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Thumbs down for ‘Hail, Caesar!’ Perhaps movie reviewer Cranky Hanke selected the headline blended into a photo of George Clooney leading off the review of the movie “Hail, Caesar!” [“Cranky Hanke Reviews & Listings,” Feb. 10, Xpress]. It stated, “Pick of the Week” when it should have said, “Pick of the Weak.” Along with the other local movie critics, Ken raved about the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life, and that covers about seven decades.
I have trusted Ken’s judgment totally since retiring to Asheville in December of 2000. Over that entire period, he misled me only once — until this debacle. This movie had no plot, a pathetic script, no viable dialogue, insane costumes and came across as a very bad satire. Please tell Mr. Hanke to approach future reviews with more discretion before he loses all of his faithful readers. In the future, I will use extreme caution in considering his selections. — Chuck Werle Asheville
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HIGH TIMES AT THE SKY CLUB In the 1930s, it was called the Old Heidelberg Supper Club, offering superb food and dancing in an iconic mountainside venue that was originally Oliver Cromwell Hamilton’s mansion. It was purchased by Gus and Emma Adler as chronicled by the esteemed Rob Neufeld, who has so brilliantly brought Western North Carolina’s history to life. The porch offered breathtaking views of downtown Asheville and the magnificent mountains beyond. Gus was an extremely talented chef, and his tall, stately, affable wife was the quintessential hostess, greeting everyone with a gracious smile and a big hug while she quietly and efficiently managed the place with an iron fist. This was the place to see and be seen, frequented by the business community, politicians, judges and law enforcement. Even the carriage trade would slip out of the country club to go slumming at this Gatsby-esque sepia speak-easy. Emma was both beloved and wellconnected, hence the club was never busted despite the almost wide-open sale of alcohol. But sometimes, when you ordered a drink, you’d be politely informed that the club only sold setups (a bucket of ice and mixers such as Coke and 7-Up) — a sure sign that undercover agents were in the building. My parents were frequent customers, enjoying the fine dining and dancing to the band on weekends. As a youngster, I remember them taking me to several parties and weddings held there. After I returned to Asheville from the Navy in the mid-’50s, my wife and I shared many wonderful evenings at the Sky Club (the name had been changed in 1942, when things German were understandably unpopular). Perhaps the most exciting event ever to take place at the Sky Club was when Robert Mitchum came to town to star in Thunder Road. The whole town was star-struck, and one scene in the movie was shot in the restaurant. A couple of my friends took the entire week off from work just to be extras in the nightclub scene.
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Mitchum cut a wide swath here. He and his wife stayed at the Battery Park Hotel, and it was widely rumored that his mistress was staying down the street at the Vanderbilt. Mitchum spent most evenings at the Sky Club, though, drinking, dining and dancing with the ladies who absolutely threw themselves at this tall, handsome movie star. I witnessed more than one violent confrontation precipitated by a husband’s or boyfriend’s jealous rage, but Mitchum was big enough to take care of himself — and, after all, all he was doing was dancing. In the ’60s, Don Boss took over the club and ran it for a few years. He somehow got involved with a promoter who was running a pyramid scheme called Dare to be Great, and they’d hired Jackie Mason (who had recently been ostracized from the entertainment circuit for giving Ed Sullivan the finger during his performance) to put on his borscht belt stand-up act at the City Auditorium, with Regis Philbin as master of ceremonies. The show sold only a handful of tickets, however, so they moved it to the Sky Club to satisfy the few paying customers. I was already in the club when they came in that night, and Don asked me if Jackie and Regis could sit at my table. The two vivid memories I took away from that occasion were that Jackie might as well have been speaking Yiddish, as he totally bombed trying to entertain a bunch of us redneck mountaineers —
and that Regis drank my entire bottle of scotch. I ran into him in Vegas a couple of years ago, and he remembered the occasion, not too fondly, and didn’t even offer to buy me a drink. Go figure. It was about this time that I came up with one of my less-than-brilliant business decisions. Many women dream of having their own boutique, because it seems oh, so creative and exciting; many men dream of running some sort of bar or club, I guess to experience the macho mystique that comes with being a bona fide “club owner.” I was in the club one night with Odell Harris, a very popular and experienced bar manager, and we heard that Don Boss was giving it up. Odell and I decided that this was a golden opportunity for the both of us. So we opened the club, and between the old customers and the new ones who followed Odell, we did a very good business. We hadn’t done our homework, however, and it quickly became apparent that there wasn’t much profit in selling food and a few dollars’ worth of mixers and ice to all the brown-baggers. There was some money in beer and wine, but it didn’t come close to what Emma must have made illegally selling liquor by the drink. I was already involved with other local businesses and couldn’t risk jeopardizing my reputation by being busted for illegal alcohol sales. In addition, the physical setup was very unwieldy: a three-story building with the dining room up top, accessed only by a set of very steep, narrow steps. Food was delivered by means of a very cranky little elevator called a dumbwaiter, and communication with the kitchen was by order slips or yelling up and down through the dumbwaiter. Still, the customers loved the place, and Odell brought in some really good bands. Some of his followers, however, were engaged in less-than-savory occupations: drug dealers, professional shoplifters, bookies, gamblers and probably a couple of hit men would come and sit at their own table, accompanied by assorted pimps and hookers. Odell, though, was known as a man not to be trifled with, so those folks were always dressed properly, behaved discreetly, spent a lot of money and treated both Odell and me very respectfully. I would occasionally sit at their table for a few minutes, listening to their conversation and feeling like Damon Runyon in Lindy’s in New York City.
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LIVINg LARgE: In this photo, thought to be from the mid-1940s, Emma Adler stands outside the storied Sky Club she owned with her husband, Gus Adler. Photo courtesy of Jewish Life in Western North Carolina Collections, Special Collections, Ramsey Library, UNC Asheville Odell and I tried a lot of schemes. We got the head chef at A-B Tech to teach us how to serve a buffet, but most of our patrons wanted table service. We opened an after-hours club called The Elbow Room, with a topless waitress (who wore pasties, of course). Trouble was, the only girl we could get to take the job was so topless that we practically had to stencil “front” and “back” on her. This brought in a few dollars, but the lateness of the hour gave us too many problems with drunks. I marveled at how any of them managed to safely drive down that winding mountain road. Odell opened a poker game downstairs, but again, I was concerned about the illegality and the seedy characters it brought in, so this, too, was short-lived. Alas, we finally closed, and the Sky Club was no more. The old mansion was subsequently converted into condos. Aiming to create a positive legacy from this experience, however, I’ve started an organization called Restaurants and Bar Owners Anonymous. If you’ve lost your ass in this business and get the notion of opening another one, we promise to come and sit with you all night to talk you out of it. Jerry Sternberg is a an Asheville native who enjoys sharing his memories of local history and is still active in business and
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All booked up A special edition of Jerry Sternberg’s book, The Gospel According to Jerry, has been issued in connection with the author’s 85th birthday. All proceeds will be used to provide emergency shelter, counseling, court advocacy and education for victims of domestic violence. There are several ways to obtain a copy: • Send a check for $25 per book, made out to Helpmate, to Helpmate, att: Ann Flynn, P.O. Box 2263, Asheville NC 28802. • Order online (helpmateonline.org/ donors). When you see the prompt that asks about “special requests,” write “ordering 85th birthday edition of Jerry’s book.” • Call Ann Flynn at 254-2968, ext. 111; please have your credit card ready. • The following venues have kindly agreed to sell the book at the same price and donate all the money to Helpmate: • Grovewood Gallery • Gallery of the Mountains in the Omni Grove Park Inn • Estes-Winn Antique Car Museum
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BY milton REaDY First, I’m not really all that liberal, progressive, radical, left-wing, elitist or, in truth, any of the other dismissive, mocking labels hurled at college professors by those who inhabit the swamps of right-wing thought these days. Gosh, I enjoyed saying that. I suspect that few radical professors even exist in today’s threatened, insecure, volatile academic environment. I’m also not very snarky, whatever that term means. I’m from rural Texas, reared by parents who never finished middle, much less high school, and you were considered privileged if you had indoor plumbing, green grass and spoke as well as Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush or Rick Perry. Really. Of course, they all went to college and graduated, though I doubt that any of them had more than a C average. Heck, with those credentials, you could even be president. But I suspect that whatever dollop of liberalism I have came from living in other foreign countries, besides Texas, and serving in the Army, an experience that taught me a lot about diversity, other cultures, gender equality and real patriotism. So did Asheville. Religion? Early on I attended a small Missionary Baptist church, and when my family moved into a larger home on a sand-packed road close to Mickey Gilley’s roadhouse, of Urban Cowboy fame, I became a real Texas Southern Baptist. We’re not like Southern-lite Baptists; in fact, we were fundamentalists long before evangelists became politically correct. Did you know that Gilley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Lee Swaggart, perhaps one of the greatest gospel singers and lap swimmers of all time, were all bad-boy cousins, born-again sinners and sort of Baptists? As the saying went, a whole lot of shaking went on in that family. You should also realize that Texas Baptists are going to take over the country, just as they took Texas, when Rafael Eduardo “Ted” Cruz becomes president. You betcha. The myth of liberal college professors comes from the perceived failures of the Woodstock generation
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and the 1960s countercultural revolution. As the story goes, all those hippies and freaks stayed in college, became professional students who accumulated lots of degrees, infiltrated faculties and, having failed to directly change the country, decided instead to brainwash a new generation of students with their leftist ideas. Others supposedly migrated to cities like Asheville and San Francisco, where they set up hippie communes, moved to the countryside, attended Rainbow Gatherings, started an eco-farm, brewed a few craft beers, tattooed everything except their genitals, grew some pot and eventually became quite respectable, if apolitical. I arrived in Asheville not as a liberal but, rather, with all the ingredients of an antiintellectualism that never came together: a fundamentalist, radical Protestant religion; a rural belief that practicality trumped “book larning”; and a healthy distrust of institutions, whether they were governments, banks or schools. Frankly, that mirrored the sentiments of most of my students at UNC Asheville, who mainly came from Western North Carolina and had conservative parents. Yet a funny thing happened on the way to the forum to discuss what humanists call “great ideas.” Asheville woke up from a 50-year slumber and reinvented itself while the rest of North Carolina, excepting Gov. Jim Hunt’s brief Camelot, went back to its reactionary roots.
Asheville, the new “Paris of the South” or “Appalachian Shangri-La” or “granola ghetto of the Carolinas” or whatever other alluring sobriquet you choose, became the living context in which UNCA students could examine not only “great ideas” but also their own lives. Mine, too. It was Asheville, not sneaky liberal professors, that changed them, just as it affected Western North Carolina and, to a lesser extent, the state as a whole. It still does. In fact, except for a handful of professors who were mostly from Northern states, Asheville’s faculty hardly seemed liberal at all — not even close to those I’d known at the University of Georgia or in Texas. And in any case, liberalism died years ago, while most of the supposedly leftist professors have died, retired or taken up gardening. Take a close look at the UNCA faculty and alums who’ve served on either Asheville’s City Council or the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners — folks like Gene Rainey, Walt Boland and Nathan Ramsey — and you’ll find little hint of radicalism. That reflects Asheville’s organic nature. What other city in the South would have selected strong women like Leni Sitnick, from its Jewish community, and Terry Bellamy, an African-American, as mayors? They
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were reminders of the importance of determined, energetic women — blacks and gays, too — in the city’s history. Asheville changed the university, its students and me. Asheville surely must be the protest capital not only of the mountains but maybe even of the region. You can rest assured that any issue involving women, gays and, to a lesser extent, race or ethnicity will inevitably draw women wearing black, gays wearing rainbow colors and the young wearing practically anything (or almost nothing) but with loads of tattoos and piercings as background. Remember the thong guy? Only in Asheville. Yet you will look in vain for any protests in such neighboring mountain counties as Madison, Avery and McDowell. Moreover, working-class students like those at UNCA simply can’t afford risky campus protests — nor can middleclass professors trying to establish a career. That, however, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t fear the “Bern” of the millennials, those 81 million born between 1982 and 2002, as Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush have learned. Millennials have already decided, usually progressively, where they stand on almost all the issues that vex an older generation — abortion, gay marriage, immigration, women’s rights, education, the environment and America’s role in the world — and they don’t really care about Donald Trump’s hair, Ted Cruz’s birth or Hillary Clinton’s emails. And sooner or later, they will vote: an uneasy prospect for all. The mean-spirited abuse hurled at college students and professors alike reflects a dying political paradigm coupled with a fear of the young. Yet the millennials’ inevitable parricide of conventional political thought may end up making today seem moderate, liberalism restrained and conservatism temperate, compared with what our children already envision. In other words, the world of the future just might look like Asheville’s present. Milton Ready is a retired UNCA history professor and Mars Hill resident.
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CROP ROTATIONs: Once a dominant crop across WNC, tobacco production in the mountains has all but disappeared in the wake of the Tobacco Transition Payment Program, commonly referred to as the “tobacco buyout,” which did away with the long-standing federal quota system and changed the landscape of farming in the region. Photo via North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library
BY max Hunt mhunt@mountainx.com Few crops have been as central to North Carolina’s economy and culture — or as controversial — as tobacco. Historically, its high market value and the relative ease of growing it made tobacco a staple for many Western North Carolina farmers. As late as 2002, 1,995 mountain farms grew tobacco. The crop’s prevalence, however, was closely tied to the long-standing quota system, which regulated where it could be grown and set a guaranteed price range each year.
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Significant government involvement with the industry began during the Great Depression, but changing times and social attitudes eventually caught up with the program. Increasing health concerns and lawsuits ultimately led to the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement, which restricted tobacco advertising and gave states substantial payments to offset Medicare expenses and fund anti-smoking programs. In conjunction with other changes, this accelerated a continuing decline in sales of American-grown tobacco. Of more immediate significance for local farmers, however, was the 2004 Fair And Equitable Tobacco Reform Act, which put an end to the quota system.
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Commonly known as the “tobacco buyout,” the federal law gave both quota holders and actual growers annual payments for 10 years to help them transition to new enterprises or find other income streams. But there was no obvious substitute crop, and since the end of the payment program in 2014, many farmers across the Southern Appalachians have faced both the challenge of replacing lost revenue and, at a deeper level, a kind of identity crisis. Although assorted state agencies and nonprofits have tried various approaches, the lingering effects of the buyout continue to confront rural mountain communities.
Commercial tobacco production in North Carolina stretches back centuries. In the 1600s, European settlers found that it was one of the few crops that would consistently grow in all of the young colony’s varied climates and soil conditions. By the 1920s, burley tobacco had become the dominant strain in WNC. Its adaptability, coupled with increased demand in the early 20th century, made tobacco cultivation a cost-effective way for mountain farmers to supplement their income, says charlie Zink, a former grower who’s now executive director of the Madison/Buncombe County Farm Service Agency office. “Burley is what gives a tobacco product its flavor,” he explains. “It’s considered the ‘salt’ of tobacco products.” But when the Great Depression hit in 1929, an already unstable tobacco market was exacerbated by a glut, as desperate farmers tried to compensate for falling prices by producing more. In response to the crisis, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 instituted a quota system, limiting tobacco production primarily to the Southeast and establishing strict controls on the number of tobaccoproducing farms, the poundage each could grow and the prices companies would pay for it. “Tobacco quotas were a fixed asset; the person who owned the land owned the quota,” notes Zink. “The owner could grow tobacco if he wanted to, or could lease it out through cash or sharecropping to growers.” North Carolina led the U.S. in tobacco production through most of the 20th century, and it still does today. In 2012, the state produced 381 million pounds — about half of all the tobacco grown nationwide — and generated over $700 million in sales, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture figures. In WNC, Buncombe, Madison and Yancey counties produced the most tobacco. “For many of our mountain farmers, the burley tobacco check was a staple that paid for Christmas and property taxes at the end of the year,” says state Rep. john ager,
shELLs Of A fORMER INDUsTRY: Since the introduction of the buyout program in 2004, the number of tobacco-producing farms across WNC has fallen dramatically and left many farm communities searching for a new identity. “It changed the whole dynamic,” says farmer Robin Reeves. “We used to silo together; we’d cut tobacco together. All that’s gone away.” Photo courtesy of Robin Reeves whose family owned a quota. “My grandfather-in-law, james mcclure, was very involved with promoting the Asheville burley tobacco market in the ’20s and ’30s.” Zink tells a similar story. “You could always tell when the economy was bad, because more tobacco was grown to balance income. It paid for my college; it paid for my first car. After I got married, it paid our taxes on our house.” ChANgINg ATTITUDEs By the 1970s, however, the federal government was facing increasing pressure to end the price supports and convert to a free market system. And in 1981, the feds did stop funding the tobacco program, instead requiring companies and growers to pay for it via assessment fees. Ironically, health proponents and Big Tobacco found themselves on the same side of the argument for once. The tobacco companies, says Zink, “had been in favor of getting rid of the quotas for years prior to the buyout: It lowers their costs.” Tobacco sales declined nationwide through the 1980s and ’90s, due to fewer people smoking and increased competition from cheaper foreign tobacco. And some farmers, perhaps seeing the writing on the wall, stopped growing the crop.
Ager says his family leased its quota “to a neighbor for a year or two, and then to whoever gave us the best price. We were running a dairy farm in those days, and I think there was some family ambivalence about tobacco as an unhealthy product.” Finally, in 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act, which ended both the price supports and quotas. The Tobacco Transition Payment Program, administered through the USDA, began the following year. “Quota owners received $7 a pound, based on what their quota from 2002 was,” says Zink. “Your tobacco producers — the people who actually grew it — got $3 a pound, based on price averages from 2002 to 2004.” But even though that time period had seen the highest prices, farmers still collected less than they traditionally had, because total poundage was down — and meanwhile, the clock was ticking. Funding for the roughly $10 billion buyout came from the tobacco companies. “Taxpayers didn’t pay one dime — not even my salary,” stresses Zink. And each year, farmers could choose to take their money in a lump sum or continue getting annual payments. UNTRODDEN gROUND In Western North Carolina, the tobacco buyout’s impact was felt almost immediately. In Madison County, for
example, the total acreage devoted to tobacco cultivation dropped from 1,400 in 2004 to roughly 100 today. And during the same period, the number of tobacco farmers in neighboring Buncombe plummeted from about 800 in 2004 to just 20. Many older farmers used the payments to fund their retirement, says steve duckett, director of the N.C. Cooperative Extension’s Buncombe County Center. Others invested in new equipment, education or infrastructure. But for those who chose to remain in the game, the deregulation made it hard to turn a profit. Within a year, the price of tobacco had dropped from $1.98 a pound to $1.50. And with no price guarantees and substantial shipping costs to get their product to the nearest market, farmers risked incurring significant losses. For many growers, the prospect of starting over with a different crop or even a whole new business proved less appealing than simply cashing out. “There’s some truth to the saying ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,’” notes Duckett. “Unfortunately, a lot of that land [in Buncombe County] is growing septic tanks right now.” Meanwhile, those who did press on found themselves in unfamiliar territory. The buyout, says Duckett, “introduced a lot of uncertainty into the equation. We were in a whole new world here in the Southeast, so we had to look at the farm’s resources: What could they grow? And whether it’s vegetables, nurseries, greenhouses, agro-tourism or the local food market, there really wasn’t an easy solution.” A lot of Madison County farmers expanded their livestock production. But when drought hit the mountains in 2008, “The market went down, and many had to sell their livestock off at a loss,” says Zink. Some leased their land or took jobs in Asheville and other urban centers. Meanwhile, the lost tobacco revenue was rippling through whole farming communities, he continues. “You have to look at the effects it had on other businesses: ag stores, the fertilizers and chemicals bought to grow the tobacco.” Governments were also affected. “Growers,” notes Zink, “used a lot of their tobacco money to pay taxes. Since the buyout, local government has had to take up that slack.” ALL IN ThE fAMILY For the most part, though, the national debate about tobacco —
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which helped drive the paradigm shift that eventually led to both the Master Settlement Agreement and the tobacco buyout — focused more on health risks and Big Tobacco’s efforts to manipulate the system. What got far less attention was the farmers themselves and how much the crop meant culturally to many rural communities. robin reeves, whose family has farmed in Madison County since 1840, fondly recalls the way they grew tobacco when she was a child. “Tobacco meant mothers could stay home with the kids,” she points out. “Not to say the mothers weren’t working — they were helping in the fields. But it was a cool crop, and parents could actually be there.” The quota system, notes Reeves, gave her family some financial security, meaning they could devote more resources to other farm needs. “We kind of knew what we were getting into, what the prices would be. We could always tell when we got our tobacco to market before Christmas or after: It was a much leaner Christmas if it was after.” Tobacco also fostered a sense of community. “Local boys would come and help us during the season,” she remembers. “It helped them make money and gain experience. We all worked together, which we’ve lost to some degree.” Reeves’ family invested most of their buyout money in both livestock and retail tobacco sales. “We were lucky: We had rental properties in Swannanoa and built a convenience store, 6 Pac Smokestack,” she explains. “Daddy bought a new Chevy truck and that was that.” But while Reeves, who also serves on the board of the Buncombe County Farm Bureau, says “The checks were nice,” she’s less sanguine about the buyout’s overall impact on her community. “It changed the whole dynamic: We used to silo together; we’d cut tobacco together. All that’s gone away. After the program ended, it was kind of like, what do we do now?” BUILDINg BLOCks Since 2000, several entities have been working to help rural communities make the big transition. In North Carolina, both the Golden LEAF Foundation and the Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, have tried
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to foster new economic opportunities in the affected areas. “There was a real focus on economic development — the idea and hope that we could help develop another crop as lucrative and productive as tobacco was,” says billy clarke, who’s served on several Golden LEAF committees over the years. The nonprofit foundation, he notes, has invested in everything from community college job programs to business development in economically depressed counties across the state. Locally, Golden LEAF funding helped bring two major breweries, Sierra Nevada and New Belgium, to the region and also played a part in developing the WNC Regional Livestock Center in Canton in 2010. “I think it had a positive impact, with lots of jobs created,” Clarke reflects. “We made grants to Henderson, Madison, Yancey and Haywood counties, among others, through our Community Assistance Initiative.” The Tobacco Trust Fund Commission has also seen many projects blossom in the region, says Executive Director william upchurch. “One of our most successful programs is WNC AgOptions, which provides financial opportunities to farmers looking to try a new crop or agricultural business, or just doing something value-added to their operation.”
