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With the impending Wellness issue coming in January, I am adding my voice to those who have appealed to the Mountain Xpress for a more rigorous approach to its health-related articles. As an RN, I am disappointed by the uncritical nature of articles in the Xpress and editors’ feeble response to pleas for more accountability. The Xpress seems to have no problem finding scientists and experts to examine climate change, decimation of the bee population or alternative energy. A weatherman’s claim that he could reduce Asheville’s carbon footprint with a wave of his hands would surely be challenged, yet the Xpress stands by haplessly as “healers” prattle on, while readers are expected to navigate the unfiltered reports on their own. An open mind is important

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We are always one decision away from changing our lives. On so many levels, change needs to come one decision at a time — that is, one thoughtful, compassionate decision at a time. I want to thank the city of Asheville for making decisions that, although might seem superficial, have truly made a difference for those of us who ride wheelchairs or push strollers or walkers. Implementing the new curb cutouts on many sidewalks downtown has truly enhanced the safety of so many! Finally, there is no fear of tipping over or not being able to navigate the crosswalk. I am so grateful for these changes. It has previously been quite traumatic to hope for simple safety crossing the sidewalks, and now I giggle as I go through them. There is no longer any trepidation or having to be so very diligent in watching every inch of movement. It is so freeing! And although it might not seem significant, indeed it is! It means we as a city are deciding to invest in our fellow Ashevilleans’ safety and peace of mind. It means that metaphorically when we invest in infrastructure, we are also investing in building a stronger safer, more coherent and compassionate city.

It gives me great hope that one change at a time, one thoughtful decision, means we can eradicate fear and poverty and build true community. Thank you! — Ariel Harris Asheville

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but must be balanced with healthy skepticism and critical thinking. The American Press Institute defines the purpose of journalism this way: “… To provide people with verified information they can use to make better decisions and ... a systematic process ... to find not just the facts, but also the ‘truth about the facts.’” The Xpress seems to have ceded “the truth about the facts” to mindless boosterism and the mining of ad revenue. Some time ago, the Xpress dropped its restaurant critic, and food articles became promotional pieces that left sorting good eats from bad up to the reader. While there is a big difference between an occasional lousy meal and risking harm from a dubious health therapy, I sense a trend. Justin Souther and Scott Douglas, Xpress movie reviewers with their critical faculties intact, should be nervous. A duo of perky cheerleaders, who give every film four happy faces, could be coming soon. Instead of eliminating these critics, how about putting them on the health and wellness beat? While they may not know a colon from a chakra, they could use their skills to review the literature for the evidence, or lack thereof, for the particular modality.

If the Xpress is unwilling to commit to real health journalism, then I suggest a black box warning at the top of the Wellness section like the FDA does to label drugs with serious or life-threatening risks. Warning: The articles enclosed are manufactured with no quality controls. Swallowing the contents whole may be harmful to the gullible and the highly suggestible. These therapies may offer real benefits or be complete shams — just don’t count on the Xpress for the answers. — Jim Clark Asheville Editor’s response: Thank you for your comments in anticipation of the upcoming Wellness supplement in late January. We are confident the two issues will be informative and illustrative of healthy and responsible health care journalism. Indeed, in the past year, we have made a concerted effort to provide more balanced coverage about health care issues since receiving feedback from some readers asking for a more skeptical and balanced approach in our reporting. Over the past year, our articles have cited scientific studies when we could find them, included interviews with experts in the field and offered varying viewpoints

and modalities to ensure balance. We have reported on evidence-based treatment modalities. We have also covered others — many of them alternative and some cutting-edge — which have not yet been subjected to extensive scientific study. We believe readers are interested in learning about diverse practices, even those without clear, replicated scientific evidence, as long the coverage makes the situation clear, along with who is making claims of efficacy. We believe that such coverage helps to achieve a goal stated by the Association of Health Care Journalists — to “improve the ability of citizens to make wise decisions about behaviors that promote health, treatment options and their choice of health care providers.” We consider it our responsibility as a local news source to provide credible coverage that assists our readers in making educated choices about their health care options in this community. Our open-minded approach stems from an awareness of the limitations of science, its politics, economics and current inability to measure and quantify many aspects of life and health.

Quote could be misconstrued I want to thank you for the article on the Muslim community of faith found here in Western North Carolina [“Coming Together: Diverse Muslim Community Finds Common Ground in Asheville,” Dec. 21, Xpress]. It helped me know more about my neighbors and our greater community. I was dismayed by the editorial decision to include [Joseph (Yusuf)] Gantt’s offhand comment about you not truly wanting to talk to him, because I think you could have easily conveyed the poorly formed assumptions people that equate Muslims with terrorists. The reason I think your decision was poor is that, presented as it is, in direct quotes, it can be easily misconstrued by those with hate in their hearts because some people intentionally or unintentionally don’t read beyond the end of the quotation to see it presented jokingly. I’m disappointed that you wouldn’t do a better job of protecting your sources and your fellow community member from people who inevitably rush to persecute. Thank you for considering this. — Leanna Joyner Asheville

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Easing ADU limits will boost long-term rental stock

BY JOHN FARQUHAR AND JACKSON TIERNEY In recent years, demand for rental housing in Asheville has outstripped supply, and it seems pretty likely that waves of renters will continue to arrive, most of them hoping to live within the city limits. After several years of severe shortages, however, the latest data suggest that our rental market is reverting to a healthy norm, with a 4 percent to 6 percent vacancy rate. Asheville should seize this period of calm as an opportunity to try out a regulatory environment designed to promote long-term housing solutions. The experience of Portland, Ore., offers real promise for Asheville. JOHN FARQUHAR AND JACKSON TIERNEY

PORTLAND’S STRATEGY Like Asheville and other cities that have been “rediscovered” by millennials and baby boomers, Portland is experiencing skyrocketing housing demand, especially in areas near the city’s core. In 2014, despite a ban on short-term, whole-house rentals, Airbnb listed thousands of them in Portland. The city decided to manage this reality by legalizing short-term rentals of up to two bedrooms in a private home, provided that the owner is also living there. Renting more than two bedrooms would require a conditional use permit. Short-term rentals of multifamily apartment and condo buildings remained illegal, as did rentals of entire homes which the owner doesn’t occupy at least nine months of the year. You might have expected Portland to also clamp down on rentals of accessory dwelling units (attached or detached granny flats, garage apartments or backyard tiny houses on owner-occupied property). Instead, the City Council voted to eliminate the limits on short-term ADU rentals, treating them as homestays — and even added financial sweeteners to encourage people to build more of them. ADU construction boomed, with nearly 700 units added in just two years. As Kurt Creager, Portland’s housing director, now proudly reports, that works out to almost “an ADU built every day.” According to consultant Martin John Brown, who’s now a researcher for Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality, more homeowners will build ADUs if they have the option of renting them short term. 8

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But then a curious thing happened: Within one year of licensing, nearly half of Portland’s ADUs stopped being shortterm rentals, reported Brown. This might seem counterintuitive, but on reflection, it’s less surprising: Operating short-term rentals can be time-consuming, disruptive and require menial labor, and the revenues may not be much more than you’d get from a less labor-intensive long-term rental. Values change; life situations change. For many reasons, substantial numbers of ADUs will return to the long-term rental pool every year. This reversion, it turns out, is a global phenomenon found in cities worldwide. APPLYING THE PORTLAND MODEL TO ASHEVILLE Portland’s experience belies the NIMBY-driven scare stories and fear of change that have clouded the shortterm-rental conversation here. Despite differences in population and economic base, Asheville and Portland are quite similar in terms of culture, attractiveness and values. Portland’s experience suggests that allowing short-term rentals to encourage ADU construction will boost Asheville’s housing supply — which is exactly what our City Council hoped for when it loosened zoning restrictions on ADUs in 2015. To test the Portland solution’s viability for Asheville, we propose a pilot program, as follows: • Continue and aggressively enforce the strict ban on whole-home, short-term rentals. MOUNTAINX.COM

• Allow up to 150 ADUs as shortterm homestays, issuing permits that must be renewed annually on a firstcome, first-served basis. • Within the 150-unit limit, permit new ADUs on the same basis. • Require all units to: 1. Maintain liability insurance. 2. Collect occupancy taxes. 3. Comply with all applicable building codes. • Revoke permits after three verified violations. • Require ADU homestay operators to live on the property full time and be in residence during the entire term of the homestay. • Collect detailed information about host and guest behavior and neighborhood impacts. • Establish clear milestones for regulatory review and revision. • Require Airbnb to display the city’s permit on rental listings and report the addresses of those who fail to provide a permit. Both New Orleans and Santa Fe, N.M., have recently negotiated the latter requirement, and other providers such as VRBO will surely follow: Airbnb is the industry’s 800pound gorilla. DON’T LET SHORT-TERM ISSUES CLOUD STRATEGIC GOALS The extra cash an ADU can provide can help people stay in their homes despite retirement, rising taxes and other expenses. Still, experience shows that ADU owners place consid-

erable value on flexibility, and as they age, they may opt for the more relaxed lifestyle that long-term rentals allow. But ADUs can also support multigenerational housing options, and elderly owners may move into the ADU and rent the primary dwelling long term. The benefits of increasing the city’s ADU stock will span generations. Some argue that banning short-term rentals of ADUs would immediately increase the supply of long-term rentals. This is questionable, however: ADU owners concerned about flexibility might simply choose not to rent them at all. And as Creager, Portland’s housing director, concluded, “ADUs add to the housing stock, and they will be around for 75-80 years, so a sometimes-use as homestay is inconsequential in the long term.” It may be tempting to add a tweak here or there, such as limiting the physical distance between ADUs or the number of days per year they can be rented. But care should be taken, as every restriction affects the owner’s cost/benefit/risk equation. Both Portland’s experience and research in other communities suggest that maximizing flexibility is the key to encouraging ADU construction. THE REAL WINNER: OUR UNIQUE COMMUNITY Building ADUs to rent to tourists will ultimately increase the city’s long-term housing stock at no cost to taxpayers. Hospitality profits will be recycled directly into the local economy, rather than being remanded to hotel coffers and big investors. Some data suggest that homestay growth will direct more tourist spending to neighborhood merchants and eateries. Like homestays, short-term ADU rentals pose no problems with noise, appearance or parking. Far from “hollowing out” our precious neighborhoods, helping current residents keep their homes as they age will bolster neighborhood resilience. John Farquhar is a retired management consultant and ADU owner living in Norwood Park. Jackson Tierney is an environmental consultant and ADU owner in Montford. X

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WNC video game designers face exciting, uncertain prospects offer courses in things like game design and digital animation, and in response to increased student interest, Blue Ridge substantially upgraded its equipment last summer. “These computers are among the most powerful on campus,” notes Roeder. “It’s been really awesome getting the type of support that I have this year.” But while technological advances are creating exciting new possibilities, the job market in WNC is still limited, and salaries are much lower than for comparable positions in the Triangle area. “I do not like my students being limited,” declares Marietta Cameron, who chairs UNC Asheville’s computer science department. She wants them to “understand their value and their worth.” 3-D SIMULATIONS

DREAM COME TRUE: UNC Asheville student Michael Kuczkuda’s game “Dream Rush” is now available at the Apple App Store. Photo by Hannah Epperson, UNCA

BY TIMOTHY BURKHARDT burkhardttd@gmail.com In 2005, Miles Tilmann and Richard Grillotti moved to Western North Carolina from Seattle, where they’d worked developing video games for the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim website. That same year, they launched their own company, Pixeljam, aiming to create games with a retro look but modern spin. Over the next five years, Pixeljam put out a handful of games, and in 2007 its “Gamma Bros” was nominated for an award at the Independent Games Festival in San Francisco, but the company still wasn’t making any money. In 2010, Tilmann and Grillotti turned to Kickstarter to get funding for a game they were working on called “Glorkian Warrior.”

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“This was before crowdfunding was a really well-known thing,” notes Tilmann. “If you look at our campaign page for the project, it’s almost incredible how short and vague the pitch was.” Nonetheless, “Glorkian Warrior” became a crowdfunding success story: Pixeljam asked for $10,000 and generated $11,000 in donations. But Tilmann and Grillotti’s troubles weren’t over. “We said the game would be made in two to five months, but it took us more than four years to deliver it,” remembers Tilmann. A subsequent Kickstarter campaign failed, and though an in-house crowdfunding campaign has helped keep the company going, Tilmann says, “It’s feast or famine.” At times, Pixeljam is staying afloat game to game. Patrick Roeder knows full well how tumultuous the industry can be, and

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that talent and dedication don’t always equal success. From 2010-13, he was a part of a now-defunct company called Digital Roar Studios. “We never could find funding,” he explains. “It was during the gold rush of indie games, where everyone was asking for money, and we were just one of the ones that didn’t find it.” To date, the only notable game that’s come out of this area, says Roeder, is “Super Meat Boy,” created by the Asheville-based Team Meat. After “Super Meat Boy” was picked up by major game platforms, including Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and the Nintendo Wii U, the company moved to San Francisco. Following Digital Roar’s collapse, Roeder began teaching at Western Piedmont Community College before ending up at Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock. Both schools now

From their humble origins as clunky, poorly designed arcade machines, video games now rival blockbuster Hollywood films in both narrative scope and financial success. From phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games and the programs used to create them are having a growing impact on the world at large. In 2014 alone, the industry sold over 135 million games and generated more than $22 billion in revenues, according to a 2015 study by the Entertainment Software Association. And as simulation and animation technologies improve and the market expands, many in the field are confident that career opportunities will continue to grow. Increasingly, the focus for students, teachers and designers alike is virtual reality. With the hardware cost dropping sharply and improvements in simulation software, VR technology has begun finding its way into the hands of a new generation of game designers. Although prototypes and clunky VR programs have been around since the 1990s, 2016 was the first year that they were considered a viable technology. And here in WNC, various colleges have found themselves facing an influx of young people eager to experiment with it, hoping to create the next video game phenomenon.

As part of its recent upgrade, for example, Blue Ridge Community College bought an HTC Vive headset. The latest thing in VR technology, it enables users to create 3-D art and fashion, step inside a Van Gogh painting or stand atop a castle tower, shooting arrows at an invading horde below. A pair of goggles projects a 3-D world into the player’s eyes. External cameras follow the headset, enabling the system to track the player’s movements; this gives the impression of moving around within the simulation. Meanwhile, a pair of controllers allows players to interact with the virtual environment. The college’s old VR simulator, “The Cave,” is a huge device that projects images onto the walls, ceiling and floor of a small, cubical room. Software licensing fees and yearly maintenance tuneups cost the school over $20,000 annually; the HTC Vive has a $1,600 price tag with no annual fees and takes up much less space. This spring, students will get a chance to use the Vive for their projects in a new class titled Serious Games. “We teach not only video game development, workflows and tools,” Roeder explains. “That same kind of knowledge can be applied to simulations. Any kind of simulation that’s not related to the entertainment sector — including architectural visualization, safety training for industries like nuclear power plants or manufacturing, and programs like ‘Mario Teaches Typing’ — is what I call a ‘serious game.’” BEYOND ENTERTAINMENT Kasey Clark moved to Flat Rock from Tulsa, Okla., in 2015, drawn by the school’s simulation and game design program. “The Blue Ridge SGD course was the inspiration for me to move halfway across the country,” he says.

