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Locals launch campaign to relieve WNC medical debt BY LINDA CONNOR KANE On Dec. 5, several Asheville residents opened The New York Times to see a front-page story headlined “2 New Yorkers Erased $1.5 Million in Medical Debt for Hundreds of Strangers” (avl.mx/5ma). The article details how two women from Ithaca, N.Y., with the assistance of New York-based nonprofit RIP Medical Debt, purchased and forgave the medical debt of hundreds of people around the state of New York. “When I read The New York Times article, I was immediately interested in helping our neediest friends and neighbors in Western North Carolina,” says local resident Mignon Durham. Working with Durham — along with local resident John Fritchie, plus the folks behind Asheville business ZaPow! gallery and the Farm at Green Heron Pond in Leicester — we reached out to RIP Medical Debt. The national nonprofit’s mission is to purchase medical debt from bill collectors and then work on behalf of individuals, foundations and corporations to abolish medical debt and provide relief for those in need. Once the group contacted RIP Medical Debt, its in-house research team determined the amount of debt in each of 34 Western North Carolina counties, an area from Gaston County northeast to Stokes County and west (a map will be posted at mountainx. com). The total: about $1.5 million. The steering committee has agreed to raise $15,000 to address this debt for these 34 counties. Any funds raised beyond that figure will be applied to RIP Medical Debt’s national veterans program. “Knowing that a donation to our campaign will remain local and that every dollar you give has the purchasing power of $100, our $15,000 goal should be very realizable,” adds Durham. “Until we can rework the health care system in America, this is one important way to relieve the stress and unintended consequences of needing medical care today.” Medical debt is a significant part of overall health issues for Americans. “Many people take on extra jobs or hours to afford health care, and 11 percent of Americans have turned to charity for relief from medical debts, according to a 2016 poll conducted by The Times and the Kaiser Family Foundation,” the Times article noted. 8

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KNOCKING OUT DEBT: Local group members raising funds to forgive medical debt for WNC residents in need, pictured at ZaPow! gallery, include, clockwise from front left, Lauren Patton of ZaPow!, Mignon Durham, Bob and Amy Wise of the Farm at Green Heron Pond, Linda Connor Kane and John Fritchie. Photo courtesy of Kane An early donor to our campaign, Rebecca Heartz, reflects on the problem: “Every day, I hear stories of people facing financial ruin because of an illness or accident requiring medical [care] they cannot afford. I watched my own mother, who lived to age 92 with dementia, exhaust her assets paying for care in a memory facility. I hope to help ensure that the desperation this causes patients and their families does not happen to others. This effort will also create awareness of the systemic changes that are needed in the health care delivery system in our country.” Across the country, these statistics provided by RIP Medical Debt offer a sobering picture of the effects of medical debt: • More than $100 billion in unpaid medical debt every year has an adverse impact on debtor patients, physicians and hospitals. • Six in 10 of both insured and uninsured people say they have difficulty in paying other bills as a result of medical debt. Over a third were unable to pay for food, heat or housing because of medical bills. • Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults under age 65, or 116 million peo-

ple, had medical bill problems or debt, went without needed care because of cost, were uninsured for a time or were underinsured — insured but had high out-of-pocket medical expenses or deductibles relative to income. • Medical debt contributes to more than 60 percent of the bankruptcies in the U.S. Until satisfied, debt lingers on a person’s credit report to negatively impact their ability to buy a home, get a loan or even gain employment. Once the group has reached its goal, RIP Medical Debt will purchase the debt, and the funds will be used to pay the debts of individuals in Western North Carolina who earn less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, those in financial hardship and people facing insolvency. There are no tax consequences for those whose medical debts are forgiven because the payment funds are from a detached and disinterested third party (RIP), so forgiveness of the debt is not considered income to the gift recipient. In addition, RIP Medical Debt contacts the credit reporting agencies for the recipients,

Grand Opening Celebration and this debt is removed from their credit reports. In this campaign, dollars go a long way: One dollar abolishes $100 of debt! For every $25 given, $2,500 of debt is erased. One hundred dollars forgives $10,000 of debt. One hundred percent of donations go toward abolishing medical debt. RIP Medical Debt has other funding sources for its overhead and administrative costs. As noted in The Times article, two former debt collection industry executives, Craig Antico and Jerry Ashton, founded RIP Medical Debt in 2014. Through personal data associated with the debt accounts, they are able to target specific classes of people, such as veterans, to relieve their debts. Their efforts were greatly enhanced in 2016 when John Oliver did a segment on his HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” As reported by The Times, Oliver “paid $60,000 to forgive $14.9 million in medical debts through the charity. About 9,000 people received the yellow forgiveness envelopes as a result.” So far, the nationwide efforts have abolished $500 million in debt on the way to RIP’s efforts to reach $1 billion of medical debt forgiveness.

To celebrate the effort, join the organizers for a party at ZaPow! on Thursday, March 7, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101, Asheville. Go to ZaPow.com for updated information. A party to thank donors will take place at the Farm at Green Heron Pond on Sunday, April 28, 2-4 p.m. X Fairview resident and retiree Linda Connor volunteers for a number of nonprofit organizations that are focused on literacy and social justice issues.

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accounts for an unusually high number of referrals would also help, she said. “As you can imagine, some of our students are experiencing a lot of different kinds of trauma in their lives,” responded Hedt. “I would love to see some follow-up, including a deep dive into those referrals and the [Department of Juvenile Justice], so that we can go a little more in-depth than we’re able to do today.”

vdaffron@mountainx.com Numbers don’t lie, but sometimes they can break your heart. Seated at long tables facing one another, Board of Education and City Council members confronted their shared heartbreak and responsibility for the Asheville City Schools’ failure to adequately serve its African-American students. At the unusual joint meeting, held on Jan. 22 at Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer’s request, the district revealed that the disparity in the academic achievement of its black students compared to white students — already the worst in the state — has only grown larger since the district launched a new equity initiative in 2017, designed to narrow the gap. The last time City Council held a joint meeting with members of the school board was Oct. 2, 2012. Council appoints representatives to the board, who serve four-year terms, but otherwise exercises no oversight of the system. “Our data tells us that we are doing a disservice to our black students, and you can’t say it any plainer than that,” said Shaunda Sandford, chair of the school board. Presentations by Asheville City Schools staff were punctuated by stark statements from black leaders who’ve battled the problem for years. “I spent eight years on the city school board. I’ve had five generations of my family coming through the school system. But what’s appalling to me when I look at these numbers, they don’t get any better,” said Buncombe County Commissioner Al Whitesides. “At some point in time we’ve got to realize: It ain’t working.” Statistics showing huge disparities in discipline rates and academic achievement between white and black students, Whitesides maintained, can’t be blamed on a lack of resources. “When you think that we have the second-highest funded school district in the state, and this is the results we get? As a taxpayer, I don’t like it. As an African-American man, I’m more than ticked off,” he said. An ACS spokesperson confirmed that in 2016-17, local taxpayers’ per-pupil contributions

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CHILD’S PLAY: Kindergarten students at Isaac Dickson Elementary work to develop social and emotional skills. In this activity, students pass a full-to-the-brim cup of water around the circle, trying not to spill a drop. The exercise teaches focus, teamwork and resiliency, competencies critical for behavioral and academic success in the classroom. Photo by Virginia Daffron were the second-largest in the state; taking into account federal, state and local funds, the district had the 14th-highest per-pupil spending of North Carolina’s 115 school districts. Meeting attendees and participants alike agreed on who isn’t to blame for the dismal statistics: Asheville City Schools students. “Our kids are not broken. Our kids are perfectly perfect,” said Melissa Hedt, executive director of teaching and learning. The disparities, she continued, result from a broken system. “We are going to fix the system and realign it to work for all of our students,” she said. DISPARITIES IN DISCIPLINE While African-American students make up 25 percent of the school district’s population, 64 percent of its disciplinary referrals went to black students in the 2017-18 school year, according to data presented by Eric Howard, director of student support services. The district is looking at policy changes and teacher training as strategies to ensure that bias is not a factor in imposing discipline, Howard said. He alluded to the larger implications of school discipline —

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“We all know there’s the school-to-prison pipeline language” — and suggested that a larger community effort that addresses students’ needs outside of school will be necessary to stem the flow of young black men into involvement with the criminal justice system and incarceration. Council member Keith Young, who has a child in the city’s system, said that he frequently sees students facing criminal charges stemming from disruptive incidents in the classroom or elsewhere on school campuses in his work as a deputy clerk for the Buncombe County Superior Court. Mentioning a recent case involving a student who ran across a classroom and yelled at a teacher that was ultimately dismissed, Young remarked, “What that does is it leaves that kid with a record for the rest of their life unless they get it expunged.” Council member Julie Mayfield expressed the hope that the school system will share more details about the disciplinary numbers. For example, she said, knowing whether the incidents “were dealing with mostly minor things or mostly major things” would shed additional light on the situation. Understanding whether a small percentage of students

Dana Ayres, the district’s chief academic officer, briefed Council members on a new state designation, Targeted School Improvement. Except for Asheville High School and the School of Inquiry and Life Sciences, all schools in the city district were designated as TSI schools this fall, indicating that “all of these schools are having deficiencies with specific subgroups,” she said. In addition to black students, other subgroups with significant disparities in academic achievement in the city’s elementary and middle schools include students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged students and Englishlanguage learners. About half of North Carolina’s public schools are on the TSI watch list for the current academic year, including many Buncombe County public schools. Although multiple subgroups perform lower than the Asheville City Schools average, Hedt said, the gap between black and white students is the largest in the district. In the past, she said, “There was a bit of a reluctance to talk about race, as I think there is in the community overall in Asheville.” But in 2015, when the district topped the Youth Justice Project’s list of North Carolina school systems with the largest racial disparities in academic performance and discipline, Hedt said, ACS staff undertook extensive data analysis. Even after correcting for the impact of living in poverty, she said, race is the most important contributing factor to disparities in Asheville City Schools. City staff reviewed programs that provide support to disadvantaged students and their families, including the City of Asheville Youth Leadership Academy, affordable

SLEEPWORLD of Asheville FROM GAP TO GULF By the time school district staff got around to addressing recent data showing the difference between the results of academic testing for black and white students, little time remained in the two-hour meeting. “I think you have that in your packets that you can look at at your leisure,” Hedt told the officials, who had received folders of material at their seats at the table. Other meeting attendees, however — some 40 or 50 community members, including leaders like Gene Bell, CEO of the Asheville Housing Authority — didn’t have access to the information. Xpress obtained the data, now available online at avl.mx/5mu. While the results vary among years, grades and schools, they generally indicate a worsening academic achievement gap between black and white students from 2014-18. For example, at Asheville High School in 2014, 28 percent of black students received grades of “proficient” or higher on end-of-course tests in English II versus 84 percent of white students, a gap of 56 points. By 2018, 18 percent of black students were proficient versus 89 percent of white students, a gap of 71 points. Gaps in Math I and biology also increased. Over the same period, some elementary schools made progress in reducing racial achievement gaps in

English, math and biology in grades three, four and five. However, those gaps remained large overall and grew in many cases. The conversation about black achievement shouldn’t be given short shrift, said retired UNC Asheville professor and State of Black Asheville founder Dwight Mullen. “Why do we have 70- and 80-point differences between the performances of black and white students? Those things are not to be glossed over,” he said. NEVER BEFORE Despite the dire news, Mullen suggested that the common understanding shown at the Jan. 22 meeting could mark a turning point for the school system. “We’ve never had this conversation in Asheville. This has never happened,” said Mullen. “I’ve had this conversation among black folk in Asheville, talking about the point disparity,” he added, but not in the broader community. Mullen cautioned against putting too much faith in any single solution. Teaching all students in multi-level classes (the approach advocated by the district’s ICS Equity initiative) will not automatically lead to improved academic performance among minority students, he said. “The idea that putting folk — even consciously and discussing race — putting them in the same classroom and expecting equi-

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FACING FACTS: At a Jan. 22 joint meeting of the Asheville City Schools Board of Education and Asheville City Council — the first in five years — board members and elected officials confronted dire statistics showing that the gap in academic achievement and discipline between the district’s white and black students, revealed in 2015 as the worst in the state, has grown larger. Photo by Virginia Daffron table outcomes, is something that is a complicated and very serious conversation to have,” Mullen warned. Coordinating “services for housing, for justice, health care and the various initiatives that the principals are bringing forward” will be necessary for lasting change, he said.

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“The fact that we’re not coordinating can be seen in the disparity gaps at the city,” he said. The meeting ended with an agreement to make the coordination Mullen urged a reality. According to Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler, City Council’s liaison to the school board, the next step will be for members of Council, the Board of Education and Asheville City Schools staff to plan a broader communitywide discussion and effort to address the disparities. “We have to keep telling this story and saying, ‘This is unacceptable.’ And not just have a meeting and say it and everybody walks away and pats themselves on the back,” Wisler said. “This is really a call to action to the community that the school system needs the community’s help with battling this very significant problem.” After the meeting, Young said he isn’t sure what it would take to “beat back this monster” of the achievement gap. “I don’t know the answer to that, and that is scary,” Young said. “And the scarier part is that we’re the worst in the state at what we’re doing. The second-highest funded district in the state, and we’re the worst in all these numbers. “The first step is to make sure that we’re all talking about the same thing, we’re all on the same page, and that the ultimate goal is, as [City Manager Debra Campbell] said, to help the whole child,” he continued. “It’s always been beyond the school system, but we’re now approaching it that way.” Young said he looks to “brighter minds,” including Mullen and others, “who will come to the table and add their special something to the pot to make this what it should be. I know that I’ll do everything I can policy-wise to make that happen.” X

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Asheville City Council member Keith Young was anything but quiet about a series of alterations to the city’s noise ordinance that came up for a vote on Jan 22. During more than five minutes of remarks on the new rules, he urged his colleagues to view the changes though an “equity lens” before making their decision. “Don’t just think that this is going to be somebody calling on the phone about a bar down the street or their neighbor next door,” Young said. “This opens up a larger door. I am totally not comfortable opening up a new pathway into our criminal justice system.” Young objected in particular to one of the proposals, put forward by Senior Assistant City Attorney John Maddux, that would change how the city enforces the noise ordinance. Currently, noise violations are punished with civil penalties, which Maddux said often go unpaid. He suggested that violations instead be charged as infractions, noncriminal offenses that are handled by the county courts and thus carry greater weight. But Young, who works as a deputy clerk for the Buncombe County Superior Court, said infractions can “snowball” into serious legal problems for offenders who fail to appear for their court date. Council member Sheneika Smith also expressed concern over the higher fee associated with an infraction: $100 plus $188 in court costs, together nearly six times the current $50 civil penalty. Several citizens who spoke during public comment were skeptical of the changes as well, but for different reasons. Asheville Downtown Commission member and musician Andrew Fletcher criticized the “serious lack of public engagement” on the new rules and emphasized that “one person’s noise is another person’s economic livelihood.” Meanwhile, Kenilworth resident Martha Salyers questioned the proposed dissolution of the city’s Noise Ordinance Appeals Board, which is currently hearing her neighborhood’s complaint against Mission Hospital over noise generated by industrial heating and cooling equipment. While she agreed with Maddux that the board is “not necessarily a terribly

‘A LITTLE MORE MARINATING’: Senior Assistant City Attorney John Maddux first proposed a series of changes to Asheville’s noise ordinance at a December meeting of City Council’s Public Safety Committee, though Council has now sent the proposal back to the drawing board. Photo by Daniel Walton effective means” of resolving complaints, she suggested that it should be reconstituted with acoustics and public health experts to advise Council’s further action on noise problems. After hearing these concerns, Mayor Esther Manheimer suggested that the proposal “needs a little more marinating,” adding that the city’s ability to analyze ordinances has been hindered by its understaffed legal department. Council member Vijay Kapoor then withdrew his motion to approve the changes. Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler, who had seconded Kapoor’s motion and said the changes were “well thought through,” asked City Manager Debra Campbell about her interest in undertaking a larger revision of the noise ordinance. In her first policy remarks during a Council meeting since taking the manager post in December, Campbell said she hoped to find a balance between “vibrancy” and “the ability to sleep and enjoy life.” Campbell said that she hoped to start public engagement around a noise ordinance overhaul “very soon” but warned Council that the process could be lengthy. “With this particular issue, what we want is a sense of reasonableness and clear lines,” she said. “In all honesty, I’m not sure how long it’s going to take.”

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NEWS BRIEFS by David Floyd | dfloyd@mountainx.com MEDIA MOVES • As part of companywide dismissals that affected journalists at newspapers across the country, Gannett Co. laid off five local journalists last week. They included Asheville’s Citizen Times reporter and planning editor Bruce Steele, business and state government reporter Mark Barrett, writing coach Brian Ponder and photojournalist Matt Burkhartt. The company also laid off a reporter/editorial assistant at the News Record & Sentinel, a weekly paper covering Madison County. On Twitter, several North Carolina politicians, including Rep. Patrick McHenry and Sen. Thom Tillis, expressed dismay at Barrett’s departure from the paper. “Few know WNC politics better than Mark Barrett,” McHenry wrote, “and his knowledge and insights will be missed.” • Local NPR affiliate Blue Ridge Public Radio named Ashleigh Kenny to serve as its development director. Kenny previously led fundraising at YR Media, an independent media organization in Oakland, Calif., for six years. She will join BPR staff on Monday, Feb. 25. • Mountain Xpress added Deborah Robertson as Community Calendar editor and Brooke Randle as staff reporter. ZERO-EMISSION BUSES The city of Asheville will deploy five zeroemission electric buses this spring, a change the city says will result

ON THE JOB: Brooke Randle, left, and Deborah Robertson recently joined Mountain Xpress. Randle is a staff reporter, and Robertson serves as editor of the paper’s Community Calendar. Photo by Virginia Daffron in a 270-ton reduction in emissions per year. The public is invited to join officials for a preview of the new ART buses at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the ART Station, 49 Coxe Ave. Attendees will hear a presentation and then take a short bus ride around downtown. BLACK HISTORY MONTH TALKS Asheville activist, poet and chaplain Robert “Zack” Zachary will deliver a talk titled “The Proper and More Effectual Method on the Teachings of Afro-American History” 5:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, and Thursday, Feb. 21, at The BLOCK off Biltmore. He will give the same presentation 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Firestorm Books & Coffee on Saturday, Feb. 9. On Sunday, Feb. 10, and Sunday, Feb. 24, 1-2 p.m., Zachary will host a “dialogue forum” on Asheville FM to explore the hidden achievements and contributions made by African-Americans throughout history.

UPCOMING MEETINGS • The A-B Tech Board of Trustees Executive Committee met on Monday, Jan. 28, to discuss Article 46 sales tax expenditures and an offer for the college’s Enka property. The college’s full board of trustees meets Thursday, Feb. 7. • The next regular meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will occur at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the third-floor conference room at 200 College St. in downtown Asheville. A full agenda for the meeting will be posted on the Buncombe County website. • Asheville City Council will hold a formal meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12. Before the meeting, Council will hold a budget briefing at 3 p.m. in council chambers on the second floor of City Hall. During the meeting, Council members will hear budget policy direction on the city’s capital improvement program. X

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BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com When Dr. Robyn Hughes decided to focus her naturopathic practice on helping patients with foot problems, friends often suggested that her specialization sounded “pretty niche.” What Hughes learned over her years of training and practice, however, is that foot pain — and especially heel pain — is an extremely common problem. Millions of people, Hughes says, experience foot issues that limit their activities, but many do their best to simply ignore the discomfort. “I guess people don’t talk about it. Either they think it’s not interesting, or it’s just normal to have foot pain,” she says. Other area practitioners say there’s plenty of business to go around when it comes to treating common foot ailments. And they agree on the No. 1 type of problem that motivates patients to seek relief: pain at the base of the heel that’s most intense upon getting out of bed in the morning or standing and walking after a period of inactivity. But there the agreement ends. Conventional and alternative practitioners alike debate whether the common disorder should be known as plantar fasciitis — indicating an inflammation of the tissues — or plantar fasciosis — a name that points to insufficient blood supply and resulting tissue deterioration. Beyond the choice of the most appropriate term, opinions about the cause and treatment of the condition differ significantly as well.

