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ARTS IN ACTION

40. Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest returns 42. Pair a new beer with an old flick

The Art of Activism

UNCunca’’s arts Ffest focuses on social change

WELLNESS

28 A NEW FRONTIER Asheville leads the way in new role for pharmacists

FOOD

36 KEEPING SCORE Local restaurants say they’re hamstrung by health inspections

FOOD

10 THE COLOR OF CHOICE Local charter schools offer options, with trade-offs

42 FUNNY MOVIES, CREATIVE BREWS Asheville Brewing mixes new beers with vintage comedies

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46 WORLD MUSIC, WORLD TRAVELER Traditional fiddler Finn Magill returns to his WNC roots for a concert

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48 FIGURES IN MOTION Sahar Fakhoury’s latest collection comes to the Asheville Gallery of Art

This year, UNCA’S Arts Fest is centered on the theme “Arts for Social Change” and features activist artists Clarissa Sligh, David LaMotte and David Hess.

COVER PHOTO “Self-Portrait as Red-Crown Crane, 2007.” Photo courtesy of Clarissa Sligh COVER DESIGN Scott Southwick

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8 SPARKING A REVOLUTION It’s time we plugged into the truth 15 PLANNING FOR THE LEAN TIMES Pilot program helps modest-income workers learn to budget and save 32 SEW WHAT? Local businesses aim to make clothing more sustainable 38 THE MIGHTY ACORN Some believe the wild nut is WNC’s food of the future

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Speak up for affordable health care for all A political divide slices right through Asheville, separating the city, county and region into Congressional Districts 10 and 11. We are currently “represented” by conservatives Patrick McHenry and Mark Meadows due to some gerrymandering a while back by the Republican-dominated state legislature.

Recently in a heavy-handed, cost-cutting move, McHenry and Meadows united in trying to replace the Affordable Care Act with a draconian plan that would have caused thousands of their constituents to lose health insurance coverage that they had gained under the ACA. Fortunately, the ill-conceived bill foundered and was withdrawn, but it may emerge from the ashes.

Hundreds of requests have been made of Meadows and McHenry to hold health care town meetings in their districts. But they continue to say that they will “hold them in August,” which, given the resurgence of citizen activism, is neglect of their duty to exchange views with citizens.

As the April 7-23 Congressional recess approaches, local groups

are inviting our congressmen to open meetings: Our Revolution and Indivisible are sponsoring a “Medicare for All” Town Hall for Meadows’ 11th District constituents on the courthouse lawn in Waynesville Sunday, April 23, at 3 p.m. Rep. McHenry has not responded to formal requests for smaller meetings at his office in Black Mountain.

Republicans like McHenry and Meadows seemed willing to trade a $34 billion a year federal budget deficit reduction for cutting up to 24 million old, sick and poor citizens from the rolls of the properly insured. Meanwhile, the top 2 percent of wealthy Americans would have received $60 billion in tax cuts every year.

We cannot and should not allow this habitual conservative Republican “Reverse Robin Hood” disposition to continually shift more billions from the working class to the superrich. If enough of us speak up for affordable, universal health care for all hardworking Americans, perhaps Reps.

McHenry, Meadows and the rest of Congress will enact a humane and fiscally responsible health care plan like single-payer Medicare for All.

— Frank L. Fox

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Water is life. We all keep hearing it over and over again. But — it really is. Turn off all the digital stuff for just a minute — and appreciate that simple fact. Water is life.

Without clean water, we cannot live healthy and productive lives. Without clean water, we cannot brew quality craft beers (just trying to get someone’s attention here). Clean water is essential in our everyday lives. And most of us take it for granted.

After years of neglect and abuse, and despite the awareness generated back in the ’70s which led to the Clean Water Act, the fresh drinking water we have left on this planet is under attack as never before. Existing and proposed pipelines, along with the fracking boom, are ticking time bombs ready to pollute what’s left of our precious water resources. We don’t hear about most of the spills. Only the surrounding communities experience the true consequences of a spill, large or “small.” And they just keep happening.

So what can we do?

Divesting from those institutions that help fund and support the destructive and dangerous construction of new pipelines is one very powerful and effective tool. Divestiture helped to bring down entrenched apartheid in South Africa.

It could also be a last resort to help save what clean water we have left in the United States.

New pipelines are being proposed around the country to lock us all into fossil-fuel servitude. Here in North Carolina, the Atlantic Coastal Pipeline hopes to bring us all fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia to a theater near you! Let your thoughts be known if you would rather our state resources be used to protect our precious water supply and promote clean energy instead of supporting destructive pipelines that will dig their way through our beautiful communities and put them in danger at the same time.

More info about which banks are helping to fund the pipelines is available at defundDAPL.org.

Cities and communities around the nation are choosing to divest from those institutions that wish to profit from the pipeline madness that threatens our most precious resource. I’m hoping Asheville will be the next one to do so. There is a better way. Water is life.

— Gardner Hathaway

Asheville

Stop littering roads with signs Asheville is starting to look like “Trashville” with all the nonlegal, nongovernment signs along the roads. The reason we have newspapers and magazines and the internet is to voice our own personal opinions.

Please, I beg you, stop littering our roads with signs. What must visitors to our beautiful city think when they see all those ugly signs? Visitors come to see our scenic views and live plants.

They help provide all the things we like about our city — jobs, awesome restaurants, wonderful music and unique mountain adventures.

Oh, and by the way, start obeying the laws so the government doesn’t have to put out so many signs.

Thank you.

— Mary Ann Durand

Asheville

Book offers interstate appreciation Max Hunt has provided a valuable historical article with his “Inroads: How Interstate Highways Changed the Face of WNC” [March 8, Xpress].

He obviously has been involved with, and knowledgeable about, the interstate highway system for a long time.

I also have been involved with the interstates for a long time, but with a different perspective.

For a good number of years I have been writing a book, Interstate Landscapes – East: Physiography, Geology, and Ecology.

This has been sort of a personal hobby or mission, and I would like to make it available in digital form to anyone who can use it, as they drive along the Eastern interstate highways — for free.

The initial inspiration for the book was observations made while driving along most of I-81 with my family many years ago and thinking that there was much to see along the route that most travelers were oblivious to — geology, physiography, vegetation, etc. “The interstates are so boring!” I started working on the book around 1984, but not continuously — there were many long gaps of time when I was doing other things, like making a living.

The book is divided into three parts: Part I, “Interstates of Eastern United States;” Part II, “Physiographic Provinces and Sections;” and Part III, “Natural History Topics.” The contents of these parts, and how to use them, are briefly described on my website www.normankowal.com. My goal has been to produce a field guide that people can take with them while traveling long distances on our Eastern interstates and use to alert themselves to the natural features that they can see along the way. Given the convenience of modern technology, the book will probably be best used on laptops, tablets, etc. — by the passengers, not the driver!

I have converted my original WordPerfect text into a PDF format, and made the current version available on the Internet. Anyone can easily download it from my website www.normankowal. com. It’s free, safe and contains no commercials. What’s not to like?

Cheers,

— Norm Kowal

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Sparking a revolution

BY DAVE ERB It’s not uncommon for Western North Carolina to experience problems with fuel supply. Last year’s Alabama pipeline rupture was just one case in point.

Despite sufficient fuel to go around, drivers panicked at the thought of a disruption, and their subsequent run on the pumps emptied storage tanks.

One group, however, remained unfazed: drivers of plug-in electric vehicles. Whether they’re pure battery electrics like the Nissan Leaf or plug-in hybrids like the Chevy Volt, these vehicles offer WNC many benefits. But first we need to drain a swamp of disinformation.

Whether your preferred news sources are conservative or liberal, much of what you read and hear about plug-in electrics is incorrect at best, dishonest at worst, with more than enough “alternative facts” to go around. Stories in The Washington Post mirror those in The Washington Times. Fox echoes NPR. The public discourse has been hijacked by some very aggressive liars: oil industry shills striving to delay the inevitable and hedge fund managers who’ve shorted Tesla’s stock, among others. They’re aided and abetted by a squawking flock of unwitting parrots.

Despite all the spin about “spoiled rich EV owners,” plug-in electrics are not more expensive than internal combustion vehicles. The average new personal vehicle sells for $34,000.

Plenty of new plug-ins sell for less, even before the federal tax credit.

Including the tax credit and a Nissan rebate offered through Plug-in NC, a statewide program promoting electric vehicles, several of my friends recently bought brand-new Leafs for $14,000.

You can buy gently used, low-mileage plug-in electrics that are still under warranty for well under $10,000. In 15 years, you’ll be able to buy a rusty plug-in with bald tires for $500, just like conventional junkers.

Plug-in electric vehicles cost less to operate than conventional cars. At Duke Energy’s standard residential rate, the electricity needed to drive 200,000 miles in a Leaf (which has an Environmental Protection Agency rating of 290 watt-hours per mile) would cost $6,150. At $2 a gallon, the gas for a Prius (50 mpg EPA rating) would cost $8,000. And if those savings weren’t enough, grocery stores, malls and other businesses provide free electricity for plug-ins just to attract custom8

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DAVE ERB ers. My favorite is the Steak ’n Shake in Weaverville. You can find all these places nationwide at plugshare.com.

The battery in your Leaf is expected to last 200,000 miles or more; sometime after that, you’ll pay $5,500 (actually $6,500 minus a $1,000 “core refund”) to replace it. At a similar point, your internal combustion vehicle will probably be looking at a comparably expensive engine or transmission overhaul, or both. But just to get that far, even an “affordable” conventional vehicle will need two $800 timing belt replacements and $1,000 worth of oil changes.

Plug-in electrics don’t just replace oil with coal and a longer tailpipe: They significantly reduce total global emissions and energy consumption. And we’re not going to poison ourselves by tossing toxic materials into the landfill: Remember that $1,000 refund for recycling the battery? There’s also no shortage of lithium: One of the world’s major sources is right here in Asheville’s congressional district.

Plug-in vehicles won’t crash the electric grid, either: quite the opposite, in fact. Most charge at night, helping the power company smooth daily swings in demand. And according to an Electric Auto Association survey several years ago, 40 percent of plug-in vehicle buyers own enough solar panels to generate as much electricity as their cars consume, further relieving strain on the grid.

Unless you routinely run out of gas in your present vehicle, you’re not likely to run out of juice in a plug-in. Pure battery electrics show a range countdown on the dash and can be recharged using any standard household electrical socket.

Plug-in hybrids can be driven on gas without ever plugging in, if you want.

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So, how would plug-ins benefit WNC? The price of gas is extremely sensitive to changes in supply and demand, which is why it fluctuates so much before and after the summer driving season and when refineries shut down to switch from winter to summer gasoline formulations. Studies conducted over several decades have consistently found that a 5 percent increase in demand or decrease in supply will cause gas prices to double; the converse (a 5 percent increase in supply or decrease in demand) will cut them in half. Every contractor who depends on a 12 mpg pickup for his living should encourage his neighbors to buy plug-in electric vehicles.

Don’t underestimate the impact of such changes. If WNC’s 1.4 million residents consume the U.S. annual average of 400 gallons per capita, it means our region buys 560 million gallons of gasoline each year. Thus, even small reductions in gas prices keep hundreds of millions of hard-earned dollars in mountain pockets.

Furthermore, North Carolina has no oil refineries and only the slightest traces of oil deposits. Almost all the money spent on gas leaves the region, most leaves the state, and a large fraction leaves the country entirely. In contrast, regardless of your feelings about the power company, most of your electric bill stays close to home.

There are also business opportunities that are well-suited to WNC’s small-business culture. Brightfield Transportation Solutions, an Asheville startup, installs solar-powered public charging stations in multiple states. They won’t be the only creative entrepreneurs who’ll benefit when more folks buy plug-in electrics.

Most important of all, WNC communities have a long, proud history of loyal military service. Petrodollars fund ISIS, al-Qaida and others who hate us. We can cut off their cash flow by driving on American electrons. Plug-in electric vehicles are the most powerful weapons we have to bring our patriotic sons and daughters home from the Middle East, alive and unharmed, once and for all.

Transportation’s future is accessible today. We can travel the electric vehicle road of our own free will: Neither OPEC nor Big Oil has veto power. If you’re hesitant to go, you’re welcome to wait; it’s a free country. But if you’re one of those folks who reflexively shout down plugin electrics, despite having no actual experience with them, please turn up your hearing aid and merge right. You’re blocking the fast lane. X In 36 years as an automotive engineer, Dave Erb has developed vehicles using gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, alcohol, natural gas, electric and (since 1986) hybrid electric powertrains. He teaches mechatronics engineering at UNC Asheville. For contact information, visit engineering.unca.edu.

PLUGGED IN: The Asheville Police Department’s plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt charges at Brightfield Transportation Solutions’ first solar-powered public charging station at the city’s public works building on Charlotte Street. Photo courtesy of Dave Erb

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THE COLOR OF CHOICE Local charter schools offer options, with trade-offs

SOAKING IN NATURE: Evergreen Community Charter School fourth-graders participate in citizen science by surveying and monitoring bird populations on their forested campus. The school emphasizes the importance of interacting with the natural world for learning. Photo courtesy of Evergreen Community Charter School

BY ABLE ALLEN aallen@mountainx.com Amid the continuing debate over school choice and whether North Carolina should even allow charter schools, people on both sides of the issue seem to agree that Buncombe County’s five charters stand apart from their counterparts across the state.

Asheville has about as long a history with charter schools as any

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Tar Heel city. Francine Delany New School for Children was among the first to open locally after state legislation allowing a limited number of them on a trial basis was passed in 1996, notes Buffy Fowler, operations coordinator. ArtSpace Charter School and Evergreen Community Charter School were also among the 100 the law allowed statewide. Both The Franklin School of Innovation and Invest Collegiate Imagine opened in August 2014, as part of a second wave of charters after the cap was lifted in 2011.

With more charters has come more more questions about management, since the state allows private companies to run the publicly funded schools while generating revenue for themselves.

But the collision of public money and private enterprise is only one of a number of concerns critics raise.

Governed by independent boards rather than public employees, charters siphon off students — and the tax dollars allocated for their education — from traditional public

schools, though not necessarily as large a portion as some critics may believe (see sidebar, “The Elephant in the Living Room”). Charter school teachers don’t have to be certified or have any particular qualifications.

They’re not required to adhere to state curriculum standards or class size limits, and they often wind up segregating students by race, class or ability level. And while they do have the same end-of-course tests, some charge that overall, the state’s existing charters simply aren’t pro-

ducing adequate student outcomes.

Against that heated backdrop, Xpress decided to take an in-depth look at how Buncombe County’s charter schools stack up against the two local school districts.

ArtSpaces of the world are true, community-based charter schools run by nonprofits. … The charters we have in Buncombe County really meet, I think, the spirit of the charter school legislation.”

Turner, whose campaign called for “strengthening our schools” and who formerly served as assistant vice chancellor at UNC Asheville, seems as conflicted as anyone about the pros and cons of charter schools. He’d like to see all schools operate with greater transparency, and “if charters are meant to be these incubators for new best practices and innovative curriculum ideas, there needs to be a more formal conduit for getting those ideas back into the district schools.”

That may be more of a problem statewide than locally, though: Both ArtSpace and Evergreen for instance do work with district schools on educational approaches.

And two city magnet schools set to open in August are designed to offer many of the things that attract families to charters (see sidebar, “Honoring Families’ Needs”).

ORIGINAL VISION The 1996 law authorizing charter schools as independent public institutions cited six goals: improving student learning; increasing learning opportunities, particularly for at-risk and academically gifted students; encouraging innovative teaching methods; giving parents and students more choices; creating more professional opportunities for teachers; and holding charters accountable for student performance.

As of last fall, North Carolina had 167 active charter schools, and the state Board of Education had begun taking a decidedly more conservative approach to approvals for new charters, granting only eight of the 28 requests from schools wishing to open this year.

All of Buncombe County’s charter schools, though, are governed by small, independent boards, which makes for greater transparency and accountability. And unlike “many of the charter schools in the central and eastern part of the state,” says Susan Mertz, executive director of Evergreen, local charters “are fulfilling that original intent of being innovative and looking at different ways of educating kids.” That seemed to be the consensus at a recent information session with local lawmakers and representatives of all five local charters plus FernLeaf in Henderson County, she notes. In fact, continues Mertz, those elected officials encouraged this area’s charter schools to take a leadership role in the state and be vocal about their views and approaches.

Brian Turner, who represents western Buncombe County in the N.C. House, also sees significant differences. A large part of the problem, he maintains, is that “a lot of the other charter schools around the state have for-profit management companies, and in many cases those are the ones that we get the headlines about, in terms of didn’t graduate with the right credentials or have had some sort of financial troubles and things like that.”

But the local charters, stresses Turner, aren’t like that. “The Evergreens, Francine Delanys and

BUNDLES OF MONEY: Public schools are provided with funding based on the number of students enrolled. Because of strong local funding for public education, local schools are generally better funded than the state average. When students move from district schools to charters, the money goes with them. Graphic by Scott Southwick and Able Allen

The elephant in the living room Charter schools take a lot of heat from advocates for traditional public schools because they can reduce both the enrollment and the funding of the district schools.

But in fact, most Buncombe County children who opt out of the district schools are either in private schools or are home-schooling. As of the 2015-16 school year (the most recent information available), there were some 2,730 registered home schools in the county with an estimated 4,121 students, according the State Board of Education.

Across North Carolina, there were nearly 68,000 reported home schools, serving an estimated 118,268 students. About 40 percent of these “schools” were classified as independent and 60 percent were religious.

That same year, 3,461 Buncombe County students were enrolled in 28 private grade schools. But since four of them are boarding schools with a combined enrollment of 732, those students weren’t necessarily local. Of the remaining 2,729 county students, 1,287 attended private schools classified as independent, and 1,442 were in religious schools.

Putting those numbers together, it appears that roughly 6,850 Buncombe County children weren’t attending any kind of public school, whether traditional or charter.

That amounts to about 31.8 percent of the entire enrollment of all public schools in the county — more than three times the 2,171 students who currently attend local charter schools. Based on the available data, the Buncombe County Schools’ enrollment seems to be declining, whereas enrollment in all other types of schools is increasing.

Both The Franklin School of Innovation and Invest Collegiate - Imagine, which serve high-schoolers, report having a good number of former home-schoolers. Michelle Vruwink, Franklin’s executive director, thinks that as home-schoolers approach the middle and high school years, their families “may be looking for other options.” And the statewide data do support that idea: For all age groups between 6 and 17, 16- and 17-year-olds are the two smallest contingents of home-schoolers. X

THEMATIC LEARNING Each local charter is built around a particular approach or set of teaching methods. And through that they strive for strong student outcomes, each exceeding district outcomes on end-of-grade testing for science and reading, although ICI, Franklin School and ArtSpace are a little behind compared to the districts on math scores.

Evergreen, in particular, sees itself as an innovator “in either developing or adopting or adapting best practices,” notes Mertz.

Jennifer Townley of Invest Collegiate Imagine, which is temporarily operating out of a repurposed strip mall on Brevard Road, shares that vision. “The whole point of a charter,” she maintains, is “being an incubator, developing an educational philosophy and carrying through with it.”

Francine Delany’s website, meanwhile, calls the school “an inclusive community that is committed to promoting social justice and preserving the inherent worth and human dignity of every person.”

ArtSpace is what’s known as an A+ School. “We believe art is more than just a tool for education,” the website explains. “In all its forms, art inspires individuals to think

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critically about their own culture and environment. It encourages the thoughtful expression of an individual’s principles and ideas.”

A+, a program of the N.C. Arts Council, calls for integrating the arts throughout the curriculum and places a high value on hands-on creative work.

Evergreen is an EL Education school (formerly known as Expeditionary Learning). The methodology, developed jointly

by Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and Outward Bound, emphasizes active participation.

Every student and teacher is part of the “crew” that collectively determines outcomes. Evergreen’s version focuses on fieldwork, with many field trips for students. As the name suggests, the school also encourages learning about the natural world and environmental stewardship.

Franklin School was founded on the idea “that students also need a different set of skills to succeed.

These include qualities such as persistence, curiosity, ethics and leadership — sometimes referred to as soft skills or noncognitive skills, and often referred to as ‘character,’” says the school’s website. “While parents and family play a central role in helping students develop character, schools also have an important role.” Like Evergreen, Franklin follows the EL Education model, involving students in outdoor adventures and expeditions

as well as community service and team-building exercises.

Invest Collegiate has some fairly obvious differences: a year-round school calendar, uniforms and the inclusion of Spanish and the fine arts at all grade levels. But the vision, says Townley, is still being fine-tuned. “We’ve been trying to think a lot about the answer to that question: What’s our story?” she says, adding that the school has homed in on what she calls holistic education. Like some district schools, Invest Collegiate follows The Leader in Me model, which she says implements the principles laid out in Steven R. Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.

RACIAL BREAKDOWN

RACE MATTERS: Local charter schools, with the exception of Francine Delany, are mostly white. And while the charters are much whiter than the Asheville and Buncombe systems as a whole, there are some Buncombe County schools that are even less racially diverse than the charters. Graphic by Scott Southwick and Able Allen

Innovation aside, though, local charters have at least one thing in common with the Asheville City and Buncombe County schools: racial issues. Like most of their counterparts across the state, four of the five local charters are predominantly white. The exception is Francine Delany, the only one that’s within the boundaries of the Asheville City Schools district (see “Forced Choices” below).

Evergreen, for example, is 87.9 percent white. Its 437 students include just four African-Americans (down from six the last two years), 21 Hispanics and 26 bi- or multiracial students. The percentage of

Honoring families’ needs When the Montford North Star Academy opens at the former Randolph School campus in August, Shannon Baggett will serve as principal. The city school system is growing, she notes, and despite the new openings, it will probably be near full capacity by next year, so another middle school will be needed.

With a magnet school theme of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math), North Star intends to recruit 100 sixth-grade students for the 201718 academic year. After a month and a half of recruiting within the district, the school has 72 students ready to enroll, and it can now start looking outside the district to fill the remaining slots. Baggett says meeting the required demographic quotas hasn’t been a problem, and no families have been turned away.

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The city system is also launching Asheville Primary, a new Montessoristyle school for kindergarten through third grade, and while interest has been high, there’s still space available, says Director Dawn Meskil. “The priority enrollment period for in-district applications just ended, and we’re now accepting applications for both in-district and out-of-district families.”

Many families, notes Baggett, “leave our district during the middle school years and then come back to the high schools. So I’m hoping that those families that live in our district who may have been thinking about a charter school may want to choose us.”

Like the charters, the newest city schools will be small, with an estimated 30 students per grade at Asheville Primary

and 100 per grade for sixth through eighth grades. And as Meskil points out, “At the elementary level, we’ve offered magnet, choice-based options for many years. We leverage student interests to gear the educational programming and services at each school to children in meaningful ways. … In addition, at the high school level, Asheville City Schools has successfully offered the School of Inquiry and Life Sciences for over 10 years.” The district, she continues, “is growing faster than predicted, so the addition of new schools is simply an expansion of our existing model.”

Melissa Hedt, the city schools’ K-12 teaching and learning coordinator, stresses that the system is trying to honor parents’ desires, so they don’t have to choose between staying in the district and send-

ing their kid to a small school. “When kids stay with us all the way through, we really can serve them better than when they’re here, leave and come back,” she says. The city schools, she points out, had been losing 10 to 15 percent of students transitioning from elementary to middle school, but that seems to be changing.

“In the fifth grade right now, we have 338 students, and we’re seeing much fewer of those select out-of-district options than in the past. I think between a brand-new, multimillion-dollar middle school that gives every student their laptop, and now we have the smaller magnet middle school, fewer families are having to go elsewhere to find the option that meets their child’s needs.” X

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ArtSpace tells a similar story, with only 15 percent nonwhite students. “Our demographics are similar to the other schools in this valley,” notes Executive Director Lori Cozzi. “If you look at W.D. Williams, Black Mountain Elementary and Black Mountain Primary, they’re very similar. ... We are drawing most of our students from Black Mountain/Swannanoa — a pretty white area.” For practical reasons, parents often prefer to have their kids attend a school that’s near where they live; thus, local neighborhood makeup can sometimes be at odds with attempts to boost racial diversity. The Buncombe County schools face a similar situation, particularly with regard to African-American students.

