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Will HCA Healthcare serve low-income patients?

Hundreds of articles have been written about the proposed buyout of Mission Hospital by HCA Healthcare.

None of them has talked about whether or not HCA will continue to serve people on Medicaid or Medicare, or those who have no health insurance at all. Mission Hospital, as a nonprofit hospital, must take care of these folks. As a profitmaking organization, HCA can refuse to provide care to any of them.

At the end of a rather long article in the Dec. 30 edition of the Citizen Times — “If Mission Health is Sold to HCA, What Happens to Quality of Care?” — Mission leaders remarked that Medicare and Medicaid do not always cover the actual cost of care. HCA may be able to save some money by merging Mission’s administrative services into theirs, but our region has an exceptionally high number of people who are uninsured or getting their health care through Medicaid and Medicare.

If HCA continues to lose money after purchasing our Mission Hospital system, they will stop providing care to the uninsured first, followed by cutbacks or restrictions on Medicaid and Medicare patients (I assume that they will continue to provide services to Medicare patients as long as they have supplemental insurances to cover what Medicare doesn’t).

This issue is the elephant in the room, an issue that Mission leaders, some medical practitioners and local politicians are reluctant to address. All of

their talk has been on continuing the quality of care, keeping all of Mission’s facilities open in outlying counties and what will happen to the “windfall” of money that HCA will be paying for the Mission system. No one, and I mean no one, is asking whether or not HCA will continue to serve everyone who comes to them for care.

Local politicians are salivating about how they are going to spend the money from this sale that will be managed by a new Dogwood Health Trust. Some of them see it as a windfall to their budgets.

Shouldn’t this money be used instead to pay for the cost of caring for sick children and adults when HCA turns them away because they can’t pay for any or all of their care?

Western North Carolina stands to lose “big time” if our primary health care system becomes a profit-making business. I can guarantee you that HCA will not lose money on this deal. Eventually, after the initial transition, you will begin seeing them turn away people who come to them because they are sick. The devil is in the details — follow the money!

— Mary Ann LaMantia

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tinue to do so. The response: “Yes, HCA Healthcare hospitals provide charity care at all of their locations. In addition, HCA Healthcare led the way for the hospital industry by being the first to provide a discount to uninsured patients who do not qualify for Medicaid or charity care.

HCA Healthcare has one of the most generous charity care policies in the industry, even more generous than Mission Health. HCA Healthcare provides charity care to those below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines and a slidingscale discount with an out-of-pocket cap for those between 200 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty guidelines.

Additionally, HCA Healthcare has interest-free payment arrangements. To best serve patients, HCA Healthcare has experienced financial counselors available to provide estimates prior to receiving care and to answer billing questions following care. HCA Healthcare provided charity care, uninsured discounts and other uncompensated care at a cost of more than $3 billion in 2017.”

Make our voices heard about gerrymandering The map of our gerrymandered congressional district is nearly blatant to the point of satire, if the crude siphoning of half of Asheville into another, not exactly neighboring district didn’t rob us of our voice, fair governance and basic self-determination.

The people of Asheville overwhelmingly favor actual democracy, have little tolerance for discrimination and voter suppression, and favor leaving this beautiful region as a clean and healthy legacy for future generations. Many, in fact, are proud of North Carolina’s history of leadership in renewable energy and see a rededication to creating goodpaying, high-tech jobs as a welcome step toward a true Climate City.

Unfortunately, the representation that this politically rigged maneuver has brought us is grievously antithetical to our modern Western Carolina values.

And a hard core of power-grubbing autocrats based many miles away is fighting fair redistricting tooth and nail, all the way to the Supreme Court.

If we desire democratic rights for ourselves and our children, this is the very moment that we must shed our tendency of quiet civility and shout, collectively, loud enough that the court in Washington is aware that American citizens will accept nothing short of the legacy the Continental Congress intended for us after blood was shed for this nation’s freedom.

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Meadows should focus on WNC flooding Congressman Mark Meadows has been all over the news recently as the head cheerleader for President Trump’s government shutdown dispute over the border wall/slat fence/ bead curtain. During this period of time, Western North Carolina and other areas in the state have been subjected to some serious and repeated flooding issues, which have severely affected both citizens and businesses.

In many locations here in Asheville, the same areas get flooded every time there is heavy rainfall, and this happens in those locations year after year. The same thing happens all over the state.

Strangely enough, I never seem to hear [Meadows] say anything about this being a big problem, and I definitely have not seen either [him] or [his] fellow North Carolina Republican conservatives in Washington doing anything at all to remedy this in order to keep constant and severe flooding from putting the lives of [his] constituents and their homes and businesses in harm’s way.

Anyway, if [he] and [his] fellow North Carolina Republican politicians and President Trump ever get around to opening our federal government again, I hope [he] will consider doing something about the repeated flooding problems which put the lives of us here in North Carolina in danger year after year.

— John Penley Asheville Editor’s note: Xpress contacted Meadows’ spokesman but did not receive a response by press time.

Correction In our Dec. 26 article “Well Done: 10 Topics That Mattered for Health in WNC,” an item about the addiction crisis mentioned a Jan. 11 planned meeting with local officials. On Jan. 4, Assistant City Manager Cathy Ball clarified that the meeting will provide an opportunity for city officials to learn from Buncombe County Health and Human Services Department staffers about strategies for reducing the harms associated with substance abuse. A subsequent meeting (which has not yet been scheduled) is expected to include representatives from The Steady Collective and the Western North Carolina AIDS Project, Ball said. X

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A COMMON HUMANITY In spring 2016, I attended a webcast conference titled Listen for a Change: Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice, hosted by Trinity Episcopal Church in Asheville, and met the people who would become

ple gather in small groups, simply getting to know folks different from themselves and discovering their common humanity.

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Matthew Abrams, left, Meta Commerse, center, and the Rev. Dennis Fotinos the co-founders of our group. This racial healing conference offered vital information. It exposed us to the powerful work of scholars such as Kelly Brown Douglas, Bryan Stevenson, Emilie Townes and others. At the end of the conference, our host, the Rev. Dennis Fotinos, extended an invitation to anyone interested in continuing the discussion. With no idea what form this would take, two of us accepted.

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BY META COMMERSE In 2015, the BBC reported on race relations in the U.S., including survey results that three-quarters of whites don’t have nonwhite friends.

America might be composed of people from everywhere, yet today, as in our early history, we live apart from the “other.”

Americans were first divided by race by the slave codes instituted in Southern colonies in the 1600s. The BBC reminds us that since that era, no federal legislation has reversed racial segregation. “Why Are Cities Still So Segregated?” an NPR program, explores this phenomenon (avl.mx/5jm).

Asheville is promoted as a beautiful vacation destination. But visitors arrive and find a conspicuous absence of people of color at our city’s desirable spaces. Our systemic separation is uninterrupted. It leaves us chronically estranged, ignorant and perhaps even fearful of each other.

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months and became friends. We listened intently to each other’s stories and learned, sometimes painfully, to relate across the lines of race and class. We also discussed new readings, attended other anti-racism meetings and shared this learning. At the end of that time, Matthew asked where our work was headed. That’s when it dawned on me that we had stumbled upon something useful, and I shared my dream.

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I asked my fellow co-founders to reflect on their early experiences with our group. Matthew offered: “Lots of reading and analytical conversations with people of color kept my work on race and privilege purely intellectual.

Once I engaged in deep relationships through sharing stories, I began engaging this work with my heart, making the work more about healing. Today, the benefits I’ve received from The Race Relations Station influence all my relationships with empathy. Now I walk this path free of the shame and defensiveness that showed up before.”

Dennis also shared his thoughts: “Participation in our triad has changed my life. The shared stories, growing trust and relationships began opening my eyes and heart to discover the ‘soul wound’ rooted in my immersion in white privilege. I have become more aware of the incredible pain and suffering that white supremacy has imposed on people of color; how heroically they have resisted, struggled and fought to maintain their courageous humanity.

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journey toward my own soul healing and support social justice work that challenges systemic racism.”

For my own part, I would add that this special effort was natural and organic from start to finish. These new and hardwon relationships have offered me more than hands-on learning. They brought me surprise and real hope for what community wellness can be.

LAUNCHING A PILOT PROJECT The three of us met monthly for 90-minute sessions at convenient locations. We invited others to join our discussion, and two activists, Jim Stokely and Pat Johnson, became part of our planning team. In another six months of organizing, imagining and learning, we decided to test our project in a sixmonth pilot. We hosted an information session in a library meeting room and had more than enough white people attend, but not enough people of color.

So, I cast a net for people of color through two potluck meetings and garnered enough interest among friends to help us launch the project.

We formed four triads, each consisting of one or two white people and one or two people of color, and fostered their new relationships using our tested model. We told them that for six months, we would offer support should they run into difficulty. We provided unifying principles from the Zulu Ubuntu (“I am because we are”) and Don Miguel Ruiz’s Toltec The Four Agreements, each with indigenous or precolonial origins. We also provided a reading list for those desiring more learning.

In those six months, the planning group met consistently. We gathered participants and heard their feedback after three months, then again at the end. Surveying the participants at completion, all reports were substantive. A sampling: “I made good connections with people different from me, who share a concern about race relations.”

“My aim in agreeing to participate was to listen and learn. My triad members helped me do this, and I hope my contributions were as helpful to them as theirs were to me.”

“I was at times offended by a sense of entitlement I saw that I wasn’t able to fully articulate to them.”

“I ... was able to get further clarity about the shame I carry related to my own whiteness.”

DEEPER LEARNING Identity questions may be the deepest anyone can raise on the journey to

wholeness. Will such questions, tangled with emotion hot from generations of silence — compounded by concerns for the healing of coming generations — be triggered as we work to form relationships across race, class and gender divides? Given our history, how can they not? Will we answer these entangled, burning questions as we do this work? I suspect it is possible to find answers through the work, in the way our hearts and minds are changed by these new relationships, in the moments we share our stories, in the parts of ourselves that we make vulnerable and finally permit into the light of day. This is what healers know and historians suspect.

Without full acknowledgment, the haunting problem of systemic racism persists like psychic ghosts. Better put: Where do you live, worship and send your children to school? What do you read? Do you relax and enjoy friendship with people having identity markers different from yours? To name, acknowledge and act upon this problem is to begin the healing.

This harks back to the memory of the activist tradition I saw growing up in an ailing community on Chicago’s South Side — working from within, taking self-inventory, resisting, refusing to give up amid total sociopolitical chaos. We respectfully acknowledge that the history of racism in Asheville is unique. That it has castigated, isolated and silenced its black community.

This is what systemic racism does. We invite black Ashevilleans to work with us. The Station is hardly a panacea; it is one step. We realize that we must earn the trust required to authenticate this invitation.

In our final celebration, the triads discussed their relationships — from formation to the challenges and conflict that they had resolved. One triad suggested attending cultural events together, stating that shared action is another way to help build the inner bridges between our problem and our healing. To grow the project, they suggested we advertise to attract black, young and LGBT participants.

Our work to bring this effort to the community showed us change that begins within. Now we are retooling and reimagining growth that establishes a new norm of equal relationships across artificial lines.

To contact us, visit The Race Relations Station on Facebook, or email us at racerelationstation@gmail.com. X Meta Commerse is an elder independent scholar and transplanted Ashevillean. Her Indigenous Story Medicine draws upon the healing power of story.

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SHELTER FROM THE STORM Local churches open doors and hearts to undocumented immigrants

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During her stay here, he notes, the congregation “developed a relationship with her that was very sweet, very close. It has given us new ties with the immigrant community, and I think they’re going to deepen.”

leslie.boyd@gmail.com Ponkho Bermejo knows a thing or two about privilege.

Growing up in Mexico, he told a gathering of friends at BeLoved Community in Asheville last month, “My mother would have us gather up things we didn’t wear anymore and we would give them to people who needed them, because even though we were poor, we had more than some people. That’s privilege.

Here in the United States I can at least speak English, and I have what I need. That’s privilege.”

After arriving in the U.S. as an adult without the requisite papers, Bermejo traveled around the country before coming to Asheville three years ago. He lives at BeLoved and

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HAPPY PLACE: Ponkho Bermejo sits in the artist studio at BeLoved Asheville. Bermejo is undocumented and, although not formally in sanctuary, he lives with the Rev. Amy Cantrell and her family. Photo by Leslie Boyd offers his talents as artist, musician and teacher free of charge, getting by on whatever folks donate.

The Rev. Amy Cantrell, co-founder of BeLoved, says her church was the first in the region to offer sanctuary, beginning about four years ago.

Today, at least 17 faith communities in Buncombe County and Mars Hill are offering shelter and assistance to immigrants living here without legal papers, according to Melody Pajak of the nonprofit Faith Communities Organizing for Sanctuary.

Churches have been serving as safe spaces since the Middle Ages, though this isn’t formally recognized under federal law. Immigration attorney and activist Marty

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Rosenbluth, who’s practiced with Amnesty International and in North Carolina and Georgia, says that while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents still respect this sanctuary function, they’re not required to do so.

Currently, about a half-dozen people are in sanctuary across North Carolina, according to advocacy groups. And last month, a woman who was being sheltered at the Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Asheville was able to return to her home in WNC after immigration officials told her there was no warrant out for her arrest, says the Rev. Mark Ward.

Last April, when ICE agents came into Buncombe County and began arresting people, many immigrants were afraid to leave home, fearing they would be stopped and taken into custody. Volunteers from BeLoved and other community members mobilized to obtain and pack groceries for delivery to people who were afraid to go out, to check on them, ferry children to and from school and otherwise provide support.

“I never felt more like church than I did that week,” Bermejo recalls, “because that’s what church is supposed to do.”

ICE agents don’t enter churches, schools or hospitals to arrest immigrants who lack the required legal papers, says the Rev. Sara Wilcox, pastor of Land of the Sky United Church of Christ in Asheville. Her church, which Pajak attends, has set up a room for sanctuary, plus one next to it for the volunteers who are there around the clock.

Providing sanctuary isn’t easy, notes Ward, and his congregation had help from all 17 institutions in the group. Besides staying at the church in shifts, volunteers assist with food, clothing, paperwork and other tasks.

Not all such stories have happy endings, however. Samuel OliverBruno, 47, lived in the basement of CityWell United Methodist Church in Durham for 11 months while he petitioned to have his deportation to Mexico delayed. But on Nov. 23, he was told he needed to go to the local field office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a federal agency. As soon as he entered the building, he was taken into custody by plainclothes ICE agents and forced into a waiting car.

His friends gathered around the vehicle and began to pray and sing;

27 people were arrested, and OliverBruno was taken away and deported.

His wife, who is ill, and his grown son remain in the United States.

People in the sanctuary movement rarely use the word “arrested.”

Instead, they speak of immigrants being “taken” or “kidnapped,” since ICE agents accost people at home or while they’re on their way to work or running errands.

“I know people who won’t drive their cars into downtown because they’re afraid of getting stopped or arrested,” says Bermejo. “They feel safer parking outside of downtown and walking in.”

BROADER EFFORTS In North Carolina, four counties (Henderson, Nash, Gaston and Cabarrus) participate in ICE’s 287(g) program, which empowers them to arrest and hold people suspected of violating federal immigration laws until ICE agents can come and get them. In Mecklenburg and Wake counties, newly elected sheriffs have canceled their contracts with the federal agency.

But Bruno Hinojosa, co-director of Compañeros Inmigrantes de las Montañas en Acción, an Ashevillebased immigrant advocacy group, says that other local governments also informally cooperate with ICE in various ways. Hinojosa’s group works to connect, strengthen and organize communities to push for immigrants’ rights in Western North Carolina, and the WNC Sanctuary Movement is really an extension of CIMA’s mission. Sanctuary, says co-director Solange (who goes by one name only), means to serve as a refuge for anyone who’s targeted, including people of color, the LGBTQ and Latino communities as well as immigrants. Efforts include “weaving an intersectionality of protection, active resistance, education, resilience, resources, healing, critical thinking, contemplative action and transformation,” according to the group’s website.

The work goes beyond supporting people currently in sanctuary, in part because no one knows how long ICE will continue to let people stay

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N EWS in churches. “People really are only as safe in sanctuary as ICE will allow them to be,” Wilcox points out. “They know there are consequences if they break down a church door, but that safety is just paper-thin.”

Repeated calls to ICE seeking comment went unanswered; guidance on the agency’s website at press time indicated that the site was not being monitored due to the federal government shutdown.

