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OUR 21ST YEAR OF WEEKLY INDEPENDENT NEWS, ARTS & EVENTS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 21 NO. 30 FEBRUARY 18 - FEBRUARY 24, 2015

TALES FROM THE TRAIL WALKING APPALACHIA FROM GEORGIA TO MAINE

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Walking Appalachia For 153 days, Ashevillean Gary Sizer lived outdoors, joining an estimated 2,500 hikers who attempted the Appalachian Trail in 2014. The physical and mental toll it takes on these hikers is undeniable, yet many thruhikers claim it’s a positive, life-changing experience. And the number who attempt it is steadily rising each year. coVER dEsign: Kathleen Soriano Taylor

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Leave your big-city driving habits at home So, my beautiful city has expanded and improved in marvelous ways since my childhood days in the ’70s and ’80s. And some negative things have come along with it. As a native, here’s my issue with you moving here. You bring your nasty, aggressive, mean, “all about me” big-city driving habits with you. Let me preface the rest of what I have to say with this: On my Ducati, on a back road, I WILL SMOKE YOU. I love speed.

I’m not ancient yet!

But in MY city, in my car, I will do my best to drive the speed limit, use my turn signals, and drive like I have some MANNERS. You continually blow by me doing 45 mph or 50 mph in a 35 mph zone. I know this because for fun I’ve sped up to see the speed you are doing. You get on my tail, aggravated I’m doing the limit. You run through the late yellows and even now the red lights. They don’t apply to you? You have out-of-state license plates, or maybe even N.C., but I choose to believe my fellow natives would not be so disregarding of others or narcissistic. My speedometer is not different from yours. Why can’t you look down more often and see your actual speed?

You get testy when someone pulls out from a dead stop from a business,

but you’re already going 15-20 mph over. How hard do you think that makes it to merge into traffic?

So you moved here “for the beauty, for the slowed-down pace, blah blah blah.” So how about this: First, leave your big-city aggressive driving habits where you came from.

Leave your house 20 minutes before you think you should, use your turn signals (it’s the stick on the left of your steering wheel), THINK about others, and CHILL OUT. You are not Jeff Gordon and our streets are not the NASCAR track.

And finally, ask yourself this: Have you put serious thought into how you will feel and how the rest of your life will go if you kill someone because you insisted on speeding or running a light on our streets?

— Laurel York Asheville

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Asheville offers multiple spiritual (and nonspiritual) paths I enjoyed the cover article for a December issue (posted online on Dec. 24) entitled “Churches in the fall: local churches get back to their roots in a rapidly changing millennial culture” [Dec. 25, Xpress]. howard hanger, founder of Jubilee! definitely helps with the hanging chads left behind by more conservative expressions of orthodoxy and orthopraxy (right behavior). Hopefully an equally charismatic minister will lead Jubilee! when Hanger retires.

I joined David Brandt Berg’s Merry Pranksters in 1971, became an independent associate in the fall of 1973 and broke ties in 1976. My cousin sold roses at stoplights for the Moonies.

The Twelve Tribes/ Yellow Deli folk got their start in Chattanooga in the 1970s. Here in Asheville, they are known as Gladheart Farm. They use the same Acts 2:44 collectivist model that Berg’s group does, now known as The Family International.

There has been a rise of the Nones in recent years, folks with no religious affiliation.

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Movement — catering to agnostics and atheists — has been around since 2013. No Asheville chapter yet as far as I can tell, but there are chapters in Atlanta and Nashville. Bart Ehrman would probably fit right in.

Social media provides community for many. As a recent New Yorker cartoon put it, “My LinkedIn account is starting to pay off: I got two new followers on Twitter.”

My nephew enjoys an affiliation with The Church of the SubGenius.

When will we have a church for those who are religious but not spiritual?

— Mick Bysshe Asheville

Asheville Second Line Band deserves Mardi Gras notice Your recent article exploring the history of Asheville’s Mardi Gras celebration [From Munky Doux to the Gypsy Krewe, Feb. 11, Xpress] left out an integral part of the celebration, The Asheville Second Line Band.

The Asheville Second Line Band (A2L) is THE official band for all of the Mardi Gras events and leads the parade each year.

A2L is a nonprofit, all-volunteer group that plays Mardi Gras themed/Dixie Land styled music to help celebrate the season and to help bring awareness to the Asheville Mardi Gras.

The musicians in A2L are all talented and dedicated to the band. Some are professional musicians who earn their living making music in other groups, but most are simply people who love to perform.

We spend hours of practice as individuals and as a group in order to sound our best for performances. Most of our rehearsals take place at Ben’s Tune-Up because they graciously allow us to disrupt the diners there every other Monday night. We even played at Ben’s several Sundays this past year for the “Gospel Brunch” series.

Since I have only been involved with A2L for just over two years I cannot give an accurate account of the group’s history, but I hope you take the time to talk to some of the founders about our band.

— Robert E. May A2L drummer Weaverville

Committed community leaders needed for Asheville City Schools What could be more important than nurturing the next generation?

Public education is an essential part of our democracy, and a local board of education has one of the most important responsibilities — helping steer the educational journeys of the students in our community. Our Board of Education’s decisions affect the lives of students, parents, staff, and ultimately, the economic well-being of the community.

The Asheville City Board of Education serves as a fivemember governing body of the Asheville City Schools. Two of these seats are being vacated this year by Chair jacquelyn hallum and member precious grant, who have completed two four-year terms. The Asheville City Council is responsible for appointing new board members.

Could you have what it takes to serve our community and our students? The Asheville City Schools Foundation recently surveyed education stakeholders and community leaders on key personal and professional qualities that a school board member in Asheville should possess.

Based on this feedback, an ideal school board member would be someone who is: • committed to equity among Asheville’s diverse population • knowledgeable about or experienced in public schools and education-related issues • an experienced community leader • an articulate communicator who will be transparent with student families and school staff.

Serving on a school board is challenging. The issues board members face are complex and weighty. School board members give many hours of service to the community and must face tough decisions. Yet, as Chair Hallum said, “It has been life changing.” If you feel strongly about the success of Asheville City Schools and think you are right for the job, please apply before the Feb. 24 deadline. You can visit acsf.org for an application and more information.

— Julie Porter-Shirley Advocacy Program Coordinator Asheville City Schools Foundation Asheville

Julie Mayfield would be an asset on City Council As a resident of Asheville for 18 years and an active member of my community, I’m always excited to see inspiring women leaders step up to their calling in politics and run for office.

It is that time for julie mayfield, and I’m pleased to see her candidacy for Asheville City Council. Julie is an environmental and social justice leader with years of experience in the nonprofit field. Her knowledge of Asheville’s most pressing issues will be an asset to her work as a political leader in the city.

I believe that Julie will represent the interests of all Ashevilleans. Her ability to witness and make space for communities of color, immigrants and LGBTQ communities of Asheville will be aided by her own personal assessment of power and privilege. I fully support Julie’s run for office and hope that you will, too. My call to action as I leave this community for a new job in Louisville, Ky., is to encourage you to vote for Julie in the primary on Oct. 6 and [in] the general election Nov. 3.

Help Julie Mayfield to get elected and support candidates that will stand up for all of Asheville’s interests.

— Sarah Nuñez Asheville

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Looking toward springtime’s warm grass “I’m SUCH a clever Toad!” — Mr. Toad, The Wind In The Willows It’s funny how things often go opposite of what you’d expect (divorce rates in evangelicals, for example), and when I pictured being back in Asheville to start a new job in the middle of winter, I feared for sure that I’d go stir crazy in such a small space. (We travel and live full time in a 35-foot RV.) And gosh, I was looking forward to baseball practices with my home-schooled son under an azure California sky, as we’d done the previous winter when I’d managed to turn him into a solid pitcher out there on that coastal, alwaysperfectly green, baseball-field grass.

In nice weather, living in an RV is easy, as I want to be outside anyway, but winter here? Yikes! Surprisingly, we have fared well and have had some wonderful (often very cold) local hikes. We also spend hours at Malaprop’s and at the library, and downtown music starts early (Free Dead Friday starts at 5 at The One Stop), so we find ourselves satiated

with good times and, surprisingly, all the activity we do has resulted in no winter weight gain ... not an easy task here in Beer City USA. Sure. Baseball on a 70-degree day with warm jasmine-scented Pacific air is fantastic, but gosh we love these old mountains, and it’s really neat to conquer this little weather-challenge-of-sorts.

And besides, February is here and soon comes March ... and if you’ve never seen spring come to these hills after having made it through the cold of winter ... like sweet little Mole, Mr. Toad, and even Ratty in The Wind In The Willows, we will emerge from our holes, so to speak, and, like Mole, drink in the loveliness of it all, and we will find ourselves, like Mole,“rolling in the warm grass again.”

— Bart Rankin Asheville

Zoning laws could ensure buildings complement mountains I recently returned from a visit to Scottsdale, Ariz. All of the houses and businesses there are

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set back 200 feet from the roads.

The exterior of all the buildings match the sand of the desert floor and none of them are more then two stories high. Billboards are nonexistent As a result, when you drive through town, it feels like you’re in the middle of the desert.

Clearly, it would be ridiculous to suggest that we demolish the thousands of buildings that already exist in Asheville, but it would not be out of the question to rewrite our zoning laws to require that all future structures blend in with the flora and geology [of] Western North Carolina.

The mountains are the reason people visit, stay and move to Asheville. Every building that goes up that detracts from their beauty moves us one step closer to aesthetic and economic disaster.

— Steve Rosenthal Asheville

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succeed, thrive and give back to our community in substantial and sustainable ways that benefit all of us immensely.

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso

Find your gift then give it away “For it is in giving that we receive.”

— Francis of Assisi There sometimes seems to be a paradox that lies between the idea of “altruist” and “artist.” This is not to insinuate in any way that artists are self-indulgent — but as a practicing artist, I do often find myself grappling with the fact that there is pure and simple vaingloriousness involved in the subjective creative process.

Artists like myself all began at some point by intuitively pouring out sketches onto scrap paper, perhaps sensing that we’d be better off doing something more productive.

But those doodles became addictive because they made us feel more alive.

The feeling of being vastly different or separated and alienated from others evaporated through the artistic process, and we found ourselves feeling whole, connected and complete.

We discovered a true purpose.

We are all artists in one sense, that our driving life force is to find or create happiness. In the best-case scenarios, we look for this in love, meditation, prayer, our children, friends and family. We seek fulfillment in life and an understanding of it in ways that sometimes leave us in despair. Under certain circumstances, though, the process is a positive one that leads us to real self-actualization and fulfillment.

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“In these troubled times … I wonder how so many can be in so much pain when others don’t seem to feel a thing.” — Musical lyrics of Brett Dennen There was a time, not too many years ago, when I felt really possessive of my paintings. It’s not that I thought they were ever that fabulous. But they were a part of me, and it felt disingenuous to give part of myself away without a certain level of reciprocation.

To a certain extent, that feeling of connectedness with others seemed vital and necessary to validate my art and craft.

Over the last few years, though, I’ve completely changed the way I paint and view my work as it goes out into the world. That shift in perception started with an open door of opportunity right here in Asheville.

Just six months after I moved here in 2011, when I still knew very few people, I was asked if I would donate a piece for the OpenDoors Art Affair fundraising auction. OpenDoors is a not-

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for-profit organization working to eliminate multigenerational poverty here in Asheville, through education and enrichment programs benefiting young people and their families. The proceeds generated from the Art Affair event directly fund year-round initiatives that support inner-city children who are looking to actively break the cycle of poverty.

I was honored to be asked. After all, I was the new kid in town and there were plenty of other artists to choose from, so I looked at it as an opportunity to expose my work to a new audience.

Along the way, I learned that OpenDoors connects communities and resources to bridge gaps for atrisk kids in our community. Thanks to OpenDoors initiatives, those young people receive opportunities they would otherwise not have access to on their own. There are so many inner-city kids right here amid the prosperity of Asheville who desperately need that kind of support as they face difficult challenges. With help, they have a chance to leverage opportunity and

This is my fourth year donating to the OpenDoors Art Affair. But I can honestly say that the first year I donated my work to the Art Affair, I knew I would be dedicated to OpenDoors for the rest of my life. By giving, I receive immeasurable solace and satisfaction, knowing that as an artist I am actually able to assist families or individual children to get a step further in their journey.

Giving my time through art to raise money for these at-risk kids has become my own personal guide to happiness. Being an altruistic artist is now my life mission. I realize I cannot change an entire community on my own. But finding charities that I feel intrinsically connected to and meeting other people who derive pleasure from giving keeps me motivated and inspired as I continue to donate all or portions of my work. The irony of giving — and then receiving twice as much fulfillment in return — is proving itself in truthfulness.

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” — Mother Teresa

what Art Affair 2015, the annual fundraiser for OpenDoors. The event features silent and live auctions of more than 75 items, including handcrafted jewelry, travel experiences and collectible pieces donated by regionally and nationally acclaimed artists.

The live auction will be conducted by Andrew Brunk of Brunk Auctions, “Antiques Road Show” and formerly of Christie’s of NYC. The festivities include performances by an aerial dance troupe, live music, celestial stilt walkers, food and libations.

More info: opendoorsasheville.org whEn 7 p.m., Saturday, March 7 whERE Harmony Motors, 621 Brevard Road, Asheville

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Tales from the trail Walking Appalachia from Georgia to Maine

BY haYLEY BEnton hbenton@mountainx.com

“Starting tomorrow, I live outside,” wrote gary sizer on May 9, 2014, his last night in the comfort of his Asheville home.

The next five months of Sizer's life were spent on the Appalachian Trail, a roughly 2,000-mile trek from Georgia to Maine — a hike he describes as both beautiful and brutal. After walking two months and around 800 miles, in the middle of Virginia, Sizer developed nerve damage in his feet.

“Just agony in every step,” he says.

“Even just standing was like somebody stabbing me in the foot. But my thought at the time wasn’t, ‘Oh, I should quit.’ It was, ‘Oh, I should rest a few days so I can keep doing this.’”

Since its initial construction in 1937, 15,524 people are said to have completed the through-hike of the A.T. — “2,000-milers,” they’re called.

Inspiration behind embarking on such a physically and mentally challenging journey varies from person to person, but deep down it satiates core human needs for renewal and a reconnection with nature.

Sizer has never been a quitter, and he certainly wasn't green to spending long days and nights outdoors. The first time he heard about the trail was in the early 1990s while serving in the Marine Corps in Washington D.C. “My immediate reaction was, ‘Wow has anybody ever done the whole thing? Because … I’m going to do it,’” he recalls. “It became one of those dreams.”

Some 20 years later, Sizer and his wife, Katie Farrar, were cramming the last of his gear into their car with Georgia on their minds.

“We did the first mile together,” Farrar says. “It was raining and pouring. It was kind of weird knowing that, ‘OK, that’s it.’”

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The couple said their goodbyes in the rain, then she turned around to walk back to the car, driving home to Asheville alone. For the next two months, while Sizer made his way north, Farrar visited him nearly every other weekend. But once he reached mid-Virginia, it would be just phone calls and photos from then on. taKing on thE chaLLEngE Over the course of 700 miles, Sizer — now under the trail name Green Giant — had been hiking with Lemmy, a 23-year-old former soldier in the Israeli army who dreamed of being a cartoonist. The two became close, and Lemmy became part of Sizer’s trail family.

But as pain from nerve damage worsened, Sizer told Lemmy, “‘Hey, I don’t think I can keep up with you; go on without me.’” As Lemmy went ahead, Sizer realized this was his first time alone on the trail — “no friends, out in the middle of nowhere, in pain, suffering. That was one of my lowest moments.”

The next day, he walked to a road and hitchhiked to the nearest town.

“I didn’t think I was going quit,” Sizer emphasizes. “I thought I was going to be unable to finish — big dif-

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a Long waLK: Gary Sizer, Asheville resident, hiked from Georgia to Maine in 2014. The Appalachian Trail took him 153 days to complete. All photos courtesy of Gary Sizer

ference. When you quit, you’re like, ‘I’m done with this; this is stupid.’

But I was like, ‘Wow, you know, my body is not going to let me do this.’”

And after so many years carrying the trail as his dream, being unable to finish was a depressing thought.

“I’m in town, I’m soaking my feet, I’m crying into my beer,” Sizer recalls, when he gets a call from his wife, who was relatively nearby visiting family.

“Every time I hit a low point, it was a phone call with her that brought me back.” After listening to his woes, Farrar told him it was OK if he wanted to quit. Sizer says he doesn’t “know if she was using reverse psychology on me or what, but once I heard those words, I got over that barrier. She knows the inside of my head better than I do sometimes.”

After Sizer visited a doctor and rested his feet for what hikers call a “zero” — a day of no forward

progress — Farrar picked him up and drove him to meet up with his trail family, a two-hour drive from where he had stopped. But it wasn’t long, another 400 miles, before Sizer ran into his next obstacle: Lyme disease.

At first, he didn't realize what it was — fatigue, aches and pains, flulike symptoms and a severe lack of motivation.

“At the time, I was averaging 20-something miles a day,” he explains. “And as I got sick, it started dropping — 15, 10, 5, and then [sitting] and not [doing] anything all day.”

Once again, Sizer knew he was slowing down his trail family and told them to hike on without him.

He’d get over his cold and catch back up, he thought. But as his sickness worsened, he realized he was falling farther and farther behind.

“One night, I’m sitting in a shelter in Pennsylvania all by myself — there was no one else there, which is kind of rare on the A.T.,” he continues. “It was starting to get dark out, and I saw a headlamp coming up the trail. This guy came up and introduced himself as a local. He wasn’t a thru-hiker, but he lived near the trail. And he told me, as a hobby, he hikes onto the trail whenever he can with a backpack of candy bars and

tRaiL FamiLY: Lemmy, Sizer (Green Giant), Voldemort and Droid.

“Anybody who has ever hiked the trail will tell you this,” Sizer says. “It’s about the people. And even though I knew that going in, I was still mindblown by the people.

Just some incredible people who — god, I want to see again! I miss Two-Pack and Ninja Mike, and I miss Lemmy and I miss Voldemort — more than I miss Mount Moosilauke. Those places are always going to be there, and I can always go back.

But those people — that’s what’s really special about it.”

sodas — they call it trail magic. He says, ‘I’m just out looking for hikers to give stuff to. What’s your favorite candy bar?’”

The two men sat down by the shelter, and while Sizer snacked on Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, they began to chat. “He gave me his phone number and said, ‘If you ever need anything while you’re in Pennsylvania, give me a call.”