Invest Collegiate’s 753 students are also 85 percent white, though the school plans to expand to 1,320 stu-

dents after it moves to a new space on McIntosh Road for the 2018-19 school year.

Franklin School’s 411 students are 83 percent white, says Executive Director Michelle Vruwink. The nearby county schools average 76.4 percent white, but little Pisgah Elementary, with only 174 students, is more than 90 percent white, so the southwest Buncombe charters aren’t completely out of step with their surroundings in terms of demographics.

Like Invest Collegiate, Franklin is still growing, with an eventual target of about 700 students. It’s hard to say what effect those expansions might have on the overall racial breakdown of schools in the county.

FORCED CHOICES Desegregation is the law of the land, but inside the lines of the Asheville City Schools district, there

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Like hundreds of other school districts across the nation, Asheville’s was slow to respond to Brown v.

Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision banning segregated schools. In response to a federal court order, the district adopted a magnet-themed school choice model in 1990. Parents can request which school they’d like their child to attend, but school assignments also reflect the fact that the district is legally bound to maintain roughly the same racial balance in every school in the system. Over the last four years, clearer enrollment policies have enabled the system to achieve better racial balance, says Melissa Hedt, the city schools’ K-12 teaching and learning coordinator.

The federal court order applies to Francine Delany as well.

Accordingly, notes Fowler, the school’s advertising and outreach efforts target African-American families, to encourage more of them to apply. Periodic community meetings, she says, are held in the public housing communities.

But while the city schools are struggling with a massive disparity in academic performance between white and black students, Francine Delany, which has a single classroom for each grade level, has achieved far better results.

For all levels through eighth grade in which grade-level performance is measured, only 30 percent of the city schools’ black students were performing at or above grade level as of the 2015-16 academic year; at Francine Delany, 63 percent of black students met that benchmark.

According to state statistics, the city schools were 61 percent white and 23 percent black; Francine Delany was 54 percent white and 28 percent black. During that same period, 40 percent of black students statewide were performing at grade level. White students in both the district schools and at Francine Delany performed well above the state averages. ’BLIND’ LOTTERIES A key factor in Francine Delany’s ability to attract a more diverse student body is its ability to maintain

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a separate lottery and waitlist for African-American students.

“We are not legally allowed to hold a lottery by demographic,” notes Cozzi of ArtSpace. “I’m not allowed in any way to go in and say, ‘Wow, look: three African-American families. Let’s bring them in.’ I can’t do that. They’re just a part of the big pot, so it’s really difficult.”

Having a “blind” lottery, she says, means school officials can’t be accused of preferential treatment, but it makes it hard to increase the school’s diversity numbers. And since all charter schools use lotteries to assign the available slots, and applicants self-select, schools seeking to increase student diversity have to start by encouraging more families of color to apply. But that’s turned out to be easier said than done.

Evergreen staff members, says Mertz, believe a big part of the problem traces back to a history of white flight to private schools in the 1960s, when desegregation first kicked in. And when charter schools were approved in the late ’90s, she continues, many of the early applicants were white.

“Some of the people I’ve spoken with in the African-American community have said that could be a reason why: There’s still that perception that Evergreen is a ‘white flight’ school. I don’t believe we are, but that’s a perception, and perception is real.” And once the student body is mostly white, notes Mertz, “A family of color [might] look at a school and say, ‘If my kid went to that school there’s not going to be very many other people who look like him.’”

Furthermore, says Mertz, it doesn’t help that day-to-day life in Asheville remains fairly segregated.

“There are different communities who don’t interact very often. And there’s also a very clear delineation around people of color also being people of low wealth, which isn’t the case when you look in Raleigh, Durham and other larger cities.”

She sees achieving greater racial diversity as a huge challenge that her school has already put a lot of energy and work into; nonetheless, “We’re up for it.” X

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PLANNING FOR THE LEAN TIMES Pilot program helps modest-income workers learn to budget and save LouAnne Jordan was never comfortable with her finances, working hard but not really sure where all her money was going.

“Like a lot of people, I don’t have a high income. In my mind, there was never any extra money to save,” says Jordan, who loves her work as the event and exhibit coordinator at Grovewood Gallery in Asheville.

Last fall, Jordan signed up for a pilot program with OnTrack Financial Education and Counseling that teaches lower-income workers how to save their money for emergencies, create better credit scores and improve their long-term stability.

Through six months of budgeting classes and counseling, Jordan was among 48 participants who received a $3 match for every $1 they saved, up to a full match of $540.

“I discovered I had more money than I thought,” Jordan says, after she learned how to budget her income and expenses. And she began to save more in her monthly budget.

Now in her mid-50s, Jordan has amassed $3,000 in a Self-Help Credit Union savings account and is looking to build her first home.

Many workers struggle with lower wages paid in Asheville than in other metropolitan areas in North Carolina.

More than a third — 37 percent — of the county’s residents were low-income on average from 2010-14, meaning their incomes were less than twice the federal poverty level, which topped at $47,700 for a family of four in 2014, according to data compiled by the N.C. Justice Center.

PENNY PINCHER: Through a pilot program with OnTrack Financial Education, LouAnne Jordan learned strategies for saving for emergencies and long-term financial goals. Aided by the program’s matching contribution of $3 for every $1 she saved, Jordan now has a $3,000 nest egg she plans to put toward home ownership. Photo courtesy of LouAnne Jordan And the recovery has not been good to their income. Buncombe’s hourly median wage of $14.49 equaled 92.7 percent of the state median wage of $15.63 in 2015.

Workers have seen the median hourly wage fall by 45 cents since the recovery began in 2009.

Many are having a hard time making ends meet with groceries, rent, utilities, gas and other monthly necessities. When emergencies come up, from flat tires to car troubles, they may turn to credit cards or high-interest loans online to meet expenses.

Banking at least $1,000 for emergencies can provide financial peace of mind, says Celeste Collins, OnTrack’s executive director.

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COMPOUNDING RETURNS: Having $1,000 in savings can help people ride out most financial emergencies, says Celeste Collins, executive director of OnTrack Financial Education. A pilot program run by the nonprofit helps people learn strategies for saving and matches their contributions as an incentive to develop the habit.

Many financial planners suggest having an emergency fund of three months of living expenses, but Collins says many lower-income workers find that figure out of reach.

“Studies show that having $1,000 can get people over the bump of most emergencies,” Collins says.

Without any cushion to fall back on, many workers will get desperate and turn to pawn shops or online loans at a high interest rate.

But setting aside even $1,000 remains a hurdle for many workers. A survey of 5,000 workers in 2015 showed that only 62 percent had $1,000 in savings, according to the online financial group GOBankingRates.

The trend in 2016 was not promising, even while the economy and unemployment numbers improved. A second survey of 7,000 people showed that 69 percent had less than $1,000 in savings.

Those surveys found that lowerincome adults are the least likely to have money in savings. Of those earning less than $25,000, 38 percent reported zero savings, while another 35 percent have less than $1,000 saved.

During the Great Recession, OnTrack spent much of its counseling efforts trying to keep homeowners out of foreclosure during layoffs and job losses. But OnTrack also wanted to find ways to help

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lower-income workers before they faced foreclosures or bankruptcies.

Last year, OnTrack applied for and received a $50,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina to launch the program Savings for Emergencies and Credit to Unlock Resilience and Empowerment, or SECURE, for short. OnTrack targeted households struggling to make ends meet with bills and monthly expenses.

That proactive approach to helping lower-income workers before they hit a financial emergency is critical, says Virginia Dollar, senior program officer for the Community Foundation of WNC. “They have no savings. If anything happens, if their car breaks down or if they’re sick and they miss any work, they have nothing to fall back on. They may not be able to pay their rent or buy food.”

The problem of unexpected car repairs is aggravated in Western North Carolina with its lack of reliable public transportation for many low-income workers, Dollar says. “They are dependent on cars. If you’re low-income and you have a flat tire and you have no money to replace the tire, it just cascades into other problems.”

Some 91 clients signed up initially for the enrollment workshops in July, pledging to put money in accounts opened at Self-Help Credit Union over

the next six months with the incentive to triple their savings with the matching funds. By December, only 10 had dropped out.

Altogether, the pilot program participants were able to save $15,137.

Opening up a new account at a credit union helped them sock away the money. Without a debit card associated with the account, they couldn’t readily tap into those funds, many participants told Anthony Jimenez, the SECURE program’s coordinator and education director.

More than just giving out matching money, the program requires participants to take a series of classes and counseling sessions.

“It’s about teaching individuals how to manage money, how to budget and how to be smarter in their choices,” Dollar says.

One survey respondent told Jimenez, “The one-on-one personal follow-up meeting helped me fine-tune my budget. I now look at tracking expenses as a positive part of my life rather than looking at it as constricting.”

Jordan appreciated the financial counseling that OnTrack offered and the tips on building up a better credit score. Jordan started a

few years ago with OnTrack with a credit-building class.

“Through the SECURE program, I learned how to budget in for savings, for getting your car fixed or house repairs.

I have a budget that I work out every month,” Jordan says. “I’ve been able to save a chunk and now I’m getting ready to build my first house. I always dreamed of owning a house. I’ve seen dreams come true.”

OnTrack’s outreach with financial counseling and common-sense budgeting makes the nonprofit a vital resource in the community, Jordan says. “They are changing people’s lives and futures.

They give people hope and confidence.”

Meanwhile, OnTrack is looking to expand the SECURE matching fund program for a second year, Collins said.

“We want to get rid of that stigma that many people still feel about talking about money or debt or budgeting.

I think there’s a real relief and peace of mind when they know they have a little savings to fall back on,” Collins says.

For more information about OnTrack Financial and Counseling’s Savings for Emergency and Credit to Unlock Resilience and Empowerment and other programs, call 828-255-5166 or click on www.ontrackwnc.org X

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Pit controversy continues City Council members dispute meaning of 7-0 vote Sometimes a vacant piece of land is more than just a piece of land. And the scant acre of city-owned property at Haywood Street and Page Avenue has certainly come to represent far more than its area, or even its monetary value, would suggest.

For many, the “Pit of Despair” facing the U.S. Cellular Center and the Basilica of St. Lawrence is a battleground where warring visions of Asheville wage a take-no-prisoners contest for the soul of the city. After City Council’s unanimous vote on Tuesday, March 28, to accept the recommendations presented by a volunteer citizen panel as the basis for soliciting design services, questions remain: Is this the beginning of the end of the controversy over the use of the land, or — with apologies to Winston Churchill — is it even the end of the beginning?

The Haywood Street Advisory Team presented the conclusions of a yearlong process that encompassed a variety of public engagement activities and 14 meetings — with plenty of Sticky Notes, maneuverings, crude language, peer pressure and squabbling along the way — to a City Council that had asked the group to deliver a “community vision” for the use of the land.

Team chair Andrew Fletcher, who represents the Asheville Buskers Collective, summed up the difficulty of the group’s task by quoting two public comments, written by hand on Sticky Notes and pasted next to one another at a feedback-gathering event. One, said Fletcher, read,

UNANIMOUS BUT CONTENTIOUS: Asheville City Council voted March 28 to solicit requests for proposals for design services for city-owned property at Haywood Street and Page Avenue. Photo by Virginia Daffron “Nothing but a park.” The other read, “Anything but a park.”

Council member Julie Mayfield commented that the question of whether the site should either be used for a building or a park was appropriate while the land was being marketed to private buyers. Once the parcels were taken off the mar-

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ket, she said, the “either/or” question could be reframed.

Reaching a 16-1 agreement among the members of the advisory team, Fletcher said, required significant compromise. Without compromise, he said, “The future looks like despair.”

The dissenting vote was cast by Julie Nelson, who represented the Friends

of St. Lawrence Green on the team.

“What we really want, we want a future that animates the site,” said Fletcher. “That comes sooner rather than later.”

The team’s vision of what will animate the site and create a successful public space includes a combination of uses. Active uses include community gardening, a farmers market, a play area and public art, along with mixed-use features such as local food and retail, a business incubator, education and housing. Passive uses include shade, seating, a water feature, restrooms, views of the surrounding mountains and a sense of neighborhood identity.

Activist Clare Hanrahan, who lives in the Battery Park Apartments adjacent to the site and who has advocated for green space and native plantings, bowed to the inevitability of compromise, saying, “I’m realist enough to understand it can’t be all green, and it can’t all be given over to nature and the birds and the bees.” She called for features to “provide the opportunity for intergenerational communication.”

Coleman Smith wanted to know how local artists can be involved in creating the new space. “If you are not a professional design firm, how do local artists and designers and the incredible amount of creative energy that makes Asheville what it is, how can they be involved in it?” he asked. Mayfield responded that providing opportunities for local artists to participate should be included in the design process.

BUNC O MBE BE AT HQ “There were a lot of people deciding that [2015 Council] election who wanted a park,” commented Dee Williams, a local business leader who has announced her intention to run for a spot on Council this year.

“For whatever reason, the thing has evolved.” If other uses will replace the park that many voters indicated they wanted, Williams said, those uses should at least include an “economic stimulator” to help those left behind by Asheville’s current boom.

Mayor Esther Manheimer wrapped up the discussion of the advisory team’s report, noting, “I know this has been sort of torture for a lot of people and for the community. It’s been sort of also fascinating.” Manheimer said she feels “like we’re at the beginning of a really long road.”

With that, Council voted unanimously to “direct staff to design and issue a request for proposals for a design firm to deliver several design options using the Haywood Street Visioning Process outcomes,” according to City Clerk Maggie Burleson.

Council did not address considerations of cost or discuss the criteria by which a designer should be selected.

But before dawn broke the morning after the meeting, Council member Cecil Bothwell — long a supporter of a park on the site and a caustic critic of the advisory team’s process — was already calling the substance of the vote into question. Bothwell disputed an Asheville Citizen-Times article that reported Council had unanimously voted to support buildings and a park on the site. “The fight still looms,” he wrote in an email. On Thursday, March 30, the Asheville PARC political action committee sent an email update declaring, “Brian Haynes, Keith Young and Cecil Bothwell are clear that the only building they support on the site is a public restroom.”

Bothwell, Council member Gordon Smith, Rich Lee (who plans to run for Council in 2017) and other locals debated on Facebook what Council actually voted to support in accepting the advisory team’s recommendations.

— Virginia Daffron

TDA GRAPPLES WITH IMAGE PROBLEM The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority walks a line stretched between two realities.

On one side — with tourism booming in the region — the authority is wealthy, powerful and successful beyond even its own ambitious dreams.

But look again, and you will also see an organization (and the industry it represents) with an image problem.

The law that funds the TDA through a 6 percent tax on Buncombe County hotel bills writes the tourism trade a blank check for marketing itself.

That’s because 75 percent of the TDA’s budget must, by law, go to advertising and other programs to attract visitors to the region. The remaining 25 percent of the money the authority collects funds local projects that have the ability to draw visitors.

None of the money collected through the hotel occupancy tax goes to offsetting the costs associated with hosting growing crowds of tourists from all over the country and, increasingly, the world. Those costs, say city and county officials, include fire and police service, roads, sidewalks and other amenities used by tourists as well as residents. Critics of the hospitality industry and the TDA also contend that the industry relies on low-wage workers while simultaneously pushing up the cost of living for those workers by inflating the value of real estate, among other necessities.

All this was on the minds of TDA board members as they met on

Thursday and Friday, March 23 and 24, for the organization’s annual strategic planning retreat and regular monthly meeting at Antler Hill Village on the Biltmore estate. Topics of discussion ranged from results to goals to challenges. Throughout both days of meetings, concerns about negative perceptions came up repeatedly.

Board Chair and Biltmore executive Paula Wilber summarized the history of the authority, which she said has “generated more than $2 billion in visitor spending for Buncombe County.” Tourism has been a “convenient target in recent years,” said Wilber, arguing that the industry’s positive benefits are often overlooked despite the prosperity it brings.

Despite the industry’s strengths, board members agreed, the public perceives the industry and its members as uncaring when it comes to the negative effects of tourism. The best way to combat tourism’s image problems, members said, was to educate local residents on where the money goes and how it benefits the city.

“We’re all on the same side,” commented board member Jim Muth.

“We’re just looking at it through a different lens.”

The CVB’s organizational transition, which will make it independent of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce as of July 1, presents an opportunity to brand the organization in a new way, the group agreed.

Plans for the new CVB offices at Asheville Office Park at College Street and Town Mountain Road were presented to the board. The CVB’s current offices on the ground floor of the Chamber of Commerce building at 36 Montford Ave. will be occupied by chamber staff, who will move from their current offices on the building’s second floor. Lenoir-Rhyne University, which already owned space on the building’s third floor and part of the

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second floor, purchased the chamber’s current office space early this year, according to the Asheville Citizen-Times.

Brown provided additional information about the relocation project’s costs in an email after the meeting. The TDA board, she wrote, “approved a total relocation budget not to exceed $519,000. We are still refining plans for IT, AV and furniture, so I expect that we will be able to trim those estimates.”

The CVB is targeting June 23 as the date for its move, Brown told board members at the meeting, and the organization hopes the new location will help change its public image.

“My favorite part of the new building is that it will be a hub for the tourism community,” said Brown. “We are thrilled to colocate with the Sports Commission and AIR (Asheville Independent Restaurant Association).”

“Part of the CVB’s work is not just about making Asheville a great place for people who come here, but for people who live here,” said Asheville City Council member Julie Mayfield. Board members indicated agreement with the sentiment and resolved to pursue that goal moving forward.

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ANIMALS FULL MOON FARM WOLFDOG RESCUE 664-9818, fullmoonfarm.org • SA (4/8), 3pm - "Howl In," farm tour, presentations and potluck. Bring boiled egg (with no food coloring) to share with the dogs. Potluck at 5pm. Location given upon registration. Free to attend/$5 potluck (bring a dish to share).

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EASTER HOWL-IN: Once a month, from April to November, Full Moon Farm Wolfdog Sanctuary opens its gates for an educational and informative tour of the facility and an opportunity for the public to meet some of the rescued wolfdogs. On Saturday, April 8, at 3 p.m., the “Howl-In” is Easter-themed, and attendees are encouraged to bring undyed raw or hard-boiled Easter eggs to share with the animals. There will be a potluck at 5 p.m., and participants are encouraged to bring a dish to share and $5 to contribute. For more information or to register for the event, call 828-664-9818 or email info@fullmoonfarm.org (p. 20)

• SU (4/9), 2pm - Proceeds from this outdoor festival featuring live music by Third Nature, ElectroChemical, and Natural Born Leaders, Sirius Colors, The Hip Hop Orchestra, Sacred Sound, Mycorr and Star Spinner benefit Harmonia. Admission by donation. Held at Salvage Station, 468 Riverside Drive, Asheville HENDERSONVILLE COUNTRY CLUB 1860 Hebron Road, Hendersonville, 692-2261, hendersonvillecc.com • SA (4/8), 1pm - Proceeds from this cornhole tournament with music and kids activities benefit cardiology patients at Pardee Hospital. $25/$50 per team of two/$5 for spectators.

LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 254-3442, volunteers@litcouncil.com • WE (4/5), 6-9pm - Proceeds from “To Bee or Not to Bee,” adult spelling bee with Shakespeare themed entertainment with prizes for team and audience members benefits the Literacy Council of Buncombe County. $10. Held at Salvage Station, 468 Riverside Drive, Asheville

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ASSOCIATION tinyurl.com/NCNPATax • FR (4/7), 1-7pm - Proceeds from the "Bring the Spring," event with an afternoon of workshops and an evening of networking related to the natural products industry benefit the North Carolina Natural Products Association.

Registration: tinyurl.com/bringthespring17. $20-$125. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. YOUTH OUTRIGHT 866-881-3721, youthoutright.org • TH (4/6), 4-6pm - Proceeds from this 5K fun run benefit Youth OutRight. Registration: goo.gl/ bilCtn. $20. Held at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Drive

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • TH (4/6), 6-9pm - "Pinterest for Your Small Business," seminar.

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Sand Hill Road, Candler • SA (4/8), 9am - "Marketing Your Business," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TU (4/11), 10am-noon - "Starting a Better Business," seminar.

Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler • WE (4/12), 10-11:30am - "SBA: Programs and Services for Your Small Business," seminar.

Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech South Site, 303B Airport Road, Arden • TH (4/13), 6-9pm - "How to Use LinkedIn to Grow Your Business," seminar. Registration required.

Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler EBLEN CHARITIES 255-3066, eblencharities.org • WE (4/12), 9am-12:30pm Proceeds from the "Refresh Leadership Simulcast," featuring live video business leadership presentations from Patrick Lencioni, Jimmy Johnson and Robyn Benincasa benefit Eblen Charities. $20.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS COOKING CLASSES WITH OFRI (PD.) 6-9pm at Mountain Kitchen: • Saturday, April 22: Dumplings from around the world! • Saturday, April 29: Hearty Mediterranean! Information: (917) 566-5238. To register: www.ofrishomecooking.com MAKE YOUR OWN UKRAINIAN EASTER EGG (PD.) Learn to make beautiful Ukrainian Easter eggs: Pysanky workshops in the River Arts District or your location. AshevilleStudioA. com • call/text (828) 423-6459 • AvlStudioA@gmail.com for signup + more info.

POLE DANCE, AERIAL ARTS, FLEXIBILITY, DANCE CLASSES AT EMPYREAN ARTS (PD.) BEGINNING POLE on Wednesdays 5:30pm, Thursdays 11am, Fridays 7:15pm, Saturdays 11:45am, Sundays 5:45pm.

FLEXIBILITY-CONTORTION on Mondays 6:30pm, Tuesdays 8pm, Thursdays 1pm. FLOOR FLOW on Wednesdays 8pm.

BREAKDANCE on Saturdays 4pm. EMPYREANARTS.ORG 828.782.3321.

SOUTHERN DREAMING CONFERENCE (PD.) Friday/Saturday, April 28-29.

The International Association for the Study of Dreams “Dream Festival”, Greenville, SC. • Workshops, lectures, dream art/ film, theatrical performance (Harriet Tubman’s Dreams), and more. • Events, fees, registration: http://www.asdreams.org/ regionals/southcarolina2017/ THE BEST MOSAIC INSTRUCTION IN WNC! (PD.) • Integrating Glass Fusions in Your Mosaics: April 8-9, British Maestro Martin Cheek. • Mosaic Workshop for Beginners: May 7, Linda Pannullo. Call 828-337-6749 for more information. More workshops at Lindapannullomosaics.com UNDERSTAND THE ROOTS OF SOCIAL INJUSTICE (PD.) Experience Navajo educator Mark Charles. • Events sponsored by Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting with support of Warren Wilson Presbyterian

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Church. • Friday, April 21, 7pm9pm: Truth-Telling on Race and Doctrine of Discovery, Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church, 101 Chapel Drive, Swannanoa, NC. • Free and open to public. Donations welcome.

• Saturday, April 22, 9am5pm: Workshop on Decoding America’s Greatness and The Difference between Power and Authority, Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting, 137 Center Ave, Black Mountain, NC. • Fee: $35 (includes lunch). • Limited to 30. Learn more about Mark Charles at www. wirelesshogan.com • Learn more about events at www.swannaoavalleyfriends. com ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB 779-0319, vincentvanjoe@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sets provided. All ages and skill levels welcome. Beginners lessons available. Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road ASHEVILLE NEWCOMERS CLUB ashevillenewcomersclub.com • 2nd MONDAYS, 9:30am Monthly meeting for women new to Asheville. Register for location: ashevillenewcomers@gmail. com. Free to attend.

M ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB rotaryasheville.org • TH (4/6), noon-1:30pm General meeting with Pat Carver speaking about affordable housing initiatives. Free to attend.

Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. • TH (4/13), noon-1:30pm General meeting with guest speaker, Anna Priest, executive director of the Asheville Museum of Science. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St.

