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Asheville families: Please support new smog rules I am glad for margaret williams’ reporting on the Sierra Club’s study citing Duke Energy for unsafe sulfur dioxide emissions [“New Study Cites Increased Sulphur Dioxide Emissions at Duke’s Asheville Plant,” Feb. 19, Xpress].

It’s no secret that we have an air-pollution problem, and because of it, in North Carolina, we have a breathing problem.

Our state’s asthma rates for children are higher than the national average. The No. 1 health reason for missed school is related to asthma. As much as 51 percent of North Carolina’s air pollution is coming from area power plants, which is the reason why our smog levels are toxic and harmful to the vulnerable breathers — babies and those with respiratory illnesses like asthma. My 2-year-old son and I spend our days at work and day care only seven miles away from a coalfired plant. I am worried many

days about whether it is safe for him to even breathe the air.

I know I’m not alone because the EPA is also looking at the power plants. Their ground-level ozone proposal to make the smog standard safe for everyone (60 ppb) would make power plants act responsibly where they have failed miserably — costing us the quality of our air and lives. If these strong rules are passed on smog by the year 2025, they would prevent: • 960,000 asthma attacks among children.

• More than 1 million missed school days.

• 4,300 premature deaths each year.

They would also provide up to $38 billion in public health benefits.

We and all families here in Asheville deserve safe air. I hope more parents will join me in showing their support for the smog rules, for our own sake and our children’s.

There is a March 17 deadline for the public to comment in support of the strong smog rule.

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A RAD whitewater park would draw people to river I was really excited to read about the proposed whitewater park on the French Broad in the River Arts District. Before moving to Asheville 10 years ago, I traveled extensively as a whitewater competitor and have witnessed the positive impact that whitewater parks have on communities.

Yes, it is wonderful to have quality features that experienced paddlers can play on, but more importantly, whitewater parks open up a whole new activity and connection with the river to local kids, families and people who want to enjoy the water. I remember being struck by how many people I would see along whitewater parks sitting [and] relaxing, spending time with family and friends, picnicking and strolling, all while getting to enjoy watching paddlers play on the river.

If you visit a whitewater park anywhere in the U.S., it is common to see kids whitewater kayaking while their parents watch, or see whole families playing around in the features. The accessibility of whitewater parks — both the improved access to the river as well as proximity to family homes — makes an outing on the river easy to fit into busy schedules.

Whitewater kayaking builds character, increases confidence, improves decision-making skills and is really fun. You don’t have to be an expert to reap these benefits or to enjoy a whitewater park. I now teach/lead whitewater kayaking classes/trips for women/ girls in the area as well as internationally, and I see how learning to kayak transforms people’s lives.

To be able to offer that experience right in the heart of the RAD would be wonderful for locals as well as tourists. I also teach paddleboarding and yoga on paddleboards on the French Broad, and

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I think that a few new river features will only enhance the SUP (standup paddleboard) experience. In fact, people may even be able to learn how to surf! The whitewater park in Boise, Idaho, services both surfers and whitewater kayakers.

Whitewater parks draw people to the river, and when more people experience the river, more people care about the river, and that is positive for everyone.

— Anna Levesque Asheville

Local highway driving creates dangerous conditions Major kudos to L. York for [her] letter in the Feb. 18 issue [“Leave Your Big-city Driving Habits at Home,” Xpress]. Could not have been more to the point.

What is seen on [Interstate] 240 and 40 is against the law and dangerous. It is not uncommon to see 10 or more cars 10 feet apart at 60 mph going into the city at 8 a.m. and other times during the day.

This gets them to work one minute sooner. Where are the patrol cars?

Tailgating is against the law.

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Thank you for the communityoriented and concerned letter.

— T. Stahly Asheville

Asheville’s ‘development’ is death by a thousand cuts Previously I wrote about 2 acres of forest at the end of Shelburne Drive in West Asheville [“Time to Act, While There’s Something Left to Save,” Feb. 11, Xpress] that are about to be destroyed to make way for a major subdivision.

The Planning and Zoning Commission approved this with total disregard for environmental impact, particularly concerning the French Broad River.

The French Broad River already has a documented turbidity problem, among other issues, and it will be impacted by this atrocity. The commission approved this with total disregard to safety issues, leaving the city exposed to litigation if an accident should occur. And it likely will. No traffic study was completed. My neighbors on Shelburne Drive are getting screwed. Their property will be taken to widen a gravel driveway to a 27-footwide road.

“Developed” is a euphemism for “destroyed,” and Asheville’s “development” is a death by a thousand cuts. People can’t look the other way and ignore it because the destruction is everywhere. …

It’s time [the commission members] should be held to account. …

This is YOUR town, Asheville residents. Take a stand, while there’s still something left to save!

— Joseph Nolan Asheville Editors’ note: Contact information about the Planning and Zoning Commission can be found at avl.mx/0sc.

Empowered medical consumer reaped the benefits Regarding bill sites’ excellent adventures in cardiac rehab, it was a bit understated in your Feb 25 article [“Back in the groove,” Xpress] that his self-determined choice of IV EDTA chelation therapy to treat his vascular disease succeeded in delaying his bypass surgery for a full 25 years!

This is particularly poignant when we realize that a first bypass

surgery lasts about seven years, on the average, then needs to be redone.

Congratulations to Mr. Sites for all his hard work to regain his health, especially the willingness to be an empowered medical consumer.

— James Biddle, M.D. Asheville Integrative Medicine Asheville

LetteR wRiteR offeRs coRRection about pubLix Letter writer Ian Rudick wrote in last week to correct an element of his previously published letter, “Publix Should Support Fair Food Program” [March 4, Xpress]. A representative of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce tells him that as a retail business, Publix did not, in fact, receive incentives to open an Asheville store. coRRection The tamales made by La Gringa Tamalera owner Maria De Souza, featured in the March 4 story “Mas Por Favor: More Please,” are all vegan or vegetarian except the Mexican Texas tamale, which contains a trace of lard.

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Weather chasers UNCA meteorological students look to the future

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Through storm-chasing trips in the Great Plains, NASA-sponsored research projects, winter-storm weather balloon launches and national forecasting competitions, students in UNC Asheville’s chapter of the American Meteorological Society use real-world experience, integrated with social media and technology, to feed their love for all things weather-related.

Their hands-on experiences also help launch their futures.

But first there are weather balloons to release in the dark of night, mountaintop weather stations to maintain, snowfall to tweet about and, somewhere, a tornado or hurricane to track.

While waiting for the call to pack his bags for a weather adventure, UNCA sophomore kyle noel says he stays busy forecasting the weather, which is one of his favorite aspects of meteorology. The highlight of forecasting is making an accurate prediction 48 hours or more in advance he says. “I love it when I get it right. That’s the joy of meteorology.”

Noel is one of many chapter members who volunteer to post weekly forecasts for Asheville on the AMSUNCA website and compete in the University of Oklahoma’s yearlong Weather Challenge.

“During the year, we do two oneweek forecasts for 10 different cities,” he says. “We have a couple of really good forecasters here. [Chapter president] massey [bartolini] and I are in the top 100 out of 2,000 people right now.”

The national competition is open to all alumni; undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. students; and faculty and staff. It includes individual and team divisions, with cities selected by a voting process. Competitors’ forecasts must detail the minimum and maxi-

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mum temperatures, precipitation and maximum wind speeds.

“Last year, Massey was No. 2 out of about 500 forecasters in the freshman/ sophomore group,” Noel says. “Right now, I’m third in the freshman/sophomore group this year.”

Noel and Bartolini have a friendly rivalry because they are both close to breaking the record for the best score ever achieved by a UNCA student, says Noel. Last year, UNCA placed seventh out of 60 schools and consistently places in the top 15, Noel says. atmospHeRic connections kelly dobeck says UNCA ranks highly in more than the Weather Challenge. Interested in studying weather since she was a child, she left Strongsville, Ohio, to come to North Carolina because of UNCA’s atmospheric sciences program.

“I was looking up top meteorology schools, and I found a list of the top 10. Asheville was No. 3. It’s a lot bigger than people think,” she said.

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eyes on tHe skies: UNCA students observe weather conditions near Ponca City, Okla., in 2013 during a Severe Weather Field Experience attended by Kelly Gassert, Katy Hudson, Massey Bartolini, Corey Lea, Duncan Belew, Bobby Taylor, Daniel Thomas and Thomas Winesett.

Photograph by Christopher Godfrey

Internships are a key part of the program. So far, Dobeck has completed three during her college career. At the moment, she’s interning at the National Climatic Data Center, which is based in Asheville (and gives students a clear advantage in getting meaningful experience and a chance to work on research projects). Dobeck has also worked with meteorologist jason boyer at WLOS-TV, as well as interning at a news station in Cleveland, Ohio, during the summer break. She’s currently finalizing details for an intern-

ship this summer with the National Weather Service station in Detroit.

“The meteorological community is a very small community — everyone knows everyone,” says candice boling, UNCA alumna and former president of the school’s AMS chapter. “It’s nice to start developing connections while you are in school. It’s not unheard of to know someone and get a potential job because of who you know.”

The group is active in other ways too. Leaders of the chapter say they frequently bring in guest speakers who meet with students personally and offer campuswide presentations.

Marshall Shepherd, former president of AMS and a TV host on The Weather Channel, spoke at UNCA on Feb. 23. Approximately 80 people attended the event. chris Hennon, UNCA associate professor and Ohio native, acknowledges the power of camaraderie and belonging to a group, combined with “all the professional advantages you could potentially get by going to events and hearing the speakers,” he says.

Bartolini says the chapter also took 22 members to the AMS annual meeting in Atlanta last year in February.

According to Noel, almost every meteorologist in the country attends that annual conference.

“It’s a great place to network with other meteorologists,” Noel says. “You never know who is going to hire you five years from now.”

AMS exists to encourage the national spread of information among members of the meteorology field, says doug miller, chair of UNCA’s atmospheric sciences department and faculty adviser for its AMS chapter. The national organization, based in Boston, is made up of about 140 active chapters.

Bartolini adds that the society offers members academic opportunities, prepares them for their careers and builds community within the student body. Then there’s the hands-on, practical experience.

Beyond belonging to professional organizations and the local club, students get to work in the field. Bartolini, a junior from Richmond, Va., has participated in the club since his freshman year and has worked on several research projects. One project, sponsored by researchers at Duke University, involved helping NASA calibrate a new instrument on its satellites.

“The purpose was to capture the variability of rainfall both in low and high elevations,” Bartolini says.

UNCA began installing Duke’s rain gauges in 2007, says Miller. Since then, students and professors have maintained and collected data from more than 30 gauges in the region. He says that researchers chose this area instead of one like the Rocky Mountains due to its ample rainfall (some local ranges get 90 inches a year or more).

“Our highest-elevation gauge is at Mount Guyot [in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park], and it

stands at almost 6,700 feet elevation,” Miller says.

In February 2014, NASA unveiled new technology for its satellites but was unsure how well it would perform in the mountains in the middle latitudes of the U.S., Miller explains.

One aim of the project “is to try to determine how much rain is falling in each place it scans,” he says. NASA “used our observations to help calibrate the satellite instrument.”

“On any given Saturday or Sunday, two or three people … drive out there and usually service two or three rain gauges, hiking anywhere from a quarter or half a mile to 18 miles,” Bartolini says.

Boling, now a weekend meteorologist for WNCT-TV in Greenville, N.C., says hiking the Appalachian Mountains to calibrate rain gauges is one of her favorite memories of UNCA. The 2014 graduate says she enjoyed researching topics relevant to Western North Carolina, and the rain gauge project helped her to understand how terrain affects weather.

Many of the gauges are placed in locations with beautiful views but pose environmental risks, Bartolini notes. Some project participants saw bears walk by as they were collecting data, he says, and one November afternoon, severe weather struck while he and other students were nearly 8 miles away from their vehicle.

“We hiked up on a clear Saturday morning, but some clouds quickly rolled in during the early afternoon. The skies got dark pretty quickly,” Bartolini recounts. “We actually were up on top of one mountain next to a huge, metal fire lookout tower when lightning struck the tower.”

No one was hurt, and the event hasn’t stopped Bartolini from participating in ongoing projects. data connections Having a national climate agency in town is a real boost for UNCA students. Dobeck, a junior, says she knows at least three students working with the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites N.C. and doing climate modeling at the NCDC. And Hennon collaborated with ken knapp at the NCDC to develop Cyclone Center, an interactive website that allows the public to assist researchers in improving hurricane forecasting.

“There’s a big issue with the global data. There’s a lot of errors, inconsistencies,” Hennon says. Knapp’s “idea was to create this project where we could draw in people from all over the world to the website and they could answer just a few simple questions about these pictures of hurricanes.”

The Cyclone Center database contains nearly 300,000 satellite images of hurricanes since 1978, according to the website. UNCA junior corey Lea says it guides members of the public through a process to gather critical information about the images that will help better predict future storm activity and intensity. “The hope is we can better forecast hurricanes and their paths in the future,” says Lea. The program includes video tutorials created by Dobeck. These take volunteers through the process step by step. “I think even gradeschool children can do it,” Lea says.

“Anybody can look at these images and classify them.”

The public’s responses are then applied to an algorithm to determine the severity of the storm, Hennon says.

Thousands of people have contributed to the research so far.

on caLL foR seveRe weatHeR The UNCA chapter is also involved in severe-weather fieldwork. Since 2008, christopher godfrey, associate professor, has guided 27 students on storm chases in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

“We’ll go anywhere,” Godfrey says. A two-week trip to tornado-prone regions is part of an atmospheric sciences class offered at UNCA, he says.

“I take them to Norman, Okla., to start. We visit the National Weather Center. [Students] see how people work in academia, they see how people work in the government sector, they see how people work in the private sector and they see how people work in broadcast meteorology.”

The group tours numerous Midwestern meteorology facilities on calm weather days, then chases storms when severe weather is forecast.

“They said things were looking good in Texas, so we went to Texas and caught our first tornado. That was the first storm chase of the trip,” Godfrey says, recalling one outing.

“A few days later, we made it up to Kansas, and that’s where we saw our other four tornadoes.”

Lea took the trip in May 2013.

Students learned how to read weather models and plan potential escape routes, he says. The next trip is planned for 2016.

Meanwhile, at home, Noel posted forecasts, updates and photos via the UNCA-AMS Twitter account (@UNCAweather) during the recent ice and snowstorms. Noel says the account, created in January, had about 100 followers before the storm, but that count has since more than doubled.

Creating a Twitter account was one facet of the AMS chapter’s effort to continue strengthening relation-

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Let’s caLibRate: UNCA-American Meteorological Society alumnus Duncan Belew observes a rain-guage calibration. Photo courtesy of Massey Bartolini

ships with the community and professionals in the meteorology industry, Dobeck says. up, up and away Closer to home for their fieldwork, students released five weather balloons from UNCA’s campus Feb. 25 and 26 in an effort to collect forecasting data during winter storm Remus.

“We were out all night launching weather balloons,” Miller says. “I think it was a good bunch of soundings … that is going to be good for research and also was, I think, helpful for the area forecast offices,” says Noel. The sophomore helped launch three of those balloons and says he stayed with the group at The Reuter Center on campus until dawn that Thursday.

“My job was to get the rawinsonde ready,” Noel says, referring to the lightweight, brick-sized instrument that collects data and tracks the balloon’s movement.

“About 30 minutes before the launch, we got the balloons ready,” he says. The balloons must be carefully filled with the correct amount of helium, then knotted about 10 times to ensure the gas doesn’t escape before the balloon reaches the atmosphere. This process is repeated every three hours for each release.

“There was this one moment when it was sleeting really hard, but we were just having fun,” he says.

As the balloons climb, the rawinsonde monitors wind patterns and speed, temperature, dew

Noel, who plans to assist with this research, says one tornado in May 2013 had more than 200 mph winds and should have been ranked an EF5, but it traveled primarily across open fields in El Reno, Okla., which did not suffer much damage.

“It’s kind of hard to look at damage if there’s nothing there,” Noel says. “They didn’t find anything that supported EF5 damage, so they rated it an EF3.”

In an effort to increase the accuracy of this aspect of the enhanced F-scale, the project will focus on comparing the damage sustained by trees to the damage sustained by houses nearby, Godfrey says. Once researchers can determine that relationship, the results can be used to more accurately rate tornadoes that travel across expanses where there are no houses, he adds.

“For example, if a house is rated as an EF2 damage, then we look at the tree and see what kind of damage it had,” Godfrey says.

“Did it lose its branches? Was it uprooted? Was it snapped? What kind of tree is it? How big is the tree? With all that information, we can fix some of the problems with the enhanced Fujita scale.”

The research will take place this spring or early summer, Godfrey says.

“At this point,” says Godfrey, “we’re just waiting for a tornado to happen somewhere nearby — within 500 miles — and we’ll go.” X moRe info unca.edu and avlmx/0sj

point and other data to construct a vertical model of the atmosphere, says Dobeck.

“We have a program on our computer that transmits the data from the rawinsonde and tells us what’s going on,” she says.

The UNCA group began launching weather balloons during winter storms in 2006, says Miller. Previous launch sites include Avery County, East Tennessee State University and Warren Wilson College. seen a toRnado?

In the Southeast, Godfrey is leading a tornado research project aimed at eliminating inconsistencies in the enhanced Fujita system, he said. The project, funded by an internal grant last semester, will take Godfrey and students into the field immediately following tornado activity.

“With the enhanced Fujita scale, the idea is that you look at things called damage indicators,” he says. “A house could be a damage indicator. Then you look at the level of damage to that house. Did it lose its roof, or was it blown off the foundation?”

The tornado is rated on the enhanced F-scale based on estimated wind speeds from the level of damage perceived after the storm has dissipated, he said. Often, he says, the wind-speed assignment and damage are inconsistent.

“There’s a bit of a debate going on with the EF scale because it’s not very consistent,” Noel says. “There [has] been a couple of tornadoes that should have been rated EF5 because they had over 200 miles per hour winds.”

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Buzz around Buncombe CtS Site in tHe nAtionAl SpotligHt Local residents continue their push to get the old CTS site on Mills Gap Road cleaned up. One approach has been to get their story told by multiple media outlets — including at the national level. On March 5, The Atlantic magazine released a story on the issue, delving into the history of mismanagement at the site, which was added to the federal Superfund list in 2012.

The story, “Don’t Drink the Water,” by Kevin Maurer, also notes how devastating the contamination has been for families who weren’t told about it until they had been drinking, bathing and otherwise using toxic water seeping from the site:

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“Over the years, documents show, residents living within a mile of the plant have been exposed to air filled with toxic vapors and groundwater tainted with [trichloroethylene] at 4,200 times the state environmental standard. Many of the homeowners say they believe the contamination is to blame for serious health problems — cancers, tumors and birth defects.