REALITY BITES: Writer Timothy Burkhardt tries out a virtual reality game at Blue Ridge Community College. Photo by Patrick Roeder Now in his second year, Clark says he’s learned a lot and found a community of like-minded thinkers and dreamers. Among other things, Clark discovered a love of “rigging” — creating skeletons for 3-D models to help them move realistically. He also enjoyed a design class where students learned the fundamentals by creating board games. “I had a blast with that,” he recalls. “Being able to see ideas come to life for the first time, understanding game mechanics and how they work; it was fun seeing it come together.” In the coming months, Clark and some fellow students hope to start a small design studio in WNC. “I’m looking forward to getting something on the market to show what this program is all about,” he says. Clark believes the improvements in simulation technology, including virtual reality, will create new jobs for programmers. “It goes further than game design. What we’re learning here goes to every

aspect of the field: entertainment media, movies, even more applicable processes like advertising,” says Clark. “With VR simulations on the rise, what we do here can have a high education value.” He’s looking forward to the Serious Games class, where he’ll get to practice programming in a virtual reality environment. WORK AND PLAY About 70 miles from Flat Rock, Western Piedmont Community College in Morganton is also seeing increased interest in these fields. The school’s digital effects and animation technology program teaches video production, multimedia and web design; the simulation and game development program covers graphic design, vectors, bitmaps and 3-D modeling. Initially, Western Piedmont’s classes focused more on the graphic design and advertising applications of digi-

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tal animations, says Jonathan Crumpler, who coordinates both programs. “Right around 2007, we started seeing this big immigration of people coming into our DEAT program who were doing very well in their 3-D modeling and animation and were looking to go into game design as a career field.” That led the school to launch its SGD program. Still, Crumpler wants to keep students grounded in reality about what awaits them after graduation. “Being a community college, our goal is to get people jobs,” he says. “We also want to facilitate students who want to be independent game developers, so we really ride a fine line. It’s a two-year associate in applied science degree, so there’s only so much you can do.” After completing their studies at Western Piedmont, notes Crumpler, many students are eager to get a job with a major game company or start their own venture. But he usually recommends that they pursue further education first. Credits from his courses transfer directly to UNCA’s new media program, which offers more advanced SGD and digital storytelling courses, as well as an undergraduate research program that focuses on turning board games into video games. “If students want to go on and work for AAA game companies, our best advice is to put together a great portfolio. You’re going to end up with a website that you can market to schools for scholarships,” Crumpler explains. He also encourages students to consider the technology’s applications beyond video games. One of his favorite student projects was a “serious game” that enabled potential business owners to virtually tour a property and, with just a few mouse clicks, preview changes they might want to make.

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N EWS GROWING INTEREST Established in 1999, UNCA’s new media program offers a host of interesting opportunities, including classes on the history of digital media and games. And in 2013, the department created an undergraduate research program that focuses on turning board games into video games. “The team has grown from three initial students to as many as 10 at a time,” says lecturer Adam Whitley, who heads the program. “We started out making a video game based on a board game called Castle Panic, a cooperative, turn-based game where the players work together to defend a castle from waves of oncoming monsters. More recently, we’ve been making a video game based on King of Tokyo, a competitive board game where giant monsters battle for supremacy over the city.” Cameron’s students, meanwhile, created a visualization of a real-life developer’s 1980 proposal to turn a substantial portion of downtown Asheville into a mall, which would have drastically changed the city center’s look and feel. Voters vetoed the idea in a referendum. Whitley’s current team consists of six undergraduates. Most plan to pursue other careers after college, but both Michael Parker and Michael Kuczkuda have created video games for their senior projects. “Dream Rush,” Kuczkuda’s side-scrolling video game app, was just bought by Apple. The company, he says, “emailed me while I was doing a presentation and said they were reviewing it, and then I got an email an hour later that it was accepted.” Players guide a character through a dream landscape, dodging nightmares to avoid waking up. Kuczkuda says he’d love to stay in the Asheville area if he can, but he wants to work in game design and will leave if he gets hired elsewhere. “I enjoy doing it; it’s fun. I don’t see it as work,” he says. UPS AND DOWNS That uncertainty, though, continues to cast a pall over the region’s prospects for retaining these new graduates. “If they wish to stay in this area, we do have some community partners,” notes UNCA’s Cameron. Some local tech companies, she says, “will try to sell the idea that the reason they want to pay lower in this area is because the cost of living is lower here.” Cameron, however, rejects that idea, saying, “Look at the Raleigh/ Chapel Hill area: They have a lower cost of living but a higher pay scale for their tech employees.” Roeder, meanwhile, hopes the success of design studios like Epic Games

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(in Cary) and the increased availability of technological careers in the Triangle area will spill over into similar opportunities here. But rather than bringing big industry players to WNC, he believes, it’s more important to focus on equipping local residents with the necessary skills. “More and more students are clamoring not just to learn how to make video games but how to use Photoshop, how to animate digitally, how to illustrate digitally,” Roeder says. “I think that’s more in line with the students’ interests.” As for what happens once they’ve learned those skills, says Whitley, “I usually advise my students to keep an open mind” about where they’ll end up working. Although simulation and game design might seem like good prospects for telecommuting, it isn’t really feasible at this point due to the massive size of 3-D files, which have to be redrawn every few seconds to remain consistent within the simulation. “Some SGD work can be done remotely,” notes Tilmann, “but currently the files are too large to be sent back and forth with any frequency.” That could change, however, says Whitley. “As we move into the future and bandwidth gets better, it might be easier to live in a beautiful place like this, work for a company that’s based in California and get the compensation you deserve.” Meanwhile, despite all the challenges and uncertainties, many of the people interviewed for this article say it’s a thrilling time to be working in the video game field, whether you’re an aspiring designer, an independent game developer or a teacher of cutting-edge technologies. Roeder views his students as artisans working in a digital art form. “Video games are a pretty unique medium, in that you have to be technically savvy as well as artistically driven to even make it work,” he says. “If the Renaissance was about creating murals, and all the patrons like the Medici family were paying artists to make amazing paintings, then these days it’s the entertainment industry clamoring for digital entertainment: That’s where art is evolving now.” Over at Pixeljam, though, “It’s all upswings and downswings; there’s nothing steady for us,” Tilmann reports. “As time goes on, I start to think, ’Do I really want to live the indie rock star lifestyle with a wife and kids and a mortgage?’ But at the same time, there’s lots of opportunity happening just in the past year, with virtual reality and augmented reality becoming viable technologies: It’s pretty mind-blowing. There’s a lot of people putting time and money into VR. It’s an exciting time.” X

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BURNED UP

Local businesses struggle to regroup after wildfires

FOLLOWING THE FLAMES: Businesses throughout Western North Carolina continue to feel the impact from the recent wildfires. Many business owners worry that perception problems may be keeping visitors away. Photo by Cathy Anderson Photography “We’re suffering greatly,” says Kim Cason, who owns and operates The Esmeralda Inn & Restaurant in Chimney Rock with her husband, Don Cason. During Veterans Day weekend last year, the inn was fully booked when the Casons and their guests were among those ordered to evacuate as the Party Rock Fire threatened the area. And though the fire has long since been extinguished, the occupancy rate hasn’t come back up. “The loss of business has impacted everybody,” says Don, who’s also executive director of the Rutherford County Tourism Development Authority. Local enterprises, he estimates, have seen a 50-70 percent drop. Even that severe decline, notes Don, pales compared with the “devastation that hit Gatlinburg,” where the combination of wildfire, high winds

and a monthslong drought killed 14 people, injured hundreds of others and destroyed thousands of structures. Nonetheless, the impact is real. For tourism-based economies across Western North Carolina, November is often the last big push before winter kicks in and tourist dollars drop off. The Party Rock Fire, he continues, “definitely hit at a bad time.” But at this point, the couple note, the perception problem may be worse than what the fire actually did. “I don’t know what people think,” says Kim. “You know, it was a very slow-moving fire that really cleaned up our forest beds. There’s places you wouldn’t even know we had a fire.” Ironically, this wasn’t the inn’s first brush with combustion. Built in 1891, the hostelry burned down in 1917. Rebuilt on the original foundation, it

was once again destroyed by fire in 1997. The current structure reflects the character of those earlier versions. The Casons, though, worry that misconceptions about the fire’s impact could continue to suppress business next spring. Although there are some dead trees and burnt underbrush, says Don, “We’ve got to let people know that our vistas are good. We’re back in business.” FEELING THE BURN Linda Harbuck, executive director of the Franklin Chamber of Commerce in Macon County, tells a similar story. People throughout the country, she says, “were hearing about the fires and seeing them on the national news, and they thought we were burning up.”

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In Swain County, Wildwater Nantahala was also hit hard. “Those wildfires really closed out the season for us,” says Trey Barnett, regional marketer for the outdoor adventure company. Smoke filled the gorge for several days, he says, resulting in a “significant number of cancellations.” Still, Barnett considers Bryson City fortunate in that the fires caused no structural damage. And like the Casons, he stresses, “You don’t see a lot of what was left by the fires. The things you do see are the controlled burns that firefighters did around the buildings.” Nick Breedlove, the director of Jackson County’s Tourism Development Authority, says occupancy tax collections were down 1.5

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N EWS percent in November compared with the previous year. But he cautions against attributing the decline entirely to the fires. “I think we fared OK,” he says. “The smoke was a concern for a few days, but our fires were relatively small compared with neighboring fires.” And since November, adds Breedlove, the county has had a number of well-attended local festivals. Alex Bell, who owns AB’s Fly Fishing Guide Service in Sylva, agrees that for the most part, Jackson County was spared. But the smoke did cause “around a half-dozen, maybe up to 10 cancellations,” he reports. “It was a significant number for a business of my size.” AN EYE-OPENING EXPERIENCE The Fire Mountain Inn is perched atop the Highlands Plateau. On a clear day, visibility extends 50 miles, notes co-owner Hiram Wilkinson. And though a handful of guests called to ask about the wildfires before their arrival, there was only one cancellation. Wilkinson remembers evenings spent watching the nearby Rock

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Mountain Fire. “You could actually see the fire burning on top of the ridges,” he says. And while his guests were intrigued by the flames, for Wilkinson, it was horrifying. “We knew what it was doing, how close it was and how much acreage around us was being affected. I don’t think anybody up here ever dreamed this could happen to us,” he continues. “I think it’s made us really wake up — that it not only can happen here, but it probably will happen again.” Ron Nalley, Lake Lure’s town manager, hopes the memory of the Party Rock Fire will have a lasting impact on residents’ behavior. Before the evacuations, he notes, burn bans were openly ignored. And one takeaway from the fire, he believes, is the need for better communication. “We’ve got to try and let town folks know why it’s important not to do things during those times. ... Hopefully, it’s something people will pay more attention to in the future.” HELP IS ON THE WAY In a Dec. 13 special session, the N.C. General Assembly passed the Disaster Recovery Act of 2016; Gov.

Pat McCrory signed it two days later. The $201 million package will assist those affected by the wildfires as well as other natural calamities. More than $25 million will go toward forest restoration, with another $1 million allocated to the Department of Insurance’s Office of State Fire Marshal. According to the act, the Department of Commerce will receive $250,000 to assess, “in consultation with the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, the need for business assistance funds for businesses affected by Hurricane Matthew, the western wildfires and Tropical Storms Julia and Hermine.” The Division of Emergency Management will get $11.5 million for resilient redevelopment planning; the remainder of the money is earmarked for small-business loans, cleanup and rebuilding efforts, and replenishing the state’s Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund. In November, VisitNC, the state’s official tourism website, also began offering free assistance to tourism businesses affected by the wildfires and Hurricane Matthew, including display advertising on the site, travel deals, highlighted event listings and

social media posts. The program is available for core tourism businesses such as lodgings, attractions and restaurants that were closed for at least five business days. So far, seven mountain-area partners have inquired about the program, with two approved for benefits. “We would love to add to that number,” says Eleanor Talley, VisitNC’s public relations manager. “It’s important for us to convey that we’re open for business, that you can still come to Western North Carolina and that we’d love to have you here.” PAYING IT FORWARD Meanwhile, The Esmeralda Inn is running a First Responders Appreciation Special. Through March, firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians can stay for half-price. The deal will continue through June with a 30 percent discount. These offers are not available on weekends and holidays. Kim Cason points out that the promotion is mutually beneficial. “We need the business, and they did so much for us. It’s a way to say thank you.” X

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WINTER STARGAZING: The crisp, clear winter night skies provide excellent stargazing conditions, so the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute has scheduled four evenings of public observations in January. Join PARI astronomers to scan the night sky for planets, the moon and other objects in the solar system. The family-friendly events are scheduled on Fridays and Saturdays, Jan. 6, 7, 20 and 21, from 6-8 p.m. on the PARI campus in Rosman. Registration is required and can be done online at pari.edu or by calling 862-5554. Photo courtesy of PARI (p. 19)

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY WNC LINUX USER GROUP wnclug.ourproject.org, wnclug@main.nc.us • 1st SATURDAYS, noon - Users of all experience levels discuss Linux systems. Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road

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THE GREATEST EVENT IN HISTORY IS UNFOLDING NOW (PD.) • The Transformation Has Begun. Maitreya, The World Teacher is in the world. Rise of people power. Economic, Social, environmental justice. UFO sightings. Crop Circles. Signs/miracles. Find out how these events are related. Saturday, January 21 - Asheville Friends Meeting house. 227 Edgewood Rd. 2pm. Free presentation. 828398-0609 ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB 779-0319, vincentvanjoe@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sets provided. All ages and skill levels welcome. Beginners lessons available. Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road ASHEVILLE TOASTMASTERS CLUB 914-424-7347, ashevilletoastmasters.com • THURSDAYS, 6:15pm - General meeting. Free. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St.

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LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD OF AMERICA 686-8298, egacarolinas.org • TH (1/5), 10am - General meeting and instructional presentation on on bargello needlepoint embroidery. Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe

blueridgetoastmasters.com/membersarea/, fearless@blueridgetoastmasters.org • Through FR (1/20) - Open registration for the "Be Fearless: Speak and Lead with Confidence Workshop," taking place MONDAYS (1/23) until (2/13) from noon-1:25pm. Registration required: fearless.blueridgetoastmasters.com. $20. Held at Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • Through MO (1/9) - Open registration for the "Industry Day Self-defense Seminar for Women in the Service Industry." The two-part seminar takes place on MO (1/9), 1-3pm and MO (1/23), 1-3pm. Registration required: 250-4718 or buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library/ Calendar.aspx. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TU (1/10), 6:30pm - Adult coloring club. Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • WE (1/11), 6-7:30pm - "Preventing Identity Theft," workshop with OnTrack WNC. Registration: 255-5166. Free. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road

LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.Community.Center • 2nd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Public board meeting. Free. ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (1/4), 5:30-7pm - "Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it." Workshop. Registration required. Free. • TU (1/10), noon-1:30pm - "Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it." Workshop. Registration required. Free. • WE (1/11), noon-1:30pm - "Budgeting and Debt Class." Registration required. Free. • WEDNESDAYS (1/11) until (1/25), 5:30-8pm - "Manage Your Money Series." Registration required. Free.

• TH (1/12), 5:30-7pm - "Dreaming of a Debt Free Life," class. Registration required. Free. ROTARY CLUBS OF WNC rotariansagainsthunger.org, rawlingswc@gmail.com • TH (1/5), noon-1:30pm - Asheville rotary club general meeting with a presentation by Kate Waddington and Tom Claybaugh from the Asheville Citizen-Times. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. VETERANS FOR PEACE 582-5180, vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot.com/ • 2nd TUESDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road WNC KNITTERS AND CROCHETERS FOR OTHERS 575-9195 • MO (1/9), 7-9pm - Group meeting for those interested in knitting and crocheting for those in need in the community. Free. Held at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 3070 Sweeten Creek Road

DANCE STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (PD.) • Monday 5pm Ballet Wkt 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 7pm Hip Hop Fusion 8pm Tap • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 4:30pm Teen Bellydance 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm Bellydance 3 8pm Hip Hop Choreography •Wednesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 5:30pm Hip Hop Wkt 6:30pm Bhangra 7:30pm POUND Wkt 8pm • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 4pm Girls Hip Hop 5pm Teen Hip Hop 7pm West African • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10:45 Electronic Yoga Wkt • Sunday 3pm Tap 2 6:30pm Vixen • $13 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595 SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (1/7), 6pm - "Happy New Year Dance." Advanced dance at 6pm. Early rounds at 7pm. Squares and rounds at 7:30pm. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

SWING ASHEVILLE swingasheville.com • TUESDAYS, 8-11pm - Jazz N' Justice: Beginner swing lessons at 8pm. Open swing dance with live jazz at 9pm. $10 beginner lesson/$5 open dance. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St.

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• 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room. Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. • TU (1/10), 5pm - Formal meeting of the Asheville City Council. Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza

ASHEVILLE MARDI GRAS EVENTS 335-3986, ashevillemardigras.org • FR (1/6), 7pm - 7-11pm - "12th Night Celebration" with the crowning of the queen and king of Asheville Mardi Gras. $10. Held at Club Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St.

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24TH ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE (PD.) • March 10-12, 2017. Keynotes: Gabe Brown & Matthew and Althea Raiford. UNCA. 140+ practical, affordable, regionally-appropriate sessions on organic growing, homesteading, farming. Trade show, seed exchange, kid’s program. Organicgrowersschool.org.