COME CORRECT: Naturopathic physician Dr. Robyn Hughes’ unconventional approach to common foot problems includes a gradual transition to wide, flexible footwear; foot and ankle exercises and stretches; and Correct Toes, a silicone device that can be worn inside roomy shoes to realign toes crunched by restrictive footwear. Photo courtesy of Natural Footgear BACK ON THEIR FEET Michigan native Dr. Daniel Waldman has been practicing podiatry at Blue Ridge Foot Centers on Biltmore Avenue just south of downtown Asheville since 1993. These days, as his own two children are leaving the nest, he’s treating the teenage children of some of his early patients. Over the years, Waldman says, he’s transitioned his clinic to focus on “taking care

of the more acute problems,” generally referring more complicated issues such as chronic diabetic ulcerations of the feet or complex orthopedic problems to larger group practices. Heel pain, Waldman says, tops the list of the most common conditions he sees, followed by “fractures, ingrown toenails, warts and quite a bit of dermatology.” Especially this time of year, as people follow through on New Year’s resolutions to get into shape, “They have great inten-

tions to get out there and run or start working out, but then their foot problem happens. That can be a setback, so I look at myself as part of the team that can help keep the patient active,” he explains. Following an initial conversation to suss out clues to factors such as specific activities or shoes that might contribute to the patient’s problem, Waldman works with longtime medical assistant Amanda Ward to conduct a physical examination and diagnostic procedures that can include X-rays and ultrasound exams. Those measures help him determine whether inflammation or some other issue is the source of the pain. Once Waldman has ruled out conditions that could mimic plantar fasciitis, he works with the patient to determine the best treatment options. “Not everybody needs a steroid shot,” he says, adding that fear of a shot keeps many patients from seeking help. Other approaches include radio-wave therapy to stimulate healing, cold laser therapy to reduce pain and custom orthotics or arch supports to bring a person’s gait into better balance. “One of the things I’m proud of is I use a lab here in town that makes our devices, so I’m trying to keep the business locally,” Waldman says. And if adjustments are needed, they often can be made the same day. Waldman also sees local shoe retailers with professional staff as an adjunct to his practice. An experienced shoe salesperson, he says, can “recommend a good type of shoe for that patient’s foot structure while they’re right there in the store.”

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Series Following those instructions only led to more injury. “The doctor said I was breaking down early,” Hughes recalls. A few years later, inspired by what she was learning at McClanahan’s clinic, she began using Correct Toes, a toe-spacer designed to be worn either barefoot or inside roomy, flat footwear; Hughes says initially she wore mostly Crocs sandals. Correct Toes are made from flexible silicone and gently spread and align the toes. According to the company’s website, “With progressive and consistent use while active and weight bearing, toes align and feet strengthen, restoring your foot’s original position and function.” That was over 10 years ago. Since then, “I’ve had no knee pain, no sprains. Running is no problem,” she says.

BREAKING WITH CONVENTION During her naturopathic education in Portland, Ore., Hughes had a rotation with Dr. Ray McClanahan, who initially trained and practiced as a conventional podiatrist. Hughes’ mentor had had an epiphany while spending time in West Africa. An elite competitive runner, McClanahan noticed that the local runners weren’t suffering the kinds of foot injuries that plagued him. That realization ran counter to his medical training, which insisted that feet need motion control and support to avoid damage. If the African runners, shod in sandals, were running in top form without injury, he reasoned, restoring natural foot function might make more sense than interventions that rely on medical technology. Hughes could relate to McClanahan’s story because she too had battled injury as a young runner and rugby player. “I was constantly getting injured. I had shin splints, knee pain and a lot of sprained ankles. Around 19, I went to an orthopedist. They suggested orthotics, specialized shoes, icing and taping,” she says.

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FOOT FIXER: Dr. Daniel Waldman has practiced podiatry in Asheville since 1993. His Biltmore Avenue clinic offers treatments for a variety of common foot complaints, including heel pain, ingrown toenails and fungal infections of the toenails. These days, he gets a kick out of helping the adolescent children of some of his early patients. Photo by Virginia Daffron

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When Hughes and her husband, Dr. Marty Hughes, a chiropractic physician, moved to Asheville several years ago, she established a practice near what was then Greenlife

Series Grocery focused on helping people with foot problems Soon, she says, “I realized: My patient visits are an hour-and-a-half long. I’m talking a lot, just trying to educate them about natural foot health. It’s taking a lot of time, and it’s a lot for them to remember.” Wouldn’t it make sense, she thought, to create a website where patients could access that information? And so Marty developed naturalfootgear.com to provide free education and resources for natural foot health. Not long after, he decided to list a few of the products Robyn had been selling in her clinic: Correct Toes spacers, metatarsal pads and select brands of movement-friendly shoes. The web store grew quickly, so quickly that Robyn left her practice to focus with Marty on the burgeoning business. “I left with the idea that I’d go back, but the site just kept growing,” Robyn recalls. “We decided that it’s working — people are getting the information they need. They don’t have to spend all this money for a visit with me. It’s reaching way more people than I could ever reach on a one-to-one basis seeing patients. It’s less expensive for patients and less expensive for me with the overhead from the practice. And our reach is so much wider. Now it’s been our focus for the last seven years.”

The site now has over 20,000 newsletter subscribers. From warehouses in Asheville and Michigan, the company ships products all over the United States and internationally. Marty says the company plans to phase out selling minimal shoes, focusing instead on providing unbiased shoe reviews along with links to sites where the shoes can be purchased, while continuing to sell accessories and other supplies. In the coming months, the pair also plans to offer informational seminars, including some in WNC. AT THE MINIMUM Robyn and Marty both stress that conventional treatment has its place. Still, options such as steroid injections (which can be hard on the liver), expensive orthotics and disruptive orthopedic surgery shouldn’t be viewed as the first line of approach, they say. “The biggest issue is [those treatments] don’t address the underlying cause of the problem. Often people using these approaches get out of pain, but they don’t stay out of pain,” Robyn notes.

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Ameena Batada resolves to disrupt bias in the new year “From my perspective, the top health challenge facing Western North Carolina isn’t a health condition but the question of how we level the playing field,” says Ameena Batada, associate professor of health and wellness at UNC Asheville. “How do we make sure that all communities are supported, protected, safe and healthy? If we could make Western North Carolina a healthier place for everyone, that would be great.” Batada says that when it comes to boosting her own health, regular meditation has made a big difference in her life. “It helps me to train myself to be in the present moment and to have more tempered and informed responses to the situations that arise,” she explains. As for her resolutions for the coming year, Batada says she wants to be more intentional about recognizing and disrupting bias when she sees it. “This speaks to my public health interest — including my own,” she points out. Research, notes Batada, has shown that racism is a major influence on health.

AMEENA BATADA What’s her one piece of advice about how to have a happier and healthier new year? Just be good to yourself. “Do what feels comfortable: Set goals for yourself, but also recognize that everyone is trying,” she says. “We live in changing times. Sometimes just staying sane is progress.” — Kim Dinan X

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MOVE MORE: Massage therapist and movement coach Mo Goldstein wants people to move all parts of their bodies more, feet included. But he cautions that it’s important to build strength slowly to avoid injuries. Photo courtesy of Goldstein The Hugheses’ recommendations for stopping heel pain are largely the same as their suggestions for many problems of the lower extremities, including bunions, hammertoes, weak arches, Morton’s neuroma and sesamoiditis, among others. First, Marty says, look for healthy footwear that allows the foot to spread naturally and travel through a full range of motion. When the foot can move without constriction or external support, it regains muscle tone and limberness, leading to better function and reduced pain. He recommends lightweight, flexible shoes with a completely flat sole that are widest at the tips of the toes. “If your work doesn’t allow this type of footwear, try to spend as much time in minimal footwear outside of work as possible,” Marty says. He notes that some types of specialized athletic shoes — such as cleats, climbing shoes, cycling shoes and ski boots — are also very rigid and ideally should only be worn for limited periods. Finding ways to actively spread your toes, performing simple foot exercises and going barefoot some of the time are other good ways to begin rebuilding strength in feet that have been cooped up in stiff footwear for decades, suggests Robyn. 18

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It’s important to take the transition slowly. “I’ve had patients get really excited to switch, and they run out and buy Vibram FiveFingers and go for a 6-mile run. That’s not a good idea,” Robyn says. “You need to wear the footwear for short periods doing lower-impact activities.” “It took a long time for your foot deformities to occur,” she adds. “Most of them can be undone, but not overnight.” JOY IN MOTION Asheville massage therapist and movement coach Mo Goldstein agrees with Robyn about the need to make a gradual transition to any new way of moving the body. Enthusiastic converts to the natural approach can fall victim to what he calls “the happy little kid first day of summer vacation wild animal joy.” Doing too much too quickly often leads to injury. “I think that’s what almost killed the minimal shoe movement,” Goldstein says, recalling one client who suffered a stress fracture in his foot from exuberant overuse early in his treatment. In an April 2013 article, Outside tracked the rise of the minimal athletic shoe trend, including the 2004 introduction of the Nike Free minimal running shoe and the 2009 publication of Chris

Series McDougal’s Born to Run, a best-seller that introduced the idea of minimal footwear to the masses. A 2011 article in Runner’s World wryly notes, “Bare feet were not invented in 2009 and have been the footwear of choice for many top and other runners long before the current fashion.” That fashion didn’t last, its demise perhaps hastened by a class-action lawsuit filed against Vibram FiveFingers in 2012 that claimed the brand had made unsubstantiated health claims. The suit was settled in 2014, with Vibram purchasers receiving compensation of between $8 and $20 per pair, according to Consumerist, a publication of Consumer Reports, and the website Top Class Actions. Vibram did not admit to making inaccurate claims as part of the deal, and the company continues to produce its distinctive shoes, which have pockets for each toe. Though the number of minimal shoes offered by major manufacturers has dropped significantly since the height of the minimal footwear craze, specialty producers like Lems Shoes and Vivobarefoot, among others, continue to command a small share of the footwear market. WRONG FOOT? Waldman, on the other hand — ahem, foot — says he’s not a fan of the minimalist footwear movement, especially in the urban environment. “Walking on hard concrete surfaces, shoes are there to help cushion the foot against that impact and also to protect against stepping on sharp objects,” he says, going on to list with relish some of the things he’s removed from Ashevilleans’ feet, from toothpicks and glass to sea urchin and stingray spines and embedded hair fibers. “There may be some people that feel like they’re more comfortable walking around the house barefoot or in socks or slippers,” Waldman allows. “That’s a personal choice.” Waldman attributes the prevalence of plantar fasciitis — which he says most people will experience at some point in their lives — to variations in anatomy. Flat feet, he says, “tend to stretch the ligament on the bottom of the foot, and over time that can weaken the attachment at the heel and create irritation.” Alternately, patients with very high arches can bear a lot of weight directly on the heel. The problem seems to afflict people of all ages and in many different walks of life. Physical therapy, especially stretching exercises, are helpful adjuncts to treatment, Waldman says. “I have had a number of patients [receive] acupunc-

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NEW WHEELS: The modern bicycle, with its equal-size wheels and chain drive, was invented in 1885. This image, circa 1905, shows a young man on the corner of Church Street and Patton Avenue. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville “The bicycle craze is in full force and effect in Asheville right now,” declared the May 12, 1893, edition of the Asheville Daily Citizen. “The wheelmen fill the streets every afternoon and evening after work hours, and the miles of paved streets offer inducements for this form of exercise never known before.” The phenomenon — by no means unique to the mountains of Western North Carolina — is widely attributed to John Kemp Starley’s 1885 invention of the modern bicycle, equipped with equal-size wheels and a chain drive. Across the country, newspapers covered the popular new trend with interest and zeal. Between 1890 and 1900, the phrase “bicycle craze,” appeared in nearly 7,000 newspaper articles. During this same period in Asheville, a number of cycling groups formed, including the 1895 West End Bicycle Club, the 1897 YMCA Bicycle Club and the 1900 Citizen Bicycle Club. Typically, these groups gathered once a month to tour the town. Advertisements for bicycle shops also started appearing more regularly in the dai-

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lies. In 1893, the Asheville Bicycle Co. promoted a range of options that cost between $20 and $150. All new purchases, the company noted, came with complimentary cycling lessons “by competent instructors.” The following year, local shops began highlighting the benefits of cycling in their advertisements, as well. One promotion read: “As an exercise bicycle riding is unsurpassed. As a means of getting from place to place with rapidity, the bicycle is unequaled by either horse or street car. In its saving of street car fares along a wheel will in a short time pay for itself.” However, trouble soon emerged for the new mode of transportation. On Aug. 21, 1897, The Asheville Daily Citizen reported that one local resident, E. Coffin, was urging the Board of Aldermen to adopt measures that would “lessen the danger to the public from reckless riding of bicycles[.]” Coffin asked that all riders be required to use “a lantern, gong and brake,” while navigating the streets by wheel. A week later, City Attorney Locke Craig shared a proposed ordinance that

would prevent riders from coasting, limit cycling speed to 10 miles per hour and require that all night riders be equipped with a headlight, as well as “a bell to ring continuously.” The board approved the ordinance on first reading, sans the continuous-bell clause. Further discussion would be held at its next meeting. A challenge to certain aspects of the ordinance was presented in an Aug. 31, 1897, letter to the editor. The writer, who signed his name as “Wheelman,” opposed the ordinance’s requirement that cyclists use a headlight at night. A good lamp was hard to come by, the author insisted: “They are greasy, dirty, smoky and cannot be kept burning half the time and are a positive nuisance[.]” The letter went on to implore the board to consider the public service bicyclists perform throughout the nation. “The wheelmen of the country are doing more than any other class of citizens to promote the building of good streets and roads,” Wheelman wrote. “I think they should at least be treated fairly.” The board reconvened on Sept. 3. At the meeting, Coffin once again spoke, advocating for the original proposal, which included a bell that would ring continuously while riders were in motion. According to the paper’s Sept. 4 recap, Coffin also publicly denounced all arguments published in the Aug. 31 letter to the editor. “Mr. Coffin said he believed that a majority of wheelmen do not own property and therefore do not pay taxes to keep up the roads of the county,” the paper declared. On Sept. 6, The Asheville Daily Citizen featured the official new bike ordinance, which would go into effect on Oct. 1, 1897. Coasting was prohibited; riders could not exceed speeds greater than 8 miles per hour; and warning bells were required, as were headlights. Violators would be fined up to $50. The following month, on Oct. 2, 1897, The Asheville Daily Citizen reported: “Patrolman Noland last night arrested the first violator of the bicycle ordinance, Robert Glasco. The young wheelman was riding without a headlight and was summoned to appear this morning in police court. A fine of $2 and costs was imposed by Acting Police Justice VanGilder. The patrolmen do not like to arrest ladies, but the latter are warned to attach lights to their wheels. Bicycles must also have bells attached.” Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from the original documents. X

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BY PAUL CLARK paul2011clark@gmail.com Mike Horak balances one foot on a small foam rubber pad. He raises his boxing gloves and starts pounding the mitts in Sean Simonds’ hands. Morning light hasn’t dawned yet outside Specialized Physical Therapy in South Asheville, but Horak, 53, is a devoted adherent of the rehabilitation program Simonds has designed: Knock Out Parkinson’s. Simonds’ 3-year-old program, which he says is based on “the highest-quality research in the field,” upends traditional models for treating patients of Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative motor system disorder with no known cure. The old standard of treatment was medication-heavy but light on exercise, Simonds says. Simonds’ regimen puts patients through intense, individually designed physical workouts. Exercise,

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body rotation, along with big and fast movements, all help improve mobility and independence among people with Parkinson’s, Simonds says. FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY “Boxing alone covers a lot of those bases,” Simonds says. “We have also seen substantial psychological improvements. Just imagine being really mad, depressed — depression is common in almost everyone with the diagnosis — wouldn’t you feel better if you got to hit something for a full hour?” “When you’re having a bad day, there’s something great about hitting a speed bag,” says Horak, who found out about four years ago that he has Parkinson’s. He looks at Simonds, who is wearing a tie despite the workout he is putting Horak through. Simonds puts up his mitts and moves them around as Horak pounds his gloves into them.

“For people with Parkinson’s, changing movements and directions when people ahead of them move is hard,” Simonds says, watching Horak’s balance and intensity. “Balance gets worse as the disease progresses. This exercise is for balance and coordination.” As the sun begins to dawn, Simonds puts Horak through a variety of exercises, nearly all of which involve speed bags, heavy bags and reflex bags. Simonds’ clinic in Gerber Village looks like a really nice gym, with lots of equipment for strengthening and stretching muscles. Turning on some classic rock, Simonds starts the workout by tossing a heavy ball with Horak to get his heart pumping. Then it’s off to the first set of exercises, including hopping over low pylons and striking opposing bags. Each set that Simonds and Montana Fain, a physical therapy student there to learn from Simonds, put Horak through gets more intense. A set of two jumping jacks and four punches gets exponentially

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larger, so that by the end of it, Horak is counting as hard as he is hitting. The mental concentration looks as difficult as the physical work.

in the middle of the room among bags of various colors. “I call a color. You’re going to do five hard hits on whatever color I call, then sit back down.” Horak sits, his gloves in his lap, waiting for Fain’s first command. “Blue!” she says, then watches Horak hit the blue bag and return to the chair. Red, yellow, black — the exercise goes on for several minutes. Horak is breathing hard and having fun.