After another few days struggling with symptoms of Lyme disease, Sizer seized that opportunity for help.

“He met me on the trail, took me to his house and ... said, ‘You stay here as long as you need to to recover.’ At the time, I still didn’t know what was up; I just thought I was ill, but on the third day he took me to the doctor in town, and I got diagnosed. I was actually happy, because I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s something we can treat! I’ll be back on the trail.’”

That kind of hospitality, Sizer says, “really restored my faith in humanity. There’s just really good people out there, and it just seems like the A.T. — the whole length — is just a magnet for goodness.” thE tRaiL is caLLing But why does the A.T. call to so many — thousands every year — from

every corner of the country, even around the world? windy gordon, psychology professor at Western Carolina University, specializes in the cognitive benefits of nature. “When you read the tales of people who take on long-distance anything — kayaking, cycling, hiking — I think that the explanations are as various as the people that take them on: ‘I need a change,’ ‘I was ready for a challenge,’ ‘I need to restructure my entire value system,’” he explains. “I think the opportunity for those challenges reaches out to lots of people — and lots of different people.”

Sizer’s reasoning was simple: He loves the outdoors.

“People are always talking about, ‘Well, why did you do it?’” he says.

“Like saying, ‘I need to find myself or whatever.’ I just love hiking. I love being outside. Whether it’s been four days or four weeks, I just want one more day. Just give me one more day out there.”

And even after 153 days spent in the wild, May 10 to Oct. 9, it still wasn't enough. “I think I have a problem,” Sizer says, laughing.

“So I wasn’t trying to solve any problems in my life or find myself; I just wanted to be outside for as long as possible.”

Though Sizer's “one more day” mentality isn't always the case.

Many find themselves drawn to the trail as a way to rearrange certain aspects of their being — hoping the A.T. will be a cure-all for finding a new perspective on life. henry wasserman is one of those people. The 58-year-old self-described “conservative Republican Biblethumping NRA member” living in Pompano Beach, Fla., has never been backpacking before in his life. He is planning to begin his northbound hike in mid-March or early April.

While hiking a portion of the trail in Georgia several years back, he ran into a woman in her late 60s and asked her if she needed a ride into town.

“No, I’m going to Maine,” she replied politely.

“That was when I first went, ‘I need to look into this,’” he says.

Monitoring market trends for 34 years as a financial adviser, Wasserman wants out. Married four times, divorced four times and 19 years clean of a 30-year drug addiction, he's been through his fair share of hardships, hoping to start everything over when he reaches Maine. To him, the trail is an opportunity to reflect over his life experiences and make changes — even if he hasn't pinpointed what those changes are quite yet.

“Anytime I’m in the woods, I’m at peace,” he explains. “There’s just something about being in the woods — being surrounded by trees and nature. I’m looking forward to that connection.”

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“Immersing yourself in natural environments can have immediate, very real, cognitive and affective benefits,” says Gordon. While most people think it has some sort of back-to-roots, human-nature origins, it’s more than that, he says.

“Think about how aware you are of just the natural variations in weather,” Gordon explains. For most of us, that awareness is minimal, but on the A.T., “you become intimately reaware of the actual fluctuations of light and temperature [throughout the day, weeks, months]. That awareness is an alternative to the overwhelming cacophony of media and phone calls and other distractions.

“And as you become more aware of the natural conditions around you,” he continues, “I think it relieves that distracting, fatiguing, stressful onslaught

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that we all experience every day. I think that would be therapeutic even if you weren’t in a bad place — to reimmerse yourself in feeling the natural movement of the day.”

Research on this topic has to do with attention, Gordon says. “If I ask you to engage in a task that demands lots of your attention — attention [turns to] fatigue. ... Even a very brief exposure to a natural environment [allows] you to feel recovered and refreshed.”

Nature’s ability to rejuvenate and relieve stress holds roots in key components of effective cognition, Gordon explains. It must be “an alternative from your daily existence, a place you intend to be. It must fill your awareness, and it must be fascinating.” These elements are “almost invariably present in natural environment, … perhaps making you more able to attend to your own feelings, your own values, your own beliefs.”

Wasserman, for example, realizes he will face many challenges over the next several months, admitting he’s 40 pounds overweight and “about as green as green can be to this.” But quitting his job, selling his home and hiking the A.T. is “kind of a life-transition choice,” he says. “[It] is going to be the happiest day of my life — scariest, but happiest.”

Transformation might not be as easy or as instant as he expects, Gordon cautions. “You don’t leave your crazy, corporate world and suddenly have a Disneylike life with music in the background. The first week or two on the trail, especially for people who aren’t experienced, is pretty brutal.”

And yet, “clearly he has some reason to believe there’s something out there on the trail that’s worth it — even if the worth is in what isn’t there,” Gordon says. “Sometimes the wilderness may be appealing because of what it isn’t. So when I immerse

myself in this world where the things that are stressful aren’t present, only later do I begin to benefit from the things that are present.” aLL aBout thE pEopLE Wasserman describes most of the people he’s connected with in preparation for the trail as “old hippies wanting to get back to nature. And I’m on the other side of that. It just seems more of a Grateful Dead thing than an Alan Jackson kind of thing.”

Sizer, however, remarks that during his five months in the woods, he saw all kinds of people — in other words, it’s not just “a Grateful Dead kind of thing.”

Thru-hikers are “the most fascinating group of intensely motivated weirdos you could ever hope to meet,” Sizer explains, laughing. “One of the groups I hiked with was a father-andson team: dad was 65, son was in his 30s. I met women in their 60s, women in their 20s, children, teenagers, kids of every age. There was a mom out there who had three kids with her doing a 400-mile section-hike, and the youngest [with her] was 3.

“You've got drunks and drug users and Bible bangers and kids just out of college," he continues. “It’s like a festival. ... So the mix of people you have to start with is just amazing, just so diverse. And everyone has something in common — they love the outdoors, and they’re all extremely motivated and focused.”

But hiking the A.T. wasn’t always such a social affair. morgan sommerville, director of the Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee Regional Office of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, finished most of the trail back in 1977 with a few friends.

He began his hike on March 15, which was “shockingly early for 1977,”

went up by 60 percent.” And with a new movie on the way based on the book, starring Kristen Schaal, Nick Offerman and Robert Redford, the ATC is worried that increased numbers will cause mass overcrowding at the 250 or so campsites and shelters built along the trail.

“We want to welcome new people to the A.T.,” he says, “We hope they’ll love it as much as we do, but we also want to keep the A.T. a wonderful, natural place. So there’s got to be some sort of sweet spot there that we haven’t figured out yet.”

With 2,189.2 miles of trail, it’s not that there isn’t room. The challenge is mainly that “the bubble,” or the mass of hikers starting around the same time and place, needs to space out.

“If all [2,500 of them] start in Georgia in the springtime, that’ll cause a problem. If we can somehow persuade them to spread that start date or location out, then there’s no issue.

There’s plenty of capacity on the trail to handle that,” says Sommerville.

And what would happen if 2,500 or more hikers started at Springer Mountain about the same time?

“There’s limited camping available,” he replies. “There’s places that are good for campsites and places that aren’t. If you look at the existing good places there are to camp, we know how many people they will accommodate. If more than 50 people start on any given day, the campsites are likely going to be over capacity, and that will result in crowding, damaged vegetation, possible unsanitary conditions.”

This problem is especially prominent in the South, because although an estimated 2,500 hikers attempted the northbound trail last year, only 1,267 showed up at the halfway mark in Harper’s Ferry, W.Va. Past that, just 644 checked in at Mount Katahdin, the final summit.

he explains. “Most people started around April 15, so I was at the head of the bunch. I don’t think I saw anybody else on the trail, other than the group I was hiking with, until I got to Shenandoah National Park.

“And that wouldn’t happen today,” Sommerville continues. “I don’t like to think of it as a party,” but the modern-day A.T. experience “is certainly social.” a popuLaRitY pRoBLEm And increasing traffic could mean trouble for the trail.

In 1977, the A.T. was much steeper — and a bit shorter, as, for decades, volunteers with the ATC have worked to redirect the path, both reducing trail steepness and connecting the dots between wellknown scenic sites. With occasional sweeping views of valleys below, the relocated sections help hikers avoid a monotonous five to six months in “the green tunnel,” the parts of trail where up, down, left, right — every direction is shades of green. And whereas hikers in the past struggled up sections with a steep and strenuous 40 percent grade, the A.T. of today averages around 9 percent.

Working with the ATC or local A.T. clubs, more than 6,000 volunteers look after the trail on a day-to-day basis — taking care of small projects like protecting the path from erosion, tending to the wooden shelters and cutting back vegetation, as well as larger needs like trail construction, redirection and water management.

Nowadays, both hikers and the ATC are beginning to see a huge problem with overcrowding. “After A Walk in the Woods [by Bill Bryson] was published, people attempting the thru-hike

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Part of that, he says, is because “you’re always moving in one direction. And when you think of yourself as being stationary and the trail moving under you, it moves in the same way time does. The unknown stretches out before you, it arrives, and now it’s behind you.” aFtEREFFEcts

it’s in mY hEad: To read more about Sizer’s adventure, check out his blog, wherethenextshelter.com, which he updated regularly on the trail with anecdotes, observations and photos. He is also nearly finished with a novel by the same name about his experience last year. Sizer hopes to have Where’s the Next Shelter published by summer.

coming homE “I had really mixed feelings crossing the line into Maine,” Sizer says. “On one hand, there’s this sense of achievement. I took a selfie and posted it on Facebook — you know, like, ‘Walked to Maine!

Mind blown!’” Sizer laughs.

“But at the same time, there’s this kind of gentle, nagging sadness,” he continues. “You know, the most fun thing I’ve ever done is almost over.”

And although the trip begins wrapping up, the southern part of Maine is “the most physically challenging part of the trail — the steepest mountains, the deepest mud, the slipperiest roots, the sharpest rocks,” Sizer says. In midSeptember, temperatures start to cool, and hikers expect that.

But that year, there was “a particularly severe, unexpected cold snap … and a lot of us didn’t have our proper cold-weather camping gear yet. We were expecting to pick it up in the next town, or whatever. We’re getting physically beat down every day, mentally beat down because the terrain was reducing our mileage from the high 20s to single digits.

“So think about this,” he suggests. “You’ve just spent the entire summer waking up every day and either meeting or surpassing every goal you’ve set for yourself. You’re riding on a natural high, and you just feel unstoppable — every day, just nailing it. And then you get to

southern Maine and … you start to feel like a failure. It starts messing with your head.”

Sizer remembers a fellow hiker saying, “Well, I told my friends I was going to walk from Georgia to Maine. Technically, I’m in Maine. I guess I can quit here, and that’s still a win, right guys? Back me up on this!” And some hikers, his friends, did quit, he remembers.

“You’re in the most beautiful place you’ve ever been, but you’re miserable ... and you just start falling apart. Crossing that state line?

Not quite as happy as crossing into North Carolina.”

And then, just as suddenly as it began, the adventure is over.

No more ice cream parties with Bill ackerly, a man living 25 yards from the trail who churns ice cream and lets hikers camp in his yard.

No more white blazes; no more blue blazes. No more green tunnel.

No more trail family — Lemmy, Voldemort, Ninja Mike, Two-Pack.

The weird thing is, Sizer says, the trail “starts to mess with your concept of time. You stop caring what day it is, because it doesn’t matter. … Distance starts to replace time. If you ask any thru-hiker when something happened, invariably they will tell you where it happened and not when. ‘Whens the last time you saw Lemmy?’ ‘Pennsylvania.’ ‘When did you see that bear caught in a bear trap?’ ‘New Jersey.’ ‘How long has it been since you’ve showered?’

‘Uh, Rangeley.’"

Coming back into society, things aren’t quite the same.

“A lot of people who read about the trail don’t take into consideration that it’s very jarring going from your normal, everyday life to living in the wilderness — but you get used to it,” Sizer explains. “So used to it, in fact, that when you come back to your life of cars and electricity — it’s a little bit weird. It’s a little off-putting.”

Getting back home, even a visit to the grocery store “assaulted [his senses] — bright lights, colors that aren’t green, so many people making noise. It’s a little stressful.”

While on the trail, Sizer explains, brief visits to civilization are strange but good. “You get to wash, grab a beer, eat a burger, but then you get back into the woods and you’re like, ‘Oh good; I’m home again.’ You start to feel like that’s where you belong.

Coming home is the strangest feeling, he says. “Somebody asks me the last time I got my haircut, and I say, ‘Uh, Asheville.’ Oh wait, I’m still in Asheville. You start to wonder, ‘How long ago was that?’”

Post-trail depression can set in as hikers leave the freedom of the wilderness to return to their structured roles in society.

“The wilderness? It doesn’t cost much,” Gordon explains. “When you re-enter the world, one of the first things you have to do is worry about putting gas in your car or paying your cellphone bill — whatever.” Such things “are just immediate stressors.”

And even the number of choices we have in modern society can cause stress for returning thru-hikers, he

continues. “Food [on the trail] is basic; it’s simple — it’s just about the calories. Once you get back here it’s like, ‘Well, are we going to eat Ethiopian or Italian or American?’

And we add all these other levels of decision-making — it just must add some psychological challenge ... upon trying to reintegrate.”

The best treatment, both Sizer and Gordon recommend, is to get back outside — even if just for a moment.

Feel the breeze. Take a hike. Lie in the grass. Watch the sun set.

“All I’ve done for the last three months is think about the trail,” Sizer continues.

“It’s in me. It’s in my head. I can’t get away from it. It’s something that I carried around as a goal for so many years. And having done it and being able to look at the scale of what I did on a map really gives me a sense of empowerment. I really feel like anything from this point on that I decide to do, I can do. I now have an example I can look back on and say, ‘Goddamn, you can really do some amazing things, can’t you?’” X

gEt inVoLVEd: To find out more about volunteering with the ATC, go to avl.mx/0p8. whERE’s thE nExt shELtER? For more of Sizer’s adventure, visit his blog, wheresthenextshelter.com, and look for his book of the same name this summer.

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Buzz around Buncombe Last week, in between the mostretweeted dispatches (about beer and snow, respectively), we received the news that Asheville activist and community hero minnie jones had passed away. “Here’s how I remember Minnie Jones: Laughing, proud of the

joY and LaughtER: Minnie Jones, left, passed away last week.

The longtime community activist always stood up for Asheville’s most disadvantaged, from the poor to those with AIDS. She helped found WNCHS and the Minnie Jones Health Center — among many accomplishments.

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Minnie Jones Health Center and joyful,” tweeted caitlin Byrd, an Asheville Citizen-Times reporter.

As a health-and-wellness reporter for Xpress, Byrd had photographed Jones in Aug. 2012, when then-Sen. Kay Hagan toured the health center that had been named for the longtime Asheville activist.

Jones helped create that health facility. The Ashevillean had grown up on a South Carolina farm and marched in the famous Alabama protest that’s featured in the Oscar-contender film Selma. In the

1990s, Jones joined forces with fellow activists carlos gomez and Dr. polly Ross to form what is now the Western North Carolina Community Health Services.

Initially named the Kenilworth Wellness Center, it was a day health center for residents with AIDS. A few years later, at Pisgah View Apartments, Jones helped create the Minnie Jones Family Health Center.

Over the years, she became a regular at local government meetings, urging politicians to help the poor, fight racism in all its forms and make Asheville and Buncombe County better communities. “I support anything that pertains to all people, including the poor,” said Jones in a 2014 interview for the Citizen-Times.

She also won many awards and was honored again and again for her passion and work — the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, Buncombe County Democratic Woman of the Year, One Youth At A Time Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award and the NAACP’s Sophie Dixon and Grace Dorn Leadership Award.

She’ll be missed, but her legacy in the community will live on.

In other news captured in 140 characters on Twitter, the folks at Sierra Nevada shared a photo of an overflowing vat, tweeting that “Even the new open fermenters in Mills River can’t contain #Bigfoot.”

That last hashtagged item is the name of the brewer’s “cult-classic beast of a barleywine … Bigfoot.”

Sierra Nevada says this intense brew can be aged like fine wine (for more, go to sierranevada.com).

Meanwhile, weather continued to buzz around Twitter (indeed, snow’s falling in Asheville at press time), from joyful tweets about the snow in Boone to dispatches from @UNCAweather, handled

by UNC Asheville’s local chapter of the American Meteorological Society: “Lenticular Clouds spotted in Weaverville over the Craggies at sunset” (we had to look this one up — “lenticular” clouds are stationary and lens-shaped; find @ UNCAweather’s photo at avl.mx/ prqm, and tell us what YOU think they look like). X

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Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • FR (2/20), 7pm - Black Mountain Library Knitters, for all experience levels. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain cOmmunity diAlOGues On rAce 419-0730, robertamadden@yahoo.com • SU (2/22), 2pm - A fourweek series using films, group exercises and dialogue to discuss race relations. Registration required.

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• WEDNESDAYS through (4/15), 10am-4pm - Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • THURSDAYS through (4/15), 10am-4pm - Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • MONDAYS through (4/15), 10am-4pm - Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TUESDAYS through (4/15), 9am-4pm - Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • TUESDAYS through (4/15), 10am-4pm - Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain d&d Adventurers leAGue revtobiaz@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 5:30pm Ongoing fantasy roleplaying

campaign for both new and veteran players. Free.

Held at The Wyvern’s Tale, 347 Merrimon Ave. • SATURDAYS, 12-4pm & 5-9pm - Episodic fantasy roleplaying adventures with persistent characters. Meets every other week. Free.

Held at The Wyvern’s Tale, 347 Merrimon Ave. dAvidsOn’s fOrt histOric pArk Lackey Town Road, Old Fort, 668-4831, davidsonsfort.com • SA (2/21), 10am-4pm Winter Muster, colonial re-enactment. $2.

G&W investment cluB klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Black Forest Restaurant, 2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden hendersOnville Wise WOmen 693-1523 • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 1:30pm - A safe, supportive group for women “of a certain age.”

Free. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville ikenOBO ikeBAnA sOciety 696-4103, blueridgeikebana.com • TH (2/19), 10am - Monthly meeting: relief design. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville mOuntAin peGGers 367-7794 • MONDAYS, 6-8pm - Noncompetitive cribbage group for all levels and ages. Free.

Held at Atlanta Bread Company, 633 Merrimon Ave. OntrAck Wnc 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required.