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TAVERN 404-272-4526, sciencecandance@gmail.com • SA (4/8), 6:30pm - Presentation by cave diver and Professor Jill Yager, who discovered the Remipedia, an animal that represented a new class of crustacean. Bring your own snacks and refreshments. Free. Held at WCQS, 73 Broadway

• SA (4/8), 8am - Community center clean up day. Free.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • SATURDAYS through (4/8), 10:30am-3pm - UNC Asheville tax preparation assistance for low to moderate income families and individuals. Bring photo ID, social security card, and tax preparation information. Information: www.irs.gov/ individuals/free-tax-return-preparation-for-you-by-volunteers.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SA (4/8), 11am-4pm - "North Asheville History Project," event to document North Asheville history. Bring pictures and documents to be scanned and included in the digital collection in the NC Room. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (4/11), 6:30pm - Adult coloring club. Free. Held at EnkaCandler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler DAVIDSON'S FORT HISTORIC PARK Lackey Town Road, Old Fort, 668-4831, davidsonsfort.com • SA (3/18), 10am-4pm "Recruitment Day," colonial crafts and demonstrations.

Admission fees apply.

FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - "What's Up with Whiteness" discussion group. Free to attend. M Haywood Street Congregation 297 Haywood St., 246-4250 • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS Workshop to teach how to make sleeping mats for the homeless out of plastic shopping bags.

Information: 828-707-7203 or cappyt@att.net. Free.

LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD OF AMERICA 686-8298 , egacarolinas.org • TH (4/6), 10am - General meeting and presentation on creating a "Hapsburg scissors case."

Free to attend/Fee for project kit. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe

ASHEVILLE WOMEN IN BLACK main.nc.us/wib • 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm - Monthly peace vigil. Free. Held at the Vance Monument in Pack Square.

LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook. com/Leicester.Community.Center • 2nd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Public board meeting. Free.

BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 626-3438

ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 2555166, ontrackwnc.org

• WE (4/5), 5:30-7pm "Budgeting and Debt Class."

Registration required. Free.

• TH (4/6), noon-1:30pm "Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it." Seminar.

Registration required. Free.

• MO (4/10), noon-1:30pm "Introduction to Homebuying," workshop. Registration required.

Free.

• TU (4/11), noon-1:30pm "Budgeting and Debt Class."

Registration required. Free.

• WE (4/12), 5:30-7pm "Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it." Seminar.

Registration required. Free.

PUBLIC EVENTS AT A-B TECH 398-7900, abtech.edu • TH (3/16), 12:30-4pm - "Power Up, Power On: Empowering Women in Technology," event with presentations on work life balance, collaboration, and "A Journey into Robotics." Free.

Held in the Mission Health/A-B Tech Conference Center SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE showingupforracialjustice.org • TU (4/11), 6pm - A facilitatated meeting to build the infrastructure of educational opportunities within Asheville. Free to attend.

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ST. MARK'S LUTHERAN CHURCH 10 North Liberty St., 253 0043 • TU (4/11), noon-1:30pm - Lunch with keynote presentation by George Briggs from the N.C. Arboretum. $10 includes lunch.

VETERANS FOR PEACE 582-5180, vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot. com/ • 2nd TUESDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm General meeting. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road

DANCE STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (PD.) Monday 12pm Barre Wkt 4pm Ballet Wkt 5pm Bellydance Drills 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Bellydance Special Topics 7pm Classical Ballet Series 8pm Tribal Bellydance Series • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 12pm Sculpt-Beats Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm Advanced Bellydance • Wednesday 12:30pm 80/90s Fitness Wkt 5pm Hip Hop Wkt 5pm Bollywood 6pm Bhangra Series 8pm Lyrical Series • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 12pm Sculpt-beats Wkt 4pm Girls Hip Hop 5pm Teens

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STRIKES AND SOLIDARITY: Costumes are ecouraged at Bowl-A-Thon West, a family-friendly bowling event that aims to normalize and raise funds for abortions. Photo courtesy of Carolina Abortion Fund WHAT: A bowling fundraiser for Carolina Abortion Fund WHERE: Sky Lanes Asheville WHEN: Sunday, April 9, 12:45-3 p.m.

WHY: Years ago, the National Network of Abortion Funds identified bowling alleys as an ideal venue for regional abortion funds to host events. Most towns have a bowling alley, Anna Pfaff of Carolina Abortion Fund points out. Plus, they’re economically accessible, family-friendly and pretty fun, she continues. “And who doesn’t like rented shoes?”

Accordingly, CAF is lacing up in Asheville and aiming to raise $10,000 at its third annual Bowl-A-Thon West event.

Individuals and teams can register online to collect donations from their personal networks prior to the bowling day, which is “really just about celebrating all the work we’ve done,” Pfaff says. “The bowling is like the cherry on top.”

Prizes go to participants with the best and worst costumes, team name and bowl-

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And everyone gets cupcakes. Meanwhile, conversations tend to steer toward the “normalness” of abortions, Pfaff says.

Because CAF is volunteer-run and has no offices, 100 percent of event proceeds will go to women seeking abortions.

Specifically, CAF operates a 24-hour helpline that distributes modest stipends — usually $100, but up to $300 toward an abortion, which costs roughly $500 on average — to North Carolinians getting an abortion in the state or to women traveling into or out of North Carolina for the procedure.

Though CAF’s volunteers field an average of 10-25 calls per day (in English and Spanish), the weekly budget for grants hovers around $1,000. So, operators prioritize cases involving minors, sexual assault, violence, homelessness and other complicating factors rather than screening based on income, education, employ-

ment or number of kids. “That’s irrelevant to us,” Pfaff says. “We understand that the need is there.”

Beyond financial barriers, women in rural areas like Western North Carolina may face increased challenges with transportation and social stigma when seeking an abortion, she explains. And since some doctors don’t publicize that they offer abortions, specialized clinics like Planned Parenthood are assumed to be the only options — thus exacerbating accessibility issues.

As CAF’s only Asheville-based board member and organizer, Pfaff reflects: “Certainly [cosmopolitan areas] have a need. But we feel like in order to maintain equitable access, we really want to be made available to places where the barriers are big.”

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Hip Hop 6pm West African Drumming 8pm Sassy Jazz Series • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10:45 Buti Yoga Wkt • Sunday 6:15pm Restorative Yoga • $13 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $6.

90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595 ASHEVILLE BALLET STUDIO 4 Weaverville Road, Woodfin, 252-4761, ashevilleballet.com • WE (4/12), 5-6:30pm - Master class in contemporary and modern techniques with Shauna Sorensen. Registration: ashevilleballet@att.net or 252-4761. Free.

ASHEVILLE MOVEMENT COLLECTIVE ashevillemovementcollective.org • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Community ecstatic dance wave. $8-$20.

Held at Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Ave. • SUNDAYS, 8:30-10:30am & 10:30am-12:30pm - Community ecstatic dance wave. $8-$20.

Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway

FOOD & BEER CALDWELL CUSINE 726-2478, kandreasen@cccti.edu • TH (4/6), 6pm - Culinary Arts student Israeli themed meal.

Registration required. $21. Held at J.E. Broyhill Civic Center, 1913 Hickory Blvd., SE, Lenior GREEK ORTHODOX LADIES PHILOPTOCHOS SOCIETY 258-3938 • SU (4/9), 11am-2pm - Proceeds from the annual Palm Sunday luncheon featuring greek food benefit the Ladies Philoptochos Society local and world wide charities. Order for pick up: 828-253-3754. Prices vary. Held at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 227 Cumberland Ave., Ashevile

FLETCHER COMMUNITY PARK 85 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher • SA (4/8), 11am-1pm - “Easter Eggsplotion!” Event featuring aster egg hunts, inflatables, bubble station, face painting and photos with the Easter bunny.

Free to attend.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS READY FOR EARTH WEEK? (PD.) Asheville artists want to help.

Join SignsUp Asheville’s first Popup Sign-Making Party and get coached by the pros. Odyssey School, 90 Zillicoa St, 04/15, 2:00-6:00pm. signsupavl@gmail.com CITY OF ASHEVILLE 251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room. Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. • TH (4/13), 5:30pm - African American Heritage Commission meeting. Free. Held at Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center, 285 Livingston St. FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • WE (4/12), 5:30-7:30pm - Advocacy skills workshop focused on media mobilization, meeting with elected officials and community empowerment.

Free to attend.

HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 692-6424, myhcdp.com/ • SA (4/8), 9-10am - Annual county convention. Free. Held at Hendersonville City Operations Building, 305 Williams St., Hendersonville

KIDS FESTIVALS ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • TH (4-6) through SA (4/8) - Arts Fest with exhibits and presentations featuring music, dance, theater, digital media, literature and visual arts. Free.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION art.unca.edu • SA (4/8), 2-4pm - “Bojangles’ Easter Eggstravaganza,” event with inflatables, face painting, crafts, entertainment and Easter egg hunts for all ages. Free to attend.

ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 175 Biltmore Ave., 253-3227 • 2nd TUESDAYS, 11am-12:30pm - Homeschool program for grades 1-4. Registration required: 253-3227 ext. 124. $4 per student.

BARNES AND NOBLE BOOKSELLERS ASHEVILLE MALL 3 S. Tunnel Road, 296-7335 • SA (4/8), 11am - Storytime with Drew Daywalt, author of The Day the Crayons Quit. Free to attend.

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PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library

• WE (4/5), 4-5pm - After School Art Club: "Recycled Crafts," activity for children in grades K-5. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • SATURDAYS through (4/29) - Reading with JR the therapy dog for preschool readers through age 10. Registration required: 250-6486. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Spanish story time for children of all ages.

Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • MONDAYS, 10:30am - "Mother Goose Time," storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TU (4/11), 2pm - "Two Bowls," event to design and glaze bowls with professional potters. For ages 8-13. Registration required: 828-250-6482. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TU (4/11), 4pm - Afterschool Science Program: "Bats! Our Bug-eating Friends." Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TUESDAYS, 4-5:30pm - Read with Olivia the therapy dog.

Registration required: 828-2506482. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 4-5pm "After School Art Adventures," guided art making for school age children with the Asheville Art Museum. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • TH (4/13), 11am - "Preschool Firefighter Storytime," with local firefighters and real fire truck. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa CHIMNEY ROCK PARK 1638 Chimney Rock Park Road, Chimney Rock, 625-4688 • WE (4/12), 9:30am - Spring homeschool day. Registration required. Admission fees apply.

DANCING BEAR TOYS 518 Kenilworth Road, Asheville, 255-8697, dancingbeartoys.com • SA (4/8), noon - "Social Justice League: Stand Against Racism," presentations and activities for kids by the YWCA. For ages 5-10. Free to attend.

EBLEN CHARITIES 255-3066, eblencharities.org • SA (4/8), 10am-1pm "Operation Prom Dress," event offering free prom dresses for any girls in need. Free. Held in the Ingles Toy Store, Westgate Regional Shopping Center, 50 Westgate Parkway

Celebrate the opening of Lake Julian Park’s brand new 18-hole disc golf course while raising money to support the WNC Green Building Council.

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FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free.

M HANDS ON! A CHILDREN'S GALLERY 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-8333 • WE (4/5) through SA (4/8), 10am-4pm - "Spring Flower Festival," activities for kids to create flowers using recycled materials. Admission fees apply.

M LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Highway 126 Nebo, 584-7728 • TH (4/13), 1pm - "NC Science Festival Mini-blitz," ranger-led citizen science project to identify, count and record species. Free.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend.

Inspiring children to become their best selves

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WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 877-4423 • FR (4/7), 9-11am - "Nature Nuts: Amphibians," presentation and activities for ages 4-7.

Registration required. Free.

• FR (4/7), 1-3pm - "EcoExplorers: Birding by Ear," for ages 8-13. Registration required.

Free.

• SA (4/8), 2-3:30pm - "Birdhouse Basics," birdhouse building activity for ages 7 and up. Registration required. Free.

The Learning Community School is a private K-8 school 15 minutes from downtown Asheville located on the campus of Camp Rockmont.

SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 640 Merrimon Ave., #204, 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop. com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend.

OUTDOORS ASHEVILLE AMBLERS WALKING CLUB ashevilleamblers.com • SA (4/8), 9am - 7/10 kilometer walk in Black Mountain. All levels welcome.

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FRIENDS OF THE SMOKIES 452-0720, friendsofthesmokies.org, outreach.nc@friendsofthesmokies. org • TU (4/11) - Classic guided 10-mile round-trip hike to Big Creek. Register for location and time: Hike.FriendsoftheSmokies. org. $35/$20 members.

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LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Highway 126 Nebo, 584-7728 • TH (4/6), 9:45am - "Walking the Wetlands," ranger led hike to the Old Catawba River. Free. Meet at the Canal Bridge Boat Access on NC 126 for carpool caravan • FR (4/7), 8am - "Spring Migration Bird Hike," ranger-led 2 1/4 mile hike on the Fox Den Loop Trail. Free.

• WE (4/12), 10am - "Migration Meander," ranger-led 2-mile birding hike along the lakeshore.

Free.

PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 877-4423 • TH (4/6), 10am-1pm - "On the Water: East Fork French Broad," workshop for ages 12 and up.

Registration required. Free.

• SA (4/8), 10am-3pm "Introduction to Tenkara," fly fishing workshop for ages 14 and older. Registration required. Free.

Arnold Wengrow presents his book, The Designs of Santo Loquasto. Free. Held in Karpen Hall Laurel Forum

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WARREN WILSON 800-934-3536, warren-wilson.edu • TH (4/6), 7pm - Warren Wilson College’s Global Impact Forum: "An evening with Ambassador Sarah Mendelson." Free. Held at The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, 67 Broadway M THE COLLIDER 1 Haywood St., Ste 401, thecollider.org/ • TU (4/11), 5:30-6:30pm - “What is Science?” Presentation by Nobel Peace Prize-winning scientist Dr. Thomas Peterson. Free.

SENIORS SERVICES AND SUPPORT FOR SENIORS (PD.)

PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED pisgahchaptertu.org/ New-Meeting-information.html • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm General meeting and presentations. Free to attend. Held at Ecusta Brewery, 36 E Main St., Brevard

• Companionship and respite care • Accompaniment to appointments • Monitoring and family liaison • Meal preparation • Nursing home visits • Housesitting • Consultation and Mentoring • Conscious Aging Workshops. Evalina Everidge, RN (828) 577-7841.

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M THE CRADLE OF FORESTRY 11250 Pisgah Highway, Pisgah Forest, 877-3130 • SA (4/8), 10am-4pm - "Old Time Plowing & Folkways," event featuring demonstrations and horse-drawn plowing. Admission fees apply.

AGUDAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION 505 Glasgow Lane Hendersonville, 693-9838, agudasisraelsynagogue.org • WEDNESDAYS, 11am-2pm The Hendersonville Elder Club for older adults of all faiths. Free.

PARENTING SENIOR OPPORTUNITY CENTER 36 Grove St. • TH (4/13), 1-3pm - "Grand Day Out," grandparents can bring children to participate in games and crafts with other families.

Free/$1 per child.

THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL 360 Asheville School Road, 2546345, ashevilleschool.org • TH (4/6), 7pm - Frances Jensen speaks about adolescent brain development as it relates to risktaking behavior, with an emphasis on adolescent substance abuse. Free. Held in the Walker Arts Center’s Graham Theater

PUBLIC LECTURES PUBLIC LECTURES AT UNCA unca.edu • TH (4/6), 4pm - Professor

COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY, INC. 277-8288, coabc.org • FR (4/7), 2-4pm - "Medicare Choices Made Easy," workshop.

Registration required. Free.

Held at Goodwill Career Training Center, 1616 Patton Ave. • MO (4/10), 7-8:30pm "Medicare Choices Made Easy," workshop. Registration required.

Free. Held at Big Ivy Community Center, 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville SENIOR OPPORTUNITY CENTER 36 Grove St., Asheville • WEDNESDAYS, 1:30-4pm "Bid Whist," card players club.

Free.

• THURSDAYS, 1-2pm Contemporary line dancing class.

Join anytime. $5 per class.

• FRIDAYS, 12:30-3:30pm "Canasta," group card game gathering. Free.

• 1st & 3rd FRIDAYS, 1:303:45pm - "Charitable Sewing and Yarn Crafts." Complete your own projects in the company of oth-

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• TUESDAYS, 2-3pm - "Senior Beat," drumming, dance fitness class. For standing or seated participants. $3.

SPIRITUALITY ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE • FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (PD.) Deep within everyone is a wellspring of peace, energy and happiness. With proper instruction anyone can effortlessly transcend the busy or agitated mind and directly experience that rejuvenating inner source. Learn how TM is different from mindfulness, watching your breath, common mantra meditation and everything else. NIHsponsored research shows deep revitalizing rest, reduced stress and anxiety, improved brain functioning and heightened well-being. Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut.

828-254-4350. TM.org or MeditationAsheville.org

ASTRO-COUNSELING (PD.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available.

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

EXPERIENCE THE SACRED SOUND OF HU (PD.) In our fast-paced world, are you looking to find more inner peace? Singing HU can lift you into a higher state of consciousness, so that you can discover, in your own way, who you are and why you’re here. • Sunday, April 9, 2017, 11am, fellowship follows.

Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (“Hops and Vines” building, lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-2546775. (free event). www.eckankar-nc.org MARCONICS NO-TOUCH PRACTITIONER TRAINING (PD.) • A dynamic and interactive event * Spiritual topics and origin of Marconics * Attunement and instruction on the ‘No Touch’ Protocol

* Official Level 1 Practitioner Certification. April 22-23, 10am-5pm. Four Points Sheraton, Asheville. Register: https://goo.gl/5AhtSe. OPEN HEART MEDITATION (PD.) Now at 70 Woodfin Place, Suite 212. Tuesdays 7-8pm.

Experience the stillness and beauty of connecting to your heart and the Divine within you. Suggested $5 donation.

OpenHeartMeditation.com SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER (PD.) Thursdays, 7-8:30pm and Sundays, 10-noon • Meditation and community.

By donation. 60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, (828) 200-5120. asheville.shambhala.org BROOKSTONE PARK 90 Griffee Road, Weaverville • SA (4/8), 10:30am - "NAK Egg-Mazing Race," community-wide family friendly event with inflatables, obstacle course and family show. Free.

CENTER FOR ART & SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE 1 School Road, 258-0211 • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS,

2pm - Intentional meditation.

Admission by donation.

• 3rd SATURDAYS, 7:309:30pm - "Dances of Universal Peace," spiritual group dances that blend chanting, live music and movement. No experience necessary. Admission by donation.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING ASHEVILLE 2 Science Mind Way, 2532325, cslasheville.org • 1st FRIDAYS, 7pm "Dreaming a New Dream," meditation to explore peace and compassion. Free.

MOUNT CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH 201Mount Carmel Road, 254-4688 • SA (4/8), 10am-5:30pm - "The Priscilla Shirer Simulcast," music, worship and live broadcast sessions led by Priscella Shirer. $5 for lunch.

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M BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • WE (4/5), 3pm - Weaverville Afternoon Book Club: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (4/6), 6:30pm - East Asheville Book Club: H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • TU (4/11), 1pm - Leicester Book Club: Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • TU (4/11), 7pm - Friends of the Fairview Library meeting. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TH (4/13), 6:30pm - Economics & Environmentalism Book Club: The Vandana Shiva Reader, by Vandana Shiva. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • WE (4/5), 6pm - Bill Ayers presents his book, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto.

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• First THURSDAYS, 6pm - Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend.

• FR (4/7), 6pm - "Musicians & Spoken Word for the Common Good." Free to attend.

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

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GRATEFUL STEPS 30 Ben Lippen School Road, Suite 107, 277-0998, gratefulsteps.org • MONDAYS, 6:30-9pm, THURSDAYS, 9:30am-noon & SATURDAYS, 9:30-noon, (2/20) through (4/29) - "Writing Secrets of the Pros," fundraiser class series helps writers discover professional techniques for writing fiction, non-fiction or poetry. Registration required: 828-505-9221 or weirwnc417@gmail. com. $25 per class.

LITERARY EVENTS AT UNCA unca.edu • TU (4/11), 7pm - Elizabeth Kostova presents her book, The Shadow Land, in conversation with author Ron Rash. Presented by Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe. $30. Held in the Humanities Lecture Hall LITERARY EVENTS AT WCU wcu.edu • Through TH (4/6) - The 15th annual Spring Literary Festival. For full schedule and locations visit: litfestival.org.

M MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com • WE (4/5), 7pm - Michel Stone, in conversation with Tommy Hayes, presents his novel, Border Child. Free to attend.

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• FR (4/7), 7pm - Erika Carter presents her novel, Lucky You. Free to attend.

• SA (4/8), 4pm - "Poetry on Request," with local poets. Free to attend.

• SA (4/8), 7pm - Jeff Mann, N.S. Beranek and Steve Berman present their gay romance novels. Free to attend.

• SU (4/9), 3pm - Writers at Home Reading: Alli Marshall and Deno Trakas read from their works. Free to attend.

• MO (4/10), 7pm - Mystery Book Club: Day of Small Things by Vicki Lane. Free to attend.

• MO (4/10), 7pm - Mystery authors panel featuring David Burnsworth, Susan Crawford, Elena Hartwell, Bryan Robinson and Jaden Terrell. Free to attend.

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WILMA DYKEMAN LEGACY 458-5813, wilmadykemanlegacy.org, stokely.jim@gmail.com • 2nd THURSDAYS, 5:30pm - Thomas Wolfe Book Club: Gulliver: The Story of a Tall Man, discussion led by Brandon Johnson. Free. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 North Market St.

• SA (4/8), 10:30am-noon - Volunteer to help create book packages for people recently placed in new housing by Homeward Bound of Asheville. Registration required.

• WE (4/12), 5-6:30pm - Volunteer to help keep up with the maintenance of the Verner Center for Early Learning community garden.

Registration required.

HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 1st THURSDAYS, 11am - "Welcome Home Tour," tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population. Registration required. Free to attend.

M HOMINY CREEK GREENWAY 130 Shelburne Road, fohcg.org • SA (4/8), 1-3:30pm - Community work day to clear the park of invasive plants. Meet at the toolshed near the Shelburne Road entrance

M MOUNTAINTRUE 258-8737, wnca.org • SA (4/8), 9am-1pm - Volunteer to clear nonnative invasive plant species in the park. Free.

Held at Richmond Hill Park, 4641 Law School Road, East Bend OUR VOICE 35 Woodfin St., 252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • Through FR (4/14) - Open registration for the Our VOICE Advocate training to provide emotional and informational support to callers on a 24-hour hotline. Training takes place THURSDAYS (4/20) through (5/25), 2:30-5:30pm.

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Asheville leads the way in new role for pharmacists

BY LESLIE BOYD leslie.boyd@gmail.com Most people think of a pharmacist as the person behind the counter at the drugstore, the one who counts out pills, per doctors’ orders, and puts them in a bottle.

But all along, the pharmacist has been a medical professional who might flag possible dangers — the interaction of prescription drugs with each other and with over-the-counter medications the patient may be taking.

Pharmacists’ unique understanding of medications and the way they act on the human body has never been utilized to the fullest extent possible, says Mollie Ashe Scott, doctor of pharmacy and regional associate dean of the Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s Asheville branch.

“It used to be illegal for pharmacists to tell patients anything about any medication that wasn’t on the label,” Scott says. “Now pharmacists are being called to have more hands-on contact with patients.”

And more and more often, pharmacists have joined clinical teams, working directly with patients and physicians to manage chronic illnesses. Asheville-area medical practices have pioneered the use of clinical pharmacists outside the hospital setting, and MAHEC is leading the way The Asheville Project, a nationally recognized health initiative launched in 1997 by the city, paired pharmacists with patients to help them manage chronic illnesses and

CUTTING EDGE: Mollie Ashe Scott, regional associate dean of the UNC Asheville branch of the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, speaks to prospective students about their career options at a recent open house. Photo by Leslie Boyd saved the city millions of dollars in health care costs, for example.

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Carolina was looking to open a new branch of its Chapel Hill-based Eshelman School of Pharmacy, the logical place was Asheville, says Scott.

At an Eshelman open house on March 20 at UNCA, she told a group of prospective students that their choices are much broader than ever before.

They can be pharmacists in drug retail settings, work in hospital pharmacies or pharmaceutical companies, and even for insurance companies as they develop drug formularies. They can work in home care, hospice and palliative care, or education. She also noted in her presentation that clinical pharmacists are on the cutting edge of a new frontier. Scott worked with the Mountain Area Health Education Center when it began developing its clinical pharmacist program.

“Pharmacists are becoming an integral part of the team in patient care,” she says.