Deportations were proceeding at a rapid pace even before President Donald Trump took office, both Hinojosa and Solange report. Under President Barack Obama, thousands of people were deported, including parents of small children, a practice that continues under Trump. The N.C. Council of Churches also works on sanctuary, offering help in organizing, forging connections with others in the movement and tips for success.

According to the organization’s website (drawing on a recent report from the Pew Research Center), there are some 8 million undocumented workers in the U.S., including 25 percent of those in agricultural jobs and 15 percent of people in construction trades, and two-thirds of them have lived in this country for more than 10 years.

COMING TOGETHER Faith Communities Organizing for Sanctuary was formed in 2016 before the election to help local families being affected by deportations.

“Nothing that’s happening now is new,” says Solange. “Racism is more overt, yes, but the oppression is old, as is the resistance. ” What is new is the networking within the movement. “It’s people coming together, getting to know each other on a human level,” Solange explains.

“The more exposed we are to people who are not like us, the more we can embrace our differences,” adds Hinojosa.

Ward, meanwhile, says having someone in sanctuary fundamentally changed his congregation’s attitude. “We developed a special relationship with her and learned a lot about her culture. We have friends’ safety at stake now: It’s not just intellectual, it’s personal.”

Wilcox said her church decided to begin offering sanctuary after a committee was formed to investigate what it would entail. Although the church isn’t currently sheltering anyone, the room is ready, and in the meantime parishioners have stepped up to help in other ways.

“During the previous administration and this one, the lack of a humane immigration policy necessitated some measures to protect people,” she explains. “The hope is that we can nurture a wider sanctuary movement, cultivating a commitment to love and respect everyone.” X

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by Daniel Walton | dwalton@mountainx.com VENTURE ASHEVILLE ANNOUNCES 2019 STARTUP MENTEES Sixteen Asheville-area startups will receive intensive personalized support from Venture Asheville as part of the entrepreneurship initiative’s Elevate program. Local business owners will be paired with successful company founders, executives and functional experts to help work through the challenges and opportunities of business growth.

The mentorship cohort represents a diverse array of business models, from nuptial planning service Asheville Wedding Collective to craft ginger beer maker Devil’s Foot Beverage and custom car-lighting installer Sparksmith. Each startup will receive one to two years of monthly mentoring sessions, professional development and investor pitch opportunities.

“The creative, entrepreneurial spirit can get squandered if it is not supported and encouraged.

This is why an organization like Venture Asheville is so important — to support our local economy and to give inspired and motivated entrepreneurs the support and resources needed to pursue their dreams,” said new mentee Sara Stender, founder of the social enterprise 3 Mountains, which sells loose-leaf African tea under the Tima Tea label.

All 16 cohort members will be at Venture Asheville’s upcoming Demo Day on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 4 p.m. at The Collider. Tickets are available through The Collider.

JAN. 15 CHAMBER LUNCHEON TO PROVIDE LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce will host lawmakers and business leaders for a meeting at the Omni Grove

PRINCIPAL OF INTEREST: John Daves will become the new principal of Carolina Day School’s high school program as of July 1.

Photo courtesy of Carolina Day School Park Inn on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 11:30 a.m. The chamber will present its top local, state and federal legislative priorities for 2019, and Vice President of Public Policy Corey Atkins has confirmed that at least seven area legislators will be on hand for a panel discussion.

Jonathan Kappler, executive director of the N.C. Free Enterprise Foundation, will deliver the luncheon’s keynote address to discuss the past election and current politics in Raleigh. Tickets to the event are $55 for chamber members and $65 for the general public (avl.mx/5jn).

MOVERS AND SHAKERS • John Daves will become the new principal at Carolina Day School’s high school program as of Monday, July 1. With a teaching background in English literature and American studies, Daves will come to Carolina Day

from The Pennington School in Pennington, N.J. He will succeed current principal Peggy Daniels, who will retire after five years in the school’s top post.

• Lori Longcoy became the branch manager of United Federal Credit Union’s Fletcher Branch at 3674 Hendersonville Road. Longcoy earned her bachelor’s degree from UNC Asheville and was most recently branch manager at Premier Federal Credit Union.

• EXIT Realty Vistas, an independently owned and operated brokerage located in Arden, added three new members to its sales team: Karen Grooms, Greg Szabo and Robert Pugh.

• Steve Owen & Associates, which has operated as an independent real estate company in Transylvania County since 1999, will merge with Beverly-Hanks & Associates, Realtors. In a press release, managing broker Jeremy Owen said the move would open new opportunities for those selling property in the area.

• Asheville pottery maker East Fork was named a runnerup for Southern lifestyle magazine Garden & Gun’s Made in the South Awards. The publication lauded East Fork’s “museumquality” nesting bowls for their “minimalist, organic beauty.”

• Attorney Jake Farrar has joined The Van Winkle Law Firm’s business practice group.

A graduate of UNC Asheville’s Leadership Asheville program, Farrar also regularly volunteers with local organizations such as Venture Asheville and Mountain BizWorks. X

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Greene reaches plea deal, settles with county The central figure in the corruption scandal that has transfixed Buncombe County government leaders and taxpayers since 2017 has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and a settlement with the county.

Former County Manager Wanda Greene agreed to plead guilty to two counts of federal program fraud, one count of receiving bribes and kickbacks, and one count of making and subscribing a false tax return.

Each count of program fraud, as well as the count of receiving bribes and kickbacks, could lead to a maximum of 10 years imprisonment, a $250,000 fine and no more than three years of supervised release. The count of making a false tax return carries a maximum sentence of three years’ imprisonment, a $250,000 fine and one year of supervised release.

In three indictments released over the last several months, Greene has been of accused of using countyissued purchase cards to make thousands of dollars worth of personal

HEARING HUB: Former County Manager Wanda Greene has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Her plea hearing will occur at 9 a.m. Jan. 16 in the federal courthouse at 100 Otis St. in downtown Asheville. Photo by David Floyd purchases, enriching herself by establishing an employee life insurance program without approval from the Board of Commissioners, and accepting kickbacks from a former county contractor in exchange for favorable consideration.

Prosecutors have also accused her of misstating her taxable income in a tax return submitted for calendar

year 2017 and submitting a Schedule C form claiming to own a business called “Buncombe County,” which she claimed earned no income but incurred more than $37,000 worth of expenses.

Greene’s plea hearing will occur at 9 a.m. Jan. 16 in the federal courthouse at 100 Otis St. in downtown Asheville.

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A $750,000 SETTLEMENT On Jan. 2, the night before the plea deal became public, Buncombe County accepted a $750,000 settlement from Greene.

The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the settlement. Board Chair Brownie Newman told Xpress after the meeting that, pending the discovery of any other alleged misdeeds, the settlement resolves all civil complaints the county has brought against Greene.

The $750,000 total takes into account: • About $242,000 in restitution for money Greene received through the county’s retention incentive program, which the county claims was not approved through proper channels.

• About $176,000 for the purchase of personal items and gift cards using county purchase cards.

• About $221,000 for county funds spent on an employee life insurance program allegedly initiated

by Greene that the county says did not receive proper Board of Commissioners approval.

• About $111,000 for trips and entertainment that Greene allegedly received from contractor Joseph Wiseman Jr. in exchange for favorable consideration on county contracts. Prosecutors claim Wiseman recouped money he spent on these kickbacks by inflating reimbursement requests he submitted to the county. Prosectors have not charged Wiseman with a crime.

With the $750,000 settlement the county accepted on Jan. 2, it has recouped about $2.88 million in losses associated with the alleged corruption.

On Nov. 20, the county accepted a $40,000 settlement from Greene’s son, former county employee Michael Greene. Federal prosecutors charged Greene in April with making about $7,500 in personal purchases with his county-issued purchase card.

“It was discovered that, while he had not been indicted on other matters, the total amount that Buncombe County was probably out by his misdeeds was approximately $38,000,” the county’s attorney for the matter, Ron Payne, told commissioners during the meeting on Nov. 20.

In July, the county agreed to a settlement totaling more than $2 million with Guardian Life Insurance Co., the company prosecutors say Greene used to purchase whole life insurance policies for herself, her son and eight additional county employees. An annuity was purchased for an additional employee. Payne says the settlement reached with Greene makes the county

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BUNCOMBE COUNTY SCHOOLS SCHEDULES MAKEUP DAYS

JOHNSON FARM PRESENTS PROGRAM ON HENDERSON COUNTY SCHOOL HISTORY Local author Terry Ruscin will present a program on the history of Henderson County schools at noon Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Historic Johnson Farm, 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville.

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To make up three missed school days due to snow in December, Buncombe County Schools announced that Tuesday, Jan. 22, will be a full school day for students. Friday, Jan. 18, will be an early release day, and Monday, Jan. 21 will remain a holiday, with no school that day.

The two remaining missed days will be replaced at the end of the school year, moving the final day for students to Tuesday, June 11.

According to a press release, the program will cover a range of school types, from oneroom schoolhouses to buildings designed by Erle G. Stillwell, and will address history including consolidation and desegregation. A few of the schools to be discussed include “Adam’s Run, Dry Hill, Union Hill, the Port of Rugby School, the School for Little Folks and Episcopal mission schools. Mills River Academy counts among the earliest institutions, as do Judson College, Fassifern School for Girls, Blue Ridge School for Boys, the Fruitland Institute and the Rosenwald School at East Flat Rock,” the press release says.

Future Johnson Farm history programs will include “Quilting Through the Years” presented by Susan Trotter at noon Wednesday, Feb. 6 and “Legacy of Bear Mountain” presented by Janie McKinley at noon Wednesday, Feb. 20. More information at 828-891-6585. X

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whole for the money that was improperly spent on life insurance policies.

The civil lawsuits against former Assistant County Manager Jon Creighton, former County Manager Mandy Stone, Wiseman and his company, Environmental Infrastructure Consulting, are ongoing.

“We feel like we’re making a lot of progress,” Newman said after the Jan. 2 meeting. “And our goal is to make taxpayers fully whole for the misappropriations these people participated in, and we’re getting very far along in achieving that goal.”

In a motion for protective order filed on Dec. 27, Wiseman’s attorney, Christopher Lewis, says Wiseman and Environmental Infrastructure Consulting deny the allegations included in the Aug. 7 indictment and the county’s civil lawsuit. Lewis asked the court to halt the discovery process until the criminal investigation into former county officials associated with the alleged kickback scheme is complete. Lewis also wrote that Wiseman has filed a motion to be dismissed from the county’s civil lawsuit on several legal grounds, including lack of jurisdiction.

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MONEY MATTERS: Ron Payne, the attorney Buncombe County has been using in its civil lawsuits against former county officials, tells commissioners about the $750,000 settlement with Wanda Greene during a Board of Commissioners meeting on Jan. 2. Commissioners approved the settlement unanimously. Photo by David Floyd

As the cost of living continues to rise in Western North Carolina, local nonprofit Just Economics announced an increase in the pay rates it certifies as meeting its living wage standard. For those employees not offered employer-sponsored health insurance benefits, the new hourly rate is $13.65; for those offered health insurance, the new hourly rate is $12.15.

Just Economics defines a living wage as the minimum amount necessary to live without relying on taxpayer-supported financial assistance programs or outside help. The nonprofit offers a voluntary certification program for employers that commit to accepting its living wage rate as the minimum it pays its workers.

According to a press release, the Just Economics voluntary certification network is the largest of its kind in the country with more than 425 employers participating. To retain living wage certification, employers currently participating in the program must make the necessary adjustments by Jan. 1, 2020; new businesses seeking initial certification must offer the new rate in 2019.

“A living wage ... helps reduce stress and tension for the most vulnerable and marginalized workers, and it’s an economic engine as low-wage workers tend to put their pay right back into the local economy,” said Carmen Ramos-Kennedy, the living wage program coordinator for Just Economics, in a press release.

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DRAWING CROWDS: There are no known images of the Berry Municipal Band. The group would have performed at Pack Square, between the Vance Monument and the fountain, throughout the summer of 1919, drawing an audience similar to this 1923 crowd.

Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville At the start of 1919, America and its allies were still celebrating the end of World War I, which concluded on Nov. 11, 1918. But with no foe left to fight, the new year also allowed citizens to refocus their attention on local matters.

In Asheville, this meant combating the city’s gravest threat against its thriving tourism economy: complacency.

“Asheville is slowly awaking to the need of entertainment for visitors,” declared the Jan. 13, 1919, edition of The Asheville Citizen. “We cannot sit down any longer and twirl our fingers with the futile conclusion that ‘people will come to Asheville anyway’ for its air and water.”

For many the solution seemed simple, if not self-evident: The city needed its own municipal band. “Asheville should have had a first class military band as a municipal asset years ago,” wrote resident Emil Medicus, in a Jan. 8, 1919, letter to the editor. In addition to being “the biggest, best and most economical advertisement that any city can have,” Medicus believed such an ensemble would “[gladden] the hearts of the toilers when the day’s work was done.”

By Jan. 14, the Board of Trade’s band committee created a proposed budget for such a project. The estimated cost would be $8,000. Four days later, the paper declared “the outlook for a firstclass municipal band in Asheville grows brighter daily.”

But by late February, The Asheville Citizen’s optimism had eroded. While the impending tourist season promised to be “one of the best in the history of this section,” the paper was discouraged by the lack of financial support the proposed project had received. “There has been endless discussion and some very encouraging promises,” the paper wrote, “but the most necessary item of all — the necessary funds, have appeared in but small measure.”

Support would grow, however, with monetary contributions ultimately surpassing the committee’s proposed budget by $6,000. And though the project’s original plan was to enlist local talent and “returning soldier-musicians,” the city instead went with the J. Warren Berry band, previously of Jacksonville, Fla. The contract required the band to play four hours of music each day, with shows primarily held downtown, along with a weekly performance in West Asheville.

On May 25, the Berry Municipal Band (as the group was also sometimes called) performed its first set inside the city auditorium. The paper reported an estimated 500 people were turned away due to overcrowding. Later shows were played on a stage specifically built for the summer series in Pack Square, situated between the Vance Monument and water fountain.

The band would also offer special per-

formances for soldiers in recovery at the Oteen hospital, as well as Kenilworth Inn. The group’s popularity continued to grow throughout the summer months. On July 31, The Asheville Citizen reported: “The conditions of congestion on Pack square during the band concerts are already serious and threaten to become grave[.]” Recommendations from concerned citizen included closing off the square to vehicle traffic. But as the paper noted, “The automoblisists seemed to resent the suggestion that anyone else’s rights were deserving of consideration[.]”

On Sept. 13, 1919, the Berry Municipal Band played its final show in Asheville.

The following day’s paper recapped the event, which included an address by Mayor Galatin Roberts, who praised the band’s “faithful and efficient work … during their sixteen-week engagement[.]” The mayor went on to wish the band “abundant success,” and predicted residents would “have the pleasure of having Berry’s band in Asheville at some future time.”

Later that month, the band committee announced plans for the following year’s summer series. It would feature local talent rather than the Berry Municipal Band. The new group would be led by J.N. Denardo. Rehearsals, the paper continued, would commence shortly.

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BENEFITS ARMS AROUND ASD • FR (1/11) & SA (1/12), 7:30pm - Proceeds from the comedy, Crimes and Missed Demeanings, benefit Arms Around ASD. $22. Matinee, SA (1/12) & SU (1/13), 3pm.

Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. HOMEWARD BOUND Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St. • FR (1/11) & SA (1/12), 7pm - Proceeds from Finding Home theatrical event benefit Homeward Bound. $150.

• SU (1/13) & MO (1/14), 7pm - Proceeds from Finding Home theatrical performance benefit Homeward Bound.

Admission by donation.

HENDERSON COUNTY NAACP abnaacp@bellsouth.net • SA (1/12), noon Proceeds from the Freedom Fund Luncheon with catered buffet followed by music and panel benefit local Early Education programs.

Tickets before SU (1/6), call 693-0936. $10.

Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville

WOMEN’S MARCH ON ASHEVILLE • SU (1/13), 6pm Proceeds from ‘Local Women’s Voices: A Literary and Musical Extravaganza’ go towards expenses for the Women’s March on Asheville: city permit, police, sound system, etc. Suggested donation is $10. Held at The Mothlight, 701 Haywood Road

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 1 Page Ave., 828-2580710, ashevillearts.com • MO (1/14), 8pm - Tax and Bookkeeping Workshop for Artists.