• TH (2/19), 5:30pm “Dreaming of Debt Free Living.” Free.

• FR (2/20), noon “Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it.” Free.

• SATURDAYS until (2/28), 9am - “Manage Your Money” series. Free.

• WE (2/25), noon “Dreaming of Debt Free Living.” Free.

• WE (2/25), 5:30pm “Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it.” Free.

• TH (2/26), noon - “What to do With Your Tax Refund,” seminar. Free.

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Held at Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Center Blvd. uncA vOluntAry incOme tAx AssistAnce unca.edu • SATURDAYS until (4/9), 10:30am-3pm - Income tax preparation for incomes under $53K. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

An elegant affair what: Asheville Lyric Opera Winter Gala whEn: Saturday, Feb. 21, 6 p.m. whERE: Double Tree by Hilton, 115 Hendersonville Road, Asheville whY: The Asheville Lyric Opera is taking this year’s benefit fundraiser to new heights, increasing the elegance and opulence of the event by moving location to the Double Tree Hotel. And since fine art, food and wine are so often a part of the performance the opera company puts on, it is fitting that the event will provide all that and more.

“We are always making an artistic statement with everything we do,” says ALO founder and general director david starkey. “The chefs and craftspeople at the event will introduce and describe what they are making. This increases the experience for everyone.”

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DoubleTree catering, Karen Donatelli, Vincenzos, Posana, Twisted Laurel and Sante Wine Bar to the selections from the company’s 2015 repertoire — performances throughout the evening include “One Hand, One Heart” from West Side Story, “Caro Nome” from Rigoletto and “La Calunnia” from The Barber of Seville.

As Starkey notes, “Opera these days is really song theater; it’s a cultural event and represents classical pop culture. This is a great way to learn about and be exposed to the cultural entertainment available in our city.”

A silent auction during the gala will offer up rare classical opera memorabilia, tickets to the PGA World Tour, a private 12-person wine tasting and a private concert by longtime ALO favorite Rachel Hansbury.

Tickets to the winter gala are $100.

Proceeds benefit ALO’s educational programming and will help expose opera to people otherwise unlikely to attend. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 236-0670 or visit ashevillelyric.org/tickets.

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veterAns fOr peAce 582-5180, vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot.com • TUESDAYS, 4:30pm - Weekly vigil. Held at the Vance Monument in Pack Square. Free.

Western cArOliniAns fOr peAce And Justice in the middle eAst mepeacewnc.com • SA (2/21), 10am-noon Military detention workshop.

Registration required. Free.

Held at St. Matthias Church, 1 Dundee St. Western nc humAnists 550-7935 • 2nd & 4th SUNDAYS, 11am - Brunch meeting. Free to attend. Held at Denny’s, 1 Regent Park Blvd.

Wnc cArvers 665-8273, wnccarvers.webs.com • SU (2/22), 1:30-4pm - Moravian Stars presentation and activity.

Free. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road Wnc physiciAns fOr sOciAl respOnsiBility wncpsr.org, info@wncpsr.org • FR (2/20), noon-2pm Monthly meeting. Contact for location. Held at Charles George V.A. Medical Center, 1100 Tunnel Road ymi culturAl center 39 South Market St., 252-4614, ymicc.org • TH (2/26), 6-8:30pm - Town Hall Forum: “Communities of Color: Exclusionary Housing, the Unbanked and Underbanked.” Free.

dAnce cOmmunity chOreOGrAphy prOJects presents (pd.) “Creating Your Legacy Through Movement, Story and Performance,” an 8-week movement theater workshop.

Begins Monday, March 23. All experience levels welcome.

Workshop meets at Jubilee!, 46 Wall St., Asheville, 6:15-8:15pm. To register: communitychoreography.com studiO zAhiyA, dOWntOWn dAnce clAsses (pd.) Monday 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Fusion Bellydance 7:30pm Bellydance• Tuesday 7:45am Yoga 9am Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 •Wednesday 7:30pm Bellydance• Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 4pm Kid’s Dance 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm West African 8pm West African 2 • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wrkt 10:30am Bellydance • $13 for 60 minute classes, Hip Hop Wkrt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595 BAiley mOuntAin clOGGers 689-1113, baileymountaincloggers.yolasite.com • SA (2/21), 8am - Cadence clogging competition. $10.

Held at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, 87 Haywood St.

ecO Asheville Green drinks ashevillegreendrinks.com • WE (2/18), 6pm “Connecting Our Lives with Our Landscape” discussion with Sunil Patel from Patchwork Urban Farms.

Free to attend. Held at Green Sage Cafe Downtown, 5 Broadway cArOlinA mOuntAin lAnd cOnservAncy 697-5777, carolinamountain.org • TH (2/26), 6pm - Discussion of CMLC’s involvement in the Headwater State Forest project. Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard Green GrAnnies avl.mx/0gm • SA (2/21), 4pm - “Sing for

the Climate” gathering. Free.

Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square lenOir-rhyne university Asheville 36 Montford Ave. • WE (2/25), 5:30pm - A night of stories from former Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunArm & GArde teers. Free.

BuncOmBe cOunty mAster GArdeners 255-5522, buncombemastergardener.org • TH (2/19), 10-11am Gardening in the Mountains workshop series discusses tomatoes. Free. Held at Buncombe County Cooperative Extension Office, 94 Coxe Ave. mAdisOn cOunty seed sWAp 622-9525 • SA (2/21), 1pm - Seed sharing and potluck. Free to attend. Held at Azule, 190 Rabbit Den Road, Hot Springs sOW true seed 254-0708, sowtrueseed.com • TH (2/19), 4-6pm - Seed growing info session. Held at Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Station, 74 Research Drive, Mills River

fOOd & Beer Asheville veGAn sOciety meetup.com/The-AshevilleVegan-Society • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm Meet-up to share a meal and discuss vegan issues. Free to attend. Held at Whole Foods Market, 4 S. Tunnel Road leicester cOmmunity center 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000 • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am1pm - The Leicester Welcome Table offers a hot meal and fellowship. Open to all. Free.

kids GROWING GODDESS • JUNE 22-26 • JULY 6-10 (pd.) A nature-based Rites of Passage Camp (ages 11-14) celebrating the sacred time when a girl is becoming a woman.

Through nature connection, supportive sisterhood, ritual, play and mentorship our true gifts emerge. Info: www.earthpatheducation.com

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• SA (2/21), 10:30am Crafty Historian: Chinese New Year. Reservations required. $5-$10. Held at Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Rd. kids’ Activities At the liBrAries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (2/18), 10:30am Meet the Tooth Fairy storytime. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Rd. • TH (2/19), 3:30pm Makers and Shakers Club: Crafty Bookmarks. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • FR (2/20), 4-5:50pm Teen Awesome Group: “Cupcake Wars,” 6th grade and up. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • MO (2/9), 4pm - LEGO club for ages 6 and up.

Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville pAri sciGirls 862-5554, pari.edu • TU (2/24), 6-8pm - “The Buzz About Bees,” for girls ages 9-14. $10. Held at Transylvania County Extension Office, 98 East Morgan St., Brevard rOllinG fOr reAdinG 776-0361, bookmobile@ bcsemail.org A mobile early literacy program from Buncombe County Public Schools for children ages 3-5 and their parents. Free.

MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS: • 10-10:45am - Held at Haw Creek Elementary, 21 Trinity Chapel Road • 11:15am-noon - Held at W.D. Williams Elementary, 161 Bee Tree Road, Swannanoa • 1:45-2:30pm - Held at Shiloh Community Center, 121 Shiloh Road WEDNESDAYS: • 12:45-1:30pm - Held at Fairview Elementary, 1355 Charlotte Highway, Fairview TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS: • 9-9:45am - Held at Leicester Elementary, 31 Gilbert Road, Leicester • 10:30-11:15am - Held

at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • noon-12:45pm - Held at Johnston Elementary, 230 Johnston Blvd.

•1:15-2pm - Held at Emma Elementary, 37 Brickyard Road spellBOund children’s BOOkshOp 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 7087570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11-11:30am - Story Time for ages 3-7.

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• SU (2/22), 4-5pm - First in Series book club. tiny tOts circus plAytime toyboatcommunityartspace.com • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 10am-noon Circus-themed mini class, for babies and children up to age 6. $5 per child per class. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B WhAt’s shAkin ashevilletheatre.org • SATURDAYS through (3/28), 10am - Singing and dancing class for 6 months to 4 years. $12 per child per class. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. Wnc nAture center 75 Gashes Creek Rd., 2985600, wildwnc.org • WEDNESDAYS through (3/11), 10am-noon “Critter Time For Tikes & Tots,” learning about animals for ages 3-5. $12.

Meets every other week.

OutdOOrs Blue ridGe Bicycle cluB blueridgebicycleclub.org • TH (2/19), 6-9pm Bicycling symposium.

Free. Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 West Campus Drive, Flat Rock sOuthern AppAlAchiAn hiGhlAnds cOnservAncy 253-0095, appalachian.org • SA (2/21), 10am4pm - “Leave No Trace” awareness workshop.

Registration required.

Free. Parking fees apply.

Held at N.C. Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way

puBlic lectures mOuntAin GAteWAy museum And heritAGe center Water St., Old Fort • SA (2/21), noon “Spaniards in Appalachia.”

Free. puBlic lectures At BrevArd cOlleGe 884-8251, raintrlh@brevard.edu • WE (2/18), 3:30-5pm Great Decisions Lecture Series: “Privacy in the Digital Age.” Held in McLarty-Goodson Bldg. $10.

• WE (2/25), 3:30-5pm Great Decisions Lecture Series: “Russia and the Near Abroad.” Held in McLarty-Goodson Bldg. $10. puBlic lectures At uncA unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (2/19), 7pm “Genealogy, Genetics and African-American History,” with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Lipinsky Auditorium.

• FR (2/20), 11;25am “Africa in the Modern World.” Lipinsky Auditorium.

• FR (2/20), 9:30am “History of Slavery in Asheville.” Reuter Center.

• FR (2/20), 11:25am - “Poverty & Plenty.”

Humanities Lecture Hall.

• FR (2/20), 11:30am “The New Renaissance in Florence, Italy.” Reuter Center.

• FR (2/20), 3pm - “History and its Burdens: The Place of African Americans in our Collective Historical Memory,” with Dr. Darin Waters.

• FR (2/20), 4pm - “The Phenomenological Case Against Health.” Karpen Hall’s Laurel Forum.

• MO (2/23), 11:25am “Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Europe.”

Humanities Lecture Hall.

• MO (2/23), 7pm “Perspectives from a NASA Scientist,” atmospheric sciences. Highsmith Union.

• MO (2/23), 7pm - “From Selma to Stonewall.”

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• TU (2/24), 7:30pm - World Affairs Council: “Russia and the Near Abroad.” Reuter Center. $10/free WAC members and UNCA students.

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spirituAlity ABOut the trAnscendentAl meditAtiOn techniQue: free intrOductOry lecture (pd.) Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation.

Learn about the authentic TM technique. It’s not concentrating, trying to be mindful, or common mantra practice. It’s an effortless, non-religious, evidencebased technique for heightened well-being and a spiritually fulfilled life. The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association. • Topics: How the major forms of meditation differ—in practice and results; What science says about TM, stress, anxiety and depression; Meditation and brain research; What is Enlightenment? • Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville tm center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or meditationAsheville.org Asheville cOmpAssiOnAte cOmmunicAtiOn center (pd.) Free practice group.

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tion (nonviolent communication). 252-0538 or www. ashevilleccc.com • 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:00pm.

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Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30.

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Free. Held at Dhamma and Meditation Center, 38 Joel Wright Drive, South Park Plaza, Hendersonville first cOnGreGAtiOnAl ucc Of hendersOnville 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 692-8630, fccendersonville.com • WEDNESDAYS (2/18) until (4/1), 3:30-5pm Discussion of Martin Borg’s Convictions: Manifesto for Progressive Christians. Free.

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I don't know much about “truth” or even truths, but I do know that we people of faith are alike in acknowledging how hard it is to live the way we aspire to live, to become the people we want to be. Why is it so hard to be good? What practices can help guide us toward more conscious and compassionate living? These are questions we all ask; we do well to ask them together.

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• TH (2/19), 2:30pm Skyland Book Club: Local Souls by Allan Gurganus.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road.

• TH (2/26), 2:30pm - Brian Lawrence discussed his book Firefighting in Buncombe County. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road.

• TH (2/26), 6pm Swannanoa Book Club: Flora by Gail Godwin.

Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa literAry events At uncA unca.edu • SU (2/22), 3pm - Ronald Mannheimer reads from Mirrors of the Mind. In the Reuter Center.

mAlAprOp’s BOOkstOre And cAfe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (2/19), 7pm - Darlene O’Dell discusses her book The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven.

• FR (2/20), 7pm - Jonathan Odell discusses his book Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League.

• S (2/21), 4pm - Marcie Ferris discusses her book The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region.

• SU (2/22), 3pm - Lori Horvitz discusses her book The Girls of Usually.

• TU (2/24), 7pm - Debby Maugans and Christine SykesLowe discuss their book Farmer & Chef Asheville.

• 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Salon series: Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature.

• TH (2/26), 7pm - Evan Williams discusses his work One Apple at at Time.

• TH (2/26), 7pm - Works in Translation Book Club: Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli.

mArs hill university 265 Cascade St., Mars Hill, 689-1571 • TH (2/26), 7pm - Poetry slam. Spainhour Hall. Free. synerGy stOry slAm avl.mx/0gd, tlester33@gmail.com • WE (2/18), 7:30pm Open mic story telling night on the theme, “Bad Love.” Free.

Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road.

WednesdAy Writer’s niGht 252-1500 • WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm Open meeting for songwriters, poets, and word lovers hosted by songwriter Jenna Lindbo. Free to attend. Held at Laurey’s, 67 Biltmore Ave

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Peace Corps / AmeriCorps Story Hour February 25 @ 5:30 p.m.

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Stone medicine: healing power from the earth stoRY and photo

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“Stones are truly as fundamental as it gets,” says sarah thomas, owner of Clarity Acupuncture and Clarity Stone Medicine, who has been studying Chinese medicine and the applications of stones in healing for the past eight years.

“Indigenous cultures of the past such as the Taoists and Native Americans realized that everything in nature had a purpose and could be used in healing,” Thomas says.

“It was this fundamental connection with nature that led them to explore the ways stones could be incorporated into their lives, from healing to tools.

“Stones are the oldest living things under the surface. They are literally the roots of the plants, ” Thomas notes. The positioning of stones deep under the surface and close to the core is a tipoff on how stone medicine works for humans, she points out. “Their medicine is to treat what is under the surface in us ... all the subconscious and unconscious patterns living out through our lifetime,” she explains.

“Stones are the grandmothers of herbal medicine; it’s time we started really experimenting with the deepest offering the earth has given us,” she says.

“I’ve worked with many clients who have had unbelievable experiences when they started working with stones,” says Thomas as she mentions a video series she is working on called “Stone Corps” (named after Story Corps), where she interviews clients about how certain stones have impacted their lives.

Since ancient times stones have been used in correspondence with certain meridians and points in the body, Thomas explains. “There are stories of people running away into the woods to see a medicine man or woman and return home with powdered crystals for ingestion, stone elixirs and mineral powder poultices.”

In fact, the very first acupuncture needles were made from stones, Thomas

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EaRth powER: “Stones are the grandmothers of herbal medicine; it’s time we started really experimenting with the deepest offering the earth has given us,” says Sarah Thomas, owner of Clarity Accupuncture/Stone Medicine.

says. “They were originally made from flint, opal or obsidian before stainless steel factories came into production.”

In her office, Thomas offers acupuncture as well as a non-needle practice where stones are placed on the body. “This is a great alternative for people who like Chinese medicine but are afraid of needles,” Thomas notes. “They (the stones) are equally powerful or more powerful than nee-

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dles. A lot more chi is in a stone than a needle that is produced in a factory,” she says. thE aRt oF anciEnt stonE mEdicinE Working with stones as a healing ally generally comes in one of two ways — internally or externally, says Thomas. Stones can be placed on top of the body, and “don’t be afraid

of Scotch tape,” she grins. “It is such good medicine to lay with a stone like rose quartz, which will always be calming and gentle like a mother that will always hold you.”

In her treatment room, Thomas has a table covered with jars that are holding different stones and crystals of various sizes and character. “I would really like to see more people getting the stones on their body,” Thomas says with a spark in her eyes. “Stones show you your essence and get you in touch with your own preciousness,” she continues. “That’s the root of so many problems — self-worth.”

After completing Thomas’ Stonalist Certification program at Appalachia School of Holistic Herbalism last year, teal chimblo Fyrberg began a stone medicine practice of her own. As a certified yoga teacher, she was immediately drawn to ways stones could be integrated into her yoga and healing offerings. “The ways stones can be utilized to deepen and enhance your yoga practice is endless,” says Fyrberg, who speaks about how stones can be naturally introduced to a meditation practice or into restorative poses.

Through her business, Wild Katuah Healing Arts, Fyrberg offers stone medicine treatments, yoga practices, herbs and personalized stone elixirs that can be taken internally. Given her background in herbal medicine and alternative forms of healing, Fyrberg was already adept at the subtleties of energetic medicine. Making her own herbal tinctures and flower essences, the transition to stone elixirs was a piece of cake, or “crystal clear.”

Fyrberg’s line of stone elixirs that can be taken internally is called Obsidian Butterfly Elixirs. She tries to make elixirs on the full or new moon ”to potent-ize the medicine,“ she notes.

“A lot of intention, love and connection go into these, a lot of ceremony as well.” The Blue Stone Elixir, for example, includes blue calcite, blue fluorite and lapis lazuli and is described by Fyrberg as able to “fill what is empty.”

“This blend goes deep into the kidney meridian, to the essence or shen,” she says. “It soothes and anchors our essence so that we can move forward with new beginnings.”

“What I love most in the stones is that they go down deep, to the Yuan level,” says Fyrberg, “where they can deal with the soul, the bone marrow.”

Fyrberg refers to the stone elixirs as energetic medicines, similar to that of a flower essence — only you are working with the essence of a stone rather than the essence of a flower. “Stones are stable, deep, dense, and are made

Galaya up of a very highly ordered atomic structure,” Fyrberg notes.

“Stones are the record keepers; they store information. Now imagine a stone millions of years old — what does that carry?” she asks.

LocaL tREasuRE “Everyone knows that localized medicine is one thousand times better than nonlocal medicine,” says Thomas, who leads groups into the Appalachian Mountains on rockhounding trips to give locals an opportunity to collect stones.

