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Actionable outrage needed to end homelessness Did you know we have designated a day to memorialize homeless deaths? Can you imagine? In the wealthiest country in the world. This day of memoriam is also called the Solstice, Dec. 21, the longest night of the year. Did you know that each year there is a memorial service in our city to commemorate all who died because they did not have housing? This year at the Homeless Person’s Memorial Service, as the names of the deceased were read off and tears were falling, all who have worked so hard to end homelessness were yet again faced with the same reality. There is no room at the inn. We have room for hotels and tourist needs, but we allow our homeless to die! The National Coalition for the Homeless states [that] it’s time we employ actionable outrage. Exactly! ... We so need actionable outrage. That means we no longer tolerate that homelessness even exists. That means that we are in a state of action that propels the lives of those living on the fringes to have options. That means that those of us who are warm need

to remember how blessed we are. That means that we stand in the street or write our City Council or speak to our faith groups, and we say, “Help us to no longer keep this shame going.” We need [a] mandatory housing inclusion act in each building that is permitted to build in Asheville. We need the hotel occupancy tax to take one penny and put it in the coffers of the affordable Housing Trust [Fund] so we can raise millions from just one penny from every tourist! We need our land trusts to open up their spaces to build multipurpose living spaces so that everyone is warm tonight! This is solvable, but only if we no longer turn our eyes and hearts away. ... All the hotels that have empty spaces could designate several rooms to house those that are not warm tonight. ... A line from a song that was sung at the memorial service poignantly states the obvious. “Let us hope by some good pleasure to safely arrive at home” is a song that no longer needs to be sung. For we all have the right to live in warmth and safety. Housing is a human right. ... Join the Beloved House Community Housing Campaign on Facebook and walk with us as we find the key to the inn. — Ariel Harris Asheville editor’s note: A longer version of this letter appears at mountainx.com.

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Coleman has devoted life to justice There are three good candidates for the District 1 seat for Buncombe County commissioner, but there is only one best choice. Your vote should go to Isaac Coleman. Isaac’s life has been devoted to justice. As a student in the ’60s civil rights movement, he worked as a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi. After moving to Asheville in the ’70s, the list of his commitments to and achievements for our community are too numerous to list here. A visit to his website (http://isaaccoleman.org/) is an amazing catalog of his community work. Justice is the theme that forms the backbone and soul of his life. I personally know Isaac from his environmental work for Clean Water for North Carolina, the pre-eminent environmental justice organization in North Carolina. His leadership on Clean Water’s board has been his central environmental focus for the past decade. But Isaac is not a one-trick pony. Justice for children and their education (he is the founder and board chair of Read to Succeed), justice for fair and affordable housing (chair of the Asheville-Buncombe Fair Housing Commission), justice for a living wage (co-founder of Just Economics), justice for voting rights (a lifetime of work) — all inform his daily life. Isaac received the Asheville Living Treasures Award in 2014. He is a true elder. We need his wisdom on the county Board of Commissioners, and he needs your vote in the primary on Tuesday, March 15. — Richard Fireman Mars Hill

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groups within them. In the religious community, you have those who prioritize rules over compassion; who would deny the rights of others, or even kill them, in the name of their God or dogma; who are small-minded enough to believe that their view of reality is right, and everyone else got it wrong; who are happy to degrade our planet while expecting their reward in the afterlife; and who blindly follow tenets that are disconnected from their true religion, having been devised solely to consolidate organizational power and control. You also have those who use their religion as a structure to support a true experience of beauty, peace and divinity; who practice the humility taught by the religion’s founder; whose hearts are open to the suffering of fellow human beings; and who are selfless and kind enough to take action to alleviate that suffering. In the spiritual community, you have those whose aim is to bypass their own shadow and avoid the hard work of honest introspection; who would rather be fixed by an angel, crystal or sneakpeaks into the future; who uncritically believe the most far-fetched notions; who speak about these notions as if everyone should share them; and who consume spiritual practices with a “the customer is always right” attitude. You also have those who are courageous enough to seek their own truth rather than accepting what was fed to them; who fearlessly face whatever they turn up in their inner explorations; who endure the terror of ego dissolution to discover their connection to unitive consciousness; who maintain a spiritual practice for decades despite boredom and other discomforts; and who contribute to us all, not from the compulsion of gooddeed doing, but rather from a joyful awareness that serving others and serving the self are identical. — Ted Riskin Fairview

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since he wasn’t even there when the shot was fired. Now, however, they were both in jail, and as I stared into Heather’s swollen eyes in her mug shot, I felt a sense of justice, of righteous indignation, for that sweet little round-cheeked baby girl. In what world do a loaded gun and a toddler ever belong together? What idiocy! I thought, contemplating what seemed like a negligence so extreme that a bouncy, sassy little girl didn’t live to enjoy her third Christmas, crawling under the tree in search of Santa’s bounty. But none of those details seemed to matter very much to the little girl’s parents, Angel and Jeromy Newman, on the day of her memorial service at the Shuler Funeral Home in Hendersonville.

bY AbigAil HickmAn At my stage of life, I’ve been to many funerals, stopping by to “pay my respects.” I’m not entirely clear on what that phrase actually means, but I’ve come to accept it as a debt I owe to death, simply because I’m lucky enough to still be breathing. So I cross my fingers (and my heart) that my condolence card and dropin visit to the funeral parlor give the Grim Reaper sufficient respect to keep my account in the black and dissuade him from according me any unwanted special attention. Recently, however, I attended a funeral that wasn’t for an older person or someone who’d suffered a long illness. Either of those circumstances would have assuaged my conscience and quieted the guilt I often feel when I’m walking away from one of these proceedings. I usually stop by McDonald’s for a milkshake afterward and tip my paper cup in honor of the deceased — reminding myself, with each pull on my straw, not to live a drive-thruline kind of life. This particular funeral, though, was for the daughter of a former student of mine — a peppy, mischievous 2-year-old named Abagail Newman, who’d been shot in the neck with a 20-gauge shotgun. I never knew the child, but shotguns, of course, don’t fire themselves, and this is where things get confusing. According to the transcript of the 911 call made by Abagail’s longtime baby sitter, Heather Stepp, “One of the guns lying on the table was loaded. ... A little girl is shot.” The operator never asked for clarification of this statement, which seems to raise a host of questions. How did the gun go off? Was someone aiming it at the time? Why was the gun on the table with a 2-year-old in the house? Wait, ONE of the guns? negligent Actions Some of those questions appeared to be answered when an arrest warrant was issued hours after the child had been declared dead en route to Mission Hospital. The warrant was for Heather’s husband, James

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AbigAil HickmAn Stepp; depending on the angle of the mug shot, the 31-year-old could be seen as either callous or a desperate, devastated man. Henderson County District Attorney Greg Newman (no relation to the deceased) seemed to lean toward the latter interpretation when he said, “These folks didn’t intend for this to happen,” presumably referring to both James and his wife. Two warrants were written that afternoon, but only the one for James was served, because Heather was hospitalized shortly after the incident. “There are people we haven’t been able to speak to yet,” Maj. Frank Stout of the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office explained, adding, “People are not in the condition to even speak because of their grief.” Five days after her husband’s arrest, 28-year-old Heather felt well enough to step on the taped line and face forward for her own mug shot. Like her husband, she was charged with one felony count of involuntary manslaughter. “A person’s negligent actions or omissions resulted in the death of another human being,” the DA explained. This statement also tidied up some questions surrounding James’ arrest,

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The line started just inside the door, where workers had placed movable fences like the ones they use at Disney World or at the bank on Fridays, to keep things orderly. Some 200 or so wellwishers were maneuvered through an unused viewing room where smartly dressed employees carried trays of cookies and water. There was nothing to do in that wallpapered room except look at the photo montages the family had put up at every few turns of the line, or else watch the refreshment trays move through the crowd. Only one man was brave enough to take a cookie, and his crunching drew reproachful glares. He must have felt the silent sting, but trapped in that long line, all he could do was let his arm drop limply to his side, the cookie with the giant missing bite proclaiming his guilt with each shuffled step. We were slowly, slowly herded out of the viewing room, down a wide hallway and then into the long, narrow chapel where we caught our first horrified glimpse of the family, stiff and awkward as they publicly aired their private pain. They stood at the other end receiving their guests, much as they may have done at their wedding. The grandmothers and cousins lined up on either side, and if not for the light gray casket behind them, one could have imagined it a happy

celebration. But that casket was impossible to overlook. The crowd moved forward about 2 inches every five minutes. I know because I kept on checking my phone, as if the people in line had inconvenienced me by showing up and slowing things down. But we were all uncomfortable, shifting our weight, averting our eyes from that open casket, maybe wishing we were at the pub down the street instead, with a dry martini and an extra olive. before And After Meanwhile, in the mother’s world, time had clearly stopped. Every now and then (about every fourth person), Angel would turn toward the casket and throw her torso into it, covering the child whose color eerily resembled the box she was lying in. The mother would fuss with her daughter’s hair, which was pulled back into a shiny barrette, and weep and weep and weep. Those of us in line who felt scratchy at these loud, uncomfortable outbursts of emotion would shift our focus to our phones or to a little tear of foil from a gum wrapper someone had dropped on the red carpet. We looked up at the big movie screen that hung above the child, watching photos of her life, a fixed timeline that now could loop back but never forward. As we advanced toward the child and her inconsolable mother, I grew more and more enraged at the criminal negligence that had resulted in this outrageous ceremony of loss and vacancy. Meanwhile, continuing our own somewhat slower march toward death, we inched up in clumped groups — mostly strangers yet united in that “human family” kind of pride that wells up when one of our innocents is taken. Whispers up and down the line shed further light on the tragedy. Heather and James were old family friends who’d watched “bubbly Abagail” (as some of the photo montages called her) since she was an infant. This softened my judgment a bit and helped explain Heather’s five-day hospital stay following the homicide. I also heard that the Stepps had three children of their own in the house that day, ranging in age from 7 years to 4 months. Could one of them have unwittingly pulled the trigger, thinking it was all just make-believe? But regardless of whose actions caused those lethal pellets to race from the gun’s cold barrel into the toddler’s warm neck,

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there was now and would forevermore be a before and an after. tHe blAme gAme I scanned the Newman family, standing shoulder to shoulder in a protective line in front of the child who was now beyond the reach of the grief that gripped them. Angel and Heather were girlfriends raising their kids together. Maybe Heather was just an exhausted mother of three who baby-sat her friend’s child to help keep her own pantry filled. Maybe James would end up going to prison for a crime he didn’t even witness. How little we know, beyond the boundaries of our own nerve-ends. So the closer I moved to the child, the more my black-and-white definition of a criminal turned the color of her casket, and the less anything felt either righteous or just. Finally it was my turn to console the mother. I didn’t want to look at Abagail, so I turned my back to the casket and faced Angel and her family, mumbling something meaningless about the pain passing one day and was there anything I could do. Angel nodded absently, her eyes as swollen as Heather’s had been in her mug shot. As I left the chapel and headed toward the pub, I thought about what makes a criminal. A cursory inventory of my own past behavior brought up some mistakes that could easily have ended with someone in a casket and my two feet standing on a taped line looking swollen-eyed into a camera. There was that drunken night in high school when I drove the wrong way up a one-way street. It seemed so funny at the time, my girlfriends and I spilling out of the car, laughing as if we’d just heard the funniest joke. And once, in a confused sleep, I offered my child an open bottle of Ambien when she complained of a stomachache. A few other shadowy indictments also came to mind. If, for example, I were to cause a fatal accident when hitting “send” while driving, I imagine it would feel much like pressing the trigger on a gun… By the time my martini arrived, I was feeling every bit as broken as I imagine the Stepps might feel today. I glanced at the waitress, her hair held back by a shiny barrette. I tried to smile at her, but she walked away oblivious, not realizing that she’d forgotten my olive. Abigail Hickman’s book This, That and the Third will be released this spring. X

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A friendlY fAce: Mamadou Gaye, owner of the Timbuktu Crafts cart, sees himself as more than just another vendor. “I’m kind of like an ambassador for Asheville. I greet visitors, help tourists find their way and give directions when they’re lost. I help introduce them to the culture of the city.” Photo by Max Hunt

By max hunt mhunt@mountainx.com samuel whittington sells gemstones and hand-crafted jewelry on Wall Street, outside The Market Place restaurant. “This is my retail aspect,” he says; he also sells wholesale out of his studio and runs an Etsy site during the offseason. After years of honing his craft, Whittington decided to bring his wares to the street in 2012. Most local vendors sit out the winter months, but some are taking advantage of the warm weather to keep going longer. “You can usually gauge business by driving around

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town and seeing how many people are walking around,” says Whittington. Vendors, he maintains, help bolster the city’s charm. “I think the artists and local craftspeople are what give Asheville its flavor. That magnetism ripples out into the community in a beneficial economic way for the bars, theaters and restaurants — all the things Asheville thrives off of.” In downtown Asheville, 30 permitted pushcarts offer a wide range of food, beverages and merchandise, helping foster a friendly, festive atmosphere within the central business district. x mArks tHe spot Asheville first allowed pushcarts on its streets in 2003, allocating a limited

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number of places in 20 specified areas. Places like Pritchard Park, Pack Square and Wall Street, which often draw heavy pedestrian traffic during tourist season, include multiple pushcart sites. Battery Park Avenue, Haywood Street and Page Avenue also feature pushcarts. “Each cart has a designated spot, which people can apply for and are assigned to for a year,” says ricky hurley, development review specialist with the city’s Permits & Applications Division. Current permit holders are given preference when it’s time to renew; open sites are then available on a firstcome, first-served basis, says Hurley. Permits run from April 1 to March 31, he explains. “It’s more of a convenience factor: That way, they have the whole