An increasing number of medical practices are hiring clinical pharmacists to help them manage patients’ care, especially practices that deal with older patients, says Dr. Jeff Heck, a geriatrician and CEO of MAHEC. “The Asheville Project introduced the notion that pharmacists can be part of the team that interacts with patients,” Heck says.

“It serves to extend primary care by adding a team member with unique skills.”

He employs a clinical pharmacist in his own geriatric practice.

Stephanie Kiser, clinical associate professor and director of Rural Health and Wellness for the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, trained in patient disease management 20 years ago.

The importance of a clinical pharmacist was driven home not long ago when her father developed a cough, and no one could find the cause. Since he lives several hundred miles away, Kiser relied on his health care team to find the cause, but as the months passed, the cough persisted.

On a recent visit, Kiser decided to look at all her father’s medications. She found one that sometimes causes a cough, and once the medication was changed, the cough went away.

The place where her father receives his care does not employ a clinical pharmacist.

The specialty is most important in rural areas, where there are fewer doctors, especially specialists, says Kiser. And 80 percent of North Carolina is classified as rural.

Add the fact that doctors are under pressure to see more patients, and having another set of eyes on the patient is important.

A 2011 report to the Surgeon General by the U.S. Public Health Service supports enhancing patient care with clinical pharmacists in collaboration with physicians and other providers. The report says clinical pharmacists can help manage illnesses, especially where medications are the primary method of treatment.

They can perform basic assessments and collect data and coordinate care with other providers. “Pharmacists are uniquely positioned (through their accessibility, expertise and experience) to play a much larger patient care role in the U.S. health care delivery system,� the report says.

One problem with clinical pharmacists, though, is that they are not widely recognized as providers of patient care, and their work is not reimbursed fully, Heck says.

The report to the Surgeon General agrees: Clinical pharmacists “must be recognized as health care providers by statute, via legislation and policy and be compensated,� as are physician assistants, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, clinical social workers, clinical psychologists and registered dietitians. The report also notes “evidence that medications are involved in 80 percent of all treatments (and impact every aspect of a patient’s life), and drug-related morbidity and mortality cost this country almost $200 billion annually.�

Heck sees the greatest benefit in rural health settings and for older patients, who average three chronic conditions each, and who take from three to 12 medications, on average.

Plus, the number of people over age 65 in North Carolina is expected to double, from 1.1 million to 2.2 million in the next 20 years, Heck says. “A clinical pharmacist is uniquely qualified to oversee these medications and help prevent adverse interactions,� he says. “There are some things that just should not go together, and adverse reactions can happen between prescription medicines and over-the-counter medicines or supplements.�

Heck said MAHEC’s residents in family practice, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry and general surgery are being trained to work with clinical pharmacists, and graduates are hiring them to be a part of the patient care team.

The addition of clinical pharmacists is growing, Heck says, and it is starting to catch on in other places. “We are introducing something new here,� he says, “and it’s very exciting.�  X

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BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • MO (4/10), 1pm - "Ageless Grace," gentle exercise class. Registration required: 250-4718. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 Sixth Ave., W. Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 9am - Walking exercise class.

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HAYWOOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 262 Leroy George Drive Clyde, 456-7311 • TU (4/11), 6pm - Dinner with a Doc: “From Pain to Performance: Hip & Knee Replacement,” dinner and presentation by Gerald King, MD, from Western Carolina Orthopaedic Specialists.

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OUR VOICE 35 Woodfin St., 252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • FR (3/24), 12:30-2:30pm "Soul Collage," therapeutic collage workshop for survivors of sexual violence and the loved ones of survivors.

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THE MEDITATION CENTER 894 E. Main St., Sylva, 3561105, meditate-wnc.org • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm - "Inner Guidance from an Open Heart," class with meditation and discussion. $10.

SUPPORT GROUPS ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS & DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES adultchildren.org • Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 254-8539 or aancmco.org ASHEVILLE WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY 215-536-8026, womenforsobriety.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm – Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. ASPERGER'S TEENS UNITED facebook.com/groups/ AspergersTeensUnited • For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks. Contact for details.

CHRONIC PAIN SUPPORT 989-1555, deb.casaccia@gmail.com • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6 pm – Held in a private home.

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CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS 242-7127 • FRIDAYS, 5:30pm - Held at First United Methodist Church of Waynesville, 556 S. Haywood Waynesville • SATURDAYS, 11:15am – Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. • TUESDAYS 7:30pm Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite G4 DEBTORS ANONYMOUS debtorsanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7pm - Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

Four Seasons - Checkpoint, 373 Biltmore Ave. • THURSDAYS, 12:30pm Grief support group. Held at SECU Hospice House, 272 Maple St., Franklin G.E.T. R.E.A.L. phoenix69@bellsouth.net • 2nd SATURDAYS, 2pm - Group for people with chronic 'invisible' autoimmune diseases. Held at Fletcher Community Park, 85 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS gamblersanonymous.org • THURSDAYS, 6:45pm 12-step meeting. Held at Basillica of St. Lawrence, 97 Haywood St. HAYWOOD COUNTY COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS 400-6480 • 1st THURSDAYS - Support group for families who have lost a child of any age. Held at Long's Chapel United Methodist Church, 175 Old Clyde Road, Waynesville INFERTILITY SUPPORT GROUP resolveasheville@gmail.com • 1st THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP 386-801-2606 • TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm For adults managing the challenges of life limiting illnesses. Held at Secrets of a Duchess, 1439 Merrimon Ave. LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN 776-4809 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Hosted by American Chronic Pain Association. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, NC CHAPTER 877-849-8271, lupusnc.org • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm - Lupus support group for those living with lupus, their family and caregivers. Held at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St.

7:30pm - Mission Children's Family Support Network youth group from ages 11 to 21. Dinner is provided. Held at Mission Reuter Children's Center, 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive MOUNTAIN MAMAS PEER SUPPORT GROUP facebook.com/ mountainmamasgroup • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1-3pm - Held at The Family Place, 970 Old Hendersonville Highway Brevard MY DADDY TAUGHT ME THAT mydaddytaughtmethat.org • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm Men's discussion group.

Free. Held in 16-A Pisgah Apartment, Asheville NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS 505-7353, namiwnc.org, namiwc2015@gmail.com • 2nd MONDAYS, 11am - Connection group for individuals dealing with mental illness. Held at NAMI Offices, 356 Biltmore Ave. OUR VOICE 35 Woodfin St., 252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • Ongoing drop-in group for female identified survivors of sexual violence.

OVERCOMERS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 665-9499 • WEDNESDAYS, noon1pm - Held at First Christian Church of Candler, 470 Enka Lake Road, Candler OVERCOMERS RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP

saa-recovery.org/Meetings/ UnitedStates • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 6pm - Held at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 789 Merrimon Ave. • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. SHIFTING GEARS 683-7195 • MONDAYS, 6:30-8pm Group-sharing for those in transition in careers or relationships. Contact for location.

SMART RECOVERY 407-0460 • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Held at Sunrise Community for Recovery & Wellness, Unit C4, 370 N. Louisiana Ave. • THURSDAYS, 6pm - Held at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. • SUNDAYS,6pm - Held at Kairos West Community Center, Haywood Road, Asheville SUNRISE PEER SUPPORT VOLUNTEER SERVICES facebook.com/ Sunriseinasheville • TUESDAYS through THURSDAYS, 1-3pm - Peer support services for mental health, substance abuse and wellness. Held at Kairos West Community Center, Haywood Road, Asheville SUPPORTIVE PARENTS OF TRANSKIDS

rchovey@sos-mission.org • MONDAYS, 6pm - Christian 12-step program. Held at SOS Anglican Mission, 1944 Hendersonville Road

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MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS network@memorycare.org • 2nd TUESDAYS, 9:30am – Held at Highland Farms Retirement Community, 200 Tabernacle Road, Black Mountain

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FOOD ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 423-6191 or 242-2173 • SATURDAYS, 11amHeld at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite G4

MINDFULNESS AND 12 STEP RECOVERY avl12step@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7:308:45pm - Mindfulness meditation practice and 12 step program. Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite G4

FOUR SEASONS COMPASSION FOR LIFE 233-0948, fourseasonscfl.org • TUESDAYS, 3:30-4:30pm Grief support group. Held at

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REFUGE RECOVERY 225-6422, refugerecovery. org • FRIDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Held at Shambhala Meditation Center, 60 N Merrimon Ave., #113 • THURSDAYS, 7:30pm Held at Sunrise Community for Recovery & Wellness, Unit C4, 370 N. Louisiana

DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE 367-7660, depressionbipolarasheville. com • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm & SATURDAYS, 4pm – Held at 1316-C Parkwood Road.

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WIDOWS IN NEED OF GRIEF SUPPORT 356-1105, meditate-wnc.org • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Peer support group for anyone who has survived the death of their spouse, partner, child or other closed loved one. Registration required. Held at The Meditation Center, 894 E. Main St., Sylva WNC ASPERGER'S ADULTS UNITED facebook.com/ WncAspergersAdultsUnited • 2nd SATURDAYS, 2-4pm - Occasionally meets additional Saturdays. Contact for details. Held at Hyphen, 81 Patton Ave.

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Local businesses aim to make clothing more sustainable

BY KARI BARROWS karibarrows94@gmail.com Austin Stubbs sits behind a sewing machine, eyes fixed on a pair of pants in front of him. Several people walk past as his fingers intricately pick at threads and seams, but his attention never wanders. It’s Feb. 27, and Patagonia’s “Worn Wear College Tour” is at Warren Wilson College, one of 21 U.S. schools the tour is visiting to promote sustainability.

Stubbs says this is his first tour with the West Coast outdoor clothing and gear designer. Mending worn-out clothing, the sewing technician believes, helps promote an important need that’s also a growing trend.

“I think more and more people are feeling inspired to repair their own goods, to learn how to be a little more self-sufficient, and sewing’s part of that,” he observes.

Inside a truck next to Stubbs’ sewing station, other tour workers repair clothes brought in by students and community members. Tables offer information about how to mend clothing and other ways to make it last longer. Inside Bryson Gym, more stations highlight other aspects of sustainability, such as instructions for things like fixing smartphone screens. Stations pulled together by student members of the school’s Sustainability Club feature work by local blacksmiths, fiber arts projects using wool from sheep on the college’s own farm and information about how to make dye out of food scraps.

“The vast amount of clothing that’s made today, and that’s not made to last, is a huge tax on the environment and landfills,” says Warren Wilson student Adam Grimes, an English major.

“Mending your clothes is a big thing you can do.”

The Patagonia tour reflects a growing worldwide trend. According to a 2015 report by Global Industry Analysts Inc., a market research firm based in San Jose, Calif., U.S. sewing machine sales climbed from 228,181 units in 2013 to 248,678 two years later, and the global market is predicted to reach 30.8 million units by 2020.

“Demand for home sewing machines is strongly influenced by cultural and social factors that encourage crafting, home decoration, mending and

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MENDING HIS WAYS: Patagonia’s sewing tech, Austin Stubbs, focuses on stitching during the “Worn Wear College Tour” stop at Warren Wilson College. Photo by Kari Barrows costume-making among women,” the report points out.

Stubbs, meanwhile, notes that folks of all ages are jumping on the bandwagon.

“I think it fairly well bridges demographic gaps,” he says, needle and thread in hand. “Many, many people now are starting to see a need to repair their stuff instead of just replacing it through rampant consumerism.”

FROM DOLL CLOTHES TO PROM DRESSES For Linda Boyd, though, sewing isn’t just a hobby. She runs her monogramming and alterations business out of a little room at 70 Woodfin Place, just off Charlotte Street. Before opening the shop four years ago, she worked at the House of Fabrics on Merrimon Avenue, teaching and doing alterations.

Boyd credits Lucille Neilson, the store’s longtime former owner, with pass-

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ing on her knowledge and techniques to her employees. Boyd says she was determined not to leave until her mentor did. But after Neilson retired and sold the business and a space became available at 70 Woodfin Place, Boyd decided it was time to start her own business.

“I came here really with no customers,” notes Boyd, perched beside her sewing machine. “The girls that were working at the store, they just picked up my customers, and I didn’t want to take that away from them. My husband was just having a stroke,” and he questioned the wisdom of the move. “But I said, ‘God’s opened that door for me: It’s going to be fine.’”

Eventually, some former clients did find her, but Boyd says 70 to 80 percent of her current customers are new ones.

She sees a marked contrast between the self-sufficiency she learned growing up in a large family in Leicester and the tendency, “particularly in town, to hire everything done. I guess it wasn’t an

option: There wasn’t money for it, so you learned to do it on your own.”

That included making your own clothing. “In a family of six,” says Boyd, “you didn’t have very much money, so if you wanted stuff, you made it. I cut down my aunt’s clothes when I was in high school and reworked them to where I’d have new clothes to wear to school.”

It was her grandmother, Boyd recalls, who first exposed her and her sister to sewing, giving them material to experiment with. “The first thing I remember doing is pulling the clothes off the dolls at Christmas and sitting and cutting. Our grandmother sewed, and she would pass the scraps to us, so we were making new clothes on Christmas Day for the dolls when we got them.”

These days, however, Boyd is shortening jacket sleeves, hemming prom dresses and embroidering monograms.

She sees anywhere from 20 to 40 clients a week, and many of them bring in multiple items, including old clothing they want restored.

“With the price of food, gas, everything else going up — and rent in this area is ridiculous — that’s one place that people can cut corners. Even having alterations done on clothes from secondhand stores,” says Boyd, “is still cheaper than buying new clothing for full price.”

CREATIVE ALTERATIONS Asheville is home to a number of sewing-and-alterations businesses, but most of them aren’t on wheels. Stina Andersen launched her own clothing line and label in 2007; over the next eight years, she set up shop in three different River Arts District locations.

In 2015, though, she decided it was time to stop relying on a landlord and moved ARTeries by Stina to a truck.

“It’s pretty awesome,” she says.

“When people come on board they don’t know what to expect, but it makes them happy. It’s a very creative use of the space.”

Every Friday, her truck is parked at the Asheville Food Park on Amboy Road, showcasing clothing, jewelry and miscellaneous works of art. Andersen creates most of those offerings herself; the rest is by other local artists. Every piece of clothing she sells is unique,

stresses Andersen, who also does general alterations.

“The customizations are pretty key to what I do,” she explains. “I’m a creative alterations specialist. I have the visionary ability to see how things will be better and how they can be upcycled.”

That’s a word that crops up a lot in Andersen’s vocabulary. Upcycling, she says, enhances an item, rather than turning it into something totally different.

And creativity aside, Andersen also tries to promote the idea that old clothing doesn’t have to be thrown away.

Living in Mexico for three years, she continues, made her realize how consumeristic American culture is.

“The vision for my business is to help people realize that they don’t have to buy new — that they can buy upcycled, and the value’s not any less. I think the high caliber is part of what’s so cool about my clothing line and the work I do. It’s not like a thrift shop. You can get value and quality without having to feed into fast fashion and things that are disposable.”

DO-IT-YOURSELF FASHION Various local outposts, including the Asheville Cotton Co., House of

Fabrics & Sewing Center and A-B Tech, offer classes in how to sew and mend clothing. There are also many online tutorials.

Andersen, meanwhile, has started a “stitch-and-bitch” every other Thursday evening in the Community Room at the Asheville Food Park. It’s a chance for people to come together and interact in a relaxed atmosphere.

Participants say there’s less pressure than in formal classes, but they’re still learning sewing techniques.

“It’s great because my creative juices get sucked out at work,” says Brandy Clements, who owns Silver River Chairs in the River Arts District. The stitch-and-bitch, she notes, offers relief from the stress of running a creative business. Her latest fashion trend is turning old T-shirts into skirts.

For Jessica Case, the biweekly gathering is a way to ensure that projects like the dress she’s currently working on hemming actually get done. Case says she’s sewn for a good part of her life, but much less since she became a registered nurse three years ago. Now, she’s dusting off her sewing machine. “It was buried in the basement. I felt so guilty!” X

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BY JONATHAN AMMONS jonathanammons@gmail.com If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant, you know the drill. It’s the middle of the weekday lunch service, and the place is pretty busy.

Just then, the bartender spots someone walking through the parking lot dragging a small roller case. “Health inspector is here!” she calls back to the kitchen, and suddenly everybody’s scrambling to make sure they haven’t overlooked anything. Even the smallest detail — a cup of water in the kitchen without a lid, or an unlabeled bleach bottle — can take points off a restaurant’s score.

The Environmental Health Section of the state Department of Health and Human Services is charged with regulating restaurants and bars; the actual inspections are done by county Health and Human Services staff, who also try to educate restaurant staff and management about the rules. Cafés and bars get inspected once or twice a year, depending on the type of permit they have. But restaurants that prepare food from scratch must undergo four inspections annually.

They’re random and can come at any point in the business day, in hopes of getting a look at the restaurant’s standard practices.

In 2012, North Carolina adopted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 2009 Food Code, and many local restaurateurs say inspections have gotten longer since then while scores have dropped. All scores can be viewed on the county’s website; restaurants that score below 70 get shut down.

“Our scores used to be around 98 and 99, but lately they’ve been as low as 95 and 96,” says Rich Cundiff, who owns and operates Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack. “I’ve had two customers say basically that they wouldn’t come back until they got a call explaining what happened,” he says. “They were obviously distressed and concerned that it would be a safety issue.”

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MAKING THE GRADE: Server Hannah Crawford cleans up at Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack in West Asheville. Some area restaurateurs advocate for changes to health inspection procedures and scoring to make the process less stressful for business owners and the scores more understandable for customers. Photo by Cindy Kunst tion; theoretically, a score could be as high as 102. But the update made those classes mandatory, dropping the highest possible score to a flat 100.

“The real irony,” notes Cundiff, “was when my general manager was so depressed because we got a 95, and the health inspector looked at him and said: ‘What’s wrong? That’s a great score!’

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It’s only a great score if people know it’s a great score, and right now nobody does. We’re doing better than ever, and we’re so thorough on this, so it’s pretty frustrating when you know you’re doing a better job but your customers think you’re doing a worse one.”

Owner/chef Patrick O’Cain of Gan Shan Station agrees. “When I was

cooking in North Carolina five years ago, we were seeing scores of 101102. But now there are scores of 92 and 93, which are still an A, but the public perception is not there.

They’re used to seeing scores that were up near 100. Having the grading system as a number is just silly at this point.”

Restaurant owners like O’Cain want to eliminate the number scores and just go with the letter grades — not to hide anything but to make the system easier for the public to understand.

“It has nothing to do with public health and safety — and everything to do with public perception and a better understanding that, hey, this is a safe place to eat and they’re taking the proper steps, versus a kitchen that might need to do a little more work,” says O’Cain.

MOVING THE GOAL POST Local restaurateurs are often reluctant to go on the record discussing health inspections. Many seem to fear that any ruffling of departmental feathers will result in some kind of crackdown. But food and lodging supervisor Felissa Vazquez of the county’s Environmental Health Division disputes the claims that inspections have gotten longer and scores have tanked.

“Prior to the adoption of the food code, our average score here was a 97.81, and the average for last year was 96.44,” says Vazquez, “so it has gone downhill slightly, but I would not say it was significant.” Inspections, she notes, can average anywhere from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours, with paperwork accounting for about a half-hour. Still, 2 1/2 hours could be the restaurant’s entire lunch service.

“The food code really focuses on what the FDA has identified as the five risk factors that directly contribute to foodborne illness,” Vazquez explains. Those factors are: holding temperatures for food; improper cooking temperatures; reheating leftovers; employee hygiene; and improperly cleaned equipment. During inspections, she continues, “We try to step back and look at processes and overall food handling, which is a little different than the focus was previously.”

The shift, however, has left some local restaurant owners confused.

“It can be something really simple that drops your score,” notes Cundiff. “We had a cook leave a phone sitting on a shelf in the kitchen, and they took a whole point off for that — nobody knew that was against the rules.”

O’Cain echoes that frustration. “A restaurant can have a 95, and it won’t be for a food issue. It might be a labeling issue, for example,” he says. “I just wish they would establish a standard: Every time they come in, it’s something new and different. How are we supposed to do what we’re supposed to do if there’s a moving goal post?”

MODERN KITCHENS The prime cut of O’Cain’s beef with current Health Department policy is that it hasn’t kept up with technological changes in modern commercial kitchens.

“In my case, specifically, they really seem to be behind the times when it comes to cooking with new processes and ingredients,” he explains. “It seems ridiculous that we have to go through a huge HACCP plan in order to do low-temperature, long cooking.” Like many other local chefs, O’Cain favors a technique known as sous vide, in which a vacuumsealed cut of meat is submerged in 140-degree water and slow-cooked for anywhere from two to 48 hours, depending on the cut and its intended use. Developed in France in the 1960s, sous vide employs an immersion circulator to precisely control the temperature. Nearly a dozen Asheville restaurants use sous vide machines regularly, and they all have to clear hazard analysis and critical control points plans with the Environmental Health Division for every recipe involving the technique.

“That’s one of those things that’s consistent every time: We can guarantee that the meat reaches a certain internal temperature that will kill unsafe bacteria,” notes O’Cain.

“You can legally take a piece of chicken, put it on the grill, undercook it and serve it, versus cooking it sous vide and ensuring that it won’t be unsafe for someone to consume.

It’s ridiculous that in order to do that you have to have a mountain of paperwork to go with it. I suppose they have their reasons, but I would appreciate them being more realistic about the times and understanding something about how kitchens actually work these days.”

Vazquez acknowledges that there was a learning curve for the inspectors in the beginning, but she stresses that enforcement is not the department’s primary focus.

“We try to see ourselves as educators first and regulators second. In order to protect public health and assist the restaurant with a successful inspection, we may take additional time to try to get compliance. If we gain compliance during an inspection, depending on the violation, it could reflect on the grade. So I know that some inspectors may spend a lot of time trying to help restaurants come up with solutions.” X

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THE MIGHTY ACORN Asheville boasts more than its fair share of unconventional eats. But many diners may not have considered one food that’s as local as your own backyard: the acorn.

Bill Whipple, founder of the Buncombe Fruit and Nut Club and a co-owner of Asheville’s Nutty Buddy Collective, a nut-focused agricultural business, hopes to endear Asheville to the idea of using acorns as a food source through his Acornucopia Project. The vision of Acornucopia is to create what Whipple calls “nut depots” in communities throughout Western North Carolina and beyond that will offer processing facilities with machinery for cracking and dehulling nuts and pressing and grinding the meats for oil and flour.

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Whipple believes that compared with other types of nuts, acorns have enormous untapped potential as a sustainable local edible because they are abundant in Western North Carolina and can be processed into both flour and oil.

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given to them. Perhaps they are so common as to be invisible, but even pine is often used.”

However, Whipple and Muskat aren’t the only folks in Western North Carolina who have discovered the culinary usefulness of the acorn. Glorious Forest Farm in Madison County markets acorn flour as well as cookies made from it on its website and at the North Asheville Tailgate Market. Acorns have even moseyed into the beer world, appearing in Zebulon Artisan Ales 2016 Weaverville Winter Saison.

Historically, acorns were integral to indigenous North American diets and were also a staple food in ancient times in places such as Greece and Japan. European acorns, unlike their American cousins, are sweet and can be roasted directly after harvest like chestnuts. However, after undergoing a leaching process where the nut meats are soaked, rinsed and resoaked many times in water until all bitterness is gone, American acorns also achieve a sweet, nutty and complex flavor.

White oak acorns, which have a high carbohydrate composition, are ideal for producing acorn flour. Red oaks, on

the other hand, feature higher protein content, and are therefore ideal for producing acorn oil. Whipple says that white oak acorns should be gathered in the fall, as they are more ephemeral and vulnerable to mold. Red oak acorns are hardier and should be gathered in the spring.

OPEN-SOURCE FOOD Acorns are plentiful, easy to gather, don’t require intensive agricultural investment and, once stabilized by leaching and drying, store well. So why aren’t they an American dietary staple?

“We are trained to think that things from nature are poisonous,” Whipple says. Big agriculture, which is responsible for the production of major American monocrops like wheat, corn and soy, is sustained by the perpetuation of this idea, he says. The industry trains consumers to believe that “we have to rely on big corporations and grocery stores for food,” which, says Whipple, is far from the truth.