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PARKINSON’S PROGRESS Simonds, who is currently editing two Parkinson’s treatment case studies he hopes to publish, bases his program on research published in neurological and physical therapy publications. Other forms of exercise also show promise. “Forced-rate lower-extremity exercise” that pedaling a bicycle involves “has recently emerged as a potential safe and low-cost therapy for Parkinson’s disease,” according to research published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the National Institutes of Health. (Supportive literature has also been produced by Indiana University

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Dr. Garth Davis preaches a plant-based, whole-food diet “The top health challenge facing WNC is what all of America faces: our reliance on processed food and a diet that promotes heart disease and cancer,” says Dr. Garth Davis. Davis learned this firsthand when he applied for a life insurance policy 12 years ago and found out that he had high cholesterol and hypertension. That’s tough news to swallow whatever you do for a living, but it has an especially raw edge when you’re the medical director of Mission Health’s Weight Management Center. “I was eating a high-protein diet just like I told my patients to eat,” Davis explains. “I thought, there has got to be something wrong with this. Are we just born with lemons for a body? Are we predisposed to disease or can we prevent it?” Davis switched to a whole-food, plantbased diet, and it changed his life. “I don’t take any medications for my cholesterol, and my hypertension has gotten better on its own,” he reports. His advice for people wanting to have a happier and healthier new year is to

DR. GARTH DAVIS remind them that the food they eat may be the single biggest indicator of how happy and healthy they’ll be in the future. “Food is medicine, but it can also be poison,” he warns. “The vast majority of the diseases I treat as a doctor are due to what the person puts in their mouth.” — Kim Dinan X

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THROWING PUNCHES: Mike Horak focuses on hand-eye coordination under Sean Simonds’ watchful gaze. Photo by Paul Clark and the Michael J. Fox Foundation, founded by the popular Back to the Future actor who publicly disclosed his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in 1998). Nearly 1 million people will be living with Parkinson’s in the U.S. by 2020, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation, a nonprofit organization that seeks to make life better for people with Parkinson’s by improving care and advancing research. Each year, about 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with the disorder. Researchers aren’t sure what causes it, though genetics and environment may be factors. The central nervous system disorder causes the loss of cells in the brain that produce dopamine, a chemical that carries messages to various parts of the brain about body movement and coordination. The condition causes neurons to fire erratically, leaving sufferers less able to control their movements. Men are more likely to be affected than women. Though exercise doesn’t increase the production of dopamine among people with Parkinson’s, it helps them use their remaining dopamine more effectively. A 2017 clinical trial conducted by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine suggests that highintensity physical exercise may help people with early-stage Parkinson’s delay the progression of symptoms related to motor abilities, according to an article at medicalnewstoday.com. The effect of high-intensity workouts on people with Parkinson’s, Simonds

says, is “bigger” than that of low-intensity workouts in the same way that running, rowing, biking and boxing at a fast clip are more beneficial to most people than walking. “Just like your strength improves more when you lift heavier weights or your heart is stronger when you do more cardio,” he says. “The same type of process happens in the brain with dopamine and [a protein called] GDNF, which protects remaining dopamine neurons, thus reducing symptoms even more. Exercise literally results in the protection of the neurons in the brain, thus protecting dopamine and improving mobility.” Knock Out Parkinson’s is a rehabilitation program covered by insurance and carried out by licensed physical therapists. All patients who come to Simonds’ clinic for the program — about 100 since 2015, he estimates — are evaluated by a doctor of physical therapy before a program is designed (and updated) specifically for them. Therapists work one-on-one with patients “as it allows us to carefully monitor any other issues that may be affecting our patients,” Simonds says. But boxing? “Boxing is more the mode of delivering the treatment in a fun and unique way,” he says. For more info on Knock Out Parkinson’s, see the programs offered at specializednc.com. X

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It’s a few minutes past 4 p.m. on a cold Friday afternoon in January, and Black Mountain Presbyterian Church is already brimming with activity. Dozens of volunteers rush to set up tables bearing baskets filled with sweet potatoes, butternut squash, bright red tomatoes and other fresh foods, while more than two dozen community members file into a small room to attend a class on nutrition led by Abbie Young. Stopping to talk with friends, volunteers and clients, Ali Casparian gradually makes her way toward a table in a corner of the room as a small crowd starts to gather for tonight’s cooking demonstration. Casparian is the founder of Bounty & Soul, a Black Mountain-based nonprofit that provides a range of services to at-risk and food-insecure community members. Through five weekly markets, the organization distributes thousands of pounds of donated fruit, vegetables, toiletries and pet food to more than 50 local households in Black Mountain and Swannanoa, with plans to add more outlets and expand into other areas. But for Casparian, a certified health and wellness coach, creating and maintaining healthy communities involves more than simply handing out fresh food. It requires what she calls a “whole person” approach that encompasses access to nutritional education, trans-

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portation and community support. In a mere five years, the nonprofit has expanded its roster of services to include fitness classes, courses in English as a second language, cooking demonstrations, health coaching and more. “I feel strongly about equity,” says Casparian. “Where we fall economically, whether it’s permanent or temporary, doesn’t matter: We meet you where you’re at, and let’s do this together.” A planned partnership with the Mountain Area Health Education Center and Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry, slated to launch very soon, will enable Bounty & Soul to expand its approach to food insecurity to include the many social factors that also influence health. ABCCM’s crisis ministry in Candler will host one of Bounty & Soul’s food markets, and MAHEC will offer community members free health counseling and other services there. “Health is not just about food: It’s also all of these other things that add into a person’s health and well-being,” Casparian explains. “You can’t isolate one piece of it, because the system is broken in a way. If you’re not addressing pieces of the system in a collective way, then you’re just treating the symptoms.” PIECE OF THE PIE A person’s health, notes Associate Professor of Health and Wellness at UNC Asheville Ameena Batada, is

determined by many overlapping factors, including individual behaviors and social determinants as well as biology. Often overlooked factors such as transportation, affordable housing, early childhood education and economic stability play an enormous role in predicting health and wellbeing, says Batada. “Fifty percent or more of your health is determined by your environment,” she explains. “Some people would say even more.” Research suggests that access to highquality early childhood education, for example, is a key social determinant of health. A 2013 report by the U.S. National Library of Medicine found that children who attend underfunded schools tend to experience more violence, stress and poorer overall health both during their school years and throughout their lives. While awareness of the impact of such social factors continues to grow, Batada says the concept of investing in social institutions to promote better health outcomes can be found throughout history and across the globe. “Really, this is an idea that’s as old as society itself. If you look at other countries, many of them have emphasized the social determinants of health through paid parental leave, living wage policies and other social strategies, because they know that it’s important for the wellbeing of their society,” Batada points out. “The term itself may be relatively new, but this idea that good social interventions are translated into positive health is not a new one.”

Series WEIGHING THE COSTS Poverty affects people’s access to both health care and healthy food, and this is a particular challenge for North Carolinians, says Fred Stichel, a registered dietitian at MAHEC. According to a report from the Center for American Progress, a research group that focuses on social and economic issues, nearly 15 percent of the state’s population (almost 1.5 million people) falls below the poverty line. Thirty-six states — including Virginia and Florida — have lower poverty rates, the study found. And poverty, says Stichel, increases the likelihood of chronic diseases, including diabetes. But ultimately, he maintains, availability is the biggest barrier to a healthy diet. “The answer I get from people very often is, ‘I can’t afford to eat that way.’ Of course, when we actually go through the costs of going to

McDonald’s or getting a bag of frozen vegetables, a bag of dried beans and a bag of brown rice, you could clearly feed your family a lot longer on the latter,” Stichel explains. “But in a lot of communities, you don’t have grocery stores nearby, and if you don’t have good transportation, you have to get food maybe from the convenience store or the gas station. All of those things play into health outcomes. I think the bigger issue is not the cost of fresh, healthy food — it’s the access to it.”

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Acupuncturist Aimée Schinasi prescribes chill time, seasonally appropriate eating What do you see as the top health challenge facing WNC? The health care system is broken, and people feel that. I see that in the line of work I do. People don’t have access to health care, and they don’t understand how to use the existing system. I also think the politics happening in a place like Western North Carolina are stressful for a lot of people — we are a liberal hub surrounded by the conservative politics of our state. I see a lot of people in the clinic trying to manage the stress of all of that, especially women and people of color. What’s the best thing you’ve done for your own health lately? I am trying not to overeat, and I’m working on my stress. I try to take more time to do things that feel relaxing, like hiking, cleaning and spending time with friends. Is there something new you plan to do to boost your health in 2019? Stepping away from every single news article about every single thing, and being more chill and less reactive with the political state of things. Less screen time for me, especially around eating. And when I have downtime, trying to think of things to do other than pick up my phone.

AIMÉE SCHINASI What piece of advice would you give others to help them have a happier, healthier new year? I tell my patients that at this time of year they should avoid raw and cold foods. Keep your diet very warm, with stews and other things that are cozy and deeply nourishing. I like the Danish concept of “hygge” [a feeling of contentment through enjoying the simple things in life].

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Care providers also need to attend to their own health, says Hillary Brown “North Carolina has the second-fastest rising rates of overdose in the country,” notes Hillary Brown of the Steady Collective, which uses advocacy, education and direct services to reduce the rate of drug overdoses and the spread of infectious diseases. “This year, we’re trying to help folks feel that they have more resources. “There is a lot of scarcity in terms of treatment here,” says Brown. “A lot of folks served by the Steady Collective are homeless or precariously housed, don’t have insurance and aren’t covered by Medicaid or Medicare.” And for Brown, having a challenging and sometimes gutwrenching job can make it hard to find time for self-care. “Folks who are first responders during this overdose crisis are experiencing a lot of burnout nationwide,” notes Brown. “I have gotten a bunch of acupuncture, and I’ve had some friends make tinctures in the last few months to help me deal with the stress

HILLARY BROWN and grief associated with this work.” So in 2019, Brown wants to remember that prioritizing one’s own health is essential to improving the health of the greater community. “If you aren’t well and taken care of, you can’t contribute much to the work.” — Kim Dinan X

Series “There aren’t enough people who work for poor communities, for rural communities, for underserved minorities,” he continues. Part of MAHEC’s focus, says Heck, has been not just to educate future medical care providers but to give them incentives to work in rural and impoverished areas. “We know that if we admit a medical student to UNC and they grew up in a rural area, they are 4.5 times more likely to practice in a rural area. If they go into primary care, which is what we train, they’re 8.5 times more likely,” Heck says. We have a lot of programs out in rural communities to encourage kids to choose health care professions. Once they get into their universities, we have rural programs in partnership with both Western [Carolina University] and UNCA, internships and other opportunities.” ALL TOGETHER NOW For Casparian of Bounty & Soul, working with a range of service providers is crucial to addressing the social determinants of health. Currently, her nonprofit partners with other local orga-

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nizations such as Our VOICE, Pisgah Legal Services and the Black Mountain Counseling Center to provide muchneeded resources for residents. “We’re certainly looking at every aspect and also not doing what others are already doing, but developing partnerships,” she says. Bounty & Soul’s new collaboration with MAHEC and ABCCM will be another way to connect the health education center’s patients with sources of healthy food and health professionals, all while educating future care providers. “We’re going to have a place where we can send patients who say, ‘I can’t afford to eat healthy,’” Stichel explains. “It’s also a great opportunity to educate all of the learners here.” In addition, notes Casparian, partnering with other organizations reinforces a sense of shared community purpose. “We have to address everything. We’re constantly looking for our part that we can address and where we can bring others in,” she says. “It’s not rocket science. We’re just trying to build a resilient community where we are there for each other and we problem-solve together and where everybody also has a part in it.” X

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BY THOMAS CALDER tcalder@mountainx.com Inside the Rural Heritage Museum at Mars Hill University, site manager Les Reker admires the recently installed panels for the museum’s upcoming exhibit, A Fountain of Youth in the Southern Highlands: A History of Hot Springs, North Carolina. Set to open Saturday, Feb. 2, the collection explores the area’s rich history as a health resort, former timber town and present-day haven for outdoor recreation. After a moment’s reflection, Reker reads aloud a passage from the show’s introductory panel — an 1877 excerpt from the Raleigh Observer. According to the paper, the town, known then as Warm Springs, offered guests the chance to drink from and soak in the region’s springs, which the newspa-

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per described as “the elixir of life; the certain panacea for all the ills to which the flesh is heir.” Reker pauses once more to consider the description. “Very Shakespearean,” he muses before pointing out an accompanying image of the Warm Springs Hotel, the town’s first major resort. Built in 1832, it was often referred to as the “White House,” Reker says, on account of its columns. Advertised as a place for health, pleasure and peace, the Warm Springs Hotel made claims similar to those of the Raleigh Observer. For example, an 1883 advertisement promised travelers “speedy and radical cures in almost all cases of Chronic and Sub-Acute Gout and Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Torpid Liver, Paralysis, Afflictions of the kidneys Scrofula, Chronic Cutaneous diseases, Neuralgia, Nephritic and Calcelous disorders, Secondary

Syphilis, and some other diseases peculiar to females.” Pat Momich, the exhibit’s curator, laughs out loud at the exhaustive list. “They thought the springs would cure everything,” she says. Of course, Reker notes, the overall history of Hot Springs is more complex and far more interesting than mere wishful thinking and hyperbole. “You can look at the town’s development as a microcosm, not only of Madison County, but also of the development of the United States,” he says. “From the 1700s to the 21st century — it’s all reflected in Hot Springs.” BUTCHERS, BARBERS AND BOATSWAINS As visitors wind through the exhibit, Reker’s observation becomes apparent. A Fountain of Youth in the Southern

Series Highlands brings the impact of regional, national and international events to the local level. Set in chronological order, each of its 18 panels focuses on a particular industry, event or person relevant to Hot Springs. This includes detailed accounts of Cherokee mythology, the establishment of the railroads, the region’s involvement in the Civil War and the creation of the Pisgah National Forest. For both Reker and Momich, one of the exhibit’s most intriguing panels looks at the town’s lesser-known role during World War I. In April 1917, after the United States declared war on Germany, a number of German civilian ships were seized at American ports. By June, more than 2,500 Germans were brought to Hot Springs and interned at the Mountain Park Hotel complex, the former site of the Warm Springs Hotel. With the addition of these new arrivals, Momich notes, the population of Hot Springs more than quadrupled. Deemed “enemy aliens,” these German civilians — which included butchers, barbers, boatswains, musicians, machinists and masseurs — were held in the mountains of Western North Carolina for 19 months. In addition to rare photographs from this time period, the exhibit also has a series of artifacts from the internment camp. This includes paintings and sculptures made by some of the German prisoners, who often engaged in arts and crafts, as well as sports, music and gardening to help pass the time.

‘AN ENIGMATIC PLACE’ The more you research a topic, says Momich, the more conflicting information you discover. Invariably, this leads researchers further down the rabbit hole. “You end up gaining a book’s worth of knowledge,” she says. And while knowledge may be power, it also presents quite the challenge for curators trying to compress information into the standard exhibit format. “You have to boil the information down to about a paragraph of the best stuff,” Momich explains. “People go to an exhibit because they want to learn something, but it’s not supposed to be a book on a stick.” To salvage some of the lost material, the Rural Heritage Museum has produced a 42-minute film covering additional aspects of Hot Springs’ history. Along with photographs, the production also includes interviews with present-day members of the Hot Springs community, including lifelong resident and Mayor Sidney Harris, Hot Springs Resort and Spa manager Heather Hicks and Sunnybank Inn owner Elmer Halls, as well as former state Sen. and Mars Hill resident Ray Rapp, who currently serves on the N.C. Railroad Commission. Harris, 78, says the springs continue to attract guests to the area as they have throughout the town’s history.

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HEALTH BENEFITS: Rural Heritage Museum director Les Reker stands before the introductory panel for the museum’s latest exhibit, which opens Saturday, Feb. 2. Photo by Thomas Calder Hicks agrees. Each year the resort’s hot tubs soothe over 50,000 guests, she says. Located on the former site of the Warm Springs and Mountain Park hotels, the Hot Springs Resort and Spa keeps alive the town’s reputation as a place of relaxation and healing. Magnesium, explains Hicks, is the springs’ most plentiful mineral, “which speaks to ailments in the body, especially muscle aches and skin irritation,” she says. “People with rheumatoid arthritis or even bee stings and poison ivy see the most benefits [from the tubs].” These healing powers, while a far cry from the town’s 19th-century claims, contribute to the ongoing allure of Hot Springs, says Hicks. “It is an enigmatic place,” she notes. “I think it always has been. It really draws people in.” Reker is hopeful a similar appeal will attract visitors to the Rural Heritage Museum’s latest exhibit. “I hope guests come to learn about the complex story

of Hot Springs,” he says. “There are all these side stories about all these people that came and were impacted by the place and returned here again and again, as they do today.” X

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Calendar WELLNESS ONLINE INTRODUCTION TO WILDERNESSFUSION (PD.) FREE. Saturday, February 9th 6-8PM. We are an Earth based healing school rooted in the philosophy of choice. Online registration required: https://wildernessfusion. com/mt-xpress. SECRETS OF NATURAL WALKING (PD.) Workshop, Sat & Sun, Feb.9-10,1-5pm. $150. Call to register: 828-2156033. natural-walking. com. Proper alignment = healthy joints, energized body, calm minds. "Let Your Walking Be Your Healing" SHOJI SPA & LODGE • 7 DAYS A WEEK (PD.) Private Japanese-style outdoor hot tubs, cold plunge, sauna and lodging. 8 minutes from town. Bring a friend to escape and renew! Best massages in Asheville! 828-299-0999. shojiretreats.com SOUND HEALING • SATURDAY • SUNDAY (PD.) Every Saturday, 11am and Sundays, 12 noon. Experience deep relaxation with crystal bowls, gongs, didgeridoo and other peaceful instruments. • Donation suggested. At Skinny Beats Sound Shop, 4 Eagle Street. skinnybeatsdrums.com BUNCOMBE COUNTY SPECIAL OLYMPICS 828-250-4260 • WEDNESDAYS, 3-4pm - Adaptive crossfit classes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Free. Held at South Slope CrossFit, 217 Coxe Ave., Suite B GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville, 828-693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 9am Walking exercise class. Free. HAYWOOD COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 157 Paragon Parkway, Clyde

• WE (1/30), 2-4pm - Seniors meet for Diabetes Empowerment Education Program on Wednesdays for six weeks. Registration required: call Megan Hauser at 828-356-2272. Free. LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester. Community.Center • MONDAYS, 5:306:30pm - Gentle Flow Yoga. $5. PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM jtfbuilder@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS through (3/27), 6:307:30pm - "Discover Your Inner Resources," inner peace educational program. Information: jtfbuilder@gmail.com. Free. Held at Montford Community Center, 34 Pearson Drive. RICEVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT 2251 Riceville Road • THURSDAYS, 6pm Community workout for all ages and fitness levels. Bring yoga mat and water. Free. SENIOR OPPORTUNITY CENTER 36 Grove St. • THURSDAYS, 2:303:30pm - "Slow Flow Yoga," yoga class adapted for all ages and abilities. Free. TAOIST TAI CHI SOCIETY taoist.org/usa/locations/ asheville • WEDNESDAYS, 3-4:30pm - 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. URBAN DHARMA 77 W. Walnut St., 828-225-6422, udharmanc.com/ • TUESDAYS, 7:308:30pm - Guided, non-religious sitting and walking meditation. Admission by donation.