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The trust fund was also instrumental in developing the livestock center, working with local nonprofits such as WNC Communities. “It had gotten to the point in the west where there wasn’t a viable auction opportunity for farmers to carry livestock to,” he explains. In addition, the trust fund has invested in various community college programs. Project Skill-Up, says Upchurch, “helps provide training for those looking to try something new on their farm, or those who’ve decided on a different career path.” Private nonprofits such as the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project have lent a hand as well. “We started in anticipation of the end of tobacco: Our entire local food campaign was a strategy for making the transition,” notes charlie jackson, ASAP’s executive director. And as tobacco production has diminished, says Jackson, he’s seen an uptick in the amount of fruit and vegetables grown in the counties around Asheville. “In the early years we worked with farmers on new crops, but we soon realized that what we needed were better markets,” he recalls. “All of our efforts are geared to building demand and then helping farmers meet that demand with successful businesses.”
Despite these organizations’ impressive work, however, state allocations for both Golden LEAF and the Tobacco Trust Fund Commission have been slashed. Initially, says Upchurch, the fund was getting $35 million to $40 million annually in settlement agreement money, but within a few years, the commission began seeing cuts. The annual allocation now averages about $2 million. “It greatly limits how much you can do out there,” he admits. “We’re proud to say we’ve made the biggest bang for our buck. The need is there, the desire is there; you just kind of roll with the punches and make the best investments you possibly can.” Golden LEAF, meanwhile, received no settlement funding in 2013 or 2014, according to an audit last year. In 2013, the Republican-controlled Legislature began folding the money into the state’s general fund and allocating only a small portion for the originally intended purposes. “There was a lot of antipathy toward these two funds,” says Ager, a Democrat, citing partisan politics. The settlement agreement didn’t stipulate how the money had to be used, and cashstrapped legislatures in other states have taken a similar approach. Golden LEAF did receive $10 million in settlement funding last year, which enabled it to make more grants. For the most part, though, it relies on the investment income from its endowment, valued at $901 million as of 2013, which resulted from the substantial settlement payments received in the early years. Reeves, however, says she’s tired of all the politics surrounding those
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funds. “Golden LEAF and Tobacco Trust Fund could do so much more if the state hadn’t redistributed the money,” she contends. “We’re lucky we got a livestock market out of it and the poultry slaughterhouse, but if they’d kept the tobacco funding the way it was originally, they’d be able to support the farmers more and bring more certainty back into this area.” CLOUDY fUTURE Two years after the buyout payments ended, farmers and agency officials alike have mixed opinions concerning the program’s overall impact. “The USDA thinks it was a good thing: It hit the objectives they wanted it to. It got the government — or, at least, got people to finally believe that the government was out of it,” says Zink. “Me, personally, I would have liked to have seen [quotas] stay on, because I’ve seen what it’s done to the economy in Madison.” Duckett thinks the buyout “was probably the best deal we could get at the time. It got the growers some payment for a resource they’d come to count on.” And while he wishes that there’d been a dependable substitute crop for tobacco, “Unfortunately, I just don’t think that animal exists.” For Upchurch, the final assessment is “subjective, depending on what situation you were left in. Farmers in the west were forced to find some new enterprise to maintain their farmland and that income they depend on. It’s been challenging for them, but we’ve seen a lot of innovation.” Most folks, though, seem to agree that in WNC, tobacco’s glory days are over.
Duckett, for example, says: “I think that ship has sailed. There’s so many parts of the world that grow burley tobacco, and we have no way of competing with them on labor costs. Of course, nobody knows the future, but I don’t see the conditions ever allowing tobacco to be the go-to crop that it once was.” Still, Duckett and others stress local farmers’ resilience. “If you work the land for a living, you’re tough and resourceful by definition,” he points out. “The buyout really brought that out in people, and the cooperation among growers in general, in learning and sharing ideas, has been great.” Community-supported agriculture, for example, “was something I thought would never work initially. I didn’t think people would pay up front to get what you get from the grocery store. I’ve happily eaten crow on that.” Duckett also cites the rise of the local food movement and programs like WNC Farm Link, which connects aspiring farmers with those approaching retirement and hoping to preserve their land for agricultural use. Upchurch echoes that optimism. “There’s a lot of creativity there, a lot of people willing to try something new,” he says, noting that the small scale of the region’s farms has given local farmers “a better comfort level with taking chances and applying opportunity.” And in the coming years, he predicts, “You’re going to see a big, diversified list of ideas in western N.C.” Zink, meanwhile, advises those still struggling to find new revenue sources to try “whatever suits you best. Any producer that comes into this office, that’s the first thing we look at: What type of farm do you have? They need to try and find what works for them.” X
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PREssURE COOkER: “These kids are really young, and they’re making one of the most important decisions of their life,” says UNC Asheville freshman Natalie Izlar. Photo by Kari Barrows
StreSS teSt Local colleges adopt more holistic admissions policies A year ago, natalie izlar felt herself drowning in responsibilities. The high school senior was performing with several local Durham theaters, applying to colleges and trying to keep her GPA from tanking. “It was really stressful, because we were told colleges were looking at our extracurricular activities as well as our GPA and standardized test scores,” the UNC Asheville freshman says over a cup of coffee. Her top choices included Oberlin, Carleton and several UNC system schools. She didn’t get into all of them, however, and after surviving the intimidating application process, she now had to decide which of the colleges that had accepted her would make the most financial sense.
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Like Izlar, many students are struggling to keep their heads above water in the face of academic and financial stress. Last month, Harvard’s Graduate School of Education released a report titled “Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good Through College Admissions” as part of its Making Caring Common Project. In conjunction with nonprofits and academic institutions across the country, the project aims to reduce the emphasis on standardized test scores and create a more inclusive academic environment that will ultimately produce more balanced and successful human beings. Meanwhile, three Western North Carolina colleges are
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Last fall, UNCA’s incoming freshman class reflected a different approach. Rather than relying on computers, counselors read individual applicants’ essays and reviewed their high school curricula, and test scores were given less weight. “When standardized tests were introduced, college admissions were dealing, by and large, with a single socioeconomic class of people,” explains joe urgo, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at UNC Asheville. And since the applicants “all had roughly the same experience,” he continues, giving them a standardized test made sense, “to sort of help sort them out.” But with today’s vastly more diverse college applicant pool, such tests are less accurate predictors of student performance, notes Urgo. Accordingly, UNCA now considers many different aspects of an applicant’s academic and extracurricular history. Western Carolina University, too, has adopted a more holistic approach, notes phil cauley, director of student recruitment and transitions. “What other things have you used your time doing?” he explains. “Do you have any service component? Do you demonstrate leadership? Are there unusual circumstances over the course of your high school years that might be a scale-tipper?” And though both schools say they’re putting less emphasis on standardized tests, applicants at all 16 UNC branches are still required to submit test scores. In contrast, Warren Wilson College established a test-optional policy last summer that affects all applicants beginning this fall. “Our applicants’ ethical and community-oriented nature, kindness, concern for the common good — these are the types of things that Warren Wilson has always valued,” says janelle holmboe, vice president for enrollment. “I mean, really, the ‘Turning the Tide’ report was, in some ways, a validation of who we are as an institution.” Test scores, notes Holmboe, can still be submitted, but they’re as important or unimportant as the applicant chooses to make them. Essentially, students with limited extracurricular activities can round out their application with a higher test score. fOUR fATEfUL hOURs But while standardized tests still have a place in today’s higher educa-
tion, some recent studies have thrown their value into question. A 2014 report by William C. Hiss and Valerie W. Franks found no significant difference in either GPA or graduation rate between college students admitted with and without test scores. And meanwhile, the study concluded, standardized testing tends to “artificially truncate the pools of applicants who would succeed if they could be encouraged to apply.” All this plays out against a backrop of students who are already highly stressed. A 2014 American Psychological Association survey found that high school age teens reported stress levels comparable to and sometimes higher than those reported by adults. And with so much riding on the results, taking standardized tests can seem impossibly daunting. “So many students put so much pressure on themselves that they almost set themselves up for failure with that test,” says shannon earle, assistant provost for admissions and financial aid at UNCA. “So I would rather look at what you do for four years in that classroom than what you do in four hours on a Saturday morning, knowing that so much rides on how you perform on this test.” UNCA senior matthew mcgregor, a 37-year-old mass communication major, also takes a dim view of standardized tests. “They keep changing. My father took one without a calculator; people talk now about how you’re supposed to have one. They’re actually easier than they used to be.” And meanwhile, he continues, “People are fluid. It’s trying to pin someone down in a certain point in their life.” Revising admissions policies goes only so far, however. For high school students, says Izlar, “It definitely is hard to keep track of everything. I feel that, in a lot of ways, your extracurricular activities are more important, because you get references for later on in life, and that helps you out more than just A-B Honor Roll.” Changing the system, she maintains, should really start with giving these students more opportunities for the kinds of internships that colleges often promote. But in any case, there may be limits to how much such efforts can ameliorate an inherently stressful time. “These kids are really young, and they’re making one of the most important decisions of their life,” continues Izlar. “Whether or not you’re going to college and where you’re going to college: These are really shaping years. I feel it shaping me, man.” X
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A CHANGE IN REPRESENTATION: A state legislative plan to comply with a federal court ruling is likely to change 10 precincts including much of Woodfin and West Asheville as well as all of Biltmore Forest from Rep. McHenry’s 10th District to Rep. Meadows’ 11th District and swaps 3 precincts in Arden the other way. Original map courtesy of the Buncombe County Board of Elections, modified by Mountain Xpress based on data from the North Carolina legislature As a result of a 2013 lawsuit from voters in Mecklenburg and Durham counties, hundreds of Buncombe County residents are likely to be shifting between the 10th and 11th Congressional Districts. Last Friday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts denied a request from state attorneys to stay the decision of a lower federal judicial panel requiring the lines defining North Carolina’s 1st and 12th Congressional
Districts be redrawn. Consequently, at least for the coming election, the ruling stands that the lines, which have been in place since 2011, were unconstitutional because race played too strong a role in how they were plotted. Gerrymandering a district to make it more winnable for a certain party is legal and has long been a political tool for both parties. But based on a separate 2015 Supreme Court decision regarding Alabama districts, using
racial demographics to choose those boundaries is invalid because it gives less weight to black voters. The ruling only directly targets two districts, one in the far northeast of the state and the other, which has, until now, snaked along Interstate 85 from Charlotte to Greensboro and Winston Salem. But the nature of redistricting is such that, if one district changes, so must all the others in order to evenly divide the state.
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The new hastily drawn plan, which has now been approved by the state House and Senate, will shift thousands of black voters out of the 1st and 12th districts. The last remaining hurtle for the plan is for the federal panel of judges to approve the new lines. According to a spokesperson for the state Board of Elections, the plaintiffs in the case that overturned the old lines have requested argumentation on the newly proposed lines for districts 1 and 12. Most of the changes are in the Piedmont and the east and have little bearing on North Carolina’s western counties, but some Buncombe voters will probably see a different primary ballot than they would have. The March 15 election will proceed as expected. However, in June, a special primary election will be held for U.S. representatives since it is too late for the March 15 ballots to reflect the redrawn districts. After all, some voters have already submitted absentee ballots, and early voting begins statewide on March 3. While the statistical makeup of districts 10 and 11, which divide Buncombe County, will not change significantly under the plan, some Buncombe residents who have been represented by 11th District Republican Mark Meadows will now be represented by 10th District Republican Patrick McHenry and vice-versa. A big swathe of West Asheville and Woodfin will probably change districts from the 10th back to the 11th, reverting to its 2010 status and for as long as most can remember before that. Likewise, Biltmore Forest would join Meadows’ 11th District. Arden, east of Hendersonville Road, changes the other way, to be in McHenry’s 10th District. The changes do make for a tidier looking boundary, boxing off the southeastern quadrant of the county, including most of Asheville, into the 10th District. But only time and elections will tell if the changing lines will the districts more competitive for both parties. The historically contentious 11th District has gone solidly Republican since the left-leaning Asheville was moved into the decidedly Republican 10th in the last redistricting plan. X
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AshEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY 133 Church St., ashevilletoollibrary.org • SU (2/28), noon-6pm - Tool donation drive. Donations of working tools are accepted. Free to attend.
hOLIsTIC hEALINg DAY (pd.) FREE and Unique Day of Healing. Sample healing art therapies and attend uplifting classes. March 5th, 11-3. Center for Spiritual Living Asheville at 2 Science of Mind Way. 252-3127322 jOIN A PAINTNITE PARTY (pd.) at the Stone Ridge Tavern in Asheville on March 1, 7pm-9pm! Get lost in the creative process of painting “Owl Night Long” - no experience necessary! Use coupon code MOUNTAINX for 45% off. Have a drink and enjoy a new skill. https://paintnite.com/events/1041898.html. LEARN hOW TO DRAW WITh CONfIDENCE • PATTERNS OF LIFE (pd.) A drawing class with William Henry Price: Six consecutive Mondays, beginning on March 7. 7-9pm at his Studio at Pink Dog Creative, 348 Depot Street. Use of all drawing media, developing skills of hand, eye and intuition. • Register by 2/26/16, $190, $215 after 2/26/16, at www. williamhenryprice.com/lecture-classes.html LINDA PANNULLO MOsAICs AND WORkshOPs (pd.) The best instruction for all levels: • Mosaic Mirror class for Beginners Feb 27-28 with Linda. • Sacred Geometry/Mosaic Mandala workshop, March 5-6, w/Dianne Sonnenberg • Building a Landscape with Texture and Color, May 14-15, w/Laura Redlen • Pets, Creatures and Imaginary Beings, April 16-17, Yulia Hanansen. More classes see website. Call Linda at 828-337-6749. Info and registration at lindapannullomosaics.com ORgANIC gROWERs sChOOL 23RD ANNUAL sPRINg CONfERENCE (pd.) March 11-13, 2016, UNC Asheville. 70+ sessions per day: practical, affordable, regionally-focused workshops on growing, permaculture, homesteading, and urban farming. Trade show, seed exchange, kid’s program. Organicgrowersschool.org. ARThUR R. EDINgTON EDUCATION AND CAREER CENTER 133 Livingston St., 254-1995 • FR (2/26), 6-7:30pm - Black history program sponsored by The Asheville Housing Authority and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County. Free. AshEVILLE sUBMARINE VETERANs ussashevillebase.com, ecipox@charter.net • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Social meeting for U.S. Navy submarine veterans. Free to attend. Held at Ryan’s Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road
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BLUE RIDgE TOAsTMAsTERs CLUB blueridgetoastmasters.com/membersarea, fearless@blueridgetoastmasters.org • MONDAYS, 12:15-1:25pm - Public speaking and leadership group. Free. Held at Lenoir Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIEs buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (3/2), 5pm - Swannanoa Knitters, knitting and needle work group for all skill levels. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa ONTRACk WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc. org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (2/24), 5:30-7pm - “Budgeting 101,” workshop. REYNOLDs/fAIRVIEW sCRIBBLE CRIBBAgE CLUB • WEDNESDAYS, 12:30pm - Scrabble and cribbage club. Free to attend. Held at Mountain Mojo Coffeehouse, 381 Old Charlotte Highway, Fairview shOWINg UP fOR RACIAL jUsTICE showingupforracialjustice.org • TUESDAYS, noon-2pm - Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Rd.
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what: The Vagina Monologues, a harrowing and hilarious play about womanhood where: The Orange Peel when: Saturday, Feb. 27, at 8 p.m. why: The tale of a 70-year-old woman finally learning to masturbate definitely stands out. But that’s just one story contained in The Vagina Monologues’ exploration of womanhood, which also covers gynecological exams, douching and a laundry list of slang terms for what we’ll call the female honey pot. Generally speaking, a cast of locals will highlight “all the weird things we have to go through as women,” according to show organizer, director and actress allison taylor. “The main purpose of the monologues is to raise funds and awareness to combat sexual and domestic violence against women,” Taylor says, citing the United Nations Development Fund for Women’s statistic that one in three women “will be beaten, raped, assaulted, trafficked, harassed or forced to submit to harmful practices.” “Although there are [stories] that are
heart-wrenching,” Taylor says, noting a segment on Bosnian refugees, “the majority of [the play] is hilarious, and it’s also very enlightening — even for women who are more liberal and open-minded. It just puts it out there.” Activist Eve Ensler’s play includes a standing script, but she adds rotating roles periodically, basing stories on hundreds of interviews with women. The upcoming production will include the playwright’s recent segment on transgender issues. Taylor, the owner of WNC Weddings & Events and Skillful Solutions, LLC, has raised more than $12,000 for local shelters over three years of staging the production. This fourth year’s proceeds go to domestic violence crisis center Helpmate. “It’s always my mission to get men to come out and attend,” Taylor says. “It’s not at all negative about men in any way. ... I think it’s a great show for men to come learn more about the issues that we all face, and again, it’s hilarious.” Tickets ($25/$35, student discounts available) and more information are at theorangepeel.net. X
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jOYfUL NOIsE 649-2828, joyfulnoisecenter.org Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave., Weaverville • MONDAYS, 7:30-8:15pm - Intermediate/ Advanced clogging class. Ages 7 through adult. $10 • MONDAYS, 6:45-7:30pm - Beginner clogging class. Ages 7 through adult. $10. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave, Weaverville sWINg AshEVILLE swingasheville.com • THURSDAYS, 7:30pm - Beginner & intermediate swing dance lessons. 8:30-11pm - Open dance. Live music regularly. $7/$5 members. Held at Club Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St.
ECO MOUNTAINTRUE 258-8737, wnca.org • TH (2/25), SA (2/27) & WE (3/2), - Paddle-n-Plant with the French Broad river keeper to prevent sediment erosion. Registration required: anna @mountaintrue.org. Free. RIVERLINk 170 Lyman St., 252-8474 ext.11 • FR (2/26), 3pm - Friday Salon Series: Pat Thomson, director of the National Development Council, speaks about the New Market Tax Credit Program. Registration required. Free. WNC sIERRA CLUB 251-8289, wenoca.org • WE (3/2), 7pm - Presentation by a ranger and professor regarding Rocky Fork State Park’s wildflowers. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place
fARM & gARDEN AshEVILLE gARDEN CLUB 550-3459 • WE (3/2), 10am - “Native plants of our region: what to grow and why and invasive plants to avoid,” presentation and refreshments. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Botanical Gardens, 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIEs buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • TU (3/1), 4pm - “Native Plants in your Own Backyard,” presentation by master gardener. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa CAROLINA fARM sTEWARDshIP AssOCIATION 919-542-2402, carolinafarmstewards.org • WE (2/24), 11am-noon - “Saving Seed on a Market Farm,” presentation by Sow True Seeds followed by an optional tour of Sow True Seeds. Registration: ag@sowtrueseed.com. Free. Held at French Broad Food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave. hAYWOOD COUNTY MAsTER gARDENERs 456-3575, sarah_scott@ncsu.edu • Through TU (3/15) - Annual plant sale. Contact to order: 456-3575 or mgarticles@charter.net. hENDERsONVILLE TREE BOARD 692-3026
• TH (2/25), 6pm - “Best Ways to Plant, Prune, and Care for Your Trees,” presentation. Free. Held at Henderson County Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville
fOOD & BEER gUEsT ChEf NIghT AT ThE fARM! (pd.) Saturday, March 5, 6pm, themed dinner with Fred Snyder and Mike Ferrari. Five-course meal with Wine Pairing, $100/person. Reserve by March 2. 828-667-0666. www.thefarm.kitchen CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEgE 2855 Hickory Blvd., Hudson, 726-2200, cccti.edu • TH (2/25), 6pm - Culinary Arts Program presents an African themed dinner. Reservations required: 726-2407. $21. ThE fAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE fairviewwelcometable.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview
gOVERNMENT & POLITICs BERNIE sANDERs RALLY everglory4@gmail.com • SU (2/28), 1pm - Support rally with live music and march to Pack Square. Free to attend. Held at New Mountain Theater/Amphitheater, 38 N. French Broad hENDERsON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 692-6424, myhcdp.com • SA (2/27) - Precinct meetings. See website for full schedule: myhcdp.com/media/pdf/precinctmeetings.pdf. Free. Held at Henderson Operations Center, 301 Williams St., Hendersonville PUBLIC EVENTs AT A-B TECh 398-7900, abtech.edu • TU (3/1), 6pm - Public hearing on NC’s coal ash pond classifications sponsored by Just Us United. Free. Held in Ferguson Auditorium. PUBLIC EVENTs AT UNCA unca.edu • MO (2/29), 6:30pm - “Know Your Rights: Police Interactions,” panel discussion with the Asheville Police Department and UNCA police. Sponsored by the UNCA ACLU. Free. Held in the Highsmith Union, Room 221.
kIDs ANAM CARA ThEATRE 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 10-noon - Tiny Tots Circus Playtime with aerials, clowning, balance and acrobatics. Children up to 6 years old. $5. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road Suite B ATTIC sALT ThEATRE COMPANY 505-2926 • SA (2/27), 10am - Newly Grown Tales. $5. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIEs buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library
Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (3/2), 10am-6pm - “Read Across America with Dr. Seuss,” come listen or read. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa fIREsTORM CAfE AND BOOks 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 Free unless otherwise noted. • SA (2/27), 11am - Marissa Kent-White and Shannon Capezzali read from their new children’s book, Three Sleeps. fLETChER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free. jOYfUL NOIsE 649-2828, joyfulnoisecenter.org • MONDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Capriccio String Orchestra for intermediate players. $10. Held at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road • MONDAYS, 6:15-6:45pm - “Movement and Dance,” class for 5 and 6 year olds. $10. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave., Weaverville N.C. ARBORETUM 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • MONDAYS & TUESDAYS (2/29) through (5/24), 10-11:30am - Wee Naturalists program for ages 2-5 with crafts, exploration, stories. Registration recommended. $7 per child/$3 per additional child/ Parking fees apply. sPELLBOUND ChILDREN’s BOOkshOP 640 Merrimon Ave. #204, 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend. • WE (3/2), 4pm - Laurie McKay presents her novel in the Last Dragon Keeper Series. For ages 7-12. Free.