As an open-source food, he continues, acorns fly in the face of big

agriculture because they belong to no one. The Acornucopia Project is “something we own, like Airbnb or Uber,” he says. “When we realize this, we have freedom. We have ease in our life.”

The Nutty Buddy Collective is working to reinstate a diversity of fruit and nut trees throughout the Asheville region by partnering with conservation-minded landowners, establishing and maintaining longterm plantings of native and well-adapted nuts and through a variety of other initiatives. The Acornucopia Project, Whipple hopes, will serve to further strengthen the local Asheville economy, create greater food sovereignty in the area and lessen our dependence on big agriculture.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS Whipple hopes that as his “centralized nuttery” idea spreads, he will eventually be able to establish biologically diverse oak orchards. He realizes that folks may have concerns about the environmental sustainability of harvesting acorns. But while harvesting by humans might have a small impact on food supplies for some animals, it would

predominantly be done in manmade environments rather than in endangered wildlife habitats.

Whipple also urges us to consider acorn consumption within a larger environmental framework: Whereas conventional agriculture demands that forests be clear-cut to make space for annual monocrops, acorns are longlasting perennials. Corporate monocrops can also require other destructive land practices such as intensive pesticide and fertilizer use, but acorns only need to be harvested.

An investment in acorns is therefore a divestment from an environmentally destructive industry. “The more we eat acorns means the less we eat commodity grains,” he says. “Where we put our resources is the world we create.”

And Muskat adds that it doesn’t hurt that with their little caps, they are an aesthetically pleasing nut. “After all,” he says, “there’s something so helplessly cute about them.”

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Bring on the cheese While the third annual Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest is still a ways down the road — the event, at Highland Brewing won’t take place until Sunday, April 23 — those interested in attending should consider buying tickets in advance.

“It’s a very popular fest,” says Rachel Brown, the event’s marketing coordinator. She adds that dayof tickets are limited in number and higher in price.

As in years past, the festival will feature cheesemakers and producers, both locally based and from neighboring areas and states.

“We try to promote Southern cheese,” says Brown, “specifically cheesemakers in the western part of the state. … Most people don’t realize that we have as many cheesemakers as we do.”

Blue Ridge Mountain Creamery, Cane Creek Creamery, English Farmstead Cheese, Looking Glass Creamery, Oakmoon Farm & Creamery, Round Mountain Creamery, Spinning Spider Creamery, Three Graces Dairy and Yellow Branch Farm & Pottery will be among the local participants at the festival.

Cheese samples will be offered throughout the day, and guests will also have the opportunity to try a variety of mustards, jams, jellies, breads and chocolates. “Anything you want on a cheese board or cheese plate you can find,” Brown says.

Competitions, pairings, workshops and demos will be offered as well.

Highlights include the Cookin’ with Cheese 2017 competition, a cheese and cider pairing event with Nobel Cider, a class on Making Mozzarella at Home and Charcuterie 101 led by local expert Meredith Leigh. Melt Your Heart food truck will sell its signature grilled cheese sandwiches at the event.

In a change from previous years, guest judges will not determine the winners in the 2017 competitions — instead, the crowd will cast ballots.

In order to participate, however, guests are required to purchase an extra $5 ticket. The additional fee will ensure that enough samples are made for all voters. In addition to crowning the victor of the Cookin’ with Cheese event, the audience will determine the winner

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Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest returns with competitions, tastings and workshops for the Battle of the Boards 2017.

This year’s event also focuses on expanding its kid-friendly activities. “We’re really trying to make it where everyone of all ages has something to do at Cheese Fest,” Brown says. The kids tent will feature a number of games, including Mouse Trap, as well as cheesethemed word searches and puzzles. There will be a butter-making session, too.

New additions aside, the Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest remains an event aimed at celebrating the local cheese scene and connecting members of the community. “Pretty much all of our makers are in one place,” says Brown. “It’s really easy to walk around, find a new local cheese, talk to people, talk to makers and put a face to the cheese.”

The Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest runs noon-4 p.m. Sunday, April 23, at Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Highway. Tickets are available now. General administration is $14. Admission is free for children ages 12 and younger. Sameday tickets are limited and will cost $20. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the nonprofit WNC Cheese Trail. For details and to buy tickets, visit avl.mx/3j8.

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CHEESEHEAD: Sandie Rhodes poses at last year’s Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest. On Sunday, April 23, the festival returns to celebrate cheeses of all kinds sourced from everything from cows and goats to sheep and even elk. Photo by Cindy Kunst

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An izakaya is a type of Japanese bar that offers small plates and snacks. San Francisco chef Khan Kogure of Izakaya Renato will bring the format to Gan Shan Station in the six-course Izakaya Renato pop-up dinner on Sunday, April 9. Highlights from the menu include Kogure family kimchi with Napa cabbage, dried squid, salted shrimp, daikon, dried persimmon peel and Fuji apple; Tokyo turnips with mizuna, spring onion, sweet vinegar and mustardy miso; Japanese roasted green tea panna cotta with hojicha syrup and almond cookies. One glass of Bushido sake is included with the meal, while additional Japanese beer, craft cocktails and wine are available for purchase.

The Izakaya Pop-Up will offer seatings at 5 and 7 p.m. Sunday,

April 9, at Gan Shan Station, 143 Charlotte St. Tickets are $60 per person, plus tax and gratuity. To make reservations, visit avl.mx/3j2.

REVELRY: DOWNTOWN FOOD TRUCK RALLY The Grubbery Food Truck, Sunshine Sammies, the Purple People Feeder and Shakti Shiva are among local vendors participating at this year’s Revelry: Downtown Food Truck Rally. The all-day event takes place at the Asheville Masonic Temple on Saturday, April 8. Local beers from the Asheville Brewers Alliance will be for sale as will cocktails prepared and served

by Sovereign Remedies’ bar staff.

Entertainment will include live music and stand-up comedy, and there will be face painting and a bounce house for kids. Proceeds from the event will benefit local nonprofits Brother Wolf Animal Rescue and Our VOICE rape crisis service.

Revelry: Downtown Food Truck Rally runs 11:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 8, at the Asheville

Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway. Ticket options include $10 general admission or the $35 Movable Feast, which comes with samples from each truck plus dessert and a drink. Parking will be available at Hometrust Bank, Four Points by Sheraton and Renaissance Asheville Hotel. For details on handicapped parking, call 828-226-2810.

For tickets and additional information, visit avl.mx/prtj.

CLOSINGS Nectar at 853 Merrimon Ave. and Bandidos Latin Kitchen at 697 Haywood St. have both recently closed. On Wednesday, March 17, Nectar posted a farewell status on its Facebook page that read: “Hello Asheville, Nectar Cafe is officially closed. Thank You for all the support. … Cool things coming soon to 853 Merrimon Ave.” On Friday, March 15, Bandidos posted a brief farewell on its Facebook page as well that read, “Goodbye friends.”

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Funny movies, creative brews Asheville Brewing mixes new beers with vintage comedies Movies and beer have long been part of day-to-day business at Asheville Pizza and Brewing’s mothership location on Merrimon Avenue. But the brewery/discount cinema/pizzeria is giving that concept a twist this month when a new weekly series of beers debuts, each of them paired with a vintage comedy film.

The idea started when company President Mike Rangel wanted to celebrate National Humor Month, says brewery spokeswoman Anne Fitten Glenn.

Along with its usual lineup of second-run features, the Merrimon location has offered special movie features, sometimes in honor of the anniversary of a film’s release or the birthday of a star or director. Recently, the theater has had one-off screenings of Shaun of the Dead and the Woody Allen comedy Manhattan. Rangel says those shows generally pack the 145-seat theater.

With the list of classic comedies finalized, the company’s brewers went to work, coming up with recipes that would match the films.

Most of the Asheville Brewing crew knew the movies well, Rangel says.

Finally, Asheville Brewing turned to its customers, who submitted potential names for the beers via Facebook and Instagram. More than 1,000 responses poured in.

“It was a lot of fun going through them,” Rangel says. The chosen names creatively reference a

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PINTS AND GIGGLES: Asheville Pizza and Brewing president Mike Rangel, right, wanted to celebrate National Humor Month. He decided the business would brew four new beers and pair them with four classic comedy movies. Asheville Brewing head brewer Pete Langheinrich, left, helped lead the project. Photo by Jack Sorokin line or a character from the films.

Winners received a $40 gift card, two tickets for the show and two Asheville Brewing T-shirts.

The films will play on Thursday nights in April, and tickets are the same as always: $3 a person. Showtime is 7 p.m. Movie tickets are now on sale at the bar for all four films.

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The beers will be on tap at both the Merrimon location and the downtown brewery on Coxe Avenue. Only 7 barrels of each beer were made, Glenn says. For customers who want to take some home, growlers will be sold.

The series begins April 6 with The Princess Bride, first released in 1987, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, André the Giant and Christopher Guest. The story follows a young farmhand who must rescue his kidnapped love.

The beer for that film is Ashe Brew Wish, named by Geneva Green out of 400 entries. It’s a passion fruit sour blonde made with a touch of rose hips and is 5.9 percent ABV. Next on April 13 is Fast Times at Ridgemont High with Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Judge Reinhold in a coming-of-age story about wild Southern California students. Cameron Crowe wrote the book on which the film is based after going undercover at a San Diego

high school and later wrote the screenplay.

The new beer that week is Aloha Mr. Hand, named by Andre Rodriguez and JP Teague out of 170 entries. It’s a pineapple cream IPA with a coconut water infusion and weighs in at 6.2 percent ABV. The series continues April 20 with 1998’s Half Baked, starring Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer in a tale of stoners who sell marijuana stolen from a lab to raise funds to bail a friend out of jail after he accidentally killed a diabetic police horse by feeding it junk food.

Its tie-in beer is Abra-Kolschdabra Hemp Pale Ale, named by Ryan Webb out of 180 entries. The brew was made using crushed hemp seeds and nugget hops.

The series concludes April 27 with 2004’s Napoleon Dynamite. Jon Heder, in his feature film debut, stars as the title character, an eccentric 16-year-old who lives with his unemployed older brother and dreams his days away when he’s not tangling with bullies. The film led to a shortlived animated series on Fox. The brew for the final film is Tater Tot Saison, named by Jenn Webb out of 300 entries. It was brewed with a Belgian yeast blend and malts including pilsner, Vienna and flaked wheat, then hopped with Centennial, Lemondrop and Citra, and finally dry-hopped for extra aroma. Asheville Brewing head brewer Pete Langheinrich describes it as having “a nice balance between tart and smooth.”

Another movie and small batch beer series is planned for September.

Rangel is unsure what the film genre will be, but is currently considering science fiction or action-adventure.

“This was fun, mixing beers with movies,” he says. “People can forget how much better it can be to see a movie on the big screen with likeminded people.”

Asheville Brewing Co. will host its comedy movie and beer release series at 7 p.m. every Thursday in April starting April 6 at its location at 675 Merrimon Ave. For details, visit ashevillebrewing.com. X

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VISION REVISION

UNCA’s Arts Fest activates ‘Arts for Social Change’

BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com Visual artist, writer and photographer Clarissa Sligh describes her work as a kind of editing process.

“I used my family snapshots as a tool to reframe the narrative,” she says of some of her early pieces.

Sligh will offer the talk “I See You Mean: Making Art to Transform and Reframe the Narrative” on Friday, April 7, as part of UNC Asheville’s Arts Fest, a three-day event including lectures, exhibits, readings and much more.

“At that time, when I’d look at the photographs, the pictures that I saw seemed to have no relationship to what I remembered,” says Sligh.

“In working with family snapshots over a period of years, I began to see much more clearly how it’s a construction. It’s much more informal these days, but there’s still a great deal of constructing the picture to look a certain way. ‘Turn around and smile, face the camera,’ that sort of thing. That has always interested me — it’s not just that the photograph itself is a construction, but the way we think about family is a construction, the way we think about community is often a construction. I’ve been interested in those ideas and creating work that asks questions about it.”

Though Sligh was introduced to art as a young person, as she explained on the National Endowment for the Arts’ Art Works blog, she pursued a career in science and business, and was even employed by NASA. “While working in the business world of New York City, I met artists who created and performed political actions as part of their work,” she told the NEA. “This resonated with me and ignited old hopes and dreams around making art.”

This year’s Arts Fest is centered on the theme “Arts for Social Change” and features, along with Sligh, singer-songwriter and peace activist David LaMotte and foundmaterials artist and lecturer David Hess. LaMotte will perform a concert on the UNCA quad on Friday night, following a reception for Hess, whose work will be on display in Gun Show: An Art Exhibit. (The contract for Hess’ exhibition, due to

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PUT A BIRD ON IT: Asheville-based artist Clarissa Sligh reworked white supremacist writings into peace-evoking paper cranes for her project-in-progress Transforming Hate. Sligh will speak as part of UNC Asheville’s annual Arts Fest.

“Self-Portrait as Red-Crown Crane, 2007.” Photo courtesy of Sligh its perhaps-triggering title, contains the statement, “This show is an art exhibit and is not a gun show, or gun sale or trade event. Weapons may not be carried onto the UNC Asheville campus by anyone other than law enforcement personnel.”)

Hess’ installation is his response to recent gun violence in the U.S. “The artist created approximately 100 rifles out of industrial materials and everyday household items,” says the website for the UNCA festival. “The pieces are placed on canvas tarps on the ground where viewers are encouraged to ‘try

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on’ the guns, causing a wide range of reactions, from humorous to somber.”

Sligh also created a project in response to violence. Transforming Hate, a work in progress, started in 2007 when the artist was sent a number of white supremacist books. Sligh’s partner, who had folded origami paper cranes in honor of a friend who died of cancer, sat with Sligh as she opened that box of disturbing books. “I later told her that because I didn’t want to destroy the books, just as a destructive act, I’d like to fold cranes,” Sligh remembers. “She said, ‘I’ll teach you.’”

And that’s how the project began.

The origami birds are rooted in Japanese culture. Sligh was alive during the bombing of Hiroshima and describes feeling “communally complicit in the act.” She eventually went to Japan, where she visited the Children’s Peace Monument, which commemorates Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of child victims of the atomic bomb. Sadako attempted to create a thousand origami cranes because tradition says anyone who does so will be granted a wish — hers would have been to survive the cancer she contracted from radiation.

Sadako did not survive, but paper cranes have since come to symbolize the desire for peace.

While Sligh says the freshness of how she originally approached Transforming Hate is stronger than anything she could come up with now, a decade later, “I am in the process of making an exhibition that will be in Washington state,” she says.

“I’m going to fold some more cranes from some of the white supremacist books to install in front of groups of 16- by 20-[inch] photographs of men of color. … In light of all the things that are going on today, it [will] read differently that it did 10 years ago.”

Sligh doesn’t necessarily see a connection between the symbolism of the cranes in Japan and the history of being black in American. “I was trying to distance myself from what was being written about in the white supremacist books,” she says.

But having lived “through the history of the civil rights movement is what kept me going.”

In fact, Sligh not only witnessed the civil rights era but made history during that time when, in 1955, she was the lead plaintiff in Clarissa Thompson et. al. v. Arlington County School Board, a school desegregation case. “From that moment forward, her work as a student and as a professional … takes into account change, transformation and complication,” says her biography.

Among Sligh’s art books and installations are It Wasn’t Little Rock (dealing with desegregation in schools), Wrongly Bodied: Documenting Transition from Female to Male (the story of a white man transitioning to female paired with that of a 19thcentury black slave women who escapes by passing as a white man)

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ART FOR THOUGHT: Found-materials artist and lecturer David Hess, left, will show his work in Gun Show: An Art Exhibit. Singer-songwriter and peace activist David LaMotte will perform a concert on the UNCA quad on Friday night. Photos courtesy of the artists and Reading Dick & Jane with Me (“created to interrupt the authority of old elementary school textbooks [that] presented a white, upper-middle-class suburban family as normal life for most Americans,” according to the book’s description).

In 2013, Sligh mounted an exhibition with material from Reading Dick & Jane with Me at UNCA and gave the talk “Power, Privilege, Visibility.”

That was her introduction to the university. In 2015, she served as a co-juror for the university’s 48th annual juried student exhibition, and this year she was invited to be part of Arts Fest.

But Sligh’s introduction to Asheville dates to the mid-’90s when she was leading workshops at the Penland School of Crafts. “I’d been teaching photography; I was teaching alternative methods,” she says. “It was primarily to get students to connect their artwork to their own experiences. We did a lot of collage work.”

Those classes were structured to fit into the two-week timeframe, and with older groups, such as college students, Sligh says she’d come to know what to expect. But a couple of years ago, Sligh worked with a group of students at Eliada (a local organization that provides therapeutic residential and day treatment for children and families in crisis). “We told them they were going to make books, and

of course they were not interested,” she says with a laugh. “But it was quite magical. … The English teacher would set it up so they’d do writing when I was not there. [Each week, for six to eight weeks] they’d make some kind of book, like a folding book or sewn book. They had a product they could hold onto. They ended up excited about it.”

She adds — and this is coming from an artist who has experienced so much, processed so deeply and shared even more through her creations — “I think that was one of my most surprising experiences. I learned a lot from those kids.”

Hopefully, such experiences, especially for young people, will not be curtailed, but proposed funding cuts to art programs — including the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Arts. “I’m of course going to be with all of the people who are going to try to keep it here,” says Sligh, who received an NEA fellowship in 1988. “The politicians just want to muzzle everyone who wants to speak out about what’s going on.

It’s not the first time they tried to do away with the NEA.” She continues, "We have to fight to keep the NEA. It’s really important.

The panels are panels of artists, and it’s one of the ways we can support and encourage each other. X

CREATIVE FORCES: Literary events and lectures, art exhibits and musical performances, dance and stargazing all make the list at UNC Asheville’s three-day Arts Fest. Photo courtesy of UNCA All listed events are free. Parking permits are not required for visitors after 6 p.m. or on weekends. For weekday events, register to park by phone at 828-251-6710. For more information and additional programming, go to avl.mx/3ij Thursday, April 6 • Odyssey Middle School Poetry Reading, 8:30-9:30 a.m. in the Ramsey Glasshouse • UNC Asheville Faculty Readings, 10-11 a.m. in the Ramsey Glasshouse • Solar observing with the Astronomy Club of Asheville and the UNC Asheville

Physics Club, noon-1 p.m. on the quad • In-Praxis Dance shows works in progress, noon-1:20 p.m. on the quad • Crane folding for peace, noon-1 p.m. on the quad • Hands-on studio tours, 4:15-5 p.m. in the Ramsey CrAFT Studio • Opening reception for Art Making with the Land and Environmental Art, 5-7 p.m.

in the Ramsey CrAFT Studio • Waste Land film screening, 7-9 p.m. in Humanities Lecture Hall • Choreographing Gender and Identity: dance work-in-progress, 7-8 p.m. in Sherrill

Center Dance Studio 351 Friday, April 7: Change the World Day • Hack It! DIY Dystopia, 9:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. in the Ramsey CrAFT Studio • New Media Showcase and Art Hack Exhibit, 3-4 p.m. in the Ramsey CrAFT Studio • David Hess lecture, 9:40-10:40 a.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall • Change the World Expo, 2:30-4:30 p.m. on the quad • Clarissa Sligh Talk, 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Ramsey Glasshouse • David Hess reception, 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Owen Second Floor Gallery • David LaMotte Concert, 6:30-8 p.m. on the quad • Starry night viewing with space music by students in the Music Technology program, 8:30-9:30 p.m. on the quad Saturday, April 8 • Festival on the quad: David Hess Gun Show: An Art Exhibit; student and community arts and craft vendors; belly dancing performance; musical

performances from the Asheville Art Trio, Buena Vista Ensemble, Guitar

Ensemble, Bluegrass Ensemble and the University Singers, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. on Reynold’s Green/Mini-Quad: • Screening of the documentary film Generation Startup, 4-6 p.m. in the Humanities

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by Bill Kopp

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WORLD MUSIC, WORLD TRAVELER Traditional fiddler Finn Magill returns to his WNC roots for a concert In his native Swannanoa, Finn Magill may be thought of as a vastly accomplished musician in the idiom of traditional Irish music. But his interests and explorations have long taken him far beyond that style. He recorded an album of Malawian-flavored music, Mau a Malawi, and he leads a traditional Brazilian quartet in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives part time. The multifarious musician returns to his hometown for a Tuesday, April 11, show at The Grey Eagle, where he’ll be joined by Scottish traditional musician Paul McKenna.

Magill grew up against the backdrop of the Swannanoa Gathering, an annual folk music workshop series led by his father, Jim Magill. “Both of my parents play traditional Irish music,” he says.

And even though he was exposed to many other styles, it was Irish music that first resonated with him: “When I started learning the fiddle at age 10, I never practiced the classical stuff,” he admits. “I just wanted to play Irish music.”

Magill got the travel bug, too.

“Because my dad was always so involved in traditional Irish music, he’d bring over these musicians. I’d hear all these Irish accents growing up.”

He viewed Ireland and its culture as a “grand mystery. So of course, when I went to Ireland, it was life-changing.”

By 16, Magill had twice made it to the finals in the All-Ireland fiddle championships. Yet at the same time, his keen musical interests widened. He has since spent extensive time in New York City; Lilongwe, Malawi; and Rio

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LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP: Whether it’s Appalachian, Irish, Brazilian or Malawian traditional music, Swannanoa-born fiddler Finn Magill is a master. The world traveler plays a hometown show April 11 at The Grey Eagle. Photo by Anna Colliton de Janeiro, among other locales. “Pretty much all of my travels have been motivated by a kind of musical tourism,” he says. “I’ve always been fascinated in music and travel, so it makes sense to combine the two when I can.”

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After living in New York City for a while, Magill decided to visit Brazil “to study Portuguese and escape the New York winter,” he says. “Once I got down there, I discovered all this amazing Brazilian music.”

One of his finds was choro, a traditional genre. “When I got into choro and started going to sessions, it kind of reminded me of Irish trad,” Magill recalls. “It’s essentially instrumental. You sit in a circle, and people trade tunes;

that’s exactly what you do both in choro and in Irish traditional music.”

While Magill is open to many styles of music, something about choro immediately struck him. “When I was in West Africa, I’d be listening to polyrhythms and think, ‘What the hell is going on?’ Initially, I just couldn’t get it,” he says. “But with choro, I thought, ‘Yeah, I get this.

Even if I can’t play it, I kind of know how it works.’”

But he soon mastered the style and assembled his own group to play it.

“The cool thing about choro is that it absorbs all the Brazilian musical traditions,” Magill says. “Because it’s been around so long, it has spread throughout the entire country. And wherever it went, it absorbed some of the local influences.”

The same can be said of Magill himself: His music draws from his immersion in Appalachian, Irish, West African and Brazilian music.

He recently released a pair of albums, Roots and Branches, both of which were recorded primarily in Chris Rosser’s Hollow Reed Studio in Asheville. Roots focuses on Irish trad, while Branches extends in myriad other directions.

Drawing on the nexus of Magill’s and McKenna’s strengths, the Asheville show will focus on more traditional material. Magill explains Irish trad’s melodic underpinning. “If you’re going to learn this music, you have to really train your ear,” he says. “You have to pay attention to the minute differences in melody. In some other genres of music I enjoy — like swing — I may not know the tune, but I can hear the chord patterns and strum along. But that wouldn’t fly in Irish music,” he says.

“If you didn’t know the melody, you would just not play.” X

WHO Finn Magill and Paul McKenna with Leah Song WHERE The Grey Eagle 185 Clingman Ave. thegreyeagle.com WHEN Tuesday, April 11, 8 p.m. $15 advance/$18 day of show

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FIGURES IN MOTION Sahar Fakhoury’s latest collection comes to the Asheville Gallery of Art

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The human figure and its range of motion have always fascinated Asheville painter Sahar Fakhoury.

She attributes this to her childhood in Salmiya, Kuwait, where she grew up an avid gymnast and dancer, as well as an aspiring artist. While her endeavors in the former two practices have since dropped off, her involvement in the visual arts continues to evolve.

Throughout April, Fakhoury’s latest collection, Imageries of Life, will be on display at the Asheville Gallery of Art. An opening reception will be held Friday, April 7, from 5 to 8 p.m.

“Her work is very unique because of her background,” says fellow artist and AGA co-op member Judith Rentner.

“Her figures in motion and her studies of life, as it must have been in Kuwait, are very interesting.”