Pushcarts foster downtown Asheville’s distinctive vibe summer season and fair-weather time of year to conduct their business.” First-time applicants, says Hurley, can expect to pay about $364: “$150 for the initial application fee, $200 for the nonencroachment agreement, and then all permits are subject to a 4 percent technology fee, which comes out to about $14.” Vendors must also buy liability insurance in amounts ranging from $25,000 (for merchandise carts) to $1 million (for those serving food). Renewals cost $104 per year; permit holders have until the end of the business day on March 31 to renew. But those wishing to move to a new location have to wait until April 1 to see what’s available. All carts need to pass a city inspection to make sure they meet the permit requirements. They must be between 28 and 54 inches tall and from 6 to 24 square feet. Umbrellas or other overhead coverings must be 5 feet above the surface, and the wheels must be at least 6 inches in diameter to prevent tipping. Many vendors, especially those selling merchandise, build their own carts. “It’s hard to find a pre-made cart out there,” Hurley reports. “It’s a very specialized product and can be expensive.” Motorized carts are prohibited unless the vendor has an Americans with Disabilities Act exemption. A downtown fixture For nearly nine years, stan nikolski has peddled hot dogs, brats, Tofurky and nachos to hungry passers-by at the corner of College and Haywood streets. “I think I know almost everyone who works downtown,” he jokes as he bustles around, preparing a dog for a customer. “I’ll have people call me around lunch, asking if I’m going to be out here today. I’ve watched my customers’ kids grow up before my eyes.” Nikolski got his start in the business almost by chance: After moving from New York with his wife, he spotted an ad for a hot dog cart in Mountain Xpress. Having sold hot dogs as a teenager, he jumped at the opportunity. And though friends had reservations about both the business

A lA cArte: Samuel Whittington crafts more jewelry while selling his wares on Wall Street. Often unheralded, pushcarts play an important role in diversifying Asheville’s economy and adding to the city’s ambiance. Photo by Hayley Benton and his location, Nikolski says the cart has been a great investment. “People get nervous because of the homeless people who hang out in the park, but I don’t mind them at all,” he says. “Honestly, they’re some of my best customers.” Nikolski attributes his longevity to a couple of key factors. “I’m one of the only food vendors in town with reasonable prices,” he proclaims proudly. Rather than catering to tourists, he’s developed a loyal, steady clientele. Pushcarts, Nikolski maintains, offer several advantages over brick-andmortar establishments. “I have a 100 rating from the Health Department,” he says, pointing to the certificate from his last inspection. Part of the reason, he explains, is that a cart requires less maintenance — and thus has less chance of being in violation. “I don’t have to worry about pests. I’m not going to get marked down because my thermometer is too far away from my stovetop.” Ultimately, though, it boils down to being visible and building lasting relationships. “You’ve got to be out here consistently,” he says. “Customers have to know you and know where you’re going to be on any given day.”

jessica silver, environmental health director for the Buncombe County Health & Human Services Department. Four food carts are currently subjet to twice-yearly inspections, says Silver. Those serving prepackaged, previously inspected food items are exempt. Under North Carolina law, operators have to store their cart in “an area that protects it from dirt, debris, vermin and other contamination,” and food must be offered in clean, single-service containers. Utensils, too, must be protected from contamination, and paper napkins must be provided. Since 2012, the county Health Department has given each pushcart a sanitation score and a letter stating that the business meets health requirements, which is then presented to the city’s permitting office. “We require them to provide the state Department of Ag or the county Health Department with a letter saying, ‘Here’s my rate’ [for insurance] or ‘I’m exempt completely,’” Hurley explains. “If they’re selling a prepackaged Little Debbie cookie or a bottle of water, you may not need Health Department approval at all, because it’s all manufactured somewhere else,” he notes.

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Harrill himself has been making jams for 15 years using blueberries grown on his land. The pushcart business, he explains, is a way to attract a wider clientele while adding value to his crops. “I can get $1 for a carton of fresh blueberries, versus $3 for a jar of jam, and it lasts longer.” Harrill originally set up shop near the Grove Arcade but moved to his current spot in front of the Early Girl Eatery several years ago. “Early Girl sells and serves my jams in their restaurant,” he notes. “So it’s a natural mix to be out here.” Working from a pushcart, says Harrill, offers greater freedom in terms of scheduling. During the warmer months, he typically puts in one day each weekend whenever his farm obligations let him get away. “I’m a farmer full time,” he says. “It’s nice to be out here making money, but if business is slow, I can go back to the farm and do some work there without worrying about rent or utility bills.” The cart also enables him to interact directly with customers. “It’s a good way to try out new products and make acquaintances,” Harrill explains. “Folks are usually waiting out here to eat in the mornings: They’re hungry, and I’m entertaining and have foodstuffs.” The location, he notes, plays a pivotal role in his cart’s success. “My business is tied in with Early Girl. If you moved me 300 feet down the street, I’ve lost 50 percent of my business.” And while others might see a pushcart as a steppingstone to a fixed facility, for Harrill, “This is my permanent solution.” tAking it to tHe streets Although certain locations are much in demand, Hurley says 2015 is the first time he’s seen every available space claimed. “It seems to run in an ebb-and-flow cycle,” he reports. “There will be several years where everybody will hold onto their spaces, and then there’ll be this great shuffle,” often because vendors leave the area or move to a permanent site. And while most pushcarts are selfcontained businesses, others serve as a second location for an existing downtown store. timothy sadler works for Spiritex, selling clothes from a Pack Square pushcart. “T-shirts are a great item for a cart,” he says. “All of our shirts are manufactured here in the Carolinas, with a focus on using organic cot-

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products to tHe people: Timothy Sadler hopes to see the downtown pushcart presence expand. “I have a handful of friends who’d like to explore street vending businesses, but we need more usable space,” he says. “It’s a great way for the city to grow its tax base and economy without having to build more.” Photo by Max Hunt ton.” The cart helps ensure maximum contact with consumers in two of downtown’s more high-traffic areas. Sadler sees pushcarts as a great way to support small, independent businesses in a city where real estate costs can be prohibitive for startups; he hopes the city will consider expanding the program. “I have a handful of friends who’d like to explore street vending, but we need more usable space,” says Sadler. One possibility is closing certain downtown streets to motor vehicles on specified days and letting street vendors gather along those corridors. “It’s a great way for the city to grow its tax base and economy without having to build more,” he asserts. That’s not out of the question, says Hurley, but it would require extensive planning involving the Public Works and Transportation departments as well as downtown merchants. “It would be a very involved discussion process, from the city’s end.” Sadler concedes that closing a street is “not a simple thing,” but he believes strategic, cooperative planning could get the job done. Many Wall Street businesses, he reports, support the idea. “Other cities have figured out how to do this. It’d be wonderful if we could collectively figure out something like that.” goodwill AmbAssAdors mamadou gaye, who operates the Timbuktu Crafts cart on Haywood Street, has sold handmade jewelry, crafts and apparel for two years now. “It’s something I like to do,” he explains. “My family in Senegal sends me the products, which they make themselves.” From Friday to Sunday, you can find Gaye and his cart in his spot year-round, weather permitting. And though he says

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Development Coalition, in a press release. “The annual Homecoming Career Fair remains a critical recruiting event that matches our skilled workforce with high quality, good paying career opportunities [at] many of the region’s top companies.” Additional career opportunities, specifically for startups and in the IT/tech and programming fields, can be found among the roughly 50 high-skill open positions on Venture Asheville’s job board at ventureasheville.com/jobs. — Hayley Benton buncombe countY rAnked no. 35 on list of n.c. bAnkruptcY rAtes

nortH cArolinA bAnkruptcies: According to Lexington Law, Buncombe County ranks No. 35 out of 100 North Carolina counties in personal bankruptcy rate, with No. 1 having the most bankruptcies and No. 100 having the least. With 14.16 bankruptcies per 10,000 residents over a one-year period, Buncombe ranks on the less attractive side of the scale. Four other Western North Carolina counties, Jackson, Swain, Clay and Mitchell, were ranked among the 10 Best on the list. Image provided by Lexington Law

100+ emploYers to AppeAr At AsHeville cHAmber cAreer fAir, JAn. 7 With more than 100 employers seeking to fill around 4,500 positions, Asheville-area job seekers will have many opportunities to advance their careers in the new year at the 10th Annual Homecoming Career Fair. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, in the Davis Event Center at the WNC Agriculture Center in Fletcher. “The participating companies are looking to hire for an estimated 4,500 positions available around Western North Carolina in 2016,” reads a press release from the Economic Development Coalition of AshevilleBuncombe County. “With more than

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100 employers and job seeker resources slated to attend, the popular career fair will showcase regional employment opportunities in growth industries, including advanced manufacturing, health care services, technology, financial services, and hospitality.” Information on participating employers is listed online at homecomingjobfair.com, and, at the fair, a mobile app will be available to easily locate employers at their booths. Two professional development seminars will also be held for job seekers attending the fair: “Get Ready, Get Set, Go, Jobs at 40+” and “Encore Entrepreneurship,” both held at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

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Attendees are encouraged to bring resumes for distribution, as many employers will be accepting applications at the event. The employers and resources available at the fair will include All-States Medical Supply Company, AVL Technologies, Biltmore Farms, LLC, Charter Communications, Chimney Rock Management, City of Asheville, Duke Energy Progress, GE Aviation, Linamar, Mission Health, North Carolina State Highway Patrol, PLI, Self Help Credit Union, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., The Omni Grove Park Inn, YMCA of Western North Carolina and more. “Skilled talent is in demand for our area employers,” said Ben Teague, executive director of the Economic

A recent analysis by Lexington Law ranks Buncombe County No. 35 on a list of N.C. counties by personal bankruptcy rates. With 14.16 bankruptcies per 10,000 residents from March 31, 2014 to March 31, 2015, Buncombe ranks worse than McDowell (No. 44) Henderson (No. 48), Transylvania (No. 60), Madison (No. 80) and Polk (No. 85) counties. Five other western counties — Avery (No. 90), Clay (No. 92), Mitchell (No. 94), Swain (No. 96) and Jackson (No. 97) — had the distinction of finishing at the bottom of the list, which in this case was a positive result. By far the greatest number of personal bankruptcies in North Carolina occurred in Northampton County, a county of about 22,000 located on the North Carolina-Virginia border in the eastern part of the state. With over 20 percent of its population living below the poverty line, the county reported 135.8 bankruptcies per 10,000 residents. The firm that conducted the analysis is a consumer advocacy law firm focused on consumer credit report repair. See the complete list of North Carolina counties on the Lexington Law website. Lexington Law also looked at bankruptcy rates by state. With an average of 16.71 bankruptcies per 10,000 residents, North Carolina was about average compared to other U.S. states. Tennessee had the highest number of bankruptcies per capita of any U.S. state, followed by Georgia and Alabama. — Virginia Daffron X

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benefits Hendersonville communitY tHeAtre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • SU (1/10), 3pm - Proceeds from the “Simple Gifts,” piano performance by Christopher Tavernier raises money for an assisted listening device for the hendersonville community theatre. Free to attend. JAzzin’ for bernie goo.gl/hOUfGL • SA (1/9), 1pm - Proceeds from this live music event featuring jazz from Jason deCristofaro, Richard Shulman and Peggy Ratusz, Rhoda Weaver more benefit the Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign. $10. Held at the White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road tHe AsHeville foAm pArtY facebook.com/ events/457587724344425 • SU (1/10), 7pm - Proceeds from this dance party and

‘simple gifts’: Hendersonville Community Theatre is kicking off its 2016 season by teaming up with the Hearts for the Arts program for a benefit show on Sunday, Jan. 10, at 3 p.m. The show, Simple Gifts, features an exclusive masterworks concert by international pianist Christopher Tavernier. While the event is free to attend, donations raised go towards obtaining an assisted listening device for the theater to help audience members with hearing difficulties. Photo of Christopher Tavernier courtesy of the artist (p. 18)

raffle benefit trips for Kids. $5. Held at New Mountain, 38 N French Broad Ave.

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certified instructors, free follow-up classes. Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or TM.org or meditationasheville.org orgAnic growers scHool 23rd AnnuAl spring conference (pd.) March 11-13, 2016, UNC Asheville. 70+ sessions per day: practical, affordable, regionally-focused workshops on growing, permaculture, homesteading, and urban farming. Trade show, seed exchange, kid’s program. Organicgrowersschool.org. AsHeville nAtionAl orgAnizAtion for women ashevillenow@live.com • 2nd SUNDAYS, 2:30pm Monthly meeting. Free. Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. big ivY communitY center 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 626-3438 • MO (1/11), 7pm Community meeting regarding tiny homes and con-

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Hendersonville sister cities hendersonvillesistercities.org • TU (1/12), 6pm - “Incredible India,” presentation and photographs about life in India. Free. Held at Henderson County Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville • TU (1/12), 6pm - “Incredible India,” photos and presentation about life in India. Free. Held at Henderson County Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville Homecoming cAreer fAir goo.gl/i0BZWV • TH (1/7), 11am-4pm - Career fair sponsored by Manpower and the Omni Grove Park Inn. Free shuttle from the Asheville Housing Authority with registration: 398-4158, ext. 111. Free. Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road Just peAce for isrAel/ pAlestine mepeacewnc.com • WE (1/13), 9:30am - General meeting. Free. Held at Black

Mountain Presbyterian, 117 Montreat Road, Black Mountain lAurel cHApter of tHe embroiderers’ guild of AmericA 686-8298, egacarolinas.org • TH (1/7), 9:30am-noon General meeting and “fabric ort container” creation. Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe ontrAck wnc 50 S. French Broad Ave., 2555166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (1/6), 5:30pm “Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it.” Seminar. • WE (1/13), 5:30-7pm “Dreaming of a Debt Free Living,” seminar. • THURSDAYS (1/14) through (1/28), 5:30pm - “Manage Your Money Series,” seminar. • TH (1/14), 5:30pm “Understanding Reverse Mortgages,” seminar.