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ASHEVILLE GREEN DRINKS ashevillegreendrinks.com • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Eco-presentations, discussions and community connection. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place WNC SIERRA CLUB 251-8289, wenoca.org • WE (1/4), 7-9pm - "Birds Around the World," presentation by birder Simon Thompson. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

FARM & GARDEN LIVING WEB FARMS 891-4497, livingwebfarms.org • TU (1/10), 6:30-8pm - "Atomizing Waste Oil Burners for Clean Heat," workshop on the Babington Principle. Registration required. $10. Held at a private home, 220 Grandview Lane, Hendersonville

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WHAT: Live music and literary readings to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina WHERE: The Mothlight WHEN: Friday, Jan. 13, at 8 p.m. WHY: “The overall political climate — certainly the election of Donald Trump, but also what’s been happening recently in North Carolina, specifically in our state government — is horrifying,” says local musician Melissa Hyman, citing examples like the failure to repeal House Bill 2 and efforts to strip powers from incoming Gov. Roy Cooper. “We’re desperately clinging to a sense of needing to tell the truth and making sure it’s still possible to tell the truth, to speak out openly and to live in a place where that matters,” she says. “What’s been going on in

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the North Carolina state government personally makes me feel like the voice of the people is not important to our Republican lawmakers in general. We want to amplify voices of opposition to that kind of power grab.” Accordingly, one of Hyman’s band’s, The Moon and You, has paired up with Rob Nance and the Lost Souls to defend free speech by way of fundraising for the American Civil Liberties Union. Half of the ticket revenues at their concert will go to the nonprofit. As a music educator for multiple organizations like Arts for Life and the Swannanoa Gathering, Hyman also felt compelled to involve youths in the event “so they can come up knowing how to speak out.” Students at A.C. Reynolds High School were given a writing prompt on standing up for the

truth, and based on the quality of writing and bravery of their message, three individuals will be asked to read their short literary work from the stage. For The Moon and You, piping up is often a melodic practice (though Hyman and her husband and bandmate Ryan Furstenberg also helped send a Port-AJohn to Gov. Pat McCrory — a protest that got a name one letter off from a traditional “sit-in” — following the passage of HB2). “We have some [songs] in particular that we want to highlight, because they are political in nature,” Hyman says. “We’ll make sure to include those in the setlist and talk about them onstage.” Visit themothlight.com for more information or tickets ($10/$12). X

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KIDS 4-H EXPLORERS 652-8104 or 442-3007 • SA (1/7), 10am - Informational meeting for youth ages 12-16. Free. Held in the Extension Conference Room, 2nd floor, County Administration Building, 2523 East Highway 76, Marion ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227 • 2nd TUESDAYS, 11am-12:30pm - Homeschool program for grades 1-4. Registration required: 253-3227 ext. 124. $4 per student. ASHEVILLE MUSIC SCHOOL 126 College St., 252-6244, ashevillemusicschool.com • WE (1/11), 7pm - Placement auditions for the youth string ensemble. For ages seven and up. Contact for registration and full guidelines: gabrielle@ashevillemusicschool.org or 252-6244. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • FR (1/6), 4pm - "Exploring Birds: Intro to Ornithology," presentation by the NC Arboretum. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • WE (1/11), 4pm - After-school art club with the Asheville Art Museum. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free. HANDS ON! A CHILDREN'S GALLERY 697-8333, handsonwnc,org, learningisfun@handsonwnc.org • WE (1/4), 4-5pm - "Mad Scientists Lab," science activities for children. Registration required. Free. Held at Mills River Library, 124 Town Center Drive, Suite 1 Mills River NC HANDS ON! A CHILDREN'S GALLERY 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-8333 • TU (1/3) through FR (1/6), 10am-4pm - "World Braille Day," activities for kids of all ages. Admission fees apply. • TU (1/10) through FR (1/13), 10am-5pm Curiosity Week: Curious George activities for children of all ages. Admission fees apply. • WE (1/11), 11am - "Book n’ Craft," reading of 10 Little Naughty Monkeys by Suzanne Williams followed by a craft. For all ages. Admission fees apply. • TH (1/12), 11am-noon - "Blue Ridge Humane Day," activities and visit an animal from the Blue Ridge Humane Society. Admission fees apply. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend. • TH (1/5), 11am - Storytime reading of Murphy’s Three Homes with Mamie Adams. Free to attend. SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE MUSEUM 283 Victoria Road, 253-9231, wnchistory.org • Through TH (1/19) - Open registration for the "Morse Code Friendship Bracelets" event for children taking place Saturday, Jan. 21, from 1:30am-12:30pm. Registration: wnchistory.org or 235-9231. $7.

SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 640 Merrimon Ave., #204, 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend.

OUTDOORS PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, 862-5554, pari.edu • FR (1/6) & SA (1/7), 6-8pm - Stargazing event featuring observations of the crescent Moon, Venus and Mars. Registration required. $15. PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED pisgahchaptertu.org/New-Meeting-information. html • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting and presentations. Free to attend. Held at Pardee Health Education Center, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM HIKES 669-9566, swannanoavalleymuseum.org • TU (1/10), 6:30pm - Informational meeting for the Swannanoa Valley Museum 2017 hikes. Free to attend. Held at Swannanoa Valley Museum, 223 W State St., Black Mountain • WE (1/11), 7pm - Informational meeting for the Swannanoa Valley Museum 2017 hikes. Free to attend. Held at Black Dome Mountain Sports, 140 Tunnel Road • TH (1/12), 7pm - Informational meeting for the Swannanoa Valley Museum 2017 hikes. Free to attend. Held at REI Asheville, 31 Schenck Pkwy.

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CREATION CARE ALLIANCE OF WNC creationcarealliance.org • TH (1/12), 5:30-7pm - General meeting. Free. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St.

OPEN HEART MEDITATION (PD.) • Come experience a relaxing, guided meditation connecting you to the peace and joy of the Divine within you. 7-8pm Tuesday. Suite 212, 70 Woodfin Place. Suggested $5 donation.

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 Sixth Ave., W. Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • Through WE (1/11) - Open registration for the "When God's Spirt Moves," Bible study group taking place on Wednesdays from Jan. 17 through Feb. 21. $8.

SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER (PD.) • Wednesdays, 10-midnight, Thursdays, 7-8:30pm and Sundays, 10-noon • Meditation and community. Admission by donation. 60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, (828) 200-5120. asheville.shambhala.org CENTER FOR ART & SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE 1 School Road, 258-0211 • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 2pm - Intentional meditation. Admission by donation. • 2nd SUNDAYS, 7-9pm - Dances of Universal Peace. Free. CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING ASHEVILLE 2 Science Mind Way, 253-2325, cslasheville.org • 1st FRIDAYS, 7pm - "Dreaming a New Dream," meditation to explore peace and compassion. Free. CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 27 Church St., 253-3316, centralumc.org • WEDNESDAYS (1/11) until (3/29), 6pm - Yoga class witha focus on faith and spirituality. Free.

URBAN DHARMA 225-6422, udharmanc.com/ • THURSDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Open Sangha night. Free. Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ASHEVILLE WRITERS' SOCIAL allimarshall@bellsouth.net • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - N.C. Writer's Network group meeting and networking. Free to attend. Held at Cork & Keg, 86 Patton Ave. BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • WE (1/4), 3pm - Weaverville Evening Book

Club: Night by Elie Wiesel. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (1/5), 6:30pm - East Asheville Book Club: They May Not Mean To, But They Do by Cathleen Schine. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • TU (1/10), 1pm - Leicester Book Club: Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • TU (1/10), 4pm - The Liberators No Shame in Escapism Book Club: Kraken by China Mielville. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • First THURSDAYS, 6pm - Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend. FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club. Free. • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers' Guild. Free. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com • FR (1/6), 6pm - Robert Hicks presents his novel, The Orphan Mother. Free to attend. • SU (1/8), 3pm - POETRIO: Poetry readings by Jessica Jacobs and Anne Maren-Hogan. Free to attend. • WE (1/11), 6pm - Alan Bernheimer and Ronald Manheimer present, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada and Surrealism. Free to attend. • TU (1/12), 6pm - Poetry readings by Luke Hankins and Claire Bateman. Free to attend. NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS' NETWORK ncwriters.org • Through MO (1/30) - Submissions accepted for the 2017 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. See website for full guidelines. • Through SU (1/15) - Submissions accepted

for the 2017 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Competition. Contact for full guidelines. WILMA DYKEMAN LEGACY 458-5813, wilmadykemanlegacy.org, stokely.jim@gmail.com • 2nd THURSDAYS, 5:30pm - Thomas Wolfe Book Club. Free. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 North Market St.

VOLUNTEERING APPALACHIAN WILD appalachianwild.org, info@appalachianwild.org • MO (1/2) through SA (1/7), 10am-4pm Volunteer to help assist with renovations at the animal rehabilitation facility. Registration: volunteer@appalachianwild.org. BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WNC 253-1470, bbbswnc.org • TU (1/10), noon - Volunteer information session for those 18 and older interested in meeting twice a month with a young person from a single-parent home and/or to mentor 1 hour a week in elementary schools and after-school sites. Free. Held at United Way of Asheville & Buncombe, 50 S. French Broad Ave. HANDS ON ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org • TU (1/10), 1-4pm - Volunteer to help help sort and organize donations to Buncombe County Schools Crisis Closet. Registration required. • WE (1/11), 4-5:30pm - Volunteer to help keep up with the maintenance of the Veneer Community Garden. Registration required. HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 1st THURSDAYS, 11am - "Welcome Home Tour," tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population. Registration required. Free to attend.

Intent to Apply and Public Hearings Notice Community Action Opportunities (CAO) will submit an application for $625,148 to the Office of Economic Opportunity-Community Services Block Grant in order to continue operating a selfsufficiency project in FY 2017-18. CAO provides comprehensive case management services to Buncombe, McDowell and Madison citizens who meet the federal income guidelines and work/able to work. Further details about the program can be found at http://www.communityactionopportunities.org/lifeworks.html. CAO will host four public hearings: 1) Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at Madison County Library-Mars Hill Branch at 11:30am 2) Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at McDowell County Library-Marion Branch at 4:30pm 3) Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at CAO Main Office [25 Gaston Street-Asheville] at 12:00pm and 4) Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at Black Mountain Library at 3:30pm. CAO’s Board of Directors-Executive Committee will meet to review and approve the grant application Monday, January 23, 2017 at CAO Main Office at 1:30pm. The public is welcome to attend in person or via webinar any of these events. Email trudy.logan@communityactionopportunities.org the webinar you wish to attend at least 24 hours prior to the event in order to receive the log-in information. In case of inclement weather, all events will occur via webinar. Call 828-252-2495 or email for additional information. 20

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LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 31 College Pl., Suite B-221 • WE (1/4), 5:30pm & TH (1/5), 9am Information session for those interested in volunteering two hours per week with adults who want to improve reading, writing, spelling, and English language skills. Free.

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“Super Bowl” Saturday, February 4, 2017 Lake Junaluska Assembly Beach, (11 Memory Lane, Lake Junaluska, NC) 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM Prizes awarded to Best Costumes, Top Individual Fundraisers & Top Team Fundraiser! Free t-shirt for all Plungers. Hot chili lunch, bonfire, & door prizes available for all $25 to be a Plunger ($10 students) or FREE by raising sponsorships crowdrise.com/5thannualpolarplunge info@haywoodwaterways.org 828-476-4667.

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MORE THAN JUST BABY BLUES The hidden face of postpartum depression BY MONROE SPIVEY spivey.monroe@gmail.com The welcoming of new life is a time of celebration. Baby showers, decorating nurseries and more fill the days and dreams of expectant parents. Yet for many parents, a surprising and unwelcome visitor, postpartum depression (PPD), accompanies the arrival of a new baby. Anna Laman, 38, is one such mother. A freelance writer prior to the birth of her 19-month-old daughter, Laman quickly lost time, energy and interest in the pursuits that had previously excited her. After a complicated birth and ensuing cesarean section that landed her daughter in the neonatal intensive care unit, plus the extra demands associated with the newborn’s colic, Laman began to experience a growing sense that something wasn’t right. “I didn’t realize that that’s [PPD] what was going on until she was about 12 months old. I just could tell that I was overreacting to everything, and everything was weighing on me really heavily, and it was just exhausting. Getting back to normal life, going back to work, all those things other moms were doing — I literally could not comprehend how they were doing it.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PPD affects at least 20 percent of women who give birth each year — approximately 600,000 women in the U.S. alone. Often discussed only in hushed tones (if at all), postpartum depression is a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder that ranks as the most common complication of childbirth. Both environmental and physiological factors are thought to contribute to the condition. In addition to the formidable responsibility that caring for a newborn entails, a dramatic post-birth shift in hormones increases women’s risk for developing PPD. As estrogen and progesterone plummet, mothers may be left feeling exhausted, confused and depressed. Asheville-area psychotherapist Elizabeth Gillette is intimately familiar with the unique challenges faced by new parents. (It is important to note that caregivers, not just birth mothers, may also suffer from PPD.) Gillete, a social worker at Porch Light

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WEATHERING THE STORM: On the other side of her darkest hours with postpartum depression, Anna Laman enjoys playing with her 19-month-old daughter. Photo courtesy of Carrie Turner Counseling, offers family-centered counseling specifically focused on the perinatal experience. Inspired by her work as a postpartum and birth doula, Gillete recognizes the specific challenges present for new parents in a culture that places a great deal of focus on the prebirth experience, yet often negates the postnatal

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journey. “We’re all so focused on this moment when you have the baby, all the preparation, the birth classes, what your birth plan is going to look like, if you’re going to do it naturally or if you’re going to use medication, but there’s not a lot of preparation for when you are home and you’re being a parent to the baby.”

It’s precisely this lack of preparation, coupled with isolation, that leads many new parents to the sense of overwhelm that is characteristic of PPD. Compounding Laman’s experience was perhaps the greatest burden in the recognition and treatment of PPD — a nagging sense of shame that often felt overwhelming. “The thing that just kept going through my head was, ‘Why can’t I get my shit together? I should be able to do this.’ And it was, ‘Why aren’t I strong enough, why aren’t I smart enough?’ I wasn’t enjoying it,” she says. “I wasn’t enjoying it the way I thought I would, the way I wanted to, the way other people seemed like they were.” Gillete confirms that Laman’s repetitive thoughts are shared by virtually every PPD client she meets. “There’s such a stigma around [postpartum depression]. If you admit that you’re not feeling well or you’re not loving being a mom, there’s so much evidence in society to tell you that there’s something wrong with you and it’s better just to keep it to yourself, which we know is the worst thing to do,” says Gillete. “[With] depression and anxiety, you become so isolated, and that doesn’t help you feel better. Parents say, ‘I’m not feeling well,’ and have someone reply, ‘Well, maybe you shouldn’t have been a parent’ — it starts to [exacerbate] all of these insecurities and doubts that new parents already have.” Dr. Jon Larrabee, OB/GYN at Asheville Women’s Medical Center, names the stigma associated with PPD as one of the primary barriers to recognition and treatment. “The expectation that this is a happy time and everybody should be superexcited about this, that this should be a fun time — all of this is sort of a myth that overwhelms the patient’s sense of self, so that they’re losing touch with how they’re really feeling and covering over that with the sense that everything should be OK. And that’s not always the case.” At her wit’s end, Laman sought counseling. After combining therapy with medication, the fog lifted, and what she describes as a perpetual feeling of “being underwater” subsided. This very support, providing the end to isolation, is critical in the treatment and prevention of PPD — a

LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS: “You may not have that glow that people talk about. And that leads a lot of parents to feel that something is wrong with them, yet it’s not their fault,” says Elizabeth Gillette, social worker at Porch Light Counseling. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Gillette sentiment Larrabee echoes wholeheartedly. “To me that’s the more critical component — to front-load and have these conversations early on. This community is primed for that.”