In 1990, Fakhoury, along with her husband and three daughters, fled the Middle East due to the Gulf War. “The relocation made me realize how fragile and vulnerable we can be,” she says.

They settled in Asheville because her brother-in-law lived in the area.

Fakhoury says her first few years here were spent adjusting to a new life. Once she and her family found their footing, Fakhoury began attending workshops and live-drawing classes. She enrolled at UNC Asheville where, in 2005, at 45, she earned a degree in fine arts. “I’m glad that I’m an artist,” she says. “It helped emotionally to get out all my anger from the war. To lose your home isn’t an easy thing. Especially when you didn’t plan for it.”

Because of her experience, political and social subjects played a prominent role in Fakhoury’s early works.

And while she notes that the current political climate has left her feeling “unstable because of my background,” her more recent focus has shifted away from politics. “I’m trying to look at the positive part of the human life,” she says.

Still, Fakhoury acknowledges that art is rarely apolitical. “Often it is a recording of history of some sort,” she says. This unique time capsule offers a reflection of a given period, as well as insight into the state of the arts.

“A lot of times the art movements are affected by the community’s political, social and [economic] state,”

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ON THE MOVE: Sahar Fakhoury’s latest collection explores human gestures and posture. The artist says many of the works display theatrical poses that function as a metaphor for the ways in which we present, and at times conceal, our true thoughts and intentions. Photo courtesy of Fakhoury Fakhoury says. “This is universal, in my opinion, based on my observations while traveling.”

In this same way, Fakhoury adds, art unifies countries and cultures through these shared struggles. The landscapes might differ and the subjects might appear in unfamiliar garb, but the life experiences are what unite us. “The portrait, for example, is universal,” she says. “Whether the subject is wearing a sari ... or a bathing suit, [whether] the skin color is yellow, pink or blue, the human figure is still depicted as a human figure.” X

WHAT Imageries of Life WHERE Asheville Gallery of Art 82 Patton Ave. avl.mx/prtg WHEN Opening reception Friday, April 7, 5-8 p.m.

The exhibit will remain on view through Sunday, April 30 Free

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Comedy ‘The Nerd’ comes to Asheville Eleanor Gorczynski and Anderson Bowman alternating as Thor, “the poster child for planned parenthood,” as the company writes in its press release.

This is Attic Salt’s third appearance in three years at N.C. Stage. The company moves around to local performance spaces, including 35below at Asheville Community Theatre and The Magnetic Theatre, where last year it did a series of productions for young audiences.

Fans of The Nerd will get a second shot at seeing the show when it is performed at Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

That production begins Friday, April 28, so Bernstein doesn’t believe the two companies will compete at the box office. “I don’t think that we have a lot of audiences in common, and the distance [between Asheville and Waynesville] is great enough,” Bernstein says. “I hope that we have a successful production and that they do, too.” X

GEEK LOVE: Adam Arthur, left, and Patrick Brandt star in the ’80s-era comedy The Nerd. The show was one Attic Salt Theatre Company’s founders wanted to stage since they first relaunched in Asheville in 2013 (following a troubled but lengthy tenure based in New York). Photo courtesy of Attic Salt Theatre Company It took a few years and plenty of persistence, but Attic Salt Theatre Company is finally presenting Larry Shue’s crazy comedy, The Nerd.

When Attic Salt founders Marci Bernstein and Jeff Catanese moved their company to Asheville from New York and officially relaunched in 2013, The Nerd was hot on their radar. Initially, “we tried to get the rights and were turned down,” Bernstein says. But the theater founders weren’t discouraged and tried again. Their efforts paid off: The Nerd will open Friday, April 7, for a run at N.C. Stage Company, which is hosting the comedy as part of its Catalyst Series.

Bernstein says that she and Catanese had both seen The Nerd — a story that swirls around a long-ago personal debt and an irritating house guest who won’t go home — in their high school days and had long wanted to bring it to the stage. “It just hits home in a positive way,” she says. She believes that those in the audience audience may see a little bit of themselves in the tale.

“I think the situations — someone owes a debt to someone else, and there’s a house guest who won’t go away — that happens every day,” Bernstein says. While set in the early ’80s, the story could happen in any time, she says, and a 2017 audience will still buy into the comedy. But ’80s technology may come as a surprise to some viewers, such as the use of a telephone answering machine in the days before voicemail and the internet.

The production “just tickles us,” says Bernstein. “There are many shows out there that will leave the audiences talking over drinks, but this is one of those shows that will make you laugh for two hours. You won’t think about politics or bills.”

The central character is architect and Vietnam War veteran Willum Cubbert. During his military days, Willum’s life was saved by Rick Steadman — though Willum was unconscious when he was saved, and the two men have never actually met.

Nonetheless, Willum has promised to welcome Rick into his home at any time. Now, out of the blue, Rick

leaves a phone message announcing his plans to visit, and he soon disrupts a dinner party with his inappropriate behavior. It appears that he will never leave the home. Also in the mix are Willum’s friends Tansy (who is planning to become a TV meteorologist) and Axel (a drama critic who once had a thing with Tansy).

Shue premiered The Nerd in 1981, and its 1987-88 Broadway run starred Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame and was directed by Charles Nelson Reilly.

There have been countless productions at regional professional and amateur theaters. (Shue also penned a second successful piece, The Foreigner, but his life was cut short in a 1985 airplane crash.)

The Attic Salt cast features Patrick Brandt as Willum and Adam Arthur as Rick, aka the nerd, known for such oddball behavior as wearing a white shirt with plastic pen holder in the pocket and pants that are pulled up too high at the waist. Also in the show are Christy Montesdeoca, John Mendenhall, Frances Davis and Bill Parks, as well as two child actors,

WHAT The Nerd

by Attic Salt Theatre Company WHERE N.C. Stage Company 15 Stage Lane ncstage.org WHEN Friday, April 7, to Sunday, April 23, Wednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.

Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

Opening night $6-$20/ other performances $14-$28

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Birds of Chicago Allison Russell and JT Nero were deeply invested in other projects — Russell with Po’ Girl, Nero with JT & the Clouds — when they decided to collaborate in 2012.

Nero penned new lyrics for Russell, and the duo, joined by a rotating cast of musicians, quickly gained critical acclaim as Birds of Chicago. The band’s sound takes the traditional tenets of gospel and soul and gives them a modern, secular update. The result is classic meets contemporary, a sound that’s best appreciated live. Luckily, the pair deliver just that with more than 200 shows annually. The group recently finished recording its latest album, Love in Wartime with co-producer Luther Dickinson.

Though the record won’t be released until the fall, Birds of Chicago will play some of the new tunes at Isis Music Hall on Thursday, April 6, at 8:30 p.m. $15. isisasheville.com.

Photo by Natalie Ginele Miller

Searra Jade Local philosopholk singer-songwriter Searra Jade will celebrate two albums with one show. The performance marks the official drop of Catch & Release (previously only available as a digital EP), and Jade is also launching a Kickstarter campaign for her next album, Wave of Birdsong. The topics of Jade’s conversational, soulful lyrics range from the mundane, like fermentation, to melancholy observations on the impermanence of life. Acoustic guitar and clear lyrical delivery bring to mind feminist singers like Ani Difranco and Joni Mitchell, but with choruses that swerve into hip-hop and funk, Jade has a sound all her own. Searra Jade plays The Mothlight on Thursday, April 6, at 8 p.m.

Momma Molasses opens the show with Americana-folk, and Upland Drive finishes the night with high-energy rock. $7. themothlight.com. Photo courtesy of Searra Jade

Southern Mystery Author Panel Asheville author Bryan Robinson will be joined by Elena Hartwell, David Burnsworth, Susan Crawford and Jaden Terrell for the Southern Mystery Author Panel. Following a brief introduction, the authors will offer insights into their writing, followed by a Q&A with the audience. It’s not the first time these authors have appeared together. “The response from bookstore owners and fans was so great that we wanted to take it on the road,” says Robinson. “I wanted to bring all five of us together for Asheville mystery readers and writers.” The panel takes place at Malaprop’s on Monday, April 10, at 6 p.m.

Free. malaprops.com. Pictured, clockwise from top left, Elena Hartwell, David Burnsworth, Bryan Robinson and Jaden Terrell.

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The Little Red Riding Hood Show Asheville Creative Arts, Western North Carolina’s award-winning children’s theater, opens its fifth season with The Little Red Riding Hood Show. The postmodern take on the fairy tale explores storytelling in the 21st century. “In this play, Little Red and her mother grapple with some of the modern-day ‘wolves’ that are lurking, particularly in cyberspace,” says co-director Abby Felder. “We are excited to produce this show ... because it uses humor and great writing, delivered by terrific performances from a stellar cast, to explore what people of all ages are confronted with as we increasingly lead our lives online.” Asheville Creative Arts performs The Little Red Riding Hood Show at The Magnetic Theatre on Friday, April 7, at 7 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, April 8 and 9, at 1 and 4 p.m. $23/$12 students. ashevillecreativearts.org. Photo by Joe Gill

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‘THIS IS OUR YOUTH’: Following the inaugural production of last year’s ART (named one of the top five productions of the year by the Mountain Xpress), The Actor’s Center of Asheville is bringing This Is Our Youth to 35below. The play was penned by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Kenneth Lonergan (who just won the Oscar for “Best Original Screenplay” for Manchester by the Sea), stars local talents Maximilian Koger, Timothy Luke Johnson and Elizabeth Babelay, and is directed by Robert Walker. Performances are on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. until April 15. For more information or tickets, visit ashevilletheatre.org. Photo courtesy of Asheville Community Theatre (p. 54) ART ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • FR (4/7), 4:30pm - Visual artist, photographer and author Clarissa Sligh artist talk. Free. Held in the Ramsey Library Glasshouse • SA (4/8), 11am-4pm - Gun Show: An Art Exhibit, exhibition of "rifles" made out of found objects by David Hess. Artist talk: Saturday, April 8, 9:45-10:40am. Free. Exhibition held on the Reynolds Green/Artist talk held in the Humanities Lecture Hall ART MOB 124 Fourth Ave., E. Hendersonville, 693-4545, artmobstudios.com • FR (4/7), 5-7:30pm - Art reception for the ArtScape Hendersonville sky banner project. Free to attend.

CAROLINA’S NATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION asheville.cnpa-regions.org/ • SU (4/9), 5:30pm - "Tech Tips to Improve Your Photography," general meeting and presentaion. Free.

Held in the UNC Asheville Reuter Center M DOGWOOD ALLIANCE 251-2525, dogwoodalliance.org • WE (4/5), 4-8pm - "Artists in Resistance," forest-focused community art project being taken to the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored by the The Asheville Grit. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St.

ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • WE (4/5), 7pm - "For Artists

By Artists: Artists Round Table Networking Opportunity," Free.

Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave.

ELIADA 2545356, eliada.org, smcdonald@eliada.org • TH (4/6), 4pm - Art opening featuring new murals designed and painted by youth in Eliada's programs.

Free to attend. Held at Avenue M, 791 Merrimon Ave.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • TH (4/6), 7pm- Evening of short films focusing on Black Mountain College photographers Harry Callahan, Barbara Morgan and Aaron Siskind. $8/$5 members.

GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • FR (4/7), 11am-4pm - Pysanky (Ukrainian Easter Eggs) demonstration. Free to attend.

• WEDNESDAY through SATURDAY (4/12) until (4/15), 1pm - Biltmore industries history tour. Registration

required: grovewood.com/history-tours. Free to attend.

MECHANICAL EYE MICROCINEMA mechanicaleyecinema.org • SA (4/8), 1-3pm - "Premiere Editing Basics," digital editing workshop for beginners. $30. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. • WE (4/12), 6-8pm - "Cellphone Stop Motion," workshop to learn how to create a short stop-motion animation with your cellphone. $30.

Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am-5pm "Second Saturday Celebration," event with food, music and artist demonstrations. Free to attend.

M PUBLIC EVENTS AT UNCA unca.edu • TH (4/13), 6:30-8pm - “Facing Project," performance and discussion on affordable housing in Asheville. Free to attend. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St. THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • FR (4/7), 6:30pm - "About Face:

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Exploring the Graphic Identity of Craft Horizons Magazine, 1941-1979," lecture by writer and curator Sarah Archer. Free to attend.

TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 859-8323 • TH (4/6), noon-1pm - Crafts & Conversation Series: "Art of Calligraphy," presentation. Bring your own lunch. Free.

• SA (4/8), 10am-noon - Coffee & Crafts Series: "Uncial Calligraphy," workshop. $40.

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AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS

MARSHALL HIGH STUDIOS 115 Blanahassett Island Marshall, 649-0177, marshallhighstudios.com • SA (4/8), 9am-4pm - "Potters of Madison County Market," featuring potters from all over the southeast. Free to attend.

THE GEEK THE COLLECTOR THE ENTHUSIAST THE FANatic THE connoisseur THE aficionado GET YOUR FIX.

35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • SU (4/9) & MO (4/10), 6:30-9:30pm - Open auditions for Constellations.

Registration required.

FOOTHILLS FOLK ART FESTIVAL facebook.com/ FoothillsFolkArtFestival • Through FR (9/1) - Applications accepted for The Foothills Folk Art

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HUES AND BREWS FESTIVAL HuesAndBrews.org • Through (4/21) - Applications accepted for artists and crafters who wish to vend in the Hues and Brews Artist & Craft Beer Celebration, Saturday, May 20th. Contact for full guidelines. Held at Caldwell Arts Council, 601 College Ave., SW Lenoir THE AUTUMN PLAYERS 6861380, www,ashevilletheatre.org, caroldec25@gmail.com • TU (4/11), 10:30am - Open auditions for the Readers Theatre Showcase, All Over. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through MO (5/1) - Submissions accepted for the upcoming exhibited entitled "The Other Side." Contact for full guidelines.

• WE (4/5) through MO (5/15) Photograph submissions accepted for the annual White Squirrel Photo Contest. Contact for full guidelines.

TRUTH 2 POWER 4U facebook.com/truth2power4u/ • Through TH (4/6) - Submissions of poetry, spoken word and song performances about justice, the human condition and working for the common good accepted for the Truth 2 Power 4U project. See website for full details: facebook.com/ truth2power4u/.

MUSIC ASHEVILLE CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES 259-3626, ashevillechambermusic.org • FR (4/7), 8pm - Weiss-KaplanStumpf Piano Trio presents works from Beethoven, Ravel and Schumann. $38. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE 2855 Hickory Blvd., Hudson, 726-2200, cccti.edu • WE (4/12), 1pm - CCC&TI music faculty guitar quartet concert. Free.

Held in room B-100 CAROLINA CONCERT CHOIR 607-351-2585, carolinaconcertchoir.org, ldoebler@ithaca.edu • SA (4/8), 3pm - "Only Mozart," spring choral concert with orchestra. $22/$5 students. Held at Bo Thomas Auditorium, Blue Ridge Community College Hendersonville FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (4/6)

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until (4/9) - The Cherry Cherry Band, Neil Diamond cover band concert.

Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Sun.: 2pm. $15-$33.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 6930731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (4/9) - "The Music of Simon & Garfunkel." Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $30.

HENDERSONVILLE CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES 808-2314, hendersonvillechambermusic.org • SU (4/9), 3pm - Smoky Mountain Brass concert. $25. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville MUSIC AT MARS HILL mhu.edu • FR (4/7), 7pm - David Holt and the Lightning Bolts, bluegrass. $20/$15 advance. Held in Moore Auditorium MUSIC AT UNCA 251-6432, unca.edu • FR (4/7), 6:30pm - Concert with David LaMotte, songwriter, speaker and writer. Free. Held outside on the Quad MUSIC AT WCU 227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • TH (4/6), 7pm - Old-Time and Bluegrass Series: Concert featuring folklorist, storyteller and musician Lee Knight. Open jam session at 8pm.

Held in the Robinson Administration building PAN HARMONIA 254-7123, panharmonia.org • MO (4/10), 7:15pm - "Sing to Me of the Night," spring concert with flute, cello and guitar featuring works by Bach, Paul Svoboda, Vivian Fine and Dana Wilson. $20/$15 advance/$5 students. Held at Haen Gallery Asheville, 52 Biltmore Ave. PUBSING 254-1114 • 2nd SUNDAYS, 6-8pm - Gospel jam and sing-along. Optional snack time at 5:30pm. Free to attend. Held at French Broad Brewery, 101 Fairview Road TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • FR (4/7), 8pm - The Gibson Brothers, bluegrass concert. $30/$12 student.

VILLAGE MARIMBA ashevillepercussionfestival.com/ village-marimba/ • SA (4/8), 7pm - Student concert with Asheville Rhythm and Asheville High’s AHCappella. Free. Held at Rainbow Community School Auditorium, 58 State St.

THEATER 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (4/16) - This is Our Youth, presented by the Actor’s Center of Asheville. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm Sun.: 2:30pm. $15.

ASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS 914-830-3000, ashevillecreativearts.org/ • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (4/6) until (4/9) - The Little Red Riding Hood Show. Thurs. & Fri.: 7pm. Sat. & Sun.: 1pm & 4pm. $23/$12 student. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. ATTIC SALT THEATRE COMPANY 505-2926 • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (4/7) until (4/23) - The Nerd, comedy. Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $14-$28. Held at NC Stage Company, 15 Stage Lane BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DRAMA DEPARTMENT 694-1197, Blueridge.edu, Js_treadway@blueidge.edu • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (4/6) until (4/9) - Sense and Sensibility, presented by the Blue Ridge Community College drama department. Thur., Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $7/$5 students. Held in Patton Auditorium Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 West Campus Drive, Flat Rock HART THEATRE 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (4/7) until (4/16) - The Loves of Elaine. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $10/$7 students.

THE MAGNETIC THEATRE 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • 1st FRIDAYS, 10:30pm SuperHappy Productions present "The SuperHappy Radio Hour." $8.

• TH (4/13) & FR (4/14), 7:30pm - Mountain Art Theatre presents Stupid F**cking Bird. $12.

THEATER AT UNCA 251-6610, drama.unca.edu • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS through (4/15) - TheatreUNCA and Asheville Community Theatre present, Peter and the Starcatcher. $22.

Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. Held in Carol Belk Theatre THEATER AT WCU 227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • WEDNESDAY through SUNDAY (4/5) until (4/9) - Hair, musical. Wed.Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $22/$16 faculty & seniors/$10 students. Held in Hoey Auditorium

GALLERY DIRECTORY AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • TH (4/6) through MO (4/24) - Face Jug Show, exhibition featuring face jugs from regional potters. Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-8pm.

ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu • Through FR (4/21) - Context, Pretext, Subtext: Words in Art, Art in Words, exhibition co-curated by Kenn Kotara and Eric Steineger.Held in Weizenblatt Gallery ART AT WCU 227-2787, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • Through SA (4/8) - When All God’s Children Get Together, exhibition. Reception: Saturday, March 18, 1:30-4pm.

Held in the Mountain Heritage Center at Hunter Library • Through FR (4/14) - MFA Thesis Show: Sarah Rincon.

Reception: Thursday, April 6, 5-7pm. Held in WCU Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center • Through FR (4/28) – 49th Annual Juried Undergraduate Exhibition. Reception: Thursday, April 20, 5-7pm.

Held in the WCU Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center ART IN THE AIRPORT 61 Terminal Drive Fletcher • Through FR (6/30) - Flourish, group exhibition.

ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • FR (4/7) through FR (5/12) Plein Air: Magic and Mystery, exhibition of works by Lisa Blackshear. Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-8pm. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. • Through FR (5/12) - The Art of Portraiture: An Exploration of Modern Photography.

Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-8pm. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through FR (6/30) Exhibition of silver works

by William Waldo Dodge, Jr. Held at Wells Fargo Downtown Asheville, 1 Haywood St. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM ON THE SLOPE 175 Biltmore Ave., ashevilleart.org • Through SU (5/14) - Pop ‘n’ Op, an exhibition featuring works from the “Pop/Op” era.

ASHEVILLE BOOKWORKS 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 2558444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through WE (5/31) BookOpolis2017 - Dream A Book, exhibition.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through SU (4/30) Imageries of Life, exhibition of works by figurative artist Sahar Fakhoury. Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-8pm.

BEAUTY BAR 800 Fairview Road, Suite AA, 545-1970 • Through TH (6/1) - That’s How the Light Gets In, exhibition of photography by Bonnie Cooper and Don McGowan. Reception: Saturday, April 8, 5:30-7pm.

BENDER GALLERY 12 S. Lexington Ave., 5058341, thebendergallery.com • TH (4/6) through FR (6/30) - Crossings – A Boat Show, glass and mixed media group exhibition. Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-7pm.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (4/7) through FR (5/12) - Orchestration, installation

by Julia C. Burr. Reception: Friday, April 7, 6-8pm.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • Through WE (5/25) Exhibition of paintings by PK Barratt. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • WE (4/5) through SU (4/30) - Storybook Characters on Parade, mixed media exhibition. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES WESTERN OFFICE 176 Riceville Road, 296-7230 • Through SA (5/6) - Mentors and Heroes, photography exhibit by David Holt.

FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 2160 US Highway 70, Swannanoa, 273-3332, floodgallery.org/ • Through (5/13) - Exhibition of new and old work by painter, Margaret Curtis.

GRAND BOHEMIAN GALLERY 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com/ • Through SU (4/30) - New Bohemians, exhibition of work

by Karen Weihs, Greg Decker and Richard Oversmith.

• FR (4/7) through WE (5/31) - ColorQuest, exhibition of knife palette paintings by Stefan Horik. Art talk: Friday, April 7, 6pm. Reception: Saturday, April 8, 5-8pm.

MADISON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 90 S. Main St., Marshall, 6491301, madisoncountyarts.com • Through WE (5/31) Exhibition of rare photos taken by British song collector Cecil Sharp.

MORA CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY 9 Walnut St., 575-2294, moracollection.com • Through SU (4/30) - Hi, Five!, exhibition of rings by 30 jewelers. Reception: Saturday, April 8, 5-8pm.

MOUNTAIN GATEWAY MUSEUM AND HERITAGE CENTER 102 Water St., Old Fort, mountaingatewaymuseum.org/ • Through WE (5/17) - Traveling exhibition commemorating the centennial of the U.S. entry into World War I.

SEVEN SISTERS GALLERY 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-5107, sevensistersgallery.com • Through SU (4/9) - Exhibition of paintings by Colleen Webster.

SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM 223 W State St., Black Mountain, 669-9566, history.swannanoavalleymuseum. org • SA (4/8) through FR (12/1) - Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces, exhibition.

M THE COLLIDER 1 Haywood St., Ste 401, Asheville, thecollider.org • FR (4/7) through SU (4/30) - Struck by Nature, exhibition of environmental art by photographer Marjorie Pierson.

Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-6:30pm.

M THE GALLERY AT FLAT

ROCK 702-A Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 698-7000, galleryflatrock.com/ • Through SU (4/9) - Down Where the Soul Is, exhibition

of Tim Jones’ wildlife photographs.

• TH (4/13) through SU (5/14) - Temporal Witness: Tracing Nature’s Path, exhibition featuring works by Alice Ballard, Christina Laurel and Rosamond Purcell. Reception: Thursday, April 13, 5-7pm.

THE TRYON DEPOT ROOM 22 Depot St., Tryon, 859-7001, tryondepotroom.com • Through FR (4/28) Luminaries, exhibition of drawings by Janet Orselli.

Reception: Friday, April 7, 5-7pm.

TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through SA (4/29) Exhibition of blacksmith and metal work from around the country. Reception: Friday, April 28, 5-7pm. Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine TRACKSIDE STUDIOS & GALLERY 375 Depot St., 545-2904, facebook.com/ TracksideStudios375/ • Through SU (4/30) -

Generation Why, exhibition of the work of four emerging Millennial artists. Reception: Friday, April 7, 4-7pm.

• Through WE (5/31) - Seeing the World…, exhibtion of watercolors and ink by Virginia Pendergrass.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • MO (4/10) through FR (4/28) - Transylvania county public schools student art exhibit for grades K-12. Reception: Thursday, April 13, 4:30-6pm.

TRANSYLVANIA HERITAGE MUSEUM 189 W Main St., Brevard, 884-2347, transylvaniaheritage.org • Through SA (5/13) - Wars of the 20th Century, exhibition.

TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 859-8323 • Through SU (5/21) Crossroads Gallery Show.

Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 285-9700, facebook.com/ odysseycoopgallery • Through SU (4/30) Exhibition of ceramic art by Melanie Dyel and Laura Peery.

PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS 67 Doras Trail Bakersville, 765-2359, penland.org • Through SU (5/7) Inspired, group exhibition of artists from the Penland resident artist and core fellowship programs.

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through MO (5/1) Slackers, group art show featuring LEVY, GREU & KFEZ.

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BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic w/ Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Classic Country Vinyl w/ DJ David Wayne Gay, 10:00PM

BONFIRE BARBECUE Trivia Funtime w/ Kelsey, 8:00PM

FUNKATORIUM John Hartford Jam w/ the Saylor Brothers (bluegrass), 6:30PM

BROADWAY'S Broadway HumpDay Variety w/ DJ NexMillen, 9:00PM BYWATER Well Lit Strangers (bluegrass), 8:00PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Open mic jam w/ Riyen Roots & friends, 7:00PM CROW & QUILL Stevie Lee Combs (dock-side blues), 9:00PM

GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Seth Glier, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey, 6:30PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Mark Eitzel & Howe Gelb w/ Joe Fletcher, 8:00PM

ODDITORIUM Night Idea, Shadow Show, Fashion Bath & New Thread (rock), 9:00PM

HICKORY TAVERN Trivia Wednesdays, 8:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Evil Note Lab, 9:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Andy Ferrell, 9:00PM

PULP Billingsley & The Log Noggins, 9:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Moon Fish 2 (rock, blues), 6:00PM ROOT BAR NO. 1 Lucky James (roots, soul), 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION Adult Spelling Bee (benefit for the Literacy Council), 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Jeff Michels & Jim Robertson, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Artists in Resistance, 4:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & Soul Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Wide Screen Wednesdays, 7:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Night of the Cookers (jazz), 7:30PM

THURSDAY, APRIL 6 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE Betaplan, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (live jazz), 10:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Thursday Brews 'n' Blues w/ The Cris Coleman Blues Experience, 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Patrick Fitzsimons, 7:00PM BONFIRE BARBECUE Social Function, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (rowdy ragtime jazz), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Zach & Jack from Midnight Snack (folk, Americana), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Gracie Lane (Southern folk), 6:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN JD McPherson w/ Cannonball Jars, 9:00PM HICKORY TAVERN 30 Rocks Music Game, 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY East Side Social Ride, 6:00PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Julianne Ankley & Gary Hannan, 7:00PM Birds of Chicago (folk, soul), 8:30PM

185 KING STREET The Jeff Sipe Trio, 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Mountain Feist & Bluegrass Open Jam Session, 7:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana, soul), 9:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10:00PM

550 TAVERN & GRILLE Good Direction Band, 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM

ALTAMONT THEATRE Bonnie Bishop w/ Me and Molly, 8:00PM

NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER Antennae w/ Perkulat0r & Esseks, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 6:30PM Captain Midnight Band, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Sarah Tucker, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL The Wood Brothers, 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Redleg Husky (bluegrass, country), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Hope Griffin Duo (acoustic folk, rock), 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Western Centuries w/ Sanctum Sully (country, honky-tonk), 9:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE David Childers w/ Edwards Bros., 7:30PM ROOT BAR NO. 1 Jukebox Poetry (acoustic folk), 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Bill & Company, 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Tamara Hanson, 7:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Nitrograss, 7:00PM SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Vinyl Night, 6:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Unite! Open Mic Night w/ Jack Sley, 7:30PM THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Tricky Trivia w/ Sue, 8:00PM

FRIDAY, APRIL 7

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Joe McMurrian (acoustic deep roots, blues), 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Two Fresh (hip-hop, electronic), 9:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Iggy Radio, 6:00PM Vinyl Night, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BOILER ROOM J Taylor presents Local Live Original Music, 9:00PM BYWATER FriDaze, 5:30PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE The Bluebirds (folk, bluegrass), 7:00PM CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE First Fridays w/ DJ (hip-hop, R&B, soul), 9:00PM CORK & KEG The Old Chevrolette Set (country duets), 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Vendetta Creme (silly, sultry cabaret), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Garage & Soul Obscurities w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Sha-Man, 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Laura Blackley & Friends (country, folk), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF Anne E DeChant (Americana), 8:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Searra Jade w/ Upland Drive & Momma Mollasses (singer-songwriter), 8:00PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Holy Ghost Tent Revival & Dirty Bourbon River Show, 9:00PM

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM The Charlie Daniels Band, 8:00PM

HICKORY TAVERN Kim Smith Band, 9:00PM

TOWN PUMP Doug Gibson (blues), 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Davina & The Vagabonds (Memphis soul), 7:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (live music, dance), 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Stevie Lee Combs dinner show, 7:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ Unplugged w/ Ashley Heath, 8:00PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Justin Cody Fox (Southern rock, country), 7:00PM Molsky Mountain Drifters, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Blood Gypsies, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Ignite NC Benefit w/ DJ Oskar Malinalli, 10:00PM

East Asheville’s Craft Beer Destination • 29 Taps

Easter Egg Hunt 4/16 • 11am

ALWAYS FREE ALWAYS LOCAL

THIS WEEK at THE CREEK MON Monday Burger + Trivia w/ Emilie - 7pm TUE

Tacos!

APRIL’S WEEKLY LINEUP TUESDAYS A NIGHT OF SOUL RHODA WEAVER AND THE SOLMATES 5-7 FOLLOWED BY THE LYRIC 7-9

WEDNESDAYS HONKY TONK

WED Wings + Open Mic Jam w/ Roots & Friends - 9pm THU

NO COVER

Chef’s Choice!

LAUREL LEE AND THE ESCAPES 7-10

THURSDAYS BREWS N’ BLUES THE CRIS COLEMAN BLUES EXPERIENCE 8-11

FRIDAYS MUSIC MASHUP

We Cater On & Off Site!

IGGY RADIO 6-9 VINYL NIGHT 10-2AM

8 Beverly Rd. Asheville, NC

Parties of 10+, please call ahead

SATURDAYS

GYPSY JAZZ TRIO 3-6 THE SECRET B SIDES 10-1AM

SUNDAYS REGGAE NIGHT THE DUB KARTEL 6-10

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LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon, 6:30PM

ROOT BAR NO. 1 Sissy Brown (honky-tonk), 9:00PM

MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Big Ivy Project, 7:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Lovely Budz w/ Something Like Seduction, 9:00PM

NATIVE KITCHEN & SOCIAL PUB One Leg Up, 7:30PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Tyler Herring, 8:00PM

NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER Maggie Koerner, 9:00PM

COMING SOON wed 4/5

7:00PM–SETH GLIER

5-9PM–ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS

thu 4/6

7:00PM–JULIANNE ANKLEY &

GARY HANNAN

8:30PM–BIRDS OF CHICAGO fri 4/7 7:00PM–JUSTIN CODY FOX 8:30PM–MOLSKY’S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS sat 4/8 7:00PM–MISSY RAINES AND

THE NEW HIP

9:00PM–MALCOLM HOLCOMBE CD RELEASE: “PRETTY LITTLE TROUBLES” WITH JARED TYLER sun 4/9 5:30PM–MILLIE PALMER TRIO 7:30PM–ELLIS PAUL & KATIE OATES tue 4/11 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS wed 4/12

7:00PM–DUNCAN WICKEL FEAT.

CHRIS ROSSER, RIVER GUERGARIAN 5-9PM–ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS

thu 4/13

7:00PM-RALE MICIC W/ GEOFF CLAPP 8:30PM–ITALIAN NIGHT MIKE GUGGINO AND BARRETT SMITH fri 4/14

7:00PM-THE END OF AMERICA sat 4/15

7:00PM–“APRIL IN PARIS”

9:00PM–MIDNIGHT SNACK CD RELEASE: “CHILD’S EYES” WITH GUEST, EMMA’S LOUNGE sun 4/16

5:30PM–KIRSTEN MAXWELL, WIL PFRANG, MIKE TEDESCO ISISASHEVILLE.COM DINNER MENU TIL 9:30PM LATE NIGHT MENU TIL 12AM

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ODDITORIUM Anarchist Bookfair Benefit, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Acoustic Roots Music, 5:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam, 5:00PM Station Underground (reggae), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Mixed Culture: Disco Dance Party w/ Marlon Rando, Walkhome, & acidfive, 9:00PM

WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ Electric w/ Ben Hovey, 8:00PM

SATURDAY, APRIL 8

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Zumba in Da Club, 7:00PM

185 KING STREET The Mug (electro blues, roots), 8:30PM

SCARLET'S COUNTRY DANCE CLUB Open Mic night w/ Sam Warner, 8:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Dave Desmelik (Americana), 6:00PM Chuck Lichtenberger Collective (jazz, funk, rock), 9:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Bring the Spring, 1:00PM Folk 'n' Rock Project w/ Sandy Boyd, 7:30PM DJ Donnie Destro's Frequency Friday, 10:00PM

550 TAVERN & GRILLE Super 60s Band, 9:00PM

THE DUGOUT FineLine, 9:00PM

ALTAMONT THEATRE An Evening w/ Richard Shindell, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Ghostface Killah, 9:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Few More Days, 9:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Gypsy Jazz Trio, 3:00PM The Secret B-Sides, 10:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Corey Smith w/ Jacob Powell, 9:00PM

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Epic Dance Competition, All Day Sister Hazel, 8:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars, 7:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz), 6:00PM

TOWN PUMP 3 Pc & A Biscuit, 9:00PM

BOILER ROOM

PACK'S TAVERN DJ OCelate (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Carolina Blues Showcase, 8:00PM

DANCE PARTY & DRAG SHOW, 10:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Honey Be Nice, 7:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Danberrys w/ Company News (Americana), 9:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jonathan Byrd, 8:00PM

CORK & KEG The Old Chevrolette Set (country duets), 8:30PM

TAVERN

CROW & QUILL Stevie Lee Combs (dock-side blues), 9:00PM

Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 14 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

DOUBLE CROWN Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge (50's/60's R&B, rock 'n' roll), 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Calvin Get Down (funk), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Leigh & Corey (Americana), 6:00PM FROG LEVEL BREWERY Bend & Brew, 11:00AM GOOD STUFF Spencer Scholes, 8:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Reformed Whores (music duo, comedy), 9:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Mike Rhodes Fellowship (fusion, jam), 7:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Missy Raines & the New Hip, 7:00PM Malcolm Holcombe w/ Jared Tyler, 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Floorboards, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/AMPHITHEATER Jade Cicada w/ Digital Ethos & illanthropy, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Beldam, Thera Roya, Black Metal Hunger, Violent Gods & DeathCrown (metal), 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Saturday Night Fever, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Dalton Dash (folk, newgrass), 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Town Mountain w/ The Stray Birds, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Assault on the Carolinas afterparty w/ West End String Band & Alarm Clock Conspiracy (bluegrass, rock), 4:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Flashback (classic rock), 9:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Great American Canyon Band [CANCELLED], 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE DAO Trio, 7:30PM ROOT BAR NO. 1 Linda Mitchell (jazz, blues), 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION Field Day & Spring Fling Dance, 3:00AM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Yoga w/ Cats with Blue Ridge Humane Society, 10:00AM Daddy Rabbit, 8:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Vintage Hendo 2017, 11:00AM Letters to Abigail, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Conscious Comedy Night, 7:00PM Free salsa dance lesson w/ Zumbao Dance Company, 9:30PM Latin Rhythms & Salsa w/ DJ Malinalli, 10:30PM THE MOTHLIGHT Brother Hawk w/ Old Heavy Hands, Photography Exhibit & Danny Reed, 9:00PM THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Epic Dance Competition, All Day TOWN PUMP Riverbend Reunion (Southern rock), 9:00PM

Where The Blue Ridge Mountains Meet the Celtic Isles

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THU. 4/6

MONDAYS Quizzo – Brainy Trivia • 7:30pm Open Mic Night • 9pm

Hope Griffin Duo

TUESDAYS Zydeco Dance Party Free • 7pm Dance All Night!

( dance hits, pop)

( acoustic folk, rock)

FRI. 4/7 DJ OCelate

SAT. 4/8 Flashback

( classic rock)

WEDNESDAYS Asheville’s Original Old Time Mountain Music Jam • 5pm THURSDAYS Mountain Feist • 7pm Bluegrass Jam • 9:30pm Bourbon Specials

20 S. Spruce St. • 225.6944 packStavern.com

PRESENTS:

EVENT SPACE, FOOD TRUCKS & LIVE MUSIC!

FRI THE BLOOD GYPSIES 4/07 9PM / $5

4/06 thu album release show!

searra jade

SAT THE FLOORBOARDS 4/08 9PM / $5

w/ upland drive momma mollasses

4/07 fri tape release show!

FRI DALLAS BAKER 4/14 9PM / $5

OPENING DAY PARTY

FRI SIRIUS B 4/28 9PM / $7

SCOOTER HAYWOOD & THE REPEAT OFFENDERS 5 PM – 7 PM FREE

IRISH SUNDAYS Irish Food and Drink Specials Traditional Irish Music Session • 3-9pm OPEN MON-THURS AT 3 • FRI-SUN AT NOON CRAFT BEER, SPIRITS & QUALITY PUB FARE SINCE 1996

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

252.5445 • jackofthewood.com

APRIL 15TH

few more days

4/08 sat

$3 LOCAL CRAFT CANS + $4 16 OZ. DRAFTS

brother hawk

w/ old heavy hands, photography exhibit w/ danny reed

4/09 sun shannon and the clams

w/ paint fumes, the nude party

4/10 mon

album release show!

bleed season

w/ a world of lies, tombstone highway

OPEN DAILY 10 AM – MIDNIGHT 230 HOMINY CREEK RD. 28806 SOUTHERN END OF THE GREENWAY

free!

Yoga at the Mothlight

Tues., Thurs., and Sat. 11:30am Details for all shows can be found at

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Oskar Blues Free Beer Tasting • Friday, 4/7, 6-8pm Meet the people behind the beer.

Free Wine Tasting • Saturday, 4/8 4-6pm Every Saturday we sample wines from around the world.

Discover new styles to please your palate.

Check out facebook.com/hopsandvinesavl to see what’s on tap!

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TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The King Zeros (delta blues), 7:30PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Freeway Revival, 9:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN David LaMotte, 8:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ Live w/ Siamese Jazz Club, 8:00PM

SUNDAY, APRIL 9 185 KING STREET Sunday Sessions open jam, 12:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Michael Coppola (inside out jazz), 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Guitar Bar Jam, 3:30PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Sunday Reggae Night w/ The Dub Kartel, 6:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Sunday Jazz Brunch, 11:00AM

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GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Why? w/ Eskimeax (alt., indie), 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Dennis "Chalwa" Berndt, 1:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Millie Palmer Trio, 5:30PM An Evening with Ellis Paul (singersongwriter), 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Traditional Celtic Jam Session, 3:00PM Irish session, 5:00PM

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Writer/director Makoto Shinkai tugs heartstrings with the beautiful and inventive Your Name.

Your Name.

(Kimi no na wa) HHHHS

DIRECTOR: Makoto Shinkai PLAYERS: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi ANIMATED FANTASY ROMANCE RATED PG THE STORY: Two high school students find themselves transposed into each other’s bodies, leading to an unexpected romance — and an even more surprising plot twist.

THE LOWDOWN: A work of staggering beauty, both aesthetically and emotionally. Even those with qualms about animation or subtitles should see this film.

Generally speaking, the quickest way for a film to put me off is through

maudlin heartstring tugging and saccharine sentimentality. That’s precisely why I’m so blown away by Your Name — it got to me in spite of myself.

I’m not usually the type to include warm, fuzzy feelings in my list of cinematic predilections, but I’m also not afraid to admit that there is a heart buried somewhere underneath this beard, and writer/director Makoto Shinkai somehow managed to access it — with a sappy teen-romance melodrama, of all things. As such, this may well be the most embarrassing review I’ve ever written.

The reason this film succeeds where so many other contrived romances fail is its sincerity — as perplexingly implausible as it is, it never feels false or manipulative. And when

I say “perplexing” and “implausible,” I’m not using those words lightly. The plot’s a little like The Shop Around the Corner meets Freaky Friday with a touch of time travel thrown in for good measure (although it’s far better than that description might imply), following two young high school students who mysteriously find themselves intermittently occupying each other’s bodies. Mitsuha is a provincial girl who longs for a more exciting life in the big city, and Taki is an overworked grump drifting aimlessly through an awkward adolescence in Tokyo. The typical body-swap shenanigans are glossed over quickly through an expertly paced montage, freeing up most of the film’s concise 106-minute running time to deal with the hows and whys of the duo’s metaphysical conundrum — and, of course, to explore their budding longdistance love story.

Those hows and whys have something to do with the 1,200-year orbit of a returning comet called Tiamat, though to say much more than that would be to risk spoilers. The rules of the story-world are laid out almost as efficiently as the plot’s serpentine high-concept twists, most significantly that Taki or Mitsuha revert to their own bodies when they go to sleep, their time in the other’s body is as quickly forgotten as a dream. This leads to some comical commentary from friends and family before the (literally) star-crossed lovers learn to communicate through notes penned on their respective flesh and smartphone diaries, as well as a few rules laid out by the characters themselves — Mitsuha has to stop blowing Taki’s paycheck on expensive desserts in Tokyo cafes, and Taki is prohibited from fondling or ogling of any sort after Mitsuha’s younger sister catches him testing out the goods when he wakes up in Mitsuha’s body.

Rest assured, however, that the hormonal hijinks that so often plague anime are effectively absent in Your Name — even Taki’s breast obsession is a setup for a remarkably moving payoff late in the film. Shinkai writes his protagonists as relatably flawed, but unquestionably likable. They’re wholesome without coming across as

M A X R AT I N G cloying, their character arcs welldefined with clearly delineated motivations and stakes — this is easily the first anime I’ve ever seen where the phrase “The Lubitsch Touch” came to mind. Adapting from his own novel, Shinkai knows where to place his narrative focus and when to avoid distraction, fleshing out story points and ancillary characters just enough to grant them some dimensionality without bloating the script with extraneous exposition or character beats.

I would have given this film a strong recommendation on the basis of its narrative construction alone, but it’s also a visually stunning accomplishment of animation.

Shinkai, a former graphic designer and self-taught animator, has developed a process of CG augmentation that combines the intimacy of hand-painted cels with the immediacy of hyperrealistic backgrounds.

This painstaking attention to detail allows for a film that evokes the narrative territory of Ozu while displaying the mastery of light displayed by few artists this side of Dreyer. Shinkai has drawn comparisons to Hayao Miyazaki both at home and abroad, but such conflations fail to do either artist justice.

Perhaps the basis for such remarks might have more to do with the fact that Your Name recently surpassed Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away as the film boasting the highest domestic gross in Japanese history, and deservedly so. What Shinkai packs into his film’s scant screen time runs the emotional gamut from a meditation on isolation and longing to the ramifications of the earthquake and tsunami that led to the Fukushima disaster, all while maintaining a compelling love story at its heart.

Shinkai is a director to watch, and Your Name is a film that begs to be not only seen but revisited. Like its protagonists’ desperate efforts to cling to each other’s identities when the harsh light of morning fractures their reveries, Your Name is an experience audiences will want to remember long after the credits roll. Rated PG for thematic

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M O VI E S elements, suggestive content, brief language, and smoking. Japanese with English subtitles. Opens Friday at Fine Arts Theatre.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

After the Storm HHHS

DIRECTOR: Hirokazu Koreeda (Our Little Sister) PLAYERS: Hiroshi Abe, Yoko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi, Taiyo Yoshizawa DRAMA RATED NR THE STORY: A private detective and failed novelist tries to reassemble his tattered family.

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THE LOWDOWN: A quiet, deliberately paced drama that takes patience but holds rewards in its human insights and gentleness.

Hirokazu Koreeda’s After the Storm is very much what should be expected from the filmmaker. It’s quiet and elegant and speaks to life in small ways. Not much happens (even the typhoon that’s promised in the title does little of note), an aspect that’s supposed to reflect not only realism, but truth. That’s because this isn’t so much a movie that’s supposed to teach you about life, but instead exists as one that wants to relate to its innate and universal humanity. After the Storm — with its two-hour run time — demands a certain patience and trust, since the epiphanies and points the movie doles out are small and slow in coming. If you’re in the mood for this type of languid drama, there are certainly small rewards to be gained.

Our protagonist is Ryota (Hiroshi Abe, Still Walking), a failed novelist with writer’s block and a gambling addiction who’s begun working as a middling private detective. While he says the job’s simply research for his next book, he’s actually just treading water, a shambling, unenergized man who’s lost his son (Taiyo Yoshizawa) to his ex-wife (Yoko Maki, Like Father, Like Son). He’s the picture of a noir detective in a

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lot of ways, rumpled and irresponsible, occasionally spying on his wife and trying to swindle clients in an attempt to pony up the child support he can never quite manage to pay.

The movie, however, does not go down the road of detective flick, nor is it a depressing foray into a man falling apart. Instead, Ryota’s handled with a deft touch. His digressions — while wrong — are handled by both the film and the characters within it with a certain understanding. On the surface, it may seem as if Koreeda handles Ryota with a bit too much ease. But that would be misinterpreting the tone of the film, which is all about tender feelings like melancholy and familial love. At the same time, Ryota is too pathetic to be truly despised. It helps that the film never takes the easy, “satisfying” way out. Even as Ryota attempts to piece his family back together, there’s never the sense that he’ll manage to do this with any Hollywood ending. Without giving too much about the film away, at best he’s given an opportunity to make a better, healthier life for himself.

The film is all about small revelations, something that feels natural and genuinely thought out.

Koreeda’s insight into — and sense for — human nature is really the backbone of the film, and he’s sympathetic to human failing. But it’s dished out in a slow drip that can seem a bit too drawn out at times.

After the Storm demands a certain patience, one that I occasionally found difficult to achieve. But, when the credits finally rolled and as I’ve gotten further from the film, the emotions and tones Koreeda explores have stuck with me, something that’s always impressive. Not Rated. Now Playing at Grail Moviehouse.

REVIEWED BY JUSTIN SOUTHER JSOUTHER@MOUNTAINX.COM

Ghost in the Shell HH DIRECTOR: Rupert Sanders PLAYERS: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbaek, “Beat” Takeshi Kitano,

Michael Carmen Pitt, Juliette Binoche, Chin Han, Danusia Samal, Peter Ferdinando, Kaori Momoi, Anamaria Marinca, Daniel Henshall, Lasarus Ratuere, Yutaka Izumihara.

SCI-FI ACTION THRILLER RATED PG-13 THE STORY: A cybernetic counterterrorism operative in a dystopian future searches for the truth when she finds herself embroiled in a corporate conspiracy that has stripped her of her memories.

THE LOWDOWN: A pale simulacrum of the classic manga and anime franchise that lacks the convictions of its inspiration.

Just because something can be done doesn’t mean that it should be done. As yet another exercise in redundancy, Hollywood filmmakers have reappropriated a classic animated property and remade it using a combination of live action and computer-generated effects, resulting in the tepid rehash that is Rupert Sanders’ 2017 take on the classic manga, anime and video game franchise conceived by Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell. What was once a revelatory cyberpunk recontextualization of the classic Theseus’ ship paradox has become a morbid flight of action-film fantasy, stripped of the philosophical profundity that characterised its source material and functioning as little more than another entry in the bloated cinematic pantheon of warmed-over superhero stories.

It’s worth pointing out here that the manga The Ghost in the Shell bore little resemblance to any superhero property extant at the time of its creation. Yes, it originated as a work of sequential art, which to many contemporary Western minds can scarcely consist of anything more than guys in spandex punching things, but Shirow’s story held a much deeper significance than its sci-fi genre trappings would suggest.

When translated to the screen in its first anime iteration (though far from its last) by Mamoru Oshii, the underlying meaning was preserved and expanded, leading to a character that would provide the gateway into anime for countless Americans and heavily influencing Western films such as The Matrix.