OUTDOORs BREAKFAST WITH THE MUSHERS • CATALOOChEE RANCh (pd.) Meet real sled dog teams and their mushers, enjoy a hearty breakfast, and hear musher tales in a spectacular Smoky Mountain setting. That’s in store during the Cataloochee Ranch Breakfast with the Mushers, Sunday, February 28, 8am-9:30am. • Admission with breakfast is $10.95. Reservations required, call 828/926-1401. After breakfast, the mushers will be outside with their dogs so that you can see Alaskan Malamutes, Siberian Huskies, and other sled dogs up close. Breakfast with the Mushers is part of WinterFest Smoky Style. www.cataloocheeranch.com YMCA Of WNC 210-2265, ymcawnc.org • WE (2/24), 8:45am - 3 mile easy hike on the Fletcher Park Trail Loop. Free/$3 optional carpooling. Meets at YMCA - Woodfin, 30 Woodfin St.
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• TH (3/3), 6pm - Open House and information night. Free to attend.
PUBLIC LECTUREs BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIEs buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • SA (2/27), 2:30-5pm - Professor Frederick Amrine presents a slide lecture on Rudolf Steinerand the Goetheanum Building in Switzerland. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TU (3/1), 7pm - “Amazon Travelogue,” presented by Simon Thompson. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview PUBLIC EVENTs AT A-B TECh 398-7900, abtech.edu • WE (3/2), 3pm - Dr. Cecile-Marie Sastre, will be present a program on “Amazons: The Real Wonder Women of Antiquity.” Held in Ferguson Auditorium. Held at A-B Tech, 340 Victoria Road PUBLIC LECTUREs AT MARs hILL 866-642-4968, mhu.edu • TH (3/3), 7pm - “How Can Civility in Politics be Recreated?” Presentation by Senators Tom Apodaca and Terry Van Duyn about recreating civility in politics. Free. Held in Broyhill Chapel.
sPIRITUALITY AshEVILLE INsIghT MEDITATION (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com. AsTRO-COUNsELINg (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. OPEN hEART MEDITATION (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of the Divine within you. Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 OpenHeartMeditation.com.
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CENTER fOR ART & sPIRIT AT sT. gEORgE 1 School Road, 258-0211 • WEDNESDAYS, 3:30pm - Sitting meditation and daily mindfulness practice. Info: kenlenington@gmail.com. Admission by donation. • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sitting meditation and daily mindfulness practice. Info: kenlenington@gmail.com. Admission by donation. • FR (2/26), 7pm - Celtic kirtan, call response singing of the music of Stefan Andre Waligur. $10. CENTRAL UNITED METhODIsT ChURCh 27 Church St., 253-3316, centralumc.org • WEDNESDAYS through (4/27), 6-7pm - Christian yoga and meditation series. Free. fIRsT CONgREgATIONAL UCC Of hENDERsONVILLE 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • FRIDAYS through (4/1), 10am - “Great World Religions,” lectures teaching about Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. Free. • SATURDAYS through (2/27), 11am-2pm - Basic meditation class. Admission by donation. • SUNDAYS through (2/28), 9am - “An Exploration of Living in Community With All of Creation,” book study. Free. gRACE LUThERAN ChURCh 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • WEDNESDAYS through (3/16), 4:45-5:30pm - Lenten supper with soup, salad and desert. Followed by worship service at 6pm. $5/$3 children under 12. • THURSDAYS (2/25) through (3/17), 10-11:30am “Hymns for the Season of Lent,” study series. Free. MOUNTAIN zEN PRACTICE CENTER mountainzen.org • TUESDAYS, 7:15-8:45pm - “Zen Awareness Practice,” weekly meditation followed by group discussion focused on selected readings of Cheri Huber. Orientation required, contact for details: mountainzen@bellsouth.net. Free. NOURIsh & fLOURIsh 347 Depot St., 255-2770, nourishflourishnow.com • TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Kirtan with Sangita Devi. $10-$15. PRAMA YOgA AND MEDITATION 712-9326 • TUESDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm - All levels yoga and meditation class. Proceeds benefit the Women’s Welfare and Development Foundation. Registration required. $5. Held at Asheville Therapeutic Yoga, 29 Ravenscroft
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shAMBhALA MEDITATION CENTER 60 N Merrimon Ave. #113, 200-5120, asheville.shambhala.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10-midnight, THURSDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 10-noon - Meditation and community. Admission by donation. sT. MARk’s LUThERAN ChURCh 10 North Liberty St., 253-0043 • WEDNESDAYS through (3/16), 6pm - Lenten soup and sandwich supper. Followed by service at 7pm. Free.
sPOkEN & WRITTEN WORD 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (2/25), 7:30pm - Listen to This Storytelling Series: “Leap Before You Look,” stories and original songs from locals. $15. AsPERgER’s ADULTs UNITED facebook.com/WncAspergersAdultsUnited • SA (2/27), 4pm - Asperger’s adults writers’ circle. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road BLACk MOUNTAIN COLLEgE MUsEUM & ARTs CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • TH (3/3), 7pm - Dr. Alessandro Porco presents the history of Poems by Gerard Legro. Free. BLUE RIDgE BOOks 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • SA (2/27), 3pm - Paul Willis presents his new book of poetry, Reflections of a World War II Veteran: Poems About War and Life. Free to attend. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIEs buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • SA (2/27), 2:30pm - Phyllis Langton presents her book, Last Flight Out: Living, Loving & Leaving. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (3/1), 7pm - Enka-Candler Book Club: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TU (3/1), 7pm - Weaverville Evening Book Club: Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (3/2), 3pm - Weaverville Afternoon Book Club: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville fIREsTORM CAfE AND BOOks 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115
• Last THURSDAYS, 7pm - Liberty Book Club. • TH (3/3), 6pm - “Political Prisoners Letter Writing Night.” Free. MALAPROP’s BOOksTORE AND CAfE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted. • TH (2/25), 7pm - Susan Dennard presents her novel, Truthwitch and Veronica Rossi presents her novel, Riders. • SA (2/27), 7pm - Peter Laurence presents his book, Becoming Jane Jacobs. • SU (2/28), 3pm - Nancy Dillingham and Celia Miles present their anthology, It’s All Relative: Tales from the Tree. • WE (3/2), 7pm - Ariel Lawhon presents her book, Flight of Dreams. • TH (3/3), 7pm - Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friist present, The Considerate Killer.
sPORTs kARAkIDO MARTIAL ARTs (pd.) cultivate power & grace: Back to School Special Classes: Youth, Adult & “Women Only” * Parents ask about our After School Program Discount rates for students * Call for class time and rate: 828-712-1288. AshEVILLE ULTIMATE CLUB ashevilleultimate.org, ashevilleultimateclub@gmail.com • Through SU (2/28) - Registration open for adult spring ultimate frisbee league. $40.
VOLUNTEERINg hANDs ON AshEVILLE-BUNCOMBE 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org Registration required. • TH (2/25), 11am - Volunteers needed for “Shake and Bake,” cooking lunch for veterans. Location given on registration. • TU (3/1), 6-8pm - Volunteers needed to sort and pack food at MANNA Foodbank. Held at MANNA FoodBank, 627 Swannanoa River Road hOMEWARD BOUND Of WNC 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 1st THURSDAYS, 11am - “Welcome Home Tour,” tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population. Registration required. Free to attend. For more volunteering opportunities go to mountainx.com/volunteering
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Channeling George Carlin "Military Intelligence": The head of U.S. Navy intelligence has for more than two years been prohibited from accessing classified information (as the Pentagon disclosed to The Washington Post in January). Vice Admiral Ted Branch came under investigation in 2013 in a corruption scandal involving a foreign defense contractor and various Navy personnel and might have been suspended from all duties — except that, given the political gridlock in Washington, no consensus candidate has emerged. No charges have been filed against Branch, but before he enters any room at the Pentagon, classified material must be stowed away.
Recurring Themes • New World Order: (1) Yet another woman gave birth to her own granddaughter in January. Tracey Thompson, 54, offered to be the surrogate mother for her fertility-challenged daughter, Kelley, and delivered a 6-pound, 11-ounce girl at The Medical Center in Plano, Texas. (2) After notable successes in the United States, Latin America claimed in December its first transgender pregnancy after Ecuadorean Fernando Machado announced he was expecting a child with his partner Diane Rodriguez. Fernando used to be "Maria"; Diane used to be "Luis"; and though both undergo hormone therapy, they have retained their birth organs. • Overexcited police departments occasionally feel the need to safeguard towns by zealous enforcement of anti-gambling laws. In November, police in Altamonte Springs, Fla., raided the Escondido Community Clubhouse, formally shutting down the retirement village's games of bingo, bunko, penny poker and — most controversially — the weekly sessions of the culturally venerated mahjong. Although none of the games is illegal under state law, advertising for-money games is, and the notices in the Heritage Florida Jewish News were such attentiongetters that the pots for the games often grew to exceed the $10 legal maximum. (Given mahjong's sociological significance, news of the bust was even reported in Jerusalem's Times of Israel.) • Perspective: On the heels of a similar program in Richmond, Calif.,
by Chuck Shepherd Washington, D.C.'s D.C. Council authorized funding in January to pay stipends to notorious criminals if they stop committing crimes. Police would identify up to 50 residents likely to violently offend again in 2016 and offer them periodic cash payments plus special training and educational benefits — as long as they stay out of trouble. Officials in Richmond (once overwhelmed by gun deaths) say their program, commenced almost 10 years ago, has produced a 76 percent drop in gun-related crime. • Reports of the prominence of animal urine in various cultures' health regimens have surfaced periodically in News of the Weird, and in December, in Al Qunfudhah, Saudi Arabia, a shop selling camel urine (with a long history of alleged medicinal qualities) was closed by authorities after they found 70 camel-urine bottles actually filled with shopkeeper-urine. • About a decade ago, several fastfood restaurants (especially during evening shifts staffed by sometimes inadequately trained managers) were plagued by a prank phone-caller, posing as law enforcement requesting investigative help, asking managers to strip-search employees for "contraband" and to describe the searches in real time to the caller. (A suspect was arrested, and the calls stopped.) Managerial judgment was also on display at a Morro Bay, Calif., Burger King in January when a prank caller somehow convinced BK employees to begin shattering the store's windows because of a purported "gas leak." Several windows were smashed in, and an investigation of the call is ongoing. • Awkward: In January, Israeli television journalist Eitam Lachover became the latest to be injured in a high-profile test of a "protective" vest when he volunteered to be stabbed on camera for a news segment. Vest company officials' faces turned quickly sour as the blade penetrated the vest (though the wound was described as "light"). • In January, 15-year-old Anthony Ruelas, trying to rescue a classmate gasping from an asthma attack, became the latest casualty in public schools' relentless insistence on "zero tolerance" of any deviation from rules. Gateway Middle School in Killeen, Texas, suspended Ruelas for two days for what others called his "heroic" assistance in gathering the girl in his arms and taking her to the nurse's office — while the teacher, following "procedure," waited passively for a nurse to email instructions. (Ruelas had defied the teacher, declaring, "[F--k that — we ain't got time to wait for no email from the nurse.") The school district's superintendent later cited a fed-
eral law that he interpreted as justifying the procedure. • Age-Old Prank Fails: Will Lombardi, 19, was charged with arson in Northampton, Mass., in January after he acknowledged that "probably" he was the one who left a flaming box of excrement on the front porch of the family with whose daughter he was feuding. The fire was supposed to alarm the victim, who would try to stomp it out, thus spreading the feces and soiling the stomper's shoes. In this case, however, the fire had spread a bit. (Bonus: Lombardi's box selection was a used mailer with Lombardi's name and address still readable.) • Least Competent Criminals: (1) In January, a 27-year-old man in North Pole, Alaska, became the most recent forced to flee a crime scene on foot because he had locked his keys inside the getaway car. He was identified by surveillance video outside the two businesses he burglarized, but he was still at large. (2) Also in January, David Boulet, in Tacoma, Wash., became the most recent to haplessly try to steal a police car. As officers chased him on an earlier charge, Boulet spotted a parked, marked squad car (with lights flashing), but apparently thought, in the night's darkness, that the car was momentarily unoccupied. He climbed in — and landed on the lap of a Tacoma police sergeant in the front seat. • Undignified Deaths: (1) A 47-yearold man in Saint-Marcel, Italy, fell to his death in January as he leaned over a balcony railing to shake crumbs off his tablecloth after breakfast. The tablecloth reportedly slipped from his hands, leading him to (unsuccessfully) reach for it. (2) A 58-year-old driver dressed except for pants was killed in January in Detroit when he was thrown from his car by a crash. A Michigan State Police spokesman reported that the man had been viewing pornography as he drove.
Update News of the Weird's long-time supercreative serial litigant Jonathan Lee Riches filed yet another claim in January — against the Tennessee couple identified as winners in the recent $1.6 billion Powerball lottery. John and Lisa Robinson, Riches says, "owe" him half their winnings because he says he sent their daughter (and his pen pal), Tiffany, $20 to buy Powerball tickets. Riches's lawsuit, written in longhand, claims that he and Tiffany were to be married and move to "a remote island full of milk and honey." Riches had been serving a federal prison term for parole violation, but his current situation was unre-
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ported (except that he now claims an alias, "Jihadi Schitz," and wrote from a Philadelphia mosque). It is expected that this lawsuit will suffer the same fate as his against, among others, George W. Bush, Britney Spears, Steve Jobs, Nostrodamus, Plato and the various Kardashians.
A News of the Weird Classic (October 2011) A judge in Nice, France, ruled in September (2011) that Article 215 of the French civil code (defining marriage as a "shared communal life") in fact requires that husband and wife have sex. A husband identified only as Jean-Louis B. had evidently lost interest years earlier, and his wife was granted a divorce. Apparently emboldened by her victory, she then filed a monetary claim against the husband for the value of his 21-year-long lack of service, and the judge awarded her 10,000 euros (then worth about $13,710 — $653 a year). X
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Mission Health helps expand national bone marrow transplant registry
BY claRkE moRRison clarkemorrison1@gmail.com To save a life, julia Killen endured six hours with each arm stuck with two needles that drew cells from her bone marrow. While the process involved some discomfort and inconvenience, Killen says the sacrifice was well worth the benefit to a blood cancer patient who needed a transplant. The process started with a swab of her cheek and a few questions, all of which led to Killen being listed in the National Marrow Donor Program’s Be the Match registry. “The person I donated to, if I wasn’t on the registry, she wouldn’t have my cells in her now,” says Killen, a nurse at Mission Health in Asheville. “Knowing the fact that I could save somebody’s life was all it took for me to do that.” About every three minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with blood cancer, and one person dies of the disease nearly every 10 minutes, according to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. New cases of leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma account for nearly 10 percent of the estimated 1.7 million cancer cases diagnosed in the U.S. last year. For many, a cure starts with matching patients to transplant donors like Killen. Mission Health has made expanding the national registry a priority, says Dr. lindsey gouker, a pediatric hematologist and oncologist at the hospital’s cancer center. A November drive added 60 new names to the registry, she says. Getting on the registry takes about 15 minutes, Gouker explains. “The [process is] quick and easy, but the impact is huge. [A bone marrow transplant is], oftentimes, the only thing that is ultimately going to cure these patients and save their lives. The reward is you’re saving somebody who has no other options left, so it’s a wonderful thing.” Marrow is a spongy substance inside bones that produces red and white blood cells and platelets needed to stay alive and healthy. When blood cancers and certain genetic conditions damage the marrow, these blood-making factories
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LIfEsAVERs: Dr. Lindsey Gouker, left, pediatric hematologist and oncologist at Mission’s cancer center, helped expand the national bone marrow registry, which resulted in Julia Killen, a nurse at the hospital, becoming a donor. Photo by Clarke Morrison break down. A transplant gives ailing patients an infusion of healthy blood stem cells that help regenerate healthy marrow. At the November registry drive, Gouker explains, potential donors provided cheek swabs and contact information that Mission submitted to the national registry, which contains the samples of approximately 17 million people from around the world. Donors also can provide samples by requesting a kit from the program website, bethematch.org. “It is sent to your house, and you can do it yourself, and then send it back in,” Gouker says. “It goes to a central lab where they do all the processing and keep all the information and maintain the registry list. If we’re looking for a donor for somebody that needs a transplant, there’s a way to log into the system and say, ‘I need a person that meets these criteria.’” The goal is to find a donor whose blood cell markers match those of the prospective recipient, she says. “Everyone’s composition of markers is different, based on our genetics,
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who our parents are and what our ethnic background is,” Gouker says. “And there’s lots and lots of different combinations of these markers that we look for.” For those needing a bone marrow transplant, family members are evaluated first as potential donors. But the chance of finding a complete match from a family member is about one in four, says Dr. witold rybka, director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute. The larger the family, the better the odds. Patients without a family match must turn to the registry. A Caucasian patient seeking a match has about a 85 percent chance of success, Rybka estimates. For other ethnicities, the likelihood drops to 60 percent. That’s because the majority of banked stem cells come from donors in North America and Europe, says Rybka. “Caucasians are the easiest folks to match because there just happens to be a lot of [them] on the registry,” Gouker says. “We’re trying to expand the donor pool to include folks
of different backgrounds — African Americans, Native Americans, those with Latino or Hispanic heritage. We just don’t have those populations well-represented on the donor registry, and that’s because they haven’t been highly targeted groups in the past. We’re trying to get the word out that we need folks that are non-Caucasian.” Gouker adds that bone marrow transplants also are used to treat blood disorders such as aplastic anemia and sickle cell anemia. Most of Mission’s blood cancer patients can be treated with chemotherapy alone and don’t need a bone marrow transplant, she says. Those who need the operation are referred to larger cancer centers in North Carolina. “The bone marrow transplant process is very complicated, very intense,” Gouker says. “It takes about 100 days for the whole process to be done. We [at Mission] help manage those patients and identify those with cancers that are going to require transplant. We can support them and treat them and ultimately help make the decision of whether they need a bone marrow transplant or not. And once that decision is made, then we help facilitate the referral.” PREPPINg TO gIVE Killen, 34, says she decided to get on the donor registry because she recognizes the need. “It was an amazing experience,” she says. “I gave a cheek swab, and they called me and said I was a match, which at first I didn’t believe because I’d been on there less than a year.” That was just the beginning of the donation process. Next, Killen had blood drawn at Mission for “confirmatory typing” to make sure she was the best match for the patient. After her blood type was confirmed, Killen underwent a full physical exam that included X-rays, an EKG and more blood work, followed by a 45-minute interview. Just before the donation, she had hormone injections on five consecutive days to stimulate stemcell production in her system. There are two methods of donating. One involves a surgical procedure to remove marrow from the
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hipbone, but Killen chose to have cells removed intravenously. “I had two IVs in each arm, and they pull out your blood, run it through a machine, … separate your plasma and your bone marrow, and … return your blood back to you,” she says. “You can’t get up, you can’t move, because you have two needles in each arm. You’re stuck in the same position for six hours.” The process was a bit uncomfortable but not painful, says Killen. “I would do it again,” she says. “I know how important it is. It was an easy process. They pay for everything.” As for the patient, chemotherapy kills the diseased bone marrow cells prior to the transplant, Gouker explains. Soon afterward, the donor cells are injected, much like a blood transfusion. “It goes into your arm, and the cells are so smart that they know where to go. Isn’t that amazing? They take hold there and start replicating and making the cells they need to make,” says Killen. The replication process takes 30 to 45 days after the cells have been injected. Gouker says Mission plans to hold another bone-marrow registry drive during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September. “We’d like to encourage folks to come down and get on the registry, and we’ll make it easy and painless and free,” she says. “Being on the registry is a way to potentially save someone’s life.” X
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Ashevillean grows coral reefs off the Florida coast
BY liisa anDREassEn LiisaS66@gmail.com When most people think of farming, their thoughts turn to rows of neatly planted produce or herds of beefy cattle, but likely not to what tim birthisel, proprietor of Terra Sub Aqua, is up to. At least twice a year, this Asheville resident can be found 55 feet under — underwater, that is. And, he’s not alone. CREATINg A sUsTAINABLE ECOsYsTEM Birthisel’s coral farm sits about 5 miles off the coast near Key Largo, Fla., and serves as a model alternative commercial wildlife refuge that increases biodiversity in a threatened biome while it delivers a product. What started as a hobby and a way to pay for his passion to scuba dive, has turned into a sustainable asset. With a B.S. in zoology from Ohio State, Birthisel worked in the agribusiness industry for nearly 40 years and focused primarily on research and development. So, when he decided he had enough of “Big Ag,” he had the chops to strike out on his own. “I’ve always loved the sea,” he says. “And, I’m constantly thinking of ways to give back to it.” When he learned that coral farming was actually “a thing,” the wheels were set in motion. He was a parttime Asheville resident at the time, traveling between his native state of Ohio, Asheville and the Florida Keys. While in Florida Keys, he leased an acre of ocean floor from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for about $31 per year and started the process of creating a coral reef, which involves building one with new rocks, in the sand flats outside the fringing reef that runs parallel to the Keys. “I was the first guy to go into federal waters after wild rock harvesting was banned,” he says. “The timing was coincidental. I had researched the site location years before the banning and was advised by Dr. Jay Hemdal, distinguished zoo curator, researcher and author, on what sort of site parameters I should seek out. He suggested deeper waters found offshore beyond the reef line. This is
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fROM hOBBY TO AssET: Coral farmer and Asheville resident Tim Birthisel of Terra Sub Aqua works at his underwater farm in the Florida Keys. Photo by John Godts, a farm volunteer who lives in Asheville. Inset photo of Birthisel courtesy of Terra Sub Aqua federal territory, called the EEZ [economic easement zone]. “Wild rock harvesting was determined to be damaging to the environment, because each rock is home to hundreds of species of small, colorful marine animals and plants, including young corals. What I’m doing is actually giving back instead of taking away.” So, what does coral farming involve? The process starts with getting shipments of porous rock from quarries in central Florida, drilling holes in them, dropping them down to the farm via a bucket system and then stacking these stones on rebar that Birthisel and volunteers drill into the sandy ocean floor. Then, nature takes it course. Asheville resident john godts has volunteered twice on Birthisel’s underwater farm and plans to keep going back for as long he can. “The ocean gives us so much that to be able to give back is such an amazing feeling,” Godts says. “Birthisel’s efforts are really paying off. You can see visible effects of how the farm is naturally cleaning the immediate area around it. It’s so rewarding to see more and more sea life each time I return.”