Free.

ASSOCIATION OF FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONALS OF WNC • WE (1/16), 11:45am1:30pm - "The Stress-Less Effect," presentation by Katelyn Carroll. Sponsored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals of WNC. Registration required: avl.mx/5gz. $25/$16 members. Held at Asheville Renaissance Hotel, 31 Woodfin Ave.

THEY COME IN THREES: The Asheville Chamber Music Series welcomes the French ensemble Trio Karénine, who are rooted in trio sonatas of the baroque era. As the piano became more widely available in the 18th century, the piano trio (piano, violin and cello), attracted composers since it allowed a fuller sound. The Trio Karénine program offers a taste of a variety of piano trios. The concert will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville on Sunday, Jan. 14, at 4 p.m. Photo courtesy of Trio Karénine (p. 36) CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) Weekly drop-in classes: Intro to Pole Fitness Sundays 2:15pm and Tuesdays 7:15pm. Sultry Pole Wednesdays 7:30pm.

Aerial Flexibility Mondays 6:00pm and Fridays 1:00pm. Handstands Tuesdays 6:00pm and Thursdays 6:30pm.

Beginning Aerial Arts Wednesdays 7:30pm, Thursdays 5:15pm, and Sundays 2:15pm.

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APPALACHIAN PASTEL SOCIETY 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River, 828-891-2006, graceinfo.org • SA (1/12), 10am-noon Appalachian Pastel Society January member meeting, art supply sale and teacher presentations. Free to attend. Held at Grace Community Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB 828-779-0319, vincentvanjoe@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sets provided. All ages and skill levels welcome.

Beginners lessons available. Free. Held at North

Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road ASHEVILLE NEWCOMERS CLUB ashevillenewcomersclub. com • 2nd MONDAYS, 9:30am - Monthly meeting for women new to Asheville.

Free to attend.

ASHEVILLE TAROT CIRCLE meetup.com/ Asheville-Tarot-Circle/ • 2nd SUNDAYS, noon General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

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C OMMU N IT Y CA L EN D AR BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828-626-3438 • MO (1/15), 7pm Big Ivy Community Meeting, new community businesses present.

Free to attend.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 5pm Spanish Conversation Group for adults. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CENTER FOR CRAFT 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign. org, info@ craftcreativitydesign.org • WE (1/9), 5-8pm - Natural Dye and Weaving Workshop with Danielle Burke. $10. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. DIFFERENT TOGETHER: RACIAL RECONCILIATION 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville, 828-693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • SU (1/13), 3-5pm - DifferentTogether: Racial Reconciliation, workshop, Who Are We? Exploring Identity.

Free to attend. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler, 828-242-8998, hvrpsports.com • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free.

I CHING STUDY GROUP • TU (1/15), 3pm - I Ching study and sharing group meeting.

RSVP: 828-676-0844.

Free to attend. Held at Panera Bread, 1843 Hendersonville Road KOREAN WAR VETERANS ASSOCIATION • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, noon - Korean War Veterans Association, General Frank Blazey Chapter 314, general meeting. Lunch at noon, meeting at 1pm.

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Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

LEICESTER HISTORY GATHERING • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering, general meeting. Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • TH (1/10), 5:30-7pm "Budgeting and Debt," class. Registration required. Free.

• MO (1/14), 5:307pm - "Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it.

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• TH (1/17), noon1:30pm - "Budgeting and Debt," class.

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FARM & GARDEN 26TH ANNUAL ORGANIC GROWERS SCHOOL SPRING CONFERENCE (PD.) March 8-10, 2019. at Mars Hill University, NC. 150+ practical, affordable, regionallyappropriate workshops on organic growing, homesteading, farming, permaculture. Trade show, seed exchange, special guests.

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POLK COUNTY FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE BREAKFAST polkcountyfarms.org • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 7-8am - Monthly breakfast with presentations regarding agriculture.

Admission by donation.

Held at Green Creek Community Center, 25 Shields Road, Green Creek

FOOD & BEER FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE fairviewwelcometable. com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm

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GOLDEN AGE: Proceeds from Crimes and Missed Demeanings benefit the Asheville nonprofit Arms Around ASD, which supports people with autism and their families.

Crimes and Missed Demeanings, a sketch comedy for adults, is the brainchild of director and performer Rodney Smith. The play brings a modern spin to the old format of the Golden Age of Television, combining sketch comedy with music and burlesque.

Tickets are $20, and the show runs Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. For more information, visit themagnetictheatre.org. Photo courtesy of Rodney Smith, Tempus Fugit Design (p. 15)

- Community lunch.

Admission by donation.

Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.

Community.Center • 3rd TUESDAYS, 2:30pm - Manna food distribution.

Free.

• WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am1pm - Welcome Table, community meal. Free.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ASHEVILLE GREENWAY PROGRAMS • WE (1/16), 5-7pm - Learn about planned Swannanoa Greenway at Winter Warmer Celebration of Asheville Greenway Programs. Free.

Held at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Hwy, Suite 200 BLUE RIDGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN’S CLUB facebook.com/BRRWC • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Gondolier Restaurant, 1360 Tunnel Road.

KIDS BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library

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• WE (1/9), 11:30am Toddler Gym following Toddler Storytime, ages 0-3.

Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • WE (1/9), 4pm EcoExplore Bird Watching, an introduction to ornithology and a short birding walk.

Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm & LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-250-4720. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Spanish story time for children of all ages. Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TU (1/15), 4pm - Acting Up with Ovation for Kids, theatre games that inspire creativity and confidence.

Ages 11-13. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (1/16), 4pm - Intro to Ornithology and DIY Bird Feeders with the NC Arboretum. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com

• WEDNESDAYS, 10am Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend.

SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE MUSEUM 283 Victoria Road, 828-2539231, wnchistory.org • WE (1/16), 10:30am12:30pm - Crafty Historian makes Sand Mandalas for ages 7 and up. Reservations required. $5.

PUBLIC LECTURES THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL 360 Asheville School Road, ashevilleschool.org TH (1/17), 7:15pm Reverend Joseph Watkins speaks at the January Convocation. Limited seating available. Free to attend.

Held at Graham Theater at Walker Art Center.

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Lure, trails for all levels of hikers, an Animal Discovery Den and 404-foot waterfall. Plan your adventure at chimneyrockpark. com ELISHA MITCHELL AUDUBON SOCIETY emasnc.org • SA (1/12), 9am - Bird walk. Free. Held at Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville

PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED pisgahchaptertu.org/NewMeeting-information.html • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting and presentations. Free to attend.

Held at Ecusta Brewing, 49 Pisgah Highway, Suite 3, Pisgah Forest

PARENTING HAYWOOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 262 Leroy George Drive, Clyde, 828-452-8440, myhaywoodregional.com • THURSDAYS until (1/31), 7-9pm - Preparation for Childbirth, four week series.

Registration required. Free to attend.

LENOIR RHYNE UNIVERSITY 2nd Flr Boardroom, 36 Montford Ave. • TH (1/10), 10-11:30am ‘It’s Time for Kindergarten’ question and answer session with Asheville City Schools and Buncombe County Schools. Registration required.

SENIORS BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS until FR (3/29), 11am - GeriFit: Free exercise class for Seniors. Bring a workout stretch band. Registration required. Free. Held at Pack

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC, INC. 828-253-2900, jfswnc.org • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am2pm - The Asheville Elder Club Group Respite program for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths. Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Jewish Family Services, 2 Doctors Park, Suite E • WEDNESDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Hendersonville Elder Club for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths. Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Agudas Israel Congregation, 505 Glasgow Lane Hendersonville

SPIRITUALITY ASTRO-COUNSELING (PD.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Stellar Counseling Services.

Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

DE-STRESS, GET HAPPY & CONNECT! (PD.) Mindfulness Meditation at the Asheville Insight Meditation Center.

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EXPERIENCE THE SOUND OF SOUL (PD.) Sing HU, the most beautiful prayer, and open your heart to balance, inner peace, Divine love, and spiritual self-discovery. Love is Love, and you are that.

HU is the Sound of Soul. Spiritual discussion follows. Sponsored by ECKANKAR. • Date:

Sunday, January 13, 2019, 11am. Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (“Cork and Craft” building, lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-2546775. (free event). www.eckankar-nc.org LEARN TO MEDITATE (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation class at Asheville Insight Meditation Center, 1st & 3rd Mondays of each month at 7pm – 8:30pm. ashevillemeditation. com, info@ ashevillemeditation. com.

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville, 828-693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • 2nd FRIDAYS, 1-2pm - Non-denominational healing prayer group.

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GROCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 954 Tunnel Road, 828-298-6195, groceumc.org • 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 6:308:30pm - A Course in Miracles, study group.

Information: 828-7125472. Free.

THE MEDITATION CENTER 894 E. Main St., Sylva, 828-356-1105, meditate-wnc.org • SA (1/12), 2pm - Sound Healing Meditation session featuring Billy Zanski including planetary gongs, gemstone and crystal bowls, West African harp, didgeridoo and hand pan.

Reservations required. $20.

TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org/i-am • SU (1/13), 3-5pm - ‘I Am: Conversations that Inspire Women.’ Free to attend.

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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF HENDERSONVILLE 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 828-692-8630 • SU (1/13), 9am - Weekly Adult Forum, ‘The Spirituality of Pilgrimage,’ Rev. Rob Field and Karen Jackson. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville

VOLUNTEERING LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION SESSION (PD.) Mon. 1/7 (5:30pm), Thur.

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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., Ste. #213, 828-253-1470, bbbswnc.org • TH (1/9), noon Information session for those interested in volunteering to share their interests twice a month with a young person from a single-parent home or to mentor one-hour a week

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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 40 Church St., 828-2531431, fpcasheville.org • SATURDAYS Volunteers needed to cook, serve, play and clean up for Saturday Sanctuary, hospitality to the homeless. Registration required: avl.mx/5ig, sanctuarysaturday@gmail. com or 828-253-1431.

HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC 218 Patton Ave., 828-258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • THURSDAYS, 11am, 2nd TUESDAYS, 5:30pm & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 8:30am - "Welcome Home Tour," tours to find out how Homeward Bound is working to end homelessness and how the public can help. Registration required: tours@homewardboundwnc.org or 828-785-9840. Free.

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THE FREE CLINICS 841 Case St, Hendersonville • TH (10/25), 10-11am - Volunteer information session.

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Grants boost local nonprofits’ health services

BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com A $730,000 grant announced in December will allow three Henderson County organizations to expand services to people from vulnerable demographics. The money comes from the Duke Endowment, a private foundation based in Charlotte.

The grant recipients include AdventHealth (the former Park Ridge Health), Safelight and The Free Clinics. Using the new funding, the partners will: • Provide primary, obstetrical, gynecological and behavioral health care from AdventHealth Medical Group Multispecialty at Flat Rock, a new care program located at The Free Clinics’ Case Street facility in Hendersonville.

• Use AdventHealth Medical Group Multispecialty at Flat Rock providers and a Free Clinics case manager to offer whole-person care to survivors of trauma.

• Hire a physician assistant for the Believe Child Advocacy Center.

According to a press release, populations targeted for care by the grantfunded services include “survivors of sexual assault, survivors of domestic violence, survivors of human trafficking, pregnant women dealing with addiction, women with HIV or hepatitis C, homeless women, women with mental health and/or substance abuse [conditions], and women facing the dual challenges of racial/ethnic minority and poverty.”

More information about the new services and appointments are available at 855-774-5433.

Health happenings • Students ages 18-30 with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families are invited to a Project SEARCH information session at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Mission Hospital, 1 Hospital Drive, Room 5205, Asheville. Project SEARCH offers a one-year internship aimed at securing meaningful 18

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ON THE CLEAN TEAM: Project SEARCH intern Ben Milling learned about working in Mission Health’s sterile processing department as part of the program. An information session on Wednesday, Jan. 16, will provide details about Project SEARCH for prospective interns and their families. Photo courtesy of The Arc of North Carolina competitive employment for participating young adults with disabilities. A second session will be offered at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, in Room 6102 of the same building. For more information, contact Tim Blekicki at tblekicki@ arcnc.org or 828-254-4771 or visit avl.mx/5jv.

• Mission Health and AdventHealth Hendersonville implemented limits on hospital visitation in response to an

increase in reported influenza activity in the state. According to a Mission Health press release, “Visitors younger than 12 and those who do not feel well are encouraged to call patients instead of visiting them. All persons visiting the hospital and community members should practice good hand hygiene.” AdventHealth limited visitors to one or two per patient at a time, except in special circumstances, and asked those under 18 not to visit.

• The Charles George VA Medical Center will host a job fair 10 a.m.7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, at the American Legion Post 70, 103 Reddick Road, Asheville. Job seekers should bring identification and a resume; veterans should also bring a copy of their DD-214.

• T he workshop “Notes from Nature,” held 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, will focus on drawing inspiration from nature to gain clarity, direction and inspiration. Led by author and life coach Angie Stegall, the event will take place at Mind Spring Consulting, 966 Tunnel Road, Asheville, and will include time outdoors. Registration is $58 and includes a copy of Stegall’s latest book. More information at avl.mx/5jj or 704-293-7559.

• Registered nurses with less than one year of experience or those who will graduate from a nursing program by May are invited to a Mission Health open house for its New Graduate RN Residency Program 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 14, at Mission Health’s Cancer Center, 21 Hospital Drive, Asheville. For more information, contact Kathy Smith at Kathy.Smith@ msj.org or 828-213-5875.

Sisters of Mercy foundation awards grants Seven Western North Carolina nonprofits received grant funding totaling $255,500 from the Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation. Focused in the areas of health care and education, the grant awards included: • Community Action Opportunities: $40,000 to support a portion of the salary and benefits for a full-time life coach in its Life Works Program.

• Homeward Bound of WNC: $40,000 to support a portion of the salary and benefits for a case manager for the Room in the Inn program.

• Housing Assistance Corp., Hendersonville: $35,000 in salary support for its homerepair coordinator.

• MANNA Food Bank: $35,000 in operating support for food distribution, including salary and transportation expenses.

• Safelight, Hendersonville: $25,000 in salary support for two additional shelter aid for theemergency shelter.

• C hildren First of Buncombe County: $35,500 in salary support for the learning center pro-

gram coordinator and a student support specialist.

• A sheville City Schools Foundation: $45,000 in salary support for staff of the In Real Life after-school program.

Council members meet with MAHEC The Mountain Area Health Education Center says it hopes to enhance its partnership with local governments to foster a unified, collaborative approach to improve health in Western North Carolina.

On Dec. 11, while parts of the ground remained obscured after a major snowstorm that ended the day before, MAHEC representatives met with Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer and Asheville City Council members Julie Mayfield and Vijay Kapoor. Buncombe County commissioners also were invited, but none attended.

The collaboration would include local businesses, nonprofits and government institutions and would foster women’s health to promote healthy pregnancies, leading to healthy children and families and, ultimately, success in school.

MAHEC President Daniel Frayne told leaders that the time is right to pursue this initiative, citing as positive factors the strength of the region’s health care system, the opportunities presented by the Dogwood Health Trust — the foundation that would be created as the result of the sale of Mission Health to HCA Healthcare, if the transaction is approved by N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein — and the success of health programs across the region.

Mayfield said many nonprofits that receive funding from the city operate on small budgets; those groups could benefit from MAHEC’s leadership and organizational capacity, she said.

“That’s the whole idea, to connect those kinds of groups to the backbone to give them the kind of support they need to be successful and plug them into the piece of the puzzle where they fit,” Frayne said.

Jennifer Maurer, the external communications manager for MAHEC, said the initiative has not yet reached the proposal stage.

Instead, the meeting in December was envisioned as a way to get the conversation started, she said.

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taoist.org/usa/ locations/asheville • THURSDAYS, 10-11:30am - Beginner tai chi class and information session for the class series. First class is free. Held at Town and Mountain Training Center, 261 Asheland Ave. THE CENTER FOR ART AND SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1 School Road, 828-258-0211 • WEDNESDAYS, 3:30-5pm & 6:30-8pm - Open mindfulness meditation. Admission by donation.

THE MEDITATION CENTER 894 E. Main St., Sylva, 828-356-1105, meditate-wnc.org • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm - "Inner Guidance from an Open Heart," class with meditation and discussion. $10.

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BUILDING A FUTURE

The planned Foothills Food Hub will expand opportunities for WNC farmers duce in bulk, which means farmers sell more,” she says.