“Mica reflects back to you, ‘You’re good, You’re good,’” she says. Mica is abundant in this area and was used by the Cherokee for ritual purposes. “It was a very spiritual stone for them and the Chinese,” Thomas says.

She goes on to describe our local treasure chest: “Garnet is plentiful in our local mountains, especially the iron-rich form known as almandine.

It’s been in the earth here for 450 million years! Rockhounders from all over the country come to this area for the elusive rod-shaped garnet.

Although no one knows why it forms like that here, it’s still a mystery to scientists even.”

“The native Cherokee used garnet; to them it represented blood, and women used it for fertility, childbirth, menstrual issues and everything associated with a woman cycling with nature. Also power, strength, vitality, essence ... the ability to be strong in battle,” she says. From a Chinese medicine perspective, Thomas explains, to have blood is to have juice and subsequently aliveness: “Garnet is considered one of the most physically supportive stones of the entire mineral kingdom. It’s amazing for rebuilding and restrenghtening after depletion or disease.”

Thomas mentions the many healing arts that have gravitated to Asheville. “Well, many people believe that Asheville is sitting on a huge underground kyanite boulder.” Kyanite is what makes up most of Mount Celo, located in Pisgah National Forest near Burnsville, she says. Thomas points out that Asheville and Tibet are the two greatest resources for kyanite on our planet.

“Kyanite is a simple aluminum silicate which acts as a bridge, a connector. It can connect two people, or two elements of nature, like stones and plants,” Thomas says. On a deeper level,

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Fyrberg echoes a similar inner transformation: “I made my first elixir under the full moon and had profound transformations. It was from that experience that Obsidian Butterfly was formed.” When we work with stones, she adds, “A deep part of us inside says, ‘I remember this.’” X

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Wellness Asheville Art museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • TH (2/19), 10am - Yoga in the galleries. $12/$8 members.

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Season of change Chef Katie Button talks about life as a television star, upcoming projects and her new role as a mom

BY gina smith

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Asheville has no shortage of local culinary celebrities. Everyone from food truck owners to tailgate market vendors — and, of course, award-winning chefs — could claim to be a part of that group of notables. But even in the midst of Asheville’s constellation of food luminaries, Katie Button is a brightly shining star.

Several years ago, Button, 32, took a passionate leap from a neuroscience Ph.D. program into the culinary world with handson learning and stints with chefs José Andrés and Johnny Iuzzini.

She ultimately earned a careerdefining internship in 2009 with Ferran Adria in the legendary kitchen at Barcelona’s El Bulli.

Working with her husband, Felix meana, and her parents, Elizabeth and ted Button, as the Heirloom Hospitality Group, Button has found a home in Asheville as the co-owner and executive chef of Spanish tapas restaurant Cúrate and, more recently, innovative nightclub and dinner spot Nightbell.

Blessed with the ability to be both elegant and down-to-earth, she can be seen in the media doing everything from teasing fellow Asheville chefs with a rubber rat during a photo shoot to modeling an Emporio Armani coat and Jimmy Choo boots in a Glamour magazine fashion spread. Although she claims a long list of honors, including being named a James Beard Rising Star Chef Finalist in 2014, she remains accessible and

staR QuaLitY: Katie Button is poised on the brink of some big firsts. The executive chef and co-owner of Cúrate and Nightbell and host of the television show “The World’s Best Chefs” is launching a catering business and writing her first cookbook even as she begins the journey of motherhood. Photo by Tim Robison

is deeply dedicated to the local community, supporting area farmers and helping to create initiatives such as the 12 Days of Giving and a restaurant partnership program with the Haywood Street Congregation’s Welcome Table.

In 2015, fresh from her star turn as host of the globetrotting Fox International television series “The World’s Best Chefs,” Button is set to tackle several new and potentially daunting challenges — motherhood,

the launch of a new catering business and her first cookbook. She recently sat down with Xpress to talk about what’s on her plate.

Mountain Xpress: is there anything new on the horizon with your restaurants?

Katie Button: Recently we decided to make the leap into catering, something we’ve been talking about since we opened Cúrate. We had so many requests

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for it, but we felt really limited in space, and it requires a whole separate set of systems. People think that if you have a restaurant, then you can do catering, but that’s not the case. So now we’re finally at a good spot, we have the right staff in place, and we’re working full steam right now on getting ready to do that. Heirloom Events is what we’re calling it, and we’ll be using some of the space downstairs at Nightbell to do it. Before [with just Cúrate] we were just Spanish cuisine, but now that we’re doing Nightbell, we’ve got a much larger menu to draw from. … Another reason for jumping into this is that is that it gives us opportunities for our staff to grow into. Part of our drive for growth has to do with trying to find things for the talented people who work for us to do and move into as they grow. ... We are looking at launching it this spring, and we’re actually ready to start taking reservations very soon.

You recently hosted a television series, “the world’s Best chefs.” what was that like?

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It was an amazing experience.

I had the opportunity to travel to 12 of the best restaurants in the world, work in their kitchens for a couple of days, interview their chefs and ask whatever questions I wanted to. … It turned out to be a lot of fun, but I was nervous in the beginning. It was hard to be around chefs that you admire so much, like Michel Bras and Andoni Aduriz. And, you know, in the show you have to treat them like equals, even though you’re not. You don’t feel that way, but you have to try to relate on that kind of a level even though you are pretty much in awe of everything they do. That was the hardest piece for me, trying to be comfortable around these people that I admire so much and I have all of their cookbooks and everything; it was a little bit nerve-wracking. We filmed between June of 2013 and January 2014, on and off, and the show has aired all over Europe and parts of Asia and Latin America. Hopefully, at some point, it will come to the U.S., but at this point there is no further information about that. are you bringing any of the techniques you learned during the show into your kitchens here?

You know, there are some things that I saw and learned, and one of them was at Mugaritz [in Spain]: They had this Japanese ice shaver that shaves blocks of ice into cotton-like ribbons of snow — the texture is just amazing — and they were pouring over a cold reduction from prawn heads, and it was this kind of cold, really delicious bite of the ocean and the sweetness of the prawns. ... So I actually bought one, and we use it in our root beer float dessert, and we use it in some of our cocktails. can you talk a little about the cookbook you are working on?

The cookbook I’m very excited about. It’s set to publish sometime in 2016 hopefully, and my portion has to be compiled by October of this year. It is based on the recipes at Cúrate. We don’t have a title for it yet, but it’s pretty much the food at Cúrate for the home cook.

I’m doing a lot of the testing out of my home kitchen, because I really want to make it so that it works in anybody’s home kitchen. ... It’s been challenging, but it’s been a lot of fun. It’s going to be a big cookbook. I’ve got 125 recipes, and I’m

just right now knocking out a few at a time as I can, so the next few months is my window to get that done. Which is where the concept of maternity leave comes in. It’s not exactly that, but you know, it is good because this is a project that I’m excited about doing, and it requires me to work from home. so, when are you expecting your baby?

We are expecting our child sometime in February.* ... A couple years or even a year ago it would have been very challenging for us to have a family and do what we’re doing, but we got to the point where we decided if we’re going to do this, now is the time. And so we’ve got a good team of people who are responsible and in charge of both our restaurants and whom we know we can trust. do you have any trepidation going forward about how everything is going to work?

I don’t. I kind of feel like this is life and our work. I mean, we’re owners, and I’m the chef. I don’t really worry. I just know that we’ll adjust and adapt as we go and make it work.

And I’m sure our little girl, Gisela, is going to grow up in the restaurant, and that’s OK. She’ll probably hate the restaurant industry because of it (laughs). But maybe not. Maybe she’ll fall madly in love with it, who knows?

And that’s OK too. And we just have to be flexible and make it work. ... Nothing’s going to be perfect, and I’m sure I’ll always wish that I could be better at both things [motherhood and running the restaurants], but I think it’s normal to always wish that. ... But I’m hoping that I’ll be able to keep things in perspective enough to cut myself a break and know that we’re doing the best that we can. And I have great confidence in my team, and I think that we would never be in the position of having a family if we didn’t have that support behind us. *Katie Button gave birth to a baby girl, Gisela Meana, on Valentine's Day. X

Read the full interview To find out how Button learned Spanish on the job at El Bulli, more kitchen tricks she brought back from her time as a television host, ways she is having fun with the menu at Nightbell and more, read the full interview at mountainx.com. X

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Fresh cuisine for a friend in need Chef Soce cooks West African comfort food for third annual Soumu As its billing suggests, musical performances by Asheville’s Zansa and Carrboro-based Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba are a main draw of the third annual Soumu: An African Celebration of Music, Food, Dance and Art. But as New Mountain’s space teems with culture on Thursday, Feb. 19, and attendees help Zansa frontman adama dembele raise funds to rebuild his family’s home and music center in Ivory Coast, the second biller is primed to be just as popular.

For $10, guests at Soumu may get a plate with as many and as much of chef soce ahmed’s eight traditional African dishes as they’d like — a rare opportunity for Asheville foodies to sample cuisine that’s difficult to find locally.

A native of Senegal, Ahmed (whose first name is pronounced “SO-see”) began cooking when she was 8 years old, learning the craft from her restaurant-owner mother. She came to New York City in 1992 and later moved to Atlanta, where she scrimped and saved to start a small buffet restaurant in the Five Points district.

In 2000, Ahmed arrived in Asheville to cook at the Goombay Festival with her cousin iba taye, now manager of the Sonic Drive-In on Airport Road. A lack of local food industry contacts kept kitchen work elusive, but with the assistance of landlord john cram — whose continued support she credits with keeping her and her three daughters financially afloat — she soon opened Soce’s Afro-American Hair on Eagle Street. Although she’s developed a loyal

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ket and brings [fresh ingredients] back.

I want to cook like that here.”

Recent tragic events have given this year’s Soumu a heightened significance. Soumu was originally intended as a fundraiser for Djembeso Music and Dance Education Center in Dembele’s Ivory Coast hometown of Abobo. In December, the facility was in need of a solid roof, a floor suitable for dancing and locking doors for security.

But on Jan. 12, citing erosion and unsafe conditions, the Ivory Coast government demolished the music center, Dembele’s family’s home and many other structures after a mere week’s notice. Numerous families and children are now homeless, and there is little expectation that the government will provide housing or reimbursement.

Fortunately, Dembele’s bandmates and friends are more than willing to help. “We will be donating every penny that we can back to the Dembele family,” says Reardon, who has also launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise additional funds.

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spicE oF LiFE: Chef Soce Ahmed, a native of Senegal, prepares traditional West African dishes — both vegetarian and meaty — using her own special blend of spices. Locals can sample her culinary creations at the upcoming Soumu festival.

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following at her salon, she’d much rather be cooking.

“I do hair because people don’t know me,” Ahmed says. “My heart is restaurants.”

Under the name Soce’s African Catering, Ahmed cooks for weddings and birthdays as well as meetings for a few local businesses, including Celtic Sea Salt producers Selina Naturally.

She’s also been the featured chef for African Nights at Westville Pub and at the former Mo Daddy’s, shared her skills through LEAF in Schools and Streets and provided food for Isaac Dickson Elementary School’s first carnival.

A friend and ally since they met at Skinny Beats Drum Shop across the street from her salon, Zansa bassist Ryan Reardon calls Ahmed’s style “West African comfort food.” He is particularly fond of the maffe peanut stew (made with tomato, bell pepper, sweet and white potatoes and garlic), which he likes to have with a side of jollof red rice (cabbage, eggplant, yucca, carrot and tomato) and roasted lamb.

“Everything is spiced just right,” Reardon says. “It’s not too hot, so everyone can enjoy it, but there are always

some roasted habaneros lying around to mix in as one sees fit.”

Many of Ahmed’s dishes are vegan (e.g., yassa, made with carrot, onion, olive, bell pepper and a lime-garlic marinade) or pescetarian (e.g., seafood okra gumbo made with scallops, shrimp, crab, tilapia, okra and spinach). She primarily gets her ingredients from local farmers markets and tries to get organic produce whenever possible.

“In Africa, that’s what I know,” Ahmed says. “We don’t have frozen food there. If we cooked with frozen, we’d mess up what we’re cooking.”

Ahmed is careful to separate her vegetarian and meat items and cooks with water and her own blend of spices instead of using stock. In addition to the eight dishes available at Soumu, she has mastered countless other recipes and would love for a local restaurateur to give her the opportunity to have a full-time job as a chef highlighting these dishes.

“Every morning [in Africa] we cook, and we eat fresh every single day, three times a day,” Ahmed says.

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gRowing sustainaBiLitY: Chuck Blethen, owner of Jewel of the Blue Ridge Vineyard, is a founding member and the executive director of the Sustainable Appalachian Viticulture Institute. Blethen helped organize and plan the upcoming annual Grape Growers Conference in Madison County. Photo courtesy of Blethen

gRapE gRowERs conFEREncE cELEBRatEs its FiFth YEaR Winemaking and viticulture are growing in popularity in Western North Carolina by leaps and bounds — as both a business and a hobby. On Thursday, Feb. 26, the fifth annual Grape Growers Conference in Marshall will offer an opportunity for commercial and home winemakers and vineyard owners to network and learn about and discuss their craft.

“We are courting the craft winemaker, or home winemaker, in addition to the commercial folks,” says event organizer Peter Fland of local winemaking education and support group the French Broad Vignerons. “We really would like to see some significant growth on the craft side, and we wish to support them as part of the French Broad Vignerons mission.”

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the conference will focus on wineblending techniques and recent developments in cold-hardy grapevines that thrive in mountainous terrain. This year’s event will also feature two new forums aimed at laying the groundwork for an annual, regional meeting of winemakers and vineyard managers.

The Winemakers Roundtable will be an open discussion and Q&A session with WNC vintners Josh Fowler of Lake James Cellars, Sharon Fenchak of Biltmore Winery, Justin Taylor of Burnt Shirt Vineyards, Karen ParkerBinns of Parker-Binns Vineyard & Winery and Alan Staton of Cabin Creek Vineyard. A Vineyard Managers Roundtable will address issues specific to WNC. The Grape Growers Conference will be held 9 a.m.4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in the auditorium of the Madison County Cooperative Extension, 258 Carolina Lane, Marshall.

Advanced registration is $45

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A “Southern Grace” dinner menu and an evening of iconic music will honor Black History Month on Wednesday, Feb. 25, during Old Landmarks: Celebrating Songs that Mark a Path to Freedom at First Baptist Church of Asheville.

The community dinner at 5 p.m. will feature fried chicken, roasted sweet potatoes, sautéed kale, biscuits and gravy or apple butter and banana pudding. The cost is $7 for adults and $6 for seniors ages 60 and older. A smaller portion for ages 12 and younger is available for $5. A free concert will follow at 6:30 p.m. featuring inspirational readings and musical performances by Kat Williams, Lyric, Lizz Wright, Rhoda Weaver, Chris Rosser, River Guerguerian and the Old Landmarks Mass Choir along with a percussion ensemble and congregational singing with jazz pianist Kenny Banks and drummer Terreon Gully.

Dinner at 5 p.m., concert at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 25, First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. Reservations are required for the dinner. Details: 252-4781. Tickets: fbcasheville. wufoo.com/forms/old-landmarksdinner-reservation-form/

Wing War is currently sold out, but organizers may release more tickets at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, to people on the event’s mailing list. A portion of proceeds will benefit MANNA FoodBank.

4 p.m. Sunday, March 1, New Mountain Asheville, 38 N. French Broad Ave. To sign up for the mailing list to be in line for tickets, visit ashevillewingwar.com. ashEViLLE smaLL pLatE cRawL More than 20 of Asheville’s independent and chef-owned restaurants are gearing up for the 2015 Asheville Small Plate Crawl Tuesday-Thursday, Feb. 24-26. An affordable way to take a culinary tour of the city, the crawl will feature menu items at participating eateries in the range of $3-$8 per plate. Crawlers will be entered — either automatically by QR Code scans on mobile devices or manually online — into prize drawings that will include an overnight package at the Grand Bohemian Hotel and restaurant gift cards.

Tuesday-Thursday, Feb. 24-26.

For details and a list of participating restaurants, visit ashevillesmallplatecrawl.com.X

ashEViLLE wing waR Asheville Food Fights is set to hold the fourth annual Asheville Wing War on Sunday, March 1, at New Mountain Asheville. A panel of local celebrity judges (including Xpress Food section contributor Jonathan Ammons) will choose from the offerings of more than a dozen Asheville chefs to pick winners in the categories of specialty and traditional Buffalo-style wings.

Event attendees will also have a chance to taste the competition and vote for their favorites for the People’s Choice Awards. The

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Boojum Brewing debuts new pub The brewery, with a production facility that just opened down the road, readies for the launch of its pub in Waynesville

According to Waynesville legend, there’s a Bigfootlike mountain man that roams the hills. Not often seen, he collects precious gems from around the mountains and stores them in empty growlerlike jugs.

They call him the Boojum.

Kelsie Baker, co-owner of Waynesville’s new Boojum Brewing, says you couldn’t ask for a better icon to revive. “My brother Ben Baker [the other coowner of Boojum] and I have family here and have been coming to Waynesville on vacations since we were 10. Once we knew we were going to start our brewery here, we knew we wanted to bring the Boojum back.”

The Bakers quietly started serving tastings and filling growlers at their production facility (at 357 Dayton Drive, Waynesville) a few weeks ago after brewing their first few batches in their 15-barrel brewhouse. “We have a little pilot system that Ben and Keller Fitzpatrick, our assistant brewer, have been using for over a year though, developing recipes,” says Baker.

Waynesville, which already has three local breweries — BearWaters, Frog Level and Tipping Point — surprised the Bakers with its immediate show of support. “We wanted to be well-prepared and start with a small release, so I just posted on Facebook that we were going to start filling some growlers … but there was a huge turnout anyway. We sold out of growlers in about four days.”

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REViVing thE LEgEnd: A copy of a 1961 painting of the legendary Boojum by artist Cordon Bell graces the wall of the creature’s namesake brewpub in Waynesville.

Pictured, from left, are Kelsie Baker, assistant brewer Keller Fitzpatrick and Ben Baker.

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a real citrusy, hoppy beast with Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, CTZ and Amarillo. It’s our top seller so far.”

• Blueberry coffee porter (5 percent ABV): “This one starts as a classic English brown porter, but then we add cold-brew coffee and blueberries after fermentation. The blueberry is subtle and complements the other flavors.”