SUPPORT GROUPS ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS & DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES adultchildren.org • Visit mountainx.com/ support for full listings. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 828254-8539 or aancmco.org ANXIETY SUPPORT GROUP 828-231-2198, bjsmucker@gmail.com • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Learning and sharing in a caring setting about dealing with one's own anxiety. Held at NAMI Offices, 356 Biltmore Ave. ASHEVILLE WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY 215-536-8026, womenforsobriety.org • THURSDAYS, 6:308pm – Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave. ASPERGER'S TEENS UNITED facebook.com/groups/ AspergersTeensUnited • For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks. Contact for details. CAROLINA RESOURCE CENTER FOR EATING DISORDERS 50 S. French Broad Ave., #250, 828-337-4685, thecenternc.org • 1st and 3rd Mondays, 5:30-7:30pm – Family Support Group. • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm – Adult support group, ages 18+. CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS 828-242-7127 • SATURDAYS, 11:15am – Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. • TUESDAYS 7:30pm Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 22B New Leicester Highway DEBTORS ANONYMOUS debtorsanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7pm - Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE 828-367-7660, depressionbipolarasheville.com • SATURDAYS, 2-3pm – Held at Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance Meeting Place, 1316-C Parkwood Road FOOD ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 828-423-6191 828-242-2173 • SATURDAYS, 11amHeld at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 22B New Leicester Highway

challenges of life limiting illnesses. Held at Secrets of a Duchess, 1439 Merrimon Ave. LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, NC CHAPTER 877-849-8271, lupusnc.org • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Lupus support group for those living with lupus, their family and caregiv-

ers. Held at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St. MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS network@ memorycare.org • 1st TUESDAYS, 1-3pm – Held at Fletcher Seventh Day Adventist Church, Howard Gap Road and Naples Road, Fletcher

MINDFULNESS AND 12 STEP RECOVERY avl12step@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7:308:45pm - Mindfulness meditation practice and 12 step program. Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 22B New Leicester Highway MY DADDY TAUGHT ME THAT mydaddytaughtmethat. org

• MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm Men's discussion group. Free. Held at My Daddy Taught Me That Meeting Place, 16-A Pisgah View Apartments NARANON nar-anon.org • WEDNESDAYS, 12:30pm - For relatives and friends concerned about the addiction or drug problem of a loved

FOUR SEASONS COMPASSION FOR LIFE 828-233-0948, fourseasonscfl.org • THURSDAYS, 12:30pm - Grief support group. Held at SECU Hospice House, 272 Maple St., Franklin • TUESDAYS, 3:304:30pm - Grief support group. Held at Four Seasons - Checkpoint, 373 Biltmore Ave. GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS 828-483-6175 • THURSDAYS, noon-1pm - Held at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 378 Hendersonville Road GRIEF & PRAISE CIRCLE griefcircle.net • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Layperson support group for grief. HAYWOOD COUNTY COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS 828-400-6480 • 1st THURSDAYS - Support group for families who have lost a child of any age. Held at Long's Chapel United Methodist, 133 Old Clyde Road, Waynesville HOPE CONNECTIONS 828-575-2701, Hopeconnections@ crestviewrecovery.org • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Clinically led support group for loved ones of addicts and alcoholics. Held at Crest View Recovery Center, 90 Asheland Ave., Suite D LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP 386-801-2606 • TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm For adults managing the

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OVERCOMERS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 828-665-9499 • WEDNESDAYS, noon-1pm - Held at First Christian Church of Candler, 470 Enka Lake Road, Candler

OVERCOMERS RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP rchovey@sos-mission.org • MONDAYS, 6pm - Christian 12-step program. Held at SOS Anglican Mission, 1944 Hendersonville Road OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS • Regional number: 2771975. Visit mountainx. com/support for full listings. PARKINSON'S SUPPORT GROUP OF ASHEVILLE • 1st TUESDAYS, 10amnoon - Monthly support group for patients, partners, families and caregivers coping with Parkinson's Disease. Free. Held at Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Road RECOVERING COUPLES ANONYMOUS recovering-couples.org • MONDAYS 6:307:30pm - For couples where at least one member is recovering from addiction. Held at Foster Seventh Day Adventists Church, 375 Hendersonville Road

REFUGE RECOVERY 828-225-6422, refugerecovery.org • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 828-225-6422 or visit refugerecovery.org SEX ADDICTS ANONYMOUS saa-recovery.org/ Meetings/UnitedStates • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 6pm - Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. SMART RECOVERY 828-407-0460 • THURSDAYS, 6pm Held at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. • FRIDAYS, 2pm - Held at Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness, 370 N Louisiana Ave. • TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Held at Unitarian Universalists of Transylvania County, 24 Varsity St., Brevard

SUNRISE PEER SUPPORT VOLUNTEER SERVICES facebook.com/ Sunriseinasheville • TUESDAYS through THURSDAYS, 1-3pm Peer support services for mental health, substance abuse and wellness. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 610002 Haywood Road US TOO OF WNC 828-273-7689, wncprostate@gmail.com • 1st TUESDAYS, 7pm Prostate cancer support forum for men, caregivers and family. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. WIDOWS IN NEED OF GRIEF SUPPORT 828-356-1105, meditate-wnc.org • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Peer support group for anyone who has survived the death of their spouse, partner, child or other closed loved one. Registration required. Held at The Meditation Center, 894 E. Main St., Sylva

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Dr. Lisa Lichtig’s best advice: Courageously and honestly get to know yourself Dr. Lisa Lichtig of Family to Family takes an integrative approach to medicine that’s based on the interconnectedness of mind, body and spirit. Lichtig is co-owner of the holistic medical practice, which was established in Asheville in 1999. She says the best things she’s done to boost her own health lately are doing yoga with others and paying closer attention to what she feeds her body. “You might call it a ketogenic diet, but that’s such a catchphrase,” she says. “I really like to focus on healthy fats and colorful vegetables, as well as limiting my consumption of food to certain hours of the day.” In the new year, Lichtig says she’s resolved to go to bed earlier. “The body’s systems can’t function without rest and good sleep,” she explains. And the one piece of advice she’d like to share with the world about how to have a happier and healthier new year?

DR. LISA LICHTIG “Really get to know yourself — honestly and with an attitude of love and kindness toward yourself,” she counsels. “Starting there will have a helpful impact on the world.”

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CALENDAR GUIDELINES For a full list of community calendar guidelines, please visit mountainx.com/calendar. For questions about free listings, call 828-251-1333, ext. 137. For questions about paid calendar listings, please call 828-251-1333, ext. 320.

BENEFITS 4TH ANNUAL PUPPY BOWL • SU (2/3), 1-4pm Proceeds from the 4th Annual Puppy Bowl benefit Sweet Bear Rescue Farm and Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. Beer, food and puppy photo booth. Information: avl.mx/5lu. $15 advance/$20 door/$75 VIP. Held at Kanuga Main Campus 130 Kanuga Chapel Dr., Hendersonville 7TH ANNUAL PLUNGE: FREEZIN’ FOR A REASON • SU (2/2), 11:30am1:30pm - Proceeds from 'The 7th Annual Plunge: Freezin' for a Reason' benefit Kids in the Creek. Prizes. Registration: 828-4764667, info@ haywoodwaterways. org. $25/$10 under 18/Free by raising sponsorships. Held at Lake Junaluska Beach, 11 Memory Lane, Lake Junaluska CHASE AWAY THE BLUES • SA (2/2), 5:30-11pm - Proceeds from the 8th annual Chase Away the Blues con-

cert with Brandi and the Alexanders benefits Tryon Fine Arts Center. $30/Patrons $100/Friends of the Blues $300. Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon FRIENDS OF PACK LIBRARY BOOK SALE • FR (2/1), 10am-4pm - Proceeds from the Friends of Pack Library Book Sale benefit Buncombe County Libraries. Free to attend. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY ADCLUB WNC adclubwnc.org/ • TH (1/31), 6:30pm Presentation by brand character expert and animator, Pat Giles. $15/$5 members. Held at Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway DEFCON 828 GROUP meetup.com/ DEFCON-828/ • 1st SATURDAYS, 2pm - General meeting for information security professionals, students and enthusiasts. Free

MOON DANCE: Lily Cai, choreographer and former principal dancer with the Shanghai Opera House, blends ancient Chinese traditional, folk and classical dance with Western ballet and modern dance for this performance at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center as part of Western Carolina University’s Lunar New Year Celebration. The Lily Cai Dance Company, an all-female troupe, performs dances inspired by the Chinese dynasties, including fan dances, the Candelas dance with lit candles and the company’s signature work – ribbon dance Silk Cascade. Sponsored by the Department of Campus Activities, the show will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for non-WCU students, WCU faculty and staff, and $5 for WCU students at avl.mx/5mi. Photo courtesy of Lily Cai Dance Company (p. 51) to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road WNC LINUX USER GROUP wnclug.blogspot.com, wnclug@main.nc.us • 1st SATURDAYS, noon - Users of all experience levels discuss Linux systems. Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS BEEKEEPING 101 (PD.) Buncombe County Beekeeper’s Club offering hands-on event for all skills needed to become a successful beekeeper. Sat Feb 16th, 8am-5pm; Sun Feb 17th, 11am4:30pm Warren Wilson College 701 Warren

Wilson Rd. Swannanoa. Visit link to register! wncbees.org 828-712-6074 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. EMPYREANARTS.ORG • 828.782.3321. A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc

• TH (1/31), 10amnoon - Starting a Better Business, class. Free. • TU (2/5), 6-9pm - Successful Sales on Amazon class. Registration required. Free to attend. • WE (2/6), 9-11am Preparing for a Small Business Loan class. Registration required. Free to attend. APPALACHIAN COFFEE COMPANY 1628 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 828-595-2200, appalachiancoffeecompany.com/ • 1st TUESDAYS, 5:30pm - Discussion following TED Talk or YouTube. Free to attend. ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB rotaryasheville.org • THURSDAYS, noon1:30pm - General

meeting. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. ASHEVILLE SCORE COUNSELORS TO SMALL BUSINESS 828-271-4786, ashevillescore.org • WE (1/30), 11:30am1pm - Getting Ready for Tax Season. Registration: avl.mx/5lw. Free to attend. Held at Lenoir Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave.

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• 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm - Monthly peace vigil. Free. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square

ASHEVILLE SUBMARINE VETERANS ussashevillebase.com, ecipox@charter.net • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Social meeting for US Navy submarine veterans. Free to attend. Held at Ryan's Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road

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CONSCIOUS PARTY FREEZIN’ FOR A REASON: Haywood Waterways Association and Lake Junaluska Assembly host the seventh annual Plunge benefiting Kids in the Creek, an environmental education program for middle school students. The Plunge is a community event that takes place Saturday, Feb. 2 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. at the Lake Junaluska beach. The depth of the plunge is a personal choice, from a dip of the toe to fullbody immersion. Prizes are awarded for best costumes and top fundraisers. o register, visit avl.mx/5mj. The cost is $25 or free by raising sponsorships and $10 for those younger than 18. All plungers receive a free T-shirt and lunch. Photo courtesy of Haywood Waterways Association (p. 35)

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LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD OF AMERICA • TH (2/7), 10amnoon - General meeting and program to make a stitched on heart pen. Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe

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MADISON COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OFFICE 258 Carolina Lane, Marshall • TH (1/31), 6-7:30pm - The Business of Agritourism: Introduction, the first seminar in a seven-part series. Registration required. Free. • TH (2/7), 6-7:30pm - The Business of Agritourism: Do You Have what it Takes to be an Agripreneur?, the second seminar in a seven-part series. Registration required. Free. ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (1/30), 5:307pm - "Budgeting and Debt," class. Registration required. Free. • TH (1/31), 5:307pm - "Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it." s eminar.

Registration required. Free. SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE showingupforracialjustice.org • TUESDAYS, 10amnoon - Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road VETERANS FOR PEACE 828-490-1872, VFP099.org • TUESDAYS, 5pm Weekly peace vigil. Free. Held at the Vance Monument in Pack Square. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square VFW POST 9157 165 Cragmont Road, Black Mountain • TUESDAYS, 7pm Trivia night. Free.

ECO MOUNTAINTRUE 29 N Market St., mountaintrue.org • SA (2/2), 10am4pm - French Broad Riverkeeper and MountainTrue combat sediment erosion by planting live-stakes along eroding riverbanks. Registration: avl.mx/5m8. SUNRISE MOVEMENT • TU (2/5), 7-9pm Sunrise Movement is building public support for the Green New Deal. Free. Held at

YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF ASHEVILLE 1 Edwin Place, 828-254-6001, uuasheville.org • TH (2/7), 7-9pm "Driving to Net Zero," presentation by Dave Hrivnak. Free. WESTERN NC GREEN PARTY facebook.com/wncgp/ • SU (2/3), 3pm Monthly meeting and book club discussion of Jackson Rising by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya. Free to attend. Held at Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway

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. Organicgrowersschool. org. (828) 214-7833. BLACK MOUNTAIN PUBLIC LIBRARY 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • SA (2/2), 10am - Sowing Circle presentation, 'All About Pruning, Tool Selection

and Sharpening,' by Bob Wardwell. Also reopening of the Black Mountain Blooms Seed Lending Library and pruning tool sharpening event. Free.

FOOD & BEER WNC FARMERS MARKET 570 Brevard Road, 828-253-1691 • FR (2/1), noon-1pm - Demonstrations on cooking healthy soups for National Homemade Soup Day. Free to attend.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ASHEVILLE TEA PARTY • TH (1/31), 6-8pm Asheville Tea Party meeting featuring presentation by Jake Johnson, chairman and field director of the Polk County Board of Commissioners. Information: ashevilleteaparty.org. Free to attend. Held at Mills River Restaurant, 4467 Boylston Hwy, Mills River CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room. Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St.

• Through (1/31) City of Asheville, Neighborhood Advisory Committee seeks submissions to recognize individuals or groups who have made a difference in their neighborhood during 2018. Information: BMills@ ashevillenc.gov or 828259-5506. HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 905 S. Greenville Hwy. Hendersonville, 828-692-6424, myhcdp.com • 1st SATURDAYS, 9-11am - Monthly breakfast buffet. $9/$4.50 for children under 10. INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUNDWNC Indivisible-sylva.com • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - General meeting. Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva

PROGRESSIVE WOMEN OF HENDERSONVILLE pwhendo.org • FRIDAYS, 4-7pm Postcard writing to government representatives. Postcards, stamps, addresses, pens and tips provided. Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville

KIDS APPALACHIAN ART FARM 22 Morris St., Sylva, appalchianartfarm.org • SATURDAYS, 10:30noon - Youth art class. $10. APPLE VALLEY MODEL RAILROAD & MUSEUM 650 Maple St, Hendersonville, avmrc.com • WEDNESDAYS, 1-3pm & SATURDAYS, 10am-2pm - Open house featuring oper-

ating model trains and historic memorabilia. Free. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/depts/ library • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm & LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-2504720. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • MONDAYS, 10:30am - "Mother Goose Time," storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 4-5:30pm - Heroes Unlimited, role playing game for grades 6-12. Registration required. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview

WHOLE FOODS MARKET 4 S. Tunnel Road • MONDAYS, 9-10am - "Playdates," family fun activities. Free to attend.

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 SIGN UP NOW FOR INLINE HOCKEY (PD.) Youth and Adult divisions at Carrier Park. • Free registration for new players. ashevillehockey.org ELISHA MITCHELL AUDUBON SOCIETY emasnc.org • SA (2/2), 9am - Bird walk. Free. Held at Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary, US 25

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BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 180 W Campus Drive, Flat Rock, 828-412-5488, phoenixrisinghealing. com • TH (2/7), 6pm - Open house for Henderson County Early College high school enrollment applications. Deadline for enrollment applications is Friday, Feb. 22. Free to attend. HAYWOOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 262 Leroy George Drive, Clyde, 828-452-8440, myhaywoodregional. com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1:30pm - Social gathering for mothers and their babies. Registration required. Free to attend. • TH (2/7), 7-9pm - Your Amazing Newborn. Registration required. Free to attend. WCU AT BILTMORE PARK 28 Schenck Pkwy, Suite 300 • SA (2/2), 2-3:30pm Navigating the ACT/ SAT process for parents of high school juniors. Registration: testninja. us. Free.

ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB rotaryasheville.org • TH (1/31), 6:30pm Metro Talks: The Trauma Intervention Program (TIP) of Western North Carolina by Denise Gonzalez. Free. Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave.

SENIORS BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS until FR (3/29), 11am - Geri-Fit: Free exercise class for Seniors. Bring a workout stretch band. Registration required. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. GOODWILL CAREER TRAINING CENTER 1616 Patton Ave., 828-298-9023, goodwillnwnc.org/ trainingCenters.cfm • FR (2/1), 4pm Medicare Choices Made Easy. Free. HARVEST HOUSE 205 Kenilworth Road, 828-350-2051 • TUESDAYS, 2:30pm - "Focus on Flexibility," exercise class focused

on balance, breathing and body alignment. Information: 828-2994844. Free. HAYWOOD COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 157 Paragon Parkway, Clyde • WE (1/30), 2-4pm - Seniors meet for Diabetes Empowerment Education Program on Wednesdays for six weeks. Registration required: call Megan Hauser at 828-356-2272. Free. SENIOR OPPORTUNITY CENTER 36 Grove St. • THURSDAYS, 2:303:30pm - “Slow Flow Yoga,” yoga class adapted for all ages and abilities. Free.

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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF HENDERSONVILLE 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 828-692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SU (2/3), 9am - Weekly Adult Forum: Climate Change and the Sacred Earth, Part 2, by Ed O'Keefe. Free. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville, 828-693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • THURSDAYS, 6:307:15 pm - All faith Taize service of meditation and music. Free. TAIZE 828-254-5193 • 1st FRIDAYS, 7-8pm - Taize, interfaith meditative candlelight prayer meetup with song, silence and scripture. Free. Held at St. Eugene's Catholic Church, 72 Culver St. THE CENTER FOR ART AND SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1 School Road, 828-258-0211 • TUESDAYS 7-8:30pm - Mountain Mindfulness Sangha. Admission by donation.

VOLUNTEERING MAKE A DIFFERENCE - BE A MENTOR! (PD.) As a mentor with Journeymen, you make a profound impact in the lives of teenage boys as they journey toward becoming men of integrity. We offer group mentoring and rites of pas-

sage to boys ages 12-17 and are enrolling qualified adult male mentors now. Will you answer the call? Learn more: journeymenasheville@ gmail.com or 828-230-7353. 12 BASKETS CAFE 610 Haywood Road, 828-231-4169, ashevillepovertyinitiative.org • TUESDAYS 10:30am Volunteer orientation. 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 828-7859840. Free. MOUNTAINTRUE 29 N Market St., mountaintrue.org • SA (2/2), 10am4pm - French Broad Riverkeeper and

MountainTrue combat sediment erosion by planting live-stakes along eroding riverbanks. Registration: avl.mx/5m8. THE LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 31 College Place, Suite B221, 828-254-3442, litcouncil.com/ • MO (2/4), 5:30pm - Information session for those interested in volunteering two hours per week with adults who want to improve reading, writing, spelling and English language skills. Free. TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828-884-2787, tcarts.org • SA (2/3) - Production Assistants needed for the feature film, The Good Things Devils Do. No pay but screen credit given. TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAM OF WNC 828-513-0498, tipofwnc.org • Through WE (2/27) Applications accepted for crisis team volunteers. Training held Thursday, Feb. 28 through Saturday, Mar. 9. Registration and information: tipofwnc. org or 828-595-4391. Held at Skyland Fire Department, 9 Miller Road, Skyland For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/ volunteering

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• The city of Asheville and Buncombe County earned Duke Energy’s Power Partner award for “Innovation in Sustainability.” At Asheville City Council’s Jan. 22 meeting, Duke spokesperson Jason Walls praised the governments for their partnership with the utility through the Energy Innovation Task Force. Demand reductions from that partnership, he said, had pushed a proposed gas-fired peaker plant at Lake Julian from a 2023 construction date to “far beyond the 15-year planning horizon.” • The Pisgah Conservancy was awarded $22,000 from the National Forest Foundation to tackle maintenance work on heavily used trails throughout the Pisgah Ranger District. The Art Loeb, Exercise and Estatoe Trails will all see bridge and boardwalk repairs, with work expected to wrap up by mid-June.

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Duke gets OK for downtown substation One of Asheville’s “gateway properties” will host an electrical substation for Duke Energy after City Council unanimously voted on Jan. 22 to rezone two parcels at the edge of downtown. Located at 252 Patton Ave. and 28 Knoxville Place, the new facility will feature a gas-insulated design that gives it a smaller footprint than a conventional, air-insulated substation. Previous Duke proposals to site a new downtown substation near Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Montford; on the former Matthews Ford property on Biltmore Avenue; on Hilliard Avenue across from The Hot Spot gas station; and on Asheland Avenue near Mission Hospital all faced significant neighborhood opposition. During those discussions, the utility provider ruled out using a gas-insulated design, arguing that the technology was too expensive. Shannon Tuch, the city’s principal planner, said the different result for this project came about through close to two years of public engagement. “This successful collaboration is largely thanks to the willingness of Duke Energy and the community members who are most significantly impacted by this proposal to sit down and identify common goals and work through a variety of design options,” she explained. No community members offered comment before Council’s vote. The final design will enclose the substation in a two-story brick and metal building at the Knoxville Place corner of the site. The existing Hunter Volvo dealership building and surface parking lot on the property will be demolished, and most of the space not used for the substation will be prepared for future private development. Duke representatives estimate that substation construction will be completed by the end of 2020. In a press release issued immediately after the vote, city spokesperson Polly McDaniel noted that no new substation serving downtown has been built since the 1970s, despite Asheville having grown in population by over

WELL-DONE STAKES: Volunteers with MountainTrue plant live stakes into a local riverbank to curb erosion, thereby improving water quality. An upcoming volunteer Paddle-n-Plant workday happens Feb. 2. Photo courtesy of the French Broad Riverkeeper 20 percent during that period. She said that the rezoning was aligned with the Living Asheville Comprehensive Plan designation of the area for “utility service to support growth.” Mayor Esther Manheimer was quoted in the press release as echoing those remarks. “The Duke substation will directly support, and is necessary for, current and future development in and around the downtown area,” she said.