‘People have gotten sick and died,’ said tate MacQueen, a local schoolteacher who ran for U.S. Congress in 2014 as the Democratic candidate for North Carolina’s 10th district. … He said the damage done to the community has been “beyond comprehension.’” Full story at http://avl.mx/0sq.

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beeR Line: Kicking off #IWCBD (International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day) March 8 at @HighlandBrews! Making a Bière de Mars with @wncmalt, pale, heritage & rye. #avlbeer #ncbeer avl.mx/0t4 — JPdoesAVEGAS. Photo by JPdoesAVEGAS

This week in community news reported via Twitter, the weather once again became the hot topic as temperatures bounced up to springtime levels. The twitterati also noted the crowds at the Organic Growers School, the call for scholarship funds at Asheville Middle School, a packed city bus on a Saturday and shout-outs to community projects. witcHy weatHeR • Beautiful skies and 60 degrees when I left for work at 7 a.m. What is this witchcraft? #asheville #AVL avl.mx/0sr — @YoginiCari • [It’s] 73 in #Asheville today.

Let’s all play hooky and take naps in Carrier Park. #avl — @ tylerjmccall • Is Asheville the only place experiencing four seasons in 24 hours? #avlwx — @h0zae an oRganic gRoweRs scHooL kind of day • This is probably the busiest I’ve seen the registration in the three

years I’ve been coming #OGSNC #avlag avl.mx/0st — @joshoconner • Outdoor, log-grown mushrooms are in higher demand than conventionally grown #avlag #OGSNC avl.mx/0sx — @joshoconner • Use mushroom logs to landscape your garden! Plus! You get food! #avlag #OGSNC — @queenbeepirate

• Sunday #vintageavl photo:@ WLOS_13 Broadcasting Station when it was located in the Battery Park Hotel. #avl avl.mx/0t2 — @ AshevilleBrewin X

Dr. Jason Cook joins The Family Health Centers in October 2014 as our newest Primary Care Physician.

He is committed to helping patients of all ages feel their best. His special interests include pediatrics, sports medicine and dermatology.

Dr. Cook is accepting new patients at our Arden location at 2161 Hendersonville Road.

• .@joshoconner I think we need to start our mushroom kit tonight! #avlag #OGSNC — @queenbeepirate top tweet • #AVLFD It’s time to change batteries in your smoke alarms when you change your clocks this weekend. Smoke alarms save lives! #avlnews — @AshevilleFD community news • #AVL Middle is desperate for scholarship $$ to send deserving 8th graders on class trip. @ Ashevegas @BlogAsheville avl. mx/0sy — @BelleAndBanjo

To schedule an appointment, please call (828) 258-8681

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AnimAls HAw Creek Community AssoCiAtion lmthomson5@gmail.com • TH (3/12), 7pm - Brother Wolf Animal Rescue education seminar. Free. Held at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 290 Old Haw Creek Road wAggers And reAders 250-4754 • SA (3/11), 3pm - Book sharing for school age kids with certified therapy dog.

Reservations required.

Free. Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road

Benefits ’HArnessing tHe sun for god’s sAke!’ 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SA (3/14), 5-7pm -

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Photo courtesy of ASAP (p.16)

Donations to this solar panel fundraiser benefit the first Congregational uCC of Hendersonville. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville JAzz for JustiCe betsy@pisgahlegal.org • TU (3/17), 5:30pm - Tickets to this live music and cocktails event benefit Pisgah legal services. $50. Held at The Venue, 21 North Market St.

Business & teCHnology A-B teCH smAll Business Center 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (3/12), 10am-noon “Starting a Better Business,” seminar. Held at RiverLink,

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Held at 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler goodwill CAreer trAining Center 1616 Patton Ave., 298-9023, goodwillnwnc.org/ trainingCenters.cfm • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS through (4/1), 12:30-3:30pm - Computer basics class. Free.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS through (4/2), 8:30-11:30am Computer basics class. Free. mArion Business AssoCiAtion 652-2215, hometownmarion.com • MONDAYS through (3/23), 6pm - “Am I Cut Out to Be An Entrepreneur?” business course. Free. Registration required. Held at Marion Depot, 58 Depot St., Marion

tHe suPPort Center’s women’s Business Center of wnC 919-803-1437, thesupportcenter-nc.org • TH (3/19), 9am-noon Networking & educational workshop. Free. Registration required by March 16. Held at Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. Venture AsHeVille ventureasheville.com, 258-6137 • WEDNESDAYS, 9am - One Million Cups of Coffee: weekly entrepreneurs startup presentations. Held at RISC Networks, 81 Broadway Suite C wnC nAturAl HeAltH & wellness meetup.com/ WNC-Natural-Health-Wellness • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3pm Networking event for natural health & wellness practitioners. Free to attend. Held at Western North Carolina School of Massage, 131 McDowell St Suite 302

ClAsses, meetings & eVents ABrAHAm/HiCks: lAw of AttrACtion meeting (pd.) Live with joy! Uplifting, positive group! Understand vibration, and how to manifest in your life.

Every Wednesday, 7pm, Free!

(828) 274-5444.

AsHeVille glAss Center (pd.) Weekly course offerings in the art of glass blowing. Day, weekend, and evening offerings.

A challenging medium expertly taught by our skilled instructors, one on one or group experiences. ashevilleglass.com, 828-505-7110 DESIRE MAP WORKSHOP • APril 11-12 (pd.) Goals with Soul. Join the revolution of feeling good and living free! Light up your life and discover your core desired feelings. Information/registration: www.majesticunicorn.biz

leArn to mAke BeAutiful ukrAiniAn eAster eggs (pd.) Pysanky workshops in the River Arts District or your location. Visit AshevillestudioA.com or call (828)423-6459 for signup + more details. mAtriX energetiCs® ‘wAke uP in tHe mAtriX’ free introduCtory seminAr (pd.) Instructors: Dr. Richard Bartlett and Melissa Joy Jonsson.

Learn to access transformation and infinite possibilities with Matrix Energetics® Fundamentals Intensive. Open your intuitive abilities further with Unplugged, also known as the Spatial Clairvoyance seminar. March 20-23; Crowne Plaza Tennis & Golf Resort Asheville, One Resort Dr, Asheville. www.matrixenergetics. com, (800) 269-9513 A-B teCH woodfin fACility 20 Canoe Lane, 398-7900 • MO (3/16), 9-11am - Tour of the Emergency Services Division’s new building. Free.

AsHeVille toAstmAsters CluB 914-424-7347, ashevilletoastmasters.com • THURSDAYS, 6:15pm Weekly meetings for sharpening public speaking skills. Free.

Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St. BAker-BArBer slidesHow PresentAtions 697-6224, cfhcforever.org • THURSDAYS, 1:30-3pm Images from a collection of historic WNC photographs will be viewed. Presented by the Community Foundation of Henderson County. Free. Held at Henderson County Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville BunComBe County PuBliC liBrAries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (3/12), 4pm - “Pi Day,” celebrating the mathematical constant. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • WE (3/4), 5pm - Swannanoa Knitters, for all skill levels.

Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa CounCil on Aging tAX AssistAnCe 227-8288 For low- to moderateincomes. Bring ID. Free.

• WEDNESDAYS through (4/15), 10am-4pm - Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • THURSDAYS through (4/15), 10am-4pm - Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • MONDAYS through (4/15), 10am-4pm - Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TUESDAYS through (4/15), 9am-4pm - Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • TUESDAYS through (4/15), 10am-4pm - Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain d&d AdVenturers leAgue revtobiaz@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 5:30pm Ongoing fantasy roleplaying campaign for both new and veteran players. Free. Held at The Wyvern’s Tale, 347 Merrimon Ave. etHiCAl HumAnist soCiety of AsHeVille 687-7759, aeu.org

• SU (3/15), 2-3:30pm - “The Case Against Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Any Store Owned by Art Pope,” worker treatment presentation. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road g&w inVestment CluB klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Black Forest Restaurant, 2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden HAywood County liBrAry-CAnton 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 648-2924, haywoodlibrary.org • TH (3/12), 3-5pm - Resume writing workshop. Free.

HendersonVille wise women 693-1523 • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 1:30pm - A safe, supportive group for women “of a certain age.”

Free. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville mountAin Peggers 367-7794 • MONDAYS, 6-8pm - Noncompetitive cribbage group for all levels and ages. Free.

Held at Atlanta Bread Company, 633 Merrimon Ave. ontrACk wnC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (3/11), noon1pm - “Introduction to Homebuying,” seminar.

• TH (3/12), 5:30-7pm “Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it,” financial seminar.

• SATURDAYS through (3/21), 9am-3pm - "Homebuyer Education Series” (2-part class). $35.

• TUESDAYS until (3/31), 5:30-7pm - “Money Buddies,” women’s financial management series.

• TH (3/19), noon-1pm “Raising a Money Smart Child.”

• THURSDAYS, (3/19) until (4/2), 5:30-8pm - “Manage Your Money Series.” soCiAl JustiCe Coffee Hour 251-6400 • TH (3/19), 12:30pm Discussion with Heartbeat, a youth nonprofit that uses music to overcome violence. Held in Laurel Forum at UNCA. Free.

toAstmAsters 978-697-2783 • TUESDAYS, 7-8am - Works on developing public speaking and leadership skills. Free.

Held at Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Center Blvd. unCA VoluntAry inCome tAX AssistAnCe unca.edu • SATURDAYS until (4/9), 10:30am-3pm - Income tax preparation for incomes under $53K. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. VeterAns for PeACe 582-5180, vfpchapter099wnc. blogspot.com • TUESDAYS, 4:30pm - Weekly vigil. Held at the Vance Monument in Pack Square.

Free. western CAroliniAns for PeACe And JustiCe in tHe middle eAst mepeacewnc.com • WE (3/11), 9:30am - General meeting. Held at Black Mountain Presbyterian, 117 Montreat Road, Black Mountain wnC CArVers 665-8273, wnccarvers.webs.com • SA (3/14), 9am-noon Beginning woodcarving class. Registration required. $30. Held at Klingspor’s Woodworking Shop, 270 Rutledge Road, Fletcher women’s History montH At unCA 251-6577, msp.unca.edu/whm • WE (3/18), 7:30pm - “An Evening with Asheville’s Women Leaders: Past, Present and Future,” panel discussion.

Held in the Sherrill Center.

Free.

dAnCe Community CHoreogrAPHy ProJeCts Presents (pd.) “Creating Your Legacy Through Movement, Story and Performance,” an 8-week movement theater workshop.

Begins Monday, March 23. All experience levels welcome.

Workshop meets at Jubilee!, 46 Wall St., Asheville, 6:15-8:15pm. To register: communitychoreography.com studio zAHiyA, downtown dAnCe ClAsses (pd.) Monday 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Fusion Bellydance 7:30pm Bellydance• Tuesday

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90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595 JuBilee Community CHurCH 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • TU (3/17), 7-8:30pm - “If You Can Walk or Roll, Then You Can Dance!” workshop. $10 donation.

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Souls for Solar wHat: Harnessing the Sun for God’s Sake! wHen: Saturday, March 14, 5-7 p.m. wHeRe: 1735 Fifth Ave. W., Hendersonville wHy: First Congregational United Church of Christ of Hendersonville’s congregation has an environmental mission: to find a way to get as far off the grid as possible. And to help accomplish this goal, the church is attempting to purchase 137 solar photovoltaic panels. According to solar project facilitator melissa melum, “We want to stimulate awareness. Stewardship of the environment is important to us, and we have a responsibility to take care of the environment.”

During the evening, Straight from the Heart will entertain guests with acoustic music, and a PowerPoint presentation detailing the proposed project will be running continually. Key project team

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members will be mingling with the crowd to have conversations about the project, providing an opportunity for fellowship with people interested in environmental stewardship. Food will be provided by the church, and wine will be available for $2 a glass.

Donations pledged during the event will help purchase solar photovoltaic panels for installation at the church. “It’s almost like fate,” notes Melum. “We have just enough space for panels to completely offset our power consumption. We want to inspire others to replicate these outward signs of commitment.” The overall cost of the project is estimated at $110,000, so everyone’s donation helps get the church closer to its goal.

All donations will be accepted, and guests may opt to donate for a quarter, half or a full panel. Those guests will be publicly recognized, “probably on a plaque of some sort,” says Melum. For more information, contact the church at 6928630 or visit fcchendersonville.org.

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ashevillegreendrinks.com Free to attend.

• WE (3/11), 5:30pm - “CSAs, Home Delivery & Tailgate Markets.” Held at Green Sage Cafe Downtown, 5 Broadway • WE (3/18), 5:30pm Appalachian Food Storybank, heritage food stories. Held at Green Sage Cafe Downtown, 5 Broadway elisHA mitCHell AuduBon soCiety emasnc.org • TU (3/17), 7pm Presentation by a Blue Ridge Parkway wildlife biologist.

Free to attend. Held in the Reuter Center at UNCA mountAintrue 258-8737, wnca.org • SA (3/14), 9am - Invasive species removal workday. Free.

Held at Richmond Hill Park, 280 Richmond Hill Drive • WE (3/18), 4:30pm Information session on recycling in WNC. Free. Held at 611 N. Church St. solArize wnC 631-3447, cleanenergyfor.us/ clean-energy-for-wnc • TU (3/17), 7pm - Renewable energy information forum.

Free to attend. Held at St. David’s Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva unitAriAn uniVersAlist CongregAtion of AsHeVille 1 Edwin Place, 254-6001, uuasheville.org • FR (3/13), 7pm - Coal Ash Stories and Groundswell Rising, coal ash/fracking films and discussion. Free.

fArm & gArden APPAlACHiAn sustAinABle AgriCulture ProJeCt 236-1282, asapconnections.org • TH (3/12), 3-6pm - CSA Fair, meet farmers and learn more about CSAs. Held at Jubilee Community Church, 46 Wall St. BunComBe County mAster gArdeners 255-5522, buncombemastergardener.org • WE (3/11), 2-5pm - Blueberry pruning workshop. Directions given upon registration. Free.

• TH (3/19), 10am - “Pruning - Understanding the Basics.”

Free. Held at Buncombe County Cooperative Extension Office, 94 Coxe Ave.

Summary presentation. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. BunComBe County rePuBliCAn men’s CluB 712-1711, gakeller@gakeller.com • 2nd SATURDAYS, 7:30am Discussion group meeting with optional breakfast. Free to attend. Held at Corner Stone Restaurant, 102 Tunnel Road BunComBe County rePuBliCAn PArty County ConVention 274-7883, buncombegop.org • SA (3/14), 8am-noon Republican Party Convention general meeting. $5. Held at A-B Tech, 340 Victoria Road

kids food & Beer AsHeVille gingers unite facebook.com/ ashevillegingersunite • SA (3/14), 6pm - St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Free to attend.

Held at Bywater, 796 Riverside Drive AsHeVille VegAn soCiety meetup.com/ The-Asheville-Vegan-Society • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm Meet-up to share a meal and discuss vegan issues. Free to attend. Held at Whole Foods Market, 4 S. Tunnel Road leiCester Community Center 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000 • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - The Leicester Welcome Table offers a hot meal and fellowship.

Open to all. Free.

• 3rd TUESDAYS, 2:30-3:30pm - Manna FoodBank distribution, including local produce. Free.

goVernment & PolitiCs AsHeVille in motion 232-4531 The city of Asheville’s multimodal transportation planning initiative.

• WE (3/11) through FR (3/13), 9am-5pm - Public participation sessions. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. • WE (3/11) & TH (3/12), 7-8pm - Informal mix and mingle with design team. Free to attend.

Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. • SA (3/14), 10am-noon -

GROWING GODDESS • JUNE 22-26 • JULY 6-10 (pd.) A nature-based Rites of Passage Camp (ages 11-14) celebrating the sacred time when a girl is becoming a woman. Through nature connection, supportive sisterhood, ritual, play and mentorship our true gifts emerge. Info: www. earthpatheducation.com THIS FRIDAY • SAFARI slumBer PArty! (pd.) March 13, 6-9pm. The Little Gym of Asheville. • Parents’ Survival Night! Wear your PJs for a fun night of activities in the gym, a pizza dinner, craft and LEGO™ building! Ages 3-12. • Members: $25 for first child, $10 for siblings. • Non-members: $35 for first child, $15 for siblings.

At 1000 Brevard Road, Suite 168, Asheville.

Call 828-667-9588 or visit http://www.tlgashevillenc.com kids’ ACtiVities At tHe liBrAries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (3/13), 4pm - LEGO Builders Club for ages 5 and up.

Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • MO (3/16), 10:30am Symphonic Story Time: Mozart for the Very Young, ages 3-6.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TU (3/17), 4pm - Yoga and stretching for ages 4-9. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (3/18), 3:30pm - Makers and Shakers: Pinch Pot Party.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

rolling for reAding 776-0361, bookmobile@bcsemail.org For children ages 3-5 and their parents. Free.

MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS: • 10-10:45am - Held at Haw Creek Elementary, 21 Trinity Chapel Road • 11:15am-noon - Held at W.D. Williams Elementary, 161 Bee Tree Road., Swannanoa • 1:45-2:30pm - Held at Shiloh Community Center, 121 Shiloh Road WEDNESDAYS: • 12:45-1:30pm - Held at Fairview Elementary, 1355 Charlotte Highway, Fairview TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS: • 9-9:45am - Held at Leicester Elementary, 31 Gilbert Road, Leicester • 10:30-11:15am - Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • noon-12:45pm - Held at Johnston Elementary, 230 Johnston Blvd.

• 1:15-2pm - Held at Emma Elementary, 37 Brickyard Road sPellBound CHildren’s BooksHoP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop. com • SATURDAYS, 11-11:30am Story Time for ages 3-7. Free. tiny tots CirCus PlAytime toyboatcommunityartspace.com • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 10am-noon - Circus-themed mini class for babies and children up to age 6. $5 per child per class. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road Suite B tot time At AsHeVille Art museum 282-253-3227, ashevilleart.org • TU (3/17), 10:30am - “Eine Kleine Kinder Musik.” Held in the museum’s ArtPLAYce. Admission fees apply. Held at Asheville Art Museum, 2 N. Pack Square

outdoors AsHeVille ultimAte CluB ashevilleultimate.org • WEDNESDAYS (3/11) through (5/13), 5:30pm - Coed adult ultimate spring league registration. $40/$25 for women new to AUC. Held at Memorial Stadium.