BY PAUL CLARK paul2011clark@gmail.com Western North Carolina farmers and food producers will have new opportunities for supporting and growing their businesses when Foothills Food Hub is built in Marion in three years. Fundraising has already begun to upfit and outfit a 9,000-square-foot facility that will allow makers and growers to process, create and store products and take advantage of educational offerings aimed at helping them develop self-sustaining businesses.

Foothills Food Hub, a multiphase project that’s expected to cost a little over $1 million, should be fully up and running by the end of 2021, according to project developer Heather Edwards Yzquierdo. The first phase, anticipated to be complete by Feb. 1, focuses on creating a central storage and staging area for local food-focused nonprofits and agencies. From there, the second phase will address the local agriculture sector, “specifically for storage and connecting to wholesale and online sales options for farmers,” she says.

“It’s about fortifying the local food system,” she notes. “It’s really about strengthening the entire food system for the entire region.”

Though primarily set up to serve farmers and food producers in McDowell, Rutherford and Burke counties, “any regional farmer that wants to be a part of this is absolutely welcome,” Yzquierdo says.

The hub will be at 263 Barnes Road in Marion about 5 miles west of Nebo in a space donated by Nebo Crossing, a church that will also use the space at the former Spectrum Dyed Yarns plant to host services and house its preschool, athletic facilities and community center. Nebo Crossing, formerly Eastside Baptist Church, will partner with the hub in efforts to improve residents’ health and wellness, according to the Foothills Food Hub project summary.

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HUB OF ACTIVITY: Libbi Greene, pictured at the Martha T. Simmons Food Pantry at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Marion, says the Foothills Food Hub will make life easier for nonprofit organizations that address food insecurity in the area. The hub will also include a commercial kitchen and wash station that will help local farmers grow their businesses. Photo courtesy of Foothills Food Hub

KITCHEN SPACE Plans for the hub include facilities where farmers will be able to clean and package their produce and products and store them for pickup, Yzquierdo says. A commercial kitchen will also provide food entrepreneurs a place to create value-added products such as jam, salsa and ready-to-eat meals.

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Karen Speer, who sells honey, soap and eggs from the shop at her Marion property, Sweet Betsy Farm, says the kitchen will be a business boon for local farmers. “From a beekeeping perspective,” she says, “one of the challenges we have is we don’t have a way to create value-added products such as infused honeys without access to a certified kitchen. The food hub would have that and also [have] a place where farmers could deliver things like the hot peppers.”

The commercial kitchen will also be used by Nebo Crossing and could potentially function as a food-preparation center to feed people in the event of a huge snowstorm or natural disaster.

Speer, who has met with hub organizers and other growers, says farmers are

also excited about plans for a wash station for cleaning produce. Such efficiencies of scale will allow them “to keep their produce fresh and increase their market area,” she points out.

The hub will additionally function as a community center, offering residents opportunities to participate in healthfocused cooking classes, Edwards says.

The teaching kitchen will also be available to agencies and nonprofits that want to show clients how to prepare the fresh, local produce they’ve received. “You can give folks produce, but not always are people able to cook it,” Yzquierdo says.

Educational programming could also focus on teaching community members useful skills, such as food preservation.

“And if they’re canning, they buy pro-

A group of nonprofits, government agencies, faith-based organizations and community leaders developed the food hub project after five years of conceptualizing, organizing and planning. Among the participants was Molly Sandfoss, McDowell County’s N.C. Cooperative Extension director, who led a countywide foodneeds assessment that resulted in the creation of the nonprofit McDowell Local Food Advisory Council.

With the objective of connecting, coordinating and strengthening the food system in McDowell County, the council came up with five goals: increase the supply of local food in McDowell County; increase consumer demand for local food in the county; engage community leaders to support growth of McDowell’s local food economy; engage youths in the production, marketing and selling of local foods; and ensure that local food is affordable and accessible to low-income community members In early 2017, a feasibility study paid for by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina helped organizers determine whom the hub would serve, what it would cost and how it could operate.

At a Nov. 26 stakeholders meeting at the McDowell County Senior Center, organizers asked local farmers what they need in terms of selling their products and how the hub could help them. Among organizations participating in the meeting were TRACTOR Food and Farms, a Burnsville nonprofit that aggregates produce from more than 50 small family farms to sell to large grocery stores, and the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, an Asheville-based nonprofit that links farmers to markets and helps local farms thrive.

Molly Nicholie, program director for ASAP’s Local Food Campaign, says wholesale markets won’t work for all farms, but food hubs help open up possibilities. “In general, market opportunities are often limited for farmers in rural communities, so new options for aggregation, processing, distribution are an important tool for supporting local food systems,” she says.

Responsible Automotive Service & Repair PROMOTING FOOD SECURITY Project developers are in the process of raising money for the buildout and to buy the refrigerators, freezers and other equipment the center will need. When phase 1 is complete, the hub will begin serving as a central storage location for fresh and frozen food items from MANNA FoodBank that can be picked up by area food pantries and crisis agencies like St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Picking up MANNA food at the hub “will be so much more convenient,” says Libbi Greene, executive volunteer at the Martha T. Simmons Food Pantry that St. John’s Episcopal Church operates in Marion. Currently, MANNA FoodBank delivers directly to the pantry, which puts pressure on the volunteers, she says. “The truck has to unload immediately, and we are rushed,” she says. “Once the hub is established, we don’t have to worry about getting [the delivered food] out of the open air.”

Nonprofits networked through the hub will also be able to swap goods that they have too much or too little of, Greene says. If a pantry gets 50 cases of facial tissues, for example, but needs

only 20, it can leave the rest at the hub in storage. “The local pantries have limited space for storage, especially refrigerators and freezers,” she says. “Once the hub is established, each pantry will have designated space” in those units.

Though it will be a while before the hub is fully operational, it’s already serving some folks now. The facility is currently storing food provided by MANNA FoodBank for LifeWorks, a program that helps low-income people and families in McDowell, Buncombe and Madison counties improve their lives. It will soon also store MANNA food for the Community Care Paramedic Program, operated

by McDowell Emergency Medical Services, and for the McDowell County Re-entry Council, an outreach program

by Freedom Life Ministries that helps people coming out of prison transition back into the community.

Foothills Food Hub “will be a cohesive effort to keep everyone together,” Greene says. “It’s going to be a huge bonus for this county.” X For more information about the Foothills Food Hub or to donate to the project, visit foothillsfoodhub.org or contact Heather Edwards Yzquierdo at heather@foothillsfoodhub.org.

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BY BRETT SHAW brett.shaw121@gmail.com Many chefs feel they rarely have time to even look up from their work, let alone look back at what’s led to their success. The hectic pace of any kitchen will do that. Goals are often so focused that when recognition is achieved, it can come as a surprise.

Xpress spoke with four young, successful chefs whose passions for cooking were first cultivated in Asheville.

They ultimately went in different directions: One stayed in Western

North Carolina to hone her skills and build her career; two found success and national acclaim in another city; and one dove into Charleston’s restaurant scene before eventually circling back home to Asheville. Yet in speaking with them, a common thread emerges.

They have not found success solely due to exceptional skill — that’s a prerequisite. It is not just luck, either. Instead, what comes to light in these chefs’ stories is a constant search for supportive and inspirational learning environments, both in and out of the kitchen.

ASHEVILLE BEGINNINGS By her early 20s, Michelle Bailey was already a kitchen veteran but was starting to feel “a need for more structure.” She enrolled in A-B Tech’s culinary program. After two years, she was one of the most decorated graduates in the program’s history, having been on the school’s national champion culinary team in 2007.

She did this while working at The Market Place, where she had landed a job at the end of a summer internship.

Now 36 and co-owner and executive chef of Smoky Park Supper Club in

the River Arts District, she describes A-B Tech’s program as “top-notch and well-respected in the industry both in and outside North Carolina. Plus, it was affordable,” she says.

Caitlin McMillan, 30, executive chef at Goldie in Philadephia and a 2018 Eater Young Guns winner, and Patrick O’Cain, the 35-year-old owner and executive chef of Asheville’s Gan Shan Station and Gan Shan West, also got their first industry experience as students at A-B Tech, though they took different paths getting there.

McMillan enrolled after graduating from Tuscola High School in Waynesville. She, like Bailey, turned the experience into a job at The Market Place, where she worked under Bailey herself. “She was cool as a cucumber on the line,” Bailey says of McMillan.

McMillan returns the compliment, saying, “She taught me how to be quick, but slow enough to create finesse.”

O’Cain graduated from N.C. State University, then taught English at a culinary school in France for three years before returning home to Asheville. Being around French food culture reminded him of the joy he had growing up cooking Szechuan recipes with his family.

He enrolled at A-B Tech, but with an interest in gaining more direct kitchen experience, he says, he became “another culinary school dropout” when he turned a summer internship at McGrady’s in Charleston into a full-time job.

Camille Cogswell, who was just 27 when she won the 2018 James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year award — only the second pastry chef ever to claim the honor — nurtured her early passion for cooking in Asheville High School’s culinary arts program. At the time, the program was run by chef instructor Joe Lilly, whom she describes as her first mentor.

Lilly was, she says, “willing to give everything to students who showed real interest” and left a lasting impression on a program that still has high school students collaborating with A-B Tech’s culinary classes, area chefs and restaurants.

After completing all of Lilly’s courses, Cogswell still had a year left of high school, so she took the initiative to do some independent study as a way “of having another year in cooking,” she says. She ended up with an internship at West End Bakery, which led to her true passion — pastry.

CLIMBING TO THE TOP After giving college a shot for a few semesters at UNC Chapel Hill,

Cogswell dropped out to enroll in the Culinary Institute of America. In 2015, she did a stage at chef Michael Solomonov’s celebrated Philadelphia Israeli restaurant, Zahav, where she met MacMillan, who was already working there as a sous chef.

At that point, Cogswell had not yet decided for sure where she would work after her move to Philadelphia, but their chance meeting sealed it.

As the two exchanged introductions in Zahav’s kitchen, they did a double take when they found out they were both from Asheville. “It was a really exciting first sign that I was in the right place,” says Cogswell.

For the past four years, McMillan has acted as a Swiss army knife for Solomonov’s CookNSolo restaurant group, which includes Goldie, Zahav and several other eateries. Her ability to troubleshoot and solve problems is something Bailey saw signs of back in Asheville. “Nothing fazes her, and she takes everything in,” Bailey says. Now, able to focus singularly on her executive chef role at Goldie, McMillan says she is working most on refining her leadership skills.

In October, Cogswell and McMillan joined forces again to plan and execute a week of multicourse dinners at Seaport Food Lab in Manhattan as part of a six-week dinner series that featured other celebrity chefs, including Ashley Christensen, Rosio Sanchez and Nancy Silverton. “We both commit 100 percent to our work,” McMillan says of the collaboration. “It was a lot of fun doing those dinners, and I think it went well.”

Much like her protégé, Bailey has climbed the kitchen ladder at several restaurants in and around Asheville, including The Market Place and Highland Lake Inn. Bailey worked her way to executive chef at every stop.

She earned the ownership role at Smoky Park Supper Club, but she says the reason she jumped at the opportunity was the chance to work with the restaurant’s state-of-the-art open-fire grill and oven. “I worked with open fire before, but not on a restaurantwide level,” she says. “I really love what those techniques bring to the food and was interested in taking on the challenge of menubuilding and logistics related to an entirely open-fire kitchen.”

O’Cain’s return to Asheville and rise to restaurateur were partially happenstance: During a visit home to see family in Asheville, he came across a dilapidated old gas station on Charlotte Street that, to him, screamed restaurant venue. Part of that inspiration, though, stemmed from an awareness honed as sous

chef during the opening of Xiao Bao Biscuit, another gas station turned Asian eatery in Charleston.

Opening Gan Shan Station was a risky venture. “I had known I wanted to own a restaurant before knowing what that really meant,” says O’Cain. “I accelerated my career and made it happen, mainly out of good luck.” After just a couple of years in business, O’Cain opened a second Gan Shan location in West Asheville in 2017.

GROWTH CURVE While all four chefs exhibit selfconfidence, it’s unlikely that any of them expected success as quickly as it has come. “The industry can be brutal,” Bailey says. “I have seen really good cooks burn out.” Kitchens everywhere — even in Asheville — can have toxic cultures, she says.

Bailey, Cogswell, McMillan and O’Cain have all experienced the long hours and physical toll of working in kitchens. They have dealt with the stress and fatigue by establishing strong support systems. By relying on mentors, family and friends, they have gained inspiration and optimism instead of cynicism.

They are all committed to bringing a culture of positivity to their kitchens, including a focus on selfcare, an ingredient the industry has often overlooked.

“When I opened up [Gan Shan Station], I did not like myself and had to work through that on my own,” says O’Cain. “I see men and women who are in similar situations when they begin to work for me.

Supporting and watching their shift in behavior and accountability has to be one of the most rewarding aspects [of being a chef].”

All four note that it is a constant struggle to balance well-being with the demands of restaurant work. “If the health of your staff is not considered important at your restaurant, it will be the first thing to go because of how competitive this industry is,” Bailey says.

The visions they outline for their futures all draw from the backgrounds of support they received in Asheville and Philadelphia from families, teachers and mentors. They all envision kitchens where cooks are healthy — in mind and body — and excited for the achievements and camaraderie that come with the long hours and hard work. As McMillan succinctly says, “When my guests and team are happy, it all feels worth it.” X

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You don’t have to be Italian to join Ciao Asheville. The new cultural forum only asks interested members to bring their passion for the country’s cuisine, language, wine, film and literature with them to the monthly meetings at Metro Wines.

“The mission of the group is to try to address all of those aspects,” says Gina Trippi, co-owner of Metro Wines and co-founder of the forum.

“We want to bring the Italian cultural experience to Asheville.”

On Wednesday, Jan. 16, the group will host its inaugural meeting.

Strada Italiano will supply pizza, and Mike Tiano of Haw River Wine Man will offer a brief presentation on Chianti wine. In addition, Gail Rampersaud, the group’s event coordinator, will discuss plans for the forum’s future and upcoming programs, which include presentations on the slow food movement and travel ideas when visiting Italy.

Along with monthly presentations, the group intends to host free Italian films at Metro Wines. Trippi and Rampersaud also hope to develop an Italian language speaking group to meet more frequently than the forum’s current monthly gathering.

“We really want to serve the needs of the people that are interested in this,” says Rampersaud. “The inaugural event is about bringing folks together, getting their feedback and figuring out the future direction of the group. We want our courses to be driven by our members. We want to provide what people want.”

Ciao Asheville: An Italian Cultural Forum will host its inaugural meeting 5:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St. The event is free to attend. To learn more, visit avl.mx/5jc.

A Taste of Italy La Guinguette will host A Taste of Italy, a five-course wine pairing dinner, on Thursday, Jan. 10. The menu will include caponata bruschetta, stuffed spinach pasta with Bolognese sauce, pork chops and tiramisu. Wine highlights include Zardetto Burt Prosecco NV, Tasca d’Almarita Regaleali Bianco 2017 and Vitano Rosso 2015.

ALL THINGS ITALIAN: Gail Rampersaud, left, and Gina Trippi co-founded Ciao Asheville, an Italian cultural forum. “We want to bring the Italian cultural experience to Asheville,” says Trippi. Photo by Thomas Calder A Taste of Italy begins at 6 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 10, at La Guinguette, 105 Richardson Blvd., Black Mountain. Tickets are $60 per person. To make reservations, call 828424-7810 or visit, avl.mx/5je.

Restaurants raise funds for local schools On Thursday, Jan. 10, Farm Burger South Asheville will donate 10 percent of its proceeds to Avery’s Creek Elementary School. “As a restaurant, we have a unique platform to better the world around us,

which is why we started Harvesting for the Community,” says James Dunlevy, Farm Burger regional manager. “We want to support schools, farmers’ organizations, women’s rights organizations — the causes that matter most to our guests and our community.” The following Tuesday, Jan. 15, Nine Mile West will donate a portion of its daily proceeds to ArtSpace Charter School.

