Asheville associate professor of health and wellness and director of the university’s Balance Laboratory. He will discuss his research on balance and proprioception. Admission is free and open to the public.

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Friday, Oct. 2

TIMEBANK POTLUCK/ORIENTATION, 6 p.m., Burton Street Community Center, 134 Burton St., Asheville. A potluck and orientation session will be held for those unfamiliar with TimeBank, which helps members with home repairs, transportation, computer issues and just about any other service one can think of while the members have the opportunity to give services that they enjoy doing.

Travis Tritt CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin.

Country music singer Travis Tritt will perform in concert. For tickets, which are $35, $45 and $55, visit www.GreatMountainMusic.com, or call 524-1598.

“YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN” MUSICAL ADAPTATION, 7:30 p.m., Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St., downtown Asheville. The show will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturdays through Oct. 24 and at 2:30 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 25. For tickets, which are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and students and $15 for those ages 17 and younger, visit www.ashevilletheatre.org, or call 254-1320.

“FOX ON THE FAIRWAY” PRODUCTION, 7:30 p.m., HART Theatre, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. The comedy “Fox on the Fairway” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 2-3 and at 3 p.m. Oct. 4, for its final performance. For tickets, which are $24 for adults, $20 for seniors and $11 for students, visit www.harttheatre.org.

Saturday, Oct. 3

WORLD PEACE PRAYER MEETING, 2:30-4 p.m., Garden Room. Jubilee Community Church, 101 Patton Avenue, downtown Asheville. A World Peace Prayer meeting offers attendees

an opportunity to learn and experience how to create world peace based on Nichiren Buddhism and our practice of spiritual transformation. The meeting is hosted by Soka Gakkai International at USA Asheville.

JUGGLERS’ COMEDY SHOW, 8 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, downtown Asheville. The Passing Zone, a duo of jugglers, will perform a comedy show.

Sunday, Oct. 4

CONCERT, 3 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville.

Brevard Music Center presents its Sunday Concert series, featuring pianist Donna Lee and cellist Keith Robinson. They wil perform works

by Bach, Debussy, Piazzolla and Brahms. Admission is free and open to the public.

Monday, Oct. 5

RIDERS IN THE SKY SALUTE, 7:30 p.m., The Foundation Performing Arts Center, Isothermal Community College, 286 ICC Loop Rd., Spindale.

Riders in the Sky will salute Roy Rogers, “king of the cowboys,” in a tribute concert. The group Riders in the Sky, which has performed for 30plus years, bills itself as the “keepers of the flame for such groups as Songs of the Pioneers, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers,” in an effort to revitalize the genre. “While remaining true to the integrity of Western music, they have become modernday icons by branding the genre with their own legendary, wack humor and way-out Western wit, and, all along, encouraging us all to live life “The Cowboy Way.” For tickets, which are $30, $25 or $20 (and $7 for children), call 286-9990, or visit www.FoundationShows.org.

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Tuesday, Oct. 6

WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL LECTURE, 7:30 p.m., Manheimer Room, Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect: the Evolving Discourse on Human Protection” will be addressed by George Andreopoulos, founding director of the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also a professor of political science and criminal justice at City University of New York.

Wedneday, Oct. 7

SIERRA CLUB/GREEN DRINKS MEETING, 7 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville. The Sierra Club will feature an address on “Community Greenways And Bikeways: Where We’ve Been And Where We Are Headed.” Speakers will include Asheville Vice Mayor Marc Hunt, along with Mike Sule, Jim Grode and Claudia Nix. Admission is free and open to the public.

JUST PEACE FOR ISRAEL/PALESTINE MEETING, 9:30 a.m., Black Mountain Presbyterian Church, 117 Montreat Road, Black Mountain. The group Just Peace for Israel/Palestine will meet.

Thurday, Oct. 8

READING/BOOK-SIGNING, 2 p.m., Ferguson Auditorium, A-B Tech, Asheville. Hamilton Gregory, author of “McNamara’s Folly,” will do a reading and booksigning. He is author of “McNamara’s Folly,” which tells of a little-known program, Project 100,000, which the U.S. Armed Forces operated from 1966 to 1971 to induct low-IQ troops and send them to Vietnam. The program is free and open to the public.

MOUNTAIN TRUE ANNUAL GATHERING, 5-8 p.m., Hi Wire Brewing’s Biltmore Village location, 2 Huntsman Place, Asheville. MountainTrue will hold its annual gathering for members and supporters. Light hor d’oeuvres and drinks will be served and music will be provided. A donation of $10 is suggested.