PisgAH AstronomiCAl reseArCH institute 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, 8625554, pari.edu • FR (3/13), 7pm - Spring night sky observation. Reservations required. $20/$15 seniors and military/$10 under 14. soutHern APPAlACHiAn HigHlAnds ConserVAnCy 253-0095, appalachian.org • TH (3/12), 5:15pm Moderate 3.5 mile hike in Haw Creek Community. Registration required. Free. Held at Masters Park, Maple Drive, Haw Creek ymCA of wnC 210-2265, ymcawnc.org • TH (3/12), 9:15am - Easy 3-mile hike on Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary and Perimeter Trail. Free. Meets at YMCA Woodfin, 30 Woodfin St. • SU (3/15), 8:45am - Easy to moderate 7.5 mile hike along Laural River Trail. Free. Meets at Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Center Blvd.

PArenting mountAin sun Community sCHool 885-2555 • TH (3/12), 6:30pm - Seminar: “The Wonder Years: Navigating the World of Your Middle School Adolescent.” Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard

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wHAt’s sHAkin ashevilletheatre.org • SATURDAYS through (3/28), 10am - Singing and dancing class for 6 months to 4 years. $12 per child per class. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St.

PuBliC leCtures At A-B teCH 398-7852, abtech.edu • WE (3/11), 3pm - “Victorian Girl Power: The Roles of Women in Asheville in the Late 19th Century.” Held in Rhododendron 344. Free.

wnC nAture Center 75 Gashes Creek Road, 2985600, wildwnc.org • WEDNESDAYS through (3/11), 10am-noon - “Critter Time For Tikes & Tots,” learning about animals for ages 3-5. $12. Meets every other week.

PuBliC leCtures At BreVArd College 884-8251, raintrlh@brevard.edu • WE (3/11), 3:30-5pm - Great Decisions Lecture Series: “Sectarianism in the Middle East.” Free. Held in McLartyGoodson Building. $10.

PuBliC leCtures At unCA unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

• MO (3/16), 11:25am “Transmission of Knowledge.”

Humanities Lecture Hall.

• TH (3/19), 11am-12:10pm - Panel discussion with Heartbeat members.

Humanities Lecture Hall.

• TH (3/19), 7pm - “The Barefoot Spirit,” business and lifestyle discussion. Humanities Lecture Hall.

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sPirituAlity ABout tHe trAnsCendentAl meditAtion teCHnique: free introduCtory leCture (pd.) Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation. Learn about the authentic TM technique. It’s not concentrating, trying to be mindful, or common mantra practice.

It’s an effortless, non-religious, evidence-based technique for heightened well-being and a spiritually fulfilled life. The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association.

• Topics: How the major forms of meditation differ—in practice and results; What science says about TM, stress, anxiety and depression; Meditation and brain research; What is Enlightenment? • Thursday, 6:307:30pm, Asheville tm Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or meditationAsheville.org About the Transcendental Meditation technique: Free Introductory Lecture AsHeVille ComPAssionAte CommuniCAtion Center (pd.) Free practice group.

Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication).

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

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 coun-

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seling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

AwAkening deePest nAture meditAtion ClAss (pd.) Consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz.

Healing into life through deepened stillness, presence & wisdom. Meditation, lessons & dialogue in Zen inspired unorthodox enlightenment.

Mondays, 6:30-7:30pm Asheville Friends Meeting House at 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. (828) 258-3241, healing@billwalz. com, www.billwalz.com Awakening Deepest Nature Meditation Class

Open to the One wHat: Kirtan with Sangha Shabda, part of the musical series Open to the One, presented Wednesdays in March by the Altamont Theatre and AskLizze. wHen: March 18, 7- 9 p.m. wHeRe: The Altamont Theatre, 18 Church St. wHy: Xpress corresponded with AskLizze founder Liz cox, and Sangha Shabda vocalists jojo silverman and aditi sethi-brown: Xpress: How do you hope these events will impact the attendee’s experience of oneness?

Liz cox: All of these events are participatory. The attendees are part of the event, not separate from it. [We] are actively cocreating the space. [And] there is nothing we cannot co-create, change, put in motion together from that space.

The important thing to remember is that with more light comes more responsibility. With greater awareness comes greater cause for actions that benefit the whole, and even more so in a group dynamic.

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ence mean to you, and how do you hope the musical and lyrical content impact listeners? aditi sethi-brown: Kirtan is calland-response chanting of ancient healing mantras (words or sounds repeated to aid concentration in meditation). Kirtan was and is an integral part of the Hindu and Sikh spiritual traditions in which I was raised.

I began offering it to the community as a child under the guidance of my parents and grandparents.

When we chant mantras from various Eastern religions, [our] minds [are] still and focused and [we are] more fully present. The call-and-response nature of kirtan invites all to participate in an experience of connectedness, unity and oneness. These mystical sound patterns have been used for thousands of years to focus the mind, open the heart and expand consciousness. jo-jo silverman: Kirtan is a group practice and not a performance. When we chant these ancient, sacred syllables, they unlock deep levels of inner knowing dormant in our minds. The musical nature of the practice harmonizes the two hemispheres of our brain. When this practice is done in a group, our bodies actually vibrate in unison, our breathing syncs up, and our minds can become unified and focused. I have found no stronger practice for experiencing oneness.

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CrystAl Visions Books And eVent Center (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts.

Event Space, Labyrinth and Garden. 828-687-1193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com 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 heartsanctuary.org serenity insigHt meditAtion (pd.) A Burmese monk leads authentic Buddhist insight meditation, grounded in 40 years of practice. Beginners and advanced practitioners welcome. • Sundays, 10am11:30am; • Wednesdays, 5pm-6pm. (828) 298-4700. wncmeditation.com SERENITY INSIGHT MEDITATION tHe Blue mAndAlA (pd.) March 11th 6-8pm donation only- New Moon Drumming Circle. March 13th,14th, & 15th The Liberty Series Preregistration required $495, $175 non

refundable deposit; Ongoing Events: Tues-Sat by appointment- Intuitive Reading, Reiki, Massage, Access Consciousness Bars; Free Lending Library, online Store The Blue Mandala 1359 Cane Creek Road Fletcher, NC 28732 828-275-2755 www.thebluemandala.com Adult forum At fCC 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SU (3/15), 9:15am - “Earthing, Part Two,” grounding practice presentation. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville emBrACing simPliCity HermitAge 338-2665, embracingsimplicityhermitage. org • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am-noon - Buddhist discussion and meditation.

Free. Held at Dhamma and Meditation Center, 38 Joel Wright Dr. South Park Plaza, Hendersonville first CongregAtionAl uCC of HendersonVille 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • WEDNESDAYS until (4/1), 3:30-5pm - Discussion of Martin Borg’s Convictions: Manifesto for Progressive Christians. Free. grACe lutHerAn CHurCH 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • SA (3/14), 9:30am-4:30pm “YOUnique,” spiritual discovery workshop. Registration required. sHAmBHAlA meditAtion Center 19 Westwood Place, 200-5120, shambhalaashvl@gmail.com • THURSDAYS, 6-7:30pm Sitting meditation and dharma reading. Free. unitAriAn uniVersAlist CongregAtion of AsHeVille 1 Edwin Place, 254-6001, uuasheville.org • WEDNESDAYS, 8am-9am - Contemplation Hour, open silent meditation/prayer. Free.

urBAn dHArmA 29 Page Ave., 225-6422, udharmanc.com • THURSDAYS through (3/26), “Introduction to Buddhism” class. $15 per class.

Registration required.

sPoken & written word AltAmont Poetry series facebook.com/groups/ AltamontPoetrySeries • MO (3/16), 7:30pm - John Lane reads from his book The Old Rob Poems. Open-mic follows. Free to attend. Held at NC Stage, 15 Stage Lane AsHeVille storytelling CirCle 274-1123, ashevillestorycircle.org • 3rd MONDAYS, 7-9pm Meets at Asheville Terrace, 200 Tunnel Road. Free.

Book & Print Arts ColleCtiVe memBer’s sHow ashevillebookworks.com • Through FR (4/24) - Renaissance: A Book & Print Arts Collective show. Free to attend. Artists’ reception: March 6, 6-8pm.

Held at Asheville BookWorks, 428 1/2 Haywood Road BunComBe County PuBliC liBrAries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (3/12), 1pm - Fairview Afternoon Book Club: Some Luck by Jane Smiley. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • SA (3/14), 3pm - West Asheville Book Club: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Mara. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road.

• TU (3/17), 7pm - Fairview Evening Book Club: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.

Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TH (3/19), 2:30pm - Skyland Book Club: Blue Angel by Francine Prose. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road

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Free. Held at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St. mAlAProP’s Bookstore And CAfe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Salon series: Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature. oPen miC nigHt nothingsopowerful@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Free to attend. Held at Rejavanation Cafe, 909 Smokey Park Highway, Candler synergy story slAm avl.mx/0gd, tlester33@gmail.com • WE (3/18), 7:30-9:15pm Open mic story night on the theme “madness.” Free to attend. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road tHomAs wolfe sHort story Book CluB 253-8304, wolfememorial.com

• TH (3/12), 5:30-7pm - “The Child by Tiger.” Discussion led

by Andrea Clark. Free. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market St. wednesdAy writer’s nigHt 252-1500 • WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm - Open meeting for songwriters, poets and word lovers hosted by songwriter Jenna Lindbo. Free to attend. Held at Laurey’s Catering, 67 Biltmore Ave west end Poetry And Prose reAding series facebook.comWestEndPoetry andProseReadingSeries • SA (3/14), 7pm - Featuring local writers. Free to attend. Held at West End Bakery, 757 Haywood Road

Volunteering literACy CounCil of BunComBe County Volunteers needed (pd.) Volunteers are needed to tutor adults in reading, writing, math and English as a Second Language. Tutors receive training and support from certified professionals. Learn more by emailing us (volunteers@litcouncil.com).

enVironmentAl quAlity institute 333-0392, eqilab.org, staff@eqilab.org • SA (3/14), 9am-4pm - Aquatic insects identification & water quality volunteer workshop.

Registration required. Held at UNCA. PeACe CorPs global.unc.edu • TH (3/12), 6-8pm - Info session with a Peace Corps recruiter. Free to attend. Held in the Reuter Center at UNCA. riVerlink 252-8474, riverlink.org • WEDNESDAYS, 1-4pm - Cleanup and plantings along the French Broad River. Registration required.

Held at Asheville Adventure Rentals, 704 Riverside Drive swAnnAnoA VAlley museum 223 W State St., Black Mountain, 669-9566, history.swannanoavalleymuseum.org • SA (3/14), 2pm - Volunteer docent training.

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Asheville Disclaimer by Tom Scheve

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Asheville’s Fan Fiction

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Briefs Sweater once owned by NFL legend Vince Lombardi sells for $40K to collector, while hamper of Joe Namath’s sweaty pantyhose receives no bids

Plans for 1,000-ft.-long water slide event in downtown Asheville hit speedbump

MSD’s sewer incinerator to receive $5.5M in improvements, including $1.89 bottle of Febreeze NC women seek to add ‘Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex” to US Constitution, replacing GOP-sponsored phrase ‘Let’s not get hysterical now, honey’ FARC invites Miss Universe to assist in peace talks despite Columbian government complaints that the rebel group ‘isn’t taking this s**t seriously’

Other oversized games that could replace it:

• CIBO lawn-dart tourney in lobby of Social Services building • Busker Bocce with bowling balls • Hide-and-go-seek APD Surveillance Edition • Corn-pothole • Horseshoes off the BB&T roof • City residents vs. county residents in Tag • Four Square, but the squares are city blocks and the ball is a new hotel • Kick the Keg • Capture the Car-dealership Flag • Duck, Duck, Goose against 1,000 angry geese released on Battery Park

Gold heist investigation stalls Following the armed robbery of $4.8M in gold bars from a Wells Fargo armored truck that allegedly experienced sudden engine trouble on a North Carolina highway, police have encountered a dead end, early in the investigation.

According to the police interview with Wells Fargo armed guard James Tweak: “First off, let me assure you, I’ve never worked with these armed robbers before, or at all, and that they were wearing masks, which made them look virtually unrecognizable from the last time I met them, hypothetically.

The truck broke down unexpectedly at the prearranged location when Arnold and Ted (probably code names) approached us from their vehicle with what may have actually been loaded guns and demanded Asheville Disclaimer is parody/satire Contact: tomscheve@gmail.com Contrib. this week: Joe Shelton, Tom Scheve

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that we assist them in loading the gold while they just stood there and held the guns for appearances, so it would look like we were actually being robbed, which is what was happening, but they could have helped more, I thought.

After we loaded the last few bars, Arnold became angry when he noticed that the knots the driver and I used to restrain ourselves, under the honor system, seemed to lack “authentic stagecraft” and that we needed to tighten them up or maybe they wouldn’t show up to split the gold later.

Ted advised that we all get back in character or he’d method-act some rounds into all of our chests.

We complied, and they drove off to the meet-up location, or parts unknown, as we were advised to say. The gold bars in my pockets when I came to the station with nothing to hide were personal use gold from before the robbery, which I wasn’t involved in.”

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Four-legged therapy Service dogs create small daily miracles

by nicki gLasseR

nickiglasser@hotmail.com

When kim brophey was a kid, she was fascinated by Lassie, the collie who wowed TV audiences for decades with her intelligence and heroic rescues. These days Brophey, who owns The Dog Door, is bringing that kind of doggy derring-do to Asheville, training service animals to help people with disabilities and consulting with clients about dogs with behavioral challenges.

Her childhood awe hasn’t left her. “I am still mesmerized by my clients,” she reports, using terms like “rock star,” “amazing” and “small miracle” when she talks about the dogs she trains.

“There have always been a lot of people who could benefit from service dogs, but I think the public’s perception has been limited — that it was [only] dogs for the blind or the deaf,” she explains. Brophey has trained dogs to help with everything from seizures to post-traumatic stress disorder to Down syndrome and mobility issues.

And these days, “More and more parents are realizing that they can get service dogs for their children, which is unbelievable; it’s amazing,” she says.

Sitting in the Green Sage Café, just a few doors down from The Dog Door, Brophey and three clients are talking about the work they’re doing together. Brophey is helping tanya Lyon train Scepee — an 8-month-old, gray-and-white pit bull mix — for Lyon’s 8-year-old son, who’s on the autism spectrum. Just five months into the training, Scepee is surprisingly calm and relaxed for such a young dog, looking up from under the table with soulful eyes.

“She just wants to be there for him,” says Lyon, adding that her son “is calmer already just having her around.”

When fully trained, Scepee will be accompanying him to school, where he has a tendency to wander off, she says. After using the bathroom,

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dog at woRk: Dewy is a big sweet lug, an 85-pound Labrador retriever-mastiff mix whose biggest problem appears to be fitting under restaurant tables (pictured with Samantha Dorf). Photo by Pat Barcas

for example, he may walk around the halls instead of returning to his classroom. To help with this, the dog will be trained “to know when it’s OK and when it’s not” to be walking around, says Lyon. “I don’t know how it comes together, but it does.”

Despite the complexity of the tasks these dogs are trained for, “I haven’t had to fail a dog yet,” notes Brophey.

To help ensure a good outcome, she carefully assesses each animal before beginning training. “One of the things I’m really looking for in a dog — and some types of dogs have this more than others — is a strong work ethic.

The dog has to want to do this. If they don’t, I will not force a square peg into a round hole,” she explains.

Brophey looks for certain traits in a potential service dog: a “dog who is in his owner’s grill and looking at him all the time, like they’re asking all these questions; very cooperative

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without a lot of struggle; a dog that is highly social with their own person and already has a strong bond with that person.” camille paxton found her dog, Sesoko, in Japan while doing postdoctoral research in cellular molecular biology. The husky mix had been abandoned and was running around the streets when Paxton took him in.

She’s training him to help her with PTSD “so I can do things like go out by myself at night and not have panic attacks,” she says. samantha dorf, the other Brophey client, is also training her dog to help with PTSD and social anxiety, as well as vertigo and asthma. Her dog, Dewy, is a big sweet lug, an 85-pound Labrador retriever-mastiff mix whose biggest problem appears to be fitting under restaurant tables. At Green Sage, though, he seems happy to lay his

big head down and take a load off while everybody kindly overlooks the fact that his tail is sticking out. “He’s going to be around helping me with everything, because I’ve been pretty stuck in life,” says Dorf. “With my social anxiety I get scared to do things by myself, but when he’s around I don’t get scared.”

All three animals are in the early stages of their yearlong training. “The public-access piece is the first piece we deal with,” says Brophey. Service dogs must meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements for behavior, she explains. “I would say everything about service dog training depends on the definition of the vest. ... When the vest is on, you are under service dog rules; when the vest is off, you can be a regular dog and do whatever you want. It’s a big deal when we introduce the vest.

And at that point all the rules change.”

Dogs learn that when they are wearing the vest, they can’t say hi to strangers or other dogs, can’t smell a random piece of garbage on the ground, and have to lie down under a table when their person sits down, explains Brophey. “They have to be completely low-profile and noninterruptive, or the person loses the right to have the dog with them,” she says.

Brophey, who studied applied ethology (which deals with domestic or captured animals and their relationships with humans), says she’s “endlessly fascinated by the possibilities in relationship between people and dogs. And service dog training pushes the limit. I love that: It’s the Lassie thing.”

After 15 years in the business and a growing client list, Brophey says she’s still “innocently enraptured” both by what dogs can be taught to do and by how much their humans benefit. “It’s like ‘Really? They can learn to pick up an object by [pointing] a laser, and pick up the right one, and jump up on the person and hand it to them? And like it?’ That’s intrigued me since I was this big,” she says, hand held at kid height, “and it still does. ... And the other piece that lights me up like a Christmas tree is to see the joy it brings these clients ... when the dog starts to meet the need and the person’s confidence, happiness and quality of life improve,” she reveals. “That, to me, is an emotional paycheck.” X

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AsHeVille Community yogA Center 8 Brookdale Road, ashevillecommunityyoga.com • SUNDAYS through (3/29), 5:30-7pm - “Intro to Yoga.” $40.

CounCil on Aging of BunComBe County 277-8288, coabc.org • WE (3/11), 2-4pm - “Medicare Choices Made Easy,” information session. Free. Held at Pardee Health Education Center, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville • WE (3/18), 2-4pm - “Medicare Choices Made Easy,” information session. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road HeAling from CAnCer nAturAlly facebook.com/healingcancernaturally • 2nd FRIDAYS, 2-4pm - Information on diet and lifestyle changes for cancer patients. Free. Held at OM Sanctuary, 87 Richmond Hill Drive Powerful tools for CAregiVers seminAr 697-4891 • WEDNESDAYS until (4/8), 2-4pm - Self-care education program for family caregivers. $25.