• Milk stout (5.5 percent ABV): “We age our milk stout on cacao nibs for a great chocolate character that goes with the roastiness of the stout.”

• Balsam brown ale (5 percent ABV): “The Balsam is a northern English-style nut brown. It’s smooth and easy drinking with a nutty finish.”

• Pale ale (6 percent ABV): “Our pale is hop-forward and so crisp that when you finish taking a sip, it’s just gone.”

• Tripel (9 percent ABV): “This is a strong golden ale marked with complex, distinctive fruit and spice characteristics by the Belgian Trappist-style yeast.” X

O N Drive location. On weekdays, the owners fill growlers 1-6 p.m. On weekends, they also hold tastings where you can stop by and try up to six Boojum beers.

Yet in some ways Saturday, Feb. 21, will be Boojum’s big debut.

That’s the day it will open its second location: a full pub at 50 N. Main St. in Waynesville, right across from Mast General Store.

Baker says the pub will be open every day except Tuesday with dinner service starting at 5 p.m.

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Weekend hours will include lunch service starting at 11 a.m. Saturdays and noon Sundays.

At the pub, Baker says they’ll keep about 16 beers on tap and serve wine and liquor as well. “About 10-12 of the taps will usually be for our own beer,” says Baker. “For the rest, we plan

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to serve ciders and beers from other breweries in styles we don’t brew.”

As for the edible aspect, Baker says to expect high-quality pub food. “It started off as a small idea — really we just wanted to feed people — but we landed a great chef, Brandon Adams from Denver, and he’s doing a lot of exciting things.” Baker says many dishes will incorporate beer, such as beef chili with deglazed beer and a brownie with Boojum porter chocolate sauce.

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hiGhlAnd: Film fest: Orvis & Hunter Banks (fly fishing film, $10/ includes 2 drinks) w/ raffle & prizes, 6pm; Food trucks: Root Down, Smashbox, Taste & See lexinGtOn Ave (lAB): $3 pints all day

One WOrld: Live music: David Earl Duo (acoustic-rock), 8pm Open: New brew: TM Open Brewer’s Choice Porter OskAr Blues: Community bike ride led by The Bike Farm, leaves brewery 6pm; Beer run w/ Wild Bill, group run leaves brewery 6pm Oyster hOuse: $2 off growler fills sOuthern AppAlAchiAn: Brews & Brushes: Painting “Blossom Tree” ($30 per person, includes supplies, instruction & 1 drink) (reservation: 692-0245), 8pm

hi-Wire: New brew: Ringmaster’s Reserve series - Dry-hopped Belgian ale OskAr Blues: Live music: The Dirty Badgers (blues, soul), 6pm; Food: CHUBwagon Oyster hOuse: $5 mimosas & bloody Marys sOuthern AppAlAchiAn: Live music: Bird In Hand (folk, indie), 8pm WedGe: Food truck: El Kimchi (Korean/Mexican street food)

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AltAmOnt: Live music: Sara Rachelle (Americana), 9pm Asheville BreWinG: $3.50 pints at Merrimon location french BrOAd: Live music: Brief Awakening (Americana, indie), 6pm hiGhlAnd: Film fest: Reel Paddling Film Fest (kayak, canoe film, $15), 6pm sOuthern AppAlAchiAn: Live music: Matt Jackson (indie), 7pm

Asheville BreWinG: $5 bloody Marys & mimosas at Coxe location

lexinGtOn Ave (lAB): Live music: Bluegrass brunch; $10 pitchers all day OskAr Blues: Food: CHUBwagon Oyster hOuse: $5 mimosas & bloody Marys sOuthern AppAlAchiAn: Art reception: TJ Latham; Vinyl night w/ Robin Tolleson (jazz, funk), 5pm

WedGe: Food truck: Tin Can Pizzeria

WedGe: Food truck: El Kimchi (Korean/Mexican street food); Live music: Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz, swing), 6pm

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AltAmOnt: Food: Smashbox (2-year anniversary!), 6pm-midnight; Highland Brewery Promo, 8-9pm; Live music: Chris O’Neill Band (blues, Americana, 9pm

AltAmOnt: Live music: Old-time jam w/ John Hardy Party, 7pm

french BrOAd: Live music: The Puddle Jumpers (bluegrass, acoustic), 6pm hiGhlAnd: New brew: Mount Mitchell Malt Liquor OskAr Blues: Live music: The Carpenter Ants (gospel, soul), 6pm; Food: CHUBwagon sOuthern AppAlAchiAn: Live music: Ellen Trnka, Howie Johnson & Craig Woody (blues, Americana, rock), 8pm WedGe: Food truck: Melt Your Heart (gourmet grilled cheese)

One WOrld: Service industry night: $4 pints; Live music: Cameron Stack (blues), 5pm WedGe: Food truck: El Kimchi (Korean/Mexican street food)

tuesdAy AltAmOnt: Live music: Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm Asheville BreWinG: $2.50 Tuesday: $2.50 one-topping jumbo pizza slices & house cans (both locations) hi-Wire: $2.50 house pints OskAr Blues: Tasty Tuesday: Oak-aged Old Chub; Food truck: Chameleon, 4-8pm

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AltAmOnt: Air Guitar Contest benefitting Homeward Bound (silent auction, food, prizes), 7pm

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french BrOAd: Live music: The Fat Sparrows (folk-rock), 6pm

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Pie Walk fever is going around — have you caught it?

A cornerstone of the monthly Country Night at The Mothlight, the traditional game of musical chairs (in which the last person with a seat wins a pie from Sweetheart Bakery) has become famous for its fierce competition. “All kinds of dirty tricks abound,” says tricia tripp, lead singer of the Asheville honky-tonk/country band Hearts Gone South. “Once, when it was down to the last two people and one chair, I saw one of them just grab the chair and run around the room with it while the other one chased them and tried to sit in it. It’s a great spectator sport if nothing else.”

The roots of Country Night — an evening of music, dancing and other contests that showcase Asheville’s blossoming country music scene — date back to Tripp’s Kentucky childhood. Think church picnics, pig pickins and big family reunions full of games, food and fun. Hearts Gone South’s gigs last May at The Gulf Coast Opry in Satsuma, Ala., (complete with a potluck meal, auction and joke contest) and New Orleans’ AllStar Covered Dish Country Jamboree (with its karaoke and titular suppers) got her thinking about hosting her own event in Asheville.

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Boot scootin’: Country Night, held monthly at The Mothlight, is an evening of music, dancing (with lessons before the show) and other contests that showcase Asheville’s blossoming country music scene. Photo by Emily Adderman

There was local inspiration, too: Every Saturday night last year that her band didn’t have a show, Tripp, bandmate david Flood and his wife, Liza, could be found at Hillbilly Jackie’s Music Barn in Leicester, dancing and taking in the cakewalk, 50/50 ticket contest and broom dance.

And, “Sometimes we were even known to run down there in between sound check and a show to play a couple tunes before we had to run back and jump onstage,” Tripp says.

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Tripp and Mothlight co-owner jon hency (who were already in talks about booking shows) mapped out the first Country Night for June.

The debut was a success, and larger turnouts for the three follow-ups warranted monthly dates for 2015.

Along with Hency and his wife amanda’s strong rapport with musicians, Tripp says that the venue’s sizable dance floor, highquality sound system and accessible location make it an excel-

lent fit for Country Night. Hearts Gone South serves as the evening’s host and performs each time. Local groups such as Small Town Lights, don humphries and The French Broad Playboys have joined the band for past installments. High-energy Weaverville Cajun/honky-tonk outfit Jackomo is slated for the Friday, Feb. 20 show, and Tripp is coordinating with Jack Grelle of St. Louis and Nashville’s J.P. Harris & The Tough Choices for future pairings.

“I wanted Country Night to be a showcase for great regional and touring country bands, but I also wanted it to be more than just a show,” Tripp says. “I wanted the audience to really feel part of the whole experience and [have it] be something you can’t really get anywhere else.”

Plenty of games and activities help achieve those goals, beginning with an active dance floor. Many attendees already know how to two-step, but for those looking for a few pointers, deborah swanson is available before the festivities begin. Tripp says Swanson excels at making people feel comfortable and breaking the steps down in an easy, relaxed manner.

Much to Tripp’s delight, these sessions have significantly increased the number of participants. “Nothing is more fun to play to than a roomful of people dancing to your music,” she says.

The recent growth of Asheville country bands and events suggests that Tripp is far from alone in that assessment. In addition to Country Night’s guest groups, she points to such acts as Vollie & Kari and The Western Wildcats, Brody hunt and Maggie & Her Mistakes as local musicians to watch. The Burger Bar and The Grey Eagle regularly book impressive country music talent, and The Mothlight is hosting a Conway Twitty/Ray Price tribute on Monday, March 9. Tripp also says to be on the lookout in December for the Silent Knights, an all-star Asheville honkytonk Christmas band led by Hunt.

Helping to spread awareness, Swanson gathers emails whenever she teaches and sends out a comprehensive mailing every few weeks listing local honky-tonk and Cajun dance shows. Among the regular events, The Lazy Diamond hosts a dance night each Sunday, and WNCW DJ tom pittman leads a honky-tonk jam Tuesday nights at The Cork & Keg, open to musicians and listeners alike.

“If you’ve got a big love of all things classic country and honky-tonk, there’s some serious gems hanging around the Asheville scene,” Tripp says. X

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New adventures in hi-fi For JD McPherson, making old-school rock is a labor of love

The Fats Domino reference aside, Let the Good Times Roll — the second record from Oklahoma rocker JD McPherson — doesn’t sound as if it should come from the 21st century. In the same way that Signs and Signifiers, McPherson’s 2012 slicked-back and switchblade-brandishing debut, did, Good Times evokes the first bursts of rock ’n’ roll. It’s populated with twist-ready rave-ups in “All Over” and the title track, swaying Sam Cooke-esque ballads in “Precious” and “Bridge Builder.” Twelvebar blues progressions jump with Little Richard’s verve; guitar lines slice as if emanating from Link

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Wray’s slashed speakers or resonate with a deep twang that recalls Duane Eddy’s Gretsch.

McPherson — who plays The Grey Eagle on Saturday, Feb. 21 — instills his music with the same visceral danger that marked the earliest rock music cuts. And he honors those midcentury sounds with impeccable precision. Just don’t call it retro. “Early rock ’n’ roll is the most glowing example of rock ’n’ roll,” he says. “I don’t care how weird the music gets,

you’re still going to get the interviews wanting to talk about poodle skirts and, you know, black leather jackets. And it’s like, man, you’re missing the coolest thing that ever happened.”

If McPherson occasionally looks like an extra from The Outsiders, he insists it’s because he’s an Oklahoman, as his dedication to the roots of rock ’n’ roll is unwavering. Indeed, the musician is a walking compendium of rock’s dustiest annals.

There wasn’t much to do in rural southeast Oklahoma, where he grew up on a 160-acre cattle ranch, and when a girl at a record store turned him on to Buddy Holly’s Decca recordings, McPherson dove headlong not just into the catalogs of Holly and his contemporaries, but the building blocks — pre-war blues, ’40s R&B and country, ’50s doowop and rockabilly.

“It’s probably the same thing for everybody,” McPherson says.

“It’s the same thing that causes people to, all of a sudden one day [paint] Civil War figurines in their basement. It creeps up on you. ... You find a record that you really like, and you like it so much that you start to read a book about it and every magazine article you can find, and you find out that these people were influenced by those people and this record, and then before you know it, you’re hoarding away 78s and cataloging them.”

In sculpting his music from the same elementary units that made up rock ’n’ roll, McPherson separates himself from other genre-nerd retrorockers, actively taking ownership of a sound instead of just mimicking one. And he doesn’t limit his influences to preBeatlemania greasers: tremolos pulse at the speed of The Smiths’ “How Soon is Now”; looping piano trills bring to mind dusty hip-hop samples.

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Good Times suggests a hi-fi Buddy Holly, and the Dan Auerbach cowrite credit on “Bridge Builder” roots McPherson firmly in the new millennium.

For McPherson, ultimately, there’s something intrinsically valuable about the dangerous vibe of early rock and in the belief that there are avenues to the art form that haven’t yet been fully explored. Listening to Let the Good Times Roll isn’t a history lesson — it’s rock ’n’ roll evangelism.

“Going back to the guy in his basement painting Civil War figures, it’s completely important to him,” McPherson says. And while no one else might care about the mission, “it’s important to me that rock ’n’ roll be sort of all included under one umbrella, where Chuck Berry sits proudly next to Stiff Little Fingers. It’s all the same thing.

“It’s fun,” he adds. “It’s fun music.

It’s fun to play, and it’s fun to listen to. It’s the best thing ever.” X

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Décorum The DIY aesthetic is not just a product of indie craft shows. Asheville residents, always in close proximity to mountain handicrafts, were primed for the Arts and Crafts movement more than a century ago. That trend toward quality and craftsmanship came about in response to the industrialization that gripped the end of the Victorian era.

“Anxieties about industrial life fueled a positive revaluation of handcraftsmanship and precapitalist forms of culture and society,” says an essay on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website.

The Arts and Crafts style of handmade furniture, pottery, metalware and more aligned with the American Craftsman bungalow homes built in West Asheville, Kenilworth and Montford neighborhoods. These single-story, modest homes — unlike the Victorian mansions previously in fashion — didn’t require servants for maintenance and upkeep.

Bungalows have held a special place in the hearts of homeowners ever since, and Asheville’s Craftsman-style

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homE goods: Owners of Asheville’s many small but sweet bungalows can find antique and reproduction furnishings at the annual National Arts & Crafts Conference, now in its 28th year. Photo by Ray Stubblebine

homes are favored today more than ever. “The popularity of the bungalow home, nationally and locally, means a huge resurgence in [the Arts and Crafts movement],” says Bruce johnson, founder and director of the National Arts & Crafts Conference and Antiques Show at the Omni Grove Park Inn. The annual event runs from FridaySunday, Feb. 20-22.

“People in those strong bungalow neighborhoods are looking for décor to match their homes,” says Johnson.

The Arts & Crafts Conference’s companion shows (comprising the Antiques Show, “the country’s largest and most important ... of the year,” according to the event’s website; and the Contemporary Craftsfirms Show with “interpretations and accurate

replicas of Arts & Crafts antiques”) offer homeowners the opportunity to shop for period accessories. “This isn’t simply furniture. You can outfit your entire home with what is represented at the show,” says Johnson.

A historian and author, Johnson founded the conference in 1987 while working on a story about the Grove Park Inn for Country Living. “I thought, ‘We have to do an Arts and Crafts conference here.’ [Asheville] was an Arts and Crafts gem that no one knew about.”

The inn itself, built in 1913, still has many of the original Arts and Crafts dressers, desks and rocking chairs in its rooms. The Roycroft stamp, marking the coveted works by an influential reformist craft community, can be found throughout the inn (most

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notably on the grandfather clock in the Great Hall).

Arts and Crafts movement goods were often made in small, family-owned factories. George and Edith Vanderbilt financed one such workshop, the Biltmore Estate Industries, in 1905. It produced bookends, picture frames, furniture and hand-carved bowls in Biltmore Village before being sold to Grove Park Inn architect and manager Fred Seeley in 1917 and moved to the inn’s property. Today, that building houses the Grovewood Gallery.

Despite those local ties, Johnson says that early conferences hosted more visitors from California than from North Carolina. Attendance has grown from 300 the first year to more than 2,000 expected at this year’s show (including about 25 attendees who have never missed a conference).

“It really took off here in the last 20 years. It began as more of a national attraction, but Asheville is now the Arts and Crafts capital of the South,” Johnson says. “We draw upon local organizations and local artisans, so we’re supporting locals.” Area artists on this year’s roster include jeweler Amy Brandenburg, furniture maker Rob Kleber and textile artist Sherree Sorrells, among others.

The Asheville Art Museum holds a fundraising reception on Saturday night, and the Asheville-Buncombe County Preservation Society hosts architectural bus tours departing from the Grove Park Inn. The conference also boasts seminars, group discussions, workshops, booksellers, magazine publishers and nonprofit organizations.

At the shows, “Prices range from $100 to $100,000,” says Johnson. One past showcase included a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed chair, and there are outstanding examples of Stickley furniture, another popular Arts and Crafts brand. But, “even if you’re not in the market for one of these rarities, you can still go see them.” X

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When Mountain Xpress caught up with him, the McArthur genius and virtuoso mandolinist was just about to board a plane for St. Paul, Minn.

There, his band Punch Brothers was scheduled to perform, and Thile was slotted to guest-host A Prairie Home Companion for a couple of weeks.

The variety show gig comes in the midst of the promotional campaign for the Punch Brothers’ new album, The Phosphorescent Blues. The band’s tour in support of that record brings them to the Thomas Wolfe

Auditorium on Tuesday, Feb. 24.

It’s worth noting that this packed itinerary comes on the heels of a busy 2014 for Thile. He released the Grammy-nominated A Dotted Line with the recently reunited Nickel Creek, a newgrass band the preternaturally gifted string player started as a preteen. The group toured heavily throughout the summer, but Thile still managed to release his second duo record of classically minded compositions with bassist Edgar Meyer (that project, Bass & Mandolin, did take home the Grammy for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album at this year’s awards ceremony) and launch a fall tour for that album too.

Still, it’s clearly the new Punch Brothers offering that has Thile

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most excited. While the progressive bluegrass quintet has evolved and challenged itself since its formation, The Phosphorescent Blues makes impressive strides in both thematic scope and studio finesse.

Lyrically, the record is kind of about smartphones. “We had no intention of writing an album about cellphone technology,” Thile says.

But the distraction and promise of these glowing screens dominated both the band’s performances and, he says, even their rehearsals.

Despite the potential threat of the technology to render us “permanently unpresent,” Thile sees the album as being more about trying to find balance rather than indicting the role of the digital world in our lives.

“It’s more about, ‘What place does this technology have in our lives? How are we going to make this technology work for us and not the other way around?’” the mandolinist says. “We didn’t want to make a counterculture, get-offthe-grid type statement.”

Musically, the group (with Noam Pikelny on banjo, Gabe Witcher on violin and Chris Eldridge on guitar) continues to forge a mindboggling blend of jazz, classical, rock and pop aspirations with its technical mastery of bluegrass.

That fusion is equally clear in “Familiarity,” the three-part epic opener, as it is in the would-be hootenanny romp of “My Oh My.” For the first time, though, the group opened up its process to allow for more elaborate production.