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The fruits of Birthisel’s efforts and those of his volunteers, are not only beneficial to the environment, but Birthisel also supplies a local pet shop — Aquarium and Imports Inc. — with about 1,000 pounds of coral per year harvested from his underwater farm, which the store sells to customers for their saltwater aquariums. “The coral my competition produces is cheaper, but mine is sustainable,” Birthisel says. “That’s the big difference.” chris aldrich, co-founder of Saltwater Smarts, an online resource for marine aquarium hobbyists, has known Birthisel since 2009 and lauds his efforts. “By volunteering with Terra Sub Aqua, I’m able to help build an artificial reef structure that brings much life to an area that previously had very little. This coral farm boasts positive impact through habitat creation,” Aldrich says. “Birthisel’s efforts bring a product to the saltwater aquarium industry that does not require the destruction and removal of natural reef structure.” And, Birthisel is not really cashing in financially. The business just pretty much sustains itself as it has grown. The real payoff for him and, ultimately,
the environment, he says, is seeing how the ecosystem has evolved to the point of attracting large predators, which, he adds, can really make the diving interesting at times. Birthisel is also working on other aqua-related products related to farming Caribbean corals and is manufacturing a coral food nutrient that he says makes maintaining a saltwater aquarium a cinch. He hopes to sell this solution on Amazon.com in the future. Terra Sub Aqua is currently a wholesale business only, but Birthisel is open to consulting with local folks on how to set up a low-cost, biologically based saltwater aquarium. Experienced scuba divers who want to give back to the marine environment and learn about how Terra Sub Aqua’s coral-farming process works are welcome to contact Birthisel about volunteering at terrasubaqua@mindspring. com or 419-343-9842. For more information, visit www.terrasubaqua.com. Freelance writer Liisa Andreassen, who scuba dives, has volunteered at Terra Sub Aqua. She plans to return to volunteer again sometime next year. She says it’s one of the cooler and more
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TEA PARTY: Leaves from the yaupon holly yield a dark caffeinated tea with a long history of use by Native American tribes and early European settlers. The plant is indigenous to the southeastern U.S. coast, but Leicester farmer Tom Elmore is working to propagate the shrub in the Western North Carolina mountains. Photo by Cindy Kunst
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many scholars assert that yaupon leaves were used for centuries by native cultures, and later by European settlers, to make a tea known as “black drink.” Although its unfortunate Latin name paints it as something you’d be better off avoiding (the vomit-referencing misnomer is based, perhaps, on the tea’s use by certain native tribes during rituals that involved purging), yaupon, in fact, has no emetic properties and yields a very drinkable dark tea. A close relative of the more celebrated yerba mate, yaupon tea is known to be mellower than its cousin with no bitter edge, even after prolonged steeping. It also delivers a pleasantly energizing caffeine buzz, minus the jittery side effects that can accompany coffee. And it’s good for you, notes randy talley, owner of Green Sage Café, who introduced yaupon to Asheville’s coffee shop scene when he began selling the tea by the cup at his three Asheville stores at the end of January. “It was called ’big medicine’ by Native Americans, or ’big medicine drink,’” he says, referencing yaupon’s historic reputation among native tribes as a healing plant.
Talley, who intends to plant a grove of 14 yaupon shrubs at his home this year for use as an edible hedge, also touts the tea’s high concentration of antioxidants and theobromine, which is, he points out, “the same thing that’s in chocolate; it makes you feel euphoric.” AN AMERICAN sTORY Talley sources his loose-leaf yaupon, which he sells for about $2.50 per cup, from the Savannah, Ga.-based company Asi Yaupon. Asi owner lou thoumann, who is candidly passionate about yaupon, owns a barrier island off the Georgia coast from which he sustainably harvests the wild leaves. He then processes and packages them as dried, loose-leaf tea and ready-to-drink, bottled tea for distribution in Georgia, the Carolinas and Alabama. “The thing about yaupon, is that the more you harvest it, the stronger it gets; you can’t hurt it,” says Thoumann, who adds that the plant is so prolific on the Georgia coast that the residents of other nearby islands regard it as a weed. “They’ve tried to
eradicate it, but they can’t get rid of it.” Nevertheless, Thoumann says his team of wildcrafters takes care to only remove about 20 percent of the leaves from each plant when harvesting. Having learned just a few short years ago about yaupon’s useful qualities during a guided hike on Georgia’s Ossabaw Island with University of Georgia naturalist John “Crawfish” Crawford, Thoumann is now on a mission to learn about and educate the public on the many uses and rich history of the plant. “We’re learning that our real mission to support the brand is to educate people and celebrate Native American foodways,” says Thoumann. “This is a very American story. Yaupon is really the oldest American brand.” Locally, Asi bottled teas are currently available in a variety of flavors at Whole Foods and Earth Fare stores, at Zuma Coffee in Marshall and at the French Broad Food Co-op. So far, the looseleaf tea is only available by the cup at Green Sage locations. fROM COAsT TO MOUNTAINs Having a good-tasting, caffeinated tea-making herb that grows in the Southeast is pretty cool, but that naturally begs the question of whether we can propagate it in Western North Carolina. According to history and at least one local farmer, the answer is “maybe.” Despite historical references to the Cherokee using the “black drink,” it’s not grown or consumed in the area today, says david cozzo, project director for the Revitalization of Traditional Cherokee Artisan Resources program at the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Extension Center in Cherokee. But perhaps it did once grow here. “There was a reference about a few bushes being near some Cherokee villages in the 1700s,” Cozzo says, “and another reference to the Cherokee as middlemen between the coastal tribes and the interior tribes, but today folks here drink coffee.” But on a recent February morning, with smallish snowflakes spitting sporadically from low, gray clouds, farmer tom elmore stands at the foot of a steep hill on his Leicester farm surrounded by brilliant green yaupon shrubs. “This is a Zone 7 plant,” he explains, touching the oblong leaves of one of the handful of shoulder-high yaupon holly trees he is cultivating. “That means [it grows best in] the Spartanburg, Greenville area. But we’re a Zone 6.”
For three or four years now, Elmore, who with his wife and daughter also grows and markets a diverse array of fruits and vegetables from his familyowned Thatchmore Farm, has been testing the hardiness of a few yaupon cultivars with the hope of finding one of the coast-loving plants that can reliably survive mountain winters. Inspired by his late father, a well-known Knoxville, Tenn., holly expert knows as “Holly Hal,” Elmore’s ultimate goal is to propagate the plants to sell in Western North Carolina. “The main obstacle is getting over the hardiness problem,” he explains. “So it’s still in the experimental stage to some degree at this elevation. ... But there are variations in plants … and over time we’ll select for ones that do well in cold.” In order to begin introducing the idea of yaupon tea to Asheville, Elmore has already been periodically harvesting and drying small amounts of his yaupon to sell in teabags at the West Asheville and North Asheville tailgate markets and distribute through his Community Supported Agriculture program. Although he says his customers have been excited about it and the demand far exceeds his supply, the finished product is not what he wants to focus on for the long haul. “I think I could find a market for the tea, but it’s sort of another business than the one I’m drawn to,” he says. “My real interest is in selling the plant and developing our local food culture.” LOOkINg AhEAD Elmore, who is on the board of directors of the Organic Growers School, says that once a cold-hardy yaupon cultivar is identified, he sees great potential for the plant as a local crop option. “It’s a real opportunity for another local food,” he says. “For those of us who are big fans of caffeine, it’s a good way to get that locally without having to rely on international shipments.” Opportunities exist, too, he says for collaborations among local growers and other entrepreneurs. Blue Ridge Food Ventures, he points out, has an herbal processing center, and A-B Tech Enka has state-of-the-art equipment for doing caffeine testing. “We’re really set up here to promote this product and make it part of the local culture,” he says. Talley agrees that yaupon could have a bright future in WNC. “I think I recognize if for its potential,” he says. “Coffee, tea and cocoa are all billion-dollar industries. So here’s one that has the potential to be a blockbuster industry in the South because it grows here. It’s our native caffeine.” X
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labor of love Local caterers go creative What’s that you say? You want us to create something no one’s ever seen before? Sure; no problem. That attitude seems to be the consensus among local caterers. When faced with a challenge, they rise to the occasion — and they love doing it. fRIENDs fIRsT
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tara letts and ragan lewis began sharing recipes when they were in the first grade. Today, they share a business, the Colorful Palate. And while catering to different tastes at multiple venues is no picnic, the two say it’s also what keeps them on their toes and makes it fun. “Over the years, we’ve had many memorable experiences,” says Lewis, “from brides being run over by golf carts to gun-brandishing guests and accidental profane outbursts during the vows.” Still, they wouldn’t trade those experiences for anything. “Managing these details successfully has pushed us to create some pretty amazing systems and to purposefully train our crew to work each event as its own entity, not just a repeat of the same thing they did last weekend,” says Letts . Their talented service staff, affectionately referred to as “ninjas,” have mostly come to them by way of referrals from current crew members. Many have serious industry experience, and most do this for extra income to supplement full-time jobs. Working out of rented space in a business park in Arden, they knew from the start that they wanted to focus on catering rather than making it an add-on to a walk-in, counter-service restaurant. And while they’ve catered events for up to 500 people, it was a surprise engagement for just two that really stands out in their memories. The groomto-be popped the question in the woods near a one-room cabin, while the server hid in the woods taking photos. After the woman accepted, dinner and Champagne were served in the cabin. “That was pretty cool,” remembers Letts. CUsTOM COCkTAILs
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According to a recently released report by Thumbtack, an online service that connects consumers with professionals, requests for bartenders for 2016 weddings are up 42 percent so far. That comes as no surprise to heidi walker and lexie harvey of Cordial & Craft, who are thinking of expanding their professional bar catering company. “At the start, our overhead was minimal,” notes Walker. “Once business started taking off, we had to make larger investments in equipment and had additional expenses for insurance and licensing.” Up until now, both women have worked out of their homes and/or in coffee shops, but with business booming, they’re considering opening an actual office. Their substantial staffing pool includes about 40 event planners, craft bartenders and servers, and even a few chefs. A recent 1920s-themed party featured vintage cocktails, a masquerade murder theme and a giant stilt walker who mingled with the guests. Another client wanted a cartoon-themed wedding called “Adventure Time.” “We got to watch, or maybe re-watch, some of our favorite episodes and create cocktails from them,” Walker explains. “We got to combine two of our favorite things — cartoons and cocktails!” Walker’s beverage of choice is a ginger Old-Fashioned; Harvey is partial to their own Strawberry Fields — a Champagne cocktail with a secret recipe that includes St-Germain elderflower liqueur. What’s no secret, though, is that a lot of the ingredients the two use come from their own backyards, including blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, tomatoes, beets and assorted herbs
and roots. All this and more goes into the bitters, shrubs, tonics and tinctures they concoct throughout the year. And with things they don’t have, they try to keep it local by seeing what’s available through Mountain Food Products on Brevard Road or in the garden at The Farm: A Gathering Place, in Candler. “We get the most requests for ‘something with whiskey’ or ‘something no one’s ever seen before,’” Harvey reports. MAkINg IT WORk
NURTURINg NETWORk: Asheville caterer Corey Frost Marino applauds the strong support network she finds among her peers. She shares kitchen space — and occasionally collaborates — with other caterers at Blue Ridge Fod Ventures. Photo courtesy of Catering by Corey
corey frost marino runs Catering by Corey. And while she concedes that balancing family and work can be a challenge, she’s been amazed that there’s “such a supportive network of caterers in this town.” caroline allured has shared a kitchen with Marino at Blue Ridge Food Ventures, which rents commercial kitchen space for about $30 per hour. Allured remembers getting a call from Marino, who was in the emergency room and worried about an imminent event she had scheduled. “I was so happy to help,” Allured reports, adding, “The event went off without a hitch.” The atmosphere at Blue Ridge Food Ventures is a “cross-pollination of people and products: We’re a sisterhood,” says the veteran, who’s owned Caroline Allured Catering for more than 30 years. Marino agrees. And this supportive network, coupled with her culinary skills, has gotten 2016 off to a roaring start, with 33 weddings currently on the books. Both women say they enjoy shopping at local farmers markets, though keeping up with it all is a challenge. “Getting to all the different places to get these amazing ingredients is time-consuming,” notes Marino. “It would be great if there was a business that would do this for you.” In the end, however, it’s not about saving time. “It’s all about bringing people together,” says Allured. “And what I really like is when a client wants to blend something of mine with something of theirs. For instance, I love it when someone says, ‘Hey, I’d like to use my grandma’s recipe somewhere on the menu: What can you do?’ Now, that gets me excited.” X
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sMALL BITEs by Kat McReynolds | kmcreynolds@mountainx.com
a dozen local bandS play for food connection In just over a year, Food Connection has saved 14,000 perishable meals from the dumpster. And with an upcoming concert at The Grey Eagle, the nonprofit hopes to raise money to help increase its impact even more in the coming months. Food Connection initially operated by paying cab fare to send restaurants’ excess to nearby shelters, schools or other organizations in need. But with increasing frequency, co-founder flori pate is pairing caterers and other food suppliers like UNC Asheville — which previously composted about 100 pounds of leftovers daily — with drivers who have volunteered to collect on behalf of various entities across Western North Carolina. “We’re kind of like the match.com for people who need food and [those who] have too much food,” she says, noting an uptick in volume and geographic reach since the transition to more of a facilitating role. Pate, who also created the Dig Local mobile app, is currently exploring how she could apply technology from that venture to Food Connection’s operations. Formerly called Local Flavor, the existing app includes profiles and updated happenings from a host of Asheville entities that could conceivably self-identify surpluses and needs using the service. “It could even be a platform where you see what drivers are available,” she says. Her daily routine also involves educating potential suppliers on the federal Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, which protects donors and recipients against liability in case of a food-borne illnesses or other harm to the consumer. Explaining that legislation, she says, has been critical to attracting support. “We never imagined it would take off in the way that it has, but it’s thrilling,” Pate says of the nonprofit’s growth. “And we have big plans for this year, too. That’s where the benefit concert comes into play.” Twelve local bands — all of which are featured on Dig Local — will play
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elements of the brewing process will also be incorporated into the dishes themselves. Bolhoefer’s smoked trout, for example, will be served on spent-grain toast, and his prime rib will be topped with vanilla stout hollandaise. Other menu items include a poached egg with truffle, chives and hops on brioche; 72-hour, barrelaged pork belly and grits; and to finish, chocolate brioche French toast with bacon candy and Revenuers Red Ale caramel. Cabin Fever Brunch is noon-3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28, at Catawba Brewing Co., 32 Banks Ave. Visit eliada.org/ donate-today for details or tickets, which are $65 per person. WANT TO BE A WINE jUDgE?
WAsTE NOT: Five times per week, Food Connection facilitates the transportation of excess food from UNC Asheville to area organizations, including Hall Fletcher Elementary’s Music Works! program. Youths in that after-school group will perform at Food Connection’s upcoming benefit concert. Pictured, from left, are Food Connection co-founder Flori Pate, Music Works! administrative coordinator and teaching artist David Wilken, program director Brian Kellum and Food Connection board member Leslie Sharpe. Photo courtesy of Food Connection
The French Broad Vignerons is offering a three-part wine evaluation class series for those interested in joining the Vignerons and judging at competitive wine events. Training will be led by head judge bill fish, among others. Previous judges may be recertified on any of the three dates, but advancement as a new judge requires successful completion of all three sessions. Wine event opportunities begin in mid-June. Training sessions are 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturdays, March 12, April 9 and May 14 at Rinehart Racing, 260 Rutledge Road, Fletcher. There is a $20 materials fee for each new judge class and a $10 fee for recertification. To apply, contact the organization at info@frenchbroadvignerons.org. For details visit frenchbroadvignerons.org. BEE sChOOL 2016
short, 20- to 25-minute sets, making the evening a crash course in the sounds of Western North Carolina. Performers include Lyric, Red Honey, The Paper Crowns, Posh Hammer, Jr. James & the Late Guitar, stephaniesid, Juan Holladay, Debrissa & The Bear King, The Bread & Butter Band, The Wilhelm Brothers, Doss Church and Abby the Spoon Lady. Plus, the kids of MusicWorks! will open the show. “We’ve got such a cool variety of music,” Pate says, noting folk, bluegrass, electronica, rock, funk, soul and more. Up for raffle at the show are prizes such as a night at the Aloft Asheville Downtown, a night and dinner for two at the Sourwood Inn, a cruiser bike from New Belgium Brewing Co. and more. The Grey Eagle’s taqueria will
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have food for sale during the event. “We want everyone to feel welcome — college kids, families, anyone,” Pate says. “This is our one big fundraiser that we do every year, and last year’s concert was really the reason we were able to keep Food Connection going.” Food Connection’s benefit is at The Grey Eagle on Saturday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m. Information and tickets ($10/$12) are available at thegreyeagle.com. Raffle tickets are $5 each or five for $20. CATAWBA BREWINg CO.’s CABIN fEVER BRUNCh Grove Park Inn chef philip bolhoefer is preparing a five-course brunch to benefit local nonprofit Eliada. Not only will each dish come paired with a Catawba Brewing Co. beer or beer cocktail, but
Experienced beekeepers from the southern Appalachian region will lead the Center for Honeybee Research’s 2016 Bee School. The nonprofit’s twoday course aims to prepare individuals to successfully navigate their first year of managing honeybee colonies. Proceeds from this cooperative education project, which involves the Blue Ridge Parkway Service, Buncombe County Beekeepers and volunteers, will benefit the Center for Honeybee Research. Bee School is 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, March 5, and 12:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 6, at the Folk Art Center Auditorium, Milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Cost is $45 per person. Visit chbr.org/BeeSchool2016.aspx to register or for more information. X
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Shave and a haircut ... cold pints!
gET RhYThM: Asheville’s Local Barber and Tap offers traditional shoeshines, hot towel shaves, fresh haircuts and cold beer. Photo by Jesse Farthing Asheville has a unique history of combining beer and, well, whatever you want into retail shops. From bikes to camping gear and even motorcycle repair, there are a growing number of places where you can shop with a locally crafted beer in hand. Enter the Local Barber and Tap, a neighborhood barbershop opened downtown on Walnut Street by former Asheville Barber & Beard employee jordan stolte. Here, one can pop in for a haircut then stop and enjoy a brew at the small bar in the back. “I just wanted to make a hangout, you know,” Stolte says. “It’s a walk-in barbershop — you might have to wait 10 minutes, but you can get a beer while you wait.” Stolte has been a barber for 12 years, and he says beer has gone hand in hand with haircuts at other places he’s worked. “A lot of shops I worked at, we
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would give away complimentary cans of cheap beer,” he says. “I figured, well, it’s Beer City, there are a lot of beer lovers here, so we’ll get some on draft. Luckily it’s easy to get a beer license around here.” Stolte has an interesting history with beer as well. Before going to barber school, he was an assistant brewer at Grizzly Peak Brewing Co. in Michigan. There he worked under Ron Jeffries — a legend in the craft beer scene. Jeffries moved on to open Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales, which is a name most beer lovers are familiar with. “The guy was a genius,” Stolte says. “I feel lucky to have worked under him, but brewing wasn’t for me.” Still, he didn’t always plan on being a barber. “I went to school for graphic design,” he says. “But I finally found out I didn’t want to sit at a computer all day.
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“I had family friends that owned a barbershop that I grew up going to,” he says. “I used to clean it on the weekends. I started cutting my own hair when I was too broke. [Then] I started cutting my friends’ hair. … Friends had told me my whole life to go to barber school, and I finally did it.” Stotle says he thought about opening up his own shop for a long time, and it was always part of the plan to incorporate beer in some way. “I thought I’d just get an old fridge, convert it to a kegerator and just give beer away,” he says. “But my friends kept saying, ‘Go big.’” He adds that having beer on draft at his shop gives the business “something a little extra special.” The taps rotate regularly, but recent pours have included brews from Wicked Weed, Boojum Brewing, Oskar Blues and Appalachian Mountain.