Talking trash Buncombe County is seeking input on its waste and recycling collection as it prepares to award a new contract for those services in May. An online survey (avl.mx/5lb) running through Thursday, Feb. 28, allows residents in unincorporated areas of the county to share their priorities and give feedback on any obstacles they see to effective recycling. “Input regarding possible collection service improvements will be essential for assessing the restructuring of certain contract parameters,” noted county Solid Waste Director Dane Pedersen in a press release. All feedback collected before the close of the survey will be

shared with the public, county staff and the Board of Commissioners.

Worthy of note • Blue Ridge Outdoors recognized Asheville’s Kelly Martin, director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign, with the magazine’s “Best Environmentalist” Best of the Blue Ridge award. BRO noted that Martin “has helped shutter more than 280 coal-fired power plants nationwide, including the Duke Energy coal plant in Asheville.” Local conservationists Josh Kelly, public lands biologist for MountainTrue, and Ben Prater, Southeast program director for Defenders of Wildlife, were both named as finalists in the same category. • Also receiving BRO’s Best of the Blue Ridge honors for “Best Environmental Organization” was the Southern Environmental Law Center, which operates an Asheville office. The magazine lauded SELC for “fighting to preserve the waterways and mountains we play on, the air we breathe and the wildlife we share this planet with.” MountainTrue was recognized as a finalist in the category.

Save the date • On Thursday, Jan. 31, The Collider will sponsor a screening of Unbounded: A Journey into Patagonia to benefit the climate innovation center’s internship program. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the film begins at 7 p.m.; the suggested donation is $10 per person or $20 per family. Visit avl.mx/5mg for more information and to register. • The White Squirrel Institute in Brevard celebrates a unique spin on Groundhog Day: On Saturday, Feb. 2, the nonprofit will turn to a white squirrel named Pisgah Pete. At 9 a.m. at Blue Ridge Bakery, Pete will render his prediction about winter’s length — as well as the winner of the Super Bowl, which he has guessed correctly for four consecutive years. The institute will be accepting donations at the event to benefit area licensed wildlife rehabilitators. Visit avl.mx/5md for more information. • The French Broad Riverkeeper, MountainTrue and the city of Hendersonville are sponsoring a Paddle-n-Plant workday on Saturday, Feb. 2, to combat sediment erosion along local waterways. From 10 a.m.-4 p.m., volunteers will plant live stakes in eroding riverbanks; these stakes will grow into trees that stabilize the soil. Visit avl.mx/5m8 for more information and to register. X

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Did you know one out of every five bites Americans eat comes from another country? Currently, 53 percent of our fruits and 32 percent of our vegetables come from other nations, and those numbers are increasing, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports. In his new book, Carrots Don’t Grow on Trees, local author and farmer Robert Turner explores what Michael Pollan first described as the “industrial food complex.” “Most people don’t know how food comes to them; it just shows up at their grocery store,” says Turner. “I’ve learned things in the last few years that have surprised me and thought it was important to let people know what was going on, especially over the last 10 years.” Turner will discuss the book, his work at Creekside Farm Education Center in Arden and the potential of “agrihoods” — communities that are built around working farms — at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe on Thursday, Feb. 7. Representatives of the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, Organic Growers School and MANNA FoodBank will also be on hand to contribute to the conversation. Turner’s book talks about how most of the food we eat travels around the world on airplanes, container ships and trucks. The USDA data suggests that in the next decade, America’s food outsourcing will grow to over 75 percent of our fruits and 50 percent of our vegetables. “If a multinational food corporation can produce a product cheaper in a foreign nation, like a pepper or tomato, they’re going to do it,” Turner explains. “The industrial food complex is chasing cheap labor around the world just like other industries, like T-shirts and other merchandise. This is what corporations do. They’re responsible only to their stockholders.”

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GROWING TREND: In his new book, Carrots Don’t Grow on Trees, Arden resident and farmer Robert Turner discusses the industrial food complex, the loss of U.S. farmland and the potential of agrihoods to help increase the sustainability of communities. Photos courtesy of Turner Before Turner got into farming, he owned and sold several companies, including MCM Group, Carolina Sewn Products and Chelsea Teddy Bear Co. He’s well-versed in the ways of corporations and has firsthand experience outsourcing merchandise from other countries. When he traded in his businesses and bought Creekside Farm, the first thing he did was research to figure out who is the customer and who is the competition. “I quickly found that the world is our competition,” says Turner. “Apples from New Zealand and chicken from China — I thought, ‘Whoa, it’s one thing to import tote bags, but our food?’ It was a wake-up call.” The book explores these issues on the national and local levels. “Our area faces more challenges,” Turner says. “Not only foreign competition

but also that we’re losing farmland at a significant rate. People are coming in from outside the region, and land prices are going up. Farmers can’t afford land and make a profit — only real estate developers can afford that.” A section of Carrots Don’t Grow on Trees called “Say Good-bye to Iowa” discusses the roughly Iowa-sized amount of land lost in the U.S. to real estate development over the last 20 years. As executive director of Creekside Farm and Creekside Farm Education Center, which is located at a planned neighborhood, The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, Turner is actively spreading the message and offering solutions. His mission is to help retain our capacity to grow our own food and build sustainable and resilient communities. Creekside Farm, the newest addition to The Cliffs community, is

four-fifths agricultural land and one-fifth housing: Eighteen home sites are planned around 45 acres of working farmland with vegetable plots, chickens and a grass-fed beef operation. The agrihood community is a model Turner believes will simultaneously help preserve farmland in our region and appeal to real estate developers. “Eat your view” is a saying Turner came across several times while traveling in Europe. He’s taken it as the main focus and slogan of his campaign to promote the agrihood concept. “There are approximately 200 agrihoods around the country right now,” says Turner. “Awareness is growing, and the lifestyle is appealing. People want to come home to the farm, and now they can and be more connected to beauty, nature, the weather and in tune with the cycles of the seasons.” Creekside Farm has a community-supported agriculture program with about 60 member households, as well as an education center with a commercial kitchen, offering classes on herbs, bees, cooking and canning. During the summer, themed dinners are offered monthly to members. Turner believes a critical part of the infrastructure for an agrihood is having a central, communityfocused facility like the Creekside Farm Education Center. “We’re trying to build community around food. Have people come together to

share and celebrate the harvest,” he explains. The title of the book was inspired by a field trip a group of local fourth-graders took to Creekside Farm. Before they arrived, Turner says he picked a few carrots and tied them to a maple tree. On their tour, Turner showed them “the carrot tree.” No kids reacted. Later in the day, Turner pulled a carrot out of the dirt. Some of the kids wrinkled up their noses and were confused. “Kids don’t know common foods,” Turner says. “Especially in lower-income homes where canned food and processed food is common.” Turner has a background in writing for food and lifestyle magazines. This is his first book. He has two more books in development: Eat Your View, slated for publication in late 2019, and Founding Farmers, which should debut in 2020. X

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For a fourth consecutive year, Sanctuary Brewing Co. will celebrate the Super Bowl with its own pregame Puppy Bowl. The annual event offers fans of both sports and canines the chance to watch a pair of furry teams take the field and play for the ultimate prize — a permanent home. Proceeds from the event will benefit Sweet Bear Rescue Farm and Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. As in years past, there will be plenty of vegan snacks to choose from during the big game. No Evil Foods will return with its pulled “pork” mac and beer cheese (featuring Sanctuary Brewing’s Dr. Dunkel lager), along with its vegan chorizo torta sandwich and buffalo chicken wings. Garlik Vegan Kitchen and Blunt Pretzels will participate as well. Sanctuary co-owner Lisa McDonald says that since Puppy Bowl debuted in 2016, it’s continued to grow in popularity, so this year the event will move from the brewery to Kanuga Gymnasium. “Last year it was so crowded at the bar that people were turning away,” McDonald explains. “This year we wanted to make sure people had space and that we weren’t overcrowding.” In addition to the new venue, the 2019 Puppy Bowl will also feature its first halftime show. Vegan rapper Grey will perform, and there will be a senior canine show as well. “We’re really excited to give older dogs the chance to find a forever home, too,” says McDonald. Following the Puppy Bowl, guests are invited back to Sanctuary Brewing for a Super Bowl LIII watch party. Because McDonald lives with a New England Patriots fan, she predicts Sunday’s game will end with the Patriots beating the Los Angeles Rams, 36-28. The 2019 Puppy Bowl runs 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, at Kanuga Gymnasium, 130 Kanuga Chapel Drive, Hendersonville. Tickets are $15 in advance/$20 at the door. Children 12 and younger enter free. For more information, visit avl.mx/5lq.

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PUPPY TIME: Lisa McDonald of Sanctuary Brewing Co. mingles with some of last year’s star players at the brewery’s annual Puppy Bowl. Photo courtesy of McDonald

Super Bowl chili cook-off If puppies aren’t your thing, Craft Centric Taproom & Bottle Shop is hosting a pregame Super Bowl chili cook-off. For $8, patrons can sample all competing dishes, as well as vote for their favorite recipe. First- and second-place winners will be announced before kickoff. Competitors and judges are invited to stick around afterward to watch the game. Craft Centric Taproom & Bottle Shop owner Matt Vaughan predicts a New England Patriots victory, 41-37.

The cook-off begins at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, at Craft Centric Taproom & Bottle Shop, 100 Julian Shoals Drive, Unit 40, Arden. To learn more and to enter the competition, visit avl.mx/5lp.

National Homemade Soup Day National Homemade Soup Day is Monday, Feb. 4, and to celebrate, the WNC Farmers Market will host demonstrations on how to make easy and healthy soups on Friday, Feb. 1.

Visitors will also get the chance to try free samples from noon-1 p.m. The demonstrations and free samples will be available noon-1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at the WNC Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Road. For more information, visit avl.mx/5ll.

Black Bear BBQ’s grand opening On Saturday, Feb. 2, Mojo Kitchen & Lounge owners A.J. Gregson and Autumn Pittman will celebrate the grand opening of their second restaurant, Black Bear BBQ. The new East Asheville eatery offers smoked meats, homemade sauces, scratch-made sides and vegetarian options. The grand opening celebration will include free samples, live music and giveaways of gift cards and merchandise. Festivities begin at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at Black Bear BBQ, 800 Fairview Road, Suite C8. Hours are Tuesday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.-8 p..m. For more information, visit avl.mx/5m2.

Chinese New Year at Alchemy On Tuesday, Feb. 5, Alchemy will celebrate the Chinese New Year with a series of special offers. To honor the year of the pig, the alternative health care space will donate 10 percent of its daily tearoom sales to Animal Haven of Asheville. In addition, Alchemy will serve a number of Chinese New Year treats, including fish congee, nian gao (rice cake), dumplings and herbal wine. According to the Chinese zodiac, the year of the pig is associated with wealth and prosperity. The Chinese New Year celebration runs 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, at Alchemy, 62 Clayton St. For more information, visit avl.mx/5lj.

District Wine Bar Winter Dinner & Wine Series District Wine Bar continues its Winter Wine & Dinner series with an upcoming collaboration with All Souls Pizza. Each Tuesday, through March 5, pairings will take place at the restaurant in the River Arts District. “We have a growing culinary scene in the RAD and look forward to highlighting some of our favorites,” says District Wine Bar co-owner Lauri Nichols in a press release. Future collaborators include Haywood Commons (Feb. 19),

Vivian (Feb. 26) and Smoky Park Supper Club (March 5). Seating is limited to 12 people per event. The next Winter Dinner & Wine Series runs 7-10 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, at District Wine Bar, 37 Paynes Way, Suite 009. Tickets are $60. To purchase, visit avl.mx/5lk.

First Friday Fish Fry Green Opportunities’ Southside Kitchen recently launched its First Friday Fish Fry. As the event name suggests, on the first Friday of each month the Southside Kitchen will prepare a traditional fish fry brunch with soul food sides. Suggested donation is $5 with proceeds supporting Green Opportunities’ career training programs. The next First Friday Fish Fry runs 10-11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at Arthur R. Edington Education & Career Center, 133 Livington St. For more information, visit avl.mx/5lm.

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A-B Tech culinary team prepares for national contest On Jan. 13, A-B Tech’s Student Culinary Team won the American Culinary Federation’s Southeast Regional Competition. In August, the group will head to Orlando, Fla., to compete at the ACF’s national convention. “They have worked countless hours outside of their already busy schedule to make sure they were prepared,” said the team’s coach, chef Chris Bugher, in a press release. “Now we have to focus on nationals.” Congratulations and good luck to the team! X MOUNTAINX.COM

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In the shadows of (friendly) giants Neighboring microbreweries coexist with Sierra Nevada and Bold Rock A native of Mills River, Joey Soukup dreamed of bringing a brewery to his hometown — and was promptly told that he was crazy for wanting to put such an establishment “in the middle of nowhere.” Nevertheless, he registered Mills River Brewery as an LLC in January 2014 and was considered a good deal less insane once Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. opened its East Coast brewery and taproom nearby just over a year later and Bold Rock Hard Cider joined the scene at the end of 2015. “It legitimized what I was trying to do out in Mills River,” Soukup says. “But we were going to do this either way.” Just across Highway 280 in Fletcher, Zach Horn took a similar approach when he and Erik Weber co-founded Blue Ghost Brewing Co. in March 2016. The business partners knew they wanted to open a brewery in Fletcher, where both also live, but the addition of nationally distributed players down the road gave them confidence that their operation would be viable in their desired location. “Sierra Nevada being two miles away was definitely one of the things that we said, ‘Yeah, well, that’s not going to hurt anything,’” Horn says. “People come out to this area from Asheville because of Sierra Nevada, but since they’re out here, even though it’s just 20 minutes away, they definitely look for the next-closest brewery.” While the tourism draws of Sierra Nevada and Bold Rock help bring in customers through referrals or independent means, Horn and Soukup report that repeat visits by locals make up the majority of their sales. They both view area craft beer drinkers as well-educated and refusing to settle for low-quality brews while remaining as close to home as possible. “I think the customer is looking for that hyperlocal experience where they can have that experience of going to downtown Asheville, but if they don’t have to go there, they’d rather not,” Horn says. “I think we definitely fit into that category. We’ve had a number of people describe the atmosphere here as the old-school Asheville brewery experience that they like. But the

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NEIGHBORHOOD HEROES: From left, Mills River Brewery owner/brewer Joey Soukup and brew team member Abe Anderson, and Blue Ghost Brewing Co. co-founders Zach Horn and Erik Weber have benefited from brewing close to Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and Bold Rock Hard Cider. Mills River photo by Jenni Anderson. Blue Ghost photo by Nicole Horn fact they don’t have to drive the extra 15 miles makes it all the more enjoyable for them.” Though Mills River Brewery’s current location is just off I-26 in Arden, Soukup always considered the site a starter location until it made financial sense to build in Mills River proper. In its nearly four years since opening, customers have responded positively to the pub-style atmosphere that he feels is not seen as much in breweries, but is inherent to its smaller retail location. “At first, people were skeptical of a strip mall, but once we get them inside, they seem to enjoy the beer and what we have to offer,” Soukup says. “It’s not an event to come here. It’s comfortable to walk in, sit down, have a beer and then go

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to Lowe’s. Or drop your wife off at Target or your husband — it’s happened both ways here — and have a pint of beer and enjoy it. We do have that convenience.” His grand vision, however, is about to be realized. Mills River Brewery recently broke ground on a 4-acre parcel on Banner Farm Road that Soukup refers to as “within eyeshot of Bold Rock.” He’s shooting for a late summer/early fall opening date for the 9,000-square-foot brewery, which he says will quadruple production and include a canning line. “It’s a nice piece of land with a great wooded area behind where the brewery will be — very beautiful,” says Mills River Brewery brew staff member Abe Anderson, who’s confident their customer base will be drawn to the location.

“Honestly, it’s just good people that come in here. I never really worked in a bar situation, but growing up I did go to bars. And you just see a lot of drama and drunken stupidness — and I don’t see that here.” Beyond the success that’s come with running their businesses in the shadows of industry titans, the Blue Ghost and Mills River Brewery teams feel nothing but support from their famous fellow residents. Employees from Bold Rock and Sierra Nevada are among their regulars, and Horn and Soukup are optimistic that should the need arise to seek Sierra Nevada’s help for something beyond the minor assistance they’ve already received, it would be given. “Anyone I’ve contacted for help, be it yeast, lab work, stupid questions, whatever it may be, everybody’s been helpful and responsive,” Soukup says. “Once you find the right people to talk to, you don’t feel like you’re standing in Sierra Nevada. You’re standing there talking to some average dude that makes beer or works in a lab. That’s the feeling I’ve gotten with everybody.” The area will eventually be joined by Lanning Brewery, which the town of Mills River’s website lists as under construction “off NC-280 near Clement Drive.” Since it, Bold Rock and Mills River Brewery will be true neighbors, Soukup says the town has expressed interest in connecting the three breweries with a trail system, further building a community that the local giants see as enhancing the character and diversity of the local brewing scene. “Mills River and Fletcher already feature an abundance of well-established producers with the likes of Sierra Nevada, Blue Ghost, Mills River Brewing and Bold Rock all in close proximity to one another, and it is an exciting prospect to continue to develop the area as a focal point for craft beverage,” says Lindsay Dorrier III, vice president of retail operations for Bold Rock. “We feel that the rising tide of so many great like-minded businesses nearby should lift all the boats and serve to attract visitation from Asheville and other regional metropolitan centers.” X

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UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL DeVotchKa embraces its small-room preferences at The Grey Eagle BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com

DeVotchKa has taken its instrumentally eclectic indie rock to some of the world’s biggest stages. But in sharing the band’s sixth full-length album, This Night Falls Forever, the emphasis has shifted to playing more modest-sized venues. “We kind of came up in smaller, dive, punk-rock sort of places, so it’s nice to get back there,” says frontman Nick Urata. “We sort of run into problems sometimes when there’s one of those barricades or people sitting down. We do our best when the audience is right in our faces.” The Denver-based ensemble’s current tour includes stops in such major cities as Austin, Texas, New Orleans, Nashville and Atlanta, though in rooms that might not be one’s first guess upon hearing that DeVotchKa is coming to town. Such is the case with its Wednesday, Feb. 6, performance at The Grey Eagle — the group’s first Asheville show since playing to what Urata recalls as a “fun, receptive crowd” at The Orange Peel in 2011. “At this point, it’s really just fun to play places that you like,” Urata says. “We’ve played at the Fillmore in San Francisco a few times. That was incredible. So, choice places like that. I’m not really in a hurry to get back and be nervous. I’m not missing the stage fright that comes with a big place.” The return to intimate listening rooms makes for an interesting juxtaposition with the large sonic scale of This Night Falls Forever. For the 10-song collection, Urata focused on working out the lyrics, then spent more time than usual crafting their initial versions before passing them on to his colleagues. “A lot of the demos are really elaborate, and that’s part of the reason why maybe it took so long [to complete the album] because I was fiddling with them for so

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DOUBLE (DECADE) FANTASY: DeVotchKa frontman Nick Urata, in white jacket, is happy to report that working on songs remains “a great motivator” to unite him and his bandmates after nearly 22 years together. “It’s certainly a nice escape from reality — which I guess, looking back, is pretty much the reason why I got into the whole thing to begin with,” he says. Photo by Manmade Media long. But it’s also one of my favorite things to do — orchestrate and arrange songs,” he says. “We all love to play anything we can get our hands on and try to put it on a record. Sometimes that makes for great arrangements, and other times we’ve got a problem. But that’s kind of what always keeps us going. Part of the fun of writing songs is collaborating with each other and trying out new instruments that may not have been the first or obvious choice.” Joining Urata’s vocals, guitars, theremin, trumpet and piano on This Night Falls Forever are longtime bandmates Jeanie Schroder (acoustic bass, sousaphone), Shawn King (drums, percussion, trumpet) and Tom Hagerman (violin, viola, accordion, piano). Working from Urata’s blueprints, the group attacked cer-

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tain songs together. Others that the frontman had worked up more fully in demo form — and to which he felt more attached — involved following those visions to completion. The mixture of the two approaches is one that’s proved successful for the ensemble, whose sound received a boost through Urata’s film-scoring connections that frequently take him to Los Angeles. “I wanted to bring some of that grand, sweeping, cinematic style that I’m chasing in films to the record. I hope that came through because we did actually record some of it on Hollywood soundstages with Hollywood players to get that feel,” Urata says. “My dream is to get those two worlds to finally meet. It’s been such a big part of my music travels, so trying to bring those together was always a big part of the goal.”