Friday, Oct. 9

Humanities Lecture, 11 a.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Imperialism: Japan and the United States of America” will be addressed by John McClain, lecturer in humanities.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Humanities Lecture, 11 a.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Sexuality, Gender & Identity: Contemporary Discourses” will be addressed by Lorena Russell, professor of literature. Admission is free and open to the public.

PANEL DISCUSSION, 11:30 a.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “The Theatre Scene in Asheville” will be the topic of a panel discussion with area theater groups, hosted by Charlie Flynn-McIver, artistic director and co-founder of N.C. Stage Company. The Fab Friday Lunch & Learn lecture is free and open to the public.

PAN HARMONIA CHAT, 3 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. The Pan Harmonia Chamber Music Chat will feature flutist Kate Steinberg and pianist Ivan Seng. Admission is free and open to the public.

RIVERMUSIC CONCERT, 5:30-9:30 p.m., RiverLink Park, adjoining French Broad River, River Arts District, Asheville. The 2015 finale of the summer concert series will feature the bands Fred Wesley & The New JB’s, The Lee Boys and Lyric.

Admission is free.

COUNCIL CANDIDATES FORUM/ DEBATE, 6 p.m., Ferguson Auditorium, A-B Tech, Asheville. Six candidates for Asheville City Council will gather for a forum and debate.

“THE WEIR” PRODUCTION, 7:30 p.m., HART Theatre, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. The spooky play “The Weir” will be presented on weekends through Nov. 1. Friday and Saturday shows are at 7:30 p.m., while Sunday shows are at 3 p.m. For tickets, which are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $11 for students, visit www.harttheatre.org.

Saturday, Oct. 10

TOM PAXTON CONCERT, 8 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, downtown Asheville. Folk-singer Tom Paxton will perform in concert.

Monday, Oct. 12

Humanities Lecture,11 a.m., Humanities

Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Encounter and Transmissions of Knowledge” will be addressed

by Grant Hardy, professor of history; Samer Traboulsi, associate professor of history; and Gregory Lyon, lecturer in humanities. Admission is free and open to the public.

18th Annual Squibb Lecture, 7 p.m., Highsmith Union Alumni Hall, UNC Asheville.

“Industrial-Academic Partnership in Medicinal Chemistry” will be addressed by Dennis C. Liotta, professor of chemistry at Emory University.

Admission is free and open to the public.

“DEFAMATION” PLAY, 7:30 p.m., The Foundation Performing Arts Center, Isothermal Community College, 286 ICC Loop Rd., Spindale.

Nationally acclaimed, the play “Defamation” is billed as “a riveting courtroom drama that explores the highly charged issues of race, religion, gender and class in the law with a trist: you, the audience, are the jury.” For tickets, which are $15 for adults and $5 for children, call 286-9990, or visit www.

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Tuesday, Oct. 13

STEM Lecture, 4:30 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “Energy Sources” will be addressed by OLLI instructor Richard Weiner.

Admission is free and open to the public.

OBJECTIVISM MEETING, 6 p.m., North Asheville Library Meeting Room, 1030 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. Meet others interested in Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism in a relaxed, friendly environment.

Admission is free.

LIBERTARIAN MEETING, 7 p.m., Oakleaf Furniture, 130 Miller St., downtown Waynesville.

The Haywood County Libertarian Party meets on the second Tuesday of the month. Open discussion and debate are encouraged with all perspectives and persuasions welcomed, regardless of political or religious affiliation.

Wednesday, Oct. 14

CIVIL RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY, 6 p.m., Grotto, Highsmith Union, UNC Asheville. UNCA’s Center for Diversity Education will screen four documentaries in the series, “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle” on Oct. 14 and 28, and Nov. 11. Discussions of the screenings will be led by Dwight Mullen, Darin Waters and Sarah Judson. Admission is free.

FIFTH ANNUAL POVERTY FORUM, 7 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville.

Pisgah Legal Services will hold its 5th Annual Poverty Forum, “Getting Upstream of Poverty,” with Dr. Rishi Manchanda. He is billed as an “upstreamist” health care innovator and visionary who will discuss the relationship between health and poverty. He will discuss what a community can do to improve societal health. A cocktail reception will precede the forum, which starts at 7.

For tickets, which are $50 for forum and cocktails and $15 for forum only, call 210-3444.

TAIWANESE SHOW, 7 p.m., Lipinsky Auditorium, UNC Asheville. Taiwanese music and dance will be performd by A Moving Sound, a Taiwanese ensemble that combines Asian musical traditions with avant-garde styles. For tickets, which are $20 general admission, $8 students and $6 for UNCA students, visit cesap.unca.edu or call 251-6674.