The space itself is rich with an old-timey barbershop vibe. A traditional barber pole out front beckons customers who are greeted inside by an old-school shoeshine chair and — the real centerpiece — four reupholstered 1958 barber’s chairs, complete with ashtrays in the armrests. Then, of course, there’s the bar in the back built by Hi-Wire Brewing’s Zach dier, which sports a barber pole tap handle. “We have a bar, but we try to keep it family-friendly,” Stolte adds, noting that they’ve got toys and suckers for the kids. Though the shop is fairly close to Stolte’s former employer, Asheville Barber & Beard in the Grove Arcade, he says they were “totally supportive” of him opening his own establishment downtown. “They’ve got a good little shop going,” Stolte says. “But there could still be another two shops downtown, and we’d all stay busy.” The Local Barber and Tap has actually been open for several months, but Stolte kept it low-key while hiring new barbers and preparing for more business. He says he already had a clientele from when he worked at the Barber & Beard, and he didn’t want to get overwhelmed. Now, with four barbers on staff, a grand opening was held at the end of January, and Stolte and his crew are ready to cut some hair and pour some cold brews. “I’m just kind of proud of the barbering trade in general,” Stolte says. “I wouldn’t say I have a passion for what I do, but I like there being an alternative to high-end salons and appointment-only places. [Barbershops] have always kind of been a community gathering place — a guys’ hangout. I wanted to try to create that.” He adds that he also appreciates the freedom his job offers. “You’re your own boss. It’s just you and the customer in a straightforward transaction. You’re never rich, but you’re never poor. It’s the secondoldest profession,” he says with a laugh. “It’s been around forever, you know?” The Local Barber and Tap is at 84 W. Walnut St. in downtown Asheville. Hours are 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays. X
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Homecoming QUeen
Jane Kramer celebrates her return to Asheville with a new album
BY alli maRsHall amarshall@mountainx.com “Sometimes I’ll write songs and a few weeks or months later, I’ll live that experience,” says singer-songwriter jane Kramer. The song “Truck Stop Stars” from her new album, Carnival of Hopes, is about a woman leaving a mountain town to cross the U.S. “To me, it foreshadowed my own drive back across the country to Asheville, but I wrote it before I made the decision to move,” she says. In a way, the entire album — which Kramer will release with a show at The Grey Eagle Friday, Feb. 26 — is tied to the musician’s relocation from Portland back to Asheville, where she’d lived previously. A Warren Wilson College graduate, Kramer was a member of the roots music trio Barrel House Mamas. “I’d spent most of my adult life here,” she says of Western North Carolina. But after “a lot of personal explosion,” including a break from her band, Kramer felt she needed a new place in which to reinvent herself. Portland provided that proving ground. There, Kramer launched her solo career with a debut eponymous album. “Yet I went out there and realized all I wanted to do was write mountain music, and I missed people on street corners with banjos,” she says. As she began to pen material for Carnival of Hopes, “It became incredibly clear that I needed to record it in Asheville.” She did that a year ago, working at Sound Temple Studio with producer adam johnson and a host of local musicians, including percussionist river guerguerian and bassist elliot wadopian (both of Free Planet Radio), fiddler nicky sanders (Steep Canyon Rangers), cellist franklin Keel (Sirius.B) and trombonist jp furnas (Empire Strikes Brass), among others. It was that recording session that evinced to Kramer that she was ready to move back to WNC. By last summer, she was again based in Asheville. The album leads with the swaying “Half Way Gone,” on which the fiddle
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LONg-DIsTANCE LOVE: After moving to Portland, Ore., where she launched her solo career, singer-songwriter Jane Kramer realized, “All I wanted to do was write mountain music, and I missed people on street corners with banjos.” Photo by Daniel Judson sweeps and the bass struts. Kramer’s vocal glides between sorghum-sweet low notes and a breathy upper register, maintaining a wink the whole time. But even with its moments of levity and meet-cute two-steps, Carnival of Hopes is sincere. “This new love of yours grows living things from dirt / I’ll bet she’s got tattoos on those sturdy arms of hers. / I can’t keep a houseplant alive and it ain’t no wondering why / you found some better arms than mine to call you home at night,” she sings on the title track. The song is full of staggering details: “I think God lives in the
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things that I don’t know,” and “This fellow here knows I like whiskey, he don’t know nothing about my heart.” If Kramer had to move 3,000 miles to benefit her songwriting, the effort paid off handsomely. “In my songs, I feel like I have to be raw and honest and expose myself in ways that would make me flinch if I were speaking them,” she says. “In performing them, I’ve carved out this place for myself to be that honest and not regret it. It’s a wonderful fear that produces bravery.” The hope is, she adds, to connect with others and help them in their struggles.
Kramer grew up playing classical flute and, although her father is a classical guitar player in his free time, she never took guitar or voice lessons. “I rely on my ear and my intuition when I’m writing,” she says. Kramer describes the songwriting process as mysterious and elusive. Her connection to Appalachian music is also enigmatic. “When I got to Warren Wilson, I was so enamored with learning about the culture of these mountains and storytelling,” she says. The members of The Barrel House Mamas bonded over those sounds and, though their songs weren’t necessarily historic ballads revisited, their instrumentation was distinctly Appalachian. “That was something that never left me,” Kramer says. Though her current album moves beyond those roots, adding poetic verses, catchy melodies and the kind of personal insights that feel universal, “In my own songwriting I love to think that I’m collecting stories in a similar way.” Looking ahead, Kramer sets her sights on a European tour (there’s precedence — Carnival of Hopes has been out in Europe for a couple of months). She’s also excited about re-establishing herself as a performer in the Southeast and within the Asheville music scene. Not that an icebreaker is needed, but Kramer’s decidedly local album release show seconds nicely as a welcome-back party. X who Jane Kramer’s album release party for Carnival of Hopes with Sea the Sea where The Grey Eagle thegreyeagle.com when Friday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m. $10 advance/$12 day of show
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to paint aS if to dream UNCA hosts solo exhibition of paintings by retired professor Virginia Derryberry Like a dream or a memory, the large-scale figurative paintings by recently retired UNC Asheville professor virginia derryberry are strangely familiar. The works, ranging from 5 to 8 feet high, depict larger-than-life figures set in lush environments. The exhibition, Private Domain, remains on display at S. Tucker Cooke Gallery on the first floor of UNCA’s Owen Hall, through Friday, March 4. “I’ve given myself permission to select the visual components that interest me,” says Derryberry. Through subtle alterations and slight modifications to reality, she creates an eerie, not-quite-real atmosphere. “In some paintings, I might have two slightly different times of day being represented by the lights and the shadows,” she says. There’s also Derryberry’s selective intensification of color. These variances work just under the radar of the viewer’s perception to create the appearance of an imagined space or a representation of a memory. “I’m fiddling with truth,” says the artist. Despite these distortions, much of what Derryberry paints is pulled from reality. One painting’s title, “Celo,” places the streamside setting on the nearby South Toe River. The figures, featured so prominently in the works, are pulled from reality to become characters in Derryberry’s dream world. Friends, family and even her students have sat for her paintings. Yet imagination works in tandem with what she sees — when painting a person for the second time, their appearance shifts as Derryberry finds new personality aspects to portray, resulting in a new character to paint. Female figures are often central to the paintings. “They are almost always very strong, and they’re straightforward. Many of them are tall, and I’m not,” the artist says. Much of a work of art’s interpretation is determined by viewers who bring their own perceptions and context to the work, but, “There are some things that I do hope are communicated,” says Derryberry. She mentions memories, dreams and relationships, as well as the “strength of these bodies that are in the picture.”
OPEN TO INTERPRETATION: Virginia Derryberry’s undergraduate degree was in art history, and the symbology references that she learned have been embedded into her studio work. Pictured: “The Four Elements” by Derryberry. Oil on canvas, 2 panels, 96“ x 48”, 2013. Image courtesy of the artist
The landscape also plays a significant role with the majority of the works being set in exterior locations. “It’s not exactly like a Garden of Eden, but it could be,” says Derryberry. Though that reference isn’t specifically religious, the artist views the settings as “a contemplative place where
things can work out — whatever that means — where there’s that possibility and hope.” The lush outdoor locales root the work in the Southeast. “The atmosphere in my painting is tinged with, or colored with, the heat and the
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richness of the environment,” says Derryberry. And though she sees how the character relationships in her work might prompt a regional label, “I would also hope that they are a universal human narrative.” In the solo exhibition Private Domain, Derryberry shows about a dozen large-scale figurative paintings from the last seven years, as well as some smaller works from a new series that incorporates sewn fabric components. The capstone event celebrates Derryberry’s retirement after her 20-year career of teaching studio art at UNCA. Because she maintained an active studio practice while teaching, she does not see the shift to being a full-time artist as a radically significant change. Her plans for the upcoming year include serving as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, along with mounting three solo exhibitions in different parts of the country. Derryberry’s undergraduate degree was in art history, and the symbolic references that she learned have been embedded into her studio work. For example, a recurring element in her paintings is water, which has many possible meanings or interpretations. Even in its representation, it can be painted to show transparency or fractured light reflections. “And water is a source of life,” says Derryberry. “So that’s another sort of Eden, another sort of place where there are possibilities.” Despite the benefit of instant recognition representational paintings offer to a viewer, Derryberry hopes to avoid the pitfall of figurative or narrative works being read like an illustrated story. “Illustration is not a bad thing, but it can be really onedimensional,” she says. Because the paintings can be seen in different ways and understood on different levels, Derryberry sees her art as closer to poetry. Ultimately, she says, “My work is not about a bottom-line kind of one-liner message.” X
what Private Domain, a Virginia Derryberry solo exhibition where S. Tucker Cooke Gallery first floor of UNCA’s Owen Hall. avl.mx/282 when Through Friday, March 4. Open weekdays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
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by Bill Kopp
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‘mUSic iS an elaStic tHing’ Reed Turchi returns home for an album release party
BACk TO hIs ROOTs: Swannanoa native Reed Turchi, left, with his band The Caterwauls, brings the blues-inflected music of his new album, Speaking in Shadows, to The Root Bar for an album release party. Photo by Aaron Fryar
Though these days he lives and works in Memphis, reed turchi was born and spent his formative years in Asheville. Nominally a blues artist, multi-instrumentalist Turchi draws from a much wider array of styles, and his music is informed by his studio knowledge and experience. This summer, Turchi and his band, The Caterwauls, will launch a major tour to promote Turchi’s upcoming solo album, Speaking in Shadows. But first, there’s a special album release party, Friday, Feb. 26, at The Root Bar. Growing up just outside the Asheville city limits, Turchi was raised on a diet of music, though not so much mountain music. “My mom is the real musician in the family,” Turchi says. “She’s a classical viola player. She started me out fairly early with the usual, by-the-book piano regimen.” He didn’t enjoy the material he was tasked to learn. “I remember one particular night when she realized I was practicing theory, but I had headphones on and was listening to
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omething else. That was not a good moment.” But then he discovered the blues. “A couple years in,” Turchi recalls, “once I had some basic musical knowledge, I finally started to make the connection that it might be possible to actually play music that I liked listening to. And that’s when I started doing boogie-woogie piano, Kansas City and Chicago style: the stuff with the walking left hand and chords in the right hand.” That foundation set Turchi on his musical path, but the potentially restrictive format of the blues didn’t limit him. “As an artist, I think that all music is an elastic thing,” he says. In Turchi’s music, listeners may hear the blues plus influences of more contemporary — and even exotic — styles. “The real addiction for me for the last six or seven months has been Tuareg music like Tinariwen, Bombino and Tamikrest,” he says. “A lot of people make a blues connection to that music, but what I’m attracted to in all of that is the groove.” He says that hooks and
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melody are qualities that he “definitely focused on. I’m always interested in chasing new musical ideas, and I am also interested in trying to make the best music possible.” That commitment comes through in the songs on Speaking in Shadows. Another key ingredient is the approach Turchi used to make the basic tracks: direct to tape. “For me, it was not necessarily a debate about nostalgia, but more about restraint,” he says. “The goal was to simplify, using as few microphones as possible. We had only one reel of tape, so we could only ever keep a single take of a song, and not say, ‘Oh, we have 10 versions of that; we can go back and pick one later.’” For several years, the Swannanoa native led a self-described “kudzu boogie” trio bearing his surname; the band released three albums and an EP. Settling in Memphis, Turchi landed a job at Ardent, the legendary Memphis recording studio founded by john fry, that produced classic recordings from Big Star, ZZ Top, The Cramps, Stevie
Ray Vaughan and many others. Turchi is the director of the newly revived Ardent record label. In between those responsibilities and sessions for Speaking in Shadows, he toured Italy, opening for “mindboggling guitarist” adriano viterbini. “He’s one of Europe’s top guitarists,” Turchi says. “He and I did an album together about two years ago, and he’s producing some even newer stuff of mine.” Turchi brings the skills of his day job at Ardent to the making of his own record and applies the same cando mindset to the label’s other projects. “Ardent is a magical place to be around,” he says. “I’ve certainly learned a ton. And on the album, what you hear is me trying to take advantage of all that it has to offer.” The Root Bar in Swannanoa might not be the first place one thinks of for an album release party, but for Turchi, it’s a perfect (and not a little sentimental) fit. “The Root Bar is my favorite bar on the planet,” Turchi says. “I grew up about a half-mile from there; I had my first legal drink there. I love it. For me, especially there just outside of Asheville ... it really feels like coming home.” After a year working on Speaking in Shadows, Turchi is ready to hit the road with his new band. “As much as I’ve worked on and sweated over this record — and I’m proud of a lot of things about it — I’m even prouder now of this new band. I took about eight months to put The Caterwauls together,” he says. “Slowly, slowly, hanging out together, making music together but in a nopressure way. Taking time to get the chemistry together. And it’s there. So now we’re rolling; now it’s time to actually go play music.” X who Reed Turchi & The Caterwauls where The Root Bar facebook.com/rootbarnumberone when Friday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m. Free
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Moon Hooch
Rhiannon and the Relics
It’s almost as if someone dropped a pile of sheet music before Moon Hooch — dubstep, hard rock and jazz songs among the flurry — and then locked the trio up with two saxophones and a drum kit to coalesce a new genre. The energy and sheer lung power of Mike Wilbur and Wenzl McGowen allow for untamed instrumental effects (elephant sounds, speeding cars and Chewbacca, to name a few) that are delivered with expert timing. Drummer James Muschler, meanwhile, keeps songs danceable and he, too, seems to thrive while blending precision and lawlessness. Maybe these musicians really are sourcing their hooch from outer space, and we’d all benefit from a sip. METAL opens for the band at The Mothlight on Tuesday, March 1, at 9 p.m. $10/12. themothlight.com. Photo by Shervin Lainez
Child prodigies add novelty to most musical performances. But it’s even more aweinspiring to see a recently minted human play traditional music as old as the Appalachian towns from whence it came. At age 12, Rhiannon Ramsey is doing just that — fiddling and singing alongside local string band veterans Craig Bannerman (bass), Troy Harrison (banjo, guitar, mandolin), Brian Hunter (guitar) and Mike Hunter (mandolin). Her musicianship and comfort onstage, however, convey anything but newness. Instead, the Arvil Freeman protégé and her bandmates settle into their mountain-made tunes with ease. Rhiannon and the Relics play Fletcher’s Feed and Seed on Friday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. Admission by donation. feedandseednc.com. Photo courtesy of the band
The Highway Q.C.’s
Up Jumped Three
It was 1945 when a handful of Chicago teens, including Sam Cooke, formed The Highway Q.C.’s. The gospel group has understandably undergone plenty of lineup changes since then, but frontman Spencer Taylor Jr. — who joined in the first year and became the leader after about a decade — continues to spread the word of God with gusto. Not only has the 88-year-old singer witnessed an incredible amount of musical history, he’s also keen to usher in a new crop of talent, as evidenced by his two sons joining the group. Though Taylor has watched peers find success with secular music, he prefers to keep faith at the top of his mind and voice. The Highway Q.C.’s bring their soulful singing to The Double Crown on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 10 p.m. $10. thedoublecrown.com. Image by Steve Mann
Up Jumped Three’s Bryan White (double bass), Frank Southecorvo (saxophones) and Tim Winter (guitar) are drummerless by choice. “We all think very rhythmically and pass around the responsibility for marking time when necessary. We also play very free on occasion, letting go of meter and tempo completely, and are comfortable in doing so,” White says. New album Eleven Dialogues hinges on the modern jazz players’ free exchange of musical phrases and ideas. “When you find yourself listening to what your bandmates are doing more than you are listening just to yourself, you open yourself up to true musical dialogues.” Up Jumped Three debuts the collection of live and studio tracks at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall’s upstairs lounge on Sunday, Feb. 28, at 5:30 p.m. $10. isisasheville.com. Photo courtesy of the band mountainx.com
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Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com ThE CENTER fOR CRAfT, CREATIVITY & DEsIgN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through MO (3/28) - Open call for emerging curators to take part in the Curatorial Fellowship. See website for full guidelines. Free.
WARREN WILsON PREsBYTERIAN ChURCh 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa, 298-9092, warren-wilson.edu/~chapel • SU (2/28), 3pm - Steven Williams performs organ music of Bach and Reger. Free.
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‘MY NAME Is RAChEL CORRIE’: The Immediate Theatre Project and Just Peace for Israel/Palestine are bringing the touring production of the one-woman play My Name is Rachel Corrie to the NC Stage Company on Wednesday, Mar. 2, at 7:30 p.m. “I have been aware of this story and this play for several years now, and suddenly the opportunity to bring it to local audiences jumped out, and we grabbed it,” says Immediate Theatre Project co-founder Willie Repoley. The show recounts the life of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American peace activist who travelled to Gaza in 2003 with the International Solidarity Movement to defend Palestinian homes from being demolished, and where she was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer. After Rachel’s death, the late Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, editor in chief of The Guardian, co-created this play, which is based entirely on Rachel’s emails and journal entries. Photo courtesy of The Immediate Theatre (p. 40) ART
Demonstration and Discussion” with curators. $8/$7 students & seniors.
MAkE YOUR OWN UkRAINIAN EAsTER Egg (pd.) Learn to make beautiful Ukrainian Easter eggs: Pysanky workshops in the River Arts District or your location. AshevilleStudioA.com • (828) 423-6459 • AvlStudioA@gmail.com for signup + more info. AshEVILLE AREA ARTs COUNCIL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • TU (3/1), 10am-noon - Artist Business Brainstorm Session: “Time Management Tools for Busy Entrepreneurs,” with Boomer Sassman. Registration required. Free. AshEVILLE ART MUsEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • FR (2/26), noon-1pm - “How to Care for Silver:
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AUDITIONs & CALL TO ARTIsTs AshEVILLE MUsIC sChOOL 126 College St., 252-6244, ashevillemusicschool. com • SU (2/28), noon - Student jazz ensemble auditions. Ages 10-18. Call to schedule audition time. Free to attend. fLAT ROCk PLAYhOUsE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • SU (2/28), 2-4pm - Audition workshop for young actresses interested in auditioning for Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank. Free. • MO (2/29), 6-9pm - Open auditions for young performers for The Music Man and The Diary of Anne Frank. Contact for full guidelines. Free.
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BLUE RIDgE ORChEsTRA CONCERTs MARCh 5 & 6 • PARIS TO ST. PETERSBURG (pd.) Bizet, Faure, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky performed • Saturday, March 5, 7:30pm; • Sunday, March 6, 3pm, Rainbow Community School Auditorium, 58 State St., West Asheville. $15 General Admission; $10 Friends of the Blue Ridge Orchestra; $5 Students. • Tickets available online and (cash and checks only) at Soli Classica, 1550 Hendersonville Road, and Musician’s Workshop, 310 Merrimon Avenue, Asheville. Further information: blueridgeorchestra.org
35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (3/6) Seussical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $15-$25.
BLUE RIDgE sYMPhONIC BRAss facebook.com/Blue-Ridge-SymphonicBrass-472866629591180 • FR (2/26), 7:30pm - Winter concert featuring organist Timothy Shephard. $10. Held at First United Methodist Church of Brevard, 325 North Broad St., Brevard
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CAThEY’s CREEk COMMUNITY CENTER Island Ford Road, Brevard • SA (2/27), 7pm - Last Road Bluegrass. $5/$3 children under 12.
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DIANA WORThAM ThEATRE 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • SU (2/28), 7pm - Lúnasa with Tim O’Brien, Irish and bluegrass music. $32/$27 student/$20 children. j.E. BROYhILL CIVIC CENTER 1913 Hickory Blvd. SE, Lenior, broyhillcenter.com • SA (2/27), 7:30pm - “Caldwell Traditional Musicians Showcase,” featuring Strictly Clean and Decent. $11/$5.50 students and children. MADIsON COUNTY ARTs COUNCIL 90 S. Main St., Marshall, 649-1301, madisoncountyarts.com • SU (2/28), 4pm - Tuba Skinny, swing, jazz and blues. $11. MUsIC AT MONTREAT COLLEgE 669-8012, montreat.edu • TU (3/1), 7pm - Student recital. Free. Held in the Chapel of the Prodigal. MUsIC AT UNCA 251-6432, unca.edu • FR (2/26), 3pm - Pan Harmonia Chamber Music Chat: “Explore the bombarde and Breton music with Rosalind Buda.” Held at the Reuter Center. Free.
AshEVILLE VAUDEVILLE facebook.com/AshevilleVaudeville • SA (2/27), 7:30pm & 10pm - Comedy, dance, physical theater, burlesque and acrobatics. Adults only. $12. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road Suite B
55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 884-2587, brevardlittletheatre.com • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (3/6) - Kitchen Witches. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $16/$11 students.
239-0263 ext. 140, new.immediatetheatre.org • WE (3/2), 7:30pm - My Name is Rachel Corrie, presented in cooperation with Just Peace for Israel/Palestine. $18/$12 students. Held at North Carolina Stage Company, 15 Stage Lane NORTh BUNCOMBE hIgh sChOOL 890 Clarks Chapel Road, Weaverville • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (2/25) until (2/28) - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, musical comedy. Thu.-Sat.: 7pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $10/Free for children under 11. ThE AUTUMN PLAYERs 686-1380, www,ashevilletheatre.org, caroldec25@gmail.com • FR (2/26) through SA (2/27), 2:30pm - Table Manners. $6. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. • SU (2/28), 2:30pm - Table Manners. $6. Held in the Reuter Center on the UNC Asheville campus. ThE MAgNETIC ThEATRE 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (2/27), 7:30pm - The Caro Savanti Experience! $24/$21 advance. • FR (2/26), 10:30pm - “Magnetic Midnight,” performance event features all original work by the first 10 performers who sign up at 9:30pm. $5.
PAN hARMONIA 254-7123, pan-harmonia.org • SU (2/28), 3pm - “La Bombarde!” Concert of bombarde, bassoon and organ. $20/$15 advance/$5 students. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Asheville, 40 Church St.
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TRANsYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTs COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • THURSDAYS (3/3) through (3/24), 2-3pm - Irish song workshop offered by Aoife Clancy. Not held on Thursday, Mar. 17. Registration required. $20 per class.
251-6610, drama.unca.edu • TH (2/25) through SU (2/28) - Twilight: Los Angeles, documentary theatre. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. Held at Belk Theatre. $12/$7 students.