Gillette agrees, saying, “Having conversations about it with your provider ahead of time, talking with your partner, knowing what to look for ... the earlier that we address it, the better the prognosis.” As for Laman? Now that the clouds have parted, she finds herself with a renewed vigor for both motherhood and the career that evaded her in her darkest months. And despite her struggle, she now reflects, “I want to help other people through this, in whatever little way, to acknowledge this exists and to do for other people what I wasn’t doing for myself. “What I can only recognize now that I’m not in it is that everything they tell you about it is true: It’s making you think it’s your fault; it’s trying to brainwash you. The only way you can get out of it is to talk to other people — whether it’s a friend that’s gone through it before, or your therapist or doctor. There are just so many ways that you’re taking care of this other person and so many hundreds of things you have to do every day just to make that work that you don’t really have the bandwidth to focus on yourself, but it’s really essential. You’re a much better mom if you’re a healthy and happy mom.” X

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W EL L NESS CA L E N DA R WELLNESS ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE • FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (PD.) • The authentic TM technique, rooted in the ancient yoga tradition—for settling mind and body and accessing hidden inner reserves of energy, peace and happiness. Learn how TM is different from mindfulness, watching your breath, common mantra meditation and everything else. Evidence-based: The only meditation technique recommended for heart health by the American Heart Association. NIH-sponsored research shows deep revitalizing rest, reduced stress and anxiety, improved brain functioning and heightened well-being. Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350. TM.org or MeditationAsheville.org LET YOUR LYMPH SYSTEM WORK FOR YOU (PD.) • Clear stuffy heads, heal quicker, reduce stress, detoxify, decrease fluid retention. Discover Manual Lymph Drainage Massage with Jean Coletti, PT. 828-273-3950. ColettiPT.com THIS THURSDAY • CRYSTAL VISIONS (PD.) www.phoenixrisinghealing.com January 5, 7pm. Are you ready to live a fulfilled life? If so, come learn about the Pechet Healing Technique, a technique developed over 32 years. There is nothing else like it. I completely dissolve one core issue every session...for good. Depression, Grief, Sadness,

Anxiety, PTSD Relationship issues (past or present) plus most physical conditions by clearing the root causes. 1-2 clearings will be done during the presentation on the group and or one person attending. Ellie Pechet, M.Ed., Metaphysician, Shaman, Medium, Author. 828-412-5488. $20 in advance/$25 cash at the door. • 5426 Asheville Hwy, Hendersonville. ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY YOGA CENTER 8 Brookdale Road, ashevillecommunityyoga.com • SA (1/7), 12:30-2:30pm - "Mantra & Mindfulness: Bringing in the New Year with Intention," yoga workshop. $20. • SA (1/7), 3-5pm - "Kids Yoga for Adults," workshop. $20. • SU (1/8), 12:30-2:30pm - "Restore Your Prana," yoga workshop. $20. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • SA (1/7), 11am-noon - Community yoga for all levels. Registration required: 250-4718 or Erin. Makara@buncombecounty.org. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 Sixth Ave., W. Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 9am - Walking exercise class. Free. QIGONG/CHI KUNG COMMUNITY PRACTICE GROUP allen@ashevilleqigong.com • FRIDAYS, 9:30am - Qigong/Chi Kung class. All levels welcome. Free to attend. Held at The Alternative Clinic, 23 Broadway THE MEDITATION CENTER 894 E. Main St., Sylva, 356-1105, meditate-wnc.org • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm - "Inner Guidance from an Open Heart," class with meditation and discussion. $10.

SUPPORT GROUPS ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS & DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES adultchildren.org • Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 2548539 or aancmco.org

ASHEVILLE WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY 215-536-8026, womenforsobriety.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm – Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. ASPERGER'S TEENS UNITED facebook.com/groups/AspergersTeensUnited • For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks. Contact for details.

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LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN 776-4809 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Hosted by American Chronic Pain Association. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • TU (1/10), 6pm - "Transformers Support Group for Non-Binary and Transgendered People." Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, NC CHAPTER 877-849-8271, lupusnc.org • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm - Lupus support group for those living with lupus, their family and caregivers. Held at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St.

CHRONIC PAIN SUPPORT 989-1555, deb.casaccia@gmail.com • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6 pm – Held in a private home. Contact for directions.

MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS network@memorycare.org • 2nd TUESDAYS, 9:30am – Held at Highland Farms Retirement Community, 200 Tabernacle Road, Black Mountain

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS 242-7127 • FRIDAYS, 5:30pm - Held at First United Methodist Church of Waynesville, 556 S. Haywood Waynesville • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm & SATURDAYS, 11am – Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. • TUESDAYS 7:30pm - Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite G4 DEBTORS ANONYMOUS debtorsanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7pm - Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE 367-7660, depressionbipolarasheville.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm & SATURDAYS, 4pm – Held at 1316-C Parkwood Road. FOOD ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 423-6191 or 242-2173 • SATURDAYS, 11am- Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite G4 FOUR SEASONS COMPASSION FOR LIFE 233-0948, fourseasonscfl.org • THURSDAYS, 12:30pm - Grief support group. Held at SECU Hospice House, 272 Maple St., Franklin • TUESDAYS, 3:30-4:30pm - Grief support group. Held at Four Seasons - Checkpoint, 373 Biltmore Ave. GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS gamblersanonymous.org • THURSDAYS, 6:45pm - 12-step meeting. Held at Basillica of St. Lawrence, 97 Haywood St.

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HAYWOOD COUNTY COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS 400-6480 • 1st THURSDAYS - Support group for families who have lost a child of any age. Held at Long's Chapel United Methodist Church, 175 Old Clyde Road, Waynesville INFERTILITY SUPPORT GROUP resolveasheville@gmail.com • 1st THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP 386-801-2606 • TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - For adults managing

MINDFULNESS AND 12 STEP RECOVERY avl12step@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7:30-8:45pm - Mindfulness meditation practice and 12 step program. Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite G4 MISSION CHILDREN'S FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK 213-9787 • 2nd TUESDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Mission Children's Family Support Network youth group from ages 11 to 21. Dinner is provided. Held at Mission Reuter Children's Center, 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive MOUNTAIN MAMAS PEER SUPPORT GROUP facebook.com/mountainmamasgroup • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1-3pm - Held at The Family Place, 970 Old Hendersonville Highway Brevard MY DADDY TAUGHT ME THAT mydaddytaughtmethat.org • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm - Men's discussion group. Free. Held in 16-A Pisgah Apartment, Asheville NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS 505-7353, namiwnc.org, namiwc2015@gmail.com • 1st SATURDAYS, 1oam - Connection group for individuals dealing with mental illness. Held at NAMI Offices, 356 Biltmore Ave. • 1st SATURDAYS, 10am - For family members and caregivers of those with mental illness. Held at NAMI Offices, 356 Biltmore Ave. • 2nd MONDAYS, 11am - Connection group for individuals dealing with mental illness. Held at NAMI Offices, 356 Biltmore Ave. OUR VOICE 35 Woodfin St., 252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • Ongoing drop-in group for female identified survivors of sexual violence. OVERCOMERS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 665-9499 • WEDNESDAYS, noon-1pm - Held at First Christian Church of Candler, 470 Enka Lake Road, Candler OVERCOMERS RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP rchovey@sos-mission.org • MONDAYS, 6pm - Christian 12-step program. Held at SOS Anglican Mission, 1944 Hendersonville Road

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS • Regional number: 277-1975. Visit mountainx. com/support for full listings. RECOVERING COUPLES ANONYMOUS recovering-couples.org • MONDAYS 6pm - For couples where at least one member is recovering from addiction. Held at Foster Seventh Day Adventists Church, 375 Hendersonville Road REFUGE RECOVERY 225-6422, refugerecovery.org • THURSDAYS, 7:30pm - Held at Sunrise Community for Recovery & Wellness, Unit C4, 370 N. Louisiana • FRIDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 6-7:30pm Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Held at Shambhala Meditation Center, 60 N Merrimon Ave., #113

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BY JONATHAN AMMONS jonathanammons@gmail.com In 1976, the famed Judgment of Paris set off waves of change that forever altered the way the world drinks wine. British wine merchant Steven Spurrier organized the blind tasting, where remote California winemakers presented their humble and often scoffed-at Napa Valley wines alongside stalwart French vintages before a panel of 11 sommeliers and wine

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judges. To everyone’s shock and bewilderment, California’s Stag’s Leap Cellars took top honors ahead of France’s Montrose, Mouton and Haut Brion wineries. The verdict was interpreted by many as an insult to the wine industry in France — how dare anyone compare a centuries-old tradition to the work of hillbillies in California? But the results created a massive worldwide market for American wines and put California solidly on the map as a superior wine-producing region.

On Dec. 17 at a venue in Fletcher, members of Asheville’s French Broad Vignerons staged their own version of that historic event as they held their breath, crossed their fingers and hoped for similar results at a blind tasting of four North Carolina wines. “One of the things that we have really been dealing with is raising the profile of North Carolina wines,” the organization’s president, Peter Fland, noted before the evaluation. “We can say they’re good, but there’s no benchmark for how our wines com-

GOLD STANDARD: Rege Duralia samples an entry during the recent tasting event. Wines representing North Carolina were selected for the competition from among Asheville Wine & Food Festival gold medal winners. Photo by Cindy Kunst pare with French wines or Spanish wines of the same categories.” Seven American Wine Society judges and sommeliers — including a former AWS president — were brought in for the assessment, tasting rounds of three samples that included a North Carolina vintage, as well as wines from California and Europe. To keep the judging fair and unbiased, the panel used the American Wine Society’s 20-point system, known as the Davis Scale, for scoring the wines. The wines entered in the competition were all priced in the $20-$30 range and had all received similar high ratings through Wine Spectator and other appraisal agencies. “All of these wines are at 90 points or above, which is what we consider to

be our gold medals at the festival,” says FBV Secretary Bill Fish. In order to keep the selection of wines impartial, the North Carolina wines were chosen by the Vignerons from their list of gold medal winners from the Asheville Wine & Food Festival. Josh Spurling of the bottle shop Table Wine selected the competing California and European wines. North Carolina’s Sanctuary Vineyards Albarino faced off against La Cana Albarino from Spain and an albarino from Napa Valley’s Hendry Vineyard. The Gruner Veltliner from Hendersonville’s Burntshirt Vineyards went head to head with the same varietals from Austria’s Tegernseerhof and Washington’s reputable Underwood Mountain Vineyard. North Carolina’s Jones

Von Drehle’s tempranillo tussled with the same varietals from Force of Nature in Paso Robles, Calif., and Spain’s well-known Volver. Finally, the Structure cabernet franc from Asheville’s Addison Farms Vineyard battled cab francs from Lang & Reed Winery on California’s North Coast and Domaine Bernard Baudry of Chinon, France. When asked before the judging if he had concerns about how his home team would fare, Fland replied, “I’m really curious. This is a let-the-chipsfall-where-they-may type of event.” At the end of the day, North Carolina made an impressive showing. Addison Vineyards won its cabernet franc category quite handily with 15.93 points compared to the much costlier Lang & Reed vintage, which came in at 13.93. The North Carolina coast’s Sanctuary virtually tied with its Spanish competition, clocking in just 0.79 points behind the winning score of 16.86, and Hendersonville’s Burntshirt Vineyards was a mere point behind its Austrian opponent. The only North Carolina wine that didn’t rise above the competitors was the Jones Von Drehle tempranillo, which punched out at a 14.93 but still managed to come within three points of the top score. “This was really us rolling the dice,” says Fland. “This was an effort for us to say, ’We’re here, and you need to pay attention to us. We have some solid wine over here, and we can pretty much compete.’” Fish observes that while North Carolina wines did not sweep every category, what is most important is that none of the wines failed. A wine not coming out on top but still being within three points of its international and national competition demonstrates plainly that the North Carolina wine scene is experiencing healthy growth, in regard to both prices and quality. “We who judge the Asheville Wine & Food Festival felt like these were well-made wines, and I think that what we’ve been able to do today is confirm that,” says Fish. “These stack up against comparable wines that are available throughout the world.” Fland intends to coordinate more evaluations similar to this one but on a larger scale. “Every area has to do something that will help its reputation both locally and nationally,” he says. “By doing this using international and West Coast competition, we are going up against the big boys.” X

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sauerkraut, cultured butter, hand pies and cassoulet as well as an assortment of recipes that incorporate the wintry flavors of molasses and juniper berries. And then there are the pancakes. “Dan is a big pancake guy,” says Kelly Vormelker, event coordinator for Buxton Hall. “Each week the menu will feature a different kind of savory pancake.”

Vormelker goes on to describe the concept — from menu to décor — as the epitome of Silo’s style and passion. A rustic atmosphere will be created in Buxton Hall’s upstairs Remington Room through vintage maps, animal pelts, beer steins and plush rugs. Along with a gluttonous amount of meats, there will be plenty to drink, including Canadian whiskey, specialty cocktails, mulled wine and beer.

The menu is à la carte, and prices range from $8-$25 per dish. While reservations are encouraged, Buxton Hall is allotting a certain number of seats for walk-ins. This, along with other obstacles that come with creating a restaurant within a restaurant, can make hosting a pop-up difficult. But Vormelker says these events are always worth it in the end. “The mezzanine space will be transformed to fit a theme — that’s always a little challenging,” she says. “But it’s nice that we get to support all these different creative concepts within a barbecue restaurant.” Champlain’s debut dinner will be 6-11 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11. The series will continue every Wednesday through Feb. 1 at Buxton Hall Barbecue, 32 Banks Ave. Email champlain@buxtonhall.com to make reservations. For more information, visit buxtonhall.com. COOKING CLASSES AT THE FARM CABINS AND COTTAGES The Farm’s executive chef, Mike Ferrari, will lead two interactive cooking classes this week. Asian II (a follow-up to last spring’s Asian I) will explore dishes inspired by the Far East. Items will consist of homemade ramen, panang curry and crab rangoon. The class takes place Saturday, Jan 7. On Tuesday, Jan. 10, the Healthy Cooking class will have quinoa salad, falafel wraps, glazed and seared salmon and stewed cabbage on the menu. Both classes will run 5:30-8:30 p.m., ending with a meal and wine. Seating is limited to 12 participants per session in order to allow Ferrari one-on-one time based on student needs. Tickets for either event are $70. For more information, visit thefarmevents.com. FLETCHER CHILI COOK-OFF The Fletcher Parks and Recreation Department is seeking contestants for the 16th annual Fletcher Chili Cook-Off. Awards will be handed out for the best overall chili, individual chili and business chili, best table décor and the people’s choice. All types of chili are welcome, from traditional to white to vegetarian. The event is free to enter and free to attend. Guests will be able to sample all competing chilis. There will also be an opportunity to donate to the Fletcher Park Development Fund, with money going toward improving Fletcher’s parks.

The Fletcher Chili Cook-Off takes place 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, at Veritas Christian Academy, 17 Cane Creek Road, Fletcher. Applications to compete are due by Friday, Jan. 20. To apply, visit FletcherParks.org. BONE BROTH WORKSHOP Hickory Nut Gap Farm chef Nate Sloan and nutritionist Katherine Wilson will lead a class, The Nutritional Benefits of Bone Broth, on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at the farm. The class will include a cooking demonstration and lecture. Registration is $45 and space is limited. The class runs 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, at Hickory Nut Gap Farm, 57 Sugar Hollow Road, Fairview. Visit hickorynutgapfarm.com for details and to register. THE ULTIMATE VACATION GETAWAY GIVEAWAY Eleven Henderson County businesses are participating in Ask Hendersonville’s Ultimate Vacation Getaway Giveaway, offering a variety of free meals to the winner. Included in the prize package are breakfast, lunch, dinner and a wine tasting for two. Participating businesses include Sweet Gypsy Coffee, Mountain Deli, Dandelion Eatery, HenDough, Flat Rock Wood Room, Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards, Sanctuary Brewing and Bold Rock Hard Cider. The deadline to enter the drawing is 9 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15. Entry is free. The winner will be announced on Ask Hendersonville’s Facebook page. Visit avl.mx/39m for details.

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Warming trend Has it really been 10 years since the Asheville Winter Warmer beer festival made its debut? This annual cold-weather celebration has certainly come a long way since it premiered at the old Garage at Biltmore, the venue that used to be next to French Broad Brewery. It was a cold and snowy day, but about 300 people jammed into the space for that first event. The Asheville beer scene was a lot smaller in those days, and no one could have guessed that we would become one of the nation’s top destinations for craft brew. A decade later, Winter Warmer is one of the area’s foremost beer festivals. This year’s iteration happens Saturday, Jan. 21, at the U.S. Cellular Center, and producer Mark Lyons expects 2,000 to 2,200 beer lovers to attend. He’s got his fingers crossed for sunny skies — last year’s event took a hit, he says, when bad weather forced a postponement. Lyons is still putting together a list of participating breweries, but he figures to have 30 of them pouring a wide variety of brews. Some will be from Western North Carolina, and others will hail from farther afield. But regardless of the participants, attendees can expect some sturdy, potent beers. Asheville Brewing Co. will debut its new collaboration beer with Deschutes Brewing — an ale called Nottaway River, which was made both here and in Bend, Ore. It is sure to be one of the festival’s hottest beers. Also, this year’s guest brewery is Prairie Artisan Ales.