Held at Shaws Creek Baptist Church, 91 Shaws Creek Church Road, Hendersonville tAoist tAi CHi soCiety taoist.org/usa/locations/asheville • WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-7pm & THURSDAYS, 9:30am - Beginners Tai Chi class. Donations required. Held at Center for Spiritual Living Asheville, 2 Science Mind Way • MONDAYS, 5:30pm - Intermediate Tai Chi class. Donations required. Held at Center for Spiritual Living Asheville, 2 Science Mind Way wellness eVents At unCA unca.edu • TH (3/19), 9am-noon - Western North Carolina AIDS Project offers HIV screening. Free. Held in Highsmith Union.

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Who are the new farmers?

Diversity in WNC farming is growing, bringing new challenges and new perspectives

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by caRRie eidson

ceidson@mountainx.com pHotos by geoRge etHeRedge

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“Learning and working with the land is something anyone can do, and it’s something that no one should be separated from,” says calixta killander, garden manager at The Farm in Candler. mountainx.com

p a curvy country road in Candler sits a farm filled with open pastures and long fences, framed on all sides by scenic mountain ridges.

Bitter February winds cut through the warmth of a late winter sun as a young farmer looks over rows of raised beds that will soon hold lettuce, corn, squash and more. In the coming months, the farmer will create compost that will strengthen the soil, pull weeds from among the vegetables and plant trees that will grow into a fruit orchard.

The farmer will lead a Community Supported Agriculture program and sell produce at local markets. In fact, this farmer will do everything you’d expect a farmer to do — except look like the farmer you’d expect to see. calixta killander became interested in agriculture when she was 19.

Now, at age 25, she serves as the garden manager at The Farm (as the property is aptly called), having moved to Asheville from her native Yorkshire, England, to study sustainable agriculture at Warren Wilson College.

Killander discovered her passion for growing food while traveling in India and seeing how essential farming was to impoverished communities. During

those travels, she noticed something surprising about India’s farmers — most of them were women.

“They were out there in their beautiful saris, with their amazing jewelry and jasmine flowers in their hair, and they were doing this hard, physical work,” Killander recalls. “It was this striking juxtaposition between the beauty of females and also how strong, powerful and resilient they were. They were the ones with babies on their backs, taking care of the children and doing that hard work — and the men weren’t.”

That’s a sharp contrast to the classic picture of the American farmer. From the rancher with the cowboy hat and lasso to the grower on the tractor gazing out over the cornfield, our idea of a farmer is most often of a male — specifically an older, white male. In many ways, statistically speaking, that image isn’t wrong — but it may be changing.

According to data from the 2012 U.S. Census of Agriculture, released in February 2014, farmers in America are overwhelmingly Caucasian and male. Of the 2,109,303 farms surveyed, 2,034,439 had a principal operator who was white. Only 288,264 of the chief operators were women.

But the American farmer is aging: Between the 2007 and 2012 censuses,

the average age of principal farm operators rose from 57.1 to 58.3. In a profession that demands physical labor and long hours, often coupled with harsh economic realities, that means many may soon be retiring.

In fact, the total number of U.S. farmers shrunk by about 3 percent in the new census.

Nationally, the numbers show, new farmers aren’t rushing to enter the field. But according to an analysis of the census data by Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, Western North Carolina actually showed gains in total regional farmland and in another surprising area — minority farmers. The number of black, Hispanic and Asian farmers in WNC rose, while the number of women farmers declined slightly but held roughly the same total percentage.

Both nationally and regionally, women and minorities still account for only a small percentage of our farmers. But “Learning and working with the land is something anyone can do, and it’s something that no one should be separated from,” Killander asserts, and it seems she is not

alone. So who are these new farmers? What challenges are they facing? And as diversity in farming grows, what new perspectives will they bring to agriculture in WNC? tHe Lady faRmeR Black Mountain resident becki janes writes poetry and dances the tango — two facts that, on their own, are not particularly surprising. But Janes is also a farmer, something she says many people can’t seem to reconcile with her more feminine pursuits.

“They’ll see me in a dress, and they’re just totally shocked,” Janes say.

“Being a farmer does not equate with the loss of femininity. And yet, it’s like people look at me and think, ‘You’re not supposed to look like that!’”

Janes owns Becki’s Bounty, a 1/10acre farm near downtown Black Mountain. Though she studied both veterinary sciences and agriculture in college, her farm is actually a pretty recent development in her life. After her undergraduate studies, Janes switched her focus to counseling, completed a master’s in the field and embarked on a decadeslong career in child and family services. Five years

ago, she was serving as executive director of a local nonprofit and wasn’t considering a career change — until she suffered a heart attack.

Today Janes is healthy and preparing to run a half-marathon, and her farm, which she started as part of her recuperation, is the new driver in her life. “People have heart attacks for a lot of different reasons, but I know for me, a big part of it was stress, in my work and in my life,” she says. “This 180-degree turn on my career — the garden — has saved my life in a lot of ways.”

At Becki’s Bounty, Janes uses sustainable practices to grow organic produce that she sells at area tailgate markets. And while “The Little Garden With Big Ideas” is not her principal source of income, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. “I think it’s a problem for any farmer, male or female, [to get] people to take you seriously because of the size of your project,” she notes. “A lot of people look at what I’m doing and say, ‘You’re just doing a hobby farm.’ But a hobby is something that costs you money; it’s not something that makes you money.”

Janes’ experience is not uncommon. The census shows that typically women are not heading up large

operations. Most women-run farms are 179 acres or less, with many less than 50 acres. By comparison, the average farm size is 434 acres, and large-scale commercial agricultural properties often exceed 1,000 acres.

But even though fewer women are operating the “Big Ag” farms that bring in billions of dollars nationally, a significant number of women are involved in farming. In addition to the nearly 300,000 principal operators, women account for 67 percent of the country’s secondary farm operators — typically because their spouses are considered the principal operator. And according to carol coulter, executive director of Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture, that’s particularly true in the High Country, the area the Boone-based nonprofit serves.

“A lot are young,” Coulter notes.

“Some are single and running the farm by themselves; some have husbands, and they work together on the farm.

But a lot of women are driving the farm movement. In our region, at least, I think a lot more women are getting into it than men.”

The nonprofit started out in 2001 as an informal potluck gathering for women farmers and their supporters,

“Being a farmer does not equate with the loss of femininity,” notes Black Mountain resident becki janes. “And yet, it’s like people look at me and think, ‘You’re not supposed to look like that!’”

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Coulter says, but today the organization helps strengthen female-owned agricultural businesses by offering conferences, workshops and farm tours (where men are also welcome).

The group has covered topics ranging from raising livestock to understanding agriculture laws to managing interns or hiring migrant workers. As part of that business training, BRWIA also advises women on how to diversify economically to support themselves throughout the year.

“We caution folks not to quit their day job until their farm job is actually bringing in enough income,” Coulter explains. “Right now, in the High Country, unless you have a bunch of high tunnels that allow you to grow year-round, all of these women are working another job to support themselves so they can get back to farming in the spring. It’s a seasonal workforce where women are really farming hard in the summer and doing something else in the winter.”

In corporate farming, massive acreage, agricultural technologies and many hired hands combine to keep production churning yearround. But Coulter notes that the smaller-scale, women-owned farms BWRIA supports tend to be less focused on the bottom line.

“The ways that females go about their work is a little bit different,” she says. “Women are more community-minded than men are, and so they bring a different purpose to their farming. It’s communal and social, and I think that aspect is going to play a big role in farming in the future.

“It’s about community development,” Coulter continues. “It’s a piece that’s really missing from that traditional model of the farmer as a man who is independent and just knows how to make it all work.”

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sir Charles Gardner sits with his daughter and her friends in the Pisgah View Community Peace Garden. In WNC, African-American farmers like Gardner account for only 46 of the more than 16,000 primary farm operators.

For Janes, placing communal learning ahead of profit has been a central component of both Becki’s Bounty and her own farming education. She learned the eco-conscious methods she uses — permaculture, biodynamics, seed saving — by working with peers in classes and conferences offered by ASAP and other groups. And she plans to continue her education on her farm while inviting others to learn with her, hosting community classes and someday adding a hostel where interns can live, work and learn.

“It started as just a way to recuperate from a challenging career,” Janes says. “But now, this is what I really want to do.”

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community gRoweRs Nationally, African-Americans constitute one of the smallest demographics of farmers. It’s a trend that is evident in WNC, where only 46 of the more than 16,000 primary operators surveyed in the 2012 census were black.

Part of the reason for that low number might be history, notes olufemi Lewis, a founder and worker-owner of Ujamaa Freedom Market. “Especially in the black community, we’re reluctant to develop an interest in farming,” Lewis says. “I think it’s because it reminds us too much of slavery and what our ancestors went through. But there is freedom in growing your own food. It’s empowering.”

For Asheville, at least, black agricultural heritage isn’t all negative. In fact, West Asheville’s historically black Burton Street neighborhood has a long history of community building tied to farming, due in large part to the efforts of e.w. pearson. A veteran of the SpanishAmerican War and the first president of the Asheville chapter of the NAACP, Pearson founded the Buncombe County District Colored Agricultural Fair, one of the largest black agriculture fairs in the Southeast. The event was held annually from 1913 until 1947, drawing crowds of more than 10,000.

“I was very young during the agriculture fair, but from what I remember and what I’ve heard, it was a very large

event,” says Burton Street resident, and Pearson’s grandson, clifford cotton. “It ran for about a week, and it was more than agriculture — E.W. Pearson would have Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, all types of activities and entertainment for the kids, as well as the agriculture fair.”

The fairs continued until one year after Pearson’s death. No one else in the community held the sway necessary to keep them going, Cotton says, and the fair — and the emphasis on agriculture it created — gradually faded from the neighborhood. The Burton Street Community Association has worked to honor Pearson’s memory, including sponsoring two revivals of the agriculture fair, but efforts to renew interest in farming have not been greatly successful, he says.

“When I was young, you would just sit on the porch and people from next door or down the street would come by and say, ‘I got a bushel of greens I can’t use. Go ahead and take ’em,’” Cotton recalls. “They would just give them to you because they were grown all throughout the neighborhood. But you really don’t see that anymore.

“They’re trying to get the agriculture things built back up, getting the neighbors to grow their own food — preserving, canning like it used to be,” he continues. “But it’s

Farm & garden • Environment • Sustainability issues not growing as rapidly as everyone had hoped. Maybe at some point people will realize the importance of having a garden so you can have your own food. That’s one of the things my grandfather tried to instill in the community — to provide for yourself.”

Home gardening, though, doesn’t always lead to the creation of more agriculture-based businesses. And farming, notes Ujamaa co-founder and worker-owner calvin allen, simply isn’t a viable source of income for most people, regardless of their race or gender. Instead of merely encouraging people to grow food, Allen says, the community should push its institutions — establishments like churches, schools and hospitals — to form business connections with local growers. “If I knew there was a market for my potatoes — if I knew the school system, for example, would want to buy my potatoes — then that gives me an incentive to grow them,” Allen says. “I think that would bring more farmers to the table.”

Lewis agrees, adding that local restaurants should also do more to source locally. “There will be some things you can’t get locally for a restaurant, but staple vegetables — greens, potatoes, garlic, tomatoes — you should be looking to source those local first,” she says. “ASAP has so many farmers that they work with. It should be a minimum of food trucks that are coming here.”

Lewis and Allen, who work with growers to sell local produce

in low-income communities through Ujamaa’s mobile market, know both the value and the challenges of agriculture-based business. On the one hand, the work strengthens a community’s access to healthy foods while providing new jobs — a crucial issue for the city’s African-American community. According to the Census Bureau’s 2013 American Community Survey, the African-American unemployment rate in Asheville is estimated at 15.7 percent, compared with 4.7 percent for whites. As of the 2007 census, only 2.8 percent of the city’s businesses were black-owned.

But on the other hand, the cost of growing food can be prohibitive, especially in a city like Asheville where land is snatched up at increasingly high prices.

Then again, some farmers have found ways to capitalize on the overlooked spaces — turning discarded parcels into farms and business opportunities.

That’s the case for the Pisgah View Community Peace Garden, a business that grew out of a neglected baseball field in one of Asheville’s public housing communities. The garden was started by Pisgah View resident bob white, initially as a community garden providing organic food to the elderly, disabled and homeless. But about 3 ½ years ago, White stepped down and a new group of farmers stepped up.

“I didn’t know anything about growing food, didn’t really know what I was doing,” says current PVCPG operator sir charles gardner. “I didn’t want to see it go back into a baseball field, so I just started getting involved.”

Becoming a farmer meant “a lot of experiments — good and bad,” Gardner says. When he first joined with three other Pisgah View residents to take over the project, it meant learning fast and putting in a lot of hours — 30 to 50 a week in the garden in addition to preparing and selling their produce at local markets. “On a good day we might have $200 to split for the week,” Gardner notes.

“On a bad day we might have $60.”

Today, Gardner and carl elijah johnson jr. are the garden’s main, year-round operators. Two other employees handle bookkeeping and administration, though during the past two peak seasons, grants and other funding have allowed for as many as eight garden workers. The operation sells organic produce and fresh flowers to Pisgah View residents and a few West Asheville subscribers, as well as to local restaurants. They’re also at the West Asheville Tailgate Market.

The business has grown a lot, but Gardner says there’s a long way to go. “It’s still not at a point where it’s sustainable on its own. But we were at a point where we sold $50-$75 a week, and now, on some good weeks, we might make $600-$700 during the summer months.”

And meanwhile, the garden is also helping residents reconnect with growing food. Many have started their own home gardens, he says, while others are attending PVCPG’s cooking demonstrations. “A lot of people are still hesitant about trying the food or just cooking with healthy food,” Gardner explains. “Most of the people who do eat the food from the garden are elderly. The sort of middle-aged generation, it’s hard to reach them. But the kids — we can’t keep the kids out of there.” tHe next geneRation Killander stands in The Farm’s pasture, thinking ahead to the second season

of the CSA and how she can market her yield to attract new customers. More people are interested in buying local foods, and being a woman farmer allows for some advantages, she says. People are often surprised by her and more interested in finding out about her business.

As a woman in her mid-20s, Killander represents a sort of double minority: There are only about 100,000 farmers under age 34 in the country, but Killander says that, too, may be changing.

“In England there’s a huge backto-the-land movement right now, where people from urban areas are wanting to move to the countryside so they can have chickens and a little garden,” she says. “And I think that’s happening here as well. People understand that there is quality to a lifestyle that isn’t the rat race.”

She may be right. One encouraging note from the 2012 census is that farming among that youngest age group — the one Killander falls into — did increase ever so slightly. But agriculture, notes Killander, is a tough business right now, for commercial operations and small-scale growers alike.

For farmers to succeed, they need to be appreciated by their communities, she says — and that’s true for growers of any ethnicity or gender.

“It’s not a woman being a farmer — it’s a farmer,” says Killander.

“Whether you’re male or female, you’re still doing that work. It’s honorable work and it’s important work.

“There are different challenges and opportunities, but I think it’s always our job as farmers to remind people that it’s about the work,” she continues. “It’s not about who we are — it’s about what we’re doing.”

This is the first in a series of articles exploring the issues affecting minority farmers in WNC. Xpress will continue exploring this topic throughout the growing season. X

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Turning food waste to food security Food Connection gets restaurants’ excess to those in need

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Local Flavor AVL co-founder flori pate is combating food insecurity and food waste, one cab ride at a time. Backed by Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church and driven by Asheville Taxi, Food Connection calls on area restaurants and caterers to donate — rather than dump — their excess food.

“There’s this strange, ironic dynamic in our community where we are considered to be a food destination town, and people travel from all over to eat the food here. But we are one of the most food-insecure cities,” says Pate. “We want to intercept all this food from being thrown away, rescue it and get it where it needs to go.”

Some 37,000 Buncombe County residents (or 15.5 percent of the population) were food insecure in 2012, according to a study by Feeding America, meaning that these individuals faced a “lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods.” Food Connection was created, says Pate, to reduce these “very upsetting” figures.

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Pate’s role, aside from marketing her 3-month-old venture, lies in identifying businesses that often end a busy day or special event with at least 18 portions of surplus food. In these cases, the overstocked companies can text Food Connection, which then pays cab fare for an ondemand pickup. woody mckee, owner of Asheville Taxi, has committed to transport each feast at top speed.

“When a Food Connection comes in, they put us at the top of their dispatch list,” says Pate. “We can guarantee that Asheville Taxi will be there within 20 minutes to pick up the food and take it to the designated shelter.”

This instantaneous and reliable transportation process is not only essential for spurring restaurant participation, but, perhaps more importantly, for ensuring consumer safety and reducing donor liability. The Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, Pate says, provides additional protection against potential food-borne illness claims, as does meticulous labeling of donation times.

“We are starting small,” says Pate, whose primary food recipient is currently the Be Loved House.

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cHaLLenge du jouR: Following a meeting with Pack’s Tavern event coordinator Mary Evans, Flori Pate found herself pondering a simple, yet resonant request: “Is there anything you can do to keep food from getting thrown away?” That question and some serious brainstorming eventually resulted in the birth of Food Connection. Pictured, from left to right, are Buzz Durham, Pate, Evans and Woodward McKee. Photo by Cindy Kunst

eral grocery stores and even a retirement home have already inquired about the feasibility of partnership, though.

Employing McKee’s services rather than rallying on-call volunteers comes with a price tag, though.

For Pate, miles mean money.

“We definitely need to raise money and awareness for what we’re doing, so we can continue to grow,” she says, busy with final touches for Food Connection’s kickoff fundraiser on Friday, March 13.

Eight bands involved with Local Flavor AVL will offer their time and

talent at the daylong event, each playing a short set before the culminating all-star jam. Performers include Andrew Scotchie & the River Rats, The Wilhelm Brothers, a duet by Eleanor Underhill (Underhill Rose) and Silas Durocher (Get Right Band), Posh Hammer, Jr. James & the Late Guitar, The Bread & Butter Band, The Moon and You, and Red Honey.

“These bands were definitely on board and willing to play for the cause,” says Pate. “That’s why I love Asheville. … This lineup is amazing” Pate’s team will raffle a grand prize — a night and dinner at Sourwood Inn — plus donations from Highland Brewing Co. and Eden Out Meals, among other prizes. Proceeds from the raffle and food purchases (catered by Cecilia’s Culinary Food Tour and Poppy handcrafted popcorn) will be pooled with ticket sales for the fundraiser.

Pate says attending the event is the best way for interested Ashevilleans to offer support to Food Connection at this time.

“We’re trying to break all barriers of age or social status and really just make this about the community,” says Pate. “We’ve got big plans … and [Food Connection] really is working so far!” X

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A century ago, French suburbanites favored spending lazy weekend days relaxing at outdoor drinking establishments called guinguettes.