689-1239, mhu.edu • SU (2/28), 2:30pm - Broadway Babies, musical. Free. Held in Spainhour Hall, Moore Building. ThEATER AT UNCA
gallERY D i RE ctoRY AMERICAN fOLk ART AND fRAMINg 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through TH (2/25) - 12th Annual Miniature Show, exhibition of paintings 9 x 7 or less. ART AT AsU 262-3017, tcva.org • Through SA (8/6) - Julia Barello’s large scale metalwork installation, Strange Gardens. Held in the Turchin Center. • Through SA (3/19) - Faculty Biennial, multidisciplinary exhibit of faculty work. Faculty Presentation: Thursday, Feb. 25, 7pm. Held in the Turchin Center. ART AT BREVARD COLLEgE 884-8188, brevard.edu/art • Through (3/24) - Juried student art exhibition. Held in the Spiers Arts Gallery. ART AT MARs hILL mhu.edu • Through SU (7/31) - Appalachia a Century Ago, Craft through the Lens of William A. Barnhill, historical exhibition. Held in the Ramsey Center. • Through FR (3/4) - Where Do We Go From Here? Sculptures by Molly Sawyer. Held in Weizenblatt Gallery. • Through FR (3/4), 6-8pm - Julie Miles/Molly Sawyer Exhibition of the paintings of Julie Miles and the sculptures of Molly Sawyer. Held in the Wiezenblatt Gallery. • SA (2/27) through SA (5/31) - Margaret Morley photography exhibition. Held in the Rural Heritage Museum. ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • Through MO (2/29) - Gifted By Faith, painting exhibition by local artist Jenny Pickens. Held in the Highsmith Center Intercultural Gallery. • Through (3/4) - Private Domain, solo exhibition of recent work by Virginia Derryberry. Opening reception: Friday, Feb. 19, 6-8pm. Held in the Tucker Cooke Gallery. • FR (2/19) through FR (3/4) – Exhibition by graphic artist Larkin Ford. Opening reception: Friday, Feb. 19, 6-8pm. Held in the Owen Hall Second Floor Gallery. ART AT WCU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu
Held in the Bardo Fine Arts Center unless otherwise noted. • MO (2/1) through FR (5/20) - From Apartheid to Democracy, exhibit from the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. Held in the Hunter Library 2nd floor gallery. • TH (2/18) through FR (5/6) - Color + Theory : Past + Present, works by Josef Albers, Kenneth Noland, and Odili Donald Odita. Reception: Thursday, April 7, 5pm. • Through (3/25) - John Julius Wilnoty stone carving exhibit. Reception: Thursday, Mar. 17, 5pm. ARTs COUNCIL Of hENDERsON COUNTY 693-8504, acofhc.org • FR (2/26) through FR (3/4) - Art Teachers Create, exhibition of artwork of Henderson County’s art teachers. Reception: Friday, Feb. 26, 5:30-7pm. Held at Art House Gallery & Studio, 5 Highland Park Road, East Flat Rock AshEVILLE AREA ARTs COUNCIL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • FR (2/26) through SA (4/2) - Thoughts of Home: Cultural Identity and the Evolution of an Artist Exhibition, exhibition of works of Vadim Bora and artists from the Caucasus Mountains of Russia. Opening reception: Friday, Feb. 26, 5-8pm. • FR (2/26) through SA (4/2) - Meridional Topography: A Painting Exhibition by Perry Houlditch. AshEVILLE ART MUsEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (3/6) - WNC Regional Scholastic Art exhibition. • Through TH (6/30) - Appalachian Innovators: Women Makers of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, 1930–2000. AshEVILLE gALLERY Of ART 82 Patton Ave., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • TU (3/1) through TH (3/31) - New Horizons, painting exhibition by Anne Bonnyman, Cathyann Burgess and Johnnie Stanfield. BLUE sPIRAL 1 38 Biltmore Ave., 251-0202, bluespiral1.com • Through SA (2/27) - Contrast: Black + White, exhibition of of 2D and 3D works.
BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIEs buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • Through MO (2/29) - Exhibition of collage art by Bob Fakanga. Opening reception: Saturday, Feb. 6, 11am-3pm. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road hICkORY MUsEUM Of ART 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 327-8576 • Through SU (2/28) - Interconnected: Tangible Dualities, exhibition of sculptures by Joël Urruty. Closing reception: Friday, Feb. 26, 6-8pm.
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jUBILEE COMMUNITY ChURCh 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • Through SU (2/28) - Expressions of the Heart, paintings by Laura Elliott and beadwork by Yona FrenchHawk. ODYssEY COOPERATIVE ART gALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery • Through MO (2/29) - Exhibition of the ceramic art of Anna Koloseike and Kate Gardner. PIsgAh BREWINg COMPANY 150 East Side Drive, Black Mountain, 669-0190, pisgahbrewing.com • TH (2/25) through TH (4/28) - Exhibition of the concert and festival photography of David Schimcock. A portion of proceeds from sales benefit lEaF. Opening reception: Thursday, Feb. 25, 5:30pm. TRACksIDE sTUDIOs 375 Depot St., 545-6235 • Through MO (2/29) - Bonjour and Bienvenue, exhibition of Virginia Pendergrass urban sketches. • Through SA (3/19) - 70s Vibe, group painting exhibition. Opening reception: Friday, Feb. 26, 4-7pm. TRYON fINE ARTs CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • Through (3/5) - Preserving African American Art in the Foothills, exhibition. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees
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clubland Wednesday, February 24 185 King Street Vinyl Night, 7pm 5 Walnut Wine Bar Dave Desmelik (Americana), 5pm Les Amis (African folk), 8pm 550 Tavern & Grille karaoke, 6pm Asheville Music Hall Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm Ben’s Tune-Up Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm Black Mountain Ale House Play to Win game night, 7:30pm Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Open mic, 7pm Bywater Billy Cardine and North of Too Far Downs w/ Micah Thomas, Simon George & Mike Barnes (acoustic), 9pm Crow & Quill Carolina Catskins (ragtime jazz), 10pm Double Crown Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm Foggy Mountain Brewpub Billy Litz (Americana), 9pm Funkatorium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm Good Stuff Karaoke!, 6pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern J.P. Harris & Banditos (country), 8pm Grind Cafe Trivia night, 7pm Highland Brewing Company Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm Iron Horse Station Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm Isis Restaurant and Music Hall The Core Wednesday Winter Residency (jazz), 7pm Jack of the Wood Pub Old-time session, 5pm Honky-tonk dance party w/ Hearts Gone South, 9pm Lazy Diamond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm Lex 18 The Downton Abbey Vintage Banquet (ticketed event), 6:30pm
One Stop Deli & Bar Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 6pm One World Brewing Carolinabound (Americana, folk), 8pm
Lobster Trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm
Orange Peel Ty Segall & the Muggers w/ AXIS: SOVA & Estrangers (garage rock, psychedelic, indie), 9pm
Mountain Mojo Coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm
Oskar Blues Brewery Trivia at the brewery, 6pm
Noble Kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm
Room IX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm
O.Henry’s/The Underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm
Scully’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm
Odditorium The Lords of Chicken Hill, The Chickenhawks & The Egg Eaters (punk), 9pm
Sly Grog Lounge Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm
Off the Wagon Piano show, 9pm Olive or Twist Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm
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NEW ORLEANS FLAVOR: For over a decade, Big Sam’s Funky Nation has brought their high-energy fusion of rock, jazz, funk and hip hop to audiences across the country. Frontman and former Dirty Dozen Brass Band trombonist Big Sam — lauded as “the top man on the slide trombone in the birthplace of jazz” by the San Francisco Chronicle — says “We play music for everybody. It’s not just funk — It’s music about love and partying. Everyone can get down with that.” Those wishing to get down with the five-piece New Orleans supergroup can check them out Friday, Feb. 26 at the Asheville Music Hall, beginning at 9 p.m.
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Sol Bar New Mountain adbc presents AXIOM w/ Gex (drum n’ bass), 9pm Southern Appalachian Brewery Spin Sessions w/ DJ Robin Tolleson, 6pm TallGary’s at Four College
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Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm The Block Off Biltmore Christina Muse (singer-songwriter), 8pm The Joint Next Door Bluegrass jam, 8pm The Mothlight Wayne “The Train” Hancock w/ Occasional Caucasians (country), 9:30pm The National Micheal Kelley Hunter (blues, funk, groove), 9pm The Phoenix Jazz night, 8pm The Social Lounge Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm The Southern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm Timo’s House “Spectrum AVL” w/ DamGood & rotating DJs, 9pm Town Pump Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm
Trailhead Restaurant and Bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm
Thursday, February 25 5 Walnut Wine Bar Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8pm Altamont Brewing Company The Morrison Brothers Band (country, pop, rock), 9pm Altamont Theatre An evening w/ BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet (Americana, Cajun), 8pm Barley’s Taproom AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm Black Mountain Ale House Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band & Blue Plate Special, 8pm
BLUE RIDgE TAPROOM Beyond Chicken (Americana), 8pm
sANCTUARY BREWINg COMPANY Emily Bodley (Americana, ukulele), 7pm
CLUB ELEVEN ON gROVE Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm Sparrow and Her Wingmen (swing), 8:30pm
sCANDALs NIghTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm
CREEksIDE TAPhOUsE Singer-songwriter night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm DOUBLE CROWN The Highway Q.C.’s (soul, gospel), 10pm ELAINE’s DUELINg PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm fOggY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB The Digs (jazz, funk), 10pm fRENCh BROAD BREWERY Paul Edelman — The Jangling Sparrow (indie, folk), 6pm gREY EAgLE MUsIC hALL & TAVERN Hackensaw Boys w/ Ugly Cousin (stringband, punk, bluegrass), 9pm IsIs REsTAURANT AND MUsIC hALL Matt Townsend (folk, rock), 7pm I Draw Slow (bluegrass, old-time, Celtic), 8:30pm
sLY gROg LOUNgE Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more welcome), 8pm
sOUThERN APPALAChIAN BREWERY Klarcnova (groove, jazz), 7pm
gOOD sTUff The CarLeans (Americana, folk, rock), 8:30pm
sPRINg CREEk TAVERN Open Mic, 6pm
gREY EAgLE MUsIC hALL & TAVERN Jane Kramer w/ The Sea The Sea (folk, Americana, Appalachian), 8pm
TALLgARY’s AT fOUR COLLEgE Open jam night w/ Jonathan Santos, 7pm ThE BLOCk Off BILTMORE Open mic night, 7:30pm ThE MOThLIghT The Get Right Band w/ Groove Fetish (alternative roots, funk, reggae), 9pm ThE NATIONAL Chalwa (reggae, roots), 9pm
LAzY DIAMOND Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm
TOWN PUMP The Receiver (eclectic duo), 9pm
LEx 18 The Thomas Wolfe Scandal & Immersive Mystery Dinner Theater (ticketed event), 6pm
TRAILhEAD REsTAURANT AND BAR Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm
MOE’s ORIgINAL BBQ WOODfIN Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter, Americana), 6pm NEW MOUNTAIN ThEATER/AMPhIThEATER Run DMT (electronic), 8pm O.hENRY’s/ThE UNDERgROUND Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am ODDITORIUM Dogs Eyes, Weak Wrists & Pallor (hardcore), 9pm Off ThE WAgON Dueling pianos, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIsT Dance lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 8pm DJ Mike (eclectic mix, requests), 8:30pm ONE sTOP DELI & BAR Streaming Thursdays (live concert showings), 6pm C2 & the Brothers Reed w/ American Gonzos (rock, funk), 10pm ONE WORLD BREWINg Pirate Radio, 9pm OskAR BLUEs BREWERY Billy Litz (Americana), 6pm PIsgAh BREWINg COMPANY Mike Rhodes’ Fellowship (fusion), 6pm PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic, 9pm
fOggY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Flaw and Raw (soul), 10pm fRENCh BROAD BREWERY The Rough & Tumble (Americana, indie), 6pm
TIMO’s hOUsE Thursday Request Live w/ Franco Nino, 9pm
MARkET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm
ELAINE’s DUELINg PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm
sOL BAR NEW MOUNTAIN Dank (funk), 10pm
jACk Of ThE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm
LOBsTER TRAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm
DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm
TREssA’s DOWNTOWN jAzz AND BLUEs The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm TWIsTED LAUREL Karaoke, 8pm WxYz LOUNgE AT ALOfT hOTEL CaroMia (roots, soul), 8pm
fRIDAY, fEBRUARY 26 185 kINg sTREET The Dangerous Gentlemens & Virginia & the Slims (Roots, rockabilly, R&B), 7pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Firecracker Jazz Band (hot jazz), 9pm ALTAMONT ThEATRE An evening w/ Tony Furtado (Americana, indierock), 8pm AshEVILLE MUsIC hALL Big Sam’s Funky Nation w/ The Legendary Tuesday Night House Band (NOLA funk, brass), 10pm AThENA’s CLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm BEN’s TUNE-UP Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm BLACk MOUNTAIN ALE hOUsE Wheelin’ and Dealin’, 7:30pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIzzA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7pm BLUE RIDgE TAPROOM Asheville Drum Circle (bring your drums!), 6pm
hARRAh’s ChEROkEE CAsINO Breaking Benjamin (hard rock), 9pm hIghLAND BREWINg COMPANY Tasgall II Scotch Ale release w/ Colin Lake & The Dirty Soul Revival (hard rock, blues), 7pm IRON hORsE sTATION Kevin Reese (Americana), 7pm IsIs REsTAURANT AND MUsIC hALL Francine Delany Funky Formal Fundraiser w/ The Teacher Band & Jim Arrendell Dance Party, 6pm jACk Of ThE WOOD PUB The Josh Daniel-Mark Schimick Project (rock, bluegrass, soul), 9pm jERUsALEM gARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LAzY DIAMOND Totes Dope Tite Sick Jams w/ (ya boy) DJ Hot Noodle, 10pm LEx 18 Chuck Lichtenberger & Pamela Jones (jazz standards), 6:30pm Lenny Pettinelli (pop jazz), 10pm LOBsTER TRAP Calico Moon (Americana), 6:30pm MARkET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm NEW MOUNTAIN ThEATER/AMPhIThEATER Phuncle Sam (tribute), 10pm O.hENRY’s/ThE UNDERgROUND Drag Show, 12:30am ODDITORIUM Dakhma, Degradations, Uninhabitable & Niah (punk, metal), 9pm Off ThE WAgON Dueling pianos, 9pm ONE sTOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Skunk Ruckus w/ Jeremiah Tall (hillbilly rock, folk), 10pm ONE WORLD BREWINg Gypsy Guitars, 9pm ORANgE PEEL Kurt Vile & the Violators w/ Xylouris White (indie, rock, folk), 9pm OskAR BLUEs BREWERY Fin Dog (bluegrass), 6pm PACk’s TAVERN DJ MoTo (pop, dance hits), 9pm
PURPLE ONION CAfE Mark Stuart (rock, blues, country), 7pm
BOILER ROOM Haystack, Beni-Hana, Chadillac Dundee Band, Dr. iLL, Hunter Bennet, Kilo Justice, Carolina RED, Yung Mucc & Blizzafied, 9pm
RENAIssANCE AshEVILLE hOTEL Evan Swink (blues), 6:30pm
CLUB ELEVEN ON gROVE Hot Bachata Nights (salsa), 9:30pm
ROOT BAR NO. 1 Reed Turchi & The Caterwauls (blues, rock, soul), 8pm
ROOM Ix Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm
CORk & kEg One Leg Up (gypsy jazz, swing), 8:30pm
sANCTUARY BREWINg COMPANY Hustle Souls (Americana), 7pm
ROOT BAR NO. 1 Jukebox Poetry (acoustic), 7pm
DIANA WORThAM ThEATRE Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of SuperStrip, 8pm
sCANDALs NIghTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm
PIsgAh BREWINg COMPANY Yarn w/ Aaron Burdett Band (Americana), 9pm
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Wed • February 24 Woody Wood @ 5:30pm
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sCULLY’s DJ, 10pm
Lost Dog Street Band (country, storytelling), 9pm
sLY gROg LOUNgE Wicked Sparkly Pisces Party w/ Disco Goddess, Mr. Clock & Mike Octopus Andersen (electronica), 9pm
DIANA WORThAM ThEATRE Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of SuperStrip, 8pm
Fri• February 26 Tasgall II release party feat. The Dirty Soul Revival & Colin Lake @ 6pm
Send your listings to clubland@mountainx.com
sOL BAR NEW MOUNTAIN Asheville Drum Circle, 6pm SOL Vibes w/ The Landing Pad & Earthtone Soundsystem (electronic), 9pm
Sat• February 27 Rock Academy Showcase @ 5pm / 2112 (Rush tribute band)
sOUThERN APPALAChIAN BREWERY Laura Blackley & The Wildflowers (Appalachian country, blues), 8pm ThE ADMIRAL Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm
(Check website for details)
ThE BLOCk Off BILTMORE Sarah Tucker (rock, folk, Americana), 8pm
Sun• February 28 Reggae Sunday
ThE DUgOUT Smoke in Mirrors (hard rock), 5pm ThE NATIONAL Naked Scholar (funk, soul, R&B), 8pm AJMAKNBEATS & Costradamus Dance Party (trap, hip hop, new mixes), 11pm
Hosted by Dennis Berndt of Chalwa
Tue• March 1 Team Trivia
ThE sOCIAL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm TIgER MOUNTAIN Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm
with Dr. Brown @ 6pm
TIMO’s hOUsE Fame Douglas (r&b, hip-hop, dance), 9pm TOWN PUMP H.R.Gertner & Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter), 9pm TWIsTED LAUREL Live DJ, 11pm WhITE hORsE BLACk MOUNTAIN Charly Lowry & Dark Water Rising (NativeAmerican blues rock fusion), 8pm
JACK
WILD WINg CAfE sOUTh A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm
OF THE
WxYz LOUNgE AT ALOfT hOTEL Zapato (funk, groove), 8pm
WOOD PUB
zAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm
#1 Pub Grub #2 Bar for Live Music
FRI 2.26
sATURDAY, fEBRUARY 27
THE JOSH DANIELMARK SCHIMICK PROJECT 9PM $5
SAT 2.27
SONS OF RALPH
TUE 3.1
JITTERY JACK & MISS AMY
FRI 3.4
9PM $7
9PM $5 (Donations Encouraged)
ANGELA PERLEY & THE HOWLIN MOONS 9PM $5
OPEN AT NOON DAILY
SATURDAY Parker & Smith (old-fashioned blues), 2-4pm SUNDAY Celtic Irish session 3-9pm MONDAY Quizzo! 7:30-9pm • WEDNESDAY Old-Time 5pm SINGER SONGWRITERS 1st & 3rd Tuesdays THURSDAY Scottie Parker (old-fashioned blues) 2-4pm, Bluegrass Jam 7pm
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ELAINE’s DUELINg PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm fOggY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB French Broads (rock), 10pm fRENCh BROAD BREWERY Stephan Evans & The True Grits (acoustic, indie), 6pm gREEN ROOM CAfE & COffEEhOUsE Jazz Trio, 5:30pm gREY EAgLE MUsIC hALL & TAVERN Benefit Concert for Food Connection w/ LYRIC, Red Honey, stephaniesid, Juan Holladay, Molly Parti, Jr. James & the Late Guitar, Doss Church, The Wilhelm Brothers, Debrissa & The Bear King, The Bread & Butter Band, Posh Hammer and The Paper Crowns, 6pm Blackfoot Gypsies w/ The Yawpers (rock), 8pm hIghLAND BREWINg COMPANY The Rock Academy quarterly showcase, 5pm 2112 (Rush tribute), 10pm IRON hORsE sTATION Mark Shane (r&b), 7pm IsIs REsTAURANT AND MUsIC hALL Midnight Plowboys (traditional mountain music), 7pm Heartless Bastards (garage rock), 9pm jACk Of ThE WOOD PUB Sons Of Ralph (American roots, bluegrass, country), 9pm jERUsALEM gARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LAzY DIAMOND Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm LEx 18 HotPoint Trio (gypsy, swing), 6:30pm LOBsTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30pm
185 kINg sTREET Tellico w/ The Pirate’s Canoe (folk, bluegrass, Americana), 8pm
LOOkOUT BREWERY Elspeth Tremblay & Paige Allbritton (pop, folk, singer-songwriter), 9pm
5 WALNUT WINE BAR Ryan Oslance Duo (jazz), 6pm Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco), 9pm
MARkET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm
ALTAMONT ThEATRE Reasonably Priced Babies (improv comedy), 8pm AshEVILLE MUsIC hALL Winter Warmer w/ Noel Sanger (house, techno), 9pm AThENA’s CLUB Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm
NEW MOUNTAIN ThEATER/ AMPhIThEATER Bass 4 Bernie w/ Electrochemical, Xero God, Mr Clock & Energy in Motion, 9pm ODDITORIUM David Singleton, Abominable Creature & The Melons (rock), 9pm Off ThE WAgON Dueling pianos, 9pm
BEN’s TUNE-UP Gypsy Guitars (acoustic, Gypsy-jazz), 2pm Savannah Smith (southern soul), 8pm
OLIVE OR TWIsT 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm
BLACk MOUNTAIN ALE hOUsE Hustle Souls (neo-soul, blues), 9pm
ORANgE PEEL Kid Hop Hooray (indoor dance party, familyfriendly DJ), 10:30am The Vagina Monologues (performance art, storytelling), 8pm
BLUE MOUNTAIN PIzzA & BREW PUB Ben Phan (indie, folk, singer-songwriter), 7pm CORk & kEg Milli Palmer Jazz Trio (jazz, folk, Americana), 8:30pm CROW & QUILL
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DOUBLE CROWN Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10pm
OskAR BLUEs BREWERY Jackson Emmer (Americana), 6pm PACk’s TAVERN The Tailgators (rock), 9pm
PIsgAh BREWINg COMPANY Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead tribute), 9pm
Particle w/ City Of The Sun (“space porn funk”), 8pm
PURPLE ONION CAfE Dogwhistle (country, Americana), 7pm
hIghLAND BREWINg COMPANY Reggae Sundays w/ Dennis “Chalwa” Berndt, 1pm
ROOM Ix Open dance night, 9pm ROOT BAR NO. 1 The Willy Whales (roots), 8pm sANCTUARY BREWINg COMPANY Eric Congdon (Americana, blues, singersongwriter), 7:30pm sCANDALs NIghTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm
jACk Of ThE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5pm
sCULLY’s DJ, 10pm
LAzY DIAMOND Tiki Night w/ DJ Lance (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm
sOUThERN APPALAChIAN BREWERY Petty Cash (Americana, rock), 8pm sPRINg CREEk TAVERN What it Is (funk), 8pm ThE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm ThE BLOCk Off BILTMORE Midnight Aces’ Bernie Bash (live blues trio), 6pm ThE MOThLIghT Tin Foil Hat w/ VIA & Axnt (alt. rock, jazz), 9:30pm ThE NATIONAL Social Groove Experiment (soul, funk, groove), 8pm Dance party w/ Mr. Matt May (dance mix, new school), 11pm TIMO’s hOUsE Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 9pm
LEx 18 The Downton Abbey Vintage Banquet (ticketed event), 6:30pm LOBsTER TRAP Cigar Brothers (“y’allternative”), 6:30pm ODDITORIUM Wifey Fest: Benefit for Kristin Sears (punk), 9pm Off ThE WAgON Piano show, 9pm ONE sTOP DELI & BAR Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Sundays w/ Bill & Friends (Grateful Dead tribute, acoustic), 5pm ORANgE PEEL Waltz night, 6pm PIsgAh BREWINg COMPANY Sunday Travers Jam (open jam), 4pm sCANDALs NIghTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm
TWIsTED LAUREL Live DJ, 11pm
sOUThERN APPALAChIAN BREWERY BlueSunday w/ Garry Segal & guests (blues), 5pm
WhITE hORsE BLACk MOUNTAIN BJ Liederman Birthday Bash, 9pm
TALLgARY’s AT fOUR COLLEgE Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm
WILD WINg CAfE Karaoke, 8pm WxYz LOUNgE AT ALOfT hOTEL Zapato (funk, groove), 8pm
ThE BLOCk Off BILTMORE Bernie Jam (open jam, fundraiser), 2pm Aqteshna Ana (fusion), 5:30pm The Kavalactones (experimental, jazz, “drip noise”), 8pm
zAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm
ThE NATIONAL Bring on Spring Day Party, 12pm
sUNDAY, fEBRUARY 28 185 kINg sTREET Oscars Viewing Party, 7pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana, soul), 7pm AshEVILLE MUsIC hALL Aqueous w/ Broccoli Samurai (groove rock, electronica), 8pm BEN’s TUNE-UP Reggae night w/ Dub Kartel, 8pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIzzA & BREW PUB Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm BYWATER Cornmeal Waltz w/ Robert Greer and Friends (bluegrass), 6pm CORk & kEg Sparrow & Her Wingmen (vintage jazz, dance), 6:30pm DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 9pm gREY EAgLE MUsIC hALL & TAVERN
Tues-Sun
5pm–12am
Full Bar
12am
IRON hORsE sTATION Mark Murray, 6pm IsIs REsTAURANT AND MUsIC hALL Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am Up Jumped Three (modern jazz), 5:30pm An evening w/ The Fretless (acoustic, Celtic, world), 7:30pm
sOL BAR NEW MOUNTAIN Venture Nights w/ Earthtone (electronic), 9pm
Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till
ThE OMNI gROVE PARk INN Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm ThE sOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm ThE sOCIAL LOUNgE DJ Kyusi on vinyl (old school trip-hop, deep house, acid jazz), 8pm ThE sOUThERN Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm TIMO’s hOUsE Bring Your Own Vinyl (open decks), 8pm TOWN PUMP Lost Dog (country, blues), 9pm WEDgE BREWINg CO. Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazzswing), 6pm
COMING SOON WED 2/24 6:30 PM – THE CORE WEDNESDAY WINTER RESIDENCY THU 2/25 7:00 PM – MATT TOWNSEND (LOUNGE) 8:30 PM – I DRAW SLOW
FRI 2/26 6:00 PM – FRANCINE DELANY NEW SCHOOL:
FUNKY FORMAL FUNDRAISER
TAVERN DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 13 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night Our Winter Warmer ! Specials Mon-Thur Try s l O a e n Y D o t u ! r Favori ea te Food & Drink Gr
FRI. 2/26 DJ MoTo
(pop, dance hits)
SAT. 2/27 The Tailgaters (rock n’ roll)
SAT 2/27 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH
THE MIDNIGHT PLOWBOYS 9:00 PM – HEARTLESS BASTARDS WITH SUSTO
SUN 2/28 5:30 PM – UP JUMPED THREE (MODERN JAZZ)
20 S. SPRUCE ST. • 225.6944 PACKSTAVERN.COM
7:30 PM – AN EVENING WITH FRETLESS
WED 3/2 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH
VON STRANTZ AND KIRSTEN FORD THU 3/3 7:15 PM – MERLEFEST ON THE ROAD
FRI 3/4 7:00 PM – CLASSICAL DINNER & A CONCERT: AMICIMUSIC PRESENTS “TRANSCENDENT TRIOS” SAT 3/5 9:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
WED 3/9 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH RUPERT WATES 8:30 PM – AN EVENING WITH
SIAMESE JAZZ CLUB WITH ADAM & KIZZIE
Every Tuesday
7:30pm–midnite
BLUEGRASS SESSIONS Every Sunday
JAZZ SHOWCASE
WhITE hORsE BLACk MOUNTAIN Richard Smith (acoustic guitar), 7:30pm
MONDAY, fEBRUARY 29 185 kINg sTREET Open mic night, 7pm
743 HAYWOOD RD 828-575-2737 ISISASHEVILLE.COM mountainx.com
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2/24 wed wayne the train hancock w/ occasional caucasians ii
2/25 thu
ii
the get right band w/ groove fetish
sat
3/1
3/5 sat 3/7 mon 3/8 tue 3/9
wed
Off ThE WAgON Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm
ALTAMONT BREWINg COMPANY Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30pm
OskAR BLUEs BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm
ONE sTOP DELI & BAR Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm
BEN’s TUNE-UP Eleanor Underhill (acoustic), 5pm
sOVEREIgN REMEDIEs Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm
ONE WORLD BREWINg Trivia w/ Gil, 7pm
BYWATER Open mic w/ Rick Cooper, 8pm
ThE MOThLIghT Lifecurse w/ Artificial Oceans & Divide Earth, 9pm
sANCTUARY BREWINg COMPANY Team trivia & tacos, 7pm
CREEksIDE TAPhOUsE Trivia, 7pm DOUBLE CROWN Tuba Skinny (jazz, swing), 8pm Country Karaoke, 10pm
w/ artificial oceans, telic
tue
ONE WORLD BREWINg Beats & Brews w/ DJ Whistleblower, 8pm
COURTYARD gALLERY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm
tin foil hat w/via, axnt 2/29 mon lifecurse free!