While he acknowledges that in the film-scoring sector, composers typically can’t dictate the recording process, Urata was able to use DeVotchKa as his backup band on 2015’s The Cobbler, a collaboration with Academy Award nominee John Debney. “I’m still amazed that I actually got to score an Adam Sandler movie,” he says. “[Film scoring is] such a daunting task. You’re on an extreme deadline and you can kind of carry that [mindset] over to your band life, which tends to be sometimes undisciplined. But it’s also just made me really appreciate that instant gratification of connecting with an audience versus toiling away at your writing desk alone.” Another recent intersection of those dual musical pursuits is Urata’s score and theme song for “A

Series of Unfortunate Events.” The Netflix series is based on the popular children’s books by Lemony Snicket, aka Daniel Handler, with whom Urata collaborated on the introductory tune, “Look Away,” and others that characters sing throughout its three seasons. “We’d get the assignment, and [Daniel would] feed me these amazing lyrics that were so musical,” Urata says. “He’s a musician himself. They were so funny and musical. It was just such a pleasure to write with him — and as a guy who struggles with lyrics, to have a genius like that feeding you words was a dream come true. I also tried to hide this fact, but I was a huge fan of the books, so that was another level of unbelievable luck.” Further sweetening the deal was the addition of Neil Patrick Harris, who stars as the nefarious Count Olaf and sings the theme song in character. Similar to how “The Simpsons” does a different couch gag every week, Urata notes that each episode of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” features a different verse that foreshadows events to come. He’s somewhat con-

cerned, however, that a good number of viewers are missing these musical gems in the name of immediate entertainment. “You can hear that every time if you watch it at home on Netflix, even though they have the stupid ‘Skip Intro’ button, which I hate,” Urata says. “It’s death to themesong writers. Quote me on that one. People need to know. They’re killing theme-song writers when they hit that button.” X

WHO DeVotchKa with Neyla Pekarek and The Contenders WHERE The Grey Eagle 185 Clingman Ave. thegreyeagle.com WHEN Wednesday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m. $22 general admission $55 VIP meet and greet

2019 Poetry Contest Xpress announces a 2019 poetry contest in celebration of National Poetry Month and our four-issue Sustainability series in April. Poets are asked to submit work around the theme of what Western North Carolina’s environment means to you Poems should be no longer than one typed page in a 12-point font and must be previously unpublished. Submissions will be accepted throughout the month of February. The contest will close at midnight on Thursday, Feb. 28. Email the poem in the body of the message or as a Doc attachment to amarshall@mountainx.com. The subject line should read “Xpress poetry contest.” Include the author’s full name and contact information in the email. Only one submission is allowed per person. There is no cost to enter. A winning poem will be determined by a local poet of note, to be named soon. The winner will be published online and in print in one of our April issues. The contest is not open to Xpress employees or freelance contributors.

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A CLASS OF HER OWN “I’ve always been a storyteller,” says Deborah “Dee” James. “I love to hear other people’s stories.” This is at least in part why she was so successful as director of the First-Year Writing Program at UNC Asheville. “Sometimes students came into Basic Writing certain they didn’t have a voice. We’d begin with five minutes of free writing, they didn’t even have to show it to me. I watched this student make a hole in their paper. Every time they wrote something, they’d erase it,” says James. It was incredible, she says, to watch students transform and learn how to communicate on the page. The Writing Center on campus was James’ concept and creation. “It started in Carmichael Hall in a classroom,” she recalls. At the time, English labs were grammar-based. James wrote the proposal for a different approach. Support and assistance came from her department chair and the Advising & Learning Support department, and her idea was born. James was director and coordinator; two adjunct faculty members assisted; and two students served as peer tutors. James ran the program for 18 years. Today, the center is wellestablished inside Ramsey Library and continues to thrive. James, however, retired from UNCA this past spring, after serving more than 30 years as professor of literature and creative writing — but she still serves as teacher, helper and guide. Her list of honors and accomplishments is long. Most recently — in October — the university’s Humanities Lecture Hall was renamed the Mullen and James Humanities Hall, honoring James, along with three other retiring faculty — Dwight Mullen, Dolly Jenkins-Mullen, and James’

TRAILBLAZER: In 1969, Deborah “Dee” James was the first student to integrate UNCA’s dorms. She later returned to the university as a professor, conceiving of and directing its Writing Center, among other programs. In October, the Humanities Lecture Hall was renamed in honor of her and three other recently retired African-American educators. Photo courtesy of UNC Asheville husband, Charles James. Together, in 1991, they created the African-American Colloquium to help black students understand their heritage and to build a support system on campus. James says UNCA gave her room to grow: “I always taught African-American literature. [The university] allowed me to organize that, probably because not many faculty knew about African-American lit.”

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She also ventured into African literature as a novice. “By the time I taught it seven times, I began to understand what I was trying to teach,” she says. On tackling new material, James notes, “I love being engaged with my students as a student.” Her eyes light up. “I wasn’t pretending to be open — I was open. ‘What do you make of this,’ I’d ask, or, ‘What do we think this is about?’” James credits Catholic school for her journey to UNCA. Born in segregated Charlotte to a Baptist, working-class family, James is one of five siblings. Thanks to her December birthday, James ended up attending an African-American Catholic school. Since she was already reading, Our Lady of Consolation let James enter first grade early instead of waiting, as public schools required for those born at the end of the year. James continued to an integrated, allgirls Catholic high school. UNCA was actively recruiting at the public schools in Charlotte in an effort to integrate the college’s dorms. The recruiter happened to be Catholic and decided at the last minute to visit James’ school, Our Lady of Mercy.

“I listened politely, but I thought I was going to Michigan State,” says James. “I was looking to go away from home, like most kids.” In the end, James’ father said no to Michigan and encouraged her to rethink UNCA. “He said, ‘We couldn’t get to you, and we couldn’t get you to us if we needed to. You need to look at that little mountain school. They keep sending you stuff.’ That’s how I came to UNCA.” James arrived in 1969 and was the first black student to integrate the dorms. “There were actually two of us,” she recalls. “The other woman was from Greensboro, but she only stayed six weeks.” Coming from an integrated high school, James was somewhat prepared for the experience. “But I hadn’t thought about what it means to live away from your community,” she notes. “That part was more challenging than I had anticipated.” She worked hard as a full-time student, sometimes holding as many as five jobs, such as cafeteria aide, library aide, resident assistant, janitorial aide and even briefly as a full-time certified nursing assistant at Mission Hospital — all this with no car. A turning point for James came when a professor asked if she’d considered literature as a major. “Reading, writing and talking? You can major in that? I thought, ‘That’s it,’” she says. About a decade later, James and her husband returned to UNCA to teach, and she had a dissertation to finish. “Some days I felt like I was going to die. I was teaching full time. I had two children. I was on at least four university committees,” she says. “They hired me partly for diversity, so they needed me on these committees to be the diverse person.” She says it still feels like a miracle that she finished the dissertation. James continues, “So much of my life is about blessing. It’s about the improbable, seemingly impossible. So much of it is grace-filled.” Of her overall experience teaching writing and literature, she says, “My greater goal was to give people access. To help people communicate.” Listening to other people’s stories promotes empathy and connection, she explains, helping us to understand parts of ourselves. “It’s a gift to be asked to tell your story,” says James. “Thank you for hearing it.” X

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‘Jeeves at Sea’ by N.C. Stage Company

HILARITY ON THE HIGH SEAS: Jeeves and Bertie return for antics and intrigue on the Riviera in Jeeves at Sea. The play stars, from left, Charlie Flynn-McIver, Michael MacCauley and Scott Treadway. Photo courtesy of N.C. Stage Company Jeeves, the competent valet, and his blundering employer, Bertie, are back for more British farce among the bumbling aristocracy. N.C. Stage Company builds on its past successful productions of the P.G. Wodehouse stories, which are adapted to the stage by Margaret Raether. Jeeves at Sea runs through Sunday, Feb. 17. This time, on the Vanderley yacht anchored off the coast of Monte Carlo, Bertram Wilberforce Wooster (played by Scott Treadway) and friends party while enjoying the good life. Bertie has fallen for the lovely Lady Stella Vanderley (Carin Metzger), whose temperament is a mixture of fun-loving and fickle. Bertie just can’t seem to get her to accept his marriage proposal. Drunken antics land one of Bertie’s pals — Sir Percival Everard Crumpworth (Charlie Flynn-McIver), nicknamed “Crumpet” — in trouble. While staggering around Monte Carlo late one night, a soused Crumpet throws a punch and, perhaps, assaults a prince. When this incident makes the headlines in the local newspaper, Bertie and Jeeves

(Michael MacCauley) help Crumpet assume a new identity as his own twin, complete with a different personality and none-too-subtle eyepatch to hide a black eye. Bertie doesn’t allow his pal’s problems to distract him from wooing Lady Stella. Meanwhile, her uptight traveling companion, Miss Minerva Pilbeam (Paula O’Brien), strongly disapproves of Bertie, who is, after all, only a minor aristocrat. Soon, Bertie is involved in his own intrigue. Lady Stella confides to her companion that Bertie actually writes romance novels under the pen name Rosie M. Banks. Suddenly, Bertie must assume the author’s identity and act as if he has written several books. He doesn’t even like books. Banks’ stories involve lovers from different social classes who choose to defy the strictures of the British class system. Miss Pilbeam is a devotee of Banks’ novels. She makes an impassioned defense of Banks’ works, but can she overcome her real-life snobbery? Jeeves, ever the sage to the hapless elite, delivers his best advice

to Bertie, who often defers to his manservant’s better judgment. Treadway’s Bertie is privileged and endearing, especially because he acknowledges that Jeeves remains the best guide on how to resolve a crisis. MacCauley re-creates the Jeeves that fans of the character love. He is droll in his rejoinders, yet gentle as he tries to steer Bertie away from disaster after disaster. It is a joy to watch two skilled actors bring vitality to these beloved roles. The set design stands out as an excellent re-creation of a luxury yacht’s wooden upper deck. The costume design deserves particular note, especially the women’s dresses that are reminiscent of flappers of the ’20s. Worth mentioning, too, is the well-choreographed duel. Bertie has angered Miss Pilbeam’s long-lost love, the Prussian Count Otto Von Dietrichstein (Ryan Mitchell), and has to defend himself. Unfortunately, Bertie says, sarcasm, not the sword, has always been his best weapon. Comedic timing is key to the pacing of the Jeeves and Wooster brand. MacCauley and Treadway deliver, as does the supporting cast. Under the skillful direction of Angie Flynn-McIver, the play crackles with the well-bred silliness that distinguishes the worldview of the idle rich. X

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The many talents of Ben Wallis will be on display at Fleetwood’s for the bulk of Sunday, Feb. 3. The Atlanta-based artist’s illustrations, under the name Beardy Glasses, will be on display noon-8 p.m., adorning shirts, prints and hats as part of a pop-up show. Then, at 9 p.m., Wallis will showcase his stand-up skills as part of the monthly Queer Comedy Party, which also features Asheville comedian Jesse Cooley. The night closes out with what event booker and organizer Melissa Hahn of Modelface Comedy calls “a very fun and very gay dance party with all the comedians” — potentially spotlighting yet another of Wallis’ gifts. The pop-up show is free to attend, and the comedy performance is $5 general admission at the door/$10 VIP in advance (includes preferential seating, a swag bag of snacks for the show and other surprises). fleetwoodsonhaywood.com. Photo by Kelly Blackmon

Liz Cooper & The Stampede Specializing in psych-tinged folk rock, Liz Cooper (vocals/guitar) has earned widespread acclaim for energetic live shows with her band, The Stampede. Rounded out by Grant Prettyman (bass) and Ryan Usher (drums), the Nashvillebased trio’s debut full-length album, Window Flowers, has been out since August and marked its first time working with an outside producer and recording in a proper studio. “[Producer] TJ Elias’ mad scientist ideas, an abundance of hot dogs and lack of sunlight pushed us outside of our comfort zones to work more cohesively as a unit than we ever had before,” Cooper says. The group heads to The Mothlight on Thursday, Jan. 31. Athens, Ga.-based rock quartet New Madrid gets the night started at 9. $13 advance/$15 day of show. themothlight.com. Photo by Lindsay Patkos

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A & E CALENDAR ART BALSAM RIDGE GALLERY 44 N. Main St., Waynesville • SA (2/2), 5:30-8:30pm - Landscape artist Richard Baker hosts the Groundhog Day celebration with live music, refreshments, themed costumes are welcome and encouraged and prizes of no real value. CHERRY TREE BEADS 202 Railroad Ave., Swannanoa, cherrytreebeads.com • TH (2/7), 7:30-9:30pm - Monthly bead night. Free to attend. HAYWOOD COUNTY LIBRARY-CANTON 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 828-648-2924, haywoodlibrary.org • Through (3/31) Ashley Calhoun paintings. Free. • Through (3/31) Russell Wyatt photography. Free. HOFMAN STUDIOS 111 Roberts St. • SA (2/2), 10am-4pm Hofman Studios winter pottery sale. Free to attend. LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community. Center • 1st TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Community art night for children and adults. Free. WAYNESVILLE BRANCH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville, 828-452-5169 • Through (3/31) - Linda Blount paintings. Free. • Through (3/31) - Jason Woodard paintings. Free. • Through (3/31) - Patty Johnson Coulter drawings. Free. • Through (3/31) - Molly Harrington-Weaver paintings. Free.

GO TELL IT: A vocal program celebrating Black History Month titled Go Tell it on the Mountain features soprano Simone Vigliante and pianist Daniel Weiser with classic African-American spirituals and ragtime music. The concert will explore the spiritual canon with songs that express faith, strength, pain, hope and the joys and sorrows of their composers with songs like Go Tell it On the Mountain, Wade in the Water and Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen. The performance takes place Sunday, Feb. 3 at 1:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Asheville. Tickets are available at amicimusic. org and cost $18. Photo courtesy of Simone Vigilante (p. 51)

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ASHEVILLE DESIGNER TOY EXPO (PD.) Unboxing Asheville presents *Assembly Required, the Asheville Designer Toy Expo February 16th and 17th at Highland Brewing. Representing brands such as Suckadelic, Killer Bootlegs and Junk Fed Toys, *Assembly Required brings together art toy, bootleg and designer toy artists from across the country, to present and sell their work. $5 entry/ kids ten and under free. *Assembly Required is sponsored by Morgan’s Comic’s, 103.3 Asheville FM and Appalachian Pinball Museum. DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS downtownashevilleartdistrict.org. • 1st FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Downtown Asheville First Friday Art Walks with more than 25 galleries within a half mile radius of historic downtown Asheville. Free to attend. Held in Downtown Asheville.

DANCE LEARN TO DANCE (PD.) Ballroom • Swing • Waltz • Salsa • Wedding • Two-Step • Special Events. Lessons, Workshops, Classes and Dance Events in Asheville. Certified instructor. Contact Richard for information: 828-333-0715. naturalrichard@ mac.com • www. DanceForLife.net HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS 174 Broadway, habitatbrewing.com • 1st MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm - "Salsa Dancing for the Soul," open levels salsa dance. Free to attend. SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 828-697-7732, southernlights.org

• SA (2/2), 6pm - Valentine Dance, advanced dance: 6pm; early rounds; 7pm; squares and rounds: 7:30pm. A raffle for a chocolate basket. Caller: Stan Russell. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville THE WCU BARDO ARTS CENTER 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee, 828-227-2479, wcu.edu/bardo-arts-center/ • TU (2/5), 7:30pm - Lily Cai Dance Company performs for the Lunar New Year Celebration blending ancient Chinese dance forms with modern dance. $15/$10 non-WCU/$5 WCU students.

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 5TH ANNUAL LOW BRASS FESTIVAL WCU Coulter Building, Cullowhee • SA (2/2) & SU (2/3) - The 5th Annual Low Brass Festival with featured guest artist Peter Steiner, a trombone soloist. Feb. 2 masterclass, 5pm; Feb. 3 masterclass, 9:30am; Q&A, 1pm; recital, 3pm. ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 828-862-2105, brevardmusic.org • 1st MONDAYS, 12:30pm - Community concert series. Free. Held in the Porter Center at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (1/30), 3pm - Ukulele jam, all levels. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville FREEBURG PIANOS 2314 Asheville Highway, Suite D, Hendersonville, 828-697-0110, freeburgpianos.com • SU (2/3) - The 24th annual Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition. Prizes. Registration: avl.mx/5lr. Free to attend. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN 802-369-0856, amicimusic.org • SU (2/3), 1:30pm - “Go Tell It on the Mountain’ with soprano Simone Vigliante and pianist Daniel Weiser celebrate Black History Month. Tickets: amicimusic. org. $20/$15 for Church members. Held at First Presbyterian Church, 40 Church St.

HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-6974725 • TU (2/5), 5:30-7:30pm Life Like Water, contemporary folk concert. Free. MARS HILL UNIVERSITY 265 Cascade St., Mars Hill, 828-689-1571 • FR (2/1) & SA (2/2), 4pm - J. Elwood Roberts Choral Festival will conclude with a concert. Free. Held at Moore Auditorium.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 828-254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH(1/31), 7:30pm 'Listen to This: Stories on Stage,' stories and songs. January's theme is "The Resolution Will Not Be Realized: Stalled Self Improvement Stories." $15. ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (1/31), 7:30pm 'Listen to This,' hosted by Tom Chalmers with stories and songs by local writers, performers and citizens, $15. ASHEVILLE WRITERS' SOCIAL allimarshall@bellsouth. net • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - NC Writer's Network group meeting and networking. Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave., #101 BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE 1 Page Ave., #101 • TU (2/5), 6:30pm - Women in Lively Discussion Book Club is reading Quiver by Julia Watts. Free to attend. BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 428 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend.

BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 180 W. Campus Drive, Flat Rock, 828-4125488, phoenixrisinghealing. com • Through (3/1) - The Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition accepting submissions. Prize and publication in storySouth. Registration: avl.mx/5lv. $15. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WEDNESDAYS until (3/20), 4:30pm Beginner's Spanish class for adults with Geri Solomon. Registration required. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115, firestorm.coop • First SUNDAYS, 5pm - Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • WE (1/30), 6pm - Karen McManus presents her book, Two Can Keep a Secret, and Megan Miranda presents her book, Come Find Me. Free to attend. • TH (1/31), 6pm Rachael Sparks presents her book, Resistant. Free to attend. • TH (1/31), 7pm Works in Translation

TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org • TH (1/31), 8pm - Zlatomir Fung, cello concert. $20. • FR (2/1), 10am - Arts Outreach for Kids presents Zlatomir Fung, cellist. $7/$3 students. WOMANSONG OF ASHEVILLE womansong.org • MONDAYS, 7-9pm Community chorus rehearsals open to potential members. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

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A& E CA LEN DA R Book Club: A Quiet Place by Seicho Matsumoto, translated by Louise Heal Kawai. Free to attend. • SU (2/3), 12:30pm North Carolina Literary Review celebrates 2nd place winner of the 2018 Betts Fiction Prize, David Hopes and his story Corin and Dorinda. Featured poets include Kenneth Chamlee and Glenis Redmond. Free to attend. • SU (2/3), 3pm - Three poets, Robert Lee Kendrick, author of What Once Burst With Brilliance, Lindsey Alexander, author of Rodeo in Reverse and Barbara Conrad, author of There is a Field. Free to attend. • MO (2/4), 4pm - Gus Vickery, MD presents his book, Authentic Health. Free to attend. • MO (2/4), 7pm LGBTQ book club is reading Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel. Free to attend.