Captured on canvas by such painters as Renoir and Van Gogh, these merry gathering spots also served food and offered live music and dancing. Now, veteran Asheville restaurateurs cecilia marchesini and stephane diaz are reinventing this concept for the Western North Carolina crowd with La Guinguette, their new venture in Black Mountain.

“It sounds like baguette, but you add an ‘N’ and it becomes guinguette, and that’s how people can relate to it,” says Marchesini, who also operates Cecilia’s Kitchen on Merrimon Avenue along with the well-traveled Ceci’s Culinary Tour food truck.

Although Marchesini, originally from Argentina, was already plenty busy with her other two businesses, she found herself tempted when a customer urged her to consider opening a new eatery in a building he owned in Black Mountain. “Finally, I talked to my ex-husband and told him that if he would help, I’d do it,” she explains. The pair opened La Guingette in late November but are just now starting to focus on bringing the dining outside.

While still married, Diaz and Marchesini ran Café Soleil on Lexington Avenue, which closed in 2005. Now, a decade and a divorce later, they’re business partners in the Black Mountain undertaking.

The arrangement isn’t much of a stretch, says Marchesini, as she and Diaz are friends and are co-parenting their 13-year-old son.

Diaz, who also does tile work, handled the renovation and décor of the wooden cottage on Richardson

fRencH twist: With their Black Mountain eatery, La Guinguette, Cecilia Marchesini, right, and Stephane Diaz, second from left, hope to revive the spirit of the traditional French outdoor bar and restaurant. They are pictured with server Sarah Ballhausen and culinary consultant Bill Clements. Photo by Audrey Walsh

Boulevard. Although Marchesini says the rustic building seemed too dark to her at first, it now exudes warmth and charm with cheerful yellow paint accenting the dusky wood. A cozy wood, stone and stucco interior has also been brightened with splashes of yellow, and the back deck glows with turquoise and red.

Marchesini, meanwhile, does the food. The menu — mainly crêpes, empanadas and tamales — reflects both her own heritage and her long partnership with Diaz, who’s from France. She uses her mother’s empanada recipe, which hails from Argentina’s Mendoza region (each area of Argentina claims a different variation, ranging from sweet to savory). The crepes use a gluten-free, buckwheat recipe that’s traditional in Brittany. “For me, empanadas are like pizza: a regular everyday item,” says Marchesini. “I could eat it every day and never get tired of them.”

She even sometimes brings in dishes she learned from her late father — her family’s primary cook during her childhood — such as locro, a classic Argentine stew that’s similar to pozole.

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She even mentions hopes of working with Pisgah Brewing Co. to create a special La Guinguette brew.

With the onset of spring imminent, Marchesini plans to fully embrace the restaurant’s name by moving outdoors. Landscaping is underway, with an eye toward featuring live bands and dancing in the evenings on the property’s spacious fenced backyard and deck. “That’s where the real guinguette will take place,” she says. She also aims to bring the party to the street by adding umbrella-sheltered café tables on the lawn out front. The open-air spaces should be ready to go by the beginning of April, weather permitting.

La Guinguette is at 105 Richardson Blvd., Black Mountain. Hours are 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sundays. View the menu at laguinguettenc.com. X

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The system isn’t exactly democratic in that ballots must be purchased, but all funds from the voting drive (plus fees from beer wristbands and parking) will benefit the Asheville Humane Society, Montford Park Players and the Asheville Masonic Temple. “The charities are really at the heart of this for us,” says Yarnall.

The Food Truck Showdown, presented by Asheville Tattoo and Arts Expo, Pinups and Pitbulls, Yelp, Pabst Blue Ribbon and Sailor Jerry, takes place noon-8 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway, with parking at Home Trust Bank, 10 Woodfin St. Admission is free.

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food tRuck sHowdown Asheville’s most popular food trucks have become, ironically, culinary destinations of their own. In fact, the hunt for dinner — Where do you think El Kimchi is parked tonight? — often seems as innately satisfying as the food itself.

But Ashevilleans won’t have to look far for their favorites when more than a dozen mobile eateries gather downtown on Saturday, March 14, for the second Food Truck Showdown — “a celebration of innovative cuisine [benefiting] some of the amazing nonprofits in the Asheville area,” according to event organizer JR Yarnall.

Patrons can bring pet food, cat litter and pet toys in exchange for free on-site snuggles with Asheville Humane Society animals. Plus, DJ TJ will provide musical accompaniment to face painting by Asheville Face and Body Art throughout the day.

More than 1,500 people attended the outdoor event in its inaugural year, when Root Down claimed the singular title of Best Truck in Asheville.

This year, however, Farm to Fender, Gypsy Queen, Pho Ya Belly, El Kimchi, Latino Heat, Acropolis Pizza, Smash Box, Yellow Submarine, Twisted Root and more

appaLacHian vintneR Hosts fundRaiseR foR LocaL cHiLd Appalachian Vintner will host an event on Thursday, March 12, to raise money for a local family whose 3-yearold son, jacob, has been diagnosed with leukemia and is undergoing extensive chemotherapy. Money raised from the event will help the family’s single mother, joanie peditto, cope with expenses incurred by her son’s illness. A cash donation of $10 at the door entitles guests to snacks and a glass of wine or beer provided by French Broad Brewing Co. and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. There will be a silent auction and live music by Chris O’Neill and Brett Ramsey. As a special treat, Jacob’s brothers, jeremy and julian, ages 13 and 11, will demonstrate their break-dancing skills for the crowd.

6-9 p.m. Thursday, March 12, Appalachian Vintner, 745 Biltmore

Ave. For details and to make donations to help the family at any time, visit appalachianvintner.com/ events/fundraiser-joanie-jacob/. fLigHts and bites at HigHLand bRewing co.

After a bit of rescheduling due to snowy weather in late February, Highland Brewing Co. kicked off its new yearlong, monthly Flights and Bites series on March 4, pairing samples of its beer with food from Sunburst Trout Farms. Up next on the schedule is a pairing event with Poppy Handcrafted Popcorn on Thursday, March 12. For $7, the North Asheville popcorn maker will offer tasting flights featuring a variety of flavors, including Thai spice, rosemary, pesto, peanut butter, Poppy Mix and salted caramel. The popcorn can be paired with a flight of Highland brews for $8. Live music will add ambiance, and admission to the taproom is free. In the coming months, look for pairings with Green River Picklers, Hickory Nut Gap Farm, No Evil Foods, Looking Glass Creamery, Asheville Bee Charmer and more.

Flights and Bites, 4-8 p.m. Thursday, March 12, Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Highway. Details at highlandbrewing.com. X

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French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization 5310 Call for Projects due March 24th French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization is announcing a spring 2015 call for FTA Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities Program (Section 5310) funding, with applications due March 24th, 2015, by close of business day. The purpose of those grants is to improve community and public transportation options, with special emphasis on transportation needs of seniors and individuals with disabilities. Both operating and capital expenses are eligible, with a local match required (20% local match for capital projects and 50% local match for operating expenses). State or local government agencies, private non-profit organizations, and operators of public transportation services in Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Madison Counties are eligible to apply.

The call for projects will open on Wednesday, March 11th, with applications due by close of business day on Tuesday, March 24th, 2015.

Electronic submission preferred. The application form and additional information about FTA 5310 funding can be found on the FBRMPO website at http://www.fbrmpo.org and in the FTA circular: • 5310 circular: http://www.fta.dot.gov/13094_8349.html The projects submitted for 5310 grant funding would need to show a link to transportation needs identified in a locally-coordinated Public Transit and Human Services Transportation Plan. Please find the current 2012 FBRMPO CPT-HST Plan at http://fbrmpo.org/wp-content/ uploads/2014/11/MPO_HST_Plan_Final_2012.pdf.

Questions and comments can be directed via email to mpo@landofsky. org and by phone to 828-251-66222 (x. 138) or ask for MPO.

French Broad River Metropolitan Transportation Plan Public Input Opportunities The French Broad River MPO is currently working on its 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan and wants input from the public! MPO Staff will be attending the following events and will be available for questions and comments at that time: • •

Asheville Neighborhoods Festival – Sunday, March 15th at The Ferguson Auditorium from 2:00 – 4:30 PM Montreat Town Council Meeting – Thursday, April 9th at the Walkup Building in Montreat, beginning at 7:00 PM

More events will be announced in the near future and will be updated at the MPO website at http://www.fbrmpo.org/.

French Broad River MPO Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) Amendments Corrections The French Broad River MPO issued an advertisement published on Wednesday, March 4th, 2015, concerning TIP Amendments to be considered at the MPO Board meeting on Thursday, March 26, 2015.

A clerical error was noticed in the advertisement concerning the funding amounts allocated to each project. The corrected amounts are available on the MPO website at http://www.fbrmpo.org/.

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“You wouldn’t think of a symphony partnering with a brewery, but in Asheville it makes sense,” says david whitehill, executive director of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. In fact, for the inaugural Asheville Amadeus Festival — which runs March 17-22 — the symphony teamed up not only with Highland Brewing Co. (which will release its commemorative Wolfgang 1756 Vienna-style lager on Saturday, March 14, at a pre-festival kickoff party), but also with local groups ranging from N.C. Stage Company and the Asheville Art Museum to the Blue Ridge Orchestra and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville.

“We wanted to help to build the capacity of the arts in Asheville by raising the visibility,” says Whitehill.

The festival, in the planning stage for nearly two years, came together around the booking of Grammy Award-winning pianist Emanuel Ax. This is the first time an artist of Ax’s stature has performed side by side with the symphony, says Whitehill, so it made sense to build a number of programs around the pianist’s visit.

“We’re sort of showcasing what arts organizations do here in Asheville 365 days of the year,” Whitehill explains.

Festival planners reached out to local groups asking, “What would you like to show that you do — or would you like to take this as an opportunity to incubate an idea?” Results include Mozart Yoga at the Asheville Art Museum, a Deconstructing Mozart luncheon at Isa’s Bistro and a performance of Mozart’s The Impresario

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pop-cuLtuRaL Whitehill estimates that roughly 80 percent of the festival’s offerings are free, and attendance at all related programs is expected to total about 20,000. The festival will stretch beyond its weeklong run, with ancillary offerings scattered throughout March such as an Austrian wine flight at Santé Wine Bar and a screening of the director’s cut of the film Amadeus at Metro Wines. Meanwhile, the Asheville Symphony Guild’s Mozart Music in the Schools program will visit every second-, third- and fourth-grade public school student in Buncombe County this year.

That’s ambitious, but so is the production of Amadeus (Wednesday, March 11-Sunday, March 22), a joint effort by N.C. Stage and Asheville Community Theatre. It’s a project that N.C. Stage has wanted to do for years, notes producing director angie flynn-mciver. But with a cast of 16, it made sense to perform the play at ACT’s larger facility. “We couldn’t even fit that many people in our dressing room,” Flynn-McIver jokes. “This is a great opportunity for

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supeRstaR: A child prodigy, a prolific composer and largerthan-life personality, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died young, but his work has survived more than two centuries. The musician is portrayed by Allan T. Law, center (with Michael MacCauley as Antonio Salieri and Rebecca Morris as Constanze Mozart), in the N.C. Stage Company and Asheville Community Theatre production of Amadeus. Photo by Ray Mata/Blue Ridge Pictures

says the local production (starring michael maccauley as the composer Antonio Salieri and allen t. Law in the title role) is based on the ’99 revival. And, thanks to costume designer susan brown-strauss and wig designer george martinat, “You’re really going to see the opulence of that time,” promises Flynn-McIver.

“The big thing that both of them are working on is having the shape and the forms of [the late 18th century], then taking some liberties with the fabrics to go along with our concept.”

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us to do something that wouldn’t fit in our space. ... We’re always looking for community partnerships.

The great thing about this is it’s such a natural fit. All of the pieces have been falling into place.”

The play, written by peter shaffer and first staged in 1979, was inspired by Alexander Pushkin’s 1830 play Mozart and Salieri. Shaffer’s version won a Tony in ’81; his screen adaptation won an Oscar in ’84. Flynn-McIver

While Salieri — who, in Shaffer’s fictionalization, imagines himself to be in a rivalry with Mozart — is the main character of Amadeus, it’s the title artist who clearly steals the show. “He kind of is everything to everybody,” says Ax. “You can go and hear a piece of Mozart having never heard [his] music before and really, really enjoy it. On the other hand, you can go and hear a concert having heard thousands of those and be just as excited as you were the first time — maybe more so.

Asheville Amadeus schedule Events are free unless otherwise noted; those sold out at press time are not listed.

• n.c. Stage company and asheville community theatre present Amadeus at ACT. Wednesday, March 11-Sunday, March 22. Wednesdays-Saturdays, at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, at 2:30 p.m. $35 adults/$32 seniors and youth. ashevilletheatre.org • Pre-festival kickoff: Highland Brewing releases its Wolfgang 1756 Vienna-style lager, and Sirius.B performs at the open house party at the brewery on Saturday, March 14, at 7 p.m. Free. highlandbrewing.com • Eine Kleine Kinder musik for newborn to pre-K children. asheville art museum on Tuesday, March 17, at 10:30 a.m. Free with museum membership/$8 nonmembers/free for children under 5. ashevilleart.org • mozart Requiem singalong with the Asheville Symphony Chorus. Basilica of St. Lawrence on Tuesday, March 17, at 6:30 p.m. ashevillesymphonychorus.com it’S PERSonaL: While renowned pianist Emanuel Ax usually plays much larger stages than those he will grace in Asheville, of his intimate recital at Diana Wortham Theatre he says, “The closer I am to [the audience] the better.”

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“History is a very harsh judge,” the pianist adds. For an artist’s impact to last, that person’s contribution must resonate meaningfully with an audience, he says.

Although Ax, who was born in Poland and raised in Canada before studying at The Juilliard School, is well-versed in the classical tradition, he also champions contemporary composers. “I think all of the performers today try to play music by people who are still alive,” he says. “It would be incredibly wonderful to have been part of starting off a piece that will maybe stay around. Wouldn’t it have been marvelous to be the first pianist to play a Mozart concerto?”

At press time, Ax’s intimate Diana Wortham Theatre recital (Friday, March 20) was sold out, but he’ll also perform with the orchestra at the Asheville Amadeus Finale Concert on Sunday, March 22. For that event, the Thomas

Wolfe Auditorium stage will be extended 30 feet into the concert hall, with stadium-style seating installed behind the performers. “We’re doing this to leverage future opportunity,” says Whitehill. “We think, as you’re doing a festival, you try to create really unique experiences.”

Naturally, the program includes Mozart (Piano Concerto No. 14 and Concerto for Two Pianos), but also selections from Salieri and Schubert. And if the festival becomes a biennial event, future editions might feature different composers (Bela Bartok, for example, spent time in Asheville) and even plugged-in concerts. For now, however, Mozart is a fine starting point. “People have either seen the movie or they’ve been in an elevator and heard Mozart,” says Whitehill.

“It’s in popular culture. There are Mozart chocolates.”

“Mozart,” he adds, “is just the entry point to get us all to play together.” X

PLaYS WELL WitH otHERS: The idea for Asheville Amadeus originated with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra but grew to include other area arts organizations and their Mozart-related programs.

“We wanted to help to build the capacity of the arts in Asheville by raising the visibility,” says ASO Executive Director David Whitehill.

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• meeting mozart discussion and performance by Asheville Symphony guest musicians. Reuter center at UNC Asheville on Wednesday, March 18, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. olliasheville.com/reuter-center • asheville Lyric opera performs Mozart’s comic chamber opera, The Impresario, in a collaboration with Furman University Opera Lyric Theatre. Ymi cultural center on Wednesday, March 18, 7 and 8:30 p.m. $20. ymiculturalcenter.org • Deconstructing mozart luncheon: Asheville Symphony Executive Director David Whitehill, composer Nathan Shirley and ASO musicians discuss Mozart’s Serenade No. 13, aka “Eine kleine Nachtmusik.” isa’s Bistro on Wednesday, March 18, at 11:30 a.m., $60. isasbistro.com • mozart Yoga with instructor Evan Hart Marsh. asheville art museum on Thursday, March 19, at 10 a.m. $8 museum members/$12 nonmembers. ashevilleart.org • mozart march madness concert with UNCA University Singers, Asheville Singers and Reuter Center Singers. First Baptist church of asheville on Thursday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. fbca.net • Symphony talk with WCQS classical music host Chip Kaufmann, Asheville Symphony music director Daniel Meyer and pianist Emanuel Ax. Diana Wortham theatre on Friday, March 20, at 10 a.m. dwtheatre.com • Lunchtime (moz)art Break: Attendees will learn to analyze a work of art and a musical work by Mozart. asheville art museum on Friday, March 20, at noon.

Free members/$8 nonmembers. ashevilleart.org • mozart Family concert, performed by the Blue Ridge Orchestra, offers an introduction to the composer and the instruments of the orchestra. unitarian universalist congregation of asheville on Saturday, March 21, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. $15 general/$10 friends of the BRO/$5 youth. uuasheville.org • asheville-Buncombe Youth orchestra concert performs the Toy Symphony of Leopold Mozart. asheville High auditorium on Saturday, March 21, at 7 p.m. ashevillesymphony.org/asheville-buncombe-youth-orchestra • mozart’s coronation mass, performed by the unitarian universalist congregation of asheville and Blue Ridge chamber Symphony as part of a worship service. UUCA on Sunday, March 22, at 9:10 and 11:15 a.m. uuasheville.org • asheville amadeus Finale concert, featuring the Asheville Symphony and Emanuel ax on piano. thomas Wolfe auditorium on Sunday, March 22, at 3 p.m. $28-$93 general/$15-$35 youth. ashevillesymphony.org Find more information and events at ashevillesymphony.org/asheville-amadeus

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Every direction, every time, all the time Former local band SeepeopleS plays an Asheville show

An Asheville resident from 200311, Will Bradford enjoyed being surrounded by the city’s rich artistic community. At the same time, he points to supply-and-demand issues with the local scene — specifically concertgoers with limited funds to support the industry — as playing a role in his eventual exodus.

But behind Bradford’s return to Portland, Maine (where his genre-defying band SeepeopleS moved soon after its late ’90s Boston formation), was a more powerful factor: his 13-year heroin addiction. Since becoming clean and sober, he’s been open

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about his struggles with drugs and his recovery; the latter he feels wouldn’t have been possible without disconnecting from his life in Asheville. “There’s a healthy element to flight, occasionally,” he says. “[My addiction was] something I kept secret for years. [It] started rearing its ugly head and becoming not-so-secret.