2/27
5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Jazz Club (soul, r&b, jazz), 8pm
moon hooch w/ metal sex knuckle
gOOD sTUff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm gREY EAgLE MUsIC hALL & TAVERN Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm
w/ all hell, axattack
jACk Of ThE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7pm
sheer mag
w/ downtown boys, minorcan
LExINgTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm
adia victoria
LOBsTER TRAP Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm
w/ erica russo
diarrhea planet
O.hENRY’s/ThE UNDERgROUND Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm
w/ shadow show, kitty tsunami
Details for all shows can be found at
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ODDITORIUM Forced Entry, Sherman’s Boot, Moistly & Mondays (punk), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIsT 2 Breeze Band (Motown), 6pm
ThE NATIONAL Wall St. Open Mic, 8pm ThE OMNI gROVE PARk INN Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm ThE VALLEY MUsIC & COOkhOUsE Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8pm TIgER MOUNTAIN Service industry night (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm TIMO’s hOUsE Movie night, 7pm URBAN ORChARD Old-time music, 7pm
TUEsDAY, MARCh 1 ALTAMONT BREWINg COMPANY Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm AshEVILLE MUsIC hALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm BACk YARD BAR Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8pm BLACk BEAR COffEE CO. Round Robin acoustic open mic, 7pm BLACk MOUNTAIN ALE hOUsE Trivia, 7pm BUffALO NICkEL Trivia, 7pm CATAWBA BREWINg sOUTh sLOPE Reverend Finster (R.E.M. covers), 6:30pm CORk & kEg Old Time Jam, 5pm
North Carolina’s First Cider Bar Family Owned & Operated Seasonal, craft-made hard ciders and tasting-room delights from local farmers & artisans. Sunday Dollar Off Dips Monday $2 Off Flagship Growlers Tuesday Dollar Off Pints of Cider AND Beer Wednesday 1/2 Off Bottles of Wine
210 Haywood Road, West Asheville, NC 28806
(828)744-5151
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CREEksIDE TAPhOUsE Old School Low Down Blues Tues. w/ Matt Walsh, 6pm DOUBLE CROWN Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm gOOD sTUff Old time-y night, 6:30pm hIghLAND BREWINg COMPANY Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia, 6pm IRON hORsE sTATION Open mic, 6pm IsIs REsTAURANT AND MUsIC hALL Tuesday bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm jACk Of ThE WOOD PUB Jittery Jack & Miss Amy (rock ’n’ roll, rockabilly), 9pm LAzY DIAMOND Classic rock ’n roll & metal karaoke, 10pm LEx 18 The Downton Abbey Vintage Banquet (ticketed event), 6pm LOBsTER TRAP Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30pm MARkET PLACE The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm ODDITORIUM Odd comedy night, 9pm
sLY gROg LOUNgE 1000 words storytelling open mic, 7pm TALLgARY’s AT fOUR COLLEgE Jam night, 9pm ThE MOThLIghT Moon Hooch (jazz fusion), 9pm ThE NATIONAL Funksters (funky, bluesy, groovy), 9pm ThE sOCIAL LOUNgE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm TOWN PUMP Reece Sullivan (tragicomic modern folk), 9pm TREssA’s DOWNTOWN jAzz AND BLUEs Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm URBAN ORChARD Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm WhITE hORsE BLACk MOUNTAIN Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm WILD WINg CAfE sOUTh Tuesday bluegrass, 6pm Trivia w/ Kelilyn, 8:30pm
WEDNEsDAY, MARCh 2 550 TAVERN & gRILLE karaoke, 6pm AshEVILLE MUsIC hALL Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm BEN’s TUNE-UP Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm BLACk MOUNTAIN ALE hOUsE Play to Win game night, 7:30pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIzzA & BREW PUB Open mic, 7pm DOUBLE CROWN Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm fOggY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Dead Horses (folk), 9pm fUNkATORIUM John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm gOOD sTUff Karaoke!, 6pm gREY EAgLE MUsIC hALL & TAVERN Jam In The Van w/ The Broadcast, Woody Wood, Valley Queen and Love & Zealous (soul, rock ’n’ roll), 8pm gRIND CAfE Trivia night, 7pm hIghLAND BREWINg COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm IsIs REsTAURANT AND MUsIC hALL An evening w/ Von Strantz & Kristen Ford (folk, rock, singer-songwriter), 7pm jACk Of ThE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm Honky-tonk dance party w/ Hearts Gone South, 9pm LAzY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm LEx 18 The Downton Abbey Vintage Banquet (ticketed event), 6pm
LOBsTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm MOUNTAIN MOjO COffEEhOUsE Open mic, 6:30pm NOBLE kAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm O.hENRY’s/ThE UNDERgROUND “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm ODDITORIUM Human Errors (garage), 9pm Off ThE WAgON Piano show, 9pm
Sound Station Open-mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm TALLgARY’s AT fOUR COLLEgE Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm ThE jOINT NExT DOOR Bluegrass jam, 8pm ThE PhOENIx Jazz night, 8pm ThE sOCIAL LOUNgE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm ThE sOUThERN Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm TIMO’s hOUsE “Spectrum AVL” w/ DamGood & rotating DJs, 9pm TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm TRAILhEAD REsTAURANT AND BAR Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6pm TREssA’s DOWNTOWN jAzz AND BLUEs Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm
2.25
DANK
FRIDAY
THEATER
9PM SHOW
9PM SHOW
2.26
PHUNCLE SAM
SATURDAY
THEATER
8PM SHOW
ELECTROCHEMICAL + XERO GOD
SATURDAY
THEATER
QUANTIC LIVE
3.5
9PM SHOW
3/2 3/5
3.5
VIBE STREET+ BRIGHTSIDE
THURSDAY
THRIFTWORKS
9PM SHOW
3/6 3/8
THEATER
9PM SHOW
3.10
PANTHER GOD + LIVE ANIMALS
FRIDAY
THEATER
3.11
EARTHCRY + PUSH/PULL + NUMATIK
9PM SHOW
5PM doors
COMING SOON 3/9 3/10 3/11 3/12 3/13
Coming Up:
FRI - 3.25: WED - 3.30: FRI - 4.15: SAT - 4.16: FRI - 4.29:
7PM doors
2/28
SOL BAR
SATURDAY
8PM doors
ThU
BASS 4 BERNIE FEAT.
2.27
2/27
7PM doors
SOL BAR
7PM doors
sLY gROg LOUNgE
THURSDAY
7PM doors
Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm
W/ CUT RUGS + BASSCLEF
2PM doors
sCULLY’s
RUN DMT
9PM SHOW
2/26
8PM doors
Fuego: Latin night, 9pm
2.25
fri
ROOM Ix
THEATER
THURSDAY
sAT
CeeLo Green w/ Escort (R&B, hip hop, funk), 8pm
sUN
ORANgE PEEL
WEd
The Franklin Rattlers (fiddle banjo duo), 8pm
February / March
sAT
ONE WORLD BREWINg
sUN
Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 6pm
2/24 2/25
TUE
ONE sTOP DELI & BAR
WEd
Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm
7PM doors
OLIVE OR TWIsT
YHETI + CONRANK TWIDDLE DOPAPOD + THE FRITZ DOPAPOD + TURKUAZ
RANDOM RAB + CLOUDCHORD
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Pick of the week
Géza Röhrig in László Nemes’ Oscar-nominated Son of Saul — perhaps the most devastating holocaust drama yet made.
Son of Saul
HHHHS DiREctoR: László Nemes plaYERs: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn Holocaust DRama Rated R tHE stoRY: A Hungarian Jew awaiting execution in Auschwitz is pressed
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into service overseeing the gassing and cremation of his fellow prisoners, until the death of a boy who may be his own son sends him on a quest to steal the child’s body and secure a Rabbi to perform a religious burial. tHE lowDown: Bleak, brutal and beautiful in a very haunting way, Son of Saul is quite possibly the most emotionally honest and unflinching Holocaust film ever made. Son of Saul is one of the most difficult and uncomfortable films I’ve ever seen. I watched it twice. When it opens in theaters this week, I’m likely to go see it again just to have the experience with an audience. This is certain to be a
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polarizing film, and those seeking lifeaffirming positivity from their movies need look elsewhere, as this film makes Schindler’s List look like Weekend at Bernie’s. But for those with an interest in understanding the horrors of the Holocaust on a visceral human level, Son of Saul is mandatory viewing. Following a member of the Sonderkommando, a group of Jews who assisted in the extermination of their fellow concentration camp inmates under threat of death, Son of Saul examines one of the most heart-wrenching and seldom discussed aspects of the Holocaust. Whereas most films on the subject try to inject some modicum of hope or a saccharine message of survival and humanity to make the proceedings
more palatable, Saul gives the audience no quarter. Short of watching all nine-and-a-half hours of Shoah, no better explication of the dehumanization inflicted on European Jews under the Nazis has been committed to film. The script, penned by director László Nemes with Clara Royer, takes some bold narrative risks. While there is a remote semblance of a three-act structure, the story is more concerned with affect than mechanics. Calling to mind Dante’s descent through Hell, Saul (Géza Rörig) faces incomprehensibly harrowing experiences in his journey through AuschwitzBuchenwald to find a Rabbi to bury his son. Of course, the film pointedly confronts the audience with the possibility that Saul may not have had a son in the first place, and this ambiguity is left to the viewer to ponder after the credits roll. But this vagary, along with Saul’s apparently limited understanding of Orthodox Jewish funerary rites, serves to underscore the film’s central premise: What can survive of a man’s soul when he is stripped of all human dignity and assured an inevitable death? Son of Saul is a film focused on form, almost to a fault. Shot entirely in closeup (with the exception of two notable scenes) and with a minimum of cutting, Saul forces the audience immediately and inescapably into a state of empathy with a protagonist who is not particularly likable or competent, and therefore unpleasantly relatable. From the first long-take following Saul as he ushers faceless men and women into the gas chambers, the viewer is compelled into complicity with unspeakable crimes and unfathomable suffering. The director’s choice to film in the Academy Ratio, as well as his aforementioned adherence to the close-up, deprives the viewer of periphery and depth of field, lending a sense of immediacy and claustrophobia to each composition. Each frame seems engineered for concealment, parsing out the slightest suggestions of contextual horrors that the audience is trusted to fill in with their imagination. The resultant film plays
something like Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc-meets-early-’60s-cinémavérité starring Jean-Paul Belmondo on the worst day of his life (Belmondo look-alike jokes aside, leading man Röhrig does more with the back of his head than most performers accomplish with their entire body). Were the script slightly less adroit and the performances less sincere, the whole enterprise would’ve floundered from the outset, but instead the film’s constituent pieces come together to create a unified whole far greater than the sum of its parts. As much as I liked Son of Saul, it’s difficult for me to articulate exactly why. By some standards it’s an ugly film, both visually and thematically, and to say the subject matter is difficult would be putting things far too mildly. But to risk pretension, the idea that I keep circling is that this is an important film. Prior attempts have been made to place an audience in contact with the psychological desperation and desolation that must have characterized the business end of the Nazis’ final solution, but I doubt such attempts have produced such an uncompromisingly affective experience. Son of Saul seems destined to take its place in the upper echelons of the Holocaust canon, and deservedly so. Go see it. Rated R for disturbing violent content, and some graphic nudity. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Scott Douglas jsdouglas22@gmail.com
Boy & the World HHHS DIRECTOR: Alê Abreu PLAYERS: (Voices of) Vinicius Garcia, Felipe Zilse, Alê Abreu, Lu Horta, Marco Aurelio Campos ANIMATED RATED PG THE STORY: A little boy leaves his home in country in search of his father. THE LOWDOWN: Less a story than an essay on the evils of modern life — its mechanization, dehumanization, etc. — tied to its thin narrative.
Some of it is decidedly impressive, and has earned the film an Oscar nomination. Undeniably well-done and well intentioned, but how effective it is will likely be a very individualized reaction. Abreu’s Oscar-nominated animated parable for days now and have reached a point (at 4 a.m. on a Monday moring) where I have to say something, so here goes. First of all, before undertaking this 80-minute film — or deciding to take the kids to it, since it’s animated — know that it has no coherent language (apparently it’s backwards Portuguese) and no subtitles. The tale is told completely in visual terms. (Those more in tune with it than I have likened it to Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967), which probably makes sense, as Playtime is my least favorite of Tati’s films.) Also know that Boy & the World — for all its colorful, fanciful design — is far more interested in being a polemic against the evils of capitalist and consumer society than it is in telling its story of the boy in the title searching for his missing father. In theory, I have nothing against any of this as a concept, nor am I out of sympathy with its message. In truth, I have nothing against Boy & the World and am, in fact, of the opinion that it is a work of some considerable merit. It’s just that little about it appeals to me personally. I don’t care for the look of the characters with their stick figure appendages and rather skulllike heads. The animation and drawing style has been compared to The Secret of Kells (2010), which is reasonable, and to Sita Sings the Blues (2008), which is less so. The drawings here are deliberately childlike, resembling nothing so much as colorful crayon drawings. It’s often quite delightful in its combination of children’s drawings and 1960s trippy poster art — all of which were hand-drawn by Abreu. My basic problem with all this is that I might have loved it at 30 minutes, but at 80 minutes ... that’s another matter. Once I got the point of Boy & the World as an assault on modern times, pollution, conformity, industrialization, dehumanization, etc. I couldn’t escape the sense of sameness to what followed. It wasn’t so much variations on a theme as it was the same theme repeated over and over. The upshot of this was that my mind tended to wander during the second half of the film — and when Abreu opted to insert live action footage of pollution and forests being cut down, I felt I was being lectured to in the worst public service announcement way. If you can just sit back and go for the ride with all the brightly colored
fancifulness, chances are good that you’ll be better off — unless, of course, you just can’t get enough of the existential blues that comprise the movie’s thematic center. If that’s the case, you will probably adore Boy & the World on every level. I wish I could, because I feel strangely guilty that I don’t. Rated PG for thematic material and images. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas.
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Race
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DIRECTOR: Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2) PLAYERS: Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton, Carice van Houten FACT-BASED SPORTS DRAMA RATED PG-13 THE STORY: The based on a true story of Jesse Owens as he heads to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and the heart of Nazi Germany. THE LOWDOWN: Despite the obvious importance (both historically and currently) of Owens’ story, Race is little more than a by-the-book uplifting sports film, with every cliché this entails.