Harvesting for the Community: Avery’s Creek Elementary School runs 4-9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, at Farm Burger South Asheville, 1831 Hendersonville Road. For more information, visit avl.mx/5jg. Dine Out for ArtSpace runs 5-10 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 15, at Nine Mile West,

751 Haywood Road. For more information, visit avl.mx/5ji.

Finding Home fundraiser Wicked Weed Brewing and chef Jacob Sessoms are among those sponsoring the upcoming fundraiser Finding Home. The event, which will be held Friday, Jan. 11, and Saturday, Jan. 12, benefits Homeward Bound, a local nonprofit that works to end homelessness in Asheville and Buncombe County.

Both evenings will include small plates from Sessoms’ latest venture, All Day Darling, alongside brews from Wicked Weed Funkatorium.

Specialty chocolates from The Chocolate Fetish will also be served.

The evening will conclude with a performance of Finding Home, a cabaret created and directed by Candice Dickinson.

Finding Home runs 7-9 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, Jan. 11 and Jan. 12 at the Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St. Tickets are $150. To purchase, visit avl.mx/5jf.

Modernist Cuisine: Where Cooking Meets Science The BioNetwork at A-B Tech will host Modernist Cuisine: Where

Cooking Meets Science, a threesession course that runs TuesdayThursday, Jan. 15-17. According to the event’s Facebook page, participants will explore “molecular gastronomy science, equipment and techniques for taste enhancement and cuisine presentation.” The hands-on course will also include tastings. Food, supplies and safety and sanitary gear will be provided.

Participants must wear long pants and close-toed shoes.

Modernist Cuisine: Where Cooking Meets Science begins at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, at A-B Tech Enka, 1463 Sand Hill Road, Candler, Suite 200. The three-day course runs through Thursday, Jan. 17. Cost is $101.35. To register, visit avl.mx/5jd.

Free weekend meals at Ferguson Family YMCA The YMCA of WNC Nutrition Department now serves a weekly free lunch for children and teens younger than 18 every Saturday at the Ferguson Family YMCA. The meals are open to the community; YMCA membership is not required to attend..

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Western North Carolina beer costs continue to increase

It has been almost 25 years since the first pints of Highland Brewing Co.’s Celtic Ale (now Gaelic Ale) turned up in taprooms and restaurants around town, launching the Asheville craft beer revolution.

In those early days, only a few selections were available. Today, however, hundreds of area craft beers are on sale, both on draft and in cans and bottles. But while there are many more brews from which to choose, they cost noticeably more than they once did.

A six-pack of craft beer will often fetch $9.99, up from around $6.99 two decades ago. And a pint has increased from $2.50-$3.50 to about $5, while some specialty and higher-gravity beers are even more expensive.

The reasons for price hikes are numerous. Ingredients are more expensive. Weather can be tough on barley and hops crops. The cost of packaging and distribution is up, according to brewery owners, and

LIQUID LOGIC: The cost of draft and packaged beer has steadily increased in Asheville over the past 25 years, though local breweries do what they can to keep prices affordable for customers. Pictured is Jared Turbyfill, Asheville general manager for Catawba Brewing Co. Photo courtesy of Catawba Brewing Co.

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labor is also a factor, especially in a competitive market like Asheville. It all adds up at the cash register.

“The price has gone up because costs have gone up across the board,” says Asheville beer pioneer Oscar Wong, founder of Highland Brewing. “When you have a bad hops harvest, the price spikes. The thing that we are facing today is that the big breweries are locking up certain kinds of hops, and that makes it hard for the little guys.”

Wong believes that craft brewers could eventually face a limit on what they charge for a six-pack or a pint of brew but adds that what that number is remains uncertain. “It’s all a function of what options are out there,” he says. “If it goes too high, some [beer consumers] might start drinking wine.”

Beer price hikes are nothing new. A report published in the Nov. 20 issue of USA Today tracked the price of a sixpack starting in 1954, when the cost was only $1.63. But adjusted for inflation, the cost was actually $11.67. The report finds that the real price bargains were found in the 1980s. In 1989, a six-pack was $4.76, which inflation adjusts to $8.32.

Asheville Brewing Co., which has been turning out beer for 20 years, is

also no stranger to price increases. When company President Mike Rangel took over the old Two Moons Brew-N-View in 1998, the average pint price was $3.50. “We did specials for $2.20,” he says. Today, Rangel charges $4.50, with Perfect Day IPA going for $4.99. The brewery charges $9.99 for a six-pack.

“It’s the cost of living in general,” Rangel says. “It costs more for the aluminum for cans. Certain hops are more than they used to be. And the labor market is more competitive. You want to train and keep great brewers — they’re salaried positions with benefits.”

Despite the elevated figures, Rangel says the price of beer in Asheville is an “absolute bargain” compared to what is charged elsewhere. “If you were in Charleston, beer is $6 or $7 a pint because there’s a smaller craft beer impact,” he says. “Here, there’s a lot of competition.”

Rangel and his Asheville Brewing colleagues use a computer program to determine what its brewing expenses are and what it charges for beer — including Tuesdays, when select house beers cost $2.99 a pint — but they don’t monitor what other brewers charge.

“That can drive you crazy,” he says.

“We work within what we feel is a fair profit margin.”

As for New Belgium Brewing Co., spokesman Michael Craft says Asheville’s largest brewery hasn’t significantly raised its prices. On the local scene, a six-pack of its flagship Fat Tire Amber Ale sells for $8.99$10.47, depending on the store.

“I don’t think it’s gone up much, but it hasn’t gone down,” he says. “I can’t think of anything that I choose to buy that has done down in price.”

Craft adds that consumers decide what they can afford to buy based on their own financial resources and that the craft beer scene reflects a healthy economy. “When folks are feeling financially secure, they tend to spend money on enjoyable items,” he says.

Like many breweries with a wide variety of products, Catawba Brewing Co. has a range of pricing.

“White Zombie [Ale] sells for about $10 per six-pack at retail. Specialty beers are priced at $12-$14 for a six-pack. And our one-of-a-kind barrel release products like Apple Pie Barleywine sell for $16 or more for a four-pack of 16-ounce cans,” says co-owner Billy Pyatt.

But within the array of offerings, Pyatt says Catawba has held the line on prices for its flagship beers and feels that the dollar amounts tied to its rarer and deluxe products are merited.

“We have really stepped up innovation efforts over the years,” he says.

“We now offer many, many more higher-value beers than ever before.

So you could say that our mix of price levels has certainly changed to include more higher-priced offerings.”

Pyatt says his pricing is determined by a number of factors. Catawba considers the markets it’s trying to reach with every beer, investigates products and prices that already exist in these markets and tries to position the brewery’s own pricing to be competitive. Then there are the costs of ingredients, packaging, labor, shipping, taxes and overhead.

“We are getting squeezed by raw materials and packaging increases,” Pyatt says. “However, market forces may not accept [price increases].

There are 7,000-plus craft breweries out there, each offering their own unique beers and price points.” X

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WRITE ON Flatiron Writers Room launches a co-working space

BUILDING CREATIVE COMMUNITY: Maggie Marshall, left, and Heather Newton formed the Flatiron Writers Room in 2017 as an offshoot of the Flatiron Writers group, which Newton helped launch in 1993. Photo by Thomas Calder

BY THOMAS CALDER tcalder@mountainx.com So your plans to write the next great American novel didn’t quite pan out last year. You penned a beautiful opening paragraph and jotted down some intriguing (albeit vague) ideas for the project’s next 250 pages. But then your pipes froze in the winter, your allergies returned in the spring, summer called for travel, autumn buried you in leaves and just when life was finally slowing back down — the damn holidays arrived!

Sound familiar? If it’s any consolation, you’re not alone. “For working adults, it’s always hard to find the time to write,” says Heather Newton, co-founder and program manager of the Flatiron Writers Room. Since 2017, Newton and fellow co-founder Maggie Marshall have worked to change this all-too-familiar script through work30

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shops, writing-related gatherings, lectures and author events.

On Saturday, Jan. 12, the Flatiron Writers Room will continue its mission with its annual Pop-Up Writing Retreat. The all-day event includes writing prompts, consultations with Newton and Marshall, a midday massage, the chance to network with fellow local writers and, most importantly, an uninterrupted period of time to write.

“We don’t give [participants] the Wi-Fi password,” says Marshall. “We ask them to turn off their cellphones and hide them. We enable them to write any way we can.”

In addition to the Pop-Up Writing Retreat, the Flatiron Writers Room has planned events throughout 2019. In January, local author and journalist Dale Neal will launch a six-week short story workshop. Later in the month, New York Times best-selling author Beth Revis will lead a fantasy and sci-fi class.

“Workshops give you a kick-start of inspiration,” says Newton. “And when

you’re meeting with a class for six weeks, it holds you accountable. … I think that’s probably the main challenge that people face — just making space in your life for the writing.”

For Dorrie Sieburg, a former workshop participant, the Flatiron Writers Room also creates opportunities to connect with fellow creatives in an art form that can often be solitary in nature.

Events such as the upcoming Asheville Literary Coalition social, scheduled for Friday, Jan. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Flatiron Writers Room’s West Asheville location, helps foster relationships outside the workshop. “The support and encouragement you get along the way is a huge part” of what the organization brings to writers, Sieburg says.

This desire for a network, notes Newton, has played a key factor in the group’s latest endeavor: a co-working space exclusive to writers. “A very small percentage of writers are going to get published with a big publisher and make a lot of money,” she explains.

“The rewarding thing about writing for most writers is the community and chance to meet other people who are living a creative life. It’s such a lonely thing to do it by yourself. It’s important to be able to commiserate with other people and to have their support.”

Set to launch in March, the organization’s three-room West Asheville co-working space will accommodate up to 12 writers at a time. Along with desk space, free Wi-Fi and limitless coffee, membership will also include discounts on future workshops. The cost is $95 per month for a threemonth membership or $85 per month for a six-month commitment.

“A lot of writers really thrive when they have some kind of writing community to rely on,” Marshall says, “whether it’s getting feedback from other people or just for moral support.”

Newton agrees but adds that the co-working space also mirrors that of a gym membership. “The thought being if you pay for it, maybe you’ll actually go and do it,” she explains.

For Sieburg, who may join on as a co-working member, the idea is intriguing. “If you can have a place that is just there for creative thinking, that is the best thing you can do for yourself,” she says. “You just never know what it’s going to open up to you or what it will lead to or what it will spark in you.

You’ll be surprised by what things can come from that and where you can find your creative voice.”

OK, so now that you’ve allowed that beautiful opening paragraph of the next great American novel to garner inspiration over the course of the previous year, there remain only a few things for you to do to ensure a successful and creative 2019. No. 1, make sure you let the faucets drip during the colder months. No. 2, get your allergy medicine ready in advance.

No. 3, book yourself a world-class staycation. No. 4, leave the leaves to compost. No. 5, get your holiday shopping done early. And last — but certainly not least — just keep writing and building your community.

The Flatiron Writers Room is at 5 Covington St. For more information on the Flatiron Writers Room coworking space and for a schedule of upcoming classes and events, visit flatironwritersroom.com X

RESOURCES FOR WRITERS • The Great Smokies Writing Program offers workshops that run five-15 weeks and are available for writers of all levels. Highlights from the spring schedule include a five-week poetry and nonfiction workshop led by Jessica Jacobs that explores questions of spirituality and faith; a 10-week course led by Chris Highland that looks at ways to bridge worldviews through nonfiction; and a 15-week introduction to creative prose led by Tommy Hays. For a complete list, visit avl.mx/5j2.

• The Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University Asheville offers graduate-level courses for people interested in “careers in creative writing, the teaching of writing, and/or the development of advanced writing skills as a powerful tool within one’s chosen profession,” according to the program’s website. Learn more at avl.mx/5j3.

• The N.C. Writers’ Network’s Asheville writers group meets on the first Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m., at the Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar, Grove Arcade, 1 Page Ave. Writers of all genres, backgrounds and experience levels are welcome to join. The monthly meetings include discussions, writing prompts and shared sessions. The group also holds semiquarterly open mic nights. Details at avl.mx/5j4.

• The Writers’ Workshop is a local nonprofit that has served Asheville since 1985.

The organization offers Saturday workshops, readings, retreats and contests. Saturday classes are $75; $70 with membership. Learn more at avl.mx/5j1.

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by Brian Crews

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REBEL BLUES

Tuareg guitar hero Mdou Moctar returns to Asheville

There may be no greater symbol of the transcendent power of rock ’n’ roll rebellion than the electric guitar. From Chuck Berry to Jimi Hendrix, it has regularly bucked tradition, torn down barriers and challenged the squares of the world. If there’s anything that can give voice to defiance and the collective discontent of a group of people, the electric guitar is it.

Tuareg guitar hero Mdou (pronounced “M-doh”) Moctar, who will perform at The Mothlight on Saturday, Jan. 12, is a striking example of this irrepressible electric force.

The Tuareg, a nomadic people who live all across the western Sahara Desert, are one of the largest confederations of Berbers in Africa. They’ve fought for independence of their home regions for over a century — an existence still shaped largely by war and the lasting effects of colonialism.

Since the early 2000s, however, a steady proliferation of so-called “desert guitar” bands have emerged from

WORLDWIDE: Guitarist Mdou Moctar performed at LEAF last spring, when he observed the ubiquitous appeal of his music and its ability to bridge gaps between disparate cultures. “I invited other musicians onstage,” he says. “The more I played with artists who didn’t sound like my band, the more the audience loved it.” Photo by Markus Milcke among young Tuareg people, presenting a breathtaking fusion of traditional folk melodies and psychedelic, blues-influenced drones. These Tuareg groups have established a defiant musical independence, rebelling against their elders and the strict confines of religious tradition.

Hailing from the remote Azawagh desert of Niger, Moctar first learned to play guitar on a one he built himself out of planks of wood at the age of 10, he told Xpress — via email, through a translator.

“The strings were made from the cable for the bicycle,” he says, and there were only five: “I didn’t even know how many strings a guitar had.”

He continues, “It was hard to play guitar at first because I practice Islam, and my family thought I might do bad things if I played guitar, like drink and do drugs, but it’s not true.”

As a young musician, Moctar was heavily influenced by Tuareg folk music, called “takamba,” but he also fell in love with the wild guitar mastery of Eddie Van Halen.

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In his 20s, Moctar gathered notoriety among the young people of the region, in no small part due to his adventurous, genre-bending guitar playing. Tuareg guitar bands are no stranger to the electric ax, but Moctar was intent on pushing the limits of the instrument. It’s a fact that has undoubtedly played a role in his growing international following, as well.

Moctar traveled to Nigeria in 2008 to record his first album, Anar. The record that was never officially released but instead was distributed across the desert through Bluetooth file-sharing apps on cheap cellphones, the predominant method for passing along music in a region without reliable internet or phone reception. “In the desert, you do not have to connect to the internet to have good music,” Moctar says. “Bluetooth has a stronger connection than Wi-Fi or data in Niger.”

In 2010, Moctar joined with the Portland, Ore.-based label Sahel Sounds, founded by music ethnographer/archivist/filmmaker Christopher Kirkley.

Together, they released Moctar’s first

international album, Afelan, a blistering collection of blown-out, distorted guitars that remains a towering example of modern Tuareg guitar music and an astonishing illustration of the sheer power of primitive, soulshaking rock ’n’ roll.

Moctar and Kirkley even made a film together, a Saharan reimagining of Prince’s Purple Rain. Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai, or “Rain the Color Blue with a Little Red in It,” from 2015, is the first ever Tuareg-language film — a dialect without a word for purple.

Like Prince’s Purple Rain, the film tells the story of a young guitar player’s rise to fame as he makes a name for himself in the local music scene despite the disapproval of his conservative father. The film is a classic story of artistic evolution and rock ’n’ roll rebellion.

Despite Moctar’s penchant for pushing boundaries, he still notices the ubiquitous appeal of his music and its ability to act as a bridge between disparate cultures — something he observed specifically at LEAF Festival (where he performed last spring).

“I invited other musicians onstage for our last song, and we were onstage together as brothers,” he says. “The more I played with artists who didn’t sound like my band, the more the audience loved it.”

Moctar’s music — and the modern Tuareg guitar movement — is a testament to rock ’n’ roll’s protean ability to challenge authority and push boundaries. It’s also undeniably universal. For Moctar, it all comes down to bringing people together and making them dance. “I play rock music because it’s dancing music,” he says. “I love making people dance at my home in the desert and around the world because even if you aren’t familiar with the musician, you can at least dance.” X

WHO Mdou Moctar with Black Sea Beat Society WHERE The Mothlight 701 Haywood Road themothlight.com WHEN Saturday, Jan. 12, 9 p.m. $15 advance/$18 day of show

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by Brett Shaw

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TEAM SPIRIT Unless you’re a transplant from upstate New York, it’s unlikely you have heard of Guitar League. But the 13-year-old organization that began in Syracuse has recently begun to spread, opening six new chapters over the past two years, with Asheville as its newest location.