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HAPPY BREW YEAR: The Asheville Winter Warmer beer festival returns for its 10th year Saturday, Jan. 21, at the U.S. Cellular Center arena. Photo courtesy Asheville Winter Warmer The Tulsa, Okla., outfit is famed for its sour and barrel-aged brews, and Lyons expects the brewery to have some of those selections “along with one or two sessions beers,” all of which are coveted, he says. As the beer list comes together, Lyons is making sure that Winter

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Warmer closely follows North Carolina alcohol laws. That means that some out-of-state breweries that have been to Winter Warmer in the past won’t be back this year. “The state is very watchful,” he says, but there will be plenty of North Carolina breweries to pick from. “We have newcomers reach out to us all the time.” Tickets are $51 for general admission and $69 for Very Important Drinkers, which includes such perks as early entry and admission to a lounge area. Designated driver tickets are $26. All ticket purchases will also carry 7 percent North Carolina sales tax, and there are online processing fees. The nonprofit benefiting from ticket sales is MountainTrue. All ticket levels include a full dinner catered by Asheville restaurants Chestnut and Corner Kitchen. The dinner is one of the elements that sets Winter Warmer apart from most other brew festivals.

Competition on the local beer festival scene has greatly increased in the past few years. Events such as the Beer City Festival, Brewgrass and Burning Can at Oskar Blues, plus the various Oktoberfests, have all pulled crowds from the same core group of beer fans. Most of these events are also seeking participation from the same area breweries, and there are only so many beer festivals that a brewery can attend. But Winter Warmer has an edge in that it happens during the dead of winter. In January, there are fewer other events to compete with, and a warming, higher-gravity brew can take the sting out of the cold-weather season. Put it on your list. Asheville Winter Warmer Brew Fest happens 3-7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at the U.S. Cellular Center Arena, 87 Haywood St. For details and tickets, visit ashevillebeerfest.com. X

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BY COOGAN BRENNAN coogan.brennan@gmail.com Two fears for everyday Americans are: 1. showing up to work completely unprepared; and 2. finding yourself naked in front of a large group of people. Many people would spend their entire lives perfectly content not experiencing either one of these things. For dancer Kathleen Hahn, however, the combination of these two nightmare scenarios is titillating. “The two worlds coming together just really gets me going,” she says, “I love both of them so much. Bringing them together is just so exciting.” Even more incredibly, Hahn has found other people equally thrilled to compete in The Great American StripOff! — “A burlesque, improv competition” — for its first year. “I’ve gathered together contestants from the burlesque, dance and comedy world in Asheville to compete against each other in what I hope to be a sexy, silly competition,” Hahn says. The shows start Thursday, Jan. 5, at The Magnetic Theatre. While the concept of improv burlesque is common in larger cities, this is the first public one in Asheville, and Hahn has crafted her own format. “There are four contestants each night, they each come with their costumes planned, but that’s all that’s planned,” she says. “There are three different rounds. They choose a random song [and] a prop from a hat. Then they do a striptease to this randomly selected song and prop. Each of those four contestants do the first round, then the audience votes.” The second round has three contestants performing in similar way. The third and final round has two contestants. “There are nine performances, three weekends. It’s a different cast every weekend,” Hahn says. “The same cast performs Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The winner at the end on Saturday, whoever has won the most competitions, wins the prize money.” Burlesque and improvisational comedy are not as dissimilar as they may first appear. “Burlesque and improv go well together because of structure,” Hahn says. “With improvisation, it’s nice to have some structure so you’re not all over the place.”

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LAUGHS MEET LUST: The Great American Strip-Off creator Kathleen Hahn will host the show in her burlesque persona, Boo Velvet. Photo by Rodney Smith/Tempus Fugit Design

The very term burlesque derives from the Italian burlesco meaning “mockery.” The primary definition of burlesque in a dictionary is “an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something; a parody.” “The history of burlesque shows were satirical plays with satirical comedy,” Hahn says. “Then, they would have the dancing girls come on. Comedy was always a part of burlesque from the beginning.” She continues, “That’s what attracted me to burlesque. I’m a silly person, but I also like expressing sensuality, sexual-

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ity. I like the multilayers of humor to [sexiness]. It feels fuller to me and it’s just more fun.” Asheville has both a relatively strong burlesque and comedy improv scene. Not only are there comedy improv teams, but Asheville institutions such as LaZoom enshrine silliness in the city’s culture. Two Great American Strip-off male contestants, Glenn Reed and Joe Carroll, come from the world of improv comedy and are game to participate in “boylesque” — the term for men performing burlesque. “With improv,” Hahn says, “You have to get out of your

own way. Glenn and Joe are both pretty expert at comedy improv. They will no doubt entertain.” She adds, “Improv helps you to be less self-conscious, less contrived. It definitely builds confidence” — something that will be needed in spades by the contestants. But there’s a serious side, too. Given the national discussion about sexual assault and sexual harassment in the past year, Hahn must take steps to ensure audience members understand what she calls “proper etiquette” of burlesque participation. “We are in such a lucky place that we get to watch these beautiful dancers take their clothes off, so we need to praise them and respect them,” she says. “This is different than if you were walking down the street and you see someone you think is hot and you say something about her butt. That is not the appropriate time to hoot and holler at a woman. But this is a special space and place where we are giving you permission to look at these beautiful creatures and applaud them.” Hahn continues, “You’re getting to see these beautiful bodies because they have chosen to share that with you, for this moment in time only, or until the next time they choose. It is an art form, and you respect the artist.” It is a tribute to Asheville’s open nature that a town this small would be able to host a show like The Great American Strip-Off! for a monthlong run. Local artists taking part in the shows “are just really charismatic performers,” Hahn says. “No matter what crazy song they get or ridiculous prop they get, they’re going to be entertaining.” X

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LEGACY MUSIC The song “U Know” begins with the line, “Don’t let nobody tell you what’s impossible / you’re the only one that’s ever stopping you.” It’s a fitting introduction to The Grateful Meds: They Exist, the new collaborative EP from Asheville-based hip-hop artists Davaion Bristol, aka Spaceman Jones, and Charles “Chachillie” Stewart. The soul-searching and beat-savvy four-song collection came out of a fouror five-day writing and recording session. Bristol and Stewart perform a show at The Odditorium on Saturday, Jan. 21. The project started when Stewart, who’d created the song “99%” with fellow rapper Philo, reached out to Bristol for a verse. “I had some beats from some local guys, and we were listening to them,” says Bristol. “We just started writing verses” that resulted in The Grateful Meds. But there was a connection beyond the shared musicianship. Both Bristol and Stewart were working through personal challenges, and the collaboration allowed them to process those hardships as art. “Everybody wanna be somebody / move like stars, be the life of the party … you can stay in prison for as long as you like / or you can choose freedom, liberate your life,” Bristol raps on “Your Life.” It’s a positive lyric that reflects his own complicated path to art. After a few brushes with the law, Bristol served 80 months in prison. He’d been introduced to writing rap lyrics during an earlier incarceration, but throughout that long sentence he really delved into the craft. Bristol points out that hip-hop artists have to want to hone their talent: While schools and music programs teach a wide variety of instruments along with vocal techniques, there is no formal education for MCing or producing — creating beats. On The Grateful Meds, Bristol and Stewart trade off verses and hookwriting duties with each MC performing his own hook in most cases. Stewart produced the brisk, bouncing “99%,” which begins and ends with samples of protesters chanting “We are the 99 percent.” Stewart’s lyrics are fleet and exacting: “Hands in the air, I’m playing theremin / the game’s tortoise and the hare, I’m a ninja terrapin.” There’s humor and there’s also dead aim at a system that excludes the majority of its citizens.

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(828) 275-8628 POWER WORDS: The Grateful Meds project started when Chachillie, left, reached out to Spaceman Jones, right, for a verse on his song “99%.” Both musicians were working through personal challenges, and the collaboration allowed them to process those hardships as art. Photo by Adam McMillan Mike Holmes produced “Your Life,” $ouf$ide Pat contributed production to “U Know” and Ho-Tron Beatz lent his talents to “Yin Yang,” which Bristol and Stewart co-produced. On the latter, Bristol’s syncopated rap skews sociopolitical: “They flip the switch, then we do the dance for spare change / wage slaves we pay our way to the grave. … This kind of dirt, it don’t come off even after you bathe / ’cause of all the sh*t that’s in the water, and it’s only getting harder.” “Every man’s got their own issues. I was going through some things — I wasn’t feeling as confident,” Bristol explains of the the mood around the album’s creation. “I was feeling a little afraid of what was happening around the country, I was feeling superdisappointed in the Obama presidency. I was also feeling like I needed to speak.” What came out is raw and visceral, but there’s also a palpable sense of style, a kind of rooted luster. “Whenever we get together, we have a synergy,” Bristol says of working with Stewart. “We were trying to make the absolute best music. [I said], ‘Let’s not just make something that’s going to be good locally, let’s make some legacy music.’” The thing is, though hip-hop comes from humble roots, most of its makers start with the idea of launching huge careers, Bristol says. “You want to get a chance. Everybody starts off thinking,

‘I’m going to blow up.’ … The economic motivation is entwined in the art of hiphop, more than any other genre, I think, because it’s mainly made by poor people.” But even as The Grateful Meds — which launched online at the beginning of the year — addresses issues of economic injustice, it’s rich in sonic texture, vivid imagery and thoughtful delivery. It’s an album that, in its four tracks, offers up a big vision and leaves the listener wanting more. Bristol and Stewart have plans for nationwide exposure, including college radio play, but they’re not ready to rest on this initial success. “We’ve got more work to do, after this, to continue on and see what we can come up with together,” Bristol says. “Now it’s up to the people to conform my suspicions, or” — he gives a wry grin — “send me packing back to the lab.” X

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BACK TO THE ROOTS Reed Turchi comes home to celebrate his new solo album, ‘Tallahatchie’ It was only last February that Reed Turchi was making a trip back to Swannanoa, his boyhood home, for an album release party for Speaking in Shadows by his group The Caterwauls. Turchi was excited: new album, new band, new tour. Less than a year later, all of those things are well behind him. A series of major life changes for Turchi has resulted in the stark, stripped-down sound of his newest record, Tallahatchie. There’s one — and possibly only one — thing that he hasn’t changed: Turchi is coming back to Swannanoa to celebrate his latest album with a show on Friday, Jan. 6, at The Root Bar. Last spring, The Caterwauls embarked on an extensive tour across the U.S. in support of Speaking in Shadows. “I had assembled a band that I was very pleased with,” Turchi says. And although the shows were well-received, the band unraveled. “Not because of anyone’s particularly horrible actions,” the musician explains. “But the usual life pressures pulled everyone apart.” Back home in Memphis, Turchi left his job at Ardent Records just ahead of a wave of layoffs. And then there was the presidential election, “a sort of wake-up moment for everyone,” he says. Taken together, all of those circumstances would be enough to take the wind out of a creative artist’s sails. Instead, Turchi headed back to his roots, recording Tallahatchie, a solo record in the truest sense of the word. “The only sort of natural and right thing to do musically — personally, too — was to get back to the most basic, square-one kind of music,” he says. “Hill Country music is what first got me obsessed with guitar. I sort of drifted away from that with different groups, but those songs are exactly why I picked up a guitar in the first place.”

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The specific inspiration for Tallahatchie can be said to have come from Turchi’s ailing grandmother. While on tour, he and his band had visited her in a Baltimore critical-care facility. “One thing she really wanted to do was sing songs together,” Turchi recalls. “She wasn’t much of a singer; she just liked the idea of tunes.” Singing a few of the songs from The Caterwauls’ live set, Turchi realized right then that they really didn’t work in stripped-down, a cappella versions. That was an “aha!” moment for the musician. The 11 songs on Tallahatchie are all country blues tunes written many decades ago, but they resonate with the songwriter-guitarist. “None of them are my songs,” Turchi admits. “But they all have personal meaning to me.” The twists and turns of 2016 sent Turchi into an introspective mindset. “So rather than trying to create something sort of complex and layered and full of pieces outside of myself, I wanted to try to make something that was speaking — as truly as possible — from me and my guitar.” Tallahatchie certainly has that inward-looking contemplative mood about it. The record has a “Robert Johnson in a boardinghouse with a guitar, a mic and a recording machine” ambiance. Turchi says that the songs he chose “have kind of been sitting there in my head — or my hands — the whole time,” so he didn’t have to relearn them. The musician set an important ground rule for himself when making Tallahatchie. “I didn’t want to do anything that I couldn’t do live,” he says. So he set up a field-recording microphone and another mic in his bedroom, “Then I sat there and recorded everything in about two days.” He didn’t do any postrecording editing; he didn’t overdub or correct any of the tracks.

BLUES, PARTY OF ONE: The tumultuous events of 2016 led Swannanoa native Reed Turchi to take his music back to where it started. He plays a solo show at The Root Bar on Jan. 6. Photo by Allyse Gafkjen The vocals were recorded live while he played. Turchi says that the collapse of his band and the other events of this past year feel as if they “left a hole. And I felt like I wanted to go back and fill that hole in.” Even though all of Tallahatchie’s songs are covers, he says that the songs “have a little bit of my whatever in them. They’ve sat with me long enough that I’ve been able to marinate them in something that’s not just imitation.” The Root Bar show in Turchi’s hometown will be the start of a tour that will take him across the country to “all the main U.S. markets,” he says. While he enjoys the power and volume of a full band, these solo shows hold a special appeal for him, too.

“It’s really refreshing to perform that way,” Turchi says, “but also to have a sort of conversation with the people who are there. I like to talk to people between songs [and] just feel the rhythm and have a good time.” X

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DARKNESS AND LIGHT: “I’ve been doing a lot of landscapes lately,” says artist Elizabeth Porritt Carrington. “All are in this sort of twilight, which I call the gloaming ... the very last light of the day.” Photo by Thomas Calder For more than a decade, Elizabeth Porritt Carrington has been creating colorful, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the places she has lived, including her home country of Ireland, the French Pyrenees and Asheville, where she’s been since 2013. This month, a selection of her works is being featured (along with the creations of fiber artist Brenda McVey), in the F.W. Gallery at Woolworth Walk. In 2002, Carrington graduated from the Centre for Creativity and

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the Arts in Galway, Ireland. “I had amazing teachers in college,” she says. “But they were very influential, and I wanted to please them and do what I thought I should do. So I probably spent about 10 years making art that I thought I should make.” Her early focus was performancebased, as well as sound and video installations. “I loved doing that,” she says. “But I always felt I was missing something. I put up work on the wall, and you know, it would

all be technology-based. ... I wasn’t using my hands.” Grief proved an unexpected source of power and influence, inspiring her to pick up the brush. Over the course of 10 years, Carrington grieved the loss of her mother, her first husband and her father. “In this culture we spend a great deal of time not thinking about [death] and pretending we don’t have to,” she says. The act of painting was cathartic. “I was a mom with a little child,

and that really changed everything for me,” she says. “What’s important is suddenly condensed into this very simple picture in front of you. It’s about doing the best you can.” A second marriage led Carrington to Asheville in 2013. Now she has a studio in the Phil Mechanic building in the River Arts District. Over the years, the artist’s medium continued to evolve from sketches to watercolor to acrylic and oils. She attributes it to a growing confidence in her skill, noting she has no formal training in painting. This same confidence lent itself to her overall view of what it means to be an artist. Early on in her career, Carrington says she felt a need to be dark and edgy. “And I do dark and edgy things,” she says. “But it’s not all of me. I’m also kind of cuddly and cozy and want to make pretty pictures.” Coziness aside, many of Carrington’s works at the F.W. Gallery at Woolworth Walk deal with the theme of grief. Her landscapes, while based on real locations, are morphed into the surreal through her colorful strokes. The hillsides and wooded trails

become metaphorical thresholds leading viewers into the unknown. “The answers never come,” says Carrington. “The questions just get more sophisticated as you go along.” She offers this insight with a cheerful laugh. “The painting helps me enormously to explore all of it,” she continues. “And to make peace with the mystery.” X

WHAT Featured works of Elizabeth Porritt Carrington and Brenda McVey WHERE F. W. Gallery at Woolworth Walk 25 Haywood St. woolworthwalk.com WHEN Opening reception Friday, Jan. 6, 4-6 p.m. The exhibit is on display through Tuesday, Jan. 31