Deadpool (R) 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 6:00, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45, 10:45 Eddie the Eagle (PG-13) 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Gods of Egypt 3D (PG-13) 1:55, 10:15 Gods of Egypt 2D (PG-13) 11:05, 4:40, 7:30 Hail, Caesar! (PG-13) 11:20, 1:50, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 How to Be Single (R) 11:55, 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Kung Fu Panda 3 2D (PG) 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:00, 9:15 The Lady in the Van (PG-13) 11:30, 2:00, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 Race (PG-13) 12:30, 3:45, 7:20, 10:20 The Revenant (R) 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:05
The story of Jesse Owens is tailormade for film. A black man heads to Berlin in 1936 to race against the ideals, both literally and figuratively, of Aryan supremacy — with Hitler watching — and wins decisively. The simple sense of poetic justice in Owens’ story is the reason it’s still remembered today. So many uplifting sports films — all the treacly “based-on-a-true story” types — can perhaps be traced back to Owens. On top of that, we live at a time when discussions about race are at the forefront of our national discourse, so a cinematic adaptation of Owens’ life and crowning achievement makes sense. Unfortunately, Race, the film that comes to us 80 years after Owens’ gold medals, is, like so many uplifting sports dramas that came before it, simply a bare-bones, middlebrow adaptation. There’s nothing here that will offend anyone or ruffle any feathers, while its depiction of racism — although realistic — also leaves no wiggle room
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Risen (PG-13) 12:00, 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10 Son of Saul (R) 11:15, 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Triple 9 (R) 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30 The Witch (R) 12:55, 3:15, 5:30, 7:40, 10:00
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movies for nuance. Everything is at the service of the plot, which follows Owens (Stephan James, Selma) as he begins his track and field career — with the help of his “aw shucks” track coach (Jason Sudeikis in an awkward serious role that doesn’t suit him) — and moves towards the controversial ’36 Olympics. The film makes some effort to provide a context for those games and the US debate in regards to competing in them at all. But as history, it feels false (perhaps it’s the mustache-twirling villainy of Joseph Goebbels (Barnaby Metschurat)) and sketched in. There’s never a sense that Race is all that authentic. Everything is a bit too clean and manicured, as though everyone is playing dress up. But at the same time, Owens — who is the movie — never has much dimension. He’s more a cog in his own story and his entire character is built more on name recognition than the screenplay. Much of this is due to the basic biopic structure of the film. The entire thing is unfortunately formulaic and there’s not much (outside of maybe a couple of the film’s sporting events) that feels authentically cinematic. Director Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2) has spent the bulk of the latter portion of his career in television, and it shows. There’s no verve, there’s no style at play in Race, which really drags the film down, an already frightening aspect for a movie clocking in at 135 minutes. Its inherent nature — a wide-eyed biopic with an uplifting sports tangent — is already against it, while Hopkins revels in every cliché and trope one might expect. Race is a film that was assembled, not one given life. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and language. Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Justin Souther jsouther@mountainx.com
Risen
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DIRECTOR: Kevin Reynolds (The Count of Monte Cristo) PLAYERS: Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth, Cliff Curtis, Stewart Scudamore BIBLICAL DRAMA RATED PG-13
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THE STORY: The story of the period right after the death of Christ from the point of view of a Roman charged with finding Christ’s body. THE LOWDOWN: Better acting and directing than most faith-based films, but it ultimately sells its own premise short by being too easy, and too obvious, too soon. It would be easy — and even tempting — to overstate the case for Kevin Reynolds’ Risen, if only because it’s so much better than every other faithbased movie I can think of. It looks like a real movie and has a reasonably good cast, as well as a solid, if not especially inspired, director. It starts out offering a slightly offbeat take on the Christ story, presenting it as a Roman crime drama procedural: Clavius (Joseph Fiennes), the tribune, is charged by Pontius Pilate (Peter Firth) with making sure the body of Christ (or Yeshua) doesn’t disappear — and then to find it when it does — so Yeshua’s followers can’t claim he rose from the dead. We all know how this has to play out, so it really doesn’t work as a mystery, but it’s still a little different from the usual run-of-the-scriptures movie. It also gets points for a certain amount of humor (I think most of it was intended) and for casting Maori actor Cliff Curtis as Yeshua — a nice break from the usual Anglicized Jesus. So far so good — so far as it goes. Let’s be perfectly honest, it’s not that hard to make a better movie than, say, God’s Not Dead (2014), so in itself being better than the usual faith-based movie isn’t that much of an accomplishment. Putting that and the police procedural aspect aside, what we ultimately have is mostly no better or worse than a 1950s Biblical epic — an economical one at that — of the kind George Clooney is supposedly the star of in Hail, Caesar!. It’s not so much less campy than the 1950s model, it’s just the clichés have changed with the times. Where once these movies featured DeMille-like spectacle (something clearly beyond the budget of Risen), we’re now treated to disciples who look like they were recruited from touring companies of Jesus Christ Superstar and Fiddler on the Roof — a jolly mix of biblical hippies and stock Yiddish theater types. It’s not that they’re particularly believable, but that we’re used to them. Physically, the movie often resembles Norman Jewison’s film of Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) since it, too, is mostly played out against natural sand and rock landscapes. (Here it feels more like a financial issue than an aesthetic choice.) Otherwise, it’s a bunch of gen-
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erally too-clean people, with remarkably good teeth, and a hero from 33 A.D. who manages to retain that manly three-day-beard growth throughout the movie. Risen is at its best early on, with Clavius merely trying to carry out Pilate’s orders. There’s some nice shading to his character in these scenes, but what sticks with you the most is the sense of a strange kind of ancient world cops-and-corruption yarn featuring Clavius as the overworked detective and Pilate as his grumpy, results-driven boss. This almost works — at least for a while — and it has its share of cynical humor. When Pilate wants results before being subjected to another visit from Caiaphas (Stephen Greif) and his “pack of raving Jews,” no sooner has he made the complaint than Caiaphas enters the scene remarking, “Too late.” remarking, “Too late.” There’s also a remarkably cynical bit where Clavius produces a badly decomposing corpse with the requisite wounds that they could palm off as Yeshua. But the film has its faith-based mandate and wants to toss in as much Bible story as possible — if only by way of seasoning. Yeah, Pilate will wash his hands, because that’s what Pilate does. But there’s no motivation, because this Pilate is unconcerned with anything, apart from having everything in order for the impending visit of the Emperor Tiberius, apart from having everything in order for the impending visit of the Emperor Tiberius. What the film is after, of course, is Clavius dealing with the quandary of having “seen two things which cannot reconcile: A man dead without question, and that same man alive again.” And that might have made for compelling drama, but not here, where it’s all too easy and obvious. There’s never much room for doubt, so there’s never much reason to care. It’s a done deal from the onset — and not just because the movie is faith-based, but because the narrative is too easy and the mystery (such as it was) is dispelled too soon. I’m sure it will play OK with its target audience, but it’s unlikely persuade the unconverted. Then again, I’m not sure what that target audience will make of a description of crucifixion that evokes waterboarding (“It’s like trying to breathe through a wet cloth”). In the end, it’s better than most of its brethren, but not the drama of faith it might have been. Rated PG-13 for biblical violence, including some disturbing images. Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@mountainx.com
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Boy And The World See review in “Cranky Hanke”
Eddie And The Eagle
Oh, what have we here? Oh, it’s an “inspired by true events” uplifting sports movie starring Hugh Jackmand and Taron Egerton (who made such an impression in last year’s Kingsman: The Secret Service. Fox says it’s “a feel-good story about Michael “Eddie” Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself — even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach (played by Hugh Jackman), Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.” Limited early reviews are mixed. (PG-13)
Gods Of Egypt Don’t expect much of anything to do with real Egyptian mythology here. Based on the trailer, Alex Proyas’ new film looks more like heavy-CGI comic-book superhero stuff with Gerard Butler as Set, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Horus, Chadwick Boseman as Thoth and Geoffrey Rush as Ra. It has yet to be screened for critics. Oh, yes, it also seems to be very noisy indeed. (PG-13)
Son Of Saul
See review in “Cranky Hanke”
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Director John Hillcoat’s latest boasts Casey Affleck, Kate Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Woody Harrleson in its cast, with a limited number of mixed early reviews. The studio claims, “a crew of dirty cops is blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist, and the only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for ‘officer down.’ Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, triggering a breakneck action-packed finale tangled with double-crosses, greed and revenge.” Well, it certainly sounds exciting. (R)
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CAN’T sTOP, WON’T sTOP: Barnardsville runner Will Harlan, in the white shirt, appears in a still from Asheville filmmaker Rod Murphy’s new feature El Chivo. The film premieres Friday, Feb. 26, at The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Mont. Photo courtesy of 614 Films • Asheville filmmaker rod murphy’s new feature, El Chivo, premieres Friday, Feb. 26, at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Mont. The indigenous Tarahumara Indians of Mexico’s Copper Canyon have called Barnardsville runner will harlan by that titular moniker, Spanish for “the mountain goat,” ever since he won the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon. A work more than three years in the making, Murphy’s film shows how Harlan’s time with the Tarahumara has dramatically changed the way he and his family live. It explores the demands of being an altruistic, elite ultramarathoner. The documentary is currently attracting interest from other major festivals, and plans for an Asheville area screening in spring or summer are in the works. vimeo.com/121737671 • As part of its North American road tour, the award-winning documentary Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco makes a stop at the Carolina Cinemas on Monday, Feb. 29, for a 7:30 p.m. screening. sterling noren’s film centers on Boulder, Colo., ultrarunner micah true, who is the central figure of christopher mcdougall’s 2009 New York Times bestseller Born to Run: A
Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen about the Tarahumara Indians. Better-known as Caballo Blanco (“the white horse”), True went missing in the desert of New Mexico in 2012 and was later found dead on the trail. The event is sponsored locally by the Asheville Track Club. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. avl.mx/27p • Homeward Bound of WNC and the Carolina Cinemas present a benefit screening of Time Out of Mind on Tuesday, March 8, at 6:30 p.m. oren overman’s 2015 film stars richard gere as George, a homeless New York City alcoholic with mental illness who attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter Maggie (jena malone). The cast also includes steve buscemi, ben vereen, Kyra sedgwick and michael Kenneth williams. A private prescreening reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the upstairs Cinema Lounge. Tickets for the reception are $25 and include entrance to the film, plus beer, wine and appetizers. Tickets for the film alone are $10. All proceeds go to Homeward Bound’s work to end homelessness in Western North Carolina. homewardboundwnc.org X
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Fellini Satyricon HHHHS Director: Federico Fellini Players: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone, Mario Romagnoli, Capucine HISTORICAL FANTASY Rated R The tag line kind of says it all, “Rome. Before Christ. After Fellini.” Fellini Satyricon (1969) is Fellini at his most unchecked and unfiltered. Calling the film disjointed is to miss the point, since it was adapted — or perhaps Fellinified — from Petronius’ Satyricon, which exists only in fragments. The upshot of this is that Fellini was pretty much unhampered by narrative concerns, and it didn’t much matter if stories started and then just never played out. Oh, it has a basic narrative involving main character Encolpio (Martin Potter) trying to retain his slave/boy toy Gitone (Max Born), which is at best a slippery business, it seems. It almost flirts with being a romance, but never quite flies, because Gitone is such a complete blank. There’s much more going on between Encolpio and Ascilto (Hiram Keller), even though they’re frequently at odds (sometimes over Gitone). But this hardly matters, since the film is all about Fellini creating a stunningly beautiful — and beautifully decadent — freak-show version of first century Rome, and his film goes wherever his fancy leads it. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Fellini Satyricon Friday, Feb. 26, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 828-273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com
Moby Dick HHHH Director: John Huston Players: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews SEAFARING DRAMA Rated NR If we must have a film of Moby Dick (and it seems we must), then John Huston’s 1956 film is probably the best we’re going to get. It offers a reasonable approximation of the story in terms that can best be described as operatic. No, it has little subtext, but it’s strong stuff in its melodramatic Classics Illustrated way. It’s manly in typical Huston manner and superbly photographed. The unusual look of the film, created by Huston and cinematographer Orswald Morris, has the usual Huston effect of being striking while also having the sense of a style that is more grafted onto the film than inherent in it. (The ideal director for the book would probably have been John Ford, but that never happened.) The film’s biggest problem lies in the casting of its two leads. Gregory Peck gives it a game try — and he’s certainly enjoyably theatrical — but he’s just too young for Ahab, while Richard Basehart is too young for Ishmael. Still, it’s the go-to version for anyone wanting a film version. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Moby Dick Sunday, Feb. 28, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
Werewolf of London HHHHH Director: Stuart Walker Players: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Spring Byington, Lawrence Grant HORROR Rated NR Perhaps because it lacks a big horror star or a cult director, Stuart Walker’s Werewolf of London (1935) has never received quite the acknowledgement it deserves — despite the fact that it’s the first werewolf movie ever made. What’s particularly unfortunate about this is, for my money, Werewolf of London remains the best werewolf picture of all time. If The Wolf Man (1941) is the ideal monster picture for adolescent boys (which is really the source of its reputation), Werewolf of London is perhaps the ideal monster movie for adults. It boasts a literate screenplay, atmospheric and heavily symbol-laden direction, an intelligent cast and the most disturbing werewolf makeup ever. Unlike Lon Chaney’s more famous teddy-bear-looking appearance, the werewolf here does full justice to the script’s assertion that “the werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a Satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.” The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Werewolf of London Thursday, Feb. 25, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Scott Douglas.
What Have I Done to Deserve This? HHHHS Director: Pedro Almodóvar Players: Carmen Maura, Angel de Andrés-López, Chus Lampreave, Verónica Forqué BLACK COMEDY-DRAMA Rated NR A much-beleaguered housewife addicted to No-Doze, a drug-dealing son, a crazy mother-in-law with a pet lizard, a son traded to a pedophilic dentist for the bill, a prostitute across the hall, a scheme to forge Hitler’s memoirs, a suicidal low-rent Lotte Lenya, kleptomania, murder (with a soupçon of Hitchcock), even a spot of telekinesis — and more! Almodóvar’s fourth major film, What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), has a little bit of everything — all doled out in finest Almodóvarian soap-opera-on-steroids fashion. More dramatically confident than its immediate predecessor, Dark Habits (1983), but somewhat less slickly produced, the film is an irresistible collection of weird characters and skewed values that almost make sense in context. It’s all a lot like early period John Waters — only better acted and set in Madrid. The Asheville Film Society will screen What Have I Done to Deserve This? Tuesday, March 1, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke.
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computer skills. Part-time work may be available. Jackson County nurse – Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) Seeking an RN, or LPN to join our Jackson County Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. The ACTT nurse is responsible for conducting psychiatric assessments; assessing physical needs; making appropriate referrals to community physicians; providing management and administration of medication in conjunction with the psychiatrist; providing a range of treatment, rehabilitation and support services; and sharing shift-management responsibility with the ACTT Coordinator. Employee must have a valid driver's license without violations or restrictions, which could prevent completing all required job functions. Full or part-time applicants welcome. Clinician – Recovery Education Center (REC) Seeking passionate, values-driven and dynamic professional to join our Jackson County Recovery Education Center (REC). This program reflects a unique design which integrates educational, clinical and peer support components in a center-based milieu. To be considered, an applicant should be familiar with the recovery paradigm of mental health and substance abuse services. Applicant must have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, flexibility, and moderate computer skills. A Master’s degree and license eligibility are also required. macon County Team Leader/Clinician – Recovery Education
Center (REC) Seeking passionate, values-driven and dynamic professional to join our Macon County Recovery Education Center (REC). This program reflects a unique design which integrates educational, clinical and peer support components in a center-based milieu. To be considered, an applicant should be familiar with the recovery paradigm of mental health and substance abuse services. Applicant must have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, flexibility, and moderate computer skills. A Master’s degree and license eligibility are also required. macon and Haywood Counties Employment Support Professional (ESP) Supported Employment The ESP functions as part of a team that implements employment services based on the SE-IPS 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 of completion of individualized employment goals. The ESP will support the client through the whole employment process and provide a variety of services at each state to support the individual in achieving their employment goals. Transylvania County Clinician/Team Leader and Two Qualified Professionals – Intensive In-Home Team Intensive InHome service is a team approach, using strengths-based interventions, designed to address the identified needs of children and adolescents who, due to serious and chronic symptoms of an
emotional/behavioral disorder, are unable to remain stable in the community without intensive interventions. The primary goal of the IIH staff and service is to stabilize the client’s functioning and eliminate the risk of out of home placement or more restrictive interventions. QPs must have a Bachelor’s degree in Human services with 2 years of full-time, post degree experience with this population. Applicant must have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, flexibility, and moderate computer skills. Clinician – Child and Family Services Meridian Behavioral Health Services is currently seeking a licensed/associate licensed therapist for an exciting opportunity to join our Child and Family Services team in Transylvania County. This clinician will be serving youth and their families through individual and group therapy, working primarily out of local schools. Applicant must have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, flexibility, and moderate computer skills. AGENCYWIDE Peer Support Specialist Peers Assisting in Community Engagement (PACE) 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. Clinician Peers Assisting in Community Engagement (PACE) Clinician will be providing ongoing therapy with individuals and clinical support to the peer support team. The position will involve travel
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freewiLL aStroLoGY ARIEs (March 21-April 19): Just one species has a big enough throat to swallow a person whole: the sperm whale. If you happen to be sailing the high seas any time soon, I hope you will studiously avoid getting thrown overboard in the vicinity of one of these beasts. The odds are higher than usual that you'd end up in its belly, much like the Biblical character Jonah. (Although, like him, I bet you'd ultimately escape.) Furthermore, Aries, I hope you will be cautious not to get swallowed up by anything else. It's true that the coming weeks will be a good time to go on a retreat, to flee from the grind and take a break from the usual frenzy. But the best way to do that is to consciously choose the right circumstances rather than leave it to chance. TAURUs (April 20-May 20): You have cosmic clearance to fantasize about participating in orgies where you're loose and free and exuberant. It's probably not a good idea to attend a literal orgy, however. For the foreseeable future, all the cleansing revelry and cathartic rapture you need can be obtained through the wild stories and outrageous scenes that unfold in your imagination. Giving yourself the gift of pretend immersions in fertile chaos could recharge your spiritual batteries in just the right ways. gEMINI (May 21-june 20): "Hell is the suffering of being unable to love," wrote novelist J. D. Salinger. If that's true, I'm pleased to announce that you can now ensure you'll be free of hell for a very long time. The cosmic omens suggest that you have enormous power to expand your capacity for love. So get busy! Make it your intention to dissolve any unconscious blocks you might have about sharing your gifts and bestowing your blessings. Get rid of attitudes and behaviors that limit your generosity and compassion. Now is an excellent time to launch your "Perpetual Freedom from Hell" campaign!
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CANCER (june 21-july 22): "A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking," said journalist Earl Wilson. Do you fit that description, Cancerian? Probably. I suspect it's high time to find a polite way to flee your responsibilities, avoid your duties, and hide from your burdens. For the foreseeable future, you have a mandate to ignore what fills you with boredom. You have the right to avoid any involvement that makes life too damn complicated. And you have a holy obligation to rethink your relationship with any influence that weighs you down with menial obligations.
LIBRA (sept. 23-Oct. 22): When life gives you lemon juice from concentrate, citric acid, high-fructose corn syrup, modified cornstarch, potassium citrate, yellow food dye, and gum acacia, what should you do? Make lemonade, of course! You might wish that all the raw ingredients life sends your way would be pure and authentic, but sometimes the mix includes artificial stuff. No worries, Libra! I am confident that you have the imaginative chutzpah and resilient willpower necessary to turn the mishmash into passable nourishment. Or here's another alternative: You could procrastinate for two weeks, when more of the available resources will be natural.
LEO (july 23-Aug. 22): "Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory," writes William Faulkner in his novel Absalom, Absalom! If that's true, Leo, you now have a chance to be a miracle worker. In the coming weeks, you can summon the uncanny power to rip at least two of your illusions out by the roots -- without causing any permanent damage! You may temporarily feel a stinging sensation, but that will be a sign that healing is underway. Congratulations in advance for getting rid of the dead weight.
sCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your Mythic Metaphor for the coming weeks is dew. Many cultures have regarded it as a symbol of life-giving grace. In Kabbalah, divine dew seeps from the Tree of Life. In Chinese folklore, the lunar dew purifies vision and nurtures longevity. In the lore of ancient Greece, dew confers fertility. The Iroquois speak of the Great Dew Eagle, who drops healing moisture on land ravaged by evil spirits. The creator god of the Ashanti people created dew soon after making the sun, moon, and stars. Lao-Tse said it's an emblem of the harmonious marriage between Earth and Heaven. So what will you do with the magic dew you'll be blessed with?
VIRgO (Aug. 23-sept. 22): "We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by," says Virgo writer A. S. Byatt. That's a key meditation for you as you enter a phase in which boundaries will be a major theme. During the next eight weeks, you will be continuously challenged to decide which people and things and ideas you want to be part of your world, and which you don't. In some cases you'll be wise to put up barriers and limit connection. In other cases, you'll thrive by erasing borders and transcending divisions. The hard part -- and the fun part -- will be knowing which is which. Trust your gut.
sAgITTARIUs (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It's prime time for you to love your memory, make vivid use of your memory, and enhance your memory. Here are some hints about how: 1. Feel appreciation for the way the old stories of your life form the core of your identity and self-image. 2. Draw on your recollections of the past to guide you in making decisions about the imminent future. 3. Notice everything you see with an intensified focus, because then you will remember it better, and that will come in handy quite soon. 4. Make up new memories that you wish had happened. Have fun creating scenes from an imagined past. and community-based work in multiple counties. A Master’s degree, license eligibility and experience are required. PACE provides structured and scheduled activities for adults age 18 and older with a diagnosis of Mental Health and Substance Use disorders. This could be a part-time or full-time position. • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org
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Join our team of early education professionals! Verner Center for Early Learning, located in a beautiful, natural setting outside of Asheville, NC, is a state of the art, 5-star nonprofit learning environment providing the highest quality early care and education and so much more! Free nutritious lunches prepared on site, free access to hiking trails, plenty of outside play on our natural learning environments, and continuing educational opportunities provided through staff development trainings are some of the many qualities that our teachers enjoy! Here are a few things that our own staff love about Verner: “What I like most about Verner is our approach to the whole child - nutrition, physical activity, education and a nurturing environment.” “I find that that my coworkers at Verner, both in the classroom and in administration, are very supportive to the needs of the staff and the children. I have worked at several places in my career and find this work environment to be the closest to a ‘work family’.” Verner currently seeks teaching professionals for children ages 0-5 who are nurturing, skilled in supporting the development of very young children, and can be an asset to our model, progressive program. Teachers work in classroom teams of two to three, therefore, all candidates applying should be energized by and work well in a team environment. Qualified candidates for Early Head Start classrooms must have a minimum of an Associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education, a CDA, or an Infant/Toddler Certificate, in addition to current SIDS certification and experience working with children ages 0-5. Individuals with a related degree and at least 18 semester hours in infant/toddler coursework will be considered. Candidates for non-Early Head Start classroom Teaching positions must have completed EDU 119, the Early Childhood credential course, and have previous professional experience working with children ages 0-5 years old. Substitutes are preferred to have EDU 119, but are not required.
Come make a difference in the lives of children and families in our community! Apply online at www.vernerearlylearning.org/jobs All permanent full-time Verner positions offer a competitive benefits package including voluntary medical/dental/matching 403b, life ins, PTO, Holiday pay, CEU’s, and more! Verner is an EEO employer.
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