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828.242.7595 JoYful noise 649-2828, joyfulnoisecenter.org Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave., Weaverville • MONDAYS, 7:30-8:15pm Intermediate/Advanced clogging class. Ages 7 through adult. $10 • MONDAYS, 6:45-7:30pm - Beginner clogging class. Ages 7 through adult. $10. swing AsHeville swingasheville.com • THURSDAYS, 7:30pm Beginner & intermediate swing dance lessons. 8:3011pm - Open dance. Live music regularly. $7/$5 members. Held at Club Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St.

eco AsHeville citizens’ climAte lobbY citizensclimatelobby.org/ chapters/NC_Asheville • 2nd SATURDAYS, 12:303pm - Open meeting regarding climate change solutions. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road mountAintrue 258-8737, wnca.org • Through SA (1/9) - Drop off Christmas trees, nonworking tree lights, and used greeting cards for recycling. SA (9/9) from 9am2pm event with free mulch and refreshments. Free. Held at Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville trAnsition AsHeville 296-0064, transitionasheville.org • MO (1/11), 6:30pm General meeting and viewing of the documentary A Convenient Truth. Free. Held at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 337 Charlotte St. wnc sierrA club 251-8289, wenoca.org • WE (1/6), 7pm - “Climate Change Interactive Simulation Part II,” simulation using recent climate change negotiations. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

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kids Attic sAlt tHeAtre compAnY 505-2926 • SATURDAYS (1/9) through (1/23), 10am - Echo, Narcissus, Icarus and Friends: Greek Myths, theater production. $5. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. fletcHer librArY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free. JoYful noise 649-2828, joyfulnoisecenter.org • MONDAYS, 6-7:30pm Capriccio String Orchestra for intermediate players. $10. Held at West Asheville

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A spectAtor sport: Shop Kitty Productions owner Megan Archer, bottom far right, says a friend suggested that she host an after-party for the 2016 Cyclocross National Championship in Asheville. “I laughed it off at first, because it felt like such an overwhelming task, but that planted seed grew into the biggest project I’ve ever had the pleasure of working on.” The racing sport traditionally attracts a wild and vociferous group of spectators. Photo courtesy of Shop Kitty Productions

what: The 2016 Cyclocross National Championships after-party when: Sunday, Jan. 10, at 7 p.m. where: New Mountain

why: Cyclist-turned-event-planner megan archer says Asheville’s hosting of the 2016 Cyclocross National Championships from Jan. 6-10, “means

the world to our North Carolina cyclocross family.” And for her, the five-day gathering of bike enthusiast affords an opportunity to give back to the commu-

nity that helped her get into cycling. Archer’s post-competition dance party will benefit Trips for Kids WNC — a group that stages mountain bike outings and environmental education for youths. Archer’s event concept stems from the Cyclocross World Championships in Louisville in 2013. There, an Internet joke turned into reality when popular racer Jeremy Powers DJ-ed a foamless “foam party” after the races. Archer pounced on a friend’s idea to host a similar after-party in Asheville, founding Shop Kitty Productions to do just that. With a solid vision and the “legit business” name in tow, she booked Asheville DJs justin mitchell and marley carroll for entertainment and rallied support from entities near and far, including Asheville Cyclocross, DeFeet International, Cane Creek Cycling Components, NEXT Cycling, Epic Cycles West, Cyclocross Magazine and title sponsor Bike Law. Many more organizations have donated prizes to Archer’s bike-themed raffle. The Bicycle Thrift Shop — an ongoing funding source for Trips for Kids WNC, which resells new and lightly used gear — will also be accepting cycling-related items at Asheville Foam Party. “My hope is the event will bring the national cycling community together, but I am also striving to include our local noncycling community as well,” Archer says. “Trips for Kids WNC holds a special place in my heart, and giving kids a chance to feel what I feel on a bicycle is my way of giving back.” Trips for Kids WNC will receive the event’s $5 per person cover fees plus raffle proceeds. Racers and spectators with an armband get in free. Visit avl. mx/24g for more details. X

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outdoors lAke JAmes stAte pArk 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • SA (1/9), 10am - “Lake Channel Overlook Expedition,” ranger led 1.5 mile moderate hike. Free. pisgAH AstronomicAl reseArcH institute 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, 8625554, pari.edu • FR (1/8), 7pm - “Night Sky 2016” presentation, tour of the PARI campus and observations using PARI telescopes. $20/$15 seniors/ military/Free for children 10 and under. swAnnAnoA vAlleY museum 669-9566, swannanoavalleymuseum.org • TH (1/7), 6:30pm Information session for the year-round hiking program. Free to attend. Held at Black Mountain Center for the Arts, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain • TU (1/12), 7pm Information session for the year-round hiking program. Free to attend. Held at Black Dome Mountain Sports, 140 Tunnel Road • WE (1/13), 7pm Information session for the year-round hiking program. Free to attend. Held at REI Asheville, 31 Schenck Parkway

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spirituAlitY AsHeville insigHt meditAtion (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com. Astro-counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. communitY Hu song (pd.) In our fast-paced world, are you looking to find more inner peace? Singing HU can lift you into a higher state of consciousness, so that you can discover, in your own way, who you are and why you’re here. • Sunday, December 7, 2015, 11am11:30am, fellowship follows. Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-254-6775. (free event). www.eckankar-nc.org looking for genuine spirituAl guidAnce And Help? (pd.) We are in a beautiful area about 10 minutes from downtown Asheville,

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“Engaging the body in some way is an essential part of healing,” says shari azar. She’s one of several Ashevillebased dance and movement specialists who say that moving our bodies in mindful ways can facilitate emotional and physical healing. “If you consider [that] we are dynamic moving beings, that we’re made up of cells that move and breathe and that we are a high percentage of water, everything about us is motion,” says Azar, a somatic experiencing practitioner, movement artist and educator. “When we fall into patterns of stuckness or disease, where we don’t feel aligned or well in our lives, [dance] engages the brain and the body in a way that it is not habituated to, [which allows] things to come to the surface, to be witnessed and seen and expressed.” andrea olsen, a movement-based expressive therapy practitioner, finds that pairing movement with the arts, such as drawing and poetry, can help “the unconscious come to the surface.” This can be very powerful for healing, she says. “We’re working directly with the root of our problem with the same language the unconscious speaks, which is the arts.” Olsen’s master’s thesis involved working with domestic violence perpetrators. “Bringing [them] into their bodies, using a connection with the breath and improvising movement based on the drawings they each made was amazing,” she says. Using the arts and movement is a gentle, noninvasive, nonthreatening way to help people work through difficult issues, says Olsen. “Once you get into the body everything that is stored there can heal itself,” she says. Group-oriented movement and dances offer another approach. “The combination of movement, story and music creates a kind of gestalt of the thing, or the collectiveness of it all that touches and opens,”

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says Community Choreography founder and artistic director barrie barton, who has 30 years of experience as a dancer, dance educator, director and choreographer. Community Choreography stages movement theater presentations that are written and performed by nonprofessional dancers. Participants develop the show while attending a nine-week workshop led by Barton. A recent participant, she says, decided to contribute a story she had never publicly spoken of before. “When she first shared it with our [workshop] group, it was … a powerful moment in her healing. And then to share it again with 150 people in the audience was the next level,” says Barton. “There is something about speaking [what] we carry inside of us and having it heard, having it witnessed and having it received with the compassion that I believe the audiences that come to these performances bring; those things can be transforming,” she says. Each performance is focused on a particular theme; last year’s was called “Secrets: Freeing the Hidden Story,” and the latest one is “Talking to God,” Barton says. For those interested in unchoreographed, free-form movement, Asheville Movement Collective hosts a number of dances each week. “It’s really an invitation to explore yourself and explore your body. People are invited to do what comes intuitively to them,” says greg bonin, executive director. “People come to [each dance] for all different reasons,” he says. “Some people treat it as tribal community connection. Some people treat it as literal physical therapy, because maybe they have trouble with movement due to a past injury or current illness. This is an arena for them to move as much as they can without judgment. Some people treat it as spiritual practice,” he says. Bonin was dealing with a lot of grief when he first began. “What dancing allowed me to do was to explore that grief in a safe place, where I could have an emotional expression that was

birtH dAnce: Belly dancing was originally created to help women with the birth process, but it offers offers added health benefits, says sacred dance teacher Michelle Dionne. Photo by Kelcey Loomer attached to physical expression. It really helped me to literally move through my grief,” he says. steven jones, events coordinator for the Asheville Dance Collective and a geriatric social worker, says that although he doesn’t separate physical and spiritual aspects of a person, he’s especially aware of the need to address physical health when working with older residents. After researching the health benefits of dancing, Jones began to host free-form dances at the Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, where he works. He rattles off a long list of benefits to be gained from free-form dance, including improvement in left- and rightbrain connection, balance and agility, and, most importantly, increased blood flow and oxygen to the brain. “Any physician worth their true salt will tell you the only thing there is real evidence for in helping to slow down or possibly even stopping dementia and cognitive loss is cardiovascular exercise,” Jones says. “So you’re helping physiologically with the brain, and of course, hopefully ... having fun,” Jones says, laughing. “One of my most regular [clients] — (she’s sort of my mascot) — is 92 years old, and she’s in there really working the African rhythms. It’s amazing,” he says. Belly dancing was originally a healing art, says michelle dionne. She teaches sacred dance, birth dancing

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and rites of passage for young people and notes that belly dancing was created by women to help with birthing. “That was the original intention,” says Dionne. “The movements help women to open up, by helping the hips ... and sacrum to open up so the baby can come out easier,” she says. The movements can also help a woman stay in her body during childbirth so she’s more in tune with what’s going on, she adds. And belly dancing can speed up labor: Some of the movements mimic birth contractions; when performed during the birth, those movements can help bring on the next contraction, she notes. Dionne speaks from personal experience. She birthed her first child in 2 ½ hours and her second in only 90 minutes. Cave paintings date belly dancing back 30,000 years, she says. “It has been passed down because it really works,” Dionne says. Dance and movement mimic life, Azar adds. Just moving in any way, if it is done “with a level of presence and soulfulness, also begins to move the heart and the spirit and the soul,” she says. The body is the gateway, says Olsen, echoing the sentiment. “With movement therapy you start with your body, and it’s usually more honest. There are less barriers to getting to ... the root of the issue, and I find it to be much more rapid healing.” X

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By jacoB oley It’s a motion we hardly have to think about: The arm swings back, then forward, and the discarded item arcs toward the trash bin. It’s almost as easy as breathing. But what if it cost more the more times we tossed? Would we start thinking twice before throwing something away? Despite exhortations to live sustainably, despite reuse, recycling and composting programs, Asheville sent 21,858 tons of solid waste to the Buncombe County landfill between June 30, 2014, and July 1, 2015, according to the city’s website. In 2014, City Council approved a resolution that calls for reducing

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municipal solid waste by 50 percent by 2035, when the current landfill is projected to be full. Developing a new one will be expensive, and decisions with a long-term impact will have to be made at that point. To help meet this goal, Asheville is considering implementing a payas-you-throw system. Instead of a flat rate for municipal waste pickup, residents would be charged a variable amount based on how much trash they generated. The city hired consultant lisa skumatz of the Colorado-based Skumatz Economic Research Associates to evaluate Asheville’s unique situation and recommend the best approach. On Dec. 15, the city’s Planning and Economic Development Committee met to hear her report and discuss details of such a system.

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The two most common types are bag-based and variable-cart systems. In the first, consumers buy special bags that are then placed curbside for collection. The cost of the bags is what the customer pays for trash pickup. In the second type, consumers choose from various size carts and are billed monthly, depending on the size of the cart. Each system has its pros and cons. There are more than 8,700 such programs throughout the United States, each one specifically designed to fit the community it serves. Many were implemented to help divert recyclables from the waste stream. A Colorado study found that “PAYT is one of the top three features to which leading states say they attribute their state’s strong recycling performance,” Skumatz wrote in her final report. In her survey,

97 percent of respondents said they used Asheville’s recycling service regularly. Theoretically, the report notes, a bag-based system would produce a higher recycling rate, but it would cost substantially more, “and the higher recycling rate is not fully substantiated in statistical surveys.” Instead, she recommended a cart-based system, which was found to be cheaper for each each household and easier to implement and explain to customers. mAking it work “Considering that our recycling rates are relatively robust compared to similar communities, we

need to figure out what makes the most sense for Asheville,” says sonia marcus, chair of the Sustainability Advisory Committee on Energy and Environment. “The city’s investment to implement a bag-based system is large in comparison with the marginal, improved waste reduction that you get with the variable-cart system.” But the latter approach would still carry a significant upfront cost for the city, which would have to buy the carts. And what about all the perfectly good carts we already have? With a bag-based system, the Skumatz report notes, residents could continue to use them. One idea, the report continues, would be to use the old carts for a new curbside collection service for compostable material. But that, too, would be expensive. “We’d be setting up this whole other system,” says Marcus, “with substantial costs to drive vehicles all over Asheville to pick up people’s organic waste and consolidate it. When, really, the most sustainable solution would be for that waste to stay where it is and decompose naturally on people’s property. A large proportion of property owners and renters in Asheville have access to some kind of outside space where a compost pile could be located.” But not every city resident does, and even those who do may not have the knowledge or the mindset to participate in composting. Thus, educational outreach would be needed and perhaps community composting sites. “It would be an interesting service for neighborhood community gardens to serve, or other community agencies, like the property behind a school, a community center or a fire station,” says Marcus. According to Skumatz’s analysis, pay-as-you-throw systems typically reduce the waste stream by about 16 percent. But that’s still far short of the 50 percent target Asheville has set, and in a city with a growing population and a booming tourism industry, reaching it will require substantial additional efforts. Meanwhile, the city is still considering its options. The matter now goes to the Finance Committee, which will attempt to get a clearer idea of the cost and feasibility of implementing such a system. X

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By jonathan ammons jonathanammons@gmail.com For most chefs, every day looks a lot like the last one, with the same menu and the same kitchen crew. But hanan shabazz’s restaurant has neither of those. And as a teacher in Green Opportunities’ Kitchen Ready program, she sees a continual threemonth rotation of students creating free lunches for the community. Launched in 2011 and based out of what was originally the African-American Livingston Street School in Asheville’s Southside community, the Kitchen Ready program offers free classes to community members facing employment barriers. Shabazz’s connection to the neighborhood stretches back half a century, to a time when she wielded picket signs rather than a chef’s knife.