Guitar League’s Asheville group had its first meeting in September and reconvenes Monday, Jan. 14, at the Days Inn Asheville/Mall.

Paul Heumiller, owner of Dream Guitars in Weaverville, will be the featured presenter.

Jim Horsman, Guitar League’s cofounder, calls himself “the longestrunning rookie in the league history.”

Connor McCabe, the Asheville chapter leader, who honed his skills at open mics and weekly gigs in Florida, says he is a minor. After retirement and college, respectively, both relocated to Western North Carolina.

The second hour of every meeting consists of breakout sessions, where members split into three self-selected groups — rookies, minors and majors. In sports-speak, “rookies are beginners who are looking to learn chords, scales and basic strumming and picking methods,” according to the league’s website. “Minors should be at an intermediate skill level looking to learn varying chord patterns and moderately difficult rock and jazz leads. Majors are for the ‘pros’ who want to learn advanced picking styles and guitar leads.”

“Members find the most useful level by feel within a meeting or two,” says Horsman. Rookies and minors are led by more experienced guitarists during their breakout sessions, but, Horsman says, “Sessions are

Guitar League’s Asheville chapter reconvenes in January

STRINGS ATTACHED: Jim Horsman, right, co-founded Guitar League in Syracuse, N.Y., and Connor McCabe, left, leads the Asheville chapter. Paul Heumiller, owner of Dream Guitars in Weaverville, will be the featured presenter at the league’s Jan. 14 meeting.

Photo by Brett Shaw often improvisational. If you have a skill you are interested in or struggling with, bring it to the group.”

Breakout sessions were the genesis for the league. Horsman, who was retiring from gigging as a drummer, wanted to continue playing the music he loved.

He realized a drum kit would not cut it as a solo instrument, so he turned to guitar — but starting a new instrument

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in his 50s was frustrating. “YouTube was not really doing it. Trying to learn off of books was not really doing it, and I felt too old to take guitar lessons from someone my son’s age,” he says.

Horsman enlisted two friends, Dick Ward and Loren Barrigar, who were talented guitar players, as instructors.

Initially, Horsman just wanted a few tutorials to get up and running, but he quickly realized the more he learned, the more there was to know. At that point, it seemed beneficial — as well as helpful to his friends — to create a space in which they, as well as he, could learn from and connect with a larger community of guitarists and musicians.

Horsman, Ward and Barrigar devised a format, and Guitar League’s flagship Syracuse chapter was born.

Meetings have a simple two-part structure: a featured presentation followed by the breakout sessions. The featured presenter offers a combination performance-lesson in the first hour focusing on a specific guitar skill.

Heumiller will be demonstrating and discussing open tuning.

Horsman and McCabe see Heumiller’s expansive knowledge as an additional benefit for those in attendance. “Hearing from someone with that knowledge about what to look and listen for in a guitar is a special insight to receive,” says McCabe.

The wheels are well-greased: Local musicians Adi the Monk and Andrew Scotchie have already been announced as the next two presenters for February and March, respectively.

“We are excited about meeting guitar lovers,” Horsman says.

This aspect of connection and community was what brought McCabe to the league. “I first started learning to play guitar in high school. It was a group of us trying to figure out how to play our favorite metal songs during breaks,” he says. This camaraderie is what he views as the driving force behind the league. “Many people have no desire to go to a jam or open mic. This space offers the ability for feedback without the fear of feeling less than other players.”

When he heard Horsman was looking for someone to take over the dayto-day reins in Asheville and to focus on national growth and outreach, McCabe jumped at the chance. “One of the reasons I wanted to move here was the music scene,” he says. “I think Guitar League is a great way to dip your toe into that community.”

Several new chapters in Atlanta, Charleston and Tulsa are on the brink of opening. Horsman sees a network of chapters across the country as the league’s future. For now, he is helping McCabe build inroads in Asheville, where he’s found a similar level of musical potential and interest to Syracuse. “We have already started to toy with the idea of festival-conferences or multichapter events,” he says. X

WHAT Guitar League Asheville chapter guitarleague.com WHERE Days Inn Asheville/Mall 201 Tunnel Road WHEN Second Monday of every month, 6-8 p.m. $75 annual membership, first meetings are free

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Sam Bush The 2009 recipient of the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Sam Bush has remained an active force in bluegrass over the past decade. The Kentuckyborn, Nashville-based mandolin master and two-time cancer survivor played at least one show each month last year and achieved documentary film subject status with the release of Revival: The Sam Bush Story.

Bush and his band were also in the studio in mid-December, recording new material, and he joined forces with The String Cheese Incident onstage to close out 2018. Leading into a year that will include appearances at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and a Red Rocks Amphitheater performance with Béla Fleck and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the group stops by Isis Music Hall on Sunday, Jan. 13, for a 7:30 p.m. set. $30 advance/$35 day of show. isisasheville.com.

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Helen Money Under the stage name Helen Money, classically trained cellist Alison Chesley takes the traditional chamber music instrument and manipulates it to unusual sonic ends. A collaborator with a range of artists, among them Disturbed, Bob Mould, Anthrax and Broken Social Scene, the Los Angeles-based composer takes her rock background and funnels those inspirations through strings and bow. The latest manifestation is her 2016 instrumental album Become Zero, largely inspired by the loss of her parents. Though Chesley’s previous three solo albums had been exclusively recorded analog to tape with producer Steve Albini (Nirvana; The Pixies), she used digital means with the newest collection and reveled in the creative freedom it afforded. Back in North Carolina after playing Moogfest 2018 in Durham, Helen Money opens for Portland, Ore.based experimental rock band Grails on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at The Mothlight. The show starts at 9 p.m. $15. themothlight. com. Photo by Jim Newberry

LITTLE SISTERS: The Little Sisters of Hoboken – a former circus performer, a wannabe ballerina, a streetwise nun, a sister who has lost her mind and an ambitious secondin-command – discover that their cook, Sister Julia Child of God, has poisoned 52 of their sisters, and they must raise money to bury their dead. Directed by Sarah Fowler, Nunsense-A-Men runs Jan. 11-27 at 35below on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $20. For more information, visit ashevilletheatre.org Photo courtesy of Asheville Community Theatre (p. 36)

ART BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/depts/ library • FR (1/11), 4pm Upcycled sweater projects for teens.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CENTER FOR CRAFT 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign. org, info@ craftcreativitydesign. org • WE (1/9), 5-8pm - Natural Dye and Weaving Workshop with Danielle Burke. $10. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. FOLKMOOT USA 828-452-2997, folkmootusa.org • 2nd SATURDAYS, 6-9pm - Second

Saturday Market featuring vendors, live music, dance lessons, food and beverages.

Free to attend/$10-$15 for dinner/$5 per dance lesson. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville

walks along a mile-long cluster of working artist studios, galleries and eateries with live demonstrations, live music and wine tastings. Free trolley rides available every hour.

Free to attend.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 828-285-9700, facebook.com/ odysseycoopgallery • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am-5pm - “Second Saturday Celebration,” event with food, music and artist demonstrations. Free to attend.

RIVER ARTS DISTRICT STUDIO STROLL Depot St. • 2nd SATURDAYS, 10am-8pm - Second Saturdays: Gallery

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ARTS BUILD COMMUNITY GRANT • MO (1/14), 5pm Arts Build Community Grant info session.

Free. Held at Arthur R. Edington Education and Career Center, 133 Livingston St. • FR (1/11), 4pm - Arts Build Community Grant info session. Free. Held at Asheville Area Arts Council, 1 Page Ave.

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DANCE LEARN TWO-STEP & EAST COAST SWING (PD.) Two dance classes: “Two-Step & Tacos” at Grey Eagle, January 12 and “East Coast Swing” at Wild Wings Café Downtown, January 14. $20 each.

828-333 0715. naturalrichard@ mac.com • www.

DanceForLife.net DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., 828-257-4530, dwtheatre.com • SA (1/12), 2 & 7pm - A Simple Space by Gravity & Other Myths dance performance. $20-$60.

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contra dance. $7. Held at The Center for Art and Spirit at St. George's Episcopal Church, 1 School Road OLD FARMER'S BALL oldfarmersball.com • 2nd SUNDAYS, 3-5pm - Family contra/ square dances for families with children ages 6-12. All ages welcome. Free. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road • THURSDAYS, 8-11pm - Old Farmers Ball, contra dance. $7/$6 members/$1 Warren Wilson Community.

Held in Bryson Gym Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) Wednesdays 6pm.

Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/class. (828) 768-2826. skinnybeatsdrums.com ASHEVILLE CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES 828-259-3626, ashevillechambermusic. org • SU (12/13), 4pm Trio Karénine, a piano trio (piano, violin, and cello), concert of trio sonatas from the Baroque era featuring works by Schumann, Mieczyslaw Weinberg and Ravel. $40. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm - Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. BLUE RIDGE ORCHESTRA CHAMBER STRINGS blueridgeorchestra.org • SU (1/13), 5pm BRO Revels! 2018, a concert by Blue Ridge Orchestra Chamber

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Strings with banjofiddle duo, Newberry & Verch. $25/$15 Orchestra Friends and students. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane PUBSING 828-254-1114 • 2nd SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Gospel jam and sing-along. Free to attend. Held at Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway WINTER CHILL: LOCAL MUSIC SERIES • MO (1/14), 7pm - Winter Chill: Local Music Series - Emerging Artists Night. $10. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. THE MEDITATION CENTER 894 E. Main St., Sylva, 828-356-1105, meditate-wnc.org • SA (1/12), 2pm - Sound Healing Meditation session featuring Billy Zanski including planetary gongs, gemstone and crystal bowls, West African harp, didgeridoo and hand pan.

Reservations required. $20.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD EXPLORE THE LANDSCAPES OF STORY & TELLING (PD.) Join Connie ReganBlake for 6 weekly story-work sessions, Wednesday mornings starting January 23.

Class held at LenoirRhyne University, Downtown AVL. Advanced registration required. 828.258.1113 www.Storywindow.com BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/depts/ library • TH (1/10), 11am - Winter-themed family storytime, art project afterwards with the Asheville Art Museum. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road

• TU (1/15), 7pm - Black Mountain Mystery Book Club: The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah. Free. Held at Black Mountain Library, 105 N Dougherty St., Black Mountain • TU (1/15), 7pm Fairview Book Club: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

by Anne Fadiman.

Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • WE (1/16), 3pm - Fiction book club discusses the works of Charles Frazier.

Free. Held at Black Mountain Library, 105 N Dougherty St, Black Mountain • WE (1/16), 3pm Enka-Candler History Book Club: Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard. Free.

Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115, firestorm.coop • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 2:30pm - Wild Words writing group. Free to attend.

• SA (1/12), 3pm - Bobby Sullivan presents his book, Revolutionary Threads: Rastafari, Social Justice, and Cooperative Economics. Free to attend.

• MO (1/14), 6pm - A reading circle on the book Make Rojava Green Again. Free to attend.

• TU (1/15), 6:30pm - Women's Empowerment Book Club welcomes cisgender and transgender women. Free to attend.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club.

Free.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers' Guild. Free.

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GRACE COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 789 Merrimon Ave., 828-254-3274, gcpcusa.org/ • SU (1/13), 5pm - Chris Highland presents his book, A Freethinker's Gospel.

Free to attend.

HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS 174 Broadway, habitatbrewing.com • FR (1/11) & SA (1/12), 7pm - Abby the Spoon Lady with Chris Rodrigues in 'Stories, Songs and Spoons.' $16-$19.

HISTORIC JOHNSON FARM 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville, 828-891-6585, historicjohnsonfarm. org • WE (1/16), noon History Bites lecture series: 'School Days' by Terry Ruscin. $5.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • FR (1/11), 6pm Bryan Robinson launches #Chill, a mindfulness and meditation guidebook, in conversation with Maryedith Burrell.

Free to attend.

• SU (1/13), 3pm - Tom Hansell presents his book and the documentary, After Coal.

Free to attend.

• MO (1/14), 7pm Mystery Book Club: Bruno, Chief of Police: A Mystery of the French Countryside by Martin Walker. Free to attend.

• WE (1/16), 6pm - Webb Hubbell presents his book, The Eighteenth Green, in conversation with Mark de Castrique. Free to attend.

• TH (1/17), 6pm - Astrologist Joe Landwehr shows how the evolutionary psychology of numbers corresponds with the charts of individuals and world events. Free to attend.

• TH (1/17), 7pm Notorious History Book Club: High Noon: The Hollywood

FACULTY OF ART: WCU Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center presents the School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial Exhibition 2019, on display Tuesday, Jan. 15, through Friday, May 3. Outside the classroom, Western Carolina University faculty members in the School of Art and Design are active artists and scholars who make significant contributions to the arts. The faculty at the School of Art and Design bring to the studio and classroom a commitment to the process of innovation and skill-building as well as their range of experience as makers, collaborators and researchers. A reception is planned for Thursday, Jan. 17, 5-7 p.m. Photo of Erin Adams, Tiny House, courtesy of Matthew Turlington Photography ART AT WCU 828-227-2787, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • Through FR (4/26) - I Want You! How World War I Transformed Western North Carolina, exhibit featuring wartime images and artifacts. Held at Mountain Heritage Center, Nantahala National Forest, Cullowhee ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828-251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through TH (1/31) - A Colorful Beginning, exhibition by 20+ member artists.

ELIADA 828-254-5356, eliada.org, info@eliada.org • Through SU (3/31) Contemporary Fossils:

Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic

by Glenn Frankel. Free to attend.

NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS' NETWORK ncwriters.org • Through WE (1/30) Submissions accepted for the 2019 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. See website for full guidelines.

Bringing Permanence to the Beauty of Nature sculptures by John Wayne Jackson. A portion of the proceeds benefit Eliada.

Held at Capella on 9 @ The AC Hotel, 10 Broadway Ave. FLOW GALLERY 14 South Main St., Marshall, avl.mx/aw • Through SA (1/12) - 'Wild Awake: A Collection of Small Spells' by Abacus Corvus, prints.

HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org/ • FR (1/11) through SA (2/23) - Juried exhibit of 28 local artists working in a variety of mediums: oil, acrylic, clay, watercolor, forged steel, coldwax,

ODDITORIUM 1045 Haywood Road, 828-575-9299, ashevilleodditorium.com/ • WE (1/9), 7pm - First person storytelling open mic. Free to attend.

TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org

collage, wood, glass, fiber, jewelry, egg tempera, photography and mixed media.

• Through SA (2/16) 'Table Arrangements,' exhibition of photographs

by James Henkel.

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 828-2255509, pushtoyproject.com • Through TH (1/31) - 99 Bottles, group art show featuring over sixty different artists’ work.

WEIZENBLATT ART GALLERY AT MHU 79 Cascade St, Mars Hill • WE (1/16) through FR (2/8) - Polaroids and Other Instant Photos retrospective exhibition by Jay Kranyik of 125 Polaroid and Instax images.

THE WCU BARDO ARTS CENTER 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee, 828-227-2479, wcu.edu/bardo-arts-center/ • TU (1/15) through FR (5/1) - School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial Exhibition. Reception: Thursday, Jan. 17, 5-7pm.

TRACEY MORGAN GALLERY 188 Coxe Ave, Asheville, TraceyMorganGallery.com

• TU (1/15), 7pm - A staged reading of works by playwright Annie Evans. $5.

THEATER 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 828-254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (1/11) until (1/27) - Nunsense-

WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, FINE ART MUSEUM 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee, wcu.edu/ bardo-arts-center/ fine-art-museum • Through (5/3) - Defining America, exhibition in a variety of media.

Contact the galleries for hours and admission fees

A-Men. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $25.

ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828-254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • SA (1/12), 10am - African Folktales, stories from the folktale traditions from Africa. $7.