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Four years after his departure, Bradford brings the new SeepeopleS to the Asheville Music Hall on Friday, March 13. Rounding out the band are old New England friends Brooke Binion (guitars/ synths/vocals), Frank Hopkins (keyboards) and Tony Margaronis (bass), and more recent comrade Dan Capaldi (drums).

The five-piece is touring in support of SeepeopleS’ new double album The Dead Souls Sessions, out in June on the band’s imprint, RascalZ RecordZ. Bradford wrote and recorded 80-90 percent of the songs toward the end of his Asheville days at his now-demolished Boodog Studios. He amassed over 60 new tracks during that time. Roughly 30 will make it onto the album, with the rest going on a career-spanning box set that Bradford hopes will be ready in time for Christmas.

Though he acknowledges that all of the songs created in that troubled period reflect his mindset, he also believes that sticking with music played a major role in him still being around today.

“It was probably my saving grace.

Living an undisciplined life, luckily I kept a guitar and I kept recording,” Bradford says. “The new album will probably be a little darker because of it.”

Helping The Dead Souls Sessions sound its best is Will Holland, coproducer of each SeepeopleS album, with whom Bradford reconnected after moving back north.

At Holland’s Chillhouse Studios in Boston, the two have been revisiting Bradford’s Boodog sessions. These, Bradford says, can “sometimes sound pretty foreign.” The result is a collection of songs that’s significantly influenced by Bradford’s work with Asheville hip-hop artists, but in keeping with SeepeopleS’ past releases, takes “every direction, every time, all the time.”

“If people prefer certain genres, this will not be for them,” Bradford says. “When you’re trying to make

cReative impuLse: When SeepeopleS’ frontman Will Bradford, center, started writing The Dead Souls Sessions, he did so without any agenda. “It was probably the first time in nine or 10 years that I ever just recorded just for the sake of recording,” he says. Photo by Shannon Thibodeau

money out of your art, we’ve been told many times to try to home in on just one thing, so we’ve always defiantly been like ‘screw that.’ We just like everything.”

Bradford credits his melting pot musical tastes to friends from his youth who made him check out acts that he otherwise wouldn’t have pursued. As a result, he got into numerous seemingly disparate scenes, from the early/mid-’90s electronica movement (he saw The Chemical Brothers on their first U.S. tour) to multiple Grateful Dead shows. Blending those

and other styles into a workable whole is what Bradford considers the essence of SeepeopleS. In the band’s openness to all of the above, he sees a direct kinship with some of his favorite artists.

“Every time a Radiohead record or every time a Flaming Lips record comes out, you just really don’t know what it’s going to be,” Bradford says. “When they get in the studio, they don’t know what it’s going to be. That’s why I love those bands — they just sort of let it be what it’s going to be.” X

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Alejandro Cartagena: Beyond the HOV lane If there’s one image that has commonly symbolized the postwar American dream, it’s probably the small house outside the city with a front yard, a white picket fence and a two-car garage. But what if you lived in that neighborhood and in that house without a car? And, to make matters more difficult, what if there wasn’t a bus, subway or rail system to get you into the city where you worked?

That question is the focus of an ongoing series of photographs by Alejandro Cartagena, a Dominicanborn and Monterrey, Mexicobased artist who will give a lecture discussing his work at the UNC Asheville Humanities Lecture Hall on Tuesday, March 17.

Cartagena’s work examines the warped realities of “suburban” life in his adopted hometown. “It starts with a personal matter,” Cartagena says. “I am not from Mexico, though most of my work is about Mexico, and I am a Mexican citizen now. That really shapes my need to understand where I am.”

Monterrey, the country’s thirdlargest city and the capital of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, is home to more than a

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million people. Another 3 million live in satellite towns and villages in Monterrey’s metropolitan shadow. Most of the jobs, however, exist within the city, forcing many to commute for work.

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the late 2000s with a five-part series called Suburbia Mexicana. The works looked at the environmental, social and geographical impact of nearly half a million government built and/or subsidized cookie-cutter style homes constructed earlier in that decade. One of the more significant problems, as Cartagena illustrated, is the isolation caused by a sparse or completely nonexistent transportation infrastructure. While many residents own their own homes, due to limited resources, few own vehicles and are stranded outside the city. The artist refers to these townships as “Fragmented Cities.”

“Cartagena’s work combines a trained and observant eye with an awareness of common needs, obligations and social constructs,” says cynthia canejo, an associate professor of art history at UNCA and event organizer. “There is also a sense of humor,” she says, which shows up in Cartagena’s repetition of forms and in the way he’s arranged his compositions.

The photographer depicts hundreds of multicolored, under-construction row houses as Legolike pegs pushed into the valleys and jagged hillsides. They’re serene images, often shot at sunset to illuminate the houses against the landscape. They’re also completely devoid of life, giving them an added surreal nature. “All the research I have done has led me deeper and deeper into things I would not have seen otherwise,” he says. “For me, the core issue in my work is the growth of a city, its causes and unintended consequences.”

While Suburbia Mexicana focuses on man’s presence via landscape alteration, Car Poolers, Cartagena’s most recent body of work and the title of his new book, sheds light on the plight of the individual within that fragmented landscape. It also brings new meaning to the high occupancy vehicle lane.

Car Poolers features aerial snapshots of day laborers and construction workers riding in the backs of pickup trucks and flatbeds. Each

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en Route: “Carpoolers #4” by Alejandro Cartagena is one of a series of photographs documenting workers in transit. Image courtesy of the artist

photo was taken from a pedestrian bridge stretched over a highway that runs into and out of Monterrey.

Many of the same vehicles appear over and over, with different passengers. Cartagena’s subjects are mostly men, young and old, alone or with two to four others. They read newspapers, talk and sleep, not unlike urban photography scenes of bus and subway commuters.

Only, these commuters are exposed to

the elements. In a few images the anonymous passengers are huddled under blankets or curled up to stay warm on colder morning. Occasionally, on warmer days, an image captures someone laid out on his back, just staring up at the sky as if dreaming.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information on Cartagena and his work, visit alejandrocartagena.com X

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Tales on Market Street “I wanted to use the arts to bring diverse communities together, so we could share our likenesses instead of our differences,” says Joseph Robinson, organizer of Tales on Market Street. The formerly homeless artist gained inspiration from Haywood Street Congregation’s Story Circle, where he heard underlying similarities in experiences of the “rich, poor, middle-class, black, white, old and young.” He hopes to attract African-American individuals (and those of all backgrounds) back to the historically minority-based Market Street neighborhood with two performances: “Ron Rash is Funny, Too” stars Barbara Bates Smith with musical accompaniment by Jeff Sebens, while “Mark Twain: Tall Tales and Anecdotes” features Marvin Cole.

The show starts at Ray Auditorium in the Young Men’s Institute Cultural Center on Saturday, March 14, at 4 p.m. Donations benefit the YMI. ymiculturalcenter.org.

Photo of Smith, Robinson and Cole, from left to right, by Ann Merritt

Last year marked the china/platinum/ emerald anniversary for local literary publication Asheville Poetry Review. In 1994, editor Keith Flynn had recently moved back to Western North Carolina from New York City, “and I landed right in the middle of this incredible literary and artistic renaissance that was taking place in Asheville.” He spoke with local artists about starting a journal: “I was originally going to call it The Wedge and make it square and pocket-sized.” This is from an essay in Best of Asheville Poetry Review, 20th Anniversary Issue, which is 436 pages long and includes work from over 140 poets. “In the last 20 years, we have published almost 1,700 writers from 22 different countries. Quite a ride,” Flynn tells Xpress. The anniversary edition launches at Malaprop’s on Friday, March 13, at 7 p.m. Flynn and contributors Charlotte Pence, Catherine Carter and Luke Hankins will read at the free event. malaprops.com. Image courtesy of Asheville Poetry Review

The Stars of Jerusalem Garden Downtown restaurant Jerusalem Garden Café boasts a longtime history of combining belly dancing, music and full-service dining — always with an emphasis on improvisation. But instead of simply weaving around busy servers and parties of six, a troupe of Jerusalem Garden’s regular performers will soon have a slew of new objects to maneuver — snakes, scarves, swords and sitars to name a few. Twenty artists, “in combinations ranging from one dancer and one musician to six dancers and more than a dozen musicians,” invoke the colorful sights and sounds of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern culture at a one-night-only gala performance. The Stars of Jerusalem Garden event — which also features small plates and side dishes from the restaurant — takes place at White Horse Black Mountain on Thursday, March 12, at 7 p.m. $10/$12. whitehorseblackmountain.com. Photo of Claire Dima by Mignon Petrini

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The Last Bison “I feel like our previous music was fall and winter music. I wanted [our album VA] to sound more like summer,” says Ben Hardesty, guitarist and frontman for ethereal folk sextet The Last Bison. The multigenerational family band from Virginia — currently touring in support of its 2014 full-length album (pronounced just like the members’ home state) and newly liberated EP Dorado — employs a diverse lineup of instruments as a point of pride. Bells, reed organ, even percussive Bolivian goat toenails accessorize the band’s more predictable folk inputs. Perhaps that combination, in conjunction with the musicians’ reverence toward all things nature, could explain The Last Bison’s transcendence of earthbound roots sounds toward a markedly more dreamlike quality. The indie troupe plays New Mountain Asheville on Thursday, March 12, at 9 p.m. $10/$12. newmountainavl.com. Photo by Leigh Burnette

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Concert, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, One Edwin Place, Asheville. $15 General Admission; $10 Friends of the Blue Ridge Orchestra; $5 Students. • Tickets are also available (cash and checks only) at Soli Classica, 1550 Hendersonville Road, and Musician’s Workshop, 310 Merrimon Avenue, Asheville.

Details and tickets for the Mozart Family Concerts: blueridgeorchestra.org AsHeVille Art museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • TH (3/19),6-8pm - Pianoforte Series: Homages to Mozart, classical piano. $18/$10 members. diAnA wortHAm tHeAtre 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • TU (3/17), 8pm - Brentano String Quartet and violinist Hsin-Yun Huang. $38.

age is but a numbeR: Barbara Bates Smith will portray the late political activist and centenarian Doris “Granny D” Haddock in the one-woman show, Go, Granny D. Haddock gained national attention for her cross-country trek to protest in Washington D.C., which she began at age 88. The play shows at White Horse Black Mountain on Friday, March 13. (p.42)

Art APPAlACHiAn PAstel soCiety appalachianpastelsociety.org • SA (3/14), 10am-noon - General meeting and demonstration. Free. Held at Grace Community Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River Art At unCA art.unca.edu • TU (3/17), 6:30pm - Presentation by Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena.

Held in Humanities Lecture Hall. Free. trAnsylVAniA Community Arts CounCil 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • SU (3/15), 6-8pm - “Try Pottery,” handbuilding workshop for ages 15 and up. $40.

western nC quilters guild westernncquilters.org • FR (3/13), 10am-4pm - Quilt Show: “Mountain Patches.” Free to attend. Held at First Citizens Bank, 539 N. Main St., Hendersonville

Auditions & CAll to Artists AsHeVille tAlent slAm bioflyer.wordpress.com • Through SU (3/15) - Submissions accepted for local performers. $10. Contact for guidelines. musiC Video AsHeVille 515-1081, musicvideoavl.com • Through (3/13) - Musicians and filmmakers may submit videos for consideration in this contest. Contact for guidelines. $15.

musiC AsHeVille AmAdeus finAle ConCert (pd.) Performed by the Asheville Symphony, Sunday, March 22, 2015, 3pm. Featuring Seven-Time Grammy winning pianist Emanuel Ax. Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Tickets: 828254-7046. ashevilleamadeus.com

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HendersonVille Community BAnd hcbmusic.com • SU (3/15), 3pm - Symphonic band music. $10/free for students. Held at Blue Ridge Community College. musiC At mArs Hill 866-642-4968, mhc.edu • TH (3/12), 7:30pm - Faculty and guest artists percussion concert. Held in Moore Auditorium. Free. musiC At unCA 251-6432, unca.edu • FR (3/13), 3pm - Opera Talks: a behindthe-scenes tour of the operatic world. In the Reuter Center. Free.

• WE (3/18), 10am & 2pm- “Meeting Mozart: His Life and Music,” lecture and performance.

Reuter Center. Free.

• TH (3/19), 7pm - Performance from Heartbeat, international youth ensemble. Held in Lipinsky Auditorium. $22/$13 campus community/$8 area students/free for UNCA students. trinity united metHodist CHurCH 587 Haywood Road, 253-5471 • SU (3/15), 3pm - Organ concert. Donations support upkeep of church organ. unity Center 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River, 891-8700 • SU (3/15), 1:30pm - Carolina Ceili, Celtic music and step dancers. $12-$15.

35Below 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre. org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (3/22) Tape. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $15.

Blue ridge orCHestrA • MOZART FAMILY CONCERT (pd.) Saturday, March 21, 2015, 11am and 2pm. • Asheville Amadeus: Mozart Family

AsHeVille Community tHeAtre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre. org • WEDNESDAYS (3/11) through SUNDAYS

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AsHeVille lyriC oPerA • TU (3/17), 10am & WE (3/18), 7pm & 8:30pm - The Impresario, chamber opera. $20. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St. AsHeVille PlAyBACk tHeAtre 273-0995, ashevilleplayback.org • FR (3/13), 8pm - Improvised theatre based on audience stories. $10/$5 youth. Held at Jubilee Community Church, 46 Wall St. diAnA wortHAm tHeAtre 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • SA (3/14), 2pm & 8pm - Peking Acrobats. $35/$30 students/$15 children. flAt roCk PlAyHouse downtown 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (3/13) until (3/29) - The Wizard of Oz - Young Performers Edition. Fri.: 7pm; Sat.: 2pm & 7pm; Sun.: 2pm. $18/$10 students. montford PArk PlAyers 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • TH (3/12), 7:30pm - Private Lives.

Admission by donation. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (3/13) through (3/28), 7:30pm - Private Lives. $17.69. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway • SUNDAYS (3/15) until (3/29), 2:30pm - Private Lives. $17.69. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway wHite Horse BlACk mountAin 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain, 669-0816 • FR (3/13), 8pm - Go, Granny D. $12/$10 advance.

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AltAmont Brewing ComPAny 1042 Haywood Road, 575-2400 • Through FR (3/13) - Proceeds from art sales benefit Open Hearts of Asheville’s programs for differently abled adults.

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

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AyC’s BirtHdAy PArty witH wAH! (pd.) It’s AYC’s 18th Birthday Party and Wah! will be performing live at our studio! Wah! is a well-know Kirtan singer. More on her here: http://www.wahmusic.com/.

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first BAPtist CHurCH of AsHeVille 5 Oak St., 252-4781, fbca.net • TH (3/19), 7:30pm - “Mozart March Madness,” vocal concert by UNCA University Singers, Asheville Singers and Reuter Center Singers. Free.

(3/22) - Amadeus. Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $32-$35.

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

Art At unCA art.unca.edu • Through MO (3/30) - Works by Members of the Fiber Arts Alliance. In Ramsey Library.

• Through TU (3/24) - Three Makers Exhibition, sculpture. Held in S. Tucker Cooke Gallery.

Art At wCu 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu Held in the Bardo Fine Arts Center unless otherwise noted.

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

• Through MO (3/23) - 2015 Jackson County Youth Art Month. Artists’ reception: March 22, 1-3pm.

Art in tHe AirPort 61 Terminal Drive, Fletcher • Through SU (6/7) - Locality, works by WNC artists.

Arts CounCil of Henderson County 693-8504, acofhc.org • Through FR (3/20) - Art Teachers Create.

Held at First Citizens Bank, 539 N. Main St., Hendersonville AsHeVille AreA Arts CounCil 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SA (3/14) - Whee Fresh, student works from Western Carolina University’s Master of Fine Arts program.

AsHeVille Art museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (4/12) - Go Figure: Faces and Forms, works celebrating the human figure.

• FR (3/13) through SU (7/12) - Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum. Opening reception: March 13, 5:30-7pm.

AsHeVille gAllery of Art 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through TU (3/31) - Reflections: Interiors/Landscapes/Cityscapes, oil paintings by Cheryl Keefer. groVewood gAllery 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • Through SU (5/10) - The Birds and the Bees, themed works. red House studios And gAllery 310 W. State St., Black Mountain, 699-0351, svfalarts.org • Through TU (3/31) - Black, White and Red, works by Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League members. seVen sisters gAllery 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-5107, sevensistersgallery.com • Through SU (5/10) - Betsy Alexander, oil paintings. tHe JunCtion 348 Depot St., 225-3497, thejunctionasheville.com • Through SA (3/14) - Natura Perfectus, mixed media by Sheri Howe. trAnsylVAniA Community Arts CounCil 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through (3/27) - Of the Earth: An organic exhibition, mulitmedia.

Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees.

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C L U B L A N D Lex 18 Bob Strain (jazz ballads), 7pm

Wednesday, March 11

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

5 Walnut Wine Bar Wine Tasting w/ Ryan Oslance Duo (jazz), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin jazz), 8pm

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

Altamont Theatre Free Form Ecstatic Dance w/Live Music, 7pm The DuPont Brothers (Americana, folk), 10pm Ben’s Tune-Up Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm

New Mountain Bridge Over Asheville (variety show of local artists), 9pm The Last Bison w/ Cereus Bright (folk, indie), 9pm

Black Mountain Ale House Gyspy Jazz Band, 7:30pm

O.Henry’s/The Underground Gayme Night w/ Xandrea Foxx, 9pm

Blue Kudzu Sake Company Bill Gerhardt’s Trio South (jazz), 6pm

Odditorium Elvis Depressedly w/ Alex G (metal), 9pm Teen Death w/ Go Deep & Weak Wrists (punk, rock), 9pm

Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Open Mic, 7pm Double Crown Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm Foggy Mountain Brewpub Trivia, 8pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern Cymbals Eat Guitars w/ Slothrust (rock), 9pm Grind Cafe Trivia night, 7pm Highland Brewing Company Woody Wood Wednesdays (acoustic rock), 5:30pm

Off the Wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

Brooklyn Babes: Combining ’60s surf-jams and ’90s grunge, “BOYTOY is the love child of three dinguses from the same stardust,” the band writes on its Facebook. “Made up of two guitars, drums and infectious melodies, Saara, Glenn and Matt craft catchy, fuzzed out, rock ’n’ roll nuggets that invoke dreams of summertime all year round.” BOYTOY performs at downtown Asheville’s The Lazy Diamond on Friday, March 13, at 10 p.m.