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“I hope you don’t mind if I work while we talk,” she says as she whips up the filling for a rack of deviled eggs. “I always have to be doing something if I’m here.” Born in 1949 and raised in a family of 10 in Asheville’s Burton Street community, Shabazz had poor health and moved in with her grandmother. “I learned to do a lot of things from her,” she says. “All my life, I loved to be in the kitchen.” She moved back in with her parents around the time the city schools began to integrate. “We came to school one day, and somebody had written on the steps, ‘All niggers, go back to Africa,’” Shabazz recalls. “And it freaked me out. It wasn’t about color to us: We were just trying to get an education. They said they wanted us away from the school, so we walked out, and there was a riot. It turned violent.”

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That was the first of two riots at Lee Edwards (now Asheville High), and it triggered a six-month, citywide curfew. But those events also stirred up something in Shabazz, and when she graduated in 1968, she made her way to New York City. “My friend had a pet monkey named Tiger,” she explains. “The train station was down on Depot Street, and people loved to see the monkey, so we put a little cup down. He’d be jumping around, and I’d just be singing, but we got me enough money to go to New York.” Once there, her passion for activism and equality kicked into high gear. Studying at Mosque No. 7, the famed home base of Minister Louis Farrakhan, Shabazz became closely connected with movers and shakers in the civil rights movement. “I met Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom. Stokely Carmichael, Rap Brown, Huey Newton. ... I’ve been involved with a lot of good people. It was the ‘burn, baby, burn’ era, and I even got to sit down with Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey at one point.” But it wasn’t all marches and picketing: Shabazz began merging her activism with her skill in the kitchen. “They taught me how to do a hundred things with whiting fish and how to make bean pies. I was doing food for all the community events and feeding the families.” In 1970, Shabazz returned home to help with her ailing father, but she stayed involved with activism. “We would go to Raleigh, to Durham and to Washington with a busload of people,” she recalls. “Sometimes I even had the pleasure of speaking. For me, it’s always been about trying to keep the peace. We were saying that black people are people, too, and they deserve to have just as many rights and opportunities as anybody else.” In Asheville, she and her husband ran a restaurant on The Block, the center of the local African-American community. “Shabazz Soul Food was a coalition of brothers. In the Nation of Islam, I learned how to eat to live, not live to eat. I learned how to fix things that were healthier, how to make new things from leftovers.” Eventually, Shabazz moved on, working at Matt’s Pastry Shop (where the Double Decker Bus now sits). In time, gentrification came to The Block, and many of the old places closed. “Had I known then what I know today, I would have stuck even closer to those little old ladies that had all the secrets,” Shabazz says. “They put things together and made it work, and they taught me to keep that tradition going.” A lack of bricks and mortar never slowed Shabazz. “I love just cooking on the street,” she says. “I would go to the parks, projects, just even in my front yard.” But when chef liam luttrell-rowland begged Shabazz to teach at the Kitchen Ready program, a collaboration with A-B Tech and other local organizations, she was happy to sign on. These days, Shabazz focuses on what she calls “social justice through food: Help somebody, feed somebody, share your knowledge, share your understanding.” The Kitchen Ready program serves lunchrom noon to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday downstairs in the Arthur R. Edington Education and Career Center (133 Livingston St. in Asheville). Meals are free for community members and available to others for a donation. Tips go directly to the students. For details or to apply for courses, visit greenopportunities.org/what-we-do-/go-kitchen-ready/. X

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The Old World meets Haywood Road Susannah Gebhart’s Old World Levain Bakery is finding a new home in East West Asheville The opening of a new storefront on Haywood Road will bring a taste of Europe to Beecham’s Curve, or as locals know it, East West Asheville. The space at 295 Haywood Road that will soon house Old World Levain Bakery is now being transformed with clean lines, antique white walls graced with millwork, white marble and walnut counter tops, and banquettes with whitewashed wood tables and gray accents. Owner susannah gebhart describes her vision for the storefront as “cozy and serene with a European-French feel.” Gebhart, who has been baking locally for nearly a decade, started her career working with a fourthgeneration baker of SpanishItalian descent at Annie’s Naturally Bakery when the company had its production space in Sylva. Other baking jobs helped shape her style, in addition to an academic background in food anthropology and travel overseas. Finding herself as a career baker came somewhat as a surprise, Gebhart confesses. “Baking jobs were available to me throughout my 20s, but strictly to get by,” she says. “I never intended to continue baking, but so many of my pursuits involved food in some way.” Gebhart also previously owned a natural food store and is the founder of the Appalachian Food Storybank, an oral history project on Appalachian food heritage. “Finally, all that interest in food culture, my own personal sensibilities and taste, and my understanding of baking coalesced in the last several years,” she says. Last August, Gebhart took over the Montford Walk-In Bakery space after it closed and changed the name

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to OWL Bakery. After focusing on just wholesale and made-to-order products for several months, she decided that a bakery/café was the next step. “I knew, ultimately, my goal was to have a really sweet little bakery and café where I can create a space and experience and not just be producing my products,” says Gebhart. “For me, it’s about the bigger picture, it’s not just about making the product — it’s about serving it with incredible intention and providing a space in which to savor it.” OWL Bakery features naturally leavened breads, which means that all the bread is made with a sourdough starter. “It is a very simple, rustic process by which I make my breads,” she says. All of her breads are mixed by hand, and Gebhart uses 100 percent organic flours from Lindley Mills and Carolina Ground. The bread is leavened over a 24- to 48-hour period and goes through an extended cold-fermentation period, which she says helps develop the complex flavors of her offerings. And don’t worry if you aren’t a sourdough fan. Gebhart says her process favors a milder, sweeter taste and flavor profile than is achieved with typical sourdoughs. She accomplishes this by using a very young starter rather than allowing it to age until it’s highly acidic, ensuring that the traditional sourdough tartness doesn’t come through as much. In addition to bread, OWL Bakery’s menu will include items such as tartines, or toast served with house-made toppings; homemade yogurt and granola; and pastries, including croissants, cardamom buns and Danishes, as well as coffee and tea.

new Horizons: Old World Levain Bakery owner Susannah Gebhart is pictured during a recent pop-up sale she held next door to Short Street Cakes. Gebhart’s new Haywood Road storefront is slated to open in February. Photo by Krista L. White

“Every day of the week, we will also have a special pastry of the day, such as beignets or canelés,” she says. Coffee offerings will include drip coffees brewed on the Fetco brewing machine, single-cup pourovers brewed on a Kalita Wave set, and espresso-based drinks prepared with a La Marzocco Strada machine, says john linch, a former Waking Life Espresso employee who is heading the bakery’s coffee program. The bakery’s coffees will be primarily sourced from Mountain Air Roasting, a local coffee roaster led by marshall hance, and other select roasters in the specialty coffee industry, Linch says. Other offerings include traditionally prepared loose-leaf teas sourced from Upton Tea Imports.

An outdoor area that is in the works will serve as additional dining space interspersed with herbs, flowers and fruit trees. Gebhart envisions summer nights accented with string quartets, carafes of wine, and charcuterie and cheese plates. A wood-fired oven will join the kitchen to the outdoor space, creating the opportunity for wood-fired baking events. Gebhart would like to create an educational and community gathering place where people can participate in food-centered

activities, such as cooking and food history workshops. “I’m hoping it will be a place where people can come for celebrations and to get a treat, but also where they can find really nourishing, honest food on a daily basis,” says Gebhart. Old World Levain Bakery will be at 295 Haywood Road. A soft opening is planned for the end of February. Tentative hours will be 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday and 8 a.m.-noon Mondays. Evening hours are planned for the summer. X

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dinner’s done: In partnership with Whole Foods stores across the Southeast, Smiling Hara Tempeh is releasing precooked, preseasoned products that cut down on meal prep time. Photo courtesy of Smiling Hara Tempeh

Smiling Hara Tempeh’s multifaceted expansion On the heels of debuting its hempladen Hempeh product in 2015, Smiling Hara Tempeh is expanding in multiple directions. Not only are owners sarah yancey and chad oliphant boosting their partnership with Whole Foods by releasing a line of precooked, preseasoned products, but the local food entrepreneurs are planning a new website with online ordering capabilities plus the opening of a new production facility in Barnardsville by February. The 8,000-square-foot factory “gives room to grow over the next five years,” Yancey says. “It is a dream come true.” While Smiling Hara will operate out of Blue Ridge Food Ventures until the transition is complete, the growing company will soon need extra capacity to keep pace with demand. Whole Foods, for instance, just began stocking Smiling Hara’s new heat-and-eat products in roughly two dozen of its locations across the Southeast. “We have received feedback from our customer base over the years that preparation of tempeh is somewhat foreign to them and can be difficult,” Yancey says. “We wanted to alleviate these hurdles by creating delicious and healthy varieties

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of our products that were ready to heat and eat.” So far, the new line includes two flavors. “The Sweet Miso Ginger Tempeh Strips are precut and marinated using local Miso Master as an ingredient,” Yancey says. “The Smoked Salt and Pepper Peanut Hempeh is dry rubbed using local Celtic sea salt and acts like a steak when brushed with oil and pan fried, grilled or baked.” Since these recent releases are precooked, they’ll appear in stores’ refrigerator sections alongside tofu, seitan and other brands of tempeh. Smiling Hara’s original fresh-frozen tempehs, however, will remain in the frozen meat-alternative area. Asheville-based customers have been able to source Smiling Hara’s staple goods from local health food stores for some time now, but nonlocals may be excited to learn about one more development: Yancey and Oliphant will soon begin shipping their heat-and-eat line nationwide, as it’s less perishable. The two are currently working on a website that accepts individual orders with hopes of unveiling the online store later this month. Visit eathempeh.com for more information and updates on the company. winter fArmers mArkets Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project has compiled a list

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of post-holiday winter markets, which begin this week. Here’s the organization’s information on finding goods from local growers and makers: •asheville city market: 10 a.m.noon Saturdays, Jan. 9-March 26, Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway. •ymca indoor winter market: 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturdays, Jan. 9-March 26, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 789 Merrimon Ave. •spruce pine farmers market: Noon-4 p.m. first Saturdays of the month, Dec. 5-April 12, The Pizza Shop and Dry County Brewing Co., 585 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine. •transylvania farmers market (limited vendors): 10 a.m.-noon Saturdays, Dec. 26-April 30, 190 E. Main St., Brevard. Visit asapconnections.org for updated information. Details are subject to change.

The new year brought a second storefront for PennyCup Coffee Co., which is now open for business inside the YMI building downtown. In addition to a full menu of coffee and espresso drinks, the new space serves pastries, hearty bagel sandwiches, house-made granola and several varieties of fresh roasted coffee from PennyCup’s flagship roastery and tasting room in the River Arts District. While the downtown spot is currently geared toward sitting and Web surfing, management hopes to host live music events at the café in the future. The YMI Cultural Center is at 39 Market St. Hours 7 a.m.-3 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m.-3 p.m. weekends. Visit facebook.com/ pennycupcoffee for updates on the new space. X

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By eDwin arnauDin edwinarnaudin@gmail.com bill bowers loves the reaction he gets at the start of his one-man performance It Goes Without Saying. The opening scene suggests a slightly different play than what attendees were expecting. “It begins as a mime show, and it’s always my hope that people will be in the audience like, ‘Oh sh*t, it’s a mime show,’” Bowers says. “And then after about two minutes of mime, I break the silence and start talking, which usually gets a great laugh of relief.” The play, about how the 29-year resident of New York City’s East Village became a mime and where that life has led him, debuts in Asheville Saturday, Jan. 9, at Asheville Community Theatre. The visit is made possible by new local staging company LEAD Productions and will be Bowers’ first time back in the city since 1995. That summer he was in the Flat Rock Playhouse’s productions of Buffalo Gals, My Three Angels and Beau Geste, and spent each of his days off exploring downtown Asheville. It Goes Without Saying originated as a comedy called My Life in Tights, in which Bowers told wacky true stories about his career as a performer. He brought the material to the Adirondack Theatre Festival in 2003 where martha banta — who had a hand in developing Rent and was the associate director of Mamma Mia! — got him thinking about blending the humor with memories that weren’t so funny. “Her specialty is developing new work. She’s just got a great ear for what works, and she’s an excellent editor,” Bowers says. “One of the reasons I wanted to work with her is she doesn’t like mimes, and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s probably good.’” Banta helped Bowers focus on the story he wanted to tell, and once they arrived at exploring why he became a mime, she suggested he present the vignettes chronologically. The