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ROCK ’N LOL: After members of pop-punk quartet T-Rextasy had similar experiences of exes reaching out to plead newfound maturity, the group wrote “Gap Yr Boiz” (from the debut album Jurassic Punk), which went on to be named one of NPR’s Songs We Love in 2016. Bassist Annie Fidoten describes the type as newly enlightened after leaving “to embark on a soul-searching program [then] returns to tell everyone about all he’s learned.” The New York-based band’s sophomore effort, Prehysteria, is out this month. T-Rextasy performs at The Mothlight on Monday, Jan. 14, 9 p.m. Mouthbreathers and Brown Widow open. Free. themothlight.com. Photo by Ulloa Photography

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM CARMEL'S KITCHEN AND BAR Jazz Night w/ Adi the Monk, 5:30PM FLEETWOOD'S The "We All DIY Alone" Tour, 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays, 5:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Threadbare – CD Release, w/ Brooke & Nick, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM NANTAHALA BREWING - ASHEVILLE OUTPOST Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30pm sign up), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Synergy Story Slam, 7:00PM Rowdy Leaf, Bergenline, Shutterings, Jaeb (rock), 9:00PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Sexy Tunes w/ DJ's Zeus & Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Zoso - The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night: Music by Moonlight, 6:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Funky Wednesday w/ Kazz and Unk, 8:00PM

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Envisioned Arts ATL presents: Yheti & KirbyBright, 9:30PM BEN'S TUNE UP Offended Open Comedy Mic, 9:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE The Big Deal Band (bluegrass), 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Chris Jamison's Ghost, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Open Mic Night, 6:00PM

THE GOLDEN FLEECE The Tune Shepherds (Scottish music), 7:00PM

CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 9:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio (jazz, funk, soul), 9:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S AVL Underwear Comedy Party, 8:30PM

TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & Soul Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM

FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Thursday Night Blues w/ The Patrick Dodd Trio, 6:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Bob Sinclair and The Big Deals, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Vinyl Night, 8:00PM OWL BAKERY Thursday Night Jazz, 7:30PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul Weekly Drag, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Karaoke w/ Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM Adwela & The Uprising, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Bean Tree Remedy (soul, singersongwriter), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: West Side Funk Jam (funk), 9:00PM PULP Minori Hinds & Grayson Morris, 7:30PM PACK'S TAVERN Jeff Anders & Jason Whitaker, 8:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Kind, Clean Gentlemen, 7:00PM

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C LUBLAND PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Mike Rhodes' Fellowship, 7:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE The Paper Crowns, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Trivia, 7:00PM

COMING SOON WED 1/9 7:00PM–THREADBARE CD RELEASE W/ BROOK & NICK

THU 1/10 7:00PM–BOB SINCLAIR AND THE BIG DEALS

FRI 1/11

THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (rock n' roll), 9:00PM

SAT 1/12

THE MOTHLIGHT Casey's Trivia Night: Movie Trivia, 8:00PM

8:30PM–CHARLIE TRAVELER PRESENTS: FRANK VIGNOLA’S HOT JAZZ GUITAR TRIO

SUN 1/13 7:30PM–THE SAM BUSH BAND

TUE 1/15 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS W/ ZOE & CLOYD

WED 1/16 7PM–NICK GONNERING W/ NICHOLAS RAYMOND 8:30PM–CAITLIN CANTY PRESENTED BY AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION W/ SPECIAL GUEST OSHIMA BROTHERS

THU 1/17 7:00PM–JOE CROOKSTON

FRI 1/18 7PM–A NEWBERRY NEW YEAR W/ JOE NEWBERRY

9PM–SOUTHERN PINE EP RELEASE W/ JACK VICTOR & ELLEN SIBERIAN TIGER

SUN 1/20 6:00PM–SARAH SISKIND AND BETH WOOD 10:00PM–THE 4TH ANNUAL WINTER CLASSIC W/ DJ AUDIO & LYRIC

TUE 1/22

7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS W/ DARREN NICHOLSON BAND

WED 1/23

7:00PM–MORGAN WADE W/ ASHLEY HEATH

THU 1/24 7:00PM–ANNA GRACE BEATTY & HEATHER TAYLOR 8:30PM–ITALIAN NIGHT W/ MIKE GUGGINO & BARRETT SMITH

FRI 1/25 7:00PM–THE BUMPER JACKSONS 9:00PM–ZACK DUPONT

SAT 1/26

7:00PM–CHATHAM RABBITS ALBUM RELEASE

SUN 1/27 6:00PM–BLUE YONDER FEAT. GUEST TONY CREASMAN

TUE 1/29 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS W/ POWDER KEG

WED 1/30 7:00PM–GRAYSON FOSTER W/ ZACH CANNELLA 8:30PM–AMY MCCARLEY (FULL BAND)

ISISASHEVILLE.COM DINNER MENU TIL 9:30PM LATE NIGHT MENU TIL 12AM

TUES-SUN 5PM-until 743 HAYWOOD RD 828-575-2737

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THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Melissa McKinney & Mark Shane of The Shane Gang w/ Kayla McKinney of The Change (acoustic blues), 8:00PM

7:00PM–ZACH & MAGGIE 8:30PM–CHARLIE TRAVELER PRESENTS: ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS 6:30PM–AMICI MUSIC PRESENTS: ‘OPUS ONE’ GREAT PIANO QUARTETS

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SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Ben Phan (jazz, funk), 7:00PM

TOWN PUMP Genna & Jesse, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, rock'n roll), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Craft Karaoke, 9:30PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Dirty Dawg, 8:00PM W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Ben Phan (funk), 8:00PM WEAVER HOUSE Suede Thursdays, 7:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN AmiciMusic: Piano Quartets, 7:30PM

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11 27 CLUB Black Garter Revue presents a Rock Music Burlesque Expericence, 10:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Doug McElvy Ensemble (soul grass), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST Broaden Your Horizon Series: Litz (funk), 9:00PM LITZ (funk), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Fruition w/ Brad Parsons & Starbird, 8:30PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club, 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Throwback Dance Party w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM

BLUE GHOST BREWING COMPANY Mr Jimmy, 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Jake Burns, 6:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Capella on 9 w/Dj Zeus, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Combs and Company, 7:00PM CITY OF MORGANTON MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM Kinky Boots, 7:30PM CORK & KEG Sparrow & Her wingmen, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Pimpes of Pompe (old-time cover songs), 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Belated Birthday Dance Party for Elvis & Bowie, 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Grass to Mouth (folk, jam), 10:00PM GASTRO PUB AT HOPEY Open Mic Night w/ Heather Taylor, 7:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Nick Gonnering (12 String folk, blues), 6:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Sister Antics (southern rock), 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Zach & Maggie, 7:00PM Robin & Linda Williams, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Gold Rose, 9:00PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Singer-Songwriter Night, 8:00PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Stalcup, Woods & Lee, 5:30PM NOBLE KAVA Marcel Anton Experience, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Wild Realms (medieval), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam, 5:30PM Oklahoma Stackhouse, 10:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown:The Gypsy Swingers (up-tempo acoustic jazz, European swing), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Harmonia & Trillium Present: Sands of Lilith Benefit Show, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Purple Masquerade: A Tribute to Prince, 8:30PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Blue Ridge Busketeers (bluegrass), 6:00PM

TOWN PUMP Mosswalk, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Lenny Pettinelli (music), 7:30PM W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT DJ Abu Disarray (dance party), 8:00PM

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Lyric (soul, funk), 9:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN DJ Moto, 9:30PM

AMBROSE WEST Earthtone SoundSystem (DJ set, dance), 9:00PM

PHIL MECHANIC STUDIOS Finding Home (songs, monologues, dance benefiting Homeward Bound), 7:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step Swing Jam, 5:00PM Jody Carroll (roots, blues), 8:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Laurel Lee & The Escapees, 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Another Country, 8:30PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Supatight Bday Show Celebrating Lead Guitarist, Josh Bertram, 10:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Shabudikah (funk), 8:00PM

BANKS AVE SES: Satisfaction Every Saturday, 9:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Flashback Friday at the Block: Virginia & The Slims, 7:30PM

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Kevin Lorenz (jazz, classical), 7:30PM

THE GREY EAGLE The Travelin’ McCourys w/ Danny Burns, 9:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Redleg Husky, 7:00PM

ODDITORIUM Hard Rocket, Slow Poison (rock), 9:00PM

CHESTNUT Jazz Brunch w/ The Low keys (original jazz music), 12:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL GrudaTree, 10:00PM

CORK & KEG The Old Chevrolet Set, 8:30PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Brief Awakening (Appalacian synth pop), 9:00PM

CROW & QUILL Sweet Megg & the Wayfarers (hot jazz, blues), 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Daisybones, Minnies & Viva Le Vox, 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Unihorn (funk), 10:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 AmiciMusic presents Opus One: Great Piano Quartets, 6:30PM Frank Vignola’s Hot Jazz Guitar Trio, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Abe Reid & The Spike Drivers from The Blue Rags, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy Night: Shari Diaz, 8:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: April B. & the Cool (funk, soul), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Kid Hop Hoooray! Indoor Dance Party, 10:00AM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY The Remarks (indie rock), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Carolina Lowdown Band, 9:30PM PHIL MECHANIC STUDIOS Finding Home (songs, monologues, dance benefiting Homeward Bound), 7:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Ben Phan, 7:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND PISGAH BREWING Women's Solidarity Show Country Show w/ COMPANY Vaden Landers & Band, The Paper Crowns Band, Gracie Lane, and Mama 8:00PM ft.

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BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER THE IMPERIAL LIFE 520 Haywood RD Winter Beardfest, Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM 12:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Indigo De Souza w/ Sweet CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Years, The Holifields, & Slugly, 8:00PM Special Affair, 9:00PM

MG ROAD Late Night Dance Parties w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM

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JOURNEYMAN: Local singer-songwriter Nick Gonnering’s most recent release is an acoustic journal of sorts, as a meditation on the journey of finding personal peace.

Finding My Niche was recorded after Gonnering spent 2016 touring the U.S. in celebration of the National Parks Service’s centennial anniversary. The musician shares the bill with his friend, nationally touring storyteller Nicholas Raymond. The two will perform in Isis Music Hall’s lounge on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 7 p.m. $10 advance/$12 day of show. isisasheville.com. Photo by Alicia Scharpou

Thu. 1/10

9pm- West Side Funk Jam $3 Selected Pints

Fri. 1/11

9pm- Sands of Lilith Fundraiser

SLY GROG LOUNGE Thee Sidewalk Surfers, Her Pilots, The Styrofoam Turtles, 8:00PM

Sat. 1/12

9pm- April B. & the Cool, $5

Sun. 1/13

Closed for Staff Party

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE CommUNITY Salsa & Latin Saturday Dance Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes (lesson, 9:00PM), 9:30PM

Mon. 1/14

8:30pm- Jazz Jam

Tue. 1/15

Service Industry Night! $1 off every drink

Wed. 1/16

9pm- Latin Dance Night w/ DJ Oscar

Thu. 1/17

9:15pm- West Side Funk Jam $3 Selected Pints

Fri. 1/18

9pm- Jesse Barry & the Jam, $5

THE GREY EAGLE Eric Gales Band w/ Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats, 8:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Mdou Moctar (Tuareg music from Niger) w/ Black Sea Beat Society, 9:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Lenny Pettinelli, 7:30PM Melissa McKinney (blues, rock'n roll, funk), 10:00PM

Mon. 1/21

W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Siamese Sound Club, 8:00PM

8:30pm- Jazz Jam

Tue. 1/22

Service Industry Night! $1 off every drink

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Kyle Petty & David Childers, 8:00PM

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish/Celtic Jam, 3:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Trivia Night, 5:00PM

5pm- Legalize Equality Screening 7pm- Women Rock AVL

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ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 The Sam Bush Band, 7:30PM

TOWN PUMP Life Like Water, 9:00PM

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

ODDITORIUM Grendel's Mother, Brooke & Nick (folk), 9:00PM

9pm- Moonlight Street Folk & Rooster

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FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Three Dog Night, 7:30PM

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FLEETWOOD'S Chambers, 8:00PM

SUNDAY, JANUARY 13 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Redleg Husky (Americana), 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Erin Kinard, 7:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Savannah Hatfield, 6:00PM

PHIL MECHANIC STUDIOS Finding Home (songs, monologues, dance benefiting Homeward Bound, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam 2 Year Jammiversary w/ Jonathan Scales, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Grog Open Mic, 6:30AM THE GREY EAGLE Rockin' for Rodney Benefit w/ Knives & Daggers & Brody Hunt & The Handfuls, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE UNCA Jazz Jam, 4:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Local Women's Voices: A Literary & Musical Extravaganza (benefit for Women's March), 6:00PM THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Harlem Globetrotters, 3:00PM

MONDAY, JANUARY 14

PHIL MECHANIC STUDIOS Finding Home (songs, monologues, dance benefiting Homeward Bound, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Winter Chill Local Music Series: Emerging Artists Night w/ Jordan Okrend Experience, Ashley Heath & The Paper Crowns, 8:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Sound Club (R&B, soul, jazz), 8:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Shook Twins & The Moon & You, 8:00PM

BUXTON HALL BBQ Punk Wok at Buxton Hall, 6:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy jazz), 9:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo Trivia, 7:30PM Open Mic, 9:30PM

THE MOTHLIGHT T-Rextasy w/ Moutbreathers & Brown Widow, 9:00PM

MUSICIAN'S WORKSHOP Guitar League Asheville Chapter, 6:00PM

TUESDAY, JANUARY 15

NOBLE KAVA Ladies Night: Miyazaki Night, 7:00PM

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

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

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Live Band Honky Tonk Karaoke, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Open Mic Night feat. Anthony Willingham, 7:30PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Jazz Mondays hosted by Ray Ring & Jason DeCristofaro, 8:30PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays, 6:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP Leading Ladies of Asheville, 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Trivia, 6:30PM BYWATER Baile (DJs, fire-spinning, art), 9:00PM CORK & KEG Old Time Moderate Jam, 5:00PM

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WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Jam, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM

CARMEL'S KITCHEN AND BAR Jazz Night w/ Adi the Monk, 5:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Funky Wednesday w/ Kazz and Unk, 8:00PM

CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM

THE GREY EAGLE King Tuff:The Infinite Smiles Tour w/ Stonefield, 8:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S Early Branch, Sleepy Poetry & The Styrofoam Turtles, 8:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio (jazz, funk, soul), 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays, 6:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT 80 Unlacey w/ Shutterings, 9:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Nick Gonnering w/ Nicholas Raymond, 7:00PM Caitlin Canty w/ Oshima Brothers, 8:30PM

TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & Soul Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM NANTAHALA BREWING - ASHEVILLE OUTPOST Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30pm sign up), 8:00PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Vicious Queen and Her Boys, 7:30PM

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17

ODDITORIUM Feverest, Mr. Mange, Thee Sidewalk Surfers, Crooked Ghost (rock), 9:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Latin Dance Night w/ DJ Oscar, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime, 8:00PM

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ORANGE PEEL The Devil Makes Three w/ Lost Dog Street Band, 8:00PM

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ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Caspa, 9:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Steve Moseley Duo, 8:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP Offended Open Comedy Mic, 9:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Mike Rhodes' Fellowship, 7:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Bob Sinclair and the Big Deals, 8:00PM

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

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM

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BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club, 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Throwback dance Party w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Anthony Mossburg, 6:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Capella on 9 w/ Phantom Pantone, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE The Zealots, 7:00PM CORK & KEG Brody Hunt & The Handfuls, 8:30PM FLEETWOOD'S Punk / Indie Karaoke at Fleetwood's, 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Elysium Park Band, 7:00PM Sortatight (funk, jam), 10:00PM GASTRO PUB AT HOPEY Open Mic Night w/ Heather Taylor, 7:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Noah Proudfoot & Friends (Funk & Soul), 6:30PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 A Newberry New Year With Joe Newberry, 7:00PM Southern Pine EP Release w/ Jack Victor and Ellen Siberian Tiger, 9:00PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Singer-Songwriter Night, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Church Girls, The Spiral, Shutterings, Tan Universe (rock, indie), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM ONE WORLD BREWING Laura Blackley & the Wildflowers (blues & soul), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Jesse Barry & the Jam (blues, funk, soul), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Appetite for Destruction: Guns N Roses Tribute, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Berlyn Trio (funky jazz), 6:00PM

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MAX RATING But here’s the thing: Problematic though it may be, Escape Room is also a hell of a lot of fun. It avoids gratuitous gore and superficial startle scares, opting instead for some pretty creative chaos with the design of its eponymous murder rooms — even the deaths caused by those titular terrors are nowhere near as mundane as you might expect. Director Adam Robitel mounts tension proficiently, competently ratchets up the insanity of his staging, and creates dramatic stakes that resonate despite their inherent ridiculousness. Perhaps most importantly, it’s one of the few movies in theaters this week that isn’t based on a pre-existing intellectual prop

Director Adam Robitel offers a way out for the award-bait-weary with low budget thriller Escape Room.