• TU (2/5), 6pm - Lori Leachman, PhD presents her book, The King of Halloween and Miss Firecracker Queen. Free to attend. • TU (2/5), 7pm - Current Events Book Club is reading War with Russia: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate by Stephen F. Cohen. Free to attend. • WE (2/6), 6pm Leonard Pitts, Jr. presents his book The Last Thing You Surrender. Free to attend. • WE (2/6), 7pm - Discussion of Improvement by Joan Silber. Free to attend. • TH (2/7), 6pm - Robert Turner presents his book, Carrots Don't Grow on Trees: Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities. Free to attend. NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS 828-329-4190 • THURSDAYS, noon1pm - General meeting. Information: 828-329-

4190. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS' NETWORK ncwriters.org • Through WE (1/30) Submissions accepted for the 2019 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. See website for full guidelines. • Through FR (2/15) - Short story submissions accepted for The 2019 Doris Betts Fiction Prize. Submission and Guidelines: avl.mx/5k7 Free.

THEATER 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 828-2541320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (2/2) - Nunsense-A-Men comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $25. DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., 828257-4530, dwtheatre.com

• FR (2/1), 8pm - Aquila Theatre Company's Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, drama. $20-$60. • SA (2/2), 8pm - Aquila Theatre Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream, comedy. $20$60. NC STAGE COMPANY 15 Stage Lane, 828-239-0263 • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS until (2/17), 7:30pm Jeeves at Sea, satire. Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm & Sun.: 2pm, with Saturday matinees on Feb. 9 & 16, 2pm. $20-$46; $10/ students. THE MAGNETIC THEATRE 375 Depot St., 828-239-9250 • FR (2/1), SA (2/2) & SA (2/9), 7pm & SU (2/10), 2pm - Once on this Island, Jr., musical presented by Middle School Academy Students. $15.

YOU’RE INVITED! Saturday, Feb. 2nd 11:30am-8:30pm 800 Fairview Rd C-9

GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION! Free samples til 1:30pm • Live Music Raffles & Give Aways • Kid Friendly

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310 ART 191 Lyman St., #310, 828-776-2716, 310art.com • SA (2/2) through TU (4/2) - Atypical Dimensions: Voluminous Watercolors by Nadine Charlsen. Reception: Sunday, Feb. 3, 1:30-4:30pm.

photographs and artifacts, on loan from public and private collections. Reception: Sat., Feb. 2, 2-4pm. SPIERS GALLERY 1 College Dr, Brevard, brevard.edu/ • Through FR (2/15) Lori Park showcases An Invitation to a Show, an exhibition of sculpture installation.

AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 828-2812134, amerifolk.com • TH (2/7) through TH (2/21) - The 15th Annual Miniature Show features 12 artists working in a variety of media. ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 1 Page Ave., 828-2580710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (2/22) - Carve: Process of Reduction, curated by Nina Kawar, is seven artists working in clay, wood, glass, printmaking and paper. Reception: Friday, Feb. 1, 5-8pm; artist's talk: 6:30pm. 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. • FR (2/1) through TH (2/28) - Fresh Paint features paintings by two new members, Joseph Pearson and Susan Webb Tregay. Reception: Friday, Feb. 1, 5-8pm. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 120 College St., 828-350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • FR (2/1) through SA (5/18) - Aaron Siskind: A Painter’s Photographer and Works on Paper. Reception: Friday, Feb. 1, 5:30-8pm. • FR (2/1) through SA (5/18) - Politics at Black Mountain College, a variety of media: artwork, images, texts and audio. Reception: Friday, Feb. 1, 5:30-8pm. ELIZABETH HOLDEN GALLERY 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa • Through FR (2/22) - 10th Annual Drawing Discourse Juried International Exhibition features 59

PAINTER’S PHOTOGRAPHER: An exhibition of vintage photographs by Aaron Siskind reveals his approach to abstraction through photography in a show titled A Painter’s Photographer and Works on Paper by Black Mountain College Artists. Siskind taught photography at Black Mountain College during the summer of 1951. As the only photographer accepted as an equal by the abstract expressionists, Siskind’s work remains powerful today. The exhibition also includes selected works on paper by Black Mountain College artists John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, Ray Johnson and Jack Tworkov. The exhibition is curated by James Barron and runs from Friday, Feb. 1, through Monday, March 18. A reception is planned for Friday, Feb. 1, 5:30-8 p.m. Photo of Aaron Siskind’s Chicago, 1949, gelatin silver print courtesy of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center works of contemporary drawing. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org/ • Through SA (2/23) Juried exhibit of 28 local artists working in a variety of mediums: oil, acrylic, clay, watercolor, forged steel, coldwax, collage, wood, glass, fiber, jewelry, egg tempera, photography and mixed media. MAJIK STUDIOS 207 207 Coxe Ave., Studio 13 • FR (2/1) through FR (3/29) - The first group show of Majik Studios artists, Teaching and Reaching, five artists work-

ing in paint, illustration and paper marbeling. Reception: Friday, Feb. 1, 5-8pm. NORTH CAROLINA GLASS CENTER 140 Roberts St., Suite C, 828-505-3552, ncglasscenter.org • SA (2/2) until TH (2/28) Exhibition featuring glass work by Ben GreeneColonesse. Reception: Saturday, Feb. 2, 5-8pm. RURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM AT MARS HILL 100 Athletic St., Mars Hill, 828-689-1304 • Through (8/30) - A Fountain of Youth in the Southern Highlands: A History of Hot Springs, exhibit of rare and newlydiscovered documents,

THE WCU BARDO ARTS CENTER 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee, 828-227-2479, wcu.edu/bardo-arts-center/ • Through FR (5/1) - School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial Exhibition. • Through (5/3) Outspoken, America Meredith paintings that incorporate Cherokee syllabary. TRACEY MORGAN GALLERY 188 Coxe Ave., TraceyMorganGallery.com • Through SA (2/16) - Table Arrangements, exhibition of photographs by James Henkel. TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828-884-2787, tcarts.org • Through TH (1/31) Faces of Freedom, exhibiting and performing artists. WEIZENBLATT ART GALLERY AT MHU 79 Cascade St, Mars Hill • Through FR (2/8) Polaroids and Other Instant Photos retrospective exhibition by Jay Kranyik of 125 Polaroid and Instax images. WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, FINE ART MUSEUM 199 Centennial Drive Cullowhee, wcu.edu/ bardo-arts-center/fine-artmuseum/ • Through (5/3) - Defining America, exhibition in a variety of media. WOOLWORTH WALK 25 Haywood St., 828-254-9234 • FR (2/1) through WE (2/27) - Sixth Annual Second’s Sale at FW Gallery. Contact the galleries for hours and admission fees

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WARM REGARDS: Chicago-raised Frank “Bang” Blinkal spent five years as a guitarist on tour with blues legend Buddy Guy. With his own group, Frank Bang & The Secret Stash, he released his first blues album — Frank Bang & The Cook County Kings: The Blues Don’t Care — in 2016, more than 25 years into his career. The band performs at the Pisgah Brewing Co. taproom on Friday, Feb. 8, at 9 p.m. Daniel Johnston will open. $10 advance/$12 day of show. pisgahbrewing.com. Photo by J Skolnick

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Chili Slaw Sessions w/ Tom Kirschbaum & Friends, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 3:00PM CARMEL'S KITCHEN AND BAR Jazz Night w/ Adi the Monk, 5:30PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ live Honky-Tonk Band + DJ, 9:00PM FUNKATORIUM Saylor Bros, 6:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 6:00PM Woody Wood Wednesdays, 6:00PM

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

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Grayson Foster w/ Zach Cannella, 7:00PM Amy McCarley, 8:30PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: The Moongrass String Band (bluegrass), 9:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Latin Dance Night w/ DJ Oscar, 9:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM 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 Bad Ties, Her Pilots, The Spiral & Jesse Denaro (rock), 9:00PM

PULP Mayor Black & Friends, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night: Featuring The Bill Berg Trio, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE The Everydays, 6:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Asheville's Most Wanted Funk Bandits, Kazz & Unk, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE El Ten Eleven w/ Joan of Arc, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio (jazz, funk, soul), 9:00PM 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 UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Vicious Queen and Her Boys, 7:30PM

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Canned Heat Vinyl Night, 5:00PM

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

THU 1/31 7:00PM–FREDDY & FRANCINE 8:30PM–THE DONJUANS

FRI 2/1 7:00PM–GRAHAM WHORLEY 9PM–”LOVE ME TINDER” SEDUCTION SIDESHOW (NIGHT 1)

SAT 2/2 7:00PM–COURTNEY HARTMAN 9PM–”LOVE ME TINDER” SEDUCTION SIDESHOW (NIGHT 2)

TUE 2/5 7:30PM–TUES. BLUEGRASS SESSIONS W/ MASON VIA & HOT TRAIL MIX

WED 2/6 7:00PM–LAUREN ANDERSON & MEG WILLIAMS

THU 2/7 7:00PM–ALEXA ROSE W/ KATHRYN O’SHEA

FRI 2/8

7:00PM–CHUCK BRODSKY WITH CHRIS ROSSER 8:30PM–ALASDAIR FRASER AND NATALIE HAAS

SAT 2/9

8:30PM–DAVID BROMBERG QUINTET

SUN 2/10

6:00PM–MATT NAKOA 7:30PM–ERIKA WENNERSTROM (OF HEARTLESS BASTARDS)

TUE 2/12 7:30PM–TUES. BLUEGRASS SESSIONS W/ WEARY TRAVELERS

WED 2/13 7:00PM–THE KENNEDYS CD RELEASE TOUR 8:30PM–CHRIS WILHELM AND FRIENDS

THU 2/14 7:00PM–SAMSON AND DELILAH: THE MUSIC OF ALISON KRAUSS AND ROBERT PLANT 8:30PM–DIVAS LIVE! VALENTINE’S EDITION 8:30PM–DIVAS LIVE! VALENTINE’S FRI 2/15 EDITION 7:00PM–MARGO CILKER & FIELD HEAT WITH AN AMERICAN FORREST

SAT 2/16 8:30PM–TAJ MAHAL TRIO

SUN 2/17

6:00PM–THE PROMISE IS HOPE 7:30PM–DECLAN O’ROURKE CHRONICLES OF THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE

TUE 2/19 7:30PM–TUES. BLUEGRASS SESSIONS W/ DRYMAN MOUNTAIN BOYS

WED 2/20 6:00PM–ROBERT TREACHER LIVE ACOUSTIC

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

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ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & the Space Cooties, 7:30PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club, 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Offended Open Comedy Mic, 9:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Billy Litz, 7:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION (80's dance party), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Vinyl Night, 8:00PM OWL BAKERY Thursday Night Jazz, 7:30PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul Weekly Drag, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM Tribal Hoose, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Yonder Mountain String Band w/ Handsome Moments, 8:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Jordan Okrend Duo, 8:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Queen Bee, 7:00PM

BYWATER Country Jam hosted by John Duncan, 7:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Mike Rhodes' Fellowship, 7:00PM

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

PLEB URBAN WINERY Leeda "Lyric" Jones, 5:30PM

DOUBLE CROWN Gospel Night w/ Tim Woodson & The Heirs of Harmony, 10:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Noah Proudfoot and the Botanicals, 7:30PM

FLEETWOOD'S Queering el dance flow (Latin dance party), 9:00AM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Douglas McElvy, 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM Gypsy Jazz feat. Steve Karla, 6:00PM The Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Thursday Night Blues w/ The Patrick Dodd Trio, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Freddy & Francine, 7:00PM DonJuans, 8:30PM

SALVAGE STATION Trivia, 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Alex Culbreth, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE The Half That Matters, Anywhere From Here, Aqua Mule, 8:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Spin Sessions w/ DJ Stylus, 6:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Open Mic Night, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE "King of the City" Battle on the Block: Rap Battle, 9:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Trivia w/ Geeks Who Drink, 7:00PM

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

THE GREY EAGLE Johnny Folsom 4: A Tribute to Johnny Cash, 8:00PM

LAZOOM ROOM Home-Groan Pun Battle, 8:00PM

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

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30 THE MOTHLIGHT Liz Cooper & The Stampede w/ New Madrid, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Chris Jamison's Ghost, 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 Dave Desmelik Songwriter Series, 8:00PM

WEAVER HOUSE 5j Barrow, 7:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Rock n' Soul Obscurities w/ Wild Vinyl DJ, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Chuck Lichtenberger, Tin Foil Hat & Nostalgianoid, 9:00PM

NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Old Salt Union, 5:30PM NOBLE KAVA Nick Drake Night (singersongwriter, covers), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Skylight Heights, SoulSeason & Lunacy Rain (rock), 9:00PM

THU

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL

Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM

FRI

MELD w/ Sister Ivy, 9:00PM

SAT

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST

SAT

OWB West: Natural Born Leaders (hip-hop, funk, rock), 9:00PM

JOHNNY FOLSOM 4

MON

BRENT COBB & THEM

WED

YOUTH OUTRIGHT’S

THU

THE STEEL WHEELS, 8PM

FRI

A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH

W/ THE MAGGIE VALLEY BAND

1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY DRAG BRUNCH, 12PM

SUPER BOWL PARTY OPEN MIC NIGHT DEVOTCHKA W/ NEYLA PEKAREK, THE CONTENDERS

THE LIL SMOKIES

W/ THE MICHIGAN RATTLERS

RAYLAND BAXTER W/ ILLITERATE LIGHT

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FUNKATORIUM Lyric, 8:00PM GASTRO PUB AT HOPEY Open Mic Night w/ Heather Taylor, 7:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE The Lefties (acoustic covers), 6:30PM

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 AMBROSE WEST Aubrey Eisenman & The Clydes Pre Release Album Show, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Psymbionic w/ Thelma & Frequent, 9:30PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club, 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Throwback dance Party w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Ben Phan, 6:00PM

THIS WEEK AT AVL MUSIC HALL

CORK & KEG The Gypsy Swingers, 8:30PM

LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Singer-Songwriter Night, 8:00PM

SUN

W/ JOAN OF ARC

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Yellow Feather Duo, 6:00PM

W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT WXYZ Unplugged w/ Hope Griffin, 8:00PM

WEEKLY EVENTS

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE The Skrillbillies, 7:00PM

EL TEN ELEVEN

HAW CREEK COMMONS Conscious Movement Dance Meditation, 12:00AM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Supatight, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Graham Whorley, 7:00PM “Love Me Tinder” Seduction Sideshow (night one), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Misty Mountain String Band, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Hot n' Nasty (rock n' soul vinyl) w/ DJ Hissy Cruise, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP MandoCyn, 6:30PM

THIS WEEK AT THE ONE STOP:

THU 1/31 FRI 2/1 SAT 2/2

DO CA$ N H AT IO

Live Band TBD MELD w/ Sister Ivy - [Progressive Soul] AMFM: Andy Mowatt’s Frequency Movement

UPCOMING SHOWS - ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL:

PSYMBIONIC +

AMH & OUR HOUSE PRESENTS:

RAMIN & FRIENDS

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(BOWIE VAN LING & ERIK FARSTAD)

FRIDAY – 2/1 S HOW : 9:30 pm (D OORS : 9 pm) T ICKETS : $15/$17/$20

SATURDAY – 2/2 S HOW : 10 pm (D OORS : 9 pm) $5 C ASH C OVER

TUESDAY:

Turntable Tuesday - 10pm

WEDNESDAY:

THURSDAY:

FRIDAY:

disclaimer comedy

Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia - 6:30pm

F ree Dead F riday - 5pm

9:30pm

2/7 2/8

Billy Gilmore (of The Grass is Dead) & Friends Charlie Traveler Presents: Satsang w/ Noah Proudfoot & the Botanicals 2/9 TRUTH, Khiva, Undergrowth Showcase 2/15 Phuncle Sam 2/16 Harmonia Benefit ft. Somatoast & Futexture plus Mycorr 2/22 Brandon “Taz” Niederauer

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Local Flashback Friday’s Vintage Dance Night! 2/1: The SUPER 60s 8pm ∙ $10 2/8: Karolina Kats 7:30pm ∙ $5 39 S. Market St., Asheville, NC 28801 254-9277 • theblockoffbiltmore.com

COLD SNAP: The second installment of the Winter Chill local music series, sponsored by the Asheville Area Arts Council and Asheville FM, offers a blues and soul theme, with Cowboy Judy, pictured, and April B. & The Cool performing. Cowboy Judy is the Motown-meets-country project of local musicians Amanda Anne Platt (The Honeycutters), Dulci Ellenberger (Moves), Melissa Hyman (The Moon and You) and Amber Lyle Sankaran. DJ Cousin TL hosts The Grey Eagle show on Monday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m. $15. thegreyeagle.com. Photo by Evoke Emotion Photography

520 Haywood Rd.

WEST ASHEVILLE Wed. 1/30

9pm- Latin Night w/ DJ Oscar

Thu. 1/31

9pm- West Side Funk Jam $3 Selected Pints

Fri. 2/1

9pm- Natural Born Leaders $5

Sat. 2/2 Mon. 2/4

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong w/ The Fritz, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY John Trufant (blues, rock), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ RexxStep, 9:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Lazybirds, 8:00PM

Mixed Culture w/ DJ Brandon Audette & Marley Carroll- $5

SALVAGE STATION

Benefit for One Sky Village Fndn.

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY

8:30pm- Jazz Jam

Derek McCoy, 8:00PM

Tue. 2/5

9pm- Sean K. Preston & The Loaded Pistols

Wed. 2/6

9pm- Latin Night w/ DJ Oscar

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Turnup Truk, 9:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Systematic Devastation, Gutterhound, The Aisles of Jane Doe, Earth Collider, 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Carver & Carmody, 8:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Vinylly Friday!, 6:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE First Friday Power Play Networking w/ DJ &Live Entertainment, 4:00PM Flashback Friday at the Block: Blake Ellege's Karolina Kats, 7:30PM THE GREY EAGLE Brent Cobb & Them: Sucker For A Good Time Tour w/ The Maggie Valley Band, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Blvck Mvss-VVitchgang Coven Showcase (hiphop, DJ sets), 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY KAIZEN, 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN AmiciMusic: Simone Vigilante & Daniel Weiser, 7:30PM

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AMBROSE WEST Tuff Gong Festival: Bob Marley B-day Bash, 3:00PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL AMH & Our House Presents: Ramin & Friends (house, techno), 9:00PM BANKS AVE SES: Satisfaction Every Saturday, 9:00PM BLUE GHOST BREWING COMPANY Groundhog Day Party w/ Modern Strangers, 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Derek McCoy Trio, 6:00PM BYWATER DownTown Abby & The Echoes Duo, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Mountain Bitters, 7:00PM CHESTNUT Jazz Brunch w/ The Low keys (original jazz music), 12:00PM CONUNDRUM SPEAKEASY & INTRIQUE LOUNGE Gypsy Guitars, 7:00PM

CORK & KEG The Old Chevrolet Set, 8:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Asher Leigh (soul, folk), 2:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Sidecar Honey, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Courtney Hartman, 7:00PM “Love Me Tinder” Seduction Sideshow (night two), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Roots & Dore, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy Night: Still Exhausted Women, 8:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Saturday Swing-a-ling w/ DJs Arieh & Chrissy, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Live Synth Music, 8:00PM

MG ROAD Late Night Dance Parties w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM ODDITORIUM Shellshock Goth Prom (18+), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL AMFM: Andy Mowatt's Frequency Movement, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Mixed Culture Presents: Marley Carroll w/ DJ Brandon Audette (benefit), 8:00PM ORANGE PEEL Mandolin Orange w/ Mapache, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Eric Congdon Acoustic Trio, 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Flashback, 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Ben Phan, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY 2019 Chinese New Year Celebration w/ Snake Oil Medicine Show, 9:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Elonzo Wesley, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION John Kadlecik Band, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Andrew Thelston Band, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Hard Rocket Styrofoam Turtles Sane Voids TV Set Acid Grandpas, 7:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Letters to Abigail, 8:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Sherry Lynn, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE CommUNITY Salsa & Latin Saturday Dance Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes (lesson, 9:00PM), 9:30PM THE GREY EAGLE Youth OUT-right's 1 Year Anniversary Drag Brunch, 12:00PM The Steel Wheels, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Sarah Louise w/ Paula Stretch & Kima Moore, 9:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Pink Floyd Tribute, 8:00PM

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3 ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM

TAVERN Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 15 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night LIVE M R A COV USIC , E V E N ER CHARGE!