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one-man show: “It’s important that you make a piece of theater as opposed to working out your issues onstage,” actor Bill Bowers says. “The goal for me is to make a piece of theater that is beyond my own story.” Photo courtesy of Bowers

decision was fitting because the events that led Bowers to not talking for a living date to his childhood in Montana. Though he says it’s no hotbed of mime, he notes that the Big Sky State is a spa-

cious, quiet place, and that the big, silent part of nature is a significant aspect of his life. His mother’s family were homesteaders who traveled the Oregon Trail, making Bowers

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a fifth-generation descendant of Westerners, nearly all of whom, he says, “talk about nothing.” From these formative years as what he calls “a gay kid growing up in the wilds of Montana, back in the ’60s, before Oprah,” It Goes Without Saying charts Bowers’ professional and personal trajectory. The subject of silence is the play’s fitting throughline as Bowers examines why certain topics are deemed open for discussion and others are not. Among those addressed is the 1980s and ’90s AIDS epidemic in New York City, which claimed Bowers’ partner. But even when the autobiographical content veers into more emotionally painful territory, Bowers stresses that this is foremost a performance, not an opportunity to figuratively air his dirty laundry in public. “It’s important that you make a piece of theater as opposed to working out your issues onstage,” Bowers

says. “I’m not a fan of doing therapy onstage. Part of the process for me of writing is to really look at things deeply, and really work through them, but the goal for me is to make a piece of theater that is beyond my own story.” Augmented by light and sound design, It Goes Without Saying involves Bowers, a stool and a giant notepad on an easel, on which the actor has written each vignette’s title (e.g., “Hugh and Donald,” about an early morning encounter with his Two Weeks Notice co-stars Hugh Grant and Donald Trump). This humble production design and Bowers’ friendly, informal manner may suggest that he’s making things up as he goes. In fact, it’s a true scripted play with an order of stories that has remained the same since its acclaimed Off-Broadway run at New York City’s Rattlestick Theatre in 2006. Though Bowers never set out to write a play he’d still be performing 10 years later, he’s kept his senses attuned to new and unusual anecdotes, the result of which has him reteaming with Banta for a nonchronological quasi-sequel to It Goes Without Saying. The new play is culled from the journal Bowers kept during the past decade of performing, often in underserved rural areas that consistently lend themselves to interesting experiences. Inspired by his shows at a nudist colony, an Amish community and numerous strange encounters with hookers, Bowers has titled the work Nude Amish Hookers and the Mime on the Road. X

storYtellinG in Motion Bill Bowers stays busy both as a mime — he’s one of only a few in the tight-knit U.S. community — and teaching the craft in three New York City schools and in workshops around the country. He’ll lead a class on creating solo work at Asheville’s NYS3 Studios (2002 Riverside Drive, Studio 42-O) Sunday, Jan. 10, from noon to 3 p.m. “There’s a lot of folks out there who have stories they want to tell, and they’re trying to figure out how to tell them. So, we look at ways that physical theater can help you figure out what you want to say,” Bowers says. “For me, it’s going to be workshop in storytelling using the body, not necessarily the voice, and how those worlds kind of can come together and come apart in verbal and nonverbal storytelling.” Bowers promises a fun, interactive afternoon with lots of group activities, so attendees don’t have to worry about being alone. “When you do theater, you’re putting on a play, and I think it’s really important to kind of start with that idea of a

childlike sense of wonder and sense of play,” he says. “I think it’s one of the things we don’t get to do much as grownups.” A self-taught mime, Bowers trained with Marcel Marceau in the last years of Marceau’s life. It’s an education that deeply shaped Bowers’ teaching philosophy. “It was a very non-nurturing experience — that’s the most polite way I can say it. I was dealing with a very old, famous French person who taught like he was from another time. He taught in the traditional master class style, and it was very unwelcoming,” Bowers says. “I want to be the antithesis of that. I really approach pantomime as it’s the language that we all have because it’s our first language — the language you know before you learn how to speak. So, I try to make the art of physical theater very accessible and very fun and very much about who you are as a person.” The cost of the workshop is $30. Register at nys3.com or call 276-1212. — E.A.

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spin cYcle: The b-boy (or girl) figurines in the Underdog Crew Collectibles represent hope and positive thought. They can be used in a game, too, though inventor Joe Adams encourages others to think up their own rules of play. Photo by Jesse Kit Photography When local educator, dancer and designer joe adams shares an action figure from his Underdog Crew Collectibles, he tells the recipient, “This is a symbol of all things good and possible.” The figures, which balance, spin and pose in break dance freezes, are not only made with positive intentions, but they represent Adams’ hope to better the world. The artist has lofty goals for his small toys. “They’re the next generation of the green army men,” he says, “but instead of carrying weapons, they dance. They’re peace warriors.” While the Underdog Crew Collectibles are sure to appeal to break dancers (aka b-boys and b-girls) and their fans, one doesn’t need to be proficient in windmills or the worm to appreciate the 3-D printed figures. They’re not genderspecific and they have no particular nationality, Adams points out. Playing with them is open-ended and develops fine-motor skills. “It’s all about this vision of educational value and social mission,” he

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says. “I started taking them into my classes to talk about shapes and the mechanics of doing freezes.” Funded by a grant from Asheville City Schools, Adams is currently an artist-in-education at Isaac Dickson. For five weeks, all third-grade students take physical education with him. In that class, through break dance moves, they learn about angles and balance. The toys help Adams to engage the kids. Like his Isaac Dickson students, Adams has gone back to school. In 2015, he was accepted into Accelerating Appalachia, an immersive small-business education program, where he’d learn to hone his triple-bottom-line and sustainable business plan. He had his first three prototypes made at Western Carolina University’s rapid prototyping facility and, through a GoFundMe campaign, raised some revenue to begin printing the figures through local company Spectra 3D. The educational component of Adams’ vision comes not just from a desire to teach, but to pay forward positive experiences from his own child-

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hood. Growing up in Roanoke, Va., he was labeled at risk. “I despised it. I hated that it was my situation,” he says. “At the same time, the help I received because of that label was crucial.” When he heard majora carter speak at Burton Street a few years ago, the urban revitalization strategist made a point that refined Adams’ own thought process. “She was talking a lot about the environment, and what I realized is that climate change is the great equalizer,” Adams says. “We are all at risk.” He began to see how struggles extend beyond race and socioeconomic lines and that his work, too, can reach people of all walks of life. “When I work with a group that’s inclusive of at-risk youths, then it’s an equal playing field,” Adams says. “The journey I’m on is not as much about being an entrepreneur as much as making an impact.” So what, then, is the connection between a toy and an arts and education initiative? For Adams, it’s hiphop. The dance form, he points out, is a global culture that transcends lan-

guage barriers. It thrives in impoverished areas because it doesn’t cost anything to dance, yet the act provides a powerful platform for creative expression. The B in b-boy or b-girl is about the break — dancing to the breaks in the music, or reaching a breaking point. “But for me, the B is for ‘be your best,’” says Adams. “If I want to be able to do all these moves, I’ve got to be in good health. I’ve got to practice and train, and then things I didn’t think were possible become possible.” What hip-hop taught Adams was self-control and focus. He loves the dance so much that he used to take every toy he could find and either make it spin on its head or do a freeze. Around 2007, a line of collectible figurines called Lil Homies was on the market. The toys were inspired by Latin hip-hop culture but also reinforced stereotypes, Adams says. “And they didn’t function.” Someone gave him Sculpy, a polymer clay, out of which he fashioned his own hip-hop figurine. “The first one I ever made, I took it out of the oven, let it cool and spun it on its head. It worked so well, that was my aha moment.” Friends advised Adams to keep the idea to himself to prevent another maker from running with it, but he’s since come to the conclusion that it’s more important to him to be able to share the figures than it is to guard the concept. For now, Adams is selling his Underdog Crew Collectibles online at shapeways. com/shops/underdogcrew, and at various craft fairs. He’s also working on making connections to push his product into global awareness, though the process is also rooted in grass-roots ideals. “Why a toy? Why not medicine, water or money?” Adams asks, rhetorically. “In my own youth, having toys was an outlet to imagine a better world. To work out the situations that were happening around me in positive play. Things shouldn’t be so hard for children.” The Underdog Crew figurines carry the weight of those assertions on their small-but-mighty shoulders. “Having some outlet for hope is what it’s all about,” says Adams. His toy company, he adds, is “not a business, it’s a movement.” Learn more at underdogcrew.com X

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ACoUsTIC EXPANsIoN Isis adopts Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse under new name

moving mountains: Since 2005, Louise Baker, center, and her husband, Don Baker, left, booked and coordinated the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville’s Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse concert fundraiser series. This month marks the series’ transition to Isis Restaurant & Music Hall. Photo courtesy of the Bakers The musicians in Brother Sun were just awakening when louise baker answered Xpress’ phone call about the transformation of her Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse concert series. “Many [artists] stay in our house when they do these shows,” she says. “It’s fun. I love it.” The previous night, the band had taken on the weighty task of closing Baker’s decade-old coffeehouse tradition. It involved monthly volunteer-powered benefit concerts for host venue the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, where Baker is a member. With shows discontinued at the church as of December, the event is being reincarnated as the Mountain Spirit Acoustic Series at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall. Baker partnered with the West Asheville venue in early

2015. The series’ first Isis-only season launches with Todd Hoke and King Possum Wednesday, Jan. 13. “Unitarian Universalist churches around the United States have been doing these concert series for many, many years,” Baker says, noting that she shared the dream with her husband, Don (who is not involved with the Isis shows), to re-create the event in Asheville. While the transition out of the congregation has invoked “a little bit of an emotional sadness,” the Boston-raised music lover — a perpetual attendee at conferences and concerts, a guitar player (at home) and artist manager — ultimately saw greater potential at Isis. “I think it’s 99 percent positive,” she says, adding that the new space provides “more opportunity for this type of music in town.” While the UUCA

was limited to about 10 coffeehouse performances per year, Baker’s goal at Isis is three to seven shows per month. Since beginning the transition last April, she’s booked 20 dates. “We’ve had some small crowds, and we’ve had some sold-out crowds,” she says. Fortunately, Isis’ upstairs lounge seats just 50 people, providing a home for intimate shows — one that doesn’t look sparse with just a few dozen listeners, as the UUCA’s space sometimes did. Larger shows are held downstairs on the Isis main stage, where 150 people fit comfortably within the seated arrangement. Isis is also equipped with muchneeded infrastructure — “a sound system, stage lighting, great food,” Baker says, rattling off a list of amenities she believes adds up to a great evening. “At the church we did that, but we had to bring everything.” Baker does feel a sense of loss as her series moves away from the tradition of folk music being presented at UU congregations. “There will be a few people in our audience who say, ‘I just really liked it in [the church], because it was quiet, and I didn’t care about food or drinks,’” she says. Surprisingly, the typical audience at the UUCA concerts included very few of the church’s constituents. Out of hundreds of members, around a dozen attended per show, Louise reports. Musical content at the coffeehouse performances was secular, and religious outreach was subtle at most, with no invitations to return for services (although Louise suspects a few individuals attended additional churchrelated functions after perusing bulletin boards between sets). The overarching mission was to support and celebrate arts as a community. So, while the coffeehouse’s migration won’t detract significantly from the church’s offerings, it does represent a cultural departure and, perhaps more pressingly, a loss of funds. The

Bakers previously provided their services free of charge so that proceeds after artist fees could support the church. However, the UUCA won’t benefit financially from the series at Isis, a for-profit venture with its own books to balance. “I’m sure that they will find a way to adapt,” Baker says, calling the congregation a growing pool of smart individuals. According to lead minister mark ward, the UUCA’s music program is currently in transition. “Louise sought volunteers to continue the church coffeehouse, but so far we haven’t found anyone,” he says. Baker has, however, offered to arrange one-off performances at the UUCA when possible. At Isis, Baker says she’s already observed a broadening audience in terms of age and ethnicity. And about a quarter of attendees mention they’re visiting from out of town. Still others have made the move from the UUCA. “I think they’re excited that they can hear the same kind of music more often in this new place,” she says, though some church elders won’t venture into what they view as a nightclub. For marketing purposes, the Mountain Spirit brand has come to indicate acts that appeal to an acoustic-oriented audience rather than meaning that Baker booked the talent. Conversely, some of the acts she attracts will not be listed as part of the series. Ticket prices for Mountain Spirit Acoustic concerts are determined by expected turnout, with an average price of about $15. Bigger names will venture into the $30 range. “Isis has the bluegrass thing down,” Baker says, “so that won’t be my doing.” Instead, she’ll focus on bringing well-known names in folk, Americana, blues, Celtic and world music: “We’re going to try to spice it up with a little variety.” X

UPcoMinG MoUntain sPirit acoUstic shows All shows begin at 7 p.m., and cost $15 unless otherwise noted. Visit isisasheville.com for details or to purchase tickets. todd Hoke And king possum Wednesday, Jan. 13 $10 kim & reggie HArris Friday, Jan. 15

tHe everYdAYs Saturday, Jan. 16 $10/$12 Jeff blAck Wednesday, Jan. 20

AmY speAce Friday, Jan. 29 russiAn duo Sunday, Jan. 31, at 5:30 p.m.