Escape Room HHHS DIRECTOR: Adam Robitel PLAYERS: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Tyler Labine, Deborah Ann Woll, Nik Dodani, Jay Ellis THRILLER RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Six strangers are thrown together in a twisted take on the strip-mall staple of the escape room, only here the goal isn’t team building but survival.

THE LOWDOWN: In the wake of bloated awards-season bookings, this creepy cheapie offers up a welcome dose of low-brow escapism.

It’s the first week of January, and the award season onslaught is in full swing. If you’re anything like me, that means watching a bunch of pretty people prance across a stage to collect often undeserved accolades for pretentious and/or pandering movies that, in most cases, don’t deserve to be watched, much less

praised. So when a film like Escape Room comes along in this bleak corner of the calendar, you jump at the chance to break from all the self-aggrandizing tripe-garnering Golden Globes or ogling Oscars.

After all, a good movie should be its own reward.

Mind you, saying that Escape Room is good does not represent an unequivocal recommendation.

This film is every bit as flawed as one might expect of its ludicrous premise — namely, that a shadowy company has created “escape room” attractions that literally murder you if you fail to solve their riddles — but do those flaws constitute deal breakers? I would argue that anyone expecting more out of a bargain-basement B-movie thriller of this sort should avail themselves of any of the lackluster blockbusters still littering postholiday cinema schedules.

To be certain, all of the complaints you might expect of low-

budget counterprogramming of this ilk are on display here. It’s lazily scripted, its characters paper thin. The closest thing it boasts to recognizable leads are a couple of Netflix stars and the latter half of Tucker and Dale vs Evil. It’s highly derivative of numerous better films, like David Fincher’s The Game or Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the Woods, among many others. It takes about 20 minutes to build any narrative momentum, and the ending narrowly skirts the line of painful predictability.

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erty, and that originality comes as a welcome respite in and of itself.

Look, if you want high art, do yourself a favor and go see The Favourite.

But if, like me, you’ve already endured quite enough award-bait battery for one year, then Escape Room is your way out. It’s not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, but it was never trying to be. It manages to deliver exactly what it promises, zigs in some places where it might have zagged, and has the good taste to avoid overstaying its welcome. Genre fans will be well-pleased, and those whose sensibilities are not thusly attuned are at least unlikely to be offended.

After the prestige drama deluge of December, the relatively recent tradition of the early January shlock-horror slot is one of the few requisite seasonal institutions I’m glad to see sticking around. So if you’re in the market for a chilling change of pace, Escape Room provides just the right kind of escapism. Rated PG-13 for terror/perilous action, violence, some suggestive material and language.

Now Playing at Carolina Cinemark, Regal Biltmore Grande.

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CLOSING TIME: The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center winds down its exhibition on artist Jacob Lawrence with a Jan. 10 screening of short films about the painter and fellow artist/instructor Jean Varda. Pictured are Lawrence and his wife, Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence. Photo by Beaumont Newhall, courtesy of the Western Regional Archives • The Midweek Matinees series continues at the Saluda Community Library, 44 W. Main St., Saluda, on Wednesday, Jan. 9, at noon with Lizzie, and on Wednesday, Jan. 16, with Mission Impossible: Fallout. The films will also be shown in the ongoing Film Fridays series at the Columbus Public Library, 1289 W. Mills St., Columbus, during which complimentary popcorn will be provided.

Lizzie will be shown on Jan. 11 at 1 p.m. and Mission Impossible: Fallout on Jan. 18 at 1 p.m. Free. polklibrary.org • On Thursday, Jan. 10, at 7 p.m., the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 120 College St., screens a trio of short documentaries. The selections are Jacob Lawrence: The Glory of Expression, about the life and work of the titular painter, featuring narration

by Ossie Davis; Uncle Yanco, a profile of artist Jean Varda, who was on the BMC faculty during the summer session of 1946; and Martha Colburn’s film commissioned for the exhibition, Between Form and Content (closing Saturday, Jan. 12), which reflects on Lawrence’s work. Exhibition co-curator Julie Levin Caro will lead a post-film discussion.

Free for BMCM+AC members and students with valid ID. $8 for nonmembers. blackmountaincollege.org • Designed to allow viewers to use film as their window into the minds and culture of Israel, the monthly Israeli Film Series — a collaboration between Grail Moviehouse, 45 S. French Broad Ave.,

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and the Asheville Jewish Community Center — continues Sunday, Jan. 13, at 2 p.m. with The Ancestral Sin. The 2017 documentary examines the Jewish Agency’s social housing project of the early 20th century, during which questionable means were used to convince primarily Sephardic and Mizrahi immigrants to settle in destitute parts of Israel.

A discussion will follow the film. Tickets are $8 and available online or at the Grail box office. grailmoviehouse.com • HealthCare for All WNC and People for Healthcare for Everyone co-host a screening of Big Pharma: Market Failure on Sunday, Jan. 13, at 2 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville, 2021 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville. The 2017 documentary explores high drug prices in the U.S. and their impact on the public, businesses and the economy. The film will be followed by a discussion with experienced health care professionals. Free. uufhnc.org • The Weaverville Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville, hosts a Foreign Film Night screening of Sweet Country on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 7 p.m. The 2018 Australian western takes place on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s and centers on an elderly aboriginal farmhand who goes on the run, pursued by a posse, after shooting a white man in self-defense. Commentary will be provided by local film aficionado Roy Turnbaugh. Free. avl.mx/3yr X

Australian western. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie HHHHH DIRECTOR: Luis Buñuel PLAYERS: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier SURREAL COMEDY FANTASY Rated R If you’ve never seen a Luis Buñuel film, it’s high time you did, and this 1972 Oscar winner about six middle-class people and their interrupted efforts to have a meal together is a good place to start. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is more accessible than some of Buñuel’s work and might just change your mind about the whole concept of “art films” and surrealism as something incomprehensible or dry. Whatever else this film is, it’s anything but dry. Buñuel had the happy knack for mixing straight-up surrealism with a theater-of-theabsurd sensibility — and more than a little self-mockery — to make something unique in cinema. He made surrealism fun. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke, published on April 5, 2006. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie on Friday, Jan. 11, at the new Flood Gallery location in Black Mountain, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain.

The Young in Heart HHHS DIRECTOR: Richard Wallace PLAYERS: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Roland Young, Billie Burke, Paulette Goddard, Minnie Dupree ROMANTIC COMEDY Rated NR When The Young in Heart (1938) showed up on the list of January titles for the Hendersonville Film Society, I not only realized I hadn’t seen it, I’d never heard of it — something that seemed unlikely from that year and with that cast. So I was interested to see it and fill in the gap. What I found was a pleasant little romantic comedy with a cast that was a little too good for it — which might explain its relative obscurity. It just seems as if it ought to be better than it is, but it certainly isn’t bad. Looked at today, however, films like The Young in Heart take on a certain nostalgia. There’s a good-heartedness to them that we don’t see very often today — nor do we see this much A-list talent rescuing what is little more than a glorified B picture to solid entertainment. This excerpt was taken from a review

by Ken Hanke originally published on Jan. 4, 2011. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Young in Heart on Sunday, Jan. 13, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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A Dog’s Way Home Family drama based on the novel by W. Bruce Cameron. According to the studio: “A Dog’s Way Home chronicles the heartwarming adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.” No early reviews. (PG)

On the Basis of Sex Biopic starring Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer. According to the studio: “On the Basis of Sex is inspired by the true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Jones) – then a struggling attorney and new mother – who faces adversity and numerous obstacles in her fight for equal rights throughout her career. When Ruth takes on a groundbreaking tax case with her husband, attorney Martin Ginsburg (Hammer), she knows it could change the direction of her career and the way the courts view gender discrimination. The film also chronicles the storybooklike romance between Ruth and Marty, a partnership that succeeded both personally and professionally.”

Early reviews positive. (PG-13)

Roma Semiautobiographical prestige drama. According to the studio: “Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of a domestic worker’s journey set against domestic and political turmoil in 1970s Mexico.” Early reviews positive. (R)

The Upside Comedy starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart. According to the studio: “The Upside is director Neil Burger’s heartfelt comedy about a recently paroled exconvict (Hart) who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a paralyzed billionaire (Cranston). The film also stars Nicole Kidman, Julianna Margulies and Aja Naomi King.” Early reviews mixed. (PG-13)

If Beale Street Could Talk Crime-Romance directed by Barry Jenkins. According to the studio, based on the novel by James Baldwin, the film tells “the story of Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover’s innocence while carrying their first-born child. It is a celebration of love told through the story of a young couple, their families and their lives, trying to bring about justice through love, for love and the promise of the American dream.” Starring KiKi Layne and Stephan James. Early reviews positive. (R)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Computer-generated special effects used in the 1993 film Jurassic Park may seem modest to us now. But at the time they were revolutionary. Inspired by the new possibilities revealed, filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas and Peter Jackson launched new projects they had previously thought to be beyond their ability to create. In 2019, I urge you to go in quest of your personal equivalent of Jurassic Park’s pioneering breakthroughs. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may be able to find help and resources that enable you to get more serious about seemingly unfeasible or impractical dreams.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’m a big proponent of authenticity. I almost always advise you to be yourself with bold candor and unapologetic panache.

Speak the truth about your deepest values and clearest perceptions. Be an expert about what really moves you and devote yourself passionately to your relationships with what really moves you. But there is one exception to this approach. Sometimes it’s wise to employ the “fake it until you make it” strategy: to pretend you are what you want to be with such conviction that you ultimately become what you want to be. I suspect now is one of those times for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The students’ dining hall at Michigan State University serves gobs of mayonnaise. But in late 2016, a problem arose when 1,250 gallons of the stuff became rancid. Rather than simply throw it away, the school’s Sustainability Officer came up with a brilliant solution: load it into a machine called an anaerobic digester, which turns biodegradable waste into energy. Problem solved!

The transformed rot provided electricity for parts of the campus. I recommend you regard this story as a metaphor for your own use. Is there anything in your life that has begun to decay or lose its usefulness?

If so, can you convert it into a source of power?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you grow vegetables, fruits and grains on an acre of land, you can feed 12 people. If you use that acre to raise meat-producing animals, you’ll feed at most four people. But to produce the meat, you’ll need at least four times more water and 20 times more electric power than you would if you grew the plants. I offer this as a useful metaphor for you to consider in the coming months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should prioritize efficiency and value. What will provide you with the most bang for your bucks? What’s the wisest use of your resources?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Modern kids don’t spend much time playing outside. They have fun in natural environments only half as often as their parents did while growing up. In fact, the average child spends less time in the open air than prison inmates. And today’s unjailed adults get even less exposure to the elements.

But I hope you will avoid that fate in 2019. According to my astrological estimates, you need to allocate more than the usual amount of time to feeling the sun and wind and sky. Not just because it’s key to your physical health, but also because many of your best ideas and decisions are likely to emerge while you’re outdoors.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): NASA landed its robotic explorer Opportunity on Mars in January 2004. The craft’s mission, which was supposed to last for 92 days, began by taking photos and collecting soil samples.

More than 14 years later, the hardy machine was still in operation, continuing to send data back to Earth. It far outlived its designed lifespan. I foresee you being able to generate a comparable marvel in 2019, Virgo: a stalwart resource or influence or situation that will have more staying power than you could imagine. What could it be?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1557, Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde invented the equals sign: =.

Historical records don’t tell us when he was born, so we don’t know his astrological sign. But I’m guessing he was a Libra. Is there any tribe more skillful at finding correlations, establishing equivalencies and creating reciprocity? In all the zodiac, who is best at crafting righteous proportions and uniting apparent opposites? Who is the genius of balance? In the coming months, my friend, I suspect you will be even more adept at these fine arts than you usually are.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There’s a modest, one-story office building at 1209 North Orange St. in Wilmington, Del. More than 285,000 businesses from all over the United States claim it as their address. Why? Because the state of Delaware has advantageous tax laws that enable those businesses to save massive amounts of money. Other buildings in Delaware house thousands of additional corporations. It’s all legal. No one gets in trouble for it. I bring this to your attention in the hope of inspiring you to hunt for comparable situations: ethical loopholes and workarounds that will provide you with extra benefits and advantages.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): People in the Solomon Islands buy many goods and services with regular currency but also use other symbols of worth to pay for important cultural events like staging weddings and settling disputes and expressing apologies. These alternate forms of currency include the teeth of flying foxes, which are the local species of bat. In that spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I’d love to see you expand your sense of what constitutes your wealth. In addition to material possessions and funds in the bank, what else makes you valuable? In what other ways do you measure your potency, your vitality, your merit? It’s a favorable time to take inventory.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1984, singersongwriter John Fogerty released a new album whose lead single was “The Old Man Down the Road.” It sold well. But trouble arose soon afterward when Fogerty’s former record company sued him in court, claiming he stole the idea for “The Old Man Down the Road” from “Run Through the Jungle.” That was a tune Fogerty himself had written and recorded in 1970 while playing with the band Creedence Clearwater Revival.

The legal process took a while, but he was ultimately vindicated. No, the courts declared, he didn’t plagiarize himself, even though there were some similarities between the two songs. In this spirit, I authorize you to borrow from a good thing you did in the past as you create a new good thing in the future. There’ll be no hell to pay if you engage in a bit of self-plagiarism.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is a collection of fables that take place in India. Three movies have been made based on it. All of them portray the giant talking snake named Kaa as an adversary to the hero Mowgli. But in Kipling’s original stories, Kaa is a benevolent ally and teacher. I bring this to your attention to provide context for a certain situation in your life. Is there an influence with a metaphorical resemblance to Kaa: misinterpreted by some people, but actually quite supportive and nourishing to you? If so, I suggest you intensify your appreciation for it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Virginia Woolf thought that her Piscean lover Vita Sackville-West was a decent writer, but a bit too fluid and effortless.

Self-expression was so natural to Sackville-West that she didn’t work hard enough to hone her craft and discipline her flow. In a letter, Woolf wrote, “I think there are odder, deeper, more angular thoughts in your mind than you have yet let come out.” I invite you to meditate on the possibility that Woolf’s advice might be useful in 2019. Is there anything in your skill set that comes so easily that you haven’t fully ripened it? If so, develop it with more focused intention.

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ACROSS 1 Sabbath service site 5 Title woman in a 1976 Dylan song 9 Couples 14 ___ Millions (multistate lottery) 15 Aberdeen resident 16 “Yippee!”

17 “You can’t bring in a crazed antelope, Mr. Glass!”

20 Picker-upper 21 House, as soldiers 22 Put under wraps 23 Wrigley Field’s beer boycott goes into effect 28 Shoulder bone 30 Call for help 31 Stat for which lower is better 32 One may be red 34 “Mayor” memoirist 35 Organization honored on October 24 … and the theme of this puzzle 40 Melee memento, maybe 41 Early spaceman 42 Clay, after 1964 43 Guitarist Paul 46 Amusement park attractions 50 Mother isn’t straight with actress Vardalos 53 Mich. neighbor 54 Venetian basilica eponym 55 Western band 57 Suffering caused by reader prejudice 61 Slave in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 62 Let off some steam 63 Breakfast brand 64 Ability to effect change 65 One of 12 on a cube 66 It helps you focus

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1 Workers at forges 2 Lifesaving, say 3 Landlocked African country 4 Civil rights activist Guinier 5 Suffix with ideal 6 One close by a swordsman’s side 7 Ancient land on the Aegean Sea 8 Shots from movies 9 Nerdy sorts 10 Big Three conference site 11 “Gotcha!”

12 Put on 13 Means of putting down roots?

18 Like Hogwarts courses 19 Jazz singer Laine 24 Beekeeper of filmdom 25 Element between helium and argon on the periodic table 26 Middle-earth menaces 27 “Don’t think so” 29 Part of a full house 33 “Star Trek” sequel, briefly

34 Big Island coffee 35 Jackie Robinson’s alma mater 36 Get perfectly 37 Comic who said “If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books” 38 Garr of “Tootsie” 39 PRINTED SO AS TO SHOUT 40 Rick’s Café Américain employee

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