Friday, Oct. 16

Symphony Talk, 3 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. Daniel Meyer, director and conductor of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, and music afficionado Chip Kaufmann will discuss the upcoming symphony program of works by Bruch and Schumann. Admission is free and open to the public.

Humanities Lecture, 11 a.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Drawing Lines: WWI and the Postwar Revolutions” wil be addressed by Eric Roubinek, lecturer of history.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Humanities Lecture, 11 a.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Women and Equality” will be addressed by Lyndi Hewitt, associate professor of sociology. Admission is free and open to the public.

HEALTH CARE TALK, 11:30 a.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “Accountable Care and Health Care Delivery” will be addressed by Dr. Bradley Fuller, who served for 25 years as adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s University.

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Saturday, Oct. 17

JEANNE ROBERTSON COMEDY SHOW, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. A comedy show, “An Evening with Jeanne Robertson” will be presented. For tickets, which are $20, $25 or $27, visit www.GreatMountainMusic.com, or call 524-1598.

HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR, 7:30 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort, Cherokee. The show “Masters of Illusion: Believe the Impossible” will be performed. For tickets, which range from $15 to $45, visit Ticketmaster. com, or call (800) 745-3000.

Sunday, Oct. 18

SEXUALITY ADDRESS, 2-3:30 p.m., Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road, Asheville.

“Sexuality and Current Events” will be presented

by Kelley Johnson at the monthly meeting of the Ethical Humanist Society of Asheville, Johnson will discuss how recent news events relate to sexuality. She will draw from the disciplines of history, sociology, political science, religion and health. Her multi-disciplinary approach to current events is intended to foster critical thinking about important issues of the day. The discussion is intended to help participants analyze different perspectives, recognizing that each individual is coming from a particular worldview. Johnson has been a health educator since 1989; she has spent 15 years teaching health and sexuality and women’s health at UNC Asheville. An informal discussion and refreshments will follow the presentation. Admission is free and all are welcome.

CONCERT, 3 p.m., lobby, Lipinsky Hall, UNC Asheville. The UNCA Singers, a student ensemble, will perform in concert. Admission is free.

CONCERT, 6-11 p.m., Isis Restaurant and Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road, Asheville. UNC Asheville jazz and contemporary ensembles — A variety of student ensembles — will perform. For tickets, which are $8, call 575-2737.

Monday, Oct. 19

MOVE TO AMEND MEETING, 7 p.m., North Asheville Library at 1030 Merrimon Avenue in Asheville. Move To Amend Buncombe County will meet.

Thursday, Oct. 22

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Campus/Community Conference, 6:308:30 p.m., YMI Cultural Center, 43 Market St., Asheville. “African Americans in WNC,” featuring the Isaiah Rice photography collection, will begin with an Opening reception. In addition, panel discussions will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 23 in Alumni Hall at UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Union. Admission is free and open to the public.

CCB Dance Project, 7 p.m., Belk Theatre, UNC Asheville. Kenbe, Amour Colere Folie will

present “Improvisations for Love,” featuring choreography and performance by Celia Weiss Bambara, UNCA assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies and dance program director. Admission is free and open to the public.

Friday, Oct. 23

Opera Talk, 3 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. Asheville Lyric Opera Director David Craig Starkey will provide a preview of the upcoming performance of “The Barber of Seville.”

Admission is ree, with advance registration at 277-8288.

JOSH TURNER CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin.

Josh Turner, a country singer, will perform in concert. Among his No. 1 hits are “Why Don’t We Just Dance” and “All Over Me.” For tickets, which are $45, $50 or $55, visit www.GreatMountainMusic.com, or call 524-1598.

MIKE FARRIS CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., The Foundation Performing Arts Center, Isothermal Community College, 286 ICC Loop Rd., Spindale.

Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Review will perform in a concert titled “The Soul of America: From Motown to Memphis to Muscle Shoals.”

Farris toured as lead singer for the Southern rock band Screaming Cheetah Wheelies, and the blues band, Double Trouble, following the demise of Stevie Ray Vaughan. For tickets, which are $35, $30 and $35 (and $7 and $5 for children), call 286-9990, or visit www.FoundationShows.org.

TONY BENNETT CONCERT, 9 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Resort, Cherokee. Old-school crooner Tony Bennett will perform in concert. Attendees must be 21 or older.

For tickets, which are $54.25 to $75.75, visit www. ticketmaster.com, or call (800) 745-3000.

Saturday, Oct. 24

HUMANITIES LECTURE, 12:15 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “The Centre of the World Depends on Where You Live” will be addressed by Ambassador Johnnie Carson, former assistant secretary of state for Africa, as part of UNCA’s Moral Challenges Series. Admission is free and open to the public.