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Best of Asheville Comedy Showcase “The local comedy scene has exploded in the past few years,” says Greg Hardin of the Funny Business Entertainment Agency. He lists established open mic shows at The Odditorium (Tuesdays), The Southern Kitchen and Bar’s Dirty South Lounge (Wednesdays plus extra monthly dates) and Pulp (Thursdays). “A lot of people can’t make it out on weeknights,” he says, “so we put together a lineup of 10 of the best local comics and put them in a professional show at The Millroom.” The parade of Asheville humorists — including Petey Smith-McDowell, Tom Peters, Minori Hinds, Cody Hughes, Jason Webb, Grayson Morris, Tom Scheve, Cary Goff, Gabe Rosenberg, Macon Clark and host Chase McNeill — takes place Saturday, Jan. 9, at 8 p.m. $10/$12. avl. mx/23i. Photos courtesy of the comedians

Darryl Maleike and Ana Blanton Throughout January, Woolworth Walk’s F.W. Front Gallery will be adorned with artwork by Darryl Maleike and Ana Blanton. Maleike spent more than a decade snapping photos in 49 states and 23 countries before transitioning into the craft of bookmaking — a passion the Southern Highlands Craft Guild member has pursued for 15 years. His work has been sold at Woolworth Walk since the gallery opened in 2001. Meanwhile, Blanton’s tropical upbringing infuses intense coloration into her abstract depictions. Her latest series is “inspired by the constant movement of our technologically driven lives and the challenge of finding resting places and balance within them,” according to a release. Both local artists host an opening reception at Woolworth Walk Friday, Jan. 8, from 4 to 6 p.m. Free. woolworthwalk.com. Artwork by Ana Blanton

Beer and How To Drink It From the makers of Sex and How To Have It and Food and How To Eat It comes a similarly educational (or not so much) sketch comedy production: Beer and How To Drink It. Actors Glenn Reed, Katie Langwell, Scott Fisher and Valerie Meiss all contribute material to the thematic show, which also features direction by Steven Samuels and writing by Lisa Yoffee. “Has beer taken over our fair city? ... Will Asheville eventually drown in a flood of beer and tourists engineered by the Convention and Visitors Bureau?” a press release inquires. “These and other matters of social and political import demand serious attention, which is just what they won’t receive” when The Magnetic Theatre troupe performs Beer and How To Drink It Thursdays-Saturdays, Jan. 7-16, at 7:30 p.m., and Friday-Saturday, Jan. 15-16, at 10 p.m. $16-$24 ($10 student rush at door). magnetictheatre.org. Image by Jim Julien

Fireships Brooklyn-based alt-folk collective Fireships took its band name “from the Hudson River sloops that repelled the British warships before the Battle of Brooklyn — using fire and water to fight darkness with light,” according to the group’s bio. That introductory sentence is, in and of itself, plenty poetic — and a good indication of the kind of thoughtful, storied and intense songs the musicians produce. But Fireships’ selfreleased debut, out last year, is also relaxed and fun, with nods to African influences and a sense of whimsy. The sound is crisp and big, songs have boomy and immediate titles like “Countdown Time” and “Gush.” The band plays a free show at Ben’s TuneUp Sunday, Jan. 10, at 4:30 p.m. benstuneup.com. Photo by Shervin Lainez 42

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From the Lens of Steve McCurry exhibit. $35. river Arts district Artists riverartsdistrict.com • 2nd SATURDAYS, 10am-6pm - Self-guided open studio tour through the River Arts District with artist demonstrations and classes. Free to attend.

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AnAm cArA tHeAtre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • SU (1/10), 6-8pm & MO (1/11), 8-10pm Open auditions for The Government Inspector. Full guidelines and audition times: info@ anamcaratheatre.org. Free. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B Art At Asu 262-3017, tcva.org • Through TH (2/18) - Entries accepted for the 30th Anniversary Rosen Sculpture Competition. Contact for guidelines: rosensculpture.org/prospectus-2016.php. Free.

cAtHeY’s creek communitY center Island Ford Road, Brevard • SA (1/9), 7pm - Tuckasegee Boys, bluegrass. $5/$3 children under 12. J.e. broYHill civic center 1913 Hickory Blvd. SE, Lenior, broyhillcenter.com • SA (1/9), 7:30pm - Showcase of Stars Series: Dailey & Vincent, bluegrass. $26/$11 students & children. music At wcu 227-2479, wcu.edu • TH (1/14), 8pm - Waka Flocka Flame, rap. $15/$10 advance. Held in the Ramsey Center. pubsing 254-1114 • 2nd SUNDAYS, 6-8pm - Gospel jam and sing-along. Optional snack time at 5:30pm. Free to attend. Held at French Broad Brewery, 101 Fairview Road

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celebrAtion singers of AsHeville 230-5778, singasheville.org • TH (1/7), 5:30pm - Open auditions for singers grade 2 through high school. Contact for full guidelines: 230-5778. Free to attend. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. flAt rock plAYHouse studio 52 1855 Little River Road, Flat Rock, 693-3517, frpstudio52.org • FR (1/8), 4-7pm & SA (1/9), 10am-4pm Open auditions for the musical James and the Giant Peach. Contact for guidelines.

oleAnnA: 35below starts off their season with the powerful and provocative drama, Oleanna. This modern classic, by playwright David Mamet, examines power, language, relations and perception through the interactions between a young, uncertain college student and her professor. According to 35below Oleanna is “sure to engage and enrage and to provoke discussion long after the stunning ending.” Photo courtesy of 35below (p. 43)

Art sip And doodle (pd.) “everyone leaves with a painting” Sip your favorite drink and have fun painting. Ask about - Private Parties (Birthday, Anniversary, etc.) $25.00 with this AD. (828) 712-1288 AppAlAcHiAn pAstel societY appalachianpastelsociety.org • SA (1/9), 10am-noon - “Swap and Shop,” general meeting, swap artwork and shop for artwork. Free to attend. Held at Grace Community Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River

AsHeville AreA Arts council 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • FR (1/8), 3pm - Workshop on taxes and accounting for artists, musicians and creatives. Free. • TU (1/12), 10am - Artist Business Brainstorm: “Ask Me Anything,” with executive director Kitty Love. Registration required. Free. HickorY museum of Art 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 327-8576 • SA (1/9), 7:30pm - “An Evening with Steve McCurry,” artist reception, presentation and Q&A. Part of the Unexpected Beauty: Views

35below 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (1/8) until (1/24) - Oleanna. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $15. AsHeville communitY tHeAtre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • SA (1/9), 7:30pm - It Goes Without Saying, off Broadway production by Bill Bowers. $25.

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themagnetictheatre.org • Through SU (2/7) - One act play submissions accepted for the Brief Encounters 2016 series. See website for guidelines. Free.

375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (1/7) until (1/16), 7:30pm - Beer and How To Drink It. $24/$21 advance.

g al l e ry Di r e c t o ry AsHeville Art museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • MO (12/21) through SU (2/14) - Collectors’ Circle: Celebrating Recent Gifts, exhibit features recent art gifts to the museum. buncombe countY public librAries buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • SA (1/9), 5-7pm - Winter Blooms, a bit of summer in January, retrospective photo exhibit of the West Asheville Garden Stroll. Opening reception: Jan. 9, 5-7pm. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Rd. odYsseY cooperAtive Art gAllerY 238 Clingman Ave, 285-9700, facebook.com/ odysseycoopgallery • FR (1/1) through SU (1/31) - Ceramic

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clubland Pisgah Brewing Company The Big Deal Band (old-time, bluegrass), 6pm

Wednesday, January 6 185 King Street Movie night, 8pm

Room IX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

Ben’s Tune-Up Woody Wood & The Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 6pm

5 Walnut Wine Bar Dave Dribbon (Americana), 5pm Les Amis (African folk music), 8pm

Sanctuary Brewing Company You Knew Me When, 7:30pm

Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Acoustic Swing, 7pm

Ben’s Tune-Up Honky-tonk Wednesdays w/ Hearts Gone South, 7pm

Scandals Nightclub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

Blue Ridge Taproom Asheville Drum Circle (bring your drums!), 6pm

Black Mountain Ale House Play to Win game night, 7:30pm

Sly Grog Lounge Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more welcome), 8pm

Boiler Room Rebirth 29 (underground techno), 10pm

Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Open mic, 7pm Bywater Billy Cardine & North of Too Far Downs, 8pm Club Eleven on Grove Asheville Mardi Gras presents Twelfth Night (dance party, Mardi Gras king & queen crowning), 7pm Double Crown Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm Foggy Mountain Brewpub Redleg Husky (folk), 9pm Funkatorium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm Good Stuff Karaoke!, 6pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern Fred Eaglesmith’s Traveling Steam Show (alt-country, rock ’n’ roll), 8pm Grind Cafe Trivia night, 7pm

KEEPING IT REAL: Hailing from the foothills around Elkin, North Carolina, the Americana, folk-rock quintet Time Sawyer focuses its songwriting on “real people and real songs,” according to a press release on the band. Since its first incarnation in 2010, the band has been featured on WNCW’s “Top 20 Regional Albums” and played in countless venues across the state. Time Sawyer brings its brand of highenergy grassroots folk to 185 King Street in Brevard on January 8, beginning at 8 p.m. Photo by Larry Laughter/LL2 Productions Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm One Stop Deli & Bar The Apes of Wrath (jam, rock), 10pm Orange Peel GiddyUP! Film Tour (bike films), 7:30pm

Highland Brewing Company Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm

Room IX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

Jack of the Wood Pub Old-time session, 5pm Honky-tonk dance party w/ Hearts Gone South, 9pm

Sly Grog Lounge Word Night (trivia-ish), 8pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

Lazy Diamond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm Lex 18 Andrew J. Fletcher (barrelhouse piano), 7pm Lobster Trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm Mountain Mojo Coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm Native Kitchen & Social Pub Catilin Cook, 6:30pm Noble Kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm O.Henry’s/The Underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm Odditorium Sean Patton (comedy), 9pm Off the Wagon Piano show, 9pm Olive or Twist

Dance Party w/ DJ Shy-Guy, 10pm

Scully’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

Timo’s House “Spectrum AVL” w/ DamGood & rotating DJs, 9pm

Double Crown 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

Town Pump Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 9pm

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

Trailhead Restaurant and Bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon (bluegrass, old-time, folk), 6pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm White Horse Black Mountain Eric Sommer, 7:30pm

Foggy Mountain Brewpub Blue Fox (blues), 9pm French Broad Brewery Matt Walsh (rock, blues), 6pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern Legendary Open Mic (comedy, poetry, all genres welcome), 7pm Jack of the Wood Pub Bluegrass jam, 7pm

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Sol Bar New Mountain World Wednesdays, 8pm Asheville Drum & Bass Collective presents Axiom Launch Party w/ ADBC residents, 9pm

Lex 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (romantic jazz), 7pm

5 Walnut Wine Bar Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8pm

Lobster Trap Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm

TallGary’s at Four College Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm

Barley’s Taproom AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm

Market Place Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

Ben’s Tune-Up The All-Arounders (blues), 7pm

O.Henry’s/The Underground Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am

The Block Off Biltmore Eddie Cabbage & Stevie Lee Combs w/ Poetry on Demand (Americana, folk, blues), 7:30pm the dugout Karaoke, 8pm

Black Mountain Ale House Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Gene Holdway (Americana, bluegrass, folk), 7pm

Odditorium Sea of Storms (punk), 9pm Off the Wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

Sol Bar New Mountain Open Mic Nights w/ Arjay Sutton & Melissa Blazen (folk, singersongwriter), 6pm

Catawba Brewing South Slope Fireside Fridays w/ Fireside Collective (bluegrass, Americana), 5pm

Southern Appalachian Brewery Nitrograss (bluegrass), 7pm

Classic Wineseller Daniel Shearin (folk, rock, world), 7pm

Spring Creek Tavern Open Mic, 6pm

Cork & Keg The Barsters (bluegrass, old-time, acoustic), 8:30pm

TallGary’s at Four College Open mic w/ Datrian Johnson, 7pm The Block Off Biltmore Jason DeCristofaro Trio w/ Calen Gayle, 6:30pm The Social Lounge 80s night w/ DJ Kyuri on vinyl, 8pm Timo’s House Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 10pm Trailhead Restaurant and Bar Cajun & western swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm Twisted Laurel Karaoke, 8pm White Horse Black Mountain Steel City Jug Slammers w/ The Carolina Cud Chewers (vintage Southern music), 7:30pm Wxyz Lounge at Aloft Hotel Fireside Trio (bluegrass, Americana), 8pm

Friday, January 8 Asheville Drum Circle (all welcome), 6pm 185 King Street Time Sawyer w/ Clint Roberts (folk-rock), 8pm 5 Walnut Wine Bar Firecracker Jazz Band (hot jazz), 9pm

Buxton Hall BBQ Velvet & Lace w/ DJ Dr. Filth (dark classics, benefit), 10pm

Olive or Twist Dance lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 8pm DJ Mike (eclectic mix, requests), 8:30pm

The Social Lounge Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm

Club Eleven on Grove Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm

One Stop Deli & Bar Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm

Asheville Music Hall Jahman Brahman w/ Third Nature & Sassafraz (jam, rock), 9:45pm

The Southern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm

Creekside Taphouse Singer-songwriter night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm

Pack’s Tavern Hope Griffin (acoustic folk), 9pm

Athena’s Club Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

The Joint Next Door Bluegrass jam, 8pm The Phoenix Jazz night, 8pm

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Crow & Quill Pamela Jones (lounge act), 9pm Double Crown DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm Foggy Mountain Brewpub Riyen Roots & Dore w/ Jacqueline Terry (blues, Americana), 10pm French Broad Brewery Shaun Peace Band (funk, reggae), 6pm Good Stuff Chris Jamison (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 9pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern Remembering Kayah (benefit), 7pm Highland Brewing Company Daniello Magic Arkestra (singersongwriter, experimental, rock ’n’ roll), 7pm Isis Restaurant and Music Hall An evening w/ Dulci Ellenberger & friends (folk, pop), 7pm Free For All Friday w/ The Hermit Kings (indie, rock), 9pm Jack of the Wood Pub Jakobs Ferry Stragglers (Appalachian bluegrass, mountain music), 9pm Jerusalem Garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm Lazy Diamond Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm Lex 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (romantic jazz), 6:30pm Lenny Pettinelli (pop, jazz), 9:45pm Lobster Trap Hot Point Trio (jazz), 6:30pm Market Place The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm

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Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson in Quentin Tarantino’s funny, violent, bloody, profane Western whodunit the Hateful eight.