“We basically threw caution to the wind and just chose the sounds we heard in our heads,” says Thile.

“In the past, we’ve stuck to a very organic process and made sure we could re-create it live. This time we approached the studio as fantasy, rather than as an archival process,

which can only be second-best to live [performance].”

This led to some new but relatively mundane flourishes — producer T-Bone Burnett snuck some electric guitar and percussion onto a few songs, Witcher overdubbed a string section here and there — but also some incredible moments that lined up nicely with the album’s themes. One such instance comes when “Familiarity” transitions from pastoral jam session into a celestial sea of reverb and multitracked vocals. Another is on the closer, “Little Lights,” a quiet little ballad that describes smartphone use as “tripping the dark fantastic/ singing the phosphorescent pink and blues,” and gradually slides into a cathartic, martial arrangement led by a crowd-sourced choir that gives the album’s final moments a grand sense of hope.

While Punch Brothers has always been a bluegrass band (mostly because of its acoustic strings), The Phosphorescent Blues offers moments completely divorced from that tradition. “The instrumentation we have is really happenstance, more about where we were born and who we were born to,” Thile says. “[Now] it’s our band’s collective speaking voice. We still have control of what we say.” X

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by Carrie Eidson & Michael McDonald Asheville Art museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • SA (2/21), 5-7pm - “Searching for Hubbard in the 21st Century Appalachian South.” $30/$25 members.

GrOveWOOd GAllery 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • FR (2/20) through SU (2/22) - Portrait painting demonstration. Free to attend.

• SA (2/21), 11am-5pm - Meet the Maker: lamp maker Gene Kessler. Free to attend.

AuditiOns & cAll tO Artists the Writer’s WOrkshOp 254-8111, twwoa.org • Through SA (2/28) - Poetry contest submissions accepted. Contact for guidelines. $25 per every three poems.

a cELEBRation oF FREEdom: Emmy-nominated blues singer Kat Williams is one of several local musicians scheduled to appear at the “Old Landmarks - Celebrating Songs that Mark a Path to Freedom” concert held Wednesday, Jan. 25, at First Baptist Church of Asheville.

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Registration required. Contact for complete guidelines. $35. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway

music Asheville chOrAl sOciety 232-2060, ashevillechoralsociety.org • FR (2/20), 7:30pm - “A Life in Song: Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. Robert Keener.” $25/$10 students. Held at Central United Methodist Church, 27 Church St. • SA (2/21), 4pm - “A Life in Song: Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. Robert Keener.” $25/$10 students. Held at Central United Methodist Church, 27 Church St. BlAck mOuntAin cOmmunity drum clAss 545-0389 • SATURDAYS, 4-6pm - Covers traditional West African rhythms. Free. Held at Carver Community Center, 101 Carver Ave., Black Mountain

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Central United Methodist Church 27 Church St., 253-3316, centralumc.org • SU (2/22), 4pm - Concordia Choir. $20/$5 students.

Diana Wortham Theatre 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • SA (2/21), 8pm - “The Three Davids,” Holt, Wilcox and LaMotte, bluegrass/ Americana. $35/$25 students and children.

First Baptist Church of Asheville 5 Oak St. • WE (2/25), 6:30pm - “Old Landmarks - Celebrating Songs that Mark a Path to Freedom” concert. Presented

by Asheville Percussion Festival.

Free. Optional dinner at 5pm: $7/$6 seniors/$5 children.

Music at Brevard College 884-8211, brevard.edu/fineartsevents • TH (2/26), 7:30pm - Beethoven’s sonatas 2, 4 and 5. Free.

Music at Mars Hill 866-642-4968, mhc.edu • TH (2/19), 6:30pm - Presentation on gospel music in the African-American community. In conjunction with “Our Story — This Place” exhibit. Held in Broyhill Chapel. Free.

• WE (2/25), 3pm - “Come Go Home,” traditionals. Ramsey Center. Free.

Music at UNCA 251-6432, unca.edu • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Blue Ridge Orchestra open rehearsal. Free. In the Reuter Center.

• FR (2/20), 3pm - Opera Talks: a behindthe-scenes tour of the operatic world. In the Reuter Center. Free.

• TH (2/26), 8pm - West African drum and dance class. In the Sherrill Center.

Free.

Music at WCU 227-2479, wcu.edu • TH (2/19), 7:30pm - Juicy J, rap. Held in Ramsey Center. $21/$11 students.

• TH (2/19), 7:30pm - School of Music faculty concert. Held in Coulter Building.

Free.

Pan Harmonia 254-7123, pan-harmonia.org • SU (2/22), 3pm - Sonata Series. $22/ $16.50 advance/ $5 students. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Asheville, 40 Church St.

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• FR (2/26), 7:30pm - Listen to This Storytelling Series: “A Night at the Movies: Cinematic Memories of Trips to the Cinema.” $15.

Asheville Community Theatre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (3/1) - A Chorus Line. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $15-$20.

Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • SA (2/21), 7:30pm & SU (2/22), 3pm R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, one-man play. $15/ $10 students & members.

Diana Wortham Theatre 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre. com • TU (2/17) & WE (2/18), 10am & noon Fly Guy and Other Stories. $7.50.

• FR (2/20), 7:30pm - “The Funniest Man in America,” James Gregory comedy and storytelling. $27-$35.

• TH (2/26) & FR (2/27), 10am - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. $8.50.

Hendersonville Little Theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (2/28) - The Miracle Worker. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2pm NC Stage 15 Stage Lane, 239-0263, ncstage.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (2/22) - Annapurna. Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.:2pm. $14-32/ $10 students.

• TH (2/26) through SU (3/1) - The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Thurs.Fri.: 7pm; Sat.-Sun: 1pm & 4pm. $23/$12 students.

Theater at Mars Hill 689-1239, mhu.edu • TH (2/19) through SU (2/22) - The Laramie Project. Fri.-Sat: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $10/$8 students.

Theater at UNCA 251-6610, drama.unca.edu • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (2/26) until SU (3/1) - Qtopia. $12. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm.

Theater at WCU 227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • WE (2/18), 7:30pm - FROGZ, family friendly comedy. $10/$5 students and children.

• TH (2/19) through SU (2/22), 7:30pm - The Rocky Horror Show. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. Held in Hoey Auditorium. $21/$16 seniors, faculty & staff/$7 students.

• TH (2/26), 7:30pm - Robin Hood – The Legacy, radio re-creation. Held in Bardo Fine Arts Center. $10.

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Ananda West 37 Paynes Way Suite 5, 236-2444, anandahair.com • Through (3/30) - Mix-media works by Patricia Anastasi.

Art at Mars Hill mhu.edu • Through FR (3/13) - Connections, works by three local artists.

Art at UNCA art.unca.edu • Through FR (2/27) - Selma to Montgomery 1965: The Photographs of James Barker. In Karpen lobby.

Art at WCU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu • Through FR (3/27) - Tracking Time, works by Anna Jensen and Karen Ann Myers • Through FR (3/6) - Vadim Bora: Portraits.

Artist’s reception: Feb. 19, 5pm.

• Through WE (4/1) - Hands in Harmony, Tim Barnwell photography.

Arts Council of Henderson County 693-8504, acofhc.org • Through FR (2/27) - The Art of Our Children, elementary school exhibition.

Held at First Citizens Bank, 539 N. Main St., Hendersonville Asheville Art Museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (5/2) - John Heliker: The Order of Things—60 Years of Paintings and Drawings, retrospective • SA (2/14) through SU (4/12) - Go Figure: Faces and Forms, works celebrating the human figure.

Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through SA (5/23) - poemumbles, 30-year restrospective of print works by Susan Weil.

Folk Art Center MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, 298-7928, craftguild.org • Through SU (4/19) - Dynamic Narratives, works by women ceramic sculptors.

Grovewood Gallery 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • Through SU (5/10) - The Birds and the Bees, themed works.

Handmade in America 125 S Lexington Ave #101, 252-0121, handmadeinamerica.org • Through FR (4/17) - Emergence: Crafting an Identity, works by Haywood Community College alumni.

Red House Studios and Gallery 310 W. State St., Black Mountain, 699-0351, svfalarts.org • Through TU (3/31) - Black, White and Red, works by Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League members.

Seven Sisters Gallery 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-5107, sevensistersgallery.com • Through SU (5/10) - Oil paintings by Betsy Alexander.

Signature Brew Coffee Co 633 W. Main St., Sylva, 587-6300, signaturebrew.net • Through SA (2/28) - “Barns and Birds,” oil paintings by Cecil Bothwell.

The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through MO (5/23) - Loving After Lifetimes of All This.

The Grand Bohemian Gallery 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com • Through SA (2/28) - Heart & Soul, works by Donna Dowless and Amber Higgins.

The Junction 348 Depot St., 225-3497, thejunctionasheville.com • TH (2/19) through SA (3/14) - Natura Perfectus, mixed media by Sheri Howe.

Opening reception: Feb. 19, 6-8pm.

Transylvania Community Arts Council 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (2/27) - Wood, Wind & Water, multiple artists and mediums.

Upstairs Artspace 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 859-2828, upstairsartspace.org • Through FR (3/13)- The Nina Simone Project: Celebrating Black History Month and Tryon’s High Priestess of Soul,work by Valeria Watson Doost, Linda Larsen, and Leigh Magar.

ZaPow! 21 Battery Park Suite 101, 575-2024, zapow.net • ONGOING - Art of the Book, art inspired by literary works.

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Lori Horvitz “At 19, I was a rebel, a long way from that shy girl in the Long Island hot pink bedroom,” writes local author Lori horvitz in her new book, The Girls of Usually.

“To prove it, I shaved stripes into my hairy legs.” The collection of memoir essays, at once witty and self-effacing, follows Horvitz through her awkward youth (she practiced magic) to her misadventures as a world traveler. If Horvitz was a misfit, the reader benefits from her off-kilter observations: “My only fond memory of Hebrew school was riding on back of Mr. Wilkomersky’s motorcycle,” she writes. “When it was my turn, I wrapped my arms around his waist and shut my eyes and felt the wind whip against my face and thought, ‘Maybe this is what it means to be a Jew.’ But Mr. Wilkomersky got fired for endangering our lives.” Horvitz presents The Girls of Usually at Malaprop’s on Sunday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m. malaprops.com. Photo courtesy of the author

The Three Davids The accomplishments of renowned local musicians David Holt, David Wilcox and David LaMotte are impressive singularly. Collectively, the trio (performing as The Three Davids) boasts thousands of performances across the globe, endless collaborations with roots notables, dozens of lauded records and even a handful of Grammy Awards from Holt. First names aside, the three find common ground in their musical celebration of Appalachian culture — a bond they plan to share with Ashevilleans by hosting an evening of songs and storytelling. The trifecta performs “a very special musical conversation” at Diana Wortham Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 21, at 8 p.m. $35 adults/$25 students and children. dwtheatre.com. Photo by Lynne Harty

Product of the ’20s Fashion Show Can any decade beat that 1920s-era allure? “Experience the glitz and glamor of the Jazz Age as models walk the runway in 1920s-inspired fashion by Asheville designers and boutiques,” says the Product of the ’20s Fashion Show Facebook event page. Following a cocktail social hour with jazz by Simone Bernhard, more than 30 runway models will showcase the work of at least a dozen local designers, hairstylists and makeup artists, with emcee Ken Krahl on hand to usher the production along. The $10 show, proceeds from which benefit young professionals group Asheville Affiliates, begins at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel on Friday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. avl.mx/0ol.

Photo of models Sarah Fields, left, and Sarah Merrell, right, by Morgan Ford with assistance by Catherine Vibert

Jonathan Odell Wednesday, Feb. 4, marked the 102nd birthday of Rosa Parks and the release of novelist Jonathan Odell’s Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League. It’s perfect timing for a work exploring the eventual bond of two distraught women, one black and one white, living and working together in pre-civil rights Mississippi. “Each woman spends her days feeling suppressed by the other, until they learn to recognize each other’s pain,” says a press release for the work. “Hazel and Vida fully explore the complexities of a bond that begins in hostility and evolves into an unshakable friendship.” Odell, a Mississippi native and former civil rights activist, will read from and sign copies of his book at Malaprop’s on Friday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. Free. malaprops.com. Photo of Odell

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CIVIL TWILIgHT w/ Zeke Duhon 8pm • $10/$12

9 PM–THE RANDALL BRAMBLETT BAND Every Tuesday

7:30pm–midnite

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6pm–11pm

JAZZ SHOWCASE

the phOenix Bradford Carson Duo (Americana, singersongwriter), 8pm the sOciAl Dirty Badgers (blues), 8pm the sOuthern Throwdown Thursday w/ Jim Raves & Nex Millen (DJ, dance party), 10pm the strAnd @ 38 mAin Open mic night (music, poetry, anything), 6pm tiGer mOuntAin Juan Wauters (singer-songwriter, folk), 9pm timO’s hOuse ’90s Nite w/ Franco Nino (’90s dance, hiphop, pop), 10pm tOWn pump Brett Ramsey (singer-songwriter), 9pm tressA’s dOWntOWn JAzz And Blues The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm tWisted lAurel Mark Schimick & Friends (rowdy bluegrass), 8pm urBAn OrchArd Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm vincenzO’s BistrO Ginny McAfee (guitar, vocals), 7pm Wild WinG cAfe Acoustic throwdown, 7pm Wxyz lOunGe At AlOft hOtel Lyric (funk, rock, soul), 7:30pm

FRIDaY, FEbRUaRY 20 5 WAlnut Wine BAr Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz exotica), 9pm AltAmOnt BreWinG cOmpAny Chris O’Neill Band (blues, Americana), 9pm Asheville music hAll Space Jesus & Freddy Todd + stage design

by The Welch Brothers w/ Pericles (electronic), 10pm AthenA’s cluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm Blue mOuntAin pizzA & BreW puB Acoustic Swing, 7pm

ByWAter Fritz Beer & The Crooked Beat (Americana, rock), 8pm

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clAssic Wineseller Michael Pilgrim & Don Mercz (gypsy jazz), 7pm

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sOuthern AppAlAchiAn BreWery Matt Jackson (indie), 7pm

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cOrk & keG The Barsters (acoustic, old-time, bluegrass),

185 King Street 877-1850 5 Walnut Wine Bar 253-2593 adam dalton diStillery 367-6401 altamont BreWing Company 575-2400 the altamont theatre 348-5327 aSheville muSiC hall 255-7777 athena’S CluB 252-2456 Barley’S tap room 255-0504 BlaCK mountain ale houSe 669-9090 Blue mountain pizza 658-8777 Boiler room 505-1612 BroadWay’S 285-0400 the ByWater 232-6967 CorK and Keg 254-6453 CreeKSide taphouSe 575-2880 diana Wortham theater 257-4530 dirty South lounge 251-1777 douBle CroWn 575-9060 dugout 692-9262 eleven on grove 505-1612 Foggy mountain BreWpuB 254-3008 FrenCh Broad BreWery taSting room 277-0222 good StuFF 649-9711 green room CaFe 692-6335 grey eagle muSiC hall & tavern 232-5800 the grove parK inn (elaine’S piano Bar/ great hall) 252-2711 highland BreWing Company 299-3370 iSiS muSiC hall 575-2737 JaCK oF the Wood 252-5445 leX 18 582-0293 the loBSter trap 350-0505 metroShere 258-2027 millroom 555-1212 monte viSta hotel 669-8870 moonlight mile 335-9316 native KitChen & SoCial puB 581-0480 nightBell 575-0375 noBle Kava Bar 505-8118 odditorium 575-9299 olive or tWiSt 254-0555 oneFiFtyone 239-0239 one Stop Bar deli & Bar 255-7777 o.henry’S/tug 254-1891 the orange peel 225-5851 oSKar BlueS BreWery 883-2337 paCK’S tavern 225-6944 the phoeniX 877-3232 piSgah BreWing Co. 669-0190 pulp 225-5851 purple onion CaFe 749-1179 red Stag grill at the grand Bohemian hotel 505-2949 root Bar no.1 299-7597 SCandalS nightCluB 252-2838 SCully’S 251-8880 Sly grog lounge 255-8858 SmoKey’S aFter darK 253-2155 the SoCial 298-8780 Southern appalaCian BreWery 684-1235 StatiC age reCordS 254-3232 StraightaWay CaFe 669-8856 tallgary’S Cantina 232-0809 tiger mountain 407-0666 timo’S houSe 575-2886 toWn pump 357-5075 toy Boat 505-8659 treaSure CluB 298-1400 treSSa’S doWntoWn Jazz & BlueS 254-7072 u.S. Cellular Center & thomaS WolFe auditorium 259-5544 vinCenzo’S 254-4698 WeStville puB 225-9782 White horSe 669-0816 Wild Wing CaFe 253-3066 WXyz 232-2838

8:30pm crOW & Quill Resonant Rogues (gypsy-punk, folk, oldtime), 9pm dOuBle crOWn DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm duGOut Project X (classic rock), 9pm elAine’s duelinG piAnO BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm french BrOAd BreWery The Puddle Jumpers (bluegrass, acoustic), 6pm Grey eAGle music hAll & tAvern Sean Watkins (of Nickel Creek) w/ Jill Andrews (singer-songwriter), 8pm hiGhlAnd BreWinG cOmpAny Jason Daniello & the Argonauts (singersongwriter), 4pm irOn hOrse stAtiOn Mark Murray (R&B), 7pm isis restAurAnt And music hAll Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas (acoustic, Celtic), 8:30pm

sprinG creek tAvern Pierce Edens & Kevin Reese (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm strAiGhtAWAy cAfe Gary Segal, 6pm the AdmirAl Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm the mOthliGht Country Night: Hearts Gone South w/ Jackomo (2-step dance), 9pm

vincenzO’s BistrO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm

mArket plAce The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm

White hOrse BlAck mOuntAin Pan Harmonia (piano, flute, oboe), 7:30pm

Olive Or tWist WestSound (Motown, funk), 8:30pm One stOp deli & BAr Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Skyfoot w/ Glostik Willy (jam, funk, rock), 10pm OrAnGe peel Magic! (reggae, soul, rock), 8pm OskAr Blues BreWery The Carpenter Ants (gospel, soul), 6pm pAck’s tAvern DJ MoTo (pop, dance, hits), 9pm pisGAh BreWinG cOmpAny Big Daddy Love w/ Likewise (Appalachian rock), 9pm rOOt BAr nO. 1 Jay Brown (old-time, blues), 9pm scAndAls niGhtcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm scully’s DJ, 10pm