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Jane Kramer There’s just something about Asheville that keeps musicians coming back. Take, for example, soulful Americana songstress Jane Kramer, who returned to Asheville last year following a four-year stint in Portland, Ore. She released her homecoming album, Carnival of Hopes, last winter in celebration of her return. This year promises to be big for Kramer, with a U.K. tour and the recording of her third solo album in the works. She’ll begin 2017 with a special local show. “For me, this performance will celebrate almost two years of putting my roots back down in Asheville,” she says. “We will share quite a bit of new material that will be on the next record, and I have a lot of new stories to tell.” Kramer plays with Old Man Luedecke at The Grey Eagle on Saturday, Jan. 7, at 8 p.m. $12/$15. thegreyeagle.com. Photo by Carrie Frey

The Musical of Musicals The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is a tribute — wait for it — to the musical genre. Featuring five performances in the style of different theater masters, from an Andrew Lloyd Webber rock show to a bubbly Rodgers & Hammerstein offering, it’s a masterpiece made for musical lovers. “What’s really appealing about this musical is the fact that you’re getting five musicals for the price of one,” says Misty Theisen, who will direct Asheville Community Theatre’s production. The show — or rather, shows — tell the tale of June, a victim of a greedy landlord, in five distinct renditions. It’s a romping, riotous, 90-minute staging for all ages, rife with puns and subtle references to other famed Broadway shows. Performances will take place at 35below on Fridays and Saturdays, Jan. 6-22, at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. $20. ashevilletheatre.org. Photo by Alan Theisen

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NEW YEAR MUSICAL TRIO: The Madison County Arts Council is beginning the new year once again by hosting the popular American folk music trio, the Kruger Brothers, on Sunday, Jan. 8, at 4 p.m. at the Madison County Arts Center. “The Kruger Brothers love to begin the new year in Marshall. We are lucky to have them and know that our audience will look forward to hearing excerpts from this new work,” said Laura Boosinger, executive director of the Madison County Arts Council. “Our arts center is the perfect venue for this band, up close and personal, always a few surprises and special guests, for sure. This one is always a sellout.” For more information, visit madisoncountyarts.com. Photo of the Kruger Brothers courtesy of the Madison County Arts Council (p.16) ART CAROLINAS’ NATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION asheville.cnpa-regions.org/ • SU (1/8), 6pm - "A Trio of Tech Tips," presentation and general meeting. Free. Held in the UNC Asheville Reuter Center

ART/CRAFT FAIRS • ONE DAY ONLY! FOLK ART SALE (PD.) Saturday, January 14. Many artists, featuring Cornbread. 10am-4pm, Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Hwy., Leicester.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ANAM CARA THEATRE 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • TH (1/5), 6-9pm & SA (1/7), noon3pm - Open auditions for Pulse, an ensemble-created musical performance. Contact for full guidelines. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B

ART LEAGUE OF HENDERSON COUNTY 692-9441, artleague.net • Through FR (1/6) - S ubmissions accepted for the annual "Mini Challenge" art show. Contact for full guidelines and fees. ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through WE (2/15) - Submissions accepted for the Asheville Art in the Park Arts & Community Grant application. Contact for full guidelines. Information session: Wednesday, Jan. 18, 5pm. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. • SU (1/1) through MO (5/15) Applications accepted for the 2017 Professional Development Grant for Artists. Contact for full guidelines. CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 601 College Ave., SW Lenoir, 754-2486 • Through TU (1/31) - Portfolio submissions accepted for 2018 exhibitions. Information: caldwellarts.com/157-guidelines/CALDWELL. TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through TU (2/7) - Open call for submissions for the Folk Art exhibition

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ART GALLERIES ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • MO (1/9) through FR (2/10) - Exhibition of new works by Jonathan Fisher. Reception: Friday, Jan 20, 4-7pm. Held in Ramsey Library. ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SA (1/7) - Beauty + Function: Ceramic Artists in Western North Carolina, exhibition. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE BOOKWORKS 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through TU (2/28) - Let the Good TImes Roll, printmaking exhibition. BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through FR (2/17) - Clay Studio exhibit and pottery market featuring the work of 12 local potters. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • Through TU (1/31) - Swannanoa High School… Past and Future in Pictures, exhibition. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa

taking place Friday, Feb. 10 through

CARLTON GALLERY 10360 Highway 105 S. Banner Elk, 963-4288, carltonartgallery.com • Through TU (1/17) - Winter Group and Small Works Exhibition. CRUCIBLE GLASSWORKS 60 Clarks Chapel Road, Weaverville, 645-5660, crucibleglassworks.com • Ongoing - Exhibition of the glass work of Michael Hatch. FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 2160 US Hwy 70, Swannanoa, 273-3332, floodgallery.org/ • Through MO (1/30) - Outsider painting exhibition featuring works by Scarlett Swann.

MAHEC EDUCATION CENTER 121 Hendersonville Road, 257-4400, mahec.net • Through TU (1/31) - Painting exhibition by Rich Elwyn and Valerie McGaughey. PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through MO (1/23) - Running From Madness, a group show curated by Maxx Feist. THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL 360 Asheville School Road, 254-6345, ashevilleschool.org • TH (1/12) through FR (3/3) - Counterpoint,

abstract oil and cold wax paintings by Douglas Lail. Reception: Thursday, Jan. 12, 6-8pm. TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (1/13) - Transylvania Vocational Services art exhibition. Opening reception: Friday, Jan. 6, noon. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

GREEN SAGE CAFE SOUTH 1800 Hendersonville Road, Hendersonville • Through TU (1/31) - Exhibition of paintings by John Haldane. HENDERSON COUNTY HERITAGE MUSEUM 1 Historic Courthouse Square Hendersonville, 694-1619, hendersoncountymuseum.org • WE (1/4) through SU (6/4) - Exhibition of works from the Baker-Barber museum collection. HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 327-8576 • Through SU (4/23) - Woman Made, exhibition of the works of over 80 women artists.

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35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (1/6)

MUSIC

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broyhillcenter.com • SA (1/7), 7:30pm - Milton Harkey Bluegrass presents Dailey and Vincent. $29/$13 students & children.

• WEDNESDAY through SUNDAY (1/4) until (1/8) - Crazy Escapes: An Escape Artist Production. Performance featuring escape artist Eugene Mullins. Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $15/$10

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IN THE PUB: Since leaving the comforts of Nashville in 2012, indie folk rock duo You Knew Me When has offered up its “craft-brewed compositions” to audiences in over 140 breweries across the country during their four-year touring schedule. Ahead of the release of its third studio album in 2017, the husband & wife team is bringing its multi-instrumental, nuanced sound to the Southern Highlands. Catch You Knew Me When on Friday, Jan. 6 at Asheville’s French Broad Brewery for a 6 p.m. show. Photo by Kendra Bomar

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Brad Hodge & friends (singer-songwriter), 7:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub, jazz), 6:30PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Soul Magnetics (soul, R&B, funk), 7:00PM

ODDITORIUM Pacehouse w/ Tongues of Fire, Depression Surfers & Sleepweather (rock), 9:00PM

BYWATER The Woodshed, 9:00PM CROW & QUILL Sparrow & Her Wingmen (swing jazz, dance lessons), 9:00PM

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GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Tyler Childers w/ Truckstop Waterfall (folk, Americana), 8:00PM

BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30PM

BONFIRE BARBECUE Trivia Funtime w/ Kelsey, 8:00PM

GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM

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ONE WORLD BREWING The Night Shirts, 8:00PM

and The Freight Train), 7:00PM Butch Trucks & the Freight Train, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Reggae Vibes w/ Ashanti Selassi, 8:30PM THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Laura Thurston (folk, bluegrass), 7:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Alex Brown w/ DJ Deeds, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE DJ Phantom Pantone (international soul, R&B), 8:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & Soul Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR 3 Cool Cats (50s & 60s vintage rock, swing), 7:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Bill & Company (Pre-show for Butch Trucks

ALTAMONT THEATRE Modern Strangers w/ Story Daniels, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:00PM

THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Tricky Trivia w/ Sue, 8:00PM

BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (jazz), 9:00PM

THE MAGNETIC THEATRE The Great American Strip-Off!, 9:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Chris Coleman Blues Experience, 8:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Sweet Claudette (Motown, country), 6:00PM

BONFIRE BARBECUE Social Function, 8:30PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (live music, dance), 9:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Chocolate Saison release w/ Krekel and Whoa (rock 'n' roll), 5:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Bill Mattocks Band (blues, soul), 7:30PM

CLADDAGH RESTAURANT & PUB Irish Music Thursdays, 7:00PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 10:00PM

ALTAMONT THEATRE An Evening w/ Robin & Linda Williams (bluegrass, folk), 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Vinyl Night w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones ("The man of 1,000 songs"), 6:30PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Musicians in the Round residency (songwriter, country, Americana), 7:00PM

ODDITORIUM Benefit for Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross (punk), 9:00PM

CORK & KEG The Gypsy Swingers (jazz), 8:30PM

OLE SHAKEY'S O.S.O.M. Open Mic, 10:00PM

CROW & QUILL Vendetta Creme (silly, sultry cabaret), 9:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bella's Bartok (folk, punk), 10:00PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY You Knew Me When (indie, folk), 6:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Sarah Tucker (singer-songwriter), 8:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Bean Tree Remedy (acoustic, folk, eclectic), 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY January Thursday Residency w/ Hustle Souls, 6:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Unite! Open mic night (sign up @ 7 p.m.), 7:30PM

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The All Arounders (blues), 9:00PM

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LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE BILTMORE PARK Gary Mackey, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM The Go Devils w/ The Cryptoids & Children In Heat (punk, rockabilly), 9:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN DJ OCelate (pop, dance hits), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Gypsy Guitars (jazz), 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Bobby Miller & friends (bluegrass), 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Caz-Ma-Taz: Hurricane Matthew Victims Benefit w/ Artimus Pyle & Friends, 6:00PM

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GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Runaway Gin (Phish tribute), 9:00PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Ken and Brad Kolodner (bluegrass country), 7:00PM Friday Night Dance Party w/ Jim Arrendell, 9:00PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Nitrograss, 7:00PM

w/ Lovely Budz

GOOD STUFF Momma Molasses (alt-country, Americana, folk), 7:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Lyric (pop, funk, soul), 7:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Emily Bodley (singer-songwriter), 7:00PM

Of Good Nature

LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE Chris Jamison (Americana), 8:00PM

550 TAVERN & GRILLE Fine Line Band, 9:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7:00PM

w/ DJ Marley Carroll

ONE WORLD BREWING Carpal Tullar (pop, rock), 9:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz), 9:00PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Jay Brown & friends, 6:00PM Italian Night w/ Mike Guggino & Barrett Smith, 8:00PM

Loose Yourself to Dance

LOBSTER TRAP Rob Parks & friends (swing, bluegrass), 6:30PM

185 KING STREET Mitch Hayes Trio (singer-songwriter), 8:30PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Darren Band & DBAHT (comedy), 9:00PM

w/ Resonant Rouges

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam, 5:00PM

FRIDAY, JANUARY 6

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Gracie Lane (folk, Americana), 6:00PM

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K LOUNGE DJ Phantom Pantone (Korean pop, trap, dance), 10:00PM

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Franklin’s Kite 7- 9pm Sun•Jan 8

Reggae Sunday hosted by Dennis “Chalwa” Berndt

1-4pm

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Trivia Night 6-8pm Wed•Jan 11

(Southern Americana)

8pm SAT

Creekside BBQ Nachos!

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Football Nachos & FOOTBALL!

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Maggie Valley Band (Appalachian folk), 8:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Gypsy Guitar Trio (gypsy folk), 3:00PM The WildCard (funk, dance), 9:30PM

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Asheville Mardi Gras 12th Night Gala!, 7:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Dave Desmelik (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7:00PM

SCARLET'S COUNTRY DANCE CLUB Open Mic night w/ Sam Warner, 8:00PM

CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats (50s rock), 8:30PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Carver & Carmody, 8:00PM

CROW & QUILL Burger Kings (boogie-woogie, rock n' roll), 10:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE LOOK Fridays Dance Party w/ DJ Audio, 10:00PM THE DUGOUT Boogy Children, 9:00PM THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Quick Heater, 7:00PM THE MOCKING CROW Trivia and karoke night!, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Galen Holland's Birthday Party w/ The 40-20-10's & The Nightshirts, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Ultra Lounge w/ Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Friday Nite Mash Up w/ B-Boy Evan & Nex Millen, 10:00PM TWISTED LAUREL Request-powered dance party w/ Phantom Pantone, 10:30PM

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7 185 KING STREET The Remarks w/ The Halves & Barrett Davis (indie), 8:30PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Resonant Rogues Duo (old-time), 6:00PM Carolina Wray (Southern rock, pop), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Lose Yourself to Dance w/ DJ Marley Carroll (dance), 9:00PM

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GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Jane Kramer w/ Old Man Luedecke (folk, singer-songwriter), 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Franklin's Kite (rock), 7:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ The Midnight Plowboys, 7:00PM An evening w/ The Wobblers (blues, jazz, ragtime), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Gypsy Swingers (swing, jazz, blues), 9:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30PM ODDITORIUM 8 Vacant Graves w/ A World of Lies, Thrashole & Avalon Steel (metal), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Of Good Nature w/ Lovely Budz (reggae, rock), 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Kid Hop Hooray! (children's show, dance party), 10:00AM Donna The Buffalo (zydeco, rock, folk), 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY You Knew Me When (indie, folk), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Grand Theft Audio (classic rock), 9:30PM

1/5 - Mark Shimmick, 7pm (Bluegrass) Free 1/6 - Jarvis Jenkins, 9pm (Blues) 1/7 - Red Hot Sugar Babies, 8pm (Jazz)

$5 Piglet Menu (12 & under)

Woody Wood

Calvin Get Down 7-9pm

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY The Bird & The Bear (acoustic folk), 6:00PM

THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Kathryn Proctor & Dan Falkenstein (folk, Americana), 7:00PM THE MOCKING CROW Karaoke w/ Josie, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Yours Truly w/ Vietnam Jerry & The Volt Per Octaves (pop, electronica), 9:30PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Ultra Lounge w/ Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM TWISTED LAUREL Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone, 10:30PM

1/7

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Classical Guitar Mondays, 7:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Open Mic Night, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Mic w/ Rick Cooper (sign-up @ 7:30), 8:00PM GOOD STUFF Songwriter's "open mic", 7:30PM

LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30PM

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7:00PM Open Mic Night, 9:00PM

7PM DOORS 8PM DOORS

n Out”

8PM DOORS

WED THU

1/6

MONDAY, JANUARY 9 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Eleanor Underhill & friends (Americana, soul), 8:00PM

FROM “Wild

W/ OLD MAN LUEDECKE

7PM DOORS

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Conscious Comedy Night w/ Slice of Life Comedy, 7:00PM International Salsa Dance Party, 10:00PM

DARREN BRAND AND BDAHT

OPEN MIC NIGHT 6PM SLICE OF COMEDY OPEN MIC 9:30PM

6PM DOORS

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Carolina Rex, 8:00PM

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W/ TRUCKSTOP WATERFALL

HOSTED BY MACON CLARK

STAND UP COMEDIAN

SEAN PATTON W/ TOM PETERS

8PM DOORS

SCARLET'S COUNTRY DANCE CLUB Chad Farmer Band (outlaw country), 8:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Mountain Chamber Jazz Ensemble, 7:30PM

TYLER CHILDERS

FRI

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Yoga with Cats with Blue Ridge Humane Society, 10:00AM The Low Counts (blues, rock), 8:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Phantom Pantone (french pop, disco house), 9:30PM

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SALVAGE STATION Free Dead Crew (acoustic Grateful Dead tribute), 5:00PM Illiterate Light, 8:00PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY The Dan Keller Trio, 5:00PM

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Alex Krug Combo, 8:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Sunday Travers jam, 6:00PM

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PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR The Crown Jewels Band w/ Paula Hanke (dance music, 1940s-today), 7:00PM

THE SUBDUDES MICHAEL TRACY MIKE DOUGHTY TAARKA THE BAND OF HEATHENS OPEN MIC MONDAYS AT 6PM

ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque w/ Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN ZuZu Welsh Band (rock), 8:00PM

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TAVERN

5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Paper Crowns (Americana, rock 'n' roll), 7:00PM

Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 14 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Guitar Bar Jam, 3:30PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Dub Kartel (reggae, dub), 6:00PM

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BYWATER Dirty Dead Sunday (Grateful Dead covers), 8:00PM FLOOD GALLERY True home open mic (sign-up @ 5 p.m.), 5:30PM

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THU. 1/5 Bean Tree Remedy

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Dennis "Chalwa" Berndt, 1:00PM

(acoustic, folk, eclectic)