The Hateful Eight HHHHH DirEctor: Quentin tarantino PLayErS: samuel l. Jackson, Kurt russell, Jennifer Jason leigh, Walton goggins, demian birchir, tim roth, michae; madsen, bruce dern, James parks comEDy Drama WHoDunit rated r tHE Story: eight people — all with secrets and hidden motives — are trapped in a cabin in a snowstorm. tHE LoWDoWn: a sprawling, darkly funny Western that’s really more of a whodunit than a Western. violent, bloody, provocative, likely to upset

some audiences and one of the best films of the year. Whatever else it is — and it is many things — Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight is an event. I am not referring to the arrogance of the “roadshow” version and all the hoo-hah over seeing it in 70mm. No. Those are gimmicks that ultimately have about as much meaning as putting parsley on fish. I’m talking about the film itself. With most movies that come our way, you go to see them, you enjoy them or not, you go outside afterwards and just return to normal. Two or three times a year — if you’re very lucky — something special comes

along that leaves you with a different feeling. The Hateful Eight is such a film. Love it or hate it, you leave the theater feeling you’ve really seen something. It won’t allow you to shrug and just go back to normal. Why? Perhaps because it’s not a normal movie. Truth is, it’s not even a normal Tarantino movie. And yet it is a Tarantino movie every inch of the way — possibly his best. It’s long — maybe longer than it needs to be. Some will be put off by the relative slowness of its first half. It’s talky with people tending to go off on speechified arias of often astonishing profanity. It’s violent and bloody and deliberately confrontational and provocative. It is also

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playful and clever and disturbingly funny. (Tarantino rarely forgets that a movie is supposed to be entertaining.) In these regards, The Hateful Eight is indeed a Tarantino picture. Underneath it all, though, is the most political film Tarantino has made — one that thwarts every expectation it sets for itself, starting with the whole 70mm Ultra Panavision format. Rather than the epic Western suggested by the format, Tarantino applies it to a mostly confined interior that on the surface at least gives us something like a gigantic widescreen version of an old-fashioned mystery play like Seven Keys to Baldpate. It sounds screwy. Actually, it’s brilliant. The set-up is classic mystery material with a group of travelers seeking shelter in advance of a storm at what qualifies as a kind of old dark house. In this case, the house in question is a way-station — named, for no apparent reason, Minnie’s Haberdashery — in Wyoming a few years after the Civil War. The travelers in question are bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) — complete with a few thousand dollars’ worth of wanted-dead-or-alive corpses — bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his quarry Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and a man, Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), claiming to be an incoming sheriff. When they arrive at their location, they find a variety of other characters already in residence — a Mexican caretaker named Bob (Demian Bichir), professional hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth), enigmatic Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) and embittered Confederate General Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern). They also find a mysteriously broken front door (which also provides a running gag) and other small abnormalities. What they do not find is Minnie or any of the characters Major Warren expected to find. Something is clearly not right. As John Ruth notes, someone is not who he claims to be — maybe more than one someone. And things will get a lot less right before this is over. The first half is all build-up. There are intimations that this is more a mystery than a traditional Western early on, but it’s in the second half — when Tarantino pops up as narrator to clue us in on something that happened that we didn’t see in the first half — that it kicks in as a full-blown mystery. And it’s one wildly entertaining mystery and a wildly entertaining movie. It’s rich and dense and no end cinematic (it may be in one room, but don’t be fooled by that, and pay attention to the compositions and nuances). But more,

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it’s also a profoundly disturbing look at racism in America (among other things, including the power of myths) — made all the more unsettling by pushing all the right buttons without pretending to have the answers. Rated R for strong bloody violence, a scene of violent sexual content, language and some graphic nudity. Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@mountainx.com

Carol

HHHHS Director: Todd Haynes Players: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, John Magaro romantic drama Rated R The Story: Romance between an older woman and a younger one in the early 1950s. The Lowdown: Beautifully crafted, meticulously detailed, wonderfully performed, yet somehow a little too cool to work quite as well as it should. I’ve watched Todd Haynes’ Carol twice now. While I liked it better the second time — and think I misjudged one aspect of it the first time — I’m still not on board with the lovefest over it. Oh, it’s a good movie, and it’s an appealing work on many levels. Certainly, it’s gorgeous to look at in all its glorious 1952-period detail and tastefully burnished color, all enhanced by Carter Burwell’s musical score. The mannered, classical look of the filmmaking itself is a treat. Moreover, Rooney Mara’s performance is a delicious blend of unworldly naïveté and her understanding more than the era and her background should deem possible. And then there’s Cate Blanchett haughtily — and effectively — sailing through the film with the kind of movie star chic quality we don’t really see much of anymore. (I think that affects a lot of the acclaim the film has gotten.) She walks into the frame and, effortlessly, just takes over. But ... there’s still something missing here for me. Carol stirs my intellect and my aesthetic sense, but it never really touches me emotionally. That’s a significant drawback for what is essentially a soap opera — a cerebral,

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HHHHH = max rating classy one, with a lesbian angle that gives it a different slant, but still a soap opera (that is not a slam). The first time I saw the film, my reaction was that it was Todd Haynes making another ersatz Douglas Sirk-Ross Hunter 1950s soaper, much like he did with Far from Heaven back in 2002. (That, in itself, isn’t entirely fair to Far from Heaven.) And I think that was wrong. It doesn’t really look like one of those generally over-lit 1950s movies. It has its own look — that of a movie taking place in 1952, not of a movie made in 1952. But, more to the point, the tone is different. There’s no sense of mocking the audience the way there is in the Sirk movies, no sense that the filmmaker feels superior to the material. And there is certainly no glitz for its own sake. Carol is more akin to the work of John M. Stahl (some of whose films Sirk remade) in the 1930s: straightforward and honestly believing in the material. I like that. I admire that. I only wish it connected with me more emotionally than it does. Carol is adapted (by Phyllis Nagy) from a novel, The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith, which was Highsmith’s imagining of what might have been had there been any follow-through after a moment she shared with a shop girl in a department store. (That is a pretty romantic idea for a book.) In the film version, we’re introduced to Carol Aird (Blanchett) and Therese Belivet (Mara) when they’re meeting at the Ritz late in their story. At this point, the significance of what we see is unclear. The film then returns to their first encounter in the toy department of a high-toned store around Christmas time. The two women are obviously attracted from the onset — something that is allowed a follow-up since Carol accidentally (?) leaves her gloves behind on the counter. What follows details their romance, which will ultimately take us back to that first scene (at which time all the nuances of that scene become clear) and beyond. What distinguishes the film from a standard romantic drama is that it’s a tale of same-sex romance that’s taking place in a world far removed from our own — a world where such a relationship was barely even talked about. That means that not only is everything couched in code and insinuation for the world at large, but the two women are cagey even with each other about their desires. The nature of the flirtations and the courtship is fascinating, yet always recognizable for what’s going on beneath the surface. But something about it keeps me at a distance (and, no, it’s not just the somewhat trite divorce-and-mother-love dramatics that are used to propel the story). The truth is the only time I really felt anything was at the film’s ending —

which is one of the finest things I saw all year — and I only wish I felt that way about more of the film. So, am I recommending Carol? Oh, yes. It’s too well-made to ignore, and it may connect more deeply with you than it did me. The performances alone (with the exception of Jake Lacy, who is now three-forthree with me for performances even Geppetto would find wooden) make it worthwhile, but there’s more than that to it. That it didn’t quite achieve greatness for me is a letdown, sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worthwhile. Rated R for a scene of sexuality-nudity and brief language. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas and Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@mountainx.com

The Revenant HHHS

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Players: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Forrest Goodluck historical western Rated R The Story: Fact-based tale of survival in the wilderness of 1820s American frontier. The Lowdown: Technically marvelous, but emotionally it’s pretty much a dreary dead end. It is tempting to call Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant a disappointment. The problem is that I was having trouble understanding what all the fuss over the trailer was about in the first place. So for me it’s less a disappointment than it’s exactly what I expected. It’s a very long, beautifully crafted, rather gray movie. It is without a doubt a cinematic tour de force, showing off Iñárritu’s penchant for grueling long takes and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki’s ability to film them (or at least offer a convincing simulation of them). Oh, it’s not as elaborate as the sin-

gle-take illusion of last year’s Birdman, but its visual panache — aided no end by an extensive use of wideangle lenses that enhance the scope and give the film a mildly surreal feeling — is undeniable. As a technical exercise, The Revenant is hard to fault — and that will doubtless be enough for some. As compelling drama, it’s on less firm ground. It is most assuredly no Birdman — not in the least because here Iñárritu has lost all sense of playfulness and we’re back to the unrelenting grimness of Biutiful (2010). Based in part on historical events and on the novel by Michael Punke, Iñárritu and horror movie scribe Mark L. Smith have created an 1820s survivalist nightmare with revenge at its center and duplicity aplenty. The situation is that real life Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) — the explorer guide of a group of fur trappers — was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by the men set to watch him. Only afterwards, did Glass manage to make his way through a couple hundred miles of wilderness and disabuse them of their mistake. (He was apparently none too pleased.) That much appears to be reasonably authentic, but the stakes have been upped for dramatic purposes — and for some mystical trappings. (The following might be termed spoilers for those sensitive to such things, though I’d hardly call these things plot twists.) Presumably abandonment wasn’t enough, so Glass has been given a dead Pawnee wife (excellent for flashbacks and visions) and a living son, Hawk (Forrest Goodluck), by her. This allows Glass’ nemesis John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) — a thoroughly unlikable charac-

ter who mumbles most of his dialogue — to murder Hawk — in front of the helpless Glass — in order to leave the supposedly dying man to his fate. Now it’s really about revenge. The bulk of the film concerns the whole business of survival and revenge. According to Iñárritu, what he was after was to see what a man stripped of everything is capable of. Fine, I suppose, but this runs smack up against the question of whether or not the audience has been given the slightest reason to care about Glass. We’ve been given little characterization in the early scenes, and after the bear attack we’re given even less. It sounds glib, but a good deal of The Revenant really does consist of little more than a bloodied, matted, lumbering, grunting, presumably smelly Leonardo DiCaprio staggering through the gray wilderness as abuse after abuse is heaped on him. Apparently, Iñárritu really put his actors, his technicians and himself through the wringer to make this film. It was an endurance test for everyone — and now it becomes a similar test for the audience. But to what end? There’s just nothing and no one here to be invested in. It’s a lot of work — for little, if any, benefit. I’m not calling The Revenant a bad film. As I noted, as pure filmmaking, it’s amazing. On any other level, however, there’s just not much there. Rated R for strong frontier combat and violence including gory images, a sexual assault, language and brief nudity. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed bY ken HAnke kHAnke@ mountAinx.com

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The Forest A bunch of folks you never heard of before (and may well never hear of again) got together and made the cut to be the first movie of the year — almost invariably not an accolade to be desired. This one’s a horror picture (of course) and we’re told it’s set “against the backdrop of Japan’s Aokigahara forest, where people go to end their lives, an American woman braves the mysterious, uncharted terrain to search for her missing sister.” (pg-13)

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Famous FrienDs: The series Highston stars 2015 Warren Wilson College graduate Lewis Pullman, center, and his imagined celebrity friends Shaquille O’Neal, left, and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Amazon Studios has picked up the comedy for an entire season. Photo courtesy of Amazon Studios. • On Dec. 18, Amazon Studios announced that it will produce an entire season (five to nine episodes) of the comedy Highston, starring 2015 Warren Wilson College graduate lewis pullman. The show follows Highston Liggetts, whom the official summary describes as “a kind and curious 19-yearold struggling to find his place in a world he doesn’t quite understand. To help him cope, Highston imagines a constantly changing roster of celebrity friends who provide him with comfort and advice — much to the concern of his bewildered but empathetic extended family.” The show also stars mary lynn rajskub (24) and chris parnell (Saturday Night Live) as Highton’s parents. The pilot episode, written by bob nelson (Nebraska), directed by the team of jonathan dayton and valerie faris (Little Miss Sunshine) and featuring guest appearances from shaquille o’neal and flea (The Red Hot Chili Peppers), is available to watch for free online. Once the season is completed, it will be available for free to Amazon Prime users. Others may purchase individual episodes or the entire season. avl. mx/243 • The GiddyUP Film Tour brings its collection of thrilling mountain bike cinema to The Orange Peel Wednesday, Jan. 6, at 6:30 p.m. The event’s first hour offers an opportunity to connect with the local riding community while browsing the latest gear and discussing

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riding plans for the upcoming season. The screening begins at 7:30 p.m., and proceeds benefit the Amy D Foundation. The nonprofit organization, created in honor of the late cyclist amy alison dombroski, empowers girls and young women in the sport. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of the show. theorangepeel.net • Asheville bluegrass quartet Tellico was slated to perform at Arden’s Moonlight Mile studio in November. The set was to be filmed as the final part of joe Kendrick’s and tony preston’s third episode of Southern Songs and Stories. The rest of the footage from the series was also slated to be screened that night for attendees. The show was postponed when lead singer anya hinkle became ill the day of the event and has now been rescheduled for Sunday, Jan. 17, at 6 p.m. The documentary features scenes from Tellico performances in Franklin and Asheville as well as Hinkle in a trio setting in Floyd, Va. The episode also includes interview footage of all four band members in separate settings, plus chats with legendary fiddler arvil freeman and musicians mac traynham, jackson cunningham and galen Kipar. The event is the primary fundraiser for producing the film, and only 50 seats are available. Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 the day of the show. They may be purchased online or by calling 704-300-9776. southernsongsandstories.com X