New Mountain The Social Four On The Floor w/Jackson Scott, Steve Moseley, 6pm Wing Dam & Doomster (rock, punk), Karaoke, 9:30pm 9pm The Southern Noble Kava Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm Tiger Mountain O.Henry’s/The Underground Sean Dail (classic punk, power-pop, “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm rock), 10pm

Black Mountain Ale House Contagious (rock), 8pm

Odditorium Unconscious Collective w/ Bludded Head (metal), 9pm

Timo’s House Spectrum AVL w/ Dam Good (dance party), 9pm

Catawba Brewing Tasting Room Old time jam, 7pm

Off the Wagon Piano show, 9pm

Town Pump Open mic w/ Parker Brooks, 9pm

Lobster Trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

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

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

Club Eleven on Grove Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 6:30pm Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm Screech Owl Serenade, 8:30pm

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

One Stop Deli & Bar Capsula w/ Alias For Now & Severance (rock), 10pm

Vincenzo’s Bistro Lenny Petenelli (high-energy piano), 7pm

Mountain Mojo Coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm

One World Brewing White Horse Black Brews & Beats w/ DJ Whistleblower, Mountain 8:30pm Wednesday Waltz, 7pm

Iron Horse Station Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter), 6pm Isis Restaurant and Music Hall The Moon & You & Friends (Americana, cello-folk), 7pm Ultrafaux w/ The Page Brothers & Jay Brown (gypsy-jazz), 8:30pm Jack of the Wood Pub Old-time session, 5pm Lazy Diamond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm Lex 18 Patrick Lopez (Latin jazz piano), 7pm

Pour Taproom Karaoke, 8pm To qualify for a free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to the performing arts. Bookstores and cafés with regular open mics and musical events are also allowed / To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue / Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Hayley Benton at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801. Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland / Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed / The Clubland Editor reserves the right to edit or exclude events or venues / Deadline is by noon on Monday for that Wednesday’s publication. This is a firm deadline.

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Rejavanation Cafe Open mic night, 6pm Room IX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm Root Bar No. 1 DJ Ken Brandenburg (old school, funk), 9pm Straightaway Cafe Gary Segal (Americana, blues, rock), 6pm TallGary’s at Four College Open mic & jam, 7pm The Joint Next Door Bluegrass jam, 8pm

Wild Wing Cafe South Karaoke, 9pm

Thursday, March 12 185 King Street Curtis Eller’s American Circus (rock ’n’ roll), 8pm 5 Walnut Wine Bar Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz exotica), 8pm

The Phoenix Jazz night, 8pm

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Barley’s Taproom AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm

One Stop Deli & Bar Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Darkwater Rising (rock, soul), 10pm One World Brewing Sarah Tucker (acoustic), 8pm Orange Peel ODESZA w/ Little People & Big Wild (electronic) [SOLD OUT], 9pm

Blue Kudzu Sake Company Trivia night, 8pm

Oskar Blues Brewery Chris Smith (acoustic, Americana, country, rock, singer-songwriter), 6pm

Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Paul Cataldo (Americana, folk, roots), 7pm

Pisgah Brewing Company The Screaming J’s (honky-tonk, hot jazz, ragtime), 6pm

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

Purple Onion Cafe Asheville Art Trio, 7:30pm Renaissance Asheville Hotel Carver & Carmody (country, blues, rock), 6:30pm Room IX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm Scandals Nightclub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm Scully’s “Geeks Who Drink” Trivia, 7pm

Dugout Matt Jackson (acoustic), 8pm

Southern Appalachian Brewery Damian LeMaster & LeMaster Plan (folk, indie, singer-songwriter), 7pm

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

TallGary’s at Four College Iggy Radio, 7pm

Foggy Mountain Brewpub Songwriter’s open mic night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm

The Mothlight Moon Duo w/ Kevin Morby & Ryley Walker (psychedelic), 9pm

French Broad Brewery The Greenliners Duo (folk, bluegrass), 6pm

The Phoenix Ellen Trnka (singer-songwriter), 8pm

Good Stuff Moonshine District (traditional, mountain), 8pm Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas (jazz, rockabilly, pop), 8pm

Altamont Brewing Company Sans Abri (alt-roots, indie-folk), 9pm Isis Restaurant and Music Hall Altamont Theatre CD Release: Liz Longley & Nickki Claude Stuart (comedy), 8pm Talley (singer-songwriter), 8:10pm

Asheville Music Hall The Mothlight Odesza afterparty w/ Chancha Via Ava Mendoza’s Unnatural Ways w/ Mount Mitchell (rock, jazz, blues), 9pm Circuito (DJ), 11pm

Olive or Twist Cha cha lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 7:30pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm

Jack of the Wood Pub Bluegrass jam, 7pm Lazy Diamond The Replacement Party w/ Dr. Filth, 10pm

The Social Rory Kelly Band (rock), 9pm The Southern Throwdown Thursday w/ Jim Raves & Nex Millen (DJ, dance party), 10pm Timo’s House ’90s Nite w/ Franco Nino (’90s dance, hiphop, pop), 10pm Odesza Afterparty w/ Bombassic (electronic), 10pm Town Pump Brooks Dixon (singer-songwriter), 9pm Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm Urban Orchard Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm

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THURS • MARCH 12 FLIGHTS & BITES W/ POPPY HANDCRAFTED POPCORN

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COMING SOON Wed 3/11 7:00 PM–THE MOON AND YOU WITH TINA AND HER PONY

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TUES• MARCH 17 ST. PATRICKS DAY

FEAT. JAY BROWN: ORIGINAL GYPSY JAZZ

THURS 3/12 8:10 PM–LIZ LONGLEY & NIKKI TALLEY: A DUAL CD RELEASE WITH ANTHONY D’AMATO

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FRI 3/13 8:30 PM–THE SNYDER FAMILY CD RELEASE

SAT 3/14 9:00 PM –THE JUAN BENEVIDES GROUP WITH WHITNEY MOORE

FRI 3/20 7:00 PM–AN EVENING WITH CAROMIA 9:00 PM–AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH

SHANNON WHITWORTH & BARRETT SMITH SAT 3/21

9:00 PM–DEL & DAWG: DEL MCCOURY AND DAVID GRISMAN

THURS 3/26 7:15 PM–AN EVENING WITH

EVIE LADIN & KEITH TERRY FRI 3/27 9:00 PM–BLUE HIGHWAY

SAT 3/28 11:00 AM–SATURDAY CLASSICAL BRUNCH:: AMICIMUSIC PRESENTS “WIND DANCES” 8:30 PM–JEFFREY BROUSSARD AND THE CREOLE COWBOYS Every Tuesday 7:30pm–midnite

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS

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JAZZ SHOWCASE

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THURSDAY

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THEATRE THE LAST BISON AND CEREBUS

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CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO W/ SELECTOR AZ IZ

BRAZILIAN SAMBA ELECTRONIC FUSION

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PHUNCLE SAM GRATEFUL DEAD COVER BAND

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10/26 (DONATIONS ENCOURAGED) Jazz 10/26 Firecracker Firecracker Jazz Band Band

SECRET STUFF, ONJ. HEAVY HEARTED, BEAR PROGRESSIVE ROCK

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ROAD TO SXSW- TIGERMAN WHOA THESE WILD PLAINS, THE DIRTY BANGS PROGRESSIVE ROCK

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& Johnny Irion &ULTIMATE Johnny Irion THE ALLMAN BROTHER BAND TRIBUTE w/ Battlefield •• 9pm w/ Battlefield 9pm $10 $10 3/15 SIX TIME LOSER 9 P.M. FREE

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Open Open Mon-Thurs Mon-Thurs at at 33 •• Fri-Sun Fri-Sun at at Noon Noon SUN SUN Celtic Celtic Irish Irish Session Session 5pm 5pm til til ??

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7-9p • WED Old-Time MON Quizzo! 7-9p • WED Old-Time 5pm 5pm SINGER SINGER SONGWRITERS SONGWRITERS 1st 1st & & 3rd 3rd TUES TUES THURS Bluegrass Jam 7pm THURS Bluegrass Jam 7pm

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wXyz lounge At Aloft Hotel Grits & Soul (bluegrass, soul), 7:30pm

fridAy, mArCH 13 185 king street Nikki Talley (Americana, folk), 8pm 5 wAlnut wine BAr Goldie & The Screamers (soul), 9pm AltAmont Brewing ComPAny Gross Point Blank w/Grits & Soul (rock, bluegrass), 9:30pm

iron Horse stAtion Ben Wilson (Americana), 7pm isis restAurAnt And musiC HAll CD Release: The Snyder Family (roots), 8:30pm JACk of tHe wood PuB The Floorboards (country, rock), 9pm JerusAlem gArden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lAzy diAmond BoyToy (’60s surf-jams, ’90s grunge-rock), 9pm leX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens (jazz), 8:30pm DJ Cosmo Q (fusion-swing, dance party), 11pm

tAllgAry’s At four College Andy Buckner (country, Southern rock), 9:30pm tHe AdmirAl Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm tHe motHligHt And The Kids w/Morbids, Minorcan & Low Index (indie, glitter, pop), 9pm tHe PHoeniX Nitrograss (bluegrass), 8pm tHe soCiAl Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm tiger mountAin Soul dance party w/ Cliff, 10pm timo’s House Ruger Pride (trap, hip-hop, dance), 10pm

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tHE stoRy: A lone female vampire prowls the nearly deserted streets of Bad City, Iran. tHE LoWdoWn: Fascinating, moody, deliberately paced, often compelling — and very odd — take on the vampire genre mixed with the art film. It’s also flawed in some serious ways, but on balance, it’s certainly worth a look. It’s also your only chance to see a chadorclad vampire on a skateboard.

Where to begin? Well, it bills itself as the “first Iranian Vampire Western,” which is certainly odd enough, but there’s a catch — actually, there are several catches. First of all, it’s not really much of a Western. Then, while A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night — the debut feature of British-born IranianAmerican Ana Lily Amirpour — is in Persian (with subtitles) and takes place in the fictitious Bad City, Iran, it’s actually a U.S. film with Taft, Calif., standing in for Bad City. There’s more.

Bad City is depicted as existing in some kind of isolated realm and in a very dislocated time. If there is a world outside of Bad City, it’s as ephemeral — and probably as inaccessible — as whatever exists beyond the town in Michele Soavi’s Cemetery Man (1994). What we see consists of largely deserted urban streets, equally empty suburbs, an

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oil refinery — and a never-explained ravine piled with corpses. The only car we see in the entire film is one of those first-generation (the ones with the porthole window) Thunderbirds.

It and the endless proliferation of small pumpjack oil derricks — commonly seen in 1950s California-set scifi horror movies — give the movie a distinctly retro vibe. At the same time, drug-dealing villain Saeed (Dominic Rains) is of the modern world, and people do have cellphones.

Stylistically, it’s a mongrel. It resembles everyhing from 1950s horror to the French New Wave to early Jim Jarmusch — and all points in between. Supposedly, the whole idea came to Amirpour when she was wearing a chador and decided it made her look like a bat. That certainly is expressed by the film’s nameless vampire (Sheila Vand) — an inky figure who prowls the streets of Bad City (sometimes on a skateboard she appropriates from Milad Eghbali’s Street Urchin) as much for ferreting out and punishing evil as in search for food. She is an observer. She’s also not quite the figure she represents — underneath the chador she has short hair and wears

a striped shirt, resembling an Eastern version of Jean Seberg in Godard’s Breathless (1960). For that matter, the young man she maybe falls in love with (Arash Marandi) is like a cross between Jean-Paul Belmondo in that film and James Dean — Iranian style.

You will note, I imagine, that I haven’t mentioned a plot. There is one — involving a drug dealer, the vampire, the young man, the street urchin, the young man’s drug-addict father, an aging prostitute and a cat — but the film is only marginally interested in it. This is more about the feelings that the film’s images evoke — and that probably sounds more boring than it is. That’s not to say that the film is fast-paced. It isn’t.

It’s in no hurry, and it doesn’t balk at stopping for sequences that have little to do with advancing the plot.

This, of course, has been catnip to the bulk of the critical populace. But if you’re in search of horror action, this probably isn’t for you. While there are a few outright horror scenes, the mood is more one of dread — both specific and nonspecific.

Am I calling A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night a great movie? No. After two viewings (I liked it more

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the second time), I still find it overpraised. People — by which I mean critics — seem to lose all sense of perspective when a movie is in black and white. I’d say that about 25 percent of it is actually visually striking. The rest is just in black and white. There’s too much hand-held camerawork in the film’s opening scenes. For some reason, this settles down before too long.

Some scenes are uneven. Others just go on too long. A few are merely awkwardly jammed in to advance the story. It’s often at its best when it’s off on a moody tangent. But it has something and is well worth seeing, especially if you’re a horror fan or a fan of art cinema. Not Rated, but contains scenes of horror violence, adult themes and drug use.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas reviewed by Ken Hanke

Chappie HHS DIRECTOR: Neill Blomkamp PLAYERS: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver SCI-FI ROBOT ACTION RATED R The Story: An experimental robot that can think falls into the hands of some low-rent gangsters.

The Lowdown: No, it’s not the outright abomination some are claiming, but Neill Blomkamp’s latest is still a noisy, ugly, barely coherent mess.

While Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie is not a good movie by any measure I would use, neither is it the abomination it has been painted as. It’s noisy, bloated, confused, derivative, singularly lacking in point and occasionally obnoxious.

But at worst, it’s just a forgettable mediocrity — not some kind of crime against humanity. When I say it’s lacking in point, I don’t mean that I begrudge it not really being about something (though I suspect Blomkamp thinks this is). It is not necessary that a movie have some lofty message or

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explore deep themes to be good — sometimes even great. The point I’m missing here is another one. I spent most of the film wondering, “Why are you telling me this?” The story didn’t strike me as compelling — or even all that interesting.

However you dress up the movie, it really is a clunky mashup of Short Circuit (1986) and RoboCop (1987) — with large dollops of Mr. Dickens’ Oliver Twist thrown in. (Consider that our orphaned robot falls in with criminals and is trained to be a thief — and there’s more.) Oh, sure, it has more violent action scenes than its models, but to deny their presence is pretty hopeless. This is not to say that Blomkamp doesn’t add some things to this mix, but the question arises as to whether these additions are good ideas. Offhand, I’d say no.

We may fairly conclude that Blomkamp is a fan of the South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord — and he is determined to share that enthusiasm with us. As a result, he has cast the group’s frontman, Ninja, as the more-or-less main bad guy — named, uh, Ninja, a kind of cross between Dickens’ Fagin and Bill Sikes. Then we have Die Antwoord’s Yo-Landi Vi$$er as Ninja’s girlfriend, Yolandi (invention is not the movie’s strong suit), who functions as Nancy, the confederate of Fagin and Sikes’ lover, whose maternal instincts are aroused by Oliver. (Of course, here Oliver is Chappie the robot.) If you don’t know Die Antwoord, you will have a pretty good handle on them by the end of the film. Not only are Ninja and Vi$$er in the film, but they wear shirts advertising the group, have a Vi$$er doll and their music blares on the soundtrack. It’s like some weird built-in Die Antwoord promotional gambit. You will leave knowing who they are, but you may not feel enriched by this knowledge or be happy about it.

The plot is at once convoluted and simplistic to the point of sinking spells of stupidity. Almost nothing seems thought through.

We’re supposed to believe that Deon (Dev Patel in a barely written role) came up with the robot cops on which an entire corporation is based but is assigned to a cubicle where evil and jealous Vincent Moore (Hugh Jackman

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Similarly mysterious is how he was allowed to build his warfare-class robot, the Moose (a knock-off of RoboCop’s ED-209) — not to mention how no one thinks anything of Moore threatening Deon with a gun in an office full of co-workers. I suppose they’re just used to the fact that Moore is a bitter, unhinged fascist with some kind of weird religious scruples.

Mostly, of course, the movie is about Chappie (voiced by Blomkamp stalwart Sharlto Copley), the sentient robot of Deon’s dreams.

Technically, Chappie is a marvel. I will not dispute this for a moment.

I believed he was real and present in every frame, despite being a thing created from CGI and some motion-capture of Copley. He’s also whiny, grating and strangely unable to process ideas or English. We are supposed to be all kinds of sympathetic about him — and maybe you will be. I never cared about him in the least. He occasionally raises quasi-existential questions like, “Why did you make me so I would die?” But these — like all of the film’s other deep-dish ideas — go nowhere. Mostly, I found him annoying. When he beats the crap out a bad guy and gives him a talking to, I kept waiting for him for him to go full Shirley Temple and say, “I think you’re very, very mean!”

The bulk of the movie seems to exist for extremely violent action scenes in which much blood is shed and “stuff blows up neat.”

I suppose these are handled with reasonable efficiency — if you care for this sort of thing. All in all, Blomkamp seems to be a victim of the inevitable (it seems) headlong rush to proclaim directors as “visionaries” far too early in their careers. District 9 (2009) at least flirted with greatness, but pinning that visionary label on the man both gave him too much freedom and put too much pressure on him to produce something “visionary” again, and so far that hasn’t really happened. And with Chappie he seems ever further from it. Rated R for violence, language and brief nudity.

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

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel HHHH DIRECTOR: John Madden (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) PLAYERS: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Ronald Pickup, Celia Imrie, Richard Gere, David Strathairn COMEDY-DRAMA RATED PG THE STORY: Further events with the residents and operators of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

THE LOWDOWN: It’s not up to the original and probably doesn’t need to exist at all, but this follow-up is certainly a fine way to spend a couple of hours with our old friends from the first movie.

Truthfully, there isn’t any real reason — apart from indulging the fans of the original — for the existence of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. The 2011 film was fine by itself and needed no further elaboration.

But the sequel is a reasonably ingratiating visit with old friends — at least those left standing at the end of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — and I wouldn’t dream of telling the packed house I saw it with that it was in any way superfluous. It’s rather heartening — especially at my age — just to see a film built around 60- and 70-plus-year-old characters where they aren’t firing heavy artillery and blowing things up. (I will admit that the prospect of seeing Bill Nighy fire a rocket launcher does have some passing appeal, but that would be a different movie altogether.)

The only serious drawback to this new film is that it has nothing that dramatically carries the weight of Tom Wilkinson’s lost love, Maggie Smith getting past her racism and finding meaning to her life or Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton discovering they don’t belong together, etc. in the first film. In their place, the best that returning writer Ol Parker and director John Madden can find is to create a series of often contrived and very variable minor hurdles to be cleared.

So instead of the organic flow of the original (which may have had much to do with Deborah Moggach’s source novel These Foolish Things), we get a

movie that moves in fits and starts.

This is less troublesome in itself than the film’s tendency to feel overstuffed with incident — some of it well ... inessential.

Theoretically, the major plot here involves Sonny (Dev Patel) trying to land a deal to expand his business by adding another hotel to his retirement-hotel holdings — all the while dealing with his impending marriage to Sunaina (Tina Desai).