FRI. 2/22 DJ MoTo (pop, dance hits)

SAT. 2/21 The Sloantones

tOy BOAt cOmmunity Art spAce Hooper’s Ball (DJs & Asheville Hoops performance), 8pm

lAzy diAmOnd Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

Off the WAGOn Dueling pianos, 9pm

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tOWn pump The ZuZu Welsh Band (rock, blues), 9pm

tWisted lAurel Jim Arrendell & The Cheap Suits (dance party), 9pm

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JerusAlem GArden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

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the phOenix Spencer & The String Ticklers (old-time string band), 9pm

JAck Of the WOOd puB The Deluge (roots-rock, soul), 9pm

neW mOuntAin Black Cadillacs w/ East Coast Dirt, Sol Cat (blues, indie), 9pm Dumpstaphunk w/ Laura Reed (funk), 9pm

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Wild WinG cAfe Cody Siniard Duo (country), 8pm Wild WinG cAfe sOuth A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm Wxyz lOunGe At AlOft hOtel Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 8:30pm zAmBrA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

sAturdAy, feBruAry 21 185 kinG street Michael Reno Harrell (singer-songwriter, folk), 8pm 5 WAlnut Wine BAr Steelin’ Time (vintage steel guitar), 6pm Mande Foly (African folk), 9pm AltAmOnt BreWinG cOmpAny Air Guitar Contest (benefit for Homeward Bound, silent auction, prizes), 7pm AltAmOnt theAtre Elenowen (folk-rock), 8pm AthenA’s cluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm BlAck mOuntAin Ale hOuse Hustle Souls (soul, alt-country), 9pm Blue mOuntAin pizzA & BreW puB Bob Zullo, 7pm ByWAter Mangas Colorado (Americana, folk-rock) w/ Sun Cans (indie-pop, rock), 8pm clAssic Wineseller Joe Cruz (Beatles, Elton John covers), 6pm cOrk & keG Buddy Davis & The Session Players (honkytonk, classic country), 8:30pm

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french BrOAd BreWery The Fat Sparrows (folk-rock), 6pm

Off the WAGOn Dueling pianos, 9pm

GOOd stuff Kristen Ford (indie-rock), 9pm Poet Radio (indie), 10pm

Olive Or tWist 42nd Street (jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm

Grey eAGle music hAll & tAvern JD McPherson w/ Dylan Pratt (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

One stOp deli & BAr Jabee w/ DJ Smashlames, Bobby White, SK The Novelist & DJ Bighands (hip-hop), 10pm

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dOuBle crOWn Rock ’n’ Soul w/ DJs Lil Lorruh or Rebecca & Dave, 10pm

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niGhtBell restAurAnt & lOunGe DJ Jay International (deep house), 10pm

OdditOrium Temptation’s Wings, Dissent & Neverfall (metal), 9pm

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creekside tAphOuse Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 7pm

elAine’s duelinG piAnO BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm

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hiGhlAnd BreWinG cOmpAny Joe Lasher Jr. (country), 6:30pm irOn hOrse stAtiOn Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm isis restAurAnt And music hAll AVL Bike Love 2015 (silent auction, cycling presentations) w/ Free Flow Band & DJ Marley, 6pm JAck Of the WOOd puB Sirius B. (gypsy, folk, punk), 9pm JerusAlem GArden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lAzy diAmOnd Unknown Pleasures w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10pm

OrAnGe peel Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors w/ Angaleena Presley (Americana, rock), 9pm OskAr Blues BreWery The Dirty Badgers (blues, soul), 6pm pAck’s tAvern The Sloantones (blues, funk, bluegrass), 9pm pisGAh BreWinG cOmpAny Dead 27s w/ Marcus King Band (soul, blues, rock), 9pm purple OniOn cAfe The Moon & You (folk, cello), 8pm rOOm ix Open dance night, 9pm

mArcO’s pizzeriA Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz), 6pm

rOOt BAr nO. 1 The Wayne Graham Band (rock), 9pm

mArket plAce DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm

scAndAls niGhtcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

neW mOuntAin A Place to Bury Strangers w/ Ed Schrader’s Music Beat & Alligator Indian (rock), 10pm Asheville Dance Party Co-op, 10pm Stoop Kids (hip-hop, doo-wop, rock, jazz), 10pm

scully’s DJ, 10pm sOuthern AppAlAchiAn BreWery Bird in Hand (folk, indie), 8pm

sprinG creek tAvern Shane’s Gang (R&B), 8pm strAiGhtAWAy cAfe Straw Man, 6pm the AdmirAl Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm the phOenix The Get Right Band (funk, reggae, rock), 9pm the sOciAl Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm tOWn pump The Lionz of Zion (jam-rock, reggae, soul), 9pm tOy BOAt cOmmunity Art spAce Asheville Vaudeville, 7:30pm tressA’s dOWntOWn JAzz And Blues The King Zeros (blues), 7pm Al Coffee & Da Grind (blues, soul), 10pm tWisted lAurel Mandelkorn George (heavy soul-funk), 9:30pm vincenzO’s BistrO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm Wild WinG cAfe Karaoke, 8pm Wild WinG cAfe sOuth Trial By Fire (Journey tribute), 8pm Wxyz lOunGe At AlOft hOtel Lyric (funk, rock, soul), 8:30pm zAmBrA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

sundAy, feBruAry 22 5 WAlnut Wine BAr Drayton & The Dreamboats (vintage jazz), 7pm AltAmOnt theAtre Asheville Ecstatic Dance: first wave, 10am; second wave, 12pm Asheville music hAll Steely Dan Sunday, 9pm Blue kudzu sAke cOmpAny Karaoke & brunch, 2pm

neW mOuntAin Jeff Sipe, Billy Cardine & Jay Sanders (fusion), 8pm Empire Strikes Brass (brass, funk), 9pm OdditOrium Rad Lou, Bill Maltba & Lina Love (odd), 9pm Off the WAGOn Piano show, 9pm One stOp deli & BAr Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Reggae Sundays, 9pm

sOuthern AppAlAchiAn BreWery Vinyl night w/ Robin Tolleson & art by TJ Lantham (jazz, funk), 5pm

isis restAurAnt And music hAll Jazz showcase, 6pm JAck Of the WOOd puB Irish session, 5pm

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tiGer mOuntAin Seismic Sunday w/ Matthew Schrader (doom, sludge, drone, psych-metal), 10pm timO’s hOuse Asheville Drum ’n’ Bass Collective, 10pm tOWn pump Sunday Jam w/ Dan, 4pm Wayne Graham (alt-rock, Americana, rock), 9pm vincenzO’s BistrO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm White hOrse BlAck mOuntAin Owen High Rocks (benefit w/ BJ Leiderman), 3pm Wild WinG cAfe Walking Dead Viewing Party, 9pm Wild WinG cAfe sOuth Walking Dead Viewing Party, 9pm

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AltAmOnt BreWinG cOmpAny Old-time jam w/ John Hardy Party, 8pm

irOn hOrse stAtiOn Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm

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the phOenix Carrie Morrison (Americana), 8pm

BuriAl Beer cO. Jazz brunch w/ The Mandelkorn George Project (funk, soul), 12pm

Grey eAGle music hAll & tAvern The Deslondes & The Banditos (country, soul, alt-rock), 8pm

May 13 – 17, 2015

tAllGAry’s At fOur cOlleGe Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm

5 WAlnut Wine BAr Sankofa (world music), 8pm

dOuBle crOWn Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm

Southeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference

scAndAls niGhtcluB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

Blue mOuntAin pizzA & BreW puB Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm

crOW & Quill A Very Gorey Tea Party (Edward Gorey’s birthday w/ costumes, readings, games), 7pm

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pOur tAprOOm Open mic, 8pm

BlAck mOuntAin Ale hOuse Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 7:30pm ByWAter Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 9pm cOurtyArd GAllery Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm crOW & Quill Argentine tango w/ Michael Luchtan & Patrick Kukucka, 9pm dOuBle crOWn Punk ’n’ roll w/ DJs Dave & Rebecca, 10pm GOOd stuff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm Grey eAGle music hAll & tAvern Contra dance, 7pm

lAzy diAmOnd Honky Tonk Night w/ DJs, 10pm

JAck Of the WOOd puB Quizzo, 7pm Heather Styka (singer-songwriter), 9pm

mOJO kitchen & lOunGe Sunday night swing, 5pm

lAzy diAmOnd Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm

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lexinGtOn Ave BreWery (lAB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm

mArket plAce The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm

irOn hOrse stAtiOn Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm

lOBster trAp Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm

neW mOuntAin Mike Rhodes Fellowship (variety), 9pm

isis restAurAnt And music hAll Grits & Soul (bluegrass, soul), 7:15pm

neW mOuntAin Local Vocals (variety), 7pm Asheville Synth Club, 8pm

OdditOrium Odd comedy night, 9pm

JAck Of the WOOd puB Old-time session, 5pm

Off the WAGOn Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm

lAzy diAmOnd Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

One stOp deli & BAr Turntablism Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm

lOBster trAp Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 7pm

OrAnGe peel Excision (DJ, dubstep), 9pm

mOJO kitchen & lOunGe DJ Molly Parti “Get Over the Hump-day” dance party (funk, soul, hip-hop), 5:30pm

OdditOrium Mower (metal), 9pm One WOrld BreWinG Cameron Stack (blues), 8pm OskAr Blues BreWery Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm the mOthliGht Warehouse w/ Breathers, Ouroboros Boys, Frank Meadows (rock, new-wave), 9pm

neW mOuntAin Bridge Over Asheville (variety show of local artists), 7pm The Congress (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

the sOciAl Marc Keller, 6pm

tAllGAry’s At fOur cOlleGe Jam night, 9pm

timO’s hOuse Movie night, 7pm

the JOint next dOOr Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

vincenzO’s BistrO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm

the mOthliGht Deb au Nare’s Burlesque Academy Graduation Show, 10pm

White hOrse BlAck mOuntAin Veronica Nunes & Ricardo Vogt (Brazilian), 7:30pm

the sOciAl Jason Whitaker (acoustic-rock), 6pm

Off the WAGOn Piano show, 9pm

the sOuthern Junto (outlaw country), 10pm

Olive Or tWist Swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm

tiGer mOuntAin Tuesday Tests w/ Chris Ballard (techno, house, experimental, downtempo), 10pm

nOBle kAvA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm O.henry’s/the underGrOund “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm OdditOrium Divided Heaven & Scrum (acoustic, punk), 9pm

One WOrld BreWinG Brews & Beats w/ DJ Whistleblower, 8:30pm

tressA’s dOWntOWn JAzz And Blues Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm

5 WAlnut Wine BAr The John Henrys (ragtime, jazz), 8pm

pOur tAprOOm Karaoke, 8pm

vincenzO’s BistrO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm

AltAmOnt BreWinG cOmpAny Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8pm

rOOm ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

Westville puB Blues jam, 10pm

Asheville music hAll Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm

White hOrse BlAck mOuntAin Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm

rOOt BAr nO. 1 DJ Ken Bradenburg (old-school), 7pm

BlAck mOuntAin Ale hOuse Trivia, 7pm Blue mOuntAin pizzA & BreW puB Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm BuffAlO nickel Trivia, 7pm cOrk & keG Honky-tonk Jamboree w/ Tom Pittman, 6:30pm dOuBle crOWn Punk ’n’ roll w/ DJs Sean & Will, 10pm GOOd stuff Old time-y night, 6:30pm Grey eAGle music hAll & tAvern Civil Twilight w/ Zeke Duhon (indie), 8pm irOn hOrse stAtiOn Open mic, 6pm isis restAurAnt And music hAll Bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm JAck Of the WOOd puB Charlie & the Foxtrots (folk, indie), 9pm

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mOuntAin mOJO cOffeehOuse Open mic, 6:30pm

scully’s Open mic w/ Jeff Anders, 9pm

185 kinG street Dinner theater w/ Annalise Emerick & Rupert Wates (singer-songwriters), 6:30pm

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rOOt BAr nO. 1 Cameron Stack (blues), 9pm

the phOenix Ellen Trnka (singer-songwriter), 8pm

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pOur tAprOOm Frank Zappa night, 8pm

WednesdAy, feBruAry 25 5 WAlnut Wine BAr Wine tasting w/ Matt Bednarsky (acoustic pop, rock), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco), 8pm AltAmOnt BreWinG cOmpAny Songwriter series w/ Dave Desmelik, Pierce Edens & Morgan Greer, 8:30pm Ben’s tune-up Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm BlAck BeAr cOffee cO. Spotlight (poetry slam or reading, open mic), 6pm Blue kudzu sAke cOmpAny Bill Gerhardt’s Trio South (jazz), 6pm Blue mOuntAin pizzA & BreW puB Open Mic w/ Mark Bumgarner, 7pm dOuBle crOWn Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm

lAzy diAmOnd Punk ’n’ Roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm

Grey eAGle music hAll & tAvern Ray Bonneville & The Lowest Pair (roots, blues), 8pm

lOBster trAp Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singer-songwriter), 7pm

Grind cAfe Trivia night, 7pm

mArcO’s pizzeriA Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz), 6:30pm

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PLaYERs: Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine, Mark Hamill, Sofia Boutella, Samantha Womack, Sophie Cookson oVER-thE-toP sPY sPooF With caRnaGE RatEd R thE stoRY: The supersecret Kingsman agency has to go headto-head with a madman with an extreme — and extremely lethal — plan to solve climate change. thE LoWdoWn: Wildly inappropriate, politically incorrect, possibly reprehensible, ultrastylish, violent, bloody, over-the-top fun that will delight some and appall others — and may well delight and appall some at the same time.

Cheeky, rude, stylized, stylish, in crashingly bad taste and with something to offend absolutely everyone.

In short, check it out. This week saw the release of two supposedly transgressive, shocking, subversive movies — Fifty Shades of Grey and this. The big difference is that the former is a tease, a snare, a lie, while Kingsman: The Secret Service delivers on those promises. Oh, you may not like it, but you’ll be hard-pressed to say its transgressions are mere hype. Look, I’m pretty jaded. I’ve almost seen it all — and enough times that I yawn at most of it and shrug off the rest. Though I can’t say I was ever actually offended by the film, I was startled — even shocked — by a few points, and I most cer-

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coLin FiRth and taRon EGERton in Matthew Vaughn’s outrageous, shocking, potentially offensive, stylish and often very funny spy spoof Kingsman: The Secret Service.

tainly never yawned. The movie’s too much unwholesome fun for that — and it’s definitely too prickly.

Kingsman is, in fact, sufficiently prickly that it has succeeded in appalling critic friends of mine with whom I usually (more or less) agree. It has also prompted a certain amount of back-andforth emailing with folks I saw it with — the point being whether or not to be offended, what to be offended by and what the underlying meaning of it all is.

While I admit that the film’s tone is frequently reactionary and decidedly of the opinion that good manners, Saville Row tailoring and a very cinematic vision of upper-class England are the only hope for humanity, I think it’s not terribly concerned with underlying meaning. This is first and foremost a 1960s spy/Bond spoof in sort of modern terms. It’s a lot like the 1967 Casino Royale — with a lot more blood and carnage. In fact, the two films have more than a few similarities, including — but not limited to — the criticisms leveled against them.

The plot is reasonably straightforward — at least as these things go.

Kingsman is an organization of spies — hidden behind and underneath (and with pneumatic transport to a Stately Homes of England training facility) a

high-end clothing concern. This is no ordinary spy organization. These are the elite of the elite — really top-drawer representatives of what the movies have taught us is Great Britain at its best and most sophisticated. They do not represent Her Majesty’s government. They are too sophisticated to require any such sanction as they set the world to rights with their special skills, bottomless wallets and James Bond gadgetry. In the midst of finding a replacement for a fallen comrade, they find themselves pitted against a megalomaniac (Samuel L. Jackson putting his own spin on Jack Nicholson’s performance as the Joker) with a fiendishly extreme plan for solving the climate change problem. He plans to kill off most of humanity — leaving only a select group of one-percenters and their requisite servants — to bring things down to a manageable level.

To say much more about this aspect of the film would probably do it a disservice. Let’s just say that it’s a less specific, technological riff on Dr. Noah’s bacillus from the original Casino Royale. The problem with saying more about this is that it might blunt the impact — comedic and shocking — of such outrages as a magnificently violent test run at a thinly-

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veiled version of the Westboro Baptist Church and an almost Cronenbergian sequence joyously (and blasphemously) set to Elgar’s “Land of Hope and Glory.” While I suspect familiarity won’t really damage the impact of this, some things are just better experienced than described. It is a film made by people who obviously know and love their 1960s spy movies but aren’t afraid to take their tropes to new and disturbing levels.

While the film showcases agent Harry Hart (Colin Firth), it’s ultimately more focused on his — wildly inappropriate — candidate for the replacement Kingsman, Gary “Eggsy” Unwin (a star-making turn by newcomer Taron Egerton), a street tough who happens to be the son of a Kingsman who died saving Harry. The goal is to transform Eggsy into something like Harry’s own impossibly poised self. (Think Patrick Macnee as John Steed in TV’s The Avengers — the perfect embodiment of a potentially lethal English gentleman, but here one who doesn’t need the assistance of Diana Rigg’s Emma Peel when it comes to doing battle.) It is exactly as Eggsy views it — “like My Fair Lady.”

Should you see it? Well, if you’re particularly squeamish or have an aversion to violence, probably not. Otherwise, yes. Will you be offended? Oh, very likely — and not necessarily for reasons you might expect — but that’s rather the point. There’s something to be said for a movie — especially a comedy — with that kind of power. Rated R for sequences of strong violence, language and some sexual content.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed by Ken Hanke

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It may take days — even weeks — before I work my way back up the evolutionary scale to where I was before being subjected to Fifty Shades of Grey. There is a very good chance that I will see nothing worse all year. I’m pretty sure I will see nothing more brain-witheringly stupid and boring — or less sexy.

Go to your kitchen — find a drooping stalk of celery and a dessicated apple. Now, pretend they’re talking dirty to each other. I guarantee you the results will be hotter than anything conjured up by the characters in this cretinous concoction.

Put bluntly, if you want your prurient interests slapped and tickled, you may want to consider other options — possibly one of those shows about bass fishing.