The focus of the story in all of its forms has always been Major Motoko Kusanagi, an anti-terrorism paramilitary operator whose brain has been placed inside an entirely cybernetic body. Here, the Major is

portrayed with admirable athleticism by Scarlett Johansson, but her robotic delivery is too on-the-nose to serve the character’s principal internal conflict. Traditionally, the story’s premise has been used to explore the meaning of humanity when little else of the human remains beyond the mind and soul, and by robbing the character of that subtle semblance of humanity, Sanders and Johansson have missed the point entirely. Sanders replaces the source material’s existential bent with a less inventive fixation on stereotypical sci-fi action tropes that squander the nuanced intricacies of character shading that made the 1995 anime an instant classic. It’s as though the filmmakers completely misinterpreted the appeal of their source material, and while this may not be overly surprising, it is profoundly disappointing.

While Sanders’ film is visually stunning (especially in 3-D), it lacks the textural grime that distinguished Oshii’s film. While the original was aesthetically indebted to Blade Runner, Sanders’ work is more akin to The Fifth Element — and even those willing to forgive that film’s myriad flaws will see that this Ghost suffers by comparison.

Sanders and screenwriters Jaimie Moss and William Wheeler have cobbled together bits and pieces of the franchise’s various media properties, taking ideas and characters that may or may not have had any relevance to the story they’re trying to tell and inserting them in the hopes of providing a sense of depth that their film clearly lacks. Much of the film plays as if Sanders is trying desperately to convince the audience he’s a fan of the property while evidently failing to grasp the narrative beats that needed to be established in order to effectively re-create the emotional resonance of his inspiration.

The uproar surrounding Johansson’s casting as an Asian character proves legitimate in practice, but the film makes matters far worse than I could have anticipated — the movie awkwardly shoehorns in a plot point that addresses the issue for one whitewashed character, but none of the others. Sanders et. al. have stripped away the story’s heart — along with much of the sex and violence that so many 12-yearolds (myself included) found so compelling when they discovered Oshii’s work for the first time on home video — and by curtailing the narrative’s more thought-provoking

aspects, they’ve delivered a film that is all form and no function. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, suggestive content and some disturbing images. Now Playing at Carolina Cinemark, Regal Biltmore Grande, Epic of Hendersonville.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

Land of Mine (Under Sandert) HHHS

DIRECTOR: Martin Zandvliet PLAYERS: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Zoe Zandvliet, Mads Riisom, Peter Oskar Bökelmann WAR DRAMA RATED NR THE STORY: A tough sergeant leads a group of young Nazi POWs in an attempt to remove landmines from a stretch of beach on postWorld War II Denmark.

THE LOWDOWN: A proficient attempt to humanize “The Other” that’s more distinguished by its subject matter than its execution.

Those old enough to remember wasting time at a desk job playing Minesweeper on a late-’90s PC will have to reconsider the significance of such pursuits after seeing Land of Mine. And if that joke seems painfully tone-deaf given the political context of this film, it’s nothing compared to the botched translation of its title for Englishspeaking markets — the original title, Under Sandert, could be accurately translated to “Under the Sand” and lose nothing by dropping the pun. Danish writer/director Martin Zandvliet’s Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee is a fictionalized recounting of a real-life war crime orchestrated by the Brits

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and executed by the Danes immediately following World War II, in which German POWs were tasked with clearing millions of landmines from the beaches of Denmark by hand in defiance of the Geneva Conventions. Needless to say, very few survived.

If this political position seems to be a bit of, well, a minefield, Zandvliet’s far from the first director to have braved these particular waters — films from The Grand Illusion to Das Boot have tried to turn the tables on conventional prejudices by humanizing oppositional warring parties. While Zandvliet may not break any especially new ground, he calls attention to one of the more problematic chapters of reconstruction in postwar Europe with efficacy and efficiency. The primary narrative arc is far from surprising, but that doesn’t diminish the film’s impact.

The story follows Sgt. Carl Rasmussen (Roland Møller), a Danish officer introduced to the audience by viciously beating a POW within the first three minutes of the film — ostensibly for stealing a flag, but mostly for being German.

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of beach, and the former Nazis placed under his command are barely old enough to shave. Things are relatively predictable from there on, with Rasmussen’s heart softening to boys “who cry for their mothers when their limbs are blown off,” not an uncommon occurrence in this film.

Zandvliet’s stock in trade with Land of Mine is suspense, and he builds tension proficiently as the film progresses. The catch here is that the size (and necessary expendability) of the cast means Rasmussen is the only character who’s ever really fleshed out, with secondary characters having only a few lines to establish any sort of persona and tertiary characters being relegated to the barest characterization possible. There’s the wound-too-tight former officer, the young twin brothers who want to become bricklayers in Berlin, the kid who misses his mom’s cooking, etc. Rasmussen’s only real points of contact are his dog and Sebastian, the most intelligent and enterprising of the captive workers. All of this amounts to drama with high stakes but little emotional consequence, and the deaths become more heavily telegraphed as the boys are picked off one by one, slowly leading Rasmussen to finally question the ethics of his orders.

Møller carries the film admirably, his stiff-jawed grimace softening ever so slightly until an unfortunate accident brings back the psychotic zeal for sadism he displayed in the opening scenes. Had Zandvliet’s script delved into the murkier waters of reconstruction or dug a little more deeply for an emotional conflict beyond the obvious, Land of Mine might have taken home the Oscar for which it was nominated. As it stands, the film feels like a powerful story hampered by a workmanlike execution, banking on the political controversy surrounding its subject to draw the attention of audiences and critics.

It’s a film as visually and narratively bleak as its subject, and while it’s a competent piece of filmmaking, it’s also not something I’d particularly like to see again. Rated R for violence, some grisly images and language. German and Danish with English subtitles. Opens Friday at Grail Moviehouse.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

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Personal Shopper HHS

DIRECTOR: Olivier Assayas PLAYERS: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Hammou Graïa, Nora Von Waldstätten, Benjamin Biolay, Audrey Bonnet, Pascal Rambert THRILLER RATED R THE STORY: A spiritual medium who seeks to contact her recently deceased brother becomes haunted by a malevolent presence that may not be what she was looking for.

THE LOWDOWN: This rare misfire for esteemed director Olivier Assayas plays to Kristen Stewart’s weaknesses, failing to deliver the chills its premise promises.

I’m far from the Kristen Stewart detractor that my readers might reasonably assume me to be — just because I’m not prepared to forgive her for her abominable performance in American Ultra, doesn’t mean I necessarily found her to be terrible in last year’s Clouds of Sils Maria. And considering I’ve been the fan of Olivier Assayas since I first came across his work at a film school screening of Demonlover, it’s a significant understatement to say that I was sadly let down by Personal Shopper — a film that takes an intriguing premise and squanders it on tepid melodrama and pointless ambiguity. And that’s coming from someone who usually likes ambiguity.

Assayas’ film received a smattering of boos when it premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival — a practice I cannot condone, but in which I would likely have participated given the circumstances.

The problem’s not that it’s an overwhelmingly bad movie, rather, that it’s a significantly underwhelming one. The issue here is not, strictly speaking, Stewart’s performance — it would be more accurate to say that the script exposes too many of her weaknesses as an actor than that her deficiencies hamper the film.

Stewart plays a blank-eyed spiritual medium named Maureen, desperately seeking to contact her recently deceased twin brother while her day job as a personal shopper entails zipping around Paris on a scooter to procure overpriced consumer goods for a paparazzibait model. Stewart is required to be on screen in essentially every frame, and while it’s certainly not out of the question for her to carry a film, her role is underwritten relative to the amount of screen time it’s given. This requires her to fill vast empty spaces that should otherwise have contained story — which might have worked had she not filled those spaces with neurotic fidgeting that plays like someone mimicking anxiety rather than conveying it as a psychological reality.

Personal Shopper is ostensibly a psychological thriller in the guise of supernatural horror, and the film goes to great lengths in its efforts to build tension and suspense. I found it difficult to buy the concept that the principal ghost of this story haunts primarily via text message, but maybe I’m just old-fashioned and don’t know what hip ghosts are up to these days.

Assayas is still a remarkably proficient filmmaker, and I left the theater wondering what he could do with a similarly high-concept supernatural suspense film had he abandoned the self-indulgence and succeeded in suppressing Stewart’s shortcomings. However, style was far from my biggest disappointment as I exited the theater — the film seems to end halfway through the third act, almost as though they ran out of film stock and just decided to call it a day.

Maybe if I hadn’t been looking forward to this movie to the extent that I was, I might be more generous in my assessment of its merits.

As it stands, I found myself feeling like a personal moviegoer, someone paid to see films for those who can’t be bothered, suffering through that experience while haunted by the ghosts of better films. Rated R for some language, sexuality, nudity and a bloody violent image. Now Playing at Fine Arts Theatre.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

The Boss Baby H DIRECTOR: Tom McGrath (Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted) PLAYERS: (Voices) Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, Miles Christopher Bakshi ANIMATED COMEDY RATED PG THE STORY: A suit-wearing baby and boss of Baby Co. infiltrates a family in order to stop puppies from monopolizing all the world’s love.

THE LOWDOWN: A pretty braindead animated flick that’s colorful and cartoonish but little else.

Tom McGrath’s The Boss Baby is one of those movies that reeks of being built upon a title and little else. “What if the boss ... was a baby?” someone said, while Dreamworks plopped down a few million dollars to crank this one out. The Boss Baby continues a long tradition of people finding babies doing adult things to be the height of hilarity. Remember the Look Who’s Talking? franchise — here’s its spiritual successor, but with Capitalism thrown in.

The idea at the core of The Boss Baby is that love has been commodified and that there is only so much of it to go around. Our titular Boss Baby (voiced by Alec Baldwin) runs Baby Co. and needs to find out — with only so much love available in the world — why puppies have become cuter than babies.

To do this, he infiltrates a family but quickly draws the suspicion of 7-year-old Tim (Miles Christopher Bakshi, Shrek Forever After).

This is basically the entire plot, as Tim and Boss Baby must join forces and stop Puppy Co. from unleashing a supercute puppy and monopolizing the world’s love. As cynical and grotesque as all this sounds typed up and simplified, The Boss Baby never sees how weird and ugly its message truly is. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that it’s going to warp the minds of young children or even traumatize them, but it’s a pretty bizarre idea to float in front of children, that there’s only so much love out there — and this includes coming from your par-

SCREEN SCENE ents. I mean, I wouldn’t mind some dark, Herzogian version of The Boss Baby, but I also don’t expect to find it here.

This is because — and this is perhaps the one thing I can defend The Boss Baby for — the movie wants nothing on its mind.

And I can defend this because, really, the movie’s whole idea is to be a dumb, loud cartoon. I can respect that in a lot of ways, the simplicity and outright tradition of this, but it doesn’t mean I have to enjoy watching it either.

The whole “boss baby” schtick exists for little reason beyond a vehicle for slapstick and poop jokes. This — and the colorful animation — is supposedly the draw for the younger set, not the existential concerns of a world running short on love. And for their parents, you get some lazy pop culture references, like the nod to Glengarry Glen Ross that the entire marketing plan has been built around. It’s all so dreary and dumb and exactly what one expects from a movie called The Boss Baby. Rated PG for some mild rude humor. Now Playing at Carolina Cinemark Asheville, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

REVIEWED BY JUSTIN SOUTHER JSOUTHER@MOUNTAINX.COM

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ISRAEL/PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL • THURSDAYS through (5/18), 7pm - Israel/ Palestine Film Festival. Jerusalem in Exile and My Neighborhood, film screenings. Free to attend. Held at Lenoir Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave. WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain, 669-0816 • SU (4/9), 7pm - Beneath the Veneer, documentary screening. $10.

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SUCCESS STORIES: In this still from Beneath the Veneer, Asheville youths participate in the My Daddy Taught Me That enrichment program. The documentary will screen April 9 at White Horse Black Mountain. Photo courtesy of Community All Day • Arnold Wengrow, UNC Asheville professor emeritus of drama, will read from and discuss his new book, The Designs of Santo Loquasto, on Thursday, April 6, at 4 p.m. at Karpen Hall in the Laurel Forum. Loquasto is a Broadway scenic and costume designer and film production designer whose work has earned him multiple Tony Awards and three Oscar nominations. His recent credits include the current revival of Hello, Dolly!, starring Bette Midler, and Café Society, the latest film by Woody Allen, with whom Loquasto has collaborated on 30 features.

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by UNCA senior Sean Preston, composed of film clips featuring Loquasto’s designs. Free and open to the public.

Copies of the book will be available for sale and signature. unca.edu • Asheville Pizza & Brewing celebrates National Humor Month with a screening of The Princess Bride on Thursday, April 6, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $3 and available at the theater’s box office. ashevillebrewing.com • White Horse Black Mountain screens Beneath the Veneer on Sunday, April 9, at 7 p.m. Diane Tower-Jones’ documentary examines opportunity, success and inequity in the United States by following a group of black Asheville boys and young men, ages 12-19, over the course of a year as they

participate in the My Daddy Taught Me That enrichment program.

My Daddy Taught Me That was founded by Asheville native Kenyon Lake, whose passion for mentoring disadvantaged kids, exposing them to lifechanging events and equipping them with tools for success, has improved the lives of numerous local youths. The filmmakers chronicle their subjects’ lives at home, in school and in the community as they discover their cultural heritage. Along the way, the youths are challenged through outdoor activities, acquire hands-on skills, learn the value of service and visit a historically black college. Tickets are $10 and available online. whitehorseblackmountain.com • Grail Moviehouse kicks off the four-part series Deconstructing the Beatles, an educational journey with musicologist Scott Freiman, on Sunday, April 9, at 5 and 7 p.m. with a look at the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. An internationally recognized expert and lecturer on the music of the Beatles, Freiman combines his love of the band with his experience as a composer, producer and engineer to craft informative lectures about the Fab Four’s creative process. Future installments in the monthly series will examine the White Album, Revolver and Rubber Soul. Tickets are $10 and available at the Grail box office and online. Groups of 10 or more receive discounted tickets of $7 each. avl.mx/3jc X

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Going in Style Septegenarian heist comedy directed by Zack Braff and featuring an all-star cast. According to Warner Bros: “Oscar winners Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby), Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules, Hannah and Her Sisters) and Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) team up as lifelong buddies Willie, Joe and Al, who decide to buck retirement and step off the straight-and-narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty, in director Zach Braff’s comedy Going in Style.”

No early reviews.(PG-13)

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Smurfs: The Lost Village Animated reboot of the series of hybrid liveaction/cg movies dating back to 2011, according to Sony: “In this fully animated, all-new take on the Smurfs, a mysterious map sets Smurfette and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting and thrilling race through the Forbidden Forest filled with magical creatures to find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel does. Embarking on a rollercoaster journey full of action and danger, the Smurfs are on a course that leads to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history!”

Early reviews are negative.(PG)

The Void Low-budget Lovecraftian ‘80s throwback horror from writer/directors Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, according to the film’s website: “When police officer Carter discovers a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road, he rushes him to a local hospital with a bare bones, night shift staff. As cloaked, cultlike figures surround the building, the patients and staff inside start to turn ravenously insane.

Trying to protect the survivors, Carter leads them into the depths of the hospital where they discover a gateway to immense evil.” Early reviews are positive.(NR)

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Angel on my Shoulder HHHHS DIRECTOR: Archie Mayo PLAYERS: Paul Muni, Claude Raines, Anne Baxter SUPERNATURAL COMEDY Rated NR The second of two back-to-back Archie Mayo films screened by the AFS (following our THPS presentation of Svengali), Angel on my Shoulder (1946) was probably the most effective of Mayo’s forays into comedy.

Written by Harry Segall, who also wrote Here Comes Mister Jordan, Angel shares a number of thematic similarities with Jordan — including Claude Rains as a smart-alecky supernatural guide to the recently deceased, only here he’s the Devil. Muni and Raines both sport admirable comedic chops, and Anne Baxter is as alluring here as anywhere. A fun film from the man who bungled a Marx Brothers movie (A Night in Casablanca), this film proves that Mayo could handle comedy as competently as horror. The Asheville Film Society will screen Angel on my Shoulder on Tuesday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

Notre Musique HHS DIRECTOR: Jean-Luc Godard PLAYERS: Nade Dieu, Sarah Adler DRAMA Rated NR I was a young film studies major in 2004 when Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre Musique premiered in New York, and I had a membership to the Film Forum that guaranteed me discounted tickets — which was convenient, because I wouldn’t have been able to afford them otherwise. Andrew Sarris, one of my professors at the time, intensely disliked Godard’s film due to its treatment of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and while he certainly wasn’t wrong (he seldom was), I also don’t hate it quite as much as he did. Late period Godard is certainly lesser Godard, but I’ve traditionally been of the mindset that any Godard is better than no Godard, so any scant affinity I have for this film is in relation to my affection for its director rather than to its particular merits. Your mileage may vary. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Notre Musique on Friday, April 7, at 8 p.m. at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 2160 Hwy 70, Swannanoa.

Svengali HHHHH DIRECTOR: Archie Mayo PLAYERS: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp, Bramwell Flectcher, Luis Alberni, Carmel Myers HORROR FANTASY Rated NR One of the most stylish and effective of all early horror talkies, Svengali is a perfect blend of atmosphere, writing and a towering performance by star John Barrymore in one of his two or three best performances. The story, taken from George du Maurier’s 1894 novel Trilby, had already been filmed a half-dozen times as a silent, but this was to become the definitive version of the tale of the lovestruck musical genius Svengali (Barrymore) who transforms the unresponsive object of his affections, Trilby (Marian Marsh), into a great opera singer by hypnosis. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke, published on May 7, 2013. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Svengali on Thursday, April 6, at 9:15 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

The Spiral Staircase HHHH DIRECTOR: Robert Siodmak PLAYERS: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming, Elsa Lanchester FILM NOIR Rated NR A classic Noir from one of the masters of the form, Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase (1946) is heavily indebted to the director’s early work in Germany and France. The film’s use of chiaroscuro lighting and dutch angles evoke the German Expressionists, touches also evident in Siodmak’s adaptation of Hemmingway’s The Killers (also 1946). Dorothy McGuire delivers a strong performance as a mute woman menaced by an unseen killer — only his hands and eyes are shown prior to the culprit’s big reveal, both of which actually belonged to Siodmak. Ethel Barrymore, George Brent and Elsa Lanchester round out a top-notch cast, but they’re only half the reason this prototypic Noir is a must-see for any genre completest — the other half is Siodmak at his peak. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Spiral Staircase on Sunday, April 9, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Be interested in first things, Aries. Cultivate your attraction to beginnings.

Align yourself with uprisings and breakthroughs. Find out what’s about to hatch, and lend your support.

Give your generous attention to potent innocence and novel sources of light. Marvel at people who are rediscovering the sparks that animated them when they first came into their power. Fantasize about being a curious seeker who is devoted to reinventing yourself over and over again. Gravitate toward influences that draw their vitality directly from primal wellsprings. Be excited about first things.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you weary of lugging around decayed guilt and regret? Is it increasingly difficult to keep forbidden feelings concealed? Have your friends been wondering about the whip marks from your self-flagellation sessions? Do you ache for redemption?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, listen up. The empathetic and earthy saints of the Confession Catharsis Corps are ready to receive your blubbering disclosures. They are clairvoyant, they’re non-judgmental, and best of all, they’re free. Within seconds after you telepathically communicate with our earthy saints, they will psychically beam you 11 minutes of unconditional love, no strings attached. Do it! You’ll be amazed at how much lighter and smarter you feel. Transmit your sad stories to the Confession Catharsis Corps NOW! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Now is an excellent time to FREE YOUR MEMORIES. What comes to mind when I suggest that? Here are my thoughts on the subject. To FREE YOUR MEMORIES, you could change the way you talk and feel about your past.

Re-examine your assumptions about your old stories, and dream up fresh interpretations to explain how and why they happened. Here’s another way to FREE YOUR MEMORIES: If you’re holding on to an insult someone hurled at you once upon a time, let it go.

In fact, declare a general amnesty for everyone who ever did you wrong. By the way, the coming weeks will also be a favorable phase to FREE YOURSELF OF MEMORIES that hold you back. Are there any tales you tell yourself about the past that undermine your dreams about the future? Stop telling yourself those tales.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): How big is your vocabulary? Twenty thousand words? Thirty thousand?

Whatever size it is, the coming weeks will be prime time to expand it. Life will be conspiring to enhance your creative use of language . . . to deepen your enjoyment of the verbal flow . . . to help you become more articulate in rendering the mysterious feelings and complex thoughts that rumble around inside you.

If you pay attention to the signals coming from your unconscious mind, you will be shown how to speak and write more effectively. You may not turn into a silver-tongued persuader, but you could become a more eloquent spokesperson for your own interests.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We all need more breaks from the routine — more holidays, more vacations, more days off from work. We should all play and dance and sing more, and guiltlessly practice the arts of leisure and relaxation, and celebrate freedom in regular boisterous rituals. And I’m nominating you to show us the way in the coming weeks, Leo. Be a cheerleader who exemplifies how it’s done. Be a ringleader who springs all of us inmates out of our mental prisons.

Be the imaginative escape artist who demonstrates how to relieve tension and lose inhibitions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): People in your vicinity may be preoccupied with trivial questions. What’s more nutritious, corn chips or potato chips? Could Godzilla kick King Kong’s ass? Is it harder to hop forward on one foot or backward with both feet? I suspect you will also encounter folks who are embroiled in meaningless decisions and petty emotions. So how should you navigate your way through this energy-draining muddle?

Here’s my advice: Identify the issues that are most worthy of your attention. Stay focused on them with disciplined devotion. Be selfish in your rapt determination to serve your clearest and noblest and holiest agendas.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope that by mid-May you will be qualified to teach a workshop called “Sweet Secrets of Tender Intimacy” or “Dirty Secrets of Raw Intimacy” or maybe even “Sweet and Dirty Secrets of Raw and Tender Intimacy.” In other words, Libra, I suspect that you will be adding substantially to your understanding of the art of togetherness. Along the way, you may also have experiences that would enable you to write an essay entitled “How to Act Like You Have Nothing to Lose When You Have Everything to Gain.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you have a dream of eating soup with a fork, it might mean that in your waking life you’re using the wrong approach to getting nourished. If you have a dream of entering through an exit, it might mean that in your waking life you’re trying to start at the end rather than the beginning.

And if you dream of singing nursery rhymes at a karaoke bar with unlikable people from high school, it might mean that in your waking life you should seek more fulfilling ways to express your wild side and your creative energies. (P.S. You’ll be wise to do these things even if you don’t have the dreams I described.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you’re a Quixotic lover, you’re more in love with love itself than with any person. If you’re a Cryptic lover, the best way to stay in love with a particular partner is to keep him or her guessing. If you’re a Harlequin, your steady lover must provide as much variety as three lovers.

If you’re a Buddy, your specialties are having friendly sex and having sex with friends. If you’re a Histrionic, you’re addicted to confounding, disorienting love.

It’s also possible that you’re none of the above. I hope so, because now is an excellent time to have a beginner’s mind about what kind of love you really need and want to cultivate in the future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your new vocabulary word is “adytum.” It refers to the most sacred place within a sacred place — the inner shrine at the heart of a sublime sanctuary. Is there such a spot in your world?

A location that embodies all you hold precious about your journey on planet Earth? It might be in a church or temple or synagogue or mosque, or it could be a magic zone in nature or a corner of your bedroom. Here you feel an intimate connection with the divine, or a sense of awe and reverence for the privilege of being alive. If you don’t have a personal adytum, Capricorn, find or create one. You need the refreshment that comes from dwelling in the midst of the numinous.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You could defy gravity a little, but not a lot. You can’t move a mountain, but you may be able to budge a hill. Luck won’t miraculously enable you to win a contest, but it might help you seize a hard-earned perk or privilege. A bit of voraciousness may be good for your soul, but a big blast of greed would be bad for both your soul and your ego. Being savvy and feisty will energize your collaborators and attract new allies; being a smart-ass show-off would alienate and repel people.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here are activities that will be especially favorable for you to initiate in the near future: 1. Pay someone to perform a service for you that will ease your suffering. 2. Question one of your fixed opinions if that will lead to you receiving a fun invitation you wouldn’t get otherwise. 3. Dole out sincere praise or practical help to a person who could help you overcome one of your limitations.

4. Get clear about how one of your collaborations would need to change in order to serve both of you better. Then tell your collaborator about the proposed improvement with light-hearted compassion.

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