FRI. 1/6 DJ OCelate

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Page Brothers w/ Geoff Clapp, 5:30PM Bill Staines (folk), 7:30PM

(pop, dance hits)

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5:00PM

SAT. 1/7 Grand Theft Audio

LOBSTER TRAP Hot Club of Asheville ("swing'n grass"), 6:30PM

(classic rock)

MADISON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL The Kruger Brothers (country, folk), 4:00PM ODDITORIUM Earth Witch w/ Harsh Realm, Low Earth & Bathe (metal), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bluegrass brunch w/ Aaron "Woody" Wood, 11:00AM

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THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Trivial trivia w/ Geoffrey & Brody, 8:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Michaelsoft w/ Derek M. Poteat, Pucker Up & Battery Powered Hooker Boots (punk, dreampop, electronic), 9:00PM

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THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Rooftop movies w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 8:00PM

MONDAYS Quizzo – Brainy Trivia • 7:30pm Open Mic Night • 9pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8:00PM

CAJUN TWO STEPPIN’ TUESDAYS Every Tuesday in Nov. • 7pm Gumbo, Po Boys and more! WEDNESDAYS Asheville’s Original Old Time Mountain Music Jam • 5pm THURSDAYS Mountain Feist • 7pm Bluegrass Jam • 9:30pm Bourbon Specials

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FRI MIKE MITCHELL BAND 1/13 9PM / $5 SAT RESONANT ROGUES 1/14 9PM / $5 IRISH SUNDAYS Irish Food and Drink Specials Traditional Irish Music Session • 3-9pm OPEN MON-THURS AT 3 • FRI-SUN AT NOON

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ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Gypsy Jazz Jam Tuesdays, 7:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Eleanor Underhill (Americana, roots, fusion), 7:00PM BONFIRE BARBECUE Thunder karaoke w/ Jason Tarr, 8:00PM BYWATER Spin Jam, 9:00PM CROW & QUILL Boogie Woogie Burger Night (burgers & rock n' roll), 9:00PM GOOD STUFF Old time-y night, 6:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 6:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Tuesday bluegrass sessions w/ The Zoe & Cloyd Bluegrass Band, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Cajun Two-steppin' Tuesday w/ Cafe Sho's (Cajun, zydeco, dance), 7:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown (folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Odd Open Mic Comedy, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Booty Tuesday, 11:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING TRIVIA! w/ Ol' Gilly, 7:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR The Remedy (blues), 7:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Taco and Trivia Tuesday, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing Asheville & Jazz-n-Justice Benefit Tuesday w/ The Low Down Sires (lessons at 7 & 8 p.m.), 9:00PM Old Blues Dance, 11:00PM THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Open jam w/ Rob Parks & Chuck Knott, 7:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Jazz & Funk Jam (funk, jazz), 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30PM

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5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Karaoke, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Brad Hodge & friends (singer-songwriter), 7:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Soul Magnetics (soul, R&B, funk), 7:00PM BONFIRE BARBECUE Trivia Funtime w/ Kelsey, 8:00PM BYWATER The Woodshed, 9:00PM CROW & QUILL Sparrow & Her Wingmen (swing jazz, dance lessons), 9:00PM GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Sean Patton w/ Tom Peters (comedy), 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub, jazz), 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Synergy Story Slam w/ Todd Lester, 7:00PM 80s/90s Dance Party, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Kylie and Her Mutts, 8:00PM ORANGE PEEL ZOSO (Led Zeppelin tribute), 9:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR 3 Cool Cats (50s & 60s vintage rock, swing), 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Karaoke, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Bob Loiacono (jazz, folk, classic rock), 8:00PM THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Bag of Tricks, 7:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT WNC String Ensemble w/ DJ Walkhome & Alec Sturgis, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE DJ Phantom Pantone (international soul, R&B), 8:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & Soul Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (jazz), 9:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Chris Coleman Blues Experience, 8:00PM BONFIRE BARBECUE Social Function, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 10:00PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Dave Dribbon (Americana), 6:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Mark Keller (acoustic rock), 8:00PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Sister Ivy, 7:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY January Thursday Residency w/ Hustle Souls (funk, soul), 6:30PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones ("The man of 1,000 songs"), 6:30PM ODDITORIUM The Egg Eaters w/ The Dirty Badgers & Hard Rocket (rock, punk), 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S O.S.O.M. Open Mic, 10:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Gigi Dover & Eric Lovell (Southern world music), 8:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Kaitlyn Raitz & Ben Plotnick (folk, bluegrass), 7:30PM

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SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Jamison Adams (Americana), 7:00PM

Clint Roberts Band, 8:00PM

THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Tricky Trivia w/ Sue, 8:00PM

Ryan "R&B" Barber (funk, soul), 9:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (live music, dance), 9:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Ryan Perry Band (country), 9:00PM

ALTAMONT THEATRE Reasonably Priced Babies (comedy), 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Vinyl Night w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM CORK & KEG The Resonant Rogues (Gypsy jazz, old-time, swing), 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Krekel and Woah & Lora Pendleton (rock n' roll), 10:00PM GOOD STUFF Freestone August (indie, folk, singer-songwriter), 8:30PM

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GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Subdudes (Southern rock, pop, roots), 8:00PM

K LOUNGE DJ Phantom Pantone (Korean pop, trap, dance), 10:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Calvin Get Down (funk), 7:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon (Americana), 6:30PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An Evening with Stephanie Morgan w/ Santos Glocal Soul, 7:00PM 2nd Annual Mountain Soul Party, 9:00PM

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Mike Mitchell Band (bluegrass, Americana), 9:00PM

6:00PM – JAY BROWN & FRIENDS 8:00PM – ITALIAN NIGHT WITH

MIKE GUGGINO AND BARRETT SMITH fri 1/6

sat 1/7

7:00PM –MIDNIGHT PLOWBOYS 9:00PM –THE WOBBLERS sun 1/8 5:30PM – PAGE BROS FT. GEOFF CLAPP 7:30PM –BILL STAINES tue 1/10 7:30PM – TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS thu 1/12 7:00PM –SISTER IVY (IN THE LOUNGE) fri 1/13 7:00PM – STEPHANIE MORGAN W/

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Thursday: 8-11 Brews N’ Blues

B-DAY BASH

w/ The Cris Coleman Blues Experience

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GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Michael Tracy w/ The Dirty Soul Revival (Americana, rock, country), 9:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Pretty Little Goat Stringband (old-time, acoustic), 9:00PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL The Cheeksters, 7:00PM Andrew Scotchie’s B-Day Bash, 9:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (pop, dance hits), 9:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Ragbirds w/ Alexa Rose, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Sean Bendula (singer-songwriter), 8:00PM SCARLET'S COUNTRY DANCE CLUB Open Mic night w/ Sam Warner, 8:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Pleasure Chest, 8:00PM THE DUGOUT FineLine, 9:00PM THE MOCKING CROW Trivia and karoke night!, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Ultra Lounge w/ Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Friday Nite Mash Up w/ B-Boy Evan & Nex Millen, 10:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Company Swing (swing), 7:00PM TWISTED LAUREL Request-powered dance party w/ Phantom Pantone, 10:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 8:00PM

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Riyen Roots & Scott Spinner (blues, roots), 6:00PM Coconut Cake (world music), 9:00PM

thu 1/19

GOOD STUFF The Great American (rock), 8:00PM Modern Strangers (jangle-pop), 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Wiseapple & GrassDance reunion show (progressive jazz, bluegrass), 7:00PM

Saturday: 3-6 Gypsy Guitar Trio

(IN THE LOUNGE)

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Stray Local (folk, pop), 6:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam, 5:00PM

185 KING STREET Bill Mattocks Band & Virginia and the Slims, 8:00PM

Instrumental Jazz

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ODDITORIUM Blinding Isaac w/ Amnesis (metal, rock), 9:00PM

w/ DJ Kilby

7:00PM –INDIGO DE SOUZA 7:00PM –DEBRA COWAN 9:00PM –NICK MOSS BAND ISISASHEVILLE.COM

LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE BILTMORE PARK Chris Jamison (Americana), 8:00PM

ORANGE PEEL The Infamous Stringdusters w/ Billy Strings (bluegrass, folk, jam), 8:00PM

7:00PM – KEN AND BRAD KOLODNER 9:00PM – DANCE PARTY WITH

JIM ARRENDELL

LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE Carver & Carmody (singer-songwriter, Americana), 8:00PM

CROW & QUILL Red Hot Sugar Babies (Dixieland jazz), 10:00PM

550 TAVERN & GRILLE Bingo w/ Boxer Butts and other mutts (benefit), 3:00PM Jason Whitaker (acoustic, rock), 8:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE Mike Dillon Band (punk, jazz), 8:30PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Gypsy Guitar Trio (gypsy folk), 3:00PM The WildCard (funk, dance), 9:30PM CORK & KEG The Old Chevrolette Set (country, Americana), 8:30PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Resonant Rogues (Gypsy jazz, oldtime, swing), 9:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30PM ODDITORIUM HOT VIBES Series 3: "Dancehall vs. Hip Hop", 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL After Funk (funk, rock), 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Abbey Road LIVE! Matinee w/ Vance Elementary Chorus (Beatles tribute), 4:00PM Abbey Road LIVE! (Beatles tribute), 8:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Flashback (classic rock), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR The Crown Jewels Band w/ Paula Hanke (dance music, 1940s-today), 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Paper Crowns (Americana, rock 'n' roll), 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE The Moon and You (folk), 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION The Chuck Lichtenberger Collective, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Yoga w/ Cats with Blue Ridge Humane Society, 10:00AM Further to Fly (Americana, rock), 8:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Big Block Dodge, 8:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Ultra Lounge w/ Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Asheville Symphony Masterworks: 'Eine Kleine Rhine Musik', 8:00PM TWISTED LAUREL Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone, 10:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Yes The Raven (folk, indie, alternative), 8:00PM

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MOVIES

REVIEWS & LISTINGS BY SCOTT DOUGLAS, JONATHAN RICH & JUSTIN SOUTHER

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Home is more than where the heart is for Dev Patel in Garth Davis’ Lion

Lion HHHS DIRECTOR: Garth Davis PLAYERS: Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nicole Kidman, Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sunny Pawar. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA RATED PG-13 THE STORY: A young Indian man raised in Australia uses the internet to track down the family he lost early in his youth. THE LOWDOWN: A proficient — if occasionally underwhelming — story of one man’s triumph over adversity, with an uplifting ending that narrowly avoids cloying sentimentality. Much like its protagonist, Lion is a divided film in essentially every sense of the term. Its structure is bifurcated, its protagonist is played by two leads who split the running time more or less evenly and its nar-

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rative sensibilities seem torn between a travelogue with Dickensian overtones and a character study meditating on the meaning of identity. In fact, the sole unequivocal aspect of Garth Davis’ feature debut is its perfunctorily happy ending. All this having been said, that happy ending is emotionally gratifying and inspirational enough to warrant a qualified recommendation. Yes, it’s an exercise in blatant awards-bating. But, for the most part, Lion works. Based on “A Long Way Home,” a memoir written by Saroo Brierley, Lion recounts the true story of Brierley’s separation from his family when, at the tender age of five, he became separated from his older brother and subsequently stranded on a decommissioned train that left him homeless on the streets of Calcutta. After a series of harrowing encounters exacerbated by his inability to speak Bengali — or remember any significant details

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of his background — Brierley was eventually taken in by an orphanage that facilitated his adoption by an upper middle-class Australian family. Twenty-five years later, an adult Brierley was prompted to begin investigating his past and, with the advent of Google Earth, eventually succeeded in tracking down his hometown. If the premise sounds like the stuff of pretty standard melodrama, that’s because it is. But screenwriter Luke Davies avoids the saccharine potential of the plot by presenting the suffering of homeless and impoverished children in India as a matter of fact, depicting trauma and abuse as it would be perceived through the eyes of a child. If Davies successfully navigates this pitfall of a particularly challenging adaptation, he falls prey to another when it comes to structure. The story feels distinctly compressed and yet still ponderously paced, glossing over relevant details of narrative and characterization in an attempt to

M A X R AT I N G underscore the emotional effect of a story that really doesn’t need any help in that arena. Director Davis (whose background consisted primarily of car commercials prior to his collaboration with indie darling Jane Campion on her miniseries Top of the Lake), performs competently, though his work is in no danger of garnering accolades for visual virtuosity. The first act establishes Brierley’s narrative with exceptionally cinematic efficiency, favoring visual storytelling over dialogueheavy exposition whenever possible. Davis has a knack for landscape, and early “God’s Eye View” shots evoke the plot device that satellite cartography will later provide. His stylistic flourishes go little further, though this is not necessarily a problem in and of itself as his occasionally workmanlike setups allow character and performance to retain their necessary prominence. Davis and Davies benefit greatly from the performances of a uniformly strong cast, with Dev Patel’s turn as the adult Brierley an obvious highlight. Patel has clearly matured greatly since Slumdog Millionaire catapulted him to notoriety, and his blend of vulnerability and obsessive self-absorption suggests an actor with exceptional range and versatility. The real surprise here is newcomer Sunny Pawar, whose performance as the young Brierley deftly skirts the precocious self-consciousness that is the definitive shortcoming of most child actors. Sadly, Rooney Mara is utterly wasted in her one-note role as Brierley’s supportive-to-a-fault girlfriend, and Nicole Kidman occasionally bogs down the narrative momentum with her tear-laden turn as Brierley’s long-suffering adoptive mother. (However, my problems with Kidman’s performance are rooted in questionable scripting.) As a whole, the cast performs admirably enough to overcome many of the screenplay’s weaknesses. Lion offers the uplifting post-holiday moviegoing experience that was promised and never delivered by recent films like Collateral Beauty,

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and anyone in need of a little winter heartwarming could do far worse. While it may never fully achieve greatness, it’s a picture that knows its audience and caters to them without pandering. The performances are likely to generate some Oscar talk — which probably won’t amount to much — but anyone in the market for a feel-good film will find plenty to like in Lion. It may never prove to be the king of the cinematic jungle with Rogue One still dominating multiplexes, but it certainly accomplishes its aims with a minimum of missteps. Rated PG-13 for thematic material and some sensuality. In English, Hindi and Bengali, with subtitles. Now Playing at Carolina Cinemark, Regal Biltmore Grande. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

FILM BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/ library • TU (1/10), 6pm - Free Film Series: Heaven's Gate. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave.

AN OCEAN OF AWARDS: Mahershala Ali and Alex Hibbert star in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, which won best film of 2016 honors from the Southeastern Film Critics Association. Photo courtesy of A24 • The Southeastern Film Critics Association has named Moonlight the best film of 2016. Among the group’s 53 members who voted — all film journalists working in print, radio and online media in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia — are Asheville writers Justin Souther and Tony Kiss for Xpress, this writer for Asheville Citizen-Times, Michelle Keenan and Chip Kaufmann for Rapid River and Marcianne Miller for Bold Life. The year’s awards are dedicated to the memories of Jim Ridley and former Xpress critic Ken Hanke, SEFCA members who passed away in 2016. Spots No. 2-10 on the best film list went to Manchester by the Sea, La La Land, Hell or High Water, Loving, Arrival, Fences and Jackie (in a tie for seventh), Nocturnal Animals and Hidden Figures. Best actor went to Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea (runner-up: Denzel Washington, Fences), best actress to Natalie Portman for Jackie (runner-up: Ruth Negga, Loving), best supporting actor to Mahershala Ali for Moonlight (runner-up: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water) and best supporting actress to Viola Davis for Fences (runner-up: Naomie Harris, Moonlight). Moonlight also took home best ensemble (runner-up: Manchester by the Sea); its writer/director Barry Jenkins won top honors in the adapted screenplay field (runner-up: Eric Heisserer, Arrival) and tied for best

director with La La Land’s Damien Chazelle; and James Laxton’s cinematography came in second to Linus Sandgren’s for La La Land. Best original screenplay went to Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea (runner-up: Taylor Sheridan, Hell or High Water); I Am Not Your Negro was named best documentary (runner-up: O.J.: Made in America); The Handmaiden claimed best foreign language film (runnerup: Elle); and Zootopia earned best animated film (runner-up: Kubo and the Two Strings). SEFCA’s Wyatt Award — named in memory of charter member Gene Wyatt and given annually to the film that best captures the spirit of the South — went to Loving, writer/ director Jeff Nichols’ dramatization of the Supreme Court’s Loving v. Virginia decision. Nichols previously won the Wyatt Award for his films Shotgun Stories and Mud. • The 23rd annual season of The Twin Rivers Media Festival will celebrate the latest and greatest in independent feature, documentary, short and animated films Friday, Jan. 27, and Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Flood Fine Arts Center in Swannanoa. All events are free and open to the public. Entries are still being accepted for the festival through withoutabox. com and twinriversmediafestival. com. The final deadline is Tuesday, Jan. 10. Call 273-3332 for more information. X

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S TA RT IN G F R ID AY Due to the holiday, additional bookings will be confirmed after time of press.