Let us assume that you don’t know of the existence of the “literary” phenomenon responsible for this movie’s existence — a piece of writing by one E.L. James (real name: Erika Mitchell) that started life as a piece of Twilight fan fiction called Master of the Universe put out by Ms. James under the nom de fanfic Snowqueen’s Icedragon. (Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?) Somehow — fueled, she says, by her own midlife crisis — the moody vampire became a moody billionaire with a taste for S&M, the nervous high school virgin became a nervous 27-year-old virgin literature major and hardware store employee, and a cash cow called Fifty Shades of Grey was born. This bovine begat two sequel novels — and now the first has been turned into a cinematic event of an equally lucrative nature.

I am told that the film isn’t as bad as the novel — a piece of bone-chilling information that ensures I will never read the book.

The idea is that this is some kind of envelope-pushing, boundarytesting, erotically-daring cinema.

Unfortunately, no envelopes were pushed, no boundaries tested and no eros was dared. (Go check out some sex-centric movies made in the early days of ratings — say, 196975 — and see how weak this tea is.)

No, what we have here is a corny yarn of the prince-and-the-commoner school — a wheezy concept that predates the movies altogether, though I think I saw it in at least one 100-year-old Douglas Fairbanks picture. Here it’s a charismachallenged filthy rich bore named Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) who becomes improbably smitten with — via an even more improbable “meet cute” — the personality-free, working-her-way-through-college

HHHHH = max rating Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson).

Quicker than you can flick a licoricewhip, he’s stalking her — even though he knows this is wrong because he has a Dark Secret. His brand of sex is the kind that leaves a mark — literally.

More to the point, he’s a “dominant” looking for a “submissive.”

She wants romance. He wants a contractual agreement. No, really he does — leading to perhaps the only piece of legalese ever to raise the question, “What are butt-plugs?”

(I guess this sort of thing is pretty steamy to legal teams.) He shows up wherever she is, showers her with gifts and solves her virginity “problem” for her, but she dithers around and bites her lower lip (Ms. Johnson’s principal acting skill, which still puts her one up on Mr. Dornan) and won’t sign — even after she’s dabbled in his designer den of debauchery devices. This is essentially the whole plot.

There is no chemistry here — and apart from the fact that neither of the leads can be accused of possessing a personality, nothing to even explain the attraction. The fact that it’s obvious in interviews that Johnson and Dornan don’t much like each other doesn’t help matters.

What we are supposedly here for is the sex. That’s what all the hype is based on — and hype is about all it is. About 40 minutes of the movie’s 125-minute running time have elapsed before we get to any sex at all. And the sex ... even with the whips and chains business, this is pretty tame stuff. (If you want some serious kink for your buck, check out Kathleen Turner in dominatrix togs sodomizing a handcuffed cop with his own nightstick in Ken Russell’s 1984 Crimes of Passion, though in all fairness that didn’t get by the MPAA with an R rating.) There’s not even much in the way of nudity — certainly no frontal views of Dornan and mostly artfully-posed legs from Johnson. Bare breasts and Dornan’s thrusting rump account for most of it. Otherwise, this is just a glossy bore with tin-eared dialogue more apt to induce snickers than drama. (Can anyone really get past Dornan blurting out, “I’m fifty shades of fucked up!” with a straight face?) Maybe it’s the wooden acting and appalling dialogue, but what it mostly reminded me of was Atlas Shrugged (2011) — and that’s an awful thing to say about any movie. Rated R for strong sexual content including dialogue, some unusual behavior, graphic nudity and for language.

Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Song of the Sea HHH diREctoR: Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells) pLaYERs: (Voices) Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle, Pat Shortt, Lisa Hannigan animatEd FaiRY taLE RatEd pg thE stoRY: Two children — sent to live with their grandmother — attempt to trek back home, only to find out the sister is entangled in a fantastical mystery. thE Lowdown: A handsome looking film with a story that’s too basic to be memorable.

With its hand-drawn (via CGI) visuals and storybook nature, Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea is an often striking looking movie, one that’s totally pleasant and likely unmemorable. It’s exactly the kind of movie that gets Oscar nods in the animated category (and this did) — classier and more “traditional” looking than, say, Big Hero 6 while more accessible (though less visually impressive) than The Tale of Princess Kaguya. It chugs along, occasionally being clever, but mostly checking off boxes on its grocery list of a plot. There’s not much to truly dislike here, but there’s even less to be excited about.

Like director Moore’s previous Oscar-nominated film The Secret of Kells (2010), Song of the Sea deals in myth and fairy tale. In this case, the movie takes something more akin to a revisionist model, repurposing a number of Celtic myths — though mainly focusing on the selkie — and depositing them in a modern world. The film opens with the mother (Lisa Hannigan) of Ben (David Rawle) and wife of Conor (Brendan Gleeson) seemingly dying while giving birth to Saoirse.

The film jumps forward, showing a family mired in trauma, with Conor depressed, Ben angsty and Saoirse — now six — still having yet to speak her first words. After Saoirse walks into the ocean one night and nearly drowns, she and Ben are sent to live with their grandmother (Fionnula Flanagan)

staRting FRidaY in Dublin, but the brother and sister decide to make a run for it and head back home. Here, they begin to unravel the true nature of their mother’s disappearance as they find themselves ensconced in a world of magical creatures and evil witches.

It’s basic fairy tale stuff, though I suppose it feels a bit fresher since it’s centered on lesser-known (at least to me) Celtic folk stories. Stripped of this, however, the plot’s mechanics are extremely worn. Ben learns to be a better brother, Conor snaps out of his depression and Saoirse makes exactly the kind of tough decision that one expects in what wants to be a heartwarming tale. There’s no real tension and no real growth, something I suppose shouldn’t be expected coming from a family-friendly animated adventure aimed at young children. But that being said, on a grander scale it makes for a fairly tepid movie in practice, one that often looks gorgeous (and has more visual personality of its own than most animated films) but relies too much on its looks. Rated PG for some mild peril, language and pipe smoking images.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Justin Souther

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The DUFF The DUFF stands for “Designated Ugly Fat Friend” — though, of course, no one on the poster seems to qualify for that status. It stars people you mostly never heard of and comes to us from a director known for a web series (it was only a matter of time). The publicity says, “Bianca (Mae Whitman) is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body knows her as ‘The DUFF’ (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) to her prettier, more popular friends (Skyler Samuels and Bianca Santos). Now, despite the words of caution from her favorite teacher (Ken Jeong), she puts aside the potential distraction of her crush, Toby (Nick Eversman), and enlists Wesley (Robbie Amell), a slick but charming jock, to help reinvent herself.” (pg-13)

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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 For whatever reason (surely, it can’t be because he’s too choosy) John Cusack isn’t onboard for the sequel in what is now being called “a franchise.” Instead we get Adam Scott. According to the very brief blurb, “Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink returns to the helm for this sequel set 10 years in the future, and starring Rob Corddry, Adam Scott, Clark Duke and Craig Robinson.” That said, the trailer is just awful. (R)

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McFarland, USA Fact-based uplifting sports movie from the folks at Disney, who insist it’s a “true against-all-odds story of the 1987 McFarland High School cross country team in an economically challenged community.” It stars Kevin Costner and Maria Bello, and unlike this week’s other offerings, it has a smattering of reviews — mostly positive, but too few to be meaningful. (pg)

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diREctoR: Tod Browning (Dracula) pLaYERs: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Connelly, Gertrude Short daRK thRiLLER Rated NR Tod Browning’s The Show (1927) is one of the director’s best films — and also one of his most unknown. I suspect the problem is that it cannot in any real sense be pigeonholed as a horror picture, and unlike Browning’s better known silent films, it doesn’t star Lon Chaney.

The closest it gets to horror elements lies in its sideshow scenes and a singularly bizarre murder method involving a leaping poisonous lizard (in reality an iguana) — suggesting that someone had taken Little Orphan Annie’s catchphrase a little too much to heart. The only role that might have gone to Chaney was The Greek, but it was too small for an actor of Chaney’s stature and so went to Lionel Barrymore. No, this is first and foremost a Browning melodrama crafted as a John Gilbert vehicle. And while Gilbert was a big deal in 1927, he’s pretty much forgotten today, which is a great pity. In The Show we get Gilbert at his most appealing and sexy as a sideshow carnival barker who doubles as John the Baptist in a Salome recreation. It’s essentially the story of his redemption through the love of Renée Adorée, but with numerous dark undertones — and a large dose his sex appeal. Ultimately, it’s a little silly, but it still works if you acclimate to the style and tone. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Show Sunday, Feb. 22, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

diREctoR: James Tinling pLaYERs: Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Keye Luke, Jon Hall, Russell Hicks, Halliwell Hobbes mYstERY Rated NR Charlie Chan in Shanghai marked the fourth Charlie Chan movie not adapted from a novel and the second one to feature Keye Luke as Charlie’s No. One Son, Lee Chan. As most of these films were — it’s more obvious if you see them in order — it was designed to directly relate to the films that preceded it, though it’s not necessary to have seen the others to follow along. For some reason, it’s never quite been given its due. It has one of the strongest plots and a pretty good surprise killer, which I’m sure worked better then than it does now owing to the casting. (What actors become known for years later can be tricky.) The chemistry between Keye Luke and Oland has here fully bloomed but has yet to be totally relegated to comedy relief. (There’s even a touching scene where Lee thinks Charlie has been shot.)

The premise has Charlie being sent to Shanghai to help break up an opium-smuggling ring. (The movies were never too concerned with why a detective from the Honolulu Police Department was sent on such missions.) Everything about it is just first rate, making it one of the best of all Charlie Chan mysteries. The Asheville Film Society will screen Charlie Chan in Shanghai Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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Santa Sangre HHHHS diREctoR: Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo) pLaYERs: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou, Sabina Dennison, Adan Jodorowsky FantasticatEd hoRRoR Rated NR Praised by many (including Roger Ebert) and vilified by others, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre (1989) sits poised uneasily between the world of art house cinema and exploitation horror. Because its slasher horror content is occasionally so extreme, it originally earned an NC-17 rating — a rating that was later surrendered by the filmmakers in order to put back footage that had been trimmed to secure any kind of rating at all. In this — and in many other respects — the film earns its polarizing nature. There are scenes that are bound to offend everyone in the audience at one point or another, which is deliberate. A weird collaboration between Jodorowsky and Claudio Argento (brother of Italian horror director Dario Argento), the film is a mix of influences, including Luis Buñuel, Tod Browning, James Whale, Hitchcock, German Expressionism, John Waters and extremely gory splatter movies. But the film ultimately manages to be pure Jodorowsky — with everything that implies, including the uncertainty as to whether the filmmaker is really as wacko as he appears, or if it’s at least partly a contrived persona. Is the man a genius, a madman or a charlatan? My guess is that he’s a bit of all three. What’s most alarming is that Santa Sangre is probably the most accessible of his films. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Santa Sangre Thursday, Feb. 19, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted

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aVaILabLE POSITIONS • meridiAn BehAviOrAl heAlth peer support specialists Multiple positions open for Peer Support Specialists working within a number of recovery oriented programs within our agency. Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for individuals to transform their own personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction challenges into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others.

Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process, have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and have moderate computer skills. For further information, contact hr.department@meridianbhs.org. clinician Openings in the following programs: • PACE (Peers Assisting in Community Engagement) • Recovery Education Center (REC) & Specialized Assessment Henderson/Rutherford/Polk/Transylvania Counties • Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) – Jackson County • Child & Family Team. All clinician positions require you to be a Licensed/Associate Licensed Therapist, with a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, flexibility, and above moderate computer skills. For further information, contact hr.department@ meridianbhs.org or visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org haywood and transylvania counties employment support professional (esp) Supported Employment Program The ESP position functions as a part of a team that implements employment services based on the SEIPS model. The team’s goal is to support individuals who have had challenges with obtaining and/or maintaining employment in the past and to obtain and maintain competitive employment moving forward. The ESP is responsible for engaging clients and establishing trusting, collaborative relationships that result in the creation and completion of individualized employment goals. The ESP will support the client through the whole employment process and provide a variety of services at each stage to support the individual in achieving their employment goals. For more information contact

hr.department@meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org child/AdOlescent mentAl heAlth pOsitiOns in JAcksOn, hAyWOOd, & mAcOn cOunties Looking to fill several positions between now and Aug/Sept. Licensed/ provisional therapists to provide Outpatient, Day Treatment or Intensive In-home services to children/adolescents with mental health diagnoses. Therapists must have current NC therapist license. Also looking for QP/ Qualified professionals to provide Intensive In-home or Day Treatment services. QP’s must have Bachelor’s degree and 2-4 years of experience post-degree with this population (experience required depends on type of degree). Apply by submitting resume to telliot@jcpsmail.org clinicAl directOr JOB OpeninG Four Circles Recovery Center, a wilderness substance abuse recovery program for young adults, is seeking a licensed Clinical Director to oversee all clinical aspects of the program and ensure that the program delivers clinical care to clients and families in recovery in a way that maximizes independence and family empowerment.

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Aries (March 21-April 19): There are many different facets to your intelligence, and each matures at a different rate. So, for example, your ability to think symbolically may evolve more slowly than your ability to think abstractly. Your wisdom about why humans act the way they do may ripen more rapidly than your insight into your own emotions. In the coming weeks, I expect one particular aspect of your intelligence to be undergoing a growth spurt: your knowledge of what your body needs and how to give it what it needs. tAurus (April 20-May 20): What is the proper blend for you these days? Is it something like 51 percent pleasure and 49 percent business?

Or would you be wiser to shoot for 49 percent pleasure and 51 percent business? I will leave that decision up to you, Taurus. Whichever way you go, I suggest that you try to interweave business and pleasure as often as possible. You are in one of those action-packed phases when fun dovetails really well with ambition. I’m guessing that you can make productive connections at parties. I’m betting that you can spice up your social life by taking advantage of what comes to you through your work.

Gemini (May 21-June 20): In 1900, the world’s most renowned mathematicians met at a conference in Paris. There the German whiz David Hilbert introduced his master list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems. At the time, no one had done such an exhaustive inventory. His well-defined challenge set the agenda for math research throughout the 20th century. Today he’s regarded as an influential visionary.

I’d love to see you come up with a list of your own top unsolved problems, Gemini. You now have extra insight about the catalytic projects you will be smart to work on and play with during the coming years. cAncer (June 21-July 22): “Spanipelagic” is an adjective scientists use to describe creatures that typically hang out in deep water but float up to the surface on rare occasions. The term is not a perfect metaphorical fit for you since you come up for air more often than that. But you do go through phases when you’re inclined to linger for a long time in the abyss, enjoying the dark mysteries and fathomless emotions. According to my reading of the astrological omens, that’s what you’ve been doing lately. Any day now, however, I expect you’ll be rising up from the Great Down Below and heading topside for an extended stay. leO (July 23-Aug. 22): When faced with a big decision, you might say you want to “sleep on it.”

In other words, you postpone your final determination until you gather more information and ripen your understanding of the pressing issues. And that could indeed involve getting a good night’s sleep. What happens in your dreams may reveal nuances you can’t pry loose with your waking consciousness alone. And even if you don’t recall your dreams, your sleeping mind is busy processing and reworking the possibilities. I recommend that you make liberal use of the “sleep on it” approach in the coming weeks, Leo. Revel in the wisdom that wells up in you as you’re lying down in the dark. virGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1962, Edward Albee published his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

It won numerous awards and is still performed by modern theater groups. Albee says the title came to him as he was having a beer at a bar in New York City. When he went to the restroom, he spied the words “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” scrawled in soap on the mirror. I urge you to be alert for that kind of inspiration in the coming days, Virgo: unexpected, provocative and out of context. You never know when and where you may be furnished with clues about the next plot twist of your life story. liBrA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Edward III, a medieval English king, had a favorite poet: Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1374, the king promised Chaucer a big gift in appreciation for his talents: a gallon of wine every day for the rest of his life. That’s not the endowment I would have wanted if I had been Chaucer. I’d never get any work done if I were quaffing 16 glasses of wine every 24

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pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): “It isn’t normal to know what we want,” said pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow. “It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

That’s the bad news, Pisces. The good news is that you may be on the verge of rendering that theory irrelevant. In the coming weeks, you will be better primed to discover what you really want than you have been in a long time. I suggest you do a ritual in which you vow to unmask this treasured secret. Write a formal statement in which you declare your intention to achieve full understanding of the reasons you are alive on this planet.

hours. Couldn’t I instead be provided with a regular stipend? Keep this story in mind, Libra, as you contemplate the benefits or rewards that might become available to you. Ask for what you really need, not necessarily what the giver initially offers. scOrpiO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To make the cocktail known as Sex on the Beach, you mix together cranberry juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, peach schnapps and vodka. There is also an alternative “mocktail” called Safe Sex on the Beach. It has the same fruit juices but no alcohol.

Given the likelihood that your inner teenager will be playing an important role in your upcoming adventures, Scorpio, I recommend that you favor the Safe-Sex-on-the-Beach metaphor rather than the Sex-on-the-Beach approach. At least temporarily, it’s best to show a bit of protective restraint toward the wild and sometimes erratic juvenile energy that’s pushing to be expressed. sAGittArius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” a lawyer hires a man named Bartleby to work in his office. At first Bartleby is a model employee, carrying out his assignments with dogged skill.

But one day everything begins to change.

Whenever his boss instructs him to do a specific task, Bartleby says, “I would prefer not to.” As the days go by, he does less and less, until finally he stops altogether. I’d like to propose, Sagittarius, that you take inspiration from his slowdown.

Haven’t you done enough for now? Haven’t you been exemplary in your commitment to the daily struggle? Don’t you deserve a break in the action so you can recharge your psychospiritual batteries?

I say yes. Maybe you will consider making this your battle cry: “I would prefer not to.” cApricOrn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” That’s what American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson advised. Even if you’re not naturally inclined to see the potential wisdom of that approach, I invite you to play around with it for the next three weeks. You don’t need to do it forever. It doesn’t have to become a permanent fixture in your philosophy. Just for now, experiment with the possibility that trying lots of experiments will lead you not just to new truths, but to new truths that are fun, interesting and useful.

AQuArius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The art of the French Aquarian painter Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) appears in prestigious museums. He isn’t as famous as his fellow Impressionists Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, but he wielded a big influence on them both. His career developed slowly because he had to work a day job to earn a living. When he was 50 years old, he won a wad of free money in the national lottery and thereafter devoted himself full-time to painting. I’m not saying you will enjoy a windfall like that anytime soon, Aquarius, but such an event is possible.

At the very least, your income could rise. Your odds of experiencing financial luck will increase to the degree that you work to improve the best gifts you have to offer your fellow humans.

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