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Spring Symphony HHH director: peter scHAmoni plAYers: Nastassja Kinski, Rolf Hoppe. Herbert Gronemeyer, Anja-Christine Preussler, Edda Seippel biopic Rated PG-13 Reasonably accurate (with a modicum of subtext that’s so slight as to be almost nonexistent) account of the early years of composer Robert Schumann (Herbert Groenemeyer) and Clara Wieck (Nasstassja Kinski). Spring Symphony (1983) is the sort of biopic that gives biopics a bad name. It runs no risks and is so intent not to offend anyone that it barely seems to exist as a movie in its own right — and ends up feeling like some sort of ephemeral TV special. Apart from Ms. Kinski, most of the cast is unlikely to be known to U.S. audiences. Herbert Gronemeyer, who plays Schumann, is, frankly, a puddingfaced bore and scarcely able to carry a film, much less convince us of either his genius or his passion for young Clara. It’s not sanitized exactly like a 1940s Hollywood biopic, but it’s certainly bland. Worst of all, though, is the fact that it has absolutely no feeling for the music. It’s sometimes nice to look at, and (I guess) it gets points as a safe thumbnail sketch, but that’s faint praise for this pedestrian movie. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Spring Symphony Sunday, Jan. 10, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen In Dreams Thursday, May 1 at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

The Church HHHH director: Michele Soavi (Cemetery Man) Players: Hugh Quarshie, Tomas Arana, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Barbara Cupisiti, Asia Argento Horror Rated NR Michele Soavi’s 1989 film was originally intended to be part of producer and cowriter Dario Argento’s loosely connected Demons movies. While it retains elements of those films — especially contagious possessions and trapping the cast in a single location — it is mostly its own beast. And a very curious beast it is. Like most Italian horror, it doesn’t make a lot of sense, nor does it try to. It’s mostly a collection of fairly grisly horror scenes hooked together by a slim plot concerning the awakening of demons imprisoned beneath the foundations of an old church. Visually, the film is very striking, and it manages to build a strong sense of dread. But viewers expecting a film on a par with Soavi’s Cemetery Man (1994) may be somewhat disappointed. It is fair to say, however, that The Church offers its own stylish — and silly — horror delights. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Church Thursday, Jan. 7, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Scott Douglas. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Love on the Run Friday, May 2, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com.

The Plainsman HHHHS director: Cecil B. DeMille Players: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess, Porter Hall “HistoricAl” western Rated NR Yes, Wild Bill Hickok (Gary Cooper), Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur) and Buffalo Bill Cody (James Ellison) really existed. For that matter, so did a lot of the characters in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Plainsman (1936), but nearly every connection to reality ends there — and the film is pretty upfront about it. Right after its impressively grand opening credits (just like a Star Wars “chapter” heading), we get a title informing us, “Among the men who thrust forward America’s frontier were Wild Bill Hickock and Buffalo Bill Cody. The story that follows compresses many years, many lives and widely separated events into one narrative — in an attempt to do justice to the courage of The Plainsman of our West.” In other words, they took some real people and made the rest up out of legend and dubious history, along with a large dose of Hollywoodization of the sort DeMille is so rightly praised and damned for. (And, no, it is very much not P.C. in its 1936 depiction of Native Americans.) It’s also one of DeMille’s best movies, occasionally (like the last shot) achieving the truly mythical. And both Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur are everything movie stars should be. The Asheville Film Society will screen The Plainsman Tuesday, Jan. 12, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke.

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diRECTOR OF PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND WELLNESS OPPORTUniTY AVAiLABLE AT GAiA HERBS The Organization: Gaia Herbs is the leading brand of herbal products in North America, and is growing rapidly. We take great pride in the purity, integrity, and potency of our products, and operate a manufacturing facility and state of the art laboratory on our 350 acre Certified Organic farm in Brevard, North Carolina. Committed to fostering healthy connections between plants and people, both through our efforts with our team and our seed to shelf products, and through our work championing environmental and social sustainability worldwide in our 29 years of business, we recognize that our people are at the heart of the Gaia Herbs brand. For more information about Gaia Herbs, please visit www. GaiaHerbs.com The Role: The Director of People, Culture, and Wellness is an executive-level position responsible for designing, implementing and managing innovative human resources initiatives that attract, develop, engage, support and retain a high-performing staff in a culture of continuous improvement, learning and excellence. This leader embodies and promotes our mission, vision, and values, while ensuring that employment practices comply with all applicable federal and state laws. This role sets the tone for organizational communication, and also acts as a liaison between Gaians in all of our locations. The Director of People, Culture, and Wellness is responsible for supporting a vibrant, thriving Gaia Herbs team and culture by driving world class strategies and systems. Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university • Minimum of 10 years of broad and progressive HR and/or Organizational Development responsibilities, preferably in manufacturing, bio-tech, or dietary supplement industry

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business, we recognize that our people are at the heart of the Gaia Herbs brand. For more information about Gaia Herbs, please visit www. GaiaHerbs.com We are currently seeking a Manufacturing Operations Director – Liquid Phyto Cap and Liquid Lines. This role will provide management and oversight of all Operations activities in the organization. This position is responsible for ensuring products are manufactured to Standard Operating Procedures in compliance to cGMP regulations—while meeting demand. A critical component of this position will also be to understand Operational bottlenecks and address them proactively to prevent any negative variances to Corporate or Operational Strategic Goals. This position will also assist the executive team in the development and formulation of short and long term planning, policies, and operational objectives and will possess managerial leadership of Automated Process Flow systems from raw material to finished product. This role will provide direction to department managers to accomplish goals of the manufacturing plan. The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, functional knowledge of botanical manufacturing with five (5) years’ of experience (including working in cGMP environment) and the following competencies: leadership, performance management, project management, communication proficiency, technical capacity, business acumen, and problem solving. Preferred qualifications include: ISO experience, skill sets such as 5-Why, Cause-andEffect analysis, Value Stream Mapping, or similar techniques, and 6-Sigma Green Belt certification. http:// www.gaiaherbs.com/

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freewill astroloGY Aries (march 21-April 19): John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. His novel Of Mice and Men helped win him the award, but it required extra persistence. When he'd almost finished the manuscript, he went out on a date with his wife. While they were gone, his puppy Toby ripped his precious pages into confetti. As mad as he was, he didn't punish the dog, but got busy on a rewrite. Later he considered the possibility that Toby had served as a helpful literary critic. The new edition of Of Mice and Men was Steinbeck's breakout book. I'm guessing that in recent months you have received comparable assistance, Aries — although you may not realize it was assistance until later this year.

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tAurus (April 20-may 20): Remember back to what your life was like during the first nine months of 2004. I suspect that you fell just short of fulfilling a dream. It's possible you were too young to have the power you needed. Or maybe you were working on a project that turned out to be pretty good but not great. Maybe you were pushing to create a new life for yourself but weren't wise enough to make a complete breakthrough. Almost 12 years later, you have returned to a similar phase in your long-term cycle. You are better equipped to do what you couldn't quite do before: create the masterpiece, finish the job, rise to the next level. gemini (may 21-June 20): To become a skillful singer, you must learn to regulate your breath. You've got to take in more oxygen than usual for extended periods, and do it in ways that facilitate rather than interfere with the sounds coming out of your mouth. When you're beginning, it feels weird to exert so much control over an instinctual impulse, which previously you've done unconsciously. Later, you have to get beyond your self-conscious discipline so you can reach a point where the proper breathing happens easily and gracefully. Although you may not be working to become a singer in 2016, Gemini, I think you will have comparable challenges: 1. to make conscious an activity that has been unconscious; 2. to refine and cultivate that activity; 3. to allow your consciouslycrafted approach to become unselfconscious again. cAncer (June 21-July 22): Ancient humans didn't "invent" fire, but rather learned about it from nature and then figured out how to produce it as needed. Ropes had a similar origin. Our ancestors employed long vines made of tough fiber as primitive ropes, and eventually got the idea to braid and knot the vines together for greater strength. This technology was used to hunt, climb, pull, fasten, and carry. It was essential to the development of civilization. I predict that 2016 will bring you opportunities that have metaphorical resemblances to the early rope. Your task will be to develop and embellish on what nature provides. leo (July 23-Aug. 22): British author Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) had a day job with the postal service until he was in his fifties. For years he awoke every morning at 5:30 and churned out 2,500 words before heading to work. His goal was to write two or three novels a year, a pace he came close to achieving. "A small daily task, if it really be daily," he wrote in his autobiography, "will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules." I recommend that you borrow from his strategy in 2016, Leo. Be regular and disciplined and diligent as you practice the art of gradual, incremental success. virgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): Umbrellas shelter us from the rain, saving us from the discomfort of getting soaked and the embarrassment of bad hair. They also protect us from the blinding light and sweltering heat of the sun. I'm very much in favor of these practical perks. But when umbrellas appear in your nightly dreams, they may have a less positive meaning. They can indicate an inclination to shield yourself from natural forces, or to avoid direct contact with primal sensuality. I hope you won't do much of that

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in 2016. In my opinion, you need a lot of face-to-face encounters with life in its raw state. Symbolically speaking, this should be a non-umbrella year. librA (sept. 23-oct. 22): Around the world, an average of 26 languages go extinct every year. But it increasingly appears that Welsh will not be one of them. It has enjoyed a revival in the past few decades. In Wales, it's taught in many schools, appears on road signs, and is used in some mobile phones and computers. Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Libra? A tradition that can be revitalized and should be preserved? A part of your heritage that may be useful to your future? A neglected aspect of your birthright that deserves to be reclaimed? Make it happen in 2016. scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21): Fourteenth-century author Geoffrey Chaucer produced a collection of stories known as The Canterbury Tales. It became a seminal text of English literature even though he never finished it. The most influential book ever written by theologian Thomas Aquinas was a work he gave up on before it was completed. The artist Michelangelo never found the time to put the final touches on numerous sculptures and paintings. Why am I bringing this theme to your attention? Because 2016 will be an excellent time to wrap up long-term projects you've been working on — and also to be at peace with abandoning those you can't. sAgittArius (nov. 22-dec. 21): A bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc wine from 1947 sold for $304,000. Three bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1869 went for $233,000 apiece. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior like that. But here's a more mundane fact: Most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few years of being bottled. I'm thinking about these things as I meditate on your long-term future, Sagittarius. My guess is that your current labor of love will reach full maturity in the next 18 to 20 months. This will be a time to bring all your concentration and ingenuity to bear on making it as good as it can be. By September of 2017, you will have ripened it as much as it can be ripened. cApricorn (dec. 22-Jan. 19): In her poem "Tree," California poet Jane Hirshfield speaks of a young redwood tree that's positioned next to a house. Watch out! It grows fast — as much as three feet per year. "Already the first branch-tips brush at the window," Hirshfield writes. "Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life." I suspect this will be an apt metaphor for you in 2016. The expansion and proliferation you have witnessed these past few months are likely to intensify. That's mostly good, but may also require adjustments. How will you respond as immensity taps at your life? AQuArius (Jan. 20-feb. 18): Centuries ago, lettuce was a bitter, prickly weed that no one ate. But ancient Egyptians guessed its potential, and used selective breeding to gradually convert it into a tasty food. I see 2016 as a time when you could have a comparable success. Look around at your life, and identify weed-like things that could, through your transformative magic, be turned into valuable assets. The process may take longer than a year, but you can set in motion an unstoppable momentum that will ensure success. pisces (feb. 19-march 20): Imagine that a beloved elder has been writing down your life story in the form of a fairy tale. Your adventures aren't rendered literally, as your waking mind might describe them, but rather through dream-like scenes that have symbolic resonance. With this as our template, I'll predict a key plot development of 2016: You will grow increasingly curious about a "forbidden" door — a door you have always believed should not be opened. Your inquisitiveness will reach such an intensity that you will consider locating the key for that door. If it's not available, you may even think about breaking down the door.

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T HE N E W Y ORK TIMES CROSSWORD PU ZZL E ACROSS 1 Brainiac 5 Make a mouse hole, say 9 One of the Baldwins 13 With 40-Down, enter gradually 14 Give a face-lift 15 Taper off 16 Israeli P.M. before Ariel Sharon 18 Honda Accord, e.g. 19 Mushy fare 20 Fertility clinic cell 21 Slant skyward 22 In a heap 24 See 17-Down 25 Randomizing cube 26 Custard-filled treat 30 Sometimes-pierced body part 31 Worshiper of Jah, for short 32 Can’t do without 34 Play like Phish, say 35 Gladiator’s weapon 39 Word on “Wanted” posters 41 World’s fair, e.g. 42 Luftwaffe attack on the British Midlands, 1940-43 48 Record producer Brian 49 Wino’s affliction, for short

50 Awaken 51 Grp. formed in a 1955 merger 53 Seemingly endless 54 Neckline shape 57 Female warrior in a Disney movie 58 What the ends of 16-, 26- and 42-Across mean in Hebrew, French and German, respectively 60 Taking habitually 61 Woodwind descended from the shawm 62 Locale of many emerging markets 63 Staples of bank counters 64 Fudge, as a rule 65 Org. advocating breathtesting ignition locks DOWN 1 Cry 2 Laugh 3 “It’s possible” 4 End of the Oxford English Dictionary 5 Driveway material 6 Poet Pablo who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature 7 Old Testament patriarch 8 Lo mein vessel 9 Partner of aid 10 Artsy-fartsy, say 11 And others, in footnotes

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