Things to Come

This French arthouse drama from writer/director Mia HansenLøve stars Isabelle Huppert as a Parisian high school philosophy teacher who must reinvent herself after losing her job, husband and mother in rapid succession. Early reviews are decidedly positive. (PG-13)

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Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages HHHHS DIRECTOR: Benjamin Christensen PLAYERS: Maren Pedersen Clara Pontoppidan Tora Teje Benjamin Christensen Oscar Stribolt HORROR Rated NR. Danish director Benjamin Christensen’s silent masterpiece Häxan (1922) is a strange beast — Satanic pun largely intended. A bizarre blend of documentary, narrative fiction and animation, the film showcases Christensen in more ways than one; in addition to demonstrating his remarkable acumen as an early visual stylist, the film also features the director himself in the role of Satan. While a significantly trimmed version was released in 1968 with a tacked-on narration by none other than William Burroughs, this addition adds little to the proceedings and the film’s cult status was earned predominantly on the basis of the fundamental creepiness of the original version. Häxan is a classic not only for its intriguing conflation of genres and effects work that was remarkably advanced for its time, but for its efforts to apply a humanistic rationale to its subject. Few films on the topic of witchcraft can be said to have achieved the same level of emotional affectiveness while so closely adhering to historical fact, and even fewer have done so while maintaining such an unsettling atmosphere of dread and revulsion. Join the THPS for this rare opportunity to see — on the big screen, as intended — the film that inspired everything from early Surrealist cinema to last year’s exemplary The Witch. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Häxan Thursday, Jan. 5, at 9:15 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

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DIRECTOR: Yasujiro Ozu PLAYERS: Tatsuo Saito Mitsuko Yoshikawa Hideo Sugawara Tokkan Kozo Tomio Aoki Takeshi Sakamoto Teruyo Hayami Seiichi Kato Chishu Ryu SILENT COMEDY RATED NR. One of Yasujiro Ozu’s earliest successes, and still one of his most popular films, I Was Born, But... (1932) is a true gem of early Japanese cinema from one of its greatest masters. Very little was added to Ozu’s 1959 loose re-working of the premise, Good Morning, that isn’t accomplished as effectively here — and for my money, Born is a better film in many regards. Ozu was arguably at his best in the realm of heartwarming family dram-coms with a touch of the tragic, and Born is a perfect case in point. Ozu’s mastery of the silent form leaves little doubt as to why the filmmaker would resist the transition to sound until 1935 and holds its own against comedic masterworks of the silent era, marrying the frenetic pacing of Keaton with the social commentary of Chaplin while still maintaining its sense of humor. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present I Was Born, But... on Friday, Jan. 6, at 8 p.m. at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 2160 Hwy 70, Swannanoa.

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DIRECTOR: Fritz Lang PLAYERS: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Jess Barker FILM NOIR RATED NR. A remake of Jean Renoir’s La Chienne (1931) — itself based on a play of the same name by Georges de la Fouchardiere, which was based on the book by André Mouezy-Eon — is easily the darkest and most psychologically bleak of Fritz Lang’s American output, which places it high on the list of the darkest and most psychologically bleak films ever made almost by default. After the success of The Woman in the Window, Lang reunited Edward G. Robinson, Dan Duryea and Joan Bennett for another round of moral ambiguity and nihilistic social commentary. Even though Lang managed to narrowly skirt the production code censorship board with his careful depiction of Duryea and Bennett’s prostitute-pimp relationship in the film, it was still widely banned for its salacious setup. While that reaction may seem quaint by modern standards, it was definitely not without some justification in the context of its time. Come see what all the fuss was about, and judge this classic Noir high-water mark for yourself. The Asheville Film Society will screen Scarlet Street on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

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DIRECTOR: Franco Zeffirelli PLAYERS: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Alan Webb COMEDY RATED NR. Franco Zeffirelli’s The Taming of the Shrew (1967) wasn’t the first time this Shakespeare play was served up with a famous married couple in the lead roles. No, that honor goes to Sam Taylor’s 1929 version starring Hollywood royalty of that era, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. (And whether or not the main title really originally read, “by William Shakespeare, additional dialogue by Sam Taylor,” is hard to say, since Ms. Pickford re-cut, re-titled and re-scored the print in the 1960s.) Truth is the play is the perfect vehicle for notoriously battling couples who are larger than life, because it’s almost impossible to overplay Petruchio and Kate—though both actor couples tried (in different ways). The Zeffirelli film is easily the better of the two films—not only is more of the play preserved, but the director was determined to return the material to its rather earthy roots. This is no subtle entertainment. Rather it’s a broad and boisterous comedy where lines are shouted as often as not, and slapstick is never far away. (In some respects, the film visually resembles Richard Lester’s slapstick in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum from the previous year.) The results are good, but it’s not great Shakespeare. Zeffirelli can’t bring himself quite to the realm of radical Shakespeare. However, the film is a great vehicle for the two most famous stars of its era. Does it really need to be more than that? This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on Oct. 10, 2007. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Taming of the Shrew on Sunday, Jan. 8, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville. MOUNTAINX.COM

FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Light, electricity, and magnetism are different expressions of a single phenomenon. Scottish scientist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the first to formulate a theory to explain that startling fact. One of the cornerstones of his work was a set of 20 equations with 20 unknowns. But a younger scientist named Oliver Heaviside decided this was much too complicated. He recast Maxwell’s cumbersome theory in the form of four equations with four unknowns. That became the new standard. In 2017, I believe you Aries will have a knack akin to Heaviside’s. You’ll see the concise essentials obscured by needless complexity. You’ll extract the shining truths trapped inside messy confusions. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road,” wrote Franz Kafka. “It must catch fire if you want to go further.” Let’s analyze this thought, Taurus. If it’s to be of maximum use for you in 2017, we will have to develop it further. So here are my questions. Did Kafka mean that you’re supposed to wait around passively, hoping the thornbush will somehow catch fire, either through a lucky lightning strike or an act of random vandalism? Or should you, instead, take matters into your own hands — douse the thornbush with gasoline and throw a match into it? Here’s another pertinent query: Is the thornbush really so broad and hardy that it blocks the whole road? If not, maybe you could just go around it. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The fictional character Scott Pilgrim is the hero of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series of graphic novels. He becomes infatuated with a “ninja delivery girl” named Ramona Flowers, but there’s a complication. Before he can win her heart, he must defeat all seven of her evil ex-lovers. I’m sure your romantic history has compelled you to deal with equally challenging dilemmas, Gemini. But I suspect you’ll get a reprieve from that kind of dark melodrama in 2017. The coming months should be a bright and expansive chapter in your Book of Love. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The creature known as the short-eared elephant shrew is typically four inches long and weighs a little more than one ounce. And yet it’s more genetically similar to elephants than to true shrews. In its home habitat of southern Africa, it’s known as the sengi. I propose we regard it as one of your spirit animals in 2017. Its playful place in your life will symbolize the fact that you, too, will have secret connections to big, strong influences; you, too, will have natural links with powerhouses that outwardly don’t resemble you. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “When I look back, I see my former selves, numerous as the trees,” writes Leo poet Chase Twichell. I’m sure that’s an experience you’ve had yourself. Do you find it comforting? Does it feel like being surrounded by old friends who cushion you with nurturing familiarity? Or is it oppressive and claustrophobic? Does it muffle your spontaneity and keep you tethered to the past? I think these are important questions for you to meditate on in 2017. It’s time to be very conscious and creative about shaping your relationships with all the people you used to be. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “’Life experience’ does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone ... without any help from life.” So said Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti, who was born in Bulgaria, had British citizenship and wrote in German. Although his idea contradicts conventional wisdom, I am presenting it for your consideration in 2017. You’re ready for a massive upgrade in your understanding about the nature of reality — and firsthand “life experience” alone won’t be enough to ensure that.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I am rooting for you to be flagrantly unique in 2017. I vehemently want you to be uninhibited about expressing your deepest, rawest, hottest inclinations. In this spirit, I offer the following four rallying cries: 1. “Don’t be addicted to looking cool, baby!” — my friend Luther. 2. Creative power arises when you conquer your tendency to stay detached. — paraphrased from poet Marianne Moore. 3. If you want to be original, have the courage to be an amateur. — paraphrased from poet Wallace Stevens. 4. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” — Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “There is a desperation for unknown things,” wrote poet Charles Wright, “a thirst for endlessness that snakes through our bones.” Every one of us has that desperation and thirst from time to time, but no one feels the pull toward perplexing enchantments and eternal riddles more often and more intensely than you Scorpios. And according to my astrological meditations on your life in 2017, you will experience this pull even more often and with greater intensity than ever before. Is that a problem? I don’t see why it should be. In fact, it could make you sexier and smarter than ever — especially if you regard it as a golden opportunity to become sexier and smarter than ever. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I hope you will seek out a wide range of intoxicating experiences in 2017. The omens predict it. Fate sanctifies it. I hope you will gracefully barrel your way through the daily whirl with a constant expectation of sly epiphanies, amusing ecstasies, and practical miracles. There has rarely been a time in your life when you’ve had so much potential to heal old wounds through immersions in uncanny bliss. But please note: The best of these highs will NOT be induced by drugs or alcohol, but rather by natural means like sex, art, dancing, meditation, dreamwork, singing, yoga, lucid perceptions, and vivid conversations.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I thought of you when I read a tweet by a person who calls himself Vexing Voidsquid. “I feel imbued with a mysterious positive energy,” he wrote, “as if thousands of supplicants are worshipping golden statues of me somewhere.” Given the astrological omens, I think it’s quite possible you will have similar feelings on regular occasions in 2017. I’m not necessarily saying there will literally be golden statues of you in town squares and religious shrines, nor am I guaranteeing that thousands of supplicants will telepathically bathe you in adoration. But who cares how you’re imbued with mysterious positive energy as long as you are? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the birds known as arctic terns hang out in Greenland and Iceland. Before the chill sets in, they embark on an epic migration to Antarctica, arriving in time for another summer. But when the weather begins to turn too cold there, they head to the far north again. This is their yearly routine. In the course of a lifetime, a single bird may travel as far as 1.25 million miles — the equivalent of three roundtrips to the moon. I propose that you make this creature your spirit animal in 2017, Aquarius. May the arctic tern inspire you to journey as far as necessary to fulfill your personal equivalent of a quest for endless summer. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In June 1962, three prisoners sneaked out of the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, located on an island in San Francisco Bay. Did they succeed in escaping? Did they swim to safety through the frigid water and start new lives abroad? No one knows. Law enforcement officials never found them. Even today, though, the U.S. Marshals Service keeps the case open, and still investigates new evidence when it comes in. Are there comparable enigmas in your own life, Pisces? Events in your past that raised questions you’ve never been able to solve? In 2017, I bet you will finally get to the bottom of them.

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ASHEVILLE CPA FIRM SEEKS FULL TIME BOOKKEEPER Local Asheville CPA firm seeks full time bookkeeper. Bookkeeping knowledge required. Assignments include regular bookkeeping for multiple business clients, payroll processing and some tax service. Submit resume to avlbookkeepingposition@ gmail.com. ASHEVILLE PROGRAM MANAGER The Asheville Program Manager will assist in the creation, sales, marketing, recruitment, coordination, and implementation of the Asheville Homestay Camp Program. Full job description on www.xploreusa.org/ work-for-xplore. 816-589-6462 emily.terry@xploreusa.org

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HUMAN SERVICES PARAPROFESSIONAL STAFF NEEDED Paraprofessional staff needed to provide services to individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities all over the county in their home, in the community, and at their job. Call for info 8283501111 michelle.kozma@ eastersealsucp.com eastersealsucp.com/NCVA/ RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER PROGRAM COORDINATOR Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness is a peer-run community center. Seeking Certified Peer Support Specialist to be program coordinator. $16 to $20/hour DOE. 32 hours/week. Call 828-552-3858 for info.

TEACHING/ EDUCATION CANOPY GUIDE-NAVITAT CANOPY ADVENTURES Now hiring for spring/summer 2017. If you are looking for a thrilling, educational and inspiring seasonal opportunity check us out at navitat.com. EQUINOX TEACHING POSITIONS Part-time and Full-time teachers needed, licensed in one or more of the following areas: • Special Education • Secondary English • Math • Science or • Social Studies. Licensure required. These positions are for a yearround school with small class sizes, high school curriculum. Experience with alternative settings and/or learning disabilities a plus. Our beautiful 150-acre campus provides a safe setting for our students to transform their lives. Timbersong is the onsite academy that serves boys attending Equinox, a private therapeutic environment for boys ages 14-18. Check out our websites for more information: www.equinoxrtc.com www.timbersongacademy. com Benefits are offered to full-time employees and include health, dental, vision and life insurance as well as holiday pay, vacation and sick leave. Please send a resume and cover letter to the link below. Equinox is an Equal Opportunity Employers. No phone calls or walkins please. humanresources@ ashevilleacademy.com HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY TEACHER Asheville recovery program for teen boys has an immediate opening for a high school biology teacher (PT, temp). Call Jackie Williams at 828-229-7757 for information or send resume/cover to jwilliams@montfordhall.org.

PROFESSIONAL/ MANAGEMENT SALES PROFESSIONAL Mountain Xpress has an entrylevel sales position open. Necessary attributes are: gregarious personality, problem solving skills, confident presentation, and the ability to digest and explain complex information. The ideal candidate is organized, well spoken, has good computer skills, can work well within an organization and within in a team environment, can self-monitor and set (and meet) personal goals. Graphic design skills are a plus. The job largely entails account development (including cold calling); and also detailed record keeping, management of client advertising campaigns, and some collections. If you are a high energy, positive, cooperative person who wants a stable team

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FUNDRAISING EVENT PROFESSIONAL The Community Housing Coalition of Madison County (CHC) seeks a Fundraising Event Professional to coordinate a spring 2017 signature event. CHC is taking applications for an experienced contractor to work closely with a dedicated BOD committee and staff. For over 15 years CHC’s mission has been to create healthy and safe living conditions for Madison County neighbors. • Application deadline is 1/20/17 with a hire date of 2/6/17. A detailed RFP can be found on the Web: chcmadisoncountync.org

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TEACHER WANTED Trails Carolina Wilderness, a yearround experiential and adventure based therapeutic wilderness program for boys and girls ages 10-17 based in Transylvania County North Carolina, is seeking a Licensed Teacher to join its staff. Interested applicants should email copies of their resume, teaching license, 3

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GRAPHIC DESIGNER NEEDED Highly skilled designer needed for page layout and creating compelling advertising, The ideal candidate has excellent graphic design and layout skills for print publication, has experience working with style guides and adhering to brand structures, understands project management, can thrive in a fast-paced environment, is exceptionally organized and deadline-driven, and has excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, an exceptional creative eye and a desire to ensure high quality output. You must have the proven ability to create original, effective advertising and marketing materials, and to assist in the layout of our weekly print publication and guides. Candidates must: • Be able to simultaneously handle multiple projects • Be proficient in Adobe CSC programs (inducing, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat) • Be able to prepress and troubleshoot a variety of file types and to work interdepartmentally to organize, schedule and maintain workflows. • Be fluent in the Mac OSX platform • Be able to interface with other departments in the company. • Have a minimum of 2-3 years graphic design experience Newspaper, and web-ad design experience a plus. This is a part time time position with opportunity to become full-time. Other skills such as admin or writing ability are a plus. Email cover letter explaining why you believe you are a good fit, your resume, and either a URL or PDF of your design portfolio to: design@mountainx.com No applications or portfolios by mail, and no phone calls or walk-ins, please.

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KHIKI STILLS-DAVIS - PROFESSIONAL LIFE COACH Khiki Stills-Davis studied coaching at CTA and has been coaching for over 10 years. Coaching is available in Asheville and Atlanta by appointment, either in person or by phone. Specialties: relationships, emotional intelligence, personality type coaching, transitions, disabilty/injury, LGBT issues, creativity, non-traditional relationships (structured, poly, etc.). Sliding scale - contact for more info. coach.khiki@gmail.com

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