Of course, since Sonny is better with the broad picture — the very broad picture — the details are more or less handed over to Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith), whose business acumen saved the hotel in the original. Not inspired perhaps, but certainly workable. Also workable is the rather silly business of Sonny trying to please the incognito hotel inspector sent to OK or nix the expansion deal. Of course, the fact that the person is incognito makes this a guessing game. Mirth of the mistaken identity kind ensues.

Still, it’s all a good enough spine for the film — or would have been if every single character wasn’t given some kind of mini-crisis to clutter things up. That said, the film’s unfailingly pleasant tone and that cast overcome much — including the idea that possible hotel inspector Guy Chambers (Richard Gere) is so hot that his presence has Sonny claim to be questioning his own sexuality. (I have nothing against Gere, but really ...) The worst of the film’s ideas is a dumb jealousy plot involving Sonny thinking that Sunaina is besotted with his smarmy “best friend” (Shazad Latif). Most of the film’s transgressions are minor when all is said and done. Yes, every single surprise is pretty transparent, but I’m not sure this is a movie you come to for surprises.

The question now, I suppose, is will this spawn a third movie?

It very easily could, yes. The dialogue even suggests that possibility.

However, unless the third film manages to wiggle out of a plot development — one that has been very deliberately built up over the course of the film — in this one, the filmmakers may have shot themselves in the foot on this score. I can’t say more without saying too much, but it signals a change I doubt the series could survive. Rated PG for some language and suggestive comments.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Fine Arts Theatre, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Ken Hanke

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DiREctoR: Ken Scott (Delivery Man) PLaYERS: Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco, Sienna Miller, Nick Frost RauncHY comEDY RatED R tHE StoRY: A businessman and his two inept partners travel the world trying to seal one huge deal before their company turns to ruin. tHE LoWDoWn: Incredibly maudlin, overtly unfunny R-rated comedy with an aimless, unsatisfying plot and zero likable characters.

There’s a trailer for David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch (1991) that William S. Burroughs himself narrates, discussing — in his signature monotone — how “Hollywood, in its infinite wisdom,” decided to make his book into a film. I often hear Burroughs’ voice in my head saying those exact words when I watch something like Ken Scott’s Unfinished Business.

Of course, the reasons for Burroughs’ lament is different for Naked Lunch, a nonlinear, anti-establishment novel about drug abuse, orgies and Mugwump jism, amongst other things. In the case of Unfinished Business, we’re really only talking about yet another Vince Vaughn comedy, one so uninspired I’d rather sit here and talk about a nearly quartercentury-old movie trailer than anything Scott’s movie threw up on film.

The movie is one of those family-style treatises on the dangers of being an overworked dad, with Vaughn playing Dan, our protagonist dad, but with poorly constructed sex jokes. Dan doesn’t spend nearly enough time with his bullied son (Britton Sear) and bullying daughter (Ella Anderson) because he’s desperately trying to get a handshake on the big business deal that will keep his company from shutting down. This might not be as big of a problem if his only employees weren’t a horned-up old codger (Tom Wilkinson) and a slow, incredibly grating weirdo (Dave Franco). But since they are, Dan and his crew are forced to fly from St. Louis to Portland to Berlin, all in an attempt to secure a deal that looks less and less likely of happening.

What this does is send our trio on a trip through a series of comedic set pieces, like the guys going to a German gay

StaRtinG FRiDaY sex club and ending up in a room full of glory holes, or Dan wearing women’s workout clothes and being mocked for it. All the while, there’s 90 minutes of Vince Vaughn’s fasttalking wisecracks, like this is still a healthy conceit to build a comedy around. If only we’d known this is what we’d all get for liking Swingers 20 years ago.

There’s a tendency for the film to go for hokey sentimentalism — with all of Dan’s family issues (which are eventually dropped and forgotten about) and his symbolic pursuit of running a marathon, which he finally does in dress shoes and without breaking a sweat after spending the night on a park bench. It’s a movie searching for an emotional resonance it certainly doesn’t deserve, never wanting to put in the work for one. Instead, the great, uplifting, cathartic climax just kind of comes and goes before mercifully putting the movie out of its misery. That the movie eventual has an ending is about its only highlight. Rated R for some strong risqué sexual content/graphic nudity, language and drug use.

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

Cinderella Undoubtedly this week’s big deal in terms of box office is Kenneth Branagh’s live-action take on Cinderella from Disney.

Casting Cate Blanchett as the wicked stepmother and Helena Bonham Carter as the fairy godmother is sure to help. Early reviews are surprisingly positive, and the trailer is certainly lavish — if too awash in the current mania of making everything orange and blue. (PG)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

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Film at UNCa 251-6585, unca.edu • TU (3/17), 7-9pm - Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation. Discussion with the filmmaker follows. Held in Karpen Hall’s Laural Forum. Free.

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Run All Night No reviews at all have shown up for this latest Liam Neeson action vehicle. No surprise there. The blurb tells us — “Liam Neeson reunites with Unknown director Jaume Collet-Serra for this Warner Bros. thriller following a mob hit-man and his estranged son (Joel Kinnaman) as they flee the wrath of a vengeful crime boss.” Ed Harris got pulled into this one, too.

Can it really run 114 minutes as is being reported? Ye gods. (R)

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Looking to submit a video, watch a film, cheer on a local videographer or get involved in the WNC film scene? Check out these upcoming opportunities: • The deadline to submit to this year's Music Video Asheville contest is Friday, March 13. To enter a music video, at least one member of band or production team must live within 60 miles of Asheville, and the film must be less than 10 minutes in length. Prizes are awarded for crowd favorite, best soundtrack, judge's choice, best costume design, best cinematography, best visual design and best editing. The awards ceremony takes place at Diana Wortham Theatre on Wednesday, April 29. Full details and entry form at musicvideoavl.com • UNC Asheville’s F-Word Film Festival returns on Tuesday, March 17. The featured filmmaker is Jennifer Lee, an ambassador for the Global Media Monitoring Project. Her film, Feminist: Stories from Women’s Liberation, screens at 7 p.m. in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum.

The film "features 35 diverse interviewees, including activists and well-known feminists such as Betty Friedan, Frances M. Beale, Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan. Both the screening and Lee's lecture, "The Women's Liberation Movement and American Cultural Memory," are free and open to the public. news.unca.edu/articles/feminist-stories-film • Western Carolina University's English Department announces two screenings of The World Made Straight, the feature film made in Western North Carolina, directed by David Burris and based on the novel of the same name by Ron Rash. The screenings, held at 3 and 7 p.m. on Monday, March 23, will be the WNC premiere of the film. The 3 p.m. event is followed by a panel discussion with Burris and Rash from 5-6 p.m.; both screenings are held in the University Center Theater. Tickets are $10 general/$5 WCU faculty and staff. Proceeds support student professional development and travel. Info at 227-7264. wcu.edu • The WNC Film Society and Grace Centre of Mills River are co-sponsoring a Short Film Challenge. Submissions must be eight minutes or less. The deadline is Sunday, March 29.

The entry fee is $10; proceeds benefit Asheville-area charities. Jurors include film director Tom Anton, actor Greg Kinnear and film editor Blair Daily. The top 10 films will be screened at an awards event at Grace Centre on Saturday, May 2, 7 p.m. graceinfo.org/film • Cullowhee-based teen filmmaker Anne Wade was named the winner of the National Coalition Against Censorship's 11th annual Youth Free Expression Project Film Contest.

Competitors were asked "to explore censorship issues of the past, present and future," according to a press release. Wade's black-and-white short film, Don't Let Them Take Your Voice, deals with censorship in schools. It will be shown, along with all of the semifinalists' videos, on the NCAC website (ncac.org/about-us/coalition) and during a free screening in New York City on Saturday, March 21. View the film at youtu.be/_3YhjXVsvro.

• Asheville native Chris Chalk, who performed in 12 Years a Slave and appears as journalist Gary Cooper on the HBO series “The Newsroom,” just announced that he will be joining the cast of the DC Comics-based drama Gotham. Chalk will portray the young Lucius Fox. X

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The Third Man HHHHH Director: Carol Reed Players: Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee SUSPENSE THRILLER Rated NR In Brief: Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949) is about as close to a perfect film as you’re likely to get. It’s that rarest of movies in that it’s a filmmaker favorite (I’ve yet to meet the director who didn’t treasure it), a film buff’s delight and immediately accessible to the more casual moviegoer all at once. Why? Because it works on so many levels simultaneously and is positively breathless in its flow.

From the very first scenes, The Third Man never really lets up. Director Reed’s voice-over about postwar Vienna and the start of the story of Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) is delivered at almost breakneck speed. It hardly even matters that the film’s mystery isn’t much of a mystery (assuming you know who Orson Welles plays). The story is always fascinating and the dialogue first-rate throughout, all delivered by a perfect cast in amazing settings, and all framed by Reed in such a manner that there’s not an uninteresting composition in the entire film. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present The Third Man Friday, March 13, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

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Harvey HHHH Director: Henry Koster (First Love) Players: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway WHIMISICAL COMEDY Rated NR In Brief: Mary Chase’s play Harvey won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for drama, which speaks volumes about the value of a Pulitzer Prize. It is whimsy in its most virulent form — you know, the kind where we are told that crazy people are saner, nicer and better than the rest of us. The formula is — and has always been — a popular one, and, of course, so was the play and this film version of it. Truthfully, despite a physically miscast star (the idea that James Stewart has to crane his neck to talk to a six-foot-three-and-one-half-inch rabbit doesn’t work), the 1950 film is a solid version of the play. How you’ll feel about it depends on your fondness for this particular brand of whimsy. The story concerns Elwood P. Dowd, a genial alcoholic with the delusion that he has this invisible giant rabbit friend. (The concept is one where the viewer is supposed to increasingly accept the reality of this big bunny.) It just so happens that he also owns the family estate and controls the money, so his sister (Josephine Hull) wants to have him put away or cured. Will whimsy win out? The Hendersonville Film Society will show Harvey Sunday, March 15, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Suspiria HHHH Director: Dario Argento Players: Jessica Harper, Joan Bennett, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Barbara Magnolfi, Udo Kier HORROR Rated NR In Brief: People have been asking for this for years — and here it is. I’m in the hit-or-miss column with Argento. I like his early thrillers, and I’m amused by Phenomena and Opera, but I have issues with a lot of his work, including Suspiria. It’s the only Argento film I saw on its original release in a theater. I saw it because the trailer looked spectacular — and there’s no denying that the film is indeed spectacular to look at. But the story about creepy, murderous doings at a dance school is a bit of a mess — even by Argento’s standards (a great dramatist he is not).

I think my biggest problem is that it lacks much of a payoff at the end. In fact, things are taken care of with absurd ease and in a very abrupt manner. I can handle the movie’s socalled “dream logic,” which mostly just means it doesn’t have to make sense. (Don’t worry, it doesn’t really try to.) I guess I have mellowed to it, though, because I liked it much better this time. Maybe I’ve just gotten used to it. Or maybe I was content to just get off on the amazing look of the thing — it’s art directed and photographed to within an inch of its life.

On the one hand, it’s just pure Argento, but, on the other, even for Argento, there’s nothing quite like it. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Suspiria Thursday, March 12, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

The Sun Shines Bright HHHHH Director: John Ford Players: Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell, Stepin Fetchit, Russell Simpson, Ludwig Stössel, Dorothy Jordan DRAMA WITH COMEDIC ELEMENTS Rated NR In Brief: By his own admission, The Sun Shines Bright was John Ford’s favorite of his films. While I’m always a little skeptical of artists judging their own work — and how long they may or may not have felt that way — I’m inclined to accept his word in this case. The film is so much like a distillation of his work — sentimental, nostalgic for a world he never knew and which never really existed, progressive-minded and a little reactionary at the same time, innately sad for the passing of an era, deeply humane, and, yes, with a dash of utterly arbitrary beefcake. The film is a continuation/variation on his 1934 Judge Priest, crafted from three of Irvin S. Cobb’s Judge Priest short stories. It is by no means a sequel, and I believe the only actor from the old film is Stepin Fetchit reprising his role of Jeff Poindexter.

Judge Priest is now played by Charles Winninger (probably best know as Captain Andy in the 1936 James Whale Show Boat). Winninger lacks Will Rogers’ natural charisma, and he clearly seems more Stepin Fetchit’s boss where Rogers was equal measure boss and friend.

Still, he’s excellent in the role. Once again, the film is a slab of Old South Americana — only a little sadder and a lot more aware that the whole concept is dying. It’s built around Judge Priest running for re-election, but there are several other plots running through the film. The emotional high-point is a funeral for a “fallen woman” — one of the most moving scenes Ford ever created, made all the more so by the fact that the procession itself is played in almost total silence without even a musical track. I defy anyone to sit through it dry-eyed. Just a beautiful film — and an essential for any Ford fan. The Asheville Film Society will screen The Sun Shines Bright Tuesday, March 17, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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by Rob Brezny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the old Superman comics, Mister Mxyztplk was a fiendish imp whose home was in the fifth dimension. He sometimes sneaked over into our world to bedevil the Man of Steel with pranks. There was one sure way he could be instantly banished back to his own realm for a long time: If Superman fooled him into saying his own name backwards. You might think it would be hard to trick a magic rascal into saying “Klptzyxm” when he knew very well what the consequences would be, but Superman usually succeeded. I’d like to suggest that you have a similar power to get rid of a bugaboo that has been bothering you, Aries. Don’t underestimate your ability to outsmart the pest.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1637, mathematician Pierre de Fermat declared that he had solved the “Last Theorem,” a particularly knotty mathematical problem. Unfortunately, he never actually provided the proof that he had done so. The mystery remained.

Other math experts toiled for centuries looking for the answer. It wasn’t until 1994, more than 350 years later, that anyone succeeded. I think you are on the verge of discovering a possible solution to one of your own long-running riddles, Taurus. It may take a few more weeks, but you’re almost there. Can you sense that twinkle in your third eye? Keep the faith.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your upcoming efforts might not be flawless in all respects, but I suspect you will triumph anyway. You may not even be completely sure of what you want, but I bet you’ll get a reward you didn’t know you were looking for. Cagey innocence and high expectations will be your secret weapons. Dumb luck and crazy coincidences will be your X-factors. Here’s one of your main tasks: As the unreasonable blessings flow in your direction, don’t disrupt or obstruct the flow.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As soon as a baby loggerhead turtle leaves its nest on a Florida beach, it heads for the ocean. It’s only two inches long. Although it can swim just one mile every two hours, it begins an 8,000-mile journey that takes 10 years. It travels east to Africa, then turns around and circles back to where it originated. Along the way it grows big and strong as it eats a wide variety of food, from corals to sea cucumbers to squid. Succeeding at such an epic journey requires a stellar sense of direction and a prodigious will to thrive. I nominate the loggerhead turtle to be your power animal for the coming weeks, Cancerian.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1961, 19-year-old Bob Dylan began doing solo performances of folk songs at New York clubs. To accompany his vocals, he played an acoustic guitar and harmonica. By 1963, his career had skyrocketed. Critics called him a creative genius. Pop stars were recording the songs he wrote, making him rich. But he still kept his instrumentation simple, relying entirely on his acoustic guitar and harmonica. That changed in 1965, when he made the leap to rock ’n’ roll. For the first time, his music featured a full drum set and electric guitar, bass and keyboards. Some of his fans were offended. How dare he renounce his folk roots? I wonder if it might be time for you to consider a comparable transition, Leo. Are you willing to risk disorienting or disturbing those who would prefer you to stay as you are?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Whoever travels without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey.”

That’s an old Sufi saying sometimes attributed to the poet Rumi. I don’t think it’s accurate in all cases.

Sometimes we are drawn to wander into frontiers that few people have visited and none have mastered.

There are no guides! On other occasions, we can’t get the fullness of our learning experience unless we are free to stumble and bumble all by ourselves. A knowledgeable helper would only interfere with that odd magic. But right now, Virgo, I believe the Sufi saying holds true for you. Where you’re headed, you would benefit from an advisor, teacher or role model.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There’s a meme rolling around Tumblr and Facebook that goes like this: “Everyone wants a magical solution for

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling,” the young hero suffers from a peculiar case of mistaken identity. He believes that he is a duck. All of his problems stem from this erroneous idea. By duck standards, he is a homely mess. He gets taunted and abused by other animals, goes into exile and endures terrible loneliness. In the end, though, his anguish dissolves when he finally realizes that he is in fact a swan. United with his true nature, he no longer compares himself to an inappropriate ideal. Fellow swans welcome him into their community, and he flies away with them. Is there anything in this story that resonates with you, Pisces? I’m guessing there is. It’s high time to free yourself from false notions about who you really are. their problems, but they refuse to believe in magic.” Judging from the astrological omens, I think this Internet folk wisdom applies to your current situation. As I see it, you have two choices. If you intend to keep fantasizing about finding a magical solution, you will have to work harder to believe in magic. But if you can’t finagle your brain into actually believing in magic, you should stop fantasizing about a magical solution. Which will it be?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I have taken a passage from a letter that Henry Miller wrote to Anaïs Nin, and I have chopped it up and rearranged it and added to it so as to create an oracle that’s perfect for you right now.

Ready? “This is the wild dream: you with your chameleon’s soul being anchored always in no matter what storm, sensing you are at home wherever you are. You asserting yourself, getting the rich varied life you desire; and the more you assert yourself, the more you love going deeper, thicker, fuller. Resurrection after resurrection: that’s your gift, your promise.

The insatiable delight of constant change.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of your important assignments in the coming week is to get high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm. Experiencing altered states of awareness will provide you with crucial benefits. At the same time, you can’t afford to risk hurting yourself, and it’s essential to avoid stupidly excessive behavior that has negative repercussions. So what do you think? Do you have any methods to get sozzled and squiffed or jiggled and jingled that will also keep you sane and healthy?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Singer Gloria Gaynor recorded the song “I Will Survive” in 1978.

It sold over two million copies and ultimately became an iconic disco anthem. And yet it was originally the B-side of “Substitute,” the song that Gaynor’s record company released as her main offering. Luckily, radio DJs ignored “Substitute” and played the hell out of “I Will Survive,” making it a global hit. I foresee the possibility of a similar development for you, Capricorn. What you currently consider to be secondary should perhaps be primary. A gift or creation or skill you think is less important could turn out to be preeminent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m tempted to furrow my brow and raise my voice as I tell you to please please please go out and do the dicey task you’ve been postponing. But that would just be a way to vent my frustration and probably not helpful or constructive for you.

So here’s my wiser advice: To prepare for that dicey task, lock yourself in your sanctuary until you figure out what you first need to change about yourself before you can accomplish the dicey task. I think that once you make the inner shift, doing the deed will be pretty easy.

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