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:30PM

Jordan Okrend

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan, 7:00PM

FRI. 2/1

BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Laura Laughter & Tim Levene, 3:00PM BYWATER Sunday Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

THU. 1/31 (acoustic rock)

DJ RexxStep

(dance hits, pop)

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CLU B LA N D PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Stout Hog Day & Brewer's Breakfast w/ Chalwa, 11:00AM Pisgah Sunday Jam, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Lucky James, 1:00PM STREAMSIDE CONCERTS Up Jumped Three, 3:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Burlesque, Bubbles and Vegan Bites hosted by Queen April, 1:00PM UNCA Sunday Jazz Jam, 7:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Open Mic w/ Billy Litz, 3:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM WHISTLE HOP BREWING CO. Mr Jimmy, 4:00PM

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4 ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Nerdy Talk Trivia, 6:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo Trivia, 7:30PM Open Mic, 9:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Dave Desmelik, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque Hosted by Deb Au Are (18+), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Jazz Mondays hosted by Ray Ring & Jason DeCristofaro, 8:30PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays Jam (all skill levels welcome!), 8:00PM PORTER CENTER AT BREVARD COLLEGE Community Concert Series: Romantic Chamber Music feat. Dilshad Posnock, Jennifer Snyder Kozoroz, & Kela Walton, 12:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Open Mic Night w/ It Takes All Kinds, 7:00PM

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THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE V*g*n Pizza Karaoke for a Cause (benefiting Just Folks), 9:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Sean K. Preston & The Loaded Pistols, 8:00PM

NANTAHALA BREWING - ASHEVILLE OUTPOST Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM

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SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Team Trivia, 7:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30pm sign up), 8:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy jazz), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Daydream Creatures w/ Shaken Nature & The Minnies, 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Local Live Music Series, 7:00PM

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5 ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Evening of Classical Guitar - 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Leading Ladies of Asheville, 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgardner, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Trivia, 6:30PM BYWATER Intimacy Is Weird: Singer-Songwriter Series, 8:00PM CORK & KEG Old Time Moderate Jam, 5:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by Mason Via & Hot Trail Mix, 7:30PM LAZY DIAMOND Noiz Oasis w/ DJ Salty Stax (post-punk vinyl), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Synth Club & Synth Jam, 7:00PM NOBLE KAVA Open Jam, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Free Open Mic Comedy, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Turntable Tuesday, 10:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing Asheville Tuesday Dance feat. the House Hoppers, 9:00PM Late Night Blues Dance, 11:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy jazz), 9:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Rat Alley Cats, 6:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Funk Jam (funk, jazz), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Robert's Twin Leaf Trivia, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Jam, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Chili Slaw Sessions with Tom Kirschbaum & Friends, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Mark Bumgardner, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 3:00PM CARMEL'S KITCHEN AND BAR Jazz Night w/ Adi the Monk, 5:30PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Vaden Landers Band +DJ, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Lassyu, Poet Radio & Shutterings, 8:00PM FUNKATORIUM Saylor Bros, 6:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Lauren Anderson & Meg Williams, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM

ODDITORIUM Uncle Kurtis, Sane Voids (psych rock), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Latin Dance Night w/ DJ Oscar, 9:00PM PULP NOjO w/ The #40Boyz, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Monthly Monster Maker: Exquisite Corpse, 6:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE One Leg Husky, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Asheville's Most Wanted Funk Bandits, Kazz & Unk, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE DeVotchKa w/ Neyla Pekarek & The Contenders, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio (jazz, funk, soul), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT The Half That Matters w/ Jaeb & Shutterings, 9:00PM 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 WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN UNCA Drummer Will Younts, 7:30PM

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MAX RATING Xpress reviews virtually all upcoming movies, with two or three of the most noteworthy appearing in print. You can find our online reviews at mountainx.com/movies/reviews. This week, they include: COLD WAR (PICK OF THE WEEK) HHHHS THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING

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Tragic romance set against a backdrop of political despotism is just the beginning of Pawel Pawlikowski’s bleakly beautiful Cold War.

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DIRECTOR: Pawel Pawlikowski PLAYERS: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: A musician tasked with organizing a folk music ensemble in Soviet-era Poland falls in love with a young singer, but his efforts to start a new life with her in the West are beset by problems on all sides. THE LOWDOWN: A mesmerizing meditation on the vicissitudes of fate, juxtaposing a very human romance against utterly inhuman circumstances. It’s a rare occasion when a film leaves me at a loss for words, but such is the case with the exceptional beauty and unremitting brutality of Polish writer/director Pawel Pawlikowski’s

Cold War. This is the uncommon sort of film that deserves its award-season accolades just as much as it deserves an audience — which I sincerely hope it finds. While Pawlikowski may not be a household name outside the arthouse and the prospect of a subtitled period melodrama about an ill-fated romance may put off some theatergoers, don’t let any of that deter you — Cold War is one of the best films of this year or any other. To define Cold War as a melodrama is somewhat reductive and certainly doesn’t capture the visceral appeal of what Pawlikowski has accomplished here. Set against the backdrop of Eastern bloc Poland, the film’s decadespanning narrative revolves around the turbulent love affair between musician Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and young folk singer Zula (Joanna Kulig), a couple tossed together and then torn apart by

the world around them. But what looks like a standard potboiler romance on paper transcends any such limitations in execution, as Pawlikowski presents his story of star-crossed lovers with such immediacy and earnestness that even the hardest of hearts can’t help but be moved. The inevitable bond that develops between Wiktor and Zula becomes so moving and engrossing that what initially seems to be little more than an inappropriate fling takes on the weight of a supermassive black hole, drawing its participants inexorably toward trauma and strife in spite of their best efforts. But none of this would work without a whip-smart script from Pawlikowski, and his exquisitely economical storytelling knows exactly where to suggest rather than divulge. His narrative focuses on the small, human moments within a story rife with opportunities

to be swept away by salacious spectacle, keying in on the more mundane tragedies of the mistakes two people in love often make, even as the stakes are raised almost incomprehensibly high by the political realities of Pawlikowski’s setting. That the third act overplays its hand slightly (a pun you’ll get after you see the film) is perhaps the only thing keeping Cold War from perfection — but if that’s a shortcoming, it’s at least an understandable one given the severity of the subject matter. As good as his script is, it’s really the directorial aesthetic established by Pawlikowski that proves to be Cold War’s strongest recommendation. There’s a reason he took home Best Director honors from this year’s Cannes Film Festival and is nominated for the same at the upcoming Oscars, after all. Shot in the 1.375-1 Academy aspect ratio, his nearly square frames are a masterclass in expressionistic composition, and cinematographer Lukasz Zal’s sensuous black-and-white achieves what Alfonso Cuaron tried and failed to capture with Roma (Zal is also up for top honors come February). Lyrical, elegiac and haunting, Cold War is a beautiful film about an ugly world and, as such, could hardly be more resonant in our current cultural climate. Whatever qualms you may have, put them aside and go see this one on the big screen — but be forewarned: It’s not the kind of film to be easily forgotten. Polish and French dialogue with English subtitles. Rated R for some sexual content, nudity and language. Opens Friday at Fine Arts Theatre. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

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2019 Poetry Contest Xpress announces a 2019 poetry contest in celebration of National Poetry Month and our four-issue Sustainability series in April. Poets are asked to submit work around the theme of what Western North Carolina’s environment means to you. Poems should be no longer than one typed page in a 12-point font and must be previously unpublished. Submissions will be accepted throughout the month of February. The contest will close at midnight on Thursday, Feb. 28. Email the poem in the body of the message or as a Doc attachment to amarshall@mountainx.com. The subject line should read “Xpress poetry contest.” Include the author’s full name and contact information in the email. Only one submission is allowed per person. There is no cost to enter. A winning poem will be determined by a local poet of note, to be named soon. The winner will be published online and in print in one of our April issues. The contest is not open to Xpress employees or freelance contributors.

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The Kid Who Would Be King HHHS DIRECTOR: Joe Cornish PLAYERS: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris, Angus Imrie FAMILY ADVENTURE RATED PG THE STORY: When a bullied teen pulls Excalibur from the stone, he learns his true identity and must recruit his own Knights of the Round Table. THE LOWDOWN: A smart and kidfriendly retelling of the King Arthur legend from the director of Attack the Block should be an easy sell, but see it soon because it’s dying at the box office and needs all the help it can get. Doesn’t it feel a little unfair that we had to wait eight years for a new Joe Cornish movie? Thankfully, The Kid Who Would Be King was worth the wait. And while it’s not Attack the Block II (the movie I’ve actually been wanting from Cornish for the better part of a decade), Kid is a new and worthy chapter in the director’s kidfocused, big-screen career. The opening five minutes even equate to the best animated movie I’ve seen since Into the Spider-Verse, kicking the film off with a big, spectacular retelling of the King Arthur legend before settling into modern times. Cornish is almost daring his contemporaries to keep up. Much like M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass or Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi, Kid Who Would Be King lets its characters in on what’s happening. The major difference here is that the film allows us to participate and anticipate along with those characters, which, I admit, sounds lazier than it actually is given that the kids on screen carry around a book called Knights of the Round Table for the entire length of the movie. But it’s a trick that works and doesn’t come off as cheap or weird (at least not in a bad way). It would have been one thing for this to be simply “King Arthur set

in a high school,” but we go a step further to incorporate the real-time effects of this narrative being played out alongside the kids at its center learning about the story and their new-found roles within it. If Rian Johnson had thought of this, he’d have just had Kylo Ren pop in a copy of The Empire Strikes Back and start taking notes. But Cornish makes the device count and gives the audience something to latch onto, which goes a long way once the film settles into a repetitive second act. Taking place over the course of four days leading up to a solar eclipse, our four heroes Alex, Bedders, Lance and Kaye, learn their new roles (as the new king and his knights) while fending off legions of the undead by night. But the film never quite figures out what to do with these evil hordes and just kind of throws them at the kids whenever the sun goes down. So they walk around by day doing plot stuff, then at night have a quick and way too easy fight against a flaming skeleton army. Not until the big finale does any of this pay off, and even then, it still feels unearned, with the rest of the movie carrying what should have been a reasonably scary threat. Can a story like this work without an antagonist? Maybe not, but the big bad guys are the dullest element, compounding the fact that once that big solar-eclipse showdown finally comes, yeah, they stop the big evil army, but they’ve already done that three times by that point. Even all that aside, for a PG adventure story aimed at kids, it’s damn-near perfect. Cornish has a clear knack for getting to the core of what a kids movie can really be, eliminating all the stuffy obnoxious tropes that normally follow. It’s more Last Unicorn than Harry Potter, and I’m thankful for that. Rated PG for fantasy action violence, scary images, thematic elements including some bullying, and language. Now playing at AMC River Hills 10, Carolina Cinemark, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. REVIEWED BY FRANCIS X. FRIEL MOVIEJAWNX@GMAIL.COM

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Miss Bala Action thriller from director Catherine Hardwicke, starring Gina Rodriguez and Anthony Mackie. According to the studio: “Gloria (Rodriguez) finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness and strength.” No early reviews. (R)

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FOR THE BIRDS: A taxidermist practices her art in a still from Stuffed. Ashevillebased filmmaker Erin Derham’s new documentary will make its world premiere at SXSW in mid-March. Photo courtesy of Curiosity Pictures • The Beer City Blazers motorcycle club continues its Moto Movie Night on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m., at Archetype Brewing Co., 265 Haywood Road. The event will feature a motorcyclethemed film. Riders of all types are invited. Free to attend, but donations for the group’s charitable efforts are appreciated. archetypebrewing.com • The Collider, 1 Haywood St., Suite 401, hosts a screening of Unbounded: A Journey Into Patagonia on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m. The 2018 adventuretravel documentary follows a young crew of four as they hike and pack-raft for four months through some of the most rural and inaccessible natural areas of Chile. A panel discussion featuring the film’s director, producer and cinematographer, Garrett Martin, will follow the film. Tickets are $20 per person, $15 for active Friends of The Collider, $10 for students with a valid ID or free with the purchase of a one-year Friends of The Collider gift. Light refreshments and beer from event sponsor New Belgium Brewing Co. will be provided. All proceeds benefit The Collider’s Thomas R. Karl Internship Program. thecollider.org • Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross presents a screening of Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary on Friday, Feb. 1, at 6 p.m. at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road. The 2012 documentary chronicles the life of author, journalist, former Black Panther and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Free to attend. firestorm.coop

• The next installment in the monthly Silent Sunday series takes place Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. at Grail Moviehouse, 45 S. French Broad Ave. The program features Thunder-Bolts of Fate (1919), the earliest known surviving film shot in Asheville; the Edenton-shot Hauling the Shad Net (1901), the earliest known surviving North Carolina film; The Masked Rider (1916), a western filmed at Bat Cave; and an excerpt from Gilded Lies (1921), the last reel of which was made on and around Chimney Rock. The selections are curated by local film historian Frank Thompson, who will also conduct an audience Q&A after the screening. Marc Hoffman will provide a live piano score. Tickets are $12 and available online and at the Grail box office. grailmoviehouse.com

DIRECTOR: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi PLAYERS: (Voices) Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes Benites ANIMATED FANCIFUL BIOPIC Rated PG-13 The very unusual and surprisingly powerful Oscar-nominated animated biographical film (2007) about the extraordinary — and yet perfectly relatable — life of an Iranian girl. Though playful in tone, it’s a narrative that goes much deeper than one might expect. It’s a film that should be seen — and one that benefits from a second look, as well. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on May 1, 2012. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Persepolis on Friday, Feb. 1, at the new Flood Gallery location in Black Mountain, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain.

• Asheville-based filmmaker Erin Derham’s new film Stuffed will make its world premiere at South by Southwest in March. The feature-length documentary looks at the taxidermy industry and features interviews with renowned artists from around the world. On her Facebook page, Derham refers to the project as “the movie I have been working on for over two years with a massive crew across six countries and 12 states.” The film also showcases an original score by Asheville musician Ben Lovett. An exact showtime for the premiere has yet to be revealed on the SXSW schedule. The annual festival takes place March 8-17 in Austin, Texas. vimeo.com/303169626 X

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You’ll be invited to make a pivotal transition in the history of your relationship with your most important life goals. It should be both fun and daunting! MARCH: Don’t waste time and energy trying to coax others to haul away the junk and the clutter. Do it yourself. APRIL: The growing pains should feel pretty good. Enjoy the uncanny stretching sensations. MAY: It’ll be a favorable phase to upgrade your personal finances. Think richer thoughts. Experiment with new ideas about money. JUNE: Build two strong bridges for every rickety bridge you burn. Create two vital connections for every stale connection you leave behind.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Be open to romantic or erotic adventures that are different from how love has worked in the past. MARCH: You’ll be offered interesting, productive problems. Welcome them! APRIL: Can you explore what’s experimental and fraught with interesting uncertainty even as you stay well-grounded? Yes! MAY: You can increase your power by not hiding your weakness. People will trust you most if you show your vulnerability. A key to this season’s model of success is the ability to calmly express profound emotion. JUNE: Wild cards and X-factors and loopholes will be more available than usual. Don’t be shy about using them.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You have access to a semi-awkward magic that will serve you well if you don’t complain about its semi-awkwardness. MARCH: To increase your clout and influence, your crucial first step is to formulate a strong intention to do just that. The universe will then work in your behalf. APRIL: Are you ready to clean messes and dispose of irrelevancies left over from the past? Yes! MAY: You can have almost anything you want if you resolve to use it for the greatest good. JUNE: Maintain rigorous standards, but don’t be a fanatic. Strive for excellence without getting bogged down in a counterproductive quest for perfection.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: The world may finally be ready to respond favorably to the power you’ve been storing up. MARCH: Everything you thought you knew about love and lust turns out to be too limited. So expand your expectations and capacities! APRIL: Extremism and obsession can be useful in moderation. MAY: Invisible means of support will become visible. Be alert for half-hidden help. JUNE: Good questions: What do other people find valuable about you? How can you enhance what’s valuable about you?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Be alert for vivid glimpses of your best possible future. The power of self-fulfilling prophecy is even stronger than usual. MARCH: High integrity and ethical rigor are crucial to your success — and so is a longing for sacred adventure. APRIL: How can you make the best use of your likability? MAY: Cheerfully dismantle an old system or structure to make way for a sparkling new system or structure. JUNE: Beginner’s luck will be yours if you choose the right place to begin. What’s a bit intimidating but very exciting? CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Your sensual magnetism peaks at the same time as your spiritual clarity. MARCH: You want toasted ice? Succulent fire? Earthy marvels? Homey strangeness? All of that is within reach. APRIL: Sow the seeds of the most interesting success you can envision. Your fantasy of what’s possible should thrill your imagination, not merely satisfy your sense of duty. MAY: Deadline time. Be as decisive and forthright as an Aries, as bold as a Sagittarius, as systematic as a Capricorn. JUNE: Go wading in the womb-temperature ocean of emotion, but be mindful of the undertow. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are your fortune cookiestyle horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: There’s a general amnesty in all matters regarding your relationships. Cultivate truces and forgiveness. MARCH: Drop fixed ideas you might have about what’s possible and what’s not. Be keenly open to unexpected healings. APRIL: Wander out into the frontiers. Pluck goodies that have been off-limits. Consider the value of ignoring certain taboos. MAY: Sacrifice a small comfort so as to energize your ambitions. JUNE: Take a stand in behalf of your beautiful ideals and sacred truths. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Master the Zen of constructive anger. Express your complaints in a holy cause. MARCH: You finally get a message you’ve been waiting to receive for a long time. Hallelujah! APRIL: Renew your most useful vows. Sign a better contract. Come to a more complete agreement. MAY: Don’t let your preconceptions inhibit you from having a wildly good time. JUNE: Start your own club, band, organization or business. Or reinvent and reinvigorate your current one.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You’ll have the need and opportunity to accomplish some benevolent hocus-pocus. For best results, upgrade your magical powers. MARCH: Make sure the turning point happens in your power spot or on your home turf. APRIL: You should be willing to go anywhere, ask any question and even risk your pride if necessary so as to coax your most important relationships into living up to their potentials. MAY: If at first you don’t succeed, change the definition of success. JUNE: You can achieve more through negotiation and compromise than you could by pushing heedlessly ahead in service to your single-minded vision.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: Start a new trend that will serve your noble goals for years to come. MARCH: Passion comes back into fashion with a tickle and a shiver and a whoosh. APRIL: As you expand and deepen your explorations, call on the metaphorical equivalents of both a telescope and a microscope. MAY: This is the beginning of the end of what you love to complain about. Hooray! JUNE: You’ll have an abundance of good reasons to celebrate the fact that you are the least normal sign in the zodiac. Celebrate your idiosyncrasies!

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: You’ll have a knack for enhancing the way you express yourself and present yourself. The inner you and the outer you will become more unified. MARCH: You’ll discover two original new ways to get excited. APRIL: Be bold as you make yourself available for a deeper commitment that will spawn more freedom. MAY: What are the gaps in your education? Make plans to mitigate your most pressing area of ignorance. JUNE: Your body’s ready to tell you secrets that your mind has not yet figured out. Listen well.

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