Sunday, Oct. 25

UKELELE ORCHESTRA SHOW, 3 p.m., John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee. The United Kingdom Ukelele Orchestra will present a two-hour show, combining music ranging from Mozart to Monty Python, from Bach to the Beatles, from Chick Corea to Rossini.” The show is billed as being “puctuated by witty spontaneous humor.” For tickets, which are $21 for adults, $16 for WCU faculty and staff, and $7 for students and children, visit bardoartscenter.wcu. edu, or call 227-2479.

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Tuesday, Nov. 3

WORLD AFFAIRS LECTURE, 7:30 p.m., Manheimer Room, Reuter Center, UNC Asheville.

“Israeli-Palestinian Borders – Issues and Dilemmas” will be addressed by Harvey Starr, author and emeritus professor of international affairs at the University of South Carolina. He continues to serve at USC as an institute associate of The Walker Institute of International and Area Studies, consulting faculty in the Jewish Studies Program, and a Rule of Law Collaborative faculty member.

Thursday, Nov. 5

LECTURE, 7 p.m., Kimmel Arena, UNC Asheville. Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard scholar, cultural critic and documentary producer, will address “Genealogy, Genetics and African-American History.” Gates is billed as one of America’s most prominent intellectuals and an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. Admission is free and open to the public.

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Continued from Page B1 Weiser has played concerts in more than 15 countries, including some of what he called the “great stages.” He holds a doctorate in pianochamber music from Peabody Conservatory.

Weiser proved to be a master on the piano, while Ross seemed to have the stronger voice, with more range, than Horton. However, Horton especially excelled in her renditions of songs from “South Pacific” in the second half — and her acting and choreographic skills were superlative.

In introducing the show-opener, “BoogieWoogie Bugle Boy,” Weiser noted that, despite the lyrics’ references to the draft, it actually “came out before the actual draft.” Nonetheless, the 1941 song went on to become a smash hit for the Andrews Sisters.

As for the show’s second song, “G.I. Jive,” Weiser said it was a 1944 hit for Johnny Mercer, but also later a big-seller for Louis Jordan.

Prior to the rendition by Horton and Ross of 1939’s “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” the music director pointed out that the song was a hit for three different artists — Glenn Miller, the Andrews Sisters and Kay Kaiser.

Before Horton sang 1943’s “They’re Either Too Young Or Too Old,” Weiser noted that that song marked “the only time (actress) Bette Davis sang a song in a film.” That song also proved to be Horton’s best of the first half.

Later in the first half, before the duo sang — quite romantically, gazing into one another’s eyes — 1939’s “Moonlight Serenade,” Wesier noted that that big hit became Glenn Miller’s signature song.

One of the most interesting aspects of the show was Weiser’s selections of Leonard Bernstein songs from the original Broadway hit, “On the Town,” from which everything but “New York, New York” was cut from the film version because the producers felt they were too intellectual for American film-goers.

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Amanda Horton sings a song from “South Pacific,” as Daniel Weiser accompanies her on piano.

Weiser praised Bernstein’s little-known original “On the Town” songs, which few today have heard. Indeed, they were a joy to hear and see performed live. What’s more, this show sandwiched them in a medley that began and ended with “New York, New York,” elevating it almost — and deservedly in this reviewer’s opinion — to symphony status.

The second half totally focused on the songs from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” — and it was the show’s highlight, without a doubt. On Broadway, the original “South Pacific” ran for 1,925 performances. It was made into a film in 1958.

Based on James Michener’s Pulitzer Prizewinning book, “Tales of the South Pacific,” Wiser noted that the musical was based on just a few of the 17 different stories in the book.

“The focus of this musical was about racism,” making it revolutionary in its genre, he said. Also, he noted that Ezio Pinza was the first great opera singer to be featured in musical theater in “South Pacific.”

He said the song, “You’ve Got to Be Taught” summarized the theme of the “South Pacific,” with some critics demanding that it be removed because it was too controversial.

The second half began with “South Pacific Overture,” on which Weiser excelled.

Songs that followed, featuring either or both of the singers, included “There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame,” “Cock-Eyed Optimist,” “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I’m in Love With a Wonderful Guy,” “You’ve Got to Be Taught” and “This Nearly Was Mine.”

The vocals were terrific, as was the choreography, and, at the end, Horton walked back into the spotlight to join Ross, as they sang — again and even more dramatically — “Some Enchanted Evening.”

In a showstopping moment and arm in arm, they sang the lyrics: “Who can explain it, Who can tell you why, Fools give you reasons, Wise men never try.”

Enzo Pinza and Mary Martin sang and starred in the original — and revoluAs the show ended, the crowd erupted in a tionary — Broadway production of “South Pacific.” sustained